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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime +2 more
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Cannabis and Suicidal Behaviour Among Adolescents: A Pilot Study from Trinidad
The Scientific World Journal, 2005 Cannabis use and suicidal behaviour are causes of adolescent morbidity and mortality worldwide. Changing trends in these behaviours in younger age groups, higher incidence, gender differences and sociocultural variations present an enormous challenge ...
Hari D. Maharajh, Monique Konings
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Coda Q in the eastern Caribbean, West Indies
, 2018 Coda Q, Q, has been estimated from seismograms of local earthquakes recorded on short-period seismographs on some of the eastern Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles arc, West Indies, using the S-S single-scattering model.
L.L., Lynch,, W.B., Ambeh
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Postcolonial textbook research leads us to reflect on the representation of (post)colonial communities in educational media for adolescents in geography education. This paper contributes to this scholarship through Critical Discourse Analysis tracing how nine Dutch geography textbooks (1946–2018) have represented such communities from ...
Marthe Wierenga, Dietha Koster
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The University of the West Indies, Strategic Plan 1997-2002
, 2015 The University of the West Indies' Strategic Plan for the period 1997 ...
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1095-1103, July 2026.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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The University of the West Indies, Strategic Plan 2007-2012
, 2015 The University of the West Indies' Strategic Plan for the period 2007 ...
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, 2023 Poster presented during Session 1A: Education and Health at the 25th Annual Faculty of Medical Sciences Research Day Conference held on October 12th, 2023 at The University of the West Indies, St.
Boodoo, Shreeya (School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies) +8 more
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Material Gworls: Consumption and Cosmopolitanism From Jamaica to Japan
Anthropology of Work Review, Volume 47, Issue 1, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article is part of the special issue “Racialization and the gig economy”, Anthropology of Work Review 47(1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. Amidst the economic precarity exacerbated by neoliberal policies of the 20th century, Jamaican women look beyond the island's shores to find financial stability.
Roxanne Kimberly Dobson
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