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Clinical impact of submicroscopic malaria on delivery outcomes and the role of VAR2CSA antibodies in pregnant women from Colombia
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Malaria caused by the genus Plasmodium (P.) is one of the oldest and most important parasitic infections globally. Pregnant women are at an increased risk for malaria, where the disease poses a significant risk to both maternal and child health. Better diagnosis of malaria can have an immediate...
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Competition Impacts on Hybrid Poplar and Implications for Alternative Establishment Systems
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The effects of different vegetation control practices on tree-weed interactions and associated establishment and early tree growth were investigated in 1-3 year old hybrid poplar plantations containing Walker poplar (Populus deltoides x (P. laurifolia x P. nigra)) and its progeny Okanese poplar...
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Fall 2016
Primates play an important role in the maintenance and functioning of tropical ecosystems. However, habitat loss due to land use conversion threatens the persistence of primates worldwide. Colombia has a diverse fauna of primates with 12% of its terrestrial territory protected under the country’s...
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Enhancing ICT Adoption and Use through Change Leadership: Technology Stewardship Training for Caribbean Agricultural Communities of Practice
Download2018-11-01
Gow, Gordon A., Chowdhury, Ataharul, Ganpat, Wayne, Ramjattan, Jeet
Beginning in 2012, the University of Alberta in partnership with others has been undertaking participatory action research in Sri Lanka and, since 2017, in the Caribbean to foster inclusive innovation through a Joint Education and Training Initiative (JETI). The JETI is developing and testing a...
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Spring 2014
Hybrid poplar plantations have the potential to produce large amounts of biomass for the forest industry, but the young trees are sensitive to competition. This research attempted to quantify the influence of factors regulating competition in hybrid poplar plantations under four years old. The...
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Introduction of Competition in Regulated Markets: Analysis of Colombia’s Natural Gas Industry
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This dissertation deals with the introduction of competition in regulated industries such as natural gas. The thesis focuses on the recently developed Colombian natural gas market and uses a more mature market, the deregulated gas market existing in the province of Alberta, Canada, as a benchmark...
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Putting the Capabilities Approach into Action (Research): A Comparative Assessment of a Technology Stewardship Training Program for Agricultural Extension in Sri Lanka and Trinidad
Download2020-06-01
Gow, Gordon A., Dissanayeke, Uvasara, Jayathilake, Chandana, Chowdhury, Ataharul, Ramjattan, Jeet, Ganpat, Wayne, Isuri Kumarasinghe, Kumudu Ariyawanshe, Sanduni Rathnayake
Prepared for International Association for Media and Communication Researchers (IAMCR) 2020 conference. This paper reports on a technology stewardship training program aimed at operationalizing the Capabilities Approach with agricultural extension practitioners in Low and Middle-Income Countries...
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Reframing the World. Local Communities and Multinational Corporations. The case of Cajamarca, Colombia
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This research seeks to develop our understanding of the elements that define the relationship between multinational mining corporations and local peasant communities living in areas affected by large-scale gold mining in Latin America. Previous research has focused on describing the forms this...