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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Central and South America"”.
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Visitor Impact Assessment and Management for Protected Areas in Central and South America
Ecotourism and protected area visitation have been steadily increasing in recent years in Central and South America, inevitably resulting in natural resource impacts. The consequences of such impacts may include natural resource degradation, diminished aesthetic qualities, or decreased …
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The Second Lost Cause: Post-National Confederate Imperialism in the Americas.
<p>At the close of the American Civil War some southerners unwilling to remain in a reconstructed South, elected to immigrate to areas of Central and South America to reestablish a Southern antebellum lifestyle.</p><p>The influences of Manifest Destiny, expansionism, filibustering, and southern …
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The "Re-Latinization" of New Orleans in the Twentieth Century: Multiple Waves of Hispanic Migration
Latin Americans immigrating to New Orleans during the Jim Crow period found New Orleans to be a place where they could assimilate. Several factors produced a tolerant climate for Latin Americans. These included New Orleanians' tolerant attitude, which was possible since Latin Americans arrived in …
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A history of the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, 1920-1946
In its formative years, the Benson Latin American Collection at The University of Texas at Austin went through many growing pains. Although the collection grew by leaps and bounds between 1920 and 1946, the collection was also beset with political infighting and racial tensions. Due to the Latin …
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Genetic Structure of Amblyomma Cajennense (Acari: Ixodidae) Populations Based on Mitochondrial Gene Sequences
… has a large geographic distribution from the southern regions of the United States (Texas), to the Caribbean Islands, Central, and South America. This tick is a vector of the agent of Brazilian spotted fever, an often fatal disease in South America. Throughout its geographic range, populations …
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The United States in the Commonwealth Caribbean : an assessment of America's predominance in the region
The Caribbean has been variously and always arbitrarily defined. There are, however, three conceptions that are widely accepted by writers, commentators, and foreign policy specialists: the insular Caribbean, which includes the English-speaking islands in the Caribbean archipelago; the Caribbean …
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The United States in the Commonwealth Caribbean : an assessment of America's predominance in the region
The Caribbean has been variously and always arbitrarily defined. There are, however, three conceptions that are widely accepted by writers, commentators, and foreign policy specialists: the insular Caribbean, which includes the English-speaking islands in the Caribbean archipelago; the Caribbean …
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Predictive Model Fusion: A Modular Approach to Big, Unstructured Data
Data sets of increasing size and complexity require new approaches for prediction as the sheer volume of data from disparate sources inhibits joint processing and modeling. Rather modular segmentation is required, in which a set of models process (potentially overlapping) partitions of the data to …
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Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of the Beetle Pathogens Paenibacillus popilliae and Paenibacillus lentimorbus
… the hemolymph of infected larvae from Mexico and throughout Central and South America. Twenty-one of the strains were determined to be <I>Paenibacillus popilliae</I> and ten were found to be more closely related to <I>Paenibacillus lentimorbus</I>. Only one of the <I>P. popilliae</I> strains, …
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Made in Machismo: Discovering Gender Patterns in Migration Process
… shaped both by their internal sense of self and external influences from societal institutions such as education, family, religion, government, and economy. Gender impacts one's self-perception, societal treatment, and life roles. The textbook definition of an immigrant is a person who comes …
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Banana transshipment model
… account for 6% of produce department sales and 1% of total grocery store sales. According to The Packer’s “2010 Fresh Trends”, 88% of consumers in all categories purchase bananas. Also, 94% of consumers in the study purchased bananas within the last twelve months. Over the last decade, fuel …
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A 10-year post-analysis of the Maya Health Toolkit for Medical Providers
<p>Researchers have often overlooked America's Indigenous community when conducting health disparities research. In Central and South America, The World Bank 2015 report identifies 774 indigenous groups living today (Davis-Castro, n.d.). One of the oldest known is the Maya people. The Maya have …
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Tick Infestations and Their Consequences for Migratory Songbirds During Spring Stopover
… seasonal movement from tropical/sub-tropical Central and South America to more temperate North America. Maintaining health during migration is of particular concern. This study seeks to understand how haematophageous ectoparasites, such as ticks (<em>Ixodida</em>), impact host body condition …
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There’s more than one way to beat the heat: What anal probes reveal about thermal responses in Neotropical beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
… have been linked to shifts in the distributions and preferred microhabitats of terrestrial species. This trend is predicted to impact tropical forest insects, which may already be exposed to conditions that bring them close to their thermal maxima. Tropical microhabitats are linked to vertical …
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Analysis of an international distribution hub for fast moving consumer goods
… packaged goods. The traditional inventory centralization dilemma requires an evaluation of whether the reduction in holding costs outweighs the increases in transportation and handling costs. We developed a mixed integer programming model to determine the benefits of adding hub capability …
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Latino families’ expectations about the process of family therapy, therapists, treatment outcome, termination, and future therapy
… these studies have focused on individual therapy and the mainstream population. Very few studies have been dedicated to exploring the expectations of Latino/a clients about therapy and even fewer have been dedicated to exploring the experience of Latino families in family therapy. The theoretical …
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Descrição e análise do padrão de nidificação de Leptopogon amaurocephalus Tschudi, 1846 (Aves, Tyrannidae) na Zona da Mata de Minas Gerais
… is a small Tyrannidae widely distributed in Central and South America, where it inhabts the lower and middle strata of primary and secondary forests and woods. According to the brief descriptions available, its nest is purse shaped, hanging under natural or artificial cover. Since nest shape …
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Vaulted Earthen Floor Systems for Low-Cost Housing Construction
… flat slab, which is problematic as concrete and steel are expensive, carbon-intensive materials. As urbanization rates increase globally, informal and structurally inadequate settlements become more ubiquitous as a result. Vaulted structural floor systems can be constructed from earthen …
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Exotic Armored Catfishes in Texas: Reproductive Biology, and Effects of Foraging on Egg Survival of Native Fishes (Etheostoma fonticola, Endangered and Dionda diaboli, Threatened)
Armored catfishes (Loricariidae), native to Central and South America, were introduced into North American waters through the aquarium trade, and became established in Texas waters in 1964. There has been concern that breeding populations of these exotics could affect native species through dietary …
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