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Cessation of mass drug administration for lymphatic filariasis in Zanzibar in 2006: was transmission interrupted? [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015 BackgroundLymphatic filariasis (LF) is targeted for elimination through annual mass drug administration (MDA) for 4-6 years. In 2006, Zanzibar stopped MDA against LF after five rounds of MDA revealed no microfilaraemic individuals during surveys at ...
Maria P Rebollo +7 more
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Aspects of the Åland Islands question
, 2000 The Åland Islands question in international politics has been intermittently discussed, negotiated, and settled since the eighteenth century. The Islands lie in the Baltic Sea, halfway between Sweden and Finland, at the mouth of the Gulf of Bothnia ...
Sakshaug, Elen Christine
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Semi natural green Danube islands in the grasp of megacities
4D, 2021 The majority of European cities have been developed on the banks of natural rivers, often in places where the shallow riverbed river helps to form natural crossing points and islands.
Maria Auböck, Eszter Karlócainé Bakay
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, 2020 Islands as specific research sites in their own right have been given little direct attention by linguists. The physical segregation, distinctness, and isolation of islands from mainland and continental environments may provide scholars of language with ...
Kedwards, Dale +11 more
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Périphéricité et ultrapériphéricité insulaires dans l’Union européenne
L'Espace Politique, 2007 The EU’s peripheral and ultraperipheral islands issue appeared with the successive membership of maritime states and with the official EEZ implementation in 1994. From now on, EU has a territorial projection which is located beyond the continental Europe
André-Louis Sanguin
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‘ISLANDS OF EMPOWERMENT’: ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW AND THE QUESTION OF RACIAL EMANCIPATION
The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2013 In her evocative masterpiece, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, published in 1991, Patricia Williams captured a moment in American legal thought that marked a turning point in expressions about race and power, and the implications for social equality.
Faisal Bhabha
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Impact of Tourist and One-Day Visitor Arrivals on Economic Growth. Case Study of the Cayman Islands
Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2014 The Cayman Islands are one of the SISODs, located in the Caribbean Sea, with a high number of foreign visitor arrivals and a GDP based to a large extent on tourism. They are also considered to be SITE islands and may even be characteristic of the subtype,
Podhorodecka Katarzyna
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Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic Islands: to the question about cultural and linguistic separatism
Ибероамериканские тетради, 2017 The article analyzes the phenomenon of linguo-cultural separatism in the Catalan language area in Spain which rejects the idea of language unity and cultural community of peoples that populate it.
Galina Denisenko
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A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography [PDF]
Journal of Biogeography, 2017 AbstractAimsThe 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal book, The Theory of Island Biogeography, by Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson, is a timely moment to review and identify key research foci that could advance island biology. Here, we take a collaborative horizon‐scanning approach to identify 50 fundamental questions for the ...
Jairo Patiño +28 more
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Island Studies Journal, 2017 This two-part paper, co-authored by the members of the Island Poetics Research Group, introduces a larger project on the poetic construction of islands in island fictions across media, genres, and geographical regions.
Daniel Graziadei +4 more
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