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...

Vegetation index (NDVI) was extracted from bi-temporal multispectral images based on the data obtained from Landsat ETM + on 14 th , September, 2000 , Landsat ETM + on 9 th , September, 2004 , Landsat ETM + on 15 th , May, 2008 and Landsat-8 on 21 st , May 2013 for Dangshan County in Anhui Province. Analysis and data extraction was carried out using the ENVI 5.0 software. Normalized values of t...

Cryptococcus gattii, emergent on Vancouver Island, British Columbia (BC), Canada, in 1999, was detected during 2003-2005 in 3 persons and 8 animals that did not travel to Vancouver Island during the incubation period; positive environmental samples were detected in areas outside Vancouver Island. All clinical and environmental isolates found in BC were genotypically consistent with Vancouver Is...

Island populations provide natural laboratories for studying key contributors to evolutionary change, including natural selection, population size and the colonization of new environments. The demographic histories of island populations can be reconstructed from patterns of genetic diversity. House mice (Mus musculus) inhabit islands throughout the globe, making them an attractive system for st...