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Donato, Rubén, and Jarrod Hanson. "Legally White, Socially “Mexican”: The Politics of De Jure and De Facto School Segregation in the American Southwest." Harvard Educational Review 82, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 202–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.82.2.a562315u72355106.

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The history of Mexican American school segregation is complex, often misunderstood, and currently unresolved. The literature suggests that Mexican Americans experienced de facto segregation because it was local custom and never sanctioned at the state level in the American Southwest. However, the same literature suggests that Mexican Americans experienced de jure segregation because school officials implemented various policies that had the intended effect of segregating Mexican Americans. Rubén Donato and Jarrod S. Hanson argue in this article that although Mexican Americans were legally categorized as “White,” the American public did not recognize the category and treated Mexican Americans as socially “colored” in their schools and communities. Second, although there were no state statutes that sanctioned the segregation of Mexican Americans, it was a widespread trend in the American Southwest. Finally, policies and practices historically implemented by school officials and boards of education should retroactively be considered de jure segregation.
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Fought, Carmen. "Language as a representation of Mexican American identity." English Today 26, no. 3 (August 24, 2010): 44–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078410000131.

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Demographic data indicate that the English of Mexican Americans is destined to play a key role in the sociolinguistic study of language variation in the United States. In fact, Mexican American speakers are reported to account for more than 12.5% of the U.S. population. In 2003, the U.S. Census released data showing that Latinos and Latinas had replaced African Americans as the largest minority ethnic group in the U.S., and by 2007, 29.2 million Americans listed their ancestry as Mexican (Pew Hispanic Center, 2009). Moreover, in addition to the large numbers of Mexicans (first generation) and Mexican Americans (second generation) living in the Southwest, we are now seeing a new representation of these ethnic groups in other areas, such as the South. For example, between 1990 and 2000, North Carolina experienced a higher percentage of growth in its Mexican American population than any other state (Wolfram, Carter & Moriello, 2004).These statistics are important with respect to language because they reveal that a large and increasing population of English speakers in the U.S. are Latinos and Latinas of Mexican origin. Our notion of American English, then, must be extended to include the variety traditionally spoken by the children of Mexican immigrants in the U.S., generally referred to in the literature as Chicano English. In addition, if we look at the Mexican American population as a whole, we will find a number of other varieties of English spoken.
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Confiac, Nathalie, Melanie T. Turk, Rick Zoucha, and Marilyn McFarland. "Mexican American Parental Knowledge and Perceptions of Childhood Obesity: An Integrative Review." Hispanic Health Care International 18, no. 2 (September 20, 2019): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1540415319873400.

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Introduction: For the past two decades, childhood obesity has remained a national public health concern, particularly among Hispanic populations. Multiple cross-sectoral obesity prevention strategies have been implemented yet remain unsuccessful in generating sustainable lifestyle changes. Method: The purpose of this integrative review, using the Whittemore and Knafl method, was to examine the literature from 2009 to 2018 regarding Mexican American parental knowledge and perceptions of childhood obesity. The CINAHL, PubMed, PsycINFO, and ERIC databases were used to search the literature, and 13 peer-reviewed articles met the inclusion criteria. Results: Three main themes emerged from the literature synthesis: (1) parental misperception of child body weight and size, (2) influence of cultural health and growth beliefs on parental perception of child weight, and (3) parental perspectives of causes and consequences of childhood obesity and how to address it. However, cultural variations in parental perceptions were found; therefore, attempts to generalize Mexican Americans’ cultural practices should be avoided. Conclusion: Studies using qualitative approaches are needed to gain deeper insights about Mexican American culture regarding children’s health as it relates to body weight, the roles of different family members in the Mexican American childrearing tradition, and the impact of their associated health beliefs.
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KEVANE, BRIDGET. "The Hispanic Absence in the North American Literary Canon." Journal of American Studies 35, no. 1 (April 2001): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875801006545.

