Cross-Border Investment in Small International Financial Centers [PDF]
We document and assess the role of small financial centers in the international financial system using a newly-assembled dataset. We present estimates of the foreign asset and liability positions for a number of the most important small financial centers,
Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti, Philip Lane
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A Caribbean-wide survey of marine reserves: spatial coverage and attributes of effectiveness [PDF]
, 2003 Fully-protected marine reserves can function at several spatial scales, from a single area encompassing few habitats, to local networks of many habitats, to large-scale networks connected by larval dispersal.
Appeldoorn, R.S., Lindeman, K.C.
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How visas shape and make visible the geopolitical architecture of the planet
, 2016 The aim of the present study is to provide a picture for geopolitical globalization: the role of all world countries together with their contribution towards globalization is highlighted.
Ausloos, Marcel +4 more
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Further evidence of Chelonid herpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) latency : High levels of ChHV5 DNA detected in clinically healthy marine turtles [PDF]
, 2016 The Chelonid herpesvirus 5 (ChHV5) has been consistently associated with fibropapillomatosis (FP), a transmissible neoplastic disease of marine turtles. Whether ChHV5 plays a causal role remains debated, partly because while FP tumours have been clearly ...
Alfaro-Núñez, Alonzo +5 more
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Nuevos datos sobre nomenclatura, taxonomía y distribución de algunas especies del género "Cladonia" [PDF]
, 2012 The name Cladonia diversa Asperges ex S. Stenroos is validated, and the species is reported as new to Japan. Cladonia angustiloba, earlier known from Macaronesia, is reported to extend to Faeroe Is., Denmark. Cladonia aspera Ahti & Kashiw.
Ahti, Teuvo, Stenroos, Soili
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Tropical Zoology, 2017 Opportunistic nocturnal catch-and-release turtle surveys were conducted on three nearshore, shallow coral reefs that fringe the main navigation channel to Cockburn Harbour, South Caicos, between 2005 and 2015.
Jessica Bechhofer, Aaron C. Henderson
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The regulation and supervision of banks around the world - a new database [PDF]
International consultants on bank regulation, and supervision for developing countries, often base their advice on how their home country does things, for lack of information on practice in other countries.
Barth, James R. +2 more
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A new deep sea coralline sponge from Turks and Caicos Islands: Willardia caicosensis gen. et sp. nov. (Demospongiae: Hadromerida) [PDF]
, 1996 A new coralline sponge, Willardia caicosensis, assigned to the family Timeidae, is described from the deep fore reef off the Turks & Caicos Islands, tropical western Atlantic Ocean, where it is common at depths ranging from 100 to 119 m. Individuals vary
Pomponi, S.A., Willenz, P.
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Toward a cladistic model for the Caribbean subregion: Delimitation of areas of endemism
Caldasia, 2001 A new biogeographic scherne for the Caribbean subregion is proposed herein, where the following 29 provinces are recognized: Sierra Madre Occidental (western Mexico: states of Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Jalisco, above 1 ...
Morrone Juan J.
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Are Marine Protected Areas in the Turks and Caicos Islands ecologically or economically valuable? [PDF]
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are often advocated by ecologists as a method of conserving valuable fish stocks while ensuring the integrity of ecological processes in the face of increasing anthropogenic disturbance. In the Turks and Caicos Islands there
Danylchuk, A. +3 more
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