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The Karst Landscape of Yucatan
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Protecting CHAAC's gift--groundwater protection in Yucatan, Mexico
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1994.
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Development of MRI-based Yucatan Minipig Brain Template
Yucatan minipigs have become increasingly common animal models in neuroscience where recent studies, investigating blast-induced traumatic brain injury, stroke, and glioblastoma, aim to uncover brain injury mechanisms [1-3]. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has the potential to validate and …
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The Maya Footprint: Soil Resources of Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico
<p>Agricultural yields in Northwest Yucatán are constrained by climate, thin soils, and low fertility. Despite this, the ancient Maya city of Chunchucmil Yucatán, Mexico, boasted an immense, dense, and wealthy population during the Middle Classic period (ca A.D. 400-700). Soil physical and chemical …
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Water resource management by the ancient Maya of Yucatan, Mexico
<p>Since the publication of popular accounts of exploration by adventurers such as John Lloyd Stephens captured the attention of an audience eager for tales from exotic places, scholars of the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica have been fascinated with the silent crumbling remains of ancient …
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Epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii in the pig industry of Yucatan, Mexico
… The geographical location of this study is Yucatan, a state located in the south-east of Mexico. Yucatan is considered an endemic area of toxoplasmosis; the last National Seroepidemiological Health Survey (NSHS) revealed more than 70% of prevalence among the human population. Numerous …
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Negotiated survival: an archaeological and documentary investigation of colonialism in Beneficios Altos, Yucatan, Mexico
Mayan peoples of the Yucatán peninsula were colonized subjects of the Spanish empire from 1546 until 1821. Often, the events of nearly three centuries are viewed as a singular struggle between European hegemonies and a monolithic indigenous community that oscillated between passivity and rebellion. …
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Evaluation of Long Term Effects of Erosion Due to Groin Placement in the Northern Yucatan Peninsula
… re-nourishment and beach restoration in the Yucatan peninsula. The study includes the evaluation of six control points located on Chelem beach in Yucatan, Mexico, very close to the Progreso pier. The control points were set up in an active groin field to record data on the re-nourishment …
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Artificial neural network models utilize chamber-specific predictors of cardiac fibrosis in ovariectomized and aortic-banded Yucatan mini-swine
Objective: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a disease associated with significant clinical pathophysiological heterogeneity in which maladaptive cardiac fibrosis, in both the right and left ventricles of the heart, plays a unique role in the manifestation of disease. …
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Erasing the object : sculptural manoeuvres into the sublime
… Holt (1938 - )2 travelled to the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico (Roberts 2000: 552).Over a century earlier, in 1841, the American 'travel writer' John Lloyd Stephens(1805 -1852)3 had embarked on a similar voyage to the Yucatan peninsula and documented his encounters in his then …
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Preparing The Yucatan Black Howler Monkey for Its Return to The Wild: An Assessment of Wildtracks' Approach to Rehabilitation and Reintroduction
Nearly half of non-human primates are in danger of extinction due to the negative impact of anthropogenic activities. Among the species most negatively affected is the family Atelidae (Di Fiore, Link, & Campbell, 2011). For this reason, non-human primates remain a central focus in global …
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Economic Strategies of Terminal Classic Households in the Northern Maya Lowlands: Multicrafting and Economic Diversification of a Mid- Elite Residential Compound at Xuenkal, Yucatan
The rise of Chichen Itza is associated with a period of changes and economic growth in the northern Lowlands during the Terminal Classic (A.D. 800-1000) and Early Postclassic (A.D. 1000-1200) periods (Andrews et al. 2003:151). Although some sites continued to grow, many sites were abandoned or had …
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Memories of War: Race, Class, and the Production of Post Caste War Maya Identity in East Central Quintana Roo
… years ago, ""the history of the Caste War of Yucatan needs to be rewritten with more attention paid to the Maya version of the conflict."" By highlighting their own often-silenced views of history in relation to the Caste War of Yucatan, and by looking at the way in which memory works to …
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Studies of the Annual Cycle of the Swallow-Tailed Kite (<em>Elanoides forficatus</em>): Migration, Habitat Use, and Parasites
… significance: stopover behavior on Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula, range-wide habitat associations, and parasites. Because Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula are situated along the migratory route after a long over-water crossing, they may be potentially important stopover sites. To examine this …
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Negative Social Perceptions and their Impacts on the Maya People
… not encompass geographically the entirety of the Yucatan Peninsula. Furthermore, the majority of literature on colorism that is available in English is focused on the impact of colorism on mental health and poverty levels, mostly for Afro-Latinos (preferably referred to as afrodescendientes), …
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Ecological insight into three neotropical deer species: A study of spatial and diel distributions of white-tailed, Central American red brocket, and Yucatan brown brocket deer in northern Belize, Central America
… red brocket deer (Mazama temama; RBD), and Yucatan brown brocket deer (Odocoileus pandora; YBB). Notably, our study provides the first confirmed camera record and the first empirical information of the YBB in Belize. In Chapter 1, we used single-season occupancy modeling on WTD and RBD …
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Papel de la etnicidad en la sociedad yucateca, El: una continuación del colonialismo interno en el sur de México
… as a domestic servant. The situation of the Yucatan Peninsula becomes even more apparent when compared to the very different situation of the Mayans of Guatemala. Differing greatly from Guatemala, where there exists an indigenous movement, the population of the Yucatan Peninsula does not want …
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Swine applied ethology methods for a model of mild traumatic brain injury
… This thesis introduced two behavior-tests for Yucatan miniboar models. The first study was conducted to validate a modified human approach test (HAT) specifically designed for Yucatan miniboars for mild TBI experiments. This test was originally validated and widely used for commercial pigs. The …
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Climate controls on coral growth in the Caribbean
… collected from the USVI, Puerto Rico, the Yucatan, Belize and the Bahamas. While coral growth rates were inversely correlated to sea surface temperature (SST) in the Western Caribbean basin (Yucatan, Belize, Bahamas), we found no significant relationship between SST and coral growth in the …
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Climate controls on coral growth in the Caribbean
… collected from the USVI, Puerto Rico, the Yucatan, Belize and the Bahamas. While coral growth rates were inversely correlated to sea surface temperature (SST) in the Western Caribbean basin (Yucatan, Belize, Bahamas), we found no significant relationship between SST and coral growth in the …
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