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FS Poseidon Cruises P343, 04 Oct-17 Oct 2006 and P345, 28 Nov-07 Dec 2006. RAPID-MOC Autumn 2006 Eastern Boundary moorings refurbishment cruises
No full textThis report describes the Autumn 2006 Eastern Boundary moorings refurbishment cruises for the RAPID-MOC programme Monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at 26.5°N. Two cruises are reported here: FS Poseidon cruise P343 (4 OCT – 17 OCT) and FS Poseidon cruise P345 (28 NOV – 7 DEC). Both cruises sailed to and from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria.Six moorings were recovered during P343 and 13 deployed. Parafil failures on EB1 and EB2 (5000m long moorings located near 24°N, 24°W) during deployment necessitated immediate recovery. This led to an emergency cruise P345 to recover EB2 and to redeploy EB1 and EB2. P343 was also notable for the first deployment of seven mini-moorings consisting of a single microcat between 500m and 50m depth
The Use of Strategic Metaphors in Intercultural Business Communication
No full textThis paper contends that the use of strategic metaphors can help deliver the effective intercultural business communication necessary for global success. Using the Renault-Nissan Alliance as an example, the authors argue that an appropriate metaphor can help provide the global glue which captures the essence of the organisation’s activities, encapsulates its strategic intent, incorporates the national and global cultures, and portrays its ethical and business stance. Indeed, as is the case in the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the appropriate use of metaphor allowed the firm to bind a diverse group of stakeholders to a common goal by using the inherent ambiguity and multiplicity of meaning of the metaphor to overcome Asian and Western intercultural differences and at the same time maximise goal congruence.intercultural business communication, strategic metaphors, alliance relationships
Supplemental Figure 1. Bright-field image of B. cereus cells taken from a stationary phase culture and incubated in a 0.4% EB solution. In two instances EB specifically stains a single compartment in a filamentous chain.
No full textSupplemental Figure
1. Bright-field image of B. cereus cells taken
from a stationary phase culture and incubated in a 0.4% EB solution. In two
instances EB specifically stains a single compartment in a filamentous chain
RRS James Cook Cruise JC064, 10 Sep - 09 Oct 2011. RAPID moorings cruise report
No full textThis cruise report covers scientific operations conducted during RRS James Cook Cruise JC064. Cruise JC064, departed from Falmouth on Thursday 1st September 2011 arriving Santa Cruz de Tenerife Saturday 10th September to pick up extra members of the scientific party and arriving again in Santa Cruz on the 9th October. The purpose of the cruise was the refurbishment of an array of moorings on the mid-Atlantic Ridge and off the Moroccan Coast at a nominal latitude of 26.5°N. The moorings are part of a purposeful Atlantic wide mooring array for monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Heat Flux. The array is a joint UK/US programme and is known as the RAPID-WATCH/MOCHA array. Information and data from the project can be found on the web site hosted by the National Oceanography Centre Southampton http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapidmoc and also from the British Oceanographic Data Centre http://www.bodc.ac.uk.
The array as deployed in 2011-2012 consists of a total of 17 moorings, 16 landers and a single inverted echo sounder. The moorings are primarily instrumented with self logging instruments measuring conductivity, temperature and pressure. Direct measurements of currents are made in the shallow and deep western boundary currents. The bottom landers are instrumented with bottom pressure recorders (also known as tide gauges), measuring the weight of water above the instrument.
The RAPID naming convention for moorings is Western Boundary (WB), Eastern Boundary (EB) and Mid‐Atlantic Ridge (MAR) indicating the general sub‐regions of the array. Numbering increments from west to east. An L in the name indicates a bottom lander, M indicates a mini‐mooring with only one instrument, H indicates a mooring on the continental slope. During JC064 we recovered: MAR0, MAR1L4, MAR1, MAR2, MAR3, MAR3L4, EB1, EB1L7, EBHi, EBH1, EBH1L7, EBH2, EBH3, EBH4, EBP2, EBH5, EBM5. We did not recover EBM1, EBM4, EBM6, EBH1 and MAR3. We deployed: MAR0, MAR1L7, MAR1, MAR2, MAR3, MAR3L6, EB1, EB1L7, EBHi, EBH1, EBH1L8, EBH2, EBH3, EBH4, EBP2, EBH5. A sediment trap mooring NOGST was also recovered and redeployed for the Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems Group at the NOCS.
