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Cuba entre ciclones: fronteras mercantiles y desafíos ambientales
Diálogos, 2021 En 2017, el Huracán Irma tocó tierra en Caibarién, norte-centro de Cuba. Volvió a la mira internacional un olvidado - y devastado - pueblo costero que otrora había prosperado como puerto para exportar azúcar y esponjas, para luego quedarse a la sombra ...
Jean Stubbs
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A Compact Spin‐Coated Graphene UWB Antenna for Breast Tumor Detection
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.A compact, spin‐coated graphene ultra‐wideband patch antenna designed for breast tumor detection, capable of distinguishing between malignant and benign tumors. This innovative antenna can serve as an effective initial screening tool, particularly in resource‐limited settings such as rural areas, where access to advanced medical equipment like MRI and ...
Raja Rashidul Hasan +9 more
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The evolution of Cayaponia (Cucurbitaceae) [PDF]
, 2010 Premise of the study: The Cucurbitaceae genus Cayaponia comprises ∼60 species that occur from Uruguay to the southern United States and the Caribbean; C. africana occurs in West Africa and on Madagascar.
Duchen, Pablo, Renner, Susanne S.
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The Tree of Abundance: On the Indigenous Emergence in Contemporary Latin American Art
Arts, 2023 The Tree of Abundance is an origin story for many nations in the Amazon basin. It recounts a time when all people(s) lived under a mother tree, until those with an ax arrived and the tree collapsed.
Miguel L. Rojas-Sotelo
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Colonial Figures: Memories of Street Traders in the Colonial and Early Post-colonial Periods
Public History Review, 2012 This article explores post-colonial memories about street traders among individuals who lived in the former colony of the Dutch East Indies. It argues that these narratives romanticize the relationship between Europeans and indigenous peoples.
Sheri Lynn Gibbings, Fridus Steijlen
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Looking to the Caribbean:Film and Literature [PDF]
, 2010 This flyer promotes the event Looking to the Caribbean: Film and Literature ,an International Conference on Caribbean Studies on Caribbean Studies. This flyer promotes a call for English and Spanish papers for this conferences.
Cuban Research Institute, Florida International University
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Sometimes Clocks Turn Back for Us to Move Forward: Reflections on Black and Indigenous Geographies
Canada and Beyond, 2019 In the 1950s two kinds of dispossession in Jamaica and British Columbia occurred through a transnational mining operation and remain in the shape of tailings ponds and a smelter- co-constituting a ‘networked isolation’. A quest to reveal the joint impact
Nadine Chambers
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The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
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