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McDonald, Paul G. "Reproductive success, dimorphism and sex allocation in the brown falcon Falco berigora /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20041111.100436/index.html.
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Johnstone, Robin M. "Aspects of the population biology of tundra peregrine falcons, Falco peregrinus tundrius." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ27415.pdf.
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Marsden, Amy. "Population studies of falcons using microsatellite DNA profiling." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395595.
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Clarke, M. Shayne. "Feathers: A Creative thesis." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2308.
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Feathers is a young adult novel about two knucklehead boys and a summer of mischief they share. Boots and Gopher, the two principal characters in Feathers, are twelve-year old boys who are fascinated by a loft of racing pigeons kept by a peculiar man living on the edge of their small town. The fascination leads them to steal a few pairs of pigeons in hopes of generating their own loft. Their plan is to release the adult pigeons back to the man's loft while Boots and Gopher keep the babies. In stealing the pigeons, they discover the man also houses falcons and hawks. Gopher becomes obsessed with falcons and begins a study of falconry. The obsession overrides better judgment and federal law, and the boys also steal a small kestrel falcon. They don't realize the gravity of the situation until a "wanted" poster is put up at the local feed store letting people know that a federal law has been broken. The story continues with the resolution of this conflict and the relationship that is developed between the young men and the old falconer. It is a story about consequences of seemingly simple acts; it also explores relationships between the boys and their parents, and between the boys and an unlikely mentor.
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Jenkins, Andrew Robert. "Behavioural ecology of Peregrine and Lanner falcons in South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16100.
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Bibliography: p. 88-94.The Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus is a specialized predator of birds. It occurs almost worldwide but is generally uncommon. In many areas, it is sympatric with one of a complex of similar, less specialized, congeneric species (subgenus Hierofalco, the desert falcons). Peregrine density and productivity tend to decrease with latitude, while desert falcons may be most successful in the tropics. This study compares the biology of Peregrines and sympatric Lanner Falcons F. biarmicus in South Africa, and examines the relative influence of resource limitation and interspecific competition with congeners on the natural regulation of Peregrine populations in tropical environments.
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Leite, Patrícia Isabel Batista. "Falcoaria Real: processo de inclusão ao património cultural e imaterial da UNESCO." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/15911.
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A presente dissertação é apresentada em forma de um projeto, propondo-se elaborar o processo de candidatura da Falcoaria Real de Salvaterra de Magos à equipa de suporte da proposta UNESCO que credenciou a Falcoaria como Património Cultural e Imaterial da Humanidade.
Este projeto pretende construir o programa de inclusão e refletir sobre a pertinência de apresentar uma candidatura e como no caso português esse procedimento poderá implicar a inclusão da Falcoaria no inventário nacional; ABSTRACT:The present dissertation is presented as a project, in order to detail the application process of the Royal Falconry of Salvaterra de Magos to UNESCO’s support team, who qualified the Falconry as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
This project intends to create an inclusion program and to reflect on the pertinence of submitting an application and how, in the case of Portugal, this process could involve the inclusion of the Falconry in the national inventory.
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Gahbauer, Marcel A. "Breeding, dispersal and migration of urban Peregrine falcons in eastern North America." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32584.
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The recovery of the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) in eastern North America is a great conservation success, but the largely new urban population that it has produced has received remarkably little study. Satellite telemetry, detailed monitoring of active nests, and a review of archived nesting data since the resumption of breeding in the east were used to characterize aspects of the ecology of this rebuilding population. The accuracy of small satellite transmitters was confirmed to be appropriate for tracking long-distance movements, and they were used to compare the dispersal and migration of 34 Peregrine Falcons. Adults from Alberta migrated farther than juveniles from eastern North America. Among the juveniles, those raised at natural nest sites or in rural habitat departed earlier, while males were much more likely to migrate long distances than females. Siblings varied considerably in their migratory strategies, and the one juvenile tracked over multiple years adapted his behaviour annually, suggesting that there are many factors involved in determining migratory movements in Peregrine Falcons, and that their relative importance may change with time. In Ontario, the Peregrine Falcon population has grown to a record size, initially due to an intense captive-breeding and release effort, and more recently to considerable immigration from adjacent states. This influx resulted in a substantial dilution of the original F.p. anatum gene pool, in part because anatum juveniles appear to have been recruited to the breeding population at a lower rate. The shift was also facilitated by a small number of immigrant adults producing a disproportionate percentage of the offLe rétablissement du Faucon pèlerin (Falco peregrinus) dans l'est de l'Amérique du Nord est un grand succès de conservation, mais la nouvelle population n'est pas bien connue. La télémétrie satellite, l'observation détaillée de nids en Ontario, et une analyse des données concernant les nids depuis le recommencement de la reproduction dans l'est de l'Amérique du Nord ont été utilisés pour caractériser des aspects de l'écologie de la population. L'exactitude des petits émetteurs satellites pour la documentation des grands mouvements a été vérifiée, et ils ont été utilisés afin de comparer la dispersion et la migration de 34 faucons pèlerins. Des adultes de l'Alberta ont entrepris des migrations plus longues que des juvéniles de l'est de l'Amérique du Nord. Parmi les juvéniles, ceux des nids naturels ou des sites ruraux sont partis plus tôt, et les mâles avaient tendance à se déplacer sur de plus grandes distances. Les frères et sœurs ont démontré des stratégies plutôt différentes concernant la migration, et le seul juvénile suivi pendant plusieurs années a changé sa stratégie à chaque fois, suggérant que plusieurs variables ont de l'influence sur le comportement migratoire des faucons pèlerins, et que l'importance relative de ces facteurs peut changer progressivement. En Ontario, la population du faucon pèlerin s'est agrandie à un niveau record, grâce à un programme vaste d'élevage en captivité, et plus récemment à l'immigration des individus des états contigus. L'arrivée de plusieurs adultes américains a causé une dilution de la composition génétique de la population qui était à l'origine entièrement de la s
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Eastham, Christopher Paul. "Morphological studies of taxonomy of the saker (Falco cherrug - Gray 1833) and closely allied species." Thesis, University of Kent, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.314277.
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Trutor, Clayton J. "" Major League City": Atlanta, Professional Sports, and the Making of a Sunbelt Metropolis, 1961-1976." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108212.
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Thesis advisor: Marilynn JohnsonThis dissertation is a study of how the pursuit, advent, and popular response to professional sports in Atlanta both shaped and reflected the region’s evolving political and consumer culture during the 1960s and 1970s. It examines the concerted effort by municipal elites during this time period to acquire professional sports franchises for their city and its environs. Atlanta’s leadership succeeded at luring four major professional sports franchises to Atlanta in a six-year period (1966-1972) by securing significant public and private investments in two playing facilities in the Central Business District (CBD). Scholars of the economic history of professional sports describe the increasing geographic mobility of the major leagues in the post-World War II era as “franchise free agency.” Atlanta took advantage of this expanding market by making civic investments in two playing venues as a means of attracting franchises. This dissertation analyzes how the emerging metropolis’ negotiation of “franchise free agency” reshaped the culture, public policy, and urban planning of Atlanta. It shows how Atlanta provided a model employed by future Sunbelt cities as they pursued professional teams of their own, often luring clubs from Rust Belt cities with similarly lucrative offers of public support. This dissertation proceeds to analyze the response to professional sports in Metropolitan Atlanta in the decade after it achieved major league status. The city’s elites assumed that residents would embrace the teams and transform their tony playing facilities into twin focal points of leisure and communal pride. Instead, Atlantans from all of the region’s racial, socio-economic, and residential clusters responded apathetically to the teams. The collective shrug with which Atlantans reacted to their new franchises demonstrated the growing cultural divergence which characterized life in the booming Sunbelt center over the course of the 1960s and 1970s. In subsequent decades, civic elites in other rapidly growing Sunbelt centers believed, like their predecessors in Atlanta, that municipal investments in professional sports would provide their communities with a wellspring of unity and prestige. Residents of these metropolitan areas responded to their new stadiums and teams in the 1980s and 1990s with an apathy similar to that of Atlantans toward their teams during the 1960s and 1970s
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: History
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Stephenson, Alan. "Ecology and breeding biology of Lanner Falcons in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005352.
