Thesis (MTech (Oceanography))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2009 / A collaborative study between Marine and Coastal Management (MCM) and the Oceanographic Research Institute (ORI) was initiated in March 2001 to investigate the physical oceanography of Sodwana Bay, South Africa, and the affects on coral communities resident to the area. A bottom-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and three Underwater Temperature Recorders (UTR) were deployed to complement the long-term monitoring UTR deployed on Nine-Mile Reef (NMR) in 1994. The study was terminated after 30 months, whereby all instruments were removed except for the long-term monitoring UTR.

L’étude de la diversité des espèces de poissons habitant les récifs coralliens fascine les chercheurs du monde entier depuis plus de 200ans. Comment ces organismes qui n’occupent que 1% de la surface des océans du globe ont-ils pu former un des groupes les plus riches des vertébrés existants ? La complexité de cette question ne réside pas seulement dans l’exceptionnelle diversité de formes, de couleurs et de comportements de ces espèces mais aussi dans l’inégale répartition de cette richesse. Des explorations du lagon de Mayotte, des côtes Cubaines ou de la grande barrière de corail donneront des perspectives très différentes de la diversité des poissons coralliens. Ces différences très importantes sont le résultat de processus ayant modelé, pendant des millions d’années, la répartition des espèces coralliennes, leur morphologie et leur comportement. Pendant ces millions d’années d’évolution, les poissons coralliens, ainsi que les espèces de coraux qui les abritent, ont été confrontés à des changements drastiques des conditions climatiques et à la dérive des continents. C’est l’influence de ces facteurs sur la répartition et la diversité des poissons coralliens, que j’ai étudié pendant ma thèse. Comprendre comment les espèces et les écosystèmes ont réagi aux changements environnementaux passés peut nous apporter des clés essentielles pour anticiper les changements à venir des écosystèmes que nous connaissons, sous l’influence des changements globaux. Les récifs coralliens étant sous une menace de plus en plus présente, je me suis particulièrement intéressé à l’influence de la disponibilité de l’habitat corallien sur les processus d’extinction, de dispersion et de spéciation (formation de nouvelles espèces par divergence génétique) des poissons coralliens.Afin de répondre à ces objectifs, plusieurs méthodes ont été employées. Dans un premier temps, une approche descriptive basée sur la répartition de la co-occurrence entre espèces sœurs et une comparaison entre une reconstruction globale de la dynamique des habitats coralliens allant du Crétacé (≈ -140 millions d’années) et les taux de diversification de plusieurs grands groupes de poissons récifaux, ont permis de montrer que les taux de diversification de plusieurs familles de poissons récifaux étaient dépendant de la fragmentation des habitats coralliens, et d’observer la concordance entre des évènements climatiques et tectoniques majeurs et l’évolution de la biodiversité des poissons coralliens.Après avoir identifié un lien entre fragmentation de l’habitat corallien et la diversification des poissons, une grande question demeure : Comment cette dynamique de l’habitat influence-t-elle dans l’espace et le temps la diversité des poissons récifaux ? Pour répondre à cette question, une approche unique permettant de modéliser la dispersion, la spéciation et l’extinction des espèces dans un espace formé de grilles d’habitat dynamique a été développée et appliquée à plusieurs clades d’organismes marins côtiers (coraux, palétuviers et poissons). Cette approche a permis de démontrer comment la dérive des continents a contraint la dynamique de l’habitat corallien et a façonné les gradients de diversité de plusieurs groupes d’organismes marins côtiers. Enfin, l’extension de cette approche aux récifs tempérés, a permis de montrer l’interaction entre l’influence de la dérive des continents et des processus écologiques sur la colonisation et le maintien d’espèces de poissons récifaux dans les milieux tempérés, expliquant en partie la formation du gradient latitudinal de diversité des poissons récifaux.Ces travaux ouvrent la voie vers l’utilisation d’une nouvelle génération de modèles spatialisés de diversification et la prise en compte de la dynamique des habitats passés dans l’étude des processus de diversification. / The exceptional diversity of fishes that inhabit coral reefs fascinates researched from all over the world since over 200years. How can those organisms, that only occupy 1% of the surface of the oceans, form one of the richest group of extant vertebrates? The complexity of this question does not only lie in the extraordinary diversity of morphologies, colors and behaviors, but also roots in the heterogeneous repartition of that richness. Explorations of Mayotte’s lagoon, Cuban coasts or the great barrier reef will show different perspectives of coral-reef fish’ diversity. Those pervasive differences are the result of processes that shaped, during millions of years the