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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Northern Coast"”.
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Saints, virgins, and the Devil: Witchcraft, magic, and healing in the northern coast of Ecuador
… rituals and narratives in Muisne, a town in the northern coast of Ecuador. Change is mediated through a complex cosmology based on the opposition between the domain of the divino, centered on God, and the domain of the humano, the realm of the Devil.
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African palm and Afro-indigenous resistance: Race and dispossession of Garifuna lands on Honduras' northern coast
<p>This thesis seeks to connect the Honduran state’s need for capital accumulation, it’s almost myopic focus on agro-industrialization and dispossessing Garífuna from lands valued for African palm production, and finally how the Garífuna have been able to effectively resist the state’s attempts to …
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Spring Landbird Migration along the Northern Coast of the Gulf of Mexico: Multi-Scaled Investigation of Stopover Ecology Within an Urbanized Landscape
… of migrants concentrate in woodlands along the northern Gulf coast during spring and fall passage. These coastal landscapes are some of the most rapidly developing areas in the U.S. with population growth rates five times higher than that of inland areas. Anthropogenic pressures, along with …
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A Comparison of Chaucer's Nonne Presstes Tale and Spenser's Mother Hubberd's Tale
… or earlier, somewhere in the central part of the northern coast district of the old Frankish empire, and made such an appeal to the imagination of the people that the bulk is very great, especially in the French forms, which, taken all together, amount to about one hundred thousand lines.
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Participation, social capital and gender in sea turtle conservation, northeast Brazil
… participation in four communities along the northern coast of Bahia, Brazil."--From abstract.
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Cross-Cultural Interaction and Migration: Retheorizing Greek Colonization in the 7th-4th Centuries BC with the Exchange of Attic Figured Pottery
… Europe, particularly southern France, and the northern coast of the Black Sea through an analysis of the exchange of Attic pottery vessels. This research validates the importance of material culture for understanding culture contact. Furthermore, it demonstrates how interdisciplinary frameworks …
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From Gondwanaland, with love : the tale of how Boston got its rocks
… 600 million years ago, at the South Pole, as the northern coast of a supercontinent called Gondwanaland. Boston's journey from the South Pole to its current location traces the world's geologic history over that period of time, including the emergence of animal life as we know it, the formation …
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The Systematics, Biogeography, and Natural History of the Endemic Papuan Snake Genus Toxicocalamus (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae)
… Peninsula, and four small islands along the northern coast of Madang, East Sepik, and Sandaun Provinces, PNG. Currently twenty-four species are recognised, twelve of which have been described since 2009 (five involving this author as first or last author), with three species resurrected from …
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The role of a circalunar clock in speciation
… rocky intertidal zones along the European coast, notable for timing its development and reproduction to the lunar cycle via an endogenous clock. On the northern coast of Brittany, France populations have recently diverged into several sympatric chronotypes, though the mechanisms remain …
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Flux: Creating Dynamic Systems Within the Built Environment
… a series of barrier islands located off the northern coast of North Carolina. It looks at this relationship through three languages: scientific (or geomorphologic), legislative and design. Next is a sampling of case studies aimed at emphasizing this dynamic relationship between humans and …
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TWO DIFFERENT SPEECH COMMUNITIES IN PUERTO RICO: A QUALITATIVE STUDY ABOUT SOCIAL CLASS AND CHILDREN LEARNING ENGLISH IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS OF THE ISLAND
… and a private school in two small towns on the northern coast of Puerto Rico. The families and the children in this study are referred to as two speech communities. The research examines the social interaction of elementary school students in the English classroom of the two schools, as well as, …
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Fiction and travel writing in Ireland, 1750-1840
… fictional narrative of travel along the northern coast of Ireland in turn affects Anne Plumptre’s narrative of her Irish travels. Another focus of this thesis is the representation of specific locations where fiction and non-fiction travel narratives, as well as informative descriptions …
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Shelf edge upwelling off Northern Mozambique
… data in December 2008 and in August 2009 in the northern Mozambique region. The results con rm that shelf edge upwelling occurs along the northern coast of Mozambique near Angoche between 15 and 18oS, covering an area of approximately 68 000 km2. The upwelling signature was not strong at the …
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Sea Star Wasting Disease in Pisaster Ochraceus on the Washington Coast and in Puget Sound
<em>Pisaster ochraceus </em>is a common west coast sea star whose predation of <em>Mytilus californianus </em>(the California mussel) increases the biodiversity of its intertidal community. Sea star wasting disease is an illness that causes sea star tissues to become necrotic until the creature …
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A study on the sea level variations and the 'Milghuba' phenomenon in the coastal waters of the Maltese Islands
… period seiche oscillations observed along the northern coast of the Maltese Islands are studied from a set of densely sampled, long term hydro-meteorological observations made at a permanent sea level gauge, together with simultaneous observations of bottom pressure recordings at offshore …
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The influence of topography on steady currents and internal waves
… island and an area of intensive mixing on the northern coast. Two mechanisms are investigated and each produces some agreement with data from different flow regimes. Firstly, the island is modeled as a circularly symmetric obstacle with steep sides and a small aspect ratio. A steady, rotating, …
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Chaotic advection, mixing, and property exchange in three-dimensional ocean eddies and gyres
… two persistent hyperbolic trajectories on the coast at the eastern and western extent of the gyre. These manifolds are computed on several isopycnals and stacked vertically to construct a three-dimensional Lagrangian gyre boundary. The regions these manifolds cover is the stirring region, where …
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A study into Healthcare Service Location Problems, Location and Allocation in the Inanda area
… is a predominantly rural area located on the northern coast of the province of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. It is bordered by the areas of Phoenix, Verulam and Tongaat. In the context of healthcare accessibility in the Inanda area, the research aimed at investigating the problem in service …
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Chaotic advection, mixing, and property exchange in three-dimensional ocean eddies and gyres
… two persistent hyperbolic trajectories on the coast at the eastern and western extent of the gyre. These manifolds are computed on several isopycnals and stacked vertically to construct a three-dimensional Lagrangian gyre boundary. The regions these manifolds cover is the stirring region, where …
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Assessment of Seismic Hazards along the Northern Gulf of Aqaba
… liquefaction susceptibility zones along the northern coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. In Aqaba several hotels are located within a high and moderate liquefaction zones. The Yacht Club, Aqaba, Ayla archaeological site, and a part of commercial area are also situated in a risk area. A part of …
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