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Risk factors and complications of nail-stick plantar injuries in Jamaican children
Caribbean Medical Journal, 2023 Objectives: To determine the prevalence of nail-stick foot injuries in children visiting the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) in Jamaica, identify the time between injury and hospital presentation, identify the risk factors for injury and ...
Dr. Kijana Barrett +4 more
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Delivering distance education for modern government: The F4Gov programme at the University of Chester [PDF]
, 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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Restricted Tweedie stochastic block models
Canadian 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
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Iyaric: specifické kontexty rastafariánského jazyka | Iyaric: Specific Contexts of the Rastafari Language [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2019 The paper introduces Iyaric, the language of the Rastafari movement of Jamaica, as a creative reaction to the domination of European cultural patterns and as one of the main markers of Rastafari identity.
Lenka Philippová
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Caribbean Medical Journal, 2022 Objective To describe the demographic profile, temporal and injury patterns of persons treated at the St. Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital, Jamaica for injuries sustained following a motorcycle crash.
Dr Cary K. Fletcher
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Joint Estimation and Bandwidth Selection in Partially Parametric Models
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We propose a single‐step approach to estimating a model with both a known nonlinear parametric component and an unknown nonparametric component. We study the large sample behavior of a simultaneous optimization routine that estimates both the parameter vector of the parametric component and the bandwidth vector used to smooth the unknown ...
Daniel J. Henderson +2 more
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Journal of Research Management and AdministrationWhat is new? Research Managers at Jamaica’s leading public university have curated for the first time and presented in this paper research and other scholarly activities undertaken by their institution to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate ...
Paul Ivey +3 more
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Comparing and Contrasting Special Education in the United States and Jamaica [PDF]
, 2017 The purpose of this thesis is to define, compare and contrast special education services in the United States and Jamaica. Both the United States and Jamaica seeks to provide special education services and resources to students with disabilities. However,
Searle, Sarah
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‘TRAIDORAS A LA RAZA’:MALINCHES CHICANAS [PDF]
, 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
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JCPP Advances, EarlyView.Abstract Background Unaccompanied migrant youths are at elevated risk for exposure to trauma and related mental health challenges, but there is minimal evidence guiding best practices. We conducted a systematic review of quantitative studies that examined mental health evaluation and treatment services for unaccompanied migrant youths resettled in the ...
Natan J. Vega Potler +3 more
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