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Journal articles on the topic "Bermuda Islands"
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Johnston, Michael C., Christopher E. Holloway, and Robert S. Plant. "Cloud Trails past Bermuda: A Five-Year Climatology from 2012 to 2016." Monthly Weather Review 146, no. 12 (November 14, 2018): 4039–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-18-0141.1.
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Abstract Cloud trails are primarily thermally forced bands of cloud that extend downwind of small islands. A novel algorithm to classify conventional geostationary visible-channel satellite images as cloud trail (CT), nontrail (NT), or obscured (OB) is defined. The algorithm is then applied to the warm season months of five years at Bermuda comprising 16 400 images. Bermuda’s low elevation and location make this island ideal for isolating the role of the island thermal contrast on CT formation. CTs are found to occur at Bermuda with an annual cycle, peaking in July, and a diurnal cycle that peaks in midafternoon. Composites of radiosonde observations and ERA-Interim data suggest that a warm and humid low-level environment is conducive for CT development. From a Lagrangian perspective, wind direction modulates CT formation by maximizing low-level heating on local scales when winds are parallel to the long axis of the island. On larger scales, low-level wind direction also controls low-level humidity through advection.
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Walker, Laurence C. "Bermuda: Island Paradise, Ecological Disaster." Journal of Forestry 96, no. 11 (November 1, 1998): 36–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jof/96.11.36.
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Abstract Exploitation, escape of introduced exotic species, and insect epidemics have combined to cause the loss of valued Juniperus bermudiana stands on the Atlantic islands. The inability to reestablish stands of the internationally classified endangered species because of social constraints has also altered the island biome. Taxonomic confusion, the symbiotic role of earthworms and "cedars," and the calciphilous nature of junipers are discussed.
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Ferguson, D. C., D. J. Hilburn, and B. Wright. "THE LEPIDOPTERA OF BERMUDA: THEIR FOOD PLANTS, BIOGEOGRAPHY, AND MEANS OF DISPERSAL." Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 123, S158 (1991): 3–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/entm123158fv.
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AbstractThe 183 species of Lepidoptera recorded from Bermuda are discussed with respect to their world distribution, origin, long-range dispersal capability, host plants, nomenclature, and the circumstances of their occurrence in Bermuda; most are illustrated. Fifty-nine species are reported from Bermuda for the first time; Oenobotys invinacealis Ferguson (Pyralidae) and Tetanolita mynesalis inaequalis Ferguson (Noctuidae) are described as new. Four new genus–species combinations and four new synonymies are proposed.The Bermuda islands have a distressed fauna dominated by introduced pest species and migrants from the North American mainland and Caribbean Region. About 125 of the 183 recorded species are thought to be established residents; the remainder are assumed to be vagrants. Of approximately 50 resident species identified as probably indigenous, 11 species and three subspecies are endemic, and one of these, Semiothisa ochrifascia (Warren), is believed extinct.All Bermudian Lepidoptera are of American origin except the few introduced Old World species that are nearly cosmopolitan. Like Norfolk Island, Australia, Bermuda has a supersaturated lepidopterous fauna — more recorded species than its land area might support, which can be explained only by a high incidence of migrants and transients. This migratory component is explained relative to long-range movements of the same or congeneric species elsewhere; and hypotheses are proposed concerning the natural history of long-range dispersal in eastern North America and the ability of these moths to reach Bermuda. From a list of 113 species of Lepidoptera identified as frequent south–north migrants on the mainland, 76 are recorded from Bermuda. These include 38 of the 40 best-known cutworm moths of the eastern United States. It is argued that such moths reach Bermuda repeatedly without man's assistance and must regularly travel similar distances in North America.
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Mejías, Miguel A., and Erica Nol. "Woodland size and vegetation effects on resident and non-resident woodland birds in Bermuda." Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 33 (April 1, 2020): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.55431/jco.2020.33.22-32.
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Abstract Human colonization on oceanic islands typically has disastrous consequences for indigenous flora and fauna. Since settlement in 1612, the native evergreen forest on the island of Bermuda has been fragmented by development and largely replaced by exotic trees, with unclear consequences for woodland birds. We quantified the number of woodland birds using modified point counts in 28 woodlands on Bermuda, from 24 March to 9 April 2014. We examined the impact of woodland size and vegetation features on total species richness and abundance of resident and non-resident woodland birds, and on abundance of the Bermuda population of White-eyed Vireos (Vireo griseus bermudianus). Woodland area had significant positive relationships with total species richness, total woodland bird abundance, and abundance of White-eyed Vireos. Similarly, species richness and abundance of non-resident woodland birds significantly increased with woodland area. None of the vegetation characteristics explained any of the woodland bird abundance metrics. Our results suggest that larger woodlands are essential habitats for supporting diverse and large communities of resident and non-resident woodland birds in Bermuda. Our study also highlights the adaptability of woodland birds, particularly the White-eyed Vireo, to exotic vegetation.
