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Identity Traps or How Black Students Fail: the interactions between biographical, sub-cultural, and learner identities [PDF]

, 2003
The enduring inequities experienced by African-Caribbean students in UK schools has been well documented. This paper aims to better understand how these inequities have come to be so enduring.
Youdell, Deborah
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Ethnic variations in sexual behaviour in Great Britain and risk of sexually transmitted infections: a probability survey.

, 2005
BACKGROUND: Ethnic variations in the rate of diagnosed sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have been reported in many developed countries. We used data from the second British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal 2000) to ...
Byron, Christos L, Copas, Andrew J, Erens, Bob, Fenton, Kevin A, Field, Julia, Johnson, Anne M, Macdowall, Wendy, McManus, Sally, Mercer, Catherine H, Nanchahal, Kiran, Wellings, Kaye   +10 more
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Percepción estudiantil sobre el curso de nivelación académica y adaptación universitaria en Bluefields Indian & Caribbean University

Wani
El estudio analiza las percepciones de estudiantes universitarios sobre la efectividad del Semestre Común como estrategia institucional de nivelación académica y adaptación universitaria en la Bluefields Indian & Caribbean University (BICU) durante los ...
Delrey Warren Simon Chavarría, Juan Asdrúbal Flores-Pacheco , Dina Esther Castillo Baltodano   +2 more
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‘1.5°C to stay alive’: climate change, imperialism and justice for the Caribbean

, 2017
Treating the threat of climate change in the Caribbean as a case study instructive for responses globally, this article examines the social and political relations of climate change.
Leon Sealey-Huggins
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A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson, Ellen Wohl, Laura L. Govers, Oscar Franken, Tjeerd J. Bouma, Han Olff, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Maryann S. Watson, Luísa M.S. Borges, Tjisse van der Heide   +9 more
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Origins and genetic legacies of the Caribbean Taino

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018
Significance Ancient DNA has revolutionized the field of archaeology, but in the Caribbean and other tropical regions of the world, the work has been hampered by poor DNA preservation.
H. Schroeder, H. Schroeder, M. Sikora, S. Gopalakrishnan, Lara M. Cassidy, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Marcela Sandoval Velasco, J. Schraiber, Simon Rasmussen, J. Homburger, M. Ávila-Arcos, M. Allentoft, J. V. Moreno-Mayar, Gabriel Renaud, A. Gómez-Carballa, Jason E. Laffoon, Jason E. Laffoon, Rachel J A Hopkins, T. Higham, R. Carr, W. C. Schaffer, W. C. Schaffer, J. Day, M. Hoogland, A. Salas, C. Bustamante, Rasmus Nielsen, Rasmus Nielsen, D. Bradley, C. Hofman, E. Willerslev, E. Willerslev, E. Willerslev   +33 more
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VAT: Is it Suitable for the Caribbean Community? [PDF]

The Caribbean Community is in transition, moving toward a liberalized trade environment with low tariffs. Tax reform is at the forefront of the policy response since traditional sources of tax revenue such as import duties are on the decline.
Bristol, Marlon A, Peters, Amos C
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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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Pesca artesanal del yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus) en la embarcación Nisy Katiusca

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Con más de seis mil pescadores artesanales en el Caribe Nicaragüense, la pesca del yellowtail snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus), perteneciente a la familia Lutjanidae, es la actividad comercial de mayor interés en la región.
Néstor Joel González-Alemán, Julio César Aráuz-Gutiérrez, Katiuska Magaly Ruiz-Tinoco   +2 more
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Prehistorical and historical declines in Caribbean coral reef accretion rates driven by loss of parrotfish

Nature Communications, 2017
Caribbean coral reefs have transformed into algal-dominated habitats over recent decades, but the mechanisms of change are unresolved due to a lack of quantitative ecological data before large-scale human impacts.
K. Cramer, A. O’Dea, T. Clark, Jian-xin Zhao, R. Norris   +4 more
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