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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 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 initial benthic decomposition of Zostera marina roots was studied in a controlled flow-through chamber experiment for 23 days. Sediment chambers without added roots served as controls. The inflowing and outflowing artificial seawater (ASW) was analyzed for O"2, @SCO"2, urea-N, NH"4^+ and NO"2^-+NO"3^-. Sediment profiles of Eh, particulate organic carbon (POC) and nitrogen, dissolved organic nitrogen (DON), dissolved free amino acids (DFAA), urea-N, NH"4^+, DFAA and urea turnover rates, sulfate reduction and counts of total anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria and different functional groups were determined. Fluxes of O"2, @SCO"2, urea-N and NH"4^+ were stimulated during root decomposition compared to the unamended control. There were indications of stimulated bacterial growth based on counts of total anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria, anaerobic phosphatase utilizers, ammonifyers and sulfate reducers. Independent estimates of nitrogen and carbon incorporation into bacterial biomass during root decomposition indicate that a major fraction of the nitrogen for microbial growth was mobilized from the indigenous particulate organic nitrogen (PON) pool, whereas the energy source for bacterial growth was mainly obtained from the added eelgrass roots. Most of the nitrogen mineralized during root decomposition was incorporated into the bacterial biomass resulting in a low efflux of urea-N and inorganic nitrogen from the sediment to the water column.
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This digital document is a journal article from Atmospheric Environment, published by Elsevier in 2005. 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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Deposition of terrestrial aerosols is one of the major means of fertilizing the oligotrophic ocean waters. In order to understand the biogeochemical significance of aerosols transported from the Asian continent, and deposited over the East China Sea, we studied their chemical properties by making continuous measurements on board R/V Hakuho Maru in autumn, a season of lower dust events. Outflows of anthropogenic substances were observed over the East China Sea. The average concentration of non-sea-salt (nss)-SO"4^2^- in aerosols was 8.7+/-6.8@mgm^-^3, a value typical for polluted atmosphere of a highly industrialized urban area in South China. Fine mode NH"4^+ mainly occurred as (NH"4)"2SO"4 and/or NH"4HSO"4 while in coarse mode it was formed from intermodal coagulation of ammonium particles in fine and coarse aeorosols. On the other hand, the mean concentration of NO"3^- (1.8+/-1.2@mgm^-^3) was lower than that in the urban atmosphere. Non-sea-salt SO"4^2^- were derived from combustion sources and marine biological processes, the latter accounting to 0-38%. Nitrate in coarse mode was associated with Ca^2^+ and Na^+ perhaps due to replacement reactions. Our estimates of the annual atmospheric aerosol deposition fluxes of NH"4^+ and NO"3^- to the East China Sea were 270GgNyr^-^1 and 160GgNyr^-^1, respectively. These atmospheric inputs are comparable to the riverine inputs of the Changjiang River. The total combined nitrogen deposition could account for a biological fixation of about 2.5TgC (approximately 0.1-9% of the new production) in the East China Sea annually, which could actually be larger since the autumn season experience minimal dust storms.
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This paper presents information on concentrations, size distributions, geographical distributions and sources of water soluble organic nitrogen (ON"w"s) in aerosols over the East China Sea and western North Pacific to understand its impact on the atmospheric processes and the oceanic ecosystems in the autumn and spring in the East Asian region. Results revealed ON"w"s contributions to the total nitrogen in aerosols to be ~24% and ~10% over the East China Sea in the autumn and the spring, respectively. The particulate ON"w"s mainly existed in fine sized particles. Gas to particle conversion may be the major formation process for ON"w"s. Occurrence of particulate ON"w"s in both fine and coarse modes during the Kosa event suggests gaseous ON adsorption and/or adhesion to the coarse mode mineral. This behavior of ON"w"s is unique whereas NH"4^+ occurred dominantly in fine mode and NO"3^- in coarse mode.
