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Elsner, Robert, Douglas Wartzok, Nancy B. Sonafrank, and Brendan P. Kelly. "Behavioral and physiological reactions of arctic seals during under-ice pilotage." Canadian Journal of Zoology 67, no. 10 (October 1, 1989): 2506–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z89-354.

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One spotted seal (Phoca largha) and two ringed seals (Phoca hispida) were studied in experiments designed to determine which sensory modalities were employed in pilotage from one under-ice breathing hole to another. Breathing holes were drilled in the ice of a frozen freshwater pond and a lake near Fairbanks, Alaska. Holes were located 22–150 m apart. Tethered seals swimming without blindfolding located holes when they chanced to swim within visual detection distance. Blindfolded seals responded to acoustic signals. Tactile sensitivity of the vibrissae was used by blindfolded seals in the immediate vicinity of a hole to which they had been attracted by an acoustic cue. Responses of a juvenile ringed seal did not differ fundamentally from those of an adult of the same species nor from those of the spotted seal. The results indicate that seals relied upon a sensory hierarchy for locating breathing holes: vision, audition, and vibrissal sense. Heart rate was recorded during voluntary dives of the younger ringed seal at 2 and 3 years of age. Profound diving bradycardia was observed, suggesting that a highly developed diving response is routinely invoked by seals of relatively small body size during under-ice excursions.

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SATO, KEI, and ROBERT G. JENKINS. "MOBILE HOME FOR PHOLADOID BORING BIVALVES: FIRST EXAMPLE FROM A LATE CRETACEOUS SEA TURTLE IN HOKKAIDO JAPAN." PALAIOS 35, no. 5 (May 18, 2020): 228–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2019.077.

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ABSTRACT Trace fossils preserved in fossilized tissues provide a key resource for exploring the paleoecology of past ecosystems. Endobiont organisms are commonplace in modern ecosystems, but their trace fossils on vertebrates are rare as the organisms usually attack or attach to soft tissue. Here, we report the novel occurrence of flask-shaped boreholes representing the ichnotaxon Karethraichnus n. isp. in the carapace of the basal leatherback sea turtle Mesodermochelys sp. from the Upper Cretaceous of northern Japan. The distribution of the boreholes was determined by observing the carapace surface. Using X-ray computed tomography, we were also able to produce a 3D reconstruction of the whole carapace and examine a cross section of a borehole to analyze the histological aspects of the bone. In total, 43 holes were observed, 12 holes contained probable pholadoid bivalves, and 32 holes were not bored entirely through the carapace. Some of the bivalves found in the holes are larger than the aperture of the hole, suggesting that they continued to grow during boring. The holes are hemispherical to clavate in shape and developed on the exterior side of the carapace. Healing traces, i.e., repairing of bone, can be observed at the surface of the holes. Our observations strongly suggest that these pits were bored by pholadoid bivalves while the turtle was alive. This is the first report of the behavior of boring bivalves as sea-turtle endobionts boring into a unique free-living, i.e., “swimming substrate”.

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DRAGUNOVA, S. M., E. V. KUZNETSOV, and A. E. HADJIDI. "IMPROVEMENT OF THE EFFICIENCY OF FISH PROTECTION STRUCTURES ON RECLAMATION WATER INTAKES OF THE LOWER KUBAN." Prirodoobustrojstvo, no. 4 (2020): 55–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.26897/1997-6011-2020-4-55-61.

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We used the data of observations presented in the reports of the FSBI «Head office «Kubanmeliovodhoz» and the results of laboratory tests on the physical model in the scale 1:20 of the new IFPF with the boom structure. The effectiveness of the model was evaluated using simulators for 3 groups of fish fry. The research data were processed using well-known methods of the mathematical analysis. The research methodology is justified which allows taking into account the concentration of young fish in 1 m3 when performing laboratory experiments.The investigations showed that the improvement of the efficiency with the boom structure is achieved due to the additional bottom threshold. The threshold directs the bottom stream with the fish fry to the trampoline where there is an airlift in the form of a bubble curtain, making the young fish to jump in the fish-reception holes of water-permeable shields. A new design IFPF is developed with a boom which provides a protection effect for fish fry formed according to the swimming ability which allowed establishing sizes of elements of fish protection structure.

