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"Caribbean-Canadian in Us Now" on Caribbean/Canadian Writing
"Troubled and Troubling Performances of Caribbean Masculinities Abroad: Austin Clarkes The Origin of Waves"
"Voices Under the Window of Representation: Austin Clarke's Poetics of Body-memory in The Meeting Point"
(W)uman Tong(ue): How Me See It - Observations on Jamaican Life
A comparison of anthropometry of mothers and infants within the puerperium with respect to maternal age
A Comparison of Body Composition between Pregnancies of Teenage Girls and Mature Women and the Impact on Fetal Growth and Birth Outcome
A history of Spanish Town
A prospective analysis of first contact patients seen in the Small Health Locality in Birmingham, UK
A randomized controlled trial comparing the use of clomiphenene citrate with menogon for controlled ovarian hyperstimulation in couples undergoing intrauterine insemination
A randomized double blind lpacebo controlled trial of a combination of Gingko biloba and ginseng (gincosan) in dementia of varying aetiology
A randomized double blind placebo controlled trial of a combination of Gingko biloba and ginseng (gincosan) in dementia of varying aetiology
A study of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction among Secondary school teachers in Jamaica
A study of the Change From Within Project
A study of the management of school facilities in Jamaican schools
A study of the use of open medical wards versus specialist psychiatric units for treatment of patients with acute psychoses
A study to estimate the incidence and prevalence of HIV / AIDS among teachers and students in Jamaica's education sector
A survey of the emergency management of agitated or aggressive psychotic patients in two Kingston hospitals
A ten-year outcome study of first contact schizophrenia in Jamaica
Acrylamide in food and mechanism of its formation in living system
Acute Renal Failure and Cardiac Surgery
African reclamationism and the political thought of Theophilus Scholes
Age-friendly guidelines
Age-friendly guidelines - a multicountry study
Alexander Bedward, 1889-1921
Alumina extraction efficiencies in the Bayer process
An assessment of the effectiveness of asthma clinics in Jamaica
An ethnographic study of adolescents at an urban high school
An evaluation of an Assertive Outreach program in severely mentally ill patients in Birmingham, UK.
An evaluation of homelessness in Jamaica
Analysis of marketing margins for major food crops in Jamaica
Analysis of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination in the UWI MBBS Examination
Anti-diabetic properties of Neem Leaf extract on STZ - induced Type II diabetic rats
Anti-hyperglycemic effects of the crude aqueous extract of Rice Bitters
Antimicrobial resistance and molecular studies of enterococci
Antiobiotic sensitivity to Helicobacter pylori in Jamaica
Application of philosophical tools to the analysis of issues, problems and beliefs in the Jamaican space - be it in education, business, health, law enforcement, social, political and cultural domain
Archaeology of Jamaica, West Africa, Central and Eastern Europe
Asbestos usage and pollution in Jamaica/Caribbean: public, occupational and environmental health impact and policy lessons
Assessing digital library software for Caribbean libraries
Assessment of Literacy Performance
Assessment of the quality of obstetric care (competency of skilled birth attendants, role of enabling environment in service performance, delays in delivery of emergency obstetric care
Audit of Radical Hysterectomies done at the University of the West Indies
Autism in Jamaica, prevalence and presenting features
Autosomal Dominant Heredity Spstic Paraplegia in Jamaica
AZT for reduction of mother-infant transmission of HIV in pregnancy
Banking in the Commonwealth Caribbean: Barclays Bank (DCO), 1926-1962
Beliefs and practices of Jamaican teacher educators in environmental education: A qualitative case study
Bile Duct Injuries in the Laparoscopic era at the UHWI
Bio-critical entry on Cecil Foster
Bioconversion of Agro-Industrial Wastes for Profit - Agro-Biotechnology and Bio-Remediation
Biography of Bishop Herman Spence
Biography of Daniel Fignole
Body-memory Poetics: Materiality, Meta-textualiaty and Performance in Caribbean/Canadian Writing
Book on language and literacy teaching in a Creole-speaking environment
Building cost-effective educational technology solutions using bundled elements
Capital cities in the English Atlantic
Cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis after hysterectomy
Caribbean Art, Design & Visual Culture
Caribbean Children's Literature
Caribbean Economic Thought: Establishing a Firmer Foundation for the Field of Study
Caribbean women and their children - Case studies from Jamaica ad Trinidad
Case study analysis of behavioural intervention for self-induced rectal prolapse
Ceftazidime resistant Salmonella enteritidis
Challenging Gender Privileging Issues of Leaderships and Body Image
Changes of hypoglycin content in ackee during maturation and with different ackee varieties
Characteristics of bauxite that affect alumina extraction efficiences under low temperature digestion conditions
Chemical applications on the internet
Chemistry of the water from different varieties of coconuts grown in Jamaica and determination of the factors affecting the production of pigments in processed coconut water
Chevere! Level 1. and Chevere! Level 2.
