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Capsicum chinense as an African traditional vegetable: Culture, resilience, and opportunity
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Capsicum chinense is central to everyday diets, cultural identity, and smallholder livelihoods across Sub‐Saharan Africa, yet remains overlooked in agricultural research and policy. This paper reframes C. chinense as a traditional, climate‐resilient vegetable shaped by centuries of farmer stewardship and cultural selection.
Derek W. Barchenger +1 more
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Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2018 Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare pleural malignancy, with a vague presentation complicated by a decades-long latency period between environmental exposure and clinical manifestations. Spontaneous hydro-pneumothorax is a rare presentation of
Nadia Sattar +5 more
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Financing For Life Long Education:For Real GDP Growth In Jamaica [PDF]
In order for Jamaica to transition from a Developing Country to a Developed Country it will be highly necessary to create a Knowledge based society, the inability to seriously overcome this challenge will mean Jamaica will be in transition to a developed
Peter W Jones
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain attributes of large‐scale complex systems are often expressed through sets of indicators. For example, the sustainability of an entity, be it a nation, a city, an energy system, a corporation etc., can be effectively represented by indicators and corresponding data series.
Vassilis S. Kouikoglou +1 more
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In Jamaica there has been some improvement in electronic banking referred to e- banking worldwide. We are definitely on the road to this ultimate digital revolution.
Peter W Jones
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Tropical Forests and Sustainability: The Role of Multilateral Financing in Latin America
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The challenge of slowing deforestation and degradation in the tropical regions of Latin America requires financing mechanisms (public and private) that can enable actions to preserve and sustainably manage forest integrity. This paper begins by examining the strategy implemented by the World Bank to protect forest cover in tropical countries ...
Ángela Andrea Caviedes Conde +2 more
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A Tale of Two Tragedies: Forgetting and Remembering Kingston (1907) and Port-au-Prince (2010)
Karib, 2019 This essay considers two catastrophic earthquakes that took place in Kingston, Jamaica in 1907 and Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2010. The disasters remain central to the collective memory of each place yet often remain peripheral to their national narratives.
Matthew J. Smith
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Assessing Recreational Safety of Urban Marine Waters: Long-Term Coliform and Enterococcus Analysis. [PDF]
Water Environ ResMapped data (site means) representing three major indicator bacteria in Jamaica Bay, New York, from 1965 to 2019 which can impact human and environmental health, highlighting elevated TCC and FCC in the northern estuary compared with EC. Enterococcus values (EC, green circles ) total coliform count (TCC, blue squares ) and fecal coliform count (FCC ...
Ringenary MJ, Tanacredi JT, Frame GW.
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Jamaica And The Lifelong education Paradigm [PDF]
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
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho +2 more
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