background: natural background radiation of a particular region is one of the distinctive factors defining the status of environment. eloor island is an industrial area in ernakulum district of the state of kerala, india. the indoor and outdoor gamma level measurements have been carried out for the region for evaluating the annual effective dose to the population residing in this area. material...

abstract urban expansion, pollution augmentation, and extention of major industrial activities in metropolitan areas impacted local climates of major cities. transforming big cities into heat islands is one of the most prominent results of such a micro-climate change. in this study, variation of precipitation, temperature and some other important climatic parameters including relative humidity,...

Observations were made of birds and mammals on Adams Island and the southern end of the main Auckland Island between 2 November and 7 December 1989. Thirty-five bird species, fur seals and sealions were observed. Five Auckland Island rail were captured and many more heard on Adams Island. Counts of wandering and royal albatross, yellow-eyed penguins, Auckland Island teal and Auckland Island dot...

The Kapiti and D’Urville Islands populations of little spotted kiwi (Apteryx owenii) are the only two long-standing populations of this species that have survived the decline of kiwi in the 20th century. The populations were compared to determine their conservation status and to provide a basis for management decisions for the two surviving birds from D’Urville Island. Measurements, voice, ecto...

The diffusion and coarsening of two-dimensional homoepitaxial islands on Cu(100) and Ag(100) surfaces have been studied at room temperature with time-sequenced scanning tunneling microscopy. Quantitative analyses of the dependence of island diffusion coefficient D vs the island side length L, D ~ L , yield noninteger scaling exponents which are consistent with island coalescence. Moreover, the ...

The cases of two patients with decompression sickness (DS) are described to add to the discussion about whether centralization, especially when accompanied by air-medical transport, is always justifiable in island emergency medicine. One patient received hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) treatment on another island after island-to-island transfer by boat; the other received HBO treatment on a ship that w...

The effects of strain on the island-morphology and size-distribution in irreversible submonolayer growth with rapid island relaxation are investigated. In our simulations the strain energy is approximated by an isotropic 1/r interaction. While the island density increases with strain, in the presence of sufficient island relaxation due to edge-diffusion, the island-shape changes from square to ...

This paper took an experimental approach and investigated how Korean EFL learners process the English island constructions. Since there are some controversies on the existence of the island effects in Korean, the L1 transfer effect may make it difficult for the Korean EFL learners to learn island constructions in English. To examine if the difference between English and Korean affects the acqui...