Castro-Rendón, Rubén D Calle-Morán, Marcos D García-Arévalo, Isabel Ordiano-Flores, Alfredo Galván-Magaña, Felipe
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Biological trace element research
Blue sharks (Prionace glauca) are an important resource in Ecuador's fisheries; however, biological and ecological information of this species in the area is scarce. The goal of this study was to determine Hg and Cd concentration levels in muscle tissue, as well as its relationship with size, sex, and sexual maturity stages. A total of 80 specimens...
Pavón Cevallos, Fernando Mauricio Contreras, Diana
Resumen El complejo volcánico Cayambe representa una amenaza para los 85 795 habitantes a sus alrededores que basan su economía en la floricultura. Hasta el momento no se han hecho estimaciones automatizadas del impacto económico que tendría una eventual erupción del volcán Cayambe en la zona. La delimitación de zonas de afectación por caída de cen...
Calderón, Diana Cárdenas, Paúl A Prado-Vivar, Belen Graham, Jay P Trueba, Gabriel
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Journal of global antimicrobial resistance
The gastrointestinal tract constitutes a complex and diverse ecosystem. Escherichia coli is one of the most frequently studied and characterised species in the gut ecosystem; nevertheless, there has been little research to determine their diversity and population dynamics in the intestines of children over time. We analysed the turnover or dominant...
Lyons, Minna Brewer, Gayle Castro Caicedo, Jorge Andrade, Mabel Morales, Marcela Centifanti, Luna
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Global public health
Previous research, mainly in the United States, has identified several barriers to acting as a bystander in sexual harassment at university campuses. Despite the high frequency of harassment in Latin America, there is a dearth of studies investigating barriers to bystander behaviour in this context. In this pilot study, we report findings exploring...
Buddenhagen, C E Xing, Y Andrade-Piedra, J L Forbes, G A Kromann, P Navarrete, I Thomas-Sharma, S Choudhury, R A Andersen Onofre, K F Schulte-Geldermann, E
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Phytopathology
Policymakers and donors often need to identify the locations where technologies are most likely to have important effects, to increase the benefits from agricultural development or extension efforts. Higher-quality information may help to target the high-benefit locations, but often actions are needed with limited information. The value of informat...
Rodriguez, Alejandro Romero-Sandoval, Adriana Sandoval, Bernardo A. Romero, Natalia
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BMC Health Services Research
Background Knowledge of medical specialists' numbers and geographical distribution are essential for planning health services and health workforce supply. However, although the distribution of physicians is a significant concern for society and policymakers in Ecuador, no studies have evaluated the distribution of specialists in the country. This s...
Calvo, Joel
Senecio bonplandianus has been misinterpreted or overlooked for a long time probably due to the uncertainty of the provenance of the type material indicated in the protologue. Herein, this name is taxonomically clarified and treated as the priority name for the entity hitherto known as S. minesinus, which is placed in synonymy. New insights are als...
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Optimal hypertension care and control at population level significantly reduces cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The study objective was to measure the gaps in the diagnosis, care, and control of hypertension in residents of an urban community in Quito, Ecuador. A cross-sectional population-based study with a sample of 2160 persons was perfo...
Estrella, Felix
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Sn Social Sciences
COVID-19 struck at the beginning of 2020, affecting, among others, the education industry. As a result, a lock-down quarantine was declared, and on-campus classes were suspended. Accordingly, emergency remote teaching (ERT) was set into motion to solve the education issue. This research aimed to obtain the reflections of 20 Ecuadorian polytechnic u...
López-Guerra, Víctor Manuel López-Núñez, Carla Vaca-Gallegos, Silvia L. Torres-Carrión, Pablo V.
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Frontiers in Psychology
Background The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) is the most well-known self-report measure to screen for depressive symptomatology, although discerning which is the factor structure that represents the best fit remains a challenge. Objective The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties and factorial structure of the Spanis...
