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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"Andean"”.
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Linguistic Transfer in Andean Spanish: Syntax or Pragmatics?
… and pragmatics of word order variation in the Andean Spanish of Bolivia and Ecuador. While Standard Spanish has basic order SVO, in Andean Spanish the object frequently appears in preverbal position, resulting in alternative orders (e.g. OVS). Previous studies have attributed this phenomenon to …
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Corporate governance developments in the Latin American Andean region
… stakeholder perspective in the Latin American Andean region (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) and also to provide an in depth analysis and comparison of the reasons organisations in the region want to implement corporate governance principles, whether it is because their want to …
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Past Environmental Change On The Eastern Andean Flank, Ecuador
The eastern Andean flank of Ecuador (EAF) contains some of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. Andean montane forests are threatened due to anthropogenic pressures and both current and projected climate change. This thesis examines the palaeoecological history of two stratigraphic sequences …
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Climate control on plant performance across an Andean altitudinal gradient
… a genus of canopy trees common in Andean cloud forests, species growing at lower altitude had higher mean diameter growth rates than high altitude species. Within species, however, diameter growth did not consistently decrease with altitude, and growth was significantly positively …
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Strategies to Increase Andean Potato Cultivation and Preservation in Ecuador
Andean potato cultivars, a staple crop for diets and agriculture in the Andes, are declining largely due to lack of public interest and consumer demand, posing socio-economic and environmental challenges. Potato is native to the South American Andes, where farmers have, for millennia, selected …
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Phylogenetic Analyses of Andean and Amazonian Tree Communities in Ecuador
… hotspot. Both the western Amazon and Andean montane forests are richly populated with tropical tree species that have been little studied in a community phylogenetic context. The implementation of elevational transects and trait based analyses having proven useful in gaining a better …
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Aymara perspectives: Ethnoecological studies in Andean communities of northern Chile
… Arica, Chile with the highlands of Bolivia. For Andean people, economic, spiritual and social life, are inextricably tied to land and water. The Chilean Aymara comprise a small, geographically isolated minority of Tarapaca, the northern border region, who are struggling to maintain their …
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Economic integration and foreign direct investment policies : the Andean case .
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics.
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The art of the spearthrower: understanding the Andean Estólica through iconography
<p>Spearthrower devices held a role around the world as a primary weapon and tool before slowly falling out of favor in certain areas for other projectile weapons. While it is widely accepted that spearthrowers were used by the people of the ancient central Andes, comparatively little research has …
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Stratigraphic response to Cordilleran processes along the south central Andean margin
… throughout a complex tectonic history along the Andean Cordilleran margin of Argentina. Chapter 1 applies detrital zircon U-Th-Pb and Lu-Hf isotopic datasets as a powerful methods for evaluating long-term, regional geologic patterns and the processes of crustal addition, removal, and recycling to …
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of grounwater in the Andean Highlands in northern Ecuador
… area of the páramo ecosystem in the Andean Highland in northern Ecuador proposed to meet a fraction of the future water demand in the Metropolitan District of Quito (MDQ). Tracer techniques and Darcian-based formulations were used to determine the groundwater dynamics by means of some …
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Location optimization for vaccination centers of the andean region in Peru
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a devastating economic, social and health toll. Although vaccines have been developed to combat it, access to them was not equitable for all, especially in developing countries. Peru faces additional challenges: poor health and road infrastructure, a tight health …
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Triassic to Neogene Evolution of the Andean Retroarc: Neuquén Basin, Argentina
The Andes Mountains provide an ideal natural laboratory to analyze the relationship between the tectonic evolution of a subduction margin, retroarc shortening, basin morphology, and volcanic activity. Timing of initial shortening and foreland basin development in Argentina is diachronous along …
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Early Life History Stage Dynamics Across the Elevational Ranges of Andean Trees
In the face of climate change, one option species have is to shift their geographic ranges to respond to changing temperatures, precipitation, and other climatic variables. Accurately predicting how species distributions may shift with climate change requires an understanding of what controls …
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Soil-Landscape Modelling in an Andean Mountain Forest Region in Southern Ecuador
… as a key soil attribute. Soils in the Andean mountain rainforest area of southern Ecuador are influenced by hillslope processes and landslides in particular. The lack of knowledge on the distribution of soils and especially physical soil properties to understand slope failure, resulted …
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Andean sediment response to natural and anthropogenic changes at the catchment scale
… soil production. To date, the majority of Andean studies have primarily focused on larger eastern catchments, with fewer studies focusing on the western catchments. Although, western Andean catchments are often smaller, many major Andean cities are reliant on upon their upstream water …
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The Economic Organization of Early Camelid Pastoralism in the Andean Highlands of Bolivia
… development of early camelid pastoralism in the Andean highlands by testing a set of hypotheses related to the economic organization of the Wankarani cultural complex and its change through time. I directed a three-year field project in Iroco: located in Oruro, Bolivia) that involved …
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Craniofacial morphology and the consequences of intentional cranial deformation among prehistoric Andean populations
This research examined the cultural practice of cranial deformation (annular and anteroposterior), and its effects on 27 craniometric measurements and biodistances among 350 prehistoric crania from the Azapa valley of northern Chile. Included among these 27 measurements were nine facial …
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Changing Human Impact On The Montane Forests Of The Eastern Andean Flank, Ecuador
… and the montane cloud forest of the eastern Andean flank of Ecuador. Two new sedimentary records are examined from the montane forest adjacent to the Río Cosanga (Vinillos) and in the Quijos Valley (Huila). These sites characterise the natural dynamics of a pre-human arrival montane forest …
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