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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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The contribution of 'Social Capital' to economic growth : lessons from island jurisdiction [PDF]

, 2005
This paper is concerned with the relationship of ‘social capital’ to economic development, with a deliberate focus on island territories. It argues that an appreciation of ‘social capital’ theory makes for a more informed understanding of how many ...
Baldacchino, Godfrey
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European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen, Calogero Virgone, Antje Redlich, Michael Abele, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Maja Mazic Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Ines B. Brecht, Charlotte Rigaud, Bilgehan Yalcin, Rainer Claus, Christian Vokuhl, Constantin Lapa, Jörg Fuchs, Segolene Hescot, Thomas Walter, Julien Hadoux, Daniel Orbach   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling With Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies

Island Studies Journal
Island studies has had much to say about why understanding perceptions of islandness matters for understanding the world, and it has often questioned what islandness is.
Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Ulunnguaq Markussen, Asinate Mausio   +3 more
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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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Implementing Health‐Related Quality of Life Assessment in Pediatric Oncology: A Feasibility Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background There is growing interest in embedding health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment and patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) within clinical cancer care. This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of implementing an electronic PROM (ePROM) platform to measure HRQoL in children with cancer ...
Mikaela Doig, Sophie Jessop, Jordan R. Hansford, Hien Le, Matthew O'Connor, Peter Gorayski, Andrew Cunningham, Amanda Hutchinson, Victoria Bedford, Eva Bezak, Nayana Parange, Kelly Skelton, Timothy Price, Michala Short   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

SimIceland: Towards a Spatial Microsimulation Approach for Exploring ‘Green’ Citizenship Attitudes in Island Contexts

Social Sciences
Islands and island communities are often perceived as homogenous in mainstream discourse. While many islands share characteristics, such as smallness or isolation, these are experienced differently across and within island contexts and intersect with ...
Sissal Dahl, Loes Bouman, Benjamin David Hennig, Dimitris Ballas   +3 more
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Issues and Tensions in Island Heritage Management: A Case Study of Motuihe Island, New Zealand [PDF]

Island Studies Journal, 2010
This paper draws on a New Zealand case study, Motuihe Island, to examine the challenges of conserving cultural heritage in places renowned for natural heritage values.
David Bade
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Comment l’île Maurice est-elle devenue Covid free ?

EchoGéo, 2021
After being affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in March 2020 and having implemented a whole series of sanitary measures, Mauritius has become, for more than ten months, one of the few Covid-free States on the planet, until a new epidemic wave hits it ...
Nathalie Bernardie-Tahir
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Islands within an almost island: History, myth, and aislamiento in Baja California, Mexico [PDF]

, 2016
This paper examines the persistent histories and lasting effects of the Baja California peninsula\u27s status as an almost island. The peninsula is almost an island in so many ways. Its reputation as an island-like entity has also ben strengthened by a
Anderson, Ryan B.
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