Perspectives in Ethology: Volume 10: Behavior and Evolution (Perspectives in Ethology)

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The current volume focuses on behavioral similarities and differences within individual animals, larger populations, and species as a whole. Research from ecological, social ontogenetic, physiological, and other perspectives is presented to explicate specific behaviors, as well as to provide a more profound understanding of how behavior work influences thought about evolutionary processes.

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2D numerical modelling of hydrocarbon generation in subducted sediments at the active continental margin of Costa Rica [An article from: Marine and Petroleum Geology]
R. Lutz , R. Littke , P. Gerling , and C. Bonnemann
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This digital document is a journal article from Marine and Petroleum Geology, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The Middle America Trench is the topographic expression of the subduction of the Cocos Plate beneath the Caribbean Plate. In this study, the subduction process was simulated in a numerical basin model to determine the fate of the organic matter. During subduction, temperature rises and the organic matter embedded in sediments generates hydrocarbons. However, equilibrium temperatures are not reached due to the fast subduction process, shifting the petroleum generation zone to depths exceeding 10,000 m. The average organic carbon content of the subducted sediments is low but the fast subduction leads to a high rate of hydrocarbon generation. For example, along a 1 km wide section along the subduction zone a methane generation rate of about 9x10^5m^3/a is calculated. The hydrocarbon generation process occurs at much greater depth than in conventional sedimentary basins. Due to the low migration velocity, oil is transported from the kitchen area to a greater depth and finally transformed to methane. Interestingly, calculated migration velocities of methane are mostly lower than the current subduction velocity. Thus, even methane is further subducted. This modelling result is confirmed by published data on gas composition at the trench, where (almost) no thermogenic gas has been detected. The subduction of large amounts of methane to very great depths could have an effect on volcanism in the back arc region or on metamorphic processes.

Crustal-scale structure of the South Caspian Basin revealed by deep seismic reflection profiling [An article from: Marine and Petroleum Geology]

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Crustal-scale structure of the South Caspian Basin revealed by deep seismic reflection profiling [An article from: Marine and Petroleum Geology]
C.C. Knapp , J.H. Knapp , and J.A. Connor
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Two deep seismic reflection profiles from the South Caspian basin provide the first normal-incidence image of possibly the thickest sedimentary basin in the world. Significant features imaged with these seismic data are: (1) a series of high-amplitude folds, developed within a thick (>10 km) Neogene sedimentary section, bounded discordantly below by (2) a gently N-dipping, intermittent reflection at 14-20 km (8.0+s), (3) a prominent deep reflector at 26-28 km depth (12.8-13.0 s) with a gentle northward dip, (4) an underlying layered interval with discernibly lower-frequency reflections down to ~36-40 km (16.0-16.5 s), and (5) a noticeable decrease in reflectivity below ~36-40 km. Based on the downward termination of fault-cored folds and their discordance with subhorizontal underlying reflections, the reflection at 14-20 km is interpreted to be the basal detachment for structures associated with the Absheron Ridge. The bright reflection at ~26-28 km depth is interpreted as the basement/cover contact, and the underlying ~10 km portion of the section is interpreted as crystalline basement. Downward diminution of reflectivity at ~36-40 km is thought to represent the Moho despite the absence of a clearly reflective horizon. These interpretations are consistent with previous velocity models from both seismic refraction and teleseismic studies in the South Caspian region that suggested a minimum sedimentary thickness of 20 km and a crustal thickness of 35-40 km. Both the apparent lack of local structural relief on the basement reflector, and seismic velocities (V"p~6.8 km/s) obtained from earlier studies suggest this crust is not thinned continental material. Although thicker than typical oceanic crust (6-8 km), the apparent ~10 km thickness of the South Caspian crystalline crust is interpreted to be of oceanic affinity for this part of the basin. Active seismicity down to mantle depths (80 km) and gentle deepening of the crust from south to north suggest northward subduction of the South Caspian oceanic lithosphere beneath the continental lithosphere of the Central Caspian basin.

