Scavenger birds exploiting rubbish dumps: Pathogens at the gates

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 873-881 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo I. Plaza ◽  
Guillermo Blanco ◽  
María Julia Madariaga ◽  
Eduardo Boeri ◽  
María Luisa Teijeiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rubbish Dumps

scholarly journals Kandungan Nitrat dan Fosfat Sedimen serta Keterkaitannya dengan Kerapatan Mangrove di Kawasan Mertasari di Aliran Sungai TPA Suwung Denpasar, Bali

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Ni Nyoman Desi Kusuma Dewi ◽  
I Gusti Ngurah Putra Dirgayusa ◽  
Yulianto Suteja
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Salt Water ◽  
Average Density ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Simple Linear Regression ◽  
Mangrove Sediments ◽  
Mangrove Tree ◽  
Rubbish Dumps ◽  
The Village

Mangrove is a green plants tolerant of salt water, which grows mainly along the sheltered coastal areas, especially along the bay or in estuaries. Final Disposal (TPA) Rubbish Suwung which located in the village Pedungan South Denpasar District is the rubbish dumps originating from the city of Denpasar and Badung. There is a natural mangrove vegetation in the river TPA. Mertsari area which located in the village of Sanur, West Denpasar District is a mangrove planting area and tourism destination on the Mertasari Beach. The purpose of this research are as follows: (1) To identify the content of nitrate and phosphate in mangrove sediments, (2) To determine the density of mangrove in Region Mertasari and TPA Suwung River Flow and (3) To describe the mangrove density is linkage with nitrate and phosphate mangrove sediments. The method used on this research is linear regression. Nitrate and phosphate sediments of mangroves in TPA Suwung River Flow and Region Mertasari range of 0.04 ppm - 79.034 ppm. The average density results of the mangrove tree level, saplings and seedlings in different locations ranged 0.01 ind / m2 - 0.32 ind / m2. The river's flow TPA Suwung produce a simple linear regression calculation of nitrate mangrove sediments density y = -0,002x + 0,288 (R2 ) 10,1 %, and the calculation of the density sedimentary  phosphate mangrove produce y = 0,007x + 0,125  (R2) 6,1 %. The results of simple linear regression calculation of nitrate sediments density Mertasari mangrove area is y = -0,002x+ 0,537  R2 = 4,7%, and the calculation of the density sedimentary  phosphate mangrove produce y = -0,038x + 0,777 (R2) 63,7 %.

Libraries from Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egypt, c.800 BCE–250 CE

2019 ◽  
pp. 390-472
Author(s):  
Ryholt Kim
Keyword(s):  
Waste Paper ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Last Millennium ◽  
Late Period ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
Egyptian Culture ◽  
Rubbish Dumps ◽  
House Of Life

This chapter is a survey of collections of literary texts from Late Period and Graeco-Roman Egypt, c.750 BCE–250 CE, effectively the last millennium of the ancient Egyptian culture. Examples of different forms of collections are described and discussed in detail: temple libraries and private libraries, as well as groups of literary texts found in tombs, in rubbish dumps, in waste paper collections, and re-used in cartonnage. The texts include narratives, wisdom instructions, science (esp. divination and medicine), and cultic texts (esp. ritual guidelines, religious treatises, and hymns). Additional paragraphs concern the use of master copies, different types of storage, the abduction of libraries, and the so-called House of Life.

Narratives for the fourth millennium

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Ray ◽  
Julian Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Extended Period ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Burned Areas ◽  
Individual Site ◽  
Rubbish Dumps ◽  
Material Evidence ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequences

The story of the Neolithic period in Britain as we so far understand it has been compiled from myriad individual archaeological encounters with the traces of human activity from the centuries concerned in different places within the landscape. These traces include the remains of partly earth-fast timber structures which often consist of recognizable features representing where the timbers had been pulled out of the ground, or had rotted in situ, or had been burned; areas of burning of ground-surfaces where hearth-fires had been laid; spreads of decayed materials that were formerly rubbish dumps or ‘middens’; large holes (usually referred to as ‘pits’) dug and backfilled with various deposits including whole or broken artefacts thrown or placed within them; and ditches that had been infilled or had silted up, and sometimes re-dug and redefined. The different episodes of construction and deposition that led to the formation of these traces are differentiated by those investigating them through the identification of thousands of isolable ‘events’. Some of these events were almost momentary (the digging of a pit, the removal of a post), while others (such as the gradual silting of a ditch) took place over an extended period. Archaeologists describe the isolable actions, events, and deposits resulting from such occupation of the land as ‘contexts’. Some materials retrieved from some of these contexts have been carefully selected by the archaeologists during their investigations to be datable using a variety of scientific dating techniques, and they provide individual site chronologies linked closely to the stratigraphic sequences involved. Repeated observed associations of different kinds of artefact with reliably dated contexts and site sequences allow comparative chronologies to be painstakingly constructed, and it is from this process that the possibility of a chronologically sound historical narrative for the Neolithic is gradually being built up. In these chapters entitled ‘narratives’, however, we are not only talking about the sketching out of a historical sequence, extremely important though it is. We are speaking also, if to a limited extent, about the teasing out of multiplicities of story from the material evidence.

