(1) The incidence of breast cancer in Jamaica appears disproportionately high in view of the high proportion of early pregnancies occurring in Jamaican women.
(2) Top Jamaican at Beijing Games tests positive for drugs in sample reanalysis Read more According to Reuters, traces of the drug are reported to have been found in Carter’s A sample when 454 frozen blood and urine samples from Beijing were retested by the International Olympic Committee last month.
(3) The arguments could apply to South African cryptogenic 'heart disease' and 'Jamaican cardiomyopathy'.
(4) According to the Gerontology Research Group , the world’s oldest registered person is now Violet Brown, a 117-year-old Jamaican woman.
(5) The Jamaican Perinatal Survey included among its objectives the quantification of the island's neonatal mortality rate, the identification of the causes of these deaths (Wigglesworth Classification), and the determination of characteristics of both mother and infant that are associated with increased mortality.
(6) The importance of seroprevalence of the TORCH group of agents and syphilis on perinatal morbidity and mortality in Jamaican women is discussed, and appropriate recommendations for prevention and control of congenital infections in Jamaica are suggested.
(7) Meanwhile the news that Powell has tested positive for a banned substance surprised many in athletics, especially given the Jamaican's vocal anti-drugs stance over many years.
(8) The recently proposed decriminalisation of marijuana , widely called ganja by Jamaicans, has been long anticipated and much unfulfilled – like a World Cup goal by Wayne Rooney.
(9) Ten patients with sickle cell (SS) disease from a Jamaican family were found to have unusually high levels of haemoglobin F for this population.
(10) Jamaican governments haven't been known for their fortitude.
(11) Fresh ackee makes a huge difference to this Jamaican dish, so if you ever get the chance to buy some, do it!
(12) Previous efforts to decriminalise marijuana failed to advance because Jamaican officials feared they would violate international treaties and bring sanctions from Washington.
(13) It's very hot and humid at the stadium and the Mexico game looks to be taking its toll on Jamaican legs right now.
(14) Research on the factors mediating social class differences in blood pressure was carried out in a Jamaican community.
(15) Powell was one of five Jamaicans to test positive at their national championships last month, one of whom was the Olympic 4x100m relay silver medallist Sherone Simpson.
(16) This survey thus represents a complete and accurate documentation of the alpha and beta globin variants that occur in the Jamaican population.
(17) The relationship between blood sugar after challenge and blood pressure is described, with particular reference to studies in populations of U.S. and Jamaican adults and Dutch children.
(18) Between April 1985 and August 1986, 89 Jamaican dairy herds with 10 or more cows were visited, 1,645 lactating cows were examined using the CMT test and 254 composite milk samples collected for bacteriological examination.
(19) These results indicate that, despite their clinical and histologic similarities, the cause and biochemical mechanisms of Jamaican vomiting sickness differ distinctly from those of Reye's syndrome in which these abnormal urinary metabolites are not appreciably increased.
(20) An adaptation of the award-winning novel Small Island, about Jamaican immigrants to Britain in the 1940s, and Desperate Romantics, about a group of "vagabond painters and poets" set among the "alleys, galleries and flesh houses of 19th-century industrial London", will be among the first to be broadcast later this year.
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.