bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Les foraminifères agglutinants du Quaternaire récent dans le domaine profond du Golfe de Gascogne
Authors: PUJOS‐LAMY ANNICK 
Published: July 2010

The bathymetric distribution of recent arenacous Foraminifera has been studied in samples from the bottom surface in the Bay of Biscay, from depths of between 560 and 4450 m. Comparison could be made with the results obtained by Saidova from the Pacific Ocean. These forms have been studied in late Quaternary cores from the same area. This microfauna is very abundant and characteristic of the late Holocene. Some species are of stratigraphic or climatic index value: the rapid decline of Siphotextularia rolshauseni characterizes the beginning of the late Holocene. Adercotryma glomerata now lives at depths exceeding 3500 m, but at least up to the middle Würm it lived on the continental slope. Karreriella is represented only after the Würm II‐Würm III interstade. Eggerella is represented at least since the end of Riss and disappears during Würm III. Some genera may provide information on the foraminiferal invasion of the abyssal plain.Les foraminifères agglutinants récents sont étudiés dans divers échantillons prélevés à la surface du fond marin du Golfe de Gascogne, entre 560 et 4450 m de profondeur; ainsi peut‐on envisager la distribution bathymétrique de ces formes et comparer nos résultats avec ceux obtenus par Saidova dans l'Océan Pacifique. Une série de carottes prélevées dans la m eme région permet létude de ces foraminiféres agglutinants durant le Pleistocéne supérieur. Cette microfaune est trés abondante durant lépisode le plus récent de l'Holocéne qu'elle caractérise. Certaines formes peuvent aussi servir de repères stratigraphiques ou climatologiques: Siphotextularia rolshauseni caractérise, par sa disparition brutale, la partie la plus récente de l'Holocène. Adercotryma glomerata vit actuellement audelà de 3500 m, mais habitait la pente continentale au moins jusqu'au Würm moyen. Karreriella se manifeste seulement depuis l'interstade Würm II‐Würm III. Eggerella, présent depuis au moins le sommet du Riss, disparait durant le Würm III. Enfin, certains genres nous permettent d'aborder le problème de l'origine du peuplement des grands fonds.
La limite Pliocène‐Pleistocène en Bretagne
Authors: MORZADEC‐KERFOURN MARIE‐THÉRÈSE 
Published: July 2010

The end of the Pliocene transgression is represented in Brittany, above sands and gravels, by clay or sandy clay containing an estuarian plankton and sometimes shells of molluses.New borings at Pont‐Rouz in Quemperven (Brittany) permit a biostratigraphical study, by means of pollen analysis, of the period corresponding to the Pliocene‐Pleistocene transition. In the lower part of the deposit, rich in Ostrea shells, many floral element characteristics of the Reuver‐clay are present: Sequoia, Taxodium, Sciadopitys, in relatively high percentages, Nyssa, Symplocos, Liquidambar, sporadically. The ‘Tertiary’ elements disappear in the upper part of the clay when other relicts like Tsuga, Pterocarya, and Carya are still present. Thus the Reuverian‐Praetiglian boundary can be traced in the littoral sequence of Pont‐Rouz. As in the Netherlands, the deterioration of the climate is clearly indicated by a sudden increase of Graminaceae pollen. A same evolution of the flora can be noticed at Mernel and Saint‐Jean‐la‐Poterie, also in grey clay, along the river system of the Vilaine.The Upper‐Pliocene transgression has followed the same river system as the present one. The estuarian sediments lie in Brittany between 55 and 30 metres above zero NGF. The maximum of the transgression is situated in the Reuverian at La Salle, near Pont‐Rouz, at 55 m (NGF). The post‐Pliocene regression begins with the Praetiglian and continues in the Lower Pleistocene.
Supposed area‐wasting of the Weichselian ice sheet in Denmark
Authors: MARCUSSEN IB 
Published: July 2010

