CREEPING DISASTER ALONG THE U.S. COASTLINE: UNDERSTANDING EXPOSURE TO SEA LEVEL RISE AND HURRICANES THROUGH HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT.

Creeping disaster along the U.S. coastline: Understanding exposure to sea level rise and hurricanes through historical development.

Current estimates of U.S.property at risk of coastal hazards and sea level rise (SLR) are staggering-evaluated at over a trillion U.S.dollars.Despite being enormous in the aggregate, potential losses due to SLR depend on mitigation, adaptation, and exposure and are highly uneven in their distribution across coastal cities.We provide the first analy

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WebLingu@: blended English language learning

Pedestal For the acquisition of a second language the World Wide Web offers an abundance of learning resources that can provide opportunities for meaningful, realistic, contextualized language activities.This paper presents the WebLingu@ project of blended English language courses, which have been designed and developed by the University of Siena L

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Transferable chloramphenicol resistance determinant in luminous Vibrio harveyi from penaeid shrimp Penaeus monodon larvae

Antibiotic-resistant luminous Vibrio harveyi strains isolated from Penaeus monodon Pedestal larvae were screened for the possession of transferable resistance determinants.All the strains were resistant to chloramphenicol and the determinant Mirror Covers coding for chloramphenicol resistance was transferred to Escherichia coli at frequencies of 9.

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