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Dominican Republic

open access: yesIMF Staff Country Reports
The Dominican Republic’s (DR) remarkable economic performance over the past two decades has been driven by strengthening policies and institutions, social and political stability, and business-friendly reforms. This has enabled the fastest rate of income convergence in Latin America and the Caribbean over this period.
Alberto Soler   +2 more
semanticscholar   +6 more sources

An update on active and passive surveillance for African swine fever in the Dominican Republic. [PDF]

open access: goldSci Rep
African Swine Fever (ASF) is a viral, hemorrhagic disease of swine that is reportable to the World Organisation for Animal Health. Since 2007, ASF has been expanding globally and caused severe disruption to the global swine industry.
Schambow RA   +3 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Migratory destinations and timing of humpback whales in the southeastern Caribbean differ from those off the Dominican Republic

open access: yesJ. Cetacean Res. Manage., 2023
Humpback whales wintering in the entire West Indies chain are widely treated as comprising a single breeding population. However, most areas outside of Silver Bank and Samana Bay, Dominican Republic, are poorly and sporadically studied. Data is presented
Peter T. Strevick   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Epidemiological Assessment of African Swine Fever Spread in the Dominican Republic

open access: yesPathogens, 2023
Since African Swine Fever (ASF) was detected in the Dominican Republic in July 2021, it has negatively impacted the country’s swine industry. Assessing the epidemiological situation is crucial to helping local authorities and industry stakeholders ...
R. Schambow   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Full genome sequence for the African swine fever virus outbreak in the Dominican Republic in 1980

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
African swine fever is a lethal disease of domestic pigs, geographically expanding as a pandemic, that is affecting countries across Eurasia and severely damaging their swine production industry.
Edward Spinard   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Experimental Infection of Domestic Pigs with an African Swine Fever Virus Field Strain Isolated in 2021 from the Dominican Republic

open access: yesViruses, 2022
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the etiological agent of African swine fever (ASF), a disease of domestic and wild swine that has spread throughout a large geographical area including Central Europe, East and Southeast Asia, and Southern Africa ...
E. Ramírez-Medina   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digital mapping of soil organic carbon stocks in the forest lands of Dominican Republic

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Remote Sensing, 2022
Mapping the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) in lands covered by tropical forests is important to understand the relationship and dynamics of SOC in this type of ecosystem.
Efraín Duarte   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Strengthening research ethics governance and regulatory oversight in Central America and the Dominican Republic in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2022
Background Good governance and regulatory supervision are required to conduct research in an international public health emergency context and to ensure compliance with ethical standards.
J. A. Canario Guzmán   +16 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Citizens’ Perceptions in Relation to Transport Systems and Infrastructures: A Nationwide Study in the Dominican Republic

open access: yesInfrastructures, 2021
One of the challenges currently faced by emerging countries is to get their citizens to decide to use sustainable transport for their regular trips, in order to reduce the current vehicular pollution rates.
Francisco Alonso   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Where Have I Heard It?” Assessing the Recall of Traffic Safety Campaigns in the Dominican Republic

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
Although traffic crashes are the eighth leading cause of death in the world, and are linked to vehicle and infrastructure-related factors, crash-related fatality rates are much higher in low-income countries.
Francisco Alonso   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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