The Deepwater Horizon blowout occurred on April 20th, 2010 and released nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the northern Gulf of Mexico causing pollution of the water and sediment inhabited by many fishes for at least 87 days while the wellhead went uncapped. Populations of the Gulf of Mexico Red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, an important fish to the ecology and economy in the region, exhibit affinity to shallow water oil infrastructure such as the Deepwater Horizon making them especially vulnerable to crude oil contamination. The objective of this study is to determine growth of Red snapper before, during and after the DWH spill and to assess factors potentially explaining such growth variation. Sagittal otoliths were collected from individuals sampled in 2011 - 2013 from scientific, demersal long-line surveys in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM) and West Florida Shelf (WFS). Age and otolith increment width analyses were performed. No annual variation in von Bertalanffy growth parameters was determined among the three catch years. The L∞ , K and t0 estimated from the complete data set (2011-2013) were 82.91, 0.20 and 0.43, respectively. However, significant differences in otolith increment width-at-age were observed in increment numbers three - seven in years following the DWH event, with declines of 13%, 15% and 22% occurring in the fourth -sixth increments. To asses the potential significance of exogenous environmental variables to observed yearly growth variation I evaluated five parameters - meridional (V) winds, zonal (U) winds, wind stress curl which is a measure of upwelling, Mississippi River discharge, and mean sea level anomaly - using a linear mixed effects model. Hypothesis testing via reduced maximum likelihood estimates indicated that variation in U winds and River discharge could significantly explain the variation in increment width. However, further work must be done in order to determine the natural, inter-annual variability in age specific growth before the results from model fitting can be considered conclusive. Mean back-calculated weight-at-age measurements were obtained in order to assess potential variation in productivity changes. Results from forward difference and reverse helmert contrast-coding indicated that weight at age three+, four+ and five+ declined by 16%, 15% and 11% in 2010, respectively. These analyses indicate a significant decline in fish growth in 2010 coincident with the DWH event, followed by a return to pre-spill rates.

¡@Bony flyingfish (Hirundichthys oxycephalus) is the primary component of flyingfish-egg fishery captures in the northeastern waters of Taiwan, and is also one of the dominant species of flyingfish in eastern waters of Taiwan. In recent years, people are conscious of overfishing in negarding to the continuously decreasing flyingfish resources. For rational management and sustainability of the fishery, there is an urgent need to study age and growth of the fish. Based on the laboratory-reared fish from the fertilized eggs collected in the wild, the daily periodicity of growth increments in three pairs of otoliths (lapillus, sagitta and asteriscus) was validated. First growth increment formed in the first day after hatching for sagitta and lupillus, and was in the eleven day after hatching for Asteriscus. ¡@¡@Ages of the wild flyingfish sample of 5.4~229.1 mm FL collected by drifted gillnets in Hualian, Taitung, Lyudao and Lanyu waters during April 2009 to March 2010, were determined by daily growth increment (DGI) counting in asteriscus, as adjusted by an addition of 11 DGIs. The von Bertalanffy growth parameters of the fish were estimated to be 253.9 mm in asymptotic length and 0.00753 mm d-1 in growth coefficient. Use DGIs estimation hatch date from otolith ringing, and estimated spawning date by deduct from 3 day hatch requisition. we found 2 recruitment group in eastern Taiwan within a year, most fish hatched either in summer or winter. In this study showing that bony flyingfish was an grew fast and had long longevity sp., therefore, on fishery management, we should decrease the fishing pressure and give them enough surplus biomass, so the biomass could recover rapidly. And we found two recruitment group, one could behalf of stock from east taiwan, and maybe it could behalf of two stocks ,on the other hand the method of fishery management should be a quite different .We suggest to confirm by the further reproductive biology research.

The Executive Yuan checked through ' land tax law 34th revised the draft ' on August 29 , the 96th year of the Republic of China, basis should revise the draft, to already suitable ' once-in-a-lifetime ' private residence land used for preferential land owner of tax rate, selling the land used for private residence again, and the person who accords with relevant regulation terms, can be once again suitable and private land used for preferential 10% of the lessons of tax rate of residence seek the land value increment tax. What influence will be there to fiscal revenues , society's fair , the economic efficiency and the tax administration this research is implementation probing into this policy through the questionnaire way? This research real example result is done into the following conclusion, first: Keep current " once-in-a-lifetime " private residence preferential tax rate and " purchase the refund of tax outside again ", revise and enlarge the preferential measure of relaxing " not restricting once-in-a-lifetime ", hide the considering of loss of tax revenues after implementing. Second: Relax personal preferential measure that house " not restricting once-in-a-lifetime ", must stipulate the condition " in 5 years before selling " among them, do not have for using or hiring out", will cause the persons who will use by oneself with for opening or tax among the lessor to donate and bear unfairly, and apt to give birth to and seek and receive both sides to dispute , increase the puzzlement of administrative litigation in vain. Third: Relax the preferential measure " not restricting once-in-a-lifetime " in the private residence , will be counted more largly and relatively have the ability to change the room because of the house level ground which the high income person has, it is relatively large and can be lightenned the tax interests of donating the burden. The house level ground that the low income person has is counted smaller and relatively has no ability to change the room, and get the unfairness phenomenon with less interests of lightenning taxes and donating the burden. Fourth: Relax the preferential measure " not restricting once-in-a-lifetime " in the private residence , will improve general people and change the will which will purchase the new room. The fifth: Relax the preferential measure " not restricting once-in-a-lifetime " in the private residence, equate government's tax subsidy to the person who sells private residence, will cause the improper disposition of resources , produce meaningless losses of the society.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008. / "December, 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-44). Online version available on the World Wide Web.

