Virtually uninhabited, the islands had been protected by their remoteness, seeming to exist outside of time, and their reefs had been spared the overfishing and destruction that had ravaged neighboring reefs in the Pacific and elsewhere.
"But we know very little about how much ice they are losing over a long period of time," because the remoteness and rugged terrains have prevented long-term field measurements, says Harish Chandra Nainwal, a glaciologist at Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University in Srinagar, India, who is not involved in the studies.
The remoteness of the study site prohibited time series examinations of these interactions, yet the presence of Gracilaria sp. at various stages of overgrowth of living coral colonies was a clear indication of competitive dominance of this alga.
At the same time, the remoteness of the hill tribe communities and an inadequate road infrastructure made it difficult to build proper education facilities in these communities or find qualified teachers willing to teach in them.
The Socio-economic Indexes for Areas Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage (ABS, 2013) and the Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia (ABS, 2014) were used to describe infant's socioeconomic status and geographical remoteness of their place of residence at time of birth.
Such assessments are likely to suffer from some of the same challenges as the control programme itself, such as remoteness of communities, logistical challenges and limited time and budgets.
Because of its wide range and its remoteness in time, Aristotle's philosophy defies easy encapsulation.
Making peace in the remoteness of Congo, say, which is 33 times larger and the scene of fighting between five national armies and several rebel groups, would be much harder.
This cross sectional study used retrospective data to estimate socio-economic class and remoteness at the time of application to medical school.
Distance to dairy hub, which reflects remoteness, travel time or distance, is significant and negatively associated with milk yields and net returns of adopters and non-adopters.
