scholarly journals Omnivorous Behaviour of the Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina): A Neotropical Rodent with the Potential for Domestication

Scientifica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kegan Romelle Jones ◽  
Kavita Ranjeeta Lall ◽  
Gary Wayne Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
Short Communication ◽  
Nutrient Requirements ◽  
The West ◽  
Field Station ◽  
Zenaida Macroura ◽  
Neotropical Rodent ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

The agouti is a Neotropical rodent which is mainly utilized for its meat in rural communities. Recently, captive rearing of these animals by wildlife farmers have increased in the Neotropics. This short communication consists of observation of feeding behaviour of captive reared agoutis at the University of the West Indies Field Station in Trinidad and Tobago. This is the first time in Trinidad and Tobago that meat consumption and the omnivorous behaviour of the agouti have been documented in the literature. The consumption of chicken (Gallus domesticus) eggs, dead chickens, and a brown dove (Zenaida macroura) by captive reared agoutis was noted. This document described the omnivorous behaviour of the agouti which is primarily considered a frugivorous animal. Similar studies in South America have shown that wild and captive reared agoutis consumed animal matter. Further work must be done on the dietary needs and nutrient requirements of the agouti at different physiological states.

scholarly journals “Capital Spectacles in British Frames”: Capital, Empire and Indian Indentured Migration to the British Caribbean

1996 ◽  
Vol 41 (S4) ◽  
pp. 109-133
Author(s):  
Madhavi Kale
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
News Media ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Indian Diaspora ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The West ◽  
Historical Archive ◽  
Group Experiences ◽  
The University

As “They Came in Ships” by the Guyanese poet Mahadai Das suggests, scholarship on indentured immigration is not an exclusively academic concern in Caribbean countries with sizeable Indian populations. An international conference on Indian diaspora held recently at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, was not only covered by national news media, but also attended by Trinidadians (almost exclusively of Indian descent) unattached to the university, some of whom also contributed papers, helped to organize and run it. In Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, contestations over national identities are grounded in and self-consciously refer to a shared historical archive. This includes conventional, written material such as colonial administration records, newspapers, travelogues, and memoirs that reflect the concerns of privileged observers: government officials, reporters and editors, missionaries, labour activists, historians, anthropologists. It also includes memories and accounts of personal and group experiences by others in these societies, transmitted orally or through other popular media, and they all simultaneously and unevenly undermine as well as authorize each other.

scholarly journals Ibsen and Peking Women's High Normal University

Nordlit ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Sun Jian
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Short History ◽  
The West ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
Normal University ◽  
The University ◽  
Chinese Girls ◽  
First Time

<p>This article aims at exploring the great influence of Ibsen and especially his play <em>A Doll House</em> on the young Chinese girls studying at Peking Women’s High Normal University established for the first time in China at the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century to educate girls.</p><p>In its short history, the girls at the university were exposed widely to the progressive ideas and literature from the West. Ibsen, the most popular writer at that time, inspired the girls tremendously whose performance of <em>A Doll House </em>aroused a heated debate among the well-known scholars on such important issues as women’s rights, women’s liberation, new culture, art and literature.</p><p>Consequently there appeared at the university first group of modern Chinese women writers who picked up their pens and wrote about themselves and about women in China, describing themselves as “Chinese Noras”.</p>

scholarly journals Trinidad and Tobago: A decade of dementia research

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelleen Baboolal ◽  
Gershwin Davis ◽  
Amanda McRae
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
The West ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Epidemiology Of Dementia ◽  
Dementia Research ◽  
Associated Risk Factors ◽  
The University

In 2003, academic staff members at The University of the West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences St Augustine Trinidad and Tobago combined their expertise to make strides in Alzheimer's and Dementia research in Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Nelleen Baboolal, Dr. Gershwin Davis and Professor Amanda McRae began developing a project that has produced significant results by examining not only the epidemiology of dementia, but the associated risk factors; caregiver burden and ultimately establishing biomarkers for the disease. This review is an account of our results from a decade of dementia research and how they are contributing toward mitigating the dementia tsunami in Trinidad and Tobago.

scholarly journals Postweaning Performance of the Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina): A Neotropical Rodent with Potential for Domestication

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Hannah-Marie Samantha Singh ◽  
Kegan Romelle Jones
Keyword(s):  
Weight Gain ◽  
Average Daily Gain ◽  
Live Weight ◽  
The Other ◽  
Field Station ◽  
Treatment Groups ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Production Animals ◽  
Neotropical Rodent ◽  
The University