Theme of my Diploma work refers about possibility of feeding up the common carp with the cereal food in the ponds. Research was monitor on 4 ponds in Naděje ponds system. The ponds have 2,4 ha together. Three of them were used for research and fourth pond was for control. This control pound had only a natural food. During the research was every year plant into the ponds 363 carps type (K 3) for 1 ha and after fish out was this sort K 4. For the research were very pilot fish outs. Fish out carp were for weight, length of the body and perimeter of the body monitoring. This data was use for a statistics evaluation. Feeding run 3 days in a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) in a day ration 2 % of the fish weight in a pound.

Glare is an important, but often overlooked parameter in lighting systems design. This parameter can significantly affect human biorhythm, causing a discomfort or in the worst cases it can dazzle drivers, which can lead to car accidents. Therefore, it´s necessary for lighting designers to consider glare in their designs, specifically threshold increment value. This thesis focuses on glare measurement caused by exterior lighting systems and comparison of usage different types of camera lens for threshold increment measurements with luminance analyser. For a better understanding of the whole issue, there is a part describing how human eye perceives light, which is followed by definition and division of the glare. Afterwards, there is part describing calculation procedure of the threshold increment, which serves as a basis for the practical part of the thesis. Practical part of the thesis is dedicated to experimental measurement of glare from exterior lighting system on Technická street, right behind VUT FEKT T12 building. The measurement is done using luminance analyser and the LumiDISP program, while 3 lenses are used for the measurements. The output of this thesis are values of threshold increment obtained by using 4 different methods (3 lenses) and subsequent comparison of the suitability of the lenses for the glare measurements. To supplement, a simulation of the measured lighting system in the Relux program and a subsequent comparison of the results with the measured values are performed.

Soil classification in this country is based on the system proposed by Marbut in 1920 (2). This system uses eight criteria, one of which is the chemical composition of the soil horizons. Workers in the field of soil survey are depending more and more upon laboratory data to characterize and differentiate soils not only at the series level but also at higher levels of classification where it may be necessary to establish the presence or absence of critical horizons or characteristics. This was predicted by Robinson (16) when he said that laboratory analysis is needed to give "precise physical meaning to field descriptions" and that the importance of laboratory data increases as the classification of soils becomes more minute

Pythons are a well-studied model of postprandial physiological plasticity. Consuming a meal has been shown by past work to evoke a suite of physiological changes in pythons and elicit one of the largest documented increases in post-feeding metabolic rates relative to resting values. However, little is known about how this plasticity manifests in the brains of ball pythons, Python regius. Previous work using the cell-birth marker 5-bromo-12’-deoxyuridine (BrdU) has shown that cell proliferation in the python brain increases six days following meal consumption. This study aimed to confirm these findings and build on them in the long term by tracking the survival and maturation of these newly created cells across a two-month period. We investigated whether these cells differentiated into neurons using double-immunofluorescence for BrdU and a reptile-specific neuronal marker (Fox3). We did not find significantly greater rates of cell proliferation in snakes six days after feeding, but we did observe more newly created cells in neurogenic regions in fed snakes two months after the meal. Feeding did not influence neurogenesis, but feeding does appear to have a neuroprotective effect. More newly created cells survived in fed snakes two months later, particularly in the olfactory bulbs and lateral cortex. These findings shed light on the extent of postprandial plasticity and regional differences in the creation of new neural cells in the brains of ball pythons.

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Transportation finance has been historically dominated by assessing taxes to transportation users and taxes on the general public. Innovative financing mechanisms such as tax increment financing, special assessment districts, and others represent value capture techniques that tax property owners to pay for transportation costs. Value capture techniques provide supplemental funds to support capital construction costs but are not substitutes for existing dedicated and traditional tax revenue methods. The major findings of Texas practice indicate that tax increment financing for transit does not significantly contribute towards the transit infrastructure. Instead tax increment funds finance the improvement of public infrastructure surrounding transit stations and stops and can be labeled transit-supportive investments. / text