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  Sea Urchins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The purple urchin is the common intertidal sea urchin of exposed and semi-protected rocky areas on the west coast of North America from Baja, California, to Sitka, Alaska (Mottet, 1976).
West coast sea urchins are commercially harvested by divers using "hooka" diving gear, consisting of a low-pressure air compressor that feeds air through a hose from the vessel to the divers.
Sea urchin divers and the state jointly authored a limited-entry law that took effect during the 1989/90 season and set a goal of 45 vessels in the fishery (Bradbury, 1992; Kraxberger, 1992) (Table 1.).
seaurchin.org /Sea-Grant-Urchins.html   (4849 words)

  
 Sea urchin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a result, the population of sea urchins has multiplied and they are chewing up the kelp forest in the area and upsetting the ecosystem.
Sea urchins are a favored organism for studies of development using a systems biology [1]approach, often in conjunction with gene knockdown studies using Morpholino antisense oligos [2].
Since the sea urchin is globular and radially symmetrical, and since like other organisms its early embryological stages are globular and radially symmetrical, it is surprising that its larval stage, known as a pluteus, is not.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sea_urchin   (1477 words)

  
 The Sea Urchin EXTRAVAGANZA!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
At the center of the test of the sea urchin, there is the anus, the five gonopores, and the madreporite which is used to maintain correct water pressure in the vascular system that pressurizes the tube feet.
Sea urchins also inhabit dense mats of coralline algae, which is common in the shallow sublittoral of certain areas, because they have consumed all the fleshy algae, leaving the harder material behind (Kenner 1992).
Fertilization is the fundamental process of life and the fertilization of sea urchins serves as a good example for the fertilization of almost all organisms.
www.geocities.com /thepoetdog   (6372 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - sea urchin (Zoology: Invertebrates) - Encyclopedia
Sea urchins feed on all kinds of plant and animal material; some eat sand or mud, digesting out organic material that is present.
Sea urchins are not economically important, although burrowing species may attack sea walls, and the roe is considered a delicacy, especially in Mediterranean regions.
Sea urchins are classified in the phylum Echinodermata, class Echinoidea, subclass Regularia.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/seaurchi.html   (383 words)

  
 Earthlink Network: Urchin
Urchin answers all these questions and many more, providing critical insight into the way people are using the site, including essential decision-support material for design and content.
Though Urchin can be run at any interval (up to the point of being nearly real-time), it is generally set up to run once per night, when server loading is at its lowest.
Urchin's main navigation is contained in six master options (not including the Help and Controls sections), each of which have a number of subcategories.
help.earthlink.net /websupport/sprint/Urchin_files/urchin.html   (5559 words)

  
 Urchin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Urchin also features a special domain-lookup utility which resolves IP addresses into domains without creating a load on your server.
Urchin has already been compiled and configured for your Virtual Private Server, including up to 25 Virtual Subhosts with log files.
Since Urchin should not be run on the same log files more than once, it is set up to automatically archive your log files when it runs.
support.securesites.com /support/virtual/web/logs/analyze/urchin/index.cfm   (435 words)

  
 sea urchin on Encyclopedia.com
Estimating exploitable stock biomass for the Maine green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) fishery using a spatial statistics approach.
Tom Capo is a biologist working to restore the long-spined sea urchin population.
The feasibility of enhancing red sea urchin, strongylocentrotus franciscanus, stocks in California: an analysis of the options.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/s1/seaurchi.asp   (739 words)

  
 SEA URCHIN TRADE
The increased demand in sea urchins, whose roe is a Japanese sushi ingredient, is causing the problem of overfishing in California.
Sea urchin fisheries started in the States in 1971 with a federal program to foster them, but the business became more and more profitable recently as the yen began to rise against the dollar.
Sea urchins are thought to be possibly raised the latter way with a successful catch rate, since they are largely stationary.
gurukul.ucc.american.edu /TED/URCHIN.HTM   (2704 words)

  
 Urchin - Partnership with HiVelocity.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Urchin 5, The Web Marketing Platform, is a web analytics software package designed to analyze traffic for one or more websites and provide highly accurate, useful, easy-to-understand reports on-demand.
Urchin 5 is essential for anyone interested in the design, marketing or overall success of their website and it is the low price leader in quality web analytics.
Urchin is often declared superior to the competition, even software and services costing many times as much.
www.hivelocity.net /Partners/Urchin   (594 words)

  
 Sea Urchin Harvesters Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Below is a notice issued by the newly formed Sea Urchin Commission regarding the assessment authorized by law to fund the research and promotional activities of the Commission.
The assessment is set by law at one cent ($.01) for each pound of sea urchin delivered by divers to handlers in the State.
Pursuant to legislation enacted at the request of the sea urchin fishery in 2002, a referendum of all current participants in the fishery overwhelmingly approved the creation of the California Sea Urchin Commission.
seaurchin.org   (932 words)

