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Puerto Rico - Science topic
An island in the Greater Antilles in the West Indies. Its capital is San Juan. It is a self-governing commonwealth in union with the United States. It was discovered by Columbus in 1493 but no colonization was attempted until 1508. It belonged to Spain until ceded to the United States in 1898. It became a commonwealth with autonomy in internal affairs in 1952. Columbus named the island San Juan for St. John's Day, the Monday he arrived, and the bay Puerto Rico, rich harbor. The island became Puerto Rico officially in 1932. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p987 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p436)
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Saba is a New Country Record for the Creolefish Isopod, Anilocra cf haemuli Bunkley-Williams and Williams, 1981, on the Creolefish, Paranthias furcifer (Valenciennes, 1828). This is a sporadic host for this isopod, possibly because it only abundantly occurs off a few small Caribbean islands (e.g., Mona Island, but not main island of Puerto Rico). W...
Recreational beach use is important for coastal economies and is influenced by water clarity, a trait that may be maintained by water purification ecosystem services (ESs). However, few studies have addressed these linkages. In this study, we ask the following questions: (1) Do watershed-scale water purification ecosystem services influence coastal...
Photographs of the Needlefish Plerocercoid, Otobothrium penetrans Linton, 1907, were sent to us from Puerto Rico for diagnosis. Our report of the Needlefish Plerocercoid, Otobothrium penetrans Linton, 1907, in the Houndfish, Tylosurus crocodilus (Péron and Lesueur, 1821), is a New Caribbean Record. Needlefishes are seldom exploited and thus seldom...
A new species of black coral, Stauropathes monopinnata sp. nov. , represented by two specimens collected 738 m and 1604 m deep off Puerto Rico and Hawaii, respectively, is recognized in the family Schizopathidae. The new species is characterized by a monopodial, unbranched corallum; simple, suboppositely arranged pinnules in two anterolateral rows...
Resumen La siguiente investigación tuvo como propósito realizar un análisis psicométrico de la versión en español del Maslach Burnout Inventory-GS (Salanova et al., 2006) (subescala que forma parte del Cuestionario RED [Recursos Emocionales /Experiencias del Equipo WONT]). El estudio consistió en un análisis secundario de datos con una muestra tota...
NASA’s Lucy Student Pipeline and Competency Enabler (L’SPACE) is a novel student collaboration program designed and implemented for the NASA Lucy Mission. This technical STEM workforce development program has been designed to provide an authentic, team-based learning environment to support STEM majors as they prepare to enter the space exploration...
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The genus Solanum is a diverse group of flowering plants with significant economic importance. Within this genus, the subgenus Leptostemonum, comprising spiny solanums, is particularly noteworthy due to its high species diversity and endemism. Solanum ensifolium, a member of this subgenus, is a critically endangered species endemic to Pu...
The goal of the present report is to summarize some of the ongoing long-term bird
banding programs in the Caribbean, as well as short-term or species-specific research that uses bird banding as a tool. Included are reports from Cuba, Grenada, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad and Tobago, presented in alphabetical order.
Pluteus leoninus is a commonly reported species, characterized by a yellow pileus, yellow colors on the stipe, pleurocystidia provided with digitiform excrescences, and a pileipellis composed of long, fusiform elements. Several species related to P. leoninus have been described from the temperate and boreal areas of the Northern Hemisphere, and pre...
There is limited understanding of how dietary behaviors cluster together and influence cardiometabolic health at a population level in Puerto Rico. Data availability is scarce, particularly outside of urban areas, and is often limited to non-probability sample (NPS) data where sample inclusion mechanisms are unknown. In order to generalize results...
The representativeness and timeliness of sentinel surveillance for endemic and emerging arboviral and respiratory diseases in low-resource settings are understudied. We compared laboratory-confirmed epidemic dengue, non-epidemic dengue, Zika, chikungunya, and COVID-19 (pre-Omicron and Omicron periods) cases reported in Puerto Rico’s Sentinel Enhanc...
Assisted gene flow (AGF) is a conservation approach that facilitates the spread of alleles and may accelerate the recovery of genetically depauperate cohorts. The threatened Caribbean coral Acropora palmata is approaching regional extinction within the western Atlantic partly due to increasing water temperatures associated with global climate chang...
El capital psicológico, es un constructo de la psicología positiva del trabajo. Se define como aquellas capacidades psicológicas que pueden ser medidas, desarrolladas y manejadas para mejorar el desempeño a nivel individual y organizacional. El objetivo de esta investigación fue conocer las propiedades psicométricas de la Escala de Capital Psicológ...
