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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Central highlands"”.
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Contrasting epistemologies in the use of natural dyes, Central Highlands of Chiapas
… southwest of the country, the ecosystem of the Central Highlands of the state of Chiapas is no exception, where a few textile craftswomen transform various local plants, roots, and berries into colourful dyes and import some pigments into the area, maintaining sharing networks between different …
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Farm forestry decision-making strategies of the Guraghe Households, Southern-Central Highlands of Ethiopia
In this study, farm forestry decision criteria were elicited by adopting a behavioral decision-making study approach from households in ten Peasant Associations of the study district. Major decision objectives, available alternatives, constraints, and the likelihood of the chance events were …
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Expanding higher education in the Global South: A case study in the Angolan central highlands
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Expanding higher education in the Global South: A case study in the Angolan central highlands
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Holocene vegetation history and environmental change in the forest-grassland mosaic of the Central Highlands of Madagascar
… implementation of afforestation projects. The Central Highlands of Madagascar, dominated by grassland matrix with forest patches, is the main region targeted. The nature and origin of the landscape are hotly debated, however, and it is not clear whether these open ecosystems are ancient or …
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“Bring security to the people and not the people to security”: security, refugee, and ethnic minority policies and implementation in Vietnam’s central highlands, 1968-1975
The central highlands of Vietnam were of vital strategic importance during the Second Indochina War (1955-1975); the collapse of South Vietnamese forces in this region in March 1975 led to the fall of Saigon just one month later. Despite this area’s importance, most central highlands historiography …
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Modelling Soil Erosion Hazards and Crop Diversity Changes Due to Climate Variation in Farming Systems at Central Highlands in Sri Lanka Using Geo- Informatics Technologies
… to 11.08 Mg/ha/yr from 2000 to 2019 in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. However, crop diversity had decreased in farming systems, namely low country (WL1a) and mid-country (WM1a) wet zone, in the western part of the Central Highlands. The RUE and RESTREND analyses revealed that …
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Prehistoric cranial variation in Papua New Guinea
… and anatomical data recorded on crania from the Central Highlands and Highlands Fringe regions, as well as data for a number of regions from the North and South Coasts. The majority of the data have been recorded in the field from skeletal remains located in ossuaries. Supplementary data from a …
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Prehistoric cranial variation in Papua New Guinea
… and anatomical data recorded on crania from the Central Highlands and Highlands Fringe regions, as well as data for a number of regions from the North and South Coasts. The majority of the data have been recorded in the field from skeletal remains located in ossuaries. Supplementary data from a …
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Patterns of soil maturation and mixing at the Apollo 16 landing site: surface soils
… stratigraphy and geologic sequence in the central highlands are reviewed. Likewise, a comprehensive discussion of the interrelated phenomena associated with a soil's residence in the upper millimeter of the regolith follows. Data for major element chemistry and trapped inert gases are …
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To and fro in the archipelago: Repeated inter-island dispersal, eustasy and New Guinea’s orogeny affect diversification of Delias, the world’s largest butterfly genus
… the past 3 Myr and the orogeny of the New Guinea central highlands about 5 Mya. I therefore reconstructed the evolutionary history of 212 <em>Delias</em> species and inferred the timing of their divergence to examine whether eustasy (sea level fluctuations), and/or New Guinea orogeny coincide with …
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Access to land-based resources under the influence of land reform: a case study from an agrarian community in Mexico
… Oxtotilpan, an agrarian community in Mexico‟s central highlands that is home to the smallest indigenous group in the region: the Matlatzinca. The theoretical and analytical framework designed takes into account the main scholarship on access to natural resources. This extended analytical …
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Analysis of seasonal variation in dietary composition and behaviour of wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) in two habitats of different human influence around windhoek, central Namibia
… limited research carried out on primates in the central highlands of Namibia, this study was carried out in an effort to bridge the knowledge gap and obtain insight into the influence humans have on the ecology of these primates around the city of Windhoek. The study investigated the activity …
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A multidisciplinary approach to informing conservation decisions for the threatened frog Mantella cowanii
… than is apparent today in Madagascar’s central highlands. To explore the human dimensions of conservation, I surveyed 455 residents across 70 villages in two regions where conservation strategies have been implemented for endangered Mantella. Structural equation modeling revealed trust …
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Faunal turnover between east and southern African terrestrial vertebrates: is Malawi the geographical break?
… forest associated species occur in the southern highlands separating Mount Namuli in Mozambique and Mount Mulanje as well as between Mount Mulanje and Mount Zomba in Malawi; in the central highlands that split Malawi into two halves, and within the northern highlands separating the Misuku Hills …
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Governance of the drinking water supply service: A case study of three Mexican communities
… in three peri-urban communities in Mexico’s central highlands: San Mateo, San Francisco and Santiaguito. The principal research question this thesis aims to answer is how do customarilyorganised institutions address water governance to manage the DWSS at community level? Using qualitative …
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The great shout of the wolves’ mouth: Indigeneity, social change and historical narrative in the Ecuadorian Andes
… parish located in the Bolívar province in the central highlands of Ecuador, where Kichwa indigenous communities, a major hacienda (Hacienda Talahua), and a white-mestizo town coexisted until the early 1980s. Relationships of exploitation and racial discrimination against indigenous people were …
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Determination and analysis of land deformation in major landslide areas in Kenya using geospatial techniques: A case study of Murang a and Nyeri counties
… areas of Kenya, specifically within the central highlands encompassing Murang'a and Nyeri counties. The research employs a spectrum of areal deformation methods, including Small Baseline Sub-set (SBAS) Interferometric Synthetic Aperture RADAR (InSAR) from processed ALOS PALSAR and …
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