Presently southeastern Florida has at least 24 established exotic avian species from both New and Old World families. This much man-modified region of Florida is characterized by the Atlantic Coastal Ridge in Palm Beach, Broward and Dade Counties and the Florida Keys of Monroe County. Because of the draining of the Everglades to the west, the filling of the mangroves on the seaward side, and th...

1 Affine schemes 4 1.1 Motivation and review of varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.2 First attempt at defining an affine scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Affine schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.4 The Zariski topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.5 The ringed space s...

Introduction and Background: One of the most fundamental questions in the geological and thermal evolution of the Moon is the nature and history of mantle melting and its relationship to the formation and evolution of lunar multi-ringed basins. Mare volcanic deposits provide evidence for the nature, magnitude and composition of mantle melting as a function of space and time [1]. Many argue that...