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The Stewardship Council Model: A Comparison Of The Fsc And Msc, Xavier Pons Rafols, Luke Brander

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

This paper aims to analyze the "Stewardship Council Model" through a comparison of the Forest Stewardship Council (hereinafter "FSC") and the Marine Stewardship Council (hereinafter "MSC").

Actores No Gubernamentales En La Gobernacion Y Derecho Internacional: Un Desafio O Una Bendicion, Joyeeta Gupta

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

La globalizaci6n ha cambiado el modo que la sociedad discute los problemas comunes y globales.

Non-State Actors In International Governance And Law: A Challenge Or A Blessing, Joyeeta Gupta

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Globalization has changed the way global society addresses common and global problems.

2005 Nsu Fact Book, Nova Southeastern University

NSU Fact Book

This 13th edition of the Nova Southeastern University Fact Book reflects expanding body of data and information that provides perspective on the university's character, growth, and accomplishments. The 2005 Fact Book continues to provide narrative, numeric, and graphic representation of the university, including history, characteristics, and developments of the institution, Data are presented in both tabular and graphic formats tp provide pertinent detail, and general trends highlighted.

Antifungal Activity Of Camptothecin, Trifolin, And Hyperoside Isolated From Camptotheca Acuminate, Shiyou Li, Zhizhen Zhang, Abigail Cain, Bo Wang, Melissa Long, Josephine Taylor

NCPC Publications and Patents

Leaf spots and root rots are major fungal diseases in Camptotheca acuminata that limit cultivation of the plant for camptothecin (CPT), a promising anticancer and antiviral alkaloid. Bioassays showed that pure CPT and flavonoids (trifolin and hyperoside) isolated from Camptotheca effectively control fungal pathogens in vitro, including Alternaria alternata, Epicoccum nigrum, Pestalotia guepinii, Drechslera sp., and Fusarium avenaceum, although antifungal activity of these compounds in the plant is limited. CPT inhibited mycelial growth by approximately 50% (EC50) at 10-30 íg/mL and fully inhibited growth at 75-125 íg/mL. The flavonoids were less effective than CPT at 50 íg/mL, …

Shorebird Habitat Use And Nest-Site Selection In The Playa Lakes Region, Warren C. Conway, Loren M. Smith, James D. Ray

Faculty Publications

Wetlands in the Playa Lakes Region (PLR) provide important habitats for wintering waterfowl, cranes, and both migrant and breeding shorebirds. Playa Lakes Region wetlands experience naturally fluctuating hydroperiods but are exposed to anthropogenic stresses, which are exacerbated during summer and may influence PLR wetland occupancy and selection by breeding shorebirds. We examined wetland-scale habitat use and nest-site selection of the 4 dominant shorebirds (American avocets [Recurvirostra americana], black-necked stilts [Himantopus mexicanus], killdeer [Charadrius vociferus], snowy plovers [C. alexandrinus]) nesting in playas, saline lakes, and in both created and riparian wetlands in the …

The Budget, Fiscal Year 2005-2006, Volume 2: Performance-Based Budget For Selected Agencies And Supplementary Information, Tennessee. Department Of Finance And Administration

Budget Volume 2

This supplement to the budget provides the detail of base budget reductions proposed to foster efficiency improvements in state government.

Purple Patcher 2005, College Of The Holy Cross

Purple Patcher Yearbook

This is a digitized version of the 2005 Purple Patcher. Physical copies of the Purple Patcher are held by the College of the Holy Cross Archives.

