The Andes
Assessing adaptation – Climate change and indigenous livelihood in the Andes of Bolivia
... The study was conducted in the valley of Charazani, located at 272 km northwest of La Paz City within the limits of the ANMI Apolobamba in the Andean region of Bolivia (Fig. 1). This valley harbors an excep- tional ...
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Genetic approaches to understanding human adaptation to altitude in the Andes
... the Andes may have begun with studies such as Francois-Gilbert Viault’s study of the haematopoietic response to hypoxia in the late 1800s, the significant contributions made by Peruvian researchers may be traced ...
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Using a Susto Symptoms Scale to Analyze Social Wellbeing in the Andes
... The cultural syndrome of susto was selected as a tool to gain greater understanding of the cultural models Peruvian Andeans use to define illness. Furthermore, susto was chosen because of its high prevalence rate in many ...
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Unique Interferon Pathway Regulation by the Andes Virus Nucleocapsid Protein Is Conferred by Phosphorylation of Serine 386
... H antaviruses are transmitted by persistently infected rodent hosts (1–8). In humans, pathogenic hantaviruses predominantly infect the endothelial cell (EC) lining of capillaries and nonlytically disrupt normal barrier ...
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An Innate Immunity Regulating Virulence Determinant Is Uniquely Encoded within the Andes Virus Nucleocapsid Protein
... Plasmids. Plasmids expressing N proteins from New York-1 virus (U36802.1), Andes virus (ANDV) (CHI-7913; AY228237.1), Sin Nombre virus (SNV) (JQ690276.1), and Prospect Hill virus (PHV) (M34011.1) as well as ANDV ...
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The Andes Virus Nucleocapsid Protein Directs Basal Endothelial Cell Permeability by Activating RhoA
... ABSTRACT Andes virus (ANDV) predominantly infects microvascular endothelial cells (MECs) and nonlytically causes an acute pulmonary edema termed hantavirus pulmonary syndrome ...
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From the Andes to the Outback : Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire
... 1 William Walton, The Alpaca: Its Naturalisation in the British Isles Considered as a National Benefit, and as an Object of Immediate Utility to the Farmer and Manufacturer (New York[r] ...
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Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot
... the Andes acting as a dispersal barrier for epiphytic lowland taxa? Did the Andean uplift enhance orchid diversification and, if so, was this effect evident on all species from the Andean region or just those from ...
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Pyritized microfossils in palynological slides from the Late Cretaceous of Colombia
... ABSTRACT – Palynological investigations of Late Cretaceous to Tertiary sediments of the Andes in Colombia yielded some distinct groups of palynoclasts recovered as pyritized remains of d[r] ...
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Traditional use of the Andean flicker (Colaptes rupicola) as a galactagogue in the Peruvian Andes
... One possibility is suggested by the milk-white brew made from askantuy larvae. Quinoa broth likewise has a white, creamy appearance. Color enters into humoral classifica- tion, and it may be metaphorically important in ...
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Support to Aviation Control Service (SACS): an online service for near-real-time satellite monitoring of volcanic plumes
... the Andes Cordillera (Colombia and Peru), in Kamchatka (Russian Federation) and in Alaska (United States of Amer- ica), but the three strongest eruptions occurred in other parts of the world: (1) on 6 October, a ...
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Landsat TM and ETM+ derived snowline altitudes in the Cordillera Huayhuash and Cordillera Raura, Peru, 1986–2005
... the Andes is largely af- fected by orographic uplift and condensation of moist tropi- cal air from the Amazon basin creating an east-west precipi- tation decrease (Kaser and Osmaston, ...
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Current state of glaciers in the tropical Andes: a multi-century perspective on glacier evolution and climate change
... the Andes (especially in Peru and Bolivia, where the percentage of glaciers is the ...tropical Andes act as buffers against highly seasonal precipitation at times when rainfall is low or even absent (Vuille ...
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Millennial-scale vegetation changes in the tropical Andes using ecological grouping and ordination methods
... ern Andes shows a trend towards warming starting around ...the Andes are consis- tent with reconstructions of snow line depressions starting ...Peruvian Andes (Smith et ...
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Orographic and convective gravity waves above the Alps and Andes Mountains during GPS radio occultation events – a case study
... the Andes and to the Antarctic Peninsula ...the Andes at midlatitudes, between the subtropical and polar jets (Houze, 2012), is a natural laboratory for gravity waves (GWs), in particular mountain waves ...
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Rainfall characteristics in the central Andes of Peru
... same time, field campaign data are used to investigate the role of the surface and atmospheric variables in generating the rainfall and organization of the cloud systems over HYO. The precipitation shows the bimodal ...
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Amenity Migration: a comparative study of the Italian Alps and the Chil-ean Andes
... the Andes (Borsdorf & Hidalgo 2009) are favoured for their vicinity to the capital, and the southern regions, like the Lake District of the Frontera, even attract non-Chileans be- cause of their natural beauty ...
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IDENTIFICATION OF THE ALKALOIDS OF STENOMESSON AURANTIACUM (KUNTH) HERB., AN AMARYLLIDACEAE SPECIES FROM THE ECUADORIAN ANDES
... S. aurantiacum was collected during flowering stage around the Andes’ Cuicocha Lake (Imbabura, Ecuador), at 3,000 meters above sea level. The different organs of the plant (bulb, stem, leaves and flowers) were cut ...
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ANDES: Statistical tools for the ANalyses of DEep Sequencing
... how ANDES can be used to compare temporally separated samples, to ana- lyze genome-wide mutation trends, and to identify spe- cific variations for further ...project, ANDES was used to differentiate between ...
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A case study of orographic cyclogenesis over South America
... the Andes at the same time as a strong thermal advection was observed to the west of the mountain ...the Andes defined the vertical tilt of the system to the west, favoring the cyclonic vorticity advection ...
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