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Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands Veterans (PRVs) have faced recurring challenges from hurricanes, earthquakes, and the COVID-19 pandemic. These events combined with prior traumas and social determinants of health (SDoH), may contribute to neuropsychiatric mental health conditions (MHCs) like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and s...
Durante las últimas décadas, Puerto Rico ha sufrido múltiples crisis sociales, políticas y ambientales que han impactado el bienestar de los puertorriqueños, han empeorado una infraestructura ya deteriorada, y han disminuido la confianza pública en las instituciones políticas tradicionales. En el verano de 2019, luego de que el Centro de Periodismo...
We report the Poretooth Rosette, Irpex rosettiformis (Cooke, 1886), in El Yunque U. S. National Park, Puerto Rico. We also report it in 14 countries where this mushroom has not been reported previously. Useful edible, antioxidant, and dead wood decomposer mushroom; but can also cause disease in live trees.
En el libro “Cada árbol tiene su historia”– a través de anécdotas, cuentos y versos– un grupo de 11 estudiantes subgraduados de diferentes disciplinas del Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez de la Universidad de Puerto Rico abordan lo ecológico desde una mirada ingeniosa y amena. Los textos subrayan la importancia de los árboles tanto en la esfera ec...
This specimen of Antillean Siskin, Spinus dominicensis (Bryant, 1867), from the Dominican Republic, appears to be suffering from Avian Keratin Disorder. The disease has not been reported from the Antillean Siskin nor in the Caribbean. A bill anomaly we reported previously in Puerto Rico, the Grackle Scythebill, in the Greater Antillean Grackle, Qui...
This study in Applied Linguistics to the writing process addresses the challenge of assessing and improving basic writing skills among 120 incoming students at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Faced with instructor reports of significant writing deficiencies and a lack of calibrated, objective evaluation methods like a specific ch...
Despite research and treatment advances in health care, the implementation of research evidence into practice remains a challenge, especially for historically marginalized populations. There have been numerous calls to action to integrate health equity into implementation science frameworks, models, and theories. Yet, progress toward better integra...
Biomass production in the lowland wet tropical forest is greater than in any other biome, and it is typically limited by soil phosphorus (P) availability. However, the mechanisms involved in the P cycle remain poorly represented in Earth System Models (ESMs). Soil P sorption processes are key in the P cycle and for understanding the extent of P lim...
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 on fricative variation among other Spanish varieties, the present study considers center of gra...
El Caño Martín Peña (CMP), a cluster of eight historically informal neighborhoods in San Juan, Puerto Rico, faces long-standing challenges of inadequate infrastructure, persistent flooding, and displacement pressures. In response, the G8 collective—a coalition representing these communities—and the Martín Peña Canal Community Land Trust (CLT) estab...
The current study examines the association between language preference, social determinants of health (SDOH) risk factors, viral load, and HIV care outcomes among individuals of Hispanic ethnicity in the United States. More than half (54%) of all participants reported having two or more unmet needs. Hispanic individuals were more likely to be at ri...
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology uses satellite radar to detect surface deformation patterns and monitor earthquake impacts on buildings. While vital for emergency response planning, extracting multi-class building damage classifications from InSAR data faces challenges: overlapping damage signatures with environmental no...
Studies on microbial sulfur cycling in marine sediment have primarily centered on the cycling of inorganic sulfur. The microbial diversity underlying the cycling of organosulfur compounds is largely unexplored. In this study, we present the first quantification of dissolved organic sulfur (DOS) microbial assimilation in marine surface sediments usi...
As a migratory agricultural pest, the fall armyworm has been in the spotlight since it invaded Africa in 2016. Invasive populations have now colonized much of the Eastern Hemisphere, causing severe damage to a wide range of crops. However, there is still disagreement internationally on the origin and mode of invasion of fall armyworm populations, e...
A published record of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning from Gambierduscis toxicus Adachi and Fukuyo, 1979, has been ignored, and a Casual New Host Record for the Giant Stomach Worm, Hirudinella ventricosa (Pallas, 1774), in the Horse-eye Jack, Caranx latus Agassiz, 1831, in Puerto Rico. This fish is easy to catch and abundant, but not well regarded for tas...
