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Sea Turtle Conservation Program, Broward County, Fl 2000 Report, Curtis M. Burney, William E. Margolis Jan 2000

Sea Turtle Conservation Program, Broward County, Fl 2000 Report, Curtis M. Burney, William E. Margolis

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports

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Evolving Human Rights Norms Around Sexuality, Kristen L. Walker Jan 2000

Evolving Human Rights Norms Around Sexuality, Kristen L. Walker

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

International human rights law has only very recently begun to address issues of sexual identity.

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International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, And Environmental Security: Can The International Criminal Court Bridge The Gaps?, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2000

International Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, And Environmental Security: Can The International Criminal Court Bridge The Gaps?, Mark A. Drumbl

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Human rights law has evolved considerably over the past half-century. Much of this evolution has occurred at the international level.

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Groups Protected By The Genocide Convention: Conflicting Interpretations From The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, William A. Schabas Jan 2000

Groups Protected By The Genocide Convention: Conflicting Interpretations From The International Criminal Tribunal For Rwanda, William A. Schabas

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide' protects "national, ethnical, racial and religious" groups from intentional physical destruction.

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School Of Social And Systemic Studies Catalog 2000-2001, Nova Southeastern University Jan 2000

School Of Social And Systemic Studies Catalog 2000-2001, Nova Southeastern University

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Course Catalogs

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An Early Caddoan Period Cremation From The Boxed Springs Mound Site (41ur30) In Upshur County, Texas, And A Report On Previous Archaeological Investigations, Timothy K. Perttula, Diane E. Wilson, Mark Walters Jan 2000

An Early Caddoan Period Cremation From The Boxed Springs Mound Site (41ur30) In Upshur County, Texas, And A Report On Previous Archaeological Investigations, Timothy K. Perttula, Diane E. Wilson, Mark Walters

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The Boxed Springs Mound site (41UR30) is one of three major Early Caddoan (ca. A.D. 900- t 200) multiple mound centers in the Sabine River basin of northeastern Texas, the others including the Jamestown (41SM54) and Hudnall-Pirtle (41RK4) sites upstream and downstream, respectively, from Boxed Springs. It is situated on a large and prominent upland ridge projection that extends from a bluff on the Sabine River about 500 m north to where the landform merges with a broader stretch of uplands and Bienville alluvium. Sediments on the site are Trep loamy fine sand, a relatively fertile soil. The site is …

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Survival And Causes Of Mortality Of Relocated And Resident Northern Bobwhites In East Texas, Xiangwen Liu, R. Montague Whiting Jr., Brad S. Mueller, D. Scott Parsons, Donald R. Dietz Jan 2000

Survival And Causes Of Mortality Of Relocated And Resident Northern Bobwhites In East Texas, Xiangwen Liu, R. Montague Whiting Jr., Brad S. Mueller, D. Scott Parsons, Donald R. Dietz

Faculty Publications

We estimated survival of 3 groups of northern bobwhites (Colinus virginianus) on a 563-ha intensively managed study area in eastern Texas. During the 3-year study, 155 bobwhites from South Texas and 136 bobwhites from East Texas were captured, radio-marked, and relocated to the study area; 139 bobwhites that were resident on the study area were also captured, radio-marked, and released at the point of capture. There were no differences (P > 0.05) in survival among the 3 groups of bobwhites. However, survival of bobwhites from South Texas were consistently lower than those of the other 2 groups during each year; both …

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An Archaeological Assessment Of San Pedro Park, (41bx19) San Antonio, Texas, Barbara A. Meissner Jan 2000

An Archaeological Assessment Of San Pedro Park, (41bx19) San Antonio, Texas, Barbara A. Meissner

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

In July 1996, the Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) conducted shovel testing and backhoe trenching operations along the western edge of San Pedro Park, near downtown San Antonio, Texas. The purpose of the testing was to detennine the exact location at which the Alazan acequia would be impacted by a planned drainage improvement project under North Flores Street, and to then assess the likelihood that the project would significantly impact buried cultural material. Using old maps as guides, the acequia was located approximately 55 m south of Ashby Street. It was …