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Lanner Falcons Falco biarmicus are the commonest large falcons in Africa and this study in the coastal area of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa investigated their ecology from 1984 to 2000. Lanners have recently been categorised as near-threatened and this study was initiated to ascertain if the population was stable. Breeding success of a small population, in different habitat types, was monitored intensively from 1997 to 2000, and the factors that inhibited breeding were investigated. The earliest onset of incubation was 17 July and the latest 16 August, with 2.2 young fledged per breeding pair over the four-year period. Incubation lasted 32 days and young fledged after 42-45 days. All nest sites were on cliffs with a mean height of 114 m, a mean vertical face of 53 m; 45% of the nests were in ravens’ nests. The aspect of cliff sites also influenced breeding success. Radio tracking was used to determine home range, habitat use and hunting methods, with prey species identified. Home ranges were between 66 km² and 249 km². Preferred prey was domestic chickens, pigeons and small birds during the breeding season. Foraging ranges were smaller in intensively cultivated areas with seed crops. Data obtained from ringing returns showed that no long distance movements occurred in this region, but two juveniles dispersed 152 km and 127 km. Conservation aspects with possible threats to Lanner Falcons such as poisons, electrocutions and direct persecution are discussed with some recommendations made for future research. Evidence from this study indicates that Lanner breeding success is not limited by nest site availability, but by rainfall timing and prey availability. Lanners foraged more in open areas than areas with tall vegetation, and benefited from intensive agriculture. This population appeared to be healthy and in no danger of declining in the near future.
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Angenvoort, Joke Henriette [Verfasser]. "West Nile virus: Vaccination and pathogenesis studies in large falcons and mice / Joke Henriette Angenvoort." Hannover : Bibliothek der Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1124560904/34.
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Vorbrüggen, Susanne. "Diagnostik der Aspergillose bei Jagdfalken (Falco spp.) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Projektionsradiographie und der Serumelektrophorese." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-128995.
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Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigte sich mit zwei Methoden zur Diagnostik der Aspergillose bei Greifvögeln, um neue Erkenntnisse über die Aussagekraft dieser nicht invasiven Diagnostika zu gewinnen. In der ersten Studie wurden bei ausschließlich Aspergillose-positiven Falken (Falco spp.) (n = 110) spezifische Röntgenzeichen an digital erstellten Röntgenbildern systematisch ermittelt und mit den typischen Röntgenzeichen von Papageien mit Erkrankungen des unteren Respirationstrakts verglichen. In der zweiten Studie wurden gesunde (n = 73) und an Aspergillose erkrankte (n = 32) Jagdfalken (Falco spp.) mittels Serumelektrophorese untersucht, Referenzwerte für die gesunden Falken erstellt und mit den Werten der erkrankten Falken verglichen. In beiden Studien stammten die Tiere aus dem Patientengut derselben Klinik. Bei der Auswertung von Röntgenbildern Aspergillose-positiver Falken wurden hauptsächlich subtile Röntgenzeichen beschrieben. Von den 110 Tieren waren 29 (26,4 %) radiologisch vollkommen unauffällig. Die am häufigsten beschriebenen Befunde waren inhomogene Verschattungen des Lungenfeldes (38,2 % laterolateral [ll]) und strichförmige Verschattungen der kaudalen Lungengrenze (30,0 % ll) sowie inhomogene (34,5 % ll; 29,1 % ventrodorsal [vd]) und streifige (26,4 % ll) Verschattungen der Luftsäcke, aber auch eine schlechte Abgrenzbarkeit des Herzschattens in der laterolateralen Projektion (42,7 %). Im Vergleich zu an Papageien mittels konventioneller Projektionsradiographie durchgeführten Studien war der Anteil an subtilen Röntgenzeichen geringer und der Anteil an massiven Röntgenzeichen größer. Verglichen mit Referenzwerten diverser Greifvogelspezies aus der Literatur zeigten die Referenzwerte der gesunden Falken dieser Studie unter Verwendung des hochauflösenden Elektrophoresesystems SAS 1 unit (Helena, Saint Leu La Forest, Frankreich) relativ niedrige Gesamtproteinwerte und relativ hohe Präalbuminwerte auf. Bei den 32 Serumproben der an Aspergillose erkrankten Falken ließ sich im Gegensatz zu den 73 Serumproben der gesunden Falken ein signifikant erniedrigter Totalalbuminwert (Albumin + Präalbumin) sowie ein hoch signifikant erniedrigter Präalbuminwert mittels Serumelektrophorese feststellen. Obwohl die Falken meist schon in frühen Krankheitsstadien vorgestellt wurden und die Diagnostik in diesen Stadien besonders schwierig ist, konnten mit beiden Untersuchungsmethoden von gesunden Tieren differierende Befunde erhoben werden. Diese in Zusammenhang mit Aspergillose erhobenen Befunde wichen jedoch teilweise deutlich von den in der Literatur beschriebenen „typischen“ Befunden bei an Aspergillose erkrankten Vögeln ab. Dies kann damit erklärt werden, dass die meisten vergleichbaren Studien an als Heimtiere gehaltenen Papageien oder gefangen gehaltenen Zoovögeln (von Falken abweichende Haltungsform, Anatomie und Physiologie sowie Leistungsniveau) und mit unterschiedlicher Technik (digitale versus konventionelle Projektionsradiographie, unterschiedliche Elektrophoresesysteme und Verwendung von Serum anstelle von Plasma) durchgeführt wurden. Die digitale Projektionsradiographie kann aufgrund ihrer schonenden, einfachen und schnellen Durchführbarkeit sowohl den Vogelmedizin spezialisierten Institutionen als auch den Kleintierpraktikern uneingeschränkt empfohlen werden. Die Proteinelektrophorese kann bis zum heutigen Zeitpunkt nur bedingt für den Praktiker, wohl aber für spezialisierte Institutionen bei Beachtung aller Besonderheiten als zusätzliches Diagnostikum empfohlen werdenThe present study concentrates on two methods for diagnosing birds of prey with aspergillosis with the intent to increase the knowledge of the validity of these non-invasive diagnostic methods. In the first study, specific radiographic signs of digitally created radiographs of falcons (Falco spp.) which were exclusively positive for aspergillosis (n = 110) were systematically analyzed and compared to the typical radiographic signs of parrots with diseases of the lower respiratory tract. In the second study, healthy falcons (n = 73) and falcons affected with aspergillosis (n = 32) (Falco spp.) were examined by using serum protein electrophoresis in order to create reference values for healthy falcons and compare them with the values of the affected falcons. In both studies, the animals were patients of the same clinic. While evaluating the radiographs of the falcons with aspergillosis, mainly subtle radiographic signs were described. Radiographically within normal limits were 29 (26.4%) of the 110 animals. The most commonly reported findings were inhomogeneous increased radiodensity of the lung area (38.2% laterolateral [ll]), line-shaped shadowings of the caudal lung border (II 30.0%) as well as an inhomogeneous (34.5% ll, 29.1% ventrodorsal [vd]) and streaky (26.4% II) radiodensity of the air sacs, but also a poor delineation of the cardiac silhouette in the laterolateral projection (42.7%). Compared to studies performed on parrots by conventional radiography, the portion of subtle radiographic signs was lower and the portion of severe signs was higher. Compared to reference values of various raptor species from the literature, this study, which made use of the high-resolution electrophoresis SAS 1 unit (Helena, Saint Leu La Forest, France), revealed relatively low values for total proteins and relatively high values for prealbumin in the reference values of the healthy falcons. The 32 serum samples of the falcons suffering from aspergillosis showed a significantly reduced total albumin (albumin + prealbumin) level and a highly significantly reduced prealbumin level compared to the 73 serum samples of healthy falcons. Although the falcons were for the most part already brought to the clinic in one of the early stages of the disease, when diagnosing aspergillosis is particularly difficult, both examination methods revealed different results for the healthy and diseased animals. However, the findings related to aspergillosis were in some cases significantly different from those described in the literature as the \"typical\" findings in birds suffering from aspergillosis. This can be explained by the fact that most of the comparable studies were conducted with parrots held as pets or with captive zoo birds (when husbandry, anatomy and physiology, as well as performance level are different from falcons) and with a different technique (digital versus conventional radiography, different electrophoresis systems and the use of serum instead of plasma). The digital radiography can be fully recommended for specialized medical institutions for avian medicine as well as for small animal practitioners because of its easy, rapid and gentle feasibility. To date, the protein electrophoresis can only be recommended with restrictions for practitioners, however for specialized institutions, it can be useful as additional diagnostic tool if all its specific features are taken into account
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Ruskoski, David T. "The Polish Army in France immigrants in America, World War I volunteers in France, defenders of the recreated state in Poland /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07172006-145252/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Title from title screen. Christine M. Skwiot, Gerald H. Davis, committee co-chairs; Hugh H. Hudson, committee member. Electronic text (184 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 13, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p.175-184).
