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The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 12 : 26, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Dec 1998

The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 12 : 26, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Newspaper collection

No abstract provided.


Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, December 12, 1998, University Of South Florida Dec 1998

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, December 12, 1998, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Senior - Joy McVey; Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters - Honorable C.W. "Bill" Young; President's Distinguished Service Award - Ann Henderson


Inside Usf : 1998: 12 : 11 - 1999 : 01 : 07, University Of South Florida. Dec 1998

Inside Usf : 1998: 12 : 11 - 1999 : 01 : 07, University Of South Florida.

Inside USF

Distributed to faculty and staff on 1998 12 11


The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 12 : 05, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Dec 1998

The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 12 : 05, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Newspaper collection

No abstract provided.


Feeding Mechanism Of The Atlantic Guitarfish Rhinobatos Lentiginosus: Modulation Of Kinematic And Motor Activity, C. D. Wilga, Philip J. Motta Dec 1998

Feeding Mechanism Of The Atlantic Guitarfish Rhinobatos Lentiginosus: Modulation Of Kinematic And Motor Activity, C. D. Wilga, Philip J. Motta

Philip J. Motta

The kinematics and muscle activity pattern of the head and jaws during feeding in the Atlantic guitarfish Rhinobatos lentiginosus are described and quantified using high-speed video and electromyography to test hypotheses regarding the conservation and modulation of the feeding mechanism. Prey is captured by the guitarfish using suction. Suction capture, bite manipulation and suction transport behaviors in the guitarfish are similar to one another in the relative sequence of kinematic and motor activity, but can be distinguished from one another by variation in absolute muscle activation time, in the presence or absence of muscle activity and in the duration of …


Genealib Archive 1998-12, Genealib Dec 1998

Genealib Archive 1998-12, Genealib

GENEALIB Archive

No abstract provided.


Sfra Review, December 1998 Dec 1998

Sfra Review, December 1998

SFRA Newsletter (Science Fiction Research Association)

The December 1998 issue of the SFRA Review.


Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 60, No. 3, December 1998, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society Dec 1998

Journal Of Cave And Karst Studies, Volume 60, No. 3, December 1998, Table Of Contents, National Speleological Society

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.


Institutional Arrangements For Watershed Management: A Case Study Of Arenal, Costa Rica, December 1998, Bruce Aylward, Alvaro Fernández González Dec 1998

Institutional Arrangements For Watershed Management: A Case Study Of Arenal, Costa Rica, December 1998, Bruce Aylward, Alvaro Fernández González

Economy and Resource Management [Monteverde Institute]

The CREED Costa Rica project conducted an exhaustive quantitative inquiry into the economic factors that determine land use in the Río Chiquito watershed of Lake Arenal, Costa Rica, and found that livestock production is likely to produce positive hydrological externalities. This paper integrates these results into an application of the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework that is informed by a participatory process conducted with watershed stakeholders. The paper identifies physical measures, institutional arrangements and incentive mechanisms to stimulate improved watershed management in Río Chiquito by expanding the analysis beyond just the internalisation of hydrological externalities, to consideration of the larger …


Commencement : 1998 : Fall : Program, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Dec 1998

Commencement : 1998 : Fall : Program, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

USF St. Petersburg campus Graduations and Commencements

No abstract provided.


Uis Bulletin, Volume 44, No. 1/2, 1998, Pavel Bosák Dec 1998

Uis Bulletin, Volume 44, No. 1/2, 1998, Pavel Bosák

UIS Bulletin

Contents: Letter from the New President -- Minutes from the UIS General Assembly -- UIS Code of Ethics for Cave Exploration and Science in Foreign Countries -- Agreement of Co-operation between the International Geographical Union (IGU) and the International Union of Speleology (UIS) -- Inaugural UIS Prizes -- Report of the UIS Secretary General -- UIS Prize List -- UIS Bureau 1997-2001 -- UIS Departments, Commissions, and Working Groups -- National Delegates and Substitutes -- UIS Address-List -- Minutes of -- Change of Addresses - New Periodical of the UIS -- From Commission Life -- New Discoveries -- Höhlenkundliche Monographien …


An Analysis Of Private And Social Discount Rates In Costa Rica, December 1998, Bruce Aylward, Ina T. Porras Dec 1998

