Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1947.

Thesis (M.A.P.S.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2008. / Vita. Description based on Microfiche version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-97).

Thesis (D. Min.)--McCormick Theological Seminary, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 439-459).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 11, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226).

Thesis (M.A.)--Brigham Young University. Dept of English, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-87).

This dissertation investigates subject expression patterns in Dominican Spanish (DS). In this variety, the null subject constructions associated with Non-Caribbean Spanish co-exist with the widespread use of overt subjects, which are found in specific constructions that are either rare or unattested in other Spanish varieties. Interestingly, these structures co-exist in the Dominican grammar with the null subject constructions associated with Non-Caribbean Spanish. While subject expression has been studied in a number of Spanish dialects within the generative and the variationist paradigms, monolingual Dominican Spanish, to the best of my knowledge, has not been investigated in previous variationist work. This study covers this gap by examining a large corpus of spontaneous speech (N=6005) gathered in the capital city of Santo Domingo and a rural area in the northwestern Cibao region. Furthermore, in line with the cohesive approach to syntactic variation developed in recent work (Adger and Smith 2005), theoretical implications are drawn from quantitative results. The results obtained in this study show that null and overt subject patterns in DS are regulated by the same constraints that have been found relevant in previous variationist work, i.e. discourse-related factor groups and Person (Otheguy, Zentella and Livert, 2007). These results depart from previous work in that evidence for language change in progress has been found in subject position patterns, rather than in null and overt subject distribution. When this phenomenon is examined, urban, young, high-middle class and female speakers arise as the social groups leading grammatical restructuring. Quantitative and qualitative evidence is taken into account for testing previous syntactic-theoretical proposals on DS. Taking the cartographic approach to syntactic structure (Rizzi 1997) as a point of departure, it will proposed that multiple specifier positions are available within the TP and CP fields to host strong and weak subjects. This proposal, in turn, makes it possible to account for the Null Subject Parameter profile displayed by synchronic DS without resorting to competing grammars in the minds of the speakers.

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Fire is a primary driver of environmental change that can originate from natural or human ignition. Macroscopic charcoal (>125 "m) deposited into lake sediment is a record of a local fire event, whereas microscopic charcoal indicates fire activity on a broad landscape scale. Patterns of charcoal deposition may shed light on both human activities and climate history over long-time scales. Whether lowland Caribbean forests have experienced natural fire regimes over the long-term is unknown. Laguna Limón is a little-studied, large, freshwater lake on the northeastern coast of the Dominican Republic. We extracted four overlapping sediment cores totaling 315 cm in depth, and conducted analysis of macroscopic charcoal (2-cm), microscopic charcoal (16-cm), and loss-on-ignition (1-cm) to examine the long-term fire and environmental history of the area. Loss-on-ignition data established that the lake has only recently become organic rich, and was likely open to the sea as a low energy bay until 1400 Cal. Yr BP. The lake existed briefly as a wetland before transitioning to the modern freshwater lake 1200 Cal. Yr BP. Macroscopic charcoal was most abundant in the freshwater section of the core while microscopic charcoal peaked near the bottom of the core, and aligns well with other regional microscopic charcoal records. Overall the charcoal record reflects a combination of climatic and anthropogenic related charcoal deposition suggesting that fire has played an active role in the environmental history Laguna Limón. / Master of Science

Magister Pharmaceuticae - MPharm / In Central American countries (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama) and Dominican Republic (DR) the approval timelines for major changes are described ranging from 12 to 18 months, these timelines are considerably extensive. Other countries or regions applying FDA post-approval change and EMA post-approval variation guidelines have timelines of 6 months or less (Hoath et al, 2016, Murray, 2016). The research aims to identify opportunities for alignment of the post-approval changes categories of Central America (CA) and Dominican Republic (DR) National Regulatory Agencies (NRA) with the riskbased categories of FDA and EMA as encouraged by the ICH. The FDA and EMA are considered reference authorities for many countries, as they are Stringent Authorities.