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DIET OF NORTHERN FUR SEALS, CALWRHINUS URSINUS, OFF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA

Data recorded from the stomach contents of 18,404 northern fur seals, Callorhinus 1I.rBinus, mostly females aged >8 years collected off western North America during 1958-74, were analyzed to determine the relative importance of each prey species by region, subregion, and month. When weighted for energy content, the primary food species were small schooling fishes. Between western Alaska and California from December to August the most significant prey species were northern anchovy, Engra1l.liB mordaa: (20%); Pacific herring, Cl1l.pIla harengus pallasi (19%); capelin, MallotU8 viU081I8 (8%); Pacific sand lance, Ammod1lteB h.e:l:apterU8 (8%); Pacific whiting, Merl'UCCius productU8 (7%); salmon, Oncorhynchus spp. (6%); Pacific saury, CololabiB Baira (4%); and rockfishes, SBbasteB spp. (4%). Other food species eaten in this area consisted of a wide variety of squids (17%) and other fishes (7%). In the eastern Bering Sea the main prey species from June to October were juvenile walleye pollock, T1r.eragra chalcogramma (85%); capelin (16%); Pacific herring (11 %); and squids, Berryteut1r.iB magister and GonatopBiB borBaliB, which comprise most (80%) of the remaining diet of northern fur seals in this region. In all areas off western North America, fishes were the main food species of these pinnipeds in neritic waters, while squids were the most important prey in oceanic waters. Typically three prey species comprised 80% of their diet in any one area, although the composition of the diet varied in type and importance by region and month. The northern fur seal, Callorkinus ursinus, is found in the Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, and throughout the North Pacific Ocean, north ofapproximately lat. 32°N off western North America and lat. 36°N off Asia (Baker et al. 1970; Fiscus 1978). Although its pelagic distribution is extensive, the main concen­ trations lie over the continental shelf. There are three main stocks of this species. The largest stock breeds on the Pribilof Islands in the eastern Bering Sea and migrates primarily to coastal waters be­ tween the Gulf of Alaska and California. The other two stocks breed on the Commander Islands in the western Bering Sea and on Robben Island off north­ ern Japan. Both stocks migrate primarily along the Asian coast. To determine the diet of the Pribilof Islands population, the United States and Canada, under the auspices of the North Pacific Fur Seal Commission, conducted annual pelagic studies dur­ ing 1958-74 to collect stomach contents and other biological information. The results of research on the diet of northern fur seals by the United States and Canada during 1958-74 have been presented in many annual and 2-6 yr swnmaries submitted by each country to the
The Gliding and Push-Off Technique of Male and Female Olympic Speed Skaters

The 1988 Winter Olympic Games provided a unique opportunity to study large numbers of optimally prepared speed skaters during ideal ice and weather conditions for all the competitors (indoor Olympic Oval in Calgary). In this study a kinematic analysis was conducted of the gliding and push-off technique during the Men’s and Ladies' 1,500-m and 5,000-m races. Statistical analysis showed that factors such as trunk position, preextension knee angle, and peak knee and hip angular velocities failed to correlate with mean lap speed. Within such a homogeneous group of elite athletes it was found that the higher work per stroke of the faster skaters was correlated to a longer gliding phase and a more horizontally directed push-off. All skaters showed plantar flexion at the end of the stroke, which is undesirable and indicates the complex nature of the gliding and push-off technique in speed skating.
Production of Salt Tolerance Dwarf Napier Grass (Pennisetum purpureum cv. Mott) Using Tissue Culture and Gamma Irradiation

As high as 95% of callus was induced when young leaves of dwarf Napier grass were cultured in MS medium supplemented with 5% coconut water and 2 mg/l 2,4-D. These calli were of highly compact type. Upon transferring these calli to grow on the plantlet induction medium, it was found that the MS medium containing 5% coconut water, 1 mg/l NAA, 0.5 mg/l BAP and 0.5 mg/l 2,4-D gave the best average plantlet production of 58.8%. Irradiated calli at the levels of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 Gy were subject to culturing growth on the selected plantlet induction medium containing different NaCl concentrations of 0, 0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0%. The total of 108 clones could survive in the salt supplemented medium. These surviving clones were then transferred to grow in the field at National Corn and Sorghum Research Center, Nakorn Rachasima province. Twenty-one of good characteristic clones were selected from the field to be further grown at high salinity soil in Borabue district, Maha Sarakarm province and 8 clones were finally chosen as salt tolerance. DNA fingerprinting patterns of the 21 selected clones were analyzed using AFLP technique with 11 pairs of primers. The patterns were significantly different at high percentage of polymorphism (94.75%). The similarity index among these samples ranged from 0.569 to 0.784 indicating that the morphological difference among them was the result of true mutation
Atmospheric formic and acetic acids: An overview