Formation of mineral associated with biological colonies in subduction areas off Japan (Nankai Trough, Japan Trench, Kuril Trench)

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Formation of mineral associated with biological colonies in subduction areas off Japan (Nankai Trough, Japan Trench, Kuril Trench)
Jacques Jedwab
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Marine Subduction
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The subduction experiment: Cruise report R/V Oceanus : cruise number 240 Leg 3 : subduction 1 mooring deployment cruise, 17 June-5 July 1991 (WHOI)

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The subduction experiment: Cruise report R/V Oceanus : cruise number 240 Leg 3 : subduction 1 mooring deployment cruise, 17 June-5 July 1991 (WHOI)
Richard P Trask
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Kinetics of Metal-Gas Interactions at Low Temperatures is devoted to the formation of a natural oxide film. This few nm thick surface layer is produced instantaneously if oxygen or water vapor is present in the gas atmosphere. It is responsible for the corrosion behavior, for wear and friction of metallic materials, as well as for hydrogen embrittlement or poisoning of catalytic surface reactions. Oxidation impedes experiments in surface sciences and production processes in modern thin-film technology. It can reliably be avoided only if expensive ultra-high vacuum techniques are applied. This monograph presents an introduction to the subject in a tutorial style. It demonstrates how complex metal-gas interactions can be analyzed by standard procedures of chemical kinetics.

Oxide Surfaces - The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces : Growth and Properties of Ultrathin Epitaxial Layers

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Oxide Surfaces - The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces : Growth and Properties of Ultrathin Epitaxial Layers

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Hardbound. Although there has been steady progress in understanding aspects of epitaxial growth throughout the last 30 years of modern surface science, work in this area has intensified greatly in the last 5 years. A number of factors have contributed to this expansion. One has been the general trend in surface science to tackle problems of increasing complexity as confidence is gained in the methodology, so for example, the role of oxide/metal interfaces in determining the properties of many practical supported catalysts is now being explored in greater detail. A second factor is the recognition of the potential importance of artificial multilayer materials not only in semiconductor devices but also in metal/metal systems because of their novel magnetic properties. Perhaps even more important than either of these application areas, however, is the newly-discovered power of scanning probe microscopies, and most notably scanning tunneling microscopy (STM),

Oxide Surfaces - The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces : Oxide Surfaces (The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces)

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Oxide Surfaces - The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces : Oxide Surfaces (The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces)

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Hardbound. The book is a multi-author survey (in 15 chapters) of the current state of knowledge and recent developments in our understanding of oxide surfaces. The author list includes most of the acknowledged world experts in this field. The material covered includes fundamental theory and experimental studies of the geometrical, vibrational and electronic structure of such surfaces, but with a special emphasis on the chemical properties and associated reactivity. The main focus is on metal oxides but coverage extends from 'simple' rocksalt materials such as MgO through to complex transition metal oxides with different valencies. While there have been major advances in understanding surfaces in general through the application of modern atomistic and microscopic methods over the last 20 years, the emphasis has been on metal and semiconductor surfaces. While oxide surfaces have long been known to be extremely important, they have not received as much atten

Oxide Surfaces - The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces : Phase Transitions and Adsorbate Restructuring at Metal Surfaces (The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces)

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Oxide Surfaces - The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces : Phase Transitions and Adsorbate Restructuring at Metal Surfaces (The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces)
D.A. King , and D.P. Woodruff
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The objective in initiating this series in 1980 was to provide an in-depth review of advances made in the understanding key aspects of surface chemistry and physics through the application of new techniques to the study of well-defined surfaces. Since then the field of surface science has greatly matured, and further important techniques, particularly scanning probe microscopies, have been successfully assimilated into the applications armoury of the surface scientist.

The present volume is a series of timely reviews by many of the current experts in the field of phase transitions and adsorbate-induced surface restructuring. No aspect of the science of solid surfaces can be fully understood without accounting for the structural diversity of surfaces, now revealed in atomic detail by techniques based on diffraction and scanning probe microscopies. For example, it is now clear to those working in heterogeneous catalysis that adsorbate-induced restructuring of surfaces can play a critical role in phenomena such as bistability, kinetic oscillations, and promotion and poisoning. Structural transitions at surfaces can also play a key role in determining the electronic properties of surfaces, reviewed in volume 5.

