402 research outputs found
The JASON remotely operated vehicle system
The JASON remotely operated vehicle (ROV) system has been under development for the last decade. After a number of
engineering test cruises, including the discovery of the R.M.S. Titanic and the German Battleship Bismarck, this ROV system is
now being implemented in oceanographic investigations. This paper explains its development history and its unique ability to
carry out a broad range of scientific research.Funding was provided by the Office of Naval Research
under Contract No. NOOOI4-90-J-1912
Summary of the geologic dives conducted in the Gulf of Maine during 1971 and 1972 by the research submersible Alvin
Detailed summary of geologic dives made by the submersible ALVIN in the
Gulf of Maine. Report includes sampling procedures followed by the submersible,
a listing and areal distribution of the samples collected, a comparison of the
submersible to other sampling techniques, and the relationship of individual
pilots to sampling success. Each dive is described in detail including
representative bottom photographs and artist's concepts of outcrop regions.Prepared for the Office of Naval Research
under Contract N00014-73-C-0097; NR 265-107,
the Department of Defense Research Project
Agency Contract N00014-71-C-02B4; NR 293-00B,
and for the National Science Foundation Grants
GA-32454 and GD-3255B
Exploration of Eratosthenes Seamount – A continental fragment being forced down an oceanic trench
WM 2011
ABSTRACT This paper reviews the 25-year-long debate over the transportation program for the now-terminated Yucca Mountain repository project, and identifies lessons learned which might be applied to future spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste shipments to geologic repositories or centralized storage facilities in the United States
What makes you not a Sikh? : a preliminary mapping of values
This study sets out to establish which Sikh values contrasted with or were shared by non-Sikh adolescents. A survey of attitude toward a variety of Sikh values was fielded in a sample of 364 non-Sikh schoolchildren aged between 13 and 15 in London. Values where attitudes were least positive concerned Sikh duties/code of conduct, festivals, rituals, prayer Gurdwara attendance, listening to scripture recitation, the amrit initiation. Sikh values empathized with by non-Sikhs concerned family pride, charity, easy access to ordination and Gurdwaras, maintaining the five Ks, seeing God in all things, abstaining from meat and alcohol and belief in the stories of Guru Nanak. Further significant differences of attitude toward Sikhism were found in comparisons by sex, age and religious affiliation. Findings are applied to teaching Sikhism to pupils of no faith adherence. The study recommends the extension of values mapping to specifically Sikh populations
Book Reviews
Book reviews of:
Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker. By Carolyn J. Brown Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014. Author’s note, afterword, acknowledgements, illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Pp. xi, 147. 34.95 cloth, 65 Cloth, 35 cloth. 32.50 paper, 59.95 cloth, 29.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780199977536.)
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. By Kevin M. Kruse. (New York: Basic Books, 2015. Acknowledgements, notes, index. Pp. xvi, 352. 54.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781572338661.)
Agriculture and the Confederacy: Policy, Productivity, and Power in the Civil War South. By R. Douglas Hurt. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Acknowledgements, maps, tables, notes, index. Pp. xi, 349. 69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. ISBN: 0820347302.
Older adults who persistently present to the emergency department with severe, non-severe, and indeterminate episode patterns
Effects of introducing routinely ultrasound scanning during Ante Natal Care (ANC) clinics on number of visits of ANC and facility delivery: a cohort study
The Australasian dingo archetype: de novo chromosome-length genome assembly, DNA methylome, and cranial morphology
BACKGROUND: One difficulty in testing the hypothesis that the Australasian dingo is a functional intermediate between wild wolves and domesticated breed dogs is that there is no reference specimen. Here we link a high-quality de novo long-read chromosomal assembly with epigenetic footprints and morphology to describe the Alpine dingo female named Cooinda. It was critical to establish an Alpine dingo reference because this ecotype occurs throughout coastal eastern Australia where the first drawings and descriptions were completed.
FINDINGS: We generated a high-quality chromosome-level reference genome assembly (Canfam_ADS) using a combination of Pacific Bioscience, Oxford Nanopore, 10X Genomics, Bionano, and Hi-C technologies. Compared to the previously published Desert dingo assembly, there are large structural rearrangements on chromosomes 11, 16, 25, and 26. Phylogenetic analyses of chromosomal data from Cooinda the Alpine dingo and 9 previously published de novo canine assemblies show dingoes are monophyletic and basal to domestic dogs. Network analyses show that the mitochondrial DNA genome clusters within the southeastern lineage, as expected for an Alpine dingo. Comparison of regulatory regions identified 2 differentially methylated regions within glucagon receptor GCGR and histone deacetylase HDAC4 genes that are unmethylated in the Alpine dingo genome but hypermethylated in the Desert dingo. Morphologic data, comprising geometric morphometric assessment of cranial morphology, place dingo Cooinda within population-level variation for Alpine dingoes. Magnetic resonance imaging of brain tissue shows she had a larger cranial capacity than a similar-sized domestic dog.
CONCLUSIONS: These combined data support the hypothesis that the dingo Cooinda fits the spectrum of genetic and morphologic characteristics typical of the Alpine ecotype. We propose that she be considered the archetype specimen for future research investigating the evolutionary history, morphology, physiology, and ecology of dingoes. The female has been taxidermically prepared and is now at the Australian Museum, Sydney
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