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Woodroffe, C. D., and R. J. Morrison. "Reef-island accretion and soil development on Makin, Kiribati, central Pacific." CATENA 44, no. 4 (2001): 245–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0341-8162(01)00135-7.
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Suryanto, Rusyad Adi, Toetik Koesbardiati, Delita Bayu Murti, Ahmad Yudianto, and Anak Agung Putu Santiasa Putra. "Karakteristik Genetik Populasi Kuno Pulau Bali: Sanur dan Gilimanuk." Berkala Arkeologi Sangkhakala 17, no. 1 (2018): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.24832/bas.v17i1.92.
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AbstractThe study of ancient human migration and peopling in Indonesia still raises debate until now, both from the perspective of biological anthropology, human genetics or archaeological. The debate was always open space again to do some research about that. We concentrated with samples of ancient Bali, the findings of human remains from Gilimanuk (Melaya, Jembrana) and Semawang (Sanur, Denpasar). Relatively, Bali is an island located in the centre of Indonesian Archipelago, which may represent a major pathway of human migration and distribution according to the outer arc islands. The research aimed to describe human genetic variation of the two archeological sites of ancient Bali. Based locus short tandem repeats (STR) combined DNA index system (CODIS), which CSF1PO, TH01 and TP0X, the research took a sample of six individual human ancient Bali, which includes each of the three individual from Semawang and Gilimanuk site. The process of genetic research has been done at the Institute of Tropical Disease Laboratory of Human Genetics, Airlangga University. Semawang and Gilimanuk derived from different populations based on the analysis of its CTT loci visualization. The results with reference to all possible aspects of archaeology and biological anthropology further enrich the wealth of knowledge about human migration events in Indonesia around the Neolithic period, the early times of increasingly massive mongoloid migrations to the Archipelago region. The results also further strengthen the results of previous genetic studies of Bali population. Balinese has undergone a genetic mixture of various immigrant populations since the Neolithic period.AbstrakPenelitian migrasi dan penghunian manusia kuno di Indonesia masih memunculkan perdebatan sampai kini, baik dari perspektif antropologi biologis, genetika manusia atau arkeologis. Perdebatan itu selalu membuka ruang lagi untuk melakukan penelitian perihal itu. Kali ini kami berkonsentrasi dengan sampel Bali Kuno, yakni temuan sisa-sisa manusia dari Gilimanuk (Melaya, Jembrana) dan Semawang (Sanur, Denpasar). Bali merupakan pulau yang relatif terletak di tengah gugusan kepulauan Indonesia, di mana dapat mewakili jalur besar migrasi dan persebaran manusia seturut rute pulau-pulau busur luarnya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan variasi genetik manusia kuno dari dua situs arkeologis Bali itu. Berdasarkan lokus short tandem repeats (STR) combined DNA index system (CODIS), yakni CSF1PO, TH01 dan TP0X, penelitian ini mengambil sampel enam individu manusia Bali Kuno, yang meliputi masing-masing tiga individu Semawang dan Gilimanuk. Proses penelitian genetik itu telah dikerjakan di Laboratory of Human Genetics, Institute of Tropical Disease, Universitas Airlangga. Sampel Semawang dan Gilimanuk berasal dari populasi yang berbeda berdasarkan analisis visualisasi lokus CTT-nya. Hasil penelitian ini dengan merujuk semua kemungkinan aspek arkeologis dan antropologi biologisnya makin memperkaya khazanah pengetahuan tentang peristiwa migrasi manusia di Indonesia sekitar masa Neolitik, yang menjadi masa awal makin masifnya migrasi Mongoloid ke kawasan Nusantara. Hasil penelitian ini juga makin menguatkan hasil-hasil penelitian genetika populasi Bali sebelumnya bahwa populasi Bali dari sejak Neolitik sampai sekitar masa yang lebih resen diturunkan oleh banyak leluhur atau banyak sumber gen. Penduduk Bali telah mengalami percampuran genetik dari berbagai populasi pendatang sejak Neolitik atau awal Tarikh Masehi.
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Usman, Ediar, and Kris Budiono. "IDENTIFICATION OF HARD ROCK BASED ON SHALLOW SEISMIC INTERPRETATION AND SPT TEST FOR FOUNDATION OF BRIDGE AT BALANG ISLAND, BALIKPAPAN BAY, EAST KALIMANTAN." BULLETIN OF THE MARINE GEOLOGY 26, no. 1 (2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.32693/bomg.26.1.2011.30.
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The study area is located in Balikpapan Bay, the connecting waters between Pancur village at the southwest and Balang Island at the northeast. The objective of study is to know the engineering properties of rock as a foundation groundwork of bridge. Result of seismic reflection interpretation profiles in the survey area indicates that the seismic sequences can be divided into two sequences, those are sequence A and B. Sequence A lies at the upper part, which is characterized by concordance, parallel, wavy and hummocky reflectors. Sequence B is characterized by mounded, chaotic and free reflectors. Sediment thickness obtained from seismic profiles show that Quaternary sediment is about 1.56 to 4.89 meters, while harder substrate thickness ranging between 7.03 and 21.60 meters. While, based on core drilling data, hard rock started to appear between 3 and 4 meters below seafloor with Standard Penetration Test (SPT) between 32 and 34 blows as Tertiary sediments. Based on field observation and correlated with geological map of Balang Island, Balikpapan Sheet, the hard rock proposed for base of bridge foundation is Balang Island Formation (Middle Miocene) that consist of claystone, sandstone and coal layers that have been deformated and start to form fold as anticline. The seismic record show that, the hard rock is interpreted as B sequence that underlain by Quaternary sediments. 
 
 Key words: seismic, drilling, Quaternary sediment, hard rock, bridge foundation, Balang Island 
 
 
 Daerah penelitian terletak di Teluk Balikpapan, merupakan perairan penghubung antara desa Pancur di bagian baratdaya dan Pulau Balang di bagian timurlaut. Tujuan penelitian in untuk mengetahui sifat keteknikan batuan keras sebagai tapak jembatan. Hasil interpretasi rekaman seismik di lokasi penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sekuen sedimen dapat dibagi menjadi dua yaitu Sekuen A dan B. Sekuen A terletak di bagian atas dengan ciri reflektor selaras, sejajar, bergelombang terputus-putus dan perlapisan terputus-putus. Bagian paling bawah adalah Sekuen B dicirikan oleh bentuk reflektor berbukit-bukit kecil, berbintik-bintik kacau tidak beraturan dan makin ke bawah dicirikan oleh bebas pantul. Hasil perhitungan ketebalan sedimen pada penampang seismik diperoleh ketebalan sedimen Kuarter antara 1,56 - 4,89 meter dan kedalaman batuan keras berkisar antara 7,03 – 21,60 meter. Sedangkan berdasarkan data pemboran, batuan keras mulai muncul pada kedalaman 3 - 4 meter di bawah dasar laut dengan SPT antara 32 – 34 sebagai sedimen Tersier. Berdasarkan pengamatan di lapangan dan dikorelasikan dengan peta geologi P. Balang, Lembar Balikpapan, batuan keras yang diusulkan sebagai dasar tapak jembatan adalah Formasi Pulau Balang (Miosen Tengah) yang terdiri atas batulempung, batupasir and batubara yang sudah mengalami deformasi dan mulai terlipat membentuk antiklin. Pada penampang seismik, batuan keras tersebut adalah Sekuen B yang ditutupi oleh sedimen Kuarter. 
