The purpose of this study was to determine by biological method of assay the vitamin A content of Puerto Rico sweet potatoes which were dehydrated immediately after harvesting.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1987. / Includes index. Bibliography: p. [251]-258.

King Charles III of Spain implemented a series of Enlightenment reforms throughout his domain following the 1763 defeat of the Seven Years War Among the royal officials sent to enact these reforms in the Caribbean, the Crown dispatched Field Marshal Alejandro O’Reilly to the colony of Puerto Rico Historians have attributed to his 1765 inspection, or visita, and subsequent report, or memoria, the foundations for a turning point in the island’s history Despite the historical consensus that has lauded O’Reilly’s recommendations, this inspector-general does not merit the credit that historians consistently have given him Agrarian and economic patterns such as population growth, smuggling, and the hato economy persisted decades after his visita into the nineteenth century Other events helped drive immigration and investment into Puerto Rico more than O’Reilly’s memoria Ultimately, O’Reilly did not trigger enduring change in the colony’s history, and Puerto Rican historiography awaits the corresponding revision / Includes bibliography / Thesis (MA)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016 / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008. / Title from screen (viewed on June 3, 2009). Department of World Languages and Cultures, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Rosa Tezanos-Pinto. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-110).

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / La presencia de los africanos en Latinoamérica ha dejado huellas en todos los aspectos de la vida. Su contribución es evidente en la gente y las culturas del Caribe. La mulatización define al ser caribeño como esencia de pueblo, identidad afrolatina que se manifiesta con ritmo y color en cada una de las actividades de día a día. Aún así, dicho integrante cultural continúa ignorado en la enseñanza de la lengua y las culturas hispánicas. Igualmente, la enseñanza tradicional ha perpetuado una perspectiva eurocentrista y etnocentrista en nuestros salones de clase, silenciando el tema negro. La falta de inclusión del elemento afrolatino del Caribe en los libros de texto y en los materiales didácticos presenta una dificultad adicional para aquellos maestros que desean exponer la lengua y la cultura hispánica desde un panorama completo y bien formado. Por tal razón, con gran dedicación y empeño, este proyecto tiene como objetivo estudiar la herencia afrolatina en el Caribe, con un enfoque particular en las Antillas Mayores de habla hispana: la República Dominicana, Cuba y Puerto Rico. El estudio incluye cuatro capítulos: la enseñanza de la cultura; historia social y política del elemento africano en el Caribe; manifestaciones culturales del elemento africano en el Caribe; y un proyecto didáctico de cultura. Comprometidos como profesores con nuestros estudiantes a presentar los temas culturales según la definición de los estándares nacionales para la enseñanza de una segunda lengua, esta exploración y concentración didáctica de la herencia afrolatina del Caribe formará parte de los recursos disponibles al maestro para la enseñanza del español y las culturas que componen la cultura hispánica.

The intent of this thesis is to develop a concept for a structural and enclosure building system that will be applicable to the typical existing housing units in San Juan, P. R. The system will respond to criteria based on environmental, socio-cultural and architectural concerns. / Master of Architecture

This thesis contributes to modeling the dynamics of forest community response to environmental gradients and disturbances over a mountain landscape. A gap model (FACET) was parameterized for species of various forest types (Tabonuco, Colorado, Dwarf and Palm), for many terrain conditions and was modified and extended to include species response to excess soil moisture and hurricanes. Landscape cover types were defined by dominance of species of each forest type and canopy height. Parameters of the landscape model (MOSAIC) were calculated from multiple runs of FACET. These runs were determined by combining terrain variables (elevation and soil) and hurricane risk. MOSAIC runs were analyzed for distribution patterns. Geographic Information Systems software was used to process terrain variables, hurricane risk and MOSAIC model output.

This paper considers whether the implementation of an international draft by Major League Baseball (MLB) will be possible. Over the last five years, the MLB has increasingly placed more stringent limitations on international spending, which has limited the bargaining power of international free agents. Many in the international market believe that the agreement between the MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) during the 2016 Collective Bargaining (CBA) negotiations are progressing towards an international draft, which would have a crippling effect on the future of baseball in many foreign countries. This paper is focused on the countries that stand to suffer the most should an international draft be implemented: the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and Cuba. Currently there is little reliable research on this topic. Based on extensive research and interviews with both current and former international scouts, MLB baseball operations personnel, and employees working in the Labor Department in the MLB Commissioner’s Office, this paper suggests that while the MLB maintains that an international draft will be implemented in upcoming collective bargaining agreements, the obstacles in implementing an international draft will prove to be insurmountable.

This thesis examines how the slave uprising in the French Caribbean sugar colony of Saint-Domingue (1791-1804) had dramatic and long-lasting repercussions on the neighbouring Spanish possessions of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo. Events in Saint-Domingue took place during a period of profound change in the Spanish colonies. Reforms implemented during the reign of Carlos III (1759-1788) had begun to shift the imperial economic focus from the extraction of precious metals in Spain's American colonies towards the potential of intensive agriculture, especially sugar. The process was accelerated by France's loss of Saint-Domingue in 1804, which presented the Spanish islands under Carlos IV (1788-1808) with the opportunity to have a much larger share of the sugar trade - a chance which Cuba and Puerto Rico were quick to seize. At the same time, Napoleon Bonaparte's overthrow of the Spanish monarchy, the war against France (1808-1814), and the writing of a Spanish constitution (1812) precipitated the unravelling of most of Spain's empire, bar the Philippines and the sugar islands in the Caribbean. The thesis focuses on how relations between Madrid and the Caribbean islands were significantly altered in the wake of peninsular upheaval. At the same time, this work also considers the islands' reconfigured relationship with new republic of Haiti, formed by the freed slaves of Saint-Domingue. Drawing from correspondence between the crown and the island authorities, as well as between colonial officials, this thesis also examines the culture of fear that permeated the Spanish possessions. Initially, this fear reflected anxieties about Saint-Domingue-style slave rebellions, but as mainland Spanish colonies became independent - and Santo Domingo fell under Haitian control in 1822 - this fear took on a new dimension and became a vital tie between Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Madrid, contributing to the continuation of colonial rule until the Spanish-American War of 1898.

Thesis. 1976. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Bibliography: leaves 253-258. / by Tulio Espada. / M.C.P.