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Wartzok, Douglas, Robert Elsner, Henry Stone, Brendan P. Kelly, and Randall W. Davis. "Under-ice movements and the sensory basis of hole finding by ringed and Weddell seals." Canadian Journal of Zoology 70, no. 9 (September 1, 1992): 1712–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z92-238.

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Arctic ringed seals (Phoca hispida) and antarctic Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddelli) were tracked using an attached acoustic tag during their under-ice movements at isolated experimental sites with varying numbers of novel breathing holes. Both natural and artificial visual landmarks were used by the seals during their dives. Seals deprived of vision through blindfolding greatly restricted their diving. Blindfolded seals responded to supplied acoustic cues and moved toward them. Prior to swimming toward an acoustic cue, the animals often swam at an angle to the direct line to the source of the acoustic cue. This movement could have provided information on the distance to the source of the sound. After executing this presumed ranging behavior, the seals swam directly toward the acoustic cue up to 4 km away. The contribution of vibrissal sensation to location of an open hole was investigated in blindfolded ringed seals. Seals farther than 1 m from an open hole were unable to find the hole without an acoustic cue. Vibrissal sensation apparently contributed to centering the blindfolded ringed seal within a breathing hole, but not to locating the hole. Weddell seals were able to maintain straight-line tracks for several hundred metres out from and back to a hole, were able to follow the same path on subsequent trips separated by up to 64 h, and continued using established routes between holes even though shorter, direct routes were available. The spatial memory implied by these observations is postulated to be a mechanism by which seals are able to move from one breathing hole to another under ice during dark polar winters.

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Thar, Roland, and Michael Kühl. "Conspicuous Veils Formed by Vibrioid Bacteria on Sulfidic Marine Sediment." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68, no. 12 (December 2002): 6310–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.68.12.6310-6320.2002.

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ABSTRACT We describe the morphology and behavior of a hitherto unknown bacterial species that forms conspicuous veils (typical dimensions, 30 by 30 mm) on sulfidic marine sediment. The new bacteria were enriched on complex sulfidic medium within a benthic gradient chamber in oxygen-sulfide countergradients, but the bacteria have so far not been isolated in pure culture, and a detailed characterization of their metabolism is still lacking. The bacteria are colorless, gram-negative, and vibrioid-shaped (1.3- to 2.5- by 4- to 10-μm) cells that multiply by binary division and contain several spherical inclusions of poly-β-hydroxybutyric acid. The cells have bipolar polytrichous flagella and exhibit a unique swimming pattern, rotating and translating along their short axis. Free-swimming cells showed aerotaxis and aggregated at ca. 2 μM oxygen within opposing oxygen-sulfide gradients, where they were able to attach via a mucous stalk, forming a cohesive whitish veil at the oxic-anoxic interface. Bacteria attached to the veil kept rotating and adapted their stalk lengths dynamically to changing oxygen concentrations. The joint action of rotating bacteria on the veil induced a homogeneous water flow from the oxic water region toward the veil, whereby the oxygen uptake rate could be enhanced up to six times, as shown by model calculations. The veils showed a pronounced succession pattern. New veils were generated de novo within 24 h and had a homogeneous whitish translucent appearance. Bacterial competitors or eukaryotic predators were apparently kept away by the low oxygen concentration prevailing at the veil surface. Frequently, within 2 days the veil developed a honeycomb pattern of regularly spaced holes. After 4 days, most veils were colonized by grazing ciliates, leading to the fast disappearance of the new bacteria. Several-week-old veils finally developed into microbial mats consisting of green, purple, and colorless sulfur bacteria.

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Dragunova, Svetlana, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Anna Khadzhidi, Alexander Koltsov, and Noureldin Sharaby. "Investigating the effectiveness of a fish-protection structure of the reclamation water intake." E3S Web of Conferences 210 (2020): 07008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021007008.

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The study was conducted at the reclamation water intake facility of Tikhovsky hydroelectric complex. We used data from long-term observations and results of laboratory studies on a 1:20 scale physical model of the Zapan fish protection device. The effectiveness of the model was evaluated using simulators of juvenile fish. Increasing the efficiency of the Zapan fish protection facility is achieved by additional placement in the bottom threshold, which directs the bottom flow along with the young fish to the springboard, where there is an airlift in the form of a bubble curtain that lifts the young along the springboard into the fish-receiving holes of permeable shields. Fish protection design and location in the middle of the water stream do not create a backwater due to low resistance and provide protection for young fish. This increases not only the survival rate of young fish, but also the efficiency of reclamation water intakes. A new design of a fish protection structure for reclamation water intakes of the Zapan type was developed, which provides a fish protection effect of 3 groups of young fish formed by their swimming ability, which allowed determining the size of the elements of the fish protection structure.

