1Becario del Proyecto IAI-SGP 004 “Climate and land use controls on ecosystem functioning”. IFEVA. Facultad de Agronomía UBA. Departamento de CCSS. Facultad de Agronomía. Universidad de la República. Uruguay. Maestrando de la Maestría en Desarrollo Rural Sustentable. Facultad de Agronomía. Universidad de la República. Uruguay. [email protected] 2Profesor Titular de Sociología Rural. Facul...

OBJECTIVE Describe the process of enacting and defending strong tobacco packaging and labelling regulations in Uruguay amid Philip Morris International's (PMI) legal threats and challenges. METHODS Triangulated government legislation, news sources and interviews with policy-makers and health advocates in Uruguay. RESULTS In 2008 and 2009, the Uruguayan government enacted at the time the wor...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence, correlates and changes in secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure over the period after comprehensive smoke-free policy implementation in two Latin American countries. METHODS Data were analysed from population-based representative samples of adult smokers and recent quitters from the 2008 and 2010 waves of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Sur...

BACKGROUND The Atlantic Forest is globally one of the priority ecoregions for biodiversity conservation. In Argentina, it is represented by the Paranense Forest, which covers a vast area of Misiones Province between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers. The Uruguay River is a global hotspot of freshwater gastropod diversity, here mainly represented by Tateidae (genus Potamolithus) and to a lesser exte...

Introduction Method Results Discussion References Appendix I This article is an English translated version based on Buunk-Werkhoven, Y.A.B.,Dijkstra, A., van der Schans C.P., Jaso, M.E., Acevedo, S., Parodi Estellano, G. (2008). Evaluación y promoción de la actitud hacia la higiene oral en pacientes de la Facultad de Odontología de la Universidad Católica del Uruguay [Evaluation and promotion o...

Aloysio de Castro, when Director of the School of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro, and Américo Ricaldoni, when Dean of the School of Medicine of Montevideo, Uruguay, started a period of intense collaboration between both institutions. In this period, Aloysio visited Montevideo in many occasions, giving lectures, donating scientific material and publishing papers in Uruguay. Ricaldoni retributed his ...

Humans and animals may encounter numerous events, objects, scenes, foods and countless social interactions in a lifetime. This means that the brain is constructed by evolution to deal with uncertainties and various possibilities. What is the architectural abstraction of intelligence that enables the brain to discover various possible patterns and knowledge about complex, evolving worlds? Here, ...

School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK; Pereira Rossell Hospital, ASSE, Ministry of Public Health, Montevideo, Uruguay; Division of Child Life and Health, Department of Reproductive and Developmental Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology C, School of Medicine, University of the Republic, Monte...

Luca Cernuzzi, Lidia López, Jose Ignacio Panach and Martín Solari Universidad Católica “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción”, Paraguay, [email protected] Universidad Politècnica de Catalunya, España, [email protected] Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria, Departament d’Informàtica, Universitat de València, Avenida de la Universidad, s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain, [email protected] Universida...

Uruguay is hosting the WHO Global Conference on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) this month, from 18-20 October. Tabaré Vázquez, the President of Uruguay, tells the Bulletin of the World Health Organization about his country's efforts to prevent and fight NCDs and why countries should step up the global response.