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Diurnal periodicity of activity in the spawning perch P. fluviatilis L. [Translation from: Kalamies 1972(7) 3, 1972]
Diurnal periodicity of spawning in the perch so far are rather meagre and found to be partly contrary to experiences of perch anglers. Therefore a study was made on the spawning during a 5-day period in the spring of 1971 in the Kuusamo area. Observations were made during the main spawning season, between 4- 9 June 1971. The perch were often measured, weighed and then released back into the water. The differences between spawning and non-spawning perch were studied as well as the time of roe discharge in a 24 hour period. Activity and environmental factors such as light intensity were also taken into consideration
Seasonal variation in the diurnal periodicity of activity of the perch, Perca fluviatilis L. [Translation from: Kalamies 1973(3) 3.]
The most common catch of the amateur angler is the perch and it is the diurnal periodicity of activity (& catchability) which is examined in this study based on earlier articles and manuscripts by the authors. Of all environmental factors, variation in light and temperature are the chief reasons in establishing the times of activity periods. Winter, summer and autumn activity was studied. The spawning perch was found to be more active than the non-spawning perch. The time of day in which the fish may be active is dependant on its ability to sense changes in the external environment. Its adaptation to light is the reason for day-activity in the winter, and also accounts for the fact that hardly any activity occurs between sunset and sunrise when this period exceeds 6 hours
Environmental study of ERTS-1 imagery: Lake Champlain and Vermont
Environmental concerns of the State of Vermont currently being stressed include water quality in Lake Champlain and a state-wide land use and capability plan. Significant results obtained from ERTS-1 relate directly to the above concerns. Industrial water pollution and turbidity in Lake Champlain have been identified and mapped and the ERTS pollution data will be used in the developing court suit which Vermont has initiated against the polluters. ERTS imagery has also provided a foundation for updating and revising land use inventories. Major classes of land use have been identified and mapped, and substantial progress has been made toward the mapping of such land use divisions as crop and forest type, and wetlands
Carbon and oxygen in metal-poor halo stars
Carbon and oxygen are key tracers of the Galactic chemical evolution; in
particular, a reported upturn in [C/O] towards decreasing [O/H] in metal-poor
halo stars could be a signature of nucleosynthesis by massive Population III
stars. We reanalyse carbon, oxygen, and iron abundances in thirty-nine
metal-poor turn-off stars. For the first time, we take into account
three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic effects together with departures from local
thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) when determining both the stellar parameters
and the elemental abundances, by deriving effective temperatures from 3D
non-LTE H profiles, surface gravities from Gaia parallaxes, iron
abundances from 3D LTE Feii equivalent widths, and carbon and oxygen abundances
from 3D non-LTE Ci and Oi equivalent widths. We find that [C/Fe] stays flat
with [Fe/H], whereas [O/Fe] increases linearly up to dex with decreasing
[Fe/H] down to dex. As such [C/O] monotonically decreases towards
decreasing [O/H], in contrast to previous findings, mainly by virtue of less
severe non-LTE effects for Oi at low [Fe/H] with our improved calculations.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures; published in A&A Letter
Fe I Oscillator Strengths for the Gaia-ESO Survey
The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey (GES) is conducting a large-scale
study of multi-element chemical abundances of some 100 000 stars in the Milky
Way with the ultimate aim of quantifying the formation history and evolution of
young, mature and ancient Galactic populations. However, in preparing for the
analysis of GES spectra, it has been noted that atomic oscillator strengths of
important Fe I lines required to correctly model stellar line intensities are
missing from the atomic database. Here, we present new experimental oscillator
strengths derived from branching fractions and level lifetimes, for 142
transitions of Fe I between 3526 {\AA} and 10864 {\AA}, of which at least 38
are urgently needed by GES. We also assess the impact of these new data on
solar spectral synthesis and demonstrate that for 36 lines that appear
unblended in the Sun, Fe abundance measurements yield a small line-by-line
scatter (0.08 dex) with a mean abundance of 7.44 dex in good agreement with
recent publications.Comment: Accepted for publication in Mon. Not. R. Astron. So
Moral reasoning and homosexuality: the acceptability of arguments about lesbian and gay issues
In the political arena, lesbian and gay issues have typically been contested on grounds of human rights, but with variable success. Using a moral developmental framework, the purpose of this study was to explore preferences for different types of moral arguments when thinking about moral dilemmas around lesbian and gay issues. The analysis presented here comprised data collected from 545 students at UK universities, who completed a questionnaire, part of which comprised a moral dilemma task. Findings of the study showed that respondents do not apply moral reasoning consistently, and do not (clearly) favour human rights reasoning when thinking about lesbian and gay issues. Respondents tended to favour reasoning supporting existing social structures and frameworks, therefore this study highlights the importance of structural change in effecting widespread attitude change in relation to lesbian and gay rights issues. The implications of the findings for moral education are also discussed.</p
Activity of perch, Perca fluviatilis L. in relation to water temperature [Translation from: Kalamies 1973(6) 4.]
