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Validation of back-calculation equations for juvenile bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) with the use of tetracycline-marked otoliths

In recent years, a decrease in the abundance of bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) has been observed (Fahay et al., 1999; Munch and Conover, 2000) that has led to increased interest in a better understanding the life history of the species. Estimates of several young-of-the-year (YOY) life history characteristics, including the importance and use of estuaries as nursery habitat (Kendall and Walford, 1979) and size-dependant mortality (Hare and Cowen, 1997), are reliant upon the accuracy of growth determination. By using otoliths, it is possible to use back-calculation formulae (BCFs) to estimate the length at certain ages and stages of development for many species of fishes. Use of otoliths to estimate growth in this way can provide the same information as long-term laboratory experiments and tagging studies without the time and expense of rearing or recapturing fish. The difficulty in using otoliths in this way lies in validating that 1) there is constancy in the periodicity of the increment formation, and 2) there is no uncoupling of the relationship between somatic and otolith growth. To date there are no validation studies demonstrating the relationship between otolith growth and somatic growth for bluefish. Daily increment formation in otoliths has been documented for larval (Hare and Cowen, 1994) and juvenile bluefish (Nyman and Conover, 1988). Hare and Cowen (1995) found ageindependent variability in the ratio of otolith size to body length in early age bluefish, although these differences varied between ontogenetic stages. Furthermore, there have been no studies where an evaluation of back-calculation methods has been combined with a validation of otolithderived lengths for juvenile bluefish.

Growth and maturity of salmon sharks (Lamna ditropis) in the eastern and western North Pacific, and comments on back-calculation methods

Age and growth estimates for salmon sharks (Lamna ditropis) in the eastern North Pacific were derived from 182 vertebral centra collected from sharks ranging in length from 62.2 to 213.4 cm pre-caudal length (PCL) and compared to previously published age and growth data for salmon sharks in the western North Pacific. Eastern North Pacific female and male salmon sharks were aged up to 20 and 17 years, respectively. Relative marginal increment (RMI) analysis showed that postnatal rings form annually between January and March. Von Bertalanffy growth parameters derived from vertebral length-at-age data are L∞ =207.4 cm PCL, k=0.17/yr, and t0=−2.3 years for females (n=166), and L∞ =182.8 cm PCL, k=0.23/yr , and t0=−1.9 years for males (n=16). Age at maturity was estimated to range from six to nine years for females (median pre-caudal length of 164.7 cm PCL) and from three to five years old for males (median precaudal length of 124.0 cm PCL). Weight-length relationships for females and males in the eastern North Pacific are W=8.2 × 10_05 × L2.759 –06 × L3.383 (r2 =0.99) and W=3.2 × 10 (r2 =0.99), respectively. Our results show that female and male salmon sharks in the eastern North Pacific possess a faster growth rate, reach sexual maturity earlier, and attain greater weight-at-length than their same-sex counterparts living in the western North Pacific.

Vertigens de uma psicanálise a céu aberto: a cidade contribuições do acompanhamento terapêutico à clínica na reforma psiquiátrica

A pesquisa, interessada em precisar as ferramentas conceituais que possibilitam operar a clínica no campo da reforma psiquiátrica quando a cidade invade o setting do tratamento e vem colocar a clínica em questão tem como ponto de partida o percurso de uma experiência desenvolvida nos últimos dez anos junto à Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, em parceria com serviços de saúde mental da rede pública, tendo a atividade do acompanhamento terapêutico como vetor. Clínica e cidade foram os fios condutores desta investigação, que recorre inicialmente a leituras diversas, da história, geografia, ciências sociais, literatura, filosofia, para acompanhar desde a formação das cidades medievais até o advento das metrópoles contemporâneas. O nascimento do alienismo é inscrito nesse contexto, no momento de instauração das sociedades democráticas modernas, cuja ambição pelo governo das lamas engendra o ideal isolacionista que o asilo psiquiátrico veio presentificar, de forma que a psiquiatria e suas congêneres, nascidas na cidade, dela vêm se apartar, o que se coloca como paradoxo presente nos processos de reforma psiquiátrica contemporâneos que propugnam o retorno da loucura ao convívio nas cidades. Considerando que é esses paradoxo que o acompanhamento terapêutico, ao abrir-se à cidade, vem habita, a pesquisa busca identificar as ferramentas conceituais de que se serve o acompanhamento terapêutico em cada uma de suas vertentes em cada uma de suas vertentes teóricas referendadas seja em Lacan, em, Winnicott ou Deleuze e Guattari e o modo como essas ferramentas possibilitam à clínica a incorporação do espaço pública, através de objetos e relações, tanto simbólicos como materiais, sem fazer uso de uma relação de domínio à parte que implique em segregação com respeito à sociedade comum. Conclui-se, daí, que, se a incidência da cidade na prática do acompanhamento terapêutico configura o traço que singulariza essa prática como um dos modos de fazer clínica, ela é, ao mesmo tempo, o que leva ao seu limite paradoxal o modo como a clínica se faz, cabendo disso extrais as consequências que interessam a uma clínica conforme a radicalidade do que propõe a reforma psiquiátrica.