Browsing by Subject "Latin America"
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(2018-11-26)Migratory songbirds have seen significant population declines over the last several decades. One threat to songbird populations may be due to adverse health effects of legacy contaminants such as organochlorine pesticides ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-04-07)In this summary of the 29th edition of Alamos Alliance, participants and panelists addressed the issue of isolationist policies in response to the economic conditions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, high inflation, and ...
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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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(2020-07-16)The dissertation process began with the goal of answering two primary questions and determining the methodology to employ. The first question was if there was a single model for explaining the success or failure of the ...
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(1995)It may be surprising to some that after millions of innocent victims died at the merciless hands of the Nazis, many war criminals were never brought to justice at the conclusion of World War II. Somehow Nazi war criminals ...
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(2009-05-15)The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument for assessing distance learning readiness of institutions in Latin America for international projects of food and agriculture with higher education institutions in the ...
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This project, explores whether large numbers of women in the legislature are associated with the representation of interests of diverse groups within the group “women.” To begin to answer this question, I examine laws ...
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(2020-11-12)In Latin America, social housing refers to low-income housing projects provided or subsidized by the state. This dissertation explores an approach for the design and conception of social housing incorporating open building, ...
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(1998)This project seeks to define the effects that exiled Chilean intellectuals had on popular perceptions of Latin America within the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. The diaspora of "creators" following the 1973 ...
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(2009-05-15)This research addresses the question under what conditions will rank and file legislators favor or oppose changes in a legislature’s internal rules of order. The study deviates from previous approaches to the study of ...
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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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(2010-07-14)The novel, as a genre, has been nourished since its inception by history. In this vein, literary production in Latin America has not been an exception. From the time of the conquest to the beginnings of the republican era, ...
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(1979)One of the types of risk encountered in petroleum investments is political risk. Political risk is the probability of changes in the business environment due to political changes. There exists a need to treat analysis of ...
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(2017-06-02)This dissertation analyses the evolutionary condition of exile among three Hispanic poets through an examination of the historical, sociological, and psychological state of exile that develops from past struggles and ...
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(2010-07-14)Recent political trends in Latin America have led to the election of a number of leftist presidents throughout the region. Some, such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Ecuador's Rafael Correa, profess goals centered to varying ...
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(2014-06-06)Representation is a basic component of democracy and yet scientific understanding of how it works has been limited to the national level of government, especially in the developing world. This research develops and tests ...