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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Guyana"”.
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Fertility and migration in Guyana
… relationship between migration and fertility in Guyana. Some attempts are also made to verify the relevance or applicability of the major models seeking to explain the migration-fertility relationship. In this study, fertility was found to be negatively associated with the degree of urbanization. …
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Fertility and migration in Guyana
… relationship between migration and fertility in Guyana. Some attempts are also made to verify the relevance or applicability of the major models seeking to explain the migration-fertility relationship. In this study, fertility was found to be negatively associated with the degree of urbanization. …
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Longshore current variations, Guyana, South America.
… 1965), for a dissipative, barred transect of Guyana's Batchelor's Adventure beach. Although there were considerable variations in beach energy conditions during the study period, good agreement (r$\sp2$ =.536) between observed current velocity and those predicted by the model was established. …
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An Estimation of Tax Incidence in Guyana
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GUYANA-VENEZUELA BORDER DISPUTE: SEEKING A PEACEFUL SOLUTION
… mechanisms that are capable of resolving the Guyana-Venezuela border dispute. This thesis will analyze those legal principles and/or techniques of the International Court of Justice, mediation and the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which are indispensable for dispute resolution. I argue that …
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Economic and societal effects of structural adjustment in Guyana
… of the most impoverished countries in the world, Guyana’s economy is experiencing a downward spiral under IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programs (SAPs), which ironically, were designed to boost the economy. This claim is analyzed with respect to three of Guyana’s most important …
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The geology and geochemistry of the Omai goldfield, Guyana
The Omai goldfield consists of mesothermallode gold mineralisation and associated saprolitealluvial placer deposits, hosted within Palaeoproterozoic granite-greenstone terrain of the Guiana Shield. Total mining reserves are estimated at 44.8 million tonnes, grading at 1.43 glt Au. The goldfield …
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Geology and geochemistry Wanamu-Blue Mountains area, Waini SW, Guyana
Includes bibliographical references.
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Political Parties in a Bifurcated State: The Case of Guyana
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No sovereign remedy: distress, madness, and mental health care in Guyana
… of how mental distress is read and understood in Guyana. Through semi-structured qualitative interviews, site observations, media analysis, and document analysis (primary, secondary, tertiary, and grey literature), this research investigates (i) competing and complementary discourses and …
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Impact of Ethnic Conflict on Development: A Case Study of Guyana
… its stifling impact on national development in Guyana, which represents an extreme case of a society plagued by racial division. Organizations including labor unions and political parties, as well as occupations and aspects of the economy, among other social constructs, are all racially divided. …
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Between a Promise and a Trench: Citizenship, Vulnerability, and Climate Change in Guyana
… citizens make claims about racial democracy in Guyana. It shows how government policymaking around climate adaptation--which drew upon the recommendations of outside actors, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations (UN), and various NGOs and …
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A Field Test of Three Approaches to Teacher Supervision in Secondary Schools in Guyana
… the blessing of the Ministry of Education in Guyana where teacher education is a priority and where teacher supervision and evaluation procedures need to be more effective. Two of the main assumptions of the study were that the pre-service training of teachers is inadequate
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Ranging Behavior, Group Cohesiveness, and Patch Use in Northern Bearded Sakis (Chiropotes sagulatus) in Guyana
… in a continuous lowland rainforest in southern Guyana. My study combined observational data with a novel GIS-based method for assessing food patch quality to assess how bearded sakis adjusted their ranging and grouping patterns in response to changes in resource quality. My study group consisted …
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Rice Production and Small Farmers' Adaptation: A Case of Guyana
… and weeds. As a small developing country, Guyana is highly vulnerable to climate change despite its insignificant contribution to global warming. Guyana heavily relies on rice cultivation for food, employment, and export earnings. While generally increasing, rice yields have fluctuated over …
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