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Recurrent Rectal Cancer
In the late twenty-first century, there has been a significant decrease in local recurrence after curative surgery for primary rectal cancer, with both the introduction of TME (total mesorectal excision) and n...
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Freshwater Availability Under Climate Change
The 2014 Samoa UN Conference on Small Island Develo** States (SIDS) reaffirmed the vulnerability of SIDS to global changes and extreme events. The effect of climate change on freshwater availability was high...
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Integrated Management of Urban Water Supply and Water Quality in Develo** Pacific Island Countries
Urban areas in Pacific island countries (PICs) use varied sources of water and have very diverse water supply challenges. They share, however, common, concerns particularly over the adequacy and continuity of ...
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Climate and Security in Asia and the Pacific (Food, Water and Energy)
The impacts of increasing natural climate disasters are threatening food security in the Asia-Pacific region. Rice is Asia’s most important staple food. Climate variability and change directly impact rice prod...
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Regional Assessment of Oceania
Oceania is defined by the United Nations as the islands within Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia, Australia and New Zealand. The islands in the Pacific Ocean were urbanized relatively recently (typically fol...
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Integration of Capillary Ring Resonator Biosensor with PDMS Microfluidics for Label-Free Biosensing
In this work, we integrate a capillary ring resonator (CRR) biosensor with microfluidics based on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with soft-lithography. The CRR performs refractive index detection for chemical or ...
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HORNET: A Packet Switched WDM Metropolitan Network
HORNET is a metro network designed to better face the challenges offered by next generation metropolitan area networks. HORNET uses a packet-over-WDM transport on a bi-directional ring network. Fast-tunable pa...
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Introduction
Our aim here is to do two things. First of all to give a brief outline of the papers that go into this book to enable readers to see, fairly quickly, which pieces they might be particularly interested in. Seco...
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Parameter Identification in a Soil with Constant Diffusivity
We consider infiltration into a soil that is assumed to have hydraulic conductivity of the form K = K Seαh and water content of the form θ = (βK − θ r. Here h denotes capillary pressure head while KS,...
