using size at first maturity (sfm) as a biological reference point, the minimum legal size (mls) for the black clam, villorita cyprinoides was fixed at 20 mm. corresponding minimum legal weight was calculated as 3.4 g. the reproductive load and mean generation time were determined as 0.35 and 0.72, respectively. of the total quantity of clams exploited during 1996-97, 50% were juveniles. the pe...

The Amethyst Initiative, signed by more than 100 college presidents and other higher education officials calls for a reexamination of the minimum legal drinking age in the United States. A central argument of the initiative is that the U.S. minimum legal drinking age policy results in more dangerous drinking than would occur if the legal drinking age were lower. A companion organization called ...

A corpus can be described as “[a] collection of texts assumed to be representative of a given language, dialect, or other subset of a language, to be used for linguistic analysis” (Francis 1982). However, the concept of representativeness is still surprisingly imprecise considering its acceptance as a central characteristic that distinguishes a corpus from any other kind of collection (Seghiri ...