The Dominican Republic has much in common with the countries ofLatin America(with which it is often grouped), and some writers have referred to the country as a microcosm of that region. Dominicans have experienced political and civil disorder, ethnic tensions, export-oriented booms and busts,...
Brazil, country of South America that occupies half the continent’s landmass. It is the fifth largest and fifth most-populous country in the world. Brazil contains most of the Amazon River basin, which has the world’s largest river system and the world
Its population density isn’t a recent development, either. Prior to European exploration, California’sNative Americanpopulation was the densest of any area north of Mexico, and the region was the most culturally and linguistically diverse.
In 2023, nearly one third of the adult population in Ecuador was involved in start-ups, making it the highest in the Americas.
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Billionaires by Region We’ll begin by zooming out to look at how various continents and world regions rank in terms of their billionaire population. North America is home to most billionaires, worth$4.6 trillion. The U.S., unsurprisingly, accounts for themajorityof this wealth, with 975 billi...
The disappearance of many North American megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene is a contentious topic. While the proposed causes for megafaunal extinction are varied, most researchers fall into three broad camps emphasizing human overhunting, climate c
Therefore, understanding the characteristics of HR-HPV infection in certain region are valuable to the development of effective cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccine inoculation strategies. As we known, most HPV infections are transient and self-limiting without a clinical symptom, while a minority...
Within the 100 Kb region, 75.3% of the SNVs were rediscovered by EXL-WGS dataset (Additional file 2: Section S3). Among the 4301 heterozygous calls in the ENCODE dataset, 4231 (98.4%) were correctly called by SAS-AP dataset (Additional file 2: Section S4.2). In particular, we achieve...
The grey wolf (Canis lupus) is one of the most controversial animals, and has been an object of intense eradication campaigns throughout Western Europe [7] and North America [8] since the 18th century. By the end of the 19th century, most of the Western European wolf populations were exti...