Equality Laws Compared: The Caribbean, the UK and the USA

2020 ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
Jacqueline H. Stephenson ◽  
Natalie Persadie ◽  
Ann Marie Bissessar ◽  
Talia Esnard
Keyword(s):  
The Usa ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Uk

Manuscript libraries and archival description in the Caribbean

2015 ◽  
Vol 116 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 289-301
Author(s):  
Lorraine M Nero
Keyword(s):  
Archival Description ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Indexing Method ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Finding Aids ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
The Uk

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the indexing method used by Caribbean libraries to describe special collections and manuscripts. Design/methodology/approach – Various types of finding aids spanning 1960-2014 are used to show the pattern of descriptions adopted by the librarians. At the same time, the factors which have sustained the approach at national libraries and university libraries are highlighted. Findings – The paper concludes that while the indexing approach may be labour-intensive, this practice is perceived as developing a national and regional documentary heritage. The materials used for this study are primarily accessible to the public inclusive of published guides and online databases. Originality/value – The literature is replete with theories and cases from places such as the UK, the USA and Australia, this paper presents a perspective on the development of archival description in the Caribbean.

Local Sentences in the Chapter of the Postcolonial World

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
Laura Chrisman
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Scaling Down ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Striking Contrast

These comments, from Peter Hulme’s introduction, strike a keynote for this essay collection as a whole. Although some of its contributors align themselves with those very postmodern arguments from which Hulme marks his distance, they all share his concern with scaling down postcolonial cultural analysis and theorization to focus on particular cultural, historical, and geographical cases. This provides a striking contrast with the earlier stages of the “industry,” as inaugurated by Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), which was concerned with mapping a phenomenon of massive historical and geographical proportions; or, alternatively, with Homi Bhabha’s projects in the mid-1980s (Location chap. 2-6), which took up the task of theorizing a generalized colonial subjectivity. It is not only the focus on “locality” which differentiates this collection from the earlier work of Said and Bhabha. This earlier stage of colonial dis-course/postcolonial theory privileged India and the Orient as objects of study (Said) or as the example from which psychoanalytic patterns could be derived (Bhabha). In this collection of twelve chapters, only one is devoted to India. The rest cover a striking regional range, including Spanish America, the Philippines, the Caribbean, West Africa, South Africa, France, the USA, and the UK. This diversity of regions ushers in a broadening of theoretical as well as physical terrain. Despite the volume’s title, “discourse” theory in a strongly Foucauldian sense is not prevalent in the contributions. And contrary to the title’s suggestion, colonialism serves more as an epistemological and political matrix than as a topic of analysis.

The Myiases

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud N. Abo-Shehada
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Techniques ◽  
Cochliomyia Hominivorax ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Wound Debridement ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
Infected Wounds ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Maggot Therapy

Human myiases can be caused by over 50 species of dipteran larvae. The numbers of human clinical myiasis reports, reflect their relative importance in the following order; cutaneous, ophthalmomyiases, nasal, oral, intestinal, ear, urogenital, and cerebral myiases. Myiasis producing flies are distributed worldwide, but most reported cases are from warm and developing countries. Molecular techniques have been applied to myiasis fly identification and classification, especially ostrids and calliphorines. Successful elimination programs have been carried out against Hypoderma spp. in the UK and Cochliomyia hominivorax in the USA, Mexico, Central America, Libya and the Caribbean Islands and another is ongoing against Crysomya bezziana in the Middle East. A beneficial myissis “Biosurgery or maggot therapy” is the intentional use of Lucilia sericata larvae applied in specially designed dressings to chronic and MRSA infected wounds. The growing larvae execration/secretion facilitate wound debridement and successfully treated leg and pressure ulcers, wounds associated with diabetes, and many other types of infected wounds in a shorter time compared to conventional treatment. Now knowledge of myiases producing flies is accepted in many countries as a forensic tool.

scholarly journals The Properties of Red Blood Cells from Patients Heterozygous for HbS and HbC (HbSC Genotype)

Anemia ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hannemann ◽  
E. Weiss ◽  
D. C. Rees ◽  
S. Dalibalta ◽  
J. C. Ellory ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Red Blood Cells ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Cell Disease ◽  
Inherited Disorders ◽  
New Immigrants ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Tropics

Sickle cell disease (SCD) is one of the commonest severe inherited disorders, but specific treatments are lacking and the pathophysiology remains unclear. Affected individuals account for well over 250,000 births yearly, mostly in the Tropics, the USA, and the Caribbean, also in Northern Europe as well. Incidence in the UK amounts to around 12–15,000 individuals and is increasing, with approximately 300 SCD babies born each year as well as with arrival of new immigrants. About two thirds of SCD patients are homozygous HbSS individuals. Patients heterozygous for HbS and HbC (HbSC) constitute about a third of SCD cases, making this the second most common form of SCD, with approximately 80,000 births per year worldwide. Disease in these patients shows differences from that in homozygous HbSS individuals. Their red blood cells (RBCs), containing approximately equal amounts of HbS and HbC, are also likely to show differences in properties which may contribute to disease outcome. Nevertheless, little is known about the behaviour of RBCs from HbSC heterozygotes. This paper reviews what is known about SCD in HbSC individuals and will compare the properties of their RBCs with those from homozygous HbSS patients. Important areas of similarity and potential differences will be emphasised.

An early mainstream economist from Hungary: István Varga (1897–1962)

2003 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Majoros
Keyword(s):  
Austrian Economic ◽  
National Income ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
The Usa ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Economic Thinking ◽  
Lasting Influence

The study introduces a Hungarian economic thinker, István Varga*, whose valuable activity has remained unexplored up to now. He became an economic thinker during the 1920s, in a country that had not long before become independent of Austria. The role played by Austria in the modern economic thinking of that time was a form of competition with the thought adhered to by the UK and the USA. Hungarian economists mainly interpreted and commented on German and Austrian theories, reasons for this being that, for example, the majority of Hungarian economists had studied at German and Austrian universities, while at Hungarian universities principally German and Austrian economic theories were taught. István Varga was familiar not only with contemporary German economics but with the new ideas of Anglo-Saxon economics as well — and he introduced these ideas into Hungarian economic thinking. He lived and worked in turbulent times, and historians have only been able to appreciate his activity in a limited manner. The work of this excellent economist has all but been forgotten, although he was of international stature. After a brief summary of Varga’s profile the study will demonstrate the lasting influence he has had in four areas — namely, business cycle research and national income estimations, the 1946 Hungarian stabilisation program, corporate profit, and consumption economics — and will go on to summarise his most important achievements.

Neurosurgical activity during COVID-19 pandemic: an experts' opinion from China, South Korea, Italy, the USA, Colombia, and the UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco M. Fontanella ◽  
Giorgio Saraceno ◽  
Ting Lei ◽  
Joshua B. Bederson ◽  
Namkyu You ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Uk

Benchmarking Risk Analysis Practice in the International Water Sector

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.H. MacGillivray ◽  
P.D. Hamilton ◽  
S.E. Hrudey ◽  
L. Reekie ◽  
S.J.T Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Water Utilities ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Water Utility ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Usa ◽  
International Water ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
The Uk

Risk analysis in the water utility sector is fast becoming explicit. Here, we describe application of a capability model to benchmark the risk analysis maturity of a sub-sample of eight water utilities from the USA, the UK and Australia. Our analysis codifies risk analysis practice and offers practical guidance as to how utilities may more effectively employ their portfolio of risk analysis techniques for optimal, credible, and defensible decision making.

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