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21 December 2025

Latine immigrants may experience a heightened degree of stress related to their immigration status. This is particularly true for immigrants who are in the country unauthorized. Individuals who are unauthorized may experience unique psychosocial stre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,405 Views
22 Pages

9 October 2024

Latine parent educational engagement literature has established that parents employ rich cultural resources across their environments to support the P-20 attainment of their children. In this qualitative case study, we combine the funds of knowledge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,501 Views
24 Pages

Graduate education often serves as an opportunity for Latine students to leverage their social, familial, and cultural capital as an avenue for increased economic prosperity. However, the journey to pursue a graduate education can be challenging as s...

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  • Open Access
2,219 Views
21 Pages

This study used an equity ethic framework and a STEM identity model to contextualize and understand Latine students’ perceptions of STEM identity development. The purpose of this study was to investigate how Latine undergraduate students who en...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,893 Views
23 Pages

Painting, Talking, Rapping and Healing: U.S. Latine Youth and Young Adults Define Wellbeing through Arts-Based PAR

  • Desiree Armas,
  • Israel Juarez,
  • Jennifer Ayala,
  • Jose Dobles and
  • Alexia Estrada

8 September 2023

This paper describes how a collective of Latine youth and adult allies used art-based approaches in a participatory action research project to better understand the ways in which young U.S. Latines make meaning of wellbeing. In this study, we intervi...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
3,182 Views
17 Pages

Individuals who migrate from their home country face a variety of challenges while adapting to the culture in the United States. Immigrant communities are at a significantly higher risk for poor health outcomes; therefore, assessing healthcare treatm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,003 Views
27 Pages

23 August 2025

This exploratory pilot study examined how Latine adolescents’ ethnic–racial identity (ERI)—specifically, centrality, private regard, and public regard—was shaped by parents’ gender role socialization (GRS) beliefs and pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
792 Views
21 Pages

21 August 2025

This study examined how a socioeconomically and linguistically diverse sample of Latine mothers (n = 20) and fathers (n = 20) of children under age five perceive the role of mobile screen technologies in their parenting experiences, using semi-struct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,447 Views
11 Pages

27 April 2023

Externalizing behavior problems are among the top mental health concerns in early childhood, and many parenting interventions have been developed to address this issue. To better understand predictors of parenting intervention outcomes in high-risk f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
4,020 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2025

Background/Objectives: While theoretical articles describing cultural considerations for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) treatment in Latine/x populations exist, empirical trials are less common. The present study aimed to review the existing l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,227 Views
15 Pages

27 November 2024

Background/Objectives: The prevalence of autism has increased substantially among Latine children; however, few service systems are prepared to provide culturally relevant services. Parents Taking Action (PTA) is a culturally informed parent-mediated...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,796 Views
19 Pages

17 August 2023

The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan is the most effective dietary intervention for cardiovascular disease (CVD), but it excludes the consideration of culture and cost. The Hispanic/Latine population is disproportionately af...

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  • Open Access
402 Views
15 Pages

Does Bedtime Really Matter? Examining How Sleep Timing Relates to Sleep Duration and Overweight Status in Midwestern Latine Youth

  • Blake L. Jones,
  • Bethany Lundy,
  • Dakin Stovall,
  • Benjamin D. Seely,
  • Kelsey Zaugg,
  • Joshua Castro,
  • Kara M. Duraccio,
  • Chad D. Jensen,
  • Tanya Austin and
  • Zoe E. Taylor

26 December 2025

Background/Objectives: Overweight and obesity is a continuing health concern for preadolescent youth. We assessed associations between sleep timing and sleep duration and body mass index/body composition in Latine youth. Methods: Participants were 11...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,175 Views
23 Pages

Structured Happenstance: Pathways Toward Upward Mobility Among First-Generation Latine College Students

  • Clarissa Gutiérrez,
  • Amado M. Padilla,
  • Oswaldo Rosales,
  • Miriam Rivera,
  • Veronica Juarez and
  • Michael Spencer

