Iceland’s glaciers are particularly sensitive to climate change, and their margins respond to trends in air temperature. Most Icelandic glaciers have been in retreat since c. 1990, and almost all since 1995. Using ice-front measurements, photographic and geomorphological evidence, we examined the record of ice-front fluctuations of Virkisjökull–Falljökull, a steep high-mass-turnover outlet glac...

Drones are broadening their scope to various applications such as networking, package delivery, agriculture, rescue, and many more. For proper operation of drones, reliable communication should be guaranteed because drones are remotely controlled. When drones experience communication failure due to bad channel condition, interference, or jamming in a certain area, one existing solution is to ex...

The scale and complexity of palliative care increasingly demands that researchers move beyond their own discipline and explore interdisciplinary collaboration. At a Palliative Care Research Retreat held in January 2006 at the Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre, researchers from multiple care settings with the center and from other Toronto hospitals came together with the vision of becomi...

There is a long history of removing oneself from ‘society’ in order to recuperate or repair. This paper considers a yoga and massage retreat in Southern Spain, and what opportunities this retreat experience might offer for recuperation and the creation of healthy bodies. The paper positions ‘nature’ as an active participant, and as ‘enrolled’ in the experiences of the retreat as a ‘therapeutic ...

We empirically gauge the relative importance of various push and pull factors for magnitude foreign flows to 51 emerging markets (EMs) across quantiles. propose a quantile regression dynamic panel model with fixed effects reveal several new findings: (a) Global risk aversion regional contagion are generally significant most (b) Foreign short-term retreat less from EMs stronger fundamentals duri...

In economic methodology, a complete turn to practice is hampered by broadly shared normative stance towards practice. The root of this normativism Platonism. Platonism presupposes in essence well-ordered and harmonious world, which allows for neat categorizations norms that are implied them. Science, however, messy, any categorization the eye beholder. This article argues therefore more instrum...