CTD stations were conducted at convenient times throughout the cruise for purposes of providing pre and post deployment calibrations for mooring instrumentation and for testing mooring releases prior to deployment.
Shipboard underway measurements were systematically logged, processed and calibrated, including: waves (spectra of energy and significant wave height), surface meteorology (air pressure, temperature, wind speed and direction and radiation (total incident and photosynthetically active), 6m‐depth sea temperatures and salinities, water depth, navigation (differential GPS measurements feeding two independent and different receivers, heading, pitch and roll, gyro heading and ships speed relative to the water using an electromagnetic log). Water velocity profiles from 15m to approximately 800m/300m depth were obtained using a ship mounted 75/150 kHz acoustic Doppler current profiler. Seawater samples from CTD stations and of the sea-surface were obtained for calibration and analysed on a salinometer referencing these samples against standard sea water. For velocity data (wind and currents) measured relative to the ship considerable effort was made to obtain the best possible earth referenced velocities.
Seven APEX argo floats supplied by the Met Office were deployed at preassigned locations, filling gaps in the network
RV Oceanus Cruise CO459-1, 23 Mar-04 Oct 2010. RAPID Mooring Cruise Report
No full textThis cruise report covers scientific operations conducted during RV Oceanus OC459-1. Mooringoperations conducted on RV Ronald H. Brown RB10-09 are given as an Appendice. CruiseOC459 departed from Woods Hole on 23rd March 2010 and arrived in Freeport, Grand Bahama on04th April 2010.The purpose of the cruise was the refurbishment of an array of moorings off the coast of AbacoIsland, Bahamas at a nominal latitude of 26.5°N. The moorings are part of a purposeful Atlanticwide mooring array for monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and HeatFlux. The array is a joint UK/US programme and is known as the RAPID-WATCH/MOCHAarray. Information and data from the project can be found on the web site hosted by the NationalOceanography Centre Southampton http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapidmoc and also from theBritish Oceanographic Data Centre http://www.bodc.ac.uk.The RAPID transatlantic array consists of 24 moorings of which 21 are maintained by the UK,and 17 bottom landers of which 15 are maintained by the UK. The moorings are primarilyinstrumented with Sea-Bird self logging instruments measuring conductivity, temperature andpressure. Direct measurements of currents are made in the shallow and deep western boundarycurrents. The bottom landers are instrumented with bottom pressure recorders (also known as tidegauges), measuring the weight of water above the instrument.The RAPID naming convention for moorings is Western Boundary (WB), Eastern Boundary (EB)and Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) indicating the general sub-regions of the array. Numberingincrements from west to east. An L in the name indicates a bottom lander, M indicates a minimooringwith only one instrument, H indicates a mooring which is on the continental slope and isinstrumented over a limited depth range. During OC459-1 we recovered and redeployed: WB1,WB2, WB6, WBH2, WBADCP, WB2L4 and WB4L4. WBAL1 was deployed on OC459-1.Mooring WB4 was recovered and redeployed on RB10-09.On OC459-1, CTD stations were conducted at convenient times throughout the cruise for purposesof providing pre and post deployment calibrations for mooring instrumentation and for testingmooring releases prior to deployment. Shipboard underway measurements were systematicallylogged, processed and calibrated, including: waves (spectra of energy and significant waveheight), surface meteorology (air pressure, temperature, wind speed and direction and radiation(total incident and photosynthetically active), sea temperatures and salinities, water depth andnavigation. Sea-water samples from CTD stations and of the sea-surface were obtained forcalibration
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION
No full textConception or design of the study: Silva AC, Silva LG, Souza ARS, Martins, AKL, Gomes EB. Data collection: Silva AC, Silva LG, Souza ARS. Analysis and interpretation of the data: Silva AC, Silva LG, Souza ARS. Writing of the article or critical review: Silva AC, Gomes EB. Final approval of the version to be published: Silva AC, Martins, AKL, Oliveira CJ, Alencar AMPG, Gomes EB
