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Marine Industries Association Of South Florida Master Plan, Urban Harbors Institute, University Of Massachusetts Boston, Fau Joint Center For Environmental And Urban Problems

Urban Harbors Institute Publications

The Marine Industry Master Plan was prepared by the Marine Industries Association of South Florida (MIASF) to present a comprehensive and coordinated action agenda for retaining and expanding the marine industry in Broward County. This Master Plan is an extension of a strategic planning process conducted by the MIASF in which the major issues confronting the industry were identified along with an initial strategy to address those issues. This Marine Master Plan is part of that strategy. The plan contains goals, objectives, and actions that respond to several key issues: scarcity of waterfront sites for marine facility expansion, displacement of …

The Distribution Of Plants In Scoska Cave, North Yorkshire, And Their Relationship To Light Intensity, Allan Pentecost, Zhang Zhaohui

International Journal of Speleology

The flora of a small limestone cave was investigated. A total of 59 species was recorded (4 algae, 3 lichens, 47 bryophytes, 4 ferns, 1 angiosperm) making it bryologically the richest cave in Britain and one of the richest in Europe. All but nine of the species had been recorded from other European caves. Species-richness declined irregullarly from the entrance (relative irradiance with respect to open sky 12%) to 34m depth (rel. irradiance 0.004%). Bryophytes were found at 0-16m depth where relative irradiance declined to 0.2% and only algae were encountered at 34m depth. While irradiance, which declined exponentially, was …

The Coupling Of Biotechnology With Electrochemistry: Electrodenitrification Of Water Using The Enzyme Nitrate Reductase, Cyril Geyer

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Nitrate is a worldwide contaminant that causes environmental (eutrophication) and human health (methemoglobinemia, cancers) concerns. Very few techniques are available to eliminate it from natural environment and they suffer from major drawbacks, such as production of unwanted byproducts (toxins or brine). The electrochemical reduction of nitrate on any electrode is relatively slow and catalysts or electron mediators are needed. The goal of this project was to develop a new process that could overcome these disadvantages. The project demonstrates the feasibility of using an enzyme, nitrate reductase, and a mediator, methyl viologen to transfer the electrons from the electrode to nitrate, …

A Study Of Important Content For Undergraduate Graphic Communications Programs, Tsung-Yu Hao

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study was an investigation of important content for undergraduate graphic communications programs in four-year colleges and universities. The findings of this study can help educational professionals as they design curriculum, equip laboratories, and recruit faculty.

Subject categories and content items were initially identified by a review of literature. These content items were then further refined and rated on level of importance by a panel of experts. Modified subject categories and content items were then sent to the panel a second time for rating. Through this process, 15 subject categories and 68 content items were identified.

A questionnaire was developed …

Use And Effectiveness Of Decision Support Systems (Dss): Study Of The Saudi Private Sector, Ibrahim A. Alhunaishel

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

In the industrialized world today, management is characterized by extensive use of computers to manage rapid change, information overload, and complex decision-making. Literature suggests that Decision Support Systems, computer packages offering information retrieval, problem-structuring models, decision alternatives, and other types of decision support, are effective extensions of human decision-making and offer substantial benefits to organizations utilizing them.

In spite of overwhelmingly positive reviews for DSS, empirical literature has produced inconsistent results regarding DSS effectiveness, and definitions of “effectiveness” and of DSS itself are varied and sometimes contradictory. Distinguishing DSS from MIS (management information systems) and other types of managerial computer …

Two Instructional Approaches - The Electric Maze And The Direct Instructional Model-For Teaching At- Risk Kindergarten Students Alphabet Letter Names, Sherry Marie Jack

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This paper compares the effectiveness of two instructional approaches for teaching the names of alphabet letters to 5 and 6 year-old elementary students who were at risk for academic failure. The literature review examines investigations which had previously addressed the direct instructional model and parameters of active learning. In this context, a variety of perspectives regarding active learning are reviewed followed by a finer examination of self-corrective materials which was a unique component of the active learning paradigm used in this investigation. Nine (N = 9) elementary children were taught the names of five randomly chosen letters (upper and lower …

Reasoning With Rules, Joseph Raz

Faculty Scholarship

What is special about legal reasoning? In what way is it distinctive? How does it differ from reasoning in medicine, or engineering, physics, or everyday life? The answers range from the very ambitious to the modest. The ambitious claim that there is a special and distinctive legal logic, or legal ways of reasoning, modes of reasoning which set the law apart from all other disciplines. Opposing them are the modest, who claim that there is nothing special to legal reasoning, that reason is the same in all domains. According to them, only the contents of the law differentiate it from …

Searching For A Quantum Algorithm To Solve The Traveling Salesman Problem, Buckley Hopper

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

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Evolving Tenure Rights And Agricultural Intensification In Southwestern Burkina Faso, Michael Kevane, Leslie C. Gray

Economics

Popular and official representations of the environment in Burkina Faso present soils as fragile and potentially subject to catastrophic collapse in fertility. In the cotton growing zone of southwestern Burkina Faso, researchers and policy makers attribute changes in land cover and land quality to population growth. This paper presents evidence questioning the dominant "population-degradation narrative" as applied to Burkina. We find that farmers are intensifying their production systems. While population has led to land scarcity, farmers are responding to both the resulting uncertainty in land rights and reductions in soil quality by intensifying the production process. Investments are used both …

Education And The Economy, Kevin Hollenbeck

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.

