Wu, Yan-cheuk.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1994. | Includes special study report entitled: Aquarium, laboratory and floating structure. Includes bibliographical references.

M.Arch. Li, Ying-wai,

Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. | Includes special report study entitled: Application of ship design on architectural design. Includes bibliographical references.

Williams, Jeffrey L.

Thesis (M.S. in Systems Engineering)--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2003. | Thesis advisor(s): Dan C. Boger, J.L. Fobes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-67). Also available online.

Sitz, Jan Hendrik

Das minibrain-Gen der Taufliege Drosophila melanogaster kodiert für eine Proteinkinase (mnb) mit bislang nicht eindeutig geklärter Funktion. Mutanten mit einer reduzierten minibrain-Expression weisen neben einer deutlich verringerten Gehirngröße unter anderem Defizite im Lernverhalten auf.
Dyrk1A ist das Säuger-Homologe des minibrain-Gens; das entsprechende Protein ist das prototypische Mitglied der Dyrk-Proteinkinasen. Das humane Dyrk1A-Gen g...

Hsueh, Wen-Jung

Traditionally, it is commonly believe that the marine fish stock is renewable and inexhaustible. However, following a dramatic progress of fishing technology, it is proved that the unregulated fishing activity would cause the resource stock deteriorated. It is a necessary evil to design a management procedure, which implements an annual fishing quota system in order to maintain the sustainability of the fish resource. In the most recent years, sudden implementation quota restrictions in many int...

Yablonsky, Richard Michael

Conservation of atmospheric mass is one of the fundamental concepts used in the study of meteorology. Any time precipitation occurs, however, atmospheric mass is not conserved. As precipitation is removed from the atmosphere, the hydrostatic pressure in the precipitating region is reduced. In a tropical cyclone, the heaviest precipitation occurs in the eyewall, and this localized region of heavy precipitation leads to mass and moisture convergence towards the center of the tropical cyclone. The ...

Chen, Chih-Chang

A building project of new generation warship is required for national security, after long-term purchase plan and thoughtful evaluation. Based on the national policy, of ¡��Naval vessel built in native shipyard¡¨ to effectively build warships in native shipyard with limited manpower, under a planned quality management system, is the objective of this thesis.This thesis will start with the project management of shipyard for building warships in native shipyards. By coll...

Morley, James Walter

Ecology of overwintering young-of-the-year bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) off North Carolina was examined for the 2001 and 2002 year-classes. This study addressed the hypothesis that overwinter mortality affects the recruitment of summer-spawned bluefish. A trawling survey was conducted in Onslow Bay, NC from October 2001 to May 2002 and from September 2002 to June 2003. Up to four transects were sampled monthly each ranging from 0.4 to 16.1 kilometers from shore. Lipid content of white muscle a...

Tsai, Ting-Pang

Although the government has actively advocating the concept of the ocean-state country promoting sustainable development of fishery resource, there still remains a lack of adequate fishery policy and human resource training program in coherence with the fishery industry. Taiwan¡¦s far sea fishery industry is the earliest pioneer expanding business scope globally. As a result, it shall have the keenest tendency toward digitization. On the contrary, no total-solution for digitiza...

Rumsey, Ian Cooper

Globally, the largest source of atmospheric NH3 is domestic animal waste contributing 20-35 Tg of nitrogen per year. In North Carolina, hog waste accounts for 47% of all ammonia emissions in North Carolina. This is the result of a huge increase in hog population since the 1980s from 3 million to 10 million. Currently swine waste is managed using Lagoon and Spray Technology (LST) also known as conventional technology. A LST uses anaerobic lagoons to store the hog waste, and effluent from lagoons ...

Allen, Dennis Grey

Histamine poisoning is one of the most common chemically induced seafood borne illnesses reported in the United States today. Generally it is believed that the causative agents are biogenic amines (histamine, putrescine and cadaverine) produced by Gram negative bacteria. Under the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations HACCP program, growth of histamine-producing bacteria in potentially hazardous fish is controlled primarily by limiting time and temperature conditions. The purpose of this study was ...

