• SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence, cumulative infections, and immunity to symptomatic infection – A multistage national household survey and modelling study, Dominican Republic, June–October 2021 

      Nilles, Eric J.; Then Paulino, Cecilia; St. Aubin, Michael de; Cadavid Restrepo, Angela; Mayfield, Helen; Dumas, Devan; Finch, Emilie; Garnier, Salome; Etienne, Marie Caroline; Iselin, Louisa; Duke, William; Jarolim, Petr; Oasan, Timothy; Yu, Jingyou; Wan, Huahua; Peña, Farah; Iihoshi, Naomi; Abdalla, Gabriela; Lopez, Beatriz; Cruz, Lucia de la; Henríquez, Bernarda; Espinosa-Bode, Andres; Cornelio Puello, Yosanly; Durski, Kara; Baldwin, Margaret; Baez, Amado Alejandro; Merchant, Roland C; Barouch, Dan H.; Skewes-Ramm, Ronald; Zielinski Gutiérrez, Emily; Kucharski, Adam; Laue, Colleen L. (Elsevier Ltd., 2022-11-08)
      Background Population-level SARS-CoV-2 immunological protection is poorly understood but can guide vaccination and non-pharmaceutical intervention priorities. Our objective was to characterise cumulative infections and ...
    • Self-motivational Beliefs that Enhance Self- regulation of Students in Virtual Courses 

      Pinto-Guillergua, Vanessa; Gómez-Carbonel, Piero Enrique; Mamani-Calcina, Jorge; Montoya-Cantoral, Elisa; Villalba-Condori, Klinge Orlando (Elsevier B.V, 2023)
      The present research exposes the way in which eight students selected from virtual environments of a Peruvian institute of higher education perceive their self-regulation processes in the planning stage. The approach is ...
    • Seroprevalence of specific antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 from hotspot communities in the Dominican Republic. 

      Paulino-Ramírez, Robert; Báez, Amado Alejandro; Vallejo Degaudenzi, Alejandro; Tapía, Leandro (The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2020)
      Seroprevalence surveys are of utmost importance to assess the proportion of a population that has developed antibodies against a newly introduced virus and could therefore potentially exhibit immunologic protection against ...
    • Socioeconomic factors and all cause and cause-specific mortality among older people in Latin America, India, and China: a population-based cohort study. 

      Ferri, Cleusa P.; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Gaona, Ciro; Liu, Zhaorui; Noriega, L.; Jotheeswaran, A. T.; Prince, Martin J. (PloS Medicine, 2012)
      Even in low and middle income countries most deaths occur in older adults. In Europe, the effects of better education and home ownership upon mortality seem to persist into old age, but these effects may not generalise ...
    • Soil fertility evaluation of coffee (Coffea spp.) production systems and management recommendations for the Barahona province, Dominican Republic. 

      Núñez, P.A.; Pimentel, A.; Almonte, I.; Sotomayor-Ramírez, D.; Martínez, N.; Pérez, A.; Céspedes, C.M. (2011)
      Reported yields in most coffee farms of the Barahona province in the Dominican Republic are relatively low (< 290 kg ha-1 parchment coffee). In general, coffee producers do not use diagnostic techniques such as soil ...
    • Specification, Verification, and Calibration of Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Antennas 

      Lisi, Marco (IEEE, 2021)
      Active Electronically Scanned Arrays (AESA's) have gained over the last years an increasing interest and utilization, for both space and ground applications. On board satellites, such antennas are often adopted in ...
    • The stonemasons’ marks in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo, the first cathedral of the new world. 

      Sasso, Virginia Flores; Prieto Vicioso, Esteban (Springer, 2023-10-19)
      In the Middle Ages and early modern period, masons inscribed symbols on dressed stonework and ashlars to identify the work of the individual or team that quarried or dressed the stone or of the workshop of origin. Other ...
    • Strain and its correlates among carers of people with dementia in low-income and middle-income countries. A 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based survey. 

      Prince, Martin J.; Brodaty, Henry; Uwakwe, Richard; Acosta, Daisy; Ferri, Cleusa P.; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Llibre Rodríguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph D.; Jotheeswaran, A. T.; Liu, Zhaorui (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2012)
      In a multi-site population-based study in several middle-income countries, we aimed to investigate relative contributions of care arrangements and characteristics of carers and care recipients to strain among carers of ...
    • Surgical-orthodontic retreatment of a severe skeletal Class III malocclusion following an orthodontic camouflage 

      Martino, Francisco; Peña, Manuel; Joubert, Rony (Dental Press J. Orthod., 2021)
      Class III malocclusions are some of the most difficult occlusal anomalies to be treated. Some patients with this condition may require orthognathic surgery, while others may be treated with dental camouflage. Proper patient ...
    • A survey of natural resource and national parks knowledge and attitudes of Dominican Republic citizens 

      Batista Berroa, Juan Leonel; Roth, Robert E. (The Journal of Environmental Education, 2013-10-21)
      The main purpose of this study was to ascertain the current level of ecological knowledge and attitudes of citizens of the Dominican Republic regarding national parks and natural resources. A cluster random sample of five ...
    • Symmetry dynamics in leadership and management 

