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Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives—wild species closely related to cultivated plants—are valuable genetic resources for crop improvement, but gaps in knowledge constrain their conservation and limit their further use.
Colin K. Khoury +11 more
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Borders in Transition: North American Borders in Comparative Perspective
Although North American neighbours appear to be diverging significantly in politics, policies and outlooks, Canada, the United States, and Mexico remain linked by geography and the borders that also divide them.
Victor Konrad, Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
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Follow Me Into Math: Near‐Peer Influencers Take the Stage
ABSTRACT Young people like to be entertained, and to entertain others. What if students were to invest enough of their time and effort into learning topics from our mathematics courses to become experts in the eyes of their peers? In this study we positioned college students and high school students as mathematical performers on the stage in front of ...
Aaron T. Wilson +3 more
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Tijuana Transa: Transa as Metaphor and Theory on the US–Mexico Border
This essay explores the varied potential of “transa” as a new metaphor to describe the US–Mexico borderlands in the twenty-first century and the formal transactions used in the photo-textual essay Here Is Tijuana! (2006).
Jennifer A. Reimer
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Tearing the Land From Underfoot: Environmental Racism at the Northern French Border
ABSTRACT Much attention has been devoted to the infliction of hostile environments on people on the move in political and discursive terms. However, less attention has been paid to the cultivation of physically hostile environments where they dwell. Building on critical border and environmental justice studies, this article examines how the natural ...
Maria Hagan
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Water rituals on the Bravo/Grande River: a transnational political and ecological inheritance
The Mexico-US border region is home to a particular hydraulic tradition with important social, cultural and environmental dimensions. This article discusses the ways that European, indigenous and mestizo colonists from central Mexico reshaped the ...
Tomas Martinez Saldaña
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Provenance records from the late Palaeozoic Marfa Basin in West Texas reveal the transition from the Ancestral Rocky Mountains to the Ouachita–Marathon–Sonora orogenies during the early Permian in SW Laurentia. ABSTRACT The Marfa Basin in West Texas is a late Palaeozoic synorogenic depocenter associated with regional deformation linked to the Ancestral
Sandra Juárez‐Zúñiga +3 more
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Abstract The Outer California Borderland (OCB) is an active transform plate boundary offshore Southern California, where the relationship between faulting and submarine mass transport deposits (MTDs) remains poorly understood. Onshore paleoseismic data provide high‐resolution earthquake records, whereas marine geophysical data capture longer‐term ...
Andrea Fabbrizzi +3 more
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Why Central Americans Emigrate? Patterns and Gaps Within Academic Research
ABSTRACT Despite extensive debate and speculation surrounding the recent rise in emigration from Central American countries, the underlying drivers of this migration remain largely unexplored in the academic literature. This research note seeks to spark academic discussion by analysing the patterns and gaps in the existing literature on the drivers of ...
Alfonso Sánchez‐Carrasco
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The purpose of this article is to analyze the theoretical discourse ofthe Chicano feminists in order to determine the role of the collective memory in forming that discourse.
Anna Skonecka
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