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Davidson, Christina Cecelia. "Redeeming Santo Domingo: North Atlantic Missionaries and the Racial Conversion of a Nation." Church History 89, no. 1 (March 2020): 74–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640720000013.
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AbstractThis article examines North Atlantic views of Protestant missions and race in the Dominican Republic between 1905 and 1911, a brief period of political stability in the years leading up to the U.S. Occupation (1916–1924). Although Protestant missions during this period remained small in scale on the Catholic island, the views of British and American missionaries evidence how international perceptions of Dominicans transformed in the early twentieth century. Thus, this article makes two key interventions within the literature on Caribbean race and religion. First, it shows how outsiders’ ideas about the Dominican Republic's racial composition aimed to change the Dominican Republic from a “black” country into a racially ambiguous “Latin” one on the international stage. Second, in using North Atlantic missionaries’ perspectives to track this shift, it argues that black-led Protestant congregations represented a possible alternative future that both elite Dominicans and white North Atlantic missionaries rejected.
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Zimmerman, Tegan. "Unauthorized Storytelling: Reevaluating Racial Politics in Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies." MELUS 45, no. 1 (2020): 95–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlz067.
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Abstract This article revisits Julia Alvarez’s critically acclaimed historical novel In the Time of the Butterflies (1994). While much scholarship has paid attention to the novel as historiographic metafiction, its depiction of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s regime (1930-61), and its feminist perspective on the Dominican Republic, its racial politics are under-studied. In particular, scholars have overlooked Fela, the Afra-Dominican servant, spirit medium, and storyteller. I argue that studying Fela’s presence in the text as an unauthorized and unauthored voice not only adds complexity to the production of historiography and storytelling but also provides new insight into postcolonial feminist critiques of voice/lessness, narrative, and marginalized identities in the novel and criticism on it. Closely analyzing Fela’s voice—as it intersects with storytelling, historical slave narratives, Vodou, the maternal, and Haiti’s contribution to the Dominican Republic’s history—makes visible the unacknowledged yet essential role of the Afra-Dominican not only in this novel specifically but also to the Dominican Republic more generally.
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Russ, Elizabeth. "Telling Other Stories: Dominican Black Cosmopolitanism in Aída Cartagena Portalatín's Tablero." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 138, no. 5 (October 2023): 1110–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812923000925.
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AbstractIn this article, I examine divergent ideological impulses at play in the oeuvre of Aída Cartagena Portalatín (Dominican Republic, 1918–94), including Eurocentric cosmopolitanism, nationalism (of a leftist variety), and pan-Africanism. By exploring key moments in Cartagena's intellectual development and analyzing her 1978 short story collection Tablero (Blackboard), I argue that such apparent incongruities should be understood through the lens of what I call Dominican black cosmopolitanism, a writerly performance of intersectionality that strategically employs contradictory notions of culture and citizenship to illuminate the complex history of the Dominican Republic and propose a new model of national identity. Drawing on Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo's conceptualization of black cosmopolitanism and an innovative body of scholarship on Dominican history and identity, I show how Cartagena deploys opposing discourses within a single text to reimagine Dominican identity in a global context, elucidate the Afro-Dominican experience, and plumb the liberating possibilities of pan-African alliances.
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Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent, James Jaccard, Viktor Lushin, Roberto Martinez, Bernardo Gonzalez, and Katharine McCarthy. "HIV Risk Behavior among Youth in the Dominican Republic." Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care 10, no. 6 (September 12, 2011): 388–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1545109711419264.
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Existing literature related to HIV in the Dominican Republic has tended to neglect the unique role of tourism areas as distinct ecologies facilitative of sexual risk behavior, particularly HIV vulnerability and transmission. Furthermore, limited attention has focused on Dominican adolescents living in close proximity to tourism areas who have become increasingly exposed to alcohol due to the expanding tourism industry in the Dominican Republic. While most previous analyses of the effects of alcohol on adolescent sexual risk behavior have focused on the transient effects of alcohol on judgment and decision making, the effects of chronic alcohol use on sexual behavior has been a neglected area of research. Our study explores the relationship between chronic alcohol use, the parent–adolescent relationship, affective factors such as self-esteem, and intentions to engage in sex. We examine the above factors within the context of tourism areas which represent a unique ecology of alcohol availability and consumption and HIV risk. We discuss implications for developing applied family-based programs to target Dominican adolescent alcohol use and sexual risk behavior in tourism areas of high alcohol exposure.
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Torres-Pineda, Patricia, and Jonathan W. Armbruster. "The Amazon sailfin catfish Pterygoplichthys pardalis (Siluriformes: Loricariidae), a new exotic species established in the Dominican Republic." Novitates Caribaea, no. 16 (July 23, 2020): 20–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33800/nc.vi16.224.
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The correct identity and occurrence of the introduced armored catfish, locally known as “devil fish” or “pleco” in the Dominican Republic, is briefly described. Specimens were collected from six sites in the Dominican Republic. Several meristic and morphometric characters, as well as other external features including coloration, were examined. Results were compared with existing literature on fishes of the family Loricariidae. Examination revealed that specimens of the armored catfish, unofficially reported as Hypostomus plecostomus, actually belongs to the species Pterygoplichthys pardalis (Castelnau, 1855). It is inferred that this fish is established in Dominican inland waters, also the possibe occurrence of more than one species of Pterygoplichthys is discussed. This is the first report of this invasive species in the island of Hispaniola.
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Rivera Prosdocimi, Ines P. "“Macandal. Makandal. Mackandal.” Man and Protean Pluralema." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 25, no. 3 (November 1, 2021): 24–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9583390.
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This essay extends and contributes to existing scholarship by uncovering instances of cooperation and collaboration that suggest alternative views of Hispaniola and complicate contemporary political and social realities in the Dominican Republic. It focuses on Manuel Rueda’s 1998 Las metamorfosis de Makandal, in which François Makandal is imagined as a protean god. The author argues that Rueda’s Makandal is best understood as the embodiment of the vanguard poetic movement, Pluralismo. The Maroon becomes a central figure in the island’s story, as well as a figure of aesthetic possibilities and boundless exploration, like a pluralema. Rueda imagines a cosmic Makandal who is unhindered by racial or gender constructs, by space or time. Ultimately, he is a figure whose metamorphosis rewrites Hispaniola’s story and challenges rigid binaries that limit the way we view the Dominican Republic as a nation, Dominican national identity, Dominican-Haitian relations, and—more broadly—the island of Hispaniola.
