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Moss, Andrew. "The educational value of zoos and aquariums." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/62717/.
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Zoos and aquariums are some of the most-visited institutions, with around 700 million visits made to them globally each year. They are, in a basic sense, simply repositories of living biodiversity. However, the justifications for the continued existence of zoos have evolved since their inception in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and nearly all now position themselves as organisations focussed on the conservation of the world's remaining biodiversity. Public education of visitors is seen as, and is claimed to be, a central role in achieving this mission. Until relatively recently, very little was known about the impacts of zoo-based education. In this thesis, I will argue that good, progressive zoos and aquariums can and do achieve positive educational impacts on the people that visit them. Using a combination of structured observational methods and traditional social survey designs, I have explored the relative popularity of zoo animals, assessed the tolerance of zoo visitors to different environmental education themes, and have conducted the first fully global evaluation of zoo education impacts. In brief, I found that taxonomic group (mammals), increasing body size and activity levels were significant predictors of visitor interest in zoo animals, giving zoo professionals an evidence base to make decisions regarding education programming and exhibit design. Zoo visitors were also found to be, in the main, accepting to education content that reached beyond animal-based themes. This gives zoo educators the evidence to support their efforts to design and deliver more diverse programmes that cover wider environmental education themes. Finally, from a global survey of more than 5,000 visitors to 26 zoos and aquariums, I concluded that people tend to end their visit with a significantly greater understanding of what biodiversity is, as well as the ways that they personally can help protect it. The links between these two knowledge strands were, however, found to be less strong than predicted, leading to a discussion around the significance of the role of knowledge in catalysing human behaviour change. Aside from demonstrating their own positive educational impact, the wider implication of this research is that zoos and aquariums can also show that they are helping to achieve global biodiversity targets; namely, UN Aichi Biodiversity Target 1. From this, I will argue that the educational role of zoos should be considered as a more influential contributor to biodiversity conservation, and society more generally, than has previously been accepted.
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HINZELIN, ERIC. "Recherche de mycobacteries chez les poissons et dans l'eau des aquariums." Nancy 1, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993NAN1P082.
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Glasgow, Jon Douglas. "The Atlanta Aquarium : visionary architecture in a liquid city." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23473.
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Shani, Amir. "TOURISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARD THE USE OF ANIMALS IN TOURIST ATTRACTIONS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION." Doctoral diss., Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002693.
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Li, Lorraine Kathleen. "The evolution of Ocean Park and its conservation efforts /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37117233.
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Bruce, Carrie M. "Facilitating participation in adults with and without vision loss by supporting exhibit motivations through real-time descriptive mediation." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51832.
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Design and evaluation of real-time descriptive mediation (RTDM) for live aquarium exhibits was proposed to support the participation of visitors with and without vision loss. RTDM was developed to address learning, entertainment, restorative, and social motivations. Data was collected during a lab study with adults to get feedback about the RTDM and compare it to traditional docent presentations and audio tours. Findings show that the RTDM made it possible for participants to address their exhibit motivations and led to specific personal and social aspects of participation. A majority of participants with and without vision loss reported that the RTDM was supportive of their motivations and perceived it to be more effective at supporting learning, social, and restoration motivations compared to audio tour and docent mediation. The main contributions of this work are in: 1) developing evidence-based information design criteria for mediation at live animal exhibits; 2) demonstrating that mediation designed to support exhibit motivations can facilitate participation in adults with and without vision loss; and 3) validating participation as a design goal.
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Scopel, Janete Maria. "O aquário como estratégia de ensino para a ocorrência da aprendizagem significativa na escola." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UCS, 2015. https://repositorio.ucs.br/handle/11338/1080.
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Este trabalho teve como objetivo avaliar as contribuições da prática do aquarismo para a ocorrência da aprendizagem significativa na escola. Busca, também, avaliar os conhecimentos iniciais e finais dos professores e estudantes acerca dos ecossistemas aquáticos, capacitar os professores da rede de ensino básico para o desenvolvimento de uma proposta interdisciplinar por meio do uso de um aquário como estratégia de ensino, verificar a potencialidade do aquário, como um modelo de ensino, para a compreensão do funcionamento de um ecossistema aquático natural e a organização de um guia de apoio pedagógico para o estudo de um ecossistema aquático artificial para contribuir para a ocorrência da aprendizagem significativa na escola. A pesquisa desenvolvida neste trabalho é de natureza aplicada; qualitativa quanto à abordagem; descritiva quanto aos objetivos, e participante quanto aos procedimentos. A análise e coleta dos dados foram por meio de avaliações diagnósticas iniciais e finais aplicadas aos professores e estudantes do 9º ano da escola parceira, no ano de 2014, por meio das ações na escola para a manutenção do aquário e pela mostra de trabalhos apresentada para a comunidade, onde os conhecimentos construídos foram compartilhados. Os principais resultados deste trabalho indicaram que a atividade do aquarismo pode ser considerada como uma estratégia de ensino para a ocorrência da aprendizagem significativa na escola, pois a partir dos conhecimentos prévios dos estudantes, novas informações foram agregadas à estrutura cognitiva dos mesmos e assim, novas ideias e conhecimentos foram construídos. Constatou-se por meio das avaliações diagnóstica que houve uma melhor compreensão da importância do cuidado com os ecossistemas aquáticos e com o meio ambiente, fomentando a reflexão quanto à responsabilidade de cada um frente aos recursos naturais, preservando-os às futuras gerações. Como produto final desta pesquisa foi organizado um “Guia de Apoio Pedagógico para o Estudo de um Ecossistema Aquático Artificial”, o qual servirá de subsídio para professores de educação básica, orientando para a montagem e manutenção de um aquário na escola, bem como para uso deste como estratégia para a ocorrência da aprendizagem significativa sobre a temática recursos hídricos.Submitted by Ana Guimarães Pereira (agpereir@ucs.br) on 2015-12-08T12:57:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Janete Maria Scopel.pdf: 6501766 bytes, checksum: 63dfb6ff500bb521c1683daec890ad55 (MD5)
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This study aimed to evaluate the aquarium practice of contributions to the occurrence of meaningful learning in school. Also seeks to assess initial knowledge and end the teachers and students about aquatic ecosystems, training teachers of basic education network for the development of an interdisciplinary approach through the use of an aquarium as a teaching strategy, check the capability of aquarium, as a teaching model for understanding the operation of a natural aquatic ecosystem and the organization of a pedagogical support guide for the study of an artificial aquatic ecosystem to contribute to the occurrence of meaningful learning in school. The research developed in this work is of applied nature; Qualitative on the approach; descriptive of the aims, and participating on the procedures. The analysis and data collection have been through initial diagnostic evaluations and final applied to teachers and students of the 9th year of the partner school, in 2014, through the actions in school to maintain the aquarium and the exhibition of works submitted for the community where the knowledge built were shared. The main results of this work indicated that the aquarium activity can be considered as an educational strategy for the occurrence of meaningful learning in school, because from the previous knowledge of students, new information were added to the cognitive structure of the same and thus new ideas and knowledge are built. It was found through diagnostic assessments that there was a better understanding of the importance of caring for aquatic ecosystems and the environment, fostering reflection on the responsibility of each front natural resources, preserving them for future generations. As the final product of this research was organized a “Guide to Educational Support for the Study of Aquatic Ecosystem Artificial", which will serve as subsidy for basic education teachers, guiding for the assembly and maintenance of an aquarium at school as well as for use this as a strategy for the occurrence of significant learning on the theme water.
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Wu, Yan-cheuk. "Marine education and research centre." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1994. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25944836.
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Cracknell, Deborah Louise. "The restorative potential of public aquariums : psychological and physiological effects of viewing sub-aquatic environments." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/6687.
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The role of natural environments, especially ‘green space’, in promoting human health and well-being is well-researched. However, less is known about the benefits of ‘blue space’ (e.g. the coast) or ‘managed’ nature (e.g. zoos). In this thesis, six studies investigated the restorative potential of sub-aquatic settings, specifically public aquariums and the biological diversity within them. Studies 1 and 2 investigated preferences for, affective responses to, and the restorative potential of, five built and natural settings (i.e. built, green space, blue space, natural underwater and public aquariums). Using the same measures, Study 3 focused solely on people’s responses to aquarium exhibits, sub-categorised by geographic region, level of species richness and abundance, and taxonomic group. Study 4 examined behavioural, physiological and psychological responses to one aquarium exhibit during three stages of restocking. Finally, to establish how perceptions of species richness and abundance influenced well-being outcomes, people viewed and evaluated either one (Study 5) or two (Study 6) large aquarium exhibits. These studies found that natural sub-aquatic and aquarium settings were as preferred, and perceived as potentially restorative, as green space environments, and different exhibits elicited different responses: ratings were higher for tropical exhibits (vs. temperate), high abundance (vs. low) and vertebrates (vs. invertebrates), although findings for species richness were mixed. Within one exhibit, higher stocking levels resulted in increased attention and interest, greater improvements in mood, and some physiological evidence of relaxation (e.g. decreased heart rate). Broad levels of marine life could be distinguished but estimates of actual numbers were poor. Viewing one or two exhibits tended to improve mood, decrease arousal and be perceived as restorative; any differences between the two exhibits were more evident when both had been viewed. Overall, findings suggest that engaging with different types of managed nature may provide valuable perceived human health and well-being benefits.
