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Abstract While the North Atlantic’s five‐century hurricane history is among the most complete globally, the earliest centuries are poorly documented in the written record. This study reassesses a subset of sixteenth to seventeenth‐century tropical cyclones (TCs) through a systematic review of archival evidence, mainly from Spain’s colonial archive, the
William Gomez Pretel, Michael Chenoweth
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Mycobacterium bovis in the Dominican Republic, a study of detection, distribution and genomic variability. [PDF]
Reyes Santiago RE +8 more
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Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century
ABSTRACT We document changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983, using individual‐level census and survey data on 46.7 million individuals from 95 countries, representing all major regions of the world.
Michael Grätz +2 more
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Doxycycline Postexposure Prophylaxis in the Dominican Republic: Investigating Healthcare Provider Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in a Caribbean Clinical Setting. [PDF]
Longhi D +6 more
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
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ABSTRACT Public health emergencies (PHEs), as highlighted by the COVID‐19 pandemic, pose major challenges for health management and governments. They jeopardize risk management, require rapid responses in complex scenarios, and determine the allocation of resources and access to vital products and services.
Alex Santos Príncipe +3 more
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The pantropical biodiversity footprint of oil palm
Although oil palm expansion is a main driver of tropical deforestation, this is the first study that integrates species‐specific habitats to assess oil palm's biodiversity footprint globally. We find that 4.5% of forest‐dependent species lost more than 1% of their potential habitats to oil palm; São Tomé and Sri Lanka have the highest per‐hectare ...
Yingtong Zhu +3 more
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ABSTRACT This paper investigates the relationship between the stay rate of international university graduates, economic characteristics of their origin and destination countries, and proxies of their social networks. It contributes to the literature by jointly testing predictions of the neoclassical and migration network theories using regression ...
Filip Němeček
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Decreased Anemia Rates in a Pediatric Clinic in Consuelo, a Rural Community in the Dominican Republic. [PDF]
Olson MK +13 more
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ABSTRACT This paper argues that contemporary United States immigration law and policy construct a hierarchy of personhood for undocumented migrants which better explains their status as opposed to a classic binary framework of citizen/migrant. It develops a four‐layer conceptual framework of personhood including baseline personhood, membership ...
David Niculae
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