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Duffy, Lauren N., Garrett Stone, H. Charles Chancellor, and Carol S. Kline. "Tourism development in the Dominican Republic: An examination of the economic impact to coastal households." Tourism and Hospitality Research 16, no. 1 (October 27, 2015): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1467358415613118.
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Coastal tourism projects are promoted in the Dominican Republic as national-level economic development initiatives that will create jobs for local residents, subsequently benefiting the households in these communities. However, the economic benefits of tourism can be severely weakened as a result of the neoliberal economic policies that guide such projects. Like other economically developing countries—particularly small island nations—the Dominican Republic embraced neoliberal policies that have ultimately reshaped the country’s economic, political, cultural, and physical landscape. As a result, transnational companies, foreign investors, and large-scale enclave tourism projects are the dominant form of tourism development in the Dominican Republic. Though companies’ revenue and profit data are not available for analysis of economic leakage, households can be investigated to understand the level of economic benefits obtained by residents of the local communities. Toward this end, 360 household surveys were collected to examine household income and material assets across 12 coastal communities in three regions of the Dominican Republic. Because of the noted differences in previous development literature, gender of the head of households and whether the household was dependent on income from tourism employment were compared across these measures after adjusting for regional differences. Results indicate that the gender of the head of the household and tourism dependency positively predicted household income, while only gender of the head of the household predicted material assets.
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PEREZ-GELABERT, DANIEL E. "Checklist, Bibliography and Quantitative Data of the Arthropods of Hispaniola." Zootaxa 4749, no. 1 (March 10, 2020): 1–668. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4749.1.1.
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An updated and extensively revised checklist of the arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti) is presented 11 years after the publication of the original in 2008. It integrates and quantifies all the terrestrial and surrounding marine arthropod species (plus those of Tardigrada and Onychophora), reported in the zoological literature for Hispaniola through the middle of 2019. A total of 9,920 valid species (8,202 extant and 1,718 fossil) are listed, which represents an increase of 1,683 species (1,369 extant and 314 fossil) from the original list. The largest component is Insecta (6,784 extant and 1,136 fossil), including 2,206 extant species of Coleoptera, 1,042 species of Hemiptera, 929 species of Diptera, 913 species of Lepidoptera and 774 species of Hymenoptera. Emphasis is on reviewing and updating the original list, including all newly recorded taxa and all pertinent taxonomic changes proposed since then. Important corrections have been made, and explanatory notes have been added. For example, multiple authors have confused the Lesser Antillean island of Dominica with the Dominican Republic. This error is much more common in the literature than was initially recognized. Erroneous records attributing species from one island to the other have been identified and corrected. The original spelling of the cricket species Scapsipedus bastardoi Otte & Perez-Gelabert, 2009, dedicated to Dominican biologist Ruth H. Bastardo, is corrected to Scapsipedus bastardoae nom. emend. High species endemism is typical of the biota of Caribbean islands. In this checklist, a total of 3,161 arthropod species (38.6%) are considered endemic or unique to Hispaniola. Among the speciose groups with higher levels of endemism are the Diplopoda (91.6%), Orthoptera (90.1%), Trichoptera (82.6%), Coleoptera (49.3%) and Araneae (47.5%). Also, a total of 201 arthropod species (174 insects + 27 non-insects) are identified as introduced to the island. The accompanying bibliography complements the taxonomic information and includes over 5,000 titles.
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Guzmán-Bello, Hugo, Iosvani López-Díaz, Miguel Aybar-Mejía, Máximo Domínguez-Garabitos, and Jose Atilio de Frias. "Biomass Energy Potential of Agricultural Residues in the Dominican Republic." Sustainability 15, no. 22 (November 11, 2023): 15847. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su152215847.
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The Dominican Republic has significant potential for energy generation from residual biomass, with sugarcane, rice, and coconut waste having the highest energy potential. The Eastern, Northeastern, and Southern regions were identified as the areas with the most significant potential for energy generation. This potential can be harnessed to complement intermittent or unmanageable renewable energies in distributed generation networks. Biomass generation plants can be hybridized with other sources, such as wind and solar, to provide a more stable and reliable electricity supply. The methodology developed to evaluate the energy potential of residual biomass in the Dominican Republic integrates a rigorous review of the literature and agricultural databases, incorporating criteria such as annual production, residue-to-product ratio, higher calorific value, and dry matter content, culminating in a formula that synthesizes normalized data to optimize the selection and projection of biomass sources based on their potential energy contribution. The study found that the Dominican Republic has significant potential for energy generation from residual biomass, which can be leveraged to provide a more stable and reliable electricity supply.
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Maguire, Brigid. "“A Border is a Veil”: Death as a Border in The Farming of Bones and The Book Thief." Digital Literature Review 9 (April 15, 2022): 83–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/dlr.9.1.83-89.
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Within literature, death has always been a common theme. In this essay, death as a border in literature will be explored in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief. The Farming of Bones follows Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman working in the Dominican Republic, and tells of the Haitian massacre in the Dominican Republic in 1937. The Book Thief follows Liesel Meminger, a young German girl living under the Nazi regime, and tells of life during World War II. Both Danticat and Zusak explore death as it appears in those tragedies, how it affects the people under those regimes, and how it creates a border. Death creates a border both physical and spiritual, rigid yet permeable, and one that is displayed through the personification of death by Danticat and Zusak.
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Herrero, Elba Alicia. "Using Dominican Oral Literature and Discourse to Support Literacy Learning among Low-achieving Students from the Dominican Republic." International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 9, no. 2 (March 15, 2006): 219–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13670050608668642.
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Garrido, Orlando H., Guy M. Kirwan, and David R. Capper. "Species limits within Grey-headed Quail-dove Geotrygon caniceps and implications for the conservation of a globally threatened species." Bird Conservation International 12, no. 2 (June 2001): 169–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959270902002101.
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Grey-headed Quail-dove Geotrygon caniceps has traditionally been considered a polytypic species endemic to Cuba and the Dominican Republic and treated as globally threatened within the most recent Red Data Book (BirdLife International 2000). Chapman (1917) described Geotrygon leucometopius of Hispaniola as specifically distinct from G. caniceps of Cuba based on 10 specimens, taken by Rollo Beck in the Dominican Republic. Subsequently, Bond (1936, 1956) merged leucometopius within caniceps, an arrangement that has persisted, unchallenged in the technical literature, until the present. Through examination of 76 specimens, extensive field experience of Cuban birds, and less exhaustive fieldwork in the Dominican Republic, we re-evaluate the taxonomic status of the Hispaniolan population, identifying consistent differences in coloration, tail length and characteristics of the second to fifth primaries between it and the Cuban population. Based on these differences, we suggest that caniceps (endemic to Cuba) and leucometopius (restricted to the Dominican Republic) be henceforth resurrected to species status. We were unable to undertake a complete analysis of the vocalizations of the two forms, due to the lack of definite recordings from Hispaniola, but present sonograms and notes concerning Cuban birds. Further work, including molecular analyses, would be clearly desirable to test our hypothesis. Both forms are undoubtedly declining due to habitat destruction and hunting, and both certainly qualify as Vulnerable under current IUCN criteria. Indeed, leucometopius may even qualify as Endangered under the range criterion. Its status requires particularly careful monitoring, while new information, published since the BirdLife International (2000) review of globally threatened birds, suggests that the range even of nominate caniceps is considerably smaller than previously considered.