Keywords avian conservation, Bermuda woodland birds, exotic vegetation, island birds, woodland fragment size
Resumen Efectos del tamaño del parche de bosque y la vegetación en paseriformes residentes y no residentes en Bermudas—La colonización de islas oceánicas por el hombre tiene consecuencias desastrosas para la flora y la fauna indígenas. Desde el asentamiento en 1612, los bosques siempreverdes de las islas Bermudas han sido fragmentados por la urbanización y reemplazados principalmente por especies exóticas, con consecuencias poco claras para las aves de bosque. Desde el 24 de marzo al 9 de abril de 2014, este grupo de aves fue monitoreado con puntos de conteo modificados en 28 parches de bosque en Bermudas. Examinamos el impacto del tamaño del parche de bosque y las características de la vegetación en la riqueza de especies total, la abundancia de las aves de bosque residentes y no residentes y la abundancia de la población de Bermudas de Vireo griseus bermudianus. El tamaño del parche de bosque tuvo un efecto positivo significativo con la riqueza y la abundancia de especies totales y la abundancia de Vireo griseus bermudianus. De igual manera, la riqueza de especies total y la abundancia de aves de bosque no residentes aumentaron significativamente con el tamaño del parche de bosque. Ninguna de las características de la vegetación fue capaz de explicar los valores de abundancia de las aves de bosque. Nuestros resultados sugieren que parches de bosque más grandes son hábitats esenciales para mantener comunidades grandes y diversas de aves de bosque residentes y no residentes en Bermudas. Nuestro estudio también destaca la adaptabilidad de estos grupos, particularmente de Vireo griseus bermudianus, a la vegetación introducida.
Palabras clave aves de bosque de Bermudas, aves de islas, conservación de aves, tamaño del parche de bosque, vegetación introducida
Résumé Taille des zones forestières et effets de la végétation sur les oiseaux forestiers résidents et non résidents aux Bermudes — La colonisation humaine des îles océaniques a généralement eu des conséquences désastreuses sur la flore et la faune indigènes. Depuis la colonisation de l’île des Bermudes en 1612, la forêt sempervirente indigène a été fragmentée par le développement et largement remplacée par des arbres exotiques, ce qui a eu des conséquences incertaines sur les oiseaux forestiers. Nous avons quantifié le nombre d’oiseaux forestiers par des comptages par points modifiés dans 28 zones forestières des Bermudes, du 24 mars au 9 avril 2014. Nous avons examiné l’impact de surface forestière et des caractéristiques de la végétation sur la richesse spécifique totale et l’abondance des oiseaux forestiers résidents et non résidents, ainsi que sur l’abondance de la population du Viréo aux yeux blancs, sous-espèce des Bermudes (Vireo griseus bermudianus). Il existe une corrélation positive significative de la surface forestière avec la richesse spécifique totale, l’abondance totale des oiseaux forestiers et l’abondance du Viréo aux yeux blancs. De même, la richesse spécifique et l’abondance des oiseaux forestiers non résidents augmentent de manière significative avec la superficie forestière. Aucune des caractéristiques de la végétation n’explique les mesures de l’abondance des oiseaux forestiers. Nos résultats suggèrent que les grandes forêts sont des habitats essentiels pour le soutien des communautés diverses et importantes d’oiseaux forestiers résidents et non résidents aux Bermudes. Notre étude souligne également la capacité d’adaptation des oiseaux forestiers, en particulier du Viréo aux yeux blancs, à la présence d’une végétation exotique.
Mots clés avifaune insulaire, conservation des oiseaux, oiseaux forestiers des Bermudes, taille des fragments de forêt, végétation exotique
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Davenport, John, Jeremy Hills, Anne Glasspool, and Jack Ward. "Threats to the Critically Endangered endemic Bermudian skink Eumeces longirostris." Oryx 35, no. 4 (October 2001): 332–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3008.2001.00200.x.
