251 research outputs found
R v Chaytor and others [2010] UKSC 52, Supreme Court
No full textEssential Cases: Public Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v Chaytor and others [2010] UKSC 52, Supreme Court. The document also includes supporting commentary from author Thomas Webb.</p
Nautilus Samples [in special issue: New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2014 Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Field Season]
No full textWhile the vast majority of data Nautilus collects are digital-high-definition video, still photos, sensor, measurements, and navigation—physical samples are invaluable to scientists. Biological samples are critical in determining the species of an organism and may lead to the discovery of a new organism or new knowledge that extends a species’ range or adaptations. Biological samples also permit scientists to study food web and reproductive dynamics as well as growth rates, which are critical for research on fisheries and other natural marine resources. Rock and sediment samples are key to learning more about sedimentation rates, geological formation and history, and marine geohazards that may impact coastal communities
Submarine Mass Wasting Off Southern Central Chile: Distribution and Possible Mechanisms of Slope Failure at an Active Continental Margin
No full textAround 5–6% of the convergent continental margin of Southern Central Chile (33–42°S) is shaped by a variety of submarine mass wasting processes. We use swath bathymetric data covering >90% of the continental slope to map and investigate mass wasting-related seafloor features. In total, 62 submarine landslides are found that we separate into four categories (slides related to canyons, slides on open slopes, lower slope collapses and giant slope failures) with different failure mechanisms, preconditioning factors and time scales
Measuring vertical tectonic motion at the intersection of the Santa Cruz-Catalina Ridge and Northern Channel Islands platform, California Continental Borderland, using submerged paleoshorelines
No full textMarine sediment core collection methods and analytical techniques for shallow water sub-seafloor acoustic characterization
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Diffuse deformation patterns along the North American plate boundary zone, offshore western United States
No full textPlate boundaries are commonly regions of complex, diffuse deformation with
the motion across the boundary accommodated by numerous structural systems, rather
than being narrow, discrete zones of deformation. One such boundary occurs where
the North American plate makes contact with Juan de Fuca, Gorda, and Pacific plates
along the west coast of the United States, forming a wide zone of deformation which
crosses the ocean-continent transition. Two offshore regions associated with this
boundary zone, the Gorda plate and California Continental Borderland, have
undergone significant deformation in order to accommodate the changing relative
tectonic motion across the boundary. The Gorda plate, seaward of the Cascadia
Subduction Zone is deforming as a modified, vertically-hinged flexural-slip buckle
that utilizes, via-reactivation, the relict spreading-fabric faults and newly-formed leftlateral
strike-slip faults that cut the original fabric. In this way, it appears that the
Gorda plate, as the youngest and weakest plate in the system, absorbs the motion of
the surrounding plates, essentially buffering the strain accumulation in other regions.
In southern California, the plate boundary is dominated by the San Andreas transform
system, but with deformation distributed over structures within a zone whose width
west of the main San Andreas fault exceeds 300 km. While much of this deforming
zone is onshore, a significant component is offshore within the California Borderland
and Western Transverse Ranges provinces. Deformation related to the growth of the
San Andreas fault system within the Borderland has been ongoing since the late
Oligocene, resulting in a poly-deformed terrane of distributed deformation, reflecting
the shift from subduction to a highly evolved transform system. Two areas within the
Borderland illuminate aspects of the regions complex history: the intersection of the
Santa Cruz-Catalina Ridge and northern Channel Islands platform which reflect the
current transpressional tectonic regime, and Dall Bank within the Outer Borderland
which contains evidence of earlier (Oligocene-Miocene) deformational phases
Developing countries'participation in the World Trade Organization
No full textIn the 1960s and 1970s developing countries viewed UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade&Development) rather than the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs&Trade) as the main institution through which to promote their interests in international trade. But beginning with the Uruguay Round in the mid-1980s, their attitude changed, many more of them became members of the GATT, and a significant number played an active role in negotiations. The author analyzes developing countries'representation and participation in the World Trade Organization (WTO) as of mid-1997 to determine how developing countries can effectively promote their interests and discharge their responsibilities under the rules and agreements of the new organization. He concludes that although many developing countries are actively participating in the new process, more than half of the developing countries that are members of the WTO participate little more than they did in the early 1980s and have not increased their staffing, despite the vastly greater complexity of issues and obligations. Institutional weaknesses at home are the main constraints to effective participation and representation of their interests at the WTO. To make their participation more effective, he recommends that the developing countries establish adequately staffed WTO missions based in Geneva; failing that, pooling their resources and representation in Geneva; and being sure to pay their dues, which are typically small. He also recommends that the international community place higher priority on programs of assistance in support of institutional development of poorer countries aimed at enhancing their capacity to participate in the international trading system and the WTO -- and that the WTO review its internal rules and procedures to ensure that inadvertently they do not make developing countries participation more difficult.Economic Theory&Research,Decentralization,Economic Conditions and Volatility,Country Strategy&Performance,Labor&Employment Law,Trade and Services,Poverty Assessment,Economic Theory&Research,World Trade Organization,Country Strategy&Performance
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