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McDonald, Paul, and Paul McDonald@latrobe edu au. "Reproductive success, dimorphism and sex allocation in the brown falcon Falco berigora." The Australian National University. Faculty of Science, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20041111.100436.
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This project describes various aspects of the breeding ecology and behaviour of the brown falcon Falco berigora, a common but poorly study Australian raptor. In particular it examines (a) the main influences on reproductive success; (b) tests predictions of theories proposed to explain the evolution and maintenance of sexual size dimorphism (RSD; females the larger sex) in raptors; and (c) investigates sex allocation patterns in the light of current sex ratio and parental investment theory. The study was conducted between July 1999 and June 2002 approximately 35 km southwest of Melbourne, at the Western Treatment Plant (WTP), Werribee (38°0S 144°34E) and surrounds, a total area of approximately 150 km2.¶
· In all plumage and bare part colouration of 160 free-flying falcons was described. The majority of variation in these characters could be attributed to distinct age and/or sex differences as opposed to previously described colour morphs.¶
· Nestling chronology and development is described and formulae based on wing length derived for determining nestling age. An accurate field-based test for determining nestling sex at banding age is also presented.¶
· Strong sex role differentiation was apparent during breeding; typical of falcons females performed most parental duties whilst males predominantly hunted for their brood and partner. Based on observations of marked individuals, both sexes of brown falcons aggressively defended mutual territories throughout the year, with just 10% of each sex changing territories during the entire study period. Males performed territorial displays more frequently than females, the latter rarely displaying alone.¶
· The diet of the population as a whole was very broad, but within pairs both sexes predominantly specialised on either lagomorphs, small ground prey (e.g. house mice Mus musculus), small birds, large birds or reptiles, according to availability.¶
· Reproductive parameters such as clutch size and the duration of parental care were constant across all years, however marked annual differences in brood size and the proportion of pairs breeding were evident.¶
· Age was an important influence upon reproductive success and survival, with immature birds inferior to adults in both areas. However, interannual differences were by far the most influential factor on breeding success and female survival. Heavy rain downpours were implicated as the main determinant of reproductive success and adult female mortality in a population largely devoid of predation or human interference.¶
· Female-female competition for territorial vacancies was intense; larger adult females were more likely to be recruited and once breeding fledged more offspring. In contrast, male recruitment and breeding success was unrelated to either body size or condition indices, although smaller immature males were more likely to survive to the next breeding season. This directional selection is consistent only with the predictions of the intrasexual competition hypothesis.¶
· Despite marked RSD (males c. 75% of female body mass), throughout the nestling phase female nestlings did not require greater quantities of food than their male siblings. However, female parents fed their last-hatched sons but not daughters, resulting in the complete mortality of all last-hatched female offspring in focal nests. Given last-hatched nestlings suffered markedly reduced growth rates and female, but not male, body size is important in determining recruitment patterns, the biased allocation amongst last-hatched offspring is likely to reflect differing benefits associated with investing in small members of each sex, consistent with broad-scale Trivers-Willard effects. Recruitment patterns support this, with surviving last-hatched females, in contrast to males, unable to gain recruitment into the breeding population upon their return to the study site.¶
Thus selection appears to act at the nestling, immature and adult stages to maintain RSD in the focal population. Larger females were favoured in the nestling phase, at recruitment and once breeding had greater reproductive success. In contrast, selection favoured a reduction or maintenance of immature male size as smaller birds had a greater chance of survival in the year following recruitment than their larger counterparts; thereafter male size was unimportant. Together, this directional selection favouring increased female competitive ability is consistent only with the predictions of the intrasexual competition hypothesis, which appears the most probable in explaining the maintenance and perhaps evolution of RSD in raptors.
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Long, Elizabeth Claire. "Prey Utilization and Energy Demand of a Breeding Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) Population." W&M ScholarWorks, 2009. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626886.
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Carlzon, Linnéa, and Amanda Karlsson. "Extreme weather affects the peregrine falcon’s (Falco peregrinus tundrius) breeding success on South Greenland." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för ekonomi, teknik och naturvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-35160.
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In order to understand the effects of climate change on the peregrine’s future prospects, we investigated the relationship between weather variables (extreme weather) and breeding success parameters for the peregrine in South Greenland. We defined two variables for comparison with weather data: young per known territory and nest success, i.e. proportion of known sites producing young, for each monitored year (N = 33). Weather data were obtained from two weather stations in the study area. From the weather data four extreme predictor variables were calculated: extreme low temperature, extreme precipitation, consecutive rainy days and total days with extreme weather. Peregrine breeding success (both parameters) was correlated negatively with number of days with extreme weather; the strongest correlation found was between total days in the season with extreme weather and breeding success. Low temperature and total days with extreme weather during the pre-laying and incubation period were also significantly negatively correlated with breeding success. Thereby, extreme weather is an important factor in explaining the peregrine’s breeding success. However, other factors also influence the breeding success, in the last few years there has been a strong downward trend but not an increase of extreme weather events during the same period.Den globala uppvärmningen påverkar Arktis klimat vilket orsakar en snabbt föränderlig miljö för den Arktiska biotan. Effekten av klimatförändringarna är ökade väder variationer och extremer. Pilgrimsfalken är en väl studerad toppredator men få studier har undersökt hur extremt väder påverkar pilgrimsfalkens häckningsframgång i arktiska miljöer. Därför undersöker vi förhållandet mellan extrema väder och häckningsframgången för pilgrimsfalken på södra Grönland. Vi har i denna studie använt data om pilgrimsfalkens häckningsframgång på södra Grönland som sträcker sig från år 1981 och fram till 2015. Väderdata som använts för att kalkylera variablerna: extrem temperatur, extremt regn, regndagar i följd och totalt antal dagar med extremt väder har erhållits från två väderstationer inom studieområdet. Häckningssäsongen analyserades i sin helhet samt delades in i perioderna: “innan äggläggnings-”, “ruvnings-” och “ungar-i-boet-perioden”, vilka korrelerades mot vädervariablerna. Vi fann att dagar med extremt väder påverkar pilgrimsfalkens häckningsframgång negativt under hela säsongen samt under perioderna “innan äggläggning” och “ruvning”. Extrema väderhändelser kan alltså förklara variationer i häckningsframgången för pilgrimsfalken på södra Grönland. Resultatet indikerar även att andra faktorer påverkar häckningsframgången då det finns en stark nedåtgående trend i pilgrimsfalkens häckningsframgång men inte en ökning av extrema väderhändelser under samma period.
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Davis, Douglas Stephen. "Availability of Lead, Zinc, Copper, and Cadmium to the Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus) from Waterfowl of the Craney Island Disposal Area." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625446.
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Burnham, Kurt K. "Inter- and intraspecific variation of breeding biology, movements, and genotype in Peregrine Falcon Falco peregrinus and Gyrfalcon F. rusticolus populations in Greenland." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:623ab74c-4f50-4ed8-b163-6f1c5bcbac2e.