repartition of coral-reef species, their morphology and their behavior. During those millions of years of evolution, coral-reef fishes along with species that shelter them, faced massive climatic and tectonic changes. During my PhD, I studied the influence of those factors on the repartition and the diversity of coral-reef fishes. Understanding how species and ecosystems responded to important environmental changes can provide essential insights to anticipate future changes of ecosystem composition and functioning under global changes’ pressure. As coral-reefs are under more and more threatening pressures, I particularly focused on the influence of coral habitat availability on extinction, dispersion and speciation processes of coral-reef fishes.To achieve this goal, several methods have been employed. First, a descriptive approach based on sister-species co-occurrence patterns and the comparison between a global reconstruction of coral-reef habitat dynamics from the Cretaceous (≈ -140 million years) to present and the evolution of several speciose groups of coral-reef fishes permitted to identify a link between diversification rates of several groups of coral-reef fishes and coral habitat fragmentation and to observe the concordance between major earth-history events and biodiversity dynamics of coral-reef fishes.After the identification of a link between habitat fragmentation and coral-reef fishes’ diversification, an important question remains: What are the mechanisms underlying the influence of habitat dynamics on temporal and spatial variations of reef-fish biodiversity? To answer this question a unique approach allowing modeling of species dispersal, extinction and speciation in a gridded space varying in function of habitat dynamics, has been developed and applied to several groups of coastal marine organisms (corals, mangroves, fishes). This approach provided mechanistic insights about how plate movements drove coral reef habitat dynamics and shaped biodiversity gradients of several groups of coastal marine organisms. Finally, the extension of this approach to temperate reefs (rocky reefs), provided mechanistic insights about the interplay between the influence of tectonic events and ecological processes in the formation of present-day latitudinal gradient of biodiversity of reef-fishes.This thesis paves the way towards the use of a new generation of spatialized mechanistic models of macroevolution and the consideration of the influence of past-habitat dynamics in the study of diversification processes.

"The purpose of this study was to determine whether the educational levels attained by epileptic male veterans at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida had a bearing on their employment as revealed by the analysis of nine selected items of information. The sample comprised thirty-four epileptic male veterans dichotomized by their educational level--an eleventh grade education or less, more than an eleventh grade education--who were treated as patients within a four month period"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1960." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: John T. Greene, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"The purpose of this study was to discover some psychosocial characteristics of fifty out-patients who re-opened their cases two or more times, and to investigate the extent of change that some of these psychosocial characteristics underwent, by comparing the data collected at the first intake interview with the data collected at the latest intake interview"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1959." / "Submitted to the Graduate Council of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: William L. Leap, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references.

"The purpose of this study was to identify some of the distinguishing characteristics in the backgrounds of patients who presented problems in connection with their hospital discharge (and were thus referred to Social Work Service for discharge planning) from those who did not present such problems. At the Veterans Administration Hospital, Coral Gables, Florida, the economic, social and military factors of 50 patients referred to Social Work Service were compared with those of 50 patients who left the hospital without needing help with discharge planning. Records were kept concerning the number and type of interviews which the social worker had with the fifty patients and/or their family members in order to effect their discharge. The diagnoses and length of stay of these 100 patients were tabulated for the purpose of comparison also. It is hoped that this information will be of value in the future in improving discharge planning techniques, in reducing length of hospital stay for greater utilization of beds, and in obtaining the ultimate in rehabilitation for such patients"--Introduction. / Typescript. / "June, 1961." / "Submitted to the Graduate School of Florida State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Work." / Advisor: Dorothy D. Hayes, Professor Directing Study. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-62).