The "Priceless Possession" Of Citizenship: Race, Nation And Naturalization In American Law, 1880-1930, J. Allen Douglas

Duquesne Law Review

Examining the application of racial restrictions to grants of citizenship along with the emergence of the bundle-of-rights conception of property, this article explores a panoply of naturalization claims in which courts discussed a petitioner's eligibility for citizenship as a "free white person." To lend a measure of credibility and resolve to those naturalization determinations, federal and state courts relied upon the protocols of a nineteenth century object-centered, conception of property. Consequently, the emergence of a new, relational property paradigm - the bundle-of-sticks notion - compelled the judiciary to adopt a series of shifting standards for establishing race and citizenship, ranging …

Information For U.S. Scientists About Participation In The Inaugural Projects Of The International Andrill Program Including An Overview Of The Andrill U.S. Science Support Program, Andrill-U.S. Steering Committee, Andrill Science Management Office

ANDRILL Project Information

This document provides guidance for potential U.S. participants in the two inaugural projects of the ANDRILL Program. It includes information on eligibility, application procedures, proposal review criteria, expected numbers and positions of on-ice and off-ice personnel, staffing decisions, science support levels, participant responsibilities, and project timelines. Information provided in this document (Version 3_23_05) may be modified after the U.S. ANDRILL Workshop (April 1-2, 2005). The final version will be posted no later than 4-15-05.

The reader should refer to the Appendices of this document for more detailed information on U.S. and international management of the ANDRILL Program, and for a …

Productive Benefits Of Health: Evidence From Low-Income Countries, T. Paul Schultz

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Risk, Network Quality, And Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions In Burkina Faso, Richard Akresh

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Descriptive Characters Of A Red-Bellied Snake Population At Oak Lake Field Station, Nels H. Troelstrup Jr., Regina D. Cahoe

Oak Lake Field Station Research Publications

Habitat use and population biology of the northern red-bellied snake (Storeria occipitomaculata occipitomaculata) were studied at Oak Lake Field Station (2003-2004) to enhance existing knowledge and future management efforts in eastern South Dakota. The red-bellied snake is listed as a monitored species in South Dakota, species of special concern in Nebraska and protected in Iowa. Forty-three snakes were caught by hand and from drift fences from May-August 2003. Thirty-two additional snakes were caught by hand or were birthed from May-September 2004. Nearly twice as many females (69%) as males (31%) were collected. Snout-vent length ranged from 27 to 245 mm …

Spider Biodiversity At Oak Lake Field Station, Brookings County, South Dakota, Katherine E. Okins, Paul J. Johnson

Oak Lake Field Station Research Publications

A spider biodiversity study was conducted at Oak Lake Field Station, Brookings County, during the summers of 2003 and 2004 in order to collect and inventory spider families found in eastern South Dakota. Pitfall traps were set at nine site locations with the following categorized habitats: lakeside elevated woodland, midslope woodland, mesic meadow, xeric prairie, xeric exotic-grass prairie, and coniferous windbreak. A total of 1053 specimens were identified, representing 49 genera in the following 21 families: Agelenidae, Amaurobiidae, Araneidae, Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Cybaeidae, Dictynidae, Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae, Liocranidae, Lycosidae, Micryphantidae, Nesticidae, Oxyopidae, Philodromidae, Pholcidae, Pisauridae, Salticidae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiidae, and Thomisidae. The ratio …

The Jackrabbit Dairy Review, Vikram Mistry

The Jackrabbit Dairy & Food Review

No abstract provided.

Accuracy Of Structure-Derived Properties In Simple Comparative Models Of Protein Structures, Suvobrata Chakravarty, Lei Wang, Roberto Sanchez

Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Winter Weather: Tips For Coping With Severe Winter Weather, Cooperative Extension Service

SDSU Extension Special Series

This information is an overview of the educational resources available on the South Dakota State University Cooperative Extension (SDCES) Winter Weather web site http://sdces.sdstate.edu/winter_weather/ where you will find more in-depth information. If you do not have access to the web site call your local Extension office or 605- 688-4187 for a hard copy of the information.

2005-06 Jackrabbit Equestrian Media Guide : The Inaugural Season, South Dakota State University

Jackrabbit Equestrian Media Guides (2005-2014)

This is the South Dakota State University Jackrabbit Equestrian inaugural season media guide.

