This is one in a series of occasional stories chronicling the lives of Latinos in a changing region.
Israel also looks to many as increasingly out of step with a changing region, in maintaining the occupation, expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and thwarting Palestinian independence in the near future.
But for all its heft — Washington is perennially among the top universities in attracting federal research dollars — the university has lost some of its prominence in a changing region.
It comes as Japan gropes for security in a changing region, with the rise of China and the threat from North Korea, and as the United States does the same worldwide.
That is the motivation for this week's Arctic Science Ministerial, hosted at the White House, which marks the first time science ministers from around the world are convening to focus on collaborative approaches to advance scientific understanding of this rapidly changing region and the application of that understanding to policy, action and national decisions regarding commercial activity.
In order to quantify the effect of changing region size, the speckle calculation region was varied in the range 2 x 2 to 200 x 200 pixels and the contrast re-calculated.
In the Middle East, a number of pioneering female photographers have risen to prominence, using art to defy stereotypes and explore questions of identity in the changing region.
Continuous Socially-Oriented Observations integrating scientific, education and monitoring methods enables to define adaptation and transformation pathways in the Arctic – the most rapidly changing region of our planet.
I conclude further, that we are witnessing different types of dynamics in the landscape settings, that can be defined as (i) the coherent landscape, (ii) the dominant landscape and (iii) the vertical landscape lagging under a concept defined as spatial memory of rapid changing regions.
Since 1946, a limnological monitoring program on Lake Baikal in Siberia has produced a high quality data set [14] that meets these criteria and provides a unique record of large-scale environmental change in one of the most rapidly changing regions on the planet [15].