 
 Kata kunci: seismik, pemboran, sedimen Kuarter, batuan keras, tapak jembatan, Pulau Balang.
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Abella, Maveric K. I. L., Monica Rouco Molina, Ivana Nikolić-Hughes, Emlyn W. Hughes, and Malvin A. Ruderman. "Background gamma radiation and soil activity measurements in the northern Marshall Islands." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 31 (2019): 15425–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1903421116.
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We report on measurements of external gamma radiation on 9 islands in 4 atolls in the northern Marshall Islands, all of which were affected by the US nuclear testing program from 1946 to 1958 (Enjebi, Ikuren, and Japtan in Enewetak Atoll; Bikini and Enyu in Bikini Atoll; Naen in Rongelap Atoll; and Aon, Elluk, and Utirik in Utirik Atoll). We also report americium-241, cesium-137, plutonium-238, and plutonium-239,240 activity concentrations in the soil samples for 11 islands in 4 northern atolls (Enewetak, Japtan, Medren, and Runit in Enewetak Atoll; Bikini and Enyu in Bikini Atoll; Naen and Rongelap in Rongelap Atoll; and Aon, Elluk, and Utirik in Utirik Atoll) and from Majuro Island, Majuro Atoll in the southern Marshall Islands. Our results show low external gamma radiation levels on some islands in the Enewetak Atoll and Utirik Atoll, and elevated levels on Enjebi Island in the Enewetak Atoll, on Bikini Atoll, and on Naen Island in the Rongelap Atoll. We perform ordinary kriging on external gamma radiation measurements to provide interpolated maps. We find that radionuclides are absent from all Majuro soil samples, and that they are present at highest activity concentrations in samples from Runit and Enjebi islands (Enewetak Atoll), Bikini Island (Bikini Atoll), and Naen Island (Rongelap Atoll). We contextualize all results by making comparisons between islands and to various standards, as well as to regions of the world affected by nuclear accidents. We also discuss implications for informed decision-making by the Marshallese and local atoll governments and their people on issues pertaining to island resettlement.
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Gao, Sheng, Huihui Sun, Guangxi Cao, Lin Zhao, Runjie Wang, and Min Xu. "DYNAMIC STATE OF ECOSYSTEM CARRYING CAPACITY UNDER ISLAND URBANIZATION: A CASE STUDY OF PINGTAN ISLAND IN THE SOUTHEASTERN COAST OF CHINA." Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management 28, no. 1 (2020): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jeelm.2020.9798.
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The assessment of ecological environment during the large-scale development of islands is a major topic in the study of current coastal islands. Choosing the appropriate assessment method to evaluate the suitability of carrying capacity of islands and making relevant suggestions are significant to the sustainable development of islands. Ecological footprint method is used to analyze the ecological carrying capacity of Pingtan Island (PI) from 2005 to 2016 for promoting the coordinated rational development and construction and ecological environment of the island. Although PI is in rapid urban development and construction, the island maintains secure and stable ecological conditions. PI is used as a research case to analyze the sustainable development of the ecological environment through the carrying capacity of the island ecosystem.
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Joseph, May. "Islands, history, decolonial memory." Island Studies Journal 15, no. 2 (2020): 193–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.24043/isj.138.
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How do small island ecologies commemorate their disappeared pasts? What are some of the place-making practices that shape the formation of small island collective memories? Through the analysis of five case studies of small island communities in a comparative framework, this editorial introduction to a special section of Island Studies Journal on ‘Islands, history, decolonial memory’ opens up the mnemonic and psychoanalytic challenges facing contemporary island societies and the invention of their social memories. The islands of Balliceaux, Ro, Saaremaa, St. Simon and Dongzhou present competing instances of how memory operates across cultures of remembrance and forgetting.
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Bowden, John, and John Hajek. "Taba." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 26, no. 1 (1996): 55–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025100300005326.
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Taba (also known as ‘East Makian’ or ‘Makian Dalam’) is an Austronesian language spoken in northern Maluku province, Indonesia. It is spoken on Makian, Moti and Kayoa islands and also in a few villages on other nearby islands. The speech recorded here is from the village of Ngofakiaha on Makian island. Slight dialectal variations are to be found in most villages where the language is spoken.
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Fairyo, Klementin. "GERABAH SITUS MANSINAM KAJIAN ETNOARKEOLOGI." Jurnal Penelitian Arkeologi Papua dan Papua Barat 1, no. 2 (2017): 93–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.24832/papua.v1i2.126.
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The Process of vessels making in Mansinam site was not far too different with other places in Indonesia: using clay as the basic material. The vessel making was a woman’s work, started from clay gathering to firing process. Based on the observation of the edge shape, it is predicted that the vessels found in Mansinam Island belongs to the type of pot. The observation on the core shows that on the process of making, the firing was opened and not spread evenly. Pot was used for cooking and keeping food. The vessels from Mansinan Island has spread vast through trade and barter to Wandamen coastal area, Biak Numfor islands, Bird’s Head Peninsula coastal areas and Raja Ampat Islands.
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Wang, Yanping, Chuanwu Chen, and Virginie Millien. "A global synthesis of the small-island effect in habitat islands." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285, no. 1889 (2018): 20181868. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1868.
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Habitat loss and fragmentation are considered to be the leading drivers of biodiversity loss. The small-island effect (SIE) can be used to predict species extinctions resulting from habitat loss and has important implications for species conservation. However, to date, no study has explicitly evaluated the prevalence of SIEs in habitat islands. Here, we compiled 90 global datasets to systematically investigate the prevalence and underlying factors determining the ubiquity of SIEs in habitat island systems. Among the 90 datasets, SIEs were unambiguously detected in 36 cases. We found significant effects of habitat island types and taxon groups on the threshold area of SIEs. The number of islands, area range, species range, island type and taxon group were key variables that determined the prevalence of SIEs. Our study demonstrates that SIEs occur in 40% of cases and thus are common in habitat islands. We conclude that conservation biologists and applied ecologists should consider the prevalence of SIEs when making management strategies in fragmented landscapes.
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Cooper, John, Nico L. Avenant, and Peter W. Lafite. "Airdrops and king penguins: a potential conservation problem at sub-Antarctic Marion Island." Polar Record 30, no. 175 (1994): 277–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400024530.