  
 Urchin Configuration - Chain Reaction Web
The default installation of Urchin is configured for your main host and any subhosts listed in your httpd.conf file (whether or not they have separate log files).
Urchin requires CGI execution to be enabled in the report directory.
Urchin requires that CGI execution be enabled in the directories where reports are located, and that symbolic links are followed by the web server so that the program files only have to be in one place on your virtual server.
www.chainreactionweb.com /info/support/virtual/web/logs/analyze/urchin/configuration.php   (485 words)

  
 Urchin Lite
Urchin Lite is the standard reporting system for EarthLink's introductory Web hosting service (Provided at no charge to all Dial-Up Free Member Webspaces).
Urchin Pro, the full-featured version of Urchin, is included at no charge on all domain-based sites (www.YourDomain.com), and features greatly expanded reporting capabilities.
Urchin is run from the EarthLink servers, and all configuration is handled by EarthLink system administrators.
help.earthlink.net /websupport/member/Urchin_files   (2806 words)

  
 Matrix Dedicated Servers :: Urchin
Urchin 5, the industry leading web analytics software, is used by millions of web sites worldwide.
Urchin wizards help you to configure the software for your site and will have you viewing reports in a matter of minutes.
Urchin's administrative interface provides customization options for the most demanding power user, and allows you to adapt Urchin to practically any environment.
mtxis.net /urchin.php   (339 words)

  
 Urchin Web Analytics: Software and On Demand services
Urchin Web Analytics shows you how people found your site, how they explored it, and how you can enhance the visitor experience.
Urchin has used 1st party cookies exclusively since 2002 to ensure accuracy and visitor privacy.
Urchin On Demand is your fully-outsourced web analytics service - just put a bit of code on your web pages and we take care of the rest.
www.urchin.com   (202 words)

  
 Urchin Hosting Support
Urchin is a Web analytics system designed to enable businesses to easily analyze the traffic to their website(s) and create detailed, insightful, and intuitive reports.
Urchin represents more than 8 years of development, and is in our view the most advanced Web analytics package available today.
Urchin captures visitor parameters and true path data via the Urchin Tracking Module (UTM, included with your Urchin software), a client-side data collection component that transparently sends additional data back to the server and into the log file.
www.m8solutions.com /urchin.php   (277 words)

  
 Carolina Biological: Life Science: Sea Urchin Dissection
It is not a substitute for actual dissection in your lab; however, we hope that it helps you learn more about the sea urchin’s anatomy, external morphology, and internal organs.
Figure out how the sea urchin’s anatomical structures are related to environmental adaptations (structure and function relationships).
Hold the sea urchin very gently when dissecting; the test is relatively fragile.
www.carolina.com /life_science/sea_urchin.asp   (291 words)

  
 sea urchin research priorities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There is strong interest in reseeding for three distinct purposes: 1) to reestablish productive urchin bottom by changing the environment from a kelp forest to an urchin barren, 2) to enhance reproduction in an area, and 3) to enhance the quality or “fatten” urchins.
Urchin health issues are neither well understood nor well defined in the scientific literature, particularly in light of the possibility of significant regional differences.
A complex ecological interaction between urchins, macroalgae such as kelp, and micropredators such as sea fleas, is emerging.
www.state.me.us /dmr/news/sea_urchin_research_priorities.htm   (805 words)

  
 Echinoderms (starfish, brittle star, sea urchin, feather star, sea cucumber)
A triggerfish grabs the sea urchin with its hard beak like mouth by the spines or it blows some water towards the sea urchin and turns it on its back.
Most sea urchins are algal grazers but some feed on sponges, bryozonans and ascidians and others on detritus (detritus = organically enriched film that covers rocks).
There are two specialized types of sea urchins with an unusual appearance: the sand dollar is very much flattened with very small spines and the heart urchin which are oval and have bristle like spines.
www.starfish.ch /reef/echinoderms.html   (2461 words)

  
 sea urchin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
There are many studies using sea urchins in bioassays, but the studies tend to gravitate around the effects of heavy metals and increased pH on embryonic development.
Sea Urchin Embryology a Genetic Approach to Development(http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/biology/institutes/1994/sea_urchin_embryology.html)by Mary Petti and Susan Terry.
Urchin Web's(http://207.62.132.224/urchin/urchinweb.html) goal is to provide information and sources on sea urchins as research organisms.
www.woodrow.org /teachers/bi/1998/sea_urchins   (1664 words)

  
 Urchin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The sea urchin mouth is on the underside of its body.
The sea urchin body "skeleton" has with bumps and holes which the moveable spines and tube feet extend from (see diagram).
The red sea urchin is found in deeper water than the purple sea urchin.
www.pnptc.org /urchin_&_cucumber.htm   (307 words)

