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Supporting contraceptive self-care and reproductive empowerment with a digital health game in Barbados: Development and Pre-implementation study for What’s My Method? [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

open access: yesGates Open Research
Effective contraceptive education is essential to reducing unwanted pregnancy, increasing uptake of modern contraceptive methods, and thoughtfully planning desired births.
Clara Bertozzi-Villa   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Making the Invisible Visible: Exploring the Drivers and Outcomes of Human Rights Reporting in Latin America

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human rights disclosure is increasingly vital for corporate sustainability, particularly in Latin America, where labor abuses, inequality, and weak enforcement remain prevalent. This study investigates the drivers and outcomes of such disclosure in 416 large firms across the region.
Alan Bandeira Pinheiro   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Learning and Eating Behaviours among Medical Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesInternational Medical Education, 2023
Background: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed medical education and is likely to have long-lasting effects on student learning, mental well-being, and eating behaviour.
Sayeeda Rahman   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Capsicum chinense as an African traditional vegetable: Culture, resilience, and opportunity

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Capsicum chinense is central to everyday diets, cultural identity, and smallholder livelihoods across Sub‐Saharan Africa, yet remains overlooked in agricultural research and policy. This paper reframes C. chinense as a traditional, climate‐resilient vegetable shaped by centuries of farmer stewardship and cultural selection.
Derek W. Barchenger   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Upper Broad Street, Bridgetown, Barbados. [PDF]

open access: yes
Landscape, Sephia tone, “3 ½” x 5½ ”This photo is an aerial view of Upper Broad Street in Bridgetown, Barbados. It is a busy street scene with people, donkey carts, and wagons. The image shows men and women's fashion of the day.
J.R.H. Seifert & Co., Ltd., Barbados, W.I.
core   +1 more source

The hidden health equity crisis: readability assessment of online information regarding periodontitis-diabetes relationship

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
BackgroundDespite strong evidence linking periodontitis as a risk factor for diabetes, this association remains significantly underrepresented in online health information.
Eugene Gamble   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Firm-Level Investigation of Innovation in the Caribbean: A Comparison of Manufacturing and Service Firms

open access: yesEconomies, 2017
A lack of growth remains a major concern for Caribbean countries. Private sector development has been identified as vital in addressing this problem. Innovation, a necessary condition for competitiveness, is a key channel through which the private sector
Antonio Alleyne   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Larval antibiosis to cabbage stem flea beetle (Psylliodes chrysocephala) is absent within oilseed rape (Brassica napus)

open access: yesPest Management Science, EarlyView.
We screened a panel of 98 Brassicaceae genotypes (97 Brassica napus and 1 Sinapis alba) for cabbage stem flea beetle (Psylliodes chrysocephala) larval antibiosis. We found limited evidence for antibiosis across B. napus but consistent antibiosis in S. alba. Brassicaceae relatives may therefore better inform resistance traits for breeding.
Ryan E Brock   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Dynamic Impact of the Energy Transition on Food Security in Developing Countries

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the context of persistent food insecurity and the global push for the transition toward clean energy in developing countries, understanding the association between clean energy access and food affordability is increasingly important to inform multisectoral policy interventions. Against this background, this study explores the dynamic impact
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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