Host Response to Black Leaf Streak and Agronomic Performance of Banana Genotypes in Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

of America, Children's Defense Fund, and Generations United have partnered to produce state and national GrandFacts fact sheets for grandparents and other relatives raising children. The state fact sheets include state-specific data and programs as well as information about foster care, public benefits, educational assistance and state laws. Visit www.grandfactsheets.org to find this and all Gr...

Host-parasite interactions of tropical bats in Puerto Rico

Despite having nearly one thousand known extant species in the order of Chiroptera (Wilson and Reeder, 2005), bats remain little studied in terms of the parasites and pathogens they harbor, particularly those from tropical regions. This lack of documentation of the parasite fauna of bats is of some concern since tropical bats have been implicated in the emergence of several important zoonotic i...

Slavery in Puerto Rico

University of Puerto Rico

investigating the interaction of language knowledge and strategic competence in the performance of efl learners on reading-to-write and writing-only test tasks

این مطالعه به دو روش کمی و کیفی و با هدف بررسی استراتژی های فراشناختی فراگیران زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبان خارجی در دو آزمون نوشتن و نوشتن ترکیبی انجام پذیرفت. در بخش کمی برای سنجش میزان استراتژی های فراشناختی از یک پرسشنامه که بر اساس مدل بکمن و پالمر (1996) ساخته شده بود استفاده شد. پایایی و روایی سازه ی پرسشنامه هنگام مطالعه ی پایلوت و روایی محتوای آن با جمع آوری نظرات نُه متخصص در رشته سنجیده...