scholarly journals Towards a Biblical and Missiological Model of Cross-Cultural Contextualization among Chinese Immigrants in "Barrio Chino" Duarte of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Telemaque
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Santo Domingo

Redeeming Santo Domingo: North Atlantic Missionaries and the Racial Conversion of a Nation

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-100
Author(s):  
Christina Cecelia Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
Alternative Future ◽  
Protestant Missions ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Race And Religion ◽  
Key Interventions

AbstractThis article examines North Atlantic views of Protestant missions and race in the Dominican Republic between 1905 and 1911, a brief period of political stability in the years leading up to the U.S. Occupation (1916–1924). Although Protestant missions during this period remained small in scale on the Catholic island, the views of British and American missionaries evidence how international perceptions of Dominicans transformed in the early twentieth century. Thus, this article makes two key interventions within the literature on Caribbean race and religion. First, it shows how outsiders’ ideas about the Dominican Republic's racial composition aimed to change the Dominican Republic from a “black” country into a racially ambiguous “Latin” one on the international stage. Second, in using North Atlantic missionaries’ perspectives to track this shift, it argues that black-led Protestant congregations represented a possible alternative future that both elite Dominicans and white North Atlantic missionaries rejected.

Misoprostol and declining abortion-related morbidity in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: a temporal association

2005 ◽  
Vol 112 (9) ◽  
pp. 1291-1296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suellen Miller ◽  
Tara Lehman ◽  
Martha Campbell ◽  
Anke Hemmerling ◽  
Sonia Brito Anderson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Temporal Association ◽  
Santo Domingo

In vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Tropical Medicinal Plants used in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Part 2

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Cesar Manuel Lozano ◽  
Manuel Antonio Vasquez Tineo ◽  
Maritza Ramirez ◽  
Maria Isabel Infante
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Activity ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity

scholarly journals Clinical manifestations of chikungunya among university professors and staff in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A Zingman ◽  
Amarilis Then Paulino ◽  
Matilde Peguero Payano
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Phase Duration ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Convenience Sample

Objective. To further characterize chikungunya virus infection and its associated clinical manifestations, using a sample of university professors and staff in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic. Methods. A cross-sectional study with quota sampling by department was performed to obtain a convenience sample of professors (n = 736) and staff (n = 499) at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Surveys were used to collect demographic and infection data during the fall term of 2014. Univariate and bivariate analyses were carried out to quantify infection and clinical manifestation prevalence and to assess relationships of these outcomes with age, sex, and acute phase duration. Results. Of 1 236 participants, 49% reported infection (professors = 41%; staff = 61%). Of these, 53% also reported the presence of chronic effects, largely arthralgia (48%). Significant relationships were observed between reported infection and sex (P = 0.023), age (P < 0.001), and occupation (P < 0.001). More headache (P = 0.008) and edema (P < 0.001) in females, more headache (P = 0.005) in younger subjects, and more myalgia (P = 0.006) in those with longer acute symptoms were found. Additionally, more chronic arthralgia (P < 0.001; P = 0.003) and chronic edema (P < 0.001; P = 0.001) in females and older subjects, and more chronic myalgia (P = 0.041) and chronic edema (P = 0.037) in those with longer acute symptoms were observed. Conclusions. To the authors knowledge, this is the first population-based chikungunya prevalence study in the Dominican Republic, and the first to explore clinical manifestations in a university setting. The findings reflect results from studies following the 2005 – 2006 Reunion Island outbreak: prevalence of infection and chronic arthralgia, as well as associations with sex, age, and acute intensity. Longitudinal research can provide further insight into these effects.

scholarly journals Adaptation of PhotoVoice methodology to promote policy dialog among street-based drug users in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Arts & Health ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Padilla ◽  
Armando Matiz-Reyes ◽  
José Félix Colón-Burgos ◽  
Nelson Varas-Díaz ◽  
John Vertovec
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Photovoice Methodology

Meteotsunami of 29 August 1916 at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - analysis of the destruction of the USS Memphis

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-36
Author(s):  
Джордж Парарас-Караяннис
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Rogue Wave ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Barometric Pressure ◽  
Rogue Waves ◽  
Rayleigh Distribution ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Storm Waves