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Sawyer, Mark Q., and Tianna S. Paschel. "“WE DIDN'T CROSS THE COLOR LINE, THE COLOR LINE CROSSED US”." Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 4, no. 2 (2007): 303–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742058x07070178.
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We examine the interlinked migrations between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, between the Dominican Republic and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and, finally, migrations from these three countries to the United States. The literature tends to draw stark differences between race and racism in the United States and the nonracial societies of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. However, although Blackness is a contextual category, through analyzing how “Black” migrants are racialized using these three contexts, we find that there is a simultaneously global and local derogation of “Blackness” that places Black migrants at the bottom of socioeconomic hierarchies. Further, these migrants remain largely outside of conceptions of the nation, and thus Blackness is constructed as a blend of racial phenotype and national origin, whereby native “Blacks” attempt to opt out of Blackness on account of their national identity. This dynamic is particularly true in the Caribbean where Blanqueamiento, or Whitening, is made possible through a dialectical process in which a person's Whiteness, or at least his or her non-Blackness, is made possible by contrast to an “Other.” Consequently, we argue that immigration becomes a key site for national processes of racialization, the construction of racial identities, and the maintenance of and contestation over racial boundaries.
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Martínez-Fernández, Luis. "The Sword and the Crucifix: Church-State Relations and Nationality in the Nineteenth-Century Dominican Republic." Latin American Research Review 30, no. 1 (1995): 69–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100017179.
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Like the precarious colonial state demeaningly referred to as “España la Boba,” the Dominican Catholic Church of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries endured the Caribbean ramifications of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. This onslaught included the cession of Santo Domingo to France in 1795, the protracted and bloody revolution in St. Domingue, disruptions in international trade, and invasions by Haiti in 1801 and 1805. Both the colonial state and the colonial church were further undermined by the declaration of Dominican independence in December 1821. Only weeks into Dominican independence, twelve thousand troops under the command of Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer invaded the eastern part of the island, fulfilling the long-held Haitian goal of unifying the island under Haitian rule. Although considerably weakened, the Dominican church survived as the single truly national institution in the sense that it retained influence throughout the Dominican territory. The church was also national in providing a central element in Dominican elite culture: fervent Catholicism. Thus it was not coincidental that clerics gravitated to the heart of the Dominican struggle for liberation and that the church continued to play a major role in defining political alignments during the forty years following Dominican independence.
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Gómez García, Wendy C., Andelys de la Rosa, Vhania Batista, and Alexandra Matos de Purcell. "Addressing childhood cancer: actions taken in the Dominican Republic." Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública 48 (April 29, 2024): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/rpsp.2024.37.
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This report provides a summary of childhood cancer and the efforts made in the Dominican Republic to address child and adolescent cancer in line with the World Health Organization’s Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer. Information was obtained by review of recent local and international literature on pediatric oncology. As a result of the Global Initiative, a meeting was held by the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America to support the development of national pediatric cancer plans for each country. The objectives of these plans are to improve overall survival and quality of care for children with cancer through early detection, diagnosis, and treatment. In the Dominican Republic, several steps have been taken in the past 5 years to enhance diagnosis and care of children with cancer. For example, the National Committee of Childhood Cancer, headed by the Ministry of Public Health and including relevant stakeholders, was established to develop the national childhood cancer plan. In addition, a campaign was launched to raise awareness of childhood cancer, and the first early detection manual and public policy on child and adolescent cancer were published. A government initiative has been working to improve the hospital infrastructure and expand the pediatric cancer center, and a national course on early detection of pediatric cancers has been held. In 2023, the National Strategic Childhood Cancer Plan 2023–2030 was launched in the Dominican Republic. The plan will help policy-makers, implementers, researchers, and advocates enhance diagnosis and care of children with cancer.
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Gómez García, Wendy Cristhyna, and Marleni Regalada Torres Núñez. "Palliative Care: From Global to Local Needs." Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology 43, no. 03 (June 2022): 233–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1748800.
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AbstractPalliative care (PC) is a comprehensive approach that focuses on improving the quality of life of patients and families that face fatal diseases by optimal minimization of suffering. Seventy-eight percent of patients who benefit from palliative support live in low-and-middle-income countries, where the access to these services is limited. Six percent of the patients are below the age of 15. The aim of this study is to review briefly the history of PC and its global challenges and indicate its impact and barriers in the Dominican Republic. A literature review in PubMed and analysis of the history of impact globally of PC and a remark of Dominican Republic local program. Some of the identifiable barriers are the limited support from authorities and health systems, the discomfort of healthcare staff in providing PC, the lack of knowledge, as well as experience, and team support. Not only do low-and-middle-income countries face these challenges, but also globally there is an urgency of the integration of PC services to the different healthcare systems to improve quality of life. This was experienced in the Dominican Republic when the first PC program started in 2012. Currently, local efforts are being made to increase the impact of the program and to make it accessible to more patients and families.
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Garrido Castellano, Carlos. "Performance Art, Race, and Contemporaneity in the Dominican Republic." Latin American Research Review 57, no. 1 (March 2022): 42–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lar.2022.3.
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AbstractThis essay discusses issues of time and temporality in relation to performance art from the Dominican Republic. It contends that Dominican performance artists are advancing critical understandings of what is to be contemporary. The essay considers the work of David Pérez “Karmadavis,” Sayuri Guzmán, and José Ramia as expressing the role of artists in defining and delving into what it means to make art in and of the present, while simultaneously challenging the presentist understanding of time linked to neoliberalism. From this perspective, the article examines the potential of performance art for criticizing and expanding our understanding of time and temporality.
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Rodriguez, Nestor E. "The Development of Literary Blackness in the Dominican Republic (review)." Hispanic Review 74, no. 2 (2006): 222–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hir.2006.0022.
