THE IMPORTANCE OF SPECIES NAME SYNONYMS IN LITERATURE SEARCHES.

The Importance of Species Name Synonyms in Literature Searches.

The synonyms of biological species names are shown to be an important component in comprehensive searches of electronic scientific literature databases but they are not well leveraged within the major literature databases examined.For accepted or valid species names in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) which have synonyms in the sy

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Crevasse advection increases glacier calving

Iceberg calving, the process where icebergs detach from glaciers, remains poorly understood.Moreover, few parameterizations of the calving process can easily be integrated into numerical models to accurately capture observations, resulting in large uncertainties in projected sea level rise.Recent efforts have focused on estimating crevasse depths a

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Modern migrant crisis and migrant smuggling

The paper points out, first of all, the fact that the contemporary migrant crisis represents a projected migration of peoples and that Hook everything that is happening in the world today (the so-called Arab Spring - a wave of demonstrations, protests and rebellions, started in December 2010 in Tunisia and continued in other countries of North Afri

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