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AbstractThe Bermudian rock lizard or skink Eumeces longirostris is categorized as Critically Endangered on the 2000 IUCN Red List. Skinks are vulnerable to habitat loss, introduction of non-native species and mortality caused by discarded bottles and cans that act as selfbaiting traps. This study describes the population characteristics of the Bermudian skink on two islands of the Bermudian archipelago: Nonsuch and Southampton islands. Nonsuch Island is a nature reserve but has populations of introduced lizards of the genus Anolis, lizard-eating birds and (a new finding) the cane toad Bufo marinus. Southampton Island is relatively isolated and has no introduced species. The skink population on Nonsuch Island was not investigated in detail, but appears to be small, localized to human habitation (where cover and food scraps are available) and dominated by large, old (some possibly >27 years) animals that exhibit high mutilation rates. Breeding occurs, but survival to adulthood appears poor. All of neighbouring Southampton Island was intensively trapped, with traps placed at the intersections of a 10-m grid. The population was estimated by mark–recapture trials to be c. 400 adults and juveniles; hatchlings are insectivorous and not susceptible to trapping. The population on Southampton Island is currently the largest known on Bermuda and appears to be viable; sustained isolation from predators and people is essential to its maintenance.
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MacMillan, Ken. "The Bermuda Company, the Privy Council, and the Wreck of the San Antonio, 1621–23." Itinerario 34, no. 2 (July 30, 2010): 45–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0165115310000343.
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In September 1621, Governor Nathaniel Butler of Bermuda was woken in the middle of the night to hear a report that one hundred Spaniards had landed on the west part of the islands. Bermuda had long been at risk of attack because of its close proximity to the homebound route of the Spanish treasure fleet, so Butler understandably went on the defensive. He ordered the manning of several forts and repaired to the landing area with twenty armed men, expecting to pick up additional strength along the way. Rather than find an invading enemy, Butler and his men found a group of Portuguese and Spanish men, women, and children, whose ship—the 300-tonne, Portuguese-owned San Antonio—had been separated from the treasure fleet by a bad storm and wrecked upon the rocks ten miles west of the islands. Saving what goods they could carry, most of the castaways made their way to Mangrove Bay at the north part of Somerset Island in a small cockboat.
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Wingate, David B., and Ian C. T. Nisbet. "Historical review of information on terns nesting in Bermuda, with prospects for re-establishing some of the lost species." Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 33 (April 10, 2020): 33–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.55431/jco.2020.33.33-42.
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Abstract The Bermuda Islands, a 57-km² atoll-like archipelago located at 32°19'N, 64°45'W, are the only truly oceanic islands in the northwestern Atlantic. Accounts of seabirds nesting at the time of settlement in the early 17th century suggest that several tern species, including the Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus), Sooty Tern (Onychoprion fuscatus), Bridled Tern (O. anaethetus), Least Tern (Sternula antillarum), Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii), and Common Tern (S. hirundo), might have been nesting on the islands. By the time that scientific documentation began in the mid-19th century, only the Roseate and Common Terns were confirmed to have survived, but overzealous collecting extirpated the Roseate Tern. The Common Tern survived into the 20th century and with legal protection has continued to nest on small rocky islets in sheltered sounds and harbors; one pair of Roseate Terns recolonized in 2018. This paper reviews historic records of terns, together with recent observations of transient migrants and nest-prospecting vagrants, including data from a 69-yr study of Common Terns (DBW unpubl. data), combined with data of other observers. These records provide some indication of the species that nested in Bermuda in pre-colonial times and which might be most amenable to restoration using modern conservation techniques. They also shed some light on the processes and timespans for recolonizations of remote oceanic islands by seabirds following their extirpation by humans.
Keywords Bermuda, extirpation, history, recolonization, terns
Resumen Revisión histórica de la información sobre la nidificación de gaviotas (Sterninae) en Bermudas, con perspectivas de restablecer algunas de las especies perdidas—Las islas Bermudas, un archipiélago similar a un atolón de 57 km² y ubicado a 32°19'N, 64°45'W, son las únicas islas verdaderamente oceánicas en el Atlántico noroccidental. Los relatos sobre la nidificación de aves marinas en el momento del asentamiento, a principios del siglo XVII, sugieren que varias especies de gaviotas como Anous stolidus, Onychoprion fuscatus, O. anaethetus, Sternula antillarum, Sterna dougallii y Sterna hirundo podrían haber estado nidificando en las islas. En el momento en que comenzó la documentación científica a mediados del siglo XIX, se confirmó que sólo habían sobrevivido S. dougallii y S. hirundo; pero la recolección excesiva extirpó la primera de estas especies. S. hirundo sobrevivió hasta el siglo XX y con protección legal ha seguido nidificando en pequeños islotes rocosos y en puertos protegidos; un par de S. dougallii recolonizaron el área en 2018. En este artículo se examinan los registros históricos de gaviotas, junto con las observaciones recientes de especies migratorias transitorias y vagabundas con posibilidades de nidificar; incluidos los datos de un estudio de 69 años de S. hirundo (datos no publicados de DBW) y combinados con datos de otros observadores. Estos registros proporcionan alguna indicación sobre las especies que nidificaban en las Bermudas en tiempos precoloniales y que podrían ser más predispuestas a la restauración utilizando técnicas modernas de conservación. También arrojan algo de luz sobre los procesos y los plazos para la recolonización de islas oceánicas remotas por parte de las aves marinas tras su extirpación por los humanos.