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ABSTRACTEvidence for the disturbance of king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) and other seabirds at sub-Antarctic islands by fixed-wing aircraft making airdrops is reviewed. Based on direct observations of panicking birds at king penguin colonies at Marion Island as Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft flew past, it is postulated that the incident at Macquarie Island in 1990 when many king penguins were found dead shortly after a flypast was most likely caused by panic induced by the aircraft's passage. Visits by fixed-wing aircraft to sub-Antarctic islands should be kept to a minimum and no airstrips should be built on them. Specific recommendations are given for fixed-wing aircraft visits to Marion Island, in order to reduce disturbance to king penguins and other seabirds to the absolute minimum. These recommendations should be adopted at all sub-Antarctic islands.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Makin Island"
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Johansson, Jimmy. "Överraskning i amfibieoperationer : en djupare innebörd eller bara en generellt hållen grundprincip?" Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-6068.
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Överraskning är en av krigföringens etablerade grundprinciper och har fascinerat under lika lång tid det betraktats meningsfullt att förstå krigföring. Paradoxalt nog befinns principen vara såväl förhållandevis outforskad som abstrakt och allmänt hållen trots sin oomtvistliga funktion genom historien. Undersökningens syfte är att med en teoriutvecklande ansats identifiera vilka framgångsfaktorer som bidrar till en lyckad överraskning i amfibieoperationer. Undersökningen har med en hypotetisk-deduktiv metod, där såväl en referenshypotes som delhypoteser genererats, använts för hypotesprövning av två empiriska fall, räderna mot St Nazaire 1942 och Makin Island 1942. Resultatet identifierar efter en falsifikationsprincip att framgångsfaktorerna vilseledning, operationssäkerhet, tempo och originalitet har en giltighet som bidrag till en lyckad överraskning i amfibieoperationer. Teoriutvecklingsmässigt påvisar även resultatet att originalitet är den framgångsfaktor som möjliggör och är dimensionerande för de övriga framgångsfaktorernas bidrag till en lyckad överraskning. Rekommendationsmässigt och i termer av en ökad generaliserbarhet bör fler empiriska prövningar genomföras för att än bättre förstå vad som bidrar till en lyckad överraskning.
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Samson, Barney. "Islands in the (main)stream : the desert island in anglophone post-war popular culture." Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/20617/.
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This thesis examines the motif of the desert island in anglophone post-war popular culture as it coincides with the destabilisation of modern conceptions of identity. The extent to which desert island narratives either reify or challenge normative societal ideals is charted through the analysis of a range of texts across media: novels, radio, advertising, magazine cartoons, television, films and video games. Each text is placed into the context of a dialectic between discipline, the coercive method of state control theorised by Michel Foucault, and seduction, the technique of market dominance described by Zygmunt Bauman. Semiotic, psychoanalytic and spatial approaches are also used in close readings. The relationship of ‘home’ to ‘the Other’ was transformed by the advent of affordable international travel and communication; the thesis considers desert island texts since 1942, from the period since our planet has been opened up to tourism and global capitalism. This post-war timeframe maps onto the development of a self that is increasingly understood as fragmented, reflexive and alienated. A chronological approach is used in order to chart the ways in which desert island texts reflect this trend during what Bauman calls the liquid modern era. Power structures are examined but, rather than taking an overtly postcolonial stance, the thesis explores relationships between the ‘mainland’ and the castaway. The desert island is a useful site for exploring such concerns precisely because its desertedness, (presumed) Otherness and distance from ‘home’ allow it to function as an analogy of both the subject and the Other, and as an altered reflection of ostensibly normative continental life. Desert islands are often revealed to be inhabited; if the desert island represents a fantasy of agency in self-creation then the appearance of the Other represents the anxiety that that fantasy intends to dispel or seeks to embrace.
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Hill, Barbara M. Bickford M. E. "Paleoproterozoic of central Colorado Island arcs or rifted older crust? /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Bhatia, Janki Suryakantbhai. "Interpreting City Patterns: The Making of Roosevelt Island Park." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34402.
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City patterns have taken shape as Architecture has prospered- as a search for a coherent environment between nature and human desires.
This thesis is a study of urban as well as architectural impacts together, to find the meaning of life patterns in relation to the overall city structure.<br>Master of Architecture
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Diver, Kimberly Christine Bendix Jacob. "Biogeography of island flora in the Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Boghossian, Garine. "Making Waves : the past futures of Azerbaijan's islands." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111547.
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Thesis: S.M. in Architecture Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "June 2017."<br>Includes bibliographical references (page [4]).<br>This thesis is a collection of design speculations meant to question the frenzy around capitalist urban development in emerging 'world-class" cities. It particularly studies how post-extraction economies are restructuring the industrial city to promote it as a site of leisure, tourism and real-estate. This transition often uses architecture and urban design that relies on a jargon of superlatives, the signature of starchitects, and the power of mass media image circulation to project a utopic vision. The thesis uses the island as a site for investigation and experimentation. Both a geographical entity and a widely-used metaphor, the island is often defined through dualisms: utopic and dystopic; insular and yet connected. The notion of territoriality is crucial here, where the island with its seemingly defined geographical boundaries is in fact part of a larger geological, socio-economic and political territory. Thus, it often becomes a physical testing ground to realize different social and spatial propositions, such as urban segregation, the development of elite enclaves, exotic tourist attractions, and heightened securitization. Focusing on Azerbaijan's Caspian Seawaters, this thesis studies Baku's offshore urbanization on its natural and artificial islands. Initially significant for their strategic role in protecting the mainland, Azerbaijan's islands have been heavily involved in natural resource extraction and energy production for the past half century. As oil and gas resources deplete and revenues fall, the state is considering alternative ways to diversify its economy. Hence, various post-extraction futures are currently being projected onto these sites: the islands of the Baku archipelago, Pirallahi island as well as Neft Dashlari, the first off-shore drilling facility in the world. The dependence of capital on territory is evident here, whereby investment in Azerbaijan's post fossil-fuel economy is manifested spatially through the proposed redevelopment plans. Two major forces currently shape these islands. First, economic force, which includes both the continued extraction of capital in the form of oil and gas from one field and a transition towards accumulation in the form of real-estate in another. Secondly, ecological force, which encompasses both the manufacturing of artificial landscapes into the Caspian Sea and the destruction of land due to a degraded ecosystem and sea-level rise. In addition to constructing an urban historiography of the islands, this thesis articulates a possible future for each island and presents an urban-spatial, socio-political critique of how the state has been exploiting these forces in the past and will possibly do so in the future. The thesis argues that the most effective medium for engagement in the transformation of Baku is through the circulation of counter-images that challenge the false sense of utopia.<br>by Garine Boghossian.<br>S.M. in Architecture Studies
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Dunn, Shannon Monique. ""Little more than a winter home" an historical archaeology of Irish seasonal migration at Slievemore, Achill Island /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Ettenger, Kreg Todd Castro A. H. Peter. "Siipii, uuchii, minishtikw, istchii [river, mountain, island, land] Development, conflict and local knowledge in Eeyou Istchee, northern Quebec /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
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Steager, Tabitha Youngreen. "(Re)making place on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia : a tale told two ways." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51242.
