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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Panama Canal"”.
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Panama Canal Model
… CEO of the company heading theexpansion of the panama canals speaking to the University of Nevada, Reno, it wasdecided that the final project will be about the Panama Canal locks. The projectrevolved around creating an understanding of the New Panama Canal Locks andutilizing that data to create …
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Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, History, 1923.
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A Reanalysis of the East Culebra Slide, Panama Canal
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:31:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7820897.pdf: 12753618 bytes, checksum: 3d69c14f22c4c5327cc69c90a53d5631 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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The face of empire: the cultural production of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and California, 1904–1916
"The U.S. government's construction of the Panama Canal (1904–1914) presented a template for expansive imperialism in Latin America in the twentieth century. After the highly publicized atrocities of the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) and the popular anti-imperialist movement at the turn of …
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Differential avian extinction from Barro Colorado Island, Panama: Nest predation and population genetic factors
… ha forest preserve in Gatun Lake (part of the Panama Canal) that has been isolated form mainland forest for 75 years, eight species of birds in the terrestrial insectivore guild have gone extinct, one is declining, and 3 persist. I evaluated two alternative hypotheses to explain differential …
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The impact of maritime trade disruptions on food security: the case of imported calories
… 2024). Key maritime passageways, such as the Panama Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Turkish Straits, the Suez Canal, and the Strait of Malacca, facilitate global shipping but often face heavy congestion (Bailey and Wellesley, 2017). More than fifty five percent of internationally traded …
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New Orleans, the New South, and the Fight for the Panama Exposition
… to host an exposition in celebration of the Panama Canal, this study argues New Orleans not only became a New South city, but an international trade entrepôt. Though the exposition efforts failed, the efforts of the city to cultivate its business and hospitality potential served the city well.
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Development of Panama as a logistics hub and the impact on Latin America
The Panamanian government is executing an aggressive economic growth initiative to transform the country into a regional logistics hub, like Singapore or Dubai. Two elements of the initiative are expansion of the Panama Canal and development of the Panama Pacifico Project, a large logistics park. …
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Self-interest, national interest and the political leader's responsibility
… power. An examination of the formation of the Panama Canal Treaties shows that neither school is adequate in explaining how national interest is defined. Instead, national interest is the result of a more complex political process; According to Aristotle, the supreme virtue of a political …
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The Southern Strategy: the People's Republic of China and Its Operations in Latin America
… oil purchases from Venezuela and control of the Panama Canal Zone. Small arms dealers deliver Chinese-made weapons to Colombia's Marxist guerrillas that have ravaged the country for more than thirty-five years and support the drug trade in its malignant operations. This thesis examines Beijing's …
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Choreographing Sediment
In 2016 the Panama Canal expansion is set to open, allowing a new class of ships to call on east coast ports. The dredging involved in deepening navigation channels to ensure safe passage of these vessels will place an increased amount of pressure on containment facilities up and down the coast. …
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Opportunities and challenges of investing in emerging markets : a case study of Panama
… opportunity for real estate investment: Panama. In recent years, this emerging market has seen extraordinary growth and expansion of its real estate sector, driven by domestic and international consumption related to trade, tourism, and the upcoming expansion of the Panama Canal. This …
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The Strait Defense: A Case Study Comparison of Global Straits
… Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Malacca, and the Panama Canal, similarities emerge that can help the United States shape their strategy for the defending of its national interests in the Bering Strait. By testing the different grand strategies against three reasonably similar cases, I find that a …
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Investigations into the viral molecular determinants of lethality of Punta Toro virus (Bunyaviridae, phlebovirus) in the Syrian hamster.
… is transmitted by sandlfies (Lutzomyia spp.) in Panama and Northern Columbia and causes an acute febrile illness in humans lasting 2-5 days. Human seroprevalence in regions within Panama have been reported up to 34% in the most easterly region of Darien however little is understood about the …
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The Dragon in the Backyard: Chinese Strategy in Latin America
… considerable control over the operations of the Panama Canal and obtained intelligence gathering facilities in Cuba. By establishing close relations with Venezuela, China has secured access to much needed petroleum resources. China’s prudent diplomatic balancing act towards the Marxist guerrillas …
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Wood trait preferences of Neotropical xylophagous beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
… In a salvage project conducted adjacent to the Panama Canal, trees were felled and exposed to Cerambycidae for oviposition. Disks from branches of differing thickness from the same plant individuals were used to calculate WD, MC, and BT in the field; nitrogen content was determined using mass …
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Reagan, Central America and the Human Costs to Waging the Cold War
… has yielded beneficial results, such as the Panama Canal, and at times, has caused more harm than good. The later result has been the dominant outcome beginning with 1954 and the Central Intelligence Agency's foray into Guatemala. U.S. foreign policy has enabled or sanctioned actions …
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At the Crossroads: African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period
… in these works. From the construction of the Panama Canal on the eve of WWI, to the U.S. military occupation of Haiti and ongoing intervention in Cuba, the interwar years are marked by aggressive U.S. expansion into the Caribbean basin. Though it is commonplace to observe that interwar …
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Community Structure, Nesting Success, and Isolation Effects in a Tropical Forest Bird Community
… in the central lowlands of the Republic of Panama. First, I inventoried and measured abundances of birds on a 104-ha study site (the Limbo plot) in the forest interior of Soberania National Park. I compared the community structure to the only two other Neotropical sites censused on a …
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Hostile Takeover: The New Right Insurgent Movement, Ronald Reagan, and the Republican Party, 1977-1984
… met with some success in the late 1970s over the Panama Canal and other "hot button" social issues such as abortion and school prayer. Along with the Moral Majority, they were instrumental in attaching social and cultural issues to the Republican Party platform. Despite Reagan's support for many …
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