Capture efficiencies of commercial shrimp trawls may improve if their designs took into better account behavioral responses of wild shrimp to approaching cod-end of the trawls. Here we report results of water tunnel-based experimental studies of responses of wild California target prawns to several different near-realistic netting configurations over a range of water velocities (0.3–0.7 m/s). Netting panels were oriented at parallel to water flows (FP) on the bottom of test section, vertical (VT) or diagonal sloping backward (DG), bottom to top. Behavioral responses were recorded by video camera and analyzed frame by frame. Measured responses included rates of penetrating through netting by behavioral features and tail-flip frequencies. Frequencies of prawn passing through the nets increased with flow speed for both orientations and were higher at given speeds for sloped nets. Other behavioral features (e.g., passage head-or tail-first) also varied significantly with water velocities and netting orientation. Interactions of penetrating rates between netting orientations and flow speeds also were significantly dependent, except for prawn size. Additional studies are needed of other shrimp species and at higher water velocities more similar to actual field operations using trawls to improve size selectivity.

The tail flip of the decapod shrimp is a main feature in escaping behavior from the mesh of the codend in the trawl. The characteristics of tail flip in target prawn was observed and analyzed in a water tunnel in respect of flow condition and mesh penetration by a high speed video camera (500 fps). The tail bending angle or bending time in static water was significantly different than in flow water (0.7 m/s) and resultantly the angular velocity in static water was significantly higher than in flow water when carapace was fixed condition. When escaping through vertical traverse net panel in water flow the relative moving angle and relative passing angle to flow direction during tail flip, it significantly decreases the number of shrimps escaping than the case of blocking shrimp. The bending angles of tail flip between net blocking and passing through mesh were not significantly different while the bending time of shrimp passing through mesh was significantly longer than when shrimp blocking on the net. Accordingly the angular velocity of passing through mesh was significantly slower than blocking on the net although the angular velocity of the tail flip was not significantly related with carapace length. The main feature of tail flip for mesh penetration was considered as smaller diagonal direction as moving and passing angle in relation to net panel as right angle to flow direction rather than the angular velocity of tail flip.

The talk delivered at the T. S. Eliot International Summer School which was held at the University of London in July 2009 exists only on a set of index cards. It began with the Modernist experiment in poetry and fiction (represented by The Waste Land and Virginia Woolf’s fiction) preceded by experiments in dance, music and art of a decade earlier. The talk went on to discuss what Eliot learnt from Stravinsky’s music for Diaghilev’s ballet, Sacre du Printemps, using Eliot’s still uncollected review for the New York Dial. I then spoke of The Waste Land as a vision of sorts, a vision of an inferno haunted by memories that were counter to the inferno: visionary moments of perfection, looking back to the fourth ‘Prelude’ and ahead to the visionary moment in the rose-garden of Burnt Norton: ‘Quick now, here, now, always’. The idea of the talk was the importance of what Eliot called in the Quartets, ‘hints and guesses’ of sublimitythe most an ordinary man can expect, as distinct from the saint’s lifetime ‘burning in every moment’.

유기양이온(hexadecylpyridinium chloride monohydrate (HDP+))으로 개질시킨 유기벤토나이트의 특성을 유기탄소함량 측정, 마이크로-X 선회절 분석, 전기영동 이동성 측정을 이용하여 관찰하고, 무처리 벤토나이트와 유기벤토나이트의 요오드에 대한 흡착성을 비교 조사하였다. 벤토나이트는 유기양이온인 HDP+에 대해서 높은 친화력을 보여주었다. 마이크로-X선 회절 분석 결과에 의하면 유기벤토나이트는 저면 간격에 있어서 현저하게 팽창을 하였고, 이는 유기 양이온이 벤토나이트의 층간에 충분히 삽입되었음을 의미한다. 전기영동 이동성 측정에 의하면벤토나이트의 양이온 교환 용량 이상의 유기 양이온으로 치환시킨 유기벤토나이트의 경우 무처리 벤토나이트와 전혀다른 표면 전하분포를 나타냄을 알 수 있다. 요오드의 흡착능에 있어서, 무처리 벤토나이트는 요오드를 전혀 흡착하지 못한 반면, 벤토나이트의 양이온 교환용량의 200% 양으로 개질 시킨 유기벤토나이트의 경우 요오드 439 mmol/kg를 흡착하였다. 유기 벤토나이트에 흡착된 요오드의 분자 환경은 요오드 K-edge와 LIII-edge X-선 흡수 분광을 이용하여 연구하였다. 유기벤토나이트의 요오드 X선 흡수 변연 구조를 통해 유기벤토나이트에 흡착된 요오드의 경우 KI 표준용액의 구조와 유사함을 알 수 있었다. 광범위 X-선 흡수 미세구조의 선형 결합 분석결과는 유기 복합체와 반응한 요오드의 비율이 벤토나이트에 흡착된 유기 복합체의 양이 증가함에 따라 같이 증가함을 나타냈다. 본 연구를 통해, 벤토나이트의 개질 특성에 의해 요오드의 흡착 환경이 현저하게 달라짐을 관찰할 수 있었으며, 음이온성 방사성 요오드를 포함하는 핵폐기물 저장소 주변의 방어벽 물질로 유기벤토나이트의 적용 가능성을 살펴 볼 수 있었다.