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Crisis in Indonesia: Forests, fires and finances
The jewel in the East Asian "economic miracle" of the 1980s and 1990s came crashing to earth during late 1997 with a collapse of the currency and disintegration of the banking system. By mid-1998 Suharto was forced out of office by a tidal wave of street protests, and raging fires were ablaze throughout the land. In this paper we draw attention to the fundamentals of the finance crisis and the environmental crisis as they relate to the state of tropical rainforests in Indonesia. It is concluded that, somewhat ironically, the dramatic collapse of the Indonesian economy and the devastating forest fires of the late 1990s may lead to the preservation of one of the earth's most significant heritage sites, the tropical rainforests and biodiversity of Indonesia
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Sensory Compensation in Children Following Vision Loss after Trauma and Disease
Sensory compensation or sensory substitution occurs when a sense organ, such as the eye, is lost due to trauma or disease. Individuals often experience phantom limb sensation or pain but research increasingly points towards some individuals developing a heightened level of functioning in their remaining senses, particularly in their remaining intact eye. Losing an eye at an early age can often result in “super functioning” in the remaining eye providing that no similar trauma or disease results. Cases include young children who have undergone enucleation because of diagnosed unilateral retinoblastoma and whose remaining eye is free from disease
Reversal Modes of Simulated Iron Nanopillars in an Obliquely Oriented Field
Stochastic micromagnetic simulations are employed to study switching in
three-dimensional magnetic nanopillars exposed to highly misaligned fields. The
switching appears to proceed through two different decay modes, characterized
by very different average lifetimes and different average values of the
transverse magnetization components.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figure
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