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Archaeological Testing At The Headwaters Of The San Marcos River: Southwest Texas State University Raw Water Supply Project, Anthony S. Lyle, Christopher E. Horrell, Steve A. Tomka, Diane A. Cargill Jan 2000

Archaeological Testing At The Headwaters Of The San Marcos River: Southwest Texas State University Raw Water Supply Project, Anthony S. Lyle, Christopher E. Horrell, Steve A. Tomka, Diane A. Cargill

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Between April 30 and June 3, 1998, the Center for Archaeological Research of The University of Texas at San Antonio conducted subsurface testing for cultural resources along the proposed route of a water pipeline for Southwest Texas State University. The area to be impacted by the proposed waterline included a tract on the banks of the headwaters of the San Marcos River and tracts adjacent to the Aquatic Biology Building. The project area is partially within the known boundaries of site 41HY161. The archaeological investigations included shovel testing, backhoe trenching, excavation of three 1 x 1-m units, and monitoring. Upon …

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Archaeological Testing And Monitoring Of A Service Drive At Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio, Texas, Diane A. Cargill, Rick C. Robinson Jan 2000

Archaeological Testing And Monitoring Of A Service Drive At Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Antonio, Texas, Diane A. Cargill, Rick C. Robinson

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

Archaeological testing for the installation of a new service drive and monitoring the removal of the existing service drive at Mission San Juan Capistrano was conducted in November, 1997 and October, 1999 respectively, by the Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) for the National Park Service (NPS). The results of the testing and monitoring indicated that no intact Colonial midden deposits were observed, and few Colonial artifacts were recovered within the proposed service drive right-ofway. Three post-Colonial trash deposits were documented within the project area; however, due to the disturbed nature of …

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Purple Patcher 2000, College Of The Holy Cross Jan 2000

Purple Patcher 2000, College Of The Holy Cross

Purple Patcher Yearbook

This is a digitized version of the 2000 Purple Patcher. Physical copies of the Purple Patcher are held by the College of the Holy Cross Archives.

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2. Assessing Metacognition And Self-Regulated Learning, Paul R. Pintrich, Christopher A. Wolters, Gail P. Baxter Jan 2000

2. Assessing Metacognition And Self-Regulated Learning, Paul R. Pintrich, Christopher A. Wolters, Gail P. Baxter

Issues in the Measurement of Metacognition

In this chapter we provide an overview of the conceptual and methodological issues involved in developing and evaluating measures of metacognition and self-regulated learning. Our goal is to suggest a general framework for thinking about these assessments- a framework that will help generate questions and guide future research and development efforts. Broadly speaking, we see the main issue in assessing metacognition and self-regulated learning as one of construct validity. Of critical importance are the conceptual or theoretical definitions of these constructs and the adequacy of the empirical evidence offered to justify or support interpretations of test scores obtained from instruments …

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Developing Sustainable Management Policy For The National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, Tim W. Clark, Denise Casey, Anders Halverson Jan 2000

Developing Sustainable Management Policy For The National Elk Refuge, Wyoming, Tim W. Clark, Denise Casey, Anders Halverson

Yale School of the Environment Bulletin Series

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Observations On African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana), Including Possible Urine Drinking, During A Severe Drought In Zimbabwe, M. Philip Kahl, Billie D. Armstrong Jan 2000

Observations On African Elephants (Loxodonta Africana), Including Possible Urine Drinking, During A Severe Drought In Zimbabwe, M. Philip Kahl, Billie D. Armstrong

Elephant

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On Cites And Conservation Related Issues, Ronald I. Orenstein Jan 2000

On Cites And Conservation Related Issues, Ronald I. Orenstein

Elephant

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Elephant Research Foundation: Membership List Update, Sonya Kindya, Sandra L. Shoshani Jan 2000

Elephant Research Foundation: Membership List Update, Sonya Kindya, Sandra L. Shoshani

Elephant

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Index For Elephant Volume 2, Eleanor C. Marsac, Richard A. Chiger Jan 2000