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Sandberg, Marcus. "Pilot study: Is it possible to get Clown loach, Chromobotia macracanthus, ready to spawn in aquariums?" Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-30604.
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The clown loach Chromobotia macracanthus, is a well known species in ornamental fish circuits although the knowledge about it in its wild environment today is limited. The outtake of 50 million juveniles every year may drive the population into a collapse and it might be necessary to breed clown loaches in captivity to lower the pressure in wild stocks. This has not yet been accomplished without hormone treatment. The aim of the present study is to find out if it is possible for C. macracanthus to prepare for spawning in captivity without the use of hormones. The study was set up according to documentation about the wild conditions simulating the migration prior to spawning from greater rivers and swamps to smaller streams upriver. Although the experiment did not result in spawning it is believed that egg production took place according to criteria for identifying sexually mature fish ready to spawn. If so it would have resulted in the fish retaining or reabsorbing the eggs since they were not laid. A surprising result which tells us it would not be unusual with egg production in C. macracanthus in aquariums around the world.
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Agostino, Camara Frederico Ozanam. "Views of Paradise: A Photographic Atlas of the Artificial Environments of Zoological Gardens and Aquariums in Oceania." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17552.
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“Why photograph zoos?” is the question that guides the project Views of Paradise, a photographic atlas of artificial environments from 82 zoos and aquariums in Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. In Views of Paradise, the analyses of the resulting images identify aspects of landscape representations in zoos in relation to natural and cultural environments, situating zoos within the conceptual spaces of paradise, utopia, dystopia and heterotopia. Because people have a predisposition to only seeing animals, making them blind to the apparatus of the zoo, this research uses the absence of animals in the images as a method to shift the focus of vision away from animals and in the direction of their hybrid and lifeless living environments. Zoos occupy an ambiguous position in society, being perceived as places of imprisonment and protection. From menageries, meant to entertain the human curiosity, they are changing into institutions committed to conservation, research and education. Still, zoos reflect our need to care for the environment against our inability to re-create an environment as perfect as that found in nature, or to preserve it in the wild. The atlas highlights the importance of photography as a research method for the systematic collection of visual information and production of a criticism that is not only directed at zoos, but to humanity, for environmental practices that disregard the rights of non-humans. Its artistic visions of zoos and nature, utopian or dystopian, depending from which angle the absence of the animal is understood, are born from the transformative effect of photography on perception: by photographing zoo spaces and objects without the animals, they are transformed from insignificant artifices to subjects worth of inquiry, to signal the possibility of a meaningful existence for the empty zoo, either as image or as an actual site.
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Roy, Hugo. "La ruelle aux aquariums (roman) suivi de Les poches du Charlatan, essai sur la métamorphose du chantier de l'écrivain." Thesis, Université Laval, 2008. http://www.theses.ulaval.ca/2008/25407/25407.pdf.
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Montagne, Quentin. "L’Aquarium : vision et représentation des mondes subaquatiques : un dispositif d’exposition au croisement de l’art et de la science." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019REN20010.
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Initiée par la pratique artistique de l’auteur, cette thèse a pour premier objectif de saisir les qualités plastiques et esthétiques de l’aquarium, tant sous sa forme domestique et individuelle qu’à l’échelle des scénographies d’établissements publics. Le second est de déterminer ses rapports avec le monde subaquatique naturel, et son influence potentielle sur notre manière de percevoir ce milieu si particulier. Directement hérité du XIXe siècle, et pour ainsi dire ignoré de la recherche en dehors de l’aquariophilie, ce dispositif d’exposition se distingue par son ambiguïté. Il oscille constamment entre science, décoration et spectacle tout en prenant une infinité de formes, chacune engageant le spectateur de manière différente. Puisant des exemples dans les champs de l’art contemporain, de l’histoire de l’art, de la littérature comme des sciences naturelles, et impliquant constamment le travail plastique de l’auteur, la thèse s’organise en trois parties. À l’issue d’une approche historique, l’aquarium est d’abord défini comme dispositif écranique tenant à la fois du tableau et de la scène de théâtre avant d’apparaître dans un deuxième temps, au vu des éléments qui le composent, comme un jardin miniature. Loin de reproduire avec fidélité un site naturel donné, l’aquarium relève du domaine de l’art et de la création, héritant du maniérisme de la Renaissance, du courant pittoresque du XVIIIe siècle comme des jardins d’Extrême-Orient. Sans évolution marquante depuis son invention, le paysage dans l’aquarium apparaît enfin dans sa dimension nostalgique, grottes, ruines et autres fabriques renvoyant autant aux apocalypses légendaires qu’aux risques écologiques actuelsInitiated with the author’s own artistic work, the first purpose of this thesis is to point out the plastic and aesthetic properties of the aquarium, in its household and unique form as much as in the scale of the scenographies used by the public aquariums. The second objective is to determine its connections with the natural state of the subaquatic world, and its influence over our way of perceiving this unique environment. Directly inherited from the XIXth century, and essentially ignored by the academic world, this exhibition device is characterized by its ambiguity. It constantly fluctuates between science, decoration and entertainment, while taking an infinite variety of forms, each one involving the spectator in a different way. Using examples in the fields of art, art history, literature, and natural sciences, but constantly linked to the author’s artistic work, this thesis is organized in three parts. After a brief historical approach of the aquarium, it is first defined as a display, a screen generating pictures, based on the model of the painting and the theater stage, and it appears then, considering its components, to be a miniature garden. Far from an accurate reproduction of a natural site, the aquarium falls under the field of art and creation, perpetuating the Mannerism of the Cinquecento, the theory of the picturesque developed in the XVIIIth century, or Chinese and Japanese traditional gardens. Without any major change since its invention, the land- or aquascape inside the aquarium finally projects a nostalgic piece of scenery - the ruins, grottoes and other follies referring to both legendary apocalypses and the current ecological peril
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McGreevy, Thomas Joseph. "Conservation genetics of Association of Zoos and Aquariums and wild Matschie's tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus Matschiei) from Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea /." View online ; access limited to URI, 2009. http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dissertations/AAI3368001.
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Li, Lorraine Kathleen, and 李諾寧. "The evolution of Ocean Park and its conservation efforts." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45013457.
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Salgado, Maurício de Mattos. "A transposição museográfica da biodiversidade no aquário de Ubatuba: estudo através de mapas conceituais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/81/81133/tde-25072011-135504/.
