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Showing 1 to 20 of 242 for “"Dominican"”.
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Andrew Johnson and the Dominican Republic
… advantages to the United States of annexing the Dominican Republic. Hispaniola, lying between Puerto Rico and Cuba, controls the Mona Passage, which is dominated by Samana Bay. The bay, approximately eighteen miles wide by thirty miles long, is guarded seaward by the keys of Levantado and …
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A solar energy strategy for the Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic has a historical crisis in its energy sector due to an unreliable electrical grid system that causes high levels of technical and non-technical losses in transmission and distribution. This is exacerbated by the fact that the country depends on fossil fuels for over 80% of …
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Tracing Dominican Attitudes Towards Race: A Historical Analysis
<p>The common misconception is that all Dominicans are racist – that Dominicans live in a Fanonesque reality where we believe we are white, but we clearly inhabit black bodies. These attitudes permeate Dominican society from the highest echelons of power to the everyday experiences of Dominicans on …
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Evaluation of renewable energy strategies in the Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic electricity sector has been in crisis for decades, because of the ageing grid system, technical and nontechnical losses and the dependency of around 85% of its electricity from fossil fuel. However, the situation in the Dominican Republic is contradicting; the country has high …
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The Intonational System of Dominican Spanish: Findings and Analysis
A comparison of the tonal levels of the principal tones of the three utterance types revealed several interesting findings, including: the lack of initial tonal difference between DS declaratives and absolute interrogatives, the presence of nuclear upstepping to distinguish between declaratives and …
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Household scale slow sand filtration in the Dominican Republic
… 2004, the author traveled to the northwestern Dominican Republic to evaluate the performance of BioSand filters installed over the past two years. BioSand filter performance was evaluated based on flow rate, turbidity removal and total coliform removal in communities surrounding the cities of …
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The effects of tobacco policies in the Dominican Republic
A tobacco supply function for the Dominican Republic was estimated and the resulting coefficients used to measure the effects of government policies on tobacco production. Nominal (Direct and Total) protection rates (NRP) and effective rates of protection (ERP) were estimated for tobacco, corn, and …
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Experiential Blackness: Race, Identity, and Memory in Contemporary Dominican Society
… at the center of discussions of race in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally, scholars have painted the Dominican Republic as a society ignorant of its own history of blackness and devoid of a black consciousness. They argue that Dominicans deny their African ancestry because of their hatred …
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Process of definition and development of the Haitian-Dominican borderland
… of approximately 15,000 Haitians ordered by the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1937 is the event that brought attention to the border nationalization process. In my research I argue that the conflict between the two countries had both an economic and a racial base and that the closure and …
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Armature: Infill, A Health Care Facility in Verón, Dominican Republic
… in the community of Verón located in the Dominican Republic. Through the exploration of materials, the identity of the project is defined by a series of walls that bring order and scale to not only the clinic but the surrounding community as well.
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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of a Coastal Lagoon in Southwestern Dominican Republic
… and in high- and mid-elevation sites in the Dominican Republic, and a few other inland and coastal locations throughout the Caribbean; however, to date little has been published on prehistoric conditions in other coastal areas of Hispaniola. Laguna Alejandro (informally named by researchers) …
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Implementation of building information modelling in the Dominican Republic construction industry
The Dominican Republic (D.R.) is a Caribbean nation whose construction industry is key in the economic growth and development of the country; however, the productivity of the sector is being affected by inefficient traditional practices. The increased use and proven benefits of Building Information …
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Meeting the Needs of International Students at Dominican University of California
… the academic needs of international students at Dominican University of California and compared the reported needs of these students with those of the larger population of international students. Of the 55 surveys distributed, 38 were returned. Survey results show that a large percentage of …
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Politics and land reform: the case of Esperanza, the Dominican Republic
The case of Esperanza in the Dominican Republic illustrates graphically that land reform is used by governmental leaders as a political tool; although land reform is continuously promised in the Dominican Republic, it is rarely delivered. The state has realized autonomy from class factions by …
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LA FIESTA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO: AN ORIGINAL WORK FOR CHOIR, SOLOISTS, AND SMALL ENSEMBLE INFLUENCED BY THE SANTERIA MUSIC OF THE AFRICAN-DOMINICAN COMMUNITY IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
… role of Santería music as practiced by African Dominicans in Villa Mella, a neighborhood of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This musical tradition comes from the culture and religion of the Yoruba people who were brought as slaves from Africa, and features complex drum rhythms and …
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