Canada Goose Harvest and Hunter Use at Rend Lake during the 1977 Season

Division of Wildlife Resources Migratory Bird Section, Periodic Report No. 21Report issued on: May 25, 197

Annular Solar Eclipse of 10 May 1994

An annular eclipse of the Sun will be widely visible from the Western Hemisphere on 10 May 1994. The path of the Moon's shadow passes through Mexico, the United States of America, maritime Canada, the North Atlantic, the Azores and Morocco. Detailed predictions for this event are presented and include tables of geographic coordinates of the annular path, local circumstances for hundreds of cities, maps of the path of annular and partial eclipse, weather prospects, and the lunar limb profile

Alien Registration- Anderson, Fred (South Thomaston, Knox County)

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A voice pitch indicator for training deaf scholars

The instrument to be described, is based on experimental work documented by the author in 1960 and was developed specifically as a teaching aid to be used in the speech training of deaf scholars. The only natural means by which a completely deaf child can compare his own speech with that of his teacher, is by observation of lip and facial movements and by feeling the vibrations of the vocal organs. Hence he is using the senses of sight and touch neither of which is capable of passing sufficient information to allow the child to develop good voice intelligibility. Two properties of speech which contribute significantly to intelligibility are pitch and stress, and since these are relatively slowly varying quantities, the sense of sight can readily be trained to receive and process this information if presented to it in suitable form. In this instrument, pitch or amplitude information is displayed as the ordinate of a graph, the abscissa of which is time. A continuous time-base is obtained by rotating a cathode-ray-tube with a long-persistence screen inside a stationary deflecting coil. The patterns thus formed, remain visible for a sufficient length of time for detailed interpretation by the sense of sight. Pitch information is derived from measurements performed on the waveform of the speech signal, a process which unavoidably leads to errors. A system for detecting and eliminating these errors is described. The application of the instrument, which has been used successfully over an extended period of time, is described briefly

Glocalization, English, and Education in Languages of Lesser Power

The concept of "glocalization"-the concomitant development of global and local values and practices—is used in this paper to draw together two seemingly disparate areas of research in which the author has been involved. The first is the study of English as a global language; it is shown that the increasing use of English as the lingua franca for international communication has at the same time promoted the development of new, localized varieties of English (beyond the traditional British/American dichotomy). The second area is the maintenance, primarily through education, of small languages and cultures-termed "languages of lesser power" (LLP)-which are threatened by the spread of international languages such as English. LLPs include both indigenous languages (those which have existed in a particular country or locality over an indefinite period) and immigrant languages (whose use in a given setting is more recent and documentable). An LLP is most often, though not necessarily, a minority language of a country; and while its existence may be endangered in a particular setting it is not necessarily endangered on a world scale. Case studies are cited from the author\u27s co-edited (nearly completed) book project, Education in languages of lesser power: Asian and Pacific perspectives, to illustrate representative educational initiatives for maintaining or revitalizing LLPs in East/Southeast Asia and the Pacific: specifically, the Norf\u27k language of Norfolk Island (from research by Mühlhaüsler); Tamil in Singapore (from Shegar and Gopinathan); and Nalik in Papua New Guinea (from Volker). It is suggested that if LLPs are to increase their status, they must adapt to contemporary social conditions, and be taught alongside more powerful languages (such as English) rather than be expected to replace them

Health Transfers: An Application of Health-Health Analysis to Assess Food Safety Regulations

The authors apply a Health-Health Analysis to risks associated with harvesting Gulf oysters to evaluate that approach to managing health and safety risks

Carmel Lagoon Water Quality and Steelhead Soundings: Fall 2007

ESSP 660 Advanced Watershed Science and Policy is a graduate class taught in the Master of Science in Coastal and Watershed Science & Policy program at California State University Monterey Bay. In 2007, the class was taught in four 4-week modules, each focusing on making a small contribution to a local watershed issue. This report describes the results of one of those 4-week modules – on Carmel Lagoon Water Quality and Ecology. The module was lead instructed by Fred Watson (CSUMB) and Kevan Urquhart (MPWMD). (Document contains 54 pages

Effects of Collisions with Rocky Planets on the Properties of Hot Jupiters

Observed Hot Jupiters exhibit a wide range of physical properties. For a given mass, many planets have inflated radii, while others are surprisingly compact and may harbor large central cores. Motivated by the observational sample, this paper considers possible effects from collisions of smaller rocky planets with gas giant planets. In this scenario, the Jovian planets migrate first and enter into (approximately) 4 day orbits, whereas rocky planets (mass = 0.1-20 that of Earth) migrate later and then encounter the gaseous giants. Previous work indicates that the collision rates are high for such systems. This paper calculates the trajectories of incoming rocky planets as they orbit within the gaseous planets and are subjected to gravitational, frictional, and tidal forces. These collisions always increase the metallicity of the Jovian planets. If the incoming rocky bodies survive tidal destruction and reach the central regions, they provide a means of producing large planetary cores. Both the added metallicity and larger cores act to decrease the radii of the gas giants at fixed mass. The energy released during these collisions provides the Jovian planet with an additional heat source; here we determine the radial layers where kinetic energy of the colliding body is dissipated, including the energy remaining upon impact with the existing core. This process could have long-term effects if the colliding body deposits significant energy deep in the interior, in regions of high opacity. Both Hot Jupiters and newly formed gas giants have inflated radii, large enough to allow incoming rocky planets to survive tidal disruption, enhance the central core mass, and deposit significant energy (in contrast, denser giant planets with the mass and radius of Jupiter are expected to tidally destroy incoming rocky bodies).Comment: 35 pages, 11 figures, accepted to PAS