27 October 2025

Higher education is often positioned as a pathway to upward social mobility, yet access to highly selective universities (HSUs) remains limited, with first-generation college (FGC) students from low-income and ethnoracially minoritized backgrounds di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,140 Views
13 Pages

31 January 2021

This communication provides a discussion of a scheme originally proposed by Falcón in a paper entitled “Latin squares associated to principal autotopisms of long cycles. Applications in cryptography”. Falcón outlines the protocol for a cryptographica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,335 Views
18 Pages

Latin Matchings and Ordered Designs OD(n−1, n, 2n−1)

  • Kai Jin,
  • Taikun Zhu,
  • Zhaoquan Gu and
  • Xiaoming Sun

11 December 2022

This paper revisits a combinatorial structure called the large set of ordered design (LOD). Among others, we introduce a novel structure called Latin matching and prove that a Latin matching of order n leads to an LOD(n1, n, 2n&minus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,254 Views
10 Pages

30 January 2024

Studies show that diverse representation in children’s literature can positively impact the self-perceptions of marginalized children. To promote feelings of self-worth, children must see their cultural identities authentically portrayed in a m...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,691 Views
13 Pages

24 June 2019

This article introduces the Religions issue on Latin American religiosity exploring sociological perspectives on the Latin American religious situation, from a Latin American perspective. The Secularization Theory proposes “the more modernity,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,229 Views
16 Pages

This paper discusses the inflections of Latin proper names in the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica. Whereas most common Latin loans are integrated into the Old English system as far as inflections are concerned, proper n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,234 Views
13 Pages

Theology in Latin American Context: A Look at Soteriology

  • Daniel Orlando Álvarez and
  • Wilmer Estrada-Carrasquillo

8 October 2021

The purpose of this article is to describe a contextual theology in Latin America in dialogue with its cultures, histories, and peoples. This contextual theology must build from a Latin American context. For this reason, dialogue begins with mestizaj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,869 Views
8 Pages

Trivial and Nontrivial Eigenvectors for Latin Squares in Max-Plus Algebra

  • Fazal Abbas,
  • Mubasher Umer,
  • Umar Hayat and
  • Ikram Ullah

27 May 2022

A square array whose all rows and columns are different permutations of the same length over the same symbol set is known as a Latin square. A Latin square may or may not be symmetric. For classification and enumeration purposes, symmetric, non-symme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,414 Views
28 Pages

The Memetic Evolution of Latin American Architectural Design Culture

  • İlknur Akıner,
  • İbrahim Yitmen,
  • Muhammed Ernur Akıner and
  • Nurdan Akıner

Architecture is an evolutionary field. Through time, it changes and adapts itself according to two things: the environment and the user, which are the touchstones of the concept of culture. Culture changes in long time intervals because of its cumula...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,858 Views
24 Pages

Belonging and Its Barriers: A Critical Perspective of Latiné and Mixed-Status Families’ Experiences

  • Steven C. McKay,
  • Alberto Ganis,
  • Leslie Lopez,
  • Jennifer Aimee Martinez,
  • Marlen Reyes and
  • Shivani Modha

16 June 2023

This article presents findings from a four-year collaborative research project on immigrant and mixed-status families in Santa Cruz County, California. The project employed a new model of critical community-engaged scholarship called Community Initia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
8,426 Views
19 Pages

29 March 2023

This article presents a mapping of the changing religious landscape of Latin America, specifically focusing on the place of Catholicism therein. It explores how the varying forms of Catholicism in Latin America reflect a reality of mixed modernities,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,698 Views
12 Pages

8 December 2023

This article presents the case of Guatemalan Pentecostalism as a highly relevant expression of Latin American Pentecostalism that helps to clarify the debate about the syncretic nature of Pentecostalism. We use the Guatemalan case to test the thesis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,452 Views
19 Pages