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Ortiz-Medina, Marina, and Gonzalo Maldonado-Guzmán. "Information and Communication Technology and Growth in the Dominican Republic Microbusinesses." International Business Research 13, no. 9 (August 21, 2020): 129. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ibr.v13n9p129.
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There is a growing concern on the part of researchers, academics and professionals in business and management sciences, to find those variables that have a greater degree of influence on the level of growth of microenterprises, and within the various existing variables In current literature, information and communication technologies (ICTs) seem to be the variable that generates the most positive effects on microenterprises, both in developed and developing countries. Therefore, the essential objective of this empirical study is to analyze the relationship between the adoption and use of ICTs of microenterprises located in the Dominican Republic and their level of growth, for which a sample of 1,199 microenterprises was considered. The results obtained show that ICTs have a significant positive relationship in the level of microbusiness growth.
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Méndez, Danny. "Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 de Teresita Martínez-Vergne." Revista Iberoamericana 73, no. 218 (June 26, 2007): 363–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/reviberoamer.2007.5381.
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COOK, JERRY L. "Two new species of Triozocera Pierce, 1909 (Insecta: Strepsiptera: Corioxenidae) from the Caribbean Islands." Zootaxa 5214, no. 1 (November 30, 2022): 141–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5214.1.7.
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Triozocera albocciput and Triozocera macrognathus are described from the Caribbean Islands. These new species constitute the only known Triozocera from this region. Triozocera albocciput occurs in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. The specimen from Cuba had previously been misidentified in the literature, as Triozocera mexicana and later Triozocera texana. The new species described here, as well as all other valid species in North America, are known only from male specimens.
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Oropesa, R. S., and Leif Jensen. "Dominican Immigrants and Discrimination in a New Destination: The Case of Reading, Pennsylvania." City & Community 9, no. 3 (September 2010): 274–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2010.01330.x.
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The last decade has witnessed the diversification of immigrant destinations in the United States. Although the literature on this phenomenon is burgeoning, research on the experiences of smaller immigrant groups in new destinations is underdeveloped. This is especially the case for those from the Dominican Republic, a group that is expanding beyond the traditional gateway cities of the Northeast. Using a survey of Dominican immigrants in Reading, Pennsylvania, this study has two objectives. the first objective is to describe the prevalence of experiences with institutional and interpersonal discrimination. the second objective is to determine the extent to which these experiences are structured around racial markers (i.e., skin tone), forms of capital, forms of incorporation, and exposure to the United States. Our results show that a substantial minority of Dominican immigrants claims to have been treated unfairly, primarily because of their “race and ethnicity.” in addition, experiences with some types of discrimination are positively associated with skin tone (i.e., darkness) and several factors that are identified in models of assimilation.
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Baud, Michiel. "The Origins of Capitalist Agriculture in the Dominican Republic." Latin American Research Review 22, no. 2 (1987): 135–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002387910002207x.
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It has been well documented that structural changes in the capitalist world system during the second half of the nineteenth century generated profound consequences for peripheral economies such as those in Latin America and Africa. Improvements in transportation and the increasing demand for tropical consumer goods in the industrializing countries caused unprecedented growth in the production of tropical export crops and a consequent international movement of agricultural commodities. This widespread emergence of export agriculture for Western European and North American markets is the one reason why researchers can still employ a broad concept like the “Third World” to divergent economies and cultures in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Production of such crops as cotton, cocoa, tobacco, and coffee, which had previously been grown in many regions on a limited scale, expanded enormously in the second half of the nineteenth century. The global character of these agrarian changes, however, should not obscure their regional peculiarities. Export agriculture (whether peasant-or plantation-based) arose within existing systems of social and economic relations, which had a decisive influence on the final outcome of this process of change.
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Puig Cabrera, Miguel. "Psychometrics of Tourism: A (de)Builder of Quality of Life? Evidence from the Model of Happiness in Dominican Republic." Revista de Estudios Andaluces, no. 41 (2021): 205–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.12795/rea.2021.i41.11.
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For small island developing states (SIDS), tourism is often seen as a passport to development and wellbeing. The happiness phenomenon among residents of tourism destinations is usually linked to the concept of quality of life (QoL). The happiness literature suggests that there is a positive correlation between happiness and income of residents in SIDS, but there is not a clear directionality. In this correlation a large impact of non-income factors linked to wellbeing, such as own feelings and attitudes, belonging feeling to a community, identification with cultural and natural heritage, or a fair government that fulfills residents´ needs. Thus, the goal of this research is to uncover the Caribbean model of happiness according to the relationship between tourism and wellbeing in a SIDS. To test this hypothetical-conceptual model of this work, a questionnaire was administered to obtain suitable data for measuring the quality of life based on a total of five constructs and 27 indicators among residents directly involved in the tourism activity. Partial Least Square-Structural Equation Model (PLS-SEM) was the technique used to test this hypothetical conceptual model. This work bring empirical evidence to the happiness literature deepening in the model of wellbeing Dominican Republic characterized by three maxims: 1) the Dominican model of individual happiness is not based on material goods but emotions, and thus, greed is considered a poverty condition among rich people; 2) having more is having more to share with and 3) the public sector continues to be the object of mistrust among Dominican population, without covering their expectations in terms of justice administration or reliability on political leaders, despite perceiving the political environment as stable.
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Ososki, Andreana L., Patricia Lohr, Marian Reiff, Michael J. Balick, Fredi Kronenberg, Adriane Fugh-Berman, and Bonnie O'Connor. "Ethnobotanical literature survey of medicinal plants in the Dominican Republic used for women's health conditions." Journal of Ethnopharmacology 79, no. 3 (March 2002): 285–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-8741(01)00376-2.
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BRAILOVSKY, HARRY, and DANIEL E. PEREZ-GELABERT. "A review of the Coreidae of Hispaniola (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with description of one new species, new distributional records, and a key to the subfamilies, tribes, genera and species." Zootaxa 4568, no. 2 (March 20, 2019): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4568.2.1.
