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Public hospital costs and quality in the Dominican Republic [PDF]

Measuring costs in public hospitals in developing countries is hampered by the lack of an appropriate costing system, or of any systematic cost accounting. Invoices for goods and services, prices for inputs, and patient records are generally absent. As a
Sulvetta, Margaret B., Lewis, Maureen A., LaForgia, Gerard M.   +2 more
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Improving Decision‐Making in the Identification of Tephritidae Larvae at Import in the European Union and Key to Third Instar Larvae

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tephritidae family, or true fruit flies, comprises approximately 250 species recognized as economically significant due to their capacity to infest commercial fruits. These pests pose serious threats to both food security and trade, and are considered quarantine pests in areas where they are not yet established. In the European Union (EU),
Andrea Taddei, Pascal Rousse, Raphaëlle Mouttet, Sarah Chérasse, Christa Lethmayer, Elena Bacher, Chiara Pohn, Richard Alexander Gottsberger, Helga Reisenzein, Philippe Reynaud   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

SIMERSAD: An agent-based simulation approach to flood evacuation routing in Santo Domingo

Results in Engineering
Climatic events, such as the arrival of hurricanes or typhoons, or geomorphological events, like earthquakes, can also necessitate the evacuation of cities or, at the very least, parts of them. Additionally, situations of social alarm caused by terrorist
Pedro Solares-Hernández, Carlos M. Robles-Calderón, Jorge R. Santana-Lora, Fernando A. Manzano, J. Alberto Conejero   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

International Remittances, Domestic Remittances, and Income Inequality in the Dominican Republic [PDF]

Inequality decomposition techniques are used to analyze the different impacts of domestic and international remittances on household income inequality in the Dominican Republic.
Kimhi, Ayal
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Community as Catalyst for Change: Factors Contributing to US Catholic Sisters Engaging in Environmental Activism

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
wiley   +1 more source

Factors associated with quality of life and functional capacity in patients with diabetic foot in the Dominican Republic

Endocrine and Metabolic Science
Purpose: To evaluate the quality of life (QoL) and physical functioning of patients with diabetic foot (DF) and their associated factors. Methods: 120 participants with DF were recruited in 5 diabetic foot clinics in Dominican Republic.
Berniza Calderón, Manuel Soto, Alba Beltré   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Development Costs of Revolution: Evidence From Violent and Nonviolent Transitions

Kyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using data from the Varieties of Democracy (V‐Dem) project and the NAVCO catalog (1950–2019), we estimate the developmental effects of successful revolutions through difference‐in‐differences models and event studies. Our findings differ from common expectations: neither violent nor nonviolent revolutions consistently deliver expected ...
Shishir Shakya, Joshua D. Ammons, Towhid Iqram Mahmood   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

First-order mass balance models of COD, BOD and DO in a subsurface flow constructed wetland

Desalination and Water Treatment
This study addresses the need for simple and cost-effective predictive models for the design and operation of constructed wetlands in domestic wastewater treatment.
Rainier V. Sánchez C., Vladimir Antonio Rodríguez Núñez, Atuey de Jesús Martínez Durán, José Ángel Vásquez Cuello   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

1951 Firebrand [PDF]

, 1951
1951 yearbook for Dominican Collegehttps://scholar.dominican.edu/yearbooks-1950-1959/1001/thumbnail ...
Dominican University of California Archives
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“We always heal like this”: Illness management and identity expression in Latin American migrants in Spain

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
wiley   +1 more source