Supporting safe motherhood : a review of financial trends : summary
No full textAn estimated 500,000 women, 99 percent of them from the developing world, die each year from pregnancy-related causes. About three quarters of these deaths are the direct result of obstetrical complications -- hemorrhage, infection, toxemia, obstructed labor, and abortion (under primitive and illegal conditions). An estimated equivalent number of infants do not survive their mother's death. For surviving mothers, the consequences of pregnancy have a severe impact on health and family economics. The strategy for safe motherhood is based on two approaches. First, the encouragement of activities that indirectly improve maternal health. These include education, policies to improve women's rights and working conditions, health care and nutrition, transportation and communication systems, water and sanitation facilities, and increases in family income and food production. The second approach targets activities to reduce maternal deaths. These activities include reducing unwanted pregnancies through the provision of family planning services, and through national policies that recognize the importance of this issue. A second objective is to reduce the risks of pregnancy through providing community-based family planning and prenatal services to identify high-risk cases'adequate referral services for the complications of pregnancy, and communication and transport systems to support patient referral procedures.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Systems Development&Reform,Gender and Health,Early Child and Children's Health,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION
No full textConception or design of the study: Silva AC, Silva LG, Souza ARS, Martins, AKL, Gomes EB. Data collection: Silva AC, Silva LG, Souza ARS. Analysis and interpretation of the data: Silva AC, Silva LG, Souza ARS. Writing of the article or critical review: Silva AC, Gomes EB. Final approval of the version to be published: Silva AC, Martins, AKL, Oliveira CJ, Alencar AMPG, Gomes EB
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTION
No full textConception or design of the study: Silva AC, Silva LG, Souza ARS, Martins, AKL, Gomes EB. Data collection: Silva AC, Silva LG, Souza ARS. Analysis and interpretation of the data: Silva AC, Silva LG, Souza ARS. Writing of the article or critical review: Silva AC, Gomes EB. Final approval of the version to be published: Silva AC, Martins, AKL, Oliveira CJ, Alencar AMPG, Gomes EB
EB-KG: Knowledge Graph of the first 8 eiditions Encyclopaedia Brittanica (1768-1860)
No full textThis Knowlege Graph represents the information of the first eight editions of Encyclopaedia Brittanica (years: 1768 to 1860) in RDF (ttl format).
The raw dataset is provided by the NLS in this link , and it comprises of eight editions and a total of 195 volumes with a total size of 44GB. It uses two XMLs schemas: METS for descriptive, structural, technical and administrative metadata (Title, Author, Publisher, etc); and ALTO for encoding the OCR text of a page.
In this work, we have extracted the information from METS and ALTO XMLS using defoe tool and developed novel information extraction heuristics. With the extracted information, we created the EB-KG Knowlege Graph, which uses the EB Ontolgy, to represent such information. Furthermore, during the information extraction phase, we have employed several techniques to mitigate two common OCR errors: long-S and the line-break hyphenation.
The EB-KG contains 1,638,239 RDF triples. It has information from 8 editions. Each edition can have several Volumes, references to Books, Supplements; it also has an Editor and a Publisher, which can be a Person or an Organization. A Volume has several Pages, which can contain several Terms. And a Term can be either a Topic (a term described across several pages, often combining text, pictures, and tables.) or an Article (a description of the term in one- or two-paragraph long text (similar to an entry in a dictionary)). The data model of the EB-KG can be found here.
The original ALTO files do not indicate the start and end of each EB term, the first part of our work involved the
automated extraction of all terms (along with their metadata) across editions, so they can be analysed independently without the surrounding text.This work was performed during my 2021-2022 National Library of Scotland Digital Scholarship Fellowship
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