Fixation of genetic variation and optimization of gene expression: The speed of evolution in isolated lizard populations undergoing Reverse Island Syndrome [PDF]
, 2019 The ecological theory of island biogeography suggests that mainland populations should be more genetically divergent from those on large and distant islands rather than from those on small and close islets.
Aceto, S. +7 more
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Food Security, 2020 The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and nutrition insecurity are likely to be significant for Small Island Developing States due to their high dependence on foreign tourism, reliance on imported foods and underdeveloped local food production ...
G. Hickey, N. Unwin
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Coronavirus: COVID-19 Transmission in Pacific Small Island Developing States
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Background: Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have health care systems with a limited capacity to deal with pandemics, making them especially vulnerable to the economic and social impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19). This paper examines the
W. Leal Filho +3 more
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Études Caribéennes, 2013 The Caribbean island of Dominica is an emerging tourist destination. This small state, independent since 1978, located between the French territories of Guadeloupe and Martinique, intends to develop an original tourist strategy to break into a prosperous
Christelle Murat
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Interthalamic adhesion size in aging dogs with presumptive spontaneous brain microhemorrhages: a comparative retrospective MRI study of dogs with and without evidence of canine cognitive dysfunction [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Objective Spontaneous brain microhemorrhages in elderly people are present to some degree in Alzheimer’s disease patients but have been linked to brain atrophy in the absence of obvious cognitive decline.
Curtis W. Dewey +7 more
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Over the Caribbean Top: Community Well-Being and Over-Tourism in Small Island Tourism Economies
International Journal of Community Well-Being, 2020 The Caribbean is one of the most tourism-intense regions of the world with rising levels of over-tourism, especially in dependent small island tourism economies (SITE).
R. Peterson
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Canine cognitive dysfunction patients have reduced total hippocampal volume compared with aging control dogs: A comparative magnetic resonance imaging study [PDF]
Open Veterinary Journal, 2020 Background: Hippocampal atrophy is a key pathologic and MRI feature of human Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Hippocampal atrophy has not been documented via MRI in canine cognitive dysfunction (CCD), which is considered the dog model of human AD.
Curtis Wells Dewey +6 more
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A quantized current source with mesoscopic feedback [PDF]
, 2011 We study a mesoscopic circuit of two quantized current sources, realized by non-adiabatic single- electron pumps connected in series with a small micron-sized island in between.
Fricke, Lukas +9 more
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The Journal of environment & development, 2019 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) share a common vulnerability to climate change. Adaptation to climate change and variability is urgently needed yet, while some is already occurring in SIDS, research on the nature and efficacy of adaptation across ...
Carola Klöck, P. Nunn
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Assuring food security in Singapore, a small island state facing COVID-19
Food Security, 2020 Small island states have features in common which make it difficult for them to assure food security through self-production, notably limited land, fresh water and labour.
P. Teng
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