Browsing by Subject "Mexico"
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Access Regimes and Irrigation Technology: Where Does the Water Soft Path for Agriculture Lead?
(2016-07-08)In the twentieth century, central governments managed water supply through largescale infrastructure, known as the water hard path. Water experts advocate for an alternative paradigm for the twenty-first century, or the ... -
American football in Mexico: factors influencing success of teams within the National College Football Organization, Organizacion Nacional Estudiantil de Futbol Americano (ONEFA)
(2009-05-15)This study investigates the factors or determinants that influence success of teams within the Big 12 Conference of the National College Football Organization in Mexico. The findings of such a study were perceived to be ... -
Assessment of the Mexican Eagle Ford Shale Oil and Gas Resources
(2013-08-02)According to the 2011 Energy Information Agency (EIA) global assessment, Mexico ranks 4th in shale gas resources. The Eagle Ford shale is the formation with the greatest expectation in Mexico given the success it has had ... -
Atlas geogrphique et physique du royame de la Novelle-Espagne
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Availability of Fruit and Vegetable Imports From Mexico into U.S.
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Climate Change and Global Warming in the Media: A Content Analysis of the Mexican Newspaper El Universal
(2017-05-03)The amount of coverage the media dedicate to climate change, along with how they frame the issue, can influence audience awareness, perception, and understanding of climate change. These aspects of climate change coverage ... -
CO2 Injection in Unconventional Reservoirs: Chicontepec Turbidites Case Study
(2016-06-17)New fracturing techniques have helped to unlock the once unrecoverable oil from unconventional reservoirs. Unfortunately, even with newer technologies, there are still resources in place that the industry is leaving behind ... -
Conservation of Mexican Long-Nosed Bats Along the Migration Route and Surrounding Maternity Caves
The nectar-feeding Mexican long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis or L. nivalis) population has been experiencing a steep decline over the past ten years. Conservation of this species is vital for the mutualistic relationship ... -
Ecology of Wintering Black-capped Vireos in Mexico
(2013-11-06)The black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapilla) is an endangered Neotropical migratory songbird that has received considerable attention in its breeding range, but relatively little attention in its winter range in Mexico. To ... -
El Cine Poético en Carlos Reygadas
(2016-11-28)The cinematography of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas is the main focus of this dissertation, which aims to validate the artistic quality of his four films: Japón, Batalla en el Cielo, Luz Silenciosa and Post Tenebras ... -
Embodied Storying, A Methodology for Chican@ Rhetorics: (Re)making Stories, (Un)mapping the Lines, And Re-membering Bodies
(2012-10-19)This dissertation privileges Chican@ rhetorics in order to challenge a single History of Rhetoric, as well as to challenge Chican@s to formulate our rhetorical practices through our own epistemologies. Chapter One works ... -
Essays on Price Dynamics, Welfare Analysis, Household Food Insecurity in Mexico
(2013-09-20)Higher and more volatile food prices, as reported in recent years, have consequences on household welfare and potentially on public policy. Analysis of agricultural commodities price dynamics, welfare ... -
Estimating the Burden of Neurocysticercosis in Mexico
(2012-10-19)Neurocysticercosis (NCC) is a parasitic disease caused by the larva of the zoonotic cestode Taenia solium. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the distribution of presenting clinical manifestations of NCC, to ... -
Evolution of Ligia Isopods in three Geologically Dynamic Regions
(2013-09-27)The oniscidean genus Ligia has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring mainly in rocky supralittoral habitats, although a few species are found in tropical mountain freshwater habitats. The long-distance dispersal potential ... -
Instrucciᵴica (1587) by Diego Garc?de Palacio: an early nautical handbook from Mexico
(2009-05-15)In 1587, an ambitious colonial bureaucrat in Mexico City published a handbook titled Instrucción náutica. Although navigational books were common throughout the 16th century, the Instrucción náutica was the first printed ... -
La Naturaleza Contradictoria de las Peliculas Hechas en Mexico Sobre la Revolucion Mexicana
(2010-10-12)This investigation analyzes eleven movies made in Mexico about the 1910 Revolution and identifies contradictory elements that allow the films to portray and propagate conservative social and political structures while ... -
Language Attitudes and Linguistic Profiling among Micro-Enterprisers in Mexico
(2013-05-21)This study examines the language attitudes of entrepreneurial students enrolled in the Academy for Creating Enterprise (ACE) in Mexico City toward six rural and urban varieties of Mexican Spanish to consider whether their ... -
Linking Institutional Characteristics to Communal Natural Resource Conservation in Cumbres de Monterrey National Park
(2014-05-08)National parks in developing countries often have inhabitants that practice communal land management. Potential drivers for sustainable communal land management have been identified in literature, however these drivers ... -
Mexican Instability, War Plan Green, and the U.S. Army, 1903 - 1940
(2013-05-03)This thesis examines the U.S. Army’s GREEN series of war plans from the establishment of the Army General Staff in 1903 until the final update of the plan in 1940. It focuses on the evolution of the plans from their ... -
Phylogenetics and Diversification of Sailfin and Shortfin Mollies (Mollienesia, Poecilia, Poeciliidae)
(2017-05-01)Phylogeography aims to understand the formation of species across space and time. Freshwater fishes are studied because they strongly reflect historical and ecological changes in a region. The objective of this dissertation ...