New Evidence Pertaining to Puerto Rican Prehistory

Johnson jfunb REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS OBTAINED BY THE FIRST JOHNSON - SMITHSONIAN DEEP - SEA EXPEDITION TO THE PUERTO RICAN DEEP NEW SPONGES FROM THE PUERTO RICAN DEEP

Dyspareunia in Puerto Rican middle-aged women.

OBJECTIVE Dyspareunia is a common sexual dysfunction. There is a lack of studies that address female sexual dysfunction in Puerto Rico. The present cross-sectional study characterized dyspareunia in a sample of Puerto Rican women aged 40 to 59 years and evaluated the relationship between reported dyspareunia with demographic, lifestyle, and health factors. METHODS Nine hundred twenty Puerto R...

The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study, a longitudinal cohort study on health disparities in Puerto Rican adults: challenges and opportunities

BACKGROUND The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study is an ongoing longitudinal cohort study designed to examine the role of psychosocial stress on presence and development of allostatic load and health outcomes in Puerto Ricans, and potential modification by nutritional status, genetic variation, and social support. METHODS Self-identified Puerto Ricans, aged 45-75 years and residing in the Bosto...

Determinants of health care use among Puerto Rican drug users in Puerto Rico and New York City.

This study was conducted to identify factors accounting for differences in health care and drug treatment utilization between Puerto Rican drug users residing in 2 separate locations. Survey findings from 334 drug users in Puerto Rico and 617 in New York City showed that those in Puerto Rico were 6 times less likely than their counterparts in New York to have used inpatient medical services and...

The Scaling of Utterance-initial Pitch Peaks in Puerto Rican Spanish: Evidence for Tonal Preplanning

For this study, an experiment was created to test for the existence of tonal preplanning in Puerto Rican Spanish. The scaling of utterance-initial F0 high peaks was examined as a function of utterance length, which was defined as total utterance duration (in seconds). Eight speakers from Caguas, Puerto Rico, were recorded reading 24 distinct utterances of varying length for analysis. The data r...