Respect for Grizzly Bears: An Aboriginal Approach for Co-existence and Resilience

Aboriginal peoples’ respect for grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) is widely acknowledged, but rarely explored, in wildlife management discourse in northern Canada. Practices of respect expressed toward bears were observed and grouped into four categories: terminology, stories, reciprocity, and ritual. In the southwest Yukon, practices in all four categories form a coherent qualitative resource management system that may enhance the resilience of the bear-human system as a whole. This system also demonstrates the possibility of a previously unrecognized human role in maintaining productive riparian ecosystems and salmon runs, potentially providing a range of valued social-ecological outcomes. Practices of respect hold promise for new strategies to manage bear-human interactions, but such successful systems may be irreducibly small scale and place based

Visual Censuses of Fish Populations at the Florida Middle Ground

Logistical constraints and bottom-time restrictions form major Impediments to visual censusing of fish populations at depths such as are found at the Florida Middle Ground. A sampling strategy which incorporated multiple short duration point-diversity counts enabled estimation of population densities of a number of species present at the Florida Middle Ground. The method described is most accurate for substratum-oriented, site tenacious species such as damselfishes, gobies, and some wrasses, as well as slow-moving or sedentary larger species such as angel fishes and groupers. Numerical classification of count data revealed that fish distribution patterns at the Florida Middle Ground were loosely defined, although differences between biotopes and stations could be discerned. Subjective indices of substratum sand, rubble, hard coral, soft coral, and sponge coverages indicated that these factors had a discrete influence on observed fish distribution patterns

Faculty Recital: Karen Clarke, violin with Douglas Fisher, piano

Kennesaw State University School of Music presents Faculty Recital: Karen Clarke, violin and Douglas Fisher, piano.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1674/thumbnail.jp

Metaphysics and Justification of Rhetoric in the African American Vernacular Tradition

A look at the underlying metaphysical, philosophical and rhetorical themes that can be found in the language of the African American Vernacular Tradition. This paper traces rhetorical and performative language from Africa through to mainland American in several forms including tropes and rhetorical method, syntax, vernacular and signifying

Recommendations for aging beef (1993)

The main reason for aging beef is to improve tenderness and flavor of the meat so that if properly cooked it will be more satisfying to the consumer. Proper aging of beef results in a combination of changes that many people appreciate

Pulse source for 80 Gb/s systems using a gain-wwitched laser diode followed by a nonlinearly chirped grating

This work presents the generation of 3.5 ps pulses at a repetition rate of 10 GHz and the optimization of the pulse spectrum. The output pulses are near transform limited and have pulse pedestals that are virtually eliminated to 35 dB down from the peak of the pulse, thus providing a source suitable for use in 80 Gb/s OTDM systems

Needlestick Injuries to Nurses, in Context

Injuries with used needles and other “sharps” put health care workers at risk for serious bloodborne infections, such as HIV and hepatitis B and C. To some extent, this risk can be lessened through safer techniques (such as not recapping needles) and safer devices (such as needleless and self-sheathing equipment). But these injuries occur within a context (often a hospital unit) with organizational features that may themselves contribute to an increased or decreased risk. This Issue Brief summarizes a series of studies that investigate whether workplace aspects of the hospital (such as staffing levels, and organizational structure and climate) affect the risk of needlestick injuries to nurses

Optimized pulse source employing an externally injected gain-switched laser diode in conjunction with a nonlinearly chirped grating

In this paper, we demonstrate the generation of transform-limited short optical pulses, which display excellent spectral and temporal qualities by employing a novel technology, based on an externally injected gain-switched laser in conjunction with a nonlinearly chirped grating. Using this technique, 3.5-ps optical pulses exhibiting a time-bandwidth product (TBP) of 0.45 are generated, which are suitable for use in high-speed 80 Gb/s optical time-division multiplexing (OTDM) communications systems. The numerical integration of a set of rate equations using suitable parameters for the devices used in the experiments were carried out to further confirm the feasibility of the proposed method for developing an optimized pulse source for high-speed photonic systems