Parametric studies of tension leg platform with large amplitude motions

Tension leg platform (TLP) is an important kind of working station for deep water exploration and development in ocean, whose dynamic responses deserve a serious thought. It is shown that for severe sea state, the effects of nonlinearities induced by large displacements of TLP may be noteworthy, and then employment of small displacements model should be restrained. In such situation, large amplitude motion model may be an appropriate alternative. The numerical experiments are performed to study the differences of dynamic responses between the two models. It is shown that for most cases, differences between results of the two models are significant. The variances of the differences vs. the wave period are the most remarkable, and that of the differences vs. wave heading angle are also apparent.

First Biennial Ocean Climate Summit: Finding Solutions for San Francisco Bay Area’s Coast and Ocean. Proceedings of the Summit: April 29, 2008, Golden Gate Club, The Presidio San Francisco, California

Executive Summary: The marine environment plays a critical role in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that remains within Earth’s atmosphere, but has not received as much attention as the terrestrial environment when it comes to climate change discussions, programs, and plans for action. It is now apparent that the oceans have begun to reach a state of CO2 saturation, no longer maintaining the “steady-state” carbon cycle that existed prior to the Industrial Revolution. The increasing amount of CO2 present within the oceans and the atmosphere has an effect on climate and a cascading effect on the marine environment. Potential physical effects of climate change within the marine environment, including ocean acidification, changes in wind and upwelling regimes, increasing global sea surface temperatures, and sea level rise, can lead to dramatic, fundamental changes within marine and coastal ecosystems. Altered ecosystems can result in changing coastal economies through a reduction in marine ecosystem services such as commercial fish stocks and coastal tourism. Local impacts from climate change should be a front line issue for natural resource managers, but they often feel too overwhelmed by the magnitude of this issue to begin to take action. They may not feel they have the time, funding, or staff to take on a challenge as large as climate change and continue to not act as a result. Already, natural resource managers work to balance the needs of humans and the economy with ecosystem biodiversity and resilience. Responsible decisions are made each day that consider a wide variety of stakeholders, including community members, agencies, non-profit organizations, and business/industry. The issue of climate change must be approached as a collaborative effort, one that natural resource managers can facilitate by balancing human demands with healthy ecosystem function through research and monitoring, education and outreach, and policy reform. The Scientific Expert Group on Climate Change in their 2007 report titled, “Confronting Climate Change: Avoiding the Unmanageable and Managing the Unavoidable” charged governments around the world with developing strategies to “adapt to ongoing and future changes in climate change by integrating the implications of climate change into resource management and infrastructure development”. Resource managers must make future management decisions within an uncertain and changing climate based on both physical and biological ecosystem response to climate change and human perception of and response to the issue. Climate change is the biggest threat facing any protected area today and resource managers must lead the charge in addressing this threat. (PDF has 59 pages.)

Nonlinear Dynamic Responses of Tension Leg Platform with Slack-Taut Tether

The slack-taut state of tether is a particular Averse circumstance, which may influence the normal operation stale of tension leg platform (TLP). The dynamic responses of TLP with slack-taut tether are studied with consideration of several nonlinear factors introduced by large amplitude motions. The time histories of stresses of tethers of a typical TLP in slack-taut state are given. In addition, the sensitivities of slack to stiffness and mass are investigated by varying file stiffness of tether and mass of TLP. It is found that slack is sensitive to the mass of TLP. The critical culled surfaces (over which indicates the slack) for the increase of mass are obtained.

Análisis comparativo de traducciones comerciales en medios audiovisuales. Subtitulado II. "El club de los poetas muertos".

