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Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2023 Islandness is a contested concept, not just between disciplines but also cultures, entangled with what islands, island studies, and island identity are understood to be. The purpose of this article is to explore some of these different meanings, without necessarily unifying or reconciling them, with the aim of keeping multiple understandings of ...
Aideen Foley +11 more
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A Note on Selected Named Sports Plays
Names, 2012 This note examines certain key team sport plays, which resulted in a team winning an important game. Because of their impact on a specific game, they have received specific designations or names, which identify them uniquely. This note considers ten such
Frank Nuessel
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Benefits of a Diversified Energy Mix for Islanded Systems
Frontiers in Energy Research, 2020 Achieving energy self-sufficiency is a major challenge for remote areas, especially islands. Various technologies have recently been developed to exploit renewable resources in such areas in order to reduce dependency on fossil fuels.
Marine Cauz +7 more
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, 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 +2 more
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The Annals of Family Medicine, 2008 A clinician's chance encounter on the subway, after a long day seeing patients, prompts reflections on the nature of our interactions with our patients and with others we come across in our lives. Random yet precise, these interactions create a string of opportunities to witness other people's lives as well as our own.
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European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022 The Sri Lankan species of the genus Carrhotus Thorell,1891 have remained taxonomically unrevised. The present study reviews all species of the genus in the island. Here we describe and diagnose three new species: Carrhotus albosetosus sp. nov.
Abira Satkunanathan, Suresh P. Benjamin
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Evidence for Reductions in Physical and Chemical Plant Defense Traits in Island Flora
PlantsReduced defense against large herbivores has been suggested to be part of the “island syndrome” in plants. However, empirical evidence for this pattern is mixed.
Micah G. Freedman +3 more
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The Patronage of Thirst: Exploring Institutional Fit on a Divided Cyprus
Ecology and Society, 2013 We explore the links between Cyprus's colonial past, divided present, and current water scarcity. With reference to the concept of fit, we tackle the question of whether we can observe fit in settings where institutions for collective action work ...
Dimitrios Zikos, Matteo Roggero
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PlantsA checklist of Lesvos Island’s non-native vascular flora is presented. Through the literature and a roadside survey, we recorded 187 non-native plant taxa, representing 12% of the total regional flora.
Alexandros Galanidis +2 more
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Islands in the fluid: islands are common in cosmology
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 Abstract We discuss the possibility of entanglement islands in cosmological spacetimes with a general perfect fluid with an equation of state w. We find that flat universes with time-symmetric slices where the Hubble parameter vanishes always have islands on that slice.
Ido Ben-Dayan +2 more
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