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This PhD dissertation is an ethnography of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork, this dissertation explores how people define, imagine, and create place on Salt Spring Island and why creating place matters. I use the importance my research participants place on local food as a particular lens to give focus to this exploration of how place is made and re-made. Definitions of Salt Spring Island are complex and often contested and competing. On an island known for its physical beauty as well as an “alternative” approach to social relations and politics, Salt Spring Island is also a place where economic development competes with environmental preservation, affluence intersects with poverty, and residents grapple with concepts of insider versus outsider. Using in-depth ethnographic research methods that included long-term research in residence on Salt Spring Island as well as participatory visual ethnographic methods, I explore these contestations of place and examine how people mobilize various means to define Salt Spring Island for themselves. Using Salt Spring Island as an example, I attempt to show that the creation of place is one fraught with conscious and unconscious arguments about who has the right and the power to define place. Ultimately the place that I describe within this ethnography is one that I have co-created with my research participants during a particular space in time and it is therefore unique, as all of our experiences with place must be. In addition to the ethnography, this dissertation also attempts to tell a story about Salt Spring Island in an experimental manner using photographs made by participants and researcher, constructing a purely visual ethnography that is meant to be interpreted by the reader. In so doing, an additional definition or experience of place is created by each reader, thus further developing the exploration of how we create place.<br>Graduate Studies, College of (Okanagan)<br>Graduate
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Van, Gestel Jean-Paul. "Structure and tectonics of the Puerto Rico-Virgin Islands platform and multi-confirguration ground penetrating radar data /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Corti, Claudia, and Pietro Lo Cascio, eds. Fifth international Symposium on the lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin. Firenze University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/88-8453-180-2.
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The volume collects the contributions to the Fifth International Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basinheld on the island of Lipari between 7 and 11 May 2004. The study of the Mediterranean lacertid lizards represents a key point for understanding the mechanisms regulating the evolution of the Mediterranean’s ecosystems and in particular those ones related to islands. Conservation of biodiversity is the main target that such a knowledge significantly contributes to fulfil.
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Glasscock, Jean. The making of an island: Sint Maarten-Saint Martin. J. Glasscock, 1985.
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Sloat, Susanna. Making Caribbean dance: Continuity and creativity in island cultures. University Press of Florida, 2010.
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Mulford, Judy. Handicrafts of the Marshall Islands. Ministry of Resources and Development, 2006.
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Rhode Island. Special Legislative Commission to study all aspects of law and regulation concerning pyrotechnic displays and fire safety. Making Rhode Island the safest state: Report to the Rhode Island General Assembly, June 5, 2003. The Commission, 2003.
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Prasad, Mohit, and Seri Inthava Kauʻikealaula Luangphinith. Making waves: An anthology of transpacific writing. Ka Noio ʻA ʻe ʻAle, 2006.
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Beigel, Florian, and Philip Christou. "Island Making: A Sketch Book Urban Block Islands." In Architecture as city. Springer Vienna, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0368-5_12.
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Furusawa, Takuro. "Subsistence on the Main Island, Barrier Islands, and at Sea." In Living with Biodiversity in an Island Ecosystem. Springer Singapore, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-904-2_4.
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Itoh, Mayumi. "Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands Dispute." In The Making of China’s Peace with Japan. Springer Singapore, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4008-5_9.
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Pugh, Jonathan, and David Chandler. "Patchworks: The Ontology of the World." In Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds. University of Westminster Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16997/book52.c.
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Chapter 3 turns to ‘Patchwork ontologies’. Compared to Resilience, Patchwork ontologies shift debate towards affirmation and replace the modernist imaginary of islands with a more open ontology of spatial and temporal becoming. While this remains a relational understanding, Patchwork ontologies are more disruptive, destabilising the ‘solutionist’ or instrumentalising aspects of Resilience; making them more open, less governmentalising and human-centred. This is reflected in the work of the many ‘Patchwork ontologists’, critical thinkers, artists, designers, experimenters and poets who today frequently turn to islands and islander life to draw out how entanglements of relation are never fixed. Patchworks instead attend to disturbances and how islands are powerful ways of expressing processes of world-making. A key figure here is Glissant, and his focus upon ‘giving-on-and-with’ ‘Relation’, which pushes thinking with islands to the point that we can never stand outside and grasp (island) relations, only immerse ourselves in the texture and turbulence of the weave. For patchwork approaches, thinking with islands then becomes a ‘verb’ (Teaiwa) and practice of ‘staying with the trouble’, opening ourselves to relational affects – an immersive process of becoming which is today being developed by a wide engagement with islands and islander life.
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King, Lisa M. "Geotourism in the Hawaiian Islands." In Geotourism: the tourism of geology and landscape. Goodfellow Publishers, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-906884-09-3-1087.
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Situated almost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the Hawaiian Islands are not only one of the most isolated places in the world (Juvic and Juvic, 1998), but also one of one of the most isolated places in the world (Juvic and Juvic, 1998), but also one of the best known. Hawaii's acclaimed natural attractions stem from its volcanic origins - tall mountains deeply eroded by tropical rains and waterfalls into rugged gorges and valleys, a spectacular backdrop for world-class beaches, dramatic volcanic landscapes and forests. The state consists of six main islands: Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai and Hawaii Island, also known as the Big Island. Two lesser known islands, Niihau and Kahoolawe, are not open to conventional tourism. Tens of smaller, much older islands, northwest of the main island chain, are protected by-and-large within the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.
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Fant, Clyde E., and Mitchell G. Reddish. "Patmos." In A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195139174.003.0019.
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Famous for being the location for the writing of the book of Revelation (the Apocalypse), the island of Patmos is a jewel in the Aegean. This small island combines the charm and beauty of a typical Greek island with the tranquility and reverence of a sacred space. Visitors today might very well wish that they, like John, could be sentenced to exile on this island so rich with tradition, faith, and wonder. The northernmost island of the Dodecanese Islands (part of the Southern Sporades chain) in the Aegean Sea, Patmos, a part of the country of Greece, is 22 miles southwest of the island of Samos and about 38 miles from ancient Miletus on the mainland of Turkey. Patmos is a small, mountainous island, about 7 miles long and 3 miles wide, with a ragged coastline. The island has two narrow isthmuses that divide it into three parts. Primarily known for its association with the author of the New Testament book of Revelation, the island today displays the charm of a typical Greek island. The three main towns or villages on the island are Hora, Skala, and Kambos. Patmos is mentioned only briefly by ancient writers (Thucydides, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, and Tacitus), and little is known of its ancient history. The island was settled by the Dorians and later by the Ionians. Ancient ruins on the island attest to the inhabitation of the island during the Hellenistic period, a time when Patmos, along with the islands of Lipsos and Leros, belonged to the territory controlled by Miletus. These islands served as “buffer” islands, guarding and protecting the city of Miletus. Inscriptions from the island provide evidence of a temple of Artemis and a gymnasium on the island. Information about Patmos during the Roman period is scarce. Christian tradition, based on Revelation 1:9, claims Patmos as the site where John was exiled at the end of the 1st century C.E. by the Roman emperor Domitian. Whereas the Roman historian Tacitus does name three other islands in the Aegean (Donusa, Gyarus, and Amorgus) as islands where the Romans exiled or banished political prisoners, Patmos is never mentioned by ancient writers as a place of punishment.
