Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Reference Group Perspective on State Behaviour: A Case Study of Estonia's Counterterrorism Policies
(Taylor and Francis, 2009)For over a decade Estonia has been untouched by terrorist violence. However, notwithstanding the lack of a viable terrorist threat, the Estonian government adopted extensive counterterrorism measures. What explains the ... -
Between Commitement and Pragmatism: Assessing International Influence on Human Rights Practices in Georgia
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)What explains the discrepancy between the avowed commitment of the Georgian government to human rights and praxis of human rights in the post-Rose Revolution republic? This article engages with this question and attributes ... -
Ethnic Dimension of Religious Extremism and Terrorism in Central Asia
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Values and Ethics of Global Civil Society Actors: Insights from a Survey and Content Analyses
(Taylor and Francis, 2006)This study examines values, ethics, and principles of conduct that underlie activities of global civil society organizations. It uses an international web-based survey, and a content analysis of the codes of conduct for ... -
Combating Terrorism in Central Asia: Explaining Differences in States' Responses to Terror
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)This work examines differences in the level of violence of counterterrorism measures adopted by Central Asian states. Why do some Central Asian governments opt for wanton repression in the name of the struggle with terrorism, ... -
Security Rights Violations in Context of Counterterrorism: Analysis of the Post-Soviet Nations
(Taylor and Francis, 2010)This study purports to explain security rights violations of the suspected terrorism. It develops a theoretical model and assesses its predictions on a sample of post-Soviet states. The author uses original data on security ... -
The melectine bee genera Brachymelecta and Sinomelecta (Hymenoptera, Apidae).
(Pensoft, 2012-11-26)The enigmatic, cleptoparasitic bee genera Brachymelecta Linsley and Sinomelecta Baker (Apinae: Melectini) are redescribed, each represented by a single species which has not been reencountered since capture of the type ... -
Why primates don’t fly
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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)