College of The Bahamas

About: College of The Bahamas is a education organization based out in Nassau, Bahamas. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Popular music. The organization has 182 authors who have published 322 publications receiving 3001 citations.

Corpus Linguistic Studies of Standard Bahamian English: A Comparative Study of Newspaper Usage

Abstract: While several studies have investigated the unique features of Bahamian Creole, there have been to date no academic studies analysing Standard Bahamian English, the language of formal communication in the Bahamas. This study fills this gap in the literature. Using the methods of corpus linguistics, the study presents some of the unique features of Standard Bahamian English in comparison to other international variants of English, specifically British, American, and Jamaican English. For methodological purposes the texts analyzed are limited to the genre of newspaper reportage. Features analyzed include keywords and word counts.

When is the Intersection of Two Finitely Generated Subalgebras of a Polynomial Ring Also Finitely Generated

Abstract: We study two variants of the following question: “Given two finitely generated $$\mathbb {C}$$ -subalgebras $$R_1, R_2$$ of $$\mathbb {C}[x_1, \ldots , x_n]$$ , is their intersection also finitely generated?” We show that the smallest value of n for which there is a counterexample is 2 in the general case, and 3 in the case that $$R_1$$ and $$R_2$$ are integrally closed. We also explain the relation of this question to the problem of constructing algebraic compactifications of $$\mathbb {C}^n$$ and to the moment problem on semialgebraic subsets of $$\mathbb {R}^n$$ . The counterexample for the general case is a simple modification of a construction of Neena Gupta, whereas the counterexample for the case of integrally closed subalgebras uses the theory of normal analytic compactifications of $$\mathbb {C}^2$$ via key forms of valuations centered at infinity.

Drawing Vladek, staging Shylock: Art Spiegelman’s Maus in American Holocaust discourse

Abstract: This essay explores the parallels between the character of Vladek in Art Spiegelman’s Maus and certain stage incarnations of Shylock from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Spiegelman’s Maus, I ...

The emergence of a peasantry in the Bahamas during slavery

Abstract: (1989). The emergence of a peasantry in the Bahamas during slavery. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 172-186.

Higher order functional boundary value problems without monotone assumptions

Abstract: In this paper, given a -Caratheodory function, it is considered the functional higher order equation together with the nonlinear functional boundary conditions, for Here, , , are continuous functions. It will be proved an existence and location result in presence of not necessarily ordered lower and upper solutions, without assuming any monotone properties on the boundary conditions and on the nonlinearity f.