McCutcheon, Mary Shaw

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Kleese, William Carl

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Marks, Philip Scott, 1942-

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Patterson, Jill Irene, 1950-

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Wang, Michael Chih-Huei, 1967-

Sea-of-Wire Array Logic has been developed to support a symbolic layout algorithm realization. A delay timing scheme is needed to direct the placement strategy of the layout. Both SPICE simulation and table lookup method are compared to verify the accuracy of delay estimation. Input waveform distortion is taken into account in the timing analysis, and correction factors are applied to increase the accuracy of delay estimation. A table lookup scheme has shown to be very accurate in comparison wit...

Shaw, Joseph Alan, 1962-

Optical glint patterns convey information about the roughness of the surface on which they are formed. This dissertation describes two new optical instruments that relate the variations of specular laser reflections (laser glints) from the sea surface in angular, temporal, and wavenumber space to the surface roughness. Measurements from these instruments are interpreted with the objective of improving the capabilities of remote-sensing instruments that view the ocean surface. Particular attentio...

Kapsch, Marie-Luise

The Arctic sea-ice cover plays an important role for the global climate system. Sea ice and the overlying snow cover reflect up to eight times more of the solar radiation than the underlying ocean. Hence, they are important for the global energy budget, and changes in the sea-ice cover can have a large impact on the Arctic climate and beyond. In the past 36 years the ice cover reduced significantly. The largest decline is observed in September, with a rate of more than 12% per decade. The negati...

Ben-Yaakov, S.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 08-11, 1968 / Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California / A data recording-reproducing system has been developed in conjunction with an oceanographic in situ multi-sensor probe for measuring chemical properties. The recording unit is built around a deck of a single channel, entertainment-type miniature magnetic tape recorder. The tape speed was reduced to 0.125 ips by slightly modifying the original speed control, which results in four ...

Yi-qiang, Zhang, Qi-shan, Zhang, Dong-kai, Yang, Bo-chuan, Zhang, Rong-lei, Hu, Zi-wei, Li

ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / Background and advantages of GPS based Remote Sensing are introduced, characteristics of forward scattered GPS signal such as polarization change, cross-correlation power variation, code delay due to the wave travel distance difference between direct and scattered signal, and cross-correlation po...

Álvarez Ellacuría, Itziar

Understanding the early life stages of fishes and the processes influencing their survival has been at the heart of the fisheries oceanography since the beginning of the 20th century. By focusing on spatial and temporal patterns in the ichthyoplankton (those early stages whose horizontal location is largely determined by currents), it is possible to gain some understanding of interrelationships among environmental conditions, fish spawning phase and dispersal/survival dynamics of the planktonic ...

Courtney, Susan Jean

<p> This traditional hermeneutic and alchemical hermeneutical study investigates the dissociative states of polyfragmentation (multiple nodes of identity), depersonalization (body-soul detachment), and derealization (detachment from the world) through depth psychological theory on the interconnectivity of psyche and matter, including Jungian interpretation of the medieval practice of alchemy. The study focuses on the alchemical salt sparks or <i>scintillae </i> as dissociated psychical fragments...

Ngwali, Mohammed K

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-70) / This study focuses on general features and variations of sea level at Zanzibar, and the relation of these to climate variability over the tropical western Indian Ocean during the 1997-1998 EI Ni?o and the 2000-2001 la Ni?a periods. The sea level data used in this study has been collected over a period of nine years from 1996 to 2004. Analyses have shown that the predominant type of tides at Zanzibar are semidiurnal with two high and two low wa...

Shibl, Ahmed A.

Aquatic primary productivity mainly depends on pelagic phytoplankton. The globally abundant marine picocyanobacteria Prochlorococcus comprises a significant fraction of the photosynthetic biomass in most tropical, oligotrophic oceans. The Red Sea is an enclosed narrow body of water characterized by continuous solar irradiance, and negligible annual rainfall, in addition to elevated temperatures and salinity levels, which mimics a global warming scenario. Analysis of 16S rRNA sequences of b...

Wainman, Carl Kevin

Bibliography: leaves 152-159. / The continued sustainable beneficial use of the sea, and in particular Simon's Bay, as an important industrial Naval Harbour, beach and recreational retreat, tourist destination, penguin haven, trek-net fishery, maritime archaeological area and research zone has been highlighted. If these benefits are to be maintained or in the context of expanded future use, then the quality of seawater in the region is seen as a key maritime health indicator of this interdepende...