This project aimed to observe the effect of different weaning times on the weight gain in agouti (Dasyprocta leporina). The goal was to acquire an appropriate weaning time for offsprings. The experiment was performed at the University of the West Indies Field Station Farm (UFS) where animals were divided into four treatment groups, with each treatment group consisted of four animals. Treatment 1 offsprings were weaned at four weeks, treatment 2 offsprings were weaned at three weeks, treatment 3 offsprings were weaned at two weeks, and treatment 4 offsprings were weaned at one week. The offsprings were raised experimentally for their first seven weeks. There was no significant difference ( p > 0.05 ) recorded in offsprings live weight and average daily gain (ADG) for treatments 1, 2, and 3. However, offsprings reared in treatment 4 had significantly ( p < 0.05 ) less live weight and weight gain in comparison to the other groups at seven weeks. Offsprings in treatment 4 also experienced 50% mortality (2/4 animals died), one animal removed from the experiment due to progressive weight loss, and one offspring remained in the experiment for its duration. The other treatment experienced no loss (0% mortality). Based on the results of the experiment, agouti offsprings should not be weaned at one week due to high mortality and low live weight at the end of seven weeks. Animals can be weaned between 2 and 4 weeks of age with no detrimental effects. Dependent on the level of production, animals can be weaned at 2 or 4 weeks depending on the operators desired litters per year.

Training cataloguing professionals at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine: part 2

2011 ◽  
Vol 60 (9) ◽  
pp. 748-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yacoob Hosein ◽  
Portia Bowen‐Chang
Keyword(s):  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
Effectiveness Of Training ◽  
The University ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of cataloguing training for professionals at the St Augustine Campus Libraries of the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, with emphasis on the cataloguing of special formats and the overall importance of continuing education.Design/methodology/approachThe research methodology is based on a questionnaire which involved the use of a rolling survey for the periods 2005‐2007 and 2007‐2010, and utilized a five‐point Likert scale.FindingsThe findings clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of cataloguing training in the quest for professional development amongst librarians and also serve to highlight the need for greater collaboration between libraries, library schools and library associations.Practical implicationsThe paper considers effectiveness of training in cataloguing and thus of the skills adopted in practice.Originality/valueThe study brings to the fore the importance of structured training for cataloguing professionals over a five‐year period. It also provides further insights into bridging the gap between entry level and working cataloguers in a developing country.

Adam Zalužanský’s “De sexu plantarum” (1592): an early pioneering chapter on plant sexuality

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Funk
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Translation ◽  
History Of Botany ◽  
Main Work ◽  
Botanical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

In the history of botany, Adam Zalužanský (d. 1613), a Bohemian physician, apothecary, botanist and professor at the University of Prague, is a little-known personality. Linnaeus's first biographers, for example, only knew Zalužanský from hearsay and suspected he was a native of Poland. This ignorance still pervades botanical history. Zalužanský is mentioned only peripherally or not at all. As late as the nineteenth century, a researcher would be unaware that Zalužanský’s main work Methodi herbariae libri tres actually existed in two editions from two different publishers (1592, Prague; 1604, Frankfurt). This paper introduces the life and work of Zalužanský. Special attention is paid to the chapter “De sexu plantarum” of Zalužanský’s Methodus, in which, more than one hundred years before the well-known De sexu plantarum epistola of R. J. Camerarius, the sexuality of plants is suggested. Additionally, for the first time, an English translation of Zalužanský’s chapter on plant sexuality is provided.

More Christian Apocrypha

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Tony Burke
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
North American ◽  
English Language ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Medieval Christianity

Scholars interested in the Christian Apocrypha (CA) typically appeal to CA collections when in need of primary sources. But many of these collections limit themselves to material believed to have been written within the first to fourth centuries CE. As a result a large amount of non-canonical Christian texts important for the study of ancient and medieval Christianity have been neglected. The More Christian Apocrypha Project will address this neglect by providing a collection of new editions (some for the first time) of these texts for English readers. The project is inspired by the More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Project headed by Richard Bauckham and Jim Davila from the University of Edinburgh. Like the MOTP, the MCAP is envisioned as a supplement to an earlier collection of texts—in this case J. K. Elliott’s The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford 1991), the most recent English-language CA collection (but now almost two decades old). The texts to be included are either absent in Elliott or require significant revision. Many of the texts have scarcely been examined in over a century and are in dire need of new examination. One of the goals of the project is to spotlight the abilities and achievements of English (i.e., British and North American) scholars of the CA, so that English readers have access to material that has achieved some exposure in French, German, and Italian collections.

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