Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) are the most abundant and widespread seal species in Washington State. Most seal haul-out sites are unavailable at high tide, hence abundance estimates are conducted at low tide when it is commonly accepted that most seals are hauled-out. On sites unaffected by tides, however, it is less clear whether tide level has an effect on seal abundance. We counted hauled-ou...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Current T2-weighted imaging takes >3 minutes to perform, for which the ultrafast transition into driven equilibrium (TIDE) technique may be potentially helpful. This study qualitatively and quantitatively evaluates the imaging of transition into driven equilibrium of the balanced steady-state free precession (TIDE) compared with TSE and turbo gradient spin-echo on T2-weig...

[1] A new set of pelagic tide determinations is constructed from seafloor pressure measurements obtained at 151 sites in the deep ocean. To maximize precision of estimated tides, only stations with long time series are used; median time series length is 567 days. Geographical coverage is considerably improved by use of the international tsunami network, but coverage in the Indian Ocean and Sout...

We analyze the regional accuracy of the global ocean tide models TPXO7.2, GOT00.2, NAO.99b, FES2004, and EOT10a using the tide-gauge records from 7 stations along the coastline of New Zealand. The comparison reveals that TPXO7.2 provides the bestfit with the tide-gauge data in this part of the world. The TPXO.7.2 ocean tide model is then used for computing and analysis of the vertical and horiz...

Abstract Soviet leaders sent troops into Afghanistan in December 1979 to support a friendly Marxist-Leninist regime its conflict against popular insurgency and help it build new society. When the withdrew nine years later, they left behind state that had none of nominal characteristics Soviet-type Communist country. During war, People's Democratic Party discarded Marxism-Leninism turned Islam. ...

This article explores a key question in political sociology: Can post-communist policy-making be described with classical theories of the Western state or do we need a theory of the specificity of the post-communist state? In so doing, we consider Janine Wedel's clique theory, concerned with informal social actors and processes in post-communist transition. We conducted a case study of drug rei...

Seasonal variations in the Earth’s gravitational field arc investigated through the analysis of LAGEOS I satellite laser ranging measurements and are compared with those produced by atmospheric mass redistribution as inferred from global surface pressure data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) reanalyses. The effect of oceanic tides and groundwater are considered as w...

the inter-tidal mangrove environment of mengkabong lagoon is important as it supports the local fishing activities, nursery grounds for many fish and shellfish species, and as well as being central for ecotourism activities. the study showed that in general, the physicochemical parameters (ph, salinity and electrical conductivity), granulometric fractions, organic matter, base cations (na, k, c...