quently became established in Bulgarian practice and was officialized by a series of governmental regulations and legislation. That evolution in the Bulgarian transliteration practice necessitated the development of a new state standard to replace the now-obsolete existing standard BDS 1596:1973. Writing Bulgarian in the Roman alphabet has a long history going back to pre-Cyrillic times [3], me...

Gerlach, who believed in a fusion among dendrites. Others, like Golgi, believed that the basic reticulum was made up of axon collaterals. According to Golgi, the nerve cell itself, like its dendrites, was not an essential element in neuronal organization, they had solely nutritive functions. The book is of interest and importance for anyone interested in the history of the nervous system. At on...

This study examined the relationship between anxiety in Latin American children and Latino cultural schemas, parenting strategies, being an ethnic minority, and assimilation. Latin American (n=72; LA) and white European-American (n=46; EA) children living in the U.S., Mexican children living in Mexico (n=99; M), and at least one parent per family (n=283) were administered measures assessing anx...

Latin America (LATAM) is a large region spanning North, Central, and South America, between latitudes 32 N and 56 S. The population of LATAM currently estimated at 625 million is predicted to grow to 779 million by 2050. LATAM is a genetically, ethnically, geographically, linguistically, economically, and racially diverse region, with an admixture of Amerindian, European, Asian, and African anc...

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In this paper we use holistic grading to measure the level of populism found in political parties’ discourse during electoral campaigns. The technique is applied to electoral manifestos from 144 parties in 27 countries from Western Europe and the Americas. For about half the sample, we also code speeches by the candidates or party leaders, which indicate the validity of measuring populism on el...

Transport is associated with environmental problems, economic losses, health and social inequalities. A number of European and US cities have implemented initiatives to promote multimodal modes of transport. In Latin America changes are occurring in public transport systems and a number of projects aimed at stimulating non-motorized modes of transport (walking and cycling) have already been imp...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, degenerative autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. The prevalence is different in every continent, changing according to geographical and environmental characteristics. The areas with the highest prevalence in the world are Europe and North America. In Latin America, the prevalence is higher in areas where there was greater European...

On the origin of islands Masaya Yoshida a , Nina Kazanina b , Leticia Pablos c & Patrick Sturt d a Department of Linguistics , Northwestern University , IL , USA b School of Experimental Psychology , University of Bristol , Bristol , UK c Department of Latin American Studies (LAS) , Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Leiden University , The Netherlands d Department of Psychology , School of Philoso...