The deglaciation at the end of the Weichselian in the Danish area has previously been considered to occur as a frontal wastage. Since the glacier ice was assumed to be debris‐free, the wasting should be characterized by outwash plains and successions of end‐moraines. The almost complete lack of sandur plains in the eastern part of the area and indications from recent investigations of widespread occurrence of flow till justify a re‐evaluation of the mentioned deglaciation model.Two morphological features have a general occurrence: the plains and the ‘tunnel’ valleys. The plains appear stepwise in the landscapes, and are frequently limited by steep slopes. Topmost is a subcircular kame‐like hill. Sedimentologically, the plains mainly consist of melt water deposits, and the scattered occurrences of till are interpreted as flow till. The plains continue from the open landscape into the ‘tunnel’ valleys where they appear as terraces.These features are considered to have been formed during the deglaciation. The almost horizontal surface of the ice sheet over large areas caused a sensitivity to changes in the climate. The wasting of the ice may therefore be expected to affect large areas almost simultaneously. On the assumption that the ice contained debris, an increasing amount of clastic matter was released on the ice surface. This material was concentrated in the depressions. If such a depression perforated the ice, the content of sediments settled on the substratum and a plain was established. During continued wasting the thickness of the ice decreased and the depressions were enlarged. They assumed the character of sandur plains. As still larger areas of these supraglacial sandurs rested on the basement the successive lower situated plains were formed. The latest ice was preserved where the ‘tunnel’ valleys are situated to‐day.
Pleistocene glaciation chronology of Spitsbergen
Authors: TROITSKY LEONID , PUNNING JAAN‐MATI , HÜTT GALINA , RAJAMÄ RAIVO 
Published: July 2010

Troitsky, Leonid, Punning, Jaan‐Mati, HÜtt, Galina & Rajamäe, Raivo 1979 12 01: Pleistocene glaciation chronology of Spitsbergen. Boreas, Vol. 8, pp. 401–407. Oslo. ISSN 0300–9483.Geomorphological and geochronological studies of Pleistocene deposits were carried out in sections along Billefjorden and Bellsund as well as on Bröggerhalvöya and Prins Karls Forland. For purposes of correlation and development of a time scale, radiocarbon (14C) and thermoluminescent (TL) dating methods were used. The dates obtained indicate the presence of older Pleistocene deposits on Spitsbergen and also provide information on the distribution of Middle Pleistocene glacial deposits. A correlation scheme of Pleistocene deposits of Spitsbergen with stratigraphic units of the Alps and northwestern Europe is presented.
Regional variation in the composition of Neoglacial end moraines, Jotunheimen, Norway: an altitudinal gradient in clast roundness and its possible palaeoclimatic significance
Authors: MATTHEWS JOHN A. 
Published: July 2010

Matthews, John A. 1987 06 01: Regional variation in the composition of Neoglacial end moraines. Jotunheimen, Norway: an altitudinal gradient in clast roundness and its possible palaeoclimatic significance Boreas, Vol. 16, pp. 173–188. Oslo. ISSN 0300–9483.Quantitative indices of clast roundness from Neoglacial end moraines in front of 81 Jotunheimen glaciers were compared and analysed. Statistical techniques, including non‐metric multidimensional scaling, multiple regression and partial correlation, were used to relate clast roundness to selected environmental variables. Three independent variables – site altitude, glacier length (interchangeable with height of headwall relative to glacier length) and aspect – cumulatively accounted for about 58% of the variability in clast roundness. A climatic factor complex (represented by altitude and aspect) was found more important than morphological factors (such as glacier size and headwall size) in accounting for clast roundness variations between glaciers. The scale of the independent effects of altitude, morphology, aspect and geology was found in the approximate proportions 4:1.5:1:1. Several theoretical mechanisms are proposed which could explain a causal relationship between climate and clast roundness by influencing the relative importance of supraglacial and subglacial debris supply. The palaeoclimatic implications of the results are discussed with particular reference to the prediction of mean annual temperatures from clast roundness; one unit increase in clast roundness corresponding to an increase in mean annual temperature of about 1.4°C within the study area.
Position of the palaeontological site Aven I des Abîmes de La Fage, at Noailles (Corrèze, France), in the European Pleistocene chronology
Authors: MOURER‐CHAUVIRÈ CÉCILE , PHILIPPE MICHEL , QUINIF YVES , CHALINE JEAN , DEBARD EVELYNE , GUÉRIN CLAUDE , HUGUENEY MARGUERITE 
Published: July 2010