      Concepción, Js. Gilberto (NSTI Nanotechnology Conference and Trad e Show - NSTI Nanotech 2006 Technical Proceedings, 2006)
      A symme try model based on Molecular Orbital symmetry of neurotransmitters and their interaction with ion channeling effect is proposed that let us relate thinking coordination patterns to leadership and management conditions ...
    • Taking the devil out of the details 

      Santos, Manuel de los (Water and Wastewater International, 2009)
      The St. H elens Wastewater Treatment Plant in Tasmania, Australia utilizes multi-barrier membrane technology, called AquaMB System, to meet the requirements of strict effluent quality. The technology has been supplied by ...
    • Tau protein phosphorylated at threonine-231 is expressed abundantly in the cerebellum in prion encephalopathies. 

      Gómez López, Víctor Manuel; Viramontes Pintos, Amparo; Ontiveros Torres, Miguel Ángel; Garcés Ramírez, Linda; Cruz López, Fidel de la; Villanueva Fierro, Ignacio; Bravo Muñoz, Marely; Harrington, Charles R.; Martínez Robles, Sandra; Yescas, Petra; Guadarrama Ortíz, Parménides; Hernándes Alejandro, Mario; Montiel Sosa, Francisco; Pacheco Herrero, Mar; Luna Muñoz, José (Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2021-04-02)
      Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are rare neurodegenerative disorders that affect animals and humans. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, and Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (CJD) in humans belong to ...
    • Telemedicine to expand access to critical care around the world 

      Ganapathy, Krishnan; Praveen Haranath, Sai; Baez, Amado Alejandro; Scott, Benjamin K. (Critical Care Clinics, 2022)
      This multiauthored communication gives a state-of-the-art global perspective on the increasing adoption of tele-critical care. Exponentially increasing sophistication in the deployment of Computers, Information, and ...
    • Testicular function in 2 cases of penile agenesis 

      Gautier, Teófilo; Salient, Jorge; Pena, Santiago; Imperto-McGinley, Julianne; Peterson, Ralph E. (The Journal of Urology, 1981-10-05)
      Two cases of congenital absence of the penis are presented. In both cases testicular androgen function was adequate, as judged by measurements of plasma androgens after administration of human chorionic gonadotropin
    • Tobacco use and dementia: evidence from the 1066 dementia population-based surveys in Latin America, China and India 

      Ferri, Cleusa P; West, Robert; Moriyama, Tais S.; Acosta, Daisy; Guerra, Mariella; Huang, Yueqin; Jacob, K. S.; Ribeiro, Wagner; Llibre de Rodriguez, Juan J.; Salas, Aquiles; Sosa, Ana Luisa; Williams, Joseph; Acosta, Isaac; Liu, Zhaouri; Guerra Hernández, Milagros A.; J Prince, Martin (International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2011-02-09)
      To assess the association between tobacco consumption and dementia using the same methodology in seven developing countries, testing the specific hypotheses that higher exposure to tobacco is associated with a higher ...
    • Trace element determination of mercury by total-reflection X-ray fluorescence 

      Greaves, E.D.; Alfonso Sosa, J.; Sajo-Bohus, L.; Alvarez, M.; Wobrauschek, P.; Streli, Ch. (Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, 1997-07-01)
      A rapid and simple method is presented for the determination of trace amounts of ionic mercury in solutions by total-reflection X-ray fluorescence. The method relies on the formation of a mercury amalgam on a 50 nm thick ...
    • Tracking immune correlates of protection foremerging SARSCoV- 2 variants 

      Nilles, Eric J; Then Paulino, Cecilia; de St Aubin, Michael; Duke, William; Jarolim, Petr; Sanchez, Isaac Miguel; Murray, Kristy O; L Lau, Colleen; Zielinski Gutiérrez, Emily; Skewes Ramm, Ronald; Vasquez, Marietta; Kucharski, Adam (www.thelancet.com/infection, 2023-02-23)
      Here we report a proof of concept for monitoring variant-specific SARS-CoV-2 COP using existing surveillance infrastructure in the Dominican Republic. However, global networks of acute febrile illness, influenza-like ...
    • Trauma quality improvement program: a retrospective analysis from a middle eastern National Trauma Center 

      Al-Thani, Hassan; El-Menyar, Ayman; Ahmad Khan, Naushad; Consu, Rafael; Peralta, Ruben; Abdelrahman, Husham; Rizoli, Sandro (Healthcare, 2023-10-31)
      The Trauma Quality Improvement Program (American College of Surgery (ACS-TQIP)) uses the existing infrastructure of the Committee on Trauma programs and provides feedback to participating hospitals on risk-adjusted ...
    • Un espacio de refugio. El asilo eclesiástico en la isla de Santo Domingo 

      Flores-Sasso, Virginia; Prieto-Vicioso, Esteban (Revista de Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos, 2022-06-28)
      El derecho de asilo o inmunidad del sagrado llegó al Nuevo Mundo en 1494 con el proyecto evangelizador planteado por la Corona y la Iglesia, y se mantuvo vigente hasta 1865, aunque con interrupciones. A pesar de los ...