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Water Quality and Fisheries Issues Accompanying Population Growth in the Philippines
Fishing should be an employment of last resort. This article argues why through analysis of water quality and fisheries in conjunction to the role of human population and overfishing on yields.fisheries sector, water sector, population and family relation
Bioeconomic Analysis of Management Options for Tropical Fisheries Using a Bicriteria Programming Model
A possible approach to the management of the multispecies multi-gear fishery in a developing country was explored. The small petagics fishery in central Philippines was analyzed in three stages. A dynamic pool model represented the dynamics of the stocks. The optimal allocation of catch across competing fleets was modeled having regard for the pursuit of two conflicting objectives, maximizing employment and fishing profits. Alternative management schemes were then explored. On the basis of the criteria used, the optimal fleet size was a small fraction of the existing fleet size. Calculation of increased target yields through regulation of fishing mortality and selectivity showed that the increase in optimal feet size would be moderate because the current level of exploitation is close to that producing the maximum yield-per-recruit. An agenda for exploration of further management alternatives appropriate to the social and economic policy objectives of a developing country is discussed.bioeconomics, Philippines, small pelagics, multicriteria decision making, fishery economics, fishery management, tropical fisheries, Environmental Economics and Policy, Production Economics,
Extended Benefit-Cost Analysis of Management Alternatives: Pagbilao Mangrove Forest
Mangroves are important fish hatcheries. It prevents coastal erosion and provides timber resources. However, it limits land access to coastal and fishpond areas. This article presents a cost-benefit analysis on mangrove preservation.natural resources and environment, environmental issues
Cosmic web alignments with the shape, angular momentum and peculiar velocities of dark matter haloes
We study the alignment of dark matter haloes with the cosmic web
characterized by the tidal and velocity shear fields. We focus on the alignment
of their shape, angular momentum and peculiar velocities. We use a cosmological
N-body simulation that allows to study dark matter halos spanning almost five
orders of magnitude in mass (-) and
spatial scales of - Mpc to define the cosmic web. We find
that the halo shape presents the strongest alignment along the smallest tidal
eigenvector, e.g. along filaments and walls, with a signal that gets stronger
as the halo mass increases. In the case of the velocity shear field only
massive halos tend to have their shapes aligned
along the largest tidal eigenvector; that is, perpendicular to filaments and
walls. For the angular momentum we find alignment signals only for halos more
massive than both in the tidal and velocity shear
webs where the preferences are for it to be parallel to the middle eigenvector;
perpendicular to filaments and parallel to walls. Finally, the peculiar
velocities show a strong alignment along the smallest tidal eigenvector for all
halo masses; halos move along filaments and walls. In the velocity shear the
same alignment is present but weaker and only for haloes less massive than
. Our results clearly show that the two different
algorithms we used to define the cosmic web describe different physical aspects
of non-linear collapse and should be used in a complementary way to understand
the effect of the cosmic web on galaxy evolution.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS accepte
Resonance in Asymmetric Warped Geometry
We study the spectrum of an asymmetric warped braneworld model with different
AdS curvatures on either side of the brane. In addition to the RS-like modes we
find a resonance state. Its mass is proportional to the geometric mean of the
two AdS curvature scales, while the difference between them determines the
strength of the resonance peak. There is a complementarity between the RS
zero-mode and the resonance: making the asymmetry stronger weakens the
zero-mode but strengthens the resonance, and vice versa. We calculate
numerically the braneworld gravitational potential and discuss the holographic
correspondence for the asymmetric model.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures; v2 references with comments added; v3 two
references added, JHEP versio
MEXICAN-U.S. FRESH TOMATO TRADE: AN ANALYSIS OF VOLUME, PRICES AND TRANSACTION COSTS
Tomato trade between the U.S. and Mexico has grown significantly during the past decade. Although the tariff reductions accorded under NAFTA may explain part of his increase, there are other supply and demand factors that affect trade flows. This study develops a U.S.-Mexico tomato trade model, with special focus on the interdependence between trading costs and the volume of Mexican imports. As expected, the exchange rate is a significant determinant of trading costs, but the level of tariffs was insignificant in both the trading and tomato supply equations. The shipping point price level and volume of imports also appear to affect these costs. For the import supply and demand models, there appears to be a significant share of imports that rely on previous levels of imports, rather than the expected economic factors (prices, income, and producer price index). We conclude that the structure and performance of the tomato trading market is changing, and may be more influential than tariff reductions in explaining increased trade flows.Crop Production/Industries, International Relations/Trade,
Geotechnical Problems in the Construction of Underground Structures
The paper describes, one of the typical cases in the construction of subterrain works in the city of Guadalajara , Jalisco; MĂ©xico; placed in a big landfill of pyroclastic materials, that are good aquifers that is why in the subsoil exists important hydrological resources and is the reason that when digging underground structures that exceed the groundwater level there were a lot of problems. The case presented is of one of the stretches of the tunnel for the urban electric train, that since its construction had failures; these are analyzed, the solutions implemented are described , and the behavior of the structure is shown. It concludes that the problem were due to a project based on superficial studies that did not allow to detect the unfavorable geohydraulic conditions
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