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Ludi, Regula. "Haile Selassie auf Jamaika." Historische Anthropologie 19, no. 1 (January 2011): 82–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.7788/ha.2011.19.1.82.

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Zietemann, Franziska. "Medizinische Online-Prüfung auf Jamaika." kma - Klinik Management aktuell 9, no. 01 (January 2004): 71–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1572598.

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Vor vier Jahren war der Begriff “UMTS-Lizenzen” in aller Munde. Danach geriet dieses Schlagwort aus der Telekommunikationsbranche etwas in Vergessenheit. Für einige 100 Bildungseinrichtungen und -institute bleib das Thema jedoch aktuell. Denn das Ministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) legte ein Förderprogramm “Neue Medien in der Bildung” auf, dass zum größten Teil aus Mitteln des Verkaufs der UMTS-Lizenzen finanziert wurde.
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Follert, Florian. ""Jamaika"-Sondierungsgespräche und Spieltheorie: Der Frontalzusammenstoß." WiSt - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium 47, no. 7-8 (2018): 48–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.15358/0340-1650-2018-7-8-48.

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Eckert, Andreas. "Jamaika-Koalition. Über den Kolonialismus-Theoretiker Stuart Hall." Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte 12, no. 2 (2018): 115–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.17104/1863-8937-2018-2-115.

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Schwinghammer, Susanne. "„Black Power on Stage“ SISTREN: Frauentheater in Jamaika." Maske und Kothurn 39, no. 2 (June 1993): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.7767/muk.1993.39.2.49.

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Paquet, Robert. "Gesundheitspolitik nach der Bundestagswahl: Erst mal weiter so." kma - Klinik Management aktuell 22, no. 11 (November 2017): 26–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1594900.

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Derzeit muss man davon ausgehen, dass der Wind weiter nach Jamaika weht. Dabei hat Gesundheitspolitik schon im Wahlkampf keine herausragende Rolle gespielt. Auch für die Regierungsbildung wird sie nicht entscheidend sein. Überraschungen beim Ressortzuschnitt und Personal sind auf den letzten Metern allerdings nicht ausgeschlossen.
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Paquet, Robert. "Koalitionsverhandlungen zur GroKo: Erwartungen, Enttäuschungen und Forderungen." kma - Klinik Management aktuell 23, no. 01/02 (February 2018): 46–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1595028.

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Nachdem die Jamaika-Träume zerplatzt sind, und die Politik nun doch auf die kleinste „große Koalition“ zusteuert, die wir je hatten, haben sich die inhaltlichen Vorgaben geändert. Die Finanzarchitektur der GKV steht plötzlich im Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Das zeigt auch das Ergebnispapier der Sondierungen.
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Premalatha, M., and T. Deivasigamani. "History and Decolonising: A Critical Study of Jamaika Kinkaid Fictions." DJ Journal of English Language and Literature 2, no. 1 (June 28, 2017): 46–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.18831/djeng.org/2017011010.

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Katja, Füllberg-Stolberg. "Von Fairfield (Jamaika) nach Akropong (Ghana): Afroamerikanische Emigration in der Postemanzipationsphase." Zeitschrift f?r Weltgeschichte 15, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 37–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/84543_37.

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Winkler, Jürgen R. "Die saarländische Landtagswahl vom 30. August 2009: Auf dem Weg nach Jamaika." Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 41, no. 2 (2010): 339–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2010-2-339.

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Winkler, Jürgen R. "Die saarländische Landtagswahl vom 25. März 2012: Von Jamaika zur Großen Koalition." Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 43, no. 3 (2012): 507–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2012-3-507.

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Hananto, Pulung Widhi Hari, and Rahandy Rizki Prananda. "THE URGENCY OF GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION AS A LEGAL PROTECTION INSTRUMENT TOWARD TRADITIONALKNOWLEDGE IN INDONESIA." LAW REFORM 15, no. 1 (May 27, 2019): 62. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/lr.v15i1.23355.

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Produk pengetahuan tradisional yang bercirikan kondisi geografis merupakan aset yang bernilai ekonomis dan spiritual bagi masyarakat daerah tersebut. Potensi penyalah gunaan terhadap barang indikasi geografis memerlukan suatu perangkat hukum yang bersifat memberikan perlindungan. Indikasi Geografis (IG) merupakan salah satu instrument kekayan intelektual yang mempunyai ciri khas tersendiri. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji pengaturan Indikasi geografis di tingkat nasional dan internasional dan implikasi Indikasi geografis terhadap para stakeholder dan bentuk ideal pengaturan IG di Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode yuridis normative dan studi komparatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa pengaturan IG yang diterapkan di Indonesia menganut system penggabungan dengan pengaturan merek. Implikasi pendaftaran IG membawa dampak komprehensif pada bidang ekonomi dan alat legitimasi terhadap pengetahuan tradisional. Berdasarkan perbandingan perlindungan Indikasi geografis di Ethiopia dan Jamaika, direkomendasikan untuk memisahkan pengaturan Indikasi geografis dengan merek (sui generis)
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Knelangen, Wilhelm. "Die schleswig-holsteinische Landtagswahl vom 7 . Mai 2017: Niederlage der „Küstenkoalition“ und erstmals „Jamaika“ im Norden." Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 48, no. 3 (2017): 575–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0340-1758-2017-3-575.

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Rouault, Sophie. "Regierungsbildung in Deutschland und Geschlechtergleichstellung: Jamaika versus GroKo-III. Oder die nicht so erstaunlichen Ähnlichkeiten zweier Sondierungsrunden." FEMINA POLITICA - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft 27, no. 1 (June 8, 2018): 117–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3224/feminapolitica.v27i1.11.