Mourer‐Chauviré, C., Philippe, M., Quinif, Y., Chaline, J., Debard, E., Guérin, C. & Hugueney, M. 2003 (September): Position of the palaeontological site Aven I des Abîmes de La Fage, at Noailles (Corrèze, France), in the European Pleistocene chronology. Boreas, Vol. 32, pp. 521–531. Oslo. ISSN 0300–9483.The palaeontological locality of Aven I des Abîmes de La Fage, at Noailles, Corrèze, France, is a limestone swallow hole filling which includes a rich fauna of micro‐ and macromammals, and one of the most complete Pleistocene avifaunas in the Palearctic. According to the mammal fauna and to the sedimentological study, the filling was previously assigned to the penultimate, Saalian, glaciation. U/Th datings made on a stalagmitic floor deposited in a lateral gallery on top of the filling confirm this previous attribution. Revised lists of the mammal and bird faunas are provided. The comparison of the La Fage fauna with that of other European localities, radiochronologically or biostratigraphically dated, leads to the conclusion that most of the fossiliferous layers were deposited during the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 8 (242 to 301 ka).
THE BOOK SHELF
Authors: Bailey Franklin C. 
Published: July 2010

Books reviewed in this article:1. Armstrong, Herbert W., The Missing Dimension in Sex.2. Eisner, Betty Grover, Ph.D., The Unused Potential of Marriage and Sex.3. Greer, Germaine, The Female Enuch.4. Gunther, Bernard, What to Do Till the Messiah Comes.5. Hastings, Donald W., M.D., A Doctor Speaks on Sexual Expression in Marriage.6. Pannor, Reuben; Fred Massarik, and Byron Evans, The Unmarried Father.7. Peale, Mrs. Norman Vincent, The Adventure of Being a Wife.8. Burton, John David, and Robert L. McFarland, Ph.D., Learning for Loving ‐ Communication in Marriage. (See remarks)
CHANGING THE LAWYER'S ROLE IN MATRIMONIAL PRACTICE
Authors: Coogler O.J. 
Published: July 2010

“In that case,” said the Dodo solemnly, rising to its feet, “I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies‐”“Speak English!” said the Eaglet. “I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and, what's more, I don't believe you do either!” And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly.—Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
THE BOOKSHELF
Authors: Hulbert E. Ronald 
Published: July 2010

The book review in this article THE KIDS' BOOK OF DIVORCE, Eric Rofes, Editor THE DYNAMICS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT, Alexander Thomas, MD and Stella Chess, MD CRISIS COUNSELINGby Eugene Kennedy MODERN PERSPECITVES IN THE PSYCHIATRY OF MIDDLE AGE, John G. Howells “THE CRISIS INTERVENER'S HANDBOOK”, James L. Greenstone, Ed. D. and Sharon C. Leviton, B. A.
WHO WILL MAKE THE PUBLIC AWARE OF MEDIATION?
Authors: Younger Barbara 
Published: July 2010

ABSTRACTExpanding on the issue raised by Meyer Elkin in the June 1986 issue of Conciliation Courts Review, Barbara Younger, a mediator in Massachusetts reviews some opinions of attorneys, therapists and mediators regarding whether referrals to mediation are actually made to their clients. She notes that because of what seem to be possible overlaps in services, conflict in services and perhaps even protection of territorial limits, professionals seem to make preferential judgments about which clients should be provided knowledge of the mediation option.
Relationship between milk cortisol concentration and the behavioral characteristics of postpartum cows introduced to a new group
Authors: FUKASAWA Michiru , TSUKADA Hideharu 
Published: July 2010