Barrios, Anna Teresita

Spawning site selection by red drum within the Neuse River Estuary (NRE) was studied by locating vocalizing aggregations using traditional hydrophone surveys (involving deploying gear from a research vessel stationed over a sampling site) and submersible, autonomous sonobuoys. Sonobuoys allowed interval recording over multiple stations during a given night, and reduced the likelihood that boat noise would interfere with courtship and spawning behavior.The field season extended from 8 July to 30 ...

Shiou, Tai-Shen

AbstractRecent years, owing to the changes of employment environment and structure of production industry, the problem of ¡��structural unemployment¡¨ is resulted in serious outgoing of the business to cause the ratio rising of unemployment. According to the latest data of National Statistics in 2002, the unemployment rate was high up to 5.17%, that is the top record since so many years. Facing to the difficult economic problem of Taiwan, our government needs to find o...

Chen, Jia-Tay

This research is about using the term ¡��realism¡¨ to study on the relationship across the Taiwan straits. After the Gulf War, Mainland China has started the revolutions in military affairs. Their think of military strategy was from ¡��Conquer Limited Way¡¨ to ¡��Conquer High Technology Limited Way¡¨. The People¡¦s Liberation Army has become more modernized, buying fighter planes, missiles, on boar...

Lin, Chi-Ju

The purposes of this study are to understand the surface water distributions and vertical profiles of Ra-226 in the northern South China Sea (SCS), and to estimate the mean residence time of Pb-210 based on the extent of radioactive disequilibrium relative to Ra-226. Seawater samples of 20-liter size were collected during four Ocean Researcher I (ORI) cruises conducted in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 (Cruise 575 in March, Cruise 606 in April, Cruise 662 in October, and Cruise 688 in July) for Ra-22...

YA, CHEN

The purposes of this study are to elucidate the taxonomy and reproductive biology of Eptatretus chinensis. It includes three parts: (1) Description of external and internal taxonomic morphological characters. (2) Erection of hypothesis for the phylogenetic position of E. cheninsis using mtDNA 16S rRNA gene sequences. (3) Data on reproductive biology (male/female ratio, body length, monthly changes of eggs and spawn stage). Morphologically characters E. cheninsis and Paramyxine sheni are must sim...

Liu, Chen-An

This research project studies the military exchanges between the United States and People s Republic of China. US-PRC relations have experienced uneven developments over the last decadeas the two major powers have grappled with the evolving post-Cold War international security Environment as well as shifting domestic agendas and foreign policy priorities.While the October 2002 Crawford summit between Presidents Bush and Jiang, and the resumption of the Defense Consultation Talks in December 2002...

Hwang, Yi-kai

Peng-Hu county is shortage of daily water frequently., Every time the major fire starts, fire fighting department audits the whole situation and rescue process and analysis the factor for improvement. We realized the shortage of water supply is often the main deficiency. Winter is even worse, gale, storm and strong north-east season wind makes fire become larger. During the primary period, if we do not supply enough water to extinguish the fire, it would extend and it is the main reason for majo...

Chen, Pei-ling

AbstractSciaenids are a kind of economic oceanic fish with the most dynamic vocal activity. It is important to find out what type of sound a soniferous fish can make. Therefore, I used this acoustic character as a tool to study the distribution of sciaenids in order to manage their fisheries. In the previous researches, scientist found that there were eight types of sounds (A~H type) appearing on the coastal areas of Yunlin, and the frequency range of the H-type sound could reach to 8000Hz. This...

Lai, Pei-shan

Determination of arsenic and selenium compounds in water samplesorganotin compounds in fish samples by LC-ICP-MS

Huang, Mingjae

Chromotographic separations of Formosan soft coral Sarcophyton crassocaule (GN-55) led to the isolations of four diterpenes, sarcophine (1), sarcophytoxide (2), (7R*, 8S*)-dihydroxysarcophytonin A (3), sarcophtonin A (4), one steroid, 17Ò,20Ò-epoxy-23,24- dimethyl-cholest-5- ene-3Ò,22-diol (5), and an eudesmane sesquiterpene, selin-11- en-4Ñ-ol (6).Two eudesmane epimers, 7 and 8 (new compound), three eudesmane sesquiterpenes, 9{11, and a sphingolipid, 12 were ...