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Goffe, Tao Leigh. "Bigger than the Sound." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 24, no. 3 (November 1, 2020): 97–127. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749806.

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This essay examines the political economy of Caribbean cultural capital and the formation of reggae in Jamaica in the 1950s. Through study of the Afro-Asian intimacies and tensions embedded in the sound of preindependence Jamaica, the essay traces the birth of the “sound-system” to the networks of local small-retail grocery shops, ubiquitous across Jamaica, that were owned and operated by Jamaican Chinese shopkeepers and examines how they formed material infrastructures. In charting the hardwiring of speakers and how the sociality of the shop housed the production of a new sound, the essay argues that sonic innovation was derived from Afro-Jamaican servicepeople who returned from World War II with military technological expertise, which they applied to sound engineering, and from entrepreneurial guilds of Jamaican merchants and shopkeepers of Chinese, Afro-Chinese, and Indo-Chinese descent, who helped form the conditions of possibility for the production and global distribution of reggae. Thus the networks of Jamaican Chinese diasporic capital and talent, producing and performing, helped to engineer the electrical flows of reggae to rural areas and urban dancehall parties.
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Artuç, Selahattin, Kamil Hakan Doğan, and Şerafettin Demirci. "Uyuşturucu Maddelerde Yeni Trend Sentetik Kannabinoidler." Bulletin of Legal Medicine 19, no. 3 (December 15, 2014): 198–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.17986/blm.2014193775.

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Doğal kannabis (Δ9-THC, tetrahidrokanabinol) hint keneviri bitkisinden (Cannabis Sativa) elde edilir ve CB1, CB2 olarak ifade edilen kannabinoid reseptörler üzerine etki eder. Kannabisin tedavi edici etkileri çok eskiden beri bilinmektedir. Günümüzde tıbbi amaçla kullanılan kannabinoid içeren bazı ilaçlar bulunmaktadır. Sentetik kannabinoidlerin kimyasal yapısı doğal kannabisten oldukça farklıdır. Kannabinoid reseptör afiniteleri ve aktiviteleri doğal kannabisten yüksektir. Sentetik kannabinoid içeren maddeler genel olarak yurdışında “Spice”, “K2”, Türkiye’de ise “Bonzai” ya da “Jamaika” olarak adlandırılmaktadır. Sentetik kannabinoidleri içeren bitkisel karışımların bazı ülkelerde “head shop” ve “smart shop” denilen yerlerde yasal olarak satılması ve bunlara internetten kolayca erişilebilmesi kullanıcılar için çekici bir özelliktir. Ayrıca kannabisten daha güçlü bir etki, ekonomiklik, kolay ulaşılabilirlik ve standart madde testlerinden kurtulması, sentetik kannabinoidlerin artan kullanımına katkıda bulunmaktadır. Sentetik kannabinoidlerin referans standartları bulunmadığından tespit edilmeleri kolay değildir. Yasal engelleri aşabilmek için piyasaya sürekli olarak yeni kannabimimetik analoglar sunulmaktadır. Sentetik kannabinoid kullanımındaki artış göz önünde bulundurulduğunda, yakın zamanda en problemli uyuşturucu maddelerden biri olacağı öngörülmektedir. Sentetik kannabinoidlerin yaygın kötüye kullanımı nedeniyle, farmakoloji ve toksikolojilerinin daha iyi tanımlanması ve uygun yasal planlama ile düzenlemelerin yapılabilmesi için daha ileri düzeyde incelenmelerine gerek duyulmaktadır.Anahtar kelimeler: Sentetik kannabinoid, bonzai, uyuşturucu madde.
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Modest, Wayne, and Rivke Jaffe. "New Roots." African Diaspora 7, no. 2 (2014): 234–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725465-00702004.

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This article explores contemporary ontologies of blackness in the Caribbean island of Jamaica. Approaching blackness as an ontological issue – an issue that pertains to the being, or the existence, of a category of people – we emphasize the spatial dimension of such ontologies. Drawing on Jamaican contemporary art and popular music, we propose that the site of blackness, as it is imagined in Jamaica, has shifted from Africa towards ‘the ghetto.’ Tracing changing Jamaican perspectives on race and nation, the article discusses how self-definitions of ‘being black’ and ‘being Jamaican’ involve the negotiation of historical consciousness and transnational connectivity. During much of the twentieth century, various Jamaican social and political movements looked primarily to the African continent as a referent for blackness. In the twenty-first century, the urban space of the ghetto has become more central in Jamaican social commentary and critique. By tracing the historical shifts of the spatial imaginary onto which racial belonging and authenticity are projected, we seek to foreground the mutability of the relation between blackness and Africanness.
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Binns-Thompson, Shandelene Khadine Kedisha, Garry Hornby, and David Burghes. "Investigating the Impact of a Mathematics Enhancement Programme on Jamaican Students’ Attainment." Education Sciences 11, no. 9 (September 7, 2021): 516. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci11090516.

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Underperformance in mathematics has been an issue that plagues the education system in Jamaica. Studies in first world countries have shown that enrichment programs, including Mathematics Enhancement Programmes (MEPs,) have been positively impacting attainment in mathematics. This quasi-experimental research design study investigated the impact of an MEP on Jamaican students’ attainment in mathematics. A sample of seven grade one classes from two primary schools in representative areas in Jamaica were selected for the intervention group. The treatment involved teaching the Jamaican grade one mathematics standards using the MEP resources for nine months. A statistically significant improvement and large effect size of the intervention was found, indicating that the MEP had a substantial impact on students’ achievement and attitudes towards mathematics. This study has implications for designing enrichment programs geared at addressing mathematics underperformance in Jamaica and in similar countries.
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Harry, Otelemate G. "Jamaican Creole." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 36, no. 1 (May 18, 2006): 125–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002510030600243x.