John I. Jenkins, Knowledge And Faith In Thomas Aquinas, Patrick Lee

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Mark Wynn, God And Goodness, Charles C. Taliaferro

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

South West Hydrological Information Package : Understanding And Managing Hydrological Issues On Agricultural Land In The South West Of Western Australia, Peter J. Tille, T W. Mathwin, Richard J. George Dr

Bulletins 4000 -

This manual reviews current knowledge of the hydrological issues that affect, or are affected by, agriculture in the catchments of the south west of Western Australia.

Wa Soil Erosion Under Investigation, George Richard Dr

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

A survey of soil erosion at 70 sites throughout Western Australia, recently completed as a part of a National Reconnaissance Survey, has shown that erosion is occurring at an unsustainable rate. While still to be compiled into a national publication, Dr Richard George reports on the Western Australian results, and discusses options for management and further investigation.

Sm 610 Supervised Ministry Handbook And Syllabus, Daryl L. Smith

Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Relationship Between Durophagy And Feeding Biomechanics In Gray Triggerfish, Balistes Capriscus: Intraspecific Variation In Ecological Morphology, Christopher J. Durie, Ralph G. Turingan

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications

The relationship between oral jaw biomechanics and consumption of hard prey was compared between Gulf of Mexico (Gulf) and Atlantic Ocean (Atlantic) populations of gray triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) to examine intraspecific ecomorphological variation between these fish. Gut content analysis revealed that Atlantic fish fed more on hard-shelled invertebrates, such as crabs and sea urchins, than Gulf conspecifics. Difference in the relative magnitude of durophagy between Gulf and Atlantic triggerfish was associated with intraspecific differences in key biomechanical properties of the prey-capture and processing mechanism. The more durophagous Atlantic B. capriscus had more massive jaw bones and muscles than Gulf fish. …

A Role For State Planning: Intergenerational Equity And Adaptive Management, Fred Bosselman

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Grasping At Straws, Rushing To Judgment: Election Reforms In Florida, 2001, Richard K. Scher

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Statistical Issues In The 2000 U.S. Presidential Election In Florida, Alan Agresti, Brett Presnell

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Department Of Fisheries Annual Report To Parliament 2000 - 2001, Department Of Fisheries, Western Australia

Department of Fisheries Annual Reports

In accordance with Section 62 of the Financial Administration and audit Act 1985 and Section 263 of the Fish Resources Management Act 1994, I submit for your information the Annual report to Parliament of Fisheries WA for the financial year ending 30 June 2001.

The annual report has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Financial Administration and audit Act 1985 and Section 263 of the Fish Resources Management Act 1994.

2000/2001 was a year for Fisheries WA marked by the challenges of managing change. The year saw a change of government and, as with all new governments, …

Computational Study For The Structural Change Of The System Cdte_{1-X} S_X Thin Film, Emad Khdayer Al-Shakarchi

Turkish Journal of Physics

Polycrystalline thin film of the graded system CdTe_{1-x}S_{x} for x=0,0.1,\ldots,1 are prepared by using thermal evaporation technique deposited on the glass substrate with an average thickness 3000 Å for each individual value of x . XRD technique is used with the aid of a computational program to study the phase change from cubic zinc blend structure to hexagonal wurtzite with an inversion point related to the x-value. It is found that x=0.1 gives us an inversion point in the structural change from cubic to hexagonal phase.

A Theoretical Model For The Non-Linear Susceptibility Of The Antiferromagnetic Systems, Beki̇r Özçeli̇k, Keri̇m Kiymaç, Ahmet Eki̇ci̇bi̇l

Turkish Journal of Physics

In this study, we have developed a general theoretical model, based upon the simple mean field model of N\'{e}el, for the non-linear response of an antiferromagnetic system. The results indicate that the odd order derivatives, (d^{2n + 1}m_{a})_{0} = (-d^{2n + 1}m_{b})_{0}, where n=1,2,3......, will diverge and the even order derivatives, (d^{2n}m_{a})_{0} = (d^{2n}m_{b})_{0} will vanish due to the symmetry of two sublattices, ``a'' and ``b'', forming the antiferromagnet. This model also supports our experimental results performed on two antiferromagnetic samples, namely, Cs_{2}MnCl_{4}.2H_{2}O and MnCl_{2}.4H_{2}O [1].

