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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Hispaniola"”.
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A comparative display analysis of three sibling species of Anolis lizards from Hispaniola
The display repertoires of three sibling species of Anolis lizards, were quantitatively analyzed and described. These species are distributed along Haiti's western coast with no major geographic barriers separating their populations. Anolis websteri is the northernmost species, Anolis caudalis is …
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Andrew Johnson and the Dominican Republic
… that the Bay of Samana/ /on the eastern tip of Hispaniola/ is one of the finest and most valuable of all the bays in the West Indies. It commands the Mona Passage. It is capacious enough to hold the ships of the whole world; it is free from the hurricanes which are often experienced in the …
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REVISED STRATIGRAPHIC AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO RIDGE; AN EMERGING PUSH-UP STRUCTURE IN THE NORTHEAST DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
… a major fracture in the northeast of the Hispaniola Island and separates an uplifted oceanic crust represented by the Cordillera Septentrional, and a “fore arc” basin, corresponding to the Cibao Valley. The San Francisco Ridge is a 50 km long by 11 km wide deformed and faulted asymmetrical …
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Present day plate boundary deformation in the Caribbean and crustal deformation on southern Haiti
… along the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola subduction. This improved GPS velocity field in the Lesser Antilles excludes more than 3 mm/yr of strain accumulation on the Lesser Antilles-Puerto Rico subduction plate interface, which appears essentially uncoupled. The transition from …
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Analyzing Evapotranspiration in the Tropical Montane Cloud Forest at Sierra de Bahoruco, Dominican Republic
… behave in the future is the main goal of The Hispaniola Lakes Project. The purpose of this project is to investigate the effects that hydrometeorological drivers are having on the forested areas located in Sierra de Bahoruco, which is located in the southern part of the lake catchment, and to …
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Process of definition and development of the Haitian-Dominican borderland
… borderline that currently divides the island of Hispaniola has undergone a complicated process of definition. Since colonial times, central authorities have claimed the area while contradictorily ignoring the societies that developed in the region. It was not until the first decades of the …
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The role of long-term tectonic deformation on present day seismicity in the Caribbean and Central America
… rates in areas near the Middle American Trench, Hispaniola, the northeastern Caribbean, and northern South America indicate tectonic deformation that may result in seismic events. We conclude the tectonic deformation plays a critical role in explaining present-day seismicity along land masses …
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The Domestic Worker in Latinx Fiction: The Discursive Formation of Latinidad
… historical and socio-political background of Hispaniola, we can understand the embodied context of race and national belonging, and how these contexts establish symbolic borders between the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and the United States. The exclusion of these characters from the canon of …
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Computational investigation of pathogen evolution
… after the introduction of the pathogen to Hispaniola to gain insight into genomic change and functional evolution during an epidemic. I then (2) use changes in the Lassa genome to estimate the time that the pathogen has been circulating in Nigeria and in Sierra Leone, and to pinpoint sites …
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Fear of a Black Country: Dominican Anti-Haitianism, the Denial of Racism, and Contradictions in the Aftermath of the 2010 Earthquake.
… Caribbean countries that share the same island, Hispaniola, and a tumultuous history. Both countries' historical relationship is ridden with geopolitical conflict stemming from the DR creating an unwelcoming environment for Haitian immigrants. This dissertation is a interdisciplinary study that …
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Experiential Blackness: Race, Identity, and Memory in Contemporary Dominican Society
… share the same land mass, traditionally known as Hispaniola. In this thesis, I argue that despite blackness being pushed to the margins of official or State conceptions of dominicanidad (Dominicanness or Dominican identity), blackness is integral to the shaping of history, collective and …
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Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of a Coastal Lagoon in Southwestern Dominican Republic
… prehistoric conditions in other coastal areas of Hispaniola. Laguna Alejandro (informally named by researchers) (~18.31°N, 71.03°W), on the southwest coast of the Dominican Republic, was examined to expand our knowledge of long-term environmental history in this region. This ~25 hectare lake is …
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Systematics, Biogeography and Leaf Anatomy and Architecture of Bursera subgen. Bursera (Burseraceae) in the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas
… of the species of <em>Bursera</em> in Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and the Bahamas. The goals of the first chapter were to test monophyly of the group, revisit a recent transfer of two species of <em>Bursera</em> to <em>Commiphora</em>, and place recently discovered mainland species using the …
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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 …