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Hoda El Safty and Reza Marsooli
Aerial photographs and field studies have revealed a rapid deterioration of salt marshes in Jamaica Bay, New York. Past studies have linked marsh deterioration to sediment supply, water quality, storms, and sea level rise. Yet ship wakes and their potent...
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Reza Marsooli, Philip M. Orton, James Fitzpatrick and Heather Smith
Using a validated coupled hydrodynamic-tracer transport model, this study quantified the mean residence time in Jamaica Bay, a highly eutrophic lagoonal estuary in New York City. The Bay is a well-mixed to partially-stratified estuary with heavily-dredge...
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Reza Marsooli, Philip M. Orton, James Fitzpatrick and Heather Smith
Using a validated coupled hydrodynamic-tracer transport model, this study quantified the mean residence time in Jamaica Bay, a highly eutrophic lagoonal estuary in New York City. The Bay is a well-mixed to partially-stratified estuary with heavily-dredge...
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Philip M. Orton, Stefan A. Talke, David A. Jay, Larry Yin, Alan F. Blumberg, Nickitas Georgas, Haihong Zhao, Hugh J. Roberts and Kytt MacManus
Here, we demonstrate that reductions in the depth of inlets or estuary channels can be used to reduce or prevent coastal flooding. A validated hydrodynamic model of Jamaica Bay, New York City (NYC), is used to test nature-based adaptation measures in ame...
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Denis Medvedev,Zafer Mustafaoglu,Andresa Lagerborg,Michiel Paris
Pág. 30
After little change in poverty between 1997 and 2002, Jamaicas poverty headcount halved between 2003 and 2007 despite slow GDP growth. This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the observed reduction in poverty using household and labor force surve...
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Denis Medvedev,Zafer Mustafaoglu,Andresa Lagerborg,Michiel Paris
Pág. 30
After little change in poverty between 1997 and 2002, Jamaicas poverty headcount halved between 2003 and 2007 despite slow GDP growth. This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the observed reduction in poverty using household and labor force surve...
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Hopeton Dunn
Pág. pp. 52 - 66 pgs.
The 21st century is characterized by the rapid growth of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their assimilation into all aspects of the global political economy. The Caribbean is characterized by a heavy infusion of mobile telephony in ...
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Ignacio Caamal Cauich,José Felix García Rodríguez,Verna Gricel Pat Fernández,Vianey Lorenzo Ambrosio
Pág. 94 - 101
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Jacqui Getfield
Pág. 212 - 217
Disability and Inequality: Socioeconomic Imperatives and Public Policy in Jamaica is the seminal book that examines disability as a development phenomenon in the Caribbean.
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Simón Bolívar
Pág. 301 - 319
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Simón Bolívar
Pág. 301 - 319
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Kim Moloney
Pág. 1 - 26
This study finds infrequent collaborative action between state and civil society actors in Jamaica. Jamaica?s predominant institutional structure is authority-based. Relations between state and civil society actors may be considered consultative, at best...
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Kim Moloney
Pág. 1 - 26
This study finds infrequent collaborative action between state and civil society actors in Jamaica. Jamaica?s predominant institutional structure is authority-based. Relations between state and civil society actors may be considered consultative, at best...
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Ruth Klinov
Pág. pp. 311 - 334
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Dawn H. Pearcy, Daria Gorodnia, Jacquelyn Lester
Tourism plays a key role in the economy of the Caribbean Island of Jamaica, generating substantial revenues and contributing to employment. Jamaica endeavors to grow its economy and achieve developed nation status within the next two decades and is looki...
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Andre Yone Haughton,Emma M. Iglesias
Pág. 437 - 447
We analyse the interrelationship between stock prices and exchange rates in the only two Caribbean countries with stock market and floating exchange rates: Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. We also study the same four Latin American countries as in Diaman...
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Claudia Salazar-González, Fidel T. Vergara-Balderas, Ana E. Ortega-Regules, José Á. Guerrero-Beltrán
Pág. 79 - 90
Liquid extracts of dried Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa) calyces obtained using ethanol:water (50:50 and 70:30%, v/v), water, ethanol:1.5 N HCl (85:25%, v/v), and ethanol (96%) to evaluate selected antioxidant characteristics (phenolic compounds and ant...
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Cleopatra Monique Parkins
Pág. 11 pages
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Clinton Beckford, Donovan Campbell and David Barker
Members of the genus Dioscorea, food yams, were introduced to Jamaica from Africa during the slave era and have remained a staple in local diets and national cuisine. Yam cultivation has also been an important economic activity providing employm...
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Clinton L. Beckford
Grown in Jamaica since the days of slavery, food yams are major staples in local diets and a significant non-traditional export crop. The cultivation system used today is the same as 300 years ago, with alleged unsustainable practices. A new cultivation ...
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