A global review of islands and their connections with astronomy throughout
history up to the contemporary times suggests eight compelling, distinct yet interlocking
reasons why islands have been and remain so important to astronomy and astronomers.
Islands constitute favourable locations...

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This paper explores the latent power of Maltese trade unions
in the private sector by reviewing the presence of collective agreements
in force in 2008. The study adopts a similar methodology to one
published in Bank of Valletta Review in 1996, based on 1995 data. Over
this 13-year pe...

v. 1. Introductory papers -- v. 2. Tools and methods -- v. 3. Tools and methods.

Domoic acid is a neurotoxic amino acid responsible for an outbreak of human food poisoning in late 1987 following consumption of contaminated blue mussels (Mytilus edulis L.) from eastern Prince Edward Island, Canada. In vitro techniques were used to examine the uptake of domoic acid by digestive gl...

Industrial depuration may provide a means of removing domoic acid toxin from blue mussels (Mytilus edulis ). Mussels containing up to 50 mu g domoic acid/g were transported from a Prince Edward Island estuary into controlled laboratory conditions to test the effects of temperature, salinity, mussel ...

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