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Telecollaboration in Spanish as a Foreign Language in Trinidad

Ikala: Revista de Lenguaje y Cultura, 2010
Objective: To study how participation in tandem partnership influences the motivation towards the target language and culture and the autonomy of learners of Spanish as a foreign language in Trinidad and Tobago.
Carolina Neva, María Landa-Buil, Beverly-Anne Carter, Amina Ibrahim-Ali   +3 more
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Comparative Evaluation of Susceptibility Results from the Liofilchem Antifungal Multodiscs and the VITEK® 2 Susceptibility Tests for Candida Species Causing Bloodstream Infections at the University Hospital of the West Indies

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Introduction: Determination of local Candida species susceptibility profiles is imperative in establishing empiric guidelines for candidemia, given the associated high mortality rates. Whilst broth dilution methods (eg. microdilution) are considered the “
Mrs Rochelle Charvis, Dr Glendee Reynolds Campbell, Dr Neil McKnight, Mrs. Alrica Bruce-Mowatt   +3 more
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A healthy patient with positive mantoux test but negative quantiferon Gold assay and no evidence of risk factors – to treat or not to treat?

IDCases, 2019
A 56-year-old woman who vaccinated as a child with the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), now tests positive to the tuberculin skin test (TST) but test negative to the Quantiferon Gold assay.
Lazara Karelia Montane Jaime, Patrick E. Akpaka, Sehlule Vuma, Angel A Justiz-Vaillant   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source

Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
wiley   +1 more source

Book Review ~ New Directions in University Education: Perspectives from the Caribbean

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2008
Editors: Elizabeth F. Watson & Jamillah Grant Barbado (2007). New Directions in University Education: Perspectives from the Caribbean. Barbados: The Learning Resource Centre, The University of the West Indies (220 pages).
Judith Soares
doaj  

Oligochaeta, Naididae of the West Indies and adjacent regions

Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2002
A very large collection of Naididae of the West Indies (153 localities), Suriname (15), Venezuela (2) and Florida (1) is studied. Five new species Nais barua, Dero scalariformis, D. tuna, Aulophorus kalina, A. barbatus are described.
Gilberto Righi, Viviane Hamoui
doaj   +1 more source

Disciplining Prostitutes in the Hospital de la Magdalena in Barcelona (1923‐1959)

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Background and Objectives The Hospital de la Magdalena, a care home for female prostitutes with venereal diseases, operated in Barcelona from 1923 to 1959. The purpose of this investigation is to highlight how this hospital was used to educate female prostitutes morally in addition to providing medical treatment.
Florian Grafl, Florian Steger
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing online learning readiness and perceived stress among first year medical students during COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-country study

Canadian Medical Education Journal, 2021
Md Anwarul Azim Majumder, Damian Cohall, Nkemcho Ojeh, Mike Campbell, Oswald Peter Adams, Bidyadhar Sa, Katija Khan, Russell Pierre, Helen Trotman-Edwards   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cardio-Vascular Disease and Cancer

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2015
Objective: To report the level of utilization of clinical preventive services by older adults in Jamaica and to identify independent factors associated with utilization.
K. Mitchell-Fearon DrPh, D. Willie-Tyndale MSc, N. Waldron MPH, D. Holder-Nevins PhD, K. James MPH, H. Laws MPH, D. Eldemire-Shearer PhD   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source