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A faunistic survey of the Hispaniolan bugs of the family Coreidae is presented based on the study of over 1000 specimens deposited in several entomological collections. The new species Zicca gloriosa sp. nov. is described from the Dominican Republic. Another 12 species are new records for the island, 11 of them being new records for the Dominican Republic: Althos obscurator (Fabricius, 1803), Anasa acutangula Stål, 1870, Anasa tristis (De Geer, 1773), Eubule spartocerana Brailovsky, 1992, Leptoglossus confusus Alayo & Grillo, 1977, Mamurius cubanus Barber & Bruner, 1947, Merocoris distinctus Dallas, 1852, Merocoris typhaeus (Fabricius, 1798), Phthia rubropicta (Westwood, 1842), Sethenira ferruginea Stål, 1870, and Zicca rubricator rubricator (Fabricius, 1803). New records for Haiti are Anasa scorbutica (Fabricius, 1798), Catorhintha selector Stål, 1859, Chariesterus gracilicornis Stål, 1870, Rhytidophthia splendida (Valdes, 1910) and Zicca taeniola (Dallas, 1852). The literature citations presented in Perez-Gelabert (2008) of Leptoglossus cinctus (Herrich-Schäffer, 1836) and Leptoglossus stigma (Herbst, 1784) are probably based on erroneous identifications and not counted as part of the Hispaniolan fauna. The total number of species presently known from Hispaniola is raised to 28. Key to subfamilies, tribes, genera and species are included, as well as color dorsal habitus.
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Amendola, Alessandra, Marinella Boccia, Gianluca Mele, and Luca Sensini. "Tax Policy and Firms' Financing Decisions: Empirical Evidence from the Dominican Republic." WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS 18 (April 21, 2021): 732–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.37394/23207.2021.18.71.
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Numerous studies have tried to explain the financial behaviour of firms based on different theories. Despite the vast and rich literature, only in the last decade has attention also been focused on emerging economies. In the first place, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of the capital structure in an emerging economy, such as that of the Dominican Republic, testing the sustainability of the trade-off and pecking order theories. Secondly, we also investigated the impact of tax policy on the financial behaviour of businesses. In this perspective, this study overcomes the distorting problems associated with estimating the tax variable, as it uses data from each company's tax returns. The data were provided by the Ministry of Finance to the World Bank as part of a collaboration on the analysis of fiscal policy. A fixed-effects (FE) estimation technique has been employed to analyse the financial structure of companies. Overall, the results show that the individual determinants have a strong ability to explain the capital structure of companies, also highlighting that, in some cases, the fiscal variable influences the financial behaviour of companies
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Matiu, Ovidiu. "Politics and Literature: Dictatorship in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." East-West Cultural Passage 23, no. 1 (June 1, 2023): 37–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2023-0004.
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Abstract This article explores the political dimension of Junot Díaz’s work, focusing on the figure of the dictator as depicted in the footnotes to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in an attempt to analyze his view of the “dangers of dictatorship” in both literature and politics and to prove that the political attitudes of writers influence the way their literature “does” politics. Thus, a thorough analysis of the footnotes exposes The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao as a story about a nerd in New Jersey “dictated” by the narrator, which is challenged by the story of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo who “dictated” the recent history of the Dominican Republic.
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D'Angelo, Sophia. "Effective Pedagogy in the Context of a Competency-Based Curriculum Reform: Perceptions of Teachers in the Dominican Republic." Revista Caribeña de Investigación Educativa (RECIE) 5, no. 1 (January 15, 2021): 7–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.32541/recie.2021.v5i1.pp7-18.
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In 2016, the Dominican Republic Ministry of Education launched a competency-based curriculum, thus promoting a constructivist and learner-centered pedagogy. However, two years later, a national study found that several obstacles impede the implementation of this curriculum, specifically teachers’ lack of appropriation which resulted in the use of traditional instructional methods such as copying. By further exploring the culture of copying in Dominican public schools, this study contributes to the literature on effective pedagogy at the primary level. Using an ethnographic lens, the research explores the perceptions of four teachers in two schools in order to provide a more nuanced understanding of what it means to be effective in the context of the Dominican Republic. Drawing on data from interviews and observations, the study seeks to address the following questions: How do teachers conceptualize effective teaching and learning? In what ways do these perceptions reveal themselves in the classroom? What facilitators or inhibitors to effectiveness exist? The findings demonstrate that teachers construct practical knowledge that allows them to tend to the culture of copying in a more reflexive manner. They reject copying as an effective teaching strategy and demonstrate evidence of a paradigm shift towards constructivism. However, they still resort to using copying as a pedagogical activity due to several reasons: their perceptions of students, of curricular content, and of the political and material conditions in which they work. This study thus argues for more research that explores teachers’ voices and sense-making processes in order to understand not just what teachers do, but why they do it.
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Martínez, Samuel. "From Hidden Hand to Heavy Hand: Sugar, the State, and Migrant Labor in Haiti and the Dominican Republic." Latin American Research Review 34, no. 1 (1999): 57–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100024304.
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AbstractFor more than a century, the Dominican sugar industry has hosted seasonal immigrations of neighboring Caribbean islanders as harvest laborers (most recently, Haitians). This migrant labor system is fully comparable to systems of labor control after slavery in other parts of the Caribbean. But the regional historical trend toward more liberal labor relations in commercial agriculture seems largely to have been reversed in the case of Dominican sugar. Between the 1930s and 1960s, the recruitment and employment of harvest labor changed from something resembling free wage labor into a government-managed system of semicoerced exploitation. Processes of state formation in Haiti and the Dominican Republic are crucial in explaining this transformation. Fuller understanding of historical change in the case at hand is afforded by broadening the scope of inquiry beyond the direct confrontation between labor and estate owners and by recognizing that governments and their agents have not always acted in accordance with private agro-industrial interests.
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Calder, Bruce. "The Dominican Republic: Surveying a Century of Development and Change." Latin American Research Review 20, no. 2 (1985): 253–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100034646.
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FERNÁNDEZ, ELADIO, IRINA FERRERAS, BRIAN D. FARRELL, BRUNO A. S. De MEDEIROS, and GUSTAVO A. ROMERO-GONZÁLEZ. "Studies in Aristolochia (Aristolochiaceae) of Hispaniola." Phytotaxa 420, no. 1 (October 8, 2019): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.420.1.1.
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A review of the literature at large and the field photographic record of the senior author of this study indicate that there are several undescribed species of Aristolochia in Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti), related to A. bilobata. Here we show that A. mirandae is a synonym of A. bilobata and that what appears as A. bilobata in Marión H. (2011: 76–77) is a new species here described as Aristolochia adiastola. In addition, two new species, A. bonettiana and A. marioniana, also related to A. bilobata, are described and illustrated herein.
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Aragoneses, Javier, Ana Suárez, Cinthia Rodríguez, Juan Algar, and Juan Manuel Aragoneses. "Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among Dental Practitioners Regarding Antibiotic Prescriptions for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women in the Dominican Republic." Antibiotics 10, no. 6 (June 3, 2021): 668. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10060668.
