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Renewable Resource Curse Hypothesis: Could Renewable Resources Foster Sustainable Development?

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores whether the resource curse hypothesis applies to renewable energy by introducing a novel metric of renewable resource rent. Using a panel dataset of 46 countries (2010–2022), we define renewable rent as the product of electricity generation and the gap between industrial electricity price and levelized cost (LCOE).
Changwoo Chung, Junghwan Lee, Taeyoung Jin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender, Social Capital and Migration from the Dominican Republic to the United States [PDF]

, 2009
Existing research argues that gender affects social capital usage in migration. The power perspective suggests that unequal power relationships encourage potential migrants to rely on social capital from members of the dominant group, typically men ...
Leach, Brandi Lynn
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Validation of the Dominican system for measuring early childhood development [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research
Background The purpose of the study was to determine the psychometric properties of the Dominican System for Measuring Early Childhood Development (SIMEDID, for its Spanish acronym), to adjust the sequence of item presentation, and to provide age ...
Felipe Díaz, Daniel Cubilla-Bonnetier, Carlos B Ruiz-Matuk, Arachu Castro, María Elena Valdez, Angie Sabrina Jiménez, Laura V. Sánchez-Vincitore, María Angélica Alonso Pellerano   +7 more
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Phylogeographic Analyses Reveal the Early Expansion and Frequent Bidirectional Cross-Border Transmissions of Non-pandemic HIV-1 Subtype B Strains in Hispaniola

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
The human immunodeficiency virus-type 1 (HIV-1) subtype B has probably been circulating on the island of Hispaniola since the 1960s, but information about the early viral history on this Caribbean island is scarce.
Gonzalo Bello, Ighor Arantes, Vincent Lacoste, Marlene Ouka, Jacques Boncy, Raymond Césaire, Bernard Liautaud, Mathieu Nacher, Georges Dos Santos   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Resilience and Sustainability Through Interlinkages of Gender, Disaster, and Climate Change: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines gendered vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and policy translation in climate‐change induced disaster research using an intersectional lens in the Web of Science Database. Peer‐reviewed journal articles published in English between 2014 and 2024 focusing on gender, climate change, and disaster were
Tomo Kawane, Jebin Sultana Ahmed, Manman Wang, Divya Suresh, Naomi Kato, Weiwei Wang, Chuhan Wang, Rajib Shaw   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Export commodity production and broad-based rural development: coffee and cocoa in the Dominican Republic [PDF]

An estimated 80,000-100,000 Dominican farmers produce coffee and cocoa, nearly 40 percent of all agricultural producers. The sectors also provide employment for tens of thousands of field laborers and persons employed in linked economic activities.
Siegel, Paul B., Alwang, Jeff
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Of peasants, plantations, and immigrant proletarians

NWIG, 1993
[First paragraph] Dominican Sugar Plantations: Production and Foreign Labor Integration. MARTIN F. MURPHY. New York: Praeger, 1991. xii + 186 pp.
Samuel Martí­nez
doaj  

Adherence, burden, and morbidity of chronic diseases in an outpatient clinic: A-CaMo I

Ciencia y Salud
Introduction: Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a significant global health challenge due to their prolonged duration and varied progression rates, leading to increased noncompliance, especially in developing nations.
Ramón Romano, Juan Espaillat, Gabriela Anzani, Arthur Leyba, Isabella Gutiérrez, Génesis Vegazo, Michael Richardson, Laura Reyes, Laura Díaz, Shamelle López, Sharon Calderato, Nadja García, Rosaliz Piña, Erika Alcántara   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic Interactions Among Climate, Land, Energy, and Water Systems: Insights From a Panel Vector Autoregression Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the dynamic interactions among climate conditions, land use, energy consumption, water resources, population dynamics, and economic growth within the Climate–Land–Energy–Water (CLEW) nexus across 137 countries from 2000 to 2023.
Kingsley Imandojemu, Romanus Osabohien, Damilola Felix Eluyela, Onur Yağiş, Felix Orole   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vegetation of the dry bioclimatic areas in the Dominican Republic [PDF]

, 2015
Referencias bibliográficas: • E.Biondi. 2011. Phytosociology today: Methodological and conceptual evolution. Plant Biosys 145(Supplement): 19–29. • A.Borhidi. 1991. Phytogeography and vegetation ecology of Cuba. Budapest: Academiai Kiado.
Musarella, Carmelo Maria, Cano Carmona, Eusebio, Piñar-Fuentes, Jose Carlos, Spampinato, Giovanni, Cano Ortiz, Ana, Veloz, Alberto   +5 more
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