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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Barbados"”.
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Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in Barbados
<p>Barbados is the easternmost island in the Caribbean region, and is uniquely situated between the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. Being an isolated island with a karstified aquifer providing the majority of the nation’s water resources, Barbados has found itself in water scarce situations in …
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Remagnetization of the Eocene Oceanic Formation on Barbados, West Indies
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1980.
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Evaluating the Barbados SSB tax: a mixed-method natural experimental study
… for effectiveness. The Government of Barbados introduced a 10% excise tax on SSBs in 2015. In this thesis, I evaluated the Barbados SSB tax with the aims of 1) evaluating the impact of Barbados SSB tax on price and sales change and 2) contributing to the development of broader SSB …
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Subsurface Structure, Stratigraphy, and Hydrocarbon Basin Modeling of the Barbados Accretionary Prism
The Barbados Accretionary prism (BAP) is located along the eastern edge of the Caribbean plate and formed during the Late Cretaceous to Recent by westward subduction of Cretaceous oceanic crust of the Atlantic Ocean beneath the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc. The 300-km-width of the BAP over an …
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Civic-ness in the Caribbean: Civic Society and Governance in Barbados and Jamaica
… two extreme cases in the Caribbean are examined. Barbados and Jamaica are case studies of variance in economic performance, government, and the social situation. The two are compared in terms of their levels of 'civic-ness,' an independent variable resembling Putnam's but altered for the Caribbean …
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The Political Economy of Ceramic Production in Barbados: From plantation industry to craft production
… data regarding ceramic production in Barbados during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The project uses multiscalar analysis, microhistory, and craft and industrial production as lenses for examining the production, distribution and use of local ceramics to explore …
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An Analysis of the Expressed Needs for Vocational Education in Secondary Schools in Barbados
… for vocational education in secondary schools in Barbados.</p> <p>The survey method was used to gather the data. All respondents were asked to complete a 42-item questionnaire. The population sample was 762, which was made up of 122 administrators, 224 teachers, 274 students, and 142 parents. The …
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The cost of workplace injury in Mauritius, Barbados, and the Gold Coast, 1925-1943
… territories. The governors of the Gold Coast and Barbados were notably resistant to its implementation and held off enactment. In the Gold Coast, resistance to the WCO came under scrutiny when in 1934 a major workplace accident at Ariston Gold Mines sparked public and political interest in …
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Addressing Water Resource Issues In Barbados Through An Isotopic and Atmospheric Characterization of Precipitation Variability
… in the tropical karst areas. At Harrison’s Cave, Barbados, a Hobo Onset event data logger was attached to a tipping bucket rain gauge to count the tips and record the total rainfall every 10 minutes. In the cave a Hobo data logger was used to record relative humidity and temperature at 10-minute …
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Time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography applied to cave sustainability (Barbados) and groundwater exploration (Saint Lucia)
… Great Hall cavern in the Harrison's cave system, Barbados. We present an interpretation and comparison of two sets of resistivity data collected over the Great Hall: one set collected by us in 2010, the other in 1996. Our results show that fracturing and degradation had progressed since 1996, …
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On the Path to Slavery: Indentured Servitude in Barbados and Virginia during the Seventeenth Century
… in the English colonies of Virginia and Barbados in the first half of the seventeenth century. It argues that the system of indentured servitude contributed to the development of property rights in individuals and thereby provided early examples of treating people as property that would …
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A Regional Assessment of Coral Restoration within the Western Atlantic with a Case Study of Barbados
… a recent coral restoration initiative in Barbados succeeding the outplanting of ex situ grown coral micro-fragments and their further development on the local coral reefs. The meta-analysis showed increased survival rate in fragments outplanted following a nursery phase, which is coherent …
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The role of private primary school education in Barbados : a case study of Vale Preparatory School
… the role of private primary education in Barbados in maintaining social inequality by offering better employment opportunities, higher income, social status and social mobility to some but not all people. The development of an equitable and effective system of education in Barbados is …
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Effective people performance strategies : critical ingredients for business success in Barbados and Eastern Caribbean business enterprises.
… of people. This concept applies most forcibly to Barbados and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (BOECS), the region covered by this study. This research therefore, explores the idea of gaining comparative advantage through appropriate people management methods and follows the trend in …
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At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the "Poor Whites" of Barbados
… examination of the "poor whites" or "Redlegs" of Barbados. Excavations were undertaken from October 2012 to July 2013 in an abandoned tenantry, Below Cliff, on the east coast of the island, once inhabited by dozens of families locally referred to as the "poor whites" or "Redlegs", said to be the …
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An exploratory study of stakeholders' perspectives of a mega event in Barbados: The Golf World Cup 2006
… of the Golf World Cup which was hosted in Barbados in 2006. This event was part of a national development strategy aimed at diversifying the tourism product in the light of the increasing competitiveness of the tourism industry. Consequently the research methodology adopted for this study …
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White labour in black slave plantation society /and economy : a case study of indentured labour in seventeenth century Barbados
… indentured labour to plantation development in Barbados, the most valuable colony within the English mercantile system of the seventeenth century. The use of indentured labour, which was recruited from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland for commodity production in the first half of the …
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