ABSTRACTThe objective of this study was to examine the relationship between milk cortisol concentration (MC) and behavioral responses to stress. As a stress response, the behaviors of 37 postpartum cows were observed when they were introduced into a new group. Milk samples for MC measurement and milk trait data were collected on the test day every 2 months after calving. The best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP) was estimated from each behavioral and milk trait data. Behavioral BLUP data were subjected to principal component (PC) analysis and three PCs were extracted. The first PC, with large loadings for eating and allogrooming, was positively correlated with milk yield. Therefore, individual differences in behaviors closely related with PC1 would have been unconsciously paid a lot of attention in terms of productivity. However, the second PC, with large loadings for drinking and self‐grooming, uncorrelated with any milk traits, had a negative correlation with MC. The third PC, with large loadings for exploring, fighting and the frequency of agonistic behavior, was uncorrelated with all traits. Both PC2 and PC3 were independent of productivity, and individual differences in behaviors related with these PCs may be scarcely considered.
Clinical outcomes in residential care: Setting benchmarks for quality
Authors: O'Reilly Maria , Courtney Mary , Edwards Helen , Hassall Stacey 
Published: July 2010

Aim: Australian residential aged care does not have a system of quality assessment related to clinical outcomes, or comprehensive quality benchmarking. The Residential Care Quality Assessment was developed to fill this gap; and this paper discusses the process by which preliminary benchmarks representing high and low quality were developed for it.Methods: Data were collected from all residents (n=498) of nine facilities. Numerator–denominator analysis of clinical outcomes occurred at a facility‐level, with rank‐ordered results circulated to an expert panel. The panel identified threshold scores to indicate excellent and questionable care quality, and refined these through Delphi process.Results: Clinical outcomes varied both within and between facilities; agreed thresholds for excellent and poor outcomes were finalised after three Delphi rounds.Conclusion: Use of the Residential Care Quality Assessment provides a concrete means of monitoring care quality and allows benchmarking across facilities; its regular use could contribute to improved care outcomes within residential aged care in Australia.
Filing and Disposition of Consumer Complaints: Some Empirical Evidence*
Authors: GAEDEKE RALPH M. 
Published: July 2010

Who complains and why? What are the dimensions of consumer complaints? How are complaints handled by various recipients? In this article, empirical evidence is offered to shed some light on these questions.Based on a direct inquiry addressed to state consumer protection offices and voluntary consumer associations, this study shows that the number of complaints filed by consumers is rapidly accelerating and that the “grey” areas of marketing are increasingly the target of customer frustrations. The study also points to a consumer‐corporate communications vacuum and to various complaint dispositions by the recipients.
Consumer Education As A Means of Alleviating Dissatisfaction
Authors: SCHERF GERHARD W. H. 
Published: July 2010

In this paper the traditional approaches to Consumer Education are analyzed with respect to their possible impact on the currently wide‐spread dissatisfaction among consumers. The argument is raised that the dissemination of knowledge of good buymanship alone cannot change the prevailing dissatisfaction because of the inevitable collective interdependency of consumers' fate in the marketplace and the economic benefits they can derive from their alternative role as producers, employees and wage earners.On the other hand, it is shown that greater improvements could be obtained if some of the knowledge available from studies of job satisfaction could be applied to man's satisfaction in the consumer role. Such an endeavor would enlarge the present scope of consumer education from its sole concern with competitive economics into that of interpersonal relationships and other behavioral aspects of man's life as consumer.
Factors Determining Credit Worthiness of Low Income Consumers
Authors: TABOR JOAN S. , BOWERS JEAN S. 
Published: July 2010

The purpose of this study was to identify variables that can be used in granting credit to low income consumers. Credit behavior, as exemplified by loan repayment, was examined with respect to economic, demographic, and socioeconomic characteristics of borrowers from a credit union that had been established to serve low income people in Columbus, Ohio.Findings indicate that early warning signals—default and delinquency—are given by borrowers when a loan is going bad. Consumer education and financial counseling might help eliminate this problem.
An Assessment of the Competency of Secondary School Teachers in in Consumer Education, Economics, and Personal Finance
Authors: LOFGREN WENDY L. , SUZUKI WARREN N. 
Published: July 2010

This study investigated the competency of persons teaching consumer education in Oregon's public schools. A 50‐item instrument, based on concepts outlined in The Oregon Personal Finance Education Guide, was developed and used for the assessment. A comparison of competency according to teachers' subject‐matter backgrounds (business, home economics, mathematics and social studies) was made.Item difficulty indices calculated on 185 completed instruments revealed a need for teacher upgrading in each of the four subject‐matter background groups studied. No significant differences were found in the total mean scores of teachers in the four groups. However, a significant difference between groups was discovered in the concept area dealing with money management.
Increasing the Organizational Influence of Corporate Consumer Affairs Departments
Authors: FORNELL CLAES 
Published: July 2010

