This study examines the impact of implementing a practical geology workshop on children's perception and interest in science.Employing a pre-experimental research design,the approach focused on a single group of child...
Agricultural systems result of the coevolution between social and natural systems,where biodiversity and natural resources play an important role,emerging interactions between crops and the natural environment that al...
Monday River, at Eastern Paraguay is located south of the Itaipu Dam, and discharges into the Paraná River. At the point of discharge it has been projected to build a Hydroelectric power Plant and the reservoir will ...
Rural Paraguay presents interesting opportunities for investigating the subtle differences in the use of medicinal plants across seasons and the urban versus rural dichotomy in a local setting. This study investigates...
Supported by the Dan and Ellie Albert Student Vision Research Award;Doolittle Professorship Fund;Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.;Combat Blindness International;Fundación Visión
AIM: To validate the Peek Acuity mobile phone application in pediatric populations and compare its utility, both economic and diagnostic, against conventional screening methods using a pediatric ophthalmologist exami...
AIM:To evaluate the distribution of refractive error in young subjects in a rural area of Paraguay in the context of an international cooperation campaign for the prevention of blindness. METHODS:A sample of 1466 yo...
The Secchi disc is used to obtain the water transparency D and a value for the attenuation coefficient Kt according to Kt = Cx.D1 where C is a factor estimated supposedly as a constant. Lago de la Republica, a small ...
In his novel Son of Man, Augusto Roa Bastos uses images and symbols of shadows to represent the ramifications ofthe Paraguayan Dr. Jose Rodriguez de Francia's dictatorship. Rodriguez de Francia's legacy, which begin...
The War of the Triple Alliance was an international military conflict in South America, fought from 1864 to 1870 between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. In 1939, according to the pr...
Beverages based on Ilex paraguariensis A. St.-Hil. are used in the south Brazil and other Latin American countries located at the so-called southern cone. It is known as chimarrao or mate in south and southeast Brazil...