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I recently completed a book of interviews (Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers, co-edited with Juanita Heredia, University of New Mexico Press, 2000) with ten of the most prominent Latina writers in the US; Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Rosario Ferré, Cristina García, Nicholasa Mohr, Cherríe Moraga, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago and Helena María Viramontes. These women, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican and Puerto Rican Americans, raised issues that ranged from the craft of writing to the inherent problems of national identities. The themes generated in our conversations with these women – their doubled ethnic identities, their complicated relationship to their communities, their difficulties in representing their communities and, finally, their work as part of the larger American canon – revealed a powerful discourse about what it means to be Latina American in the United States. After spending two years talking with these women, it is evident to me that Latina literature is a vital part of American literature and should be included in any study of comparative American literatures.
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Martín-Rodríguez, Manuel M. "Recovering Chicano/a Literary Histories: Historiography beyond Borders." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 120, no. 3 (May 2005): 796–805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081205x63868.

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This article underscores the need to reconstruct Mexican American literary historiography by locating and analyzing pre–Chicano/a movement critical sources. Consideration of how Mexican Americans saw their literature at different junctures in the past will ensure that we do not impose our own aesthetic and political criteria as we reinterpret older texts. I analyze a 1959 literary history of New Mexico and Colorado in order to explore how a recovery of this particular text would intervene in current debates in the field of Chicana/o studies, most prominently the tension between nationalism and regional studies, on the one hand, and transnationalism, on the other. My analysis demonstrates that Mexican Americans and Chicanos/as have shared literary tastes and cultural capital with other Latinas/os and Latin Americans and that consequently Chicano/a literary history should be a discipline that goes beyond borders.
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SHELTON, LOIS M., SHARON M. DANES, and MICKI EISENMAN. "ROLE DEMANDS, DIFFICULTY IN MANAGING WORK-FAMILY CONFLICT, AND MINORITY ENTREPRENEURS." Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 13, no. 03 (September 2008): 315–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1084946708000983.

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By exploring difficulty in managing work-family conflict for minority entrepreneurs, this study considers work-family issues for business persons who have received little attention in the literature, yet form new businesses at rates exceeding the national average. We employ a role theory perspective to examine two major research questions using a nationally representative sample of African-American, Mexican-American, Korean-American, and White business owners. Specifically, we ask: do minority business owners experience greater difficulty in managing conflicts between work and family roles when compared to White entrepreneurs? And does difficulty in managing work-family conflict negatively impact business performance? Empirical results show that Korean-American and Mexican-American entrepreneurs have greater role demands, and subsequently, higher levels of difficulty in managing work-family conflict than African-Americans and Whites. Furthermore, difficulty in managing work-family conflict negatively impacts business performance whether performance is measured through the perception of the business owner, or through more objective financial measures. We contribute to the literature on minority entrepreneurs as well as expand the work-family conflict literature by shifting the focus from employed individuals to entrepreneurs, and by emphasizing the effect of such conflict on performance rather than well-being.
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Schocket, Eric. "Redefining American Proletarian Literature: Mexican Americans and the Challenge to the Tradition of Radical Dissent." Journal of American Culture 24, no. 1-2 (April 6, 2001): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734x.2001.tb00030.x.

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Schocket, Eric. "Redefining American Proletarian Literature: Mexican Americans and the Challenge to the Tradition of Radical Dissent." Journal of American & Comparative Cultures 24, no. 1-2 (March 2001): 59–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1537-4726.2001.2401_59.x.

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Rostagno, Irene. "Waldo Frank's Crusade for Latin American Literature." Americas 46, no. 1 (July 1989): 41–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1007393.