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Peregrines Falco peregrinus and Gyrfalcons F. rusticolus were studied in Low and High Arctic Greenland, comparing populations within and between areas. Analyses of weather data from northwest Greenland (1979–2005) revealed a general warming trend, resulting in a lengthened breeding window for many bird species. Both falcon species depend on cliffs for nesting, and take a similar range of bird species as prey. However, Gyrfalcons lay six weeks earlier than Peregrines in Kangerlussuaq and one month earlier than Peregrines in Thule, and occupy more sheltered nest-sites. Being larger than Peregrines, Gyrfalcons also take some larger prey species. In addition, both species move to lower latitudes for the winter, but while most Gyrfalcons migrate relatively short distances, Peregrines are complete long-distance migrants to Central and South America. One Peregrine, satellite-tracked from its breeding site at 76.5° N, travelled ~12,500 km and >100° in latitude, one of the longest migrations ever documented for a raptor. Around Thule in northwest Greenland (at 76.5° N), scientists had historically documented no breeding Peregrines, but six occupied sites were discovered during this study, comprising what is probably the most northern nesting population in the world. Over the same period, breeding Gyrfalcons have apparently disappeared from southern Greenland, and may have declined in central-west Greenland (67° N). The ultimate cause of this retraction may be climate warming, but the proximate cause is probably competition from an increasing Peregrine population. Gyrfalcons tagged with satellite-received transmitters showed characteristics associated with both obligate and facultative migration. Their winter ranges varied greatly in size, with the largest, ~172,000 km2, being the biggest ever documented for a raptor. Many individuals made long movements within a winter, and some spent up to a month at sea. They may have rested on ice and fed upon seabirds. Carbon dating of stratified faecal accumulation from Gyrfalcon nests in central-west and northwest Greenland showed use of sites for up to ~2,500 and ~650 years, respectively. The age of nest sites correlated significantly with the current distance to the Greenland Ice Sheet, and probably reflects colonization patterns following glacial retreat. In central-west Greenland the ratio of Peregrine to Gyrfalcon pairs changed from 1:1 in the early 1970s to nearly 14:1 in 2005. Over this period, competition for nest sites and prey is likely to have intensified. The crucial prey for Gyrfalcons when they start nesting in early spring are resident ptarmigan, whose numbers are probably depleted by Peregrines during the months they are present. If recent trends in climate change continue, Peregrines may continue to increase in Greenland, and spread north into areas previously occupied only by Gyrfalcons. At the same time, Gyrfalcons may retreat north from many currently-occupied areas.
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Pereira, Ricardo José Garcia [UNESP]. "Acompanhamento comportamental e endócrino da atividade reprodutiva anual de machos de falcões quiri-quiri (Falco sparverius) de vida livre." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/105951.
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Apesar da radiotelemetria ser considerada uma ferramenta valiosa em estudos ornitológicos, algumas teorias relativas ao impacto de radiotransmissores sobre a estimativa de parâmetros comportamentais, ecológicos e reprodutivos podem ser encontradas em literatura. Com o intuito de avaliar os potenciais efeitos fisiológicos de radiotransmissores do tipo mochila em falcões quiri-quiri (Falco sparverius) de vida livre, oito machos desta espécie foram capturados e divididos em dois grupos: indivíduos marcados com radiotransmissores (aproximadamente 5% do peso vivo, n = 6) e indivíduos controle (anilhados, n = 2). Em seguida, amostras fecais foram coletadas duas horas após a captura (dia −1) e durante os dias 0 (definido como o dia de soltura dos animais), 4, 7, 15, 30, 40 e 55. Previamente às análises laboratoriais, o ensaio imunoenzimático para dosagem de glucocorticóides fecais foi testado empregando procedimentos padrões de validação hormonal (paralelismo, curva de dose-resposta, validação fisiológica e coeficientes de variação inter- e intra-ensaio). Em relação aos machos monitorados, ambos os grupos apresentaram um aumento significativo nos níveis de glucocorticóides fecais durante o dia 0 (P < 0,001), mas as concentrações retornaram aos níveis pré-equipagem após 4 dias da soltura. Além disso, os níveis de glucocorticóides fecais não diferiram significativamente entre os falcões radiomarcados e os anilhados durante os 55 dias de monitoramento (P > 0,05). Embora o número de indivíduos neste estudo seja reduzido, estes resultados sugerem que radiotransmissores do tipo mochila não induzem efeitos persistentes sobre a atividade adrenal de machos de falcões quiri-quiri de vida livre. Considerando a literatura consultada, esta é a primeira pesquisa a analisar os efeitos de radiotransmissores sobre a resposta adrecortical de aves de vida livre.
Although radiotelemetry is considered a valuable technique for ornithological field studies, several assumptions have been made about the impact that transmitters may cause on the estimation of behavioral, ecological and reproductive parameters. To assess potential effects of backpack radiotransmitters, we captured and assigned 8 male American kestrels (Falco sparverius) in 2 groups: radio-tagged (n = 6) and control individuals (leg-banded, n = 2). Thereafter, we collected feces two hr after capture (day −1), and subsequently during days 0 (releasing day), 1, 4, 7, 15, 30, 40 and 55. Prior to fecal analysis, EIA corticosterone assay was validated using standard procedures (e.g. parallelism, dose-response curve), and physiological significance of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites was confirmed through adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) challenge, which induce an increase of 4-fold (446.10 ± 60.73 ng/ g) above baseline (114.27 ± 15.23 ng/ g) within 4 hr (P < 0.001). Both groups exhibited a significant increase in fecal glucocorticoids during day 0 (P < 0.001), but concentrations returned to pre-attachment values within 4 days. Fecal glucocorticoid concentrations did not differ between samples of radio-tagged and leg-banded kestrels (P > 0.05). In spite of the small number of monitored subjects, these findings suggested that radiotransmitters did not affect adrenocortical activity in male American kestrel. To our knowledge, this is the first research to evaluate the effects of transmitters on stress responses in free-ranging birds.
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Pereira, Ricardo José Garcia. "Acompanhamento comportamental e endócrino da atividade reprodutiva anual de machos de falcões quiri-quiri (Falco sparverius) de vida livre /." Jaboticabal : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/105951.
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Orientador: José Maurício Barbanti DuarteBanca: José Eduardo Pereira Wilken Bicudo
Banca: Jorge Luiz Berger Albuquerque
Banca: Paulo Henrique Franceschini
Banca: Elisabeth Criscuolo Urbinati
Resumo: Apesar da radiotelemetria ser considerada uma ferramenta valiosa em estudos ornitológicos, algumas teorias relativas ao impacto de radiotransmissores sobre a estimativa de parâmetros comportamentais, ecológicos e reprodutivos podem ser encontradas em literatura. Com o intuito de avaliar os potenciais efeitos fisiológicos de radiotransmissores do tipo mochila em falcões quiri-quiri (Falco sparverius) de vida livre, oito machos desta espécie foram capturados e divididos em dois grupos: indivíduos marcados com radiotransmissores (aproximadamente 5% do peso vivo, n = 6) e indivíduos controle (anilhados, n = 2). Em seguida, amostras fecais foram coletadas duas horas após a captura (dia −1) e durante os dias 0 (definido como o dia de soltura dos animais), 4, 7, 15, 30, 40 e 55. Previamente às análises laboratoriais, o ensaio imunoenzimático para dosagem de glucocorticóides fecais foi testado empregando procedimentos padrões de validação hormonal (paralelismo, curva de dose-resposta, validação fisiológica e coeficientes de variação inter- e intra-ensaio). Em relação aos machos monitorados, ambos os grupos apresentaram um aumento significativo nos níveis de glucocorticóides fecais durante o dia 0 (P < 0,001), mas as concentrações retornaram aos níveis pré-equipagem após 4 dias da soltura. Além disso, os níveis de glucocorticóides fecais não diferiram significativamente entre os falcões radiomarcados e os anilhados durante os 55 dias de monitoramento (P > 0,05). Embora o número de indivíduos neste estudo seja reduzido, estes resultados sugerem que radiotransmissores do tipo mochila não induzem efeitos persistentes sobre a atividade adrenal de machos de falcões quiri-quiri de vida livre. Considerando a literatura consultada, esta é a primeira pesquisa a analisar os efeitos de radiotransmissores sobre a resposta adrecortical de aves de vida livre.