An Analysis Of Private And Social Discount Rates In Costa Rica, December 1998, Bruce Aylward, Ina T. Porras

Economy and Resource Management [Monteverde Institute]

In the economic analysis of long-term projects or changes in policy and land use with long term impacts, the cost and benefit flows typically occur in different periods. The process of discounting these flows enables them to be added together and compared with the net present value of alternative courses of action. Discounting is therefore central to intertemporal economic analysis. In the case of the analysis of environmental issues, discounting assumes particular importance, given that economic benefits produced by ecosystems (or damages incurred by their degradation) either (1) occur only in the future (2) increase into the future or (3) …


Unofficial Grapevine : 1998 : 12, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Dec 1998

Unofficial Grapevine : 1998 : 12, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Unofficial Grapevine

Distributed to faculty and staff in December 1998 (Vol. 5, No. 12).


The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 11 : 28, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Nov 1998

The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 11 : 28, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Newspaper collection

No abstract provided.


Inside Usf : 1998 : 11 : 20 - 1998 : 12 : 10, University Of South Florida. Nov 1998

Inside Usf : 1998 : 11 : 20 - 1998 : 12 : 10, University Of South Florida.

Inside USF

Distributed to faculty and staff on 1998 11 20


Genetic Variation In Chrysopsis Floridana Small, The Endangered Florida Golden Aster, As Revealed By Random Amplification For Polymorphism Detection (Rapd), Laurie Lysle Walker Markham Nov 1998

Genetic Variation In Chrysopsis Floridana Small, The Endangered Florida Golden Aster, As Revealed By Random Amplification For Polymorphism Detection (Rapd), Laurie Lysle Walker Markham

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Chrysopsis fioridana Small (Asteraceae) is a federally endangered plant endemic to the Tampa Bay area of west central Florida. It is confined to the sand pine scrub community, growing in open, sunny, and sandy areas or in disturbed areas at the edges of scrub. As a means ofassessing the genetic variability ofthis species, eight populations in Hillsborough County were compared with a seed stock collection housed at Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales using random amplification for polymorphism detection (RAPD). The objectives of this study were to (I) describe the overall genetic variation among and within populations and subpopulations of …


Crow's Nest : 1998 : 11 : 16, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nov 1998

Crow's Nest : 1998 : 11 : 16, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Crow's Nest

(Vol. 8, No. 6).


An Empirical Algorithm For Light Absorption By Ocean Water Based On Color, Zhongping Lee, Kendall L. Carder, R. G. Steward, T. G. Peacock, C. O. Davis, J. S. Patch Nov 1998

An Empirical Algorithm For Light Absorption By Ocean Water Based On Color, Zhongping Lee, Kendall L. Carder, R. G. Steward, T. G. Peacock, C. O. Davis, J. S. Patch

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Empirical algorithms for the total absorption coefficient and absorption coefficient by pigments for surface waters at 440 nm were developed by applying a quadratic formula that combines two spectral ratios of remote-sensing reflectance. For total absorption coefficients ranging from 0.02 to 2.0 m(-1), a goodness of fit was achieved between the measured and modeled data with a root-mean-square difference between the measured and modeled values for log10 scale (RMSDlog10) of 0.062 (15.3% for linear scale, number of samples N = 63), while RMSDlog10 is 0.111 (29.1% for linear scale, N = 126) for pigment absorption (ranging from 0.01 to 1.0 …


Detection Of The Fast Kelvin Wave Teleconnection Due To El Niño‐Southern Oscillation, Steven D. Meyers, Arne Melsom, Gary T. Mitchum, James J. O'Brien Nov 1998

Detection Of The Fast Kelvin Wave Teleconnection Due To El Niño‐Southern Oscillation, Steven D. Meyers, Arne Melsom, Gary T. Mitchum, James J. O'Brien

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Previous analyses of the ocean state along the western American coast have often indicated unexpectedly slow and limited propagation of coastally trapped Kelvin waves associated with the El Niño‐Southern Oscillation. In contrast, theoretical and numerical ocean models demonstrate that these Kelvin waves are a rapid and long‐range teleconnection between the low‐ and high‐latitude Pacific Ocean, strongly impacting both the surface coastal currents and nutrient upwelling. Sea level variations along the western coast of North America are reexamined under the assumption that tropically forced Kelvin waves are produced in bursts of several months duration. A cross‐correlation analysis, restricted to mid‐1982 to …


The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 11 : 14, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Nov 1998

The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 11 : 14, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Newspaper collection

No abstract provided.