Interest in the role of organic acids as chemical constituents in troposphere has been growing rapidly over the past couple of decades. In addition to their presence in the atmosphere in a variety of phases, organic acids are important constituents of the global troposphere and contribute a large fraction (∼25%) to the nonmethane hydrocarbon atmospheric mixture. They contribute significantly to the acidity of precipitation and cloud water, especially in remote regions. In this review, we consider the information presently available on concentration distribution of formic and acetic acids in multiple phases and their sources in different geographical locations, i.e., midlatitude continental, tropical continental and marine sites. Photochemical reactions (i.e., ozone‐olefin reaction, isoprene oxidation, gas phase reaction of formaldehyde with HO2, and aqueous phase oxidation of formaldehyde) are important sources of these acids. In midlatitude continental regions, possible sources of formic and acetic acids, in addition to photochemical reactive vehicular emission, are direct emission from vegetation and biomass burning. In tropical continental sites, direct emission from vehicles, ants, soil, vegetation, and biomass burning are the important source of these species. The probable sources at marine locations are photochemical reactions, biogenic emissions, and long‐range transport from continental sites.
Health reform in Alberta: The introduction of health regions

: In 1994, the Government of Alberta passed the Regional Health Authorities Act to abolish nearly 200 existing local hospital and public health boards and replace them with seventeen regional health authorities. Consistent with the larger fiscal agenda, the government's intention was to address health-care system efficiency through larger integrated management and governance structures. In this article, the authors examine why Alberta decided to create regional health authorities for the management and delivery of a significant range of health services. In examining the interaction of ideas, interests and institutions, the authors conclude that the government was partially successful in aligning existing institutional and interest relationships with an emerging political consensus about cost and sustainability of the health-care system. Sommaire: En 1994, le gouvernement de l'Alberta a adopte la loi intitulee Regional Health Authorities Act (Loi sur les offices regionaux de sante) en vue d'abolir pres de 200 commissions hospitalieres et commissions de sante publique locales et de les remplacer par dix-sept offices regionaux de la sante. Conformement au programme fiscal plus large, l'intention du gouvernement etait d'examiner l'efficience du systeme des soins de sante grâce a des structures integrees de gestion et de gouvernance plus vastes. Dans le present article, les auteurs examinent les raisons pour lesquelles l'Alberta a decide de creer des offices regionaux de la sante pour la gestion et la prestation d'une gamme importante de services de sante. Apres avoir etudie les interactions d'idees, d'interets et d'institutions, les auteurs ont conclu que le gouvernement avait partiellement reussi a aligner les relations institutionnelles et les relations d'interets existantes sur un consensus politique emergent au sujet des couts et de la viabilite du systeme de soins de sante.
On modeling migrating solar tides

Recent updates and extensions to a steady-state two-dimensional linearized model of global-scale atmospheric waves have facilitated improved calculations of the subset of those waves which are subharmonics of a solar day and propagate with the apparent motion of the sun. The model improvements are briefly described and some updated predictions of the migrating solar diurnal component are highlighted. The latter represent the first numerical modeling effort to examine the seasonal variability of the migrating diurnal harmonic as it propagates into the mesosphere and lower thermosphere.
Chronology and geology of an Early Miocene mammalian assemblage in North of South America, from Cerro La Cruz (Castillo Formation), Lara State, Venezuela: implications in the ‘changing course of Orinoco River’ hypothesis.

En general los estudios geologicos detallados de las localidades paleontologicas de Venezuela son escasos. Con la finalidad de mejorar este conocimiento, se describe la geologia de la Formacion Castillo (Oligoceno Tardio a Mioceno Temprano) en afloramientos localizados en cerro La Cruz, Estado Lara, Venezuela, la cual contiene reportes de una diversa fauna de vertebrados e invertebrados. Litologicamente la secuencia observada en cerro La Cruz esta compuesta por una intercalacion de paquetes siliciclasticos y carbonaticos, con predominio de lutita. El paleoambiente inferido para esta localidad es principalmente de un complejo marino-costero asociado a fases transgresivas y regresivas. Sin embargo, hacia la parte media de la seccion del cerro La Cruz se reportan dos estratos portadores de al menos seis restos de mamiferos continentales, los cuales conforman la mas diversa y antigua asociacion faunistica de Venezuela. Las asociaciones de vertebrados continentales que incluyen mamiferos de las familias Xenarthra, Notoungulata y Litopterna, peces de agua dulce, una tortuga del genero Chelus, ademas de restos de madera y hojas, nos permiten interpretar la existencia de un mosaico de ambientes compuesto por bosques humedos y sabanas bajas. Tambien se presentan cuatro fechamientos isotopicos realizados sobre la base del metodo del Estroncio (87Sr/86Sr), en la localidad de cerro La Cruz, arrojando edades comprendidas entre 17,21 y 19,27 Ma, lo que confirma una edad Mioceno Temprano para esta localidad. Biocronologicamente la asociacion de mamiferos no permite referirlo a ninguna Edad Mamifero de America del Sur, sin embargo, las edades isotopicas sugieren afinidad al subciclo mamaliano del Pansantacrucense. Nuestra interpretacion de la geologia de cerro La Cruz no muestra evidencias de la presencia de un gran rio cruzando esta zona durante el Mioceno Temprano, y no es consecuente con la hipotesis del posible drenaje de un ancestro del rio Orinoco hacia las cuencas sedimentarias de Maracaibo o Falcon durante el Mioceno Temprano.
Tropical Cyclone Intensity Increase near Australia as a Result of Climate Change

