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Best Oral\u00a0Presentation\u00a0Awards<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Theme I: Agri-Food Technology and Policy for Food and Nutrition Security<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Ronnie Ramsaran and Vidya de Gannes<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Production and Evaluation of Innovative Buttermilk Biscuits from Orange-Flesh Sweet Potato Flour Infused with Coconut for Food and Nutrition Security<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme II: Biodiversity, Climate Change and Disaster Management<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented\u00a0toKerneese\u00a0Tenille\u00a0Ramjarrie,\u00a0Oshaine\u00a0Omar Blake, Kailas Sekhar Banerjee, Dexter Davis, Ryan\u00a0Ramsook\u00a0and Raffie Hosein<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Multidisciplinary Approach into the Temporal Evolution of Near-Surface Structures and Morphology of the Piparo Mud Volcano<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme III: Health and Well-Being: Issues and Advances<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Gervonne\u00a0Barran, J Michael Conlon and Milena\u00a0Mechkarska<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From Rainforest to Laboratory Antimicrobial Peptides from Trinidadian Frog Skin Secretions as Leads against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme IV: Engineering and Green Technologies for Sustainability<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Kimberly Weston, Richard A. Taylor, Kim\u00a0Kisslinger\u00a0and Shobha\u00a0Mantripragada<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuning structure and function: metal-ion induced phase transformation in copper antimony\u00a0sulphide\u00a0nanostructures<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme V: Manufacturing, Trade, Tourism and\u00a0FinancialWell-being<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Kester Thompson<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Border Carbon Adjustments: The Potential Impact on Trinidad and Tobago\u2019s Growth and Trade<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme VI & VII: ICTs for Digital Islands & AI for Multidimensional Research and Development<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Vijayanandh\u00a0Rajamanickam, Deepak Ramsubhag and Jayaraj Jayaraman<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Machine Learning Approach to Multi-Crop Disease Identification Using\u00a0XGBoost<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme VIII: Education, Culture, Sports, Equality, Law and Governance for a Better Life and Sustainable Environment<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Sunil Lalloo, Charisse Griffith-Charles\u00a0and Leonel Frazer<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A fit-for-purpose land administration model to support indigenous land rights: the case of Maya communal lands in Belize<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Best Poster Presentation Awards<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Theme I: Agri-Food Technology and Policy\u00a0For\u00a0Food and Nutrition Security<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Naailah Ali, Darin Sukha, David\u00a0Gopaulchan,\u00a0Vickeisha\u00a0Lall, Krystal Daniel, Lincoln McDonald, David\u00a0Salt\u00a0and\u00a0Pathmanathan\u00a0Umaharan<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Exploring Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.)\u00a0Flavour\u00a0Diversity in Trinidad: A Study with Caribbean Relevance<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme II: Biodiversity, Climate Change and Disaster Management<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Renoir Auguste, Amy E.\u00a0Deacon\u00a0and Mark F. Hulme<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Evaluating the effectiveness of passive acoustic monitoring at detecting anurans in Caribbean tropical forests<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme III: Health and Well-\u00a0Being: Issues and Advances<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Muhammad Sani Ismaila, D.C. Arrindell, F. Mohammed, D. Mohammed, P. Daniel-France\u00a0and V. Sundaram<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cosmeceutical Potential of Ficus\u00a0benjamina\u00a0Seed Extracts from Trinidad: Biochemical, Mineral, and Antioxidant Profiling<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme IV: Engineering and Green Technologies for Sustainability<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Bhanumattee\u00a0Ramdhanie, Dhurjati Prasad Chakrabarti, Faisal Mohammed, Sharad Maharaj, Khadir\u00a0Manwah\u00a0and\u00a0Oshaine\u00a0Blake<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Extraction of Cellulose from Bambusa vulgaris (Bamboo) Biowaste for the Synthesis of Useful Products for Environmental Purposes<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme V: Manufacturing, Trade, Tourism and Financial Well-being<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Christina Baptiste, Roger Hosein and George Saridakis<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An Empirical Assessment of CARICOM\u2019s Intra-Industry Trade<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme VI & VII: ICTs for Digital Islands & AI for Multidimensional Research and Development<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Satesh Sookhai, Priscilla Bahaw, David\u00a0Forgenie\u00a0and\u00a0Ghulfam\u00a0Sadiq<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Generative AI for business sustainability: Examining usability, usefulness, and triple bottom line impacts in small and medium enterprises<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Theme VIII: Education, Culture, Sports, Equality,\u00a0Law\u00a0and Governance for a Better Life and Sustainable<\/span><\/b> Environment<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Presented to\u00a0Navin\u00a0Dookeram, Akhenaton\u00a0Daaga, Asad\u00a0Mohammed\u00a0and Isaac\u00a0Dialsingh<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Towards More Efficient Policing \u2013 An Application of a Novel Crime Hotspot Detection Method<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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