Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Diversity within Unity: Import Laws of Islamic Countries on Haram (Forbidden) Products
(The International Lawyer, 2014-05-15)How do Muslim countries treat importation of goods that Islamic Law (Sharı’a) considers Haram (forbidden), namely, alcoholic beverages and pork products? Why do they do so? What might Muslim countries do, in accordance ... -
Programa Ibermedia: Cine Transnacional Ibero-Americano O Relaciones Públicas Para España?
(Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012)El Programa Ibermedia (de aquí en adelante, Ibermedia) es un fondo de co-producción de films auspiciado por España, Portugal y dieciocho países miembros en Latino América. Su propósito es promover el desarrollo de proyectos ... -
Utilization of Time-Based Techniques in Research and Teaching
(Multi-Science Publishing, 2009-07-29)This article describes how computer animations, combined with cinematic techniques, have served as a teaching and research tool in architecture. Animations were used in the following areas: case studies of precedents in ... -
Crossing the Interspecies Barrier: Opening the Door to Zoonotic Pathogens
(Public Library of Science, 2014-06-19)No Abstract -
Speciation in Western Scrub-Jays, Haldane’s rule, and genetic clines in secondary contact
(2014-06-17)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 ... -
A Tale of Two Mam Children: Contact-Induced Language Change in Mayan Child Language
(University of Chicago Press, 2013-10)Mayan languages have been in contact with Spanish for nearly 500 years and yet maintain much of their structural integrity. The arrival of bilingual schools and television has now altered the circumstance of language use ... -
The potential distribution of the Vulnerable African lion Panthera leo in the face of changing global climate
(Cambridge University Press, 2014-06-03)The objective of this study is to estimate possible impacts of global climate change on the geographical distribution of the African lion Panthera leo in the coming decades. Current lion population occurrence data across ... -
Distributional potential of the Triatoma brasiliensis species complex at present and under scenarios of future climate conditions
(Biomed Central, 2014-05-22)BACKGROUND: The Triatoma brasiliensis complex is a monophyletic group, comprising three species, one of which includes two subspecific taxa, distributed across 12 Brazilian states, in the caatinga and cerrado biomes. Members ... -
The Use of Ecological Niche Modeling to Infer Potential Risk Areas of Snakebite in the Mexican State of Veracruz
(Public Library of Science, 2014-06-24)Background Many authors have claimed that snakebite risk is associated with human population density, human activities, and snake behavior. Here we analyzed whether environmental suitability of vipers can be used as an ... -
In memoriam: Wallace Edmund LaBerge (1927-2013)
(University of Kansas, 2013-09-09)A brief account of the life and career of Wallace Edmund LaBerge (1927–2013) is presented along with a compilation of his publications and taxa proposed. In total 326 publications and 1 family-group, 46 genus-group, and ...