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Service-oriented models for audiovisual content storage
No full textWhat are the important topics to understand if involved with storage services to hold digital audiovisual content? This report takes a look at how content is created and moves into and out of storage; the storage service value networks and architectures found now and expected in the future; what sort of data transfer is expected to and from an audiovisual archive; what transfer protocols to use; and a summary of security and interface issues
Impacts of habitat fragmentation and linear clearings on Australian rainforest biota
No full text[Extract] Tropical forests are being destroyed and degraded at alarming rates (Achard et al. 2002; Hansen & DeFries 2004; Laurance & Peres 2006). The most common aftermath of large-scale forest conversion is a mosaic of relict forest fragments encircled by modified habitats, such as cattle pastures, soya and sugarcane farms, oil-palm plantations, slash-and-burn farming plots or scrubby regrowth. In addition, many internal clearings, such as highways, roads, power lines and gas lines, perforate surviving forest tracts. Hence, the tropical world is becoming ever smaller, more subdivided and further degraded by a range of external and internal disturbances (Goosem 1997; Laurance & Bierregaard 1997; Peres et al. 2006).
Although tropical rainforests comprise but a tiny fraction «0.2%) of the total land area in Australia, they are enormously important reservoirs of biological diversity and endemism, with a remarkably long evolutionary history that harkens back to the time when Australia was still part of Gondwana. As such, these forests are of exceptional international significance (Keto & Scott 1986; WTMA2004). This, in concert with the development of world-leading tropical researchers in Australia, has led to impressive advances in conservation-related research, especially within the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area (WHA) under the aegis of the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management
AC-6-U.S. Naval Planes Flying in Formation, Langley Field, VA/Thank-You Card from Stephen Tury to the Hungarian Defense Council.
No full textThis postcard, which depicts U.S. Naval planes flying in formation, was sent to the Hungarian Defense Council by Private Stephen Tury. The Council was organized in New Brunswick by leaders of local Hungarian churches and societies. During the Second World War it sent supplies, such as the carton of cigarettes Tury is thanking it for, to members of the military of Hungarian descent from the New Brunswick area
Author Stephen Flynn Discusses Resiliency
No full textCenter for Homeland Defense and Security, PRESS RELEASESOn September 25, Author Stephen E. Flynn stopped by the Center’s National Capital Region campus to speak with CHDS Master’s degree students about his latest book, answer questions and discuss..
Letter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather regarding the sale of Bass properties
Letter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather, National Park Service
No full textLetter from Carl Hayden to Stephen Mather requesting that congress pay W. W. Bass the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars for his properties
Stephen Graham Jones - Sowell Conference 2017
No full textStephen Graham Jones, University of Colorado-Boulder, author of "Mongrels" and "Growing Up Dead in Texas
Letter from Stephen Mather, National Park Service to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Stephen Mather to Carl Hayden regarding the sale of Bass properties to the Santa Fe Railroad Company
Letter from Stephen T. Mather to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Stephen Mather to Carl T. Hayden regarding automobile regulations within Grand Canyon National Park
Letter from Stephen T. Mather to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Stephen T. Mather to Carl T. Hayden thanking Hayden for his advice about visiting Arizon
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