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In this study, we aimed to explore the trends among dentists in the Dominican Republic of providing antibiotic prescriptions to pregnant/breastfeeding dental patients. A survey was conducted among 98 dentists, using a self-administered questionnaire, about their knowledge and attitudes regarding antibiotic usage in pregnant/lactating women and the translation of these into practice. The majority of the survey population were female dentists (63.3%) aged 45–54 years. A chi-square test showed statistically significant differences in the knowledge sources between older and younger dentists, with a minority having chosen scientific literature as a source (p-value of 0.04). There were statistically significant associations between gender and certain attitudes and practice-based questions, with p-values of 0.04 and 0.01, respectively. The Spearman’s correlation test showed a statistically significant correlation between knowledge and attitude (p-value 0.001), whereas no correlation was found with practice (p-value 0.23). A multiple response analysis showed that the majority of the respondents chose the second and third trimester for antibiotic prescriptions for acute conditions such as cellulitis, periodontal abscess, and pericoronitis. Most dentists had sufficient knowledge about antibiotic usage in pregnant/lactating women, but it did not translate into practice, and a certain proportion of the participants followed incongruent drug prescription. These findings can be used to focus on judicious antibiotic usage by dentists in the Dominican Republic.
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Daude, Christian, Hamlet Gutierrez, and Angel Melguizo. "Doctoring the ball." Journal of Economic Studies 44, no. 1 (January 9, 2017): 2–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jes-05-2015-0090.
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Purpose Tax incentives can be a useful tool to stimulate investment in developing countries. However, interest groups often are able to exert considerable influence in its management, if not its design. The purpose of this paper is to use a power-based approach to the political economy of tax reform to analyse the case of tax incentives for investment in the Dominican Republic. Based on original interviews and a detailed analysis of regulations, the authors study how interest groups work within the institutional framework to seek outcomes that best fit their objectives. However, when unsuccessful, they become powerful advocates of change. These power dynamics have important implications for the design and management of tax incentives in the Dominican Republic and in other developing economies. Design/methodology/approach Case study based on informed interviews with policy makers, lobbyists and researchers combined with statistical and administrative information to test the main hypotheses. Findings While the role of influence groups in creating tax schemes has been widely studied, the authors show that these groups can also have an important role in the administration of the regime and making it more or less open to modifications. The paper shows that the capture of investment incentives has rendered the tax system rigid and unstable in the Dominican Republic, subjecting the public interest hostage to the gain of few. Research limitations/implications Therefore, there is a need to review and reform tax policy, not just from a technical viewpoint, but more importantly altering the political arrangements. More transparency in assessing the impact of these schemes, disclosing information of who has access to tax exemptions and budgeting the tax expenditures can also be tools to increase public control over these instruments. Also, making it more difficult to grant tax incentives, for example by asking for an ex-ante justification and quantification of the externalities supposedly being created would reduce the abuse by power groups of these instruments. Without more balanced and independent leadership, it would be extremely difficult to advance in these fields. Originality/value The literature on the political economy of tax incentives normally focuses on how key actors work around the institutional framework to solve conflict of interests. This paper addresses a complementary – and in the viewpoint equally relevant – aspect of the political economy of tax incentives: once enacted, vested interests have a particular motivation to keep the incentives in place, and therefore the authors should understand how key actors work from within the institutional framework to seek the outcomes that better suit their interests. The analysis focuses on Dominican Republic, based on official data and additional in-depth interviews with policy makers, entrepreneurs and consultants that assist firms with tax and regulation issues.
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Santana Peralta, J., A. Cornelio, D. Garcia, R. A. Alvarez Santana, T. Polanco Mora, L. Concepción Sanchez, I. Paulino, et al. "AB0963 Frequency of sexual dysfunction in psoriatic arthritis, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic." Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases 81, Suppl 1 (May 23, 2022): 1609.1–1609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-eular.5114.
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BackgroundPsoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory joint disease that cause structural damage, disability, and an impairment of quality of life.1Sexual function is a neglected area of quality of life in patients with PsA, with a high prevalence of dissatisfaction.2 It has been described that there is no relationship between the activity of the disease and the degree of joint dysfunction.3 In 1 out of 5 patients consider that the disease negatively impacts their sexuality.4 CSFQ-14 (Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire), evaluates changes in sexual functioning due to an illness or treatment in 5 domains with a score range 14-70; cut-off point indicating sexual dysfunction -41 men and -47 women.5ObjectivesTo evaluate the frequency and degree of sexual dysfunction in patients with psoriatic arthritis.MethodsProspective, observational, cross-sectional study. The patients of the outpatient clinic of the rheumatology service of the Padre Billini teaching hospital were interviewed during November 2021. Inclusion criteria: ≥18 years, PsA diagnosis according to CASPAR classification criteria 2006. Exclusion criteria: diagnosis of another autoimmune disease, depression, treatment with antidepressants. We analyzed the data in SPSS23 and used the Pearson correlation coefficient with a statistical significance p=<0.05 (rp) to relate the data.Results58 met inclusion criteria. 63.8% (37) female, male 36.2% (21), mean age 54.8 + 11.75 y, mean diagnosis 7.9 y, married 55.2% (32), unmarried 39.7% (23), widowed 5.2% (3). Frequency of sexual dysfunction 39.7% (23), CSFQ-14 indicative of dysfunction in women 35.1% (23), men 47.6% (10). Female Domains: Pleasure dysfunction 35.1% (13), desire/interest 32.4% (12), desire/frequency 32.4% (12), arousal 24.3% (9), orgasm/completion 43.2% (16). Male Domains: Pleasure dysfunction 38.1% (8), desire/interest 47.6% (10), desire/frequency 33.3% (7), arousal 23.8% (5), orgasm/completion 42.9% (9). Correlation CSFQ-14/DAPSA28 domains: Pleasure dysfunction: DAPSA remission 19.2% (5), low 32.1% (9), moderate 50% (2). Desire/interest: DAPSA remission 34.6% (9), low 32.1% (9), moderate 100% (4). Desire/frequency: DAPSA remission 30.8% (8), low 37.5% (10), moderate 25% (1). Excitation: DAPSA remission 30.8% (8), low 17.9% (5), moderate 25% (1). Orgasm/completion: DAPSA remission 50% (13), low 37.5% (10), moderate 50% (2). rp=. 042 p<0.05.ConclusionThe study showed a modest frequency of global sexual dysfunction. In men it was superior. The orgasm/completion domain proved to be the most dysfunctional in both sexes. A statistically significant linear association of sexual dysfunction and disease activity was evident.References[1]Reygaerts T. Effect of Biologics on Fatigue in Psoriatic Arthritis: A Systematic Literature Review with Metaanalysis, Joint Bone Spine (2018).[2]Esteve E et al. Preliminary development of a questionnaire assessing the impact of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis on patient’s perception of sexuality. Medicine (Baltimore). 2018[3]Aguiar R, Ambrósio C. Sexuality in spondyloarthritis-the impact of the disease. Acta Reumatol Port. 2014 Apr-Jun;39(2):152-7. PMID: 25254264.[4]G Haugeberg, (2020): Perceived influence of health status on sexual activity in patients with psoriatic arthritis, Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology.[5]Clayton AH, McGarvey EL. The Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (CSFQ): development, reliability, and validity. Psychopharmacol Bull. 1997;33(4):731-45.Disclosure of InterestsNone declared
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Gousy, Nicole, Bharadwaj Adithya Sateesh, David W. Denning, Krystal Latchman, Edmond Mansoor, Jillwin Joseph, and Prasanna Honnavar. "Fungal Infections in the Caribbean: A Review of the Literature to Date." Journal of Fungi 9, no. 12 (December 8, 2023): 1177. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof9121177.
