Tribute to John Wasson     

Ed Anders  Derek Sears 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1992,27(1):2-2

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Variations in the Rate of Anaerobic Succinate Accumulation within the Central and Marginal Regions of an Euryoxic Bivalve Mantle     

Ed  Greenfield Miles A.  Crenshaw 《Marine Ecology》1981,2(4):353-362

Abstract. Anaerobic metabolism in the central and marginal portions of the mantle of Mercenaria mercenaria was compared. Anaerobic succinate accumulation was more rapid in the central region. This difference may be due to higher phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity in the central region. Thus, the central region is more specialized for anaerobic metabolism and the marginal region more for net shell growth. The original rate of succinate accumulation in the mantle is similar in isolated mantles and intact clams, suggesting that mantle succinate production does not require translocation of precursors from other tissues. However, in intact clams, the rate of succinate accumulation in the central region of the mantle slows after four hours. The reduced rate is probably caused by reducing the metabolic rate. Succinate accumulation and shell dissolution are slower in freshly collected clams than in clams that had been stored anaerobically. The difference may be due to induction of PEPCK synthesis during storage. Shell derived calcium did not accumulate in the mantle and, therefore did not alter the intracellular calcium concentration in the mantle.  相似文献   

The Ah receptor in marine animals: phylogenetic distribution and relationship to cytochrome P4501A inducibility     

Mark E. Hahn  Alan Poland  Ed Glover  John J. Stegeman 《Marine environmental research》1992,34(1-4)

In mammals, the induction of cytochrome P4501A forms by chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, chlorinated dibenzofurans, and halogenated biphenyls is under control of a soluble protein known as the Ah (aromatic hydrocarbon) receptor. Little is known about the presence and properties of the Ah receptor in other vertebrate and invertebrate species. In these studies, we sought evidence for an Ah receptor in the liver or liver-equivalent of 20 species of marine and freshwater animals, using the photoaffinity ligand 2-azido-3-[¹²⁵I] iodo-7,8-dibromodibenzo-p-dioxin (N₃[¹²⁵I]Br₂DD). Specific labeling of cytosolic proteins by N₃[¹²⁵I]Br₂DD was observed in seven species of teleost and elasmobranch fish, in PLHC-I fish hepatoma cells, and in beluga whales. No specifically labeled proteins were found in cytosol from two species of agnathan fish nor in any of nine invertebrate species representing eight classes of four phyla. The presence or absence of specifically labeled polypeptides corresponds with the inducibility of cytochrome P4501A and sensitivity to the toxic effects of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and related planar halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons in many of these groups. Thus, Ah receptor function may have arisen early invertebrate evolution and has been conserved from elasmobranch and teleost fish to mammals.  相似文献   

The effects of sewage discharge on water quality and phytoplankton of Hawai'ian coastal waters     

Parnell PE 《Marine environmental research》2003,55(4):293-311

The effects of sewage discharge on algal populations and the quality of Hawai'ian coastal waters were investigated. Two outfalls were studied. One discharges primary treated sewage and the other discharges secondary treated sewage but are otherwise similar. This enabled comparisons of the effects of these different levels of treatment on the water quality and algal productivity of receiving waters. Plumes were followed and repeatedly sampled in a time-series manner. Rhodamine dye was used as a conservative tracer to compare the dilution behavior of the plume constituents MRP, NO(3)+NO(2), NH(4), Silicate, TDP, TDN, total bacteria, PC, and PN. Rates of initial dilution ranged from two to almost three orders of magnitude, and were in reasonable agreement with engineering model predictions. Dilution of plume constituents approximated that of Rhodamine until background concentrations were reached, typically within 10 min of discharge. Chl a concentrations did not increase through time in the primary sewage plume but did increase up to 30% in the secondary sewage plume. However, rates of far-field dilution were so rapid that the increase could not have been due to algal growth. The increase was attributed to the plume mixing with a water mass whose relative chl a concentrations were greater. Rates of secondary dilution ranged from 2 to 3 orders of magnitude resulting in total dilutions of 10(5)-10(6) within 3 h of discharge. These rates of secondary dilution were much greater than model predictions. From a nutrient standpoint, secondary treatment exhibited no advantages over primary treatment because dilutions were so rapid.  相似文献   

Beyond world cities: Central America in a global space of flows   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ed Brown  Peter J. Taylor  & Gilda Catalano 《Area》2002,34(2):139-148

Central America is a region without a world city. Traditionally, the region's national projects have been based upon openness to the world economy: how do the region's contemporary transnational projects connect to the world economy under the new conditions of openness that is contemporary globalization? Focusing upon advanced producer services, three connections into the world city network are identified: global service firms operating directly in Central American cities, local service firms operating indirectly through extra-regional world cities and global service firms operating through Latin American regional offices. Miami is confirmed as the primary world city through which Central America connects into the world economy  相似文献   