Index For Elephant Volume 2, Eleanor C. Marsac, Richard A. Chiger

Elephant

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The Stability Of An Npz Model Subject To Realistic Levels Of Vertical Mixing, Christopher A. Edwards, Thomas A. Powell, Harold P. Batchelder Jan 2000

The Stability Of An Npz Model Subject To Realistic Levels Of Vertical Mixing, Christopher A. Edwards, Thomas A. Powell, Harold P. Batchelder

Journal of Marine Research

The linear stability of a vertically-distributed, Nutrient-Phytoplankton-Zooplankton (NPZ) ocean ecosystem model is analyzed to understand how vertical mixing influences biological dynamics. In the absence of vertical diffusion, the model generally exhibits both stable fixed point and limit cycle behavior, depending on the depth and choice of parameters. Diffusion couples the dynamics of nearby levels and can induce stable profiles as well as oscillatory dynamical trajectories that become vertically phase-locked for large mixing levels. Calculations of the Lyapunov exponent reveal that vertical diffusion can drive this model into a chaotic state, though this occurs only for levels of diffusion …

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Circulation And Volume Flux Of The North Atlantic Using Synoptic Hydrographic Data In A Bernoulli Inverse, Stuart A. Cunningham Jan 2000

Circulation And Volume Flux Of The North Atlantic Using Synoptic Hydrographic Data In A Bernoulli Inverse, Stuart A. Cunningham

Journal of Marine Research

A new formulation of the Bernoulli inverse is used to determine the circulation and flux of the North Atlantic from synoptic CTD observations. The inverse assumes that the compressible Bernoulli function, modified potential temperature and salinity are conserved on streamlines in steady, geostrophic, hydrostatic, mass and density conserving flow. Crossings between CTD stations in the distribution of modified potential temperature versus salinity define a set of streamlines. The Bernoulli function is conserved along streamlines and the difference in the Bernoulli function at each crossing is related to the contribution of the unknown sea-surface height (SSH) to the Bernoulli function. These …

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Generation Of Strong Mesoscale Eddies By Weak Ocean Gyres, Michael A. Spall Jan 2000

Generation Of Strong Mesoscale Eddies By Weak Ocean Gyres, Michael A. Spall

Journal of Marine Research

The generation of strong mesoscale variability through instability of the large-scale circulation in the interior of oceanic gyres is addressed. While previous studies have shown that eddies generated from weakly sheared zonal flows are generally weak, the present results demonstrate that weakly sheared meridional flows typical of wind-forced gyres can generate very strong mesoscale variability. Meridional flows are effective at generating strong eddies because the reduced influence of the planetary vorticity gradient allows the potential energy stored in the zonal potential vorticity gradient to be converted to eddy kinetic energy. A simple scaling theory based on a balance between turbulent …

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The Linkage Between Upper Circumpolar Deep Water (Ucdw) And Phytoplankton Assemblages On The West Antarctic Peninsula Continental Shelf, Barbara B. Prézelin, Eileen E. Hofmann, Claudia Mengelt, John H. Klinck Jan 2000

The Linkage Between Upper Circumpolar Deep Water (Ucdw) And Phytoplankton Assemblages On The West Antarctic Peninsula Continental Shelf, Barbara B. Prézelin, Eileen E. Hofmann, Claudia Mengelt, John H. Klinck

Journal of Marine Research

Intrusion of Upper Circumpolar Deep Water (UCDW), which was derived from the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), onto the western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) shelf region in January 1993 provided a reservoir of nutrient-rich, warmer water below 150 m that subsequently upwelled into the upper water column. Four sites, at which topographically-induced upwelling of UCDW occurred, were identified in a 50 km by 400 km band along the outer WAP continental shelf. One additional site at which wind-driven upwelling occurred was also identified. Diatom-dominated phytoplankton assemblages were always associated with a topographically-induced upwelling site. Such phytoplankton communities were not detected at any …

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On The Influence Of Bottom Topography And The Deep Western Boundary Current On Gulf Stream Separation, Claire E. Tansley, David P. Marshall Jan 2000