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O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar a transposição museográfica do conceito de biodiversidade em uma exposição do Aquário de Ubatuba, em Ubatuba, SP. O conceito de biodiversidade é bastante complexo, surgindo na ecologia e rapidamente sendo incorporado por diversos campos, muitas vezes com significados e intenções diferentes. A importância da biodiversidade para a sociedade se torna cada vez mais difundida e com isto a necessidade de compreender os processos educativos que a envolvem. Este trabalho objetiva analisar as transformações que o conceito passa ao percorrer o caminho entre os manuais acadêmicos de ecologia e os corredores da exposição de ecossistemas do Aquário de Ubatuba. A delimitação do saber de referência nos manuais acadêmicos é baseada na noção de que os mesmos refletem as teorias e conceitos estabelecidos da comunidade acadêmica em questão, da ecologia. Para permitir o estudo dos saberes em formatos tão diversos como os textos acadêmicos, os textos da exposição e os objetos expositivos presentes, os tanques, mapas conceituais foram utilizados. Para conhecer o saber sábio foram utilizados três manuais, pesquisados junto a diferentes universidades como os mais utilizados no ensino de ecologia. Para compreender o saber no aquário foi realizada uma entrevista com o diretor fundador e responsável pela exposição, assim como analisados todos os textos e tanques. Os textos da exposição de ecossistemas foram todos transcritos, assim como um método de descrição dos tanques, em 3 níveis de profundidade, foi desenvolvido. Os mapas conceituais produzidos a partir destas duas unidades de análise (livros e exposição) apontaram para uma biodiversidade majoritariamente focada no conceito de diversidade específica nos textos acadêmicos. Este enfoque não se mostrou tão presente na exposição, que possuía na diversidade comportamental os principais elementos da exposição. O papel do homem também se mostrou bastante reduzido no saber exposto, enquanto sua figura era presente, ligada a diversos impactos e também ações de conservação no saber sábio. A análise cuidadosa dos mapas da exposição permite também diferenciar entre as características expositivas de cada objeto, com os tanques sendo claramente adequados à apresentação da diversidade comportamental e pouco adequados para a diversidade genética, ausente na exposição. A determinação dos saberes presentes na exposição pelos mapas conceituais é uma ferramenta útil para o processo de elaboração de exposições, assim como permite perceber as adequações dos objetos aos papeis a eles determinados pela exposição. Esta pesquisa, além de apontar as adequações dos tanques de aquários para ensinar aspectos da biodiversidade pouco apresentados pelos livros acadêmicos, mostra também uma metodologia para mapear objetos complexos presentes em exposições, podendo contribuir para futuras pesquisas.The present work analyses the museographic transposition of the biodiversity concept in an exhibit of Aquario de Ubatuba, Ubatuba, SP. Biodiversity is a complex concept. Originally developed in ecology and the natural sciences, it was quickly integrated in a variety of fields and, often, with different and new meanings and interests. The importance of biodiversity for our society grows, and thus the need to better understand the educational processes that involve it. This research\"s objective is to understand the transformations that biodiversity goes through while being transposed from graduation textbooks to the marine ecosystems aquarium exhibit. The decision to use textbooks to represent reference knowledge is based on the notion that textbooks represent established theories and concepts of the academic community in question, the biology, ecology one. To allow comparison of knowledges in such different states as textbooks, exhibit texts and aquarium tanks, concept maps were used as an analysis tool. In order to study the academic knowledge, 3 graduation textbooks were used, selected by questioning major universities which were the most used ecology textbooks by their teachers. To study the aquarium, an interview with the Director and founder, as well as fully transcribing exhibit texts that belonged to the ecosystem exhibit. A method for describing the aquarium tanks, by using three depth levels, was developed and used in the tanks present in the marine ecosystems exhibit. The concept maps produced by these two units of analysis (books and exhibits) pointed to a much more species diversity focused biodiversity in the textbooks. This emphasis was not found in the exhibit that was preeminently focused around behavioral diversity. Man\"s role and relation with biodiversity while well present and explained in textbooks, connected with environmental threats but also with conservation, had little to show in the exhibit. Careful analysis of the maps allows differentiating the museographic characteristics of each exhibit object. While tanks were clearly adapted to communicating behavioral diversity, they were not good at showing genetic diversity, absent at the exhibit, but present in the academic knowledge as part of the definition of biodiversity. Determining knowledges present in the exhibit through the usage of concept maps is a useful tool in exhibit planning, as well as understanding the different roles that each object can play in communicating the concepts present in the exhibit. This research not only shows how each object in the studied exhibit is suited for teaching an aspect of biodiversity not really explained in depth by textbooks, the behavioral diversity, but also presents a method to produce concept maps of complex exhibit objects, contributing for future research.
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Valadas, Paula Cristina Segurado. "Importância dos parques zoológicos aquáticos na educação ambiental e na conservação da natureza." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/15872.
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Este estudo foi realizado em três aquários públicos portugueses e inclui três objetivos principais: (i) análise da sua participação em projetos de investigação com vista à conservação da natureza; (ii) análise das instalações e da componente educativa dos parques zoológicos aquáticos, na perspetiva da conservação; (iii) avaliação das aprendizagens adquiridas pelos alunos após uma visita a um dos parques zoológicos aquáticos e das variáveis que a influenciam. Concluiu-se que estas instituições colaboram na realização de projetos de investigação com vista à conservação da natureza e que o seu espaço físico e componente educativa transmitem uma mensagem conservacionista. O último capítulo foi realizado somente no Oceanário e permitiu concluir a existência de aprendizagem significativa após a participação no atelier “Planeta Casa”. O ano de escolaridade, a pesquisa na internet sobre vida selvagem, e o contexto grupo foram as variáveis associadas a diferenças significativas de aprendizagem entre os vários grupos de alunos; ABSTRACT: This study was conducted in three Portuguese public aquariums with three aims: 1) analyse the collaboration of these aquariums in research projects regarding conservation; 2) analyse the approach to the conservation theme on the installations and educational programs of the aquariums and 3) evaluation of the conservation related knowledge enhancement of the students after a trip to one of the aquariums and analyse the influence of social variables. It can be concluded that these institutions actively cooperate on research projects regarding conservation and that their installations and educational content are focused on conservation issues. The last chapter of this thesis was conducted only in Lisbon Oceanarium and allowed to conclude the existence of a significant knowledge enhancement towards conservation issues after the participation in the activity “Planeta Casa”. The school year, the amount of internet research about the theme and the group context were the variables significantly associated with the learning differences between the groups of students analysed.
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Hispano, Vilaseca Coral. "Avaluació d'una infestació de Gnathia maxillaris (Montagu, 1804) (Crustacea:Isopoda:Gnathiidae), a partir del seguiment i eradicació d'un brot a un sistema d'aquaris de grans dimensions." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/385111.
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Gnathia maxillaris és un isòpode marí ectoparàsit hematòfag de peixos. Diferents brots d’infestacions han estat descrits en animals salvatges i més recentment en sistemes de producció de l’aqüicultura o en tancs d’exhibició d’aquaris. El control d’aquests brots o l’aplicació de mesures o programes d’eradicació resulten molt complexos degut a que el seu cicle biològic ha estat només parcialment descrit, no es disposa d’un coneixement detallat sobre l’ecologia de l’espècie i no existeix informació sòlida sobre tractaments terapèutics o preventius específics per aquesta parasitosi. En aquest treball es segueix el desenvolupament d’una infestació de Gnathia maxillaris en un aquari de gran volum. Per tal d’avaluar el grau d’infestació del sistema es va desenvolupar un mètode que permetés conèixer quina era la dinàmica de la població del paràsit i l’eficiència de les actuacions realitzades per controlar-lo la infestació en el sistema. Aquest mètode consistia en realitzar un mostreig freqüent en el tanc, no només a nivell quantitatiu sinó que es diferenciaven els individus segons el seu estadi larvari. En l’estudi també s’ha avaluat l’eficiència del tractament de la parasitosi amb triclorfon, al mateix temps es va estudiar la cinètica de degradació del triclorfon al llarg de la seva aplicació. Disposar d’exemplars de larves d’aquesta espècie ha permès desenvolupar un sistema pel manteniment dels diferents estadis del paràsit al laboratori. A més a més, aquest sistema de manteniment ha facilitat que es desenvolupés en condicions de laboratori el cicle biològic, i així permetre el seu estudi. S’ha complementat la descripció del cicle de vida de G.maxillaris fet per Mouchet (1928) i s’ha aportat informació per entendre les dinàmiques del paràsit en el tanc afectat. A l’hora s’ha realitzat una descripció del mascle amb l’ajut del microscopi electrònic que ha permès complementar la descripció de l’espècie realitzada per Monod (1926). El manteniment de larves al laboratori i la possibilitat de desenvolupar el cicle ens ha permès avaluar el grau d’eficiència de productes quimioterapèutics alternatius que s’han aplicat a nivell d’aqüicultura per combatre sea lice en cultius de salmó (Salmo salar). L’objectiu pràctic d’aquest treball ha estat eradicar la Gnathia maxillaris del sistema mediterrani afectat de l’Aquàrium i ha permès que cada un dels estudis realitzats han ajudat a adquirir nous coneixements sobre G.maxillaris i sobre com controlar una infestació en aquaris de gran volum i de gran complexitat en la gestió de les aigües i les poblacions d’animals.Gnathia maxillaris is a haematophagous isopoda ectoparasite that feed on the blood and tissue fluids of marine fish. Several outbreaks of infestations have been described in wild animals and more recently aquaculture production systems or in tanks of aquaria. The control of these outbreaks or measures for eradication are very complex due to its biological cycle has been only partially described, to a limited knowledge about the ecology of this species and to the lack of solid information on specific preventive or therapeutic treatment. This study monitored the development of an infestation Gnathia maxillaris in a large volume aquarium. In order to assess the degree of infestation, a method for monitoring the development of the outbreaks was defined. It allowed to know the population dynamics of the parasite and to assess the efficiency of the applied actions to control the infestation in the system. The monitoring was based on practical daily sampling of the affected tank to quantify the number of larvi and to determine the proportions of the parasite at the different larval stages of its life cycle.. Additionally, it was evaluated the efficiency of the trichlorfon as treatment to control this type of crustacean infestation. The kinetics of decay of this compound after application in the water tank were also determined.. The availability of larvi from the affected tank allowed to define a methodology for maintenance in vivo at the laboratory and facilitate to follow the life cycle.The obtained observations are complementary new contributions to the first description of the life cycle by Mouchet (1928). Moreover, it provided practical and useful information to understand the dynamics of G.maxillaris in the infested tank. The scanning electronic microscopy studies of males obtained in this outbreak aided to supplement the morphological and biometric description of this species made by Monod (1926). The maintenance of larvi in the laboratory and the possibility of developing its life cycle at the laboratory in vivo allowed assessing the efficiency of some potential chemotherapeutic compounds that have been already applied in aquaculture against sea lice in cultured salmon (Salmo salar). The practical application of the results of this study was to eradicate G.maxillaris from the infested Mediterranean aquaria. Every performed study contribute with new knowledge on G.maxillaris biology and ecology, and provided practical information to control and eradicate this parasite from a large volume and complex biological system in terms of diversity and concentration of aquatic organism.
