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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Siona hunting techniques for the larger aquatic vertebrates in Amazonian Ecuador
(Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 1989-02) -
Phyloclimatic Modelling Workshop
(2012-11-13)Phyloclimatic modelling is a term to describe the integration of ecological niche models and phylogenetic reconstruction. Phyloclimatic models are essentially niche models for ancestral lineages; these models can be used ... -
The Best Man in the Play: Female Agency in a Gender-Inclusive Comedia
(The Comediantes, 2008)As an example of how newly reformulated, gender-inclusive Comedia canon demands that we reevaluate earlier assumptions made about the male-authored canon, this study engages two examples of the popular comic convention of ... -
What Don Quixote Means (Today)
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Poverty, Islamist Extremism, and the Debacle of Doha Round Counter-Terrorism: Part One of a Trilogy -- Agricultural Tariffs and Subsidies
(2012)This article is the first of three in the Doha Round Trilogy. The entire Trilogy has been published and is available on SSRN. There is a long-standing nexus among international trade law, economic development, and national ... -
Reading at very beginning levels: using the students' autonomy
(UNICAMP / Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL), 1991-01) -
Constraints on Interpretation of Ecological Niche Models by Limited Environmental Ranges on Calibration Areas: Software Script Appendix
(2012-09-21)A common application of correlational models of ecological niches of species is to transfer model rules onto other sets of conditions to evaluate distributional potential under those conditions. As with any model fitting ... -
The role of the output in language learning
(Vitória, Brazil: Editora do Centro de Línguas da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, 2012)This study uses linguistic output to identify cognitive processes of language learning, i.e. the internalization of specific language components and metalinguistic or metacognitive learning mechanisms. Given that these ... -
Negotiating for meaning: Papers on foreign language teaching and testing
(University of Texas, Department of Foreign Language Acquisition Studies, Austin, TX, 1989)Papers from a conference on language teaching and testing are grouped in four sections. The first contains a foreword by Dale A. Koike and Antonio R. M. Simoes. The second, on research in second/foreign language teaching, ... -
Iowa Stubborn: Meredith Willson's Musical Characterization of his Fellow Iowans
(Intellect Ltd., 2009)The song “Iowa Stubborn” from The Music Man provides a key to understanding the development and musical content of the work. Willson’s “Iowa Stubborn” insistence on the organic development of songs from the narrative led ... -
Temporalidad e historia: hacia una reformulación del marco interpretativo del testimonio posdictatorial
(University of Kansas, 2010) -
Autran Dourado: A arte de tramar o romance
(University of North Carolina, 1979) -
Temporal Organization of Brazilian Portuguese Vowels in Continuous Speech: An Acoustical Study
(The University of Texas at Austin, 1987-08) -
Ecological niche structure determines rangewide abundance patterns of species
(2012-09-03)Spatial abundance patterns across species’ ranges have seen intense attention in macroecology and biogeography. One key hypothesis has been that abundance declines with geographic distance from the range center (‘abundant-center ... -
Niche Modeling: Model Evaluation
(2012-08-29)Ecological niche modeling has become a very popular tool in ecological and biogeographic studies across broad extents. The tool is used in hundreds of publications each year now, but some fundamental aspects of the approach ... -
Karyotypic variation in pocket gophers (Geomyidae: Geomys) from a narrow contact zone in Nebraska.
(Mammalian Chromosomes Newsletter, 1982-07) -
A review and reappraisal of the night monkey, Aotus lemurinus (Primates: Cebidae), in Costa Rica.
(Revista de Biología Tropical, 1988-11)Los monos nocturnos del género Aotus habitan actualmente las tierras bajas de Suramérica, aunque en épocas pasadas su distribución se prolongaba hasta Isla Bastimentos, Provincia de Boca del Tore, en Panamá. EI único ... -
A newly recognized clade of trans-Andean Oryzomyini (Rodentia: Cricetidae), with description of a new genus.
(Journal of Mammalogy, 2012-06)We expand upon recent studies on relationships within the Oryzomyini, in particular, those involving taxa currently assigned to the genus Sigmodontomys. In recent years, Sigmodontomys has been treated as including 2 ... -
Bilingual Humor, Verbal Hygiene, and the Gendered Contradictions of Cultural Citizenship in Early Mexican American Comedy
(American Anthropological Association, 2003)This article examines the paradoxes of linguistic purism in a series of sound recordings of comic dialogues made by Mexican immigrant comedians in San Antonio, Texas, during the Depression. The dialogues present characters ...