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    Literary Review on White Abalone 1 A Review of Scientific Literature Regarding the Endangered White Abalone By Steven Tran The white abalone, Haliotis sorenseni, is a beautiful creature that attracts divers to the mesmerizing dive sites in California (Barboza 2012). These abalones are known to inhabit the waters of the coast of California from Point Conception to as far as Punta Abreojos in Baja California and can be found in some of the deepest waters recorded for abalone in up 50 meters of water. These creatures have great longevity and can live up to 35 years (Stierhoff et al. 2012). However, the down side of it’s longevity is that the White Abalone takes much longer to mature and reproduce which makes it’s survivability as a species…

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    Duty Of Care

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    Fisheries not shutting down the abalone farm on the 11th of January. In establishing that the defendant owed a duty of care, the plaintiff must prove, • On the balance of probabilities that it is, • Reasonable to impose such a duty upon harm caused, • By the criminal conduct of a third party. Reasonable Foreseeability To impose a duty, it must first be asked whether it was not farfetched or fanciful and it was reasonably foreseeable for a; • Reasonable public authority, • Who manages…

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    algorithm: ISCA (Insignificant component analysis) I have used Weka for all my experiments. ICA wasn’t available in Weka and I installed the Students.Filters weka plugin containing the FastICA algorithm implementation and that added missing IndependentComponents filters under unsupervised attribute filters. Datasets I’ve considered Abalone and WineQualityWhite data sets. First data set is continuous and wine quality is mostly…

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    Sea Otter Research Paper

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    Maybe animals are smarter than we think. For example when we have to crack a nut we use a nutcracker, but animals don't have things like that so they have to improvise. The sea otter does. A group of scientist including myself have went to study the sea otter and how they function without the advantages we have. Sea otters snack on a sea snail called abalone. But the abalones shell if very hard and often not easy to break. We spotted a sea otter one day and it was laying flat on its back with…

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    Many people are doing illegal crimes every day with knowing it. People get caught and put them in jail for the certain amount of years. However, we as a society, create punishments for a reason to avoid further damage to the ecosystem or the environment. I'm here to declare that the poachers should go to jail time. Let's start off with the common reason why should they go to jail. First of all, as they keep collect and selling abalone. It will just create more damage to the ocean floor in…

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    Saldanha Bay Oysters

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    oysters, both from the long lines to the cleaning and assessment facility, to the facility where the oysters get packed and transported to their various wholesalers, that would seem to be the only pollution that would contribute to the environmental issues. West coast abalone uses a semi-recirculating system, semi because they are replacing water all the time as it is not a closed system. One of the advantage of this is that because the water is being used over again, less heating is required…

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    Dad forces Miles to work on the boat illegally and since Miles is only 13 to have a huge amount of responsibility he is desperate to not make a mistake. Dad makes the decision to fish for abalone in protected areas. This is because there is not enough abalone in legal areas and from this dad makes the decision to participate in illegal action. Parrett shows this in the quote “We’re at the Witches… Please!...These are protected waters, you idiot! (210)”. Dad is willing to engage in extremely…

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    Sea Otters Research Paper

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    Sea otters are known as one of the largest members of the weasel family, Mustelidae, but are one of the smallest marine mammals. Unlike most marine mammals, who have blubber that serve as a thermal insulator, sea otters have fur. Their fur is one of the densest, softest furs in the animal kingdom--that is also water-resistant. They are omnivores with a diet consisting of crabs, abalone, sea stars, squid, sea urchins, sea worms and around 40 other bottom-dwelling invertebrates. Furthermore, to…

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    Bamboo Essay

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    microstructure and growth conditions , in order to adapt their structural properties Bio-mineralized composites are considered very light weight. They have a high elastic modules, and very low densities. A lot of these materials have strong chemical and mechanical adherence. Their mineralized tissues can have organized layers of both soft and hard materials, very similarly to bone. This can be observed in seashells, as their structure is very similar to compact bone. It has the presence of a…

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    Library Skills Assignment #1 Crime Causation and Criminal Justice Policy- CJ 593 Professor M.J. Smith Haylie Galvan 2/23/2017 The study conducted looked at the illegal trade in South Africa, and analyzed how the routine activity perceptive could be used to help the local law enforcement. The researchers used a variety of study methods to establish the different causes of the illegal trade of sea snails. Some of their methods included observations and in-depth interviews. Observing…

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