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Enforcing environmental law in the Amazon
Abstract This article identifies the underlying obstacles to enforcement of laws against environmental crimes such as illegal logging, mining and ranching. With four departments (provinces) from Colombia as case studies, it assesses enforcement of the country's main environmental law, Law 2111, which is one of Latin America's strongest. The article has
Mark Ungar, Juan Corredor‐Garcia
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El terremoto de Mesina-Calabria, iniciado el 5 de febrero de 1783, fue catastrófico. La reconstrucción fue gestionada desde la corte de Nápoles a través de ministros, oficiales, científicos e ingenieros militares, entre otros personajes.
José Miguel Delgado Barrado
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ABSTRACT The Theory of Critical Distances comprises several methodologies that allow fracture, fatigue, and stress corrosion cracking phenomena to be analyzed. Such methodologies are usually referred to as the Point Method (PM), the Line Method (LM), the Area Method (AM), and the Volume Method (VM).
Sergio Cicero, David Taylor, Luca Susmel
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Este artículo se propone explorar diversas dimensiones de las obras hidráulicas desde la perspectiva de uno de los protagonistas más importantes en su creación: los ingenieros. Puntualmente, mediante un ejercicio de antropología histórica, hemos recabado
Cecilia M. Argañaraz
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What Job Would You Apply To? Findings on the Impact of Language on Job Searches
ABSTRACT This study examines whether gender‐inclusive language in job advertisements can increase women's interest in applying for male‐dominated occupations. We implemented a discrete choice experiment with 5679 participants in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Each respondent evaluates multiple paired ads for the same job with job content
Ana Maria Diaz +3 more
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Este trabajo examina el papel de la Comisión Técnica del Petróleo (1915) y la Comisión de Reorganización Administrativa y Financiera (1917), en la definición de la administración pública posrevolucionaria.
Luz María Uhthoff López
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ABSTRACT The presence of microbial mats is often invoked to explain the good preservation of vertebrate tracks, because they can cover and biostabilize such structures. However, microbial influence on the sediment properties when the track is made and on the track characteristics has not been so thoroughly analysed.
Isabel Emma Quijada +4 more
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Paso bajo el río Támesis, en Dartford, Inglaterra
Este túnel, de gran diámetro, forma circular y una longitud aproximada de 1.430 metros, tiene como misión principal descongestionar el enorme tráfico londinense.
Ingenieros Mott, Hay & Anderson
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The U.S. Geological Survey recently updated the National Seismic Hazard Model (NSHM) for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (PRVI). The first version of the PRVI NSHM was released in 2003, and therefore this 2025 update includes over 20 years of new geologic, geophysical, and engineering data, methods, and models.
Allison M. Shumway +21 more
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