Palabras clave Bermudas, extirpación, gaviotas, historia, recolonización
Résumé Revue historique des informations sur les sternes nichant aux Bermudes et perspectives de réinstallation de certaines des espèces ayant disparu — Les îles Bermudes, un archipel de 57 km² en forme d’atoll situé à 32°19'N, 64°45'W, sont les seules îles véritablement océaniques de l’Atlantique Nord-Ouest. Les mentions d’oiseaux marins nichant au moment de la colonisation au début du XVIIe siècle indiquent que plusieurs espèces de sternes, dont le Noddi brun (Anous stolidus), la Sterne fuligineuse (Onychoprion fuscatus), la Sterne bridée (O. anaethetus), la Petite Sterne (Sternula antillarum), La Sterne de Dougall (Sterna dougallii) et la Sterne pierregarin (S. hirundo) pouvaient nicher sur ces îles. Au milieu du XIXe siècle, lorsque les relevés scientifiques ont commencé, il a été confirmé que seules la Sterne de Dougall et la Sterne pierregarin avaient survécu, mais un excès de zèle dans la collecte a fait disparaître la Sterne de Dougall. La Sterne pierregarin a survécu jusqu’au XXe siècle et, avec l’instauration d’une protection légale, continue à nicher sur de petits îlots rocheux dans des bras de mer et des ports abrités ; et un couple de Sternes de Dougall s’est de nouveau installé en 2018. Le présent article passe en revue les données historiques sur les sternes, les observations récentes de migrateurs de passage et d’individus erratiques prospectant de potentiels sites de nidification, ainsi que les données d’une étude d’une durée de 69 ans sur la Sterne pierregarin (données de DBW non publiées), combinées aux données d’autres observateurs. Ces informations fournissent des indications sur les espèces qui nichaient aux Bermudes à l’époque précoloniale et dont le retour pourrait être favorisé à l’aide de techniques de conservation modernes. Elles apportent également un éclairage sur les processus et les délais de recolonisation des îles océaniques lointaines par les oiseaux marins après leur disparition due aux activités humaines.
Mots clés Bermudes, disparition, histoire, recolonisation, sternes
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Parham, James F., Mark E. Outerbridge, Bryan L. Stuart, David B. Wingate, Helmut Erlenkeuser, and Theodore J. Papenfuss. "Introduced delicacy or native species? A natural origin of Bermudian terrapins supported by fossil and genetic data." Biology Letters 4, no. 2 (February 12, 2008): 216–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0599.
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Humans have greatly altered the natural distribution of species, making it difficult to distinguish between natural and introduced populations. This is a problem for conservation efforts because native or introduced status can determine whether a species is afforded protection or persecuted as an invasive pest. Holocene colonization events are especially difficult to discern, particularly when the species in question is a naturally good disperser and widely transported by people. In this study, we test the origin of such a species, the diamondback terrapin ( Malaclemys terrapin ), on Bermuda using a combination of palaeontologic (fossil, radiometric and palaeoenvironmental) and genetic data. These lines of evidence support the hypothesis that terrapins are relatively recent (between 3000 and 400 years ago) natural colonizers of Bermuda. The tiny population of Bermudian terrapins represents the second naturally occurring non-marine reptile that still survives on one of the most densely populated and heavily developed oceanic islands in the world. We recommend that they should be given protection as a native species.
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Price, David. "Mental health services in Bermuda." International Psychiatry 1, no. 6 (October 2004): 11–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/s1749367600006962.
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Bermuda comprises a group of small islands in the Atlantic Ocean, situated approximately 1000 km east of the USA. It is a self-governing crown dependency of the UK. It is the third richest country in the world, with average wages per head of US$41 495 in 2000. Its economy is based on a flourishing offshore insurance industry and tourism.
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Eberle, Nicole, and Daniel Schreier. "African Bermudian English and the Caribbean connection." English World-Wide 34, no. 3 (October 11, 2013): 279–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.34.3.02ebe.