Chevere! Level 4
Child abuse in Jamaica: prevalence, presenting features and quality of care
Chlamydia trachomatis and other microbial causes of reactive arthritis in Jamaicans
Chronic renal failure and Cardiac Disease
Citizenship Education
Co-morbidity and depression in medical clinics at the University Hospital of the West Indies
Co-morbidity and depression in medical clinics at the University Hospital of the West Indies
Coffee in Jamaica, 1790-1850
Colonial Agricultural policy in Nigeria, 1920-1951
Community development
Community, domestic and school violence in Jamaican children. Exposure and Effects
Comparative Family networking in Barbados, Antigua and Jamaica
Comparing the efficiency of Community Health services in two parishes in Jamaica
Comparison of Body Composition between Pregnancies of Teenage Girls and Mature Women and the Impact on Fetal Growth and Birth Outcome
Comparison of the nutritional and anti-nutritional components of several transgenic papaya lines with a non-transgenic variety
Conducting an educational Research for the PhD degree in Mathematics
Conservation of Biodiversity, Improvement of Production and Exploitation of Tropical Tuber Crops for Sustainable Development, Biochemistry/Biotechnology/Molecular Biology
Consumer knowledge of, attitude towards, and perception of genetically modified foods
Coping with "crises"/change in higher education - US Research Universities and Britain with a view to making comparisons with the Caribbean
Creation and linguistic analysis of a database of spoken French of Jamaican learners of French
Creolizing Theory: Anglophone CAribbean Criticism in the Twentieth Century
Crime and punishment in Jamaica in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Cross-Cultural comparison of sexual and romantic jealousy in Senegalese and Jamaican Women
Dancehall Philosophy
Defining and Measuring Remittance Flows to Caribbean Countries: The Case of Jamaica
Degradation and fate of pesticides and their metabolities
Determinants of Migrant Remittances: The CARICOM experience
Determination of the levels of Acrylamide (possible carcinogen) in Jamaican Foods
Developing, piloting and implementing syllabus for CXC in music
Development of a model for post natal care aimed at reducing long term morbidity and late maternal mortality
Development of Low Cost Community-based Intervention Programmes for the Severely Mentally Ill: A Feasibility Study
Development of poly-pyridyl-like molecular sensors
Development of the Philosophy Discipline, Programme and Faculty at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica
Dictionary of Caribbean Women
Dionne Brand's - A Door to the Map of No Return
Documentary film on Haitian Independence
Documentation of Neuropsychiatric Research in the Caribbean
Double blind randomized trial on the Use of Interceed on oviducts and incisions versus incision to increase pregnancy rates post myomectomy
Drug use and abuse in urban and rural High schools in Jamaica
Dynamic Panel Empirical Evidence of Exchange Rate Regimes: A Common Currency Case for the CSME
Early English Jamaica
Early musical education and field experiences of student teachers
Economic burden of chronic diseases in the CARICOM states
Economic Contribution of Seniors to Development
Economic thought in the English-speaking Caribbean Academic and Pre-Academic
Economics of Religion
Economics of technological change and development
Education policies of Caribbean States, 1500-1990
Effects of haemoglobin concentration per trimesters on perinatal outcomes
Effects of Music on Learning and aggression
Electron Transfer reactions of dinuclear molybdenum (V) complexes
Electron transfer reactions with di-nuclear iron (III) cyanobridged complex with sulfite, ascorbic acid and other reducing agents
Emerging, opportunistic parasitic infections in patients with HIV/AIDS
Emperical Analysis of the Financial Experiences of Mexico and Jamaica in the Mid 1990's
Enteroviral infection
Epidemiology of Angiostrongylus cantonensis infection in Jamaicans
Epidemiology of emerging opportunistic parasitic infections in persons living with HIV/AIDS in Jamaica
Epidemiology of nosocomial fungemia at the University Hospital of the West Indies
Escherichia coli susceptibility to co-amoxiclav after 15 years of use
Essay-writing handbook for Jamaican student-teachers
Ethnographic Study of Centenarians in Jamaica
Ethnopharmacology
Evaluating the relationship between physical affection and violence
Evaluation of a multidisciplinary cultural therapy team approach as a risk-reduction intervention in violence and high-risk behaviours at an inner-city school in Kingston, Jamaica
Evaluation of a multidisciplinary cultural therapy team approach as a risk-reduction intervention in violence and high-risk behavious at an inner-city school in Kingston, Jamaica
Evaluation of risk factors in renal disease in pregnancy
Evaluation of screening, referal and early childhood interventions for children 0-8 years old at risk for under and over-nutrition and poor growth in Jamaica