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"Herschel Island." In Making of an Explorer. MQUP, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt80w7k.15.
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"Haudenosaunee Island Making." In Creation Stories. Yale University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1k03gdb.27.
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Schneider, Marius, and Vanessa Ferguson. "Seychelles." In Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in Africa. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837336.003.0046.
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Seychelles is an archipelago located in the Indian Ocean whose islands lie between 480 and 1,600 kilometres (km) from the east coast of Africa. Despite this distance from the continent’s mainland, the nation is, politically, part of Africa. The Seychelles consists of 115 islands subdivided into so-called Inner Islands and the Outer Islands. The Seychelles is also divided into twenty-five separate administrative regions, all of which are located on the Inner Islands. The island of Mahé is the largest of the group and has a rocky landscape with a narrow coastal strip. The capital and largest city is Victoria, situated on Mahé Island. Other main islands include Praslin and La Digue. The Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches groups are included in the territory of the Republic. Seychelles has a total population of 95,731 people. Seychelles working hours are Monday to Friday 0800 to 1600. The official currency of Seychelles is the Seychellois rupee (Rs/SCR).
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Erlandson, Jon M., Kristina M. Gill, Jennifer E. Perry, René L. Vellanoweth, and Andrew Yatsko. "Mineral Resources on the Islands of Alta and Baja California." In An Archaeology of Abundance. University Press of Florida, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056166.003.0006.
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Until recently, with a few exceptions, California Islands were believed to be relatively impoverished in high-quality materials for making stone tools. This chapter summarizes the distributions of known mineral resources on the islands, including numerous sources identified during recent geoarchaeology surveys. For islands occupied since the Terminal Pleistocene, the availability of such resources may have changed significantly through time due to sea level rise and coastal erosion. There is spatial variability in the distribution of mineral resources, but we show that such resources were relatively abundant on many of California's islands. This has implications for understanding the antiquity of initial colonization of the islands, the development of exchange networks, and the marginality of island mineral resources.
Conference papers on the topic "Makin Island"
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Buonamici, Gianfranco P., and Abe L. Boughner. "Gas Turbine Testing During US Navy Trials for LHD-8 USS Makin Island." In ASME Turbo Expo 2009: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2009-59310.
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The Navy’s newest and last WASP class Amphibious Assault Ship, LHD 8 USS MAKIN ISLAND, is undergoing sea testing for the first time November 2008 before an expected delivery to the US Navy in early 2009. Rather than the two steam propulsion plants used by other ships in the WASP class, LHD 8 utilizes a gas turbine/electric drive hybrid propulsion system developing a combined 70,000 horsepower that will drive the 42,800-ton ship to speeds in excess of 20 knots. The paper will discuss the testing used to prepare the LM2500+ installation on LHD 8, the first of its kind in a military application, for entry into service. This will include details on engine light-off and the testing performed both dockside and at-sea. The paper will discuss the results of the at-sea test data as it compares to the initial predictions used to provide the rationale for funding the ship’s construction project.
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Turso, J., W. Ainsworth, L. Dusang, D. Miller, and L. Smith. "U.S.S. Makin Island: Simulation-Based Analysis and its Role in Electric-Plant Control System Design." In 2007 IEEE Electric Ship Technologies Symposium. IEEE, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ests.2007.372060.
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Turso, James, Abe Boughner, and Gianfranco Buonamici. "Propulsion Simulator/Stimulator Development for US Navy’s Newest Gas Turbine-Powered Ship: LHD 8 USS Makin Island." In ASME Turbo Expo 2010: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2010-22305.
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The LHD 8 amphibious assault ship utilizes a hybrid propulsion plant, where the ship has the capability to be propelled by electric propulsion motors or gas turbine engines, all of which is controlled and monitored by a state-of-the-art Machinery Control System (MCS). Unlike the previous ships of the class which were steam powered, the hybrid drive is designed to allow economical low speed fuel efficiency on electric motors as well as a traditional gas turbine power plant for all other mission areas. This is expected to yield significant fuel savings over the life of the ship. The integrated machinery control system is likewise expected to reduce life cycle costs through reduced manning. The build specification for this ship class required that all MCS signals including the gas turbine alarms and shutdown functions be fully tested prior to initial light-off. Many of these functions are not activated, and therefore cannot be tested, until the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) senses that the gas turbine is running. Historically, previous ship classes used a manually-operated set of potentiometers to provide signals to a gas turbine ECU to simulate external inputs to allow testing of shutdown and alarm functions. For this newest class of engine however, the ECU is significantly more complex and requires the ECU to successfully progress through the start sequence, including sensed variables changing at expected rates, in order to activate the alarm and shutdown logic. In order to test this functionality, an engine simulator, physically interfaced to the ECU aboard the ship, was necessary. No system of this type is available or had ever been developed. Neither the engine or ECU manufacturer had a device for this purpose. The paper will discuss the development and implementation of a gas turbine simulator that incorporates an engine mathematical model fully compatible with the ECU controller, simulation hardware capable of supporting real-time system performance, signal conditioning necessary to provide/accept raw signals to/from the ECU, as well as a host laptop with software necessary to control simulator/stimulator and perform test functions. The paper will discuss the system requirements development, component selection, software and hardware development, and system integration and testing. Also discussed will be the results of bench testing as well as the final shipboard test results. Examples in the form of diagrams, photos, charts and schematics will be used. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the benefits of a dynamic gas turbine simulator and potential future applications.
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Mako, C. David, Shane Mccullough, and Abe Boughner. "Hybrid Electric Design Enters Navy Service: A Report on the Early Service Experience From LHD 8 -USS Makin Island." In ASME Turbo Expo 2010: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2010-22122.
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The LHD 8 amphibious assault ship utilizes a hybrid propulsion plant, where the ship has the capability to be propelled by electric propulsion motors or gas turbine engines all of which is controlled and monitored by a state-of-the-art Machinery Control System (MCS). Unlike the previous ships of the class which were steam powered, the hybrid drive is designed to allow economical low speed fuel efficiency on electric motors as well as a traditional gas turbine power plant for all other mission areas. This will yield significant fuel savings over the life of the ship. The integrated machinery control system is likewise expected to reduce life cycle costs through reduced manning. After a successful series of sea trials, the LHD 8, Makin Island was delivered to the US Navy on April 2009 and departed the builders’ yard in July 2009 for a transit around the tip of South America to her homeport of San Diego, CA. The paper discusses the results of Builders and Acceptance Trials as well as the in-service experience of the ship on her maiden voyage. Examples are given of predicted vs. expected fuel consumption rates, design issues encountered and corrective measures taken as well as feedback from operators on the overall machinery plant design the MCS and its ease of operation. Included in the paper are ship drawings, photos and diagrams.
