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191	Approaches to Empire: Hydrographic Knowledge and British State Activity in Northeastern North America, 1711-1783 Marsters, Roger Sidney 07 December 2012 (has links) This dissertation studies the intersection of knowledge, culture, and power in contested coastal and estuarine space in eighteenth-century northeastern North America. It examines the interdependence of vernacular pilot knowledge and directed hydrographic survey, their integration into practices of warfare and governance, and roles in assimilating American space to metropolitan scientific and aesthetic discourses. It argues that the embodied skill and local knowledge of colonial and Aboriginal peoples served vital and underappreciated roles in Great Britain’s extension of overseas activity and interest, of maritime empire. It examines the maritimicity of empire: empire as adaptation to marine environments through which it conducted political influence and commercial endeavour. The materiality of maritime empire—its reliance on patterns of wind and current, on climate and weather, on local relations of sea to land, on proximity of spaces and resources to oceanic circuits—framed and delimited transnational flows of commerce and state power. This was especially so in coastal and riverine littoral spaces of northeastern North America. In this local Atlantic, pilot knowledge—and its systematization in marine cartography through hydrographic survey—adapted processes of empire to the materiality of the maritime, and especially to the littoral, environment. Eighteenth-century British state agents acting in northeastern North America—in Mi’kmaqi/Acadia/Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, and New England—developed new means of adapting this knowledge to the tasks of maritime empire, creating potent tools with which to extend Britain’s imperial power and influence amphibiously in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. If the open Atlantic became a maritime highway in this period, traversed with increasing frequency and ease, inshore waters remained dangerous bypaths, subject to geographical and meteorological hazards that checked overseas commercial exchange and the military and administrative processes that constituted maritime empire. While patterns of oceanic circulation permitted extension of these activities globally in the early modern period, the complex interrelation of marine and terrestrial geography and climate in coastal and estuarine waters long set limits on maritime imperial activity. This dissertation examines the nature of these limits, and the means that eighteenth-century British commercial and imperial actors developed to overcome them.
192	Computer Modeling the Incursion Patterns of Marine Invasive Species Johnston, Matthew W. 26 February 2015 (has links) Abstract Not Available. Lionfish Pterois volitans Pterois miles Invasive Species Species Distribution Models Cellular Automata Caulerpa Taxifolia Software Connectivity Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean Computer Modeling Modeling Computational GIS Mediterranean Sea Cellular Automaton Panther Grouper Chromileptes altivelis South Florida Computer Simulation Hurricanes Reef Connectivity Hawai'i Snapper Grouper Fisheries Habitat Equivalency Analysis Lionfish Control Lionfish Removals International Strategy Marine Biology
193	Vliv vulkanického popela na leteckou dopravu / Effect of volcanic ash to Air Transport Soukop, Robin January 2012 (has links) This master's thesis deals with the issue of volcanic ash as a complex and its impact on aviation, including the volcanic activity itself (conditions for its existence, for existence of eruptions and their basic products). In addition, the thesis also deals with effect of volcanic ash on aircraft and airports, possibilities of its detection or monitoring as well as mechanism of its spreading in airspace. The emphasis is laid mainly on air incidents related to volcanic ash and on danger it poses to the airspace of the Czech Republic.
194	Analyses of Common Elements and Oxides in the Paleosols of the Bahamas and of the Northern Mariana Islands Ersek, Vasile 07 August 2004 (has links) Paleosols from the Bahamas and the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) are closely related to past atmospheric circulation and dust load. In the Bahamas the sources of insoluble residue (IR) must be allogenic because the islands consist of almost pure carbonates. The Al2O3:TiO2 ratio was used to establish the provenance of the IR of the paleosols. Comparisons of this ratio from Bahamian paleosols, North African dust, Lesser Antilles ash and North American loess reveal that the African dust is the major contributor to the IR, with a potential minor volcanic input from the Lesser Antilles. The contribution of the North American loess to the IR was not determined because of geochemical similarities with the North African dust. The study of two outcrops in Eleuthera indicate that paleosols can act as aquicludes. The Bahamian samples were collected on a roughly north-south transect in order to establish the climatic influence on paleosol properties. Even though there is a marked climatic gradient in the Bahamas, the paleosol geochemistry shows no trend that could be related to paleoclimate. While previous studies indicated that the source of insoluble residues in the soils of CNMI is carbonate dissolution, the present study shows that atmospheric deposition of ash from the Mariana arc and dust from the Asian continent may play a significant role in paleosol formation. Asian dust Lesser Antilles volcanic ash North African dust atmospheric dust North American loess CNMI paleoclimate Quaternary geology X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) thin sections Al2O3:TiO2 ratio insoluble residue in paleosols carbonate paleosols carbonate islands atmospheric dust western North Atlantic Ocean western North Pacific Ocean
195	炭素・窒素安定同位体比を指標とする海洋表層の生物地球化学過程の研究才野, 敏郎 03 1900 (has links) 科学研究費補助金研究種目:基盤研究(B)(2) 課題番号:06453006 研究代表者:才野敏郎研究期間:1994-1996年度植物プランクトン硝酸安定同位体比二酸化炭素大西洋 phytoplankton 炭素同位体同位体希釈法赤道湧昇 equatorial upwelling 窒素同位体物質循環炭素全炭酸 carbon isotope 懸濁粒子 particulate organic matter subarctic front 粒状有機物北部北太平洋亜寒帯前線生物地球化学過程 nitrogen isotope 沈降粒子懸濁態有機炭素窒素安定同位体比 Atlantic ocean biogeochemical processes
196	THE BRONX COCKED BACK AND SMOKING MULTIFARIOUS PROSE PERFORMANCE Avila, Alex 01 June 2016 (has links) The Bronx Cocked Back And Smoking is a collection of multifarious prose performances recounting the historical, personal, social, political and cultural constructs of a city birthed by violence. This body of work is accompanied by video, audio, photography, and theatre performance texts. St. Mary’s Housing project, in the Bronx, is the foundation where most of this literary work takes place. The modern day Griot (storyteller) is a Poet, guiding his audience through the social inequalities and disparities that plague St. Mary’s community. The Poet shares personal traumatic insights while simultaneously utilizing writing as a form of survival to the conditions of the Bronx. This multi-platform performance highlights the metaphorical and physical concerns with the cycle of violence. This question is answered through the Poet’s choice by selecting the pen over the gun. Bronx St. Mary's Housing Multi-media Avila Alex Avila Production 4e CSUSB San Bernardino New York City Bx Hip Hop Spanglish Spanish Ebonics Garifuna Honduras African Jazz Funk Blues poetry violence history anthropology mambo merengue ragtime W. E. B. Du Bios community Puerto Rican Lenape Native American Latino Jonas Bronck P.S. 5 Elementary school Black boy black people black Cabell Calloway Cab Calloway immigrants lyrical poem didactic poem spoken word 3rd avenue the hub rolex wolverine yankee fitted black linguistic African diaspora allegorical Boricuas trickster Griot William Shakespeare Dewitt Clinton High School Port Morris heroine crack cocaine preacher drugs violence God reflection facebooking youtubing unemployment Ajax toothbrush Multifarious Prose Performance Multifarious Prose Performance coined ATLANTIC Ocean east coast west coast Carter Harrison Nommo The drama of Nommo the Bronx tale Young Visionaries Youth Actio Poetry

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