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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, published by Elsevier in . 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 benthic degradation of mussel tissue (Mytilus edulis) was studied in a continuous flow-through system over a 32 day incubation period. Sediment chambers without mussels served as controls. The inflowing artificial seawater and the outflow water were analyzed for dissolved organic nitrogen (DON), short chain fatty acids (SCFA), dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), @?CO"2 and O"2 during the course of incubation. Sediment profiles of particulate organic carbon (POC), particulate organic nitrogen (PON), total hydrolyzable amino acids (THAA), pore water concentrations of DON and DIN and turnover rate of dissolved free amino acids (DFAA) were measured at four different times during the 32 day experiment. Immediately after the addition of mussel tissue, the chambers became completely anoxic and there was an increase in carbon oxidation and the efflux of DON, SCFA and NH"4^+ from the sediment+mussel layer to the overlaying water. During the first 9 days there was a net buildup of DON, and NH"4^+ in the sediment followed by a net consumption of the respective N-species during the remainder of the experiment. During the course of incubation 41% of the organic content of the added mussel tissue was released from the sediment as DON, whereas most of the other mussel-N effluxed the sediment as NH"4^+. Only 8% of the added mussel-N remained by the end of the experiment. There were indications of stimulated bacterial growth in both the mussel amended and the unamended sediments. This was measured as a net increase in THAA, which could only be explained by net bacterial growth and/or protein synthesis. During mussel decomposition both the estimated bacterial carbon incorporation efficiency and the C:N ratio of the substrates used by the bacteria were low. This resulted in a low bacterial nitrogen demand. As a consequence, almost all of the nitrogen mineralized within the sediment was released to the water column as NH"4^+.
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Nitrogen stable isotope natural abundance data are often used in trophodynamic research. The assumed nitrogen diet-tissue fractionation (@D@d^1^5N) determines conclusions about trophic level, potential food sources and ontogenetic diet shifts. @D@d^1^5N is usually assumed to be 3.0-3.4%% per trophic level and unaffected by the size or age of animals or their environment. To assess the effects of body size, experimental duration and environmental conditions on fish tissue @D@d^1^5N, two populations of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) were reared on constant diets of dab (Limanda limanda) muscle or sandeel (Ammodytes marinus) for 2 years under natural light and temperature regimes. Bass were sampled at approximately monthly intervals to determine @D@d^1^5N for muscle, heart and liver tissue. Mean values of @D@d^1^5N were 3.83%%, 3.54%%, 2.05%% (sandeel diet) and 3.98%%, 3.32%%, 1.95%% (dab diet) for muscle, heart and liver tissue respectively. The assumption that fractionation was independent of body mass was upheld for muscle and heart tissue, but not for liver. Time effects on muscle @D@d^1^5N were explainable by a sinusoidal function with a period of 1 year and wave height ~0.3%%. Time resulted in increases in heart @d^1^5N and decreases in liver @d^1^5N which were small compared to background variation, equating to 1/6 of a trophic level over 2 years, and unlikely to have great significance in ecological studies. Heart and liver @d^1^5N were also affected by temperature probably reflecting the metabolic functions of these tissues and their associated rates of turnover. However in heart the explanatory power of temperature appeared tied to that of time. Although the @D@d^1^5N for bass muscle on both diets approached 4%%, the @D@d^1^5N values from this study, when combined with those from the literature, suggest that where fish species specific data are not available, a mean @D@d^1^5N for fish muscle of 3.2%% should be applied (mean white muscle @D@d^1^5N=3.15). The literature based mean @D@d^1^5N for whole fish was lower than that of white muscle suggesting that a separate @D@d^1^5N (2.9%%) should be applied when sampling whole fish.
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Atmospheric input of fixed nitrogen species to the ocean has attracted considerable attention from the viewpoint of the oceanic biogeochemical cycle of nitrogen, although few measurements of organic nitrogen compounds in atmospheric aerosols have been extensively conducted over remote ocean areas. In this study, we report the geographical distribution of dissolved free amino acids (DFAA) in the water-soluble fraction of two size-segregated marine aerosols over the western North Pacific. The concentrations of DFAA showed higher values over the region north of 30^oN, whereas they clearly decreased south of 30^oN. Approximately 59-96% of DFAA was found in fine-mode particles. Long-range transport from continental sources could largely contribute to DFAA in marine aerosols over the remote North Pacific.
