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Development Plan For The Energy Sector 2007 - 2017, Bureau Des Mines Et De L'Energie

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

The national program for the development of the energy sector of Haiti seeks to enable policy makers and various stakeholders providing them with a management tool for the industry. The program covers the period 2007-2032. The conservation of natural resources (especially forests) from the point of view of energy management and environmental integrity will be considered through various measures such as: Support for more efficient use of fuel from wood and charcoal; the production of energy and other forest biomass resources; the conversion to diesel, bio-diesel and LPG of 1,000 small businesses that use wood as fuel; the promotion of …

Celebrating The Barbados-Carolina Connection! - 2006, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

Archaeology Month Posters

This poster was released in conjunction with South Carolina Archaeology Month, October 4-November 4, 2006.

Haiti Wind Atlas Prepared By Winergy, Bureau Des Mines Et De L'Energie

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

Presents meteorological data on wind to highlight the wind power potential of the Country.

Abroad At Home: Xenomania And Voluntary Exile In The Middle Passage, Salt, And Tide Running, Kevin Frank

Publications and Research

This essay re-examines the causes and consequences of Caribbean alienation, with implications for understanding alienation in other postcolonial societies. The author argues that while externalization does follow colonial incursions or international travel by the colonized, exile and alienation also result from emotional or psychological migrations within the mind, a consequence of neocolonial mechanisms tied to globalization.

Issue 06, Cariso! Summer 2006, Columbia College Chicago

Cariso! The Alton Augustus Adams Music Research Institute newsletter

Cariso! is the newsletter of the Alton Augustus Adams Music Research Institute (AMRI), which was located in the U. S. Virgin Islands and operated by the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago from 1999 to 2006. Issue articles include: "More Than A Bandmaster: The Life and Times of Alton Augustus Sr., a Cultural Odyssey", CBMR Ends Tenure in the Virgin Islands", "Performance Forum on St. Croix Music and Dance Traditions", "Thanks from St. Lucia", "Come with Me and Let's Talk about Caribbean Quadrilles". Issue 6, Summer, 2006.

Port Royal Sound Survey: Results From The 2004 Field Season, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Legacy - June 2006, South Carolina Institute Of Archaeology And Anthropology--University Of South Carolina

SCIAA Newsletter - Legacy & PastWatch

Contents:

Archaeologically Testing a Tabby Ruin on Callawassee Island, South Carolina.....p. 1
Director’s Note.....p. 2
South's An Archaeological Evolution Available.....p. 4
New Books by Stanley South.....p. 5
Quaker Burial Ground in Barbados.....p. 8
Jubilee Gardens - Barbados.....p. 10
S.C./Caribbean Poster in 2006.....p. 11
Port Royal Sound Survey Update.....p. 12
Mount Dearborn Project.....p. 15
GIS Digitizing of Site Files.....p. 18
S.C. Archaeology Month 2005/2006.....p. 19

Strategic Geographic Positioning Of Sea Level Gauges To Aid In Early Detection Of Tsunamis In The Intra-Americas Sea, Joshua I. Henson

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A tsunami is a series of large amplitude, shallow water waves generated by an event capable of displacing a massive volume of water. The displaced water propagates at speeds in excess of 800 kph until it dissipates or impacts a shoreline where it slows to 30 --

50 kph [NOAA and USGS Fact Sheet, 2005]. Earthquakes are the predominant tsunamigenic event, however, landslides, avalanches, submarine slumps or slides, volcanic eruptions, volcano flank failure, and meteor impact into an ocean can also cause a tsunami [McCann, 2004; O'Loughlin and Lander, 2003; Pararas-Carayannis, 2004]. This study includes past Caribbean tsunamigenic events assumed …

Imaging And The National Imagining: Theorizing Visual Sovereignty In Trinidad And Tobago Moving Image Media Through Analysis Of Television Advertising, Susan Lillian Mcfarlane-Alvarez

Communication Dissertations

Academic and popular discourse frequently positions postcolonial countries as receivers of visual culture rather than as producers and transmitters. These countries are often deemed as being subject to hegemonic forces of global media flows, the influx of foreign programming into their media landscapes hindering any significant development of distinct national identity through visual media. Since independence from British rule in 1962, government, media practitioners and viewers in the postcolonial Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago have sought ways to build a national visual culture despite the inundation of non-local visual texts into the country. This study positions postcolonial Trinidad and …

Plan For The Generation Of The Dominican Electricity Sector 2006-2020, Comisión Nacional De Energía

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

This document outlines a strategic plan which focuses on providing for growth in the sector by promoting development in the field of energy generation through private investment.

