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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Caribbean Islands"”.
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Studies of new world treehoppers of the subfamily Centrotinae with emphasis on the Caribbean fauna (hemiptera: membracidae)
… undescribed genera from Central America and the Caribbean islands. Bayesian phylogenetic analyses based on 115 morphological characters, nuclear ribosomal 28S DNA and protein-coding histone 3 (H3) gene sequence fragments were performed to test the monophyly of two centrotine tribes endemic to the …
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Limited Resource Countries and Agricultural Development: A Methodology Used for the Caribbean
… to economic development in the smaller Caribbean islands. It is also aimed at outlining an appropriate model for development planning and the policy options consistent with these plans.
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High resolution sedimentary archives of past millennium hurricane activity in the Bahama Archipelago
… populations along the U.S. coastline and in the Caribbean islands. Unfortunately, little is known about the forces that alter hurricane activity on multi-decadal to centennial timescales. This thesis uses proxy development and proxy-model integration to constrain the spatiotemporal variability in …
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Youth and at-risk behavior: the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in the Caribbean Island of Dominica
Hurricane devastation in the Caribbean has become a very common phenomenon over the past decades, and the destruction that follows comes with severe implications for the people directly affected by it. This study aims to explore the experiences and perspectives of youth in the aftermath of …
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Genetic Structure of Amblyomma Cajennense (Acari: Ixodidae) Populations Based on Mitochondrial Gene Sequences
… regions of the United States (Texas), to the Caribbean Islands, Central, and South America. This tick is a vector of the agent of Brazilian spotted fever, an often fatal disease in South America. Throughout its geographic range, populations of A. cajennense have shown differences in ecological …
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Spanish-Creole characteristics in the dialect of people with African origins in Port Limón, Costa Rica
… project examines the language spoken by the Afro-Caribbean population in Port Limón, Costa Rica. This language resulted from the cultural blend of peoples from Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, and other Caribbean islands that immigrated to the Atlantic coast region of Costa Rica in the …
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A REVISION OF THE GENUS ODONTONEMA (ACANTHACEAE)
… location). Odontonema also is found on the Caribbean Islands. The genus consists of four major groups which, at this time, are not given formal taxonomic recognition: 1) red-purple (rarely white) flowered species (O. callistachyum and its relatives); 2) red flowered species with typically a …
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A late Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a coastal lake in northeastern Dominican Republic
… Although coastal paleoenvironments in the Caribbean have been a subject of increasing interest, long-term environmental reconstructions from lakes on the Atlantic side of the Caribbean islands are lacking. Laguna Limon is a freshwater lake in the El Seibo province of northeastern Dominican …
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Assessment of the Small Indian Mongoose (Herpestes auropunctatus) in Sustaining Cattle Fever Tick populations in Puerto Rico
… invasive mongoose prevalent throughout many Caribbean islands.
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The Preservation of the Colonial Spanish Horse and Robert E. Brislawn, Sr.
… In 1493, the Spanish horse importation to the Caribbean islands provided an important stimulus to American exploration as an agent of transportation. In the late nineteenth century, the necessity of horses declined with the advent of railroads and motorized vehicles. Reduction of Native …
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Latino families’ expectations about the process of family therapy, therapists, treatment outcome, termination, and future therapy
… from Central and South America, Mexico, and Caribbean Islands, which are Cuba, Dominican Republican, and Puerto Rico. Participants answered an online qualitative survey. After data were analyzed, five themes and several subthemes were found in this study: (1) Positive Experience in Therapy, …
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Foregrounding the Experiences of Skilled Immigrant Women from the Caribbean in the Canadian Labour Market
… on the lived experiences of women from the Caribbean in the Canadian labour market who migrate to Canada as skilled workers. It examines their lived experiences of racism and sexism to scope out connections with the historical and contemporary constructions of race and gender in Canada, …
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The Impact of the Haitian Revolution on the Hispanic Caribbean, c. 1791-1830
… examines how the slave uprising in the French Caribbean sugar colony of Saint-Domingue (1791-1804) had dramatic and long-lasting repercussions on the neighbouring Spanish possessions of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo. Events in Saint-Domingue took place during a period of profound change …
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Origins and Genetic Structure of the Garifuna Population of Central America
… peoples of Belize and their predecessors in the Caribbean, the Black Carib of St. Vincent Island. The population which resides in the Carib Indian reserve on the island of Dominica, where the population is thought to be a relic of the Native American groups who initially inhabited the Caribbean …
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The Role of Care Practices, Mutual Aid, and Racial Formation in Black Newcomer Practitioners’ Lived Experience Within Organizations: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry
… 14 counties across continental Africa and the Caribbean Islands. The research questions were analyzed using two different analytical methods. First, a thematic analysis (Padgett, 2017) and then a critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 2012) were employed to learn about the lived experience of …
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Lake Sediment-Based Reconstructions of Late-Holocene Lowland Environments of Dominican Republic and Barbuda, Northern Caribbean
… and environmental change on landscapes of the Caribbean islands. This dissertation examined the long-term environmental history of two sites in the northern Caribbean primarily through the analysis of proxy data sources contained in sediment cores. At Laguna Alejandro, a coastal lagoon in the …
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Residents' perceptions of tourism.
… of Speightstown and Charlotteville in the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Tobago, respectively. The first stage involved a pilot study which consisted of two focus group meetings. The outcome of these sessions provided useful information for refining the draft questionnaire, which …
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Molecular epidemiology of West Nile virus in North America
… Canadian provinces, as well as Mexico, several Caribbean Islands, and Colombia. In order to understand how the virus has evolved since its emergence in North America, this dissertation investigates the genetic and phenotypic variation among WNV isolates collected in various regions of North …
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Hybridité, animalité et métissage : la littérature francophone contemporaine entre parasitisme et devenir-autre
… the French colonies (mainly in Africa and in the Caribbean islands), has known two major moments in the 20th century, where it distanced itself from metropolitan French Literature: in the forties, fifties and sixties, with the movement of the « négritude » and more recently, in the nineties, with …
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