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Silencing criticism in Mexico

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2017
Journalists and human rights defenders in Mexico are being attacked in an attempt to silence their criticism. Many are forced to flee or risk being assassinated. The consequences are both personal and of wider social significance.
Ximena Suárez, Daniel Zapico
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Quantifying the rural-urban gradient in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper addresses the deceptively simple question: What is the rural population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)? It argues that rurality is a gradient, not a dichotomy, and nominates two dimensions to that gradient: population density and ...
Buys, Piet   +2 more
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Empowering young people: Powerful knowledge in economics

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Powerful knowledge in school economics is conceptualised as the blending of economics knowledge arising from grasping threshold concepts with expressions of disciplinary thinking in terms of the powers or capabilities that this knowledge can provide to students who possess it.
Emanuel Mizzi
wiley   +1 more source

Contagion in Latin America [PDF]

open access: yes
Latin America suffer before each democratic election due to its structural clivage, high social inequity and demands. The objective of this paper is to show that at elections, for some importants countries, the contagion effects increase the correlation ...
Angelo Polydoro
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Evidentiary Authority as a System: Johann Christoph Gatterer and the Collective Making of Historical Knowledge in the Eighteenth Century

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
How is historical evidence conveyed? How could an eighteenth‐century scholar vouch for the information stored on paper, drafted with the quill, and publicized in copperplate engravings or letterpress? In this article, I employ material and medial perspectives to reconstruct the multiple production stages of Johann Christoph Gatterer's Historia ...
André de Melo Araújo
wiley   +1 more source

The White Goods Part Designed Based on DFM/DFA Concepts in a Concurrent Engineering Environment

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Operations & Production Management, 2010
The classical way to manage the product development processes for massive production has been changing as the high pressure for cost reduction, higher quality standards and market seeking for innovation lead to the necessity of new tools for development ...
Osiris Canciglieri Junior   +2 more
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