Marine Fisheries Stock Assessment Improvement Plan: report of the National Marine Fisheries Service National Task Force for Improving Fish Stock Assessments

This report argues for greatly increased resources in terms of data collection facilities and staff to collect, process, and analyze the data, and to communicate the results, in order for NMFS to fulfill its mandate to conserve and manage marine resources. In fact, the authors of this report had great difficulty defining the "ideal" situation to which fisheries stock assessments and management should aspire. One of the primary objectives of fisheries management is to develop sustainable harvest policies that minimize the risks of overfishing both target species and associated species. This can be achieved in a wide spectrum of ways, ranging between the following two extremes. The first is to implement only simple management measures with correspondingly simple assessment demands, which will usually mean setting fishing mortality targets at relatively low levels in order to reduce the risk of unknowingly overfishing or driving ecosystems towards undesirable system states. The second is to expand existing data collection and analysis programs to provide an adequate knowledge base that can support higher fishing mortality targets while still ensuring low risk to target and associated species and ecosystems. However, defining "adequate" is difficult, especially when scientists have not even identified all marine species, and information on catches, abundances, and life histories of many target species, and most associated species, is sparse. Increasing calls from the public, stakeholders, and the scientific community to implement ecosystem-based stock assessment and management make it even more difficult to define "adequate," especially when "ecosystem-based management" is itself not well-defined. In attempting to describe the data collection and assessment needs for the latter, the authors took a pragmatic approach, rather than trying to estimate the resources required to develop a knowledge base about the fine-scale detailed distributions, abundances, and associations of all marine species. Thus, the specified resource requirements will not meet the expectations of some stakeholders. In addition, the Stock Assessment Improvement Plan is designed to be complementary to other related plans, and therefore does not duplicate the resource requirements detailed in those plans, except as otherwise noted.

Obituary, Pierre Gillet: the priest of multitasking (1939 – 2015)

Pierre Gillet was the rare sort of clergyman who escaped classification—but fishers around the world will remember him as a godsend.

G.W.F.Hegel (1770-1831) : Cyfundrefn, Ysbryd a Hanes

Williams, Howard, G.W.F.Hegel (1770-1831): Cyfundrefn, Ysbryd a Hanes (University of Wales Press, 2005), pp.30-48

'Shades of the Prison-House': 'Walking' Stewart, Michel Foucault and the Making of Wordsworth's 'two consciousnesses''

Grovier, Kelly, 'Shades of the Prison-House': 'Walking' Stewart, Michel Foucault and the Making of Wordsworth's 'two consciousnesses'' Studies in Romanticism (2005) 44 (3) pp.341-66 RAE2008

The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg, 1770-1826

Jenkins, G.; Jones, F.; and Jones, D. (Eds.). (2007). The Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg: Vols. I, II and III. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. RAE2008

W stronę estetyki egzystencji: Michel Foucault

„Dziś jego postawa zapiera dech. Dać żyjącym exempla...”, powiada Paul Veyne w eseju Ostatni Foucault i jego moralność, i powiada tak o Foucault, ale gdy się nad tym zastanowić, w tradycji filozoficznej można odnaleźć cały ciąg postaci, które w pewnych okresach życia pragnęły jednego - właśnie chciały „dać żyjącym exempla”. Takim przykładem wśród jeszcze nie piszących filozofów mógłby być Sokrates. Tacy byli cynicy, a zwłaszcza bodaj najgłośniejszy z nich, Diogenes. Tacy wreszcie byli i stary Kant, i stary Nietzsche. Ich życie i ostatnie dzieła to często swoiste podręczniki życia, jednak nie tyle zobowiązujące powszechnością i obiektywnością wypowiadanych twierdzeń, co raczej przekonujące subiektywnością i jednostkowością przykładu. Każdy z nich, na swój sposób, dawał przykład jako filozof. Filozofował, dając przykład — swoim życiem, swoim dziełem. Czasami i jednym, i drugim. Istnieje grono filozofów, których życie było niezwykle blisko związane z działalnością filozoficzną, u których często trudno oddzielić filozofię od życia, u których konstytuuje się (Foucaulta) „ethos, filozoficzny sposób życia.” Sokrates, który nie ucieka przed sądem, choć może, i nie unika śmierci, choć może; Diogenes, kochany przez Ateńczyków skandalista, o którym Żywoty i poglądy słynnych filozofów powiadają, że „w byle jakim miejscu załatwiał wszystkie swoje sprawy”; Kant, który przez całe życie wstaje dokładnie o 4:55 na hasło swojego sługi, Lampego, Es ist Zeit, Herr Professor! i którego przechadzki po Królewcu mogą zastępować wskazania zegara; Nietzsche kończący w Turynie Ecce homo, jakby w przewidywaniu zbliżającej się katastrofy; i wreszcie umierający na AIDS i gorączkowo poprawiający na szpitalnym łóżku ostatnie dwa tomy Historii seksualności Michel Foucault (pytanie o splot jego własnego życia z ostatnim fragmentem jego dzieła jest pytaniem niezwykle trudnym, a odpowiedzi nie są jednoznaczne). Można by powiedzieć, iż każdy z nich pragnął wzmocnić swoją filozofię przykładem swojego życia. Asceza Kanta jest przecież nieodłączna od jego etyki, „troska o siebie” Foucaulta jest nieodłączna od jego „estetyki egzystencji”, śmierć Sokratesa i Nietzschego odejście od świadomego życia jedynie wzmacniają moc ich filozoficznych i etycznych wyborów (można by wręcz zastanawiać się, co stałoby się z Sokratesa „przykładem”, gdyby zdecydował się na ucieczkę z Aten, podobnie z myślą Nietzschego, gdyby, jak Hegel pod koniec życia, jedynie grał w karty...). Kant w trzeciej części Sporu fakultetów, Nietzsche w Ecce homo, Foucault w ostatnich częściach Historii seksualności (i pracach ją dopełniających), poza wszystkim innym, dają siebie za przykład: nie tyle od razu i po prostu wart naśladowania, lecz właśnie na początek jedynie wart przemyślenia. Paradoksalnie, to właśnie w ostatniej pracy Kanta i ostatniej pracy Nietzschego ich życie splata się z dziełem w jeden węzeł, to książki pisane własną krwią (jak powiedziałby Bataille, uważny czytelnik Nietzschego), własnym życiem.

