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Medicinal plants in the Dominican Republic and their possible role in public health care
(International Society for Horticultural Science, 2016)
In the Dominican Republic, one can distinguish two medical systems: the formal medical system and the informal medical system. The formal medical system is based on the western conventional medical system. The informal ...
Mineralogical analysis with the firing temperature of limestone and clay mixture from Dominican Republic using Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffractometry
(Springer Link, 1991)
The study of a limestone and clay mixture using Mössbauer spectroscopy, and X-ray powder spectrometry (XRD) for different firing temperatures are presented. This type of mixture is used in raw minerals in order to obtain ...
Improvement of ethological methods for integrated management of fruit flies, Anastrepha spp. (Diptera: Tephritidae) in fruit orchards in the Dominican Republic
(Acta Horticulturae, 2015-03-25)
During the last decade in the Dominican Republic, research efforts have been carried out to contribute to the ethological and biological components of the integrated pest management of fruit flies (FF) in mango, guava and ...
Medical students’ perceptions about the added educational value of student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the Dominican Republic
(Global Health Research and Policy, 2016-12)
This purpose of this report was to examine the perceptions of medical students about the strengths, limitations, and recommendations for improvement of the first known student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the ...
A histochemical and ultrastructural study of human breast carcinomas with a view to their classification by cell of origin
(Experimental and Molecular Pathology, 1979-08)
We have studied 450 cases of human breast carcinoma at the histochemical and ultrastructural level. The breast biopsies were obtained from Canada, Mexico and Dominican Republic.This study was undertaken to evaluate the ...
A survey of natural resource and national parks knowledge and attitudes of Dominican Republic citizens
(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 ...
The biochemical and phenotypic characterization of females homozygous for 5 alpha-reductase-2 deficiency
(The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism,, 1995-11)
The biochemical and physiologic manifestations of decreased 5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in females are characterized. Three females from the large Dominican kindred with 5 alpha-reductase-2 deficiency were identified ...
Piper umbellatum L.: A comparative cross-cultural analysis of its medicinal uses and an ethnopharmacological evaluation
(Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2010)
This review assesses the botany, traditional medicinal uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology of P. umbellatum. Information on P. umbellatum was gathered via the internet (using Scirus, Google Scholar, CAB-Abstracts, ...
Levels of chlorinated hydrocarbons and trace metals in bivalves and nearshore sediments from the Dominican Republic
(Marine Pollution Bulletin, 1998-12)
Bivalves (Crassostrea rizhophorae, Isognomon alatus, Codakia orbicularis Linné, and Tellina fausta) and sediment samples collected from 12 locations along the Dominican Republic coastline were used to assess the degree of ...
Altmetric Original Articles Remote Sensing of Spatial and Temporal Vegetation Dynamics in Hispaniola: A Comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
(Geocarto International, 2001)
Spatial and temporal vegetation contrasts between the nations of Haiti and the Dominican are analyzed using NDVI data derived from 30m resolution Landsat imagery and 8km resolution AVHRR imagery from the NOAA / NASA ...