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The diabetes epidemic in Malta [PDF]

, 2020
A note of appreciation and acknowledgement is forwarded to Professor Julian Mamo, Professor Josanne Vassallo and Professor Neville Calleja for their continuous support and advice during the academic progression.Aim: The small European Mediterranean ...
Cuschieri, Sarah
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Six-proposition manifesto for small Island territories [PDF]

, 2000
Conventional wisdom suggests that small, often island, states are more likely than larger nations to be hard hit by the effects of national disasters, of fluctuations in the global economy, and the political aspirations of world powers.
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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Islands and despots [PDF]

, 2012
This paper challenges a conventional wisdom: that when discussing political systems, small is democratic. And yet, can there be paradises without serpents?
Acemoglu D., Anckar D., Anckar D., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Baldacchino G., Ballantyne R. M., Benedict B., Birkett D., Boissevain J., Boissevain J., Bongie C., Bray M., Bray M., Cadigan S. T., Christensen J., Christianson J. R., Clegg P., Cohen A. P., Cooper A. F., Crocombe R. G., Dahl R., Dash J. M., de Montesquieu C. L. S., Domínguez P., Everson S., Fletcher L., Godfrey Baldacchino, Golding W., Helliwell J. F., Hintjens H. M., Hirschman A. O., Huxley A., Hymer S., Kersell J. E., Klomp A., Knox A. D., Lijphart A., Lillis K. M., Lowenthal D., Loxley D., May R., McCall G., Moore B., Ott D., Payne A., Payne D., Peters D. C., Rainnie A., Redfield P., Rich R., Rousseau J.-J., Rousseau J.-J., Royle S. A., Scase R., Schumacher E. F., Shand R. T., Singham A. W., Singham A. W., Smith B. C., So'o A., Souhami D., Sutton P. K., Thoren V. E., van Bakel M. A., Weale D., Weaver-Hightower R., Wells H. G., Wood D. P. J.   +71 more
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"Islands"

, 2016
We were told that geo-politics is the great play of power across a solid continuous Euclid-ian surface. Cut apart by linear borders, the state system — a territori-ally based juridical formation — appeared to dominate all forms of sovereignty over individu-als and action.
Anselm Franke, Eyal Weizman, Ines Weizman   +2 more
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Critical islands [PDF]

Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021
Abstract We discuss a doubly-holographic prescription for black holes in braneworlds with a vanishing cosmological constant. It involves calculating Ryu-Takayanagi surfaces in AdS black funnel spacetimes attached to braneworld black holes in the critical Randall- Sundrum II model.
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Bounded by heritage and the Tamar: Cornwall as ‘almost an island’

Island Studies Journal, 2020
This article considers the manner in which the English county of Cornwall has been imagined and represented as an island in various contemporary contexts, drawing on the particular geographical insularity of the peninsular county and distinct aspects of ...
Philip Hayward, Christian Fleury
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Islandness of Sveti Stefan: A Collection of Particular Manifestations Through Time

Island Studies Journal
Sveti Stefan, a tiny Montenegrin island with a rich historical and cultural background, remains underexplored in academic research. Considering its physicality (shaped by nature and human intervention), circumstances that determined and directed its ...
Goran Koprivica
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Islandness: Vulnerability and resilience in Oceania [PDF]

, 2009
Pacific and other islands have long been represented as sites of vulnerability. Despite this, communities on many Pacific islands survived for millennia prior to the intrusion of people from Europe into their realm. An examination of traditional disaster
Campbell, John
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“It’ll be our own little Wales out there”: re-situating Bardsey Island for post-devolution Wales in Fflur Dafydd’s Twenty Thousand Saints [PDF]

, 2017
This article examines the ways in which Fflur Dafydd’s 2008 novel Twenty Thousand Saints negotiates notions of the island space in a post-devolution Welsh context.
Anderson, Jonathan Mark, Bohata, Kirsti, Morgan, Jeffrey, Smith, Kieron   +3 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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