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Interest group perceptions of development issues in tidewater Virginia
No full textKenard E. Smith, Larry M. Springer, John D. StephensOWRT project A-060-V
Phonological typology Phonology and phonetics ;, 23./ edited by Larry M. Hyman and Frans Plank.
No full textIn English.Hyman, Larry M. / Plank, Frans -- Hyman, Larry M. -- Plank, Frans -- Kiparsky, Paul -- Maddieson, Ian -- Heinz, Jeffrey -- Brohan, Anthony / Mielke, Jeff -- Lahiri, Aditi -- Dresher, B. Elan / Harvey, Christopher / Oxford, Will -- Broselow, Ellen -- Riad, Tomas -- Gussenhoven, Carlos -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface / Contributors -- What is phonological typology? / An implicational universal to defy: typology ³ Ơ phonology a phonology ³ Ơ typology a Ơ (typology ' phonology) a Ơ typology v Ơ phonology / Formal and empirical issues in phonological typology / Is phonological typology possible without (universal) categories? / The computational nature of phonological generalizations / Frequent segmental alternations in P-base 3 / Predicting universal phonological contrasts / Contrastive feature hierarchies as a new lens on typology / Laryngeal contrasts in second language phonology / The phonological typology of North Germanic accent / Prosodic typology meets phonological representations / Subject Index -- Language Index -- Author Index.1 online resourc
Sea lice on wild juvenile Pacific salmon and farmed Atlantic salmon in the northernmost salmon farming region of British Columbia
No full textThe Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation established a program to monitor sea lice levels on seaward migrating wild juvenile salmon in their traditional territory which contains the most northerly salmon farming region of British Columbia. A total of 12 locations were routinely sampled during the period between 2005 and 2008 to gain a better understanding of the levels and patterns of sea lice infestation on wild salmonids in the region. Over 5000 juvenile salmon were collected and examined for sea lice. Around 78% were identified as pink salmon, 18% were chum salmon and the remainder classified as ‘other’ salmon (coho and sockeye salmon). Two species of sea lice were observed: Lepeophtheirus salmonis and Caligus clemensi. Over 91% of all the juvenile salmon examined had no sea lice and there was no significant difference in L. salmonis prevalence levels among salmon species. However, chum salmon had significantly lower C. clemensi prevalence levels than either pink or ‘other’ salmon. There were significant annual and regional differences in L. salmonis prevalence on juvenile pink salmon; the lowest prevalence in all sampling zones occurring in 2008, while channels containing salmon farms consistently had higher levels than those without salmon farms. Mean prevalence of L. salmonis in the channels with salmon farms ranged from 2% to 9% which is lower than levels published for the same region in different years or for other areas without salmon farms. C. clemensi prevalence on wild pink salmon was associated with sampling zone and the size of pink salmon; larger juvenile fish were more likely to be infected than smaller fish. During the period of wild juvenile salmon migration, the mean abundance of motile stages of L. salmonis on farmed salmon ranged from 0.13 to 0.79 lice per fish but there were no significant differences among years. In comparison, C. clemensi abundance levels on farms were significantly higher in 2005. Factors contributing to variations in these observations are discussed.Source type: Electronic(1
Estimating water requirements for hard red spring wheat for final irrigations
No full textBulletin no. 833 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 2001-05-01. Author(s): Ashley, Roger O.; Robertson, Larry D.; Seyedbagheri, Mir M.; Hopkins, Ivan C
The application of a micrometeorological technique to measure air-water exchange of polychlorinated biphenyls
No full textIn this study, a micrometeorological technique was applied for the first time to investigate the air-water exchange of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). By measuring the concentrations of PCBs at two heights above the water surface as well as in the dissolved phase, air-water exchange fluxes and mass transfer coefficient (vaw), also known as air-water exchange velocity, were determined for individual PCB congeners in the Hudson River. The average gas-phase ΣPCB concentration was 1.1 ng m-3, and ranged from 0.62-2.2 ng m-3, these values are elevated over regional background by about a factor of 6. The atmospheric stability factor of water vapor (φw), which were used to correct PCB fluxes for non-neutral conditions, ranged from 1.0-3.2 (roughly neutral to stable conditions). Vertical ΣPCB fluxes ranged from +0.5 μg m-2 d -1 to +13.5 μg m-2 d-1. Individual congener fluxes ranged from negative to +1.3 μg m-2 d-1. Mono through tri homologues accounted for about half of ΣPCB fluxes, with tetra through hexa accounting for the other half. The average daily ΣPCB flux was 4 μg m-2 d-1, which suggests that about 400 kg ΣPCBs volatilize from this water body over the three summer months. Dissolved-phase PCB concentrations ranged from 2.5 to 32 ng L-1, while concentrations in the suspended particle phase ranged from 5.3 to 14 ng L-1. The derived vaw values for individual congeners averaged 0.81 m d-1, with a median of 0.49 m d-1 and a range of 0.042 to 8.4 m d-1. Average uncertainty in vaw is about 70%. Compared to other studies, our vaw values are more precise (lower uncertainty) and more selective (measured for individual congeners) than values determined by the Whitman two-film model. The results from multiple regression analysis indicate that the relationship of vaw with meteorological and PCB physicochemical properties were significant. However, minute r2 values suggest that other parameters may play a pivotal role on vaw in this system. Future studies should extend the range of temperature and wind speed over which vaw is measured and should also focus on understanding the role of the surface micro layer and surfactants on air/water exchange of PCBs.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Andy Larry Sand
Color removal from textile dye wastewater : a case study
No full textArticle title page has author listed as: Larry K. Benefiel
Reading acts of narrative appropriation: four instances of fraudulent memoir
No full textPhDThis thesis examines acts of narrative appropriation, the telling of purportedly‘authentic’ life stories by those for whom the stories are not theirs to tell. This
misuse or subversion of genre - the discipline of historical writing and the category
of autobiography - becomes a means for cultural, social and political dissimulation,
and the analysis focuses both on the act: the event, trespass, or ‘theft’ of another’s
life story, and on the cultural meaning that this event reveals. These narrative acts
are approached theoretically through discussions of what it means to be an author, a
reader, and through the consideration of literary and social genre, category and form.
