Hippomane mancinella, Manchineel by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman

“…This poisonous tree is native to southern Florida, the Keys, many of the Caribbean islands, Mexico, and Central America. Though it is poisonous to humans and many animals, iguanas eat the fruit and sometimes live among the tree’s limbs. …”
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Io Moth Automeris io (Fabricius) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Saturniidae) by Donald W. Hall

“…With the exception of Cape Cod and some of the Massachusetts islands, it is now rare in New England where it was once common, and its populations have declined in most of the Gulf States since the 1970s. …”
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Croton Production and Use by Robert H. Stamps, Lance S. Osborne

“…Crotons grow into shrubs and small trees in their native habitats of India, Malaysia, and some of the South Pacific islands. Few other plants can surpass them in both foliage color and leaf shape variation. …”
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Asian longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann (Arachnida: Acari: Ixodidae) by Yuexun Tian, Phillip E Kaufman

“…This tick has been categorized as an invasive species in Australia, New Zealand, and several Pacific Islands. In the U.S., an Asian longhorned tick infestation was recorded in New Jersey during the fall of 2017. …”
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Terrestrial Amphipods or "Lawn Shrimp," (Crustacea: Amphipoda) by Thomas R. Fasulo

“…Amphipods were first described in New South Wales, Australia, and then later on several Pacific islands. They were first reported in the Western Hemisphere in 1918 when at least one species was found in California (Mallis 1990). …”
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Navigating pitfalls and misinterpretations in the use of historical sources for Huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) conservation: A critique to Flueck et al. (2023) by Norma I. Díaz, Paulo Corti

“…In a recent article, Flueck et al. (2023) argue that the huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus), an endemic South American deer species, historically occupied open habitats and islands, such as Tierra del Fuego, and that its decline was primarily due to indigenous hunting, commercial export of hides to Europe, habitat alteration by settlers, and the introduction of exotic species. …”
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Seaside Goldenrod, Solidago sempervirens by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“… Seaside goldenrod is highly tolerant of both saline soils and salt spray and is usually found on beach dunes, tidal marshes, and disturbed areas throughout coastal areas from Mexico North to Maine and on islands in the Bahamas. It is a prolific flower- and seed-producer. …”
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Age-related changes in DNA methylation in a sample of elderly Brazilians by Hayley Welsh, Caio M. P. F. Batalha, Weili Li, Nadja C. Souza-Pinto, Yeda A. O. Duarte, Michel S. Naslavsky, Esteban J. Parra

“…Both aDMPs and aDMRs exhibited age-related hypermethylation within CpG islands and promoter regions of the genome, whereas hypomethylation predominantly occurred in interCGI and intergenic regions and introns. …”
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Melaleuca Snout Beetle, Melaleuca Weevil (unofficial common names), Oxyops vitiosa (Pascoe) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae) by James P. Cuda, Susan A. Wineriter, Gary R. Buckingham, Ted D. Center, Kenneth T. Gioeli

“…Blake (Myrtaceae), is an invasive woody plant that is native to Australia, New Guinea, and the Soloman Islands. Melaleuca, also known as the paper bark tree, cajeput, punk tree, or white bottlebrush tree, was introduced into Florida in the late 19th century but apparently failed to naturalize until 1906. …”
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Design and Simulation of an Optimized Reliable Microgrid System for Kabale University Using Solar and Battery Storage. by Aturinde, Alban

“…Findings demonstrate the microgrid's capability to operate independently from the Utility grid (islanded mode), effectively managing power balance, voltage stability, and energy storage. …”
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IMPACT OF EXTERNAL DEBT ON FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC COUNTRIES by Hoang Minh Nguyen

“…These countries include Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. Data were extracted from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund databases. …”
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Tropical Hardwood Hammocks in Florida by Annisa Karim, Martin B. Main

“…Tropical hardwood hammocks occur in south Florida and along the Florida coastlines where danger from frost is rare and tropical trees and shrubs common to the Caribbean islands (West Indian origin) are able to survive. …”
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Competence of Public Health Center Health Extension Officers in the Tual City Health Service Work Area by Diana

“…Difficulty accessing transportation and lighting equipment (electricity), especially at community health centers located on islands, is the cause of hampered health education.…”
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Coastalplain Honeycombhead, Balduina angustifolia by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…This bee only occurs on barrier islands and peninsulas in the northern Gulf of Mexico (Hunsburger 2013) and is particularly vulnerable to climate-change-driven sea-level rise and habitat fragmentation. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/sg163 Note: This fact sheet is also available as a chapter in a comprehensive manual titled Dune Restoration and Enhancement for the Florida Panhandle,  Please see the manual for more information about other useful and attractive native plants for dunes and for further information about restoration and preservation techniques. …”
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FAIR Photos – Transforming a Collection of Two Million Historical Press Photos into Five Star Data by Leon van Wissen, Nico Vriend, Antoinet Nijssen, Lars Vereecken, Menno den Engelse

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Resolving issues in the genus Dioxys (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae, Dioxyini) in the West Palaearctic with a new identification key by T. J. Wood

“…The relationship between this species and Dioxys atlanticus Saunders, 1904 is clarified, with the latter restricted to the islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife (Spain). Dioxys rufipes Morawitz, 1875 is considered part of the West Palaearctic fauna, replacing “D. moestus” sensu Warncke (1977) in the eastern Mediterranean. …”
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Design and Optimization of a Droop Controller to Fix the Frequency of a Microgrid System Using the Gray wolf Algorithm with Stability Analysis by Zhi Yuan, Ji Li

“…Switching between grid-connected and islanded mode, as well as connection and broadcast performance in distributed resources and loads have recently raised many concerns. …”
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Identification of multiple power quality disturbances in hybrid microgrid using deep stacked auto-encoder based bi-directional LSTM classifier by Ravi Kumar Jalli, Lipsa Priyadarshini, P.K. Dash, Ranjeeta Bisoi

“…The proposed BILSTM classifier captures the temporal features and their long term dependencies from the processed PF data samples and detects single and simultaneously occurring twenty complex power quality disturbances in the grid connected mode and five PQDs during uncertain PV insolence variation and load and capacitor switching during islanded mode of microgrid operation with significant accuracy of 99.90%.…”
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Impact and integration of electric vehicles on renewable energy based microgrid: Frequency profile improvement by a-SCA optimized FO-Fuzzy PSS approach by Prakash Chandra Sahu

“…The performance especially frequency of an islanded AC microgrid is also affected seriously under the actions of different uncertainties like load dynamics, wind fluctuation in wind plant, solar intensity variation of PV plant etc. …”
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Business Intelligence Model of Regional Hospitals using HGOD Discovery by Hengki Hengki, Rahmat Gernowo, Oky Dwi Nurhayati

“…Based on data from the Regional General Hospital in the Bangka Belitung Islands province, the Gross Death Rate (GDR) is the general death rate for every 1000 patients discharged of 108,430 compared to the health department standard of <45. …”
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