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Are zoos bad news? Tiger attack spurs debate.(animal attacks caused debate for zoos)
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The phone call reached zoo director Manuel Mollinedo shortly after 5 p.m. as darkness was falling on San Francisco. One of his tigers was on the loose! She had escaped her enclosure and attacked a teenager and two other young men before bounding into the zoo's dense foliage and winding paths.
As Mollinedo rushed to work, police declared the entire zoo a crime scene. After some searching, they found the resting tiger, a 4-year-old, 350-pound Siberian tiger named Tatiana. They shot and killed the animal, but the damage had already been done. One of the men the tiger ...
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Seed Stratification of an Intermountain West Chokecherry Ecotype
Magazine article from: Journal of the American Pomological Society
; ...carried out to evaluate the effects of stratification treatments on the germination of an...12 treatments. Treatments included stratification at 3C for durations ranging from 0...to GA^sub 3^ during a 12-week stratification, or two stratification cycles interrupted...
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Post-Stratification and Calibration--A Synthesis.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The American Statistician
; ...and all of them are based on post-stratification given categorical auxiliary variables. Indeed, post-stratification is the finest calibration, and calibration is the relaxed post-stratification. Some results derived from such a perspective...
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Axial Wind Effects on Stratification and Longitudinal Salt Transport in an Idealized, Partially Mixed Estuary*
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography
; ...investigate how axial wind influences stratification and to explore the associated longitudinal...gradient exerts an important control on stratification. Two governing parameters are identified...promotes increases (decreases) in stratification during down-estuary (up-estuary...
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Moist Convection and the Thermal Stratification of the Extratropical Troposphere
Magazine article from: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
; ...the extratropical thermal stratification (Stone and Carlson 1979...an extratropical thermal stratification and tropopause similar...frequently exhibit thermal stratifications that are neutral or nearly...the extratropical thermal stratification, at least regionally...
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The Structure and Evolution of Chinese Social Stratification.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Social Forces
; ...Structure and Evolution of Chinese Social Stratification By Li Yi University Press of America...Structure and Evolution of Chinese Social Stratification is an extremely ambitious work. Li...been burgeoning interest in social stratification in China, very few systematic attempts...
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Precision of moose density estimates derived from stratification survey data.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Alces
; ...investigated the potential for using only the stratification portion of the SRB survey technique...moose density could be predicted from stratification data. Densities predicted from stratification data were compared with densities estimated...
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The Tropopause and the Thermal Stratification in the Extratropics of a Dry Atmosphere
Magazine article from: Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
; ...extratropical tropopause height and thermal stratification is derived by considerations of entropy...extratropical tropopause height and thermal stratification and relates the tropopause potential...maintain a statically stable thermal stratification and, in interaction with large...
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HEREDITARY STRATIFICATION IN MIDDLE-RANGE SOCIETIES.(anthropology research)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; Hereditary stratification is usually explained in relation...Canada suggest that hereditary stratification derives from the social construction...scale societies have hereditary stratification and others do not? At the outset...
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The role of eddy transfer in setting the stratification and transport of a circumpolar current
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography
; ...relate the vertical and horizontal stratification set up to the transfer properties...found for the depth of penetration, stratification, baroclinic transport, and residual...Traditionally, researchers have prescribed a stratification and studied the role of eddies spawned...
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Modeling Influence of Stratification on Lateral Circulation in a Stratified Estuary
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography
; ...result of the temporal variation of stratification induced by tidal straining. During...vertical two-cell structure. Strong stratification suppresses vertical mixing in the...the shoal, the tidally periodical stratification shows an opposite cycle of that at...
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