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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"jaguar"”.
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A viagem da personagem Pierre Saint’Hilaire em O Rastro do Jaguar, de Murilo Carvalho
… neste trabalho, o romance O rastro do Jaguar (2009), do jornalista mineiro Murilo Carvalho, premiado pela editora portuguesa Leya, em 2008. Nosso objetivo foi investigar, na construção textual do romance, a viagem da personagem Pierre Saint'Hilaire em busca de sua identidade. O rastro …
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The Scientist and the Jaguar: Sacred Plants and the Politics of Knowledge in the northwestern Amazon, 1849 - 2023
This dissertation examines the history of psychedelics in the Americas by focusing on ayahuasca, a plant derivative native to the Amazonian lowlands that I describe as a “plant-being.” The project traces how a transnational network life and human scientists sought to transform ayahuasca from a …
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Diseño de escalas para la evaluación salto jaguar en estudiantes de Centros Escolares del Departamento de Santa Ana en el año 2019
… en el diseño de escalas para la evaluación Salto Jaguar en estudiantes de centros escolares del departamento de Santa Ana específicamente para seleccionar jóvenes sobresalientes en dicho salto, para que formen parte del programa Pensando en Deporte que tiene como finalidad que deportistas …
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Densities, habitat-use, and mesopredator release of the ocelot in Belize
… if ocelots are limited by competition with jaguars and pumas. I conducted remote camera surveys and sampled habitat within four protected areas: three broadleaf sites and one pine forest site. I measured ocelot activity and habitat-use with respect to the activity of jaguars and pumas at one …
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APA das Onças: gestão do território e desafios para conservação dos ecossistemas. João Pessoa – PB 2011.
… usage of part of its natural resources. The Jaguar Environmental Protection Area is inserted in the second category above. This work has as objective to make a confrontation between the regiment in the State Decree 22.880/2002, that created the Jaguar EPA, taking as basis the criteria and …
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Determining habitat and biotic factors driving puma (<i>Puma concolor</i>) space use and underlying dynamic processes (colonization and extinction) over 20 years in protected and private areas throughout Belize, Central America
… especially compared to the more well-studied jaguar (<i>Panthera onca</i>). Understanding long-term puma distribution can affect land management decisions such as appropriate size of buffer zones around protected areas since pumas influence, and are influenced by, sympatric carnivore …
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The ecology of jaguars (panthera onca) in a human-influenced landscape
… intense persecution over the last century, the jaguar (Panthera onca) has sustained a wide geographic distribution, perhaps due to its elusive nature and rather flexible ecology. This study investigated jaguar ecology under anthropogenic pressures in Belize, Central America. A suite of methods …
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Masks and transformations
… and Anasazi) art and archaeology, I use the jaguar, the bird, the snake and man in metaphoric allegory to parallel the four stages of life. All ideas and expressions in my artwork and in my thesis paper are personal and represent my own view of life.
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Application of Multidisciplinary Design Optimisation Frameworks for Engine Mapping and Calibration
… and calibration optimisation of a JLR AJ133 Jaguar GDI engine; and calibration optimisation of an EU6 Jaguar passenger car diesel engine. These case studies illustrated that: -The proposed sequential DoE strategy offers a coherent framework for the engine mapping process including Screening, …
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The influence of habitat features and co-occurring species on puma (Puma concolor) occupancy across eight sites in Belize, Central America
… Puma occupancy was positively influenced by jaguar trap success, understory density, canopy cover, and human trap success, and negatively influenced by stream density. Jaguar trap success was the best predictor of where pumas occurred, while prey species were not found to influence puma …
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Theoretical Study of Electron Transport and Trapping in Solvated Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles
… implementation of our quantum chemistry program Jaguar for large DFT calculations, and theoretical modeling of electron transport and trapping in solvated TiO_2 nanoparticles. In first half, We implemented an OpenMP/MPI hybrid parallelization implementation of the pseudospectral algorithm, …
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Evidence for the Use of Bufo marinus in the Olmec Shamanic Tool Kit
… images has been supernatural beings, such as the jaguar. I suggest characteristics of these supernatural entities have been misinterpreted and are actually based on the Bufo marinus. Furthermore, I propose these characteristics imply the use of bufotinen in order to control the toad's ability to …
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Phylogeny of <em>Panthera</em>, Including <em>P. atrox</em>, Based on Cranialmandibular Characters
… to the African lion and the tiger than the jaguar, in contrast to what has been recently suggested.</p>
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Airbag simulation utilising Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian methodology for Out Of Position cases
… Test data provided by experimentalists at Jaguar Cars Limited compare verywell with the simulated ones demonstrating the superiority of the ALE based formulationsfor OOP cases. Such evidence will contribute not only towards a better understanding ofthe detailed processes involved but also …
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Analysis and Improvement of Air-Conditioning, Engine Cooling and Fuel Consumption of a High Performance Motor car
… cooling system and air-conditioning system of a Jaguar XJ6 motor car have been studied experimentally and analytically, and mathematical models used for their analysis. Recommendations are made for improvements to performance, cost, and fuel consumption. The efficiency required of a steplessly …
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Non-invasive assessment of stress hormones, parasites, and diet, using scat of five felid species in Belize, Central America
Many Neotropical felid species, such as jaguars, are threatened with extinction due to habitat fragmentation and/or human persecution. Human activities around protected areas in Belize, Central America, are increasing and so are levels of human-felid conflict. Potential consequences of this …
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Estudo comparativo das fezes e coprólitos não humanos da região arqueológica de São Raimundo Nonato, Sudeste do Piauí
… rupestris, Galea spixii and Cerdocyon thous. Jaguar and puma faeces (Panthera onca and Felis concolor) could be distinguished from wild cat faeces. Throgh the criteria used to the identification of feaces from Kerodon rupestris and Tamandua tetradactyla, coprolites collected at the …
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Late Classic Politics and Ideology: A Case Study of Hieroglyphic Stairway 2 at Yaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico
… demonstrated the legitimacy and power of Bird Jaguar IV, the ruler over Yaxchilan from 752-768 A.D. In this study, the previous work conducted around this monument is examined, and argue that it has been insufficient to draw the conclusions commonly presented about it. A translation of the …
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Caracterización de recursos naturales en cinco fincas con áreas declaradas como reservas silvestres privadas del departamento de Jinotega, Nicaragua
… Carlos Augusto, El Escambray, Las Cumbres y El Jaguar) localizadas en el departamento de Jinotega. El objetivo de este trabajo fue el de caracterizar los recursos naturales a nivel de finca en cinco reservas silvestres privadas. La metodología empleada consistió en: la caracterización del estado …
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Wildlife trade in Latin America: people, economy and conservation
… per capita were related to higher numbers of jaguar seizures. I assess the effectiveness of primate captive-breeding programmes as an intervention to curb wildlife trafficking. Illegal sources held >70% of the primate market share. Legal primates are more expensive, and the production is not …
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