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A novel circumscription and classification for Neurolaeneae (Asteraceae)

open access: yesTAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract Neurolaeneae (Asteraceae) have a complicated taxonomic history. The tribe was described in 1927, but subsequently disregarded in 1977, and later reinstated as a tribe following a large‐scale phylogenetic analysis of Asteraceae in 2002. To date, this tribe has remained poorly studied and it has never been the subject of a comprehensive ...
Vinicius R. Bueno   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interaction of reactivated faults within a restraining bend: Neotectonic deformation of southwest Jamaica

open access: yes, 2015
Jamaica is located on a restraining bend on the E-trending, left-lateral plate boundary between the Gonave microplate and Caribbean plate. Deformation in southern Jamaica occurs on two reactivated and simultaneously active fault sets: NNW-striking ...
B. Benford, B. Tikoff, C. Demets
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Jamaica And The Lifelong education Paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes
Lifelong learning is education for the knowledge economy. In order for Jamaica to transition from a Developing Country to a Developed Country whether it be a Jamaica Labour Party Administration or a Peoples National Party administration it will be highly
Peter W Jones
core  

Jamaica Bay: An Urban Marshland in Transition [PDF]

open access: yes, 1972
This article will briefly examine the environmental problems that affect the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people who live adjacent to Jamaica Bay, and the extraordinary opportunities for recreation and enjoyment for which the Bay, freed of ...
Lefkowitz, Louis J.
core   +1 more source

FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Policing Victims and Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence in Jamaica

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy
Intimate partner violence (IPV) presents various challenges for victims and the police tasked with protecting them and investigating perpetrators. Using a mixed-methods approach, this article highlights some of the main challenges of policing IPV in ...
Cush Sewell Lewis, Stacey-Ann Wilson
doaj   +1 more source

Good Corporate Governance: How Jamaica Will Enter the Global Village [PDF]

open access: yes
Jamaica in order to effectively interface with the global village has been forced to change its ethical mindset, which has deterred the practice of good corporate governance and its worldview of how to aggressively achieve business success in an era ...
Peter W Jones
core  

Spartocera batatas (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Coreidae) : newly established in Florida [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Spartocera batatas (Fabricius) was found for the first time in the USA in Homestead, Florida, in 1995. Records from Brazil, British Guiana, Colombia, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Jamaica, Martinique, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Saba ...
Brambila, Julieta, Halbert, Susan E.
core  

"Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
My subject is an archive of gay and lesbian activism that helps us understand a postcolonial counterpublic. The project I undertake is of historical recovery and theoretical elaboration of the specificities of postcolonial sexuality-based movements
Kanika Batra
core   +1 more source

Why do people cooperate with the police and criminal courts? A test of procedural justice theory in 30 countries

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents a cross‐national test of the portability of procedural justice theory (PJT). Drawing on nationally representative survey data from 30 diverse social, political, and legal contexts across Europe and beyond, we find that the theory travels well across national borders and that its psychological purchase is particularly ...
Jonathan Jackson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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