Fu, Der

The existence and development of our nation mainly depends on our national security. As Minisrty of Defense mentioned in the report on the national defence, there are three things threatening the national security of ROC---Beijing using force against Taiwan, the dispute of the sovereignty over the South China Sea , and the independence of Taiwan.With the end of the Cold War, bipolar system collapsed, and the world turned out to be dominated by one super-power and several powerful nations(the sup...

Tseng, Yen-ju

The chemical constituents of organic extracts of a Formosan soft coral Sinularia lochmodes (Kolonko) (collected at Ken-Ting in Taiwan) was studied and isolated twelve nature compounds (1¡V12), including seven new compounds, lochmodesolides A¡VE (1¡V5), 4,6-dibromo-(2 ,5 -dibromophenoxy) anisole (6), 3�G],11-dihydroxy-5�G],6�G]-expoxy-24-methylene-9,11-secocholestan-9-one (7), and five know compounds (8¡V12),(1R*,5R*,8R*,10S*,11R*)-11-hydroxyl-1-isopropenyl-8-m...

Wang, Shih-Ming

The study investigated seasonal and spatial distributions and biogeochemical processes of dissolved and particulate organic matter in the upper layer of northern South China Sea (SCS). Concentrations of dissolved organic carbon (DOC), nitrogen (DON) and phosphorus (DOP) in the euphotic zone of northern SCS were in the range of 55-147 �GgM, 2.4-9.9 �GgM and 0.13-0.38�GgM, respectively. A maximum concentration of DOC, DON and DOP, was found in the station close to the Pearl River due to freshwater...

Hung, Heng-chu

Summary¡��International Children Toy Festival ¡��was so successful conduct by the Ye Lian County Government which brought peoples went to there and fame along. Ping Tung county government leads the ¡��Blue Fin Tuna Festival¡¨ which takes the production culture to the high peak. Through the different festival¡¦s long term programs conducts by the government, various trades and professions are rising expand and development. These do he...

Hong, Rong-Xiang

AbstractThe fishery labor force is one of the essential productivity also it is the most influence on the whole development in fishery. Because the foreign fishermen join the production line in Taiwan, and it generates two effects on here. The positive effect is to balance the human resource of labor force market here in Taiwan, on the other hand, the negative effect will cause some public security problems for our society and industrial structure on this field of fishery. To manage effectively ...

Chung, Yung-jui

As the deregulation of the mobile number portability (MNP) and the emergence of such new technologies and services as PHS and 3G, the mobile telecommunications industry in Taiwan becomes highly competitive than ever. Under such competition, customer churning and profit declining have become of great concerns to mobile service providers. In response, most of providers continuously develop and introduce new value-added products and services. Frequent value-add products and services might strengthe...

Yan, Shyh-Bin

About the investigation method of the present situation of coral reef at present, the main choice is scuba diving investigation no matter domestic and foreign countries. Take the coral reef of physical examination in Taiwan as example, divers use transects as basic methods to calculate the coverage rate of coral reef and characteristic of the seabed environment and to survey specific fish and quantity of the invertebrate in order to judge the influence that the human activity causes to the coral...

Cruise, Bethany Ann

Sensory neurons of the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) areessential for successful healing of injured skin. Neuropeptidessuch as calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) are releasedcentrally in response to a skin injury to induce pain sensationand are also released at the site of injury to inducevasodilation. The Transforming Growth Factor �] superfamilymember Activin has been proposed to regulate sensory neuropeptideexpression during development, but its role in adult DRG neuronsis not known. The stud...

Chiu, E-Ping

Chromatographic separation of methylene chloride extracts of Formosan soft coral Lemnalia laevis, Thomson and Dean (collected at Green Island off Taiwan) led to the isolation of eight sesquterpenoids and three norsesquterpenoids compounds, 4(S¡¯)-acetoxy,10(S¡¯)-hydro xy,5-oxo,1(S¡¯),12(S¡¯)neolemna-2(Z),8-diene (1)¡B4(S*)-acetoxy,10,5-oxo, 1(S*),12(S*)neolemna-1(Z),8-dieme (2)¡B(6ÑH),1(10)-epoxy-2...

