Millennium development goals: progress towards the right to health in Latin america and the Caribbean

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Population and health in Latin America and the Caribbean: outstanding matters, new challenges

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e-Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: progress and challenges

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A sub-national public-private strategic alliance for innovation and export development: the case of the Canadian province of Alberta's oil sands

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National innovation surveys in Latin America: empirical evidence and policy implications

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National innovation surveys in latin America: empirical evidence and policy implications

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National public investment systems in Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tabago

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La formación de recursos humanos en el desarrollo económico y social de América Latina = The training of human resources in the economic and social development of Latin America

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Spurious shifts in the pattern of diurnal variation of sea level pressure of reanalysis datasets

The main purpose of this work is to report the presence of spurious discontinuities in the pattern of diurnal variation of sea level pressure of the three reanalysis datasets from: the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and National Center for Atmospheric Science (R1), the NCEP and Department of Energy (R2), and the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ERA-40). Such discontinuities can be connected to the major changes in the global observing system that have occurred throughout reanalyses years. In the R1, the richest period in discontinuities is 1956-1958, coinciding with the start of modern radiosonde observation network. Rapid increase in the density of surface-based observations from 1967 also had an important impact on both R1 and ERA-40, with larger impact on R1. The reanalyses show discontinuities in the 1970s related to the assimilation of radiances measured by the Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer and TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounders onboard satellites. In the ERA-40, which additionally assimilated Special Sensor Microwave/Imager data, there are discontinuities in 1987-1989. The R1 also presents further discontinuities, in 1988-1993 likely connected to replacement/introduction of NOAA-series satellites with different biases, and to the volcanic eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991, which is known to have severely affected measurements of infrared radiances for several years. The discontinuities in 1996-1998 might be partially connected to change in the type of radiosonde, from VIZ-B to VIZ-B2. The R2, which covers only satellite era (1979-on), shows discontinuities mainly in 1992, 1996-1997, and 2001. The discontinuities in 1992 and 2001 might have been caused by change in the satellite measurements and those in 1996-1997 by some changes in land-based observations network. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

Training and the small enterprises of Latin America

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Human resource training and gender-based differences in such training

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