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The role of mass-movement in shore platform development along the Gisborne coastline, New Zealand
No full textTidal shore platforms form a conspicuous part of the coastal scenery north of Gisborne, New Zealand. Some of these platforms are being extended landward under present-day conditions. Present widening results primarily from cliff-retreat by mass-movement. The coincidence in distribution of areas of wave convergence, mass-movement and shore platforms suggests a genetic connection between these marine and subaerial process and response elements. Various types of mass-movement are involved in cliff-retreat, notably slumps, flows, debris slides and soil and rock falls. While the products of such mass-movement forms are removed by wave action, extensive boulder fields on some shore platforms indicate that removal is not always complete. Not all of the shore platforms on this coast are being widened at present. Widening has ceased where active mass-movement is not occurring
Bioerosion on shore platforms developed in the Waitemata Formation, Auckland
No full textBioerosion - the removal of lithic substrate by the erosive activities of living organisms- has not previously been discussed for New Zealand shore platforms. This paper aims at drawing attention to bioerosion as a process active in shore platform development. Detailed reference is made to bioerosion occurring on the alternating sandstones and siltstones of the Waitemata Formation found outcropping on the coastline around Auckland. In this area several facets of shore platform morphology may be attributed to the direct effects of boring and browsing marine organisms. A classification of animals causing bioerosion, based on mechanism of erosion, is presented, and the geomorphic significance of the various groups discussed
Marshall Shore interview, tape 2
No full textMarshall Shore was born in Farmington, Washington in 1916 and graduated from Lincoln High School in Seattle 1934. He was enrolled at the University of Washington when he was drafted into the Army in 1940, serving as a B-17 navigator in Europe during World War II. After World War II, Shore continued to serve in the Air Force performing work with intercontinental ballistic missile installations and other bases both in the United States and abroad. Shore retired in 1972. In retirement, Shore managed farms in the Columbia Basin and worked on histories of Farmington, as well his personal and family histories.
This is tape Two of two, which may also be found in this collection of oral histories
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Managing large-scale science and technology projects at the edge of knowledge: The Manhattan Project as a learning organisation
No full textFew projects have had such a profound and lasting effect on the
world as the Manhattan Project. Today, after it was approved 70 years ago by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, its legacy is felt in nuclear medicine, military
defense, terrorist threats, and the production of energy. What was remarkable
about this project was that to succeed it had to push through the frontiers of
knowledge in ways that are impressive even by today’s standards. This paper
includes a short history of the project and the challenges that had to be
overcome. But the paper is primarily about a very large organisation that was
forced to learn quickly, compress each stage in the project in a race against
time, and pass knowledge, which was often incomplete, from one phase to the
next. As such, it makes a theoretical contribution to the literature on the
management of large-scale science projects and provides insight into the
problems that these projects face today
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Sediment characterization in the vicinity of Tavira inlet to study the longshore and cross-shore variability of a berm-bar system within the frame of the SHORE project
No full textSHORE (2015). Shoreface Morphodynamics: An Integrated Approac
Periodically driven circulation near the shore of a lake
No full textSolutions are found for a linear model of the circulation near the shore of a lake that is subject to two diurnal forcing mechanisms. The first is the day/night heating/cooling induced horizontal pressure gradient. The second is an unsteady surface stress modelling a sea breeze/gully wind pattern. The two forcing mechanisms can oppose or reinforce each other depending on their relative phase. The interplay of different dynamic balances at different times and locations in the domain lead to complex circulation patterns especially during the period of flow reversal
Richard B "Chips" Shore
No full textRichard B. "Chips" Shore, head of the Manatee County Blood Bank, speaks up at a Bradenton City Council meeting. A few years later he began his term as Clerk of the Circuit Court of Manatee County. By 1976 he was clerk and treasurer of the City of Bradenton and by 1979 he was Clerk of the Circuit Court of Manatee County. He held that position through 2015 when he passed
What is to be done?
No full textAt the end of the conference B[e]-Stars 2016, this wrap-up talk suggests some lines for future observational and theoretical investigations of the B[e] phenomenon. The importance of broad spectrum spectroscopic and spectrophotometric is highlighted, with particular attention to those wavelength domains that will soon be unavailable
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