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Bermudian English (BerE) is one of the least documented varieties of English that has undergone full nativisation. The only source we are aware of is Ayres (1933), who provides an overview of some selected phonological features. The present paper has two aims: first, to provide a preliminary morphosyntactic profile of African Bermudian English (ABerE) and to anchor this variety in the quickly emerging canon of lesser-known varieties of English around the world (Schreier et al. 2010), and second, to gain some first typological insights whether or not it aligns with English in the Caribbean (and if so, with which varieties), as has been claimed by some sources (e.g. Trudgill 2002). With this aim, we report some first findings from a fieldwork study on the island and in a later step compare these with selected Caribbean varieties — Bahamian English (BahE), Bajan, Jamaican English, and Vincentian Creole, as reported in the Electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English (Kortmann and Lunkenheimer 2011). We argue that morphosyntactic similarities and differences between the varieties are explained by the Bermudian community’s sociohistorical and sociolinguistic contexts, including settlement patterns, population demographics, and peopling, and that the emergence and origins of a stable localised variety of (A)BerE need to be approached with reference to the historical connections between Bermuda and the communities that provided donor varieties. We further argue in favor of a two-way transfer pattern: Caribbean Englishes are likely to have influenced the evolution of English on Bermuda, while BerE itself was an influential input variety in other locations (particularly the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands).
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Bermuda Islands"
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Goetz, Robert. "The failure of early Bermuda, 1612-1630." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44638.
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Bermuda, settled in l6l2, was the second successful English colony founded in the New World. The islands appeared to provide investors in England with an excellent opportunity to make a profit, but the colony failed to generate the anticipatcd profits because the investors failed to allow sufficient incentive for the colonists to produce high quality cash crops. Little research has been conducted on the early history of Bermuda, and the little that has been done has focused on political events within the colony and colonizing company. This work uses letters, petitions, contemporary accounts, and other colonial and company documents to examinc the interaction between the colonists in Bermuda and the investors in England and to determine the impact of this interaction on the failure of the colony.
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Locke, Jan Maureen. "Systematics and biology of Grania (Annelida: clitellata: Enchytraeidae) of the Bermuda Islands." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0003/MQ45419.pdf.
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Southerly, James Christopher Welliver Rodgers Bradley A. "Cedar on the reef : archaeological and historical assessments of the eighteenth-century Bermuda sloop, exemplified by the wreck of the Hunter Galley /." Access via ScholarShip, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1112.
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Thesis (M.A.)--East Carolina University, 2003.Presented to the faculty of the Department of History. Advisor: Bradley A. Rodgers. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [162]-169). Also available via the World Wide Web. Adobe reader required.
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Yotamu, Lazarus. "The Bermuda circle, a microcosmic mainland-island connection." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63568.pdf.
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Stoll-Davey, Camille. "Global comparison of hedge fund regulations." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d08de3ea-6818-46cf-96b1-1bbb785a7504.
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The regulation of hedge funds has been at the centre of a global policy debate for much of the past decade. Several factors feature in this debate including the magnitude of current global investments in hedge funds and the potential of hedge funds to both generate wealth and destabilise financial markets. The first part of the thesis describes the nature of hedge funds and locates the work in relation to four elements in existing theory including regulatory competition theory, the concept of differential mobility as identified by Musgrave, Kane’s concept of the regulatory dialectic between regulators and regulatees, and the concept of unique sets of trust and confidence factors that individual jurisdictions convey to the market. It also identifies a series of questions that de-limit the scope of the present work. These include whether there is evidence that regulatory competition occurs in the context of the provision of domicile for hedge funds, what are the factors which account for the current global distribution of hedge fund domicile, what latitude for regulatory competition is available to jurisdictions competing to provide the domicile for hedge funds, how is such latitude shaped by factors intrinsic and extrinsic to the competing jurisdictions, and why do the more powerful onshore jurisdictions competing to provide the domicile for hedge funds not shut down their smaller and weaker competitors? The second part of the thesis examines the regulatory environment for hedge funds in three so-called offshore jurisdictions, specifically the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands, as well as two onshore jurisdictions, specifically the United Kingdom and the United States. The final section presents a series of conclusions and their implications for both regulatory competition theory and policy.
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Kawaley, Ian R. C. "The implications of the exclusive economic zone and EEZ management for small mid-ocean island Commonwealth Territories." Thesis, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325013.
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Adinolfi, Christina Lynn. "The Symbolic Nature of Mortuary Act in the Royal Navy Cemetery on Ireland Island, Bermuda, 1800-1899." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625957.
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Hurley, Robert K., Steven E. Kremer, and Joseph T. Jimmerson. "Establishment of a NASA Temporary Tracking Station on Bermuda's Coopers Island." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595753.
