The presence and abundance of non-indigenous, and/or harmful or toxic dinoflagellate species in ballast sediments is examined for 65 cargo ships visiting ports on the East coast of Canada, as part of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network (CAISN). Ships visiting several ports in the provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were sampled during three summers (2007, 2008, 2009). T...

Abstract The article appearing previously in this journal entitled “Styles of Thought on the Continental Drift Debate” (Pellegrini 2019) prompted a response from Weber and Šešelja (2020) which they termed as “a defence rationalist accounts”. They argue that their self-designated “sophisticated rationalism” explains closure continental-drift debate without being affected by my critiques to appro...

Investment in the NextGen National Airspace System (NAS) is intended to increase the effective capacity of the airspace and airports. Previous research, in several domains, has identified cases where large infrastructure investments were under-utilized due to migration and/or adaptation of users (e.g. airlines). This paper examines the impact of airline “gaming” on the use of trans-continental ...

The paper “Critical remarks on the Italian research assessment exercise VQR 2011–2014” (Franceschini & Maisano, 2017) nalyzed some vulnerabilities of the recently concluded Italian assessment exercise. Some apical (former and current) embers of ANVUR promptly commented on our criticisms through a letter to the editor (Benedetto, Checchi, Graziosi, & algarini, 2017). We believe that this letter,...

The privatization and liberalization of telecommunications services have been debated and pursued with varying speed and successby countries throughout the world. InTurkey, efforts to privatize Türk Telekom and liberalize the telecommunications regime have not yet been successful.At the same time, the Internethas experienceddramatic growth.While the experienceofTurkey illustrates that formal li...

Cenozoic convergence between the Indian and Asian plates produced the archetypical continental collision zone comprising the Himalaya mountain belt and the Tibetan Plateau. How and where India-Asia convergence was accommodated after collision at or before 52 Ma remains a long-standing controversy. Since 52 Ma, the two plates have converged up to 3,600 ± 35 km, yet the upper crustal shortening d...

Although paraphrasing is the linguistic mechanism underlying many plagiarism cases, little attention has been paid to its analysis in the framework of automatic plagiarism detection. Therefore, state-of-the-art plagiarism detectors find it difficult to detect cases of paraphrase plagiarism. In this article, we analyze the relationship between paraphrasing and plagiarism, paying special attentio...

In Spaulding v. Blair' the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit determined that the mere submission to state-wide referendum of a proposed open-housing act for final approval by the voters, under the procedure outlined in Article XVI of the Maryland Constitution, was not a violation of fourteenth amendment rights and could not be enjoined. During its 1967 session the Maryland General Assembl...