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The Influence of Violent Crimes on Health in Jamaica: A Spurious Correlation and an Alternative Paradigm [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2012 Background: The discourse on crime and health in Jamaica is devoid of the influence of violent crimes on the nature of the health. The discourse on health recognizes that violent crime is a cause of mortality; however, health researchers have paid ...
Paul A. Bourne +2 more
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The Lessons of Charity Lamb [PDF]
, 2018 This poem inspired by the case of Charity Lamb is stylistically based on Jamaica Kincaid’s poem “Girl.”https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/aha_2018/1001/thumbnail ...
Hannigan-Luther, Melia
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"Our Own Gayful Rest": A Postcolonial Archive [PDF]
, 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
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.Low overall haemosporidian occurrence (3.4%; 13/383). Unexpected high lineage diversity (10 new host–parasite interactions). Novel Leucocytozoon lineage (GYPBAR01) in all European vultures except the griffon vulture. Plasmodium relictum (lineage SGS1) in adult red kites.
Pilar Oliva‐Vidal +5 more
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Plant PerspectivesOn a monument to the people enslaved on the grounds of the University of the West Indies campus in Kingston, Jamaica, groves of ackee trees are acknowledged as ‘botanical markers’ of former slave villages. This use of the ackee as a long-term memorial of
Heather Craddock
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Jamaica, with its overfish marine resources, has become a major tilapia producer in Latin America led by a small number of large farms practicing tilapia culture with considerable commercial success.
Aiken, K.A. +3 more
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Tax Planning Under Pressure: The Impact of Carbon Emissions Management Post‐Paris Agreement
Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine how the Paris Agreement affects corporate tax planning across a global data set. We find that emissions‐reducing firms are associated with higher levels of tax planning than nonemissions‐reducing firms. The effect is stronger for firms facing tighter cost pass‐through constraints, such as operating in more competitive markets, with ...
Aonan (Sistine) Sun +3 more
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Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Aims To describe differences in the expression of genes encoding cannabinoid receptors (CNR1, CNR2), the associated receptor GRP55 and the enzymes fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) and monoacylglycerol lipase (MGLL) between individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD) and controls in key mesocorticolimbic brain regions.
María Salud García‐Gutiérrez +5 more
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Clinical Features and Outcomes of COVID-19 Infections at a Teaching Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica
Caribbean Medical Journal, 2023 Objective We examined the demographic, clinical characteristics and indicators of poor outcomes among hospitalised adults with COVID-19 infection at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica.
Tamara Thompson +8 more
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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose To examine retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) characteristics in relation to prenatal and postnatal smoking exposure in three independent birth cohorts: two Danish and one Australian cohort. Methods A combined meta‐analysis of peripapillary retinal nerve fibre thickness in the Copenhagen Prospective Studies on Asthma in Childhood 2000 ...
Linna Zhu +8 more
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