Edmands, Edith Olive

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University

Manchester, Marjorie

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University

Swenson, Paul B.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / Introduction The purpose of the thesis is; to develop and explain the location and extent of sea ice in the Beaufort Sea, and to describe methods in use and proposed by the science of ice forecasting to aid ship movements in the area. Much of the data in the thesis camas from unpublished or widely scattered papers, and the thesis is an attempt to assimilate such data into cohesive form. Chapter I. The Newly Acquired Importance of the Beaufort Sea Region an...

Kurokawa, Makoto

China and Japan have claimed sovereignty of tiny, inhabitant islands in the East China Sea for a long time. This paper attempts to analyze this territorial dispute from the conflict transformation perspective to seek a peaceful end. I believe that Nationalism plays a key role and interferes to resolve the dispute by international conflict resolution methods. To prove the influence of the nationalism on the dispute, I conducted a survey to measure individual’s nationalistic attributions and inqui...

McAuliffe, Kathleen

The East China Sea (ECS) dispute between Japan, the People’s Republic of China, and the Republic of China began in the early 1970s and has continued to escalate. Although the Japanese government claims to handle conflicts in the disputed area as domestic matters, scholarship has focused on the dispute as an international relations or legal issue between states. This project explores the dispute as an issue in domestic Japanese politics by examining the narratives and power dynamics of the major ...

Baker, Shirley Marie

viii, 49 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm Notes Typescript Includes vita and abstract Thesis (M.S.)--University of Oregon, 1988 Bibliography: leaves 44-49 Another copy on microfilm is located in Archives

Landsman, David

Bibliography: pages 118-143. / The role that the sea urchin, Parechinus angulosus, embryo and sperm histone variants play in chromatin structure has been investigated. Chromatin structure has been determined at different levels of resolution in sperm and in developing embryos using micrococcal nuclease, pancreatic deoxyribonuclease (DNase I) and restriction endonucleases. Micrococcal nuclease and restriction endonuclease digestions of sea urchin gastrula chromatin have been analysed and it is sh...

Almahasheer, Hanan

The Red Sea is an arid environment, without riverine inputs, oligotrophic waters and extreme temperature and salinity. Avicennia marina is the dominant vegetation in the shores of the Red Sea. However, little is known about their distribution, dynamics, and services. Therefore, the aim of this Ph.D. was to obtain the basic information needed to evaluate their role in the coastal ecosystems and quantify their services. With that objective we 1) estimated the past and present distribution of mangr...

Searson, Sarah

Bibliography: pages 96-100. / Tide gauge data from ten ports around the coast of Southern Africa are used to study the nature and behaviour of extreme high sea levels with a view towards predicting the likelihood of extremes occurring in the future. A recorded sea level height can be thought of as a combination of an astronomical tide and a weather determined component. In Southern Africa tides are typically 2 to 2.5 metres in range and the non-tidal residual accounts for up to 50 cm. Sea level ...

Werner, Edgar

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 15-17, 1974 / International Hotel, Los Angeles, California / A preliminary study of the environmental and operational parameters requisite to the design and development of low cost simplified communication and telemetry devices usable in the shallow waters of continental shelves is presented. Specific requirements peculiar to the needs of Ocean Resource Utilization Programs in underdeveloped countries lacking both economic and technolog...

Fatani, Siham

Cellulolytic microorganisms are considered to be key players in biorefinery, especially for the utilization of plant biomass. These organisms have been isolated from various environments. The Red Sea is one of the seas with high biodiversity and a unique environment, characterized by high water temperature and high salinity . However, there is little information regarding cellulases in Red Sea environments. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the Red Sea as a gene resource for microbial ...

Kardon, Isaac Benjamin

<p>This study explores the relationship between the People?s Republic of China (PRC) and the international legal system, with empirical focus on the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) regime as codified in the 1982 Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. The main pattern explained is China?s practice of international law in its maritime disputes, moving beyond a question of ?compliance? with the relevant rules to instead address how China shapes the underlying legal norms, and vice ver...

Glazier, Amanda E.

<p> The deep sea is the Earth&rsquo;s largest ecosystem and harbors a unique and largely endemic fauna. Although most research has focused on the ecological mechanisms that allow coexistence, recent studies have begun to investigate how this remarkable fauna evolved.. My work quantifies geographic patterns of genetic variation and investigates potential mechanisms that shape evolution in the deep ocean. </p><p> Bathymetric genetic divergence is common in the deep sea with population structure ...

