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Clinical governance and staffing for healthcare quality: perceptions of nurses, doctors, and senior managers at two tertiary hospitals in Jamaica

BMC Health Services Research
Background To describe the characteristics of effective workforce and staffing culture among doctors and nurses at two tertiary hospitals in Jamaica, and to explore perceptions of senior managers relating to the health workforce for the delivery of ...
Camelia Thompson, Desmalee Holder Nevins, Dawn Walters, Cameal Chin-Bailey, Elon Thompson, Minerva Thame, Kenneth James   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Project-based Learning for Environmental Sustainability Action

Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
The quest for social and economic development coupled with a growing population has led to complex and unsustainable interactions between humans and the natural resources of planet Earth.
Sharon Bramwell-Lalor, Keith Kelly, Therese Ferguson, Carol Hordatt Gentles, Carmel Roofe   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sickle Cell Disease: Historical Overview and Current Therapies

Prenatal Diagnosis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects millions worldwide, yet the limited treatment options currently available do not always adequately control the disease and carry significant side effects. At present, the only curative treatment is hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation, a procedure that carries considerable challenges and numerous ...
Oluwaseun O. Babatunde, Madeleine G. Bibby, Anthony Atala, Graça Almeida‐Porada, Christopher D. Porada   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mud Volcanoes of Trinidad as Astrobiological Analogs for Martian Environments

Life, 2014
Eleven onshore mud volcanoes in the southern region of Trinidad have been studied as analog habitats for possible microbial life on Mars. The profiles of the 11 mud volcanoes are presented in terms of their physical, chemical, mineralogical, and soil ...
Riad Hosein, Shirin Haque, Denise M. Beckles   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Three‐Year Propagation Experiment at Ku‐, Ka‐, and Q‐Band in French West Indies

International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From January 2021 to December 2023, the Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) conducted a three‐year Earth‐space propagation measurement campaign in Guadeloupe. The experiment used beacon receivers deployed in Pointe‐à‐Pitre airport to record signals at 11.2, 19.7, and
Jean‐Pascal Monvoisin, Laurent Castanet, Laurent Féral, Xavier Boulanger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The burden of water insecurity: a review of the challenges to water resource management and connected health risks associated with water stress in small island developing states

Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2023
Water resources, whether exceeding per capita water abundance thresholds or below water scarcity thresholds, are health determinants within small island developing states (SIDS).
Stephanie Yolan Parker, Kimalie Fabian Parchment, Georgiana Marie Gordon-Strachan   +2 more
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Sargassum Lung Syndrome: Air Flow Obstruction and Bronchial Inflammation Are Observed After Prolonged Exposure to Sargassum Gas Emissions in the Eastern Caribbean

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sargassum inundation of Caribbean and American shorelines is a growing environmental hazard. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and ammonia (NH3) produced by decomposing Sargassum could be involved in airway obstruction and bronchial inflammation. The study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of exposure to H2S and NH3 gases emitted during Sargassum ...
Rishika Banydeen, Jonathan Florentin, Maxime Boutourlinsky, Remi Nguyen, Fatima Radouani, Moustapha Agossou, Gary Lutin, Thierry Lebrun, Remi Neviere, Dabor Resiere   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A longitudinal study on enteropathogenic infections of livestock in Trinidad

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2001
A longitudinal study was conducted on selected livestock farms to determine the prevalence of enteropathogens in diarrhoeic and non-diarrhoeic animals.
A.A. Adesiyun, J.S. Kaminjolo, M. Ngeleka, A. Mutani, G. Borde, W. Harewood, W. Harper   +6 more
doaj  

Hydrodynamics of air and oil–water dispersion/emulsion in horizontal pipe flow with low oil percentage at low fluid velocity

Cogent Engineering, 2018
The objective of this paper is to investigate the flow regimes of three phase flow, emerged to be as two phase flow. These two phases are air phase and oil dispersed in water phase, in other words the latter phase can be termed as water–oil emulsion ...
Laura Edwards, Dillon Jebourdsingh, Darryan Dhanpat, Dhurjati Prasad Chakrabarti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE CHOLERA IN THE WEST INDIES. [PDF]

The Lancet
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openaire   +2 more sources