Henri E. Bal Aske Plaat Thilo Kielmann Jason Maassen Rob van Nieuwpoort Ronald Veldema Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands fbal,aske,kielmann,jason,rob,[email protected] http://www.cs.vu.nl/albatross/ Abstract The aim of the Albatross project is to study applications and programming environments for widearea cluster computers, which consist of multipl...

MUCH OF OUR PRESENT KNOWLEDGE about the species composition and distribution of ceph alopods of the Pacific Ocean is derived from collections made on cruises of the "Albatross," steamer of the U.S. Fish Comm ission, dur ing the late nine teenth and early twentieth centuries. "Albatross" collections along the west coast of North America were taken mainly off California and Central America or Ala...

AasraAcr.-Embryonic oxygen consumption and organ growth were measured in the Laysan Albatross (Diomedea immutabilis). The logarithms of oxygen consumption and organ mass increased linearly with the logarithm of whole-embryo wet mass. The rate of growth of skeletal muscle and the gastro-intestinal tract exceeded that of the embryo as a whole, while the heart, lungs, brain, and eyes grew more slo...

Many remote islands present barriers to effective wildlife monitoring in terms of challenging terrain and frequency visits. The sub-Antarctic South Georgia the Sandwich Islands are home globally significant populations seabirds marine mammals. hosts largest breeding Antarctic fur seals, southern elephant seals king penguins as well wandering, black-browed grey-headed albatross. island also hold...

Albatrosses (Diomedeidae) do not occur in the North Atlantic Ocean today except as vagrants, although five species were present in the early Pliocene. No fossil breeding sites of albatrosses were known previously. The timing of extinction of albatrosses in the North Atlantic was likewise unknown. Deposits that formed near present-day sea level along the southeastern shore of Bermuda contain rem...

conserve wildlife on its 14 overseas territories, a legacy of the country's empire, which are major wildlife centres. Many of these territories are in the southern hemisphere and include the breeding sites of one third of albatrosses. " At least £10 million is needed every year to protect and restore the rich biodiversity of these remote islands, " says Graham Wynne, chief executive of the RSPB...

in this paper a comparative analysis of two poems entitled â« phoenix â» by nima and â«l’albatros â» by baudelaire will be done. it, initially, tries to investigate the symbolism used by these two poets. then a comparative analysis is made from structural and thematic points of view. by comparing and contrasting the potential similarities and differences in these poems, an attempt is made to ...