Investigations of health status and body condition of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Gulf of Alaska

Thesis (Ph.D.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1997Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) declines during the past 20 years in the Kodiak Island and Prince William Sound regions contrast with stable or slightly increasing populations in southeastern areas of Alaska. Aspects of health status and body condition were investigated to test the hypothesis that these declines were driven by nutritional limitation, and to determine whether recent differential population trajectories among Kodiak Island, Prince William Sound, and southeast Alaska could have health-related components. For comparisons between 1992-96, three aspects of health status were examined; blood chemistry, blubber distribution and quantity; and blubber quality. Clinical ranges of plasma chemistries and hematologies were established for free-ranging seals in the Gulf of Alaska. Significant handling, individual, and seasonal effects were found on many blood parameters that could bias interannual and interregional comparisons if not incorporated in models. Based on statistical modeling, some seals showed more clinically aberrant values than expected by chance, but these were not clumped among regions or years. Differences existed in interannual blood chemistry and hematology patterns between juveniles and adults. Likewise, there were regional differences in blood chemistries of unknown significance. Morphometric indices were poor indicators of condition defined as size-at-age or blubber content. This was related to patterns of blubber distribution and variability, which differed between males and females. Blubber quality, measured as lipid content, did not substantially vary seasonally or between geographic regions, but blubber from Prince William Sound was less hydrated than blubber from non-declining areas. There were no detectable differences in body condition of seals from the Gulf of Alaska sampled during 1963/64 (pre-decline), 1976-78 (during decline) and 1995-96. However, sample sizes were small and patchily distributed throughout locations and years. Thus, the likelihood of detecting body condition changes in response to environmental conditions was poor. Body condition was not substantially different among seals from Prince William Sound, Kodiak Island and southeast Alaska measured during 1993-96. However, interannual blood chemistry and body condition patterns were evident among Prince William Sound seals that may have been associated with environmental conditions

Advanced Conducting Project

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The Effect of Weight on the Amount of Force on Ankle Joints During a Vertical Jump

Ankles are one of the most complex parts of the human body. The ankle consists of bones, muscles, and joints that all work together to carry the weight of the human body, meaning the ankle also faces the most pressure and injuries. The main goal of this class project and what we are trying to determine is whether or not weight is a factor that effects the amount of force that the ankle takes on when jumping. The angles of the ankles are also being monitored due to the fact that weight could also have a correlation with them. We predict that an increased amount of weight will correlate with an increased amount of force on the ankles, but smaller angles. This information could tell us whether or not someone is more prone to ankle injuries

Video data modulation study, volume 1 Final report

Video data modulation technique

The problem of evil in early modern English literature

This dissertation argues that theodicy was a predominant concern of early modern English literary culture, and that response to the so-called “problem of evil” was one of its major leitmotifs. With chapters spanning from the Elizabethan to the Restoration eras, its interpretations of canonical poetic and dramatic texts (by Spenser, Shakespeare, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton) shed light on the avidity of interest and diversity of approach early modern writers brought to questions of evil. Bringing philological evidence from the literary archive to bear on existing historical-theoretical theses regarding the relationship between early modern theodicy and the constitution of modernity (theodicy drives secularization; theodicy motivates the development of German Idealism from Leibniz to Kant), I argue that these existing theories tend to oversimplify the complexity of seventeenth century thinking about the origin and persistence of evil in the world and in human experience. I attend to the hybridity of early modern literary discourse, which speaks at the thresholds dividing secular and sacred, private and public spheres, in order to restore this sense of complexity and open up new avenues of inquiry regarding the imagination of evil in the modern age. Much early modern theodicy, I find, contributed to the constitution of the modern in a negative way, comprising directions not taken, forms of thought excluded in pursuit of rationality, and legitimizing institutions superseded as modernity took shape

PENGARUH LIKUIDITAS, KUALITAS AKTIVA, SENSITIVITAS, EFISIENSI, DAN SOLVABILITAS TERHADAP RETURN ON ASSET (ROA) PADA BANK UMUM SWASTA NASIONAL DEVISA

The purpose of this study was to determine whether this is a variable LDR, IPR, APB, NPL, IRR, PDN, BOPO, FBIR, APYDM, and PR on ROA period quarter I 2010 until quarter IV 2014 in Foreign Exchange National Private Bank partially or simultaneously. The sample in this study are the Bank Ganesha, Maspion Bank Indonesia, Bank Metro Express and Bank SBI Indonesia. And the data collection method in this research using secondary data. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to analyze the data. Based on the calculations and the results from SPSS version 22 for Windows states that LDR, IPR, APB, NPL, IRR, PDN, BOPO, FBIR, APYDM, and PR simultaneously have a significant impact on ROA. BOPO significant negative effect on ROA. FBIR significant positive effects on ROA. LDR, NPL, PR have no significant positive effect on ROA and IPR, APB, IRR, PDN, APYDM have no significant negative effects on ROA. The most dominant variable is a variable BOPO. Keywords: Liquidity , Asset Quality , Sensitivity , Efficiency And Solvenc

On the average density profile of dark-matter halos in the inner regions of massive early-type galaxies

We study a sample of 39 massive early-type lens galaxies at redshift z < 0.3 to determine the slope of the average dark-matter density profile in the innermost regions. We keep the strong lensing and stellar population synthesis modeling as simple as possible to measure the galaxy total and luminous masses. By rescaling the values of the Einstein radius and dark-matter projected mass with the values of the luminous effective radius and mass, we combine all the data of the galaxies in the sample. We find that between 0.3 and 0.9 times the value of the effective radius the average logarithmic slope of the dark-matter projected density profile is -1.0 +/- 0.2 (i.e., approximately isothermal) or -0.7 +/- 0.5 (i.e., shallower than isothermal), if, respectively, a constant Chabrier or heavier, Salpeter-like stellar IMF is adopted. These results provide positive evidence of the influence of the baryonic component on the contraction of the galaxy dark-matter halos, compared to the predictions of dark matter-only cosmological simulations, and open a new way to test models of structure formation and evolution within the standard LCDM cosmological scenario.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters 747, L1