El exilio condujo a María Zambrano a diversos países de Europa e Hispanoamérica. En Puerto Rico pasó largas temporadas entre 1940 y 1945, y a principios de los años sesenta escribió cuarenta y cinco artículos para la revista Semana, en varios de los cuales expresó su interés por los asuntos, los personajes y la historia de Hispanoamérica, y demostr...
En este artículo se recorren los pasos de María Zambrano en suprimer exilio latinoamericano,poniendo especial atención a suestancia en Puerto Rico y Cuba.Tras rastrear las huellas que estasislas dejan en Zambrano, así comolas que ella deja en dichas islas,se profundiza en la concepciónzambraniana de la isla como lugarde exilio —recurrente en varios...
We described this isopod from Cardinalfishes at Mona Island, Puerto Rico. We later had unconfirmed reports from the Bahamas. This New Geographic Record of a Cardinalfish Body Isopod, Renocila colini Williams and Bunkley-Williams, 1980, from Reef Bay, St. John, USVI, on Barred Cardinalfish, Apogon binotatus (Poey, 1867) suggests this isopod has a gr...
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In recent years, Black and Hispanic communities have been disproportionately impacted by growth in stimulant use disorders and overdose‐related mortality. Faith‐based institutions serve an important role in communities, and thus, community‐based interventions to enhance psychoeducation and reduce stigma are a promising area. The American...
While power outages caused by tropical cyclones (TCs) already pose a great threat to coastal communities, how—and why—these risks will change in a warming climate is poorly understood. To address this need, we develop a robust machine learning model to capture TC-induced power outage risk. When applied to 900 000 synthetic TCs downscaled from simul...
Puerto Rico experiences numerous landslides annually, primarily caused by intense and prolonged rainfall. They pose a significant risk to residents, many of whom live in landslide-prone areas. Monitoring soil hydraulic conditions before, during, and after rainfall events can provide insights into the conditions that trigger landslide activity on th...
Puerto Rico faces a significant health crisis due to the mass migration of physicians to the United States, exacerbating the challenge of achieving the World Health Organisation’s recommended physician-to-population ratio. While economic factors such as higher salaries in the US have been identified as primary drivers, the complexity of this migrat...
El ecomapa: herramienta esencial en trabajo social para trabajar con familias que cuentan con hijos con doble excepcionalidad Nancy Viana Vázquez ¹ Resumen Este artículo presenta las redes de apoyo identificadas por familias que tienen población infantojuvenil con doble excepcionalidad en Puerto Rico. La doble excepcionalidad se refiere a personas...
Objectives
To conduct a Geospatial Information System analysis of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) centers in the United States utilizing data from the U.S. Census Bureau to better understand access to ECMO care and identify potential disparities.
Design
A cross-sectional descriptive and statistical analysis of geospatial access to ECMO-...
The main aim of this study is to explore the relationship between the elderly population and economic growth in 25 North and South American countries use annual secondary data from 1961 to 2021. Instead of focusing on the conditional mean, this study tests for Granger causality in the entire conditional distribution of the elderly population and ec...
The brown rock sea cucumber (Holothuria glaberrima) microbiome is vital for understanding its ecological dynamics. This study focuses on the microbial composition and abundance of fungi across different intestinal regions of H. glaberrima, giving insights into host-microbe interactions and supporting future ecological and comparative studies on the...
Puerto Rico has endured multiple natural disasters in recent years, including Hurricanes Irma and Maria (2017), earthquakes (2019), and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020), which placed significant strain on its healthcare system. This study examined trends in health care utilization for injuries, infectious diseases, and mental health services across Pue...
This is a very complete book, in the sense that it presents the various realities of the types of media that exist in Puerto Rico, and their problems, and that, in turn, includes a look at alternative journalism and the so-called critical digital press. Despite its volume, and its clear intention to examine all the important issues regarding the me...
Introduction. Leptospirosis is endemic to Puerto Rico, affecting people through seasonal increases and outbreaks. This report describes the diagnostic approach and clinical characteristics of leptospirosis cases identified through active undifferentiated acute febrile illness (UAFI) surveillance in Puerto Rico.
Materials and Methods. From 2019-2021...
Objective
Robust research has established that preexisting physical and mental health conditions increase risk for adverse psychiatric outcomes after disasters. However, it is unclear if increased risk is independent of disaster exposure, and most studies have relied on retrospective reports of pre-disaster functioning.
Methods
In a pre-post sampl...
Background
Despite the high burden of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias among the Hispanic population worldwide, little is known about how dementia affects healthcare utilizations among this population outside of the US, in particular among those in the Caribbean region.