Abstract: Although radiotelemetry is considered a valuable technique for ornithological field studies, several assumptions have been made about the impact that transmitters may cause on the estimation of behavioral, ecological and reproductive parameters. To assess potential effects of backpack radiotransmitters, we captured and assigned 8 male American kestrels (Falco sparverius) in 2 groups: radio-tagged (n = 6) and control individuals (leg-banded, n = 2). Thereafter, we collected feces two hr after capture (day −1), and subsequently during days 0 (releasing day), 1, 4, 7, 15, 30, 40 and 55. Prior to fecal analysis, EIA corticosterone assay was validated using standard procedures (e.g. parallelism, dose-response curve), and physiological significance of fecal glucocorticoid metabolites was confirmed through adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) challenge, which induce an increase of 4-fold (446.10 ± 60.73 ng/ g) above baseline (114.27 ± 15.23 ng/ g) within 4 hr (P < 0.001). Both groups exhibited a significant increase in fecal glucocorticoids during day 0 (P < 0.001), but concentrations returned to pre-attachment values within 4 days. Fecal glucocorticoid concentrations did not differ between samples of radio-tagged and leg-banded kestrels (P > 0.05). In spite of the small number of monitored subjects, these findings suggested that radiotransmitters did not affect adrenocortical activity in male American kestrel. To our knowledge, this is the first research to evaluate the effects of transmitters on stress responses in free-ranging birds.
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Ruskoski, David Thomas. "The Polish Army in France: Immigrants in America, World War I Volunteers in France, Defenders of the Recreated State in Poland." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_diss/1.
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Independent Poland ceased to exist in 1795 and the various insurrections to restore the Polish state were thwarted by the Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and Russians. During the First World War, Polish statesmen called upon the thousands of Polish immigrants in the United States to join the Polish Army in France, a military force funded by the French government and organized by the Polish Falcons of America and Ignacy Paderewski, the world-famous Polish pianist. Over 20,000 men trained in Canada and fought in the final months of the war on the Western front. While in France they were placed under the command of General Jozef Haller and became known as Haller’s Army. At the conclusion of the war, the Allied leaders at the Paris Peace Conference decided to send the soldiers to Poland to fight in the Polish-Soviet War to stop the western advance of the Bolsheviks. When the war ended, the United States government, with the influence of Secretary of State Robert Lansing, funded the return of the soldiers to their homes in the United States. This dissertation focuses on questions of the relationships among foreign policy, nationalism, and immigration and investigates forced recruitment, dissatisfaction with the cause of Polish independence exacerbated by difficult wartime conditions, nationalism among immigrant groups, ethnic identity, and anti-Semitism.
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Döttlinger, Hermann. "The black shaheen falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator SUNDEVALL 1837) : its morphology, geographic variation and the history and ecology of the Sri Lanka (Ceylon) population." Thesis, University of Kent, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.392576.
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Buonvino, Mark. "A study of the falcon concentrator." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=67457.
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A Falcon model B6 was tested on a massive gold-copper sulphide ore (AgnicoEagleLaRonde Division, AELR), to assess its ability to produce a smeltable concentrate(200000 to 300000 g/t); a fine gold-pyrite-silica flotation tail (Meston Resources, MR)to assess the Falcon's ability to recover gold from a low density and very fine material;and a synthetic magnetite-silica ore to obtain more fundamental information on its modeof operation.For 20 kg of AELR's flotation concentrate fed at 20 to 30% solids at 20-30 l/min,the Falcon recovered 22 ± 3% of the gold at a grade of 900 g/t. It overloaded whenmore than 20 kg of material was processed and recovery dropped sharply.Samples of MR's flotation tails were processed with the Falcon. Three differentbowls (8, 10, 14 degree) were tested at two flowrates (10,20 L/min), and three densities(10,20,30 %w/w). None of theparameters were found significant for pyrite, but bowlangle and flowrate were found to be significant for gold. On average, the Falconrecovered 50% of the gold and 20% of the pyrite at a concentrate grade of 4.0 g/t goldin a weight yield of 10%.Three 3-level nested factorial experiments were performed with an artificial feedconsisting of silica and magnetite to study the effect of gangue particle size, bowl type,% solids, and flowrate. A typical loading cycle includes (i) the initial unselectivecreation of a first concentrate bed; (ii) more selective recovery as bed growth stops and(iii) saturation of the bed surface leading to a zero incremental recovery .A sythetic feed (5% magnetite, p5% silica) was used to characterize the Falcon'sloading cycle, its overload, and the effect of operating variables. Overload with thesynthetic feed was virtually complete upon feeding 30 kg, either at 20 or 30 L/min.Three 3-level nested factorial experiments showed that for a constant mass of thesynthetic feed, magnetite recovery increased with decreasing particle size and bowl angle.These effects masked the impact of feed flowratLe separateur Falcon est un nouvel appareil centrifuge qui a ere concu pourrecuperer de l'or fin « 53ILm). Cette etude visait a mieux comprendre sonfonctionnement.Un concentre de flottation de la mine Agnico-Eagle, Division LaRonde (75%de pyrite, 200 g/t d'or) a ere traite avec un separateur Falcon afin de produire unconcentre fusionable (200000 a 300000 g/t). Pour une masse traitee de 20 kg, lemeilleur rendement (recuperation d'or: 22 ± 3%; teneur du concentre: 900 g/t) a eteatteint aune densite de 20 a30 l/min, et un debit de 20 a 30 l/min al'alimentation.On a note qu'en augmentant la masse de 20 a80 kilogrammes, la recuperation d'ora diminue de facon tres marquee.On a effectue une deuxieme serie d'essais avec un rejet de flottation tres finde la mine Meston (60% de silice, 1% de pyrite, 1 g/t d'or) afin de reduire les pertesd'or du circuit de flottation. En moyenne, le Falcon a pu recuperer 50% de l'or desrejets, dans un concentre de 4 g/t qui pourrait etre cyanure.Une derniere serie d'essai a ete completee avec une alimentation synthetique(95% de silice et 5% de magnetite) afin de preciser le fonctionnement du Falcon etd'identifier le lien entre la recuperation et les conditions d'operation. Le bol a l'anglele plus aigu, 8°, en presence de la gangue fine, -75 ILm, a permis de maximiser larecuperation de magnetite. Plus precisement, la recuperation de magnetite etait pluselevee pour les tailles granulometrique tres fines « 50 ILm), moyenne pour les taillesgrossieres (+ 200 JLm), et faible pour le reste.On a identifie 3 etapes qui caracterisent le cycle de fonctionnement duseparateur: i) au debut du cyle, l'accumulation de solides contre la paroi du bol, etla formation d'une couche de concentre; ii) une phase de recuperation selective a lasurface de la premiere couche du concentre; iii) et la saturation ala surface vers lafin du cycle. fr
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Siroonian, Jason. "Gay pornographic videos, the emergent Falcon formula." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0005/MQ43951.pdf.
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Siroonian, Jason. "Gay pornographic videos the emergent Falcon formula /." Thesis, Connect to this title online, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD%5F0005/MQ43951.pdf.
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Kross, Sara Mae. "The efficacy of reintroducing the New Zealand falcon into the vineyards of Marlborough for pest control and falcon conservation." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6726.
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In our ever more populated world, the rapid expansion and intensification of agriculture is driving worldwide biodiversity loss, and the interactions between production landscapes and wildlife conservation are becoming increasingly important. Farming systems depend on ecosystem services such as biological control, while conservationists are calling for the establishment of conservation initiatives in non-preserve landscapes. Despite this, the goals of agriculture and the goals of predator-conservation are rarely mutual. Here, I demonstrate one of the first examples of a mutually beneficial scenario between agriculture and predator conservation. I used, as a case study, a reintroduction project that translocated individuals of the threatened New Zealand falcon (Falco novaeseelandiae) from the hills of Marlborough into vineyards, to determine if predators can survive within an agricultural landscape while simultaneously providing that landscape with biological control services.
Examples of vertebrates providing biological control to agriculture are rare. I show that the presence of falcons in vineyards caused an economically important reduction in grape damage worth over US $230/ ha. Falcon presence caused a 78- 83% reduction in the number of introduced European pest birds, which resulted in a 95% reduction in the damage caused by these species. Falcon presence did not cause a reduction in the abundance of the native silvereye
(Zosterops lateralis), but did halve the damage caused by this species.