Abstract Idealized tropical cyclones are inserted into a regional climate model and the resulting intensity evolution of the storms is examined under current and enhanced greenhouse climates. The regional climate model is implemented over a model domain near Australia. In general, storm intensities increase under enhanced greenhouse conditions, although these increases are mostly not statistically significant. The simulated intensities are compared to theoretically derived estimates of maximum potential intensity. The theoretical estimates are mostly larger than the simulated intensities, suggesting that other factors may be limiting the intensification of the storms. Two such factors are suggested: the limited horizontal resolution of the storm simulations and the presence of vertical wind shear. Significant regression relations are demonstrated between maximum intensity of the simulated storms as predicted by sea surface temperature and vertical wind shear variations, while much weaker relationships are.
Analysis of soil moisture dynamics beneath olive trees

Olive cultivation is a widespread land use in Mediterranean climates. The proper implementation of soil and water conservation practices in groves requires detailed knowledge of the governing hydrological processes. In this work topsoil moisture dynamics under wet and dry conditions and across a small catchment was investigated in the inter row (IR) and directly under the olive tree canopies (UC). We do this using a sensor network (11 stations) and a simple bucket model which was calibrated (June, 2011–2012) and validated (June, 2012–2013). During most of the year the normalized soil moisture contents (s) were greater in the IR than under UC, with an average normalized soil moisture difference of 0.12. The difference between UC and IR normalized soil moisture followed a seasonal pattern, reaching a maximum near 0.30 during spring. An analysis of the normalized soil moisture probability density functions (pdfs) was bimodal, showing characteristic dominant wet and dry soil moisture states, with the highest probability densities for the dry state. Overall the spatial variability of soil moisture was lower UC than in the IR. This was a result of the soil moisture buffering capacity of the canopy with respect to rainfall and evaporation, in addition to observed differences in soil properties. Hourly soil moisture data were successfully modelled (R2 > 0.85), both UC and in the IR, yet with the inclusion of a simple formulation for canopy interception for the former. The results provide insight into how olive trees change hydrological processes in their neighbourhood. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Information Transfer and Nonverbal Immediacy as Primary Predictors of Learning and Satisfaction in the Televised Course.

A study examined which factors of telecommunication system design and instructor style had the greatest impact on student perceptions of learning and satisfaction with televised instruction. Surveys were completed by 164 adult learners evaluating over 20 courses taken via two-way, multi-camera, telecommunications systems. Results showed that "amount of information received" was the single greatest contributor to perceived learning and satisfaction. Stepwise hierarchical results suggest that design of tele-education courses and systems should focus on how students acquire information from this technology. Results indicated that instructor nonverbal behaviors and audio and video transmission also contributed significantly to learning and satisfaction. Results also showed less significant, yet positive, effects for the ability and ease of asking questions during telecourses. Results indicated clearly that direct face-to-face contact with instructors, and interpersonal rapport with other class participants, were less important than the amount of information transmitted in distance education courses. (Four tables of data are included; 29 references are attached.) (Author/SR) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** INFCRMATION TRANSFER AND NONVERBAL IMMEDIACY AS PRIMARY PREDICTORS OF LEARNING AND SATISFACTION IN THE TELEVISED COURSE Kim B. Walker Michael Z. Hackman Department of Communication University of Colorado-Colorado Springs P.O. Box 7150 Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150 "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATEiRIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY ) 14 Itke/L____ TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC). " U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Imwovement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) teThis document haS been reproduced as received from the person or Ofganizahon originating it 0 Minor changes have been made to improve re( roduction Quality Porn's c view or opinions stated in this docu ment do no/ necessarily iepresent official OERI poSition or policy A paper submitted for presentation in the Instructional Development Division at the 1991 Speech Communication Association Convention, Atlanta, Georgia.
Mixing and sediment processes induced by tsunamis propagating upriver

