Asset Management Software

A small company was in search for a software that keeps track of the cost of assets through its useful life. This in turn would be used to determine when an asset has reached its economical useful life. They searched for an application that would fit their needs. Through a recommendation, they implemented a big commercial application that is in use in a variety of manufacturing and utility companies. Although this software accomplished their needs, it was not a great match. The goal of this project is to create a slim down version of an asset management software that performs better, more user friendly and is accessible through mobile devices. The user base is not frequent computer users so working with them in an Agile style development was important to obtain that user friendliness

Stories to Warm the Heart Part Two

A collection of articles by Dr. Kemp Mabry originally published in the Statesboro Herald. The book begins with a series of humorous pieces, followed by articles on Amicola Falls, Kenya, Leonardo da Vinci, Dead River Church and Cemetery, and the Iditarod Dog Sled Race. Also included are the obituaries of Ed Abercrombie, Louise Hodges Morton, Isabel Sorrier, and Sarah Mabry. Other topics Dr. Mabry wrote about are Irish culture, Tennessee, Alabama, religious miracles and anecdotes, World War II accounts, historical reenactments, recollections of his time as a student. Also in this collection are titles such as “The Night the Stars Fell,” “R.A.F.T: Restoring Altamaha Folklife Traditions,” and “Clinton, Georgia Restoration.”https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/bchs-pubs/1037/thumbnail.jp

Winter Occurrences of Ivory Gulls, Pagophila eburnea, in Inland Labrador

Ivory Gulls were observed during winter on three occasions up to 325 km inland from open coastal water, feeding on Caribou carcasses in inland Labrador. Other recent observations in central Labrador are also noted

Buffalo on the Beaches: Electronic Imaging of Historical Sources

We called it La Riviere aux Boeuf, that is, the River of Bullocks, by reason of the great number of them there was about it. These bullocks are very like ours; there are thousands of them, ~ut instead of hair they have a very long curled sort of wool. Thus did Henri Joutel in 1685 describe what we believe to be the Guadalupe River in Texas in his Historical Journal of Monsieur de la Salle\u27s Last Voyage to Discover the River Mississippi. 1 The bullocks, boeuf , that Joutel described were American bison. In 1686, near Apalachioca, Florida, and Dothan, Alabama, explorer Marcos Delgado described the beasts he encountered as a kind of animal like cows. 2 The buffalo are gone from the coasts of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, but the documents describing the area when they existed are still available

Recent Range Expansion of Ruffed Grouse, Bonasa umbellus, in Labrador

The recent distribution of Ruffed Grouse, Bonasa umbellus, has not been documented in Labrador. Here we provide new records, extending northward the known contiguous distribution by 100 to 150 km, and identify three new, possibly discrete, populations

Evidence of Range Expansion of Eastern Coyotes, Canis latrans, in Labrador

Eastern Coyotes were first documented in central Labrador in 1995 and have recently been recorded in coastal Labrador and at three additional locations in central and western Labrador. Here we document additional records indicating range expansion and the possibility of an established population. We also examine the future management of the species in Labrador and its possible effect on this northern ecosystem

Potential climate change effects on the habitat of Antarctic krill in the Weddell Quadrant of the Southern Ocean

Antarctic krill is a cold water species, an increasingly important fishery resource and a major prey item for many fish, birds and mammals in the Southern Ocean. The fishery and the summer foraging sites of many of these predators are concentrated between 0° and 90°W. Parts of this quadrant have experienced recent localised sea surface warming of up to 0.2°C per decade, and projections suggest that further widespread warming of 0.27° to 1.08°C will occur by the late 21st century. We assessed the potential influence of this projected warming on Antarctic krill habitat with a statistical model that links growth to temperature and chlorophyll concentration. The results divide the quadrant into two zones: a band around the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in which habitat quality is particularly vulnerable to warming, and a southern area which is relatively insensitive. Our analysis suggests that the direct effects of warming could reduce the area of growth habitat by up to 20%. The reduction in growth habitat within the range of predators, such as Antarctic fur seals, that forage from breeding sites on South Georgia could be up to 55%, and the habitat’s ability to support Antarctic krill biomass production within this range could be reduced by up to 68%. Sensitivity analysis suggests that the effects of a 50% change in summer chlorophyll concentration could be more significant than the direct effects of warming. A reduction in primary production could lead to further habitat degradation but, even if chlorophyll increased by 50%, projected warming would still cause some degradation of the habitat accessible to predators. While there is considerable uncertainty in these projections, they suggest that future climate change could have a significant negative effect on Antarctic krill growth habitat and, consequently, on Southern Ocean biodiversity and ecosystem services

The Act of Listening: Personal Testimonies and Lives in Audio

Who gets permission to tell their story through the broadcast and podcast industries and how those stories are told has been my central concern for the last thirty years. Speech radio is defined by the voices we hear on air, and I have a particular interest in documenting voices and experiences from the African diaspora and other under-represented groups. I was born and brought up in Leeds, the youngest child of parents from the Caribbean, and two demographic descriptors, race and class, go some way to shaping me as an individual, as well as defining my professional course in the audio industry. Audio documentary-making is shaped by the stories that people tell and inflected by their socio-economic backgrounds. What I have come to understand from my experience as a producer of radio documentaries, is that behind the myriad encounters and negotiations that take place when constructing a documentary, there is often an elusive possibility to create space for those whose experiences have so often been marginalised or silenced. In this dissertation, I am revisiting a selection of my productions. Most, but not all of them, are documentaries where the people involved are from under-represented groups as far as mainstream media like the BBC or NPR is concerned. I will show how they and their stories made it to being broadcast. A core aim of this thesis is to consider how I brought some of those voices and experiences to air, by various acts of listening: listening to what is being said to me as a producer and reporter; listening to what is not being said; listening to the archives; and listening out for the gaps and silences in what is being preserved