A Tribute To Nick Fofonoff, Sears Foundation Of Marine Research Yale University

Journal of Marine Research

Biographical Notes: Nick Fofonoff

Bibliography: Nicholas Paul Fofonoff, Sears Foundation Of Marine Research Yale University

Journal of Marine Research

1953 Fofonoff, N. P. A theoretical example of wind-induced circulation in a semi-circular canal. Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 34, 725-728.

Deep Ocean Experiments With Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide: Creation And Sensing Of A Controlled Plume At 4 Km Depth, Peter G. Brewer, Edward T. Peltzer, Peter Walz, Izuo Aya, Kenji Yamane, Ryuji Kojima, Yasuharu Nakajima, Noriko Nakayama, Peter Haugan, Truls Johannessen

Journal of Marine Research

The rapidly rising levels of atmospheric and oceanic CO₂ from the burning of fossil fuels has lead to well-established international concerns over dangerous anthropogenic interference with climate. Disposal of captured fossil fuel CO₂ either underground, or in the deep ocean, has been suggested as one means of ameliorating this problem. While the basic thermoladynamic properties of both CO₂ and seawater are well known, the problem of interaction of the two fluids in motion to create a plume of high CO₂/low pH seawater has been modeled, but not tested. We describe here a novel experiment designed …

On The World-Wide Circulation Of The Deep Water From The North Atlantic Ocean, Joseph L. Reid

Journal of Marine Research

Above the deeper waters of the North Atlantic that have entered from the circumpolar flow, convection in the Labrador Sea and overflow from the Mediterranean, Norwegian, and Greenland seas combine at mid-depth and circulate in the subarctic cyclonic gyre, and flow southward along the western boundary into the South Atlantic. Because of the nature of these sources the mid-depth waters of the North Atlantic are the warmest, most saline, highest in oxygen and lowest in silica of any of the mid-depth waters of the World Ocean. They have been called the North Atlantic Deep Water.In the Atlantic these characteristics have …

Available Potential Energy In The World’S Oceans, Rui Xin Huang

Journal of Marine Research

It is shown that in the case with bottom topography, the available gravitational potential energy cannot be represented by the available pressure potential energy. Thus, a suitable quantity for the study of large-scale circulation is the total available potential energy which is defined as the sum of available gravitational potential energy and available internal energy. A simple computational algorithm for calculating the available potential energy in the world's oceans is proposed and tested. This program includes the compressibility of seawater and realistic topography. It is estimated that the world's oceans available gravitational potential energy density is about 1474 J/m^{3 …}

A Double-Diffusive Interface Tank For Dynamic-Response Studies, Raymond W. Schmitt, Robert C. Millard, John M. Toole, W. David Wellwood

Journal of Marine Research

A large tank capable of long-term maintenance of a sharp temperature-salinity interface has been developed and applied to measurements of the dynamical response of oceanographic sensors. A two-layer salt-stratified system is heated from below and cooled from above to provide two convectively mixed layers with a thin double-diffusive interface separating them. A temperature jump exceeding 10°C can be maintained over 1–2 cm (a vertical temperature gradient of order 10³°C/m) for several weeks. A variable speed-lowering system allows testing of the dynamic response of conductivity and temperature sensors in full-size oceanographic instruments. An acoustic echo sounder and shadowgraph system …

High-Pressure Thermodynamic Gibbs Functions Of Ice And Sea Ice, Rainer Fiestel, Wolfgang Wagner

Journal of Marine Research

A new Gibbs thermodynamic potential function of ice Ih is proposed to extend and improve already existing ones and to unify various data and formulas for thermodynamic equilibrium properties of natural ice in a consistent manner. It is valid for absolute pressures from 0 to 211 MPa and for temperatures from 0 to 273.16 K. It is consistent with the current 1995 international scientific pure water standard, IAPWS-95, and with the latest 2003 Gibbs potential of seawater. In conjunction with the latter, it provides freezing temperatures of seawater for pressures up to 100 MPa (10,000 dbar). The potential functions of …

