Practical suggestions for the commercialisation of fishery production in Ondo State

The paper examines the fisheries resources and activities in Ondo State, Nigeria. As a result of the geographical advantage via location along the Atlantic coast the potentials and constraints of coastal artisanal fisheries in Ondo State are assessed. Practical suggestions and approaches for a successful commercialisation of fishery production are given. These include: (a) Identification of useful and reliable fisheries institutions, (b) Inauguration establishment and coordination of a fishery development agency, (c) establishment of aquaculture technology centres (ATC), (d) provision of fishery development fund, (e) Standardisation of fishery consultancy units, etc

Quantifying chaos: practical estimation of the correlation dimension

Be it a physical object or a mathematical model, a nonlinear dynamical system can display complicated aperiodic behavior, or "chaos." In many cases, this chaos is associated with motion on a strange attractor in the system's phase space. And the dimension of the strange attractor indicates the effective number of degrees of freedom in the dynamical system.

In this thesis, we investigate numerical issues involved with estimating the dimension of a strange attractor from a finite time series of measurements on the dynamical system.

Of the various definitions of dimension, we argue that the correlation dimension is the most efficiently calculable and we remark further that it is the most commonly calculated. We are concerned with the practical problems that arise in attempting to compute the correlation dimension. We deal with geometrical effects (due to the inexact self-similarity of the attractor), dynamical effects (due to the nonindependence of points generated by the dynamical system that defines the attractor), and statistical effects (due to the finite number of points that sample the attractor). We propose a modification of the standard algorithm, which eliminates a specific effect due to autocorrelation, and a new implementation of the correlation algorithm, which is computationally efficient.

Finally, we apply the algorithm to chaotic data from the Caltech tokamak and the Texas tokamak (TEXT); we conclude that plasma turbulence is not a low- dimensional phenomenon.

Valoración de la composición corporal y de la percepción de la imagen en un grupo de mujeres universitarias del País Vasco

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Imagen corporal en estudiantes universitarios: comportamientos dietéticos y actitudes nutricionales

[ES] En el presente estudio se evalúa la relación entre el estado nutricional, las actitudes y comportamientos dietéticos, y la percepción de la imagen corporal en universitarios. Se registraron más casos de sobrepeso en hombres que en mujeres. Sin embargo, la tendencia a “hacer dietas” fue mayor en las mujeres, lo que podría deberse a la presión social por mantener una imagen estilizada.

Imagen y composición corporal en hombres jóvenes

[ES] El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar la percepción de la imagen corporal y comparar los resultados con las medidas reales en un grupo de hombres universitarios. Los resultados mostraron que desean tener un cuerpo más musculoso que el cuerpo que tienen y que el que creen tener. Además, piensan que las mujeres prefieren hombres con cuerpos musculosos.

Use of pseudoephedrine as a practical chiral auxiliary for asymmetric synthesis

The use of pseudoephedrine as a practical chiral auxiliary for asymmetric synthesis is describe. Both enantiomers of pseudoephedrine are inexpensive commodity chemicals and can be N-acylated in high yields to form tertiary amides. In the presence of lithium chloride, the enolates of the corresponding pseudoephedrine amides undergo highly diastereoselective a1kylations with a wide range of alkyl halides to afford α-substituted products in high yields. These products can then be transformed in a single operation into highly enantiomerically enriched carboxylic acids, alcohols, and aldehydes. Lithium amidotrihydroborate (LAB) is shown to be a powerful reductant for the selective reduction of tertiary amides in general and pseudoephedrine amides in particular to form primary alcohols.

Percepción de la imagen corporal en estudiantes de la Universidad del País Vasco

[ES] Actualmente, cada vez es mayor la preocupación entre los jóvenes por el aspecto físico. Por eso nos propusimos evaluar la percepción de la imagen corporal en universitarios. Las mujeres eligieron figuras significativamente más delgadas que los hombres, y presentaron mayor insatisfacción con su imagen. Estos resultados pueden estar influenciados por la presión social sobre la imagen de la mujer.