Evaluation of the incidence and causes of maternal mortality 1998-2003 and the efficiency of the maternal mortality surveillance system at identifying incident cases
Evaluation of the technical component of the Primary Education Support Project
Examining Teachers' Attitudes Toward Teaching Physical Education
Examining whether different regions in the United States have different reactions to monetary policy
Exchange Market Pressure and Reserve Fluctuations: The Mid 1990s Mexican Experiences
Exchange Market Pressure, Sterilized Intervention and Monetary Policy in Ghana
Extraction and characterisation of constituents of essential oils from local aromatic plants
Factors contributing to access to information in the Caribbean
Factors related to academic performance of undergraduate students at UWI, Mona
Federation in the Eastern Caribbean
Financial and tax management
Financial sector behaviour in the Caribbean
Financial sector crises
Financing Agriculture in Jamaica: An Assessment
Flagaman
Foreign Exchange Market Efficiency: Evidence from Latin America and Asian Countries
Foreign Language Teaching and Learning in a creolophone country: Implications
Gender and Theory in past and Contemporary Caribbean History
Gender differences and neuroendocrine regulation of cognition
Gender differences in coping responses and beliefs about infertility between Jamaican men and women undergoing In Vitro Fertilisation
Gender issues particularly research and counselling for victims of abuse, physical, psychological and sexual
Genetic and Nutritional Factors in Human Disease - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Globalisation
Globalization and the Jamaican Macroeconomy
Goal Oriented Adolescent Life Skills (GOALS) - A peer led AIDS prevention program for adolescents in Jamaica
Haitian migration to Jamaica in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Haitian radicalism and foreign relations after the U.S. Occupation (1915-1934)
Health developmental and behavioural outcomes for Jamaican adolescents at15-16 years old
Health, development and behaviour of Jamaica's adolescents at 15-16 years
Hemispheric Free Trade: Caribbean Priorities
Heterogeneous Electron Tranfer Rates of polypyridyl ruthenium (II) complexes
Historic Landscape of Jamaica
History of the Department of Economics covering the period of establishment in 1955 to the present
HIV Heteroduplex mobility Analysis Subtyping
HIV/AIDS and Teacher Education
HLA and other molecular investigations on insulin dependent diabetes
Hydrothermal synthesis of Boehmite and Alumina nanomaterials from bauxite waste liquor
Hypnotherapy as a tool for recovery
Impact of cockroach infestation on asthma symptoms in children 2-12 years old
Impact of Cockroach Infestation on the Development and Severity of Asthma in Children
Impact of Globalization on Agriculture, Manufacture and Mining Industries in Jamaica
Impact of the Family Medicine component on third-year students during their Community Health rotation
Informal economy
Information and communication technologies and their application within the education systems in the Caribbean
Information services for the disabled in the Caribbean
Information technology applications in Jamaican libraries
Inorganic reactions mechanisms
International Development Policy
Interviews with Jamaican educators
Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Canadian children with Sickle Cell Disease: pre and post-pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era
Investigating Mathematics at the CXC general proficiency level
Investigation of marine organisms in Jamaican waters for bioactive metabolites
Investigation, characterisation and identification of secondary metabolites from several folklore medicinal plants
Isolation of pure compounds from marine algal species
Jamaica Country Evaluation: Assessment of Development Results (ADR) - Poverty and Governance
Jamaica economic history
Jamaica in the 19th and 20th centuries
Jamaican Pharmacist and HIV / AIDS: a knowledge, attitudes, belief and practices survey
Jamaican Pharmacist and HIV/AIDS: a knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices survey
Jewish Refugees and Enemy Aliens in Jamaica during World War II
Land and Pleasant Development in Jamaica, 1838-1938
Learning Styles of Third-year Medical Students
Lexical and syntactic dimension of the contact of French and Creole in Haiti
Lilia Momple's Neighbours
Literacy and health seeking behaviour of parents with children attending clinic at the Community Health Centre
Literary Representation of Haitian labour migration
Literature and Education for Sustainable Development
Macroeconomic Determinants of remittances Flows to Jamaica
Male infertility, incidence and aetiological factors and treatment options
Male marginalisation and gender changes in society and the education system
Manchester Health and Lifestyle Survey !! to determine the prevalence of non-communicable diseases and the influence on health seeking behaviours and lifestyle following a health promotion intervention
Mathematics teachers' perspective on their current practice and how they view their practice in light of their training and expectations of significant others
