Atmospheric circulation in the oceans surrounding southern Africa plays an important role in determining its precipitation. This study uses wind information recorded in ships’ logbooks in order to statistically reconstruct summer and winter season precipitation at four southern African weather stations from 1796-1854. The reconstruction was obtained by first relating gridded 8° x 8° NCEP-DOE re...

Objective Despite operating from the same professional accreditation standards, discrepancies in what is recorded as Direct Client Activities (DCA) postgraduate psychology trainee logbooks have been noted across training programs Australia. The aim of this study was to create a consensus-based list DCA guide completion while undertaking practicums clinical or neuropsychology.Method A modified D...

A generalized additive model (GAM) of blue shark, Prionace glauca, catch rates (catch per set) was ®tted to data gathered by National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) observers stationed aboard Hawaii-based commercial longline vessels (N ˆ 2010 longline sets) from March 1994 to December 1997. Its coef®cients were then applied to the values of predictor variables, which were also contained in log...

Generalized additive model (GAM) and regression tree analyses were conducted with blue shark, Prionace glauca, catch rates (catch per set) as reported by National Marine Fisheries Service observers serving aboard Hawaii-based commercial longline vessels from March 1994 through December 1997 (N ˆ 2010 longline sets). The objective was to use GAM and regression tree methodology to relate catch ra...

Individual sunspot observations have formed a ground basis of international number, unique reference for long-term solar variability in the centennial timescale. The original datasets were subjected to exploitations and analyses upon recalibrations number series. In this context, study reviewed analysed records their databases Kawaguchi Science Museum (KSM) Japan. KSM hosts drawings logbooks fr...

American 19th century whalers often passed through the Cape Verde Islands (CVI) during boreal winter and some of them spent a few weeks or months hunting humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in bays near-shore waters archipelago. Logbooks were examined from 26 voyages that involved whaling at CVI, information was obtained various sources on approximately 77 additional definitely probably hu...

Animals belonging to the small, endangered population of western gray whales (Echrichtius robustus) are observed today primarily during summer open-water season in feeding areas off northeastern coast Sakhalin Island, Russia. The migration route(s) and wintering area(s) used by this largely unknown. Gray once had a fairly extensive distribution Sea Okhotsk but little detailed information has be...

The Endophthalmitis Population Study of Western Australia aims to investigate the epidemiology of endophthalmitis, a potentially sight-threatening infection of the internal eye, in Western Australia in 1980-1998. Cases of endophthalmitis were identified from coded hospital discharge data, surgeon logbooks, and hospital microbiology and anaesthetic databases. This process uncovered not only wide...