... The headings of these currents will generally rotate clockwise in time under the action of coriolis force as they slowly decay following the passage of a stonn For the latitude range oftheGulf ... approximating the 70 m as a 3-point profile like the 150 m current, and then interpolating between the 70 m and 150 m currents for the surface, mid-profile depth and O-speed depth points ofthe profile ... approximating the 230 ft as a 3-point profile like the 492 ft current, and then interpolating between the 230 ft and 492 ft currents for the surface, mid-profile depth and O-speed depth points of the...
... Map oftheGulfof Thailand showing the six major rivers that flow into the inner Gulfof Thailand Sample from the Upper Gulf and Lower Gulfin Southern Thailand exhibited low concentrations of ... 23.3% of fishes caught inthe vicinity ofthe natural gas platforms intheGulfof Thailand had mercury above 0.2 lg/g In order to prove that mercury contamination inthe middle ofthe outer gulf ... 1990 The effects of marine pollution on fisheries inthe inner Gulfof Thailand In: Oceanography and Marine Pollution: An ASEAN EC Perspective Proceeding ofthe ASEAN-EC Seminar/Workshop on Marine...
... OF MAINE 13 FIGURE The 25 sites sampled for spawning Alewives in 2010, including the separation between the Maine sites and the Massachusetts site (top panel) and the 24 sampling sites in Maine ... multivariate mean The accuracy ofthe classification model was tested by randomly selecting 75% ofthe data to build the classification model, and then the remaining 25% ofthe data was used to independently ... Massachusetts There is a strong geographic divide between these sites; all the sites from Maine drain into theGulfof Maine while the Nemasket River drains into Narragansett Bay and then Rhode...
... HISTORY Compensatory Growth ofthe Sandbar Shark inthe Western North Atlantic Including theGulfofMexico J G Romine,*1 J A Musick, and R A Johnson Virginia Institute of Marine Science, 1208 Greate ... upon examination of sharks being born during the time of lowest abundance The Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) longline survey reported the lowest abundance of Sandbar Sharks in 1993, ... 1993b The biology ofthe Finetooth Shark, Carcharhinus isodon Environmental Biology of Fishes 36:219–232 Clark, E., and K von Schmidt 1965 Sharks ofthe central Gulf coast of Florida Bulletin of...
... impact ofthe spill The examination of BP’s role and responsibility inthe disaster The US government’s actions and responses during the crisis—with much ofthe focus on the Obama administration The ... news agenda in nine of those fourteen weeks—and it never fell out ofthe top three (PEJ, 2010) According to PEJ (2010), the coverage ofthe key storylines examined the following: The environmental ... for 22% ofthe news covered in America, dwarfing the coverage ofthe next most salient issue, the economy at 12% Furthermore, theGulf saga registered as the number one story inthe mainstream...
... the predisposition and the interactions within the target group inthe discourse influences the interpretation of metaphors by the researcher This is a key consideration inthe selection ofthe ... within theGulfofMexico Oil Spill 2.2.4 The Discourse-Evolution of Metaphors (Musolff, 2004a; 2004b) Musolff examines the socio-cognitive dimension of metaphor by examining the phenomenon of “metaphor ... would include the intertwining ofthe WAR and ILLNESS scenarios – where Louisiana coastline is often personified either as a patient or as a victim under siege inthe process of containing the...
... concept of PROGRESS in this preliminary examination ofthe NYT corpus is embodied by the concept of “moving ahead” inthe right direction Furthermore, the Ontological Metaphors personifying the agencies ... demonstration ofthe IICM in identifying and formulating the metaphors embodied in British and American media discourse arising from the BP fallout intheGulfofMexico This will be done by applying the ... highlighting ofthe role ofthe government as an INCOMPETENT LAW ENFORCER ORGANISM as well as the portrayal ofthe environment as a LIVING “poisoned” and afflicted by the “plague” of oil, gives an insight...
... Utilising the USAS semantic domains within WMatrix as the starting point ofthe analysis, an analysis ofthe semantic tagset was carried out, with the initial focus being the frequency counts ofthe ... total of some 3.3 million gallons, so far/armchair engineers brainstormed for ways to stop the torrent of oil spilling into theGulfof Mexico/ thousands of barrels of oil spilling into thegulf ... will help stem the flow of crude oil spewing into theGulfof Mexico/ the picture of an uncontrolled gusher of oil spewing destruction into the gulf/ A joint government and industry task force has...