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Jamaican Creole is one of the major Atlantic English-lexifier creoles spoken in the Caribbean. In Jamaica, this creole is popularly labelled as ‘Patwa’ (Devonish & Harry 2004: 441). There is a widely-held view in Jamaica that a post-creole continuum exists. The continuum is between Jamaican English and Jamaican Creole (Meade 2001: 19). Many scholars holding this view find it necessary to distinguish among acrolectal, mesolectal and basilectal varieties (Irvine 1994, Beckford-Wassink 1999, Patrick 1999, Meade 2001, among others). Major phonological differences are found between the two extremes. However, a discussion of the phonological differences in the continuum and problems with the theoretical notion of a ‘post-creole continuum’ is beyond the scope of this paper. The aim of this paper is to provide an adequate description of some salient aspects of the synchronic phonetics and phonology of Jamaican Creole based on the speech forms of two native Jamaican Creole speakers, Stacy-Ann Watt, a post-graduate female student at the University of West Indies, Mona, and Racquel Sims, 22 year old female from the parish of St Catherine. Both come from the Eastern parishes of the island.
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Harris, Sasekea Yoneka. "Covid-19 impact on the Caribbean academic library: Jamaica's preliminary response to people, place, product and services." Library Management 42, no. 6-7 (February 9, 2021): 340–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-10-2020-0144.

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PurposeThis paper examined the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on people, place, product and services in Jamaican academic libraries. It also compares the Jamaican academic library’s COVID-19 experience with US academic library’s COVID-19 preliminary experience.Design/methodology/approachThe local academic libraries in higher education in Jamaica (also referred to in this paper as university libraries) were surveyed.FindingsGovernment mandates, university mandates and the absence of a vaccine influenced academic library response. The measures implemented, though unplanned and developed on-the-go, constituted a behavioural change model (BCM). COVID-19 has had a positive-negative impact on library people, place, product and services and has created a new normal for Jamaican academic libraries.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper captures the preliminary response of Jamaican academic libraries to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on library people, place, product and services. As such, a follow-up survey on changes, challenges, strengths, impact, lessons and plans would be a useful complement to this paper. As COVID-19 information is rapidly evolving, this preliminary response of Jamaica is neither the final nor complete response to the pandemic.Practical implicationsThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a gap in the literature on disaster management generally and pandemic management in particular, and on the management of health disasters in academic libraries; this paper seeks to fill this gap, albeit incrementally, through Jamaica's preliminary response to the COVID-19 pandemic.Originality/valueThis paper gives voice to the Caribbean academic library’s COVID-19 experience, through the voice of Jamaica. It is the first scholarly paper on the impact of COVID-19 on university libraries in the Jamaican / English-speaking Caribbean, and so presents the elements of the BCM implemented by Jamaica, which provides an important guide to Caribbean academic library leaders. The findings can also inform the Latin American and Caribbean section of international library papers on COVID-19 impact on academic libraries globally.
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Rashford, John. "Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture." Ethnobiology Letters 1 (August 3, 2010): 12–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.14237/ebl.1.2010.76.

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Reid, Sonya, Kayon Donaldson-Davis, Douladel Willie-Tyndale, Camelia Thompson, Gilian Wharfe, Tracey Gibson, Denise Eldemire-Shearer, and Kenneth James. "Breast Cancer in Jamaica: Trends From 2010 to 2014—Is Mortality Increasing?" JCO Global Oncology, no. 6 (September 2020): 837–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/go.20.00022.

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PURPOSE This study sought to provide a detailed analysis of breast cancer–specific mortality in Jamaica on the basis of reported deaths between 2010 and 2014. METHODS A cross-sectional study was done to analyze breast cancer–specific mortality data from the Registrar General’s Department, the statutory body responsible for registering all deaths across Jamaica. RESULTS A total of 1,634 breast cancer–related deaths were documented among Jamaican women between 2010 and 2014, which accounted for 24% of all female cancer deaths. The age-standardized breast cancer mortality rate increased from 21.8 per 100,000 in 2010 to 28 per 100,000 in 2014 for the total female population. The overall difference in breast cancer mortality rates between the 2014 and 2010 rates was not statistically significant ( P = .114). Analysis of the year-by-year trend reflected by the annual percentage of change did show, however, a statistically significant increasing trend in breast cancer mortality ( P = .028). Mortality rates varied by age, with statistically significant annual increases observed in the 35-44–, 65-74–, and ≥ 75-year age groups ( P = .04, .03, and .01, respectively). CONCLUSION Breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related death among Jamaican women. Despite global advances in breast cancer screening and management, breast cancer remains a major public health challenge and represents a public health priority in Jamaica. The increasing breast cancer–specific mortality in Jamaica over the 5-year period contrasts with decreasing mortality rates among US women with breast cancer. This study highlights the critical need to address the implementation of a national organized breast cancer screening program in Jamaica and to focus future research efforts on the biology of breast cancer, especially among young Jamaican women.
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Saner, Raymond, and Lichia Yiu. "Jamaica’s development of women entrepreneurship: challenges and opportunities." Public Administration and Policy 22, no. 2 (December 2, 2019): 152–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/pap-09-2019-0023.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess how far Jamaica has come regarding women economic empowerment, female entrepreneurship and its development policies in favour of women entrepreneurship development. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory study employs a mixed method approach to achieve its research objectives, consisting of literature review and corroboration with existing database and indices. Key insights of research on female entrepreneurship are used to reflect on published data to assess progress of female entrepreneurship development in Jamaica. The 2017 editions of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and Gender Entrepreneurship and Development Index were examined to gain a better understanding of how the Jamaican business environment has progressed or regressed over time and how the economic development and business environment impact female participation in Jamaica’s labour force and entrepreneurial initiatives. Findings The economic conditions in Jamaica and the role of females as domestic caregiver have made it difficult for women to enter the labour force even though Jamaican women are relatively better educated than men. Women remain at a disadvantage in the labour force. Jamaica’s legislation and budget allocations in favour of female entrepreneurship are analysed to identify where and how Jamaica is investing its efforts to improve women’s participation in the labour force. The authors conclude with suggestions on how the Jamaican government could facilitate further women entrepreneurship development to reach a more gender balanced inclusive socio-economic development. Originality/value While global policy has been promoting women empowerment through entrepreneurial development, little is known on the actual outcome of such human capital investment strategy and the critical vectors that contribute to such outcome. This scarcity of knowledge is also applicable to Jamaica. This paper attempts to contribute to women entrepreneurship research by reaching beyond the output-oriented perspective of various skill development programmes and attempts to link policy choice with overall macro results of entrepreneurship development in general and women entrepreneurship development in specific. The study thus provides a rare glimpse of the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Jamaica.
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Phillips, Gareth. "A Proposed Certification Process For Business Teachers In Jamaica." College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal (CTMS) 3, no. 1 (July 22, 2011): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/ctms.v3i1.5272.