The 26 December 2004 and 10 March 2011 tsunami disasters highlighted the rapid advance of the tsunami waters following rivers and canals causing massive damage deep inland. The leading edge of the tsunami formed a series of waves propagating upriver. This phenomenon is called 'shio-tsunami' (bore), 'kaisho' (tsunami-induced bore) or simply 'tsunami' (tidal wave) in Japan. After breaking, a tsunami wave propagating in shallow-waters is led by a bore. In these rivers and shallow-water bays, the propagation of the bores is associated with strong mixing and massive sedimentary processes upriver. This contribution reviews a number of tsunami-induced bore disasters, before studying the tsunami propagation upriver. The aim of the contribution is to provide compelling evidences on the turbulent mixing and sediment processes induced by tsunami bores based upon some recent field observations as well as physical and numerical studies of tidal bores. It is shown that the propagation of the bore front modifies drastically the water column properties and the tsunami waters behind the front may carry a large amount of sediments, explaining some of the sedimentological and morphological changes observed after some recent disasters.
Medicinal plants' hosting ability for nematode meloidogyne javanica and m. incognita

Baida, F.C. , D.C. Santiago, L. H. I. Vidal, L. C. Baida, C. T. Stroze. 2011. Medicinal Plants’ Hosting Ability for Nematode Suitability Meloidogyne incognita and M. javanica. Nematropica 41:150-153. Medicinal plants can be attacked by pests, diseases and nematodes, which can compromise the quality and quantity of their healing properties and their yield. The aim of this study was to analyse the reaction of 15 medicinal plant species to the nematode Meloidogyne spp. The seedlings were produced by seed germination or cuttings under greenhouse conditions. A completely random experimental pattern of 15 treatments and 10 replications was chosen for the study. The seedlings were inoculated with approximately 5000 eggs + J2/plant 20 days after planting. Plant height and fresh and dry leaf weight, were measured 60 days after planting. The roots were collected, thoroughly washed and stained with Philoxine B and then processed to extract the eggs to determine the reproduction factor. For M. incognita the results showed that Chamomile was susceptible with RF = 1,64 making it a good host, and the other plants were resistant (RF < 1), and for M. javanica that all the plants showed resistance (RF < 1), Myrrh, Rue and Balsam demonstrating immunity (RF = 0). Baida, F.C. , D.C. Santiago, L. H. I. Vidal, L. C. Baida, C. T. Stroze. 2011. Hospedabilidade de plantas medicinais aos nematoides Meloidogyne incognita e M. javanica. Nematropica 41:151-153. Plantas medicinais podem ser atacadas por pragas, doencas e fitonematoides, o que pode comprometer qualitativa e quantitativamente as propriedades curativas e a producao. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar a reacao de 15 especies de plantas medicinais ao nematoide Meloidogyne spp. As mudas foram preparadas em casa-de-vegetacao e a reproducao foi realizada por sementes ou estacas. Para o estudo foi adotado o delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado, com 15 tratamentos e 10 repeticoes. Realizou-se a inoculacao nas mudas apos 20 dias do transplante, com aproximadamente 5000 ovos + J2/planta. Decorridos 60 dias da inoculacao, foi mensurado a altura das plantas, alem do peso fresco e peso seco das folhas. As raizes foram coletadas, lavadas cuidadosamente, e apos, foram coloridas com Floxina B, para posterior contagem de ootecas. Posteriormente as raizes foram processadas para extracao dos ovos e determinacao do fator de reproducao. Nos resultados para o M. incognita, a Camomila foi suscetivel, com FR = 1,64, considerada uma boa hospedeira, as demais plantas foram resistentes, com FR < 1. Para M. javanica, todas as plantas se comportaram como resistentes, com FR < 1, ocorrendo imunidade para Mirra, Arruda e Balsamo, que apresentaram FR = 0.
Domestic plots: computerised data management for household archaeology in New Zealand

This paper reports a set of techniques developed to aid interpretation of data collected during a recent series of excavations at Pouerua in northern New Zealand. A major aim of this project was the definition of household units. The techniques include accurate recording of three dimensional point provenance for all portable artefacts and structural remains and the use of a specially written computer graphics program, PLOTIT, to manipulate and display these data.
The equivalence principle, cosmological term, quantum theory and measurability

The first part of this paper is devoted to analysis of the applicability limit of Einstein’s Equivalence Principle (EP). It is noted that a natural applicability limit of this Principle, associated with the development of quantum-gravitational effects at Planck’s scales, is absolute, its more accurate estimation being dependent on the processes under study and on the sizes of the corresponding particles. It is shown that, neglecting the applicability limit of EP, one can obtain senseless results on estimation of the relevant quantities within the scope of the well-known Quantum Field Theory (QFT). Besides, such neglect may be responsible for ultraviolet divergences in this Theory. In the second part of the work the author presents the general principles and mathematical apparatus for framing QFT in terms of the measurability notion introduced by the author earlier. In such QFT in the general case it is expedient to indicate the energy regions, where EP is valid and where it loses its force, in an effort to find a natural solution of the ultraviolet divergences problem in this theory that at low energies is very close to the initial well-known QFT.