In this expanded new edition of Living with Earthquakes, Robert Yeats, a leading authority on earthquakes in California and the Pacific Northwest, describes the threat posed by the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a great earthquake fault which runs for hundreds of miles offshore from British Columbia to northern California. New research...
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Seven formations of the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group
sedimentary rocks are exposed on Saturna and Tumbo Islands. These
formations are, from oldest to youngest, the Extension-Protection,
Cedar District, DeCourcy, Northumberland, Geoffrey, Spray, and
Gabriola. The rocks represent four successive cycles of deltaic
sedimentation, the oldest and the youngest of which...
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Appendix B. Northumberland Formation and DeCourcy
Formation Tongue
Appendix C. DeCourcy
The primary objective of this investigation was to offer a marriage
enrichment workshop enabling the participants to increase their
communication and problem solving skills, and the prevention of future
marital distress through an educational experience.
Marital communication and marital adjustment scores were
obtained from an experimental group consisting of 16...
The appropriate separation of concerns is a fundamental engineering principle. A concern, for software developers, is that which must be represented by code in a program; by extension, separation of concerns is the ability to represent a single concern in a single appropriate programming language construct. Advanced separation of concerns...
Grazing of riparian forage by livestock may alter stream channel morphology in ways that impact nearby aquatic habitat, bank stability, vegetative cover and water quality. A number of grazing management practices have been proposed as a means to reduce the amount of time cattle spend in the riparian zone. The...
In- stream water temperature is one of the most important environmental
factors associated with the decline in salmonid populations and their habitats in the
Pacific Northwest. Most ecological restoration practices that attempt to reduce instream
temperatures center on replanting or reestablishing riparian vegetation and
increasing flows. However, in a large...
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Cultural competence is a topic that concerns social scientists and medical anthropologists who pay attention to demographic changes and health disparities. This study demonstrates practical approaches to developing cultural competence in medical education by using factors from the social environment to develop protocols for action. With current concerns in domestic...