To assess the conservation value of the falcon translocations, I used remote videography, direct observations and prey analysis to measure the behavioural changes associated with the relocation of falcons from their natural habitat in the hills and into vineyards. Falcons in vineyard nests had higher nest attendance, higher brooding rates, and higher feeding rates than falcons in hill nests. Additionally, parents in vineyard nests fed their chicks a greater amount of total prey and larger prey items compared to parents in hill nests. I also found an absence of any significant diet differences between falcons in hill and vineyard habitats, suggesting that the latter may be a suitable alternative habitat for falcons. Because reintroduced juvenile falcons were released in areas devoid of adult falcons, it was possible that they were missing essential training normally provided by their parents. I used direct observations to demonstrate that the presence of siblings had similar effects to the presence of parents on the development of juvenile behaviour, with individuals flying, hunting, and playing more often when conspecifics were present. Finally, through the use of artificial nests and remote videography, I identified that falcons nesting in vineyards are likely to suffer lower predation rates. I also found that falcons in vineyards are predated by a less dangerous suite of
animals (such as hedgehogs, Erinaceus europaeus, and avian predators), than their counterparts in the hills, which are predated by more voracious species (such as stoats, Mustela erminea, and feral cats, Felis catus). The work presented in this thesis has also added to the current knowledge of New Zealand falcon breeding behaviour, prey preferences, and behavioural development.
Although agricultural regions globally are rarely associated with raptor conservation, and the ability of raptors to control the pests of agricultural crops has not been previously quantified, these results suggest that translocating New Zealand falcons into vineyards has potential for both the conservation of this species, and for providing biological control services to agriculture
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Joseph, Sunitha. "Chromosome evolution and genome reconstruction in falcon species." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/65667/.
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Falcons and falconry have become an essential part of life in the Middle East since ancient times. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE) itself, the number of trained falcons ranges from 8,000 to 10,000. Over the last five years, falcon racing, a traditional sport, has gained momentum in the UAE where captive falcons are competing for huge prizemoney. A proportion of the UAE economy goes into their care and conservation e.g. through establishing falcon hospitals with modern facilities for disease treatment and breeding as well as centers for diagnosis and research. Being the national bird of the UAE, any research on falcons is of significant interest for the country. Most of the world's falcon species are in decline. Moreover, Saker falcons are classified as 'endangered' according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. From the chromosomal perspective falcons are very interesting, as they represent birds that have undergone significant genome rearrangement compared to the "norm" of 2n=~80. 'Molecular cytogenomics' in birds includes karyotyping, cross species comparisons, nuclear organization, BAC mapping, physical mapping and telomeric DNA profiling. This thesis makes use of the above approaches to define chromosome evolution and genome organization in falcon species with the following results: Firstly, successful conventional characterization of the Saker, Peregrine and Gyr falcon karyotypes (2n=50-52) was achieved producing improved karyotypes and ideograms than those previously published. Comparative genomic analyses among these three species using molecular cytogenetic approaches revealed differences between Peregrine and the other two species, but none between Saker falcon and Gyrfalcon. Also, this study has supported upgrading the fragmented Saker genome assembly to chromosome level using a novel approach hitherto only published for the Peregrine falcon (and pigeon). Secondly, a comparison of genome-wide BAC-based studies and bioinformatic analysis Multiple Genomes Rearrangement Algorithm 2 (MGRA2) revealed the chromosomal changes (inter- and intra-) that led to the falcon lineage. Also, the present study established that common mechanisms of chromosomal fusion do not recur in two different groups of species with rearranged karyotypes (falcons and parrots). This thesis also provided an overview of the telomeric DNA profile in the three species of interest. It established that the highly rearranged karyotypes studied (plus those of the budgerigar and crocodile) do not appear to possess interstitial telomeres at evolutionary fusion points. Also, this study demonstrated the existence of megatelomeres in falcon species, their nature differing between the Peregrine and the other two species studied. Finally, this thesis produced the first detailed description of nuclear organization in a bird species (Peregrine falcon) other than the Galloanserae. Non-fused macro and microchromosomes behave the same way in chickens and falcons. This implies that the same general nuclear organization mechanisms are present in falcons as well as in chickens, ducks and turkeys whose last common ancestor existed around 89 million years ago. Most notably, fused microchromosomes in the Peregrine falcon retain the same nuclear organization pattern despite being fused to a larger chromosome. The findings from this study give insight into the basic nature of chromosome territory patterns in bird species with highly rearranged karyotypes. Overall, results presented in this thesis provide significant insight into genome organization and evolution in the Falco genus, revealing previously undetected levels of chromosomal synteny between three species important to the UAE. Results generated here have also made a significant contribution to the chromosome-level genome assembly of the Saker falcon, providing tools for further study of avian species both within and beyond the falcon group.
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Hedback, Sara. "Giovanni Falcone : l'uomo che cercò di combattere la mafia." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Italienska, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-3100.
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So, Chintae. "Tethered falcon : the South Korean Air Force, 1946-1956." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1996. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/tethered-falcon--the-south-korean-air-force-19461956(46cc2ee7-d69c-43aa-9b61-9cb1be192785).html.
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Черниш, Д. І., and О. А. Мельникова. "Використання алгоритмів приведення базису решітки при атаках на алгоритм ЕЦП FALCON." Thesis, НТУ «ХПІ», 2020. http://openarchive.nure.ua/handle/document/14286.
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Метою доповіді є аналіз відомих алгоритмів приведення базису решітки таких як Slide та різні модифікації алгоритму BKZ. Розгляд можливості використання цих алгоритмів для реалізації атак на ЕЦП FALCON. В доповіді наводяться характеристики та принцип роботи самих ефективних алгоритмів приведення базису решітки а саме Self-dual BKZ та Slide.
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Siquela, Eduardo Armando. "Beneficiamento de finos de carvão por concentrador centrífugo - Falcon®." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/77759.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é de avaliar o desempenho do concentrador Falcon® no beneficiamento de finos de carvão. Para tal foi usada uma amostra de carvão ROM da mina LEÃO II. Nos ensaios foi usado o concentrador Falcon® modelo L40. As variáveis operacionais estudadas foram: a aceleração da centrífuga, a granulometria da alimentação e a pressão da água de fluidização. Para todos os ensaios realizados na faixa granulométrica -0,25mm as taxas de rejeição de enxofre variaram entre 42,55% e 69,51%, e a recuperação da matéria orgânica variou entre 65,79% e 95,85%. Na faixa granulométrica de -0,5+0,25mm o valor mínimo da rejeição de enxofre total foi de 53,63% e o máximo de 75,22%. A recuperação de matéria orgânica variou entre 57,77% e 90,86%. Já a rejeição de cinzas mostra as taxas mais baixas para a faixa granulométrica-0,25mm, que varia entre 11,78% a 46,87%, comparada à faixa granulométrica de -0,5+0,25mm que apresenta valores entre 29,98% e 60,42%. Em geral o processo mostrou-se mais eficiente quando operado com valores baixos de aceleração (78G), e pressão de água relativamente baixa (entre 4 e 8Psi).This study aims to evaluate the performance of the Falcon® concentrator in beneficiation of fine coal. A sample from LEAO II ROM and a L40 Falcon® concentrator was used for all tests. Operating variables studied were: G forces, the feed particle size and the water backpressure. For the tests performed with samples of -0.25mm particle size, sulfur rejection rates ranged from 42.55% to 69.51%, and the coal recovery ranged from 65.79% to 95.85%. In the -0.5+0.25mm size fraction the minimum value of total sulfur rejection was 53.63% and a maximum of 75.22%. The recovery of organic matter ranged from 57.77% to 90.86%. The ash rejection shows the lowest rates for the -0.25mm particle size, ranging from 11.78% to 46.87%, compared to -0.5+0.25mm size fraction which has values between 29.98 % and 60.42%. In general the process was more efficient when operated at low values of G-Force (78G), and low water pressure (4 and 8Psi).
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McMaster, Don. "Flight of the falcon : the Sikh Panth : a claim for national identity /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm16668.pdf.
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Ruddock, Marc. "Housewives' planning : Population ecology, predation and prey selection in the peregrine falcon." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.479323.
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GREER, AMANDA LOUISE. "RAPTOR AND RAPTURE: KING JAMES IV OF SCOTLAND WITH A PEREGRINE FALCON." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612983.
