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American Literature's Hemispheric Address: 1823-1923 (Fall 2019)
This course is a study of American literature’s address to and engagement with the hemisphere in the long nineteenth century. As such, it is first and foremost an inquiry into the concepts—“America,” “literature,” “address,” “hemisphere,” race and period—
Scott Challener
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A conceptual framework of virtual water showing its sources, major applications, components of the virtual water footprint, and emerging future directions. The diagram emphasizes the growing role of virtual water in global sustainability and resource planning.
Priti Bhowmik +2 more
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Chicano Poetry: Truth in Flowers on Grandfather's Grave
iv, 41 p.The literature of Mexican-American people today draws its theses, themes, and its very reason for being from the politics and goals of the Chicano movement. The poetry that we are dealing with is literature of social protest. The poems are a
Bovee, Dena
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Practice adoption in MNCS: A multi‐level interactionist model of trait activation
Abstract Research Summary Sharing knowledge through organizational practices is an important source of advantage for multinational corporations (MNCs). While prior research on practice adoption by subsidiaries of MNCs has identified several individual and organizational factors, this study examines their interplay in the context of HQ‐mandated ...
Sven Kunisch +4 more
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Alcohol drinking patterns in a south Texas Mexican American community
This is a study of the differential alcoholic beverage drinking patterns within a Mexican American population in Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas (Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, and Willacy Counties).
Wilkinson, William V.
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Joy and Unrest: Transborder College Students' Sense of Belonging at the US–México Borderlands
ABSTRACT In this study, we present the Transborder College Student Sense of Belonging Model, developed to understand how to create an inclusive and validating campus climate for Transborder students in postsecondary and higher education institutions along the US–México borderlands.
Vannessa Falcón Orta +3 more
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Pharmaceutical Pricing and R&D as a Global Public Good
ABSTRACT This paper examines the international variation in the prices of branded pharmaceuticals. We consider short‐run profits, or quasi‐rents, as representing each country's contribution toward the global public good of therapeutic information embodied in new pharmaceuticals.
H. E. Frech III +3 more
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Environmental Apocalypse and Uncanny Technology: Gothic Visions of the Future in Three Mexican Literary Dystopias [PDF]
Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic ...
Ordiz, Inés
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Deminutiva in the Spanish of Mexico
The major aim of this thesis is to characterize the use of diminutive forms in Mexican Spanish and to analyze it in the corpora. Secondarily, a series of activities is proposed so that the topic could be worked with in the classes of Spanish as a foreign
PECHANCOVÁ, Veronika
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Subordination of related party claims in insolvency: A suggestive framework for Asian regimes
Abstract Related party loans, due to their inherent nature, warrant a higher threshold for scrutiny when compared to loans extended by unrelated parties. Why were these monies advanced as loans, carrying higher priority in insolvency, rather than being invested as share capital?
Aditya Jain, Dhanya Jha, Rebecca Parry
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