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Off the Script: On Course-Based, Global Service Learning at RWU [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Chelsea Silva ’14 chats with President Farish about a winter intersession trip to Petersfield, Jamaica, that focused on mental health issues in the island’s ...
Clark, Brian E.
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Making teaching an attractive profession: What are the challenges and opportunities for minority ethnic teachers in England?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the challenges and opportunities surrounding the recruitment and retention of minority ethnic teachers in England. Drawing on interview data from 33 teachers and school leaders of diverse ethnic backgrounds, it investigates whether racialised barriers identified in earlier research have shifted in the current context of ...
Antonina Tereshchenko   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reparative Justice Vis-a Vis the legacy of slavery in the Caribbean. Interregional perspectives

open access: yesÍconos, 2021
This paper deals with the current demands of compensation for the damages and crimes caused by the transatlantic slave trade of African persons and from the institution of slavery in the Americas.
Claudia Rauhut
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Associated with the Uptake of Cervical Cancer Screening Among Women in Portland, Jamaica

open access: yesNorth American Journal of Medicine and Science, 2015
Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide and is the leading cause of deaths in developing countries. Despite the strong evidence that cervical cancer screening results in decreased mortality from this disease ...
Butho Ncube   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Delivering distance education for modern government: The F4Gov programme at the University of Chester [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The Foundation for Govenment (F4Gov) programme developed for the British Civil Service is an innovative low-cost accredited programme of distance learning using a dedicated Virtual Learning Environment designed to improve individual and hence ...
Talbot, Jon
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‘TRAIDORAS A LA RAZA’:MALINCHES CHICANAS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Before publishing her seminal novel Rebecca (1938), Daphne du Maurier had published Jamaica Inn in 1936, deliberately setting its action in the nineteenth-century and featuring a young heroine, Mary Yellan, who, after her mother’s demise, is compelled ...
López-Peláez Casellas, Milagros
core   +2 more sources

The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological 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   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proton-proton and deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC

open access: yes, 2004
We try to understand recent data on proton-proton and deuteron-gold collisions at RHIC, employing a modified parton model approach.Comment: Invited talk, given at the XXth Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics, Trelawny Beach, Jamaica, March ...
Liu, F. M., Pierog, T., Werner, K.
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Restricted Tweedie stochastic block models

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.
Abstract The stochastic block model (SBM) is a widely used framework for community detection in networks, where the network structure is typically represented by an adjacency matrix. However, conventional SBMs are not directly applicable to an adjacency matrix that consists of nonnegative zero‐inflated continuous edge weights.
Jie Jian, Mu Zhu, Peijun Sang
wiley   +1 more source

A generalized interpolation problem with variable nodes

open access: yesJournal of Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory, 1977
Not available.
M. W. Bartelt   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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