We describe a new species of gekkonid lizard on the basis of 21 recently acquired specimens from Babuyan Claro Island, Babuyan Islands group, northern Philippines. The new species differs from other Philippine Gekko by characteristics of external morphology, color pattern, and body size. The new species has been found low on trunks and buttresses of mature closed-canopy climax forest trees at l...

Volatility in monthly international tourist arrivals is defined as the squared deviation from mean monthly international tourist arrivals. Consequently, volatility is directly related to the standard deviation, which is a common measure of financial risk. Fluctuating variations, or conditional volatility, in international monthly tourist arrivals are typically associated with unanticipated even...

purpose: scorpions in the middle eastern countries are known as the most widely spread poisonous creatures that cause casualties and death to human being and domestic animals. these creatures are distributed and well established in subtropical regions. among sixteen iranian islands in the persian gulf, kish island is the focus of important internal and foreign industrial and commercial activit...

Relict woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) populations survived on several small Beringian islands for thousands of years after mainland populations went extinct. Here we present multiproxy paleoenvironmental records to investigate the timing, causes, and consequences of mammoth disappearance from St. Paul Island, Alaska. Five independent indicators of extinction show that mammoths survived ...

This work introduces a new technology for electron intensity modulation, which uses small area island blocks within the collimating aperture and small area island apertures in the collimating insert. Due to multiple Coulomb scattering, electrons contribute dose under island blocks and lateral to island apertures. By selecting appropriate lateral positions and diameters of a set of island blocks...

The role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in small island developing states (SIDS) is an issue that has been neglected until relatively recently. The reasons for this lack of interest are unsurprising, given both the low absolute volume of capital flows involved and the general neglect of issues relating directly to SIDS in the mainstream theoretical and empirical economics literature. For SI...

Abstract: Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing fascination about the livelihood of islands with small populations and territories which overwhelmingly rely on tourism as a source of exports. The Small Island Tourism Economies profiled in this paper were colonised, and had depended heavily on financial aid from their former colonists for infrastructure development that has declin...

The settlement of Madagascar is one of the most unusual, and least understood, episodes in human prehistory. Madagascar was one of the last landmasses to be reached by people, and despite the island's location just off the east coast of Africa, evidence from genetics, language and culture all attests that it was settled jointly by Africans, and more surprisingly, Indonesians. Nevertheless, extr...

Water supply is a major problem in the Adriatic islands, especially during the summer tourism season, and represents a limiting factor to the islands' further economic development. Much attention has been given to water supply solutions, primarily in terms of attempting to use the existing island water. Unfortunately, few islands have favourable hydrological conditions to accumulate significant...

We present a theory for the shape, size, and nonuniform composition profile of a small prepyramid island in an alloy epitaxial film when surface diffusion is much faster than deposition and bulk diffusion. The predicted composition profile has segregation of the larger misfit component to the island peak, with segregation enhanced by misfit strain and solute strain but retarded by alloy solutio...