1 Australian Rivers Institute – Coast & Estuaries and School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD 4222, Australia 2 School of Science & Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, DC, QLD 4558, Australia 3 School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia 4 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Marine ...

The CFMC summarized in the Coral Fishery Management Plan (FMP) the information available regarding types and frequency distribution of marine bottoms (Coral FMP 1995; CFMC 1984). The distribution by coast and depth varies. For example, at depths less than 10 fathoms, the north coast includes gravel, hard and rocky bottoms. The East Coast includes reefs, corals, and hard bottoms. Reefs, hard and...

An online tool based on dialectometric methods, DistGraph, is applied to a group of Kru languages of Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia and Burkina Faso. The inputs to this resource consist of tables of languages x linguistic features (e.g. phonological, lexical or grammatical), and statistical and graphical outputs are generated which show similarities and differences between the languages in terms of the...

Detailed hourly precipitation patterns are can also be tracked in the wind and pressure fields. Finally, analyzed for two major winter U.S. east coast storms that some thoughts are offered on the possible dynamic signifiexhibited considerable mesoscale features. Pronounced cance of organized mesoscale precipitation patterns, spatial and temporal continuity is noted for individual along with com...

Chrysciova quinquecirrha, the common sea nettle infests the Chesapeake Bay waters during the summer season. This coelenterate causes a severe economic problem for this resort area because of the painful sting it iaflicts upon bathers who accidentally come in contact with its tentacles. These stings are thought to result from the injection of nematocyst threads and the introduction of a toxin in...

Linguist’s Assistant (LA) is a large scale semantic analyzer and multi-lingual natural language generator designed and developed entirely from a linguist’s perspective. The system incorporates extensive typological, semantic, syntactic, and discourse research into its semantic representational system and its transfer and synthesizing grammars. LA has been tested with English, Korean, Kewa (Papu...

[1] After coastal upwelling, the water properties in the nearshore coastal region close to estuaries is determined by the race between the new estuarine plume traveling along the coast and the upwelled front (a marker for the old upwelled plume and the coastal pycnocline) returning to the coast under downwelling winds. Away from an estuary, downwelling winds can return the upwelled front to the...

This paper revisits the contested issue of the impact of agricultural extension on farm productivity. Often studies in this …eld su¤er from a bias either due to self-selection of the best farmers for the extension services or to endogenous placement of the programme. The panel dataset collected by ANADERand the nature of the extension programme put into operation in Côte d’Ivoire between 1997 a...

The ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865 is known to be eaten by the scyphomedusan Chrysaora quinquecirrha (Desor, 1948), which can control populations of ctenophores in the tributaries of Chesapeake Bay. In the summer of 1995, we videotaped interactions in large aquaria in order to determine whether M. leidyi was always captured after contact with medusae. Surprisingly, M. leidyi esca...

The scyphomedusa Chrysaora quinquecirrha and lobate ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi are dominant consumers in the planktivorous food web in Chesapeake Bay, USA, and are important predators throughout much of their ranges. Our studies in the Patuxent River (a subestuary of Chesapeake Bay) and its tributary creeks suggest successive waves of population spread and trophic influence of these 2 gelatin...