Éditeur(s) : Himalayan Academy Himalayan Academy ( United States )
Résumé : (Funding) Support for the development of the technical infrastructure and partner training provided by the United States Department of Education TICFIA program.
(Acquisition) This article is published in Hinduism Today http://www.hinduismtoday.com and is shared by the author Vidyaratha Kissoon email vidyak1 (at) gmail dot com. The author Vidyaratha Kissoon has proposed the following corrections to the PDF version. Some corrections have been made in the print version and in the online edition. Errata Sheet for "Guyana's Hindus face Gay Quandary" Page 60 1) The caption on the photograph should be "Activists from the Caribbean at a human rights advocacy workshop in Guyana in August 2010" - 2) The line "After being ruled by the Dutch, the Spanish and finally the British ... " should read "After being ruled by the Dutch and the British".. 3) The line 'Revisions and amendments to the constitution are relatively common' to 'Revisions and amendments to the constitution are necessary to achieving this nationhood' 4) The phrase "Congress of Guyana" should be changed to "Parliament of Guyana" Page 61 4) The line "Hindu institutions were mostly absent from the 2001 debate except for a joint statement issued by a few organisations.." should read "Hindu institutions were mostly absent from the 2003 debate except for a joint multifaith statement which included a few organisations .." 6) The comments by Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan - referred to laws like those in Guyana (the British colonial Caribbean) 7) The last sentence should read "Freedom of worship is ... and each of the main groups has national holidays [Christmas, Easter, Diwali, Phagwah, Eid ul Adha, Youman Nabi] Page 62 8) The line "Pandit Dhanesar was not able.. " to "Pandit Dhanesar did not provide any specific reference in the Vedas. In Guyana, many Pandits sustain traditions a mix of oral and written traditions" 9) The line "Active in helping the gay and lesbian communities, he advocates acceptance." should read "He advocates acceptance .. " The corrected version of the article appears online at http://hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=5172

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Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD American Meteorological Society
Résumé : Global positioning system (GPS) data from a dense network have been used for the analysis of the diurnal cycle of water vapor over Marseille, France, during the second intensive observation period (IOP2; 21–26 June 2001) of the Expérience sur Sites pour Contraindre les Modèles de Pollution Atmosphérique et de Transport d'Emission (ESCOMPTE) field experiment. Both tomographic analyses and integrated water vapor (IWV) contents from GPS have been used, in addition to wind profiler data and surface observations. Tomographic analysis of data from the dense GPS network and radiosondes provided the continuous temporal evolution of the vertical distribution of water vapor over the city of Marseille. The city is located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in southeastern France and is often under the influence of sea-breeze effects. Two different layers of breeze circulation are identified: a shallow sea breeze, blowing perpendicular to the local coastline, and a deep sea breeze, induced by the regional temperature gradient between sea and land. The origin of water vapor is shown to be mainly due to the advection of marine moist air by these sea-breeze circulations. However, the diurnal cycle of water vapor over Marseille is strongly influenced by the synoptic situation, which changes during the IOP2 (between a northerly mistral in the early stage of the IOP and an easterly wind at the end). It is shown that vertical profiles from tomographic analyses (combined with wind profiler data) allow for a proper interpretation of the diurnal cycle observed in IWV. Two-dimensional maps of IWV are also shown to complement the description of the horizontal advection of moisture by the different circulation regimes.
ISSN: 1558-8424

hal-00273624
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00273624
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00273624/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00273624/file/drJAM_cycle_diurne_GPS_rev1.pdf
DOI : 10.1175/JAM2450.1

Éditeur(s) : Amer Geophysical Union
Résumé : The freshest surface waters in the tropical Pacific are found at its eastern boundary. Using in situ observations, we depict the quasi-permanent presence of a far eastern Pacific fresh pool with Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) lower than 33, which is confined between Panama's west coast and 85W in December and extends westward to 95W in April. Strong SSS fronts are found at the outer edge of this fresh pool. We investigate the seasonal dynamics of the fresh pool using complementary satellite wind, rain, sea level and in situ oceanic current data at the surface, along with hydrographic profiles. The fresh pool appears off Panama due to the strong summer rains associated with the northward migration of the ITCZ over Central America in June. During the second half of the year, the eastward-flowing North Equatorial Counter Current keeps it trapped to the coast and strengthens the SSS front on its western edge. During winter, as the ITCZ moves southward, the north-easterly Panama gap wind creates a south-westward jet-like current in its path with a dipole of Ekman pumping/eddies on its flanks. As a result, upwelling in the Panama Bight brings to the surface cold and salty waters which erode the fresh pool on its eastern side while both the jet current and the enhanced South Equatorial Current stretch the fresh pool westward until it nearly disappears in May. New SMOS satellite SSS data proves able to capture the main seasonal features of the fresh pool and monitor its spatial extent.
Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans (0148-0227) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2012-04 , Vol. 117 , P. -