Property Rights As A Precondition To Development: A Case Study Of Jamaica, Leah Kral

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Emerging research suggests that property rights play a significant role in the economic and social development of nations. To test this proposition, this study examines the case of Jamaica and whether there is a relationship between property rights and development. In order to carry out this investigation, this study gathers and analyzes existing research to:

1. define the extent that Jamaicans lack property rights and how this affects their everyday quality of life and vulnerability to poverty;

2. examine the relationship between the absence of property rights and underdevelopment; and

3. explore how the current international and local Jamaican policy …

Variation Beneath The Surface: Quantifying Complex Thermal Environments On Coral Reefs In The Caribbean, Bahamas And Florida, James J. Leichter, Brian Helmuth, Andrew M. Fischer

Journal of Marine Research

Analysis of in situ temperature records collected on six coral reefs in the Caribbean, Bahamas, and Florida Keys reveal significant variability across a range of temporal and spatial scales from minutes to seasons, across depths, and among sites. Subsurface variability occurring at daily and faster frequencies is prevalent across the region, likely driven by combinations of diurnal heating and cooling, wind driven advection, and internal waves at tidal and faster frequencies. This high frequency variability is not detected in records of remotely-sensed sea surface temperature alone. Diurnal variability likely caused by diurnal solar heating and cooling and possibly by advection …

Phylogenetic Analysis Of The Cardini Group Of Drosophila With Respect To Changes In Pigmentation, Jennifer A. Brisson, Jason Wilder, Hope Hollocher

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Phenotypic variability is the engine that drives future diversification with the expectation that polymorphic ancestors give rise to descendants harboring a subset of the ancestral variation. Here we examine evolutionary transitions from polymorphism to monomorphism in a visually striking New World radiation of fruit flies, the Drosophila cardini group. This group is distributed across the Americas and the Caribbean islands and exhibits a wide spectrum of abdominal pigmentation variation. Specifically, the D. dunni subgroup consists of Caribbean island endemics, each of which is monomorphic for its pigmentation pattern, with an interspecific cline of pigmentation across the islands. The D. cardini …

Petroleum Regulations, Ministry Of Energy And Energy Affairs, Government Of The Republic Of Trinidad And Tobago

Latin American Energy Policies

Establishes regulations and provisions for petroleum products and the imposition of a levy on persons carrying on production.

In Plain Sight? Human Trafficking And Research Challenges, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

In Modern Bondage: Sex Trafficking in the Americas. Edited by David E. Guinn and Elissa Steglich. Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, 2003. 475pp.

Issue 05, Cariso! Winter 2006, Columbia College Chicago

Cariso! The Alton Augustus Adams Music Research Institute newsletter

Cariso! is the newsletter of the Alton Augustus Adams Music Research Institute (AMRI), which was located in the U. S. Virgin Islands and operated by the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College Chicago from 1999 to 2006. Issue articles include: "Adams Institute is Repository, Distributor for Alan Lomas's 1962 Caribbean Fieldwork", "Alan Lomax's Caribbean Voyage: Nevis Historical and Conservation Society Received 1962 Recordings Made in St. Kitts and Nevis", "St. Thomas-Born Composer Presents Score of "Virgin Islands Christmas" to AMRI", "Students Learn V.I. Music from Master Musicians", "Cuban Abakua Society Is Derived from Calabari Region of Nigeria", "The …

Factors Influencing Non-Implementation Of The Iso 9000 Quality Management System Among Business Organizations In The Caribbean Sub-Region, Errol F. Samuel

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As developing economies face the challenges of liberalization in the global market place, the ISO 9000 Quality Management System (QMS) must be an integrated concept and tool in the planning and implementation of these counties' national and regional technological and socioeconomic development programs. This concern is especially acute for the countries in the Caribbean sub-region where most business organizations are not ISO 9000 certified. This study was conducted to identify factors that prevent public and private sector business organizations in the Caribbean sub-region from pursuing and obtaining the ISO 9000 certification. The study employed the survey research methodology and utilized …