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China’s Footprints in Maldives: Concern for India? [PDF]

, 2016
China has, in the recent decades, has consolidated its interests in the South Asian region. This change in China‟s foreign policy, from a focus on the North-East and South-East Asia, hints at an attempt to sustain China‟s own peaceful rise. India, on
Surendra Kumar, S.Y.
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Private Network Realignment: State Strategies Versus Market‐Driven Globalization in the Subsea Cable Network

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Much of the subsea cable network, which carries the vast majority of global internet traffic, is developed, owned, and operated by private corporations. In an era of growing global tensions, states have come to view these cables as critical to their interests. The article addresses the disconnect between statecraft‐centric explanations and the
Joscha Abels
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Identification of the first gestational ground for tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) in the Central Indian Ocean using a high-definition submersible ultrasound

Frontiers in Marine Science
The reproductive state of wild, free-swimming tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier), was assessed using underwater ultrasonography at a diving site in Fuvahmulah, a Maldivian atoll within the central Indian Ocean.
James A. Sulikowski +7 more
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Pan-European Chikungunya surveillance: Designing risk stratified surveillance zones [PDF]

, 2009
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund - Copyright @ 2009 Tilston et alThe first documented transmission of Chikungunya within Europe took place in Italy during the summer of 2007.
Skelly, C, Tilston, N, Weinstein, P
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The role of iron in normal and impaired testicular function

Andrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Iron plays a critical role in testicular physiology, impacting spermatogenesis, testosterone production, and overall testicular function. Iron homeostasis is maintained through systemic and cellular regulatory mechanisms, including hepcidin‐mediated systemic iron control and the iron‐responsive element/iron regulatory protein (IRE/IRP) system ...
Aileen Harrer +2 more
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New biothreat of JN.1 variant SARS CoV-2: viral genome, mutations and comparison with Delta and Omicron variants – a brief commentary [PDF]

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of COVID-19, is susceptible to mutations and emerged into many variants. This study aims to investigate a new variant called JN.1 with a remarkable number of mutations reported from many countries.
S. Kannan +7 more
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Desynchronization in the Necrocene Age: The Case of the Maldives and Future Speculations

Indialogs: Spanish Journal of India Studies, 2021
Through the theoretical framework of the Necrocene, the age of death and extinction due to capitalist accumulation, this article tries to analyze and flesh out the current sociopolitical and ecological crisis of the Maldives archipelago as a symptom of ...
Oriol Batalla
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Leave No One Behind: Voices of Women, Adolescent Girls, Elderly, Persons with Disabilities and Sanitation Workforce [PDF]

, 2016
This report summarizes the sanitation and hygiene hopes and aspirations of thousands of women and men of different ages and physical ability, across rural and urban areas in eight South Asian countries.

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Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at‐sea anthropogenic threats

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Marine megafauna species are affected by a wide range of anthropogenic threats. To evaluate the risk of such threats, species’ vulnerability to each threat must first be determined. We build on the existing threats classification scheme and ranking system of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened ...
Michelle VanCompernolle +309 more
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No escape from microplastics: Contamination of reef manta ray feeding areas in a remote, protected archipelago

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We found microplastic contamination of the upper water column around the Chagos Archipelago, a remote, protected archipelago in the central Indian Ocean. Key aggregation areas for reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) were contaminated, putting them at risk of microplastic ingestion.
J. Savage +5 more
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