Support for Protests in Latin America: Classifications and the Role of Online Networking

  • Rachel R. Mourão,
  • Magdalena Saldaña,
  • Shannon C. McGregor and
  • Adrian D. Zeh

28 September 2016

In recent years, Latin Americans marched the streets in a wave of protests that swept almost every country in the region. Yet few studies have assessed how Latin Americans support various forms of protest, and how new technologies affect attitudes to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,351 Views
17 Pages

Tuberculosis Genetic Epidemiology: A Latin American Perspective

  • Marc Woodman,
  • Ilsa L. Haeusler and
  • Louis Grandjean

16 January 2019

There are an estimated 10 million new cases of tuberculosis worldwide annually, with 282,000 new or relapsed cases each year reported from the Americas. With improvements in genome sequencing technology, it is now possible to study the genetic divers...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,006 Views
20 Pages

Pseudococyclic Partial Hadamard Matrices over Latin Rectangles

  • Raúl M. Falcón,
  • Víctor Álvarez,
  • María Dolores Frau,
  • Félix Gudiel and
  • María Belén Güemes

6 January 2021

The classical design of cocyclic Hadamard matrices has recently been generalized by means of both the notions of the cocycle of Hadamard matrices over Latin rectangles and the pseudococycle of Hadamard matrices over quasigroups. This paper delves int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,909 Views
27 Pages

Sustainable Mobility Challenges in the Latin American Context

  • Vicente Aprigliano,
  • Gabriel Teixeira Barros,
  • Marcos Vinicius Silva Maia Santos,
  • Catalina Toro,
  • Gonzalo Rojas,
  • Sebastian Seriani,
  • Marcelino Aurelio Vieira da Silva and
  • Ualison Rébula de Oliveira

11 October 2023

Sustainable mobility and transport are topics that have been rising exponentially since the 2000s within the academic community and society. One of the main drivers for this is the intensification of the urbanization processes on a global scale, whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,389 Views
14 Pages

29 December 2024

The Latin Cuengh is a kind of language used in China’s minority areas. Due to its complex pronunciation and semantic system, it is difficult to spread widely. To deal with and protect this language further, this paper considers using the curren...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
2,849 Views
19 Pages

31 October 2022

In this paper, a new combinatorial structure is introduced for image encryption, which has an excellent encryption effect on security and efficiency. An n-transversal in a Latin square has the function of classifying all the matrix’s positions,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,825 Views
22 Pages

State of Art of Cancer Pharmacogenomics in Latin American Populations

  • Andrés López-Cortés,
  • Santiago Guerrero,
  • María Ana Redal,
  • Angel Tito Alvarado and
  • Luis Abel Quiñones

Over the past decades, several studies have shown that tumor-related somatic and germline alterations predicts tumor prognosis, drug response and toxicity. Latin American populations present a vast geno-phenotypic diversity due to the great interethn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,188 Views
16 Pages

10 October 2022

The Laozi has a long and variegated exegetical history inside and outside of China. This history shows the flexibility of a text that is always able to transform and adapt to the specific cultural context and historical period in which it emerges. Du...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,785 Views
24 Pages

A Comprehensive Analysis of the Worst Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Latin America

  • Omar Flor-Unda,
  • Freddy Simbaña,
  • Xavier Larriva-Novo,
  • Ángel Acuña,
  • Rolando Tipán and
  • Patricia Acosta-Vargas

Vulnerabilities in cyber defense in the countries of the Latin American region have favored the activities of cybercriminals from different parts of the world who have carried out a growing number of cyberattacks that affect public and private servic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,337 Views
18 Pages

Biomechanical Analysis of Latin Dancers’ Lower Limb during Normal Walking

  • Xiangli Gao,
  • Datao Xu,
  • Fengfeng Li,
  • Julien S. Baker,
  • Jiao Li and
  • Yaodong Gu

