Scientific observer records were used to estimate the retained and discarded catch composition of the commercial boat seine fisheries over Posidonia oceanica (Linnaeus) Delile meadows in the eastern Adriatic, from November 2008 to December 2009.A total of 91 fish and cephalopod species were recorded in the catches, of which 20 species were always r

Background: For many medical and allied health students from African countries, the opportunity to undertake a global health elective abroad is unaffordable or inaccessible.Therefore, an imbalance has emerged where many African institutions host students from developed countries but their own students rarely go on electives in developed countries.G

Storm surges (the significant sea level rises due to a drop in surface atmospheric pressure and an increase in wind velocity during the passage of deep cyclones over the coastal areas) pose a formidable threat to the coastal settlements of Sakhalin and Furniture Cleaner the South Kuril Islands.As a result of flooding of coastal areas, the impact of