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This paper proposes subject area certification requirement for business educators within the Jamaican education system and identifies the workplace skills and competencies for business educators and business students in Jamaica.
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Brajlan, Igor. "Model westminsterski jako typowy model rozwoju politycznego brytyjskich kolonii na Karaibach (1931-1944) (Jamajka)." Studia Warmińskie 52 (December 31, 2015): 339–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/sw.143.

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W artykule autor analizuje ewolucję polityczną Jamajki w l. 1931-1944. W omawianym okresie rozwój polityczny Jamajki pozostaje zdaniem autora pod wpływem Statutu Westmisterskiego z 1931 r. i może być określony jako zgodny z westminsterskim modelem ładu publicznego, który obowiązywał w brytyjskich posiadłościach kolonialnych na Karaibach. Autor bada także wpływ poszczególnych partii i ruchów politycznych na kolonialne społeczeństwo Jamajki. Za punkt zwrotny w historii politycznej Jamajki autor uważa uchwalenie konstytucji tego kraju w 1944 r., która wprowadziła powszechne prawo wyborcze. W omawianym okresie Jamajka była najbardziej rozwiniętym pod względem gospodarczym i politycznym brytyjskim terytorium na Karaibach.
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Bröck, Sabine. "EVELYN HEINEMANN, Mama Afrika: Das Trauma der Versklavung - Eine ethnopsychoanalytische Studie über Persönlichkeit, Magie und Heilerinnen in Jamaika. (Frankfurt: Nexus-Verlag, 1990)." Matatu 12, no. 1 (April 26, 1994): 221–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000103.

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BRÖCK, SABINE. "EVELYN HEINEMANN, Mama Afrika: Das Trauma der Versklavung – Eine ethnopsychoanalytische Studie über Persönlichkeit, Magie und Heilerinnen in Jamaika. (Frankfurt: Nexus–Verlag, 1990)." Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui 12, no. 1 (December 8, 2002): 221–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757405-90000143.

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Chin, Matthew. "Constructing “Gaydren”." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 23, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 17–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7703253.

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Drawing from the work of Jamaica’s Gay Freedom Movement (1977–84), this essay uses the term gaydren to consider the basis for activism around same-sex desire in Jamaica in the 1970s and 1980s. Gaydren is a combination of gay, a North Atlantic reference to subjects of same-sex desire, and bredren, a word initially constructed in Rastafarian lexicon as a masculinist expression of collective solidarity. Examining the construction of gaydren highlights the cultural work of Jamaican activists as they transform North Atlantic political discourses to align with the particular contingencies of sexual politics in Jamaica. As a form of political practice, gaydren challenges normative configurations of bredren and gay that emerge from political contexts that oppose white imperial domination to consider more nuanced approaches to both Jamaican and North Atlantic cultural influences.
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Jones, Margaret. "A ‘Textbook Pattern’? Malaria Control and Eradication in Jamaica, 1910–65." Medical History 57, no. 3 (May 30, 2013): 397–419. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2013.20.

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AbstractIn 1965 Jamaica was declared free of malaria by the World Health Organisation (WHO), thus ending centuries of death and suffering from the disease. This declaration followed the successful completion of the WHO’s Malaria Eradication Programme (MEP) on the island, initiated in 1958. This account first explores the antecedent control measures adopted by the government up to the MEP. These, as advocated by the previous malaria ‘experts’ who had reported on the disease on the island concentrated on controlling the vector and the administration of quinine for individual protection. Although Jamaica suffered no catastrophic epidemics of island-wide scope, malaria was a constant cause of mortality and morbidity. Major change came in the wake of the Second World War within the changing political context of national independence and international development. In 1957 the Jamaican government joined the global WHO programme to eradicate malaria. The Jamaican campaign exposes many of the problems noted in other studies of such top–down initiatives in their lack of attention to the particular circumstances of each case. Despite being described as ‘a textbook pattern’ of malaria eradication, the MEP in Jamaica suffered from a lack of sufficient preparation and field knowledge. This is most obviously illustrated by the fact that all literature on the programme sent to Jamaica in the first two years was in Spanish. That the MEP exploited the technological opportunity provided by dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) with advantage in Jamaica is not disputed but as this analysis illustrates this success was by no means guaranteed.
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Vaidya, K. R. "Natural cross-pollination in roselle, Hibiscus sabdariffa L. (Malvaceae)." Genetics and Molecular Biology 23, no. 3 (September 2000): 667–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1415-47572000000300027.

