Le système du risque à Saint-Martin (Petites Antilles françaises) by Virginie Duvat

“…The island of Saint-Martin is an interesting case study for a systemic approach applied to cyclone hazards and the co-evolution of territory and disaster management. …”
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Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The Lost History of Wolves in Britain and the Myths and Stories that Surround Them by Derek Gow (2024) 256 pp., Chelsea Green Publishing UK, London, UK. I... by Asiem Sanyal

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Osmanlı İdaresinde Kıbrıs’ta Serkis Ağa Liderliğindeki Bir Ermeni Tercüman Ailesi ve Faaliyetleri by Ali Efdal ÖZKUL

“…The Cypriot Armenians were mostly engaged in island’s silk production and its commercial distribution. …”
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A Multiobjective Optimal Operation of a Stand-Alone Microgrid Using SAPSO Algorithm by Guoping Zhang, Weijun Wang, Jie Du, Hua Liu

“…Microgrid is an effective way to utilize renewable energy resources, especially for satisfying the electricity requirements in remote islands. The operation optimization of an island microgrid is critical to ensure the effective performance of the whole microgrid system, and it is usually a multiconstrained and multiobjective optimization problem. …”
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The continuing search for a better mouse trap: Two tests of a practical, low-cost camera trap for detecting and observing small mammals. by Raymond D Dueser, John H Porter, Nancy D Moncrief

“…We obtained an accurate estimate of species composition on the island transects, as indicated by comparison with both concurrent and long-term trapping records for the same transects. …”
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Human Cardiac Fibroblast Number and Activation State Modulate Electromechanical Function of hiPSC-Cardiomyocytes in Engineered Myocardium by Cassady E. Rupert, Tae Yun Kim, Bum-Rak Choi, Kareen L. K. Coulombe

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Double trouble: two retrotransposons triggered a cascade of invasions in Drosophila species within the last 50 years by Almorò Scarpa, Riccardo Pianezza, Hannah R. Gellert, Anna Haider, Bernard Y. Kim, Eric C. Lai, Robert Kofler, Sarah Signor

“…Possibly following hybridization, D. simulans infected the island endemic species D. mauritiana (Mauritius) and D. sechellia (Seychelles) with both TEs after 1995. …”
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Brd7 loss reawakens dormant metastasis initiating cells in lung by forging an immunosuppressive niche by Jayanta Mondal, Junfeng Zhang, Feng Qing, Shunping Li, Dhiraj Kumar, Jason T. Huse, Filippo G. Giancotti

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Land-cover Dynamics and Oriental Honey-buzzard Winter Habitat Preference in Borneo, Indonesia by Utami Meirani, Lilik Budi Prasetyo, Yeni A. Mulyani, Syartinilia, Horoyoshi Higuchi

“…Migration can take advantage of organisms facing cyclical changes in limited resources. Borneo island is one of the wintering migration destinations for Oriental Honey-buzzard in Indonesia. …”
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Development of CNN-Based Semantic Segmentation Algorithm for Crop Classification of Korean Major Upland Crops Using NIA AI HUB by Dong-Wook Kim, Gyujin Jang, Hak-Jin Kim

“…Accurately estimating crop cultivation areas is critical for predicting yields and managing overproduction, particularly for staple crops grown in regions like Jeju Island, South Korea, where reporting cultivation areas is mandatory. …”
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Research on the Carbon Reduction Potential of the Life Cycle of Building Roofs Retrofit Designs by Dawei Mu, Wenjin Dai, Yixian Zhang, Yixu Shen, Zhi Luo, Shurui Fan

“…This study examines existing buildings in Haikou in China under tropical island climate conditions. It presents three retrofit design models for greenhouses roofs (GHR), green roofs (GR) and photovoltaic roofs (PVR). …”
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Modelling Shallow Water Wakes Using a Hybrid Turbulence Model by Clemente Rodriguez-Cuevas, Carlos Couder-Castañeda, Esteban Flores-Mendez, Israel Enrique Herrera-Díaz, Rodolfo Cisneros-Almazan

“…The numerical experiments were carried out on an experimental case under controlled conditions, consisting of a channel with a submerged conical island. The numerical scheme is based on the Eulerian-Lagrangian finite volume method with four turbulence models, three mixing lengths (ml), and one joining k-ϵ on the horizontal axis with a mixing-length model (ml) on the vertical axis. …”
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Overtourism: The Impact of Tourism on Madeira’s Social and Economic Environment by Piotr Majdak, Jakub Mosz, António Manuel Martins de Almeida

“… The main goal of the analyses presented in the article is to identify the phenomena and consequences concomitant with the phenomenon of overtourism in the economic (with particular emphasis on energy) and social dimensions, regarding the Portuguese island of Madeira. The starting point for considerations includes a review of the issues that define the theoretical framework of “excessive tourism”, as well as a discussion of the most important determinants of the socio-economic development of Madeira. …”
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The Effect of P-Cymene on Glucose, Insulin, Antioxidant Power, and the Level of AKT Gene mRNA in Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes Model in Male Wistar Rats by Maryam Arabloei Sani, Zahra Hajebrahimi, Parichehreh Yaghmaei, Nasim Hayati Roodbari

“…Results: Streptozotocin increased serum levels of glucose and decreased serum levels of insulin, the antioxidant power of serum, pancreas levels of AKT mRNA, and β island size. Administration of metformin or p-cymene improved the levels of glucose, insulin, AKT mRNA, β island size, and antioxidant power in an independent manner of dose. …”
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A slab window in the south rim of the Parece-Vela Basin by Zhang Zhen, Xu dong, Zhao Lintao

“…Additionally, a common Island Arc Basalt (IAB), denoted as C21-2, was also observed in the island arc region. …”
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Latino Family Childcare Providers’ Beliefs, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Promotion of Healthy Behaviors among Preschool Children: A Qualitative Study by Ana C. Lindsay, Judith A. Salkeld, Mary L. Greaney, Faith D. Sands

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Current status of African swine fever by Mary Louise Penrith

“…In the second half of the 20th century it had caused outbreaks in the majority of African countries where pigs are produced, as well as in a number of European countries, two of the Caribbean islands, and Brazil. By the turn of the century it had been eradicated from all non-African countries except the Italian island of Sardinia. …”
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Bioinspired interfacial engineering for highly stretchable electronics by Osman Gul, Myoung Song, Chang-Yeon Gu, Jihyeon Ahn, Kichul Lee, Junseong Ahn, Hye Jin Kim, Taek-Soo Kim, Inkyu Park

“…Here, we introduce a bioinspired interface-engineered flexible island (BIEFI), which effectively facilitates the creation of highly stretchable electronics by optimizing the interface with flexible mechanical interlocking mechanisms, resilient to physical deformations. …”
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Hayy ibn Yaqzan: Ibn Tufayl's Masterpiece by Halilović Tehran

“…Hayy ibn Yaqzan is a story about a child born and raised on an island far from civilization and according to many historians of Islamic philosophy, it symbolizes the human soul on its developing spiritual journey towards eternal bliss. …”
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Improving daily reference evapotranspiration forecasts: Designing AI-enabled recurrent neural networks based long short-term memory by Mumtaz Ali, Jesu Vedha Nayahi, Erfan Abdi, Mohammad Ali Ghorbani, Farzan Mohajeri, Aitazaz Ahsan Farooque, Salman Alamery

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