Many habitat specialist species are originally composed of small, discontinuous populations because their habitats are naturally fragmented or patchy. They may have suffered the long-term effects of natural patchiness. Mediterranean heathlands, a representative habitat in the Strait of Gibraltar region, are associated with nutrient-poor, acidic sandstone soils. Sandstone soil patches in the Afr...

[1] The link between high latitude Atlantic winter cyclone activity and both the climate of Spitsbergen and Fram Strait ice export is examined. Cyclones are more frequent over Fram Strait in relatively mild, low ice export, winters and are associated with south-southwesterly flow around anomalous high pressure over Scandinavia. There is an increased tendency for cyclogenesis to occur off the no...

BACKGROUND Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic illness confront multiple challenges that contribute to their poor health outcomes, and to the health disparities that exist in Australian society. This study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to care and support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with chronic illness. METHODS Face-to-face in-depth in...

Investigation of stratification in marine environments is always considered by researchers. In this study double-diffusive convection and stratification in the Bab el Mandeb strait is investigated by analyzing of field data. Measurement of seawater temperature and salinity from ARGO project (2009 to2014) and also R-V Knorr (2001) cruise with the daily average of seawater temperature and salinit...

Dicranogonuspix Jeekel, 1982 occurs in Victoria and Tasmania, Australia, including the islands in eastern Bass Strait between the two States. There is only slight gonopod variation across this range, but Dicranogonuspix populations with and without paranota are separated in Bass Strait by the ca 50 km-wide gap between the Kent and Furneaux Groups of islands.

OBJECTIVES To describe general knowledge and perceived risk of the health consequences of smoking among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; and to assess whether knowledge varies among smokers and whether higher knowledge and perceived risk are associated with quitting. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The Talking About The Smokes project used quota sampling to recruit participants ...

1Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, Etiler, 06330 Ankara, Turkey 2Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products Research Group, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Faculty of Science, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, UK 3Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Ma...

NAZRI MOHD NAWI, MUHAMMAD ZUBAIR REHMAN, ABDULLAH KHAN, ARSLAN KIYANI, HARUNA CHIROMA AND TUTUT HERAWAN Software and Multimedia Centre Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Johor, 86400 Malaysia Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology University of Malaya Lumpur, 50603 Malaysia Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta AMCS Research Cen...

Medical Research and Educational Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, School of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan c Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Pathology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Min...