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The role of education in vertebrate pest control
Lack of adequate information is emphasized as a major problem in attaining effective control of damage by vertebrate pests, and it is stressed that the problem is widespread in all elements of the public, including those directly involved, like producers and government officials, as well as those only indirectly involved, like the average citizen. A number of specific examples are cited to illustrate the problems of uninformed or inadequately informed publics
A Method for siting and prioritizing the removal of derelict vessels in Florida Coastal Waters: test applications in the Florida Keys
Increased boating activities and new waterfront developments have contributed an
estimated 3,000 dismantled, abandoned, junked, wrecked, derelict vessels to Florida
coastal waters. This report outlines a method of siting and prioritizing derelict vessel
removal using the Florida Keys as a test area. The data base was information on 240
vessels, obtained from Florida Marine Patrol files. Vessel location was plotted on 1:250,000
regional and 1:5,000 and 1:12,000 site maps. Type of vessel, length, hull material, engine,
fuel tanks, overall condition, afloat and submerged characteristics, and accessibility, were
used to derive parametric site indices of removal priority and removal difficulty.
Results indicate 59 top priority cases which should be the focus of immediate clean
up efforts in the Florida Keys. Half of these cases are rated low to moderate in removal
difficulty; the remainder are difficult to remove. Removal difficulty is a surrogate for
removal cost: low difficulty -low cost, high difficulty - high cost. The rating scheme offers
coastal planners options of focusing removal operations either on (1) specific areas with
clusters of high priority derelict vessels or on (2) selected targeted derelicts at various,
specific locations. (PDF has 59 pages.
Supporting Information: Short and long time drop dynamics on lubricated substrates
Supporting Information: Short and long time drop dynamics on lubricated
substrate
The Effect of Insulin, Dextrose, and Cyanide on the Circular and the Longitudinal Muscles of the Rabbit\u27s Intestine
High temperature constitutive and crack initiation modeling of coated single crystal superalloys
The purpose of this program is to develop life prediction models for anisotropic materials used in gas turbine airfoils. In the base portion of the program, two coated single crystal alloys are being tested. They are PWA 286 overlay coated and PWA 273 aluminide coated PWA 1480 and PWA 286 overlay coated Alloy 185. Viscoplastic constitutive models for these materials are also being developed to predict the cyclic stress-strain histories required for life prediction of the lab specimens and actual airfoil designs
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