Droits : 2012 AGU
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00072/18311/16581.pdf
DOI:10.1029/2011JC007802
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00072/18311/

Résumé : The slides were taken on collecting trips sponsored by the William L. Bryant Foundation, where books, music and art indigenous to the regions were gathered. The are organized by geographical location.
A group of men standing and resting on top of concrete graves in a church cemetery while a school boy holds a homemade cricket bat. The sign on the tree reads “Yes Holiday Markers! Johnnie as…Blue Boy…Present Prince Bunny …Nite… at…Ginger House, Soul Sound By… Blue-Pencil, Refreshments Galore… 50₵ Admission. Easter Mon. 3rd April.” Inhabitants of Moore Town, Portland, Jamaica are descendants of Maroons, escaped slaves who were able to maintain some aspects of their African cultures. Slide labeled Jam. Moore Town.
Jamaica -- Caribbean region -- Moore Town, Portland

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Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : Le but de cet article est d’analyser la manière dont s’effectue la construction sociale et symbolique de l’identité des propriétaires de pensions touristiques de Maramureş en présence des touristes pendant la période d’abstinence, recueillement et préparation pour les Pâques, durant cette fête religieuse et les jours qui lui suivent. Partant d’une description socio-anthropologique des « ingrédients » de cette fête nous nous proposons d’en identifier les transgressions et leurs significations dans le contexte d’un tourisme rural de type familial. On essaie de comprendre « le comment » et « le pourquoi » des logiques qui se trouvent derrière l’instrumentalisation de certains symboles de cette fête religieuse dans la sphère privée d’identification. Nous supposons que la désobéissance à certaines pratiques coutumières liées à la fête religieuse répond à des besoins de marketing touristique. Au-delà de l’étude des mécanismes de « mise en scène » des éléments collectifs d’identification sélectionnés par les propriétaires de pensions touristiques, c’est bien la question d’identité qui est au cœur de notre propos.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the way in which the guesthouse owners from Maramureş carry out a social and symbolic construction of their identity in the presence of the tourists during the season of fasting, reflection and preparation before the celebration of Easter, during this religious holiday and the days after that. Starting from a socio-anthropological description of the “ingredients” of this religious holiday we aim at identifying its transgressions and their meanings in the context of the rural family-type tourism. We try to understand the “how” and the “why” of the logics which are behind the instrumentalisation of certain symbols of this religious holiday in the private sphere of identification. We assume that the disobedience to certain ancestral practices associated with this religious holiday answers the guesthouse owners’ tourism marketing needs. Behind the study of the mechanisms of “putting on display” items of collective identification selected by the guesthouse owners, it is the question of identity which is the heart of our reflection.
Maramureş

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urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.5898
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/5898

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Luís Felipe Toledo
Résumé : International audience
Expedition Pakaihi I Te Moana was conducted in 2011 to the Marquesas Islands, lying between 07°50ʹ S and 10°35ʹ S latitude and 138°25ʹ W and 140°50ʹ W longitude. The expedition combined extensive collections and visual censuses of the shore fish fauna. A total of 74 species are added as new records for the Marquesas Islands; the coastal fish fauna of the Marquesas Islands is increased from 415 to 495 species and the number of endemic species is increased from 48 to 68 species. This increases the percentage of species-level endemism for the Marquesas Islands to 13.7%, ranking as the third highest region of endemism for coral reef fishes in the Indo-Pacific. Only two other peripheral regions, the Hawai'ian Islands and Easter Island, have higher values.
ISSN: 1809-127X

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hal-01223491
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01223491
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01223491/document
https://hal-univ-perp.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01223491/file/12228-51386-1-PB.pdf
DOI : 10.15560/11.5.1758

