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Hongos mágicos...más allá de las alucinaciones: Análisis político-social y estudio exploratorio del conocimiento y las percepciones que tiene la comunidad de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras sobre el uso de los hongos psicodélicos a diciembre de 2020.
(2020-12)En esta investigación exploramos el conocimiento, las percepciones y los discursos que tienen las personas de la comunidad de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras y comunidades aledañas sobre los hongos ... -
El hostigamiento sexual laboral en Puerto Rico: una perspectiva del servicio público
(2020)El hostigamiento sexual laboral es un mal que aqueja no solo a la mujer puertorriqueña, sino que es un fenómeno mundial que socava la moral y la dignidad de las mujeres, y víctimas,que lo sufren. Ya es tiempo de que ... -
Hostos, Antillean revolutionary
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How digital play and augmented reality can help develop higher-order thinking
(2023-05-16)This investigation narrates how digital game playing while integrating augmented reality can help enhance higher-order thinking. Digital game playing, when referring to games played on computers, game consoles, or hand ... -
How has the ethical meltdown affected the financial performance of the US incorporated
(2014)The financial crisis of 2007-2010 had its origins in 2001, coinciding with an ethical collapse. The ethical crisis had consequences that extended through 2012 and affected the financial performance of the Global Systemically ... -
How macroeconomic variables affect the Puerto Rico’s stock index
(2011)Los efectos de variables macroeconómicas de Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos en el Índice Accionario de Puerto Rico (PRSI) fueron investigados utilizando un modelo de vector de corrección del error (VEC) para el periodo entre ... -
How pharmaceutical marketing communications affect prescribing practices, is there an ethical conflict? Focus on physicians, medical clerks and drug representatives The case of the western side of Puerto Rico
(2007)The main purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the effect that pharmaceutical marketing communications in Puerto Rico has on physician’s prescribing practices, and to determine if the communication and promotional system ... -
HSense: a high performance framework for distributed weather sensor networks
(2012)HSense is a framework designed for aggregating and monitoring weather sensor network. It is implanted using the functional language Haskell to provide a modular and expandable interference and parallel data processing. ... -
Huelga en la UPR : de las vallas rotas a las barricadas ; proyecto de documentación y difusión
(2012-12-14)Huelga en la UPR : de las vallas rotas a las barricadas fue un proyecto spbre la huelga estudiantil de abril a junio de 2010 en la Universidad de Puerto Rico. El mismo se llevó a cabo con la intención de refrescar la memoria ... -
Human and environmental factors explaining the structural and compositional variability in a Sub-tropical Dry Forest
(2008)The Guánica forest reserve is the most important conservation unit within the sub-tropical dry life zone of Puerto Rico. Its vegetation has largely recovered after diverse human and natural disturbances. This study examined ... -
The Humanization of the Vampire and Dehumanization of the Queer Community
(2021-05-20)Today one cannot think of the vampire without a sexual connotation being attached to it. But why is this? What was the point behind portraying the vampire as a metaphor of sexual desire? We could look at Anne Rice’s creations ... -
Hungry for more: Reading Under the Tuscan Sun as a gastrography
(2011)This thesis examines the best-selling memoir Under the Tuscan Sun as an autobiographical narrative in the genre of gastrography that demonstrates how food is used as a metaphor and also as a mode of escape in 21st century ... -
Hurricane disturbance effects on tropical forests; structure, plant dynamics, and carbon storage
(2022-11-29)Tropical cyclones are likely to increase in intensity, cause increased rainfall, and have larger storm surges. Changes in intensity and strength of tropical cyclones potentially have considerable effects on tropical forests. ... -
Hurricane forcing of phytoplankton biomass in the Sargasso Sea
(2015)Phytoplankton is responsible for half of the world’s oxygen and plays an important role in carbon sequestration. Satellite ocean color sensors provide estimates of chlorophyll-a concentration [chl-a] from phytoplankton ... -
Husserl y su teoría de la morfología pura : exposición y confrontación con sintaxis lógica contemporánea, según aparece en la obra de Rudolf Carnap
(1968-05)Con el desarrollo de la lógica contemporánea el uso de una simbología similar a la tradicionalmente utilizada por los matemáticos se ha vuelto un instrumento casi imprescindible para el tratamiento de los problemas de la ... -
A hybrid approach to pedestrian evacuation models
(2017-05)Este trabajo presenta un modelo de desalojo peatonal híbrido (PEM, por sus siglas en inglés) que ilustra la vulnerabilidad de Rincón a tsunamis, combinando distancia anisotrópica ponderada y modelos basados en agentes. El ... -
Hybrid multimedia-filter prototype (HMP) for the degradation of trihalomethanes precursors and pathogens control from raw waters
(2018)The need for affordable and resource conserving water purification methods has only increased over the years. Alongside that, the occurrence and discovery of emerging contaminants demand the research and development of new ... -
Hydraulic design of an overland flow distribution system using lateral weirs
(2014)Jobos Bay Estuary Research Reserve (JBNERR) is located Salinas in Puerto Rico. Mar Negro wetland is the biggest mangrove forest in the area located at the south boundary of JBNERR. The north side of the Reserve has been ... -
Hydrogen production study using autothermal reforming of biodiesel and other hydrocarbons for fuel cell applications
(2006)During the last few years concerns with distribution, supply and cost of conventional liquid fuels increased considerably. Several developed countries are seriously considering using hydrogen (no fossil combustible) as an ...