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Effects of ethnicity and gender on youth health
This study investigated the effects of ethnicity and gender on the health of young people (14–25 years old) living in Mauritius. Combinations of female and male by four ethnic groups—“Creole”, “Hindu”, “Muslim” and “Mixed”—were used for multivariate ...
Komalsingh Rambaree, Igor Knez
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Rethinking non-traditional resistance at work : the case of the Indian Diaspora in Mauritius [PDF]
Resistance at work can take many forms and this is reflected in the multiple ways it has been theorised in research. In this paper, I use postcolonial theory to analyse employee resistance in Mauritius.
Ashcroft B. +43 more
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The exceptional linguistic diversity of Mauritius makes it a particularly fertile ground for the development of contact phonology and, in particular, the phonology of borrowings.
Elissa Pustka, Shrita Hassamal
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The emergence of a determiner system: The case of Mauritian Creole [PDF]
In the early stages of creolization, a large number of French determiners incorporated into the nouns that they modified. The immediate consequence was that Mauritian Creole (MC) had only bare nouns with ambiguous interpretations between [±definite ...
Guillemin, Diana
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The 'genie of the storm': cyclonic reasoning and the spaces of weather observation in the southern Indian Ocean, 1851-1925 [PDF]
This article engages with debates about the status and geographies of colonial science by arguing for the significance of meteorological knowledge-making in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Mauritius. The article focuses on how tropical storms
Mahony, Martin
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BMI and cardiovascular function in children and adolescents of Mauritius Island [PDF]
Among countries which have undergone a rapid socio-economic and nutrition transition over the past few decades, the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius is among those with the greatest surge in the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and CVD.
Dulloo, Abdul G. +6 more
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Management communication, unionization, FDI and company performance in a developing country [PDF]
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the associations between management direct communication to employees, unionization, foreign direct investment (FDI) and company performance in Mauritius, Africa’s most successful economy.
Croucher, Richard +2 more
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Recherches sur MA + Inf « Je vais » en français [PDF]
Cette étude a pour but d’expliquer l’origine de ma + Inf, indice du futur à la 1ère pers. du sing, en québécois et dans les créoles à base française : en présence d’attestations correspondantes dans des dialectes français, il est presque certain que ma a
Dörper, Sven
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Muysken, P.C., Smith, N.
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In this article, we analyze two palatal features in Mauritian Creole based on an oral corpus of 19 speakers: the nasal /ɲ/ and the affrication of the anterior plosives /t/ and /d/ before [i], [j], [y], and [ɥ].
Marc Chalier, Muhsina Alleesaib
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