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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Eastern Caribbean"”.
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Effective people performance strategies : critical ingredients for business success in Barbados and Eastern Caribbean business enterprises.
… 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 the developed and more …
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Water resources management in the eastern Caribbean : a study of the two small island developing states, Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados
Water resource management is currently an issue of major significance at a global level both in terms of policy-making and academia. Small island states represent a special group, with Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, even more particular cases. Development, industrialisation, tourism and resource …
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An outsider's take: A case study of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority to theorize the need for change towards a qualifications framework for the organization of the Eastern Caribbean States
… framework for the Organization of the Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) based on a qualitative case study of the unique experience of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA). The main role of the qualifications systems of the OECS is that of sifting, sorting and selecting its …
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Information systems implementation and IT-enabled organisational change in the Eastern Caribbean tourism sector : an examination of factors impacting on the successful adoption and use of the Internet and web-based systems in national tourist offices and the Caribbean Tourism Organisation
… the small island developing states (SIDS) in the Eastern Caribbean. The key aspects of this work entail the examination oft the factors which impact upon the systems implementation process and IT-enabled organisational change, levels of Internet adoption and maturity, the extent to which the …
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East Caribbean immigrant students in the United States Virgin Islands public high schools
… (1970) which allowed immigrant students from the Eastern Caribbean to attend Virgin Islands public schools for the first time, rejecting department of education argument for not allowing them admission because of lack of funding. This study investigates the achievement performance of a sample of …
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Distance Learner Ecologies of the University of the West Indies Open Campus Program
… of distance learner ecologies in the Eastern Caribbean, or economically developing countries in general. Based on factors that the respondents identified as most challenging within their ecologies, the study explored different manifestations of time (in terms of life cycle, the concept …
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Liberalizing Trade in Tourism Services Under the CARIFORUM EU Economic Partnership Agreement in the OECS: Examining its Effect on Tourism Demand and Tourism Related Foreign Direct Investment
… between the European Union and Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) under the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) -European Union (EU) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). It focuses on Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. …
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A Population Genomic Study of Mutton Snapper (Lutjanus analis) Throughout Florida and the Caribbean
… snapper, and the other containing the three Eastern Caribbean populations (F<sub>ST</sub> = 0.001). Outlier analysis revealed an outlier genomic region on chromosome 10 (42 loci, F<sub>ST</sub> up to 0.24) differentiating the two groups, suggesting selection is associated with the divergence …
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Climate controls on coral growth in the Caribbean
Accurate predictions of Caribbean carol reef responses to global climate change are currently limited by a lack of knowledge of the dominant environmental controls on coral growth. Corals exhibit significant responses to environmental variability occurring on multi-annual to decadal timescales, …
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Thermally generated convection and precipitation over volcanoes: Numerical modelling of flow over Montserrat
… the Soufri`ere Hills Volcano (SHV), Montserrat, Eastern Caribbean, is a well-documented example of such rainfall–volcano interactions. Hence, Montserrat is used as a template for the experiments, although the experimental setup is general so the results will have applicability for other tropical …
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Climate controls on coral growth in the Caribbean
Accurate predictions of Caribbean coral reef responses to global climate change are currently limited by a lack of knowledge of the dominant environmental controls on coral growth. Corals exhibit significant responses to environmental variability occurring on multi-annual to decadal timescales, …
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Using Computer Visualisations to Educate and Communicate Volcanic Hazards to At-Risk Communities
… disaster risk agencies and communities on the Eastern Caribbean island of St. Vincent and then trialled with adults and students from across the island. A range of outreach sessions were adopted to compare and contrast the applications of the game and to identify the most effective method of …
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The Relationships Between Student Diligence, Student Support Systems, Other Related Variables and Student Academic Outcomes in High Schools in Grenada
… The Ministry of Education on the Caribbean Island of Grenada has been seeking to find ways to improve students' academic performance. The Ministry's emphasis has been on finding ways to make students more responsible for their education and at the same time trying to examine the …
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Archaeology of Void Spaces
… Midden archaeology has been a central focus in Caribbean research, and consists of an accumulation of discarded remnants from past human activities that can be tested against anthrosols./<p> <p>The archaeological collections visited for this research project involved creating new databases to …