Objective
This study examines healthcare utilization associated with Al...
Background
Distinguishing between non-severe and severe dengue is crucial for timely intervention and reducing morbidity and mortality. World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended warning signs offer a practical approach for clinicians but have limited sensitivity and specificity. This study aims to evaluate machine learning (ML) model performance...
Resumen: Esta investigación evaluó el impacto de una intervención combinada de artes expresivas y mindfulness en la reducción de la fatiga por compasión y el aumento de los niveles de atención plena en profesionales de la salud en Puerto Rico. Dada la alta susceptibilidad de esta población al agotamiento y a la fatiga por compasión, que afectan a s...
Background: In the 6 months following Hurricane Maria the number of people who died from the hurricane was much higher than was initially estimated from death certificates. Disruption of health care services and displacement led to the exacerbation of pre-existing chronic diseases. The objectives of this study were to (1) estimate the excess deaths...
The heightened need for skilled behavioral health professionals in primary care in Puerto Rico has been compounded by socioeconomic hardships and the lasting effects of significant natural disasters. The Train-Deploy-Monitor model was conceived to address this need and create a framework for workforce development in integrated primary care. The mod...
La presente investigación examinó la adaptación de los docentes universitarios a la educación remota de emergencia durante la pandemia de COVID-19, utilizando el modelo transicional de Schlossberg como marco teórico principal. El estudio surge en el contexto de una transición abrupta y sin precedentes en la educación superior puertorriqueña, agrava...
Estudiamos el discurso de María Zambrano en Isla de Puerto Rico y prestamos especial atención a una enigmática propuesta: "tomar en vilo el peso de la propia vida 'diciendo sí y no como Cristo nos enseña'”. Ello nos llevará al sufismo de Ibn ‘Arabī y, finalmente, a una carta que Zambrano escribe en los años cincuenta a Gabriela Mistral.
El objetivo de este escrito es demostrar que la organización clandestina llamada Comandos Revolucionarios Independentistas Armados (CRIA), fue una organización fantasma creada por la Oficina Federal de Investigación (FBI por sus sigla en inglés) para justificar sus acciones represivas en contra del movimiento independentista en Puerto Rico. Dada la...
A 2000 m 3 washer tank at a crude oil treatment plant suffered a structural collapse, involving total loss of integrity. A fast fracture initiated in a sector of the shell with a severe thickness reduction due to combined internal and external corrosion. The fracture bent and propagated horizontally, at the shell-roof intersection and at the joint...
Este documento es un memorial explicativo sobre el Proyecto del Senado 6, «Ley de Reconocimiento Universal de Licencias Ocupacionales y Licencias Profesionales en Puerto Rico». Incluye las secciones «Importancia y necesidad del Proyecto del Senado 6»; «Asuntos del Proyecto del Senado 6 que se deben mejorar» (como el lenguaje de los requisitos de si...
Resumen: Esta investigación evaluó el impacto de una intervención combinada de artes expresivas y mindfulness en la reducción de la fatiga por compasión y el aumento de los niveles de atención plena en profesionales de la salud en Puerto Rico. Dada la alta susceptibilidad de esta población al agotamiento y a la fatiga por compasión, que afectan a s...
Introduction
The prevalence of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) has increased rapidly, highlighting the importance of its detection using quick tools applicable to men and women from different countries.
Objective
To analyze the psychometric properties of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder Test (GAD-7) by gender and country in Latin America and th...
Este estudio examinó el impacto de la pandemia del COVID-19 en una muestra de trabajadores de la República Dominicana,
Puerto Rico y los Estados Unidos de América explorando la percepción de las demandas (CWD) y los recursos laborales,
y su impacto en la salud mental (ansiedad y depresión) y en el conflicto trabajo-familia (WFCDC). Además, se exami...
En 1948 Juan Ramón Jiménez, invitado por Los Anales de Buenos Aires, realizó una gira de conferencias por diversas ciudades de Argentina y Uruguay. La mayoría recogían su pensamiento político y social, mostrando una faceta alejada del tópico del poeta descomprometido. Algunas habían sido pronunciadas en Cuba, Puerto Rico o Estados Unidos, pero en 1...
L'avènement du numérique a eu des effets certains sur la circulation des musiques populaires dans le monde : d'une part, les échanges sont plus intenses que jamais ; d'autre part, le numérique contribue à l'apparition d'un nouveau paradigme de participation interactive des publics et des formes de « créativité » plus répandues dans les pratiques mu...
