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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"The Andes"”.
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Diospi Suyana Building Hope in the Andes
How to design with empathy? "The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture." Alvar Aalto For me architecture has the power to enhance human's lives. Our beautiful world needs a fine and …
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Political Representation for Indigenous Peoples in the Andes
<p>For years, there has been a lack of representation for indigenous peoples in communities, and most importantly in parliament. This is a very common trait in the South American Andes, which houses the largest number of indigenous groups in the continent. This thesis focuses on Ecuador and Bolivia …
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Yaku Cosmo-Infrastructures : Designing with Water Across the Andes
Water in the Andes is a dual entity: matter and energy, terrestial and celestial, substance, and Cosmos. This thesis is a provocation to reimagine water infrastructures across the Andes as a collaboration of ancestral and modern forms of relating with Water. As an Andean descendant, my mother …
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Investigation of Mountain Waves in the Mesosphere over the Andes Mountains
… emission (from about 87 km altitude), located in the Andes, with the purpose of investigating the atmospheric gravity waves generated when low level wind blows over the high mountains (referred to as Mountain Waves). These types of waves are a special case of atmospheric gravity waves, which carry …
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Avian Diversification in the Andes: Understanding Endemism Patterns and Historical Biogeography
The Andes, along with the Amazon and Atlantic forests, harbor the richest avifauna in the world with roughly one third of all the world's species of birds. Many biogeographical studies have sought to explain the origin and diversification of Andean taxa. However, because of the Andes' extensive …
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Tectonics and kinematics of curved mountain belts: examples from the Andes and the Alps
… geologists and geophysicists because of their peculiar structural setting and geodynamic mechanisms of formation. The need of studying orogenic bends arises from the numerous questions to which geologists and geophysicists have tried to answer to during the last two decades, such as: what …
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ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MIRABILIS EXPANSA (RUIZ AND PAV.) STANDL.; FOR POTENTIAL AS A NEW ROOT CROP OUTSIDE THE ANDES
… (Ruiz and Pav.) Standl. Chapter 1, “Review of the economic and ethno-botany of the genera of the family Nyctaginaceae," includes a summary of literature on the topics included in the title, and an original taxonomic update of plant names used correctly and incorrectly as synonyms for Mirabilis …
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Volcano-tectonic history and volcanic hazard assessment of the 22.5-29°S segment of the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes
… margin) has been rarely attempted, due to the complexity of integrating temporal and spatial variability in tectonic and magmatic processes. In this study, I investigate new approaches to quantify the hazards of such long-term active and complex settings, using the example of the 22.5-29°S …
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Wind regime characterization, and short-term wind speed and power forecasting using multivariable LSTM and NARX networks in the Andes Mountains, Ecuador
En los últimos años, la investigación ha revelado que los diseños hidroeléctricos en Ecuador no han considerado adecuadamente la sensibilidad al cambio climático. Además, las condiciones climáticas determinan las variaciones en la generación de electricidad a partir de esta fuente de energía …
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Being a Composer in the Andes during the Age of Revolutions. Choices and Appropriations in the Music of José Bernardo Alzedo and Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado
This dissertation explores the choices involved in being a composer in Latin America during the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century. My primary interest is to understand how composers adapted or not- their aesthetics, ideas and careers amid the …
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The art of the spearthrower: understanding the Andean Estólica through iconography
<p>Spearthrower devices held a role around the world as a primary weapon and tool before slowly falling out of favor in certain areas for other projectile weapons. While it is widely accepted that spearthrowers were used by the people of the ancient central Andes, comparatively little research has …
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Quantifying The Properties Of Magmatic Intrusions In The Central Andes With Geodesy
Volcanism in convergent arcs is the end result of magma ascending to the Earth's surface. However, many of the details of the ascent process are still debated. In particular, how long does magma persist in reservoirs at particular depths? What is the timescale and physical mechanism of ascent …
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The Andean Exception: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Absence of Large-Scale Indigenous Social Mobilization in Peru
The study of “new” social movements in Latin America has inspired the work of many scholars from numerous disciplines over the past two decades. In particular, Peru is known among scholars of Latin American indigenous peoples as an exception in the Andes, due to the country’s historical lack of …
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The Mechanics of Active Faulting and Mountain Building
The aims of this thesis are to place new constraints on the rheological properties of active faults, and to investigate the influence of fault rheology on mountain building. The first chapter studies the postseismic deformation following the 2003 Bam earthquake in south-eastern Iran, with the …
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Petrogenesis of lavas from Volcano Azufre, Northern Chile: evidence for crustal input
Magmatism that occurs within the Central Volcanic Zone (CVZ) of the Andes is heavily influenced by processes of differentiation and assimilation that occur within the extremely thick continental crust. These processes, that result in crustal contamination of mantle derived magmas, are not uniform …
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Old World Serpents and New World Dragons: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Pythons and Liolaemid Lizards
… biologists have been fascinated with the processes driving the evolution of biodiversity, species richness, ecology and morphology. Combining phylogenetic, geological, paleontological, ecological and climatic perspectives can shed light on evolutionary patterns at deep time scales to …
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Old World Serpents and New World Dragons: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Pythons and Liolaemid Lizards
… biologists have been fascinated with the processes driving the evolution of biodiversity, species richness, ecology and morphology. Combining phylogenetic, geological, paleontological, ecological and climatic perspectives can shed light on evolutionary patterns at deep time scales to …
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The gravity field and plate boundaries in Venezuela
Free-air and simple Bouguer anomaly maps of the Venezuelan continental margin (from 60°W to 72°W and from 7°N to 13°N) are presented. The major features of the free-air map are: the large lows associated with the deep sedimentary basins, -200 mgal in the Eastern Venezuela basin and -164 mgal in the …
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The gravity field and plate boundaries in Venezuela
Free-air and simple Bouguer anomaly maps of the Venezuelan continental margin (from 60°W to 72°W and from 7°N to 13°N) are presented. The major features of the free-air map are: the large lows associated with the deep sedimentary basins, -200 mgal in the Eastern Venezuela basin and -164 mgal in the …
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