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Waldo Frank, who is now forgotten in Latin America, was once the most frequently read and admired North American author there. Though his work is largely neglected in the U.S., he was at one time the leading North American expert on Latin American writing. His name looms large in tracing the careers of Latin American writers in this country before 1940. Long before Franklin D. Roosevelt launched the Good Neighbor policy, Frank brought back to his countrymen news of Latin American culture.Frank went to South America when he was almost forty. The youthful dreams of Frank and his fellow pre-World War I writers and artists to make their country a fit place for cultural renaissance that would change society had waned with the onset of the twenties.1 But they had not completely vanished. Disgruntled by the climate of "normalcy" prevailing in America after World War I, he turned to Latin America. He started out in the Southwest. The remnants of Mexican culture he found in Arizona and New Mexico enticed him to venture further into the Hispanic world. In 1921 he traveled extensively in Spain and in 1929 spent six months exploring Latin America.
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Voronchenko, Tatiana. "Teaching Mexican-American Literature in Siberia: Global Perspective on Universal Values in Character Education of Students." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 3, no. 5 (July 23, 2017): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v3i5.2005.

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Albrizio, Eileen M. "Wearing costumes and crossing borders : search for self in Chicano/a literature /." Abstract, 2008. http://eprints.ccsu.edu/archive/00000551/01/1995Abstract.htm.

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Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2008.
Thesis advisor: Katherine Sugg. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-116). Abstract available via the World Wide Web.
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Cutler, John Alba. "Pochos, vatos, and other types of assimilation masculinities in Chicano literature, 1940-2004 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1680034831&sid=34&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Contreras, Sheila Marie. "Blood lines : modernism, indigenismo and the construction of Chicana/o identity /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Greenberg, Linda Margarita. "Acts of genre literary form and bodily injury in contemporary Chicana and Asian American women's literature /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1723112451&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Giles, Sally M. "Sandra Cisneros as Chicana storyteller : fictional family (hi)stories in Caramelo /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2005. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd946.pdf.

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García, Ramón. "Chicano representation and the strategies of modernism /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9820853.

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Gollnick, Brian. "The bleeding horizon : subaltern representations in Mexico's Lacandón Jungle /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9913152.

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Murillo, Charles Ray. "The other within the other: Chicana/o literature, composition theory, and the new mestizaje." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2004. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2685.

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In this thesis the author explores the notion that American Chicana/o literature serves as an interactive pedagogical site that nurtures a blend of academic and street discourse, proposing the writing of those who exist on the "downside" of the border of non-standard English and academic discourse-basic writers be acknowledged.
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González, María Carmen. "Toward a feminist identity : contemporary Mexican-American women novelists /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148769438939502.

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Arellano, Jose Antonio. "Life in Search of Form| Mexican American Literature and American Literary History, 1959-1999." Thesis, The University of Chicago, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10840787.

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Searching for Form: Mexican American Literature and American Literary History,1959-1990 explores how Mexican American writers advanced notions of literary art to explore the conditions of their self-determination. Rather than stipulating a relatively continuous story of Mexican American “culture,” however, I show how the very terms “self-determination” and “literary art” changed radically from 1959 to 1999—a change that responded to shifts in the American political and economic scene.

I start in 1959, with the publication of what was then considered to be the first novel published by a Mexican American, José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho. I show how Pocho is situated at the intersection between two competing accounts of “traditional culture” that started to clash at the end of the 1950’s: on the one hand, the liberal and sociological critiques of the supposed pathology and anti-individualism of traditional culture, and on the other hand a celebration of longstanding communal resilience found only within tradition. I argue that midcentury American novelists including Villarreal posited the novel as the genre uniquely equipped to explore the possibility of individual freedom in relation to both accounts via a self-determination seemingly made possible through the achievement of the novel as art. Pocho simultaneously dramatizes the tragic conclusion of the type of callow idealism that animates facile understandings of freedom (as freedom from social expectations) while also enacting what a more enduring ground of freedom could be: a disposition toward social engagement—one of aesthetic distance—that allows for recognition without distortion, and social participation without loss of individuality, an aesthetic sensibility that enables the exploration of the limits of freedom while imagining, by enacting, its possibility.