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Freitas, Marcelo Carneiro de. "CaracterizaÃÃo da cadeia produtiva de peixes ornamentais de Ãguas continentais nos estados do Cearà e Pernambuco." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2012. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=10850.
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Este trabalho teve como objetivo principal estudar a cadeia produtiva de peixes ornamentais de Ãguas continentais do nordeste brasileiro. O trabalho foi realizado nos estados do Cearà e Pernambuco, por serem reconhecidos produtores e exportadores desses organismos no paÃs. Os dados para o trabalho foram obtidos atravÃs da aplicaÃÃo de questionÃriosa representantes docomÃrcio varejista, piscicultores ornamentais e aquaristas. Os valores de produÃÃo do comÃrcio interno e de exportaÃÃo de peixes ornamentais foram obtidos em instituiÃÃes pÃblicas responsÃveis por estes dados. Um total de 18 pisciculturas de peixes ornamentais foram visitadas, sendo 10 no estado do Cearà e 8 em Pernambuco, variando desde piscicultores rudimentares que utilizavam reservatÃrios rÃsticos, atà aquiculturas especializadas compostas de tanques de alvenaria. As espÃcies de peixes mais vendidas pelos piscicultores foram: Carassius auratus, Pterophyllum scalare, Beta splendens, Poecilia latipina e Xiphophorus helleri. A produÃÃo foi destinada principalmente para o Rio de Janeiro e SÃo Paulo. O comÃrcio varejista de peixes ornamentais no nordeste à diversificado podendo encontrar a venda seus produtos em lojas generalistas conhecidas como petshops e em lojas especializadas. Um total de 13.846 exemplares peixes ornamentais de Ãguas continentais foram visualizados atravÃs do censo visual nas lojas dos estados do Cearà e Pernambuco. Desse total foram indentificadas 35 familias e 194 espÃcies de peixes, o maior nÃmero de indivÃduos foi da famÃlia Cyprinidae, seguidas da Characidae e Poeciliidae. As espÃcies mais representativas em nÃmero de indivÃduos disponÃveis para venda no comÃrcio varejista foram: Carassius auratus, Poecilia latipina, Paracheirodon axelrodi, Brachydanio rerio e Pterophyllum scalare. No comÃrcio interno, o estado do Cearà comercializou no biÃnio 2006/2007, um total de 373.085 exemplares de peixes ornamentais, correspondendo a um valor total de R$ 250.565,03, enquanto que Pernambuco comercializou em 2010, um total de 916.240 indivÃduos, correspondendo a um valor total de R$ 1.198.094,67. A produÃÃo total exportada de peixes ornamentais pelos estados de Cearà e Pernambuco no perÃodo de 2006 a 2008 foi de R$ 377.584,91, com maior volume referente à Pernambuco correspondendo a R$ 211.175,27. Os principais destinos de exportaÃÃes foram: JapÃo, Alemanha, Reino Unido, Hong Kong e Holanda. Um total de 102 espÃcies foi exportada, sendo que as mais representativas em nÃmero de indivÃduos foram: Paracheirodon axelrodi, Parotocinclus maculicauda, Baryancistrus sp. e Ancistrus spp. O nordeste brasileiro possui um grande potencial para a atividade de peixes ornamentais de Ãguas continentais, sendo uma fonte geradora de mÃo de obra e renda para as populaÃÃes do meio rural e urbano. PorÃm alguns pontos necessitam ser corrigidos para que esta atividade seja sustentÃvel e traga uma maior rentabilidade para as pessoas envolvidas no setor.This study aimed at evaluating the productive chain of freshwater ornamental fish of northeastern Brazil. The study was conducted in the states of Ceara and Pernambuco, to be recognized exporters of these bodies in the country.Data for the study were obtained through questionnaires representatives in retail, ornamental fish-farming and hobbysts. Production data on domestic trade and export of ornamental fish were obtained in public institutions. A total of 18 ornamental fish hatcheries were visited, 10 in Cearà and 8 in Pernambuco, ranging from small to large fish-farming.The species of fish sold by the fish farmers were Carassius auratus, Pterophyllum scalare, Betta splendens, Poecilia latipina and Xiphophorus helleri. The production was designed primarily for state of Rio de Janeiro and SÃo Paulo. Retail trade of ornamental fish in the northeast is diverse and can find their products for sale in petshops and specialty stores. A total of 13,846 specimens of freshwater ornamental fish were visualized by visual census in the shops of Ceara and Pernambuco. A total of 35 families and 194 species of fish have been identified, greater participation in number of individuals were from families Cyprinidae, Characidae and Poeciliidae. The most representative species in number of individuals available for sale in retail trade were: Carassius auratus, Poecilia latipina, Paracheirodon axelrodi, Brachydanio rerio e Pterophyllum scalare. In domestic trade, the state of Ceara sold in the biennium 2006/2007, a total of 373,085 specimens of ornamental fish, corresponding a total value R$ 250,565.03, while Pernambuco sold in 2010, a total of 916,240 individuals, corresponding R$ 1,198,094.67.The total production of ornamental fish exported by the states of Ceara and Pernambuco in the period 2006 to 2008 was R$ 377,584.91, with higher volume related to Pernambuco corresponding R$ 211,175.27. The main export destinations were Japan, Germany, UK, Hong Kong and Netherlands. A total of 102 species was exported, the most representative in number of individuals were Paracheirodon axelrodi, Parotocinclus maculicauda, Baryancistrus sp. e Ancistrus spp. The Brazilian Northeast has a great potential for the activity of freshwater ornamental fish, being a source of labor and income for the populations of rural and urban areas. But several points need to be corrected so that this activity is sustainable and that those involved can enjoy for a long time their products.
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Kishimoto, Kyo. "Aquarium Room." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34579.
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Bailey, Taylor Michael. "Delphinids on Display: the Capture, Care, and Exhibition of Cetaceans at Marineland of the Pacific, 1954-1967." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4549.
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When Marineland of the Pacific opened in 1954 on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in greater Los Angeles, it was the second oceanarium in the world and the first on the West Coast. An initial investment of $3 million by Oceanarium Inc., owners of the popular Marine Studios park located near St. Augustine, Florida, ensured that Marineland was built with the same state of the art facilities needed to produce an authentic representation of the ocean floor on land. Building on Marine Studios' success exhibiting bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), Marineland's central draw was its performing cetaceans. During the park's early years, its collectors pioneered the capture of Pacific dolphin species, such as the Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and the Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens), the short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus), and were the first to capture a live killer whale (Orcinus orca) in 1961. By exposing audiences to previously unknown species through circus-like performances, Marineland played a central role in changing public perceptions of small cetaceans in the post-World War II era. However, with few prior studies to consult, Marineland curators experimented with their own methods of capture, husbandry, and veterinary care that often resulted in the harm or death of cetaceans under their care. Caretakers contended with animal aggression and sexual behavior, the refusal of animals to perform in show routines, and high mortality. Despite the difficulties posed by exhibiting cetaceans, advertisements, press interviews, and films advanced a contrary narrative that animals under Marineland's care enjoyed the conditions of captivity and performing for an audience. This thesis explores the tension between entertainment and animal care that defined the early years of cetacean captivity in North America.
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Gray, William Randall. "Washington DC Aquarium." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43302.
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This project is about re-establishing Maryland Avenue as a pedestrian corridor. Increasing pedestrian traffic along this axis will physically reconnect the Capitol Building to the Jefferson Memorial and provide the opportunity for commercial and cultural revitalization.
Consideration of the urban scale led to studies of circulation, context and pedestrian orientation and their application to the design of a single building.Master of Architecture
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Freitas, Marcelo Carneiro de. "Caracterização da cadeia produtiva de peixes ornamentais de águas continentais nos estados do Ceará e Pernambuco." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFC, 2012. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/18731.