Precambrian–Cambrian boundary interval deposition and the marginal platform of the Avalon microcontinent     

Ed Landing   《Journal of Geodynamics》2004,37(3-5):411

Thick terminal Proterozoic–lowest Cambrian successions allow reference of the Saint John, New Brunswick, and MacCodrum Brook, southern Cape Breton Island, areas to the marginal platform of the Avalon microcontinent. Marginal-platform siliciclastic-dominated sequences form a cover on Late Precambrian arc successions from southern New Brunswick to North Wales. Their deposition in fault-bounded basins began with the origin of the Avalon microcontinent and development of a persistent transtensional regime in the latest Precambrian. The terminal Proterozoic–lowest Cambrian on the Avalonian marginal platform consists of three successive lithofacies associations: lower subaerial rift to marginal-marine facies; overlying cool-water, wave-influenced, marine platform sandstones and shales; and higher macrotidal quartz arenites (=Avalonian depositional sequences 1–2). Only the Lower Cambrian macrotidal quartz arenites onlap southeast, where they form the oldest Cambrian unit on the inner platform. These major lithofacies are the Rencontre, Chapel Island, and Random formations, respectively, in Avalonian North America. Southwest thinning of the Rencontre–Chapel Island–Random interval in southern New Brunswick reflects slower subsidence of a fault-bounded area in the city of Saint John. The depositional sequence 1–2 unconformity, which falls in the sub-trilobitic Lower Cambrian Watsonella crosbyi Zone of the Chapel Island Formation, persists for 650 km along the marginal platform from southeastern Newfoundland to southern New Brunswick and, potentially, appears in Cape Breton Island. Latest Precambrian-earliest Cambrian epeirogenic and depositional history was very uniform along the marginal platform, and a unified lithostratigraphic nomenclature is appropriate.  相似文献   

Crustal observations beneath the southern North Sea and their tectonic and geological implications     

Richard H.B. Rijkers  Ed J.Th. Duin 《Tectonophysics》1994,240(1-4):215-224

In 1991, a deep seismic reflection line, MPNI-9101, was acquired in the southern North Sea from the Mesozoic Broad Fourteens Basin, across the West Netherlands Basin onto the London-Brabant Massif (LBM). The resultant section shows a strongly reflective lower crust beneath the area of Mesozoic basin development. This lower crustal reflectivity continues to be strong beneath the LBM. The travel time to the base of the reflective zone increases from approximately 11.0 s beneath the Mesozoic basins to 12.5 s beneath the LBM, suggesting a southward thickening of the crust (Rijkers et al., 1993). Based on these travel times and information from deep wells and refraction surveys. Moho depth is estimated to increase from about 31 km beneath the Mesozoic basins to about 38 km beneath the LBM. This difference in depth to the Moho can partly be explained by coaxial stretching of the crust beneath the Mesozoic basins. In comparison with the Mesozoic basins, the crust beneath the LBM was thickened during the Caledonian and Variscan orogenies.  相似文献   

Telecommunications Synchronization and GPS   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ed Butterline  Sally L. Frodge 《GPS Solutions》2001,5(1):51-54

Today, the Global Positioning System (GPS) is the technology most frequently selected for use in digital communication networks to meet the requirement for precision timing synchronization. The technological evolution of the telecommunications industry over the past 30 years has driven this constantly growing demand for higher performance and timing accuracy. Increased timing accuracy provides overall improvements in system performance, quality, and efficiency. In the United States and in many parts of the world, the telecommunications infrastructure uses the GPS signal as an integral and basic part of the system. The stability of GPS, ongoing health of the GPS constellation, and GPS signal quality can mpact telecommunications systems. ? 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  相似文献   

R. E. (Ted) Munn — Founding editor; a mini-biography     

Peter Taylor  Morley Thomas  Ed Truhlar  Doug Whelpdale 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1996,78(1-2):3-8

Ted Munn founded Boundary-Layer Meteorology in 1970 and served as Editor for 75 volumes over a 25 year period. This short article briefly reviews Ted's scientific career with the Atmospheric Environment Service (of Canada), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria and with the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto, and as editor of this journal.  相似文献   