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Hobson, R. P., and A. R. Martin. "Behaviour and dive times of Arnoux's beaked whales, Berardius arnuxii, at narrow leads in fast ice." Canadian Journal of Zoology 74, no. 2 (February 1, 1996): 388–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z96-045.

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Groups of the little-known Arnoux's beaked whale, Berardius arnuxii, were observed at narrow cracks or leads in sea ice near the Antarctic peninsula during the austral summer of 1992–1993. The whales were grey, had a slightly asymmetric blowhole and blow, and were heavily scarred in adulthood. At least 30 animals were uniquely identified using their scars. Despite often cramped conditions at the breathing holes, the whales were always calm and nonaggressive, reacting to the circumstances with surfacing and submerging behaviour involving little horizontal movement. Seventy dive durations by 17 identified adults were recorded, with a mode of 35–65 min and a maximum of at least 70 min. Eight periods of respiration varied between 1.2 and 6.8 min, with an average of 9.6 blows/min. These breath-hold characteristics confirm B. arnuxii as one of the most accomplished mammalian divers, capable of swimming up to an estimated 7 km between breathing sites in sea ice. Whales moved to and from the observed lead, apparently able to find other breathing sites in what appeared to be unbroken ice. The species seems well adapted to life in ice-covered waters and may be able to exploit food resources inaccessible to other predators in the region.

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Dopheide, Andrew, Gavin Lear, Rebecca Stott, and Gillian Lewis. "Preferential Feeding by the Ciliates Chilodonella and Tetrahymena spp. and Effects of These Protozoa on Bacterial Biofilm Structure and Composition." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 77, no. 13 (May 20, 2011): 4564–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.02421-10.

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ABSTRACTProtozoa are important components of microbial food webs, but protozoan feeding preferences and their effects in the context of bacterial biofilms are not well understood. The feeding interactions of two contrasting ciliates, the free-swimming filter feederTetrahymenasp. and the surface-associated predatorChilodonellasp., were investigated using biofilm-forming bacteria genetically modified to express fluorescent proteins. According to microscopy, both ciliates readily consumed cells from bothPseudomonascostantiniiandSerratiaplymuthicabiofilms. When offered a choice between spatially separated biofilms, each ciliate showed a preference forP. costantiniibiofilms. Experiments with bacterial cell extracts indicated that both ciliates used dissolved chemical cues to locate biofilms.Chilodonellasp. evidently used bacterial chemical cues as a basis for preferential feeding decisions, but it was unclear whetherTetrahymenasp. did also. Confocal microscopy of live biofilms revealed thatTetrahymenasp. had a major impact on biofilm morphology, forming holes and channels throughoutS. plymuthicabiofilms and reducingP. costantiniibiofilms to isolated, grazing-resistant microcolonies. Grazing byChilodonellasp. resulted in the development of less-defined trails throughS. plymuthicabiofilms and causedP. costantiniibiofilms to become homogeneous scatterings of cells. It was not clear whether the observed feeding preferences for spatially separatedP. costantiniibiofilms overS. plymuthicabiofilms resulted in selective targeting ofP. costantiniicells in mixed biofilms. Grazing of mixed biofilms resulted in the depletion of both types of bacteria, withTetrahymenasp. having a larger impact thanChilodonellasp., and effects similar to those seen in grazed single-species biofilms.

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Brett, Carlton E., and Sally E. Walker. "Predators and Predation in Paleozoic Marine Environments." Paleontological Society Papers 8 (October 2002): 93–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1089332600001078.

