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Bridging the gap: advancing climate services integration into environmental planning in Barbados

open access: yesClimate Services
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) such as Barbados face escalating climate risks that threaten infrastructure, livelihoods, and economic stability, yet climate services remain unevenly integrated into regulatory planning.
Atoofa Zainab   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding age and sex differentials in cancer incidence and mortality: An international population‐based study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Cancer, Volume 158, Issue 8, Page 2102-2110, 15 April 2026.
What's New? Cancer incidence and mortality differ between males and females. Whether these differences fluctuate across life stages, however, remains largely unknown. Drawing on worldwide cancer registry data and mortality estimates, this study explored age‐related differences in cancer occurrence between the sexes.
Nolwen Rodet   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review ~ New Directions in University Education: Perspectives from the Caribbean

open access: yesInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2008
Editors: Elizabeth F. Watson & Jamillah Grant Barbado (2007). New Directions in University Education: Perspectives from the Caribbean. Barbados: The Learning Resource Centre, The University of the West Indies (220 pages).
Judith Soares
doaj  

Geographical and Temporal Exile in Maryse Condé's I, Tituba and Tales from the Heart [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Current scholarly discussion defines exile in geographical and cultural terms, characterizing exile as something experienced by individuals separated from their homeland or culture.
Morton, Kameron Ray
core  

Propuesta del programa S-GeMS para el análisis estadístico espacial de fallas en alimentadores soterrados de 13,8 kV;PropodedS-GEMS program for statistical analysis of failure space of 13.8 kV underground feeders

open access: yesRevista Científica de Ingeniería Energética, 2011
Actualmente, el sistema soterrado de Ciudad de La Habana, carece de herramientas gráficas de trabajo con lascuales poder visualizar zonas con alta incidencia de fallas en alimentadores de 13,8 kV y que permitan tomardecisiones certeras en cuanto a los ...
Boris Alba - Valle   +1 more
doaj  

The impact of a volcanic ash fall event on the Critically Endangered Barbados leaf-toed gecko Phyllodactylus pulcher

open access: yesOryx
Ecosystem disturbance is known to negatively affect herpetofauna. There are, however, few studies on the impact of volcanic ash fallout on reptile species and no known publications on any impacts on the family Phyllodactylidae.
Dennis Connor Blades   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A sectoral analysis of Barbados’ GDP business cycle [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper has two main objectives. Firstly, to establish and characterise a reference cycle (based on real output) for Barbados over the quarterly period 1974-2003 using the Bry and Boschan algorithm. Secondly, to link this aggregate output cycle to the
CRAIGWELL, ROLAND, MAURIN, ALAIN
core   +1 more source

Escaping slavery in a Caribbean plantation society : marronage in Barbados, 1650s-1830s

open access: yesNWIG, 1997
Disputes the idea that Barbados was too small for slaves to run away. Author describes how slaves in Barbados escaped the plantations despite the constraints of a relatively numerous white population, an organized militia, repressive laws, and ...
Jerome S. Handler
doaj  

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