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First Isolation of C. auris in a Patient with a Polymicrobial Wound Infection in Jamaica

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Background: First discovered in Japan in 2009, C. auris has since emerged as an important nosocomial pathogen. It has been difficult to identify without techniques such as the MALDI-TOF and PCR.
Dr Niel Mcknight, Mrs. Alrica Bruce-Mowatt, Mrs. Rochelle Meyler-Charvis, Dr Camille-Ann Thoms Rodriguez, Dr Glendee Reynolds-Campbell, Prof Alison Nicholson   +5 more
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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
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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
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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
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Whipple's procedure for pancreatic cancer: training and the hospital environment are more important than volume alone

Surgery in Practice and Science, 2023
Background: In our center, patients with pancreatic cancer traditionally had Whipple's resections by general surgery teams until January 2013 when a hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) was introduced.
Shamir O. Cawich, Robyn Cabral, Jacintha Douglas, Dexter A. Thomas, Fawwaz Z. Mohammed, Vijay Naraynsingh, Neil W. Pearce   +6 more
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Political struggle and West Indies cricket

NWIG, 1996
[First paragraph] An Area of Conquest: Popular Democracy and West Indies Cricket Supremacy. HILARY McD BECKLES (ed.). Kingston: Ian Randle, 1995. xviii + 154 pp. (Paper n.p.) Liberation Cricket: West Indies Cricket Culture.
Jay R. Mandle, Joan D. Mandle
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An Exploration of Inclusivity for Persons with Disabilities in Disaster Risk Management Planning at the National and Local Government Levels in Jamaica

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2018
The Small Island State of Jamaica is vulnerable to various natural hazards; as a result, it faces threats to its economy, infrastructure, property, and populace.
Barbara Carby, Therese Ferguson, Shaughna-Lee Steele, Zainab Maiyaki   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE CHOLERA IN THE WEST INDIES. [PDF]

The Lancet
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
wiley   +1 more source