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Take a walk: a critical reflection on data gathering in remote island communities
... I was able to survey thirteen of the fifteen remote island communities. The absence of available informants or passive refusal by not returning my calls resulted in the non-completion of the remaining two ...
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Knowledge, Awareness and Acceptance of Labor Analgesia among Antenatal Women in a Remote Island: A Questionnaire Based Study
... Pain – free labor is nearly universal in high income countries. However, in low – income countries where women are mostly burdened with high pregnancy rates and short inter- pregnancy intervals, pain relief in labor ...
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Essays on Small Remote Island Economies (SRIES)
... Are island economies better off reorganising their economies towards services, such as, tourism and off-shore banking rather than towards export manufacturing (Armstrong and Read 2000; Bertram 2004)? The fourth ...
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Sustainable tourism on a remote island : the Cape Barren Aboriginal community, Tasmania
... There is the potential for the community to develop sustainable island tourism which could provide significant economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits and opportunities, ho[r] ...
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Disaster response and adaptation to climate change in Fiji and Tonga : remote island perspectives
... isolated island, it would be important to know how much of the recovery had to be done alone - for example, knowing how long leftover food needs to last, and the extent to which informal rationing of it is ...
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Community Power Scotland: From Remote Island Grids to Urban Solar Co operatives
... Like others, Hugh Piggott moved to Scoraig, a remote peninsula in the north-west of Scotland, in the 1970s to permanently live off-grid; a lifestyle he had enjoyed during holidays as a child. While he initially ...
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Does a remote Brazilian island hold the key to varroa tolerance?
... very remote island of Fernando de Noronha. This tiny island covers 18 km 2 and lies 350km off the coast of Brazil and is classified as a UNESCO World heritage site, due its importance in terms of ...
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Whole genome sequencing to investigate a non clonal melioidosis cluster on a remote Australian island
... Over a 28 month period in the mid-1990s, a case cluster of nine melioidosis cases with four deaths occurred in a remote island indigenous community in the ‘ Top End ’ of the North- ern Territory, Australia ...
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Air Pollution Assessment via Statistical Reasoning, and its Implications: A Case Study of Baekryeong Island in Republic of Korea
... Baekryeong island by statistical reasoning through one specific example of inland city (Yanggu) in Republic of Korea; however, given that Baekryeong Island is a remote island, there has been ...
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Prevalence of soil transmitted nematodes on Nukufetau, a remote Pacific island in Tuvalu
... a remote island in the Western Pacific the spectrum of STH present in the general popu- lation is quite narrow with only hookworm and Trichuris infections present and that the prevalence of STH remains high ...
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The outer islands of Vanuatu: is there a synergy between tourists and locals?
... in remote regions have a number of associated issues that include cultural differences, infrastructure and an apparent confusion on the part of government on the implementation of proactive tourism development ...
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Thoughts of the local residents of Espiritu Santo on Australian visitors
... in remote island regions using, the case of Espiritu Santo and the near offshore island of Tangoa, two of a number of relatively underdeveloped outer islands in ...
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Benthic Biotopes Remote Sensing Using Single Beam Acoustics on the South Coast of the Qeshm Island, the Persian Gulf
... Remote sensing methods are the most versatile remote sensors for sub-tidal marine studies. In fact, acoustic record from echo sounders is indicator of the nature of the sea floor (Freitas et al., 2003). ...
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Habitat Modelling for Conservation Analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing in Lantau Island, Hong Kong
... nurtures over 120 butterfly species and 63 dragonfly species which represent 50% and 60% of total butterfly and dragonfly species respectively in Hong Kong. Rare plants, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians are ...
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Paleoenvironmental analysis of the Mangere Formation, Mangere Island, Chatham Islands, New Zealand : a thesis submitted in Earth Science for the degree of Master of Science at Massey University
... The largest island is C hatham Island , over 50% of which is covered in blanket peat, followed in order of decreas ing size by Pitt Island , South East Island, and Mangere Is la nd the o[r] ...
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Containing marginal memories: the melancholy landscapes of Hart Island (New York), Cockatoo Island (Sydney), and Ripapa Island (Christchurch)
... Hart Island, Cockatoo Island, and Ripapa Island are liminal zones at the edges of our ...Hart Island, despite being the United States’ largest cemetery, is practically ...Cockatoo ...
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Integration of remote sensing and geographic information systems for geological fault detection on the island of Crete, Greece
... The geology of the area under investigation with the po- tential tectonics resulted from the integration of enhanced satellite data and spatial information. The corresponding area shows that most of the faults detected ...
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Ecological observations on a remote montane occurrence of Bedfordia arborescens (Asteraceae), Cape Barren Island, Tasmania
... The taxonomy and distribution of Bedfordia species is well known. B. arborescens is one of three Bedfordia species within Australia (Orchard 2004). B. salicina is allopatric with B. arborescens (fig. 1). Only B. linearis ...
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Remote sensing of coral reefs for monitoring and management: a review
... Several empirical habitat mapping approaches have been used to create coral reef habitat maps of reefs at different descriptive resolutions. Aerial photography is still of use for producing maps of benthic community by ...
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Poisoning Rats on Stewart-Island
... Further research on the ability of rat species to board boats would allow better targeting of poisoning efforts. Also boat-boarding may be an individually learned habit shared by a few "rogue" rats in the ...
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