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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Maternal Discourses in Nalo Hopkinson's "Midnight Robber"
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006-05-01)See article for abstract. -
Using “warm handoffs” to link hospitalized smokers with tobacco treatment after discharge: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
(BioMed Central, 2012-08-01)Post-discharge support is a key component of effective treatment for hospitalized smokers, but few hospitals provide it. Many hospitals and care settings fax-refer smokers to quitlines for follow-up; however, less than ... -
Multiscale Interactions between Water and Carbon Fluxes and Environmental Variables in A Central U.S. Grassland
(MDPI, 2013-04-10)The temporal interactions between water and carbon cycling and the controlling environmental variables are investigated using wavelets and information theory. We used 3.5 years of eddy covariance station observations from ... -
On distinguishing progressively increasing response requirements for reinforcement.
(Association for Behavior Analysis International, 2010-03-01)Several different arrangements have been described for increasing the response requirements for reinforcement using the label progressive-ratio schedule. Under the original progressive-ratio schedule, the response requirement ... -
Restructuring and the Nonmetropolitan Turnaround: The California Evidence
(University of Hawaii Press, 1986-01-01)Conceptions of nonmetropolitan growth have rarely benefited from current debates in social theory. An analytical interpretation of the literature on the "turnaround" is offered from a structuralist perspective. In this ... -
Recent advances in the climate change biology literature: describing the whole elephant
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2010-06-11)Climate change biology is seeing a wave of new contributions, which are reviewed herein. Contributions treat shifts in phenology and distribution, and both document past and forecast future effects. However, many of the ... -
Facing the Future: Encouraging Critical Cartographic Literacies In Indigenous Communities
(University of British Columbia, Okanagan, 2005-01-01)As Indigenous academics researching and participating with various mapping initiatives, we have began to perceive that while many Indigenous communities have a long history of using Western cartographic techniques, including ... -
Mapping the Potential Risk of Mycetoma Infection in Sudan and South Sudan Using Ecological Niche Modeling
(Public Library of Science, 2014-10-16)In 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) recognized mycetoma as one of the neglected tropical conditions due to the efforts of the mycetoma consortium. This same consortium formulated knowledge gaps that require further ... -
Book Review: Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture. Edited by David Palumbo-Liu, Bruce Robbins, and Nirvana Tanoukhi
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Fab! or Drab?: Increasing the Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning in Summer Classes
(Taylor & Francis, 2012-08-08)This article reviews the pitfalls and benefits of teaching and learning in summer school and identifies the lack of student interest as the key factor affecting the effectiveness of learning in the summer. The primary goal ... -
Competing perspectives on democracy and democratization: assessing alternative models of democracy promoted in Central Asian states
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-08-12)This study examines alternative understandings of democracy and democracy promotion advanced by the US, EU, Russia and China in Central Asia using frame analysis. In the context of this study, ‘frames’ refer to the relatively ... -
Climate Change Influences on Global Distributions of Dengue and Chikungunya Virus Vectors
(Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2014)This packet presents raster data files that accompany a manuscript submitted for publication to Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, titled “Climate Change Influences on Global Vector Distributions for Dengue ... -
Tonton Liben
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Standardized Assessment of Concussion in football players
(American Academy of Neurology, 1997-01-01)Article abstract-The recent formulation of guidelines for the management of concussion in sports adopted by the American Academy of Neurology specifically calls for the development of a standardized, systematic sideline ... -
Leishmaniasis transmission: distribution and coarse-resolution ecology of two vectors and two parasites in Egypt
(Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2014-01-01)Introduction: In past decades, leishmaniasis burden has been low across Egypt; however, changing environment and land use has placed several parts of the country at risk. As a consequence, leishmaniasis has become a ... -
Speciation in Western Scrub-Jays, Haldane’s rule, and genetic clines in secondary contact
(Springer Verlag, 2014-06-19)Background Haldane’s Rule, the tendency for the heterogametic sex to show reduced fertility in hybrid crosses, can obscure the signal of gene flow in mtDNA between species where females are heterogametic. Therefore, it ... -
Voices from the Small Cinemas: Beyond “the Remaining Countries”
(Intellect Press, 2012-11)This introduction to a special volume dedicated to translations of recent writings from underexamined cinematic traditions in Latin America (such as Bolivian, Cuba, Colombia, Peru and Puerto Rico) argues for the amplification ... -
Mapping Transmission Risk of Lassa Fever in West Africa: The Importance of Quality Control, Sampling Bias, and Error Weighting
(Public Library of Science, 2014-08-08)Lassa fever is a disease that has been reported from sites across West Africa; it is caused by an arenavirus that is hosted by the rodent M. natalensis. Although it is confined to West Africa, and has been documented in ... -
De Ambitu Et Leges De Ambitu
(University of Kansas, 1914-05-15) -
Ecology and geography of avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) transmission in the Middle East and northeastern Africa
(BioMed Central, 2009-07-20)Background: The emerging highly pathogenic avian influenza strain H5N1 ("HPAI-H5N1") has spread broadly in the past decade, and is now the focus of considerable concern. We tested the hypothesis that spatial distributions ...