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This digital document is a journal article from Science of the Total Environment, The, published by Elsevier in 2006. 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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Dynamically downscaled data from two Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Models (AOGCMs), ECHAM4 from the Max-Planck Institute (MPI), Germany and HadAm3H from the Hadley Centre (HAD), UK, driven with two scenarios of greenhouse gas emissions (IS92a and A2, respectively) were used to make climate change projections. These projections were then used to drive four effect models linked to assess the effects on hydrology, and nitrogen (N) concentrations and fluxes, in the Bjerkreim river basin (685-km^2) and its coastal fjord, southwestern Norway. The four effect models were the hydrological model HBV, the water quality models MAGIC, INCA-N and the NIVA FJORD model. The downscaled climate scenarios project a general temperature increase in the study region of approximately 1 ^oC by 2030-2049 (MPI IS92a) and approximately 3 ^oC by 2071-2100 (HAD A2). Both scenarios imply increased winter precipitation, whereas the projections of summer and autumn precipitation are quite different, with the MPI scenario projecting a slight increase and the HAD scenario a significant decrease. As a response to increased winter temperature, the HBV model simulates a dramatic reduction of snow accumulation in the upper parts of the catchment, which in turn lead to higher runoff during winter and lower runoff during snowmelt in the spring. With the HAD scenario, runoff in summer and early autumn is substantially reduced as a result of reduced precipitation, increased temperatures and thereby increased evapotranspiration. The water quality models, MAGIC and INCA-N project no major changes in nitrate (NO"3^-) concentrations and fluxes within the MPI scenario, but a significant increase in concentrations and a 40-50% increase in fluxes in the HAD scenario. As a consequence, the acidification of the river could increase, thus offsetting ongoing recovery from acidification due to reductions in acid deposition. Additionally, the increased N loading may stimulate growth of N-limited benthic algae and macrophytes along the river channels and lead to undesirable eutrophication effects in the estuarine area. Simulations made by the FJORD model and the HAD scenario indicate that primary production in the estuary might increase up to 15-20%, based on the climate-induced changes in river flow and nitrate concentrations alone.
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In his new book, Formula One Grand Prix mechanic Steve Matchett offers the reader an inside look at his life as a pit crew mechanic, from his beginnings as a young apprentice through his time at Ferrari and BMW, to his later success with Benetton. There are eyewitness accounts of the great drivers, including Michael Schumacher, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, and Ayrton Senna. He also talks about key Benetton personalities, revealing how the team was transformed into a strong competitive organization, winning three World Championships. In this fast-moving account, the high-pressure world of Formula One leaps off the page.
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Bit of a disappointment.......2007-06-27
The title of this book should have been, "I passed gas and there lay a book" as this book slowly trudges along as Steve talks about his progression into F1. I've followed F1 since '86 watched all the races, read many a magazine and many books from the sports greats, and this book was by far the worst. Several chapters are used to talk about how he got a book deal, and how he was interviewed as a mechanic by British radio which came across as rather boring. I also found it aggravating reading Steve talk about the do's and don'ts of the sports rules as he comes across as a nerdy engineer. His insight on the Benetton team was largely a biased 'we were right, they are wrong' scenario. I couldn't wait to finish the book so I could toss it aside and ended up skipping many of the last pages.
the mechanics tale.......2006-11-10
A great read for any f1 fan who wants to know how the teams really work. Matchetts style is easy and informative. A quick read and really fun.
If at first you don't succeed....................................2006-03-10
What did I expect from this book? Information, entertainment (always) and an insight into the life surrounding Formula 1.
What did I get from the book? Information, entertainment and insight into Formula 1. It was such an easy read, some may say too easy but it was great to have a book that I could pick up and put down at will without having to remember where the story was going. A text book it is not but I sure understand a lot more of the life in and around F.1.
A look at the human side of F1.......2006-02-27
If you are looking for a blow-by-blow account of a F1 season, you would be better served by Matchett's "Life in the Fast Lane" an inside account of Benneton's crazy 1994 season. If you want to learn more about F1 technology, then try "The Chariot Makers."
However, if you want a very human and personal account of one man's journey from being a road car mechanic to mechanic for a Formula 1 world champion in a half decade, this is the book for you. Matchett describes his cautious entry to the sport, the great Benneton personalities he meets (most of whom have now gone on to senior positions all over the sport), the insane hours, and the holiday antics in the off-season. The book is peppered with Matchett's insight about the workings of Formula 1. Interestingly, he strongly disagrees with the Benneton's sacking of Schumacher's teamates every year and believes stability in the 2nd driver position would have improved the team. Ironic that Ferrari has used that exact strategy: Schumacher has had 3 teamates in the last 11 seasons...
A must read for anyone whose interest in Formula 1 goes beyond glossy driver biographies and flashy magazines.
