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... funds comes back to taxpayers in the form of the value of public library services and the direct economic contribution of public libraries to the state economy. In addition to the measurable ... CHAPTER 2: The Economic Contribution of Public Library Spending to the Wisconsin Economy 17 CHAPTER 3: The Economic Contribution of Public Library Services to the Wisconsin Economy 23 ... libraries in the state can acquire them from the Milwaukee library. The specific economic value of these library materials is especially significant to a small part of the millions of Wisconsin...

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... occurrence of the crown -of- thorns starfish, and of its adverse impact on hard corals of the GBR, grew dramatically in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The then Premier of Queensland and other politicians ... funds was allocated — deliberately — to GBR projects. THE RELEVANCE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE GBR In the introductory words, I referred to the presentations in this publication ... resented the introduction of any new or competitive effort into the area. The establishment, in 1961, of the Townsville-based University College (which grew to become James Cook University of North...

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... spots” of larvae varies with the size of the fish. To protect against the ultimate failure of coral reef fisheries, managers have advocated the introduction of marine fisheries reserves. For these ... in the outer barrier of the northern GBR are strong enough at spring tides to cause Bernoulli upwelling from below the thermocline in the adjacent Coral Sea. 12 Oceanographic Processes of Coral ... 60 m deep. The windward reef slope is very steep. At the lee side of the reef and in the lagoon there are numerous small coral outcrops reaching all the way to the surface from depths of typically...

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... What separates the Northeast Australian experience from the rest of the country, large areas of Southeast Asia, and most of Europe and the U.S.A., is that such a large proportion of these losses ... terms of the total catchment area delivering to the GBRMP, the current rate of woody vegetation change is small. They indicate, how- ever, that the rate of change from woody vegetation to agriculture ... quality of the Herbert River. While the focus of the chapter is not on the impacts of these changes per se, we discuss sig- nificant issues that are central to the maintenance and function of estuarine...

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... 3% of the total GBR catchment area, 22% of the total freshwater runoff is derived from them. Discharge from the monsoonal catchments of Cape York (e.g., Normanby River) and the dry catchments of ... over the course of the wet seasons, nitrate exports from the South Johnstone catchment account for 37% of the total N exports and 60% of the dissolved N exports. â 2001 by CRC Press LLC Runoff of ... volumes of runoff com- prise approximately 4% of the volume of seawater inshore of the 20-m isobath. Because of lateral resistance to flow, Coriolis steering of buoyancy currents, and the event-based...

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... esti- mate of flow (discharge) for the peak rainfall month. RESPONSES OF MANGROVES TO SILTATION Siltation is of primary importance in the development of mangroves. In deltas along the coasts of Southeast ... Porites), however, were found to recover within a month of exposure. The effects of sedimentation on growth and productivity of coral reefs may be manifested at the levels of the colony, population, ... 1999). The result of the optimization process gives insights into the most cost-effective means to protect reefs under different reef quality targets. 104 Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs â...

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... levels of sediments and nutrients. The graph at the top shows the time course of algal and coral abundance; the glyph (bar) to the right of the graph shows the relative abundances of coral (blue) and ... — to the public, to policymakers, and to each other. Even the preliminary applications of the model in this chapter demonstrate the utility of this approach as an exploratory and explanatory tool ... uniform across the shelf. The effect of the flood plumes are simulated by brief “nutrient pulses” of decreasing strength to the north of the mouth of the Herbert River, simultaneous with disturbances. The...

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... brought the notion of body language and eye contact back to the attention of language teachers, but largely in the context of providing clues to the nature of the learner rather than in terms of ... room. ã Talk to your learners, not to the book, the board or the screen. ã Eyes can set the tone of a lesson. As the lesson starts, walk around the room looking to check whether the learners ... The Importance of Eye Contact in the Classroom Teachers often complain about discipline, about lack of attention, about the use of L2 in the classroom and many other problems, many of which...

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... possible. And the provision of just such a conception is one of the principal tasks of metaphysics. 3 The point of these remarks is to emphasise there cannot be progress either in the philosophy of mind ... philosophical analysis of the concept of seeing: but each will have more credibility to the extent that it is consistent with the other. METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not ... TO THE REST OF THIS BOOK I have organised the contents of this book so as to begin, in chapter 2, with some fundamental metaphysical problems concerning the ontological status of subjects of...

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