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Education SciencesIn a low-reading-achievement context, this study examines the applicability of the Simple View of Reading in the Dominican Republic, a Spanish-speaking country, assessing elementary students across the first seven years of formal schooling, and it ...
Daniel Cubilla-Bonnetier +4 more
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Asynchronicity of endemic and emerging mosquito-borne disease outbreaks in the Dominican Republic
medRxiv, 2020 Mosquito-borne viruses threaten the Caribbean due to the region’s tropical climate and seasonal reception of international tourists. Outbreaks of chikungunya and Zika have demonstrated the rapidity with which these viruses can spread.
M. Petrone +6 more
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The Dominican Grassroots Movement and the Organized Left, 1978–1986
, 2015 Through their struggles for better services, grassroots movements played a large role in the process of democratization and construction of social citizenship in the Dominican Republic.
Betances, Emelio
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2020 Background Zika remains an epidemiological threat in Latin America, including the Dominican Republic. Although transmitted by the same mosquito as Dengue and Chikungunya, Zika is unique in the potentially harmful consequences for babies born to women ...
Tilly A Gurman +7 more
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The Impact of Remittances on Education Attainment: Evidence From Dominican Republic [PDF]
, 2018 This paper will examine the relationship between remittances and education attainment focusing on Dominican Republic in 2002. This study will focus on households in Dominican Republic using surveys from IPUMS international and the data is cross-sectional.
Begum, Tahiya
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li +2 more
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Hispaniolan Hemilophini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Lamiinae)
ZooKeys, 2013 The Tribe Hemilophini (Lamiinae) is reviewed for Hispaniola and an identification key is provided. Fifteen species are now known from the island, including one new species of Adesmus (A. fortunei from Pedernales and La Vega Provinces, Dominican Republic),
Steven Lingafelter
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[Review of] Matibag, Eugenio. Haitian-Dominican Counterpoint [PDF]
, 2003 Those unfamiliar with the Dominican Republic and Haiti would probably think that the two countries with their different languages and cultures are distinct and separate historically as they are culturally.
Cox, Gerry R.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The necessary environmental transition involves a substantial challenge for micro, small, and medium‐sized enterprises (MSMEs). Moreover, in the Ibero‐American context, it is even more challenging. Our study aims to shed light on the scarce and inconclusive evidence in this regard, analyzing the influence of digitalization, given its inclusion
José Antonio Clemente‐Almendros +2 more
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Kittens in the Oven: Race Relations, Traumatic Memory, and the Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez’s \u3cem\u3eHow the García Girls Lost Their Accents\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2010 The search for an ever-elusive home is a thread that runs throughout much literature by authors who have immigrated to the United States. Dominican authors are particularly susceptible to this search for a home because “for many Dominicans, home is ...
Carter, Natalie
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