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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Societal Impact Statement As herbaria digitize millions of plant specimens, ethnobotanical information associated with them is becoming increasingly accessible. These biocultural data include plant uses, names, and/or management practices of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs).
Robbie Hart +23 more
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Exchange rate determination in Jamaica: A market microstructures and macroeconomic fundamentals approach [PDF]
This paper uses hybrid models that combine economic fundamentals and micro-market variables to investigate the behaviour of US/Jamaica exchange rate. The co-integration analysis applied to post 2000 monthly data indicates, in contrast to previous studies
Craigwell, Roland C +2 more
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Mothering at a distance and disclosure of maternal HIV to children in Kingston, Jamaica [PDF]
, 2018 Accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Population Horizons, an open access peer-reviewed journal by The Oxford Institute of Population Ageing.Existing guidelines (WHO, 2011) advise caretakers and professionals to disclose children’s and their
Clifford, G, Craig, Gillian, McCourt, C
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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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Foreign Exchange Controls, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and the Black Market Premium [PDF]
This paper examines the relationship between the official and parallel exchange rates, in three Caribbean countries, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, during the 1985-1993 period using cointegration, Granger causality, and reduced form methods.
Mohsen Fardmanesh, Seymour Douglas
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Stock market co-movement in the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2010 This paper investigates co-movement in five Caribbean stock markets (Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, The Bahamas and Guyana) using common factor analysis. The common factors are obtained using principal component analysis and therefore account
Harrison, B, Moore, W
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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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Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Primary dysmenorrhea is defined as recurrent, cramp‐like lower abdominal pain occurring during menstruation in the absence of underlying pelvic pathology. A significant proportion of the population opts for natural plant‐based remedies due to their perceived lower incidence of adverse effects.
Lifei Wu +5 more
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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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WAGE DIFFERENTIALS AND TRADE RELATIONSHIPS IN JAMAICA: APPLICATIONS OF TRUNCATED REGRESSION MODELS AND REPEATED CROSS-SECTION DATA [PDF]
Labor and skill premiums and their relationships with trade measures are simultaneously estimated within the framework of an individual level labor supply model for Jamaica using truncated regression models.
Emerson, Robert D., Scott, Ewan
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