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During the 1400s and 1500s, noblemen and noblewoman were expected to participate in falconry. Therefore, I was surprised to discover that there was hardly anything written about the ca. 1500 portrait of James IV of Scotland with a Peregrine falcon, extant only in a copy by Daniel Mytens in 1620-1636. What was written was limited to issues of style and attribution of the copy painted by Mytens. There was nothing at all about the falcon or falconry implements represented in the portrait. To understand the function of this portrait, I considered the material culture and physical practices of falconry, the specific habits and characteristics of the falcon, symbolism of falconry in courtly love poetry, the history and culture of animals, the history and economic state of Scotland, and the actual expenses of the practice as recorded in court documents. I argue that the original watercolor portrait of James IV of Scotland with a Peregrine falcon functioned as a marriage portrait. Specifically, the relationship between James and his female falcon in the portrait served to promise a relationship of mutual trust, respect and loyalty between James and his bride-to-be in the future.
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Cammarota, George V. "In search of the dingus a geographic approach to The maltese falcon /." abstract and full text PDF (UNR users only), 2009. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1464417.
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Rowe, Paul S. "Heeding the falcon, a new look at pivotal regionalisms in the Middle East." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq24907.pdf.
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Janchivlamdan, Choikhand. "Scalar dimensions of environmental governance : conservation, trade and the Saker Falcon in Mongolia." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37238.
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The central Mongolian steppe has become a globally significant site of endangered and migratory wild Saker Falcon conservation. The economic value of the Mongolian wild Saker Falcon has grown substantially in the Arabic falconry market. Maintaining the viable population size of the wild Saker Falcon is vital to Mongolia’s state revenue and to reverse prospects of the falcon’s global extinction. A key task is to deal with unsustainable harvesting and unregulated trade, and to support the Saker Falcon’s core breeding ground in the context of conservation. In order to fulfil these tasks, an artificial nest project has been launched by the International Wildlife Consultants (IWC) UK, in collaboration with the Ministry of Nature, Environment, and Tourism, Mongolia, through funding provided by the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD), UAE. This initiative has raised hopes for Saker Falcon conservation and governance, improving the trade and harvesting practice at the local level. Examining the fortunes of wild Saker Falcon conservation and trade processes across different scalar dimensions in this study involved a primary assessment of conservation progress and development; in doing so, major governance challenges were identified. The study also highlights the challenges of the sustainable use concept as a management strategy for endangered and migratory species. A second finding is that endangered and migratory species conservation is a political and socioeconomic process that extends beyond biological and ecological solutions. This thesis examined stakeholders’ perspectives on Saker Falcon policy-development in Mongolia, using qualitative research methods such as surveying, focus groups, and in-depth interviewing. The analysis also incorporated the perceptions of rural communities, who are conservation stakeholders, living inside and on the fringe of the artificial nest areas. The study concludes that current environmental governance in Mongolia needs substantial improvements in order to facilitate sustainable use of the Saker Falcon in the future, and to respond to wider threats to the conservation of endangered and migratory species, with due cognisance to improving rural community livelihoods.
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Go, Cassandra Lim. "The Game's Afoot! Game Theory in Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and Red Harvest." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/835.
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Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and Red Harvest are examples of iconic hard-boiled detective literature that reflect on the anxieties and tensions of the 1930s-1940s. With the Great Depression looming over these decades, the genre uses the hard-boiled detective as a way to communicate with and understand this time period. In our analysis of game theory, we look at how Dashiell Hammett's characters make decisions based on the actions of other players in the game, illustrating the influences of bargaining power and manipulation. With characters that oftentimes find themselves in situations where they must collude to reach maximum utility, the novels explore the various ways in which one player takes advantage of another, almost always leading towards the detective's best payoff. Game theory provides us with a unique method to looking at literature, hard-boiled fiction particularly, as a reflection of the historical period of its conception and prime.
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Wakamiya, Sarah M. "A habitat and population viability analysis for potential peregrine falcon reintroductions in southern Illinois /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1650505341&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Mellone, Ugo. "Movement ecology of long-distance migrants: insights from the Eleonora's falcon and other raptors." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/35523.
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Schroer, Sara Asu. "On the wing : exploring human-bird relationships in falconry practice." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2014. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=225716.
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This thesis is concerned with the relationships that develop between humans, birds of prey, prey animals and their environments in the practice of falconry. Falconry is a hunting practice in which humans and birds of prey develop a hunting companionship through which they learn to hunt in cooperation. Described by falconers as a way of life, falconry practice and the relationship to their birds take on a crucial role in their everyday lives. The research is based on fieldwork carried out over a period of three years largely in the UK, with shorter fieldtrips to Germany and Italy. Falconry practice raises many interesting questions about human-animal sociality and identity formation. Through the practice falconers learn how to 'lure' a bird into a relationship, as birds of prey cannot be forced to hunt and cooperate. When hunting the abilities of birds of prey are seen to be superior to those of the human being who becomes – if skilful enough – an assisting hunting companion. The careful attention necessary to establish a bonded relationship between falconer and falconry bird demands practices particular to falconry and involves a highly complex set of knowledge practices and methods. The establishment of this relationship depends on a fine balance between independence and dependence as well as wildness and tameness of the falconry bird that cannot be understood through conceptualising notions of 'the wild' and 'the tame' (or 'the domesticated') as opposites. Rather, the becoming of falcons and falconers through the practice allows moments of transformation of beings that resist familiar categories. This study of falconry challenges an anthropocentric mode of anthropological inquiry as it demands to open up the traditional focus of anthropology to also include nonhuman animals and to consider meaning making, sociality and knowledge production as co-constituted through the activities of humans and nonhuman animals. I focus on the practices involved in taming, training and hunting with birds of prey as well as in domestic breeding, arguing that it is important to see both humans and birds as well as predator and prey as active participants in mutually constitutive learning relationships. Focussing on processes of emergence in both becoming falconers and becoming falconry birds I develop the notion of beings-in-the-making, in order to emphasise that humans and birds grow in relation to each other through the co-responsive engagement in which they are involved. I further show how humans and nonhuman animals relate to the environment within which they engage, in which movements and forces of the weather play a central role. I use the term weathering to refer to the ways the weather influences the movements of human and nonhuman animals as well as being a medium of perception in which they are immersed. The landscape and the sky above are here not to be understood as two separate spheres divided by an interface but rather as caught up in a continuous process of transformation in which the lay of the land and the currents of the air are co-constituted. Finally, I suggest the perspective of creaturely ways to describe a mode of sociality that is constituted beyond the purely human sphere of interaction and to show that the sense of identity and belonging of both falconers and birds is not delineated by a fixed species identity but rather emerges out of the experiences and relationships that each living being develops throughout its life. Creaturely ways thus involves a focus on questions of ontogeny rather than ontology, which is crucial for understanding the mutually constitutive processes of meaning making, becoming and knowing in which falconers and falconry birds are involved. Through exploring the complex relationships involved in falconry practice and the consideration of humans and birds as active participants within them, this thesis makes an original contribution to anthropological studies of human-animal relationships. It further contributes to the development of a notion of more-thanhuman sociality that reaches beyond the idea of the social as confined to members of the same species. Moreover, the study contributes to the anthropology of learning and enskilment through analysing processes of knowledge making in their constitutive influence on the development of human and nonhuman ways of becoming. It further contributes to studies on the perception of the environment through considering the practitioner's perception and experience of the weather and currents of the air as they interplay with the ground below. Finally, this study makes a contribution to the as yet little studied field of 'modern' hunting practices and suggests a more nuanced approach of understanding the relationships of predator and prey they involve.
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Žahourková, Michaela. "Ocenění podniku Falco - Profistav s.r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-118067.
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The aim of this paper is to find a market value of Falco - Profistav s.r.o as of 1st January 2010. The outcome of the paper should serve as a supportive material for to the company owners for decisions about future of the company. Financial analysis, Strategic analysis, Analysis and prognosis of value generators and Valuation are integral parts of the paper. As a result of analyses, infinite life of company can not be reasonably expected. Therefore, for valuation, liquidation value and amortization value methods were selected.
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Falcone, Manuel [Verfasser], Dieter [Akademischer Betreuer] Bothe, and Michael [Akademischer Betreuer] Schäfer. "Direct Numerical Simulations of Reactive Transport Processes at Single Bubbles / Manuel Falcone ; Dieter Bothe, Michael Schäfer." Darmstadt : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1183911602/34.
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Cane, David Cervigni Dino S. "The falcon, the beast and the image Dante's Geryon and W. B. Yeats' The second coming /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1046.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Mar. 27, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Romance Languages." Discipline: Romance Languages; Department/School: Romance Languages.