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Oxide Surfaces - The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces : Phase Transitions and Adsorbate Restructuring at Metal Surfaces (The Chemical Physics of Solid Surfaces)
D.A. King
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From the award-winning author of A Complicated Kindness comes a delightfully funny and charming novel about growing up, getting old, and falling in love in a small town

Life in Winnipeg didn't go as planned for Knute Corea-McCloud and her daughter, Summer Feelin'. But moving back in with her parents in Algren, Manitoba, and working for the longtime mayor, Hosea Funk, has its own challenges: Knute finds herself mixed up with Hosea's attempts to achieve his dream of meeting the Prime Minister-even if that means keeping the town's population at an even 1500. It's not an easy task, with citizens threatening to leave, Summer Feelin's father threatening to move back, Hosea's lady friend looking to move in, and one Algrenian on the verge of giving birth-to twins or possibly triplets. Hosea's search for his own roots takes us back to Algren's days as an outpost prairie town, when his mother, Euphemia, was seduced by a mysterious cowboy. Discovering the true identity of that cowboy fuels Hosea's many obsessions and just might reveal whether he is, indeed, a boy of good breeding.

Miriam Toews's inimitable humor and her largerthan- life characters bring small-town Canada to life. A Boy of Good Breeding is a big-hearted, hilarious novel about finding out where you belong.

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Hilarious, big-hearted, small town story.......2006-09-26

After the success of Canadian author Toews' award winning "A Complicated Kindness," some of her earlier novels have been released in the U.S. While 1998's "A Boy of Good Breeding" may not be the perfect gem "Kindness" is, it's a captivating and very funny story of acceptance, love, and finding one's place in the world.

The novel focuses on two disparate characters, Knute McCloud, a young single mother having a tough time making it on her own in the city (Winnipeg), and Hosea Funk, the awkward, shy mayor of Algren, Canada's smallest town.

After losing her gas-pumping job for accidentally blowing up a motor home, then failing to seat anyone at her restaurant-hostess job, Knute moves back to Algren with her 4-year-old daughter, Summer Feelin' (S.F. for short), to help out after her father's heart attack. Tom, her father, is depressed and declining and her mother has embarked on manic house renovations, accompanied by stories of other people's personal disasters.

Hosea, Tom's best friend since boyhood, is preoccupied with a secret project - winning the prime minister's visit to celebrate Algren's designation as Canada's smallest town. To gain this distinction, the town's population must be 1,500 - one more and some other town may win, one less and Algren is demoted to village status.

Anticipating success, Hosea hires Knute as his assistant though he can't, at least at first, find much for her to do but rid the town of a recalcitrant mutt. His days are taken up with regulating the population - visiting the hospital to check on the maternity ward and the dying, tallying up those who move in and out, fretting.

Then Max - Summer Feelin's feckless father - comes back to town. And Hosea is on the brink of losing Lorna, the love of his 50-year-old life, because he daren't let her move in with him before the population count and he can't tell her why. Fact is, his mother, who never married, said on her deathbed that the PM was his father and Hosea is desperate to meet him.

This is a generous, big-hearted novel, made tart and funny by the very particular eccentricities of Toews' full-fleshed characters, and her considerable flair for comedy.

-- Portsmouth Herald

Early Book by the Fannie Flagg of Canada.......2006-09-13

I guess people have different reactions to Miriam Toews, but all of us pat ourselves on the back for picking up her fiction and reading it through despite the cultural uncertainty of being unsure about how to pronounce "Toews." Her current bestseller was so big that here in the USA her American publishers have brought back some earlier books, and this is the one I settled on, after some debate. The funny thing is that I still don't know who the boy of good breeding us. But maybe it's Hose, Hosea Funk, the mayor of the smallest town in Canada--Algren, Manitoba.

He's concerned because his mother, Euphemia Funk, once told him while she as dying that his dad was John Beart, the true Prime Minister of Canada (in the novel, that is) (the real Prime Minister, I have determined, is Stephen Harper, who was just on TV last night honoring the Canadian victims of the World Trade Center disaster). But check later, because they turn over like flapjacks there north of the border. Prime Minister Beart has made a vow to visit the smallest town in Canada, and so Funk will get his chance to meet his putative father.

He keeps obsessive track of every newcomer to town, as well as those dying, and those newborn (Veronica Epp has triplets, so to keep the population of the town at a steady 1500, Funk has to make sure three people leave or die!) This black comedy is just a backdrop, or better yet a "blackdrop," to the main story of Knute McCloud and her little daughter, the delightful Summer Feelin'. These two return to town to comfort Knute's father Tom as he feels poorly.

