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Herb Wharton, Aboriginal stockman and author, Mount Isa, Queensland, 1994 /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from information provided by photographer.; Part of: Cattle Camp series of portraits of Aboriginal drovers, Mount Isa, Queensland, 1994.; Mode of access: Online
Car drivers’ preferences for ISA policy measures
No full textIntelligent Speed Adaptation (ISA), an in-vehicle system that can either warn the driver or directly limit the vehicle’s speed when the speed limit is reached, is generally believed to have a large potential to increase road safety. However, policy makers hesitate to take policy measures that may increase ISA use. Public acceptance of ISA or policy makers’ perception of it is regarded to play an important role in this. This paper aims to increase this insight by reporting car drivers’ preferences for ISA policy measures based on stated choice experiment conducted in the Netherlands. Respondents made choices between various implementation strategies (mandatory ISA and voluntary ISA with financial incentives) given a chosen policy measure. The policy measure describes which drivers group (speed offenders, professional drivers or all drivers) is targeted and which ISA type (warning or limiting) is stimulated. The results point out that car drivers especially prefer that policy makers would impose ISA on speed offenders and to a lesser extent also on professional drivers, while they prefer a voluntary ISA for themselves. Use of voluntary ISA can be stimulated by offering financial incentives, of which purchase subsidy is preferred above annual tax cuts. Furthermore, car drivers prefer warning ISA for themselves and also for professional drivers, while they prefer limiting ISA for speed offenders. In addition, the results indicate that females and the older age group prefer ISA policy measures more than males and young drivers, but overall car drivers’ preferences seem to be rather homogeneous.Engineering, Systems and ServicesTechnology, Policy and Managemen
A dual infection of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) virus and a togavirus-like virus in ISA of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar in New Brunswick, Canada
No full textTwo viruses, infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) virus and a novel togavirus-like virus, were isolated from ISA disease outbreaks that were first reported as a new syndrome, haemorrhagic kidney syndrome (HKS) affecting farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar L. on the East coast of Canada. Laboratory confirmation of ISA diagnosis was initially complicated by isolation of only the togavirus-like agent using the CHSE-214 cell line. Here we demonstrate that a clinical sample from a disease outbreak of ISA contained a mixture of ISA virus and togavirus-like virus. Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) confirmed the presence of both viruses during serial passage of cultures in SHK-1 and CHSE-214 cells. Virus harvested at passage level 3 in both cell lines caused high mortalities and severe gross pathology consistent with ISA virus infection in experimentally inoculated Atlantic salmon parr (approximately 35 g) in freshwater, beginning 12 d post inoculation. ISA virus was detected by virus isolation from kidney and liver tissues of all dead or moribund fish tested. A comparison of virus isolation, 1-step procedure RT-PCR and RNA dot-blot hybridization for detection of ISA virus (ISAV) in fish tissues showed virus isolation to have 100% sensitivity, followed by RT-PCR (66 and 28% sensitivity in kidney and liver, respectively), with RNA dot-blot hybridization as the least sensitive method (20 and 10% sensitivity in kidney and liver, respectively). No togavirus-like virus was detected in these samples by virus isolation. Moreover, another togavirus-like virus isolate grown in CHSE-214 cells in the absence of any other detectable pathogen was non-pathogenic in experimentally inoculated fish. This study confirms that the original ISA outbreaks in New Brunswick, Canada, were caused solely by ISAV
Isa Lake on the Continental Divide, Yellowstone National Park.
No full textIsa Lake on the Continental Divide, Yellowstone National Park
Transition to ISA: Changes in Audit Documentation Practice
No full textTh e article considers the eff ects of transition to ISA in audit documenting. Th e author analyzes base audit documenting problems, existing before the transition to ISA, discloses ISA specifi c features, refl ected in the change of approach to audit documenting, explores the main results the transition to ISA in formation of auditor working papers.</jats:p
What drives the Acceptability of Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA)?
