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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Gaitan"”.
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Jorge Eliecer Gaitan and his term as mayor of Bogota, Colombia, June 1936 to February 1937
… in Colombian history is that of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, whose assassination of April 9, 1948, ended a twenty-year career in national politics.<sup>1</sup> The Colombian writer-diplomat, Juan Lozano Y Lozano, has distinguished Gaitan as the man most responsible for creating a "new mood: in …
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Parent and teacher perspectives on Congolese students in the American education system
… the new school system and educational culture (Gaitan, 2012) and often find that obstacles such as a language barrier affect their involvement in their children’s education (Vera et al., 2010). The following study investigates Congolese parent perceptions of the education of their children in …
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Illuminating Literacies Beyond the Classroom: Women as Bricoleurs Negotiating Social Class and Multiple Discourses
… and students' homes (Delpit, 1995; Delgado-Gaitan, 1991; McCaleb, 1994). Literacy development at school is facilitated by teachers' knowledge of students' home-based discourses (Auerbach, 1989; McCaleb, 1994; Voss, 1996). This dissertation research responded to the question: What do …
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Evaluation of the degree of blending of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) binder for warm mix asphalt
The paving industry in recent years has seen the emergence of a plethora of warm mix asphalt (WMA) technologies and application. With most states incorporating a recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) limit, it is necessary for WMA to not only serve as a greener technology but to work in conjunction with …
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Vaulted Earthen Floor Systems for Low-Cost Housing Construction
This thesis explores the viable geometries of earthen vaulted floor systems for low-cost residential construction. Typical structural floor systems consist of a reinforced concrete flat slab, which is problematic as concrete and steel are expensive, carbon-intensive materials. As urbanization rates …
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Supernova Rates, Rise-Ttmes and their Relations to Progenitors
Supernovae are fundamental in astronomy: they inject high mass elements into the interstellar medium enriching the chemistry of galaxies, they feed processes of star formation and active galactic nuclei, and they have been a key for the developments in cosmology of the past decades. This …
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Daring Trade: An Archaeology of the Slave Trade in Late-Seventeenth Century Panama (1663-1674)
This dissertation delves into both archaeological evidence and firsthand written sources in order to examine the material constitution of European slave traders' social life in the last years of existence of the Spanish colonial city of Panama, burnt down to the ashes following a piratic attack in …
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Consequences of spontaneous and anomalous symmetry breaking for the orbital and mass flow hydrodynamics of helium-3
In this thesis we address three problems associated with the mass flow and orbital hydrodynamics of $\sp3$He-A. The first concerns the form of the T = 0 mass current in local equilibrium; the second is a paradox associated with the non-conservation of superfluid linear momentum at T = 0; and the …
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El “equilibrio económico” del contrato estatal como derecho no como principio
La celebración (o el hecho de que se permita la celebración) del contrato en forma incompleta conlleva en sí misma la consecuencia jurídica de la indemnización o compensación porque se deriva de una norma orientada a garantizar un derecho y no es la aplicación de un principio como se le denomina. …
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Design of a Scaled Flight Test Vehicle Including Linear Aeroelastic Effects
A procedure for the design of a scaled aircraft using linear aeroelastic scaling is developed and demonstrated. Previous work has shown the viability in matching scaled structural frequencies and mode shapes in order to achieve consistent linear scaling of simple models. This methodology is adopted …
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán y la Restauración Moral de la República: análisis de su visión política en la campaña presidencial 1944-1946
… y del periódico Jornada, diario oficial del gaitanismo, se analiza la campaña por la "Restauración Moral de la República" (1944-1946) en el pensamiento político de Gaitán, un concepto clave que definió su campaña a la presidencia de la República de Colombia, mientras a su vez consolidó su …
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Evaluación de dos aditivos antioxidantes naturales en la elaboración de mantequilla de semilla de marañón (Anacardium occidentale L.) y su efecto sobre la rancidez oxidativa y calidad sensorial
La investigación consistió, en la evaluación de mantequilla de semilla de marañón con adición de antioxidantes bajo tres tratamientos en estudio: T1 sin antioxidantes, T2 con Tocoferoles (25 mg/kg) y T3 con Lecitina de soya (10 g/kg), utilizando un diseño completamente al azar con seis …