Catchability and activity of Perca fluviatilis in relation to temperature is examined. The number of fish caught and water temperature during the 3 summer months was used the assess the numbers of hours of activity of perch. Parallel to the research on activity, large-scale marking was carried out to establish the periods of growth during the year
Voice Flows To And Around Leaders: Understanding When Units Are Helped Or Hurt By Employee Voice
In two studies, we develop and test theory about the relationship between speaking up, one type of organizational citizenship behavior, and unit performance by accounting for where employee voice is flowing. Results from a qualitative study of managers and professionals across a variety of industries suggest that voice to targets at different formal power levels (peers or superiors) and locations in the organization (inside or outside a focal unit) differs systematically in terms of its usefulness in generating actions to a unit's benefit on the issues raised and in the likely information value of the ideas expressed. We then theorize how distinct voice flows should be differentially related to unit performance based on these core characteristics and test our hypotheses using time-lagged field data from 801 employees and their managers in 93 units across nine North American credit unions. Results demonstrate that voice flows are positively related to a unit's effectiveness when they are targeted at the focal leader of that unitwho should be able to take actionwhether from that leader's own subordinates or those in other units, and negatively related to a unit's effectiveness when they are targeted at coworkers who have little power to effect change. Together, these studies provide a structural framework for studying the nature and impact of multiple voice flows, some along formal reporting lines and others that reflect the informal communication structure within organizations. This research demonstrates that understanding the potential performance benefits and costs of voice for leaders and their units requires attention to the structure and complexity of multiple voice flows rather than to an undifferentiated amount of voice.Business Administratio
Spectral Simplicity of Apparent Complexity, Part II: Exact Complexities and Complexity Spectra
The meromorphic functional calculus developed in Part I overcomes the
nondiagonalizability of linear operators that arises often in the temporal
evolution of complex systems and is generic to the metadynamics of predicting
their behavior. Using the resulting spectral decomposition, we derive
closed-form expressions for correlation functions, finite-length Shannon
entropy-rate approximates, asymptotic entropy rate, excess entropy, transient
information, transient and asymptotic state uncertainty, and synchronization
information of stochastic processes generated by finite-state hidden Markov
models. This introduces analytical tractability to investigating information
processing in discrete-event stochastic processes, symbolic dynamics, and
chaotic dynamical systems. Comparisons reveal mathematical similarities between
complexity measures originally thought to capture distinct informational and
computational properties. We also introduce a new kind of spectral analysis via
coronal spectrograms and the frequency-dependent spectra of past-future mutual
information. We analyze a number of examples to illustrate the methods,
emphasizing processes with multivariate dependencies beyond pairwise
correlation. An appendix presents spectral decomposition calculations for one
example in full detail.Comment: 27 pages, 12 figures, 2 tables; most recent version at
http://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/compmech/pubs/sdscpt2.ht
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