On The Influence Of Bottom Topography And The Deep Western Boundary Current On Gulf Stream Separation, Claire E. Tansley, David P. Marshall

Journal of Marine Research

The Gulf Stream separates abruptly from the North American coastline at Cape Hatteras. The absence of significant seasonal and interannual variability in the separation point, compared with that of other separating boundary currents, suggests that Gulf Stream separation is locally controlled. In this paper we consider the possible influence of bottom topography and the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC), which descends underneath the Gulf Stream at Cape Hatteras. The path of the DWBC is strongly constrained by bottom topography. At Cape Hatteras, the continental shelf widens and the DWBC is forced to swing offshore and pass beneath the Gulf Stream. …

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Circulation And Water Masses Of The Southwest Pacific: Woce Section P11, Papua New Guinea To Tasmania, Serguei Sokolov, Stephen Rintoul Jan 2000

Circulation And Water Masses Of The Southwest Pacific: Woce Section P11, Papua New Guinea To Tasmania, Serguei Sokolov, Stephen Rintoul

Journal of Marine Research

The circulation near the western boundary of the South Pacific is described on the basis of water properties and geostrophic velocities measured on a meridional section along 155E through the East Australian and Coral Basins. The section was occupied in winter 1993 as part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE, Section P11S). The primary objective of P11 was to quantify the zonal flows entering and leaving the western boundary of the basin. The primary inflow to the Tasman and Coral seas is supplied by the South Equatorial Current (SEC), which crosses the P11 section as a wide band of …

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Emergence Of Modons From Collapsing Vortex Structures On The Β-Plane, Z. Kizner, D. Berson Jan 2000

Emergence Of Modons From Collapsing Vortex Structures On The Β-Plane, Z. Kizner, D. Berson

Journal of Marine Research

The evolution of unstable barotropic vortices is studied numerically. Exact solutions to the equation of potential vorticity conservation under the "rigid lid" condition, as well as nonsteady-state configurations, are set as initial states in the evolutionary experiments. The examined "shielded modon" structures usually collapse within one to several synoptic periods and radiate vortex pairs propagating westward and eastward. The latter are shown to be modons of Larichev and Reznik. The westward dipoles are identified as "nonlocal modons," that is, vortical cores of stationary nonlinear Rossby waves. In the case of standing Stern modons, some small initial perturbations induce slow westward …

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A Baroclinic Western Boundary Current Over A Continental Slope, Rupert Ford Jan 2000

A Baroclinic Western Boundary Current Over A Continental Slope, Rupert Ford

Journal of Marine Research

Baroclinic flow over a western continental slope is investigated using a simple model in which inertia is completely neglected and the temperature of the ocean depends only on horizontal position. Solutions of this model are also solutions of the three-dimensional equations without inertia. This model is arguably the simplest model in which the Joint Effect of Baroclinicity and Relief (JEBAR) can affect the mass transport on the slope. Offshore, we suppose that a classical double-gyre circulation exists, in which the subpolar gyre is colder than the subtropical gyre. Using asymptotic expansions based on small viscosity and small thermal diffusivity, we …

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The Equatorial Thermostad And Subsurface Countercurrents In The Light Of The Dynamics Of Atmospheric Hadley Cells, Frédéric Marin, Bach Lien Hua, Sophie Wacongne Jan 2000

The Equatorial Thermostad And Subsurface Countercurrents In The Light Of The Dynamics Of Atmospheric Hadley Cells, Frédéric Marin, Bach Lien Hua, Sophie Wacongne

Journal of Marine Research

The simple Held and Hou (1980) nearly inviscid model of the axisymmetric atmospheric circulation, rationalizing the existence of Hadley cells, Jet Streams, and tropical homogenization of potential temperature and vorticity, is adapted to the oceanic subthermocline region. The meridional profile of radiative equilibrium temperature, which provides the driving in the atmospheric case, is replaced, in the oceanic case, by the large-scale equatorial doming of the thermocline. The meridional structure of the equatorial thermostad and the existence, at its poleward flanks, of eastward subsurface countercurrents coincident with sharp potential vorticity gradients are thus explained via angular momentum redistribution by secondary ageostrophic …

