Browsing by Subject "South America"

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    • Collectivity, Participation, and Solidarity Within the Afro-Ecuadorian Communities of Guayaquil, Ecuador 
      Francois, Savannah Shenise Hicks (2018-07-05)
      The purpose of this project was to identify factors that promoted or prohibited participation in Afro-Ecuadorian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador. This project also focuses on the ...
    • Community Assembly of Neotropical Frogs Across Ecological Scales 
      Schalk, Christopher Michael (2016-05-18)
      Ecological communities are organized by historical, biotic, and abiotic factors and the strengths of these factors vary across multiple spatial and temporal scales. I sought to disentangle the drivers of community assembly ...
    • Exploring an Oceanic Influence on the Peopling of South America 
      Manley, Danielle E
      The focus of this research is to explore the possibility that Australasians contributed to modern indigenous South American populations during and after the time when the major peopling events of the Americas are thought ...
    • Foreign Livestock Management, number 1 
      College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
      Animal production losses in some countries without veterinary medical services frequently exceed 50%, compared to 10-15% in the United States. Photo taken in Columbia, S. A.
    • Foreign Livestock Management, number 2 
      College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
      Dr. Kenneth Latimer Kuttler, the son of a Veterinarian, was born May 29, 1924 in Ft. Worth Texas. He earned his DVM in 1945 from Colorado State College and his MS in 1955 from New York State University. In 1965 he received ...
    • Historical Maps Online 
      Rumsey, David Y. (ALA Map and Geography Round Table, 2005-01-31)
      For 20 years, David Rumsey assembled a collection of more than 150,000 historical maps of the Americas and the world. Motivated by a desire to make his private map collection a free public resource, Rumsey then created an ...
    • The Influence Of Real Change On The Emergence Of Real Democracy In Latin America 
      Greenfield, Karlina (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 ...
    • The pattern recognition method applied to the forecast of strong earthquakes in South American seismic prone areas 
      Benavidez, Alberto (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)
      The pattern recognition method is applied to the Andean seismic region that extends from southern latitudes 2° to 27° in the South American continent, to set a criterion for the prediction of the potential sites of strong ...
    • The phyllostomid bats of the genus Carollia Gray 
      Pine, Ronald Herbert (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1968)
      The genus Carollia of the family Phyllostomidae is found to comsist of at least four species. These are C. perspicillata (Linnaeus), C. brevicauda (Wied), C. subrufa (Hahn), and C. castanes H. Allen. C. brevicauda has not ...
    • Phylogeny of Geophagine cichlids from South America (Perciformes: Labroidei) 
      Hernan, Lopez Fernandez (Texas A&M University, 2004-11-15)
      Three new species of cichlid fishes of the genus Geophagus, part of the Neotropical subfamily Geophaginae, are described from the Orinoco and Casiquiare drainages in Venezuela. Phylogenetic relationships among 16 genera ...
    • Resistance to the Expansion of Pachakutiq's Inca Empire and its Effects on the Spanish Conquest 
      Novoa, Miguel (2012-05-02)
      This endeavor focuses on the formation and expansion of the Inca Empire and its effects on western South American societies in the fifteenth century. The research examines the Incan cultural, economic, and administrative ...