Basin-Scale Performance Of A Locally Optimized Marine Ecosystem Model, A. Oschlies, M. Schartau

Journal of Marine Research

A marine ecosystem model, that had previously been calibrated in a one-dimensional (1D) mode against observations at three time-series and process-study sites simultaneously, is coupled to a three-dimensional (3D) circulation model of the North and Equatorial Atlantic. Compared to an experiment with a previously employed subjectively tuned ecosystem model, the new 3D-model does not only reduce the model-data misfit at those locations at which observations entered the 1D optimization procedure, but also at an oligotrophic site in the subtropics that had not been considered in the 1D calibration. Basin-scale gridded climatological data sets of nitrate, surface chlorophyll, and satellite-derived primary …

The Nonlocal Model Of Porewater Irrigation: Limits To Its Equivalence With A Cylinder Diffusion Model, Nicola J. Grigg, Bernard P. Boudreau, Ian T. Webster, Phillip W. Ford

Journal of Marine Research

Burrows maintained by animals in aquatic sediments ventilate the sediment and can substantially alter the rates and pathways of biologically-mediated decomposition reactions. A well known and effective way of modeling the impact of such bioirrigation in sediment diagenetic models is to assume that solutes diffuse into an annulus of sediment surrounding the burrow; the reaction diffusion equations are represented in cylindrical polar co-ordinates. More commonly, bioirrigation of sediments is represented by one-dimensional "nonlocal" irrigation models. Their use is typically justified by the assertion that a nonlocal model is equivalent to a radially-integrated two-dimensional diffusion model in cylindrical-polar co-ordinates. In this …

Similar Rapid Response To Phytodetritus Deposition In Shallow And Deep-Sea Sediments, L. Moodley, J. J. Middelburg, K. Soetaert, H. T. S. Boschker, P. M. J. Herman, C. H. R. Heip

Journal of Marine Research

The short-term benthic response to an input of fresh organic matter was examined in vastly contrasting benthic environments (estuarine intertidal to deep-sea) using ¹³C-labeled diatoms as a tracer of labile carbon. Benthic processing was assessed in major compartments through ¹³C-enrichment in σCO₂, in bacteria-specific phospholipids and in fauna tissue. A rapid response was evident in all environments. Under warm bottom water (14–18°C), similar quantities of the added carbon were respired within 24 hours in shallow and deep-sea sediments. However, the speed and magnitude of respiration were strongly reduced under low bottom water temperature (4–6°C), both in …

On Rectification Of Randomly Forced Flows, Pavel S. Berloff

Journal of Marine Research

Nonlinear rectification of the ocean circulation driven by random forcing, which simulates the effect of unresolved eddies, is studied in an idealized closed basin. The results are based on the analysis of randomly forced solutions and linear eigenmodes. Depending on the forcing strength, two rectification regimes are found: zonal jets and isolated gyres. It is shown that both regimes are due to nonlinear interactions of resonant basin modes. In the zonal-jet regime, these interactions involve complex interplay between resonant baroclinic modes and some secondary modes. Both Rhines' scaling for zonal jets and prediction of gyres based on the maximum entropy …

Dynamics Of A Co2-Seawater Interface In The Deep Ocean, Joakim Hove, Peter M. Haugan

Journal of Marine Research

A trough filled with liquid CO₂ located at 3940 m depth has been used as a model system for CO₂ deposition on the seafloor. To study the intrinsic properties of the interface between CO₂ and seawater a wave maker was used to excite regular plane waves. The frequency (≲2.5 rad/s) and wavelength (20 cm–40 cm) of the waves have been measured, and compare reasonably well with the dispersion relation for deep fluid gravity waves. The shear stability of the interface was investigated by setting the water above the CO₂ in motion with a thruster. For shear …