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The most common fungal infections reported from the Caribbean include dermatophytosis, candidiasis, pneumocystis, aspergillosis, histoplasmosis, and cryptococcosis. The Caribbean is hyperendemic for histoplasmosis, with high population exposures. Fungal infections are a significant public health problem in the Caribbean, with rates varying depending on the specific country or region. In Trinidad and Tobago, the fungal burden accounts for 3.3% of the 1.4 million population, while in Jamaica, with a population of 2.9 million, over 57,600 people suffer from fungal infections each year. A study in the Dominican Republic estimated that approximately 221,027 (2%) of over 10 million people have a serious fungal infection. Fungal infections accounts for 21.9% of all skin infections in Haiti. The diagnosis of fungal infections in the Caribbean can be challenging, as access to laboratory testing and specialized medical services is limited in many areas. Access to antifungal medications can also be a challenge in some areas, and antifungal resistance has been reported.
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Gutiérrez, Melchor, Patricia Sancho, Laura Galiana, and José M. Tomás. "Autonomy Support, Psychological Needs Satisfaction, School Engagement and Academic Success: A Mediation Model." Universitas Psychologica 17, no. 5 (December 5, 2018): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.upsy17-5.aspn.
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School engagement is a construct of relevance in education and educational psychology, as it has been related to multiple educational constructs and outcomes: school drop-out, satisfaction with school, disruptive behavior, motivational climate, teacher-student relationships, or academic progress and achievement. The current research surveyed 2034 Angolan students and 2302 Dominican Republic students in order to predict academic achievement. The model tested was supported by the data in both samples, and the chain of explicative effects hold again in both samples. School engagement was a powerful mediator among needs satisfaction and academic success. Results are discussed in light of existing literature, and limitations and future directions of research are also highlighted.
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FERREIRA, MILEIDA, STUART H. MCKAMEY, and REINA T. MARTINEZ. "New records of Haplaxius (Hemiptera: Cixiidae) in the Dominican Republic,with description of a new species." Zootaxa 2614, no. 1 (September 16, 2010): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2614.1.7.
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The planthopper genus Haplaxius Fowler has a New World distribution. Kramer (1979) revised the New World Myndus Stål, consisting of 63 species. In that revision, Kramer synonymized Haplaxius and Paramyndus Fennah under Myndus, and P. cocois Fennah (1945), the type species of Myndus, as a junior synonym of M. crudus. Emeljanov (1989) reinstated the genus Haplaxius Fowler for the New World species formerly in Myndus. These consequent name changes have been accepted by all subsequent taxonomists (e.g., see Holzinger et al. 2002) but use of the name Myndus, when referring to New World species is still widely used, erroneously, in the applied literature.
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Dusseldorp, D. B. W. M. van, and L. Box. "Role of sociologists and cultural anthropologists in the development, adaptation and transfer of new agricultural technologies." Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science 38, no. 4 (December 1, 1990): 697–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.18174/njas.v38i4.16558.
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Despite the amount of discussion on the role of sociology and anthropology in agricultural research over the last two decades, the number of sociologists in agricultural research stations is still remarkably low. On the basis of recent literature and two research projects in the Dominican Republic and the Philippines, the potential roles and placement of sociologists in agricultural research are elaborated. The roles discussed are those of trainer/sensitizer, provider of methods, go-between/translator, monitor/evaluator, assessor of social impact, analyser of the creation and use of indigenous knowledge, accommodator, scout, developer of group technologies, and analyser of the functioning of agricultural research. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)
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Sharma, Prabin, Laia Jimena Vazquez Guillamet, and Goran Miljkovic. "Atypical Mycobacterial Infection after Abdominoplasty Overseas: A Case Report and Literature Review." Case Reports in Infectious Diseases 2016 (2016): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3642567.
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Increasing number of medical tourists travel internationally for cosmetic procedures. Lipotourism is a form of medical tourism becoming popular among patients of developed countries due to the cost efficiency of cosmetic procedures when performed in developing nations. There is a paucity of data on quality, safety, and risks involved with these surgeries. Many cases of infections have been documented in patients following cosmetic surgeries in developing countries. We present a case of a 34-year-old female who underwent abdominoplasty in Dominican Republic that was complicated with development of multiple abdominal wall abscesses due to infection from rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM). In the absence of clear treatment guidelines, she was treated with a combination of intermittent surgical drainage and prolonged antibiotic course. This case is of interest as more than one species of RGM was isolated from the same patient. Our case highlights the fact that identification of these organisms can be difficult requiring referral of samples to specialized laboratories and treatment duration can last several months, which is determined by clinical and microbiological response.
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Valdez, Juan R. "The iconization of Dominican Spanish in Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s linguistic texts." Spanish in Context 6, no. 2 (September 9, 2009): 176–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sic.6.2.02val.
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This study approaches Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s linguistic work on Dominican Spanish by situating it in the political context in which it emerged. Henríquez Ureña’s travels, work and publications encompass many parts of the Spanish-speaking world on both sides of the Atlantic. Linguists have generally tended to descriptively review Henríquez Ureña’s contributions to Spanish American dialectology and have avoided any critical examination of the conditions of production of his linguistic work. My study attempts to fill this gap by conducting a critical examination of these works against the relevant political, cultural and intellectual historical currents of the period. Specifically, I apply the semiotic concepts of ‘iconization’ and ‘erasure’ which are instrumental in the analysis of ideological phenomena. Iconization and erasure are language ideological processes that link language to social behavior and linguistic forms to social images, while eliminating or omitting sociolinguistic complexity. After a discussion of the ways in which these semiotic strategies have been employed and interpreted by scholars, I demonstrate Henríquez Ureña’s own implementation of them. I show how his linguistic work is a discursive site where race and identity in the Dominican Republic are both constructed and debated.