Warianty realizacji austriackości w wybranych autorów (Joseph Roth, Stefan Zweig, Franz Theodor Csokor i Ődön von Horváth) w odniesieniu do kategorii granicznych starego i nowego świata

Wydział Neofilologii:Instytut Filologii Germańskiej

Dix-huit ans chez les sauvages : voyages et missions de Mgr Henry Faraud, áevãeque d'Anemour, vicaire apostolique de Mackensie dans l'extrãeme nord de l'Amerique britannique : d'apráes les documents de Mgr l'evãque d'Anemour / par Fernand-Michel.

http://www.archive.org/details/dixhuitanschezle00fararich

Experiences of a backwoods preacher, or, Facts and incidents culled from thirty years ministerial life / by Joseph H. Hilts.

http://www.archive.org/details/experiencesofab00hiltuoft

'La Violence et la mauvaise foi': Context and rhetoric in Pierre Bayle's Ce que c'est que la France toute Catholique

My thesis presents an examination of Ce que c'est que la France toute Catholique (1686) by Pierre Bayle, a prominent figure in the Republic of Letters and the Huguenot Refuge in the seventeenth century. This pamphlet was the first occasional text that Bayle published following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in which the religious toleration afforded to the Huguenot minority in France was repealed, a pivotal moment in the history of early modern France. In my thesis, I analyse the specific context within which Bayle wrote this pamphlet as a means of addressing a number of issues, including the legitimacy of forced conversions, the impact of the religious controversy upon exchanges in the Republic of Letters, the nature of religious zeal and finally the alliance of Church and state discourses in the early modern period. An examination of this context provides a basis from which to re-interpret the rhetorical strategies at work within the pamphlet, and also to come to an increased understanding of how, why and to what end he wrote it. In turn this allowed me to examine the relationship between this often overlooked pamphlet and the more extensively studied Commentaire Philosophique, in which Bayle argued in favour of religious toleration. Ultimately, understanding the relationship between these two texts proves essential in order to characterise his response to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and to understand the place of the pamphlet within his oeuvre. Furthermore, an analysis of the pamphlet and the Commentaire Philosophique provide a lens through which to elucidate both Bayle's intellectual development at this early stage in his career, and also the wider context of the rise of toleration theory and the evolution of modes of civility within the Republic of Letters on the eve of the Enlightenment.

Exploring alternatives for milk quality improvement and more efficient dairy production in a smallholder farming context – case study: Mantaro Valley (Peru)

Consumer demand is revolutionizing the way products are being produced, distributed and marketed. In relation to the dairy sector in developing countries, aspects of milk quality are receiving more attention from both society and the government. However, milk quality management needs to be better addressed in dairy production systems to guarantee the access of stakeholders, mainly small-holders, into dairy markets. The present study is focused on an analysis of the interaction of the upstream part of the dairy supply chain (farmers and dairies) in the Mantaro Valley (Peruvian central Andes), in order to understand possible constraints both stakeholders face implementing milk quality controls and practices; and evaluate “ex-ante” how different strategies suggested to improve milk quality could affect farmers and processors’ profits. The analysis is based on three complementary field studies conducted between 2012 and 2013. Our work has shown that the presence of a dual supply chain combining both formal and informal markets has a direct impact on dairy production at the technical and organizational levels, affecting small formal dairy processors’ possibilities to implement contracts, including agreements on milk quality standards. The analysis of milk quality management from farms to dairy plants highlighted the poor hygiene in the study area, even when average values of milk composition were usually high. Some husbandry practices evaluated at farm level demonstrated cost effectiveness and a big impact on hygienic quality; however, regular application of these practices was limited, since small-scale farmers do not receive a bonus for producing hygienic milk. On the basis of these two results, we co-designed with formal small-scale dairy processors a simulation tool to show prospective scenarios, in which they could select their best product portfolio but also design milk payment systems to reward farmers’ with high milk quality performances. This type of approach allowed dairy processors to realize the importance of including milk quality management in their collection and manufacturing processes, especially in a context of high competition for milk supply. We concluded that the improvement of milk quality in a smallholder farming context requires a more coordinated effort among stakeholders. Successful implementation of strategies will depend on the willingness of small-scale dairy processors to reward farmers producing high milk quality; but also on the support from the State to provide incentives to the stakeholders in the formal sector.

Seasonal release of the egg capsules of Anoplodium parasita Schneider, 1858, intracoelomic turbellarian (Platyhelminthes, Rhabdocoela) symbiotic of the sea cucumber Holothuria tubulosa Gmelin, 1788 (Echinodermata, Holothuroida)

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Jeannette Colombel, Michel Foucault, Paris :Editions Odile Jacob, 1994. 296 p.

Paris

Heavy metals in the asteroid Asterias rubens and its prey Mytilus edulis: Seasonal and geographical variations in four selected North Sea biotopes

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Effect of the castrating parasitic ciliate Orchitophrya stellarum on the population structure of Asterias vulgaris

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