Female participation in high-contact sports has increased
dramatically in the past two decades, raising concern regarding injury to
the female breast and the need for protective equipment. While the use of
chest/breast protectors by women is advocated, little is known of their
efficacy and effect on athletic performance. The purpose...
Establishing marine protected areas (MPAs) often results in fishers being
displaced from at least some of their existing grounds. A direct
consequence of this is that governments may be required to make
compensatory payments to the firms that are affected. Experience has
demonstrated that these payments can be significant, as...
The concept of compensatory mitigation is well established as an approach to environmental management. In the past, mitigation programs have been used to conserve wetlands affected by development, and is proposed as a cost-effective approach to offsetting greenhouse gas emissions through reforestation programs. The concept may be equally applicable to...
Collegiate Athletics is glorified in the United States; particularly at the NCAA Division I level. Through the lens of a sport-loving spectator, talented, scholarship athletes live the good life of suiting up in university colors, competing before their fans, and, when they’re taking a break from annihilating the competition, reveling...
Plate boundaries are commonly regions of complex, diffuse deformation with
the motion across the boundary accommodated by numerous structural systems, rather
than being narrow, discrete zones of deformation. One such boundary occurs where
the North American plate makes contact with Juan de Fuca, Gorda, and Pacific plates
along the west...
The field of composition studies has concerned itself with the way in which people learn to write and the role schooling plays in writing development. Recently a trend has developed within the field towards exploring writing development outside of the classroom, termed the extracurriculum. Much of the scholarship thus far...
The aim of the first manuscript was to examine CHD risk in women with MS by
assessing the frequency of physical inactivity and the frequency of anthropometric,
dietary, and metabolic CHD risk factors. Although participation in physical activity is
often avoided by many women with MS, some women remain physically...
Coleomyia (Diptera: Asilidae) is a small genus of robber flies found in western North America, totaling eight described species. The goal of this project was to sequence the transcriptome and genome of Coleomyia. In the most recent phylogenetic analysis, it could not be placed in a recognized subfamily. Furthermore, there...
Nine west-northwest-trending faults on the continental margin of
Oregon and Washington, between 43° 05'N and 470 20'N latitude, have been
mapped using seismic reflection, sidescan sonar, submersibles, and swath
bathymetry. Five of these oblique faults are found on both the Juan de Fuca
and North American plates, and offset abyssal...
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: implications for great earthquake potential in Oregon and Washington
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