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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53724#.VNB3ZSzQrzE Author(s)    Robert Wasserstrom 1 , Teodoro Bustamante 2   Affiliation(s) 1 Terra Group, Hershey, USA . 2 Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Quito, Ecuador . ABSTRACT According to most recent research, Indians in Ecuador’s Amazonian region (the Oriente) lived outside of modern markets and political systems until around 40 years ago. But this view obscures the essential role of indigenous labor in earlier cycles of extractivism and exploitation. Beginning in the 18th century, lowland Quichua and other ethnic groups were defined as much by their place within long-distance economic networks as they were by their languages or cultures. Using newly discovered historical records and other sources, we can now reconstruct the ebb and flow of commodity booms in Amazonian Ecuador and their impact on indigenous populations. ...

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53551#.VMiJdSzQrzE Author(s)    Raul Gouvea *   Affiliation(s) Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA . ABSTRACT This paper elaborates on the role of green technologies and innovations in “greening” Brazil’s Amazon region fresh water resources. The paper elaborates on the development of an innovation quadruple helix to better manage the region’s water resources. Brazil accounts for close to 12% of the earth’s fresh water reserves, while most of it is in the Amazon region. The preservation of water reserves on a global scale is of paramount importance in the 21 st century. Brazil, however, has not managed its water resources effectively leading to the increasing pollution and contamination of its Amazonian water resources.   KEYWORDS Brazil , Amazon , Sustainability , Nanotechnologies Cite thi...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52580#.VJuJpcCAM4 Author(s) Patrick Mosca 1 , Yanping Zhang 1 , Zhifeng Xiao 2 , Yun Wang 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Department of Computer Science, Gonzaga University, Spokane, USA . 2 Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Penn State Erie, Erie, USA . 3 Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Bradley University, Peoria, USA . ABSTRACT Recent advances have witnessed the success and popularity of cloud computing, which represents a new business model and computing paradigm. The feature of on-demand provisioning of computational, storage, and bandwidth resources has driven modern businesses into cloud ...