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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Andean Region"”.
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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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Location optimization for vaccination centers of the andean region in Peru
… for vaccination centers in the most adverse regions of Peru. A mathematical model for the optimization of the location is presented taking as a reference the Set Covering, Maximal Covering and P- Median models. Coverage, location costs and travel distance were prioritized. The sample used was …
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Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of FARC: a challenge for Colombia and a step toward andean region stability
The intention of this thesis is to determine the warning signals and preventive actions to conduct the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) process successfully. Although Colombia has experienced multiple DDR processes during its …
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Some Amerindian Terms in American Spanish: A Glossary and Study Based on Twelve Indigenist Novels of the Andean Region
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Two Papers Evaluating the Economic Impact of Agricultural Innovation
… on income of conservation agriculture in the Andean Region." The first paper is motivated by the public health consequences of vitamin and mineral deficiencies, which affect more than two billion people worldwide and can lead to increased incidence of illness, disability, and mortality. …
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Assessment of Chenopodium quinoa Willd. Genetic Diversity in the USDA and CIP-FAO Collections Using SSR?S and SNP?S
… a staple grain for the indigenous people of the Andean region of South America with excellent nutritional qualities, including protein content. The objective of this study is to report on the development of fluorescence-tagged simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and single nucleotide polymorphisms …
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Impact of climate change on extinction risk of montane tree species.
… remains unknown, especially in those tropical regions that are centers of endemism and are highly biodiverse. This thesis provides an insight into the extinction risk of selected tree species using different species distribution modelling techniques and reviewing the current conservation status …
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The Elimination Model versus The Protection Model: Analysis of Child Labor Policies in Peru and Bolivia (2014-2026)
… Approach" historically championed in the Andean region.</p> <p>The study utilizes a comparative analysis of Peru’s abolitionist stance and Bolivia’s legislative experiment with Law 548 (2014–2018), which attempted to regulate child labor by lowering the legal working age to ten (10) under …
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Ethnic leftists, populist ethnics : the new politics of identity
… the early 1990s; and four shadow cases from the Andean region (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela). These data are used to map variation in identification across countries and over time; to illustrate the plausibility of the argument and to test it against predictions drawn from alternative …
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¿CAMPO PARA LA/OS JÓVENES? EXPLORING CAMPESINA/O YOUTH SUBJECTIVITIES IN CONTEMPORARY COLOMBIA.
… ecology and feminist theory, and situated in the Andean region and river basin of Sumapaz, Colombia, this dissertation is a feminist political ecology analysis of agrarian livelihoods, exploring how campesina/o identity is constructed and how the decisions of continuing or not with small-scale …
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Being a Composer in the Andes during the Age of Revolutions. Choices and Appropriations in the Music of José Bernardo Alzedo and Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado
… careers amid the rapid changes brought to this region between the 1790s and 1850s, a period often described as an “Age of Revolutions” and that saw the end of colonial rule and the foundation of modern independent nations. Composers in the region worked within European forms and styles, and with …
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Evaluation of Downy Mildew (Peronospora farinosa f.sp. chenopodii) Resistance among Quinoa Genotypes and Investigation of P. farinosa Growth using Scanning Electron Microscopy
… quinoa Willd.) is a pseudocereal native to the Andean region of South America and a staple crop for subsistence farmers in the altiplano of Bolivia and Peru. Downy mildew is the most significant disease of quinoa caused by the pathogen Peronospora farinosa f.sp. chenopodii Byford. This disease …
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Simple Sequence Repeat Development, Polymorphism and Genetic Mapping in Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.)
… important, highly nutritional grain crop in the Andean region of South America. DNA markers and linkage maps are important tools for the improvement of underdeveloped crops such as quinoa. The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a new set of SSR markers to augment the number of SSR …
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Markets and Hierarchies in Late Colonial Spanish America: The Royal Tobacco Monopoly in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1752--1813
… relative weakness of the colonial state in the Andean region. Major remittances were sent to Madrid between 1787--1797, but a great proportion of tobacco monopoly revenues remained in colonial territories. This finding challenges the view that the repatriation of resources to the metropolis was …
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Assembling Economic Citizenship: Indigenous Women’s Work in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia
… indigenous women’s work in Bolivia, as with the Andean region more widely, has centred on highland women’s work as (informal) market venders and traders, while lowland indigenous women as economic subjects have been largely invisibilised. Through a qualitative case study with Guaraní and other …
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Empowering development: capabilities and Latin American critical traditions
… associated with Indigenous philosophies of the Andean region. Throughout its chapters,it uncovers the conceptual baggage within the Paradox of Empowerment in Sen’s work and examines the ethical challenges and boundaries of this approach in relation to the collective dimension of development …
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The institutional forces that impact on the understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the form of social partnerships in the Peruvian Mining industry
… CSR literature in developing countries from the Andean region by capturing the native peoples’ voices. To this end, multiple qualitative methods including observations and semi-structured interviews have been utilised as they allow for a more in-depth, exploratory study. In total, 53 …
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Realismo psíquico en una novela inédita de Gamaliel Churata
… understanding the thought of the South American Andean region. The main objective is to write an introductory study to accompany the critical edition of the unpublished novel Limeños de la sierra Metafísica del tiempo (1969). After introducing Gamaliel Churata, the text first sets out the main …
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Fibre Production Among the Coastal Hunter-gatherers of South America’s West Coast: New Narratives from Plant Fibre Technologies
… technologies among the people of the coastal Andean Preceramic Period (10,000 – 3,500 BP) by studying the technological production of bast fibre artefacts from six archaeological sites in Peru and Chile. The raw materials, technological processes and manufacturing techniques were identified …
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Tense and mood variation in Spanish nominal subordinates: The case of Peruvian varieties
… of influence of indigenous languages. In the Andean region, contact between Spanish and Quechua has given rise to both monolingual and bilingual varieties of Andean Spanish, which present distinct characteristics. At the same time, however, Andean and non-Andean varieties share some features …
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