Steve Matchett's: The Mechanic's Tale.......2006-02-01
I buy about 10-15 books a year related to racing. I also have many subscriptions to racing magazines. I have put off getting this classic for some unknown reason. I have always wanted to get it but this book has eluded me until recently. I have to say that this is one of the best racing books I have ever read. Matchett is a much better writer than people give him credit for. His use of blending incredible detail with humor is amazing. Mark my words, you will be reading this book and have moments in which you will find yourself in tears from laughter. This book is also very informative and is not your average racing book. I have also read his first book, which is also a classic, but I feel that this is the better of the two. I found myself not being able to put it down and anyone who loves racing will be in the same situation. The book starts out with how Matchett started his career as a mechanic and a brief history of how he was able to break into Formula One. I actually got an idea from the book that I now use everytime I'm looking for a new job. Anyway, the chapters go over the years he spent in F1 and gives you the true story of what F1 team members go through. On the outside it looks like they live a glamorous life, but you get to see the side that most people don't get to see and the true appreciation for their efforts is realized. Bottom line is that this is a must read for anyone that is a racing or grand prix fan.
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Robert Bly tells you how to tap into the lucrative but lesser-known markets of commercial writing. This is a new, completely revised edition of a book that is a perennial favorite with freelancers and writers.
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FREELANCE WRITING ADVICE.......2007-05-12
I found this book to be helpful, easily readable, and provided sound judgement on the way to developing a copywriter career. Wanting to be a writer myself, I purchased this book and was not disappointed, rather, I was delighted! Finally, a copywriter who wrote with simplicity and common sense so even a guy with a Masters degree would understand it. Do you realize how many instruction manuals provided with retail merchandise are confusing? Do something about it, become the copywriter for that new computer or new digital camera you just bought. Will the job be handed to you? No, but don't give up. "Never, as Churchill said, never give up."
Writing copy is not writing poetry or fiction, and R.W. Bly's book is not going to a "page turner." Yet it will provide you insight into the business of writing copy, a business you may perform from your home. Perhaps you're the Dad who prefers to avoid the office mentality of backbiting and gossip and work from home, or the Mom who wishes to commence a part-time career copywritiing for other Moms to understand more simply the instruction book for that new cell phone they just purchased. Copy writing is an art form if you make it one. We live in a world surrounded by WORDS.These words either clarify or confuse. Seek to clarify, seek to simplify, and seek to earn a living as a copy writer.
I have the same last name as the author, yet we are not related. However Amazon kindly asked me to write a free review and loving to write, I accepted their offer. I purchase many books on Amazon,
yet give the local bookstores business too. However,I enjoy the simplicity of buying online with Amazon.
My goal is to say,"If you wish to be a copywriter and perhaps develop
your own ad agency from home, or write copy while your 3 year naps, buy
this book & learn. Have fun making money.Let capitalism and your personal will to succeed be your guide. And one more thing, writing is not easy. The art of writing is the art of rewriting. Whether you're Hemingway, Tolstoy,or Fitzgerald, rewriting is the key all writers open their careers by; and I am the same way. I rewrite frequently and you must do the same. Best wishes my friend.
Outdated but still a classic.......2006-09-16
When I was looking for business inspiration recently, a friend let me borrow this book. I think that the book's value comes from forcing you to look at your writing income in a whole new way.
While some of the advice is dated, the approach is as relevant today as it was at that time. Is it going to be an easy road? No, I don't think that there is anything easy about earning a big pile of money every year. However, if you've got talent and you're willing to work at it, I believe that the ideas contained in this book are a good starting place.
Bly's book helped me to earn money from my writing.......2005-10-05
When the first edition of this book came out, I bought a copy and immediately followed its practical suggestions --- and attracted business in my field (education)! Bly is another author who speaks to you in a conversational tone and tells you how to start. But he doesn't stop there. He includes actual examples of what he has done and what has worked for him. For example, Bly includes a sample letter that he sent to prospects. I thought that was great and wished he had included a few more.
At the same time, Bly might have cautioned readers that implementing and getting great results from his suggestions takes time. For example, I wrote and mailed about 100 letters in 2-3 months before I began receiving responses. My efforts paid off. For example, I served as a freelance developmental editor for Addison-Wesley, wrote activities for Scholastic's Big Book Math, and completed a 6-month project for a book developer. Had I not read Bly's book and implemented his suggestions, I would not have thought of exploring profitable avenues and expanding my writing career.
I recommend Bly's book to anyone who loves to write and would like to earn more money from his or her writing. A big thumbs up!
Great for starting a copywriting business.......2005-06-01
Although this book is not new, it is still a great book to use for starting a copywriting business. It helps you establish fees, go after business and much more. A great book.
promises much, delivers little.......2005-02-12
I was OK with the advice up until the part where it suggested that if you'd already published a how-to book and some magazine articles, you would probably have success branching out into other types of freelancing.
