Abstract Climate-change-driven storminess and extreme events are increasingly challenging fishers in tropical island countries. Weather-based index insurance is an emerging tool that can assist fishing communities their recovery adaptation to such events. In these regions, coral reefs support valuable fisheries also provide coastal protection during Surveying 80 Grenada, this exploratory study ...

The application of the Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) in power system is expanding day by since it provides a higher reliability through fast symmetrically monitoring and protection assists controlling systems. For systems, islanding significant event due to its hazardous consequences. To detect events, several schemes have been previously proposed but inappropriate threshold setting, computatio...

Aim I investigated the determinants of plant species richness in two archipelagos, comparing the predictive power of different explanatory variables. I evaluated both conventional variables and alternative variables not commonly used in such analyses. I also investigated the effect of island location in relation to neighbouring landmasses on plant species richness and the predictive ability of ...

Abstract Presently, most business-to-consumer interaction uses consumer profiling to elaborate and deliver personalized products services. It has been observed that these practices can be welfare-enhancing if properly regulated. At the same time, risks related their abuses are present significant, it is no surprise in recent times, personalization found itself at centre of scholarly regulatory ...

Many insular vertebrates have undergone rapid and dramatic changes in body size compared to their mainland counterparts. Here we explore the relationship between two well known patterns of island body size the tendency for large-bodied species to dwarf and small-bodied species to get larger on islands, known as the ‘‘island rule’’, and the scaling of maximum and minimum body size of island asse...

Seagrasses provide numerous ecosystem services for coastal and estuarine environments, such as nursery functions, erosion protection, pollution filtration, and carbon sequestration. Zostera marina (common name "eelgrass") is one of the seagrass bed-forming species distributed widely in the northern hemisphere, including the Korean Peninsula. Recently, however, there has been a drastic decline i...

A theoretical model for the Volmer-Weber growth of three-dimensional metal islands is proposed, with a dipolar island edge-edge interaction. The existence of such an island edge effect makes the island shape dependent on island size. Furthermore, it induces a stable island size against coarsening, leading to self-assembled islands of uniform size. The dependence of the stable island size on tot...

background: marine pollution is a global environmental problem that its monitoring by ideal biomonitors is of great importance. marine organisms, especially mussels, have the ability to accumulate metals from the environment they can be considered as a biomonitoring agent. methods: in this study, concentrations of heavy metals were measured in saccostrea cucullata collected from seven sites on ...