Measurement of Underground Economy and Implications for Policy: A Critical Review
Measurements of air pollution in the Kingston atmosphere, conducted at 10 sites around the city using passive monitors developed in the Department of Chemistry
Measuring the Co-morbidity of Substance Abuse, Violence, Psychopathology, Help-Seeking Behaviour and Attitudes towards Substance Abuse, Violence, Mental Illness and the Afflicted
Mechanism of resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
Medicinal Plants. Plants, mainly from the Labiatae, Scrophulariaceae and Capparaceae families, are being examined to isolate and characterise the major natural products
Mega-trial of Safety and Efficacy of Pentavalent (G1, G2, G3, G4, and P1) Human Reassortant Rotavirus Vaccine in Healthy Infants
Mercury in Jamaican fish
Microbial transformations. Natural products of agricultural and pharmaceutical interest are structurally modified by selected strains of fungi in an effort to produce a range of new analogues with enhanced bioactivity
Migration Studies
Molecular Analyses of Indigenous Caribbean Plant Crops for Economic Development and Health Purposes - Biochemistry/Biotechnology/Molecular Biology
Molecular Signal Transduction Mechanisms in Diabetes Mellitus - Biochemistry
Molecular studies on Helicobacter pylori infecting Jamaican patients
Molecular typing of ceftazidime resistant Klesbsiella pneumoniae
Monetary and macroeconomics issues in the context of developing economies
MTBE and other volatile organic compounds in the environment
Multicenter Trial: Safety and Efficacy of Pentavalent Human-Bovine Reassortant Rotavirus Vaccine in Healthy Infants
Multigrade teaching and learning in Jamaican schools
Multiresistant Escherichia coli
Natural products from selected species of the endemic Jamaica flora
Neuroprotective effects of Oestrogen on learning and memory in aged animals
Nitric oxide releasing coupounds and their bioefficacies
Nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in ground and surface waters and their fluxes to coastal zone
Non-compliance issues of hypertensive patients attending Hermitage August Town Health Centre
Non-compliance issues of hypertensive patients attending Hermitage August Town Health Centre
Normal Semen analysis in Jamaica
Novel Lanthanide (III) based dendritic nan0-devices: syntheses, characterisation and luminescence spectroscopy and decay dynamics
Nutrient pollution in Jamaican coastal waters
Obstetric team leader - HIV/AIDS Prevention of mother to child transmission in pregnant women
Older Men's Issues
Operative morbidity of patients undergoing myomectomy compared to abdominal hysterectomy
OSCE development in Child Health
Outcome of homeless persons with mental illness, treated in two intervention programmes in Jamaica
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome in patients undergoing controlled ovarian stimulation
Parental attitude toward violence and its influence on children's interpretation of and response to community violence
Parental knowledge, attitudes and beliefs toward asthma
Parental stress in Jamaica
Parents' knowledge, concerns and misconceptions about immunization: The Jamaican perspective
Parkinson's disease in Jamaica. Stroke - Clinical outcomes CT analysis
Pediatric and Perinatal HIV/AIDS Leadership Initiative in Kingston, Jamaica
Peer and educator victimization of children and adolescents
Performance of students in Economics degree courses
Perinatal Information System pilot project
Pharmacology of Apoptosis
Philosophical Analysis of Leadership in African and African Diaspora and its relation to Society and Development
Philosophical Examination of Injustice and Global Violence
Physician knowledge and practice concerning Caribbean asthma guidelines
Phytooestrogens in Jamaican foods and the impact on hormone dependent disease such as breast cancer, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer, prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis
Plant-Microbe Interactions and Molecular Plant Pathology - Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
Pneumococcal serotypes and resistance patterns in children with Sickle Cell Disease: a comparative study between a developing country and a developed country
Political Institutions in Jamaica and The Lesser Antilles in the nieteenth century
Portfolios as a means of assessment of Postgraduate Medical Students
Postcolonial Melancholy: Rethinking V.S. Naipaul and Jamaica Kincaid
Pregnancy Outcome and Maternal Weight Gain in Women with Homozygous SS Disease and Birth Outcome
Prevalence of Depression and itsCo-morbidity in Jamaica
Prevalence of chronic renal failure in Diabetic Patients
Prevalence of Depression and its Co-morbidity in Jamaica
Professionalization of Primary and Secondary Education in Jamaica
Prostate Cancer in Jamaica: The Contribution of Diet and Lifestyle factors
Psychohistoriographic short term psychotherapy
Psychosocial and academic correlates of stress in Jamaican adolescents: a biochemical study