After the Chicano intervention of the mid-1960s, however, such an exploration would have to be understood in communal terms (the “I” seeking freedom becomes the “we” of Chicano liberation) and be seen as operating within a Mexican American cultural tradition. Ethnicity was not something to be “transcended” in art but the very ground of communal self-determination as such. This intervention was in part meant to register the reality of an economy whose treatment of Mexican American laborers amounted to their complete objectification, rendering human life into fodder for agrarian commerce. Villarreal, like his liberal contemporaries, seemed to take for granted the luxury of a relatively stable economy in which one was free to explore his or her “individualism.” Works including Tomás Rivera’s …y no se lo trago la tierra (1971), instead dramatize the historical emergence of a group consciousness that called itself “Chicano,” a self-awareness that entailed the recognition of one’s place in history as part of a people struggling to survive. Instead of advancing the novel as the primary genre, Rivera defines “the Chicano” as a “life in search of form,” by which he meant a growing communal self-consciousness that sought to understand itself through art. As Rivera puts it, “the Chicano” sought to “externalize his will through form,” which I argue his work performs by being explicitly intertextually related. No longer positing the novel as the central genre, as it was for Villarreal, Rivera instead uses poems, short stories, essays, and a novella in concert—his oeuvre itself producing (by demanding) the type of reader who does not see the world as composed of discrete, alien objects. Instead, Rivera’s reader becomes the type of person who can, as he puts it, seek to understand totality: “To relate this entity with that entity, and that entity with still another, and finally relating everything with everything else.”

But if the recognition of oneself as a Chicano was in part the result of a growing working-class consciousness, the sought for permanence of this identity came to be perceived as sclerotic. The response to reification itself had a reifying effect. The explicitly Chicano representational strategies developed throughout the 1970s reached a point of exhaustion during the 1980s. “Chicano literature” could no longer be presented as “representative” of “a people” coming to know itself as such without significant qualification. Work by feminist writers took the question of representation as the very problem to be resolved in their work. Writers including Gloria Anzaldúa, Cherríe Moraga, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva experiment with genres (producing a blend of poems, journal entries, and letters) to create representational strategies that imagine the possibility of transcending representation as such. These strategies (which include “spectral haunting,” “blood memory,” and photographic indexicality) allowed writers to imagine a literature that did not speak for or represent a community so much as index that community’s presence via its textual personification. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.)

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Books on the topic "American literature Mexican Americans in literature"

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Mexican American literature. London: Routledge, 2006.

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Shirley, Carl R. Understanding Chicano literature. Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.

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Native American and Chicano/a literature of the American Southwest : intersections of indigenous literatures. New York: Routledge, 2004.

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Press, Petra. Mexican Americans. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1995.

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Alter, Judy. Mexican Americans. Chanhassen, Minn: Child's World, 2003.

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Chicano nations: The hemispheric origins of Mexican American literature. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

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Tatum, Charles M. La literatura chicana. [Mexico City, Mexico]: Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1986.

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Bryan, Nichol. Mexican Americans. Edina, Minn: Abdo Pub., 2004.

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Mexican Americans. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2010.

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Bandon, Alexandra. Mexican Americans. New York: New Discovery Books, 1993.

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Sharman, Adam. "Rulfo and the Mexican Roman Trinity." In Tradition and Modernity in Spanish American Literature, 135–58. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230601413_7.

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Vizcaíno-Alemán, Melina V. "Moving Away from the “Master”: Américo Paredes and Mexican American Women Writers." In Gender and Place in Chicana/o Literature, 23–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59262-6_2.

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François, Liesbeth. "Beyond the Ruins of the Organized City: Urban Experiences Through the Metro in Contemporary Mexican Literature." In Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature, 19–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92438-0_2.

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Bender, Jacob L. "The Mexican Day of the Dead and Celtic Halloween on the Borderlands." In Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature, 17–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50939-2_2.