Importance
Payment system design creates incentives that impact healthcare spending, access, and outcomes. With Medicare Advantage accounting for more than half of Medicare spending, changes to its risk adjustment algorithm have the potential for broad consequences.
Objective
To develop risk adjustment algorithms that can achieve fair spending targ...
La presentación aporta información sobre la vida de José Medina Echevarria nacido en Castellón de la Plana en 1903 y murió en Santiago de Chile en 1974. Se exilió en 1939 a México y de allí partió para Puerto Rico y posteriormente a Chile donde trabajó en la CEPAL y en Flacso. Sus aportaciones fueron muy valiosas tanto en la Sociología como teoría...
La relación política, económica y social entre Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos: Un análisis de los desafíos y tensiones en la búsqueda de identidad y autonomía Por: Félix S. Vargas-Angulo
This piece is the final draft of my Global Studies III's final paper on a ethnographic and sociological study on a period and group of our choosing. This paper focuses on the Indigenous Puerto Rican and the Taino Revival movement to evaluate the place both have in larger Puerto Rican society. There is more of a focus on the qualitative discussions...
Coastal communities face unique challenges in maintaining continuous service from critical infrastructure. This research advances capabilities for evaluating the impact of using wave energy to desalinate water on the resilience of coastal communities. The study focuses on the feasibility of using wave energy conversion to provide drinking water to...
We use combinatorial optimization to find the optimal spatial distribution of random samples of earthquakes (≥6.5) that minimize the misfit in target slip rates for all faults in the northeast Caribbean, and we derive magnitude–frequency relationships with uncertainties for these faults. Slip rates for many faults are derived from geodetic block mo...
By employing the qualitative methodology of multiple cases study, the adoption of 4.0 technologies in MSMEs in Puerto Rico is explored, in terms of the drivers, benefits, problems, and challenges of the incorporation processes. The findings reflect that MSMEs belong mostly to the regulated sector and agree that the adoption of technologies allows t...
Background
1,4‐Naphthoquinone compounds have shown pesticidal activity against Aedes aegypti larvae, a key vector of diseases such as dengue and Zika. However, limited knowledge of their structure–activity relationships has hindered their optimization for pesticide development. This study investigates the structure–activity relationships of 1,4‐nap...
The aim of this paper is to show the impact of the gender binary in the workplace, with a special focus on the experiences of the TRANS community in Puerto Rico. This research article, written as a queertext , highlights how social perceptions of gender influence job opportunities, recruitment, and selection processes, as well as discrimination in...
Plain Language Summary
The polar regions are responsible for the formation of deep and bottom waters in the ocean, which account for a significant portion of its volume. The motion of these cold and dense waters is vital for oceanic heat transfer and has a direct impact on the Earth's climate. These deep flows also control sedimentation processes a...
Medusae of the genus Cassiopea are common components of tropical and subtropical coastlines globally. Despite the broad distribution of this benthic scyphozoan, much about their ecology remains poorly described. Here, we collected over 100 adult Cassiopea individuals from Panama, the eastern United States, Cuba, the Philippines, Italy, and Australi...
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) provides over 180 distinct data products from 81 sites (47 terrestrial and 34 freshwater aquatic sites) within the United States and Puerto Rico. These data products include both field and remote sensing data collected using standardized protocols and sampling schema, with centralized quality assur...
All species must partition resources among the processes that underly growth, survival, and reproduction. The resulting demographic trade‐offs constrain the range of viable life‐history strategies and are hypothesized to promote local coexistence. Tropical forests pose ideal systems to study demographic trade‐offs as they have a high diversity of c...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic affected access to healthcare and social support. This especially impacted vulnerable populations like pregnant and postpartum women. Purpose: The specific aims of the project are the following: (1) examine the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy experiences and outcomes; (2) examine the mental health impact of COVID-1...
Measurements during episodes of African dust, made with two wideband integrated bioaerosol spectrometers (WIBSs), one on the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico and the other in the city of León, Spain, show unmistakable, bioaerosol-like fluorescing aerosol particles (FAPs) that can be associated with these dust episodes. The Puerto Rico event occurr...
In the past three decades, Puerto Rico (PR) experienced five hurricanes that met or exceeded category three, and they caused severe forest structural damage and elevated tree mortality. To improve our mechanistic understanding of hurricane impacts on tropical forests and assess hurricane‐affected forest dynamics in Earth system models, we use in si...