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This study aimed at evaluating the productive chain of freshwater ornamental fish of northeastern Brazil. The study was conducted in the states of Ceara and Pernambuco, to be recognized exporters of these bodies in the country.Data for the study were obtained through questionnaires representatives in retail, ornamental fish-farming and hobbysts. Production data on domestic trade and export of ornamental fish were obtained in public institutions. A total of 18 ornamental fish hatcheries were visited, 10 in Ceará and 8 in Pernambuco, ranging from small to large fish-farming.The species of fish sold by the fish farmers were Carassius auratus, Pterophyllum scalare, Betta splendens, Poecilia latipina and Xiphophorus helleri. The production was designed primarily for state of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Retail trade of ornamental fish in the northeast is diverse and can find their products for sale in petshops and specialty stores. A total of 13,846 specimens of freshwater ornamental fish were visualized by visual census in the shops of Ceara and Pernambuco. A total of 35 families and 194 species of fish have been identified, greater participation in number of individuals were from families Cyprinidae, Characidae and Poeciliidae. The most representative species in number of individuals available for sale in retail trade were: Carassius auratus, Poecilia latipina, Paracheirodon axelrodi, Brachydanio rerio e Pterophyllum scalare. In domestic trade, the state of Ceara sold in the biennium 2006/2007, a total of 373,085 specimens of ornamental fish, corresponding a total value R$ 250,565.03, while Pernambuco sold in 2010, a total of 916,240 individuals, corresponding R$ 1,198,094.67.The total production of ornamental fish exported by the states of Ceara and Pernambuco in the period 2006 to 2008 was R$ 377,584.91, with higher volume related to Pernambuco corresponding R$ 211,175.27. The main export destinations were Japan, Germany, UK, Hong Kong and Netherlands. A total of 102 species was exported, the most representative in number of individuals were Paracheirodon axelrodi, Parotocinclus maculicauda, Baryancistrus sp. e Ancistrus spp. The Brazilian Northeast has a great potential for the activity of freshwater ornamental fish, being a source of labor and income for the populations of rural and urban areas. But several points need to be corrected so that this activity is sustainable and that those involved can enjoy for a long time their products.
Este trabalho teve como objetivo principal estudar a cadeia produtiva de peixes ornamentais de águas continentais do nordeste brasileiro. O trabalho foi realizado nos estados do Ceará e Pernambuco, por serem reconhecidos produtores e exportadores desses organismos no país. Os dados para o trabalho foram obtidos através da aplicação de questionáriosa representantes docomércio varejista, piscicultores ornamentais e aquaristas. Os valores de produção do comércio interno e de exportação de peixes ornamentais foram obtidos em instituições públicas responsáveis por estes dados. Um total de 18 pisciculturas de peixes ornamentais foram visitadas, sendo 10 no estado do Ceará e 8 em Pernambuco, variando desde piscicultores rudimentares que utilizavam reservatórios rústicos, até aquiculturas especializadas compostas de tanques de alvenaria. As espécies de peixes mais vendidas pelos piscicultores foram: Carassius auratus, Pterophyllum scalare, Beta splendens, Poecilia latipina e Xiphophorus helleri. A produção foi destinada principalmente para o Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo. O comércio varejista de peixes ornamentais no nordeste é diversificado podendo encontrar a venda seus produtos em lojas generalistas conhecidas como petshops e em lojas especializadas. Um total de 13.846 exemplares peixes ornamentais de águas continentais foram visualizados através do censo visual nas lojas dos estados do Ceará e Pernambuco. Desse total foram indentificadas 35 familias e 194 espécies de peixes, o maior número de indivíduos foi da família Cyprinidae, seguidas da Characidae e Poeciliidae. As espécies mais representativas em número de indivíduos disponíveis para venda no comércio varejista foram: Carassius auratus, Poecilia latipina, Paracheirodon axelrodi, Brachydanio rerio e Pterophyllum scalare. No comércio interno, o estado do Ceará comercializou no biênio 2006/2007, um total de 373.085 exemplares de peixes ornamentais, correspondendo a um valor total de R$ 250.565,03, enquanto que Pernambuco comercializou em 2010, um total de 916.240 indivíduos, correspondendo a um valor total de R$ 1.198.094,67. A produção total exportada de peixes ornamentais pelos estados de Ceará e Pernambuco no período de 2006 a 2008 foi de R$ 377.584,91, com maior volume referente à Pernambuco correspondendo a R$ 211.175,27. Os principais destinos de exportações foram: Japão, Alemanha, Reino Unido, Hong Kong e Holanda. Um total de 102 espécies foi exportada, sendo que as mais representativas em número de indivíduos foram: Paracheirodon axelrodi, Parotocinclus maculicauda, Baryancistrus sp. e Ancistrus spp. O nordeste brasileiro possui um grande potencial para a atividade de peixes ornamentais de águas continentais, sendo uma fonte geradora de mão de obra e renda para as populações do meio rural e urbano. Porém alguns pontos necessitam ser corrigidos para que esta atividade seja sustentável e traga uma maior rentabilidade para as pessoas envolvidas no setor.
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Barbosa, Ana Madalena de Almeida Gomes. "Aquarium disclosure and monitoring system." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/23850.
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Mestrado em Engenharia Eletrónica e TelecomunicaçõesCom a constante evolução do desenvolvimento tecnológico surge a necessidade de criar meios que nos permitam automatizar alguns dos mecanismos aliados às tarefas do dia-a-dia. É cada vez mais frequente depararmo-nos com cenários monitorizados e controlados remotamente, aumentando a comodidade e a interação entre humanos e objetos. O Laboratório para a Inovação e Sustentabilidade dos Recursos Biológicos Marinhos, Ecomare, contém aquários com diversas espécies que vão ser alvo de estudo. Um desses aquários foi o cenário para o desenvolvimento desta dissertação, sendo o objetivo principal a sua divulgação, monitorização e controlo. O sistema desenvolvido é composto por duas componentes, uma plataforma web e uma aplicação móvel. Ambas as plataformas permitem ter acesso aos valores lidos, relativamente ao aquário, recolhidos pelos sensores disponíveis. são emitidos alarmes quando os valores não correspondem aos esperados, de modo a que seja possível uma rápida atuação sobre o aquário. O sistema foi desenvolvido para permitir aos tratadores do aquário terem um acompanhamento permanente sobre
With the constant evolution of technological solutions arises the exigency to create approaches that allow us to automate some of the processes associated to our daily lives. Nowadays, it is more frequent to nd many remotely monitored and controlled scenarios, increasing the convenience and interaction between humans and \things". The Laboratory for Innovation and Sustainability of Marine Biological Resources, Ecomare, has multiple aquariums with several species under study. One of those aquariums is the scenario to this dissertation's development, which main goal is the disclosure, monitoring and control of that aquarium. The solution has two components, a web's platform and a mobile application. Both platforms allow access to the read values, related to the aquarium, collected by the available sensors. When values are not within a pre-de ned threshold, alarms are triggered in order to enable a quick response over the aquarium. The solution's aim is to allow the handlers a permanent monitoring over the aquarium, without the need of a physical presence in the facilities.
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胡仁倬 and Yan-cheuk Wu. "Marine education and research centre." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982244.
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Hunsaker, Gregory Brent. "Auspicium Aevum." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30903.
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The creation of a place of refuge amid chaos. To
create a place that answers the question, â why are we
here?â
The definition of a place between the sacred and the
profane.
The complexity of the city will foster an oasis: the
serenity of order.
In acknowledgement of complexity, simplify.
After all, architecture is the theatre wherein the drama
of life unfolds.
The city will enter the building, and the building will
never turn its back on the city. The sea will enter the
city through the building, as the city will enter the
seaâ ¦ Neither is static. This is life of the highest order.
Memory and anticipation will part to yield a
performance of the present.
This proposal is an effort to reintroduce a humanfriendly
scale to an urban edge, embracing the life of
the water bodies, and giving direction, identity, and
thus purpose (to the human, the city and the sea)
through architectural celebration.
The site determined a set of environmental and
planning issues asking for resolution through
architectural intervention. The decision to make an
aquarium derived from the questions asked by the
existing conditions.
An initial subtractive formal treatment of the site (to
bring the river inward during high tide) and the
reconciliation of this with an additive formal language of
the building became a point of departure. The
synthesis of form was to be organized as a linear
progression through a series of experiences delineating
a walk from land to sea.Master of Architecture
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Dinh, Ngan N. "Washington D.C. Aquarium: An Exploration of Shaping the Water: Building Sculpture Along the Existing Landscape." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74875.
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The proposed aquarium is located in South East Washington D.C. The design creates an interactive walkway along the river. The movement of the water is redirected to stimulate the enjoyable atmospere for the people. The aquarium's shape is highly designed to reflect the fish movement. This project is a combination of advanced structure, inspiring architectural expression, and promoting urban lanscape to the shore. As a result, this aquarium is as an icon building to the city attraction.Master of Architecture
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Matsuyama, K. "World Medaka Aquarium in Nagoya Higashiyama Zoo." Laboratory of Freshwater Fish Stocks Bioscience Center Nagoya University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/13795.
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Baxa, Philip S. "Monterey Bay Aquarium volunteer guide scheduling analysis." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/44519.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedThe Monterey Bay Aquarium was founded in 1984 and hosts nearly two million visitors each year. In addition to the paid staff, there are over 1,000 volunteers who are critical to Aquarium operations. One set of volunteers comprises the guides who rotate to different stations throughout the Aquarium during their shift to interpret the various exhibits. No formal analysis has been previously completed to optimize guide scheduling based on existing constraints. Currently, the guide schedule is manually generated; however, last minute no-shows or drop-ins often prevent an optimal schedule from being generated. This thesis established target staffing levels for each shift based on requirements developed by the guide program managers. Additionally, this thesis seeks to optimize the guides’ scheduled rotation during their shift. While the guide program managers have done an excellent job using heuristic methods to develop nearly optimal schedules, they have not been able to incorporate methods that minimize the time that is lost by guides transiting from station to station. This thesis analyzed and developed guide schedules that minimize the time spent transiting between stations. The guide schedule was modeled as a multicommodity flow network and solved with linear programing.