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Simal-González, Begoña. "“Naturalizing” Asian Americans: Edith Eaton." In Ecocriticism and Asian American Literature, 43–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35618-7_3.

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Nicholson, Melanie. "The Two Faces of Early Surrealism in Mexico." In Surrealism in Latin American Literature, 103–32. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137317612_7.

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Morgan, Winifred. "African Americans and an Enduring Tradition." In The Trickster Figure in American Literature, 15–45. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137344724_2.

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François, Liesbeth. "Theorizing the Urban Underground in Latin America." In Subterranean Space in Contemporary Mexico City Literature, 39–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69456-2_2.

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Sadowski-Smith, Claudia. "The Literatures of the Mexico-US and Canada-US Borders." In The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature, 185–97. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137413901_10.

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Specter, Gregory D. "“We Cannot Be Indifferent”: Native Americans and the Students of the Bethlehem Boarding School." In Liminality, Hybridity, and American Women's Literature, 77–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73851-2_6.

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Conference papers on the topic "American literature Mexican Americans in literature"

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Barbosa, Fábio C. "Competition Into Brazilian and North American Freight Rail Systems: A Comparative Regulatory Assessment." In 2018 Joint Rail Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/jrc2018-6138.

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Competition is the driving force of any economic system, as it creates a challenging environment for service suppliers to provide affordable and reliable services to customers. Rail systems are an important element of the logistic chain, as they provide a unique service category (generally transporting large volumes at low unit costs) to shippers that otherwise would not be serviced by other modes — the so called captive shippers. In this scenario, competition is essential to guarantee the required service levels (availability and reliability), followed by competitive rates, which ultimately may influence shippers’ business competitiveness, both regionally and globally. Brazil and some North American countries (Canada, Mexico and United States), have a common feature, i.e. continental territories allied with the economic exploitation of bulky activities (industrial, mineral and agricultural), and, hence, depend strongly on heavy haul rail systems. These countries have been performing a continuous effort on improving competition practices into their rail systems, which are translated into important, and sometimes controversial, regulatory measures. These initiatives require a tenuous equilibrium, as they are supposed to provide the required competitive service at affordable rates for shippers, as well as a sustainable (financial and operational) environment to rail carriers, to guarantee the required return on long term investments and avoid compromising medium and long term rail network efficiency. This challenging task for rail market stakeholders (rail carriers, shippers and regulators) is far from a consensus. Rail companies claim that, as a capital intensive sector, governmental regulatory intervention into the rail system may inhibit their ability to invest the required funds to provide and expand rail capacity, as well as the maintenance of the required safety levels. Shippers, on the other hand, state that rail systems operate within a strong market concentration (originally formatted or due to subsequent merges and acquisitions) that give some rail carriers a disproportionate market power, that resembles a monopoly, which ultimately leaves a significant contingent of the so called captive shippers with just one freight rail carrier option, sometimes subjected to excessive rates, and, in some special instances (into offer restricted rail markets, for example), are responsible for the unavailability of rail services into the required volumes. In this context, there is currently a controversial debate regarding the effectiveness of competitive regulatory remedies into freight rail systems. This debate includes both market oriented rail systems (Canadian and U.S.), as well as rail contractual granted ones (Brazilian and Mexican). In the formers, the systems are mostly owned and operated by the private sector, and inter and intra modal options may theoretically provide the required competition level, while in the latter, rail systems have been broken into separate pieces and granted to the private sector under a concession arrangement, followed by an exclusive right to serve their territories, with trackage rights provisions, to be exerted by third parties, under previously defined circumstances and subjected to contractual agreements among rail operators. In both systems, competitive regulatory actions may be desirable and effective, as far as they may address the technical-operational-economic boundary conditions of each particular rail system. This work is supposed to present, into a review format, sourced from an extensive research into available international technical literature, and gathered as a unique document, an overview of the Brazilian and North American freight rail competition scenario, followed by a technical and unbiased effectiveness’ assessment of current (existing) and proposed competitive regulatory freight rail initiatives into Brazil, Canada, Mexico and United States, highlighting their strengths and eventually their weaknesses.
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Kenarsari, Saeed Danaei, and Yuan Zheng. "A Numerical Study of Fast Pyrolysis of Beetle Killed Pine Trees." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-62991.

