CHAPTER 1 Text and its source A Dash of Nutrition By DIANE MARTINDA The fortification of salt with iodine is a global success story: with two out of three household in the developing world now consuming iodized salt, an estimated 82 million children are protected from thyroid disease and resultant learning disabilities every year. Still, people suffer from a lack of other micronutrients. For years, food scientists have looked for a way to fortify iodized salt to combat iron-deficiency
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as NDF). Green plantain peels contain 40% starch that is transformed into sugars after ripening. Green banana peels contain much less starch (about 15%) when green while ripe banana peels contain up to 30% free sugars. Banana peels are also used for water purification, toproduce ethanol, cellulase, laccase and in composting. Banana peel is also part of the classic physical comedy slapstick visual gag, the "slipping on a banana peel".[11][12] This gag was already seen as classic in 1920s America.[13] It
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Organized Crime and Drug Trade Organized crime and the illicit drug trade is a fairly recent ordeal occurring throughout the world, both strongly linked with drug trafficking. Organized crime refers to the unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods and services, including gambling, prostitution, loan- sharking, narcotics, and labor racketeering (Schmalleger, 2011, pg.234). Drug trafficking, which is a type of organized crime
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distribution. These subsidiaries are spread throughout the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. In 1995 Grace Kennedy formulated its 2020 vision with the objective to transform itself from a Jamaican trading company to a global consumer group with roots in Jamaica. 2006 saw this vision being broadened as the company undertook a strategic reorganization under the theme “designing Grace Kennedy for the 21st century,” aimed at expanding operations within the Caribbean and internationally improving efficiency
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range from 15.8 to 33.8 degrees Fahrenheit and 66.2 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit in July. Rainfall is evenly distributed throughout the year and most parts of the State receive about 40 inches annually. Variation in topography and proximity to bodies of water causes large climatic variations and these deviations have created distinct ecological zones, which are home to a complex web of biological diversity. The Landscape New York’s land forms were shaped by the recent glacial stage which disappeared
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CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL CARIBBEAN CERTIFICATE OF SECONDARY LEVEL COMPETENCE® MATHEMATICS SYLLABUS Effective for examinations from May–June 2012 CCSLC /M/03/12 Published in Jamaica, 2012 by Ian Randle Publishers 11 Cunningham Avenue P O Box 686 Kingston 6 www.ianrandlepublishers.com © 2012, Caribbean Examinations Council ISBN --------------------------------------- (pbk) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or
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1 Transcending the limitations of diaspora as a category of cultural identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck Dr Elizabeth Jackson University of the West Indies St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago Having begun my academic career, not so long ago, as a postcolonial scholar, I have become increasingly critical of postcolonial theory on the grounds that for an increasing number of literary texts by so-called postcolonial writers, postcolonial theoretical approaches may
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A Feasibility study on “Coffee Ko” Coffee Shop In Partial Fulfillment of requirements for the subject Principles of Management For the degree of Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management At STI – College Quezon Avenue By: Eric B. Buquis Jake Christian Z. Escobar Carl Justin Oliquino Michaela D. Santo October 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTPROJECT BACKGROUND * Company Vision & Mission ……………………………………………………… * Name of the Business……………………………………………………………… * Logo/Rationale……………………………………………………………………
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Caribbean Brewers: Transfer Pricing, Ethics and Governance Abstract Caribbean Brewers is a fictitious company although the case depicts a real international business situation focusing on transfer pricing, ethics and governance. It exposes students to the role of management accounting concepts such as cost allocation and transfer pricing in terms of how they impact the performance and reward of individuals at different levels within the organization. Students are also exposed to impact of the
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THE CAUSES AND EFFECT OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION The Haitian Revolution represents the most thorough case study of revolutionary change anywhere in the history of the modern world. In ten years of sustained internal and international warfare, a colony populated predominantly by plantation slaves overthrew both its colonial status and its economic system and established a new political state of entirely free individuals—with some ex-slaves constituting the new political authority. As only the second
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