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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"Chavez"”.
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Hezbollah and Hugo Chavez: Radical Islam's Western Foothold
… Iran, Hezbollah, and Venezuela under Hugo Chavez. Chavez' socialist project underway in Venezuela shares many fundamental ideological principles with revolutionary Iran, most notably in its rejection of the current Western-led geopolitical order. This marriage of convenience has allowed …
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Dennis Chavez and The Inter-American Ideal, 1936-1962
… conducted on the accomplishments of Dennis Chavez, U.S. Senator from New Mexico, little in known about his activities in Latin America. Most of the studies completed to date focus on Chavezs domestic accomplishments, creating an image of a man who primarily focused on New Mexico issues. This …
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Domesticated Office: Designing to Foster Culture in Virtual Workplaces
… compared to working from physical offices (Chavez-Dreyfuss, 2020). However, it challenges the social connection aspect of a workplace. In this study, I present plausible solutions and suggestions on how digital experience can help build company culture in a virtual environment, but also …
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On the Insufficiency of Procedure: Assessments of Bolivarian Democracy
… polarized since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1998. This starkly divided debate has demonstrable impact on the policy realm, as well as the scholarly literature on democratic theory. This debate has run along ideological lines and has focused on differing conceptualizations of …
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RHETORICAL STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL GIFT GIVING IN THE ORINOCO DELTA
… American left wing populist governments (Hugo Chavez presidency since 1998). These historical circumstances present an opportunity to open a discussion bringing together the recent developments of discourse-centered approaches to culture, language ideologies, and the most classical theories on …
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Endangered species: the hope for students in Mexican Chicago
… becoming gang members, and causing problems"" (Chavez, 2008, p. 38)."
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Centre Manifold Theory for some continuous and Discrete Epidemiological models
… re-centre the reduction theorem in C. Castillo-Chavez and B. Song (2004) and highlight its advantage over the legendary power series approximations in the use of the Centre Manifold Theory (CMT). We propose and prove a Centre Manifold-based theorem for the existence of a backward bifurcation for …
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The evolution of isotoipc abundances from high-redshift to the local universe
… trace-to-dominant isotopes and metallicity (Chavez 2008). Based upon our dual-infall galactic chemical evolution modelling of a Milky Way-like system, and the subsequent comparison with these new and unique datasets, we conclude the following: novae are not required to understand the …
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Searching for Sounds: Instrumental Agency and Modularity in Electroacoustic Improvisation
… collaboration between Olivia Block and Maria Chavez; and finally, a performance by AMM celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. In presenting these analyses, I attempt to focus attention on a significant movement in contemporary creative musical practices and suggest ways in which these …
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La Causa Para La Raza: The Educative Processes and Development of Knowledge in the United Farm Workers from 1962 to 1970
… skills. The learning that occurred in Cesar Chavez's adult life strongly influenced him to leave the migrant stream and establish a community union and social movement. Likewise, the educative processes within the United Farm Workers (UFW) were empowering and prompted farm workers …
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Journeys towards well-being: men, meditation and mental health
… to different theoretical frameworks (De Chavez et al., 2005). The range of meanings attached to the concept is discussed in the theoretical review. tough and/or disconnect from difficult emotions. Meditation itself was linked to well-being in various ways, notably through the cultivation …
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Modeling and Analysis of Interaction Networks in Ecological Systems
Understanding how networks form and evolve is an important question in many fields such as ecology, epidemiology, economics, and sociology. Studying the mechanisms of network formation can yield insight into which factors are involved in edge formation and network growth. This thesis explores …
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UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY: EXPLOITING UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS FOR POLITICAL GAIN
The U.S. Congress has not passed significant immigration reform legislation since 1996. Congress’s inaction has enabled presidential administrations to amass power and shape immigration policy according to their political priorities. This thesis explores how political tribalism and ever-changing …
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Effects of Stretching on Jumping Performance
Stretching has been a part of warm-up for a very long time. Some recent research has shown that stretching could possibly hinder performance and others have shown it enhances performance. The purpose of this study was to examine whether stretching has an effect on vertical jump, and if so, how long …
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Examining Latino a First-Generation College Students' Educational Resilience at a Jesuit Post-Secondary Institution
<p>This qualitative study focused on exploring and understanding Latino/a first-generation college students' process for drawing or enabling educational resilience to persist and achieve their postsecondary education degree. Using Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Paradigm as the framework, the study …
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Effects of a nutritional intervention on dietary intake in female collegiate athletes
<p>"Much research has reported that female collegiate athletes eat poorly. The purpose of this study was to (1) investigate if there was a difference in macronutrient intake between collegiate female soccer players based on the intervention of registered dietician facilitated nutritional sessions …
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Explainable AI in Medical Imaging: An Interdisciplinary Translational Approach
<p>Advances in computer vision and image processing have made a clear impact on many fields, from healthcare diagnostics to autonomous driving. However, as these models become more complex, understanding their decision-making processes has grown increasingly challenging, making explainable AI (XAI) …
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Effect of Iron on the Oxidative Capacity of Carbonaceous Nanoparticles
Inhalation of ambient particulate matter (PM<sub>2.5</sub>) emitted during combustion of fuels has negative impacts on human health. Triggered in part by the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) that lead to oxidative stress, significant gaps exist in the understanding of the detailed …
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Economic Disadvantage, Nativity, and Academic Performance and School Punishment Among Latino/a Children
<p>Cultural explanations of how familial resource inequality negatively impacts the academic well-being of a Latino/a child saturate the literature. This study examines the relationship between economic disadvantage and academic performance and school punishment through Family Stress Process …
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