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Socioeconomic status, diet, and recurrent severe asthma exacerbations in Puerto Rican youth

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global
Background: Why Puerto Rican youths have higher rates of severe asthma exacerbations (SAEs) than their non-Hispanic White peers is unclear. Objective: We aimed to identify risk factors associated with recurrent SAEs in Puerto Rican youths with asthma ...
Kristina Gaietto, MD MPH, Yueh-Ying Han, PhD, Franziska J. Rosser, MD, MPH, Edna Acosta-Pérez, PhD, Erick Forno, MD, MPH, Glorisa Canino, PhD, Juan C. Celedón, MD, DrPH, FAAAAI   +6 more
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Diaspora portoricaine et musique rap à New York : entre latinité et culture africaine américaine

Études Caribéennes, 2010
Rap music has achieved unprecedented success among urban youth in the United States and in big cities around the world. As a key element of hip-hop this musical style has been asserting its strength since the 1970s as a reflection of the diasporic ...
Stéphane Partel
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Genome‐wide association analysis and admixture mapping suggest an Alzheimer disease risk locus on chromosome 12 in a Puerto Rican cohort [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Akgun B, Feliciano‐Astacio B, Rivero J, Hamilton‐Nelson K, Scott K, Celis K, Adams L, Sanchez J, Valladares G, Silva‐Vergara C, Rodriguez V, Mena P, Whitehead P, Prough M, Acosta H, Griswold A, Dalgard C, McInerney K, Vance J, Cuccaro M, Beecham G, Rajabli F, Pericak‐Vance M.   +22 more
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An Acoustic Approach to Backed /r/ Realizations in Puerto Rican Spanish

Languages
Trill realizations present a wide range of cross-dialectal variation in Spanish, especially in Puerto Rican Spanish (PRS). The backed /r/ in, e.g., [ká.xo] for carro, is not an exception. Since analysis with continuous variables has advanced the research
Alba Arias Alvarez
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Seeking quantitative morphological characters for species identification in soldiers of Puerto Rican Heterotermes (Dictyoptera, Blattaria, Termitoidae, Rhinotermitidae)

ZooKeys, 2017
Subterranean termites in the genus Heterotermes Froggatt (Rhinotermitidae: Heterotermitinae) are pantropical wood feeders capable of causing significant structural damage. The aim of this study was to investigate soldier morphological attributes in three
Zachary H. Griebenow, Susan C. Jones, Tyler D. Eaton   +2 more
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35 Years of the Continua of Biliteracy: A discussion of what has been, what is, and what is to come

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This issue of the Forum celebrates the 35th anniversary of the seminal publication on the continua of biliteracy (Hornberger, 1989). The issue has brought together scholars who each shed light on the continued need for such conceptual framing, illuminating ways in which “the hope for understanding biliteracy, as well as literacy and ...
Nancy H. Hornberger, Jamie L. Schissel
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Violence, respect et sexualité chez les revendeurs de crack portoricains d’East Harlem

Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2002
Violence, Respect and Sexuality among Puerto Rican Drug Dealers in East Harlem, New York. -- The experience of second-generation Puerto Rican men who participate in the underground economy of the ghetto illustrates how gender affects social distress ...
Philippe Bourgois
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Effects of Simulated Dusk and Dawn on Activity and Feeding of Puerto Rican Crested Toads (Peltophryne lemur) in Captivity

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
Puerto Rican crested toads (Peltophryne lemur) that were provided with dim night lights to simulate a natural dusk and dawn moved more frequently than those kept in complete darkness at night. Toads moved more at dusk and dawn than in the middle of the night. ABSTRACT Night light may affect captive amphibians in alternative ways. Captive amphibians may
Brady P. Parlato, Noah T. Dunham
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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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Insight on the Genetics of Atrial Fibrillation in Puerto Rican Hispanics

Stroke Research and Treatment, 2021
Non-Hispanic whites present with higher atrial fibrillation (AF) prevalence than other racial minorities living in the mainland USA. In two hospital-based studies, Puerto Rican Hispanics had a lower prevalence of atrial fibrillation of 2.5% than non ...
Ariel F. Gonzalez-Cordero, Jorge Duconge-Soler, Hilton Franqui-Rivera, Roberto Feliu-Maldonado, Abiel Roche-Lima, Israel Almodovar-Rivera   +5 more
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