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Two local varieties of roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.), Jamaican Green and Jamaican Red, were grown to determine the amount of natural cross-pollination. Two planting arrangements (alternating rows; alternating individuals in a row) and two planting dates, a month apart, were used for the outcrossing experiments. Stem pigmentation, red (R-) vs. green (rr), was used as a genetic marker in the estimation of outcrossing. Homozygous dominant and recessive genotypes of Jamaican Red and Jamaican Green, respectively, were grown in both of the planting arrangements and dates. Seeds from open-pollinated capsules of randomly selected Jamaican Green plants were planted to score the frequency of cross-pollination. Estimates of natural cross-pollination ranged from 0.20 ± 0.09% to 0.68 ± 0.34%. Roselle outcrosses at a low rate in Jamaica.
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Peck, Stewart B. "Historical biogeography of Jamaica: evidence from cave invertebrates." Canadian Journal of Zoology 77, no. 3 (September 1, 1999): 368–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z98-220.

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The Jamaican fauna of obligately subterranean invertebrates contains 25 species of terrestrial troglobitic onychophorans, arachnids, isopods, and hexapods and 16 species of freshwater - brackish water stygobites, mostly crustaceans. Cladistic analyses of the faunas are not available. In place of this, general track analysis of the cave-restricted terrestrial faunas suggests closest relationships with Jamaican forest faunas, followed by other West Indian forest or cave faunas, and lastly Central American forest faunas. Over-water dispersal best accounts for the presence of the terrestrial epigean ancestors of the fauna in Jamaica, and they must have arrived after Jamaica became emergent in the early Miocene (about 20 Ma). The terrestrial cave fauna then descended from the epigean ancestors. In contrast, the aquatic fauna invaded from the sea, but also after the Miocene emergence. There is no evidence for a macro-vicariance origin of the cave-evolved fauna from one existing in cave environments at the time when Jamaica separated from proto-Middle America. The troglobites probably arose on Jamaica through habitat shift or Pleistocene climatic change (both micro-vicariance mechanisms). Seven terrestrial and three aquatic species seem to be phylogenetic relicts. These relicts also have a stronger relationship to other Antillean islands than to Central America. This fauna shows no evidence of a South American origin. There is a very significant species-area linear regression for Greater Antillean stygobites but not for troglobites (probably because Hispaniola is not sufficiently studied).
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Ellis, Harold. "Mary Seacole: Self Taught Nurse and Heroine of the Crimean War." Journal of Perioperative Practice 19, no. 9 (September 2009): 304–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/175045890901900907.

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Mary Jane Seacole was born Mary Grant in Kingston Jamaica in 1805. Her father was a Scottish army officer and her mother a free Jamaican black, (slavery was not fully abolished in Jamaica until 1838). Her mother ran a hotel, Blundell Hall, in Kingston and was a traditional healer. Her skill as a nurse was much appreciated, as many of her residents were disabled British soldiers and sailors. It was from her mother that Mary learned the art of patient care, and she also assisted at the local British army hospital.
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O’Kane, Finola. "The Irish-Jamaican Plantation of Kelly’s Pen, Jamaica." Caribbean Quarterly 64, no. 3-4 (October 2, 2018): 452–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2018.1531557.

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Mair, Christian. "Creolisms in an emerging standard." English World-Wide 23, no. 1 (June 13, 2002): 31–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.23.1.03mai.

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After showing that standardisation processes in spoken and written usage in Jamaica must be seen as distinct from each other, the paper focuses on the role of the creole substrate in the formation of the emergent written standard in Jamaica. The approach is corpus-based, using material from the Caribbean component of the International Corpus of English and, occasionally, from other digitised text data-bases. Jamaican Creole lexicon and grammar are shown to exert an influence on written English usage, but, generally speaking, direct borrowing of words and rules is much rarer than various forms of indirect and mediated influence, and the over-all impact of the creole is as yet limited. While probably no longer a typical English-speaking society (cf. Shields-Brodber 1997), Jamaica will continue to be an English-using one.
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Lawrence, O’Neil. "Through Archie Lindo’s Lens." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 24, no. 3 (November 1, 2020): 143–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749830.

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The “creation” of Jamaican national identity owed much to the artistic movement that preceded and followed independence in 1962. While depictions of the peasantry, particularly male laborers, have become iconic representations of “true” Jamaicans, the scholarship surrounding these works has conspicuously ignored any erotic potential inherent in them. Using the contemporaneous, mostly private homoerotic photographic archive of Archie Lindo as a point of entry, this essay questions and complicates the narrative surrounding nationalist-era art in Jamaica, particularly the ways the black male body was mobilized in the development of Jamaican art and visual culture.
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Hickling, Frederick W. "Owning our madness: Contributions of Jamaican psychiatry to decolonizing Global Mental Health." Transcultural Psychiatry 57, no. 1 (December 18, 2019): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363461519893142.

