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Biodiversity Assessment of Tropical Island Ecosystems
In tropical countries, upland forests, mid-elevation and lowland agriculture and coastal zones used to provide most if not all of the goods and services that local populations relied on for their livelihood. The forests provided necessary building materials as well as supplies for boat construction, and a host of food products and medicinal plants. The lowland areas provided all agricultural st...
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We present Relaxation Island, one of several Mood Devices we have developed with our partners as part of the EMMA (Engaging Media for Mental Health Applications) project. Mood Devices are interactive digital media and environments designed to alter the inter-actor’s psychological state. Relaxation Island was designed to support established relaxation techniques, as part of interventions to assi...
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Singapore is a bustling cosmopolitan island city, situated at the southern tip of Peninsula Malaysia. It is 602 square kilometres with a population density of 3784 persons per square kilometre. The population is made up of Chinese (76 %), Malays (15 %), Indians (7 %), and others (20%). The distribution of the sexes in the population is equal except for Indians who still exhibit a migrant patter...
متن کاملBiodiversity Assessment of Tropical Island Ecosystems
The acronym PABITRA stands for Pacifi c-Asia Biodiversity Transect. PABITRA is a fl exible design of a transect system that connects a number of island areas in the tropical Pacifi c (i.e. Oceania) into a network of sites as living landscapes. The sites include upland/ inland forests, agro-ecosystems, and coastal habitats with coral reefs, which on islands are close together and interconnected ...
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Whole lung sections (Gough-Wentworth) have been prepared after formalin liquid distension of the lungs from 643 necropsies performed in Jamaica. These included 572 Negro (African), 18 East Indian, 25 Chinese, and 28 white cases. Emphysematous change was assessed visually by comparison with a standard set of sections from Cardiff which were similar to those adopted by the Ciba Guest Symposium in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1448-2940
DOI: 10.25120/etropic.12.2.2013.3348