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Major, Christopher. "Internship at the Aquarium of the Americas." ScholarWorks@UNO, 1989. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/aa_rpts/67.
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This report documents an internship that was served at the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, Louisiana from 16 January 1989 through 7 April 1989. The purpose of the internship was to observe the administration of the internship organization in order to perform a managerial analysis. Another goal was to engage in administrative tasks in order to gain practical experience at a managerial level. The Aquarium of the Americas is a department of the Audubon Institute, which, in turn, is supervised by the Audubon Park Commission. As a result, those organizations are also included as subjects for analysis. The internship is a requirement of the graduate program in Arts Administration at the University of New Orleans.
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Martínez, Bárbara, and Sara Pérez. "Consumer Behaviour." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1595.
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The aim of this work is to understand the consumer behaviour. The research is going to be focus on the factors that influence the consumers behaviour. The purpose of this paper is to know the different aspects that the consumers have into account when they decide to use a certain product.
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Maier, Sonja, Martin Burkhard, Peter Lachenmaier, Andrea Nutsi, and Michael Koch. "Fishification – Visualizing Activity Streams Using the Aquarium Metaphor." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-125947.
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Large screens in semi-public spaces are already used in different organizations for presenting information. To make these information radiators work, the visualization and interaction have to be as attractive and intuitive as possible. In this paper, we present a new way of visualizing social activity streams on semi-public large screens. In order to keep the user interface simple, and to attract people that are passing by, the aquarium metaphor is used. Apart from describing a prototype implementation, the paper elaborates on an evaluation of the prototype.
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Dickerson, Jason Allen. "Living museum of the bay : Chesapeake Bay Aquarium." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65671.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991.Includes bibliographical references (p. 69).
This thesis is the design of an aquarium in the industrial city of Newport News, Virginia The focus is a living museum that illustrates the diversity beauty and grandeur of a precious yet fragile estuary, the Chesapeake Bay. The thesis proposes by in creasing public awareness of the fragile tenure with nature, modern industrial society is the context, an industrial land scape is transformed into a Living/interpretive aquarium .
by Jason Allen Dickerson.
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Crylen, Jonathan Christopher. "The cinematic aquarium: a history of undersea film." Diss., University of Iowa, 2015. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1839.
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This dissertation investigates undersea cinema from its origins to the present. Addressing a range of documentaries, narrative fiction films, and sound recordings made undersea, this project emphasizes ocean cinema’s ties to the histories of ocean exploration, conquest, and conservation—contexts from which undersea films cannot be extricated.
For over a century, undersea films have brought the distant world of the deep up close to the eyes and ears of a broad public; they have been a major influence on popular understanding of the ocean, which today is of great environmental significance and a powerful symbol of a fragile global ecology. This project aims to show how the ocean as a cinematic site of ecological consciousness is, as a condition of its production, intimately linked to environmentally unfriendly histories of technology. The often-dazzling images of marine life shown on film can increase viewers’ sensitivity to the other forms of life with which they share the planet. At the same time, producing these images has historically relied on exploratory technologies built for the purpose of better exploiting the marine environment economically and militarily. This contradiction between films’ meanings and their conditions of possibility is not limited to ocean cinema; it characterizes a wide range of environmental films. By focusing on ocean cinema, a particularly rich case of unseen worlds, environmental consciousness, and destructive techno-scientific commitments coming together, this dissertation aims to illuminate a tension that pervades environmental cinema in general.
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Некрасов, Г. О. "Універсальний пристрій "Aquauino" для автоматизації життєзабезпечення акваріума." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/65120.
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Запропонована розробка відноситься до одного з елементів Розумного будинку, побудованого за принципом Інтернету речей, який виконує моніторинг і підтримку заданого мікроклімату в замкнутій екосистемі типу акваріум або тераріум.
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Pablos, Hernández Miriam. "Earth remote sensing with SMOS, Aquarius and SMAP missions." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/403991.
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The first three of a series of new generation satellites operating at L-band microwave frequencies have been launch in the last decade. L-band is particularly sensitive to the presence of water content in the scene under observation, being considered the optimal bandwidth for measuring the Earth's global surface soil moisture (SM) over land and sea surface salinity (SSS) over oceans.
Monitoring these two essential climate variables is needed to further improve our understanding of the Earth's water and energy cycles. Additionally, remote sensing at L-band has been proved useful for monitoring the stability in ice sheets and measuring sea ice thickness.
The ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS, 2009-2017) is the first mission specifically launched to monitor SM and SSS. It carries on-board a novel synthetic aperture radiometer with multi-angular and full-polarization capabilities. NASA's Aquarius (2011-2015) was the second mission, devoted to SSS monitoring with a combined real aperture radiometer/scatterometer system
that allows correcting for sea surface roughness. NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP, 2015-2018) is the second mission dedicated to measure SM. It carries on-board a real aperture full-polarimetric radiometer and a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for enhanced spatial resolution and freeze/thaw detection.
This Ph.D. Thesis is focused on analyzing the geophysical information that can be obtained from L-band SMOS, Aquarius and SMAP observations. The research activities are structured as follows: -Inter-comparison of radiometer brightness temperatures at selected targets. A novel methodology to measure the consistency between SMOS and Aquarius radiometric data over the entire dynamic range of observations (land, ice and ocean) is proposed. It allows detecting spatial/temporal differences or biases without latitudinal limitations neither cross-overs. This is a necessary step to combine observations from different instruments in a long term dataset for environmental, meteorological, hydrological or climatological studies.
-Ice thickness effects on passive remote sensing of Antarctic continental ice. The relationship between Antarctic ice thickness spatial variations and changes detected by SMOS and Aquarius measurements is explored. The emissivity of Antarctica is analyzed to disentangle the role of the geophysical contributions (snow layers at different depths and subglacial lakes) to the observed signal.
The stability of the L-band signal in the East Antarctic Plateau, calibration/validation site for microwave satellite missions, is assessed.
-Microwave/optical synergy for multi-scale soil moisture sensing. The relationship of SM and land surface temperature (LST) dynamics is evaluated to better understand the fundamental SM-LST link through evapotranspiration and thermal inertia physical processes. A new approach to measure the critical soil moisture from time-series of spaceborne SM and LST is proposed. The synergistic use of SMOS SM and remotely sensed LST for refining SM disaggregation algorithms is also analyzed.
-Comparison of passive and active microwave vegetation parameters. Recent research has shown that microwave vegetation opacity, sensitive to biomass and water content, and albedo, related to canopy structure, can be retrieved from passive L-band observations. The relationships between these two parameters and radar-derived vegetation descriptors have been explored using
airborne observations from the SMAP Validation Experiment 2012 (SMAPVEX12). The obtained relations could allow for improved SM retrievals in active-passive systems, and also to estimate the vegetation properties at high resolution using SAR observations.