Kleinraummeteorologische Studien im Federseegebiet in Strahlungsnächten     

Ed. Huss 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1955,6(4):329-352

Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Studie befaßt sich mit den meteorologischen Vorgängen in einer extrem stabil aufgebauten Kaltluft, wie sie sich in Strahlungsnächten in einem abgeschlossenen Becken mit ebener, horizontaler Talsohle von einigen Kilometern Ausdehnung und im wesentlichen einheitlichem Untergrund einer Moorlandschaft herausbildet.Untersucht wird in erster Linie das Eigenleben der so abgeschlossenen Luftmasse. Dabei zeigt sich, daß der Zustand eines ruhenden Kaltluftsees zumeist erst im Endstadium des nächtlichen Prozesses näherungsweise erreicht wird. Während des größten Teiles der Nacht kommen vielmehr überraschend lebhafte und weitreichende angenähert horizontale Bewegungen leicht zustande, die sich im thermischen Gefüge wie in der Windstruktur kundtun und in dem Verhalten der Nebel- und Dunstfelder sichtbar werden. Unter der Wirkung von Schwerkraft, Druckgefälle und Reibung entstehen einfache Gleitvorgänge, Schaukelbewegungen, fortschreitende Wellen und Seiches, die in einzelnen Beispielen beschrieben werden. Ähnlich wie in der Großraummeteorologie bilden sich durch das quantenhafte Verhalten der Energieumsätze Luftkörperindividuen, deren Deformation hier einfacheren Gesetzen folgt. Trotz ihrer sehr verschiedenen Größenordnung von einigen Dekametern bis zu mehreren Kilometern Ausdehnung bei geringer vertikaler Mächtigkeit zeigen sie auf ihrer Vorderseite einheitlich die Form des vonW. Schmidt in Modellversuchen gefundenen Böenkopfes.Der Einfluß höherer Luftschichten auf die stabilisierte Bodenkaltluft äußert sich in aufgeprägten Wellen und Frendlufteinschüben. Das Beispiel eines nächtlichen Wärmeeinbruchs aus der Höhe wird eingehend beschrieben.

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Summary The present study deals with the meteorological processes in an extremely stable cold air, formed in clear nights in a confined basin with a plane, horizontal basis extended for some kilometres, and with an essentially uniform ground in a fen-country.In the first place the proper life of the so limited air is studied. It becomes evident, that the state of a resting lake of cold air generally is approximately reached but in the final phase of the night-time process. Moreover, for the greater part of the night surprising active and extended movements of nearly horizontal course easily occur, becoming evident in the structure of wind and temperature stratification and also visible in the behaviour of fog and haze fields. Produced by gravitation, pressure gradient and friction, simple gliding and swinging motions, proceeding waves and seiches result which are described in single examples. Corresponding to the large scale meteorology individual air bodies form by the quantum-like behaviour of energy transformations. Their deformation in this case however, takes course according to simpler laws. In spite of their much various magnitude of the dimensions of some decametres up to several kilometres, while being of small vertical extension they show in their fore part in all cases the shape of a Böenkopf as found byW. Schmidt by model experiments.The influence of upper atmospheric layers on the stable cold air near the ground manifests itself by impressed waves and by influxes of heterogeneous air. An example of a nocturnal invasion of warm air from aloft is described in detail.

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Résumé Cette étude traite des processus météorologiques dans un air froid d'une stratification extrêmement stable, qui se développent pendant des nuits claires dans un bassin fermé, ayant une base plane et horizontale, d'une étendue de quelques km, et recouverte par le sol essentiellement homogène d'une région marécageuse.C'est surtout la «vie propre» de cette masse d'air limitée qui est étudiée. Il se trouve que, le plus souvent, l'état d'un «lac immobile d'air froid» n'est atteint approximativement qu'à la fin du processus nocturne. Pendant la plus grande partie de la nuit, se produisent au contraire facilement des mouvements presque horizontaux étonnamment actifs et étendus, qui se manifestent dans la structure thermique et du vent, et qui deviennent visibles par le comportement des couches de brouillard et de brume. De simples processus de glissement, des oscillations, des ondes progressives et des seiches se forment sous l'influence de la gravitation, du gradient de pression et du frottement; ils sont décrits par des exemples particuliers. Comme cela se produit dans la météorologie à grande échelle, il se forme des corps atmosphériques individuels à la suite du comportement en quanta des transformations d'énergie. Leur déformation a lieu cependant selon des lois plus simples. En dépit de leur étendue très variable allant de quelques decamètres à plusieurs km, et leur épaisseur peu considérable, ils montrent tous à leur partie antérieure la forme d'un «Böenkopf», pareil à celui queW. Schmidt a trouvé à la suite de ses expériences qu'il fit avec des modèles.L'influence des couches supérieures de l'atmosphère sur l'air froid stable au sol se manifeste par l'impression d'ondes et par des apports d'air étranger. On décrit ensuite en détail une invasion nocturne d'air chaud depuis les couches supérieures.

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Herrn Prof. Dr.W. Peppler, zum 70. Geburtstag.  相似文献