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Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Recent submissions
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Quantifying the thermodynamic entropy budget of the land surface: is this useful?
(European Geosciences Union, 2011-06-20)As a system is moved away from a state of thermodynamic equilibrium, spatial and temporal heterogeneity is induced. A possible methodology to assess these impacts is to examine the thermodynamic entropy budget and ... -
Characterizing the multi–scale spatial structure of remotely sensed evapotranspiration with information theory
(European Geosciences Union, 2011-08-22)A more thorough understanding of the multi-scale spatial structure of land surface heterogeneity will enhance understanding of the relationships and feedbacks between land surface conditions, mass and energy exchanges ... -
Surface heterogeneity impacts on boundary layer dynamics via energy balance partitioning
(European Geosciences Union, 2011-04-11)The role of land-atmosphere interactions under heterogeneous surface conditions is investigated in order to identify mechanisms responsible for altering surface heat and moisture fluxes. Twelve coupled land surface – ... -
Predicting suitable environments and potential occurrences for coelacanths (Latimeria spp.)
(Springer Verlag, 2011)Extant coelacanths (Latimeria chalumnae) were first discovered in the western Indian Ocean in 1938; in 1998, a second species of coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis, was discovered off the north coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, ... -
GIS in Indigenous Communities isn't Participatory GIS: Examples in Honduras and Mexico
(GIS Day @ KU Planning Committee, 2011-11-16)KU Department of Geography -
Book Review: Effects of Climate Change on Birds
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Affirmative Action in Higher Education and Afro-Descendant Women in Bahia, Brazil
(University of Kansas, 2011-05-31)Affirmative Action in Higher Education and Afro-Descendant Women in Bahia, Brazil In 2001, the federal government of Brazil under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995 - 2003) passed laws to remedy racial and socioeconomic ... -
The Faces of Haiti: Resolute in Reform, Resistance and Recovery
(2011-10-25)This report describes the activities and findings of the University of Kansas Haitian Research Initiative team that travelled to Haiti in July 2011. The purpose of the visit was to assess the current research and educational ... -
Socially-related and spontaneous circadian thermo-acrophase shifts in Rhabdomys pumilio.
(1982)The reportedly diurnally-active African four-striped field mouse, Rhabdomys pumilio (Sparrmann, 1784; Rodentia: Muridae), studied with food freely available singly-caged at 24 ± I°C by the use of an intraperitoneal transensor ... -
Mammalian distributional records in Yucatán and Quintana Roo, with comments on reproduction, structure, and status of peninsular populations.
(1974-08)Specimens of one marsupial, 25 species of bats, one edentate, 12 species of rodents, and five carnivores are reported from localities in Yucatán and Quintana Roo. Noctilio leporinus and Eumops bonariensis are added to the ... -
Systematics, distribution, and host specificity of Edrabius Fauvel (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae)
(Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1996-12)Systematics, distribution, and host relations of the amblyopinine genus Edrabius (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) are reviewed. Herein, we recognize 11 species in the genus Edrabius, all of which are obligate associates of ... -
Present Dogs, Absent Witches: Illustration and Interpretation of ‘El coloquio de los perros’
(Cervantes Society of America, 2008)Aunque los grabados que acompañan a los textos impresos de las Novelas ejemplares suelen representar los desenlaces de las novelas, las imágenes de “El coloquio de los perros” rompen con esta tendencia visual. Este trabajo ... -
La emblemática jesuítica en El Criticón
(2007)While the impact of the humanistic emblem tradition as embodied by Andrea Alciati’s work in Baltasar Gracián’s three-part novel El Criticón (1651, 1653 and 1657) is well documented, the allegorical novel’s relationship ... -
A new species of Peltoculus (Acari: Trombiculidae) from Ecuador.
(International Journal of Acarology, 1985)Peltoculus ecuadorensis is described as new from specimens collected off Caenolestes convelatus (Marsupialia: Caenolestidae) from Ecuador. -
Who's Teaching the Teachers? Evidence from the National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty and the Survey of Earned Doctorates
(University of Chicago Press, 2006)In light of a documented shortage of candidates for teacher education faculty positions, this study explores the academic labor market for teacher education faculty utilizing data from the National Survey on Postsecondary ... -
Tense and Aspect in Limon Creole: A Sociolinguistic View Towards a Creole Continuum
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Twentieth Century Nicaraguan Protest Poetry: The Struggle for Cultural Hegemony
(University of Kansas, 1994) -
Kaqchikel and Spanish Language Contact: The Case of Bilingual Mayan Children
(University of Kansas, 2004-05)This study examined the lexical and morphosyntactic knowledge of Kaqchikel Maya children in the Kaqchikel and Spanish languages. Eight bilingual children, who acquired Kaqchikel at home and Spanish at school participated ... -
Judy Onofrio: Twist of Fate
(2009)