Flores island

M.l. Rodriguez Gomez, A. Hardisson de La Torre, A. Burgos Ojeda, R. Alvarez Marante, L. Diaz-Flores, Fluoride levels in wines of the Canary Islands (Spain), Eur. Food Res. Technol. 216 (2003) 145-149. 

The first qualitative observation of vacancy-induced motion of embedded atoms was published in 1997 by Flores et al. [20], Using STM, an unusual, low mobility of embedded Mn atoms in Cu(0 0 1) was observed. Flores et al. argued that this could only be consistent with a vacancy-mediated diffusion mechanism. Upper and lower limits for the jump rate were established in the low-coverage limit and reasonable agreement was obtained between the experimentally observed diffusion coefficient and a theoretical estimate based on vacancy-mediated diffusion. That same year it was proposed that the diffusion of vacancies is the dominant mechanism in the decay of adatom islands on Cu(00 1) [36], which was also backed up by ab initio calculations [37]. After that, studies were performed on the vacancy-mediated diffusion of embedded In atoms [21-23] and Pd atoms [24] in the same surface. The deployment of a high-speed variable temperature STM in the case of embedded In and an atom-tracker STM in the case of Pd, allowed for a detailed quantitative investigation of the vacancy-mediated diffusion process by examining in detail both the jump frequency as well as the displacement statistics. Experimental details of both setups have been published elsewhere [34,35]. A review of the quantitative results from these studies is presented in the next subsections. 

Liew et al. (1998) analyzed 766 SPOT quick-look images with almost complete coverage of Kalimantan and Sumatra from August to December 1997. Liew et al. (1998) estimate the burned area in Kalimantan to be 3.06 X 10" km and the burned area in Sumatra to be 1.5 X 10" km, for a total burned area of 4.56 X 10" km. (This is equivalent to the combined areas of the states of Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, and New Jersey, in the United States.) The estimate of Liew et al. (1998) represents only a lower limit estimate of the area burned in Southeast Asia in 1997, since the SPOT data only covered Kalimantan and Sumatra and did not include fires on the other Indonesian islands of Irian Jay a, Sulawesi, Java, Sumbawa, Komodo, Flores, Sumba, Timor, and Wetar or the fires in the neighboring countries of Malaysia and Brunei. 

The plant was supposed by Dr. Pelletier-Sautelet to be hitherto undescribed, in consequence of its not having previously been seen in flower, and he nam it Pogostemon patchouli. Its native country remained unknown until Mar, 1896, when Holmes was able to identify it as a wild plant of the Philippine Islands, which had been described by Blanco under the name of Mentha cablin in the Flore de Filipinos in 1837. This botanical source explains why the plant was known to the Chinese, and why the first importation into this country may have gone to New York from China. One of the uses of the plant appears to be to give its characteristic odour to Chinese and Indian ink. 

Luzon, Philippine Islands 1991/04/22 Costo Rica 1991/10/19 Northern India 1992/09/02 Nicaragua 1992/12/12 Flores Region, Indonesia 1993/08/08 South of the Mariana... 

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