No full textTo have knowledge about the acceptability of Intelligent Transport systems (ITS) is most beneficial for the development of supported implementation strategies. So far, different theories and methods, also stemming from other domains, have been used to define and conceptualize the notion of acceptability. In a previous paper, we developed a theoretical concept to define acceptability of ISA based on different theories and methods used in ITS & ISA research. In the current paper we aim to find out which predefined indicators are relevant to define the acceptability of ISA. Background factors, contextual issues and ISA-device related factors are used as indicators to predict the level of acceptability. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) is used to define the direct and indirect effects.Infrastructures, Systems and ServicesTechnology, Policy and Managemen
GSQ Mt Isa Southwest elevation grid geodetic
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This GSQ Mt Isa Southwest elevation grid geodetic is elevation data for the Mount Isa South West, Qld, 2006 acquired under the project No. 1111 for the geological survey of QLD. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m). This grid contains the ground elevation values relative to the geoid for the Mount Isa South West, Qld, 2006. It represents the vertical distance from a location on the Earth's surface to the geoid. The data are given in units of meters. The processed data are checked by GA geophysicists using standard methods for assessing quality to ensure that the final data are fit-for-purpose.Digital Elevation data record the terrain height variations from the processed point- or line-located data recorded during a geophysical survey. This GSQ Mt Isa Southwest elevation grid geodetic is elevation data for the Mount Isa South West, Qld, 2006. This survey was acquired under the project No. 1111 for the geological survey of QLD. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m). This grid contains the ground elevation relative to the geoid for the Mount Isa South West, Qld, 2006. It represents the vertical distance from a location on the Earth's surface to the geoid. The data are given in units of meters. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose
GSQ East Isa South elevation grid geodetic
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This GSQ East Isa South elevation grid geodetic is elevation data for the East Mount Isa - South, Qld, 2007 acquired under the project No. 1145 for the geological survey of QLD. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 89m). This grid contains the ground elevation values relative to the geoid for the East Mount Isa - South, Qld, 2007. It represents the vertical distance from a location on the Earth's surface to the geoid. The data are given in units of meters. The processed data are checked by GA geophysicists using standard methods for assessing quality to ensure that the final data are fit-for-purpose.Digital Elevation data record the terrain height variations from the processed point- or line-located data recorded during a geophysical survey. This GSQ East Isa South elevation grid geodetic is elevation data for the East Mount Isa - South, Qld, 2007. This survey was acquired under the project No. 1145 for the geological survey of QLD. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 89m). This grid contains the ground elevation relative to the geoid for the East Mount Isa - South, Qld, 2007. It represents the vertical distance from a location on the Earth's surface to the geoid. The data are given in units of meters. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose
Relatório integrador da atividade profissional
No full textMestrado em Engenharia Agronómica - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThis report aims to present the professional activity of the author, in order to allow a proper assessment of the expertise acquired and the duties performed, with a view to obtaining the degree of Masters in “Engenharia Agronómica” (Agricultural Engineering) with a specialization in “Economia Agrária e Gestão do Território” (Agricultural Economics and Land Management), in accordance with the “Regulamento Geral dos Segundos Ciclos de Estudo Conducentes ao Grau de Mestre do ISA” (General Regulations of Study Second Cycles Leading to the Degree of Master of ISA).
The author graduated in Agricultural Engineering, in the field of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology from the “Instituto Superior de Agronomia”. She performed her professional activity in the currently designated “Instituto de Financiamento da Agricultura e Pescas, I.P.”, carrying on her main function in the production of statistics on the measures financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund. She also collaborated in the implementation and the development of the Statistical Information System of the Institute. She presently integrates the Unit for the Reengineering of the Processes of the same Institute.
The report begins with a brief presentation of the history, the powers and the organizational structure of the Institute, followed by the description of the expertise acquired and the role carried out by the author, finally looking to exert a critical and integrative analysis of these expertise, in order to justify the attribution of the Degree of Masters
Isa Lake, Continental Divide, Yellowstone Nat. Park, Wyo.
No full textISA LAKE, CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, YELLOWSTONE NAT. PARK, WYO. The drive from Upper Geyser Basin to Yellowstone Lake, in which we twice across the Continental Divide, is one of the most interesting that we enjoy in touring the Park. A short distance beyond the branch road leading to Lone Star Geyser we enter Spring Creek Canyon and follow its picturesque windings until at 7 miles from Kepler Cascade, we reach Isa Lake, precisly on the summit of the Continental Divide. It is an impressive spot in which to realize that we are standing on the height of land separating the Atlantic from the Pacific, for Lake Isa itself. with outlets at each end, contributes its waters to both oceans. This charming little lake, shyly hidden among the pine forests, is about 8,261 ft. above sea level and owing to the tortuous forms of the watersheds in its vicinity, the drainage from its eastern end feeds streams which find their way to the Pacific while that from its western end reaches the Firehole and thence the Missouri and the eastern sea. The lodgepole pines which we see growing all about lake Isa are typical of great areas of the Park, four-fifths of the area of which is under timber. Seventy-five per cent of this timber consists of lodgepole pins which, though of little value for lumber are useful for the building of log structures. The ranger stations throughout the Park as well as Old Faithful Inn and a great many other buildings are made of lodgepole pine logs. Other common trees are the whitebark pine, Douglas fir and Engelman spruce, balsam, juniper, aspen and, at the lower altitudes, the narrow-leaved cottonwood and the limber pine. (Lat. 44° N.; Long. 111° W.
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