Fenoglio-Marc, Luciana

This habilitation thesis presents the findings of the sea level change studies conducted at the Institute of Geodesy of the Technischen Universität Darmstadt betweeen 2001 and 2013. Sea level is an important indicator of climate change. It has been traditionally measured by coastal tide gauges and by satellite altimetry since 1993. Tide gauge measurements indicate a coastal average sea level rise of 1-2 millimeters per year over the 20th century. Over the last two decades the average sea leve...

Goodman, Lonnie E.

The chronic problem of protein deficiency that prevails in many parts of the world today poses a great challenge to modern technology. Current production of protein food of animal origin is insufficient to meet the needs of an increasing world population. From this fact arises the possibility of a world in which the majority of people will never have enough to eat,

Su, Wanqin

The significance of this site lies in its location. It is three miles away from French Quarter, the heart and origin of the city, and eight miles away from Lake Borgne, as well as the Gulf. Regardless of the size, it distinguishes itself on the map as a wedge of green space inserted sharply into densely developed urban space. The site was prosperous cypress swamp six decades ago, too dense to identify lands and water underneath. However, after the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet was dug in the 196...

Olofsson, Lizette

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Guastella, L A-M

Bibliography: pages 191-202. / The surface heat balance of the Benguela upwelling area on the west coast of southern Africa is analysed. Measurements of the components of the heat balance were made in the St Helena Bay area from 14-21 October 1986. Additional long-term data was obtained from Alexander Bay and Cape Town. An average net heat gain of 227 W.m⁻² was received over the eight days of the field study. The presence of cold water determined that latent heat loss by the sea surface was smal...

Fitzpatrick, Owen T.

Islands have typically been considered isolated entities, patches of habitat surrounded by an entirely inhospitable marine or aquatic environment. However, there is increasing evidence that islands can be linked to the surrounding environment through the influx of subsidies, which may alter the relationship between species richness and island area. Little empirical work has been done to test these hypotheses in productive ecosystems, however. To better understand the effects of the influx of mar...

abstract: Phytoplankton comprise the base of the marine food web, and, along with heterotrophic protists, they are key players in the biological pump that transports carbon from the surface to the deep ocean. In the world's subtropical oligotrophic gyres, plankton communities exhibit strong seasonality. Winter storms vent deep water into the euphotic zone, triggering a surge in primary productivity in the form of a spring phytoplankton bloom. Although the hydrographic trends of this "boom and bu...

Luque Alanís, Patricio

Eukaryotic microalgae from the Red Sea were isolated, characterized and identified with the purpose of building a culture collection that will serve future research activities in the area of industrial microbiology. Seven sampling locations were surveyed using an in-house designed isolation protocol. Microalgae enrichment was carried out in vitro using the streak plate method and fluorescence activated cell sorting approaches. Colonial and cellular microscopy, growth media preference assays, as ...

Svensson, Nina

In recent years there has been an increase in offshore wind energy, which poses the need for accurate wind speed estimates in the marine environment, especially in coastal areas where most wind turbines will be placed. This thesis is focused on the Baltic Sea, which is a small, semi-enclosed sea where land-sea interaction play an important role in explaining the wind patterns. Mesoscale model simulations can be used to study the marine environment, where observations are often scarce. In this th...

Bighiu, Maria Alexandra

Biocide-based antifouling (AF) paints are the most common method for preventing biofouling, i.e. the growth of algae, barnacles and other organisms on boat hulls. AF paints for leisure boats are predominantly based on copper (Cu) as the main biocide, with zinc (Zn) present as a pigment and stabilizer. Both metals are released from the paint matrix into the water column, leading to contamination of marinas which typically have only limited water exchange. Thus, the aim of this PhD thesis was to d...

Amundrud, Trisha Lynne

The Arctic ice pack consists of flat level ice, open water, and large ridge structures. During winter, ice thickens and is compacted into ridges, increasing the Arctic ice volume. In summer, ridging is accompanied by ice melt processes, which act to decrease ice volume. Current ice-atmosphere-ocean models cannot reproduce the evolution of the ridged ice fraction, suggesting that ridging or melt may be inappropriately parameterized. To increase our understanding of ridged ice evolution, this thes...

