... 6 The Location ofthe Lee trap shery monitoring programme in southern Lao PDRIntegrated Analysis of Data from MRC Fisheries Monitoring Programmes in theLowerMekong Basin Page 4Figure 1 The ... dependencies in the indices through space and time in an attempt to reveal the extent of sh migrations and the location of spawning areas in the basin, as well as to improve understanding ofthe life-cycles ... on the Sekong River. The assertion that the diversity and biomass ofthe multispecies assemblage have declined signicantly in thebasin therefore remains contentious. Much will hinge on whether...
... Aquaculture in theLowerMekong Basin 29Status of aquaculture in the LowerMekong Basin 1.1 BackgroundAquaculture is a diverse and important rural activity in theLowerMekong Basin. It encompassesproduction ... percent ofthe estimated 2,036,000 tonnes of aquatic products produced in the Lower Mekong Basin. In the brackish water areas oftheMekong Delta, aquaculture contributed another 135,179 tonnes of aquatic ... production in the Lower MekongBasin areas of all riparian countries from an estimated 60,000 tonnes in 1990 (InterimCommittee for the Coordination of Investigations oftheLowerMekong Basin, 1992)...
... located in the areas where flood water reaches the depth of 2-4 meters. The flood of 2000 caused losses of 2150 ha of rice, decrease of rice yield from 60 to 70 percentages. In the year of 2002, ... millions of people to whom water provides directly or indirectly the source of livelihood. TheMekong immense water resources are one ofthe key factors for social and economic development in the ... sedimentation. The losses of clam stocks were one ofthe biggest problems in the coastal area. The reason for the losses was unknown and this creates a lot of frustration in the area. Extensive...
... for any of the dimensions ofsocial exclusion after the impact of other variables has been controlled for. * The Netherlands Institute for Social Research⏐SCP, The Hague, the Netherlands ... definition ofsocial exclusion as a separate concept either. They offer an indirect demarcation, mostly by referring to the rights ofsocial citizenship: The extent ofsocial exclusion calls on the ... account the actions of various agents that may increase the risk of poverty and social exclusion. These would include actions (or negligence) ofthe afflicted persons themselves or of other individual...
... Calling: A Social History ofthe Telephone to 1940. Berkeley:Univ. Calif. PressFountain JE. 2001a. The economic impact of the Internet on the government sector. In The Economic Payoff from the Internet ... it. Thus, the social impact ofthe Internet depends on the impact of society on what the Internetbecomes. It follows that sociologists should be studying carefully the organization of the Internet ... polarization. But they insist that the Internet will en-hance the quality of political discussion and the viability, meaningfulness, anddiversity ofthe public sphere by lowering the access barrier...
... using the partial-duration series, includes all the high values. The other uses the annual series which consists only ofthe highest value for each year. The highest value of record, of ... which they occur, recog-nizes that the second highest of some year occasionally exceeds the highest of some other year. The purposes to be served by the atlas require that the resnlts ... this paper. Because ofthe large amount of data for the 1-and 24-hour durations and the relatively small standard error associated with the estimates ofthe 2-year values, the 2-year 1-and...
... to blame for their behaviour during the day. The sons of liberty broke the windows of prominent loyalists; and the members ofthe Doric Club completelywrecked {72} the office ofthe Vindicator ... factors the undisciplinedstate ofthe loyalists, the darkness ofthe night, the vicinity of woods, and the proximity ofthe boundary-line,{92} beyond which he did not allow the pursuit to go. The ... side of the church, and the 32nd and 83rd on the other. Some ofthe rebels ran out and fired at the troops, then threwdown their arms and begged for quarter. Our officers tried to save the {99}...
... existence ofthe margin deltas in Miocene in the northern part ofthe Red River basin confirms a presence ofbasin floor fans in the central part ofthe Red River basin. These basin floor ... subject of prosperous potential of oil and gas. For the first study of margin deltas in the northern part ofthe Red River basin, the Miocene deposits in the northern part ofthe Red River basin ... Isoliths ofthe upper surfaces of Miocene deposits in the Northern part ofthe Red River basin. (A -Lower Miocene; B-Middle Miocene; C-Upper Miocene) 5. Some features of margin deltas in the northern...
... hope-less the efforts of its advocates. What was the situation at the end of the Second WorldWar?Throughout a whole century one of the principal reasons for the advance of socialism had been the ... bureaucratic rigidity and the omnipotence of the state. They still tend, in the name of economic and social secur-ity, to heap new tasks on the government and thereby new burdenson the taxpayer.Again ... and therefore the prospect of our being engulfed foreverin the night of totalitarianism haslos1tmuch of its terror. Butitwould be fatal to draw too sanguine conclusions. The theory of the internal...