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The contentious debate on evidence-based Global Mental Health care is challenged by the primary mental health program of Jamaica. Political independence in 1962 ushered in the postcolonial Jamaican Government and the deinstitutionalization of the country’s only mental hospital along with a plethora of mental health public policy innovations. The training locally of mental health professionals catalyzed institutional change. The mental health challenge for descendants of African people enslaved in Jamaica is to reverse the psychological impact of 500 years of European racism and colonial oppression and create a blueprint for the decolonization of GMH. The core innovations were the gradual downsizing and dismantling of the colonial mental hospital and the establishment of a novel community mental health initiative. The successful management of acute psychosis in open medical wards of general hospitals and a Diversion at the Point of Arrest Programme (DAPA) resulted in the reduction of stigma and the assimilation of mental health care into medicine in Jamaica. Successful decentralization has led to unmasking underlying social psychopathology and the subsequent development of primary prevention therapeutic programs based on psychohistoriographic cultural therapy and the Dream-A-World Cultural Therapy interventions. The Jamaican experience suggests that diversity in GMH must be approached not simply as a demographic fact but with postcolonial strategies that counter the historical legacy of structural violence.
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Donovan, Stephen K., and Elizabeth R. Davis-Strickland. "A possible lepadomorph barnacle from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) of Jamaica, West Indies." Journal of Paleontology 67, no. 1 (January 1993): 158–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002233600002134x.

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Fossil barnacles are poorly known from the West Indies in general and Jamaica in particular. The only records from Jamaica to date have been of occasional balanomorphs collected from Neogene deposits (Newman and Ladd, 1974; Morris, in press). It is therefore significant to report what may be the first fossil lepadomorph from the island, preserved as a scaled peduncle. This is also the oldest known Jamaican, and probably Caribbean, barnacle, coming from the Upper Cretaceous. This specimen was discovered by the junior author in the Geology Museum, University of the West Indies at Mona. Barnacle terminology used herein follows that of Newman et al. (1969).
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Moll, Andrea. "Stefanie Krause, Patwa als Ausdrucksmittel jamaikanischer Identität: Eine makro-soziolinguistische Studie über ethnisch-kulturelle Identität in Jamaika. Munich: Martin Meidenbauer, 2009. Pp. 179. Pb. 39.90€." Language in Society 41, no. 2 (March 23, 2012): 274–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404512000115.

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Karagiannis, Nikolaos. "Tourism, linkages, and economic development in Jamaica." International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 15, no. 3 (June 1, 2003): 184–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09596110310470257.

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This article offers, briefly, a production‐oriented development framework for Jamaica, based on growth‐promoting linkages between tourism, commodity production sectors, and complementary and related service industries. These linkages can boost the Jamaican endogenous competency and industrial competitiveness, while improving the country’s macroeconomic performance. Alternative development policy considerations are also within the scope of this article.
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MANUEL, PETER, and WAYNE MARSHALL. "The riddim method: aesthetics, practice, and ownership in Jamaican dancehall." Popular Music 25, no. 3 (September 11, 2006): 447–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143006000997.

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The Jamaican system of recording and performance, from the 1950s to the present, constitutes a distinctive approach to notions of composition, originality and ownership. Emerging from a tradition of live performance practice mediated by (and informing) sound recordings, the relative autonomy of riddims and voicings in the Jamaican system challenges conventional ideas about the integrity of a song and the degree to which international copyright law applies to local conceptions, as enshrined in decades of practice, of musical materials as public domain. With the spread of the ‘riddim method’ to the sites of Jamaican mass migration, as evidenced by similar approaches in hip hop, reggaeton, drum'n'bass and bhangra, reggae's aesthetic system has found adherents among artists and audiences outside of Jamaica. This paper maps out, through historical description, ethnographic data, and musical analysis, the Jamaican system as a unique and increasingly influential approach to music-making in the digital age.
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AGUIRRE-SANTORO, JULIÁN, KERON C. ST E. CAMPBELL, and GEORGE R. PROCTOR. "A new species of Hohenbergia (Bromeliaceae) endemic to the Dolphin Head Mountains in western Jamaica." Phytotaxa 247, no. 2 (February 19, 2016): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.247.2.5.

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Recent botanical expeditions to the Dolphin Head Mountains in western Jamaica allowed the collection of different specimens of a new species, Hohenbergia rohan-estyi, an enigmatic plant that resembles the also Jamaican-endemic H. negrilensis. In this study, we describe H. rohan-estyi and include notes on its geographical distribution, habitat, conservation status and taxonomy. The length of the stipes and number of flowers per spike permit the differentiation of H. rohan-estyi from H. negrilensis. In addition, the geographic distributions of these two species do not overlap, as H. rohan-estyi inhabits mountainous forests of the Dolphin Head region while H. negrilensis occurs in coastal areas of western Jamaica. Finally, H. rohan-estyi is the third species of Hohenbergia reported as endemic to the Dolphin Head Mountains, indicating the importance of this area in the evolution and conservation of the genus in Jamaica and the Caribbean.
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Morrison, Belinda F., William Aiken, Richard Mayhew, Yulit Gordon, and Marvin Reid. "Prostate Cancer Screening in Jamaica: Results of the Largest National Screening Clinic." Journal of Cancer Epidemiology 2016 (2016): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2606805.