Empirical research suggests that most corporate consumer affairs departments are not a part of the decision‐making structure of their respective firms. The typical consumer affairs department appears to have little influence in management decisions that affect consumer satisfaction and welfare. As a result, it is of limited value for the consumer.A reason for the isolation of consumer affairs from corporate decision making may be that the department's contribution to the firm's welfare is not well understood. By showing a significant contribution to company sales, the consumer affairs department would be in a position to gain influence in the profit‐seeking organization. The article identifies the relationship between sales and complaint management within a marketing framework and develops objectives for complaint management that maximize the consumer affairs department's contribution to sales thereby enhancing the power base of the department within the business organization.
A Survey of Consumer Difficulties with the Homebuying Process in One Colorado Community
Authors: WHITE BETTY JO , BARCLAY NANCY A. 
Published: July 2010

To provide a basis for homebuyer education, this study sought to identify difficulties related to the homebuying process. A questionnaire mailed to a random sample of 250 Colorado homebuyers requested them to indicate problems encountered during search, purchase, and first year of occupancy. They were also asked to identify their two most important homebuying problems and the perceived causes for these difficulties. An 80.4 percent response was realized, of which 153 were eligible respondents.The difficulties most commonly reported by the respondents were utility costs, foregone activities, mechanical system problems, necessary repairs or adjustments, delayed closings, and overlapping payments. Numbers and types of reported problems varied across sample groups categorized by buyer, search, and purchase characteristics. Implications for consumer education and further research are drawn from the study findings.
The Professions Under Scrutiny: An Antitrust Perspective
Authors: TROMBETTA WILLIAM L. 
Published: July 2010

Increasingly, the professions are coming under the scrutiny of the antitrust laws. Such anticompetitive forms of professional conduct as group boycotts, arbitrary and unreasonable licensing requirements, barriers to entry and exclusionary practices, price‐fixing, stifling of innovative delivery systems, and restrictions on the scope of professional practice are reviewed in this article. Also examined are the problems encountered by the courts in applying antitrust law to the professions.The review of the literature reveals modest evidentiary support for a shift in the burden of requiring regulation to those proposing it. Several alternatives are set forth to aid in the development of procompetitive professions.
Boethius of Dacia: Science is a Serious Game
Authors: EBBESEN STEN 
Published: July 2010

SummaryThe presentation will proceed as follows: (§ 3:) For the truth of an affirmative present‐tensed proposition Boethius required that its terms have actual referents, he would not accept any uninstantiated essence as a verifier. He also denied that any proposition about corruptible beings can be strictly necessary. He thus had a problem explaining how a theorem of one of the natural sciences differs from an ordinary contingent proposition. His rejection of uninstantiated essences also (§ 4) raised the question how words can stay significant independently of the existence of referents, and more generally, to which degree language mirrors external reality.After a sketch of his solution to the semantic problems, § 5 returns to the question about scientific propositions. It is claimed that the core of Boethius' solution is a substitution of causal relationships for ordinary things (existents or essences) as an answer to the question what scientific knowledge is knowledge of and what scientific propositions are about.Since (§ 6) to Boethius axiomatized geometry provided the model for all sciences, consistency of a science's set of theorems should be important for him. A preoccupation with consistency can be seen in the rules he lays down for the dialogical game of “obligation” that was used as an academic exercise. An analysis (§ 7) of his description of another such game, the dialectical disputation, shows that he operated with a notion of truth‐within‐a‐game (requiring only conformity with the rules) as as opposed to absolute truth.§ 8 claims that Boethius operated with a similar notion of truth‐within‐a‐science as opposed to absolute truth, and that his reason for so doing was the inaccessibility to human minds of the totality of causes. Doing science, then, (§ 9) is much like participating in a scholastic disputational game, and there may be scientifically‐true theorems conflicting with absolute truth known through revelation. § 10 epilogizes about Boethius' views about the highest good.