Historic and Current Use of Lower Cook Inlet, Alaska, by Belugas, Delphinapterus leucas

Dedicated at-sea surveys for marine birds and mammals conducted in lower Cook Inlet in late July and early August from 1995–99 failed to locate any belugas, Delphinapterus leucas. Surveys covered a total of 6,249 linear km and were conducted in both nearshore and offshore habitats. Sightings included 791 individual marine mammals of 10 species. Both historical data and local knowledge indicate that belugas were regularly seen in summer in nearshore and offshore areas of lower Cook Inlet up until the early 1990’s. Diminished presence of belugas in lower Cook Inlet may be a direct function of reduced numbers but may also indicate changes in habitat quality that may inhibit recovery

PSA For White American Men Who Listen To Hip Hop

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Estimation for a Simple Exponential Model

Methods of parameter estimation for exponential model arising in epidemiological studies and biological assa

A Conversation with George Saunders

George Saunders is a fiction writer and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney\u27s, Harper\u27s, and GQ, earning him the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004. He is also responsible for several acclaimed short story collections, including CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award, and In Persuasion Nation, a finalist for The Story Prize in 2007. On his way to becoming a professor at Syracuse University, Saunders worked as a technical writer and geophysical engineer, a member of an oil exploration crew in Sumatra, and as a knuckle-puller in a Texas slaughterhouse

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A Conversation with Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman is a pop-culture savant who talks sports for Grantland and dispenses advice in his Ethicist column for The New York Times Magazine. Along the ride, he\u27s also written for Spin, Esquire, GQ, The Believer, and The Washington Post. Klosterman is perhaps best known for his five books of non-fiction and essays -- Fargo Rock City; Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs; Killing Yourself to Live; Chuck Klosterman IV; and Eating the Dinosaur -- a pair of novels, Downtown Owl and The Visible Man. In January, Klosterman visited Butler University to read from his new collection of essays, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined), for the first time. Before he stepped foot in Indy, Klosterman chatted with Booth contributing editor Chris Speckman on the phone about the falsification of memory, the beauty of Jimi Hendrix\u27s mistakes, the similarities between The Wire and Russian literature, the idea of Dave Eggers, a legendary junior-college basketball game in North Dakota, and the dream of not hating something you\u27ve written a decade after its publication

INTERNET OF THINGS GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS: A LITERATURE REVIEW

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a “buzz word”, growing into an industry that is predicted to be worth $11 trillion by 2025. IoT devices are equipped with sensors that enable them to collect, transmit and process large volumes of data about their surroundings over the Internet, often without human intervention. Hence, these devices are often referred to as “smart” devices and are reported to bridge the gap between digital and physical worlds. The heterogeneity of the devices in the IoT and the volumes of data involved introduce inherent risk to any network housing such devices. A major concern is that ninety percent of the offerings currently in existence to address IoT related risk are repackaged general-purpose information technology (IT) security technologies, which unfortunately do not adequately address the IoT needs. Moreover, it is reported that the IoT requires new architectures and protocols compared to traditional computer networks, introducing a requirement for new standards, models and frameworks, not currently in existence to address several areas of the IoT. To this end, this article motivates towards the requirement of an IoT governance framework instead of traditional IT governance (ITG) frameworks. The authors of this article intended to explore the state of published literature on IoT governance frameworks. The objective was to establish whether IoT governance frameworks currently exist. Through a systematic literature review, it was established that scholars widely agree on the need for an IoT governance framework, however, one is currently not in existence. Therefore, considerations from the literature were presented as components to be included in an IoT governance framework. Limitations of this study were that technical works were not considered as the study focused on governance and not management.     Keywords: Internet of Things; IoT Governance; IT Governance; Heterogeneous System

A kairos for the lowly? Reflections on Luke’s story of a rejected fortune or tyche and lessons for South Africa

This article argues that failure of Jerusalem to accept or recognise its fortune (Lk 19:41–44) may be ascribed to a difference in expectations between the Temple rulers and the lowly, who interacted with Jesus at their level. At the outset, the kairos was anticipated and welcomed by the lowly, and throughout the two-part narrative the respective attitudes of the lowly and Temple rulers towards Jesus are contrasted, whilst conflict between Jesus and the latter culminated in the crucifixion. The problem as suggested by the narrative is that a highly political messianic programme may have been expected, whereas Jesus offered an individual and community empowerment as the content of God’s kairos. The article concludes that the content of a kairos is determined by the potential beneficiaries; its delivery vehicle and timing (kairos) are God’s prerogative, whereas the ability to recognise and accept it is predicated on a consensus among beneficiaries about the content. South Africa should learn from this if its National Development Plan is to become a reality. INTRADISCIPLINARY AND/OR INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPLICATIONS : This article employs insights from the narrative approach and Greek mythology to question the sterile approach to the kairos discourse. It introduces a new hermeneutical and epistemological paradigm that opens up possibilities for a developmental approach and sheds light on the behaviours of Jerusalem and the early Church. In the process, views from Biblical Studies, Hermeneutics and Church History are engaged.This article is part of ongoing research on kairos through the eyes of Greek mythology. It is the second of three articles written to test the waters on various aspects of the term kairos.http://www.ve.org.zaam2016New Testament Studie