Пересмотренные официальные записи Следственного суда ВМС США содержат выводы о том, что разрушение бронированного крейсера USS Memphis 29 августа 1916 года на якоре у гавани Санто-Доминго (Сьюдад-Трухильо) Доминиканской Республики, остров Эспаньола, вероятно, было вызвано «тропическим волнением» «сейсмической бурей» или «цунами». Тем не менее, современный анализ этой морской катастрофы свидетельствует о том, что гибель корабля произошла не по какой-либо из этих причин, а из-за волн-убийц метеоцунами, вызванных быстрым, значительным и прогрессирующим падением атмосферного давления, которое началось в районе около 22 августа и было связано с проходящим ураганом, который в его самой близкой точке был около 250 морских миль на юг. Кроме того, штормовые волны от этого урагана двигались в направлении Санто-Доминго, преломляясь в резонансе у берега, и усиливались и трансформировались низким барометрическим давлением, мелким континентальным шельфом и местными особенностями побережья и батиметрией залива. Настоящий анализ основан на тщательном изучении судового журнала и наблюдений за событиями со стороны экипажа и людей на берегу. Учитывая ограниченные метеорологические данные того периода времени, в настоящем анализе использовался эмпирический подход для грубой оценки функции распределения Рэлея, верхнего предела изменчивости высоты штормовой волны вдали от наиболее интенсивных потоков ветра, а также максимального периода, длины волны и амплитуды генерируемых штормовых волн в глубине . Основываясь на теориях кноидальных волн и волн Эйри, период и скорость наиболее значительных экстремальных внутренних волн имели метеорологическое происхождение, которое было преобразовано в мелкой воде в результате резонансного и наложенного прихода двух других волн, которые создали трехступенчатое плато, на переднем фронте огромная одиночная волна-убийца метеоцунами высотой около 70 футов, с тремя четкими ступенями, двумя плато на передней поверхности и предшествующей впадиной длиной около 300 футов. Основываясь на этом анализе, настоящее исследование пришло к выводу, что именно эта значительная волна метеоцунами / волна-убийца в сочетании с одновременно прибывающими штормовыми волнами охватила Мемфис USS в 16 ч. 40 м. 29 августа 1916 года, разорвав цепи якорей и разрушая его на скалах Санто-Доминго. Official revised records of a U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry concluded that the 29 August 1916 destruction of the armored cruiser USS Memphis anchored off Santo Domingo (Ciudad Trujillo) harbor of the Dominican Republic, Island of Hispaniola, was probably caused by a “tropical disturbance”, a “seismic storm”, or a “tsunami”. However, the present analysis of this naval disaster documents that the loss of the ship was not due to any of these causes, but to rogue waves of a meteotsunami generated from a rapid, significant and progressive drop in atmospheric pressure which begun in the area around August 22 and was associated with a passing hurricane which at its closest point was about 250 nautical miles to the south. Also, storm waves from this hurricane moved towards Santo Domingo refracting in resonance near shore and were further amplified and transformed by the low barometric pressure, the shallow continental shelf and the local coastal features and bathymetry of the bay. The present analysis is based on careful examination of the ship’s log, and on observations of events by the crew and people on the shore. Given the limited meteorological data of that time period, the present analysis used an empirical approach to roughly evaluate the Rayleigh distribution function, the upper limit of storm wave height variability away from the most intense wind fetches, as well as the maximum period, wavelength and deep-water heights of generated storm waves. Based on Airy and cnoidal wave theories, the deep water period and celerity of the most significant extreme wave was of meteorological origin which was transformed in shallower water by the resonant and superimposed arrival of two other waves which created a three step plateau on the face of a huge single rogue wave of the meteotsunami, estimated to be about 70 feet in height, with three distinct steps, two plateaus on its forward face, and a preceding trough estimated to be 300 ft. long. Based on this analysis, the present study concluded that it was this significant meteotsunami/rogue wave, in combination with concurrently arriving storm swells, that engulfed the USS Memphis at 1640 hour in the afternoon of 29 August 1916 - breaking the chains of its anchors and wrecking it on the rocks of Santo Domingo.

Athens and Sparta of the New World

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-116
Author(s):  
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Keyword(s):  
Dominican Republic ◽  
New World ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
First Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Santo Domingo ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Classical Reception ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Modern Nation State

This chapter reconstructs the reception and appropriation of ancient Greece and Rome in the Dominican Republic, tracing the long arc of classical reception from the foundation of the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo to the politics of the twenty-first-century nation-state. Two interlocking appropriations of classical Greece are documented and scrutinized: the glorification of colonial Santo Domingo by postcolonial Dominican elites as the “Athens of the New World,” and the celebration of the modern nation-state as the “Sparta of the New World” during the dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo (1930–61). Both modes of scripting hispanophone Hispaniola as classically Greek turn out upon closer examination to derive their impetus from a racialized—and racist—cultural and nationalistic program whose imprint on Dominican debates about statehood and race remains visible to this day.

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