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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Pacific Rim"”.
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Web-based distance instructional partnership for maritime technology of Pacific Rim countries
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The Medieval Climatic Anomaly and Its Impact on Health in the Pacific Rim: A Case Study From Canyon Oaks, California
Paleoclimatological analyses conducted in Western North America have discovered a prolonged period of extreme drought lasting from approximately AD 800-1350, termed the Medieval Climatic Anomaly (MCA). The effect this climatic flux may have had on prehistoric populations was evaluated through a …
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The role of cultural sensitivity and trust in relational marketing: an analysis of buyer/seller relationships in the Asian Pacific Rim
This study's primary goal was to specify what cultural sensitivity is and delineate the process of its formation. In addition, the role that cultural sensitivity plays within the international buying process was probed. Accordingly, antecedents and consequences of cultural sensitivity are …
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History, Ecology and Restoration Potential of Salmonid Fishes in the Umpqua River, Oregon
… decreasing across their historic range in the Pacific Northwest, and throughout the lower 48 states. This study incorporates a retrospective analysis of historical literature, traditional ecological knowledge as well as current ecology to determine historic salmonid abundance in the Umpqua …
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History, Ecology and Restoration Potential of Salmonid Fishes in the Umpqua River, Oregon
… decreasing across their historic range in the Pacific Northwest, and throughout the lower 48 states. This study incorporates a retrospective analysis of historical literature, traditional ecological knowledge as well as current ecology to determine historic salmonid abundance in the Umpqua …
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Tests of purchasing power parity
… ten countries in Southwest Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Rim for the post-Bretton Woods period. It uses cointegration tests to investigate the thesis that relative purchasing power parity exists as a long-run equilibrium condition between country-pairs. It expands upon tests for relative …
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Airline development in the South Pacific : a turning point
The civil aviation industry in the South Pacific is experiencing a period of rapid change. A turning point for the industry has arrived in the form of new generation, long range aircraft used by Pacific Rim airlines. These aircraft have the propensity to overfly the South Pacific. This means …
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THE LIFE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY OF RIVERINE SOCKEYE SALMON (ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA) IN A LARGE FLOODPLAIN RIVER
… of the most variable life history traits of all Pacific salmon, using lake and river rearing strategies throughout rivers of the northern Pacific Rim. However, sockeye management has primarily focused on the lake-type life history with minimal regard to the importance of the riverine form. In the …
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THE LIFE HISTORY AND ECOLOGY OF RIVERINE SOCKEYE SALMON (ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA) IN A LARGE FLOODPLAIN RIVER
… of the most variable life history traits of all Pacific salmon, using lake and river rearing strategies throughout rivers of the northern Pacific Rim. However, sockeye management has primarily focused on the lake-type life history with minimal regard to the importance of the riverine form. In the …
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Classification of summertime West Coast fog and stratus events and the development of fog and stratus forecast techniques
… cancellations that are experienced around the Pacific Rim are attributed to the development and evolution of the fog and stratus on the U.S. West Coast. This thesis studies the evolution of the fog and stratus events during the summer of 2000 through the use of geostationary, GOES-10, visual …
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Export marketing decision-making by wood household furniture manufacturers in Malaysia and the United States
… - Saudi Arabia, the European Union, and the Pacific Rim countries. However, U.S. companies need to focus more on exporting and not be totally dependent on the domestic markets. As for Malaysian manufacturers, the U.S. will remain as the largest market for their products. However, this may …
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Insurgency, Secession and Encroachment: Contemporary National Security in the Republic of the Philippines
… near the latitudinal midpoint of the Asian Pacific Rim, the Republic of the Philippines has a unique historical relationship with the United States. Although Filiopino-American ties were weakened by the U.S. military base closures in 1992, the threat posed by an increasingly aggressive and …
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United States competitiveness in soybean trade: loss market share in the Japanese soybean import market
… vegetable oil imports from countries outside the Pacific Rim and a private sector Japan/China barter agreement under which soy meal is imported from China, the relative demand for Japanese processed oilseed products has been influenced. Historically, US soybeans had lower levels of oil, and …
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A study of historical trends and practices within the international military education and training (IMET) program with a focus on the Pacific region
… Education and Training program (IMET) in the Pacific Rim. IMET is an instrument of U.S. national security and foreign policy and a key component of U.S. security assistance that provides training and education on a grant basis to students from participating nations. Specifically, this research …
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AMPHIPODS ARE STRONG INTERACTORS IN THE FOOD WEB OF A BROWN-WATER SALMON RIVER
… salmon carcasses is incorporated into coastal Pacific Rim salmon river systems via the organisms and structures of the freshwater foodweb. In brown water rivers of Western Kamchatka, the foodweb is dominated by ubiquitous benthic amphipods (Anisogammarus kygi) that consume salmon carcass …
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AMPHIPODS ARE STRONG INTERACTORS IN THE FOOD WEB OF A BROWN-WATER SALMON RIVER
… salmon carcasses is incorporated into coastal Pacific Rim salmon river systems via the organisms and structures of the freshwater foodweb. In brown water rivers of Western Kamchatka, the foodweb is dominated by ubiquitous benthic amphipods (Anisogammarus kygi) that consume salmon carcass …
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Zhidkoye zoloto? Environmental Aspects of Natural Gas Transportation from the Sakha Republic
… a major source of natural gas for a number of Pacific Rim nations, where demand for LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) is growing rapidly. Already, Japanese and South Korean consortia are engaged in pre-feasibility studies for a trans-continental gas pipeline linking the Sakha gas fields with the …
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Japan's Asia-Pacific Migrations and the Making of the Japanese Empire, 1868-1945
… nationalizing Japanese emigrants around the Pacific Rim. The study examines critical roles of Japanese overseas emigrants in shaping the ideologies and social movements in the Japanese empire. It discusses how the efforts made by Japanese thinkers and social educators in nationalizing these …
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The lower cretaceous flora of the gates formation from western Canada
… China and the Inner Zone of Japan. The Pacific-rim areas are excluded from the Arctic Province. Plant deciduous habit appears to have prevailed within the Arctic Province during the Early Cretaceous.
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Export growth, economic growth and real exchange rate in Indonesia
… intra- and inter-regional trade in the region of Pacific Rim. Hence the research may shed more insight on economic development in one of the less developing countries.
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