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ITC/USA 2011 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Seventh Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2011 / Bally's Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NevadaThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Wallops Flight Facility (WFF), Research Range Services (RRS) Program supports NASA's mission objectives by providing tracking, telemetry, meteorological, optical, and command and control services for flight vehicles including orbital and suborbital rockets. The RRS Program's mobile range instrumentation includes telemetry, radar, command and power systems. These mobile assets are used as needed to supplement instrumentation at existing ranges, or to establish a temporary range ensuring safety and collection of data in a remote location where no other range instrumentation exists. This complement of mobile systems can be deployed to provide complete range capabilities at remote locations around the world. Just 100 miles up the coast from where the Wright brothers first flew their airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orbital Sciences Corporation is planning to launch its new Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) system from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS), located at NASA GSFC's WFF. Orbital's COTS system design is based on the new Taurus II rocket with a liquid oxygen (LOX)/kerosene (RP-1) first stage powered by two Aerojet AJ-26 engines. The Taurus II second stage is ATK's Castor 30 solid propellant motor derived from their flight proven Castor 120. The spacecraft, known as Cygnus, is derived from Orbital's heritage DAWN and STAR spacecraft projects and International Space Station cargo carriers. The Program is driven by the retirement of the space shuttle, and the United States lacking domestic capability to send crew and cargo to the International Space Station. As a consequence, NASA faces a cargo resupply shortfall of 40 metric tons (approximately 88,000 pounds) between 2011 and 2015 that cannot be met by international partners' space vehicles. Bermuda has played an important role in the United States space program since the 1960s. The former NASA Tracking Station on Bermuda's Coopers Island had range safety systems for command and control, and Missile Instrumentation Precision Radars (MIPRs) providing exact vehicle position and slaving for command destruct systems. Telemetry systems supported scientific spacecraft and manned space flight (i.e., Apollo, Space Transportation System [STS], and Spacelab) with high gain antenna systems. With the advent of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System and changes in the STS flight envelope in the late 1990s, NASA no longer 2 required Bermuda and deactivated the site. NASA instrumentation was removed in early 2000, and the property returned to the Government of Bermuda (GoB). This paper defines the process undertaken to secure an agreement with the GoB to establish a temporary tracking site and describes the technical approach and analysis conducted that justifies bringing Bermuda back as a critical NASA tracking site as it was during the Apollo era and the early years of the Space Shuttle. The RRS Program plans to support the COTS Program with a mobile launch range in Bermuda.
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Harvey, Heather Maureen. "Imaging and Imagining the Past: The use of Illustrations in the Interpretation of Structural Development at the King's Castle, Castle Island, Bermuda." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626091.
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Greening, Benedict. "This island's mine : Anglo-Bermudian power-sharing and the politics of oligarchy, race and violence during late British decolonisation, 1963-1977." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/960/.
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By 1991, Britain retained responsibility for 14 overseas dependent territories. A policy of accelerated decolonisation that took shape under British Governments between the early 1960s and the late 1970s had, by the early 1980s, given way to what Drower has called an ‘era of colonial permanence’.1 This was because territories such as Bermuda refused to take the hint and move towards independence. This thesis examines the way in which Britain appeared to lose control of the process of decolonisation. It will do this by studying power-sharing dynamics in Bermuda between 1963 and 1977. It is argued that Britain did not exercise full control in Bermuda in 1963; her role was characterised by London’s dependence upon Governors who accommodated themselves to the dominant white minority both for pragmatic reasons and out of shared cultural and racial affinities. It was this dynamic that suffused three forums of Anglo-Bermudian collaboration: constitutional reform in 1963-1968; the internal security state in 1968-1973; and the colonial justice system in 1973-1977. This period saw a rapid diminution of British power in Bermuda, a process accelerated by proliferating constitutional ambiguities and metropolitan decline. In contrast, the power of Bermudian conservatives was entrenched via electoral advantages and enhanced local autonomy.
Books on the topic "Bermuda Islands"
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Christopher, Billy, ed. Fodor's Bermuda. New York: Fodor's Travel Publications, 1995.
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Jillian, Magalaner, ed. Fodor's Bermuda. New York: Fodor's Travel Publications, 1992.
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Mentz, Steve. "The Bermuda assemblage: Toward a posthuman globalization." In Our Sea of Islands, 85–98. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46405-8_7.
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Macdonald, John A. "Dioceses Extra-Provincial to Canterbury (Bermuda, the Lusitanian Church, the Reformed Episcopal Church of Spain, and Falkland Islands)." In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Anglican Communion, 464–73. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118320815.ch42.
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"Bermuda." In Encyclopedia of Islands, 95–98. University of California Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520943728-025.
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Jarvis, Michael. "Bermuda's ‘Domesday Book’: Richard Norwood's surveys and the development of the Somers Islands, 1616-63." In Bermuda, 54–73. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351192712-5.
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"CHAP. XLIII. BERMUDA ISLANDS." In A History of the West Indies, 232–73. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203042465-14.
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Jarvis, Michael J. "Islands of Settlement." In Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail, 55–76. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847229.003.0004.
