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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
Now showing items 281-300 of 799
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Choosing Between Centers of Action: Instrument Buoys, El Niño, and Scientific Internationalism in the Pacific, 1957-1982
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"the most valuable birds in the world": International Conservation Science and the Revival of Peru's Guano Industry, 1909-1965
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The Last First Contact: An Eco-Cultural Interpretation
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“¿De qué color es el oro?: Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music
(The University of Texas Press, 2005)This article examines the history of an important cultural practice: history writing. It focuses on ideologies of national unity developed by four influential Cuban intellectuals: Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Emilio Grenet, ... -
To Spain and Back: Changing Roles and Identities of Ecuadorian Female Migrants
(University of Kansas, 2013-05-31)In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ecuadorian migration to Spain expanded due to economic and political push and pull factors between the two countries. Through the feminization of migration, women came to represent ... -
Group dynamics, behavior, and current and historical abundance of peccaries in Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands
(Journal of Mammalogy, 2013-08-14)The abundances and habitat preferences of peccaries in Neotropical forests are important to understand because these keystone species influence many aspects of the ecosystem. In the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica, we ... -
Bergen South: The Americanization of the Meteorology Profession in Latin America during World War II
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The Struggle over Airways in the Americas, 1919-1945
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Environmental Therapy for Soil and Social Erosion: Landscape Architecture and Depression-Era Highway Construction in Texas
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Intellectual Property and Public Health – A White Paper
(2013)On October 26, 2012, the University of Akron School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property and Technology hosted its Sixth Annual IP Scholars Forum. In attendance were thirteen legal scholars with expertise and an ... -
Patent Expertise and the Regress of Useful Arts
(Southern Illinois University School of Law, 2009)Employing a multi-user interactive simulation of patent and non-patent (commons and open source) systems (the "Patent Game"), this study compares empirical data on rates of innovation, productivity, and social utility ... -
Intellectual Property as the Third Dimension of GMO Regulation
(University of Kansas School of Law, 2007)In the past, opposition to GMOs and GM crops has tended to focus on alleged dangers to human health and environmental safety. The United States, Canada, and Europe have all established regulatory frameworks whose stated ... -
The Evolution and Development of Biolaw
(2011)Biolaw has come of age as an academic discipline. This rapidly growing legal discipline possesses a Janus nature that encompasses both the law of biology and the biology of law. Advances in the biological sciences, such ... -
Beauty in the Eye of the Judicial Beholder
(2011)Humans tend to demonstrate strong preferences for images they consider aesthetically pleasing. Aesthetic preferences often manifest themselves in the law, and are especially relevant to forms of intellectual property ... -
Family Law and the Genomic Revolution
(UMKC School of Law, 2010)The Genomic Revolution, gene patent law, and genetic alternation will have profound effects on the family and family law. Increasingly, the possibility exists of precisely genotyping offspring (or even gametes). The effects ... -
Planted Obsolescence: Synagriculture and the Law
(University of Idaho College of Law, 2012)Supporters of GM agriculture have had a long row to hoe in achieving public acceptance for the safety of this important technology. Controversy has surrounded the foundational technology of recombinant DNA methods, the ... -
DNA Copyright
(Valparaiso University Law, 2011)Copyright law has traditionally afforded protection to works of authorship such as books, magazines, photographs, paintings, music, and sculpture. The Copyright Act has proved admirably flexible at accommodating novel ... -
Book Review: Human Rights and the WTO: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines
(The Intellectual Property Law Center Golden Gate University School of Law, 2010)Human rights and patent rights have become increasingly intertwined in discussions surrounding access to pharmaceutical drugs by citizens of developing countries. This discussion is a particularly contentious one for reasons ... -
Neurobiology and Patenting Thought
(University of New Hampshire School of Law, 2009)Many have argued that thought should constitute per se unpatentable subject matter, and some have even suggested that any patent claim that includes a mental step should lie outside patentability. Many courts have long ... -
Beauty Fades: An Experimental Study of Federal Court Design Patent Aesthetics
(The University of Georgia School of Law, 2012)Courts are rarely asked to judge beauty. Such a subjective practice would normally be anathema to the ideal of objective legal standards. However, one area of federal law has a long tradition of explicitly requiring courts ...