Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Behavior as mind-in-context: A cultural psychology analysis of "paranoid" suspicion
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Siphonaptera of Minnesota
(Marginal Media Press, Fredonia, New York., 1980) -
Soil degradation, global warming and climate impacts
(Inter Research, 2001)A water balance model is used to assess the relative impacts of global warming and soil degradation scenarios on water resources in the future. Results indicate that overall global warming will have a more widespread and ... -
Estimated impacts of soil degradation on the African water balance and climate
(Inter Research, 1998)This study uses a well-established water balance methodology, the Thornthwaite-Mather approach, to evaluate the effects of soil water holding capacity assumptions on estimates of African evapotranspiration rates, moisture ... -
The taxonomy of Geomydoecus (Mallophaga: Trichodectidae) from the Geomys bursarius complex (Rodentia: Geomyidae)
(Journal of Medical Entomology, 1980-03)A revision was undertaken of the members of the genus Geomydoecus parasitizing plains pocket gophers of the Geomys bursarius complex. Prior to this revision, 5 specific and subspecific taxa of lice were recognized from ... -
Feminism and Maria de Zayas's Exemplary Comedy, La Traicion en la Armistad
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Congress Has a Role to Play in Making Research Public
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Scrotal melanins in bats (Chiroptera): description, distribution, and function
(Journal of Zoology (London), 1988)Several species of bats contain pigment granules within the scrotal skin, tunica vaginalis or tunica albuginea surrounding the testis and/or epididymis. Seventy-two species of bats, representing 49 genera were examined ... -
Two new species of Gliricola (Phthiraptera: Gyropidae) from the spiny tree rat, Mesomys hispidus, in Peru.
(Biological Society of Washington, 1993-06)Two new species of Gliricola, G. woodmani and G. halli (Phthiraptera: Gyropidae), are described and illustrated for specimens from the spiny tree rat, Mesomys hispidus (Rodentia: Echimyidae), in Peru. Resumen--Se describe ... -
Predation by squirrel monkeys and double-toothed kites on tent-making bats
(American Journal of Primatology, 1985)Central American squirrel monkeys (Saimiri oerstedi) appear to recognize the modified leaves that phyllostomid bats utilize for diurnal roost sites. The monkeys visually and manually search these bat tents for both bats ... -
Host and elevational specificity of parasitic beetles (Amblyopinus Solsky) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Panama.
(Biological Society of Washington, 1987-02)The literature on staphylinid beetles of the tribe Amblyopinini, all of which are parasitic on Neotropical or Australian mammals, has provided few specifics on the natural history and host relationships of these beetles. ... -
Ecology and Geography of Human Monkeypox Case Occurences Across Africa
(Wildlife Disease Association, 2012-04)As ecologic niche modeling (ENM) evolves as a tool in spatial epidemiology and public health, selection of the most appropriate and informative environmental data sets becomes increasingly important. Here, we build on a ... -
Indigenous Knowledges Driving Technological Innovation
(UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2011-09)This policy brief explores the use and expands the conversation on the ability of geospatial technologies to represent Indigenous cultural knowledge. Indigenous peoples’ use of geospatial technologies has already proven ... -
Más allá del “formato memoria”: la repostulación del imaginario postdictatorial en Los rubios de Albertina Carri
(North Carolina State University, 2006)Horror, trauma, duelo, luto, olvido, memoria, identidad; Los rubios activa, desde el mismo momento de su aparición, una serie de lecturas críticas que indagan, profundizan, complejizan y, casi podríamos decir, se regodean ... -
Iconic Fictions: Narrating Recent Argentine History in Post-2000 Second-Generation Films
(Intellect, 2012-03)This article examines a recent trend in Argentine post-dictatorial cinema that has not received sufficient critical attention: post-2000 fictional films by second-generation film-makers that go back to a child’s or a ... -
Historical Stasis: Solanas and the Restoration of Political Film after the 2001 Argentine Crisis
(Intellect, 2010)This article argues that Fernando Solanas’s documentary production in the wake of the 2001 Argentine institutional crisis (especially his 2004 film Social Genocide) should not be straightforwardly assimilated to his 1960s ... -
“Releo Mis Papeles del Pasado para Escribir Mi Romance del Porvenir”: Respiración Artificial y El Programa de Refundación del Campo Cultural Argentino
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A review of Cummingsia Ferris (Mallophaga: Trimenoponidae), with a description of two new species.
(Biological Society of Washington, 1985-05)Descriptions and illustrations are given for the four previously recognized species of Cummingsia: C. inopinata Méndez, C. intermedia Werneck, C. maculata Ferris, and C. peramydis Ferris; and for two new species: C. albujai ... -
Fruits of their labors [Afterward C]
(Field Museum of Natural History, 1986-12)