The sea anemone Bartholomea annulata, is an ecologically important member of Caribbean coral reefs. This anemone serves as symbiotic host to crustacean associates, some of which may control parasite loads by "cleaning" reef fishes. Associates may gain protection from predation by dwelling with anemones. B. annulata was the most abundant anemone documented on three reefs, with 52% host to crustacean symbionts. Of those occupied by multi-species groups, 92% included Alpheus armatus shrimp. A. armatus is an important anemone associate providing protection to the anemone from predators such as Hermodice carunculata, in laboratory and field trials. H. carunculata can completely devour or severely damage prey anemones. Here I show that anemones hosting symbiotic alpheid shrimp are extremely less likely to sustain damage by predators than solitary anemones. The role of protector may be reciprocally provided by anemone and decapod associates. / by Amber McCammon. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Briareum asbestinum, a soft coral, is a rich source of diterpenoid natural products. The secondary metabolites of B. asbestinum fall into four classes : asbestinins, briarellins, briareolate esters, and briaranes. Briareolate esters have been shown to possess biological activity and were previously only reported from Tobago. Our group recently isolated briareolate esters from a specimen collected off the coast of Boca Raton, Florida. To determine whether location has an impact on the chemistry produced by the organism, a method to discern between chemotypes was sought. Several techniques including thin layer chromatography (TLC), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and sclerite analysis were employed, with NMR being the most successful method. By utilizing both 1H and COSY NMR experiments, it is possible to differentiate between the chemotypes of B. asbestinum. Application of this method allowed analysis of chemical variability with respect to location. / by Melody D. Rondeau. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012. / Includes bibliography. / System requirements: Adobe Reader. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma tradução e um comentário textual à 13ª Olímpica de Píndaro, com base nas mais recentes edições e trabalhos críticos acerca do poeta e do gênero desse poema, o epinício. Também foi composto um ensaio interpretativo que tenta abarcar os temas mais importantes da ode e relacioná-los com o todo da obra de Píndaro. As imagens do poema desenvolvem a contraposição entre medida e excesso, representada tanto nas referências mitológicas (Têmis e as Horas contra a Soberba e Insolência; Belerofonte encilhando Pégaso) quanto nas reflexões da primeira pessoa (que não deve exceder-se no elogio para não errar o alvo, assim como um arqueiro disparando suas flechas; nem deve tentar relatar todas as vitórias da família, pois são tão numerosas quanto os grãos de areia etc.). Em anexo, há a tradução dos escólios relativos a essa ode para permitir a consulta direta a essa fonte, que não se acha traduzida. / The objective of this study is to present a translation and a textual commentary of Pindar\'s Olympian 13, based on the most recent editions and critical works about the poet and the genre of this poem, the epinician. An interpretative essay was composed in order to cover the most important themes of this ode and articulate them with Pindar\'s other works. The poetical imagens of the poem develop the central theme, the opposition between measure and excess, represented by the mithological references (Themis and the Hours against the Excess and the Satiety; Bellerophon taming Pegasus etc.) and by the first-person\'s reflections on the laudatory art (the first-person should not exceed in praise in order to not miss the target, as an archer with his arrows; nor should try to enumerate all the victories of this family, for they are greater than the grains of sand from the sea). There is a translation of the scholia to this ode attached, allowing direct consultation, once there is no other version of this text.