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Lanzendorfer, T. "The Marvelous History of the Dominican Republic in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 38, no. 2 (March 28, 2013): 127–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlt017.
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Oloff, Kerstin. "From theNovela de la Cañato Junot Díaz's “cake-eater”: World-literature, the world-food-system and the Dominican Republic." Atlantic Studies 16, no. 1 (January 2, 2019): 90–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1410760.
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Larose, François, and Martin Ponton. "Locus of control and perceptions of environmental risk factor: Inhabitants of slums facing domestic garbage." Swiss Journal of Psychology 59, no. 3 (September 2000): 137–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024//1421-0185.59.3.137.
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The status that the locus of control plays as a moderator variable in relation to exposure to environmental stressors, has been widely discussed in the recent scientific literature. Nevertheless, little research has been done in developing countries to establish the predictive qualities of this variable regarding the proactive attitudes or avoidance behaviours that certain populations could adopt in relation to the management of specific stress factors. In the research reported here we have tried to identify some variables which distinguish the propensity to identify the presence of domestic garbage as a nuisance or as a health risk factor, among inhabitants of certain ghettos in the Dominican Republic. The methodological considerations relating to the construction, validation and use of questionnaires among potentially illiterate populations are discussed.
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Cabrera Félix, Ceferina, and Armando Guillermo Antúnez Sánchez. "Use of technological tools in information management in ISFODOSU graduate students." Revista Simón Rodríguez 1, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 22–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.62319/simonrodriguez.v.1i1.2.
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The objective of the study was to determine the technological tools most used for the management of scientific information by students studying postgraduate degrees at the Salomé Ureña Higher Teacher Training Institute, in the Dominican Republic. A quantitative approach was used, an exploratory-descriptive research, with a non-experimental design. The sample was made up of 109 postgraduate students. The results indicate that (32.11%) of the students use Scielo, (17.43%) DOAJ, and Redalyc, (29.61%), for the management of scientific information. (88.07%) of the subjects use academic networks. It is concluded that students efficiently use technological tools in the scientific information management process in ISFODOSU postgraduate activities. The study showed that 98.17% use specialized Internet tools, which allow them to access relevant scientific literature and strengthen their research.
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Baver, Sherrie L. "Including Migration in the Development Calculus: The Dominican Republic and Other Caribbean Countries." Latin American Research Review 30, no. 1 (1995): 191–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0023879100017246.
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Hamdouch, Abdelillah, and Andiel Galvan. "Social Innovation as a Driver of Urban Transformation? The Case of Planning Approaches in the Dominican Republic." Urban Planning 4, no. 1 (January 24, 2019): 31–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v4i1.1740.
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This article assesses the role of social innovation (SI) as a driver of urban transformation through the case-based analysis of an ambitious social housing urban project in the Dominican Republic, specifically in the emblematic slum La Barquita, in the heart of northern Santo Domingo. This project was led by a dedicated public body, URBE, which is in charge of the coordination of several institutions and the management of the community participation. Since La Nueva Barquita integrates dimensions regarding the satisfaction of human needs, change in social relations, and increase of citizens’ sociopolitical capabilities, it may be considered a socially innovative initiative in the territorial development discussion. The article builds first on the literature on SI by drawing attention on governance and institutional structures in specific urban contexts. Based on a series of semi-direct interviews, it then focuses on the analysis of key moments regarding the definition, implementation and evaluation of the institutional dimension of the project from its launching in 2013.
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Zakharenko, Alexander Mikhailovich, Igor Yurevich Chekryzhov, and Kirill Sergeevich Golokhvast. "Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy to Study an Ambers, a New Approach." Key Engineering Materials 806 (June 2019): 197–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.806.197.
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Currently, in the scientific literature, there is no a sole opinion on mechanisms governing phenomenon of blue amber. In specimens sampled in Dominican Republic it is caused by presence of perylene; whereas, specimens sampled in northern Spain this has not been confirmed. We have obtained specimens from a third, earlier not studied, source of blue amber in the Far East of Russia that was described in 2015. This sample was investigated with a laser confocal microscopy and a laser bleaching studies. We found fluorescence pattern that is typical for perylene and bleaching showed rapid diffusion that is consistent with the perylene hypothesis. Moreover we demonstrate that confocal laser scanning microscopy could be successfully used for rapid search of the organisms in the dark part of the amber samples.
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Perioto, Nelson W., Rogéria I. R. Lara, and Valmir A. Costa. "New records of Rileya hegeli Girault, 1916 (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae) from Brazil." Entomological Communications 4 (October 26, 2022): ec04036. http://dx.doi.org/10.37486/2675-1305.ec04036.
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Rileya hegeli Girault, 1916 (Hymenoptera, Eurytomidae) was previously known in USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Venezuela and, in Brazil, in the states of Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul. Here, we newly report this species from the Brazilian municipalities of Alto Paraíso de Goiás, in Goiás state, Brazil, obtained through collections with Malaise traps, of Ribeirão Preto and Águas de São Pedro, in São Paulo state, reared from leaf galls of Eugeniamyia dispar Maia, Mendonça & Romanowski, 1996 (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) on Eugenia uniflora L. (Myrtaceae) and of Palhoça, in Santa Catarina state, reared from galls of an unidentified Cecidomyiidae gall-maker in fruits of E. uniflora. Additionally, we provide a map with the geographical distribution of the studied species based on the new records and literature.
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Githire, Njeri. "Eating Bodies: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones." Research in African Literatures 53, no. 4 (January 2023): 141–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.53.4.10.
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ABSTRACT: This essay exposes the imagery of cannibalism as a critique of unfettered consumption and greed at the root of the exploitative structures in The Farming of Bones (1998). The essay contends that the symbolic tapestry of Edwidge Danticat’s second novel is woven around metaphors of consumption and excretion. In a bid to unpack the inner workings of a plantation system that reduced human beings to commodities, I tease out the novel’s layered reflection on these metaphors and their meaning. I demonstrate that the purported menace posed by Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic is but a deflection of the violence exerted on working bodies on a constant basis. A scheme that serves to mask the assault and plunder that are commonplace, the ascription of malevolent intent onto the immigrants strips them of their humanity and justifies their expulsion from the national territory. I further expose the strategies used by the exploited to counter the consuming carnage and restore dignity.