The New Menander

1958 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-107
Author(s):  
G. T. W. Hooker
Keyword(s):  
Two Generations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Rubbish Dumps ◽  
Editio Princeps

Clandestine excavation may never quite have attained the status of a national sport in Egypt, but it has none the less been undertaken there on a considerable and no doubt profitable scale for several millennia: tomb-robbing began almost as soon as there were tombs worth robbing. But it is only in the last 150 years or so that these operations have been extended from depositories of real or imagined treasure to rubbish dumps; and only in the last two generations that business in the new branch of the trade has become really brisk. Papyri have been the new attraction, and interest in them has grown as discoveries have multiplied. Vast numbers of papyri have now been found, and by one means or another more are still being brought to light. Of recent finds the most outstanding is a substantial manuscript in the Martin Bodmer collection, of which the editio princeps is just being published in Switzerland, and which is discussed in the following pages by one of its editors. This new papyrus, it seems, came from Alexandria; but beyond that, as so often happens, its provenance is unknown.

Dispersal of Silver Gulls, Larus novaehollandiae Stephens, from Breeding Colonies in South Australia

1985 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 279 ◽  
Author(s):  
JR Ottaway ◽  
R Carrick ◽  
MD Murray
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
High Status ◽  
Dispersal Patterns ◽  
North West ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Rubbish Dumps ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Dispersal Distances ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The City

Dispersal of Larus novaehollandiae Stephens, from 10 colonies in South Australia, was studied during 1968-8 1 by means of bands designed for identification of free-living, uncaptured individuals. Dispersal patterns were characteristic of each colony, even for three colonies which were, at most, 10 km apart. Almost all dispersal records came from the area between Adelaide and Melbourne, and within 30 km of the coast. After breeding, the majority of gulls disperse eastwards; however, dispersal from each colony was correlated with a shift of gull population into areas where food was available from human sources such as rubbish dumps. From colonies 80 km south-east of Adelaide, a major human population, the predominant winter dispersal of these gulls was north-west, into the city and suburbs. The maximum direct-line dispersal distances recorded for 95% of the 3133 resighted gulls were <458 km. The greatest direct-line distance recorded was 1430 km. Overall, there was no significant difference in the mean dispersal distances of juveniles and adults, although at distances >480 km significantly more juveniles (<2y) were seen than adults (>2y). This involved only 2.5% of the total number of birds resighted. It is suggested that older, dominant birds maintain high status at preferred feeding places, and juveniles are possibly more erratic in their movements, as they search for food. This would account for the difference in the dispersal ofjuveniles and adults from a particular colony, and also for the significantly higher proportion of juveniles found at extreme distances from their natal colonies.

scholarly journals Electronic Waste: A Growing Concern in Today's Environment

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Khurrum S. Bhutta ◽  
Adnan Omar ◽  
Xiaozhe Yang
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Electronic Equipment ◽  
Estimation Technique ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Rubbish Dumps

Over the recent past, the global market of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) has grown exponentially, while the lifespan of these products has become increasingly shorter. More of these products are ending up in rubbish dumps and recycling centers, posing a new challenge to policy makers. The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the e-Waste problem and to put forward an estimation technique to calculate the growth of e-Waste.

Rifiuti e Societŕ

2009 ◽  
pp. 115-145
Author(s):  
Marco Ettore Grasso
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Law ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
World Health ◽  
Campania Region ◽  
Ethical Point ◽  
Rubbish Dumps ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Italian Territory

- The expression "garbage emergency", used in Italy to describe an uncontrolled accumulating of garbage on the Italian territory, and the growing presence in the global society of many rubbish dumps, quite often illegal, are a concern for a serious social alarm, suggesting to the whole of humanity to pay particular attention to the environmental policy regarding garbage. The following paper will stress the relationship existing between garbage and society, with a particular reference to the relationship connected to garbage and human health, analyzed in the light of accurate studies carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO). In the territory of Campania Region (Italy), several forms of protest seem to have taken the place of important democratic ways of participation. In relation to the situation in Campania, this paper will particularly examine three types of inhabitants protest. Moreover, it is important to stress that each day every human being produces a considerable quantity of garbage; hence, it becomes a duty emphasizing the sustainability in the production of the same garbage. In this regard, in the current legislation there are certain principles, worthy of relevance from a social-ethical point of view. In this perspective, the position of the future generations is significant, just like the role practiced by the environmental law; in this respect, finally, a brief discussion concerning some studies of philosophic-environmental nature will follow.

Effect of Rubbish Dumps on Breeding Success in the White Stork in Southern Spain

Waterbirds ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. S. Tortosa ◽  
J. M. Caballero ◽  
J. Reyes-López
Keyword(s):  
Breeding Success ◽  
Southern Spain ◽  
White Stork ◽  
Rubbish Dumps

scholarly journals The supply of illegal tortoise meat to Toliara City, south-western Madagascar

Oryx ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Manjoazy ◽  
Julie H. Razafimanahaka ◽  
William Ronto ◽  
Roma Randrianavelona ◽  
Jörg U. Ganzhorn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Variation ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Variation ◽  
Artisanal Fishery ◽  
Vertebrate Species ◽  
Urban Centre ◽  
South West ◽  
Rubbish Dumps ◽  
Rubbish Dump

AbstractA range of endemic and protected vertebrate species from Madagascar are threatened by the demand for bushmeat. We report on the number of discarded carapaces from illegally killed Critically Endangered radiated tortoises Astrochelys radiata in an urban centre in south-west Madagascar. Through covert monitoring of public rubbish dumps we observed 1,913 carapaces during July 2010–January 2014. There was notable spatial and temporal variation, with some evidence of peaks in carapace dumping during May–June and October–December. A single rubbish dump near the artisanal fishery landing beaches accounted for 93% of the observed carapaces.

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