(1) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(2) Validity of the fructosamine assay allows its potential use as a mass screening test for diabetes in these populations (USA, Africa, Caribbean...).
(3) The arrival on Monday was another first for the two countries since Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks after Obama’s visit to the Caribbean island.
(4) The countries of very high mortality include the least developed Caribbean, Central American, and Andean countries: Haiti, guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Peru.
(5) It is there that Clar runs a Caribbean restaurant and their children receive the best schooling money can buy.
(6) Autoantibodies to the intermediate filament proteins vimentin and keratin were studied in sera of 50 Caribbean patients with Schistosoma mansoni infection and 50 control subjects.
(7) Each was accused of giving Caribbean officials $40,000 in cash to gain support for Bin Hammam's presidential campaign against Blatter last summer.
(8) The discrepancy was largely accounted for by the influx into Camberwell of individuals of Afro-Caribbean origin, who showed rates of schizophrenia between four and eight times that of their Caucasian counterparts.
(9) The reports, by the Guardian and others, based on leaked financial documents, showed that the brother-in-law of the president, Xi Jinping, and the son and son-in-law of the former premier Wen Jiabao were among more than a dozen family members of current or former leaders using offshore companies in the Caribbean .
(10) Six healthy relatives of 3 adult T-cell leukemia lymphoma (ATLL) patients and 6 members of a Caribbean family immigrant to the UK have been investigated for the presence of HTLV-I and expression of interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptors.
(11) Intermediate risk is found in Southern Europe, most islands of the Caribbean, Japan, Israel and Southern Africa and high risk in developing countries.
(12) A disproportionate number of those who are victims and perpetrators of knife crime are African-Caribbean.
(13) Ciguatera poisoning is the most common foodborne illness caused by a chemical toxin in the United States and is endemic in the Caribbean and Indo-Pacific.
(14) He has led the successful opposition to the death penalty in the courts of the Caribbean and is a member of the foreign secretary's death penalty advisory panel.
(15) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
(16) Although the concerns of British Afro-Caribbean and Asian women are similar to those of the Caucasian women, there may be ethnic differences in the relationship between feelings about eating, weight and shape and mood.
(17) But others point out that Freeh and Clinton were in well-publicised dispute for most of the president's time in office and that Miami is the main transport hub for most countries in the Caribbean, and so the most obvious venue for the interviews.
(18) The Edinburgh-born actor Lindsay Duncan, 58, who played Baroness Thatcher in a recent BBC TV film, was appointed a CBE, as was Welsh-born Jonathan Pryce, 62, who has recently appeared in the Pirates Of The Caribbean films.
(19) The Caribbean islands may constitute another geographical area where the population is at risk for the development of membranous obstruction of the inferior vena cava and subsequent hepatocellular carcinoma.
(20) The heights of Caucasian, Afro-Caribbean and Indo-Pakistani children in this study were compared with those of children in an existing surveillance study, who were chosen to be representative of the English population.
Patois
Definition:
(n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was the first time in my life I'd been around guys talking in slang and patois – stuff that had been passed down – and I was fascinated.
(2) By then, she was experimenting with a singing voice that was softer and more melodic than the harsh Jamaican patois she spat on the garage tracks.
(3) Two strains of Patois group arboviruses were isolated from Culex mosquitoes during 1970.
(4) I hadn't fully found my voice yet, but that persona enabled me to use wordplay that I probably wouldn't be able to do now, like inventing my own versions of youth patois which I always used to enjoy.
(5) The polypeptides synthesized in the coupled system depended on the amount and type of virus added; addition of purified Shark River (SR) virus, a member of the Patois group of bunyaviruses, resulted in synthesis of a polypeptide of mol.
(6) In Washington patois, "higher revenue" means higher taxes.
(7) Mean shit, that ice”; “The face of the Kuang logics kinda sleazes up to the target and mutates, so it gets to be exactly like the ice fabric.” The amusement for the reader is that we are inducted into this patois, learning the lingo as we go.
(8) Guadeloupe and Haiti speak the same patois so I used to chat to them all the time.
(9) Oligonucleotide fingerprint analyses of field isolates of LAC virus and members of the Patois serogroup of bunyaviruses have demonstrated that reassortment does occur in nature (El Said et al., 1979; Klimas et al., 1981; Ushijima et al., 1981).
(10) Sent ahead of this week's key meeting of the loya jirga – the House of Lords in local patois – the letter promised to amend the health and social care bill in ways that threaten the unity of the fragile coalition with the Cameroon fundamentalists.
(11) Nepuyo and Patois viruses were isolated from sentinel hamsters at both La Avellana and Puerto Barrios.
(12) Of 493 sera screened by complement-fixation test, 6 per cent were positive to Nepuyo, 4 per cent to Patois, and 3 per cent to Tlacotalpan viruses.
(13) But beneath the surface of cultural prestige, the resounding achievement of Derry's year as city of culture lies in the way it not only refused to airbrush the Troubles and Bloody Sunday with arty-farty gloss, but engaged in a reckoning with the recent past, beyond the politicians' patois of reconciliation.
(14) 15 workshops were devoted to training the development of curriculum; action-oriented songs, stories, skits, jingles, games, and pictures were created based on indigenous Jamaican folk music and patois intelligible to children with low literacy levels.
(15) And there certainly things wrong with 6 Music, not least the noisome presence of George Lamb, who seems to have been employed by the BBC after a concerted and ultimately fruitful search to find a DJ more irritating than Radio One's Chris Moyles, an impressive feat he achieves by the expedient of continually lapsing into faux Jamaican patois.
(16) This language, which is wholly false, which is this Jamaican patois that has intruded in England.