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North Atlantic islands played a key role in early English imperial expansion as critical sites of precedent and experimentation. From John Cabot’s first landing in 1497, Newfoundland gave England both a claim to America and a base for an enormously profitable fishery. Further south, and following its initial accidental English occupation in 1609, Bermuda became England’s first fully settled overseas colony. Furthermore, and crucially, it provided a template for colonial success that was widely copied throughout the Caribbean. New England’s Nantucket Island offers a third maritime-oriented imperial site of innovation as a uniquely successful seventeenth-century whaling base. This chapter highlights the contributions these different North Atlantic islands made in British imperial expansion and their changing roles across time, especially in the wake of the American Revolution.
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Dean, Jenn. "The Keepers of the Ghost Bird." In When Birds Are Near, 144–66. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501750915.003.0018.
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This chapter focuses on the birds in Bermuda. Prior to 1600, it is estimated that half a million pairs of devil birds bred on Bermuda, making it, in essence, a gigantic seabird colony. The cedar trees that covered Bermuda were endemic and low-growing; they tilted in high winds, uprooting and leaving small cavities beneath. The birds used their black beaks, which ended in a graceful hook, to dig twelve-foot burrows beneath the trees, and used their webbed feet to push the dirt out behind them. The sailors called it the cahow after its sound. It would be centuries before it would emerge as a species of gadfly petrel — a sleek-bodied, hollow-boned soarer with three-foot-long, paddle-shaped wings. In 1906, Dr. Louis Mowbray, who would become the first director of the Bermuda Aquarium, found a live bird in a hole on one of the Castle Harbor Islands; he classified it as a Peale's petrel from New Zealand, blown off course. A decade elapsed before an ornithologist realized that Mowbray's live bird was actually the real thing: a Bermuda petrel.
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Ayliffe, James, Shivji Sharif, and Guy Olliff-Cooper. "Transaction Avoidance in Offshore Jurisdictions." In Transaction Avoidance in Insolvencies. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793403.003.0027.
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For regulatory and tax reasons, many businesses now choose to incorporate at least part of their corporate structure in offshore jurisdictions. Many of these jurisdictions have strong historical links to England, which is reflected in their legislation and in their adherence to the common law. Leading examples include the Crown Dependencies of Jersey and Guernsey and the Overseas British Territories of Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, and the Cayman Islands.
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Jarvis, Michael J. "Bermuda and the Beginnings of Black Anglo-America." In Virginia 1619, 108–32. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651798.003.0006.
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Although 1619 stands out as a landmark year in early American history, Virginia was not the first English colony to import African laborers; that dubious distinction belongs to its Atlantic sister colony, Bermuda. The first arrived in 1616, and, by the time Jamestown's "twenty and odd negroes" landed, Bermuda had a hundred or more black residents. This essay examines why and how Bermuda's English colonizers deliberately imported African experts from the Spanish Caribbean to solve the problem of properly curing island-grown tobacco and argues that their contributions were critical to the colony's success. Integrated into the island's fledgling society as farmers, neighbors, knowledgeable consultants, and fellow Christians, black islanders were highly visible participants in Bermuda's full settlement. As Virginians wrestled with the novelty of incorporating Africans into their colony, they needed only to look to the east to see Bermuda's nascent slave system emerging.
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Wilkinson, A. B. "The Rise of Hypodescent in Seventeenth-Century English America." In Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom, 24–58. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469658995.003.0002.
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The first chapter explores the seventeenth-century origins of hypodescent ideology within the English colonial context of the Tidewater Chesapeake of North America and islands in the Atlantic. The chapter examines the origins of mixed-race ideologies and people of blended ancestry, specifically those of mixed African, European, and Native American descent, or a combination thereof. European colonists commonly identified these mixed-heritage people as “Mulattoes” alongside other racial terms, such as “Negro” and “Indian.” This identification of mixed-heritage people in legislation presented their existence as a problem for the emerging colonial labor systems, namely slavery and indentured servitude. As more Africans and Europeans were brought into the colonies, mixed-heritage populations grew. The largest growth was in the Chesapeake provinces of Virginia and Maryland and in the island colonies of the Atlantic, including not only Barbados and Jamaica but also Bermuda and other islands in the Caribbean. The first anti-intermixture laws appear in the 1660s to regulate relationships between “Negroes,” “Indians,” and “whites” and attempted to keep certain groups enslaved or in prolonged bondage.
Conference papers on the topic "Bermuda Islands"
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Diaz Barriga, Maria Elena, and Nickolas J. Themelis. "The Potential and Obstacles for Waste-to-Energy in Island Settings." In 19th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec19-5443.
