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Journal of Adolescent &Adult Literacy, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 421-433, January/February 2025.Abstract Language and culture hold power and significant connections to students' identities. However, these connections are often minimized, especially for students from diverse racial‐ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds who are neither white nor monolingual speakers of English.
Abigail Akosua Amoako Kayser +4 more
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Agent-Based Evacuation Modeling: Enhancing Building Safety in Emergency Scenarios
Smart CitiesBuildings and their supporting infrastructure are vulnerable to both natural and human-made disasters, which pose significant risks to the safety of the occupants.
Miguel Islas-Toski +3 more
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A Cuckoo Search Algorithm for Multimodal Optimization
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Interest in multimodal optimization is expanding rapidly, since many practical engineering problems demand the localization of multiple optima within a search space.
Erik Cuevas, Adolfo Reyna-Orta
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Retaining Political Talent: A Candidate‐Centered Theory of Primary Adoption
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 1152-1167, July 2024.Abstract Why do party leaders constrain their own power and allow the use of primary elections? I develop a model of intraparty politics and electoral competition in which an ambitious office‐seeker reevaluates their party affiliation after their party chooses a nomination rule. The model shows that in settings in which the linkages between politicians
Sergio J. Ascencio
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Mathematics, 2020 The design of two-dimensional Infinite Impulse Response (2D-IIR) filters has recently attracted attention in several areas of engineering because of their wide range of applications.
Omar Avalos +4 more
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Mexico's Dirty War: A Reassessment
Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 211-224, June 2024.Recent scholarship has found that Mexico's dirty war was rooted in existing, but also limited, violent practices established during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1960s, these limits began to disappear. But it was not until the early 1970s when the state had sufficient capacity to launch counterinsurgency tactics throughout the nation.
Alex Aviña, Benjamin T. Smith
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La poesía como segunda vuelta [PDF]
, 2014 Las infinitas acepciones de la palabra revolución, nos interpelan: Se puede hablar de revolución en los campos de la epistemología, de la física, de la astronomía, de la sociología, de la historia o del arte, entre otros.
Coscio, Lucrecia Carmen
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The politics of development in Ecuador: Accounting for plural rationalities
Latin American Policy, Volume 15, Issue 2, Page 269-287, June 2024.Abstract Recent protests and tense elections in Ecuador suggest a strong polarization regarding the development model. The diversity of vindications underscores the plurality of development notions, rendering it a wicked problem, which is characterized by the presence of multiple definitions. Employing sociocultural viability theory, four ideal‐typical
Pablo Garcés‐Velástegui
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Characterization of a Complex Mixture of Immunomodulator Peptides Obtained from Autologous Urine
Journal of Immunology Research, 2020 A complex mixture of peptides plays a key role in the regulation of the immune system; different sources as raw materials mainly from animals and vegetables have been reported to provide these extracts.
Alberto Fragoso +7 more
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The institutionalization of “serial personalization” in Argentina's Peronist Party, 1983–2023
Social Science Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 3, Page 486-499, May 2024.Abstract Objective The purpose of this article is to explain how Peronism, an allegedly personalist party, has managed to institutionalize its internal power struggles and its succession procedures since democratization in 1983. Methods The authors employ the common conceptual framework developed for this special issue.
Andres Malamud, Leiv Marsteintredet
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