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Hatcher, Shaun D., Matthew J. Driscoll, and Abe L. Boughner. "Unique Replacement Method Developed for the U.S. Navy’s Newest Gas Turbine Powered Warship." In ASME Turbo Expo 2008: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/gt2008-50114.
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The Navy’s newest big-deck Amphibious Assault Ship, LHD 8 Makin Island, is currently under construction and scheduled for delivery in late 2008. LHD 8 utilizes a gas turbine propulsion system that replaces the steam propulsion system used on the previous seven ships of the class. LHD’s are similar in design to aircraft carriers with a full length flight deck and island to the starboard side. Additionally the LHD 8 machinery spaces are directly below storage decks for mission equipment. Because of internal arrangements and the convoluted routes of the intake ducting the traditional method of removing the gas turbines through the superstructure via shore side crane was not possible. The LHD 8 will utilize a method of change out from within the ship. The paper will discuss the design considerations involved in developing this changeout method as well as a review and discussion of the physical changeout demonstration conducted by the shipbuilder. The paper will discuss the design development process such as the environmental qualifications of ship hardware, ship integrity and survivability, special tooling developed for LHD 8, differences from the traditional changeout methods as well as the US Navy’s maintenance philosophy for this ‘first-of-class’ ship design. Included in the paper will be ship drawings, photos and diagrams of the change out hardware, removal routes, special tooling and support equipment.
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Waals, O. J., T. H. J. Bunnik, and W. J. Otto. "Model Tests and Numerical Analysis for a Floating Mega Island." In ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2018-78589.
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About 70% of the earth’s surface area is covered with water. Due to the sea level rise and increasing population in coastal areas we need to use our oceans more for energy production, food production, working and living. In the present paper we discuss the results of a model test for a floating mega island in large waves up to 15.5 m significant wave height. The objective of this study is to investigate the motion response and loads on the island. These results may then be used to support further innovation of these islands. The proposed island comprises 87 large floating triangles that are connected to one another. Together they form a flexible floating island of 1.5 by 2 km in cross-section at scale 1:250. The results are presented for the motion response of the island as well as the forces between the islands triangular modules and the mooring loads. These were measured using forces transducers and motion sensors. The present work is part of a conceptual test carried out at MARIN. The island modules are interconnected with springs and fenders. This method is much similar to what is used in side by side offshore operations in the oil and gas industry. Due to the flexibility in the connections the island will follow the waves in high seas. The forward two rows of the island will move in phase with the sea and therefore the amount of green water is much smaller than for a rigid island.
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De Santi, Valentina, Carlo A. Gemignani, Anna Guarducci, and Luisa Rossi. "Rappresentazioni planimetriche, vedutistiche e tridimensionali per la fortificazione di due isole del Mediterraneo occidentale: Elba e Palmaria (secolo XIX)." In FORTMED2020 - Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean. Universitat Politàcnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/fortmed2020.2020.11497.
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Planimetric maps, views and three-dimensional representations for the fortification of two western Mediterranean islands: Elba and Palmaria (nineteenth century)The French expansion and domination in Italy between the Revolutionary Age and the Empire based on a widespread activity of territorial knowledge, which rested in the Corps of Engineers-Geographers and in the Military Genius the main actors. The paper summarizes the results of long research on this activity, carried out in the islands of Elba (Tuscany) and Palmaria (Liguria): two strategic islands in the western Mediterranean. The need to equip the territories dominated by the French with increasingly functional defenses, gave a strong impulse to the renewal of surveying and cartography, with the use of geodetic projections, views and three-dimensional models. Elba example is significant for the complete triangulation of the island connected to the Corsica one (with part of Sardinia and the smaller islands of the Tuscan archipelago). Geographer engineers such as Tranchot, Simonel, Moynet, Puissant worked on these activities and produced some maps and a small model of part of Elba. In the Palmaria example the three-dimensional reproduction (plan-relief) was contextual to the work of Genius engineers who produced a vast and organic corpus of maps of various scales, views, sketches and watercolors, suitable to represent the most complete visualization of the landscapes where to insert defensive buildings. The collaboration between French and Italian engineers took advantage of this first experience in designing some batteries. However, it was the post-Napoleonic decades that made Palmaria island a powerful “fortress island” to defend the entrance to the Gulf of La Spezia, where the military arsenal (commissioned by Cavour and built by Domenico Chiodo) arose.
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Chi, Ping, Wang-Chien Lee, and Yuan Xie. "Making B + -tree efficient in PCM-based main memory." In ISLPED'14: International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design. ACM, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2627369.2627630.
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Elobaid, Elnaiem Ali, Fadhil Sadooni, and Hamad Al Saad. "Tectonic and Geologic Settings of Halul and Al-Alyia Offshore Islands, Examples of Different Evolution Models, Within the Emergence of the Arabian Gulf Geosyncline: A Review." In Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition. Qatar University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29117/quarfe.2020.0044.
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The Arabian Gulf represents a significant water body and strategic pathway, which has pronounced regional and international benefits. This research investigated the evolution of the Arabian Gulf geosyncline. Furthermore, it explored the formation, geologic and tectonic settings of Halul and Al-Alyia offshore Islands, as examples of two different evolution models, within the emergence framework. The Arabian Gulf geosyncline has been emerged during the Cenozoic Era (Late Miocene-Pliocene Epoch), situated in the northeastern collisional marginal part of the Arabian Plate, as a foredeep geosyncline or basin, squeezed or crammed between the stable Arabian Plate and the mobile Euro-Asian Plate, along the subduction zone, within Zagros Mountain Fold Thrust Belt. Halul Island is situated to the northeast of the Greater Doha City and has great national economic value. It has a unique shape, elongated domal structure, oriented from South-West to North-East. The tectonic setting of Halul Island is classified as salt diapirism. The surface geology of this Island is dominated by carbonate rocks, mainly limestone and dolomitic limestone, and some igneous rock, such as basalt and Tholeiite. Al-Alyia Island is an integral part of the mainland. It is situated within the Greater Doha City's vicinity, in the eastern coastal zone. The Island is oriented from south-east to north-west. It is characterized by a gentle slope and low relief topography. The main rocks forming the island is the limestone and dolomitic limestone of the Simsima /Umm Bab Member of the Upper Dammam Formation of Tertiary age. This fact suggests that the island has a similar geologic setting to the mainland. This study revealed that the Halul Island evolution model is completely different from the evolution model of Al-Alyia Island, as Halul Island is a typical example model of salt dome Island, and remnants of the infracambrian salt basin, while Al-Alyia Island represents a different sedimentation model. This research has been carried out as part of the Environmental Science Center (ESC), Qatar University research agenda.