Miriam Toews is like Fannie Flagg but with more writing ability. Reading this book makes me want to move to a small town where, even if we don't have money, we care about each other. There maybe were too many characters with humorous names, as though the spirit of LIL ABNER were thriving in Manitoba, but quirky is as quirky does, and we should all have such problems.

Empire Falls "light".......2006-08-29

Hosea Funk is an eccentric middle aged mayor of Algren, the sometimes "smallest town in Canada," which he strives to keep that way to increase his chances of winning a contest which would result in a visit by the prime minister, who he's been told is his father. He flits in and out of the lives of the residents of the town, irritating some, like the town doctor, with his nosiness, necessary to keep his plan on track. Births, deaths, and decisions of townspeople to move into or out of the town limits could all affect the count of residents that he diligently keeps track of, much to the irritation and wonderment of those who knowingly and unknowingly provide him information. His never known to be promiscuous mother's decision at a dance to go off into the night with an out of town stranger, results in his sudden appearance after months spent in a baggy hot wool sweater. Hosea, whose grandparents are somehow able to, at least temporarily, swallow as having been left with his mother by a man on a horse, grapples with the decision of whether to commit to his girlfriend from the city, increasing the town's population and risking the loss of the contest, or to risk losing the girlfriend altogether. Subplots about his friend Tom's daughter, Knute, who comes to work the him, granddaughter, Summer Feelin', and the boyfriend who up and left the town and that of Tom's life after suffering a heart attack, round out the story. Mayor Hosea eventually makes all the right moves and wins at the most important thing, the game of life - a quick quirky read which feels a bit like Empire Falls.

Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year award .......2006-08-06

Winner of the McNally Robinson Book of the Year award and ably narrated by Ruth McIntosh, A Boy Of Good Breeding by Miriam Toews is an abridged audiobook set in a small Canadian town - a town so small that the Mayor schemes to keep the population at an even 1,500 to win a contest for being the smallest town in the nation. Young mother Knute and her four-year-old daughter have returned to town to escape the havoc of the big city, but when the mayor enlists Knute for his schemes, she must figure out how to keep the town population down when folks keep getting married, having babies, and more. The return of Knute's old boyfriend Max further complicates issues in this charming, down-home folksy story, originally broadcast on CBC radio. 3 CDs, 4 hours.

The problem with CanLit..........2006-08-01

The problem with CanLit is its overly self-conscious need to be "not American", with "uniquely" "Canadian" "settings" and "characters".

Some (most notably Carol Shields and Jane Urquhart, possibly Robertson Davies, occasionally Margaret Atwood) rise above the genre and write for an audience that goes beyond the coy quaintness so beloved of Canadian cultural conservators, and reach a broad readership who appreciate the universal themes in their work. The rest write for a limited audience in a style no more nourishing than most scifi, mysteries and romances. CanLit is just another species of genre fiction at its most government-subsidized mediocre.

A Boy of Good Breeding is an okay read, but it seemed more of a caricature than a story. If this author's other work genuinely warrants the accolades she has received (Governor General's award, Margaret Laurence award for Fiction, numerous Book of the Year awards), this book surely must be an anomaly, and I wonder why the author persisted with the project.

The narrator and the characters all seem to think this is a far funnier story than I thought it was, perhaps because nothing in the book really made me care about the people or the setting. A plus, perhaps, is that it wasn't set in Toronto for a change (which every Canadian knows is the true center of the universe) but for all that I didn't find the story or the thematic undercurrents all that interesting.

Surely this is a harmless read compared with W.P. Kinsella's overrated and arguably racist portrayals of the "hilarious" antics of those wacky inhabitants of Hobbema, Alberta, or Jack Hodgins' impenetrable magic realism, or W.D. Valgardson's self-absorbed personal angst, but even at that, I don't think the vast cultural investment in Canadian literature has, in the case of A Boy of Good Breeding, paid off.

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A Boy of Good Breeding : A Novel
Miriam Toews
Manufacturer: Random House of Canada, Limited
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The little boy's own book: Consisting of games and pastimes, with directions for the breeding and management of rabbits, birds, pigeons, etc. for the recreation and amusement of good boys

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The little boy's own book: Consisting of games and pastimes, with directions for the breeding and management of rabbits, birds, pigeons, etc. for the recreation and amusement of good boys
Charles D Mallary
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