The Ph.D. Thesis has been developed within the activities of the Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC). The presented results contribute to the use of L-band remote sensing in different scientific disciplines such as climate, cryosphere, hydrology and ecology.Els primers tres d'una sèrie de satèl·lits de nova generació funcionant a la banda L han sigut llançats a l'última dècada. La banda L es molt sensible a la presència d'aigua a l'escena observada, sent considerada òptima per mesurar la humitat del sòl (SM) i la salinitat del mar (SSS) de manera global a la superfície de la Terra. Monitoritzar aquestes dues variables climàtiques essencials es necessari per millorar el nostre coneixement dels cicles de l'aigua i l'energia. La teledetecció a banda L també ha sigut útil per monitoritzar l'estabilitat de les capes de gel i mesurar el gruix de gel marí. La missió Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS, 2009-2017) de l'ESA és la primera específicament llançada per monitoritzar SM i SSS. Porta un nou radiòmetre d'apertura sintètica amb capacitat multiangular i polarització completa. La missió Aquarius (2011-2015) de la NASA va ser la segona, dedicada a monitoritzar SSS amb un sistema de radiòmetre/escateròmetre d’apertura real que permet corregir la rugositat de la superfície del mar. La missió Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP, 2015-2018) de la NASA és la segona dedicada a mesurar SM. Porta un radiòmetre d'apertura real i polarització completa i un radar d'apertura sintètica (SAR) per una millor resolució espaial i detecció de congelació/descongelació. Aquesta tesi està enfocada en analitzar la informació geofísica que pot obtenir-se de les observacions a banda L d'SMOS, Aquarius i SMAP. La seva investigació està estructurada com: -Intercomparació de temperatures de brillantor en zones seleccionades. Es proposa un nou mètode per mesurar la consistència entre les dades radiomètriques d'SMOS i Aquarius sobre el rang dinàmic complet d'observacions (terra, gel, oceà). Això permet detectar diferències espaials/temporals o biaixos sense limitacions latitudinals ni creuaments. Aquest pas es necessari per combinar observacions de diferents instruments en un llarg conjunt de dades per estudis mediambientals, hidrològics o climatològics. -Efecte de gruix de gel en teledetecció de gel continental a l'Antàrtida. S'explora la relació entre les variacions espaials del gruix de gel antàrtic i els canvis detectats a les mesures d'SMOS i Aquarius. L'emissivitat de l'Antàrtida es analitzada per discernir el rol de les contribucions geofísiques (capes de gel a diferents profunditats i llacs subglacials) al senyal observat. S'avalua l'estabilitat del senyal a banda L sobre la zona est de l'altiplà antàrtic, lloc per calibratge/validació de satèl·lits de microones. -Sinèrgia de microones/òptic per teledetecció de SM multiescala. S'avalua la correlació entre la SM i la temperatura de la superfície del sòl (LST) per entendre millor la relació SM-LST a través de processos físics d'evapotranspiració i inèrcia tèrmica. Es proposa un nou mètode per mesurar la humitat crítica utilitzant sèries temporals de SM i LST de satèl·lit. S'analitza l'ús de la SM de SMOS amb la LST de teledetecció per refinar algorismes de desagregació de SM. -Comparació de paràmetres passius i actius de microones relatius a la vegetació. Recent investigació ha mostrat que l'opacitat, sensible a la biomassa i el contingut d'aigua, i l'albedo, relacionat amb l'estructura, poden ser recuperats d'observacions passives a banda L. S'exploren les relacions entre aquests dos paràmetres i estimadors de vegetació derivats de radar utilitzant les observacions d'avió de l'experiment de validació d'SMAP 2012 (SMAPVEX12). Les relacions obtingudes podrien permetre millors recuperacions de SM en sistemes actius/passius i estimar les propietats de la vegetació a alta resolució utilitzant mesures de SAR. La tesi s'ha desenvolupat dins les activitats del Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC). Els resultats presentats contribueixen a l'ús de la banda L a diferents disciplines científiques com la climatologia, la criosfera, la hidrologia i l'ecologia.
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Preziosi, Richard F. "Sexual size dimorphism and selection in the waterstrider Aquarius remigis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0009/NQ30363.pdf.
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Ferguson, Ian M. "Microevolutionary processes in natural populations of the waterstrider Aquarius remigis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0020/NQ54370.pdf.
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Menzerotolo, Rosa Ana. "Rain rate retrieval algorithm for Aquarius/SAC-D microwave radiometer." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2011. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4982.
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Microwave radiometers are used to measure blackbody microwave emissions emitted by natural targets. Radiative transfer theory provides a well founded physical relationship between the atmosphere and surface geophysical parameters and the brightness temperature measured by these radiometers. The atmospheric brightness temperature is proportional to the integral of the microwave absorption of water vapor, oxygen, and liquid water between the top of the atmosphere and the surface. Inverse radiative transfer models use to retrieve the water vapor, cloud liquid and oxygen content in the atmosphere are very well known; however, the retrieval of rain rate in the atmosphere is still a challenge. This project presents a theoretical basis for the rain rate retrieval algorithm, which will be implemented in the Aquarius/SAC-D Microwave Radiometer (MWR). This algorithm was developed based on the radiative transfer model theory for a single layer atmosphere using four WindSat channels. Transmissivity due to liquid water (rain and cloud liquid water) is retrieved from the four channel brightness temperatures, and a statistical regression is performed to relate the rain rate, rain physical temperature and rain height to the liquid water transmissivities at 24 GHz and 37 GHz. Empirical validation results are presented using the WindSat radiometer observations.ID: 029809040; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (M.S.E.E.)--University of Central Florida, 2011.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 270).
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Biswas, Sayak Krishna. "Brightness Temperature Calibration of SAC-D/Aquarius Microwave Radiometer (MWR)." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5131.
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The Aquarius/SAC-D joint international science mission, between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of United States and the Argentine Space Agency (Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales, CONAE), was launched on a polar-orbiting satellite on June 10, 2011. This mission of discovery will provide measurements of the global sea surface salinity, which contributes to understanding climatic changes in the global water cycle and how these variations in uence the general ocean circulation. The Microwave Radiometer (MWR), a three channel Dicke radiometer operating at 23.8 GHz H-Pol and 36.5 GHz V-& H-Pol provided by CONAE, will complement Aquarius (NASA's L-band radiometer/scatterometer) by providing simultaneous spatially collocated environmental measurements such as water vapor, cloud liquid water, surface wind speed, rain rate and sea ice concentration. This dissertation focuses on the overall radiometric calibration of MWR instrument. Which means establishing a transfer function that relates the instrument output to the antenna brightness temperature (Tb). To achieve this goal, the dissertation describes a microwave radiative transfer model of the instrument and validates it using the laboratory and thermal-vacuum test data. This involves estimation of the losses and physical temperature profile in the path from the receiver to each antenna feed-horn for all the receivers. As the pre-launch laboratory tests can only provide a simulated environment which is very different from the operational environment in space, an on-orbit calibration of the instrument is very important. Inter-satellite radiometric cross-calibration of MWR using the Naval Research Laboratory's multi-frequency polarimetric microwave radiometer, WindSat, on board the Coriolis satellite is also an important part of this dissertation. Cross-calibration between two different satellite instruments require normalization of Tb's to account for the frequency and incidence angle di erence between the instruments. Also inter-satellite calibration helps to determine accurate antenna pattern correction coefficients and other small instrument biases.ID: 031001438; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: .; Title from PDF title page (viewed June 26, 2013).; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-228).
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McCann, Joshua. "Monitoring and control of a marine ecosystem in an aquarium." Thesis, McCann, Joshua (2015) Monitoring and control of a marine ecosystem in an aquarium. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/29871/.
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Research has shown that marine ecosystems are not only complex but also extremely difficult to replicate. Reef aquarists aim to replicate these marine ecosystems within aquariums in their homes, for the aesthetic beauty of such coral reef tanks. To assist aquarists in the task of maintaining environmental parameters in their tanks, a number of control and monitoring systems have been created through the advancement of embedded systems.
The project, that this thesis is based on, involves the development of a control and monitoring system for a marine ecosystem sustained within an aquarium. The aim for the system was to control and monitor water parameters not yet considered by existing systems, in turn improving the stability of the ecosystem and reducing maintenance of the aquarium.
As a part of this report, significant research was undertaken to assess existing systems and further understand the important water parameters necessary for marine ecosystems.
The main focus of this thesis was to outline the approach, design and implementation of the control and monitoring system. This includes details on the systems selected features including:
Control and monitoring of pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature and Salinity.
Control of realistic lighting.
Control and monitoring of system parameters, water levels, pumps and other equipment.
HMI interface for easy monitoring.
To facilitate these features a PiLeven microcontroller has been programmed as a master device and performs all control and monitoring functions along with the communication to slave sensors. Additionally a Raspberry Pi microprocessor was utilised as the computer interface enabling the programming of the microcontroller and HMI for monitoring. At the completion of this thesis all aspects of the control and monitoring system are considered complete aside from the control of the pH and Salinity. Despite this the control and monitoring system was effectively implemented and is ready to house a marine ecosystem.
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Leandro, Seixas Jordana. "Aquarius Uma plataforma para desenvolvimento de sistemas digitais dinamicamente reconfiguráveis." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2007. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/2639.
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Há um grande interesse por parte dos pesquisadores em relação às características de autoreconfiguração e auto-adaptação presentes em plataformas modernas de hardware baseadas em dispositivos lógicos dinamicamente reconfiguráveis FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). Alguns destes dispositivos apresentam características ainda mais específicas, permitindo sua reconfiguração parcial e dinâmica, o que permite que, parte da lógica, possa ser modificada enquanto o restante do circuito permanece em operação. O objetivo desta dissertação é desenvolver uma Plataforma de Reconfiguração Dinâmica baseada em FPGAs, que permita a execução de aplicações utilizando os métodos de hardware virtual, permitindo modificações nas configurações parciais em hardware, processamento massivo de dados, etc. Esta plataforma é um estudo de caso em reconfiguração dinâmica para implementação real dos trabalhos de pesquisa em Escalonamento de Tarefas e Particionamento Temporal. Esta plataforma híbrida, denominada Aquarius, é composta pelas plataformas Altera e Xilinx, baseadas nos dispositivos FPGAs Stratix-II e Virtex-II, respectivamente. A plataforma Altera oferece todo o suporte para reconfiguração do dispositivo da Xilinx. Esta plataforma é controlada por um processador soft-core Nios da Altera, o qual possui o suporte de um SO uCLinux, além de device drivers especialmente desenvolvidos para reconfiguração do dispositivo da Xilinx. Um módulo de reconfiguração especial, o IP-SelectMAP, foi desenvolvido para programação do hardware dinâmica e parcialmente reconfigurável. Este módulo recebe informações da plataforma da Altera, através dos device drivers, os bitstreams, arquivos responsáveis pela programação do dispositivo da Xilinx. Todos os bitstreams de configuração são previamente escalonados de acordo com a aplicação do usuário. Desenvolver sistemas de reconfiguração dinâmica ainda é um desafio, porque sua implementação é complexa e por haver poucas plataformas de hardware e software para projetá-los. No entanto, metodologias de projeto como as aqui propostas, permitem que novas classes de hardware virtual possam ser, no futuro, mais facilmente utilizados, assim como, soluções reais, em processamento massivo de dados em plataforma Multi-FPGAs
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Ramos, Stephen Anthony. "Reconnecting to the waterfront a maritime aquarium for Southwest, Washington, DC /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3634.
