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Showing 1 to 20 of 261 for “"Andes"”.
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Diospi Suyana Building Hope in the Andes
… is a Cancer Treatment Center located in the Andes of Peru, which purpose is to response to the emotions and needs of the patients and staff. Cancer is a complex disease, which can make the patient feel lost in the world. The interplay with nature will create a healing environment and a …
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Neotectonics & Cooling History of the Southern Patagonian Andes
… of the overriding plate. The Southern Patagonian Andes of South America are a prime example for sustained oceanic ridge collision and the successive formation and widening of an extensive asthenospheric slab window since the Middle Miocene. Several of the predicted upper-plate geologic …
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Political Representation for Indigenous Peoples in the Andes
… is a very common trait in the South American Andes, which houses the largest number of indigenous groups in the continent. This thesis focuses on Ecuador and Bolivia due to their indigenous population and their history, or lack thereof, with indigenous people in parliament. For my hypothesis, …
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Gender and Pest Management in the Ecuadorian Andes
This research was conducted to assess the intersection of gender and pesticide knowledge to identify gendered dynamics that may prove important to consider when implementing an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program. Key findings include knowledge being associated with task undertaken, not …
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Yaku Cosmo-Infrastructures : Designing with Water Across the Andes
Water in the Andes is a dual entity: matter and energy, terrestial and celestial, substance, and Cosmos. This thesis is a provocation to reimagine water infrastructures across the Andes as a collaboration of ancestral and modern forms of relating with Water. As an Andean descendant, my mother …
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Structural constraints on crustal shortening in the Bolivian Andes
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1988.
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Seismicity, tectonics, and surface wave propagation in the central Andes
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1983.
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Seed predation along an elevational gradient in the Tropical Andes, Peru
… a 2.5 km elevation gradient in the Peruvian Andes. The following questions were asked (1) does seed predation vary across the elevation gradient? (2) do predation rates vary among species and are those rates predictable from species traits such as seed size or current elevational range? And …
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Active deformation in the southern Andes from GPS and FEM models
Räumliche und zeitliche Variationen der Oberflächendeformation entlang von Subduktionszonen geben wichtige Informationen zum Verständnis des Ablaufs von schweren Erdbeben. In dieser Arbeit werden Beobachtungen der gegenwärtigen Deformation der Erdkruste und numerische Modellierungen präsentiert, um …
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Investigation of Mountain Waves in the Mesosphere over the Andes Mountains
… (from about 87 km altitude), located in the Andes, with the purpose of investigating the atmospheric gravity waves generated when low level wind blows over the high mountains (referred to as Mountain Waves). These types of waves are a special case of atmospheric gravity waves, which carry …
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Mountain-range uplift & climate-system interactions in the Southern Central Andes
Zwei häufig diskutierte Aspekte der spätkänozoischen Gebirgsbildung der Anden sind der Zeitpunkt sowie die Art und Weise der Heraushebung des Puna-Plateaus und seiner Randgebiete innerhalb der Ostkordillere und die damit verbundenen klimatischen Änderungen in NW Argentinien. Die Ostkordillere …
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Avian Diversification in the Andes: Understanding Endemism Patterns and Historical Biogeography
The Andes, along with the Amazon and Atlantic forests, harbor the richest avifauna in the world with roughly one third of all the world's species of birds. Many biogeographical studies have sought to explain the origin and diversification of Andean taxa. However, because of the Andes' extensive …
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Nitrogen modeling of potato fields in the Bolivian Andes using GLEAMS
… cropping system practices for potatoes in the Andes of central Bolivia, and make recommendations for the continued development of the model as an analysis tool to improve sustainable crop production. Model suitability was evaluated through assessment of model representation of observed potato …
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ECOLOGY OF GROUND-DWELLING CARABID BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE) IN THE PERUVIAN ANDES
Studies of diversity and species distributions are crucial in light of a predicted 4-6 degrees C warming by the end of the 21st century, especially in the tropics where many species may be especially sensitive to climate change. Little is known about patterns of insect diversity and richness in …
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Regional Deformation and Dynamic Processes of the Southern Puna Plateau, Central Andes
The southern Puna Plateau of the central Andes offers an excellent opportunity to (1) advance our understanding in orogenic models for non-collisional mountain belts, (2) test Earth’s upper-crustal responses to lower lithospheric processes, and (3) explore uses of low-temperature thermochronology …
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Evaluating the Controls of Neogene Exhumation in the Tropical Northern Andes (colombia)
… I studied the Eastern Cordillera of the Northern Andes, a mountain range located in Colombia in the tropics of South America. To obtain exhumation rates, I used thermochronology, which is a method that records—over timescales of millions of years—the rate at which rocks located at great depths …
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A Geophysical Survey Of Active Volcanism In The Central And Southern Andes
… active volcanism in the Central and Southern Andes. InSAR and thermal remote sensing provide synoptic coverage along the volcanic arc, and seismic experiments allow further examination of selected volcanoes. I establish the first catalog of seismicity at Uturuncu volcano in Bolivia, where …
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