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Bray, Don E., and G. S. Gad. "Establishment of an NDE Center at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology: Scope and Objectives." In ASME 1997 Turbo Asia Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/97-aa-065.
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Papua New Guinea lies just north of Australia (Fig. 1). It is a developing island nation, with 462,839 km of land area, a population of 3.9 million people, and vast natural resources (Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia, 1996). It is the largest island in the Oceania region of the world, which also includes Fiji, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Most of these islands share similar resources, and prudent development of the resources requires utilization of nondestructive evaluation (NDE). NDE provides the means for flaw detection and size assessment, as well as evaluation of material degradation such as corrosion and hydrogen attack. These are factors which affect the service life of components and systems. Being aware of the state of degradation of these components and systems will enable cost effective maintenance, and reduce costly and dangerous failures. Recognizing the need for NDE expertise, the Papua New Guinea University of Technology at Lae has initiated a Center for Nondestructive Evaluation. Once operational, the center should serve the entire Oceania region, and provide resources, trained students and expertise that will enable the growth of the NDE industry within that area. It is widely accepted that NDE adds value to a product or process, not just cost. The amount of value is directly related to the engineering education of the personnel making NDE decisions. The growth of the NDE industry in these South Pacific Islands will add to the economy, as well as aid in the further creation of a population of engineers who are well educated in NDE.
Reports on the topic "Makin Island"
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Tweet, Justin S., Vincent L. Santucci, Kenneth Convery, Jonathan Hoffman, and Laura Kirn. Channel Islands National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version). National Park Service, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2278664.
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Channel Island National Park (CHIS), incorporating five islands off the coast of southern California (Anacapa Island, San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island), has an outstanding paleontological record. The park has significant fossils dating from the Late Cretaceous to the Holocene, representing organisms of the sea, the land, and the air. Highlights include: the famous pygmy mammoths that inhabited the conjoined northern islands during the late Pleistocene; the best fossil avifauna of any National Park Service (NPS) unit; intertwined paleontological and cultural records extending into the latest Pleistocene, including Arlington Man, the oldest well-dated human known from North America; calichified “fossil forests”; records of Miocene desmostylians and sirenians, unusual sea mammals; abundant Pleistocene mollusks illustrating changes in sea level and ocean temperature; one of the most thoroughly studied records of microfossils in the NPS; and type specimens for 23 fossil taxa. Paleontological research on the islands of CHIS began in the second half of the 19th century. The first discovery of a mammoth specimen was reported in 1873. Research can be divided into four periods: 1) the few early reports from the 19th century; 2) a sustained burst of activity in the 1920s and 1930s; 3) a second burst from the 1950s into the 1970s; and 4) the modern period of activity, symbolically opened with the 1994 discovery of a nearly complete pygmy mammoth skeleton on Santa Rosa Island. The work associated with this paleontological resource inventory may be considered the beginning of a fifth period. Fossils were specifically mentioned in the 1938 proclamation establishing what was then Channel Islands National Monument, making CHIS one of 18 NPS areas for which paleontological resources are referenced in the enabling legislation. Each of the five islands of CHIS has distinct paleontological and geological records, each has some kind of fossil resources, and almost all of the sedimentary formations on the islands are fossiliferous within CHIS. Anacapa Island and Santa Barbara Island, the two smallest islands, are primarily composed of Miocene volcanic rocks interfingered with small quantities of sedimentary rock and covered with a veneer of Quaternary sediments. Santa Barbara stands apart from Anacapa because it was never part of Santarosae, the landmass that existed at times in the Pleistocene when sea level was low enough that the four northern islands were connected. San Miguel Island, Santa Cruz Island, and Santa Rosa Island have more complex geologic histories. Of these three islands, San Miguel Island has relatively simple geologic structure and few formations. Santa Cruz Island has the most varied geology of the islands, as well as the longest rock record exposed at the surface, beginning with Jurassic metamorphic and intrusive igneous rocks. The Channel Islands have been uplifted and faulted in a complex 20-million-year-long geologic episode tied to the collision of the North American and Pacific Places, the initiation of the San Andreas fault system, and the 90° clockwise rotation of the Transverse Ranges, of which the northern Channel Islands are the westernmost part. Widespread volcanic activity from about 19 to 14 million years ago is evidenced by the igneous rocks found on each island.
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Akoglu, Leman, Jilles Vreeken, Hanghang Tong, Duen H. Chau, and Christos Faloutsos. Islands and Bridges: Making Sense of Marked Nodes in Large Graphs. Defense Technical Information Center, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada566565.
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Akoglu, Leman, Hanghang Tong, Nikolaj Tatti, Jilles Vreeken, Duen H. Chau, and Christos Faloutsos. Islands and Bridges: Making Sense of Marked Nodes in Large Graphs. Defense Technical Information Center, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada580208.
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Baird, Robin W., Daniel L. Webster, and Daniel J. McSweeney. Biases and Data Limitations of Odontocete Cetacean Sighting Data from Small-Boat Based Surveys Around the Main Hawaiian Islands. Defense Technical Information Center, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada593884.
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for Development Programme, Knowledge. Using Indices to Capture Vulnerability for Development Finance in SIDS. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.066.
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This rapid review examines evidence on indices to capture vulnerability for development finance in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). A key issue when it comes to aid allocation to Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is whether current measures of development – such as income per capita - are truly able to reflect the unique set of challenges that these countries face. Inability to accurately measure development in SIDS can lead to substantial risk. On the one hand, aid allocation that solely relies on income levels may result in an unsustainable reduction in external support to SIDS, leaving them to face high levels of economic, environmental, and social vulnerability. On the other hand, an inadequate measure of vulnerability can lead to no clear pathway to the reduction in aid, making it very improbable for SIDS to become self-reliant, no matter how far they develop or climb the income ladder. This aim of this paper is twofold. The first is to look at whether vulnerability indices can help determine the levels of external support SIDS need. The second is to consider how this can help in determining when support can be reduced or terminated. This is achieved by considering the different indices that international organisations and multilateral development banks use to capture the vulnerability of SIDS, how they use these indices to determine thresholds for aid allocation, and the advantages and disadvantages of applying each.
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Baird, Robin W., Daniel L. Webster, Sabre D. Mahaffy, Gregory S. Schorr, Jessica M. Aschettino, and Antoinette M. Gorgone. Movements and Spatial Use of Odontocetes in the Western Main Hawaiian Islands: Results of a Three-Year Study Off O'ahu and Kaua'i. Defense Technical Information Center, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada602078.
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Gaird, Robin W., Daniel L. Webster, Gregory S. Schorr, Jessica M. Aschettino, Antoinette M. Gorgone, and Sabre D. Mahaffy. Movements and Spatial Use of Odontocetes in the Western Main Hawaiian Islands: Results from Satellite-Tagging and Photo-Identification off Kaua'i and Ni'ihau in July/August 2011. Defense Technical Information Center, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada570925.