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier Masson
Résumé : While oceanic circulation in the Gulf of Lion (GoL) has often been studied in calm weather or with northerly winds (Tramontane or Mistral) through observations and numerical circulation models, few studies have focused on southeasterly storm events. Yet, correct representation of the circulation during storms is crucial if the suspension of sediments is to be correctly modelled throughout the Gulf. The purpose of this paper is to describe the hydrodynamics in the Gulf of Aigues-Mortes (NW of the GoL) during the storm of 18 February 2007 by using a set of data from an ADCP station placed at a depth of 65 m on the sea bed off the coast at Sète, supplemented by the ocean circulation model SYMPHONIE. This storm was characterized by a moderate south-easterly wind (15 m . s−1) and waves of up to 5 m of significant height at its apex. At the ADCP, strong currents of up to 0.8 m . s−1 near the surface and 0.5 m . s−1 near the bottom were recorded, parallel to the coast, flowing towards the south-west. The simulated currents were widely underestimated, even taking the effect of waves into account in the model. It was suspected that the representation of the wind in the atmospheric model was an underestimation. A new simulation was therefore run with an arbitrarily chosen stronger wind and its results were in much better agreement with the measurements. A simplified theoretical analysis successfully isolated the wind-induced processes, responsible for the strong currents measured during the apex and the strong vertical shear that occurred at the beginning of the storm. These processes were: 1/ the barotropic geostrophic current induced by a wind parallel to the coast and 2/ the Ekman spiral. The duration of the storm (about 36 h at the apex) explains the continuous increase of the current as predicted by the theory. The frictionally induced Ekman transport explains the current shear in the surface layer in the rising stage of the storm, and the addition of high waves and strong wind at the apex is more in favour of strong vertical mixing in the surface layer.
ISSN: 1631-0713

hal-00908200
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00908200
DOI : 10.1016/j.crte.2013.07.001

Éditeur(s) : Gauthier-Villars
Résumé : The wind, temperature and current data collected during the joined French-USA FOCAL/SEQUAL programme carried in the equatorial Atlantic band in 1983 and 1984, allowed for the first time a simultaneous study of both the equatorial and coastal (5-degrees-N) upwellings along 4-degrees-W. At the equator, the decreases of both the surface temperature and the depth of the thermocline in boreal summer are correlated with the zonal component of the local windstress in the period band 1-2 months. This corresponds to the time required by the thermocline to lift up at 0-4-degrees-W in the presence of an easterly wind. The local wind cannot however explain the entire vertical variability of the thermal structure at 0-4-degrees-W. The correlation function shows in addition that the temperature there is highly correlated to the wind recorded at St Peter and St Paul Rocks (SPP) in the period band 0-2 months. This time scale is the one required by the Kelvin and Rossby waves to propagate along the equator through equatorial wave guide dynamics. The influence of these waves seems particularly important when considering the upward displacements of the thermocline both in February-March when the winds abruptly relax and in November-December when the wind at 0-4-degrees-W is southwesterly with no secondary negative maximum in the wind record at 1-degrees-N-29-degrees-W (SPP), contrary to the climatological wind field. The computation of the different terms of the heat equation applied to an homogeneous surface layer shows that the cooling is entirely due to vertical advection and eddy diffusion. The cooling would be more effective without the atmospheric heat flux and the horizontal advection of heat transported both by the South Equatorial Current at the surface and the southward current at the bottom of the mixed layer. At the coast, the amplitude and duration of the upwellings are not constant all along the coast: in boreal summer, they are maximum east of the two capes (Palmas and Three Pointes) while in winter the strength of the cooling is maximum in the east of Cape Palmas and then decreases eastward. The meridional slope of the thermocline off the coast concerns a distance which is much larger than the internal Rossby radius of deformation and is coherent with the latitudinal extension and intensity of the Guinea current both in summer and winter. In addition to this geostrophic adjustment, the upward tilt of the thermocline in summer is enhanced by the intensification of the component of the wind parallel to the coast. The application of a simple linear model forced with an eastward wind at that time explains the surface maximum cooling at the coast and the current distribution in both vertical and meridional directions. The two maxima of the zonal component of the Guinea current, in summer (main one) and in winter are in phase with the intensity of the vertical component of the windcurl. The application of the Sverdrup equations shows that the current speeds computed, for both seasons, are of the same order of magnitude as the speeds observed.
Oceanologica Acta (0399-1784) (Gauthier-Villars), 1991 , Vol. 14 , N. 3 , P. 223-240

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00101/21252/18865.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00101/21252/