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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Caribbean region"”.
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Identifying Marine Key Biodiversity Areas in the Greater Caribbean Region
… to more effectively protect species at national, regional and global scales. In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) issued a number of conservation goals (Aichi Targets), including the establishment of protected areas (PA) in terrestrial, freshwater and marine areas of eminent …
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An Assessment of Sea Turtle, Marine Mammal and Seabird Bycatch in the Wider Caribbean Region
… requires considerable resources and many regions in the world are data-poor with respect to bycatch, including the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) in the west central Atlantic Ocean basin. This dissertation presents the results of multiple strategies used to assess sea turtle, marine mammal …
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Development and validation of PCR-RFLP assay for identification of Gambierdiscus species in the Greater Caribbean region
… Gambierdiscus species in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, where CFP cases and Gambierdiscus spp. have been reported. The assay targets the D1-D2 hypervariable regions of the large subunit ribosomal RNA gene and uses a single restriction enzyme (BsrI). This method produces distinct RFLP …
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The Caribbean Community, the Caribbean Single Market and Economy and the CISG: Three ways of promoting international trade in the Caribbean region
… provide the reader with some insight into to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), its Single Market and Economy and the Caribbean Court of Justice. This dissertation will then culminate by addressing the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods 1980 (CISG) and the …
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Mining bodies: U.S. medical experimentation in Guatemala during the twentieth century
… U.S. experimentation in the Central American and Caribbean region during the twentieth century. It focuses in particular on experiments conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB), and the Guatemalan government during the 1940s in Guatemala on …
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Adolescent Male Perspectives’ on Civic Engagement: A Pilot Study on Youth Conceptualization of Citizenship and Social Participation in Southern Trinidad
… disadvantaged adolescent males in the Anglophone Caribbean, a critically under- researched population. This inquiry is necessitated by acute observations of the structural inequalities embedded in Trinidad and Tobago’s merit-based education system and the resultant disparity in learning outcomes. …
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In the era of normative power Europe
Are some of the world's smallest state regions, like the Caribbean, able to punch above their weight in international affairs, thus overcoming limitations of acutely small size? This is the first of two questions that the dissertation addresses, by investigating how and under what conditions the …
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Protocols, awareness, and preparedness of Dominica during Hurricane Maria: small island developing states' challenges to resiliency and adaptation to climate change
… how well SIDS, particularly those located in the Caribbean region, can respond and recover. Through fieldwork, I acquired qualitative data using interviews of local individuals. The results suggest that islands have many factors that challenge the resilience of island populations. These challenges …
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Adaptable Housing: A Sustainable Architectural Solution to Informal Settlements in the Caribbean
… environments- specifically those found in the Caribbean region. It examines the roles of the house, form, and culture surrounding the place and people of Jamaica; using a comparative analysis of historical and current housing models to inform anew, this thesis proposes an economically and …
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Ps receiver function imaging of crustal structure and Moho topography beneath the Northeast Caribbean.
The Caribbean plate consists of accreted different geologic terrains bounded by a system of complex plate boundaries. We conduct P-to-S receiver function studies of the Northeast Caribbean in order to image the plate boundary and study the major forces driving tectonics and strain distribution in …
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Immigration and sentencing: does geograhical region of citizenship influence sentence longevity?
… trafficking is influenced by the geographical region of the offender country of citizenship. Findings revealed that defendants from Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, Middle East/North Africa and the South/Central American regions were treated more severely than defendants from the Mexican region. …
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Essays in Economic Development and Political Empowerment
… Economic Growth: A Case Study of the Middle East Region. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of economic freedom on foreign direct investment inflow and economic growth to countries of the Middle East Chapter 2: Do the poor revolt? A study on Income and Political Freedom in the …
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A Regional Assessment of Coral Restoration within the Western Atlantic with a Case Study of Barbados
… declining. Especially the coral reefs of the Caribbean Sea have experienced a severe deteriorating in the last four decades. Many projects have sought to restore or rehabilitate the reefs, often with varied success of coral growth and survival. This paper investigates previous research on …
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Stories from the frontline of music and social transformation: a study of teachers working for Batuta in the Caribbean coast of Colombia
… Batuta in war-affected places of the Colombian Caribbean region. Batuta is one of Colombia’s largest Social Action Through Music (SATM) organizations, and it was born as an offshoot of the Venezuelan El Sistema de Orquestas y Coros Juveniles e Infantiles (El Sistema). As such, Batuta receives an …
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Improving the anaerobic co-digestion of pelagic Sargassum and food waste into biogas and a bio-fertiliser using hydrothermal pre-treatment: Concept to application in the Caribbean
… Sargassum has invaded the coastlines of the Caribbean region, Gulf of Mexico, Florida and West Africa. With intense expansion since 2011 due to environmental and oceanic anthropogenic changes, these brown seaweeds have negatively impacted aquaculture and the overall productivity of several …
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The Relationship Between Parental and Adolescent Religiosity Factors and Adolescent Sexual Risk-Taking Among Older Adolescents in the Anglophone/Latin Caribbean
… active youth across the Anglophone/Latin Caribbean have been identified as among the most-at-risk for HIV infection. Studies conducted in the United States have identified parental and religiosity factors associated with adolescent sexual risk-taking, but these relationships remain largely …
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Challenging Mental Health Concerns among Black Caribbean Immigrants
… nearly all parts of the globe, including the Caribbean region. Like the U.S., this region can also be considered a melting pot of cultures, with the Afro-Caribbean population widely scattered across these island nations. Important to this investigation is the large diaspora population of Black …
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Body Self-Esteem and Sexual Risk-Taking in Caribbean Adolescents
… religious secondary schools throughout the Caribbean. It was hypothesized that the plans and beliefs regarding sexual risk-taking of low body self-esteem individuals will be risker than those with high body self-esteem. Further, it was also the hypothesized that while individuals with high …
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Housing wealth and accumulation: Home ownership experiences of African Caribbean families migrating to Birmingham and London in the period 1950-1970
… field by exploring the experiences of African Caribbean post war families. There are a number of original points of departure to this literature that this study makes. Links are made with Caribbean migration and social anthropology literatures in developing fresh perspectives on the study of …
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