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Regional Study on Social Dimensions of MPA Practice in Central America: Cases Studies from Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panamá [PDF]
, 2013 This research focuses on the social dimensions of marine conservation, and makes an assessment of the experiences of coastal and fishing communities with regard to the governance of MPAs in North America (Central America); based on case studies from ...
Daniela Barguil Gallardo +5 more
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“I Feel like a Power Plant”: TESOL Teacher Educators' Directed Motivational Currents
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In TESOL, motivation research has usually examined learners and teachers. However, less is known about teacher educators, who play a crucial role in the architecture of language teaching and learning processes. In response to this niche, this article describes the directed motivational currents (DMCs) of a group of 36 TESOL teacher educators ...
Darío Luis Banegas +2 more
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Education of the Deaf in Nicaragua [PDF]
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2001 Nicaragua now ranks as the third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere (Interamerican Development Bank [IDB], 1995). Occasionally educational improvement has been a national priority (Arrien & Matus, 1989). Usually, however, education rests at the lower end of a long list of national needs.
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Supermarkets, Farm Assets, and Technology Choices: a Duration Analysis of Horticultural Growers in Nicaragua [PDF]
Supermarkets, Nicaragua, Horticulture, Small Farmers, Agribusiness, Community/Rural/Urban Development, International Development,
Hernandez, Ricardo +3 more
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A global review of the conservation status of true quails (Families Odontophoridae and Phasianidae)
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Understanding the conservation status of species is imperative to stem global declines. To better inform conservation, we summarized the global conservation status of New World (Family Odontophoridae) and Old World (Family Phasianidae) true quail species.
Kathan Bandyopadhyay, Jeffrey L. Beck
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Impact Is Not Enough: Image and CCT Sustainability in Nicaragua [PDF]
The significance of conditional cash transfer programmes (CCTs) has grown in recent years, particularly in Latin America. Nicaragua?s CCT, the Red de Protección Social (RPS), had a short life span (2000?2006).
Charity Moore
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Coral reef fish visual adaptations to a changing world
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Coral reef ecosystems show fluctuations in their prevailing light environment in response to both regular (e.g. between seasons) and more prevalent stochastic events (e.g. human‐induced sediment runoff).
Abigail Shaughnessy, Fabio Cortesi
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Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction in WASH: Experience in DRR Mainstreaming in Nicaragua [PDF]
, 2015 Nicaragua is near the top of all international lists of countries with high disaster risk. Multiple global, national, and local factors augment the hazards faced by WASH services and increase their vulnerability.
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Patterns of niche partitioning among closely related taxa, such as those in incipient adaptive radiations, can provide clues into how niches are created, partitioned, and integrated over ecological and evolutionary time scales. Hawaiian Metrosideros is a ~3‐MYO adaptive
Elizabeth A. Stacy, Rebecca Ostertag
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