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Van, den Hoven Carina. "The coronation ritual of the falcon at Edfu : tradition and innovation in ancient Egyptian ritual composition." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PSLEP005.
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Cette thèse de doctorat a pour objectif d’étudier le rôle et la fonction de la tradition et des innovations dans la création de nouveaux textes rituels dans l’Égypte ptolémaïque. L’étude est concentrée sur une analyse approfondie de l’organisation structurelle et de la composition rituelle d’un des rituels les plus élaborés et les plus complexes que nous connaissons dans l’Égypte ptolémaïque: le rituel du couronnement du faucon sacré à Edfou, représenté sur le mur d’enceinte du temple. Les sources disponibles suggèrent que ce rituel est une nouvelle composition de l’époque ptolémaïque dans laquelle des traditions sont associées à des traits nouveaux, ce qui ouvre la possibilité d’une analyse sur le rôle et la fonction de la tradition dans ce rituel, sur l’étendue de l’originalité de la composition, et sur les processus de composition et d’édition qui ont abouti à la création de ce nouveau rituel. L’analyse de l’organisation structurelle du rituel a montré que l’ordre des scènes rituelles sur la paroi ne correspond pas nécessairement à celui dans lequel les actes rituels étaient exécutés dans la réalité et que rituel n’était pas nécessairement effectué là où il se trouvait représenté. Ces conclusions ont débouché sur une nouvelle reconstruction de la séquence rituelle du couronnement du faucon sur la base des inscriptions hiéroglyphiques. De plus, en s’appuyant sur une analyse approfondie des sources textuelles, iconographiques, lexicographiques et archéologiques, une nouvelle identification des lieux où se déroulait le rituel dans le domaine du temple d’Edfou a été proposéeThis research project investigates the role and function of tradition in the composition of new ritual texts in Ptolemaic Egypt on the basis of an in-depth analysis of the structural organisation and ritual composition of one the most elaborate and complex temple rituals known from Ptolemaic Egypt: the coronation ritual of the sacred living falcon. The available source material suggests that this ritual was a new composition of the Ptolemaic period in which tradition was merged with contemporary ideas. An investigation of the interrelations of the ritual texts and iconographic themes of this ritual with other textual and iconographic materials enabled us to investigate the role and function of tradition in the ritual, to identify the editorial processes to which the new composition was subjected and to reach conclusions on the extent of originality and the conceptualisation of innovation in ancient Egyptian ritual composition. The analysis of the structural organisation of the ritual on the temple walls has shown that the order of the ritual scenes on the temple walls does not necessarily reflect the order in which the ritual took place in reality and that the ritual was not necessarily carried out in the specific location where it is depicted on the temple walls. These findings resulted in a new reconstruction of the ritual sequence of the coronation ritual of the falcon based on the hieroglyphic inscriptions. On the basis of textual, iconographic and lexicographic material combined with an analysis of the archaeological sources a new identification was proposed of the various locations in and around the Edfu temple domain where the ritual was carried out
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Sanches, Ana Rita Correia. "Análise de selecção de áreas de caça por uma população de francelho (Faco naumanni) na planície de Évora." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/18816.
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Em Portugal, apesar de haver registos históricos da reprodução desta espécie um pouco por todo o país, o francelho (Falco naumanni, Fleischer 1818) desapareceu de quase todo o território nacional estando actualmente restrito à região do Alentejo. Em 2005, 80% da população encontrava-se nas ZPE´s de Castro Verde e Vale do Guadiana (62% e 18% da população nacional, respectivamente (Catry et al. 2005). Ao longo dos últimos anos têm vindo a ser desenvolvidos trabalhos de investigação com o objectivo de conhecer as necessidades ecológicas da espécie nas diferentes colónias, de forma a tentar conciliar a prática de uma agricultura economicamente viável com a conservação de uma espécie que está dependente das práticas agrícolas tradicionais. Os conflitos entre conservação e alteração das práticas agrícolas levam a desafios na gestão deste tipo de habitats. A população de francelho da ZPE Évora, após um período de 12 anos de ausência da espécie como reprodutora na região, tem vindo a aumentar em número de casais reprodutores, desde 1995. A distribuição da espécie na ZPE de Évora, a sua evolução e os principais factores que afectam a sua reprodução foram por nós estudados no ano de 2007. Foi ainda analisada a disponibilidade de habitat de caça para o francelho na área que envolve a principal colónia de Évora de modo a poderem ser sugeridas medidas de gestão adequadas à sua conservação. Concluiu-se que a manutenção de áreas de caça e a conservação dos locais de nidificação existentes e a criação de novos locais passa inevitavelmente pela sensibilização e informação dos proprietários sobre as medidas a aplicar. O recurso a instrumentos de financiamento neste sentido será primordial; ABSTRACT:
In Portugal, although there are historical records of the reproduction of this species all
over the country, the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni) disappeared from almost all the
national territory being currently restricted to the Alentejo region. In 2005, 80% of the
population was in Castro Verde and Vale do Guadiana SPA (62% and 18% of the national
population, respectively) (Catry et al. 2005). Over the past few years have been
developed research in order to meet the ecological needs of the species in the different
colonies, trying to reconcile the practice of an economically viable agriculture and the
conservation of a species that is dependent on traditional farming practices. The conflicts
between conservation and changing farming practices lead to challenges in managing this
type of habitat.
The lesser kestrel population of the Évora SPA, after a 12 year absence of the species as
breeding in the region, has being increasing in the number of breeding pairs, since 1995.
The distribution of the species in the SPA of Évora, its evolution and the main factors
affecting their reproduction were studied in 2007. It was also analyzed the availability of
hunting habitat for the kestrel in the area surrounding the main colony of Évora so that
appropriate management measures can be suggested to their conservation.
It was concluded that maintaining hunting areas and conservation of existing nesting sites
and the creation of new local inevitably passes through the awareness and information of
the owners on the measures to be implemented. The use of financial instruments and the
in this direction will be paramount.
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Intile, Alessandro. "L’approccio del ciclo di vita applicato a sistemi di gestione ambientale: il caso dell’aeroporto Falcone – Borsellino di Palermo." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/9766/.
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La tesi tratta l’analisi preliminare dell’Organization Environmental Footprint (OEF) dell’ente gestore dell’aeroporto Falcone - Borsellino di Palermo (GES.A.P.).
Viene inoltre sviluppato un nuovo metodo per la classificazione degli aspetti ambientali utilizzabile all’interno del Sistema di Gestione Ambientale (SGA) attualmente utilizzato dall’ente GES.A.P.
Dopo un'introduzione sulle ragioni che hanno portato allo sviluppo di questi strumenti, vengono approfondite le fasi necessarie per la loro applicazione, specificate nella guida metodologica sull’OEF e nella norma ISO 14001.
I dati raccolti per il calcolo dell’OEF sono stati inseriti in un modello dell’organizzazione creato con il software GaBi7 al fine di stimare gli impatti ambientali dell’organizzazione negli anni analizzati.
In questo lavoro viene effettuata un’analisi del metodo EMRG (Environmental Management Research Group) utilizzato per l’individuazione e la classificazione degli aspetti ambientali nell’ambito del SGA (certificato ISO 14001:2004) di GESAP e delle innovazioni introdotte nella versione 2015 della norma ISO 14001.
Viene suggerito un metodo alternativo basato sull’integrazione dei risultati di un'analisi Life Cicle Assessment (LCA), svolta tramite l’OEF, con la metodologia EMRG, attualmente impiegata, al fine di avviare il processo di transizione del SGA verso l’aggiornamento-consegna
richiesto dalla ISO14001:2015.
Dall’applicazione del metodo viene ricavata una nuova gerarchia degli aspetti ambientali di GESAP utilizzabile per l’implementazione del suo SGA.
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Bailey, Kenneth D. "Report of an internship with the Bureau of Land Management for the Falcon to Gonder construction project." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1098144755.
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Bailey, Kenneth D. "REPROT OF AN INTERNSHIP WITH THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT FOR THE FALCON TO GONDER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1098144755.
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Paepenmüller, Falco [Verfasser]. "Hydrostatisches Profilschienen-Führungssystem für Werkzeugmaschinen / Falco Paepenmüller." Aachen : Shaker, 2006. http://d-nb.info/1166513521/34.
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