Welcome to UWISpace, The University of the West Indies Institutional Repository for Research and Scholarship

This archive was established by the UWI Libraries to support the dissemination of knowledge by providing open access to the digitally preserved intellectual output of the University. Here we aim to collect together in one place the research and scholarship of members of the UWI community. UWISpace provides a platform for the collection, organisation, access and preservation of scholarly information in digital formats.

Departments and individuals wishing to deposit their research material in the UWISpace archive can email the administrators, or phone (868) 662 2002, Exts. 84419, 82241, 82215 at The Alma Jordan Library, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

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    Upper Broad Street, Barbados.
    (The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.) The Main Library, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados is responsible for making this digital resource available.
    This photo is an aerial view of Upper Broad Street in Bridgetown, Barbados. The busy street scene shows many persons walking along the street, whilst others are traveling on donkey carts and wagons. Most of the men are dressed in long pants, long sleeved shirts and wearing hats; the women are dressed in long dresses and hats. There are many stores and shops located on both sides of the street. The buildings have roofs which are made of wooden shingle structures, with windows that have wooden shutters. The most visible architectural features of the buildings are the roof work, the windows, doors and wrought iron balconies which are overlooking the street. Some of the stores signs which are most visible are “J.R.M. Seifert & Co. Ltd.”; W. H. Johnson & Co.; and Stationers & Printers”. This is an undivided back postcard. Back of the Postcard Date Stamp – Oct 2; Postage Stamp – Barbados/ Half Penny/Nelson /Trafalgar/ 1805-1903 Addressed to: Madame E. Gambaldi, Muratte 66, Rome, Italy Letter from: Miss Sanderson, P. O. Box, Barbados CHP £22 (Handwritten in Pencil)
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    A Critical Analysis of the Challenges Around the Practical Implementation of AI-based Medical Technology in the Public Healthcare Industry in the United Kingdom
    (2024) Narinesingh, Gail
    The advent of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare has transformed the way the industry currently functions. While some technology experts believe the implementation process has many daunting challenges, others look beyond to its benefits. The topic selected on Artificial Intelligence is both current and relevant in today’s world and focuses on a critical analysis of the challenges around the practical implementation of AI-based medical technology, in the public healthcare industry, in the United Kingdom. Applying the principles of a systematic review of the literature, several articles were selected to analyse the challenges around the practical implementation of AI-based technology. The findings revealed a thematic presentation identifying challenges, benefits and influential factors toward AI-based technology. The discussion of the research findings provides an analytical perspective and analyses its alignment with the various influential theories previously identified in the literature review. The research highlights the lack of legislation, governance issues and resistance to change as major global challenges to implementing AI-based technology. These challenges are further linked to issues of trust, poor communication and collaboration, a lack of transparency, poor accountability and the organization’s culture. Therefore, a need for ongoing training and education to build knowledge and establish trust, improve stakeholder collaboration and the use of expert knowledge on how to achieve these are required to improve the chances of implementing AI-based medical technology within the UK healthcare industry.
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    Personal Correspondence 1935-1985
    (1935) Reid, Victor; Manley, Edna; Campbell, George; Hurst, K. E.; Dawes, Neville; Chaplin, Ken; Kay, Ernest; Rohe, Paul; Lloyd, Janet; Robinson, Joyce; Havelioc-Allan, Anthony; Hearne, John; Rfaser, H. Aubrey; Davies, Carlton; Davis, Omar; Jacobs, Monica; Wedderburn, Judith
    This document contains a collection of personal and professional correspondence, as well as various official documents and financial records, spanning the period from 1935 to 1985. Letters include exchanges with publishers, literary critics, cultural institutions, government bodies, fellow writers, and friends. The correspondence offers insight into Reid’s creative process, the publication and promotion of works such as New Day, The Leopard, The Jamaicans, and The Horses of the Morning, as well as his involvement with organizations including the Jamaica National Trust Commission, the Institute of Jamaica, and literacy advocacy initiatives.
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    The writings of Leon Damas and their connection with the negritude movement in literature
    (University of London, 1967) Hodge, Merle
    The Negritude movement is a literary, cultural and socio – political manifestation which took place among intellectuals of the black French colonies in the first half of the twentieth century. It involved a reaction against the French policy of cultural assimilation, and the assertion of the validity of African cultures, as well as the defence of the dignity of African peoples. The word 'negritude' is used variously to denote the Negritude movement , the community of experience of black people with relation to the white world, and the more abstract idea (and subject to discussion) of there being a body of immanent characteristics common to all Negro - African peoples and their various cultures . Some theorizers of Negritude put f or ward the highly doubtful assertion that this ' negritude ' or supposed specificity of the African is discernible in his literary sty e even when he is writing in European languages. One of the lea ding poets of the Negritude movement is Leon- G. Damas, born in French Guyana in 1912. Among the Caribbean writers the theme of, race includes the subject of slavery, and the idealization of Africa, their ancestral country. The tone of Damas ' work is bitter revolt against the white world f or the crimes perpetrated against this race, with strong note of protest against the cultural assimilation of the black man. The theme of race does not occupy all of Damas ' poetry: his 'work contains a body of more personal poetry, mainly love- poems .
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