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Prostate cancer is highly prevalent in Jamaica and is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Our aim was to evaluate the patterns of screening in the largest organized screening clinic in Jamaica at the Jamaica Cancer Society. A retrospective analysis of all men presenting for screening at the Jamaica Cancer Society from 1995 to 2005 was done. All patients had digital rectal examinations (DRE) and prostate specific antigen (PSA) tests done. Results of prostate biopsies were noted. 1117 men of mean age 59.9 ± 8.2 years presented for screening. The median documented PSA was 1.6 ng/mL (maximum of 5170 ng/mL). Most patients presented for only 1 screen. There was a gradual reduction in the mean age of presentation for screening over the period. Prostate biopsies were requested on 11% of screening visits; however, only 59% of these were done. 5.6% of all persons screened were found to have cancer. Of the cancers diagnosed, Gleason 6 adenocarcinoma was the commonest grade and median PSA was 8.9 ng/mL (range 1.5–1059 ng/mL). Older men tend to screen for prostate cancer in Jamaica. However, compliance with regular maintenance visits and requests for confirmatory biopsies are poor. Screening needs intervention in the Jamaican population.
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Harris, Sasekea Yoneka. "SWOT analysis of Jamaican academic libraries in higher education." Library Management 39, no. 3/4 (June 11, 2018): 246–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-07-2017-0068.

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Purpose Academic libraries do not operate in a vacuum; they must co-exist with change and competition on all levels. In order to succeed, they must know their internal strengths in order to take advantage of opportunities, whilst avoiding threats and addressing weaknesses. A SWOT analysis of Jamaican academic libraries can yield strategic insights for academic library praxis in Jamaica, the Caribbean, and the globe. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Survey and discussion group were engaged for the five local academic libraries in higher education in Jamaica. Findings Human resources and support are the most recurrent themes in the reported strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Research limitations/implications This paper focused on local academic libraries in higher education (university level) in Jamaica. A survey of academic libraries at all levels, and using more detailed strategic analytical tools, would be a useful follow up. Practical implications This paper provides academic library managers and the national/regional library associations with a situational analysis of Jamaican academic librarianship, which can be used to inform future planning and management of library and information services. Additionally, the findings can inform the Latin America and Caribbean section of international library documents on trends, issues and future position of academic libraries globally. Originality/value This paper is of value as it is the first published scholarly documentation on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in academic librarianship in Jamaica. In this regard, it makes a useful contribution to the dearth of literature on SWOT analyses of academic libraries per country. It may also represent a starting point for looking at solutions and emerging challenges in a Caribbean academic library environment and should help to focus on the need for continuing innovation.
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Harris, Sasekea Yoneka. "The coronavirus pandemic in the Caribbean academic library: Jamaica's initial interpretation of strengths, biggest impact, lessons and plans." Library Management 42, no. 6/7 (February 16, 2021): 362–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-10-2020-0149.

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PurposeThis paper examined the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic (known as COVID-19) on Jamaican academic libraries, during the first six months, with an emphasis on revealed library strengths, biggest impact, lessons learned and plans for library business continuity.Design/methodology/approachThe local academic libraries in higher education in Jamaica (also referred to in this paper as university libraries) were surveyed.FindingsThe coronavirus pandemic revealed strengths in the areas of staffing and library modality and had the biggest impact on the latter. Lessons were learned in preparedness, communication, documentation, collaboration, staffing, library modality, and infrastructure/systems, which together shaped plans for library business re-opening/continuity.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper captures the initial response of Jamaican Academic Libraries (JAL) to the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Information on COVID-19 is rapidly evolving, and the preliminary initial response of Jamaica is neither the final nor complete response to the pandemic. As such, a follow-up survey of months 7–12 would be useful. Also, a survey of all English-speaking Caribbean academic libraries would be of value to library evidence and practice.Practical implicationsThe COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a gap in the literature on library disaster management in general but also specifically on pandemic preparedness and management, and library business continuity during a pandemic. Using JAL' response, this paper proposes: “A Pandemic Preparedness Business Continuity Planning Checklist for Jamaican Academic Libraries”, which can be adopted/adapted in other Caribbean/developing country academic libraries, as well as other library types in Jamaica, which currently look to the understudied university libraries for leadership.Originality/valueThis paper is the first scholarly paper on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on university libraries in the Jamaican / English-speaking Caribbean, with a focus on revealed strengths, biggest impact, lessons learned, plans for library business re-opening/continuity. As the scholarly literature on pandemic management in Caribbean academic libraries is non-existent, this paper seeks to fill this gap, albeit incrementally. Additionally, the findings can inform the Latin America and Caribbean section of international library papers on COVID-19 impact on academic libraries globally.
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McDougall, Christine. "Inquiry and Participatory Action Research in Primary School." Caribbean Journal of Education 42, no. 1&2 (March 3, 2021): 157–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.46425/c642123197.

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In Jamaica, learner-centered instruction is commended for teaching a curriculum focused on environmental education and sustainable development. This study investigated the potential of participatory action research (PAR) as an inquiry-based instructional method in a sixth-grade Jamaican classroom. Mixed methods compared the academic performance of students between teacher-led and PAR-driven groups, and analyzed key attributes of sustainable development. Though practicing PAR had no significant effect on students’ academic performance, perceived collaboration skills, and interest in science, participants displayed leadership skills, such as self-confidence, commitment, and teambuilding. Moreover, the inquiry group conducted cross-curricular research towards place-based environmental improvement. These assets correspond to the Jamaican educational objective of integrating multiple disciplines and stakeholders in the equation for a sustainable future and warrant a further evaluation of PAR in Jamaican schools.
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Lindsay, Keisha. "Amy Bailey, Black Ladyhood, and 1950s Jamaica." Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 24, no. 3 (November 1, 2020): 128–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749818.