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The Paleozoic body fossil record of potential benthic predators includes nautiloid and ammonoid cephalopods, phyllocarids, decapods, and several lineages of gnathostomes. The latter group, in particular, radiated rapidly during the Devonian. In the pelagic realm, predator-prey interactions involving cephalopods and some nektonic arthropods probably appeared in the Ordovician. Again, evidence indicates intensification of pelagic predation, much of it by arthrodires and sharks on other fishes, during the Devonian radiation of gnathostomes.Trace fossils provide direct evidence of predatory attack from the Ediacarian and Early Cambrian onward, but with a substantial increase in the Siluro-Devonian. Brachiopod and molluscan shells and trilobite exoskeletons show evidence of healed bite marks and peeling from the Cambrian onward, but with an increased frequency in the Devonian. Predatory drill holes with stereotypical position and prey-species preference are found in brachiopods (Cambrian onward) and mollusks (Ordovician onward); boreholes also show increased frequency in the middle Paleozoic. Certain of these boreholes are tentatively attributable to platyceratid gastropods.Hard-shelled benthic organisms with thicker, more spinose skeletons may have had a selective advantage as durophagous predators increased. Brachiopods, gastropods, trilobites, and crinoids show an abrupt increase in spinosity beginning in the Siluro-Devonian. But spinosity decreases after the early Carboniferous. Late Paleozoic benthos may have taken refuge in smaller size and resistant, thick-walled skeletons, as well as endobenthic and cementing modes of life. Conversely, in the pelagic realm, external armor was reduced, while more efficient, fast-swimming modes of life (e.g., in sharks) increased in the post-Devonian.

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Oseghale, Godwin Ehis, and Ime Johnson Ikpo. "Perception of Stakeholders on the Compliance of Sports Facilities to Relevant Standards in Selected Universities in South West Nigeria." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 14, no. 18 (June 30, 2018): 264. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2018.v14n18p264.

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This paper examines the level of compliance of sports facilities, in selected universities in South-Western Nigeria to relevant standards (National and International standards). Data were collected using a structured questionnaire which was administered on sports men and women (4 male, 2 female). Personnel responsible for maintenance of sports facilities in the universities were also sampled (two groundsmen from each University, the Director of Sports and two other members of the sport Council, Director of Works, four maintenance Supervisors, and two maintenance administrative staff, and eighteen maintenance operatives in each of the selected University). The study incorporated all the fifteen sports featured at the Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) competitions. Three federal universities were purposively selected because these have facilities for all the fifteen sports and have hosted national and international sporting events. A total of four hundred and fifty four copies of the questionnaires (454) were administered and (342) copies were retrieved and found useful for analysis. Two hundred and sixty one copies (71.7%) copies of questionnaire were retrieved from sports men and women and 81 copies (90%) from maintenance staff in the universities sampled. Data obtained were analysed using frequency distribution, percentages and mean response analysis. The findings revealed that football field; hockey and cricket pitches were rated very low on the availability of sprinklers. The hard courts were rated very low on ‘crack free’ and ‘free of holes. The swimming pool was equally rated very poorly on pool chemical balance and cleanliness of water. The study concluded that sports facilities in South West Nigeria were not complying with the requisite national and international standards. The study therefore recommended immediate response from the management of the sports facilities in order to return the facilities to normal operations halt accelerated deterioration, correct cited safety hazards and life safety code violations.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Swimming holes"

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Anderson, Erik J. "Advances in the visualization and analysis of boundary layer flow in swimming fish." Thesis, Online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1912/1581.

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Techet, Alexandra Hughes. "Experimental visualization of the near-boundary hydrodynamics about fish-like swimming bodies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-155).
This thesis takes a look at the near boundary flow about fish-like swimming bodies. Experiments were performed up to Reynolds number 106 using laser Doppler velocimetry and particle imaging techniques. The turbulence in the boundary layer of a waving mat and swimming robotic fish were investigated. How the undulating motion of the boundary controls both the turbulence production and the boundary layer development is of great interest. Unsteady motions have been shown effective in controlling flow. Tokumaru and Dimotakis (1991) demonstrated the control of vortex shedding, and thus the drag on a bluff body, through rotary oscillation of the body at certain frequencies. Similar results of flow control have been seen in fish-like swimming motions. Taneda and Tomonari (1974) illustrated that, for phase speeds greater than free stream velocity, traveling wave motion of a boundary tends to retard separation and reduce near-wall turbulence. In order to perform experiments on a two-dimensional waving plate, an apparatus was designed to be used in the MIT Propeller tunnel, a recirculating water tunnel. It is an eight-link piston driven mechanism that is attached to a neoprene mat in order to create a traveling wave motion down the mat. A correlation between this problem and that of a swimming fish is addressed herein, using visualization results obtained from a study of the MIT RoboTuna. The study of the MIT RoboTuna and a two-dimensional representation of the backbone of the robotic swimming fish was performed to further asses the implications of such motion on drag reduction. PIV experiments with the MIT RoboTuna indicate a laminarisation of the near boundary flow for swimming cases compared with non-swimming cases along the robot body. Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) and PIV experiments were performed.
(cont.) LDV results show the reduction of turbulence intensity, near the waving boundary, for increasing phase speed up to 1.2 m/s after which the intensities begin to increase again through Cp = 2.0 where numerical simulations by Zhang (2000) showed separation reappearing on the back of the crests. Velocity profiles who an acceleration of the fluid beyond the inflow speed at the crest region increases with increased phase speed and no separation was present in the trough for the moving wall. The experimental techniques used are also discussed as they are applied in these experiments.
by Alexandra Hughes Techet.
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Sutherland, Kelly Rakow. "Form, function and flow in the plankton : jet propulsion and filtration by pelagic tunicates." Thesis, Cambridge, Mass. : Woods Hole, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1912/3170.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Biology; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2010.
Department of origin: Biology. "February 2010." Bibliography: p.91-99.