In exploring identities at particular risk of appropriation, this thesis shows how
fraudulent appropriated narratives affect our reading of the world, and in turn
influence our perception of already marginalized social groups. My primary
examples include prostitution ‘narratives’, Native North American ‘memoir,’ and
fraudulent Holocaust survivor ‘testimony,’ with each text providing decoded
evidence of ‘genre-bending’ exhibiting a social and political intent. These works
seek to be read as authentic personal narratives, as autobiography, and that is how
they have been presented to the reader. However, they are imposters – fictional tales
desiring the elevated status of historical authenticity and willing to bend the rules
and contracts of genre to achieve their end. Here the appearance of authenticity is
achieved through the use of cultural and social ‘myth,’ or perceptions of cultural
identity, and as such its fraudulent construction is first and foremost a social act,
with a social and economic motivation. As this thesis concludes, these texts are
most successful when their own political and social ideologies echo and confirm that
of the readership; when their subjects, the fraudulent ‘I’ at the center of the text is
also a performative elaboration of cultural belief
Family social problems and religious family life education
No full textThis study has become a reality for at least two reasons. The writer as a Christian minister has a deep desire to make his ministry productive for the church and relevant for those whom he serves. It is his feeling that conducting this study would add helpful insights in pursuit of this goal. Secondly, the sociology department of Ball State University made the suggestion to investigate some phase of the religious activity of Muncie.The nature of this study is best described as descriptive research. The writer has endeavored to use some of the methodological procedures central to sociological research. These methods have been applied to a sample of churches in Muncie, Indiana, to ascertain what emphasis they were making on family life education.The author has been assisted in this endeavor by Drs. Lester Schmidt, Whitney Gordon, Dwight Hoover and Larry Perkins, the latter who served as the committee chairman, to whom I owe a deep sense of gratitude for his excellent advice given in such a cordial manner.Thesis (M.A.
Free space optical system performance for a Gaussian beam propagating through non Kolmogorov weak turbulence
No full textAtmospheric turbulence has been described for many years by Kolmogorov's power spectral density model because of its simplicity. Unfortunately several experiments have been reported recently that show Kolmogorov theory is sometimes incomplete to describe atmospheric statistics properly, in particular in portions of the troposphere and stratosphere. It is known that free space laser system performance is limited by atmospheric turbulence. In this paper we use a non-Kolmogorov power spectrum which uses a generalized exponent instead of constant standard exponent value 11/3 and a generalized amplitude factor instead of constant value 0.033. Using this spectrum in weak turbulence, we carry out, for a Gaussian beam propagating along a horizontal path, analysis of long term beam spread, scintillation, probability of fade, mean signal to noise ratio and mean bit error rate as variation of the spectrum exponent. Our theoretical results show that for alpha values lower than 11/3 , but not for alpha close to 3 , there is a remarkable increase of scintillation and consequently a major penalty on the system performance. However when alpha assumes values close to 3 or for alpha values higher than 11/3 scintillation decreases leading to an improvement on the system performanc
Emergent templates: the unusual case of Tiene
No full textTiene is unusual among Bantu languages in imposing prosodic restrictions on derivational verb morphology. The Tiene verb stem fits the Bantu mold: a CV(C) root combines with zero or more -VC derivational suffixes and an obligatory final vowel. However, Tiene requires derived stems to be either CVVCV or CVCVCV, where C2 and C3 agree in nasality, C2 is coronal, and C3 is grave. The latter constraints drive infixation when the root ends in a grave consonant and the suffix is coronal. An Optimality Theory analysis is provided which derives the two templates, furthering McCarthy and Prince's (1994) program of prosodic morphology in Optimality Theory. The data have an interesting added theoretical implication. As Tiene shows, segmental (rather than prosodic) conditions can force infixation, bringing up the question of how Optimality Theory is to capture the well-known generalization that infixes are never more than one prosodic (rather than segmental) constituent away from a word edge.The definitive version of this paper was published in University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics 5 (1997) and is available at http://46a-369.umd.edu/publications/Hyman, L. M., & Inkelas, S. (1997). Emergent templates: The unusual case of tiene. University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics, 5, 92-116
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