Gómez-Andújar, Nicolás X Woodill, A John Villegas, Ciera Watson, James R
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Environmental Research Letters
Small-scale fisheries provide vital food security for coastal communities worldwide, yet they face numerous challenges. In particular, fisheries conflicts arise when a marine resource is contested or disputed between a minimum of two actors. Despite the potentially large impacts of fisheries conflicts on marine-based economies, it is difficult to q...
Shad, Nayeli Colón-López, Vivian Pérez, Cynthia M López-Cepero, Andrea
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Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges in accessing food, water, medications, and healthcare services some of which are linked with lower self-rated health (SRH). These challenges have already been documented in the US, but it remains unknown how the pandemic affected access to food, water, medications and healthcare services, and how these chall...
Gonzalez, Juan Carlos Feinberg, Daniel K Stewart, Regan W Young, John Orengo-Aguayo, Rosaura
BackgroundIdentifying factors associated with post-disaster youth substance use is a crucial element of developing evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts. Hurricane María struck Puerto Rico in September of 2017 and the wide-spread impact from this disaster, including exposure to trauma, displacement, and disrupted social supports had th...
Ruiz-Barrionuevo, Juliana M. Kardas, Elif Rodríguez-Barreras, Ruber Quiñones-Otero, Marcos A. Ruiz-Diaz, Claudia P. Toledo-Hernández, Carlos Godoy-Vitorino, Filipa
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Frontiers in Microbiology
Introduction In recent decades, Caribbean coral reefs have lost many vital marine species due to diseases. The well-documented mass mortality event of the long-spined black sea urchin Diadema antillarum in the early 1980s stands out among these collapses. This die-off killed over 90% of D. antillarum changing the reefscape from coral to algal-domin...
Bourgade, Marcel
Fundamentally this history of the endemic iguanas of the Caribbean, reconstructed on the basis of data from the paleobiology and paleogeology of the biodiversity of the Caribbean, contributes to a questioning of the vision hitherto accepted underestimating the tectonic geological history , presenting an eastern Caribbean which would be made up of a...
Bourgade, Marcel
Fundamentally this history of the Eleutherodactylus johnstonei endemic to the Caribbean, tracing their origin and their dispersal, reconstituted on the basis of data from paleobiology and paleogeology of the biodiversity of the Caribbean, contributes to a questioning of the vision until then admitted underestimating the tectonic geological history,...
Pons-Calvo, Adriana D. Pérez, Cynthia M. Canales-Birriel, Karelys Tamarit-Quevedo, Zaydelis Solís-Torres, Norangelys López-Cepero, Andrea García-Rivera, Enid Larriuz, María Acosta-Pérez, Edna Colón, Marcilyn
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Frontiers in Public Health
In September 2020, the National Institutes of Health acted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, recognizing the critical need to combat misinformation, particularly in communities disproportionately affected by the crisis. The Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) emerged as an initiative dedicated to fostering reliable, science-based information, ...
Tavárez, Héctor Cortés, Mildred
This study uses a questionnaire to examine device use effects in choice experiments and to estimate willingness to pay (WTP) values for agritourism-related activities. The results indicate that respondents using devices with large screens are more confident of their responses, dedicate more time to the valuation exercise, and select the status quo ...
Doyle, Cassidy Andel, Ross Saenz, Joseph Crowe, Michael
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The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences
"SuperAgers" are generally defined as people 80+ years old with episodic memory performance comparable to those 20 years younger. Limited knowledge exists to describe characteristics of SuperAgers, with even less known about Hispanic SuperAgers. We examined indicators of cognitive, physical, and psychological resilience in relation to the likelihoo...
Alemán Iglesias, Javier
Resumen En este trabajo presentamos una breve descripción de la relación entre la inmigración de extranjeros y el auge del ingenio de caña azúcar durante el contexto del siglo XIX. La Real Cédula de Gracias de 1815 facilitó la inmigración de extranjeros y muchos de ellos establecieron ingenios azucareros en diversos lugares del país. En el artículo...