Cuban Subterranean Termite (proposed), Florida Dampwood Termite (old unofficial name), Prorhinotermes simplex (Hagen) (Insecta: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) by Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Nan-Yao Su, Brian Cabrera, William Kern, Jr.

“…Species of Prorhinotermes generally live in or near coastal habitats and on islands. This document is EENY-282, one of a series of Featured Creatures from the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. …”
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Increasing Role of Roof Gutters as Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Breeding Sites in Guadeloupe (French West Indies) and Consequences on Dengue Transmission and Vector Control by Joël Gustave, Florence Fouque, Sylvie Cassadou, Lucie Leon, Gabriel Anicet, Cédric Ramdini, Fabrice Sonor

“…During the past ten years, the islands of Guadeloupe (French West Indies) are facing dengue epidemics with increasing numbers of cases and fatal occurrences. …”
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Spheroidization heat treatment and intercritical annealing of low carbon steel by Nasiri Z., Mirzadeh H.

“…During intercritical annealing of the spheroidized microstructures, the tendency to obtain martensite particles as discrete islands was observed. This, in turn, resulted in an inferior strength-ductility balance compared to the DP steel obtained from the intercritical annealing of martensite, which negated the usefulness of the spheroidized microstructures as the initial microstructures for the processing of DP steels.…”
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ICT-policy in a geographical context by Sten Lorentzon

“…The introduction of ICT in Sweden is performed in the frame of centralistic governing and settlement structure characterized by activities located like islands in sparsely populated areas. Contrasts are evident between sparsely populated areas in the North and densely populated areas in the South. …”
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Analisis Pengawasan Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut Terkait Ancaman Keamanan Perbatasan Laut Kabupaten Kepulauan Talaud, Filipina by Satrio Buana Putra, Yanuar Adi Legowo, Amril Ghaffar Sunny, Sigit Yudha Pratama

“…As one of Indonesia's northernmost regencies, Talaud Islands Regency borders directly with the Philippines, facing various security threats. …”
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Association of food security with cardiometabolic health during young adulthood: cross-sectional comparison of American Indian adults with other racial/ethnic groups by Cassandra J Nikolaus, Anna Zamora-Kapoor, Luciana E Hebert, Ka'imi Sinclair

“…Objectives Our aim was to assess the cross-sectional associations between food insecurity and cardiometabolic health indicators in American Indian young adults compared with non-Hispanic white, black, Asian or Pacific Islander and Hispanic young adults.Design Data from the fourth wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) were used. …”
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Survey on Byzantine attacks and defenses in federated learning by ZHAO Xiaojie, SHI Jinqiao, HUANG Mei, KE Zhenhan, SHEN Liyan

“…Federated learning as an emerging distributed machine learning, can solve the problem of data islands. However, due to the large-scale, distributed nature and strong autonomy of local clients, federated learning is extremely vulnerable to Byzantine attacks and the attacks are not easy to detect, which seriously damages the integrity and availability of the model. …”
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Io Moth Automeris io (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) by Donald W. Hall

“…With the exception of Cape Cod and some of the Massachusetts islands, it is now rare in New England where it was once common, and its populations have declined in most of the Gulf States since the 1970s. …”
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An international award-winning photograph illustrates how graphics convey climate change communication messages by Deborah HILTON

“…Climate change effects are becoming extreme, persistent and permanent, with negative ramifications on agriculture, more extreme weather catastrophes, detrimental effects on human physical and mental health, destruction of small islands and while economic impacts are difficult to estimate overall the situation is apocalyptic. …”
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Les apprentissages d’un RETEX scientifique et collectif sur l’ouragan Irma (saison cyclonique 2017, Petites-Antilles du Nord, projet ANR TIREX) by Frédéric Leone, Yann Bérard, Stéphanie Defossez, Jérémy Desarthe, Virginie Duvat, Delphine Grancher, Philippe Palany, Narcisse Zahibo

“…This article looks back at the 2017 hurricane season, which strongly impacted the Lesser Antilles, particularly during the passage of Hurricane Irma over the islands of Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy. It presents the main results of a collective and multi-dimensional scientific feedback, conducted over five years as part of the ANR TIREX research project. …”
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Les Comores, le Visa Balladur et l’hécatombe au large de Mayotte : une analyse transdisciplinaire de la question complexe des migrations comoriennes by Tiziano Peccia, Rachele Meda

