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Island Engineers, Engineering Islands:
In many ways, anthropogenic islands, like South Florida’s Mound Key or Nan Madol in Micronesia, serve as model systems for how human populations can affect pristine environments. This ranges from land modification due to forest clearance for agricultural and other activities to the introduction of invasive species and the extirpation or extinction of ...Scott M. Fitzpatrick, Victor D. Thompson
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The Effect of Island-Island Interaction on Coarsening of Strained Islands
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2003We review recent studies on the effect of stress/strain-induced island-island interaction on coarsening of strained islands. For coarsening of strained 2D islands, there always exists a stable island size against coarsening. When coarsening proceeds via only mass transport between islands, the interaction broadens the island size distribution, leading ...
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No island is an island: Maine's island housing groups collaborate [PDF]
, 2008 The Islands Challenge Fund formed by the Maine Community Foundation, the Maine Sea Coast Mission, the Island Institute, and Genesis Community Loan Fund offers a model for helping year-round residents in any resort community to create affordable housing.
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This chapter explores Sicily as a paradigm of insular education, where geographic insularity intersects with cultural hybridity, historical memory, and symbolic depth. Drawing on the concepts of sicilitudine (Sciascia) and isolitudine (Bufalino), insularity is reimagined as a pedagogical resource—fostering inclusion, resilience, and intercultural ...
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