El presente trabajo de fin de grado se centra en el estudio descriptivo-comparativo de los subtítulos en español y los de la versión original inglesa del largometraje cinematográfico El club de los poetas muertos (1989), además de sus correspondientes versiones dobladas. Una vez abordada la cuestión de la selección del material objeto de estudio, se trata el proceso de recopilación del corpus textual (23 000 palabras; 1800 subtítulos originales y 1633 en español), haciendo especial hincapié en las herramientas informáticas utilizadas para la extracción de los subtítulos, tanto originales como traducidos al castellano, desde una copia DVD. Posteriormente se ha organizado dicho corpus en una tabla, generando así unidades bitextuales comparables. Los resultados que se presentan en este TFG nacen del análisis y clasificación de los procedimientos de traducción observados tras la comparación de dichas unidades. Gracias a parte de la literatura utilizada para este trabajo (Merino 1986, Molina y Hurtado 2002 y Pajares 2010), se ha podido emplear una taxonomía que permitiera clasificar los fenómenos observados en cuatro grandes categorías: adición, inequivalencia, modificación y supresión. Dentro de cada categoría se han identificado diferentes subcategorías que se ajustan con mayor precisión a los fenómenos específicos identificados. Debido a las limitaciones de extensión del presente trabajo, el resultado final solo ofrece una muestra de todos los ejemplos recogidos, presentados por orden alfabético y atendiendo a la clasificación taxonómica fijada. En último lugar, las conclusiones pretenden verter luz a aquellas cuestiones planteadas en la introducción de este trabajo, así como presentar una valoración general de los resultados obtenidos.

Club Tenis Pamplona elkartearen Formigal udalekua proiektuaren plangintza estrategikoa

Klub tenis pamplonak Formigalen duen aterpea aprobetxatuz, udaleku bat prestatu.

Evaluación del jugador de waterpolo: aplicación en el club Leioa Waterpolo

[ES] El objetivo de este de este trabajo es la realización de una herramienta que nos permita evaluar de una forma objetiva el rendimiento de jugadores de waterpolo jóvenes, desde un punto de vista global. Para ello, se han diseñado baterías de test para la evaluación antropométrica, de la condición física general, de la condición física específica, técnico-táctica y psicológica. Para la aplicación esta herramienta, se ha contado con una muestra de 31 jugadores y jugadoras (18 chicos y 13 chicas) del club Leioa Waterpolo, nacidos entre los años 2000 y 2003.

La Gestión de la Escuela de Ciclismo "Almassora" del Club MTB "Animals de Monte"

Revisión bibliográfica de la situación actual del Deporte Escolar para tener una visión real, deportiva y educacional del mismo dentro de la disciplina del ciclismo en esas edades; proponiendo un modelo de gestión deportiva orientado a las escuelas en general y a las de ciclismo en particular del modelo educativo del Deporte.

Plan de marketing Athletic Club

El TFG consiste en la realización de un plan de marketing para la entidad deportiva Athletic Club. El trabajo está efectuado en idioma español.

Club Penguin: a produção de subjetividade capitalística na narrativa interativa nos videogames

Na pesquisa Club Penguin: a produção de subjetividade capitalística na narrativa interativa nos videogames vamos realizar a cartografia (Deleuze & Guattari) do gameplay do Club Penguin, em sua plataforma principal, online. É uma pesquisa em andamento, já que o jogo não tem um objetivo único a ser alcançado e sua narrativa não é conclusiva, pois depende integralmente do agenciamento entre formas de pensar, agir e sentir do usuário com a programação do jogo, produzindo um rizoma que nunca se fecha. Para poder verificar seus efeitos na produção da subjetividade capitalística das primeiras pistas que seguimos foi a presença das tecnologias de informação e comunicação, que, ao mesmo tempo em que permitem a autonomia do usuário, exercem uma vigilância e um controle consentidos, produzindo dados que servem de base para a manutenção e preservação da sociedade de controle (Gilles Deleuze). Nossa segunda pista está ligada às práticas e laços que se formam no decorrer do jogo, que refletem os efeitos das relações presentes no capitalismo contemporâneo, que tem como base o consumo e a produção de signos e afetos, tal como descritas por Hardt & Negri. O percurso da terceira pista está ligado às linhas de enunciação e visibilidade cujos efeitos se refletem nos processos de subjetivação das crianças que participam do jogo, visto que o público alvo deste jogo está na faixa dos 6 aos 14 anos de idade.