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Godenau, Dirk. Migration and the economy. Observatorio de la Inmigración de Tenerife. Departamento de Geografía e Historia. Universidad de La Laguna. Tenerife, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/r.obitfact.2020.02.
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Economic reasons are among the basic explanatory factors of migration, whether international or internally within a country. In turn, migratory movements have effects on the economy in terms of economic growth in general, but also in the different markets (work, housing, consumer goods, etc.) and public services (education, health, social services, etc.). The purpose of this document is to offer an overview of these interactions between migration and the economy in the case of the Canary Islands. To do this, certain conceptual clarifications will be made initially involving the mutual determination of both processes, before later providing specifics with evidence on the Canarian case for the main issues considered: the economic reasons for migration, and its impact on economic growth, the labour market and the living conditions of the immigrant population. The final section alludes to the importance of the institutional framework that regulates these relations between migration and the economy, which are far from being interpretable as a mechanical relationship and isolated from the political sphere.
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Atkinson, Dan, and Alex Hale, eds. From Source to Sea: ScARF Marine and Maritime Panel Report. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.09.2012.126.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under four headings: 1. From Source to Sea: River systems, from their source to the sea and beyond, should form the focus for research projects, allowing the integration of all archaeological work carried out along their course. Future research should take a holistic view of the marine and maritime historic environment, from inland lakes that feed freshwater river routes, to tidal estuaries and out to the open sea. This view of the landscape/seascape encompasses a very broad range of archaeology and enables connections to be made without the restrictions of geographical or political boundaries. Research strategies, programmes From Source to Sea: ScARF Marine and Maritime Panel Report iii and projects can adopt this approach at multiple levels; from national to site-specific, with the aim of remaining holistic and cross-cutting. 2. Submerged Landscapes: The rising research profile of submerged landscapes has recently been embodied into a European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action; Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology and Landscapes of the Continental Shelf (SPLASHCOS), with exciting proposals for future research. Future work needs to be integrated with wider initiatives such as this on an international scale. Recent projects have begun to demonstrate the research potential for submerged landscapes in and beyond Scotland, as well as the need to collaborate with industrial partners, in order that commercially-created datasets can be accessed and used. More data is required in order to fully model the changing coastline around Scotland and develop predictive models of site survival. Such work is crucial to understanding life in early prehistoric Scotland, and how the earliest communities responded to a changing environment. 3. Marine & Maritime Historic Landscapes: Scotland’s coastal and intertidal zones and maritime hinterland encompass in-shore islands, trans-continental shipping lanes, ports and harbours, and transport infrastructure to intertidal fish-traps, and define understanding and conceptualisation of the liminal zone between the land and the sea. Due to the pervasive nature of the Marine and Maritime historic landscape, a holistic approach should be taken that incorporates evidence from a variety of sources including commercial and research archaeology, local and national societies, off-shore and onshore commercial development; and including studies derived from, but not limited to history, ethnology, cultural studies, folklore and architecture and involving a wide range of recording techniques ranging from photography, laser imaging, and sonar survey through to more orthodox drawn survey and excavation. 4. Collaboration: As is implicit in all the above, multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and cross-sector approaches are essential in order to ensure the capacity to meet the research challenges of the marine and maritime historic environment. There is a need for collaboration across the heritage sector and beyond, into specific areas of industry, science and the arts. Methods of communication amongst the constituent research individuals, institutions and networks should be developed, and dissemination of research results promoted. The formation of research communities, especially virtual centres of excellence, should be encouraged in order to build capacity.
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Karlstrom, Karl, Laura Crossey, Allyson Matthis, and Carl Bowman. Telling time at Grand Canyon National Park: 2020 update. National Park Service, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2285173.
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Grand Canyon National Park is all about time and timescales. Time is the currency of our daily life, of history, and of biological evolution. Grand Canyon’s beauty has inspired explorers, artists, and poets. Behind it all, Grand Canyon’s geology and sense of timelessness are among its most prominent and important resources. Grand Canyon has an exceptionally complete and well-exposed rock record of Earth’s history. It is an ideal place to gain a sense of geologic (or deep) time. A visit to the South or North rims, a hike into the canyon of any length, or a trip through the 277-mile (446-km) length of Grand Canyon are awe-inspiring experiences for many reasons, and they often motivate us to look deeper to understand how our human timescales of hundreds and thousands of years overlap with Earth’s many timescales reaching back millions and billions of years. This report summarizes how geologists tell time at Grand Canyon, and the resultant “best” numeric ages for the canyon’s strata based on recent scientific research. By best, we mean the most accurate and precise ages available, given the dating techniques used, geologic constraints, the availability of datable material, and the fossil record of Grand Canyon rock units. This paper updates a previously-published compilation of best numeric ages (Mathis and Bowman 2005a; 2005b; 2007) to incorporate recent revisions in the canyon’s stratigraphic nomenclature and additional numeric age determinations published in the scientific literature. From bottom to top, Grand Canyon’s rocks can be ordered into three “sets” (or primary packages), each with an overarching story. The Vishnu Basement Rocks were once tens of miles deep as North America’s crust formed via collisions of volcanic island chains with the pre-existing continent between 1,840 and 1,375 million years ago. The Grand Canyon Supergroup contains evidence for early single-celled life and represents basins that record the assembly and breakup of an early supercontinent between 729 and 1,255 million years ago. The Layered Paleozoic Rocks encode stories, layer by layer, of dramatic geologic changes and the evolution of animal life during the Paleozoic Era (period of ancient life) between 270 and 530 million years ago. In addition to characterizing the ages and geology of the three sets of rocks, we provide numeric ages for all the groups and formations within each set. Nine tables list the best ages along with information on each unit’s tectonic or depositional environment, and specific information explaining why revisions were made to previously published numeric ages. Photographs, line drawings, and diagrams of the different rock formations are included, as well as an extensive glossary of geologic terms to help define important scientific concepts. The three sets of rocks are separated by rock contacts called unconformities formed during long periods of erosion. This report unravels the Great Unconformity, named by John Wesley Powell 150 years ago, and shows that it is made up of several distinct erosion surfaces. The Great Nonconformity is between the Vishnu Basement Rocks and the Grand Canyon Supergroup. The Great Angular Unconformity is between the Grand Canyon Supergroup and the Layered Paleozoic Rocks. Powell’s term, the Great Unconformity, is used for contacts where the Vishnu Basement Rocks are directly overlain by the Layered Paleozoic Rocks. The time missing at these and other unconformities within the sets is also summarized in this paper—a topic that can be as interesting as the time recorded. Our goal is to provide a single up-to-date reference that summarizes the main facets of when the rocks exposed in the canyon’s walls were formed and their geologic history. This authoritative and readable summary of the age of Grand Canyon rocks will hopefully be helpful to National Park Service staff including resource managers and park interpreters at many levels of geologic understandings...