Tri-County Challenger : 1998 : 11 : 14, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Nov 1998

Tri-County Challenger : 1998 : 11 : 14, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Newspaper collection

No abstract provided.


The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 11 : 07, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al Nov 1998

The Weekly Challenger : 1998 : 11 : 07, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Newspaper collection

No abstract provided.


Inside Usf : 1998 : 11 : 06 - 1998 : 11 : 19, University Of South Florida. Nov 1998

Inside Usf : 1998 : 11 : 06 - 1998 : 11 : 19, University Of South Florida.

Inside USF

Distributed to faculty and staff on 1998 11 06


Education Policy Analysis Archives 06/20 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida Nov 1998

Education Policy Analysis Archives 06/20 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Critical evaluation for education reform / Gisele A. Waters.


Critical Evaluation For Education Reform, Gisele A. Waters Nov 1998

Critical Evaluation For Education Reform, Gisele A. Waters

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

The school reform movement has done little to provide an accurate analysis of the production of inequality or the reproduction of social injustice in the public schools or the larger social order. The ideology that influences this movement has often prevented the realization of any notion of an egalitarian ideal, the elimination of inequality, or the improvement of those who are least well-off. I ask educators and evaluators of education reform efforts to reconsider critically their roles in social science research, to reclaim the battleground of public school reform by focusing on the democratic purpose of public schooling, and the …


Crow's Nest : 1998 : 11 : 02, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nov 1998

Crow's Nest : 1998 : 11 : 02, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Crow's Nest

(Vol. 8, No. 5).


The Florida Distance Learning Reference And Referral Center: A Study Of User Satisfaction And Some Provider Reflections, Rhonda Smith, Anna H. Perrault, Todd Chavez, Stephanie Race Nov 1998

The Florida Distance Learning Reference And Referral Center: A Study Of User Satisfaction And Some Provider Reflections, Rhonda Smith, Anna H. Perrault, Todd Chavez, Stephanie Race

Anna H. Perrault

No abstract provided.


Unofficial Grapevine : 1998 : 11, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nov 1998

Unofficial Grapevine : 1998 : 11, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Unofficial Grapevine

Distributed to faculty and staff in November 1998 (Vol. 5, No. 11).


Climate Variability Of The Coupled Tropical-Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere System, Chunzai Wang, Robert H. Weisberg Nov 1998

Climate Variability Of The Coupled Tropical-Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere System, Chunzai Wang, Robert H. Weisberg

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Observations show that tropical and extratropical Pacific SST anomalies vary out-of-phase, and that the atmospheric meridional Hadley and zonal Walker Circulations are related to these variations. A tropical-extratropical model is constructed to show oscillations consistent with observations. The positive feedback introduced by the Walker Circulation causes tropical warming so that the air rises and flows toward the subtropics where it sinks. When the sinking air approaches the sea surface, it flows both equatorward and poleward enhancing tropical easterly and extratropical westerly winds, respectively. Enhanced extratropical westerlies increases wind speed and hence evaporation, resulting in extratropical cooling. The Walker and Hadley …


Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 26, No. 4 & Volume 27, No. 1, November 1998, Candice E. Leek Nov 1998

Cave Research Foundation Newsletter, Volume 26, No. 4 & Volume 27, No. 1, November 1998, Candice E. Leek

Cave Research Foundation Newsletter

Contents: Friends of Karst and the International Geological Correlation Program Conference held at Mammoth Cave -- 1999 WKU Schedule -- CRF Bulletin Board -- CRF Finds New Karst Connection in Mineral King Valley -- Continued Progress at Hamilton Valley -- Hamilton Valley Building Fund Update -- Book Review -- Tales from the Mammoth Cave Gazetteer -- Stalagmite Used to Study Past Climate -- New Exhibits Planned for American Cave and Karst Center and Hidden River Cave -- Grants & Fellowships -- Cave Books -- Project Area News, Reports, and Expeditions -- The Loose Tube Blues -- Mammoth Cave/Karst Area Water …