Browsing by Subject "Mexico"
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A bottom-up electricity demand model for the residential sector in Querétaro, Mexico
(2016-12-12)There is a growing interest in reducing energy consumption and its associated greenhouse gas emissions from every sector of the economy. The residential sector is a substantial consumer of energy in every country ... -
A Preliminary Examination of the Impacts of Faith and Religion in the Use of Common-Pool Resources: The Case of Artisanal Fisheries in Kino Bay and Punta Chueca, Mexico
(2012-04-27)Researchers studying common-pool resources have historically not given enough attention to the influence of faith and religion among fisheries resource users. However, the ethics and value systems taught by religious leaders ... -
A spark for collective action: Challenges and opportunities for self-governance in temporary fisher-designed Fish Refuges in Mexico
(2020)Despite decades of study, the question of how to achieve sustainable small-scale fisheries is unresolved. Because small-scale fishing is diverse and hard to control, one management approach places fishers at the center of ... -
Analyzing Household Drivers of Residential Electricity Consumption in Mexico
(2020-04-24)In this study, we analyze the drivers of household appliance saturation in Mexico in order to support the ongoing development of a computer-based model for long-term projections of residential electricity consumption. Our ... -
Anarchism and Visual Culture in Greater Mexico, 1910-1950
(2019)This dissertation explores the influence of anarchism on the development of modern art in Mexico and the Americas from 1910 to 1950. It argues that art was an integral component of anarchist movements and that the philosophy ... -
Atmospheric Pressure: An Ethnography of Wind, Turbines, and Zapotec Life in Southern Mexico
(2018)As one of the windiest places in the world, it is no surprise that companies have flocked to Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a narrow neck of land connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Primarily foreign corporations ... -
"Capitalizing Subjects: Free African-Descended Women of Means in Xalapa, Veracruz during the Long Seventeenth Century
(2013)"Capitalizing Subjects: Free African-Descended Women of Means in Xalapa, Veracruz during the Long Seventeenth Century" explores the socioeconomic worlds of free women of means. I find that they owned slaves, engaged in ... -
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the State of Oaxaca, Mexico
(2012-04-20)Policy Question: What policy strategies should the government of the state of Oaxaca implement to adapt to climate change? The Mexican government and the international community have identified climate change as one ... -
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the State of Oaxaca, Mexico
(2012-04-19)Policy Question: What policy strategies should the government of the state of Oaxaca implement to adapt to climate change? The Mexican government and the international community have identified climate change as one ... -
Community‐based conservation strategies to end open access: The case of Fish Refuges in Mexico
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Contesting market-based conservation: Payments for ecosystem services as a surface of engagement for rural social movements in Mexico
(Human Geography: a new radical journal, 2013)The Mexican National Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs, which provide financial incentives for rural landholders to conserve forest, were originally designed under the logic of market-based conservation. Based ... -
Contribution of Subsidies and Participatory Governance to Fishers’ Adaptive Capacity
(Journal of Environment and Development, 2016-12-01)© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. The need for strengthening fishers' adaptive capacity has been proposed in the literature as an important component of effective fisheries governance arrangements in the presence of rising numbers ... -
Detecting structure of haplotypes and local ancestry.
(Genetics, 2014-03)We present a two-layer hidden Markov model to detect the structure of haplotypes for unrelated individuals. This allows us to model two scales of linkage disequilibrium (one within a group of haplotypes and one between groups), ... -
Efficacy of interferon beta-1a plus remdesivir compared with remdesivir alone in hospitalised adults with COVID-19: a double-bind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.
(The Lancet. Respiratory medicine, 2021-12)<h4>Background</h4>Functional impairment of interferon, a natural antiviral component of the immune system, is associated with the pathogenesis and severity of COVID-19. We aimed to compare the efficacy of interferon beta-1a ... -
Empirical Evaluation of DSGE Models for Emerging Countries
(2009)This dissertation is the collection of three essays aimed to evaluate the empirical performance of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models in explaining the behavior of macroeconomic dynamics in emerging countries. ... -
Environmental Activists as Agents of Social Democratization: a Historical Comparison of Russia and Mexico
(2009)This study is a comparative historical analysis of the link between environmental activism and state-society relations in 20th century Russia and Mexico. It explores the three main currents of environmentalism that originated ... -
Identifying multiple origins of polyploid taxa: a multilocus study of the hybrid cloak fern (Astrolepis integerrima; Pteridaceae).
(American journal of botany, 2012-11)PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Molecular studies have shown that multiple origins of polyploid taxa are the rule rather than the exception. To understand the distribution and ecology of polyploid species and the evolutionary significance ... -
Improving environmental and social targeting through adaptive management in Mexico's payments for hydrological services program.
(Conserv Biol, 2014-10)Natural resource managers are often expected to achieve both environmental protection and economic development even when there are fundamental trade-offs between these goals. Adaptive management provides a theoretical structure ... -
Improving Protections for Threatened Shark Nursery Grounds Off the Pacific Coast of Northwest Mexico
(2022-04-19)In 2021, The PEW Charitable trusts commissioned the Duke Marine Geospatial Ecology lab (MGEL) to conduct a literature review of existing scientific research on nursery and spawning grounds for a select group of threatened ...
