Browsing by Subject "Brazil"
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(2015-04-27)The Rio Grande do Sul coast, in southern Brazil, is an extensive and scarcely populated sandy shore, nearly 620km long, home of stranded ships representing various periods of navigation in the southwestern Atlantic. ...
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Governments that suffer low levels of citizen trust generally have worse policy outcomes and less citizen compliance, making it difficult to pursue other policy goals. However, scholarship on government trust in low trust ...
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(2017-05-08)Local governments are thought to be more conducive to women’s representation because they are closer to home, easier to access, and require less time and resources than positions in higher levels of government. However, ...
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(2016-09-30)Increasing hydroelectric development in the tropics is beginning to place a large percentage of global freshwater diversity at risk. A prime example is the recently completed Belo Monte Hydroelectric Complex (BMHC) on the ...
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(2015-01-23)This dissertation investigates the intersection between environmental conservation and livelihoods of small-scale producers. Conservation territories have been expanding into coastal-marine environments because of processes ...
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(2019-03-21)Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) procedures and training are used by global industries to mitigate risks and are often provided in a lingua franca. This research, investigated strategies for overcoming language barriers ...
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(2017-11-14)Floodplains are among the most biologically productive, but also threatened ecosystems in the world with global loss of natural systems exceeding 60%. Human development activities, including the construction of dams, mining ...
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(2018-11-26)From the formation of the German nation in 1871 until the eve of World War I, Germany’s emergence on the world stage as a global power was never a simple endeavor nor one where there was a clear path forward for policymakers ...
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(1993)The research on democratization thus far, although it has provided some insights and established some correlations, has simply analyzed one factor or one group void of the effects or roles of other groups or factors in the ...
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(2017-11-20)Agriculture plays a fundamental role in the global economy. To accomplish the economical and feasible improvement in agricultural production, a more complete understanding of how innovations move through different channels ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1926)
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Queen of a Sun-Drenched Land centers around Ramona Santos Riojas, a graduate student of animal science at the University of Sao Paulo. She enjoys her studies and is eager to discover the newest innovations in the field of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Statistical and systems analysis techniques were used in a complementary way to achieve the objectives of obtaining estimates of genetic and environmental parameters for growth and reproduction characters of three tropical ...
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(2020-04-27)Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cyanoHABs) are a public health risk because cyanobacteria produce cyanotoxins that affect humans. CyanoHABs have increased globally, causing human intoxications and fatalities. Since ...
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(2022-08-03)In democracies, how can coercive security policies that violate the rights of many be so pervasive, even when those most affected by their negative consequences are a large share of the electorate? I argue that the explanation ...