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FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TOURS

Overview: Campus visitors will have the opportunity to explore or research facilities and museums, by participating in the following tours:

  • Tour of Geology Museum
  • Tour of Map Library
  • Tour of Herbarium
  • Tour of Medicinal Plants (Botany Gardens)
  • Tour of Zoology Museum
  • Tour of the Natural Products Institute’s Mosquito Research facilities, Biochemistry Lab and Cell Culture Screening Laboratory.

Audience: UWI Students, High School Students, General Public

FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TOURS

Overview: Campus visitors will have the opportunity to explore or research facilities and museums, by participating in the following tours:

  • Tour of Geology Museum
  • Tour of Map Library
  • Tour of Herbarium
  • Tour of Medicinal Plants (Botany Gardens)
  • Tour of Zoology Museum
  • Tour of the Natural Products Institute’s Mosquito Research facilities, Biochemistry Lab and Cell Culture Screening Laboratory.

Audience: UWI Students, High School Students, General Public

A Night with the Stars

Overview: A night time stargazing activity with the Astronomy club. Meet after dark to stargaze. Two short talks about rockets and satellites and the cosmos by Louis-Ray Harris and L. Nathan Henderson Participants will be able to view different constellations and planets through the telescope.

Decision Support System (CRICDeSS) for Selecting an ODI Cricket Team

The selection of a “best team” is arguably one of the more important aspects of preparing for any event. In cricket, a sport that is watched by nearly 2.5 billion persons, this is quite a complex task. Ensuring the most optimal skill sets are complemented by the most capable players is integral to a team successfully completing a match as the victors.

Automated Action Recognition with Minimal Supervision

Automated action recognition is difficult because of the large number of possible meanings of data in video streams.

Many current approaches,train systems to look for specific actions. Those approaches are challenged when previously unseen actions are recognized, and often return inaccurate results if there are between actions from different classes in the training set.

Generation of Novel Diterpenes by Biotransformation of a Diterpenoid Analogue using Beauveria Bassiana

Microbial transformation has proven to be an important resource in the production of various chemicals used in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries.1 Microorganisms, such as fungi have been widely used in biotransformation experimentsto yield bioactive metabolites. Many of these reactions are difficult to achieve by chemical synthetic protocols. As a result, fungi have played an integral role in the development of green chemistry and by extension the pharmaceutical industry.

Assessment of Fish Consumption and Mercury Exposure Among Pregnant Women in Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago

Background

Fish is an essential and traditional element in the diet of most Caribbean people. However it also contains methylmercury which can have severe effects on fetal neurodevelopment. The objective of this study was to assess the fish intake of a selected group of pregnant women from Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago and evaluate prenatal mercury exposure, using the placenta as a biomarker.

Method

Monitoring of Radioactivity and Mineral Concentrations in Jamaican foods

Introduction

Minerals and Radioactive nuclides exist naturally in the environment and some are created by human activities. They are then absorbed by food where they can affect human health. Therefore it is essential to determine the concentration of radioactive elements and minerals in the food. The purpose of this study wasto measure radionuclides and mineral contents that are present in popular Jamaican foods.

Methods

Developing a Cost-Effective Virtual Reality Solution to Enhance Student Learning

Traditionally, educational systems worldwide have focused mainly on the use of chalkboards and whiteboards. However, in recent years, they have been replaced by the smart board.

There has been an increase in the amount of information needed to communicate new concepts, and the methods used to teach this information need to be more interactive in order to suit the learning styles of young and technologically savvy students, as well as to maintain their interest in the classroom.

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