  
 The sea urchin, an amazing animal
It is possible to obtain eggs and sperm from mature sea urchins, although there's a little problem: male and female specimen are difficult to identify - but in some species, males are darker (less coloured) than females.
Gastronomic note: in the French Riviera mainly, sea urchins are greatly appreciated by gourmets who cut urchins in two halves and eat the roes.
Like many marine animals, sea urchins produce a great number of eggs, which are carried away by currents and only few of them become adults.
www.microscopy-uk.org.uk /mag/artjul00/urchin1.html   (752 words)

  
 Catalina Offshore Products: Sea Urchin, Uni   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Sea Urchins are bottom feeding echinoderms that are found in every ocean around the world.
The average weight of a sea urchin is one pound.
Sea Urchins are harvested for their internal roe, uni, that is considered an aphrodisiac.
www.catalinaop.com /uni.htm   (549 words)

  
 Apple G5 Optimized Version of Urchin 5 Released - New Performance Standard Set
Urchin 5.5 on the xServe makes a complete turnkey webhosting and marketing intelligence solution." This latest Urchin release is a free update for existing Urchin 5 customers and can be downloaded at http://www.urchin.com.
Urchin 5 comprises an unmatched feature set for both enterprises seeking the most advanced website marketing intelligence, and for service providers requiring an extremely robust administrative system coupled with the superior quality website metrics their customers demand.
Urchin 5 is built on a modular structure -- just add Campaign Tracking, E-commerce Reporting, Load Balancing, or extra capacity as-needed -- keeping initial costs low and the feature spec deep.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-06-2004/0002083643&EDATE=   (352 words)

  
 URCHIN Free Speech Press Page!!!!
The vocals are harsh sometimes, but the majority of the time are rapped or spoken and sung as melodies the rest of time Their sound is one that is catchy, by this I mean that before you know it, you are into the vibe without even realizing it.
The Sound of Urchin has an interesting heavy, funky, cartoon - rock sound, the best of which is reminiscent of Mudhoney and the worst of which is reminiscent of open-mike night down at the local all-ages club.
The Sound Of Urchin is an underground rock band from NYC that have just given birth to their first major label (EP) release.
www.soundofurchin.com /stevenrecs/news/urchinpress.htm   (7030 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/urchin
Yes, the legendary Mr Dibbs of hip hop force Atmosphere will be taking Urchin bands and turning their guts inside out only to infuse them to vinyl..very excited for this one.
Urchin will be releasing the vinyl version of this LP sometime this spring, CD available on Ferret.
Urchin was started to be more than a record label.
www.myspace.com /urchin   (323 words)

  
 ESW blog: ADTF: Urchin-Kowari
Urchin is a customizable RSS aggregator and filter written in Perl.
Urchin can then display the results as several output formats, including RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.91 feeds.
The current implementation is written using Urchin 0.90 and Kowari 1.0.5 (pre-release, dated July 29, 2004).
esw.w3.org /mt/esw/archives/000083.html   (316 words)

  
 Sea Urchin- Enchanted Learning Software
The sea urchin is a spiny, hard-shelled animal that lives on the rocky seafloor, from shallow waters to great depths.
The biggest sea urchin is the red sea urchin (Strongylocentratus franciscanus); it has a test about 7 inches (18 cm) in diameter.
Predators of Sea Urchins: Sea urchins are eaten by crabs, sunflower stars, snails, sea otters, some birds, fish (including wolf eels), and people.
www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/invertebrates/echinoderm/Seaurchin.shtml   (367 words)

  
 Google acquires web analytics company Urchin
Paul personally wrote the first version of Urchin in early 1997, and to this day has a direct hand in the overall development of the core technology.
Urchin is a web site analytics solution used by web site owners and marketers to better understand their users' experiences, optimize content and track marketing performance.
Urchin tools are available as a hosted service, a software product and through large web hosting providers.
www.finfacts.com /irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10001077.shtml   (617 words)

  
 DSstar: Apple G5-Optimized Version Of Urchin 5 Released   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This G5 optimized update to Urchin 5 is up to 50 percent faster than previous OS X builds of Urchin 5.
Urchin 5.5 works on OS X 10.1 and above and is ideal for the xServe platform.
"With Apple's cooperation, we were able to quickly port and optimize Urchin to the 64-bit G5 architecture, and the performance increase has been dramatic, on the order of 50 percent" said Brett Crosby, vice president of marketing.
www.tgc.com /dsstar/04/0113/107267.html   (223 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: urchin
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Urchin, the premiere web analytics company that was recently acquired by Google, has given web hosting company TextDrive the shaft.
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www.technorati.com /tags/urchin   (749 words)

  
 Urchin RSS Aggregator
It's primary purpose is to allow the generation of new RSS feeds by running queries against the collection of items in the Urchin database.
Urchin is written in Perl using, wherever possible, pre-existing Perl modules.
Usage guidlines detail how to start using an Urchin installation, from the point of view of a webmaster wishing to provide RSS aggregation, filtering and transformation services.
urchin.sourceforge.net   (465 words)

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