... avoiding the subjectivity involved inthe business of proving culpability, focusing instead on the associated political and 175 economic costs involved inthe blind castigation of BP While the ... “dramatizing events and polarizing contrasts in order to emphasise the newsworthiness ofthe contents ofthe article” (Semino, 2008, p.31) The repeated casting of BP into the role ofthe UNSCRUPULOUS ... towards the Obama administration’s efforts in containing the oil spill as well as inthe settling of moral and financial accounts on behalf ofthe aggrieved victims The conflation ofthe CRIME...
... are scathing in their assessment ofthe Obama Administration’s handling ofthe oil spill The main difference would lie inthe more aggressive stance adopted by the Gcorpus where the incompetence, ... on the comparative analysis ofthe preeminence ofthe WAR/CRIME/THREAT conceptual keys inthe TT & G-Corpus 233 The in- depth analysis ofthe varied representations ofthe CONFLICT scenario in these ... culpability as the main cause ofthe oil spill, foregrounding instead, the political weakness ofthe Obama Administration in needing “enough ammunition to convince a skeptical US audience” of its own...
... temper the strengths ofthe claims in this thesis pertaining to the influence of metaphor in discourse, as media consumers cannot be merely seen as passive recipients of editorial ideological input ... perceptions of “us” vs “them” Thus, this thesis highlights the dangers inherent inthe use of metaphors as a deliberate strategy for the influencing aggregate perceptions and behaviour, advocating a ... put forth in this thesis show that the critical study of metaphors in media discourse is one that addresses the complexities inherent in real data These complexities include editorial ideological...
... strengthen the moral legitimacy ofthe Obama administration while galvanizing the electorate against the “other”, concealing the multiple failings ofthe US government In contrast, the predominantly ... is in line with the pragmatic ideology that counterbalances the nationalistic rhetoric often seen inthe NYT-corpus In this instance, the focus lies inthe technical details inthe fact-finding ... by the Obama administration is invoked by producing group cohesion amongst the victims ofthe spill by defining the spill against the backdrop ofthe moral accounting metaphor, depicting the...
... example, the findings inthe British broadsheets show the tendency ofthe relevant editors to adopt mitigating strategies in order to downplay the agency ofthe cause ofthe entire catastrophe (mainly ... surfaced inthe public debates This is in spite ofthe fact that these metaphors are largely similar in range due to the close intertwining ofthe historical and political cultures between Britain ... analysis to include the examination ofthe accompanying photos and positional strategies that appear in tandem with the corresponding printed pages or the webpages ofthe online broadsheets The specific...
... BUSINESS IS A SINKING ECONOMIC CORNERSTONE/ A RUINED ! SHIP REPUTATION IS A BURNED OBJECT (STAINED CLOTH)/ THE) OIL)SPILL)IS)A)THREAT)(WAR/CRIME)) THE CENTRE IS THE CORE (LOCATION) THE+ SPREADING ... IS A POLITICS+IS+A+GAME +OF+ STRATEGY+ GOVERNMENT/+ WAR ZONE OBAMA+ ADMINISTRATION++ THE+ OBAMA+ADMINISTRATION+IS+A+WEAK+WAR+ THEGULF IS+A/AN:++ GENERAL/+POLITICAL+STRATEGIST+ THE OIL IS THE ENEMY ... representation ofthe metaphorical compound - ‘Oil’ (WP) 292 Fig 6.11 A representation ofthe metaphorical compound - ‘Oil’ (G) THE OIL IS AN ADVANCING ENEMY THE BP BLOWOUT IS A COLLISION WITH AN ADVANCING...
... neurogenesis The list of these genes is reported in additional file These results support the hypothesis of a possible role of E6 and E7 inthe induction of neuroendocrine differentiation of SCLC ... the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Signaling, role of BRCA1 in DNA Damage Response, LPS/IL-1 Mediated Inhibition of RXR Function, role of CHK Proteins in Cell Cycle Checkpoint Control and Pyrimidine ... Evaluation ofthe results obtained inthe two systems showed deregulation ofthe same pathways in human SCLC and in that induced experimentally by the E6/E7 oncoproteins of HPV16 To further highlight the...
... Finally, the kernel informs the hardware physical map module ofthe new virtual to physical mapping With the exception ofthe hardware validation, all of these steps are implemented in a machine-independent ... efficiently support the large body of UNIX software used within the academic community [16] In addition, from the point of view of a system designer, the Accent style of message/memory integration lacked ... receipt of data in an IPC message Inthe first case, the source ofthe data is considered trusted (either the default pager, or a data manager known to the requestor) Use ofthe data received in a...