Iba-1 Calculations Of E2/M1 Mixing Ratios And Quadrupole Moments In ^{154}Gd, Mehmet Baylan

Turkish Journal of Physics

In this study the Interacting Boson Approximation is applied in its basic form (IBA-1) to the calculation of gamma-ray E2/M1 multipole mixing ratios and quadrupole moments [Q( 2^{+} )] of electromagnetic transitions in ^{154}Gd. The numerical results obtained for ^{154}Gd are in reasanably good agreement with previous experimental and theoretical values.

Excitation Plus Ionization In Electron-Atom Collisions To He^{+} (N=2): (E,2e), (E, E\Gamma ) And (E, 2e\Gamma ) Studies, Mevlut Dogan, Albert Crowe

Turkish Journal of Physics

Simultaneous excitation-ionization of helium atoms by electron impact is observed by the coincidence detection of the outgoing particles. The relationship between (e,2e), (e,e\gamma ) and (e,2e\gamma ) experiments is discussed.

Covariant Two Fermion Equations With Anomalous Moments, Ahmet Turan Alan, Z. Zekeri̇ya Aydin, Nuretti̇n Karagöz, Ali̇ Ulvi̇ Yilmazer

Turkish Journal of Physics

We derive covariant equations for two-fermion systems, taking into account the anomalous magnetic moments of the particles.

Double Transition Effect In Anderson Transition, Hüseyi̇n Aktaş

Turkish Journal of Physics

In this work we have studied the electronic mobility \mu within a completely disordered lattice system by using the strong interatomic hopping potential V(r) = ( - {\frac{{r}}{{a_{o}} }}) \exp( - r / a_{o} ) for site representation of the Hamiltonian. It is shown that a metallic system of a completely disordered lattice first goes insulating and then goes back to metallic again at higher atomic density \rho .

Magnetization Measurements On Electrodeposited Cu_{1 - X}Co_{X} Alloy Films, Ömer F. Bakkaloğlu, İsmai̇l H. Karahan, Hasan Efeoğlu, Muhammet Yildirim, Uğur Çevi̇k, Yahya Kemal Yoğurtçu

Turkish Journal of Physics

The magnetic properties of Cu_{1 - x}Co_{x} alloy films prepared by electrodeposition technique were investigated by Alternating Gradient Force Magnetometer. The magnetization curves of Cu_{0.94}Co_{0.06}, Cu_{0.87}Co_{0.13} and Cu_{0.74}Co_{0.26} films were easily saturated while the other Cu_{1 - x}Co_{x} samples with x= 0.17, 0.19 and 0.21 had more inclined magnetization curves. The saturation magnetization value of Cu_{1 - x}Co_{x} film increased with increasing Co content in the film. The minimum values of the ratio of remanence to magnetization and the coercive field were determined in the Cu_{0.81}Co_{0.19} alloy film among the others. The ferromagnetic order in the Cu_{1 - x}Co_{x} films …

A Theoretical Analysis Of Transverse Mode Control In Waveguide Gas Lasers, Erol Taşal, M. Selami̇ Kiliçkaya

Turkish Journal of Physics

Theoretical of multiple transverse mode laser oscillation involving spatially varying gain and loss are investigated. The effect of gain and loss distribution on mode competition is analyzed. A theoretical analysis of laser transverse mode competition is investigated from the perspective of the spetial overlap of modes with a transverse gain-loss distribution. The dominant mode of laser oscillation is the mode that is stable under small perturbations.

Properties Of Mos Capacitors Produced On Sige Formed By Ge-Implanted Si, M. Şahi̇n, Serhat Özder, Raşi̇t Turan

Turkish Journal of Physics

Metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitors fabricated on Ge-implanted Si have been investigated by using C-V and G-V measurements. The control sample on pure Si substrate yielded normal C-V and G-V characteristics. The Ge-implanted MOS samples exhibited anomalous C-V and G-V behavior. The C-V curves of the samples were strongly frequency dependent both in the accumulation and inversion regions. They shift almost in parallel to higher values with decreasing frequency, reaching the oxide capacitance value in the quasi-static (QS) measurement. A band structure and equivalent circuit model were introduced to explain this and other features of the experimental observations. It is shown that …

Features Of The Compound Multiplicity Of The Interactions Of ^{24}Mg And ^{28}Si Ions With Emulsion Nuclei At 4.5a Gev/C, N. N. Abd-Allah, M. Mohery

Turkish Journal of Physics

The present paper deals with the interactions of ^{24}Mg and ^{28}Si nuclei at 4.5A GeV/c with emulsion. Some characteristics of the compound multiplicity given by the numerical sum of grey and shower particles have been investigated. The obtained results indicate that the compound multiplicity distribution is consistent with KNO-Scaling and its width increases with the size of the projectile nucleus.The dependence of the average compound multiplicity on the numbers of black and the grey particles and the sum of them is obvious and the values of the slope has been found to be independent of the projectile nucleus.