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Watts, Matthew Nicholas. "Emulating the fast-start swimming performance of the Chain Pickerel (Esox niger) using a mechanical fish design." Thesis, Online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1912/1284.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Joint Program in Physical Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2006.
Bibliography: p. 74-75.

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HARMADY, Petr. "Legitimizace plavání jako volnočasové aktivity ve vybraném dětském domově se školou." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-172798.

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This thesis deals with the legitimization of swimming in the selected children's home and school as a leisure activity. It defines the basic concepts to the topic with the help of case studies characteristics respondents, episodic interviews and field notes examines whether through the fitness swimming there could happen changes in the lifestyle of adolescents and if it corrects their behaviour. The aim of the research is to prove the above mentioned positive effects with the selected individuals and to legalize fitness swimming facilities in the same or similar types of organizations as a prevention of socially pathological phenomena.

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Books on the topic "Swimming holes"

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Colley, Relan. Oregon's swimming holes. Berkeley: Wilderness Press, 1995.

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Minor, Jason. Make a splash: Swimming holes and waterfalls of the Green Mountains. [Swanton, Vt.]: Master Studios, 1998.

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Doll, Pancho. Day trips with a splash: The swimming holes of California. San Diego, Calif: Running Water Press, 1997.

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Colley, Relan. Oregon's Best Swimming Holes. Wilderness Press, 1994.

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Swimming holes of California. 2013.

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Tracy, Carolyn, and Julie Wernersbach. Swimming Holes of Texas. University of Texas Press, 2020.

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Tracy, Carolyn, and Julie Wernersbach. Swimming Holes of Texas. University of Texas Press, 2017.

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Katz, Anna, and Shane Robinson. Swimming Holes of Washington: Perfect Places to Play. Mountaineers Books, 2018.

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Doll, Pancho. Day Trips with a Splash: Southeastern Swimming Holes. Running Water Press, 2005.

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Doll, Pancho. Swimming Holes of California: Day Trips With a Splash. Running Water Press, 2003.

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Book chapters on the topic "Swimming holes"

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Ehrenfeld, David. "Death of a Plastic Palm." In Swimming Lessons. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195148527.003.0030.

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All over the United States, phone companies are planting artificial trees. An old-growth, imitation pine has just gone up in the community of Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, where it towers 100 feet over barns and fields. Holes in its synthetic brown bark admit bundles of black cables that travel up through the hollow metal trunk to the wireless digital phone antennas hidden among the plastic pine branches high above. In the desert near Phoenix, Arizona, where pines are scarce, another phone company plans to conceal its antennas inside a giant, imitation saguaro cactus. Evidently some large corporations are finally beginning to realize that the destruction of nature by their business activities is not accept-able. To improve public relations, they are now providing facsimiles of the nature they eliminate. This solves many annoying problems, but, alas, other difficulties have arisen. Copying nature is not as easy as it looks—it’s not like using a photocopier. If the phone companies don’t know this, somebody ought to tell them. I first became aware of the downside of artificial nature when I was living in Middlesex, New Jersey. To get to work at the university I had to drive through South Bound Brook, a down-at-the-heels little town nestled cozily between American Cyanamid’s huge organic chemical factory on one side and GAF and Union Carbide—also cooking up organics—on the other. True, the Raritan River runs alongside of South Bound Brook, and George Washington, an experienced surveyor who had seen many rivers, once described the Raritan as the most beautiful of all. But the river’s magic seemed to work feebly in South Bound Brook; my memories are only of floods, brown mud, and the occasional corpse of carp or sucker floating belly up past the dirty red brick of the aged factory walls. Then one day as I made my daily commute, I noticed an unexpected splash of color in the town. A popular saloon along the road I travelled had erected a very large plastic palm tree on the sidewalk next to the entrance.