Mosquito-transmitted viruses such as dengue are a global and growing public health challenge. Without widely available vaccines, mosquito control is the primary tool for fighting the spread of these viruses. New mosquito control technologies are needed to complement existing methods, given current challenges with scalability, acceptability, and eff...
Ha sido una jornada no exenta de obstáculos y dificultades, todos los cuales han podido ser superados gracias a la confianza depositada en nosotros por los autores, revisores o árbitros, editores convidados y un numeroso grupo de colaboradores; el apoyo conjunto de todos ellos, ha permitido la publicación de 46 volúmenes contentivos de varias cente...
Introduction
Incidence of endometrial cancer (EC) in Hispanic/Latina (H/L) women are higher compared to other race/ethnicities in the United States. EC is the third most common cancer and the fourth cause of cancer-related deaths in Puerto Rican women, yet demographic and clinical information is limited. High rates of EC risk factors such as obesit...
Weathering of ultramafic rocks emplaced at low latitude during arc‐arc and arc‐continent collisions may provide an important sink for atmospheric CO2 over geologic timescales. Accurately modeling the effects of ultramafic rock weathering on Earth's carbon cycle and climate requires understanding mass fluxes from ultramafic landscapes. In this study...
The Puerto Rican population has presented demographic changes resulting in a greater proportion of older adults than almost any other country in the world, with an estimated 28% of the total population being over 60 years of age. A key public health issue in Puerto Rico (PR) is older adults’ mental health and wellbeing. Located in the Caribbean, PR...
Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) accounts for 22% of the new cases diagnosed in Hispanic/Latino (H/L) men in the US. PCa has the highest incidence (38.3%) and mortality (16.4%) among all types of cancer diagnosed in Puerto Rico. We previously showed that PCa patients (n = 41) have a significant reduction of 59% in their levels of DNA repair capaci...
Nearshore bathymetric data are essential for assessing coastal hazards, studying benthic habitats and for coastal engineering. Traditional bathymetry mapping techniques of ship-sounding and airborne LiDAR are laborious, expensive and not always efficient. Multispectral and hyperspectral remote sensing, in combination with machine learning technique...
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), established as part of the CARES Act to address the economic and financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, distributed $813.7 billion in forgivable loans between April 2020 and May 2021. While oversight offices and public accountability organizations initially raised concerns about fraud and mismanagement of...
Coral reefs can mitigate flood damages by providing protection to tropical coastal communities whose populations are dense, growing fast, and have predominantly lower-middle income. This study provides the first fine-scale, regionally modeled valuations of how flood risk reductions associated with hybrid coral reef restoration could benefit people,...
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Introduction: This study investigates associations between fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) exposure and thyroid hormone levels during pregnancy in Puerto Rican individuals, a vulnerable population facing socioeconomic and environmental disparities. Methods: This research draws on data from the PROTECT cohort study and involves 1040 participa...
INTRODUCCIÓN La obra jurídica de la jueza Fiol Matta sobrepasa su legado jurisprudencial, pero este último tiene una importancia institucional que es preciso estudiar con detenimiento. Lo primero nutre lo segundo, porque su obra académica sirve de fermento a los fundamentos que utilizó para adjudicar controversias como jueza tanto del Tribunal de A...
Introduction
Female sex workers are a vulnerable hard-to-reach group. Research in this field is scarce due to several issues, such as methodological difficulties or societal stigmatization. Most of the available literature focuses on sexually transmittable diseases. This review and meta-analysis aim to compile literature on the mental health of fem...
Background
In the United States and Puerto Rico, cognitive decline and resulting Alzheimer’s disease are major public health concerns for older adults. According to the Alzheimer’s Association (2021), by 2050, people ages 65 and above with Alzheimer’s are estimated to grow to 12.7 million—rising in prevalence and severity. The rise in Alzheimer’s p...
Background
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the fourth leading cause of death in Puerto Rico (PR), with an estimated prevalence of 14%. Caregivers are an essential part in the management and care of people with AD. Providing care for a person with Alzheimer can change over time and can become a challenge for the caregivers. For this reason, self‐care is...
Background
Acculturation is a relevant variable in the assessment of dementia. Little is known about the type of acculturation scales and the frequency in which they are used in dementia research among Latinos/Hispanics in the US. The purpose of this paper was to conduct a systematic review of published studies that investigated the use of accultur...
Background
While Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia, it has long been recognized that cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health plays a major role in cognitive function. As such, the development of accessible biomarkers to assess vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) is a key step towards identifying effective p...
