Peruvian Andes
The role of social capital in the adoption of firewood efficient stoves in the Northern Peruvian Andes
... This paper explores rural households’ adoption of a new cooking technology in the Northern Peruvian Andes. It exploits a development intervention which distributed and installed, at no cost, firewood ...
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Glacier changes and climate trends derived from multiple sources in the data scarce Cordillera Vilcanota region, southern Peruvian Andes
... In this study we presented a multi-sources approach allow- ing the generation of a data baseline for regional glacier and climatic trend analyses in a data-scarce mountain area. We assimilated and analyzed a ...
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Disparities in dietary intake and physical activity patterns across the urbanization divide in the Peruvian Andes
... This pilot study confirms and elaborates on the base- line diet and physical activity patterns identified in the Puno cohort. This study also demonstrates that lower levels of obesity in rural Puno are not necessarily ...
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Storm-triggered landslides in the Peruvian Andes and implications for topography, carbon cycles, and biodiversity
... the Andes in Bo- livia, have been proposed as relict landscapes uplifted in the past ∼ 10–12 Myr (Whipple and Gasparini, 2014; Barke and Lamb, 2006; Gubbels et ...
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Youth Bilingualism, Identity And Quechua Language Planning And Policy In The Urban Peruvian Andes
... in Peruvian Andean society that the current generation of youth did not care much about Quechua, at the same time, reinforcing ideologies which invisibilized Quechua speakerhood among non-rural ...
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Overcoming constraints to agricultural innovation through the market: insights from the Peruvian Andes
... Constraints to agricultural innovation: a market approach Such a conclusion can probably be applied to many similar development projects based on the training of peasant consultants.. Se[r] ...
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Reaching women in the Peruvian Andes through cervical cancer screening campaigns: assessing attitudes of stakeholders and patients
... Objective: This descriptive mixed methods study conducted in Cusco, Peru, aimed to assess the attitudes and perceptions of medical staff, health care workers, and patients toward a cer[r] ...
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Holocene environmental changes in the highlands of the southern Peruvian Andes (14 S) and their impact on pre-Columbian cultures
... The CLP record does not offer clear palaeoenvironmental evidence for the period of 6.4 to 5.1 ka due to the dominance of coarse sediment in the record and a lack of pollen. Higher Mn / Fe and Si / Ti ratios suggest ...
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Traditional use of the Andean flicker (Colaptes rupicola) as a galactagogue in the Peruvian Andes
... the Andes falls into this category, as does apparently the con- sumption of mouse excrement, though more indirectly, though a connection with cheese (Table ...the Andes are even more sug- gestive in this ...
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Drivers of atmospheric methane uptake by montane forest soils in the southern Peruvian Andes
... south-eastern Peruvian department of Cusco, were selected as they represent montane and premontane forests typical of the eastern flank of the ...the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystems Research Group (ABERG) ...
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Landsat TM and ETM+ derived snowline altitudes in the Cordillera Huayhuash and Cordillera Raura, Peru, 1986–2005
... the Peruvian Andes (Schw- erdtfeger, 1976), suggesting (on average) little precipitation change over the 20-yr study period, we assumed moisture variation was not likely to be the primary cause of short- ...
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Possible threshold controls on sediment grain properties of Peruvian coastal river basins
... the Peruvian Andes represents a prime example of where these mechanisms and related con- trols on the grain size distribution of river sediments can be ...the Andes is controlled by distinct ...
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Permafrost distribution modelling in the semi-arid Chilean Andes
... semi-arid Andes is not necessarily much different from surrounding areas, and the complexity of relationships be- tween the structure of the surface layer and thermal charac- teristics makes it difficult to ...
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From the Andes to the Outback : Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire
... Possessing not only direct personal knowledge of the alpaca, but also many useful contacts in Peru, O’Brien assisted the alpaca acclimatisation drive by writing a series of letters to his Peruvian friends, urging ...
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Genetic approaches to understanding human adaptation to altitude in the Andes
... the Andes may have begun with studies such as Francois-Gilbert Viault’s study of the haematopoietic response to hypoxia in the late 1800s, the significant contributions made by Peruvian researchers may be ...
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Host mTORC1 Signaling Regulates Andes Virus Replication
... test this, we infected HMVEC-L cells with ANDV at an MOI of 1 for 1 h and then treated cells with temsirolimus for 3 days. After that time, the titer of virus in the culture medium was determined, and total RNA was ...
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Situation III: Inland State at War
... the devastating clash of such formidable elements of force and destruction. "The fundamental object of the agreement which the Peruvian Governnwnt is seeking onc[r] ...
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Recent origin and rapid speciation of Neotropical orchids in the world's richest plant biodiversity hotspot
... Our ancestral area estimations show that Andean orchid flora is derived primarily from Amazonian lowland taxa (i.e. MRCAs of Andean clades of Maxillariinae, Stanhopeinae and Zygopetalinae, from which most of the ...
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Precipitation changes in the South American Altiplano since 1300 AD reconstructed by tree-rings
... Across the southern Altiplano, summer rainfall represents more than 80 % of the total annual precipitation (Garreaud et al., 2003; Vuille and Keimig, 2004). Recent studies, based on instrumental records, have documented ...
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Testing Ostrom: an Analysis of Water User Committees in Uganda
... The supply and demand of maca (Lepidium Miyenii), a native Peruvian vegetable, increased over the past decade; however, it has recently reduced. There are many implications for this outcome. Maca, a product with ...
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