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"SWIMMING HOLE." In In My Unknowing, 56. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx077bd.32.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Devoted Friend." In The Complete Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199535064.003.0010.

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One morning the old Water-rat put his head out of his hole. He had bright beady eyes and stiff grey whiskers, and his tail was like a long bit of black india-rubber. The little ducks were swimming about in the pond, looking just like...

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Rapp, Christof. "Introduction Part I." In Aristotle's De motu animalium, 1–66. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198835561.003.0001.

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The treatise that has come down to us under the title De Motu Animalium (MA) holds a peculiar place within the Aristotelian oeuvre.¹ It treats the phenomenon of animal self-motion—that animals, both human and non-human, are capable of moving themselves. Although animals do so in several different ways—e.g. by walking, flying, swimming, crawling, creeping, and hopping—there is a common cause of this movement that ...

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Karaba, Donna J. "Curing Autoimmune Naturally." In Innovative Collaborative Practice and Reflection in Patient Education, 167–93. IGI Global, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7524-7.ch011.

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In September 2010, Donna, an active 49-year-old woman, experienced an autoimmune attack. After eight months of intense pain, she underwent a 10-day supervised fast at True North Health Center in Santa Rosa, CA. Her inflammation was eliminated and she has regained an optimal level of health and an active lifestyle including tennis, hiking, yoga, biking, and swimming. Donna also continues to practice and teach meditation. This chapter is intended to relay a case example of how one woman cured her symptoms of Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) in the hopes of reducing unnecessary suffering and financial drain in the lives of others.

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Steinberg, Paul F. "Scaling Down." In Who Rules the Earth? Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199896615.003.0014.

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Dominical is a small town nestled on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, where tropical forests spill onto the sandy shores of its world-renowned beaches. Dominical has a laid-back atmosphere of surf shops, open-air restaurants, and children in school uniforms weaving between the puddles and rocks on their way to class. But behind the scenes, something else is going on in Dominical. A clue can be found alongside the dirt road that runs through the center of town, where a billboard for Century 21 Real Estate depicts a happy couple overlooking their oceanfront property, accompanied by the English-language caption “Your Piece of Paradise!” The sign provides a glimpse of the larger forces at play in this remote corner of Central America. A frenzy of speculative real estate development is underway, led by foreigners vying for their own piece of paradise before the remaining lots are all sold by the local farmers whose families have inhabited the land for generations. One such farmer is Juan Carlos Madrigal. I visited Juan Carlos with a group of students in 2008 during one of my annual trips to Costa Rica, to learn more about how local landowners are coping with these pressures. This land has been in his family for a long time, its towering tropical forest encompassing tree plantations, bean, and cocoa crops, and sweeping views of the ocean. After a hike across the property, we cooled off in a swimming hole below a large waterfall, one of many in the area, which thundered down from the lush jungle above, the water volume swollen by seasonal rains. After toweling off we sat down and began the interview, discussing his vision for the future of this land. A humble yet dignified man with wrinkles deepened from decades of farming, Madrigal reported that a group of Americans had recently approached him with an offer to buy his property for a million dollars. Shaking his head, he said that of course he refused.

