Browsing by Subject "Puerto Rico"
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(2020-02-07)On August 8, 1899, hurricane San Ciriaco ravaged Puerto Rico, killing nearly 3,000 people in the floodwaters. The U.S. military’s occupational government reacted quickly in the aftermath and petitioned the federal government ...
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(2015-07-14)Occurrence patterns and social behaviors of North Atlantic humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) (NAHW) wintering off Puerto Rico were investigated to examine the relationship of this area to the aggregation wintering ...
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(2018-09-12)This study provides a new reading of the writings of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg as an ethico-political theorist. Schomburg has been widely recognized as a bibliophile and even as a black historian, but his contribution as ...
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(2022-07-25)This dissertation examines how Puerto Ricans developed anti-war strategies that rejected the notion of military service as a method to attain social and economic equality during the second half of the 20th century. Central ...
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(2019-04-24)Anaplasma spp., the causative agent of Anaplasmosis in bovine species, is a rickettsial parasite that is transmitted through tick-vectors. The species of Anaplasma that are known to infect cattle are Anaplasma centrale, ...
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(2020-12-04)This study examines Puerto Rico’s role as a “bridge between the Americas” from the War of 1898 to the 1930s, and the consequences for inter-American relations and Puerto Rican national identity. Specifically, I address ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-04-12)On 30 December 1986, a local fisherman incidentally discovered the remains of a seventeenth-century merchantman off the coast of Rincon, a small municipality on Puerto Rico's west coast. Some days later, he and some ...
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(2020-04-16)Tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) are a significant source of health and economic burden in the Puerto Rican livestock industry. Previous research suggests that upwards of U.S. $6.7 million is lost annually to TBP related ...
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(2012-10-19)In the last thirty years, a large number of studies have researched the destination image that visitors, travel industry representatives, students, and general consumers have of tourist destinations. However, few studies ...