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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
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte, Helmi Moret, Pim de Zwart   +2 more
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Cultural Aspects of Suicide

The Scientific World Journal, 2005
Undefined cultural factors cannot be dismissed and significantly contribute to the worldwide incidence of death by suicide. Culture is an all embracing term and defines the relationship of an individual to his environment. This study seeks to investigate
Hari D. Maharajh, Petal S. Abdool
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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Looming public health catastrophe? Carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteraemia in ICU patients at a resource limited tertiary care hospital in the Caribbean - A cause for concern

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Introduction: The problem of antibiotic resistance represents a global crisis. Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) including those producing carbapenemases (CPE) have emerged and account for over 8000 drug-resistant infections annually and 600 ...
Dr Niel Mcknight, Dr Jenene Cameron, Dr Karen Roye-Green, Dr Camille-Ann Thoms Rodriguez   +3 more
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Assessment of triglyceride‐glucose composite indices associated mortality risk in diabetes‐related heart failure

Journal of Diabetes Investigation, EarlyView.
Elevated TyG‐Age significantly increases the risk of heart failure in diabetic patients. Furthermore, combining TyG‐Age with the TRS‐HFDM score greatly enhances predictive capability and mortality risk assessment for these patients. ABSTRACT Background Patients with diabetes are at an increased risk of heart failure.
Qijie Zhao, Xiao Cai, Xing Wang, Jing Jin   +3 more
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The Caribbean's Windward Islands Banana Industry: A Heritage of Dependency

Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2012
While the era of Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat Song (day-o) has faded into the annals of history, the challenges facing the small banana farmer in the Windward Islands of Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St.
Wendy Ann P Isaac, Michael C Joseph, Wayne G Ganpat, Marisa Wilson, Richard A I Brathwaite   +4 more
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The clinical characteristics and outcome of children hospitalized with dengue in Barbados, an English Caribbean country

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2015
Introduction: Although dengue is endemic in all English-speaking Caribbean countries, there are no published studies on the clinical presentations and outcomes of children hospitalized with dengue from this region.
Alok Kumar, Marquita Gittens-St. Hilair, Vincent Jason, Christian Ugwuagu, Kandamaran Krishnamurthy   +4 more
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Diagnosis of Mycobacteriosis in Cultured Hybrid Tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) in Trinidad and Tobago

Journal of Fish Diseases, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mycobacteriosis is a significant disease in fish husbandry, with negative impacts on production facilities. Moreover, some Mycobacterium spp. that infect fish have zoonotic potential. Morbidity and mortality events at hybrid tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) farms in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) associated with mycobacterial infections prompted a ...
Lemar Blake, Arianne Brown Jordan, Soren Nicholls, Esteban Soto, Luke Iwanowicz, Rod Suepaul, Christopher Oura, Ayanna Carla N. Phillips Savage   +7 more
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