Root, Eric

This thesis describes the development of a fixed base flightsimulator capable of hardware-in-the-loop testing of aviationelectronics, or ��avionics��. The system is composedof a pilot controlled 6 degree-of-freedom aircraft model, aflight display, and a hardware interface to an ARINC 429avionics databus. Avionics can be connected to this databus fortesting. These systems are combined in a modular fashionallowing easy re-configuration for use with various aircraftmodels, and testing of avionics u...

Dowe, David S.

Exposed in the core of a NNW-trending frontal anticline ofthe Laramide fold-thrust belt of northeastern Mexico, thePaleozoic Granjeno Schist comprises a polydeformed assemblageof metasedimentary and metavolcaniclastic rocks andserpentinized mafic-ultramafic units. Deformation of theGranjeno Schist has produced at least four sets of structures.The earliest deformation (D1) predates emplacement of a leucogranite at 351��54 Ma andmay record obduction of this oceanic unit. Subsequentdeformations (D2...

Farruggia, Frank Thomas

The diverse graminoid-dominated savannas of CentralAmerica remain poorly described. I used percent cover andfrequency along line transects and in quadrats to assess theflora, community structure, and environment of a hyperseasonalcoastal savanna near Sapodilla Lagoon in Stann Creek District,Belize. The flora consisted of 193 angiosperms, 2 gymnosperms,and 6 pteridophytes, and was dominated by graminoids. Specieswith the highest importance values were Mesosetum filifolium,Paspalum pulchellum, Rhy...

Nair, Sidharth

Technology trends indicate a smaller, cheaper GPS receiveras time proceeds. The automobile industry has greatly benefitedfrom these strides in navigation technology, however thisindustry is sensitive to the cosmetics of exposed antennas.This thesis introduces the concept of a multiple antenna GPSconfiguration to enhance performance in automobiles, wheremultiple antenna are ��hidden�� but have limited viewof the upper hemi-sphere.Traditionally, placement of a GPS antenna is critical; theroof of t...

Achanta, Raghavendra

GPS carrier phase measurements are widely used in highaccuracy navigation and timing applications. However, anomaliescan exist in these measurements, which if not accounted for,can degrade their integrity and accuracy and make themunsuitable for high accuracy applications.The research contained in this document was performed toidentify carrier phase measurement anomalies and developalgorithms that can detect and possibly correct theseanomalies. Following the identification of carrier phaseanomal...

McCollum, Donna s

Stream ecosystems are holistic systems that incorporatedisturbances and abiotic influences at many spatial and temporalscales. This view supports a three-tiered model of variables thatdetermine biotic integrity in streams, with causes and effectsflowing from large-scale to fine-scale processes. Tier Onecharacteristics include variables important at the scale ofgeomorphological processes and land use over entire watersheds.These variables largely determine Tier Two factors, abioticconditions in a...

Vadlamani, Ananth Kalyan

Terrain database integrity monitors and terrain-referencednavigation systems are based on performing a comparison betweenstored terrain elevations with data from airborne sensors likeradar altimeters, inertial measurement units, GPS receiversetc. This thesis introduces the concept of a spatial terraindatabase integrity monitor and discusses methods to improve itsperformance. Furthermore, this thesis discusses an improvementof the terrain-referenced aircraft position estimation foraircraft naviga...

Salahuddin, Ahmed

To explore the signature pattern between sea surfacetemperature (SST) and summer monsoon rainfall in Bangladesh,the study examined 90 years (1912-2001) of monthly rainfalldata for twelve stations for the months of May (pre-monsoonmonth), and June through September (monsoon months) and SST ofthe Bay of Bengal for the period of 1912 through 2001 at2�X by 2�X grid cells. The total number of observationfor each station was 450. In order to understand and explorethe notion of the signature, two class...

