Colombian Caribbean
Sea breeze in the Colombian Caribbean coast
... the Colombian Caribbean coast is stronger during the dry season (December-March), when it reaches the highest gradients of sea-land temperature and with a predom- inantly diurnal ...central ...
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Cold fronts in the Colombian Caribbean Sea and their relationship to extreme wave events
... The properties of currents created within an air mass de- pend on the region where the mass originated. If the air mass moves away from its original area, its properties tend to change. Such changes are readily observed ...
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MARINE INVERTEBRATES FROM COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN COAST: A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF BIOACTIVE MOLECULES
... In order to evaluate the antimicrobial activity from several Colombian Caribbean marine invertebrates, aqueous extracts were prepared triturating each animal total body with 15 mL of Tris-HCl buffer. This ...
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Storms or cold fronts: what is really responsible for the extreme waves regime in the Colombian Caribbean coastal region?
... entire Colombian coast, which are mainly in- fluenced by the passage of cold fronts, can be found in this ...the Colombian Caribbean, NE and NNE are predominant, with heights generally ranging ...
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Frugivorous bats in the Colombian Caribbean region are reservoirs of the rabies virus
... Background: Bats are an important ecological group within ecosystems. The rabies virus is a Lyssavirus, and haema- tophagous bats are the principal reservoir; however, the virus has also been detected in ...
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Economic and Environmental Multi-objective Optimization of a Wind-Solar-Fuel Cell Hybrid Energy System in the Colombian Caribbean Region
... Keywords: Fuel cell; wind energy, solar energy, hybrid energy system; Colombian caribbean region; 30.. multi-objective optimization.[r] ...
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Curie point depth, thermal gradient, and heat flow in the Colombian Caribbean (northwestern South America)
... The magnetic data used in this study were taken from the World Digital Magnetic Anomaly Map V2 (WDMAM, http://www.wdmam .org/downl oad.php), approved by the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) ...
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Molecular detection and identification of Wolbachia in three species of the genus Lutzomyia on the Colombian Caribbean coast
... Background: The hematophagous habits of insects belonging to the genus Lutzomyia (Diptera: Psychodidae), as well as their role as biological vectors of Leishmania species, make their presence an indication of infection ...
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Urinary incontinence in climacteric afrodescendant women from the Colombian Caribbean
... The inclusion criteria were to be healthy women aged 40- 59 that recognize themselves as Afro-descendant, with typical phenotypic characteristics and born and raised in settlements of descendants of enslaved Africans ...
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ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY OF PORIFERANSFROM THE COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN ROCKY COAST BY DPPH AND ABTS METHOD
... the Colombian Caribbean Poriferans: Suberites aurantiacus, Desmapsamma anchorata and Ircinia campana, using the in vitro models DPPH and ABTS; and the results were compared against the results obtained with ...
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Cold Seeps Associated with Structured Benthic Communities: More Accurate Identification and Evaluation Using a New Multibeam Survey Methodology in the Offshore Southern Colombian Caribbean
... in Colombian Caribbean [5] were assigned based on the identification of 32 conservation landscape objectives at different biological organization levels and geographical scales, associated to a high ...
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Spatial structure of the Caribbean lobster (Metanephrops binghami) in the Colombian Caribbean Sea
... the Caribbean lobster (Meta- nephrops binghami Boone 1927) and the Urugavian lobster (Metanephrops rubellus Moreira ...the Caribbean Sea (Holthuis 1991; Tavares ...the Colombian Caribbean Sea, ...
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Trypanosoma cruzi transmission in a Colombian Caribbean region suggests that secondary vectors play an important epidemiological role
... R. pallescens abundance was significantly higher in the dry than in the rainy season. The same situation has been described for R. pallescens in San Onofre (Sucre) in the lowland Caribbean region [25]. For this ...
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Evolutionary relationships of West Nile virus detected in mosquitoes from a migratory bird zone of Colombian Caribbean
... Since the first reports of WNV isolation from Africa, Europe, India, Russia, Israel, France, and its 1999 intro- duction into North America, WNV has extended its geographic distribution throughout the United States [3]. ...
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Epidemiology and toxicology of Ciguatera poisoning in the Colombian Caribbean
... Abstract: The ciguatera is a food poisoning caused by the consumption of primarily coral fish; these species exist in large numbers in the seas that bathe the Colombian territory. The underreported diagnosis of ...
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Epidemic outbreak of Chikungunya in two neighboring towns in the Colombian Caribbean: a survival analysis
... the Colombian population to CHIKV and the high prevalence of Aedes aegypti have gen- erated a complex epidemiological framework [17], a large number of cases are still being reported with the concomi- tant high ...
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Evaluation of serological test of Zika in an endemic area of flavivirus in the Colombian Caribbean
... Sera’s patient from endemic flaviviruses countries of Colombia and the Dominic Republic were analyzed, the assay demonstrated IgG and IgA antibod- ies against ZIKV non-structural prote[r] ...
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Screening of the UV absorption capacity, proximal and chemical characterization of extracts, and polysaccharide fractions of the Gracilariopsis tenuifrons cultivated in Colombia
... the Caribbean coast and about 134 species on the Pacific coast (Delgadillo-Garzón and Newmark, ...the Colombian Caribbean Sea, with no systematic reports on its chemical composition and/or UV ...
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Determinants of felt demand for dengue vaccines in the North Caribbean region of Colombia
... Dengue continues to be a major global public health problem. In the study of the global burden of disease, an average of 9221 deaths from dengue per year was estimated between 1990 and 2013 [6]. The incidence increased ...
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... 4. Benjamin, Cilla. "Can Lean Production Create Competitive Advantage in Local SMEs? A Framework for a Local Case Study." Science and Technology: Vehicles for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean. St. ...
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