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The Role Of Biologically-Enhanced Pore Water Transport In Early Diagenesis: An Example From Carbonate Sediments In The Vicinity Of North Key Harbor, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, Yoko Furukawa, Samuel J. Bentley, Alan M. Shiller, Dawn L. Lavoie, Philippe Van Cappellen Jan 2000

The Role Of Biologically-Enhanced Pore Water Transport In Early Diagenesis: An Example From Carbonate Sediments In The Vicinity Of North Key Harbor, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, Yoko Furukawa, Samuel J. Bentley, Alan M. Shiller, Dawn L. Lavoie, Philippe Van Cappellen

Journal of Marine Research

Biologically enhanced pore water irrigation affects the course of early diagenesis in shallow marine sediments, as illustrated here for the carbonate sediments from North Key Harbor, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida. Whereas macrofaunal activity at the study site extends approximately 15 cm below the water-sediment interface, measured O2 microprofiles only show O2 penetration to depths of a few mm. This apparent discrepancy can be explained by considering the 3-D O2 distribution in the burrowed sediments. Calculations based on an idealized tube model for burrow irrigation show that measureable O2 concentrations are limited to the immediate vicinity …

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Recipe For Banda Sea Water, Jorina M. Waworuntu, Rana A. Fine, Donald B. Olson, Arnold L. Gordon Jan 2000

Recipe For Banda Sea Water, Jorina M. Waworuntu, Rana A. Fine, Donald B. Olson, Arnold L. Gordon

Journal of Marine Research

Water from the western Pacific flows through the Indonesian Seas following different pathways and is modified by various processes to form the uniquely characterized isohaline Banda Sea Water. The processes contributing to the isohaline structure are studied using data from three ARLINDO cruises in 1993, 1994, and 1996. An inverse-model analysis using salinity and CFC-11 data is applied to a vertical section along the main path of flow, from the Makassar Strait to the Flores Sea and Banda Sea. The model reproduces the seasonal and interannual variability of the throughflow and shows reversals of flow in the vertical structure. The …

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The Influence Of Deposit-Feeding On Chlorophyll-A Degradation In Coastal Marine Sediments, Anitra E. Ingalls, Robert C. Aller, Cindy Lee, Ming-Yi Sun Jan 2000

The Influence Of Deposit-Feeding On Chlorophyll-A Degradation In Coastal Marine Sediments, Anitra E. Ingalls, Robert C. Aller, Cindy Lee, Ming-Yi Sun

Journal of Marine Research

To determine how macrofaunal activity affects rates and mechanisms of Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) decomposition, we measured Chl-a concentrations during laboratory incubations of surface sediment with varying abundances of a subsurface deposit-feeder, Yoldia limatula. Decomposition patterns of Chl-a in sediment cores with and without a layer of algal-enriched sediment added to the surface were compared. Decomposition rate constants, kd, were calculated from the loss of reactive Chl-a and further quantified using a nonsteady state, depth-dependent, reaction-diffusion model. Values of kd decreased approximately exponentially with depth and were directly proportional to the number of …

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The Cyclonic Turning And Propagation Of Buoyant Coastal Discharge Along The Shelf, Alexander E. Yankovsky Jan 2000

The Cyclonic Turning And Propagation Of Buoyant Coastal Discharge Along The Shelf, Alexander E. Yankovsky

Journal of Marine Research

Buoyant coastal discharge typically forms a current flowing along the coast in the direction of Kelvin wave propagation (hereinafter referred to as the downstream direction). In this paper the opposite, upstream penetration of buoyancy-driven current is studied using numerical modeling. Previous models of coastal buoyancy-driven currents repeatedly predicted the upstream spreading while in the field this feature was not commonly observed. The mechanism responsible for the propagation of buoyant flow along the coast upstream from its source is identified as follows. In many cases, the boundary conditions applied for buoyant discharge oversimplify the actual dynamics at the mouth blocking landward …

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