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Thesis (M. Arch.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Architecture. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Bautista, Raelene M. "Examining learner-centered training with teen volunteer staff at an aquarium." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1584379.
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This research project examined the effects of a training program that focused on helping youth volunteers create a learner-centered interaction at an Aquarium. This study explored whether this learner centered training resulted in an increased ability to identify learner-centered engagement as well as reported changes in practice.
Most research on training programs and professional development, that introduces learner-centered strategies examines adult teachers working in formal environments. This study examined youth volunteer staff in an informal science institution that participated in a weekly one-hour training for four weeks during their eight week long summer volunteer program.
The data showed that some of topics introduced in the learner centered training, such as the importance of visitors' prior knowledge and the use of objects, were identified more often as good practice after the training. In addition, participants seemed to hold on to some of their original perceptions of good practices, such as providing positive reinforcement and modifying their physical posture to make the visitors feel comfortable. The investigation also revealed that conversation patterns changed in some participants' practice as a result of the training.
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Kou, Benjamin 1970. "Containers and flows : investigating systems of spatial construction in an aquarium." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67741.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (p. 92-97).
This thesis focuses on the design of an aquarium on the waterfront of Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong . The aquarium serves as a public 'event' which aims to educate and inform the visitor about regional environmental conditions and their effects on global ecological systems. The design incorporates the notion of 'information flows: addressing the relationship between the movement of the visitor through the architectural space and the movement of information sustained by the architecture. Acrylic technologies which function as the threshold between water and air, provide the opportunity to investigate the way in which information is layered and disseminated in this specific program. The aquarium aims at reconciliation between the harbor front development and the water's edge, becoming the physical filter between the aquatic ecosystem and the civic community. If we consider the aquarium building type as a 'living machine' (i.e., one that needs to sustain life), it can then be described as having a symbiotic relationship with the organisms it sustains . The aquarium can then be considered as a 'container' or sampling of the greater global aquatic ecosystem, encapsulated by a flowing membrane of circulation reciprocating with Hong Kong's urban fabric. The thesis proposes that architectural space can be redefined at the interface between nature, technology and the body.
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Nicolle, Nicholas. "Managing ichthyophonus in multi-species exhibits at the two oceans aquarium." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7910.
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Magister Scientiae (Biodiversity and Conservation Biology) - MSc (Biodiv and Cons Biol)Ichthyophonus hoferi has been diagnosed in multiple species at the Two Oceans Aquarium, this study focuses on Rhabdosargus globiceps (White stumpnose). I. hoferi is a mesomycetozoan parasite that multiplies in blood rich organs in the fish hosts causing a wide range of clinical signs resulting in organ dysfunction. I. hoferi can be diagnosed from microscopic examination of tissue squash preparations, culture, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and histopathology. In the literature only lethal methods of diagnosis are described. The development of a non-lethal diagnostic tool for disease monitoring is vital for collections where euthanasia of specimens is not possible.
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Ronkainen, K. (Katri). "Polyandry, multiple mating and sexual conflict in a water strider, Aquarius paludum." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2016. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526212364.
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Abstract Sexual selection results from competition between individuals over access to gametes of the opposite sex. Starting with anisogamy, with females producing larger and fewer gametes than males, females usually invest more in reproduction and thus have lower potential reproductive rates than males. Therefore males are traditionally suggested to compete over females whereas females are choosy. The different evolutionary interests between the sexes result in different selection regimes considering e.g. mating rates. In some species, this conflict is even seen as apparent struggles between males and females over mating decision and/or duration, resulting in antagonistic coevolution with both sexes evolving adaptations to gain more control over the other sex. In this thesis, I studied the role of A. paludum female abdominal spines as an adaptation to reject male mating attempts. I studied both the effect of polyandry and multiple matings on female fecundity to distinguish between the potential material and genetic benefits from mating to females. I also explored the role of various male and female morphological traits on precopulatory sexual selection and the consequent female reproductive output. My results show that female abdominal spines are likely evolved through arms races between the sexes to increase female control over mating decision but according to my studies, female spines are not under active selection. Instead, certain male morphological types were more successful in achieving matings, and mating with these males also increased female fecundity. I found that multiple matings increase female fecundity up to a point, supporting a theory of optimal female mating rate. According to my results, the benefits from multiple mating to A. paludum females result from material origin whereas polyandry per se is even detrimental to female fecundityTiivistelmä Seksuaalivalinta on pohjimmiltaan seurausta yksilöiden välisestä, lisääntymiseen liittyvästä kilpailusta toisen sukupuolen sukusoluista. Seksuaalivalinta on evoluutiomekanismi, joka osaltaan on johtanut sukupuolten välisiin eroihin monissa morfologisissa ja käyttäytymiseen liittyvissä ominaisuuksissa. Sukupuolet eroavat jo siinä, että naaraat tuottavat vähemmän mutta suurempia sukusoluja kuin koiraat. Koska sukupuolet siis investoivat lisääntymiseen jo alkuvaiheessa eri tavalla, niiden välillä on aina jonkin asteinen seksuaalikonflikti. Konfliktin taustalla on sukupuoliin kohdistuva erilainen valintapaine; koiraat saavuttavat usein optimaalisen hedelmällisyytensä suuremmilla parittelujen määrällä kuin naaraat. Joillakin eläinlajeilla seksuaalikonflikti on niin ilmeinen, että se ilmenee koiraan ja naaraan välisinä kamppailutilanteina parittelupäätöksen ja/tai parittelun keston suhteen. Seksuaalikonflikti voi johtaa molemmilla sukupuolilla erilaisiin sopeumiin, jotka lisäävät yksilön kontrollia parittelujen suhteen. Tässä väitöskirjatyössä tutkin naaraan takapäässä sijaitsevien abdominaalisten piikkien merkitystä järvivesimittari A. paludum-naaraiden kyvyssä torjua parittelemaan pyrkiviä koiraita. Tutkin myös polyandrian ja toistuvien parittelujen vaikutusta naaraan hedelmällisyyteen saadakseni selville, lisäävätkö koiraasta johtuvat mahdolliset materiaaliset tai geneettiset tekijät naaraan hedelmällisyyttä. Lisäksi selvitin useiden koiraan ja naaraan morfologisten ominaisuuksien yhteyttä parittelua edeltävään seksuaalivalintaan sekä naaraan hedelmällisyyteen. Tulokseni osoittavat, että naaraan abdominaaliset piikit ovat todennäköisesti kehittyneet seksuaalikonfliktin seurauksena lisäämään naaraan kontrollia parittelupäätöksen suhteen. Niihin ei kuitenkaan nykyisellään näytä kohdistuvan merkittävää valintapainetta. Sen sijaan morfologialtaan tietynlaiset koirastyypit vaikuttavat olevan aktiivisen valinnan kohteena ja parittelu tällaisten koiraiden kanssa lisää myös naaraan hedelmällisyyttä. Toistuvat parittelut saman koiraan kanssa lisäävät naaraan hedelmällisyyttä tiettyyn optimiin asti, mikä tukee teoriaa optimaalisesta parittelujen määrästä. Sen sijaan polyandria itsessään vaikuttaa naaraan hedelmällisyyteen jopa heikentävästi. Niinpä A. paludum-naaraiden saama hyöty useista paritteluista näyttää olevan materiaalista, kun taas polyandriasta saatavia geneettisiä etuja ei tässä tutkimuksessa tullut ilmi
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Birkle, Eric Michael. "Detroit’s Belle Isle Aquarium: An Idiosyncrasy of Identity, Style, Modernity, and Spectacle." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1555674210421851.
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Spittell, Catherine. "The Effect of Virtual Versus Live Aquarium Viewing on Induced Stress Reduction." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1576316099732511.
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Diem, Jason Joseph. "The measurement of zoo and aquarium education directors' philosophies of adult education." Connect to resource, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1250529666.
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