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"Supported as they are by these five institutional and cultural factors, the ten general textual factors set out above would seem to encounter no import restrictions to the UK. But there remain four other factors. These constitute apparent points of difference between Australia as represented in Neighbours, and Britain, the importing market. The four features of significant climatic, cultural, and linguistic differences between the two countries put to the test the questions raised earlier: how assimilable are the cross-cultural differences involved? Under what circumstances can such differences be assimilated? First, weather. In the words of Barry Brown, Head of Purchased Programmes at the BBC, “The weather [in Australia] is always hot and the characters are casually dressed. [This] gives the series a freedom and freshness which is new to us” (quoted by Tyrer 1987). Ruth Brown observed that “the cast complain of having to perform in unseasonably thin clothing because the Poms like to think it’s always hot in Oz” (Brown 1989). The production company, Grundy, denies anything of the sort: “We don’t make the show for world consumption, international consumption . . . . What we get back from overseas wouldn’t pay for it” (Fowler 1991). Warm weather can be associated with a casual lifestyle and the singlets and shorts sartorially prominent in Neighbours. Such weather and lifestyle, then, can represent idealized projections for Britons seeking sunny holidays away from grim, grey skies and drear British drabness. The second difference takes off from two aspects of Australian suburbia: higher rates of home-ownership and much lower rates of population density than obtain in the UK. As represented in Neighbours, readily accessible home-ownership can exercise an evident appeal for Britons, especially during the late 1980s property boom, when rapidly rising prices excluded yet more from joining the propertied classes. Moreover, the spacious homes and gardens of Erinsborough are a function of a low population density which enables British viewers to imagine in the Melbourne suburb a comfortable self-distancing from the violent evidence of class and ethnic differences so widespread in a Conservative Britain. Allied to this is the relative affluence enjoyed by the neighbors. A quotation from the 15-year-old Scot, Lucy Janes, brings together differences of weather and suburbia in a comparison of Neighbours with the socially conscious EastEnders: If you turn on a British soap such as EastEnders, you see a pub, dirty houses, dirty streets and the British weather. Neighbours, on the other hand, is set in a clean, bright little street with swimming pools in every garden and SUN. To us Neighbours offers the taste of a world beyond the wet and fog-ridden British Isles. (Janes 1988) A bathetic referential parenthesis: the much-vaunted quarter-acre plot of Australian suburban real estate discourse has in actuality more than its share of loneliness, domestic violence, lack of nearby educational facilities, commercial and social services, and so on. An Australian." In To Be Continued..., 115. Routledge, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203131855-17.

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Fernandez, Rodrigo Perez. "What the Shipbuilding Future Holds in Terms of CAD/CAM/CIM Systems." In SNAME 7th International Symposium on Ship Operations, Management and Economics. SNAME, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5957/some-2021-004.

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We are living a continuous and fast technology evolution, maybe this evolution goes faster than our capacity to assimilate what we can do with it, but the potential is clear and the future will be for those who identifies the right technology with the right application. In the information era, we are literally swimming in an ocean of structured and not structured data and thanks to the evolution in the Telecommunications technologies, all that information can be used from everywhere. However, information means nothing without the capability to analyze, extract conclusions and learn from it, which is way the technologies like treatment of Big Data and the Artificial Intelligence are crucial. Imagine how these technologies shall allow engaging the design of a part or any concept by applying rules, which will facilitate the design significantly, how the integration of the validation of the structural models by the Classification Societies will be linked directly by cloud applications. Imagine all the benefits of this two simple examples that can be implemented thanks to the potential of these technologies. The way we work with shipbuilding CAD tools is also changing thanks to the ubiquitous access to the information and the different hardware available to explode that information: AR, VR, MR, Smartphones, tablets, etc. Nevertheless, not only the way we work, but also the way we interact with shipbuilding CAD tools is changing, with technologies like natural language processes that allows having a direct conversation with the applications. The concepts that are absolutely clear from now to the future in shipbuilding is the use of Data Centric model and the concept of Digital Twin, a real and effective synchronization between what we design, what we construct, by covering the complete life cycle of the product thanks to technologies like IoT and RFID. This paper tries to explain the importance to understand how the new generations of naval architects and marine engineers are immersed in a technological world in constant and rapid evolution. The way they interacts with this ecosystem will determine the way we should define the new rules of the shipbuilding CAD systems.

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Stevens, Liane M. "CHEMICAL VARIATION IN TOWN MOUNTAIN GRANITE AND ASSIMILATION OF PACKSADDLE DOMAIN XENOLITHS ANALYZED BY HXRF, “THE SLAB” SWIMMING HOLE, LLANO UPLIFT, KINGSLAND, TEXAS." In 54th Annual GSA South-Central Section Meeting 2020. Geological Society of America, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2020sc-343410.

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Stevens, Liane M., and Tyler S. McLemore. "A FIELD-BASED STRUCTURAL AND HXRF STUDY OF THE ORIGIN AND ASSIMILATION OF PACKSADDLE DOMAIN XENOLITHS IN THE TOWN MOUNTAIN GRANITE, “THE SLAB” SWIMMING HOLE, LLANO UPLIFT, KINGSLAND, TEXAS." In GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA - 2019. Geological Society of America, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2019am-337079.

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