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Since 1990s, as a result of unprecedented drought and warm winters, mountain pine beetles have devastated mature pine trees in the forests of western North America from Mexico to Canada. Especially, in the State of Wyoming, there are more than 1 million acres of dead forest now. These beetle killed trees are a source of wildfire and if left unharvested will decay and release carbon back to the atmosphere. Fast pyrolysis is a promising method to transfer the beetle killed pine trees into bio-oils. In the present study, an unsteady state mathematical model is developed to simulate the fast pyrolysis process, which converts solid pine wood pellets into char (solid), bio-oils (liquid) and gaseous products in the absence of oxidizer in a temperature range from 500°C to 1000°C within short residence time. The main goal of the study is to advance the understanding of kinetics and convective and radiative heat transfer in biomass fast pyrolysis process. Conservation equations of total mass, species, momentum, and energy, coupled with the chemical kinetics model, have been developed and solved numerically to simulate fast pyrolysis of various cylindrical beetle killed pine pellets (10 mm diameter and 3 mm thickness) in a reactor (30 mm inside diameter and 50 mm height) exposed to various radiative heating flux (0.2 MW/m2 to 0.8 MW/m2). A fast pyrolysis kinetics model for pine wood that includes competitive path ways for the formation of solid, liquid, and gaseous products plus secondary reactions of primary products has been adapted. Several heat transfer correlations and thermo property models available in the literature have been evaluated and adapted in the simulation. Finite element method is used to solve the conservation equations and a 4th order Runge-Kutta method is used to solve the chemical kinetics. Unsteady-state two dimensional temperature and product distributions throughout the entire pyrolysis process were simulated and the simulated product yields were compared to the experimental data available in the literature. This study demonstrates the importance of the secondary reactions and appropriate convective and radiative modeling in the numerical simulation of biomass fast pyrolysis.
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Hawthorne, Bryant D., and Gaurav Ameta. "LCA Study and Comparison of Two Multispeed Blenders." In ASME 2011 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2011-48612.

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Many Americans have a variety of small kitchen appliances. Among this collection a blender is typically present. The diversity of the blender selection is great and can range from economical to industrial quality. However, the average American is not in need of an industrial blender and leans more towards the economical approach. In addition, depending on the individual, a blender can go months unused. Therefore, environmental effects of a blender are mainly due to material extraction, manufacturing, distributing, and disposal. To the best of the author’s knowledge, there are no formal life cycle analysis (LCA) studies of a blender published in the literature. This paper describes a LCA of two economical blenders from the same manufacturer. This allows for a direct comparison between the LCAs to determine how the design changes and materials used contribute to environmental effects.
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Reports on the topic "American literature Mexican Americans in literature"

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Tull, Kerina. Economic Impact of Local Vaccine Manufacturing. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.034.

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Over a period of time, a tier of mostly middle-income developing countries has developed a considerable pharmaceutical and vaccine production capacity. However, outcomes have not always been positive for domestic manufacturers in developing countries. Economic and health lessons learned from vaccine manufacturing in developing countries include challenges and positive spill-over effects. Evidence for this rapid review is taken from the south and southeast Asia (India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam), and Latin America (Brazil, Cuba, Mexico). Although data on locally manufactured drugs on the balance of trade was available, this was not readily available for vaccine manufacturing. The evidence used in this review was taken from grey and academic literature, as well as interviews with economic specialists. Although market reports on vaccine production are available for most of these countries, their data is not in the public domain.
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