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“Festival y Protesta”: The Integral Role of Protesting State Violence in Celebrating Puerto Rican Women and Feminists [PDF]

open access: goldSocieties, 2023
Eradicating the mistreatment of Puerto Rican women and people that local and U.S. governments enact has been a major transformative goal for Puerto Rican feminist movement communities. The celebration of International Working Women’s Day presents optimum
Amaury J. Rijo Sánchez
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Minimizing Potential Allee Effects in Psittacine Reintroductions: An Example from Puerto Rico

open access: yesDiversity, 2021
The family Psittacidae is comprised of over 400 species, an ever-increasing number of which are considered threatened with extinction. In recent decades, conservation strategies for these species have increasingly employed reintroduction as a technique ...
Thomas H. White   +9 more
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Genetic risk variants in New Yorkers of Puerto Rican and Dominican Republic heritage with Parkinson’s disease

open access: yesnpj Parkinson's Disease, 2023
There is a paucity of genetic characterization in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) of Latino and Afro-Caribbean descent. Screening LRRK2 and GBA variants in 32 New Yorkers of Puerto Rican ethnicity with PD and in 119 non-Hispanic-non-Jewish European ...
Gabriel Miltenberger-Miltenyi   +15 more
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Mortality of Puerto Ricans in the USA post Hurricane Maria: an interrupted time series analysis

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To determine death occurrences of Puerto Ricans on the mainland USA following the arrival of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in September 2017.Design Cross-sectional study.Participants Persons of Puerto Rican origin on the mainland USA ...
Mario Marazzi   +2 more
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Review of Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture

open access: yesInternational Journal of Young Adult Literature, 2021
Marilisa Jiménez García’s Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture examines the power structures that have defined the field of children’s literature since its inception.
Adriana De Persia Colón
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Differential asthma odds following respiratory infection in children from three minority populations.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
RationaleSevere early-life respiratory illnesses, particularly those caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and human rhinovirus (HRV), are strongly associated with the development of asthma in children.
Eric M Wohlford   +18 more
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The Island Image and Global Links in Puerto Rican Cinema of the 21st Century

open access: yesImaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2015
This essay looks back at the production of Puerto Rican films in the 1980s and 1990s as the point of departure for young Puerto Rican filmmakers in the first decades of the 21st century.
María Cristina Rodríguez
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Una revisión histórico-política de la producción literaria puertorriqueña. Entrevista con Fernando Feliú Matilla / A historical and political review of Puertorriquean Literatura. Interview to Fernando Feliú Matilla

open access: yesKamchatka: Revista de Análisis Cultural, 2017
Resumen: A lo largo de la siguiente entrevista, el profesor, historiador, crítico e investigador la de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, el catedrático en literatura puertorriqueña don Fernando Feliú Matilla, nos permite establecer una visión histórica de ...
Endika Basáñez Barrio
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The Genetics of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia in Puerto Rico

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2022
Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) has been linked to more than 50 genes that cause a spectrum of clinical symptoms, including newborn respiratory distress, sinopulmonary infections, and laterality abnormalities.
Wilfredo De Jesús-Rojas   +5 more
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