Esta dissertação enfoca a demanda por novas habilidades e competências requeridas aos regentes de corais infantis de projetos sociais, a partir de pesquisa realizada junto a profissionais que atuam nesse segmento, com recorte na cidade de São Paulo. Tais competências diferenciam-se conforme demandado pelos atores sociais que estabelecem e financiam os corais. O perfil de um regente de coro infantil de um projeto social já se distancia das demais modalidades de coro devido às características particulares das crianças e às especificidades do contexto em que ele deve atuar. Esses fatores aumentam a gama de competências exigidas desse profissional. A partir da análise sócio-histórica da configuração da atividade de canto coral infantil no Brasil em três momentos determinados: o coro infantil do Período Colonial, regido pelo mestre-de-capela, o coro de crianças do Canto Orfeônico, regido pelo professor na época da República Velha e o coro infantil contemporâneo, no período da Nova República, surgido do esforço da Sociedade Civil, através de projetos sociais de Organizações Não-Governamentais, que demanda um novo tipo de regente, far-se-á a contextualização de conceitos como Palco Global, ator social, Sociedade Civil, Terceiro Setor e competências. Esta pesquisa se propõe a refletir sobre essas novas demandas que moldarão o perfil desse novo profissional regente de canto coral infantil. / This works aims at focusing the new skills and competencies demanded for children\'s choir conductors in social projects. It was based on a research developed in São Paulo with professionals of this area. Such skills and competencies vary according to the social actors who support the choirs. The profile of a social project children\'s choir conductor has proved to be different from other chorus modalities due to the peculiarity of its children features and the specific context in which the conductor must act. These factors increase the range of skills required for this job. It was analysed the socio-historical arise of children\'s choir in Brazil in three specific periods: The children\'s choir of the Colonial Period, ran by mestre-de-capela; the children\'s choir of Canto Orfeônico, conducted by teachers at República Velha time and the contemporary children\'s choir, from Nova República, considered a civil society action implemented in social projects of Nongovernmental Organizations, which consequently order a different performance of this professional. Then, it will be contextualized the emerging concepts of \"Global Stage\", \"social actor\", \"Civil Society\", \"Third Sector\" and \"competencies\" in order to reflect on those current demands which are shaping the profile of this new professional childrens choir conductor.

Nesta tese, irei investigar as implicações que o uso consistente que Píndaro e Baquílides fazem do termo têm para a ocasião de performance dos epinícios. Irei argumentar, do ponto de vista da Linguística e da Poética Cognitivas, que, através de uma análise das passagens relevantes da literatura grega, de Homero ao drama do século V, o termo sempre implica algum tipo de celebração, seja móvel ou não, e que ele nunca é usado para denotar canção ou coro. Também irei argumentar que implica um frame dentro de um Modelo Cognitivo Idealizado para CELEBRAÇÃO DE VITÓRIA, dentro do qual referências às odes devem ser entendidas. Baseando-me nesta análise irei discutir as implicações dos resultados e reexaminar a pressuposição, atualmente tida como não problemática, segundo a qual as odes eram sempre executadas por um coro em sua première. Além disso, irei discutir também o problema da identificação da persona loquens nos poemas e irei propor que, na maioria dos casos, ela nunca parece se referir a um coro. Finalmente, discutirei alguns cenários de transmissão das odes, propondo que a escrita não precisa ser proposta para a transmissão do texto até uma data bem tardia e que uma tradição de reperformances orais dos poemas deve ter tido um papel essencial na preservação do texto. / In this thesis I shall investigate the implications of the consistent use Pindar and Bacchylides make of the term to the occasion of the performance of the epinikia. I shall argue, from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics, that, through the 9 analysis of the relevant passages in Greek literature from Homer to the V century drama, the term always implies some sort celebration, either mobile or not, and that it is never used to denote either song or chorus. Most importantly I shall argue that implies a frame in an Idealized Cognitive Model for VICTORY CELEBRATION within which references to the victory ode must be understood. Based on this, I shall discuss the implications of these results and try to reexamine the assumption, held as unproblematic by the majority of critics, that the victory odes were always performed chorally on its premiere. Additionally I shall also discuss the problems of identifying the persona loquens in the poems and I shall propose that in most cases it never seems to refer to a chorus. Finally, I shall discuss some scenarios of transmission of the odes, proposing that writing needs not be assumed for the transmission of the text until a fairly late date and that a continuous tradition of oral reperformances must have played an essential role in the preservation of the text.