No kidding! I'd be very impressed by a writer who apparently already knew how to navigate the publishing/freelancing world.
And I'd almost certainly take a chance on them, unknown or not, provided the stuff they showed me was professional. Trouble is, I'm not sure how many writers this advice applies to. If they already knew this stuff, I doubt they'd bother to buy a book that supposedly tells them how to acquire it in the first place.
And if they already had a portfolio of sorts to secure the other jobs, why in the world would they need a whole book of advice on how to shift gears? Knowledge is transferrable, and I'm sure they'd already have contacts a beginner reading this book would die for.
Does this make any sense? Apparently, this book has helped plenty of reviewers, so it does fill a niche. But to me, it's like publishing a book on how to lose 50 pounds in a month and then assuming all readers have a naturally fast metabolism and simply need a boost of encouragement and maybe lay off on the junk food a little - and they will lose the weight!
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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs)
Ellen Lupton
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The organization of letters on a blank sheet -- or screen -- is the most basic challenge facing anyone who practices design. What type of font to use? How big? How should those letters, words, and paragraphs be aligned, spaced, ordered, shaped, and otherwise manipulated? In this groundbreaking new primer, leading design educator and historian Ellen Lupton provides clear and concise guidance for anyone learning or brushing up on their typographic skills.
Thinking with Type is divided into three sections: letter, text, and grid. Each section begins with an easy-to-grasp essay that reviews historical, technological, and theoretical concepts, and is then followed by a set of practical exercises that bring the material covered to life. Sections conclude with examples of work by leading practitioners that demonstrate creative possibilities (along with some classic no-no's to avoid).
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Glossy, colorful, devoid of substance.......2007-10-09
Ellen Lupton's "Thinking with Type" is a strange book that exists because of itself. It uses different fonts and colors and layout to tell you about different fonts and colors and layout. Even the example text is about itself, and not Lorem Ipsum or some such (for example, "This is Helvetica 9 point" written in Helvetica 9 point).
This is about as meta as you can get, a work of reflexive modern art if you will. Think Godel, Lupton, Bach? But it advertises itself as A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers and Editors, which it surely, emphatically, is not. I learned more from the first few pages of Parker's Looking Good in Print -- a fine book every one of whose commandments Lupton manages to violate -- than from this opus of navel-gazing.
A few concrete things wrong with it: well, the obvious one is that since every design element in this book exists to show itself, the book as a whole is extremely difficult to read. This is exacerbated by bad Index and Table of Contents... the only reason they exist is because they should (sum ergo sum). The fancy rendering of chapters (of which there are three, yes three; moreover they have monosyllabic titles) and sections add to this weird where-am-I-in-the-text effect.
At a graphic design contest level, this might be interesting, but at a "critical guide" level, it is criminal -- worse than type crime. This book suffers from the unpardonable crime of overdesign at any macroscopic level you'd care to think about. Moreover, it simply lacks substance. If a tenth of the time spent typesetting this book had been allocated to actual content, it could have turned out all right. As such, it is full of gloss and color, signifying nothing.
useless.......2007-09-08
I wouldn't recommend this book to anybody. just a fiw bits of information from every area, but nothing specific or useful.
Great value.......2007-09-05
If you're loooking for a good foundational knowledge of type, this is one of the best books for the money you'll find.
don't be deceived by the title.......2007-09-04
not quite helpful with thinking with type as the title suggests. more of a brief historical overview of type and such. does not really help you think critically about type. there are a few other books i would definitely if you're wanting for something deeper about type after reading this book. overall, for the price, it's a decent book to own. i do wish the book talked more about the grid system though.
A disorderly book, some good advice, much confusion.......2007-08-25
This book does not accomplish what it sets out to be, according to the subtitle, "A critical guide for designers, writers, editors & students". It has some interesting examples of unusual designs and has some value for designers of, for example, brochures or advertisements. But the book has limited value for the remaining targeted audience, as far too much of the book is devoted to oddities and strange designs that a writer, editor or student should NEVER even think of using.
The majority of the examples of text settings in the book are unreadable for more than a few lines. No writer who actually wants his or her work to be read should ever want to have the text set in one of these designs.
There are some useful guides on matters such as leading and tracking, but these are lost in the overall jumble. The book merits two stars only because of designers might find it useful. All others should avoid the book.
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