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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"border region"”.
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Exploring the Relationships Between Health Literacy and HbA1c in a Rural Border Region
… patients with diabetes living in a rural border region.</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> The frequency of complications from diabetes can increase as HbA1c levels rise, causing the person with diabetes to be at greater risk for blindness, amputation, or renal failure. Unfortunately, …
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Binational Water Management: Perspectives of Local Texas Officials in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
… that manage water resources in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Previous research on binational water management in Texas has not included the attitudes and opinions of local Texas officials in the border area. Although negotiations on binational water management take place at the level of the …
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Resistencia Indocumentada: Exploring The Lived Experiences Of Higher Education Undocumented Students In The San Diego-Tijuana Border Region
… students in college in the San Diego-Tijuana border region to consider what factors have led to resilience and resistance in their academic journey. By understanding these factors, the research aimed to tackle the dual narrative that burdens undocumented students from the illegality as a …
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Time to Medical Help-Seeking for Adults Who Experience Symptoms of Stroke in a California-Mexico Border Region
… stroke within a U.S. Southern California-Mexico border region. This study used Andersen and Newman’s Individual Determinants of Health Service Utilization, a component of the Framework for Viewing Health Services Utilization, set within the context of Symptom Management Theory as its theoretical …
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Historical Case Study: San Diego and Tijuana Border Region Relationship with the San Diego Police Department, 1957-1994
… hills and canyons along the San Ysidro/Tijuana border region, on a nightly basis. As these helpless victims cross, border bandits and other criminals stalk these people and prey on them like predatory animals. The San Diego Police Department is charged with the responsibility of providing public …
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Social Interaction, Integration, and Alliances: Yavi-Chicha Ceramic Production and Circulation in the Border Region of Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile, A.D. 1000-1550
… integration, alliances, and interregional interaction as a result of social and political instability during the Late Intermediate Period (LIP, ca. A.D. 1000-1450) and the Inka Period (ca. A.D. 1450-1550) of the Circumpuna (the border region between Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile). …
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Transborder Identity Development: A Photovoice Constructivist Grounded Theory Study of Transfronterizx Students in Postsecondary and Higher Education at the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region
… and developmental processes of a transborder identity among Transfronterizx students in postsecondary and higher education institutions at the San Diego-Tijuana border region by examining the psychosocial and cognitive-structural factors that influenced their social identities. To …
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Drivers, barriers and strategies for bioenergy dissemination in EU rural cross-border regions : a case study of the border region between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic
… employment opportunities. In particular, rural regions with limited development opportunities can benefit from renewable energy production and dissemination. European rural border regions are disadvantaged primarily because of their location, poor infrastructure and smaller populations. Border …
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Landscapes of convergence : a proposal for exchange at the San Diego-Tijuana border
… serving to better connect the people of this border region. I believe the foremost place for such interaction is the border region, itself. Currently, it is a painfully disconnected, forbidding and blighted region that harshly articulates the uneasy relationship between the two sides. The …
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The political and economic influences on the Mexican Industrialization Program
… as a solution to unemployment in the Mexican border region and to the loss of competitiveness of US firms vis-á-vis import competition. US and Mexican tariff exemptions facilitated the relocation of labor-intensive assembly operations from the US to the Mexican border region. Critics have …
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Assessing the Effects of Social Disorganization on Crime in Texas Border Counties: A Time-Series Cross-Sectional Analysis from 1990 to 2007
… crime in the 43 counties that form the Texas border region over an 18 year period. Measures are included for per capita income, unemployment, ethnic heterogeneity, residential instability, and urbanization, and fixed-effects panel regression is employed for the analysis. The results indicate …
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Hezbollah Operations in the Tri-Border Area of South America
… involvement in the illegal activities of the tri-border area of South America. This case study used multiple sources ranging from press releases, government publications, to Latin American Journals. The methodology used was supported by Joe Feagin's imaginary analytical induction, which …
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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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Capital Mediators: American Mining Engineers in the U.S. Southwest and Mexico, 1850-1914
… reached up to and across the southwestern border as part of an ongoing project of American territorial and economic expansion. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American mining engineers traveled all over the world as expert consultants and labor managers. The …
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Borders, Bridges, and Beer: Performances of Cultural Identities in the Washington Birthday Celebration
… Texas, a city situated in the U.S.-Mexico border region, make sense of their identities through their experiences in the Washington Birthday Celebration (WBC). By focusing on communication as means for creating cultural identities, this study provides insight into how communication is used …
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Mexican Transnational Criminal Organizations, Terrorist Tactics, and the Threat to the United States
… the United States, and the greater hemispheric region. Increasingly, these groups have resorted to tactics typically utilized by terrorist organizations including targeted assassinations, beheadings, car bombs, and killing members of the media. While Mexico has borne the brunt of this violence, …
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A 2007 aircraft-based study of plumes from biomass burning origin from Mexico and Central America advected over south Texas and the western Gulf of Mexico.
… during two science flights in the south Texas region. One science flight was flown to collect "background" continental and marine layer air data and the other to collect data in biomass-burning smoke plumes from Mexico and Central American countries. Measurements were taken in the geographic …
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Knowing his place : How Welsh are the "Border" trilogy of novels by Raymond Williams?
… 1960 to 1979, the novels of Raymond Williams’ ‘Border’ or ‘Welsh’ trilogy explore and reveal his changing feelings for, and responses to, his Welsh border background, both the physical landscape and the community. This dissertation examines how, for Williams, the novels were a crucial part of …
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A Model Approach for Effective Emergency Telecommunication Architecture for Texas Border Cities
Purpose: The Texas-Mexico border region is considered to be one of the most important borders in the world because of the land area it covers, the large amount of international trade that occurs as a result of NAFTA, and the high rates of legal and illegal immigration that can be observed at any …
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The liquid border: Subjectivity at the limits of the nation-state in southeast Europe
… examination of the institution of the national border that focuses on the practices of the border people, from the perspective of cultural and performance theory. The site of this study is the trilateral border region of Prespa, where Albania, Greece and Macedonia/FYROM meet over the waters of …
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