A pilot survey of deepwater coral/sponge assemblages and their susceptibility to fishing/harvest impacts at the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS). Cruise report for NOAA Ship McARTHUR II Cruise AR-04-04: Leg 2 (June 1-12, 2004)

The offshore shelf and canyon habitats of the OCNMS are areas of high primary productivity and biodiversity that support extensive groundfish fisheries. Recent acoustic surveys conducted in these waters have indicated the presence of hard-bottom substrates believed to harbor unique deep-sea coral and sponge assemblages. Such fauna are often associated with shallow tropical waters, however an increasing number of studies around the world have recorded them in deeper, cold-water habitats in both northern and southern latitudes. These habitats are of tremendous value as sites of recruitment for commercially important fishes. Yet, ironically, studies have shown how the gear used in offshore demersal fishing, as well as other commercial operations on the seafloor, can cause severe physical disturbances to resident benthic fauna. Due to their exposed structure, slow growth and recruitment rates, and long life spans, deep-sea corals and sponges may be especially vulnerable to such disturbances, requiring very long periods to recover. Potential effects of fishing and other commercial operations in such critical habitats, and the need to define appropriate strategies for the protection of these resources, have been identified as a high-priority management issue for the sanctuary.

High- and low-latitude climate interactions: evidence for enhanced aridity of Asian monsoon dust source areas after 2.4 MYR from ODP Leg 117 magnetic susceptibility data

EXTRACT (SEE PDF FOR FULL ABSTRACT): Whole-core magnetic susceptibility can sometimes be used as a rapid and sensitive indicator of variations in the concentration of terrigenous material. We apply this approach to study the evolution of Plio-Pleistocene climatic cycles of terrigenous sedimentation at Ocean Drilling Program Site 721, on the Owen Ridge in the Arabian Sea.

Comparative effect of Pediococcus acidilactici and Lactococcus lactis on growth performance, survival and enzyme activity of western white leg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei)

This study was done in Shahid Kiani Marine Aquaculture Development Center, Choebde, Abadan in order to evaluate the effects of Pediiococcus acidilactici, Lactococcus lactis and vitamin C on growth performance, survival, enzymatic activities and immune responses of L. vannamei during three months. Treatments were included control group, Pediiococcus and Lactococcus treatments which fed with diet containing 1×10P9P cfu gP_1P bacteria and vitamin C. At the end of the experiment, the growth factors, immune parameters, digestive enzymes, intestinal, histology of intestine, carcasses and microbial flora (bacterial total count and lactic acid count) were evaluated. The results indicated that administration of lactobacillus had significant effects on the growth factors as the highest weight, increase specific growth rate, relative growth rate, feed conversion ratio and protein efficiency in the shrimps received pediococcus and then Lactococcus (P<0.05). The best immune function was also observed in the shrimps fed by probiotics, so that proteins and hemoglobin̛ hemolymph, phenoloxidase activity and challenged with V. parahaemolyticus showed a statistical difference comparing to the control group and the group received vitamin C (P<0.05). Some digestive enzymes, in pediococcus treatment showed a significant increase when compared to other treatments (P<0.05). Significant changes in bacterial intestinal flora were observed in probiotic groups compared with control and vitamin C groups (P < 0.05). Histological results showed the positive effects of probiotics in the gut (P < 0.05). While these supplements cannot caused to significant impacts on the shrimp carcass composition (P ˃ 0.05). As a result pediococcus group had the best performance among treatments.

Task-level control of the lateral leg spring model of cockroach locomotion

The Lateral Leg Spring model (LLS) was developed by Schmitt and Holmes to model the horizontal-plane dynamics of a running cockroach. The model captures several salient features of real insect locomotion, and demonstrates that horizontal plane locomotion can be passively stabilized by a well-tuned mechanical system, thus requiring minimal neural reflexes. We propose two enhancements to the LLS model. First, we derive the dynamical equations for a more flexible placement of the center of pressure (COP), which enables the model to capture the phase relationship between the body orientation and center-of-mass (COM) heading in a simpler manner than previously possible. Second, we propose a reduced LLS "plant model" and biologically inspired control law that enables the model to follow along a virtual wall, much like antenna-based wall following in cockroaches. © 2006 Springer.