Amaya, Hanako

The public park at night is recognized as a dangerous place in many urban cities in the world. This view overlooks countless opportunities for community development, appreciation of nature within urban context, and enrichment of public space through the phenomenology of night. This project reviews possibilities of introducing night activities to the public park, and rethinks active public space at night. The goal of this project is to introduce night use of a public park that is accessible ...

Xie, Yunbo

The primary goal of this thesis is to utilize acoustical radiation from the Arctic ice cover to infer the response of sea ice to environmental forcing, and to sense remotely the mechanical properties of the ice. The work makes use of two experiments in the Canadian arctic undertaken by the Ocean Acoustics Group of the Institute of Ocean Sciences, which resulted in an extensive body of acoustical and related environmental data. Cracking sounds originating from both first and multi-year ice fractu...

Botella, Albéric

Among the various adverse effects of climate change, sea-level rise is expected to increase the severity and frequency of flooding events impacting the vulnerable, low-lying islands of French Polynesia. It has long been understood that sea-level changes are not spatially uniform, yet this aspect is not taken into account in the decision-making. Notably, no projections of future sea level have been produced specifically for this region so far, partly because the processes driving sea-level change...

Laurila, Tea Elisa

The Atlantis II Deep is a location of modern submarine hydrothermal activity along the slowly spreading Red Sea rift axis. Venting of high-temperature hydrothermal fluids, similar to those associated with black smokers, takes place in a brine pool and has led to the accumulation of 90 Mt (dry, salt free) of stratiform, metalliferous sediment. The conditions of mineralization are unique in the modern oceans, but have been widely suggested as a possible analog of some important ancient stratiform ...

Mirhej, Michael Edward

Dissolved oxygen was studied in distilled water and salt solutions by means of nuclear magnetic resonance. The free induction technique was employed to measure the spin lattice relaxation time, T-^, for oxygen-free distilled water and for water containing oxygen under one atmosphere of air and one atmosphere of oxygen at temperatures of 1° to 75°C. The same measurements were made for solutions of 0.5 M sodium chloride at temperatures of 1° to 40°C. The spin lattice relaxation probability, 1/T[s...

Hamblin, Paul Frederick

During the past two summers at the Institute of Oceanography of the University of British Columbia a research group has been involved in an experimental programme studying the interaction between the air and the sea close to the ocean surface. To date instruments have been developed and used to measure the vertical flux of momentum and the waves on the water surface. The observational site is situated on the tidal flat, Spanish Banks, in Burrard Inlet. Though the fetch is limited measurements ar...

Pond, Stephen

The work carried out for this thesis forms part of a program to study air-sea interaction processes which has been under way at the Institute of Oceanography of the University of British Columbia during the past four years. Measurements of the spectra of fluctuations of the velocity, temperature, and quantities related to the total rate of dissipation of kinetic energy were made in the air just above the sea surface, Particular attention was focused on the high wave number region of the spectra ...

Dobson, Frederick William

Supervisor: Professor Robert W. Stewart The process by which the wind makes sea waves grow is not well-understood, partly because of the lack of adequate observational information on the normal pressures which transfer energy to the waves. The principal object of this experiment has been to provide some of the missing data. A system for making simultaneous measurements of normal pressure and wave height was developed and tested in the laboratory and in the field. The system consisted of a disc...

Catana, M. Cevat

Several engineering structures for geotechnical engineering applications are constructed using compacted fine-grained soils (i.e., dams, road embankments, pavements, canals, and waste containment structures such as soil covers and liners). The compacted fine-grained soils are typically in a state of unsaturated condition and plastic in nature. There is a growing interest in recent years to apply the mechanics of unsaturated soils in the design of geotechnical structures constructed with compacte...

Williams, V. Eileen

A detailed palynological examination was made of Tertiary pollen and spore assemblages from six exploratory wells located along the continental margins of the Labrador Sea. From north to south, the study wells are Kangamiut 1, Hekja 0-71, Karlsefni A-13, Herjolf M-92, Roberval K-92 and Cartier D-70. Using local extinction events of zonally diagnostic species to define the tops of intervals, eight provisional pollen and spore zones were established. The zones and their relative ages are as follow...

Shin, Hae-Yong

In this study, a method of estimating atmospheric attenuation in the infrared remote sensing of sea surface temperature (SST) from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) meteorological satellites, by explicitly considering the physical processes involved, is developed. Unlike past methods which tend to rely on the inputs from the in situ data, this method which is entirely satellite derived, will be useful in the open oceans where in situ observations are sparse. Using Advanced V...

Malan, A

Includes bibliographical references.