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Islands, Island Studies, Island Studies Journal [PDF]
Islands are sites of innovative conceptualizations, whether of nature or human enterprise, whether virtual or real. The study of islands on their own terms today enjoys a growing and wide-ranging recognition. This paper celebrates the launch of Island Studies Journal in the context of a long and thrilling tradition of island studies scholarship.
Baldacchino, Godfrey +1 more
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The first occurrence records of Kukulcania hibernalis (Hentz, 1842) from Ascension Island and Saint Barthélemy (Araneae: Filistatidae) [PDF]
The Southern House Spider Kukulcania hibernalis (Hentz, 1842), native to coastal eastern Mexico and the eastern United States, is widely distributed in Central and South America, the Caribbean, and has been recorded from Liberia and the Canary Islands ...
Sherwood, D., Questel, K., Sharp, A.
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Tick-borne pathogens (TBPs) include a wide range of bacteria, parasites and viruses that cause a large spectrum of animal, human and zoonotic tick-borne diseases (TBDs).
Baptiste Defaye +3 more
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Leo cie lo … A Series of Artefacts from the Near Future
The article centres on the analysis of a speculative (non)fictional text written in the Queer language Damiá by Dogai Bor (a.k.a. Chris Gylee), Second Speaker of the first Damiá speech community, with translation notes, a fictional frame in Finnish, a ...
ONCE WE WERE ISLANDS
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Reproductive investment, including the number of offspring produced, is one of the fundamental characteristics of a species. It is particularly important for island vertebrates, which face a disproportionate number of threats to their survival, because ...
Johannes Foufopoulos +4 more
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Remoteness, islands and islandness
Through an explorative overview of a number of approaches to what remoteness is, in terms of language, discourse, and fantasy, how it is established spatially and temporally by movements and perspectives, by how connections are set up, and by how boundaries are drawn and crossed, this paper argues that remoteness is a) produced rather than discovered ...
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No island is an island: participatory development planning on the croatian islands [PDF]
Despite a straightforward commonsense requirement that governmental policy makers have to share their regional development management role with everybody that is involved in and /or affected by these policies, stakeholders’ participation is too often neglected or even deliberately disregarded in existing regional policies.
Starc, Nenad, Stubbs, Paul
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Review on the book “Historical Essays about Life on the Islands of the Northern Dvina Delta” by M.A. Lukina [PDF]
The book is the result of a great work of M. A. Lukina on the history of villages in the Delta of the Northern Dvina River. The book is the first study of the island colonization, establishment, and centuries-old development of settlements in the mouth ...
Natalia V. DRANNIKOVA
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. Aim. Study of biological diversity of the Caspian and island ecosystems, the composition, especially the geographical distribution and possible ways of forming a scoop fauna (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) are presented.Methods.
G. M. Abdurakhmanov +4 more
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The generation management concept for non-interconnected island (NII) systems is traditionally based on simple, semi-empirical operating rules dating back to the era before the massive deployment of renewable energy sources (RES), which do not achieve ...
Georgios N. Psarros +1 more
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