Dinkelacker, Stephen

These studies address the ability of hatchlingBlanding��s turtles (Emydoidea blandingii Holbrook, 1838) tooverwinter in terrestrial and aquatic environments. Currently, itis not known where these hatchlings overwinter or how theysurvive different environmental stresses in each habitat. Inaddition, this is the first on antioxidant responses to freezingand anoxia in hatchling turtles, and survival times duringfreezing and anoxia among species of turtles. First,cold-hardiness and dehydration resist...

Harlan, Matthew

The primary objective of this research project was to perform live load tests on a bridge deck with GFRP reinforcement in the field under service conditions. The strains and deflections in the span reinforced with GFRP in the top mat were recorded under a series of truck crossings, and these were compared to the span reinforced with all steel bars under identical loading conditions, as well as design values and other test results. Transverse strains in the GFRP bars, girder distribution factors,...

Guzman-Aranda, Juan Carlos

A conservation planning protocol based on components from successful conservation projects in Mexico and other countries was developed to evaluate conservation planning practices and to serve as a template to guide future conservation planning efforts in Mexico. My research specifically explored stakeholder analysis and performance measurement as currently applied to conservation planning. Twenty-seven natural protected area (NPA) management plans and 6 plans from modified rural landscape projec...

Biesiadny-Mrstik, Michelle Marie

To create a legible building, the structures form must describe and reinforce the mission of the organization that inhabits it. This proposal for a regional competition, training and recreational aquatics facility demonstrates ideas of physical fitness through an exploration of muscles, cables, tension, joints, and bones. The building is part of a larger urban strategy for redeveloping the Washington Channel waterfront in Southwest Washington, D.C. Early images of transformed beach glass, thread...

Wehbe, Firas Hazem

<p>A traditional medical school curriculum consists of a large amount of information presented by a large number of faculty. Faced with a growing and evolving flood of information, medical educators require and seek assistance to manage this knowledge base. Between the fall of 2001 and summer of 2002, researchers and educators at the Vanderbilt University Department of Biomedical Informatics have constructed KnowledgeMap (KM), a web-based knowledge management tool to support medica...

Purcell, Scott Hudson

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of flunixin meglumine (FM), an inhibitor of PGF2a synthesis, administered at the time of embryo transfer (ET) and insertion of an intravaginal progesterone-releasing device (CIDR) at the time of ET on pregnancy rates (PR) and the resynchronization of estrus. Beef cows (n = 796) and heifers (n = 108) at three locations were assigned randomly within age to one of four groups in a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments with injection of F...

Schuch, Eric Matthew

Sampling small scale ocean turbulence is one of the most important problems in oceanography. The turbulence can be near the noise level of current microscale profiling techniques and these techniques do not provide spatially and temporally dense measurements and can be labor intensive. A 5 beam acoustic Doppler current profiler (VADCP) can more accurately measure three components of fluid velocity in a column. By towing such a device in a sensor platform, called a towfish, one may measure turbul...

Trepkowski, Rose E

High transmission data rate, spectral efficiency, and reliability are necessary for future wireless communications systems. In a multipath-rich wireless channel, deploying multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver achieves high data rate, without increasing the total transmission power or bandwidth. When perfect knowledge of the wireless channel conditions is available at the receiver, the capacity has been shown to grow linearly with the number of antennas. However, the channel con...

McGowan, Colin

Pilkington, Lawrence O.

Impact tests are performed on two circular circumferential frame segments using adrop tower apparatus. These frames have a nominal radius of 120 inches, a forty-eight -degree included angle, a thin-walled cross section in the shape of the letter J, and aretypical of the transverse fuselage frames found in a large transport aircraft. The materialis a 2D triaxial braided composite of carbon fiber yarns. Impact speeds of the 91.6 lb dropmass are 23.7 ft/s or less. This speed range is the order of t...

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Murphy, Gregory W.

Mercury poses significant challenges to human health and fisheries management. Historical industrial practices in Waynesboro, Virginia left portions of the Shenandoah River basin contaminated with mercury and stringent health advisories for fish consumption. I investigated processes affecting the bioaccumulation of mercury in Catostomus commersoni, Ictalurus punctatus, Lepomis auritus, and Micropterus dolomieu by studying food habits, total mercury and methylmercury in common prey items, and bio...