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Rapid economic development and also population growth of urban centers in developing island nations have resulted in the generation of large amounts of MSW that in the past were dumped at uninhabited areas indiscriminately. Also, islands have very limited space for new, sanitary landfills. This study examines islands where WTE has been implemented successfully (Bermuda, Martinique, St. Barth) and several others (Jamaica, Mauritius, Rhodes) where WTE has been considered and is in various stages of implementation. The study showed that the per capita generation of MSW increases as GDP per capita increases. Also, it is usually recommended that the waste management system be improved one step at a time, that is, to go from dumps to sanitary landfills, to waste to energy; it is interesting to note that the three islands examined in this study went directly from dumps to WTE. This phenomenon can be partly attributed to the scarcity of land for new landfills, but may also be due to the desire to develop a local and renewable energy source.
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Minnebo, Lillian, Ian Z. Winkelstern, Jade Zhang, Sierra Petersen, and Kyger C. Lohmann. "LAST INTERGLACIAL CLIMATE FROM DENDOSTREA FRONS OYSTERS, VERRILL ISLAND, BERMUDA." In GSA Connects 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Geological Society of America, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2021am-364610.
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Garcia-Bernardo, Javier, and Petr Janský. Profit Shifting of Multinational Corporations Worldwide. Institute of Development Studies, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ictd.2021.005.
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Multinational corporations (MNCs) avoid taxes by shifting their profits from countries where real activity takes place towards tax havens, depriving governments worldwide of billions of tax revenue. Earlier research investigating the scale and distribution of profit shifting has faced methodological and data challenges, both of which we address. First, we propose a logarithmic function to model the extremely non-linear relationship between the location of profits and tax rates faced by MNCs at those locations – that is, the extreme concentration of profits without corresponding economic activity in a small number of low-tax jurisdictions. We show that the logarithmic model allows for a more accurate identification of profit shifting than linear and quadratic models. Second, we apply the logarithmic model to newly available country-by-country reporting data for large MNCs – this provides information on the activities of large MNCs, including for the first time many low- and lower-middle-income countries. We estimate that MNCs shifted US$1 trillion of profits to tax havens in 2016, which implies approximately US$200-300 billion in tax revenue losses worldwide. MNCs headquartered in the United States and Bermuda are the most aggressive at shifting profits towards tax havens, while MNCs headquartered in India, China, Mexico and South Africa the least. We establish which countries gain and lose most from profit shifting: the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Bermuda, Hong Kong and the Netherlands are among the most important tax havens, whereas low- and lower-middle-income countries tend to lose more tax revenue relative to their total tax revenue. Our findings thus support the arguments of low- and lower-middle-income countries that they should be represented on an equal footing during international corporate tax reform debates.
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Borbón Ramos, Milena, and Javier Borbón Ramos. Ciguatera en el caribe colombiano: historia y comportamiento 2010–2014. Instituto Nacional de Salud, August 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33610/01229907.2019v1n2a3.
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Introducción: la ciguatera es una enfermedad que ocurre por el consumo de algunos peces que viven en regiones tropicales y subtropicales que contienen toxinas producidas por dinoflagelados; estas ingresan a la cadena alimentaria, siendo el ser humano la etapa final, originándose la enfermedad. Cada año se afectan entre 25 000 y 500 000 personas en el mundo causando un impacto a la salud y economía. Objetivo: realizar un análisis de la enfermedad en el caribe colombiano, describir casos, brotes (dos o más casos relacionados) y determinar la incidencia entre 2010 y 2014 en San Andrés y Providencia. Materiales y métodos: se realizó una revisión sistemática de literatura de casos de ciguatera identificados en el país y un estudio descriptivo de los casos y brotes notificados al Sistema de vigilancia de salud pública para San Andrés y Providencia durante 2010 a 2014. Resultados: según la literatura, entre 1968 y 2007 en el caribe colombiano se reportaron más de 80 casos de ciguatera, sin fallecimientos. Entre 2010 a 2014 se notificaron 101 casos y 22 brotes provenientes de San Andrés y Providencia, sin mortalidades asociadas y una incidencia de 17,4 por 100 000 habitantes. Las principales especies de peces asociadas fueron barracuda y jurel; se reportaron signos y síntomas principalmente gastrointestinales y neurológicos. Conclusiones: se identificaron casos de ciguatera notificados en el Sistema de vigilancia en salud pública. Para San Andrés y Providencia se estableció una incidencia similar a la de Islas Caimán y superando otros países del Caribe como Cuba, Jamaica, Belice y Bermudas, entre otros. Las especies de peces identificadas concuerdan con las principales implicadas en otros países. Se recomienda capacitar a entidades territoriales de salud sobre las intoxicaciones por toxinas de algas marinas para la zona Caribe con el fin de fortalecer la notificación del evento y la calidad de los datos.