The climatology of the seasonal cycle of water mass variation and transformation in Bass Strait, south-eastern Australia, is studied using a high resolution three-dimensional sigma-coordinate hydrodynamic model coupled with data from observations and previous studies. Model forcing consists of the principal tidal constituents from the Australian National Tidal Centre and long-term monthly mean atmospheric forcing fields from NCEP reanalysis. The initial density field is established using temperature and salinity means and annual and semi-annual harmonics from the CARS2000 hydrographic atlas. This is also used to prescribe incoming water mass properties at model open-sea boundaries with seasonal variation. Far-field forcing is included with open-sea boundary parameterisation of residual sea-level representing both the South Australian Current and the East Australian Current. Lagrangian and Eulerian tracer methods are used to derive transport timescales, such as age, residence times and flushing times. These are used to examine and summarise model predictions and as a diagnostic tool in sensitivity studies. Currents, sea-level and water mass properties in the model compare favourably with previous studies and observations, despite limitations in the model and in the data used for comparison. The seasonal cycle, in model results, is characterised by formation of a shallow (< 20 m) saltier surface-layer in late spring to summer and subsequent downward mixing and erosion of the salinity field in autumn to winter with water mass from the west. This leaves behind water mass with positive age and salinity anomalies in areas of low flushing. In late winter-early spring most parts of this water mass leave the Strait interior. These areas are thought to be related to the source water of the Bass Strait Cascade. The residual circulation in all model experiments is shown to be related to seasonal-mean sea-level anomalies, arising from both barotropic and baroclinic adjustment, both in and surrounding the Strait.

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Thesis (M.S.)--North Carolina State University, 2002. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Dec. 15, 2005). Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-137). Also available on the Internet.

Duet no.1 in Eb / Otto Nicolai -- Stuck on the tracks / Allison Maupin -- Duo / Ron Newman -- Bouncer / Donald Grantham -- Trombone quartet op.117 / Derek Bourgeois. / text

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Striped bass larvae, native to the Shubenacadie River, catch invertebrates in darkness using mechanoreception via lateral line neuromasts. The neuromast total increased from 17 at first feeding (5 to 7 dph) to 135 by the juvenile stage (27 dph). A 5 mM neomycin dose ablated neuromasts, confirmed by fluorescent and confocal microscopy. In feeding trials, larvae with and without functional neuromasts were offered Artemia salina in darkness or light. To identify ontogenetic changes in feeding, experiments were repeated at 10, 13, 17, and 20 dph. In darkness, neomycin treated larvae caught fewer prey (~5 Artemia h-1 at all ages, p<0.05) than larvae with intact neuromasts (10 dph, 16 Artemia h-1; 20 dph, 72 Artemia h-1). In light, neomycin did not affect feeding, indicating no deleterious side-effects. Neomycin did not damage olfactory or taste cells judged by FM1-43FX and calretinin staining. The results support the contribution of mechanoreception to non-visual feeding. / Master's thesis

Der sächsische Premierminister Graf von Brühl gründete 1735 in Warschau eine eigene Hofkapelle. Brühl engagierte 1735 zunächst sechs Musiker, unter ihnen den Kapellmeister Gottlob Harrer sowie den Cembalisten Georg Gebel, den Cellisten Müller und den Lautenisten Johann Kropffgans, alle aus Breslau. Die Brühlsche Kapelle wuchs bis 1746 auf 15 und bis 1765 gar auf 24 Mitglieder an. Da sich der Hof zwischen Dezember 1734 und August 1736 sowie dann ab 1738 aller zwei Jahre zu den polnischen Reichstagen immer mehrere Monate in Warschau aufhielt, wurden die Musiker der Brühlschen Kapelle auch an die »Kleine Polnische Capelle« ausgeliehen, wie überhaupt die Grenzziehungen zwischen beiden Orchestern nicht streng waren. Während der Aufenthalte in Sachsen waren die Musiker auf den Brühlschen Schlössern, besonders in Pförten in der Niederlausitz, tätig. Mit 26 Jahren wurde Georg Gebel als Komponist und Cembalist Mitglied der privaten Kammermusik des Grafen Brühl. Anlass und Interpreten der vorliegenden Triosonate sind nicht bekannt. Die Vermeidung von leiterfremden Tönen und die idiomatische Schreibweise deuten auf die Verwendung einer einreihigen Harfe hin. Da bisher jedoch kein Dresdner Instrumentalist nachgewiesen werden konnte, der eine solche Harfe spielte, könnte Gebel das vorliegende Werk auch für eine Liebhaberin oder einen Liebhaber des Instruments komponiert haben, um es in einem Salon in einem der Brühlschen Schlösser zum Klingen zu bringen.