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Understanding Crime in Colombia and What Can Be Done About It [PDF]

. We attempt to spell out the causes and costs of Colombia´s crime situation. Homicide rates are the highest in the world, three times higher than those of Brazil & Mexico and ten times higher than those of other Latin American countries.
Levitt Steven, Mauricio Rubio
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Astroparticle Techniques: Colombia active volcano candidates for Muon Telescope observation sites

, 2017
We discuss a methodology to identify observation points for muongraphy of active Colombian Volcanoes and it is found that only Cerro Machin can be ...
Brown, André EX (5398142), Ch'ng, Quee-Lim (5398154), Currie, Michael (5398160), Grundy, Laura J (5398148), Hokanson, Jim (5398172), Javer, Avelino (5398151), Kerr, Rex (5398163), Lee, Chee Wai (5398145), Li, Chris (5398175), Li, Kezhi (5398157), Schafer, William R (5398166), Yemini, Eviatar (5398169)   +11 more
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Findings of a communication research and development in the Colombian Andes

, 2011
The article reports on the overall results and key findings of an investigation agency in the area of communication and development, done by teachers of social communication programs of the National Open University and Distance (UNAD), the Santo Tomas University and the University.Minuto de Dios, whose objective at an early stage was to map these ...
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Mesozoic and cenozoic acretionary events in the Colombian Andes

, 1996
De nouveaux résultats tectoniques, géochimiques et paléomagnétiques confirment que les Andes colombiennes sont formées d'une mosaïque de blocs exotiques (terranes), accrétés au craton amazonien. Un premier bloc océanique (Calima Terrane) a rejoint un bloc continental (Tahami Terrane) au Crétacé.
Toussaint, J.F., Restrepo, J.J.
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A guide to fieldstations in the tropics : 3., Colombia [PDF]

, 1992
“El Refugio” Biological Station will be open as of Juni 1989 for persons or organizations of all nationalities. The station offers logistic support for activities with educational, conservational or research purposes.
Frahm, Jan-Peter
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Enhancing Critical Infrastructure Security: Unsupervised Learning Approaches for Anomaly Detection

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
Traditional security detection methods face challenges in identifying zero-day attacks in critical infrastructures (CIs) integrated with the industrial internet of things (IIoT).
Andrea Pinto, Luis-Carlos Herrera, Yezid Donoso, Jairo A. Gutierrez   +3 more
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Bullet Proof? Program Evaluation in Conflict Areas: Evidence from Rural Colombia [PDF]

Recently, Conditional Cash Transfer Programs (CCT) became increasingly popular in developing countries due to their positive outcomes on health and education.
Bozzoli, Carlos, Wald, Nina
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From old wars to new wars and global terrorism [PDF]

, 2005
Even before 9/11 there were claims that the nature of war had changed fundamentally. The 9/11 attacks created an urgent need to understand contemporary wars and their relationship to older conventional and terrorist wars, both of which exhibit remarkable
Bohorquez, J., Johnson, N., Restrepo, E., Restrepo, J., Spagat, M., Suarez, N., Zarama, R.   +6 more
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CAPTIVE MARKETS": THE IMPACT OF KIDNAPPINGS ON CORPORATE INVESTMENT IN COLOMBIA" [PDF]

This paper measures the impact of crime on firm investment by exploiting variation in kidnappings in Colombia from 1996 to 2002. Our central result is that firms invest less when kidnappings target firms. We also find that aggregate crime rates-homicides,
Gsutavo Suarez, Rony Pshisva
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Self-Employment and Conflict in Colombia [PDF]

Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behavior in labor markets.
Carlos Bozzoli, Nina Wald, Tilman Brück
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