Latin dance involves fundamental walking steps, integral to the dance process. While resembling daily walking, Latin dance demands higher balance levels, necessitating body adjustments by dancers. These adaptations affect dancers’ gait biomecha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,395 Views
25 Pages

12 February 2020

The research we will present is based on interviews conducted with the Latin American immigrant population and the indigenous population of the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC hereafter). We seek to identify religious features tracing similarities a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,961 Views
10 Pages

Quality Indicators in Pediatric Palliative Care: Considerations for Latin America

  • Gregorio Zuniga-Villanueva,
  • Jorge Alberto Ramos-Guerrero,
  • Monica Osio-Saldaña,
  • Jessica A. Casas,
  • Joan Marston and
  • Regina Okhuysen-Cawley

23 March 2021

Pediatric palliative care is a growing field in which the currently available resources are still insufficient to meet the palliative care needs of children worldwide. Specifically, in Latin America, pediatric palliative care services have emerged un...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,415 Views
12 Pages

A Narrative Review of Telemedicine in Latin America during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Genesis Camacho-Leon,
  • Marco Faytong-Haro,
  • Keila Carrera,
  • Marlyn Molero,
  • Franhe Melean,
  • Yuliana Reyes,
  • Hans Mautong,
  • Ivonne De La Hoz and
  • Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic greatly impacted traditional health structures, posing new challenges in an unprecedented health crisis. Telemedicine services were implemented in countries with robust digital platforms to reduce hospital attendance...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,809 Views
22 Pages

Latin American Agri-Food Exports, 1994–2019: A Gravity Model Approach

  • María-Isabel Ayuda,
  • Ignacio Belloc and
  • Vicente Pinilla

21 January 2022

This study analyses the causes of the strong growth in the agri-food exports of Latin America between 1994 and 2019. To do this, a series of gravity models are estimated, using as a dependent variable the agri-food exports of 15 Latin American countr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,383 Views
18 Pages

Most research that has examined the international variation in homicide levels has focused on structural variables, with the suggestion that socio-economic development operates as a cure for violence. In Latin America, development has occurred, but h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,081 Views
27 Pages

27 September 2021

The practice of collaboration in journalism is not new. The developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs) are understood by many scholars as the critical factor for collaborative journalism to flourish across newsrooms. By working...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,627 Views
22 Pages

22 January 2019

This paper investigates the circulation of ideas regarding the city among selected countries in Latin America. It discusses convergences between academic and scientific institutions and investigative weakness in partnerships between Brazil, Argentina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,192 Views
22 Pages

2 May 2025

This paper examines the emergence of vernacular liturgies in Latin America, particularly through the incorporation of folk music in Nicaraguan Masses following the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II). In response to the Romanization of the Catholic l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,672 Views
9 Pages

Neutrosophic Analysis of Experimental Data Using Neutrosophic Graeco-Latin Square Design

  • Pranesh Kumar,
  • Mahdieh Moazzamigodarzi and
  • Mohamadtaghi Rahimi

16 August 2024

Experimental designs are commonly used to produce valid, defensible, and supportable conclusions. Among commonly used block designs, the class of Latin square designs is used to study factors or treatment levels expressed as Latin letters and applyin...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,798 Views
17 Pages

Challenges in the Management of Post-COVID-19 Pulmonary Fibrosis for the Latin American Population

  • Ivan Cherrez-Ojeda,
  • Arturo Cortés-Telles,
  • Laura Gochicoa-Rangel,
  • Génesis Camacho-Leon,
  • Hans Mautong,
  • Karla Robles-Velasco and
  • Marco Faytong-Haro

27 August 2022

This commentary aims to highlight some of the major issues (with possible solutions) that the Latin American region is currently dealing with in managing post-COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis. Overall, there is little evidence for successful long-term COV...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,980 Views
28 Pages

21 October 2020

Latin America covers 20% of the world’s surface but only produces 12% of global carbon emissions. However, countries such as Brazil and Argentina have seen some of the most aggressive increases in individual country CO2 emissions over the last...

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