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Upon conceptualization of structural behavior, foundations in terms of their form are divided into linear (1D), planar (2D), and volumetric (3D). Regarding the load transfer mechanisms, linear foundation systems are considered vector‐acting, planar foundations are divided into section and surface‐acting, and volumetric ones are recognized as block ...
Abolfazl Eslami +4 more
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The Great Shift: the rise of México and the Decline of Peru in the Spanish American Colonial Empire, 1680-1809 [PDF]
Editada en Fundación Empresa PúblicaA partir de la reconstrucción de las cuentas de la Real Tesorería para las tres principales colonias de Hispanoamérica desde el último cuarto del siglo XVII a la primera década del siglo XIX, el ensayo reconstruye el ...
Klein, Herbert S.
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ABSTRACT Pastoralism worldwide faces a complex landscape of increased pressures and exclusion. Beyond ecological and economic challenges, pastoralists suffer eroding cultural identity, limited generational renewal, and political marginalization. Yet pastoral livelihoods are increasingly recognized as stewards of sustainable futures and amongst the best
Greta Semplici, Pablo Manzano
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Neither so low nor so short! Wages and heights in eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries colonial Hispanic America [PDF]
Based on substantial empirical work, our paper contributes to the ongoing debate on the historical causes of contemporary Latin America problems of development (slow growth and high inequality).
Hector García, Rafael Dobado González
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Advancing brain health equity with Indigenous peoples: A critical imperative
Abstract Indigenous communities hold rich knowledges, cultural practices, and kinship networks that sustain cognitive resilience and nurture brain health across the life course. Yet these enduring strengths are often obscured by biomedical models that overlook the structural determinants of health—including the cumulative effects of colonization ...
Antonia J. Clarke +23 more
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Beyond Deaths and Dollars: Modeling Requirements to Support Equity‐Focused Disaster Risk Management
The disaster risk modeling framework has long focused on quantifiable impact metrics to assess a hazard's potential direct effects, such as fatalities (deaths) and economic losses (dollars). Over time, as the framework has expanded to inform both public and private applications, additional impact metrics that more directly consider the societal roots ...
Sabine Loos +3 more
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Recovery, Renewal, and Resiliency: Gulf Coast Small Businesses Two Years Later [PDF]
Presents findings from a survey of small business owners about the state of the local economy immediately following and in the two years since Katrina made ...
Michael Turner +2 more
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ABSTRACT Indigenous students are the experts of their own experiences, and in this paper, we center the narratives of 17 Indigenous students pursuing STEMM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics, medicine) pathways in colleges and universities across the western United States to better understand the affirming and challenging elements that ...
A. E. Castagno +3 more
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Under the Cuban Flag: Notions of indigeneity at the end of the nineteenth century [PDF]
The chapter discusses how narratives of national sovereignty, personal freedom, and pro-indigenous movements were appropriated and deployed, for the benefit of the U.S.
Hulme, P
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New Hampshire demographic trends in the twenty-first century [PDF]
This brief summarizes current population redistribution trends in the Granite State and shows how fertility, mortality, and migration contributed to these trends. According to the 2010 census, New Hampshire gained 80,700 residents (a 6.5 percent increase)
Johnson, Kenneth M.
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