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This essay explores how and with what effect Amy Bailey, a teacher, women’s rights activist, and public intellectual, cofounded the Housecraft Training Centre to educate working-class Jamaican women in cooking, cleaning, childcare, and other “domestic sciences.” Newspaper articles, unpublished interviews, and other texts reveal that Bailey used the center to articulate a vision of working-class black ladyhood that advanced black women’s sense of racial dignity by valorizing elitist, patriarchal narratives at work in 1950s Jamaica. In doing so, Bailey ultimately fostered, as well as stymied, the possibility that Jamaica would come to realize what its national ethos professed—that it was an increasingly plural, prosperous, and egalitarian state well positioned for political independence from Britain.
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Crabbe, M. James C. "From Citizen Science to Policy Development on the Coral Reefs of Jamaica." International Journal of Zoology 2012 (2012): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/102350.

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This paper explores the application of citizen science to help generation of scientific data and capacity-building, and so underpin scientific ideas and policy development in the area of coral reef management, on the coral reefs of Jamaica. From 2000 to 2008, ninety Earthwatch volunteers were trained in coral reef data acquisition and analysis and made over 6,000 measurements on fringing reef sites along the north coast of Jamaica. Their work showed that while recruitment of small corals is returning after the major bleaching event of 2005, larger corals are not necessarily so resilient and so need careful management if the reefs are to survive such major extreme events. These findings were used in the development of an action plan for Jamaican coral reefs, presented to the Jamaican National Environmental Protection Agency. It was agreed that a number of themes and tactics need to be implemented in order to facilitate coral reef conservation in the Caribbean. The use of volunteers and citizen scientists from both developed and developing countries can help in forging links which can assist in data collection and analysis and, ultimately, in ecosystem management and policy development.
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Sinclair-Maragh, Gaunette. "Air Jamaica … more than a national airline." Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/20450621111110627.

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Subject area Hospitality and tourism management; strategic management; marketing, transportation system management and human resource management. Study level/applicability Undergraduate in business and management and hospitality and tourism management. Case overview This teaching case outlines the historical background, successes and challenges of the national airline of Jamaica. It shows how a national airline, which is a heritage asset and one that has provided nostalgic and sentimental value to the Jamaican people and its passengers, had to be divested. The airline has been faced with several challenges; the major one being high-operating costs, especially in light of the global economic recession. The case also highlights the various procedures carried out by the Government of Jamaica before and after the divestment arrangement and also by the acquirer, Caribbean Airlines. Expected learning outcomes The student should be able to: first, differentiate among the various strategic management terms and concepts used in the case; second, explain the importance of strategic decisions versus emotional decisions; third, assess the environmental factors that impacted Air Jamaica's operation; fourth, analyse the environmental factors that should have been considered by Caribbean Airlines before making the decision to acquire Air Jamaica; fifth, carry out a comparative analysis of the various corporate-level strategies to identify the best option for the Government of Jamaica; sixth, propose reasons why Caribbean Airlines acquired Air Jamaica. Supplementary materials Teaching note.
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van Ee, Benjamin W., and Paul E. Berry. "A Phylogenetic and Taxonomic Review of Croton (Euphorbiaceae s.s.) on Jamaica Including the Description of Croton jamaicensis, a New Species of Section Eluteria." Systematic Botany 34, no. 1 (March 1, 2009): 129–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1600/036364409787602203.

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The greater Caribbean region has played an important role in the early diversification of Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae s.s.). Jamaica is also important to Croton taxonomy because several of the earliest described species were based on material from the island. The Jamaican species of Croton are found in five distinct clades indicating that there were at least five separate over-water dispersal events of the genus to the island. Croton jamaicensis (section Eluteria Griseb.), a new species endemic to limestone hills along the southern coast of Jamaica, is described and illustrated. The species is phylogenetically most closely related to C. laurinus Sw. and C. grisebachianus Müll. Arg., both also endemic to Jamaica. Several lectotypifications and novel synonymies are required to clarify the taxonomy of the species of Croton that have been described from Jamaica, some of which are widespread in the region. La región del Caribe ha jugado un papel importante en la diversificación inicial de Croton L. (Euphorbiaceae s.s.). Jamaica también es importante para la taxonomia de Croton dado que varias de las primeras especies descritas fueron basadas en material de la isla. Las especies Jamaicanas de Croton se encuentran en cinco clados distintos indicando que hubieron por lo menos cinco eventos de dispersión sobre agua del género a la isla. Croton jamaicensis (sección Eluteria Griseb.), una nueva especie endémica a colinas de caliza de la costa sur de Jamaica, es descrita e ilustrada. La especie es filogenéticamente mas cercanamente relacionada a C. laurinus Sw. y C. grisebachianus Müll. Arg., ambas también endémicas a Jamaica. Varias lectotipificaciones y nuevas sinonimias son requeridas para clarificar la taxonomia de las especies de Croton que se han descrito de Jamaica, algunas de las cuales están ampliamente distribuidas en la región.
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Semaj-Hall, Isis. "Constructing a dub identity: What it means to be “Back Home” in Jamaica." Cultural Dynamics 30, no. 1-2 (February 2018): 96–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374017752272.

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In this essay, Isis Semaj-Hall explores the intersections of being Jamaican, American, black, woman, and mother. Using what she terms a dub aesthetic, Semaj-Hall juxtaposes her circular migration with the Dominican characters in Junot Diaz’s fiction as well as the autobiographical story told by Jamaican author Anthony Winkler. Using Trinidadian-Canadian author Ramabai Espinet as a literary anchor, Semaj-Hall questions how the familiar memory becomes unfamiliar in the moment that it collides with present reality. Finally, Claudia Rankine is brought in as a way for the author to honor the impact that her black American experience with racism shades her perspective on Jamaican colorism. This article takes readers on an unexpected walk through Kingston, Jamaica, revealing Semaj-Hall’s daily negotiations with what it means to be “Back Home” in the place she had for so long nostalgiaized.
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