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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"United States-Mexico Border"”.
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Latinos and the Natural Environment Along the United States-Mexico Border
The vitality of international transborder natural resources is important for the preservation of wildlife corridors, clean water, clean air, and working lands. In particular, not only does the Texas Rio Grande Valley Region in the United States (U.S.), on the U.S.-Mexico border, offer critical …
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Sources and Transport of Black Carbon at the United States-Mexico Border near San Diego-Tijuana
At international border areas that suffer from poor quality, assessment of pollutant sources and transport across the border is important for designing effective air quality management strategies. As part of the Cal-Mex 2010 field campaign at the US-Mexico border in San Diego and Tijuana, we …
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Urban Growth with Limited Prosperity: A History of Public Housing in Laredo, Texas -- 1938 to 2006
<p>Public housing in the United States has been a controversial sociopolitical topic since the years of the Great Depression. The issue of appropriate and secure habitation for the country's "deserving poor" continues to be of great importance as government subsidies become scarce in the early 21st …
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Hypothetical geography : constituting limits on a new American frontier
Two hundred fifty-nine obelisk monuments mark the United States-Mexico boundary line west of the Rio Grande. Constructed in three distinct phases (1848-1857, 189 1- 1896, and 1964-1968) the monuments were the product of territorial negotiations; disputes settled ranging from the violent expansion …
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A Metric Analysis of the Postcranial Skeleton of Hispanic Individuals to Improve the Estimation of Sex
… by the growing Hispanic population in the United States. When estimating the sex of Hispanic skeletal remains, initial observations cause male individuals to frequently be misclassified as female. Hispanic individuals have been described as smaller and more gracile than the groups to which …
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Proximity, Politics and Policy Attitudes in the North American Context
… deal with three substantive topics: the Canada–United States relationship, attitudes toward energy transportation infrastructure, and attitudes toward immigration policy. Specifically, the thesis draws on survey data to investigate: (1) the mutual perceptions of the Canadian and American …
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Sexual Dimorphism and Socioeconomic Status: Comparison between Migrant and Non-migrant Populations
… between a migrant and non-migrant sample from Mexico. The sexual dimorphism index (SDI) was calculated for 26 postcranial measurements in a migrant group of United States–Mexico border crossing fatalities from Tucson, Arizona (n=119), non-migrant groups from the state of Hidalgo in Mexico …
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Climate change and disease at the human-wildlife interface
… D. rotundus environmental suitability across the United States-Mexico border and in the Andes Mountains of Chile. The overall modeling efforts did, however, reveal a northward distributional shift of the rabies reservoir as a likely response to climate change. Together, studies contained in this …