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Approximately 2.5 million t of viscose process regenerated ceUulose fibers were produced in 1990 (Table 1). Measured by production capacity in 1990, the leading producers of filament yams in 1990 were the Soviet Union state-owned factories (255,000 t capacity) and Akzo Fibres in Europe (100,000 t). The leading producers of staple fiber and tow were Courtaulds with 180,000 t capacity spUt between the UK and North America Formosa Chemicals and Fibres Co. with 150,000 t in Taiwan Tenzing with 125,000 t in Austria, and a 40% stake in South Pacific Viscose s 37,000 t Indonesian plant and Grasim Industries in India (125,000 t). BASF s U.S. capacity of 50,000 t was acquired by Tenzing in 1992. 

Northeastern Tropical Pacific approximately 5—20° North latitude, 110—155° West longitude (25,26) ia the Central Indian Ocean south of India approximately 5—10° South latitude, 75—88° East longitude (27) ia the EEZ of the Cook Islands ia the South Pacific approximately 15—25° South latitude, 155—165° West longitude (28) and the Blake Plateau off the Adantic coast of the United States approximately 30—35° North latitude, 65—80° West longitude (29). 

Japan International Cooperation Agency, in Metal Mining Agemy of Japan, South Pacific AppHed Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), Suva, Fiji, 1991. 

N. N. Lichtin, in PuralPower Etilities and the KoleofPhotovoltaics, South Pacific Institute for Renewable Energy, Tahiti, 1991, p. 119. 

Ka.un. This fossil resin, classified as a copal, is found in the South Pacific, primarily in New Zealand. It formerly was used in protective coatings. It is still used in the Kauri-butanol test (ASTM D1133) to determine the volume of thinner that can be added to a varnish formulation without causing turbidity. 

Over the past decade, plastic debris has become a common feature of beaches and coastal waters adjoining populated areas of Europe (36-38), the Mediterranean (39-41), North and Central America (42-44) and New Zealand (45). Plastics are also present in the open ocean both near the major shipping lanes and in the most remote regions of the world (the Arctic (46), the Benguela Current (47), the Cape Basin area of the South Atlantic (48), the Humboldt Current in the South Pacific (49), and the Antarctic (50, 51). 

In the South Pacific, man-made debris was surveyed on 24 islands in the Thousand Island archipelago north of Java in 1985 (66). Polyethylene bags, footwear and polystyrene blocks comprised more than 90% of the 27,600 items. The main source of this debris is the dumping of rubbish and domestic and industrial waste directly into the sea at Jakarta. On New Zealand beaches, plastic litter was widely distributed and predominantly in the form of polyethylene and polypropylene beads. Near Auckland and Wellington concentrations exceeded 10,000 and 40,000 beads m of beach, and the unweathered appearance of the beads implied a nearby source (66). 

Fig. 11-9 (a) The vertical distributions of alkalinity (Aik) and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) in the world oceans. Ocean regions shown are the North Atlantic (NA), South Atlantic (SA), Antarctic (AA), South Indian (SI), North Indian (NI), South Pacific (SP), and North Pacific (NP) oceans. (Modified with permission from T. Takahashi et ah, The alkalinity and total carbon dioxide concentration in the world oceans, in B. Bolin (1981). Carbon Cycle Modelling," pp. 276-277, John Wiley, Chichester.)... 

Keeling, C. D. and Bolin, B. (1968). The simultaneous use of chemical tracers in oceanic studies II. A three-reservoir model of the North and South Pacific Oceans. Tellus 20,17-54. 

Albertus, Frater], A letter from the South Pacific (Continued from "A Letter From New Zealand). Alchem Lab Bulls, no. 36 (Q3 1968). rhttp //www.spagyria.com/alb.zipl. 

PFOA observations To evaluate MPI-MCTM model results observational data of PFOA from ship cruises in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans were taken from literature (summarised in Yamashita et al (2008)). The data was collected between 2002 and 2006 in a global ocean monitoring initiative. Samples were taken from ocean surface water. Vertical profiles were sampled in the Labrador sea, the Mid Atlantic ocean, the South Pacific ocean and the Japanese sea, where water probes were done at several depths down to 5500 m. The limit of quantification for PFOA was determined as 6 pg/L. 

It is normally found in the Caribbean, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, the West Indies, India, and the Middle East. The natural reservoirs are humans, primates, and mosquitoes. Does not produce disease in animals. This is a biosafety level 2 (classical) or 3 (hemorrhagic) agent. Typically a fulminant, nonlethal disease however, it may progress to a hemorrhagic form. Stabile outside a host in dried blood and exudates for up to several days at room temperature. 

North/South Atlantic and North/South Pacific Environments... 

Areas of the North and South Atlantic, and North and South Pacific present continual extreme and hostile ambient conditions that make survival exposed to such conditions a very limited probability with adequate protection measures. In these locations the probability of survival is increased with the provision of a fixed safe refuge rather than the provision of an immediate means of escape. For offshore facilities historical evidence indicates that both helicopter and lifeboat mechanism may be unavailable in some catastrophic incidents. Remote onshore facilities may also experience severe winter conditions that also render this philosophy applicable. 

Melioidosis is endemic in Southeast Asia, wilh the greatest concentration of cases reported in Vietnam, Cambodia. Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), and northern Australia. Additionally, it is seen In the South Pacific, Africa, India, and the Middle East. In many of these countries, BurftbtfdenepseudorneAefisso prevalent that it is a common contaminate foond on laboratory cultures. Moreover, it has been a common pathogen isolated from troops of all nationalities that have served in areas with endemic disease A few isolated cases of melioidosis have occurred in Ihe Western Hemisphere in Mexico, Panama, Ecuador, Haiti, Brail, Peru, Guyana, and... 

Albert H. Coons (Fig. 1.2) was the first who attached a fluorescent dye (fluorescein isocyanate) to an antibody and used this antibody to localize its respective antigen in a tissue section. The concept of putting a visible label on an antibody molecule appeared both bold and original. His initial results were described in two brief papers in the early 1940s (Coons et al. 1941,1942), but the research was halted while he joined the army and spent the next 4 years in the South Pacific. His later studies (Coons and Kaplan 1950) contributed immensely to the use of the fluorescent antibody method in a wide variety of experimental settings. In our time, the use of antibodies to detect and localize individual or multiple antigens in situ has developed into a powerful research tool in almost every field of biomedical research (http //books.nap.edu/html/biomems/acoons.pdf). 

Hipsley, E. H. Kirk, N. E. Technical paper, 1965, South Pacific Commission, New Calonia, No. 147. 

Y. Dandonneau, P.-Y. Deschamps, J.-M Nicolas, H. Loisel, J. Blanchot, Y. Montel, F. Thieuleux and G. Becu, Seasonal and interannual variability of ocean color and composition of phytoplankton communities in the North Atlantic, equatorial Pacific and South Pacific. Deep Sea Res. II 51 (2004) 303-318. 

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