“…This article is an overview on the migratory crisis which is putting strain on the stability of the Comoros islands, with particularly emphasis to the migratory flow to Mayotte. …”
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Cold Outbreaks at the Mesoscale in the Western Mediterranean Basin: From Raincells to Rainbands by Jordi Mazon, David Pino

“…Based on the observations and simulations, this paper suggests that a new perspective could effectively be adopted regarding the WMB region delineated by the Balearic Islands, the northeastern Iberian Peninsula, and the Gulf of Lion, where inland cold outbreaks develop into density currents that move offshore and can produce precipitation ranging from raincells to rainbands at the whole mesoscale.…”
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A Case of Osteochondroma in a Cat's Ear by Eren Polat, Burak Karabulut, Elif Ekinci

“…Microscopic examination of the mass revealed that there were chondrocytes among the dense bone cell accumulations and that they formed islands in some areas. As a result of histopathological examinations, it was determined that the suspicious mass was osteochondroma. …”
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Tourism destination brand dimensions: an exploratory approach by José Manuel Cristóvão Veríssimo, Maria Teresa Borges Tiago, Flávio Gomes Tiago, João Sérgio Jardim

“…This study is designed to address this gap, using the islands of Madeira as a unit of research. For this purpose, a survey was undertaken of 321 tourists, in seven hotels at this destination. …”
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Hippomane mancinella, Manchineel by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman

“…This poisonous tree is native to southern Florida, the Keys, many of the Caribbean islands, Mexico, and Central America. Though it is poisonous to humans and many animals, iguanas eat the fruit and sometimes live among the tree’s limbs. …”
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Hippomane mancinella, Manchineel by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman

“…This poisonous tree is native to southern Florida, the Keys, many of the Caribbean islands, Mexico, and Central America. Though it is poisonous to humans and many animals, iguanas eat the fruit and sometimes live among the tree’s limbs. …”
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A Novel Ultrawideband Planar Inverted-F Antenna with Capacitive Ground Plane by Haixia Liu, Fei Wang, Yang Yang, Xiaowei Shi, Long Li

“…The capacitive ground plane is composed of a sheet of metal islands, which makes a major contribution to ultra-wideband from 2.3 GHz to 9.0 GHz by applying the capacitive compensation for input impedance of the PIFA in high-order modes frequency bands. …”
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Soliton Management for Ultra-high Speed Telecommunications by Vladimir N. Serkin, Akira Hasegawa

“…La metodología desarrollada provee un método sistemático de encontrar un número infinito de las novedosas islas solitónicas (soliton islands) estables, brillantes y obscuras en un mar de olas solitarias, para la ecuación no lineal de Schrödinger con dispersión y no linealidad variables y con ganancia o absorción. …”
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Survey on model inversion attack and defense in federated learning by Dong WANG, Qianqian QIN, Kaitian GUO, Rongke LIU, Weipeng YAN, Yizhi REN, Qingcai LUO, Yanzhao SHEN

“…As a distributed machine learning technology, federated learning can solve the problem of data islands.However, because machine learning models will unconsciously remember training data, model parameters and global models uploaded by participants will suffer various privacy attacks.A systematic summary of existing attack methods was conducted for model inversion attacks in privacy attacks.Firstly, the theoretical framework of model inversion attack was summarized and analyzed in detail.Then, existing attack methods from the perspective of threat models were summarized, analyzed and compared.Then, the defense strategies of different technology types were summarized and compared.Finally, the commonly used evaluation criteria and datasets were summarized for inversion attack of existing models, and the main challenges and future research directions were summarized for inversion attack of models.…”
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Holographic boundary conformal field theory within Horndeski gravity by Fabiano F. Santos, Behnam Pourhassan, Emmanuel N. Saridakis, Oleksii Sokoliuk, Alexander Baransky, Emre Onur Kahya

“…Abstract We investigate entanglement islands and the Page curve in the framework of Horndeski gravity on a Karch-Randall braneworld background. …”
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