Fallen Eagle: An Examination of Italy's Contemporary Role and Relations with Albania
Joseph M. Codispoti is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force currently assigned to Headquarters, USAF, Washington, D.C. He was formerly affiliated with the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. This article represents the views of the author and does not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Air War College or the Department of the Air Force. Fallen Eagle: An Examination of Italy’s Contemporary Role and Relations with Albania
Albania and the Albanians
Part 1 Albania and the Albanians: Albania for begineers - territory and state, natural environment and resources Dimensions of Albanian national identity - ethnicity, language and oral tradition, national symbols, religion, the diaspora. Part 2 The legacy of Stalinism: the social inheritance - human rights, the demographic legacy, welfare provision, the position of women, housing and planning the economic legacy - changing circumstances, agriculture and food, transport and communications, international tourism environmental dilemmas - the environmental legacy, environmental problems, protection and conservation policies, post-communism priorities and problems. Part 3 Albania joins the new world disorder: responding to change - domestic change and upheaval, new outlooks the Yugoslav vortex - Kosovo disputed, change and upheaval in Yugoslavia, the international imbroglio. Part 4 Albania into the 21st century: economic restructuring - framework for restructuring, encouraging inward investment, providing the infrastructure sustaining the future - agriculture and food, mineral exploitation, sustainable tourism? Albania into the 21st century - past - change, present - transition, future - development?
Morpho-biometric Relationship, Relative Condition Factor and Meat Yield of Distant Scallop Bractechlamys vexillum (Reeve, 1853) in Asid Gulf, Philippines
Understanding the relationships of morphometric and biometric characters of a species allows the prediction of one trait from the other and generate a measure of relative condition. These relationships were studied for the Distant scallop Bratechlamys vexillum (Reeve, 1853) in Asid Gulf. Representative samples collected during the dry season (May 2018, n = 99) and wet season (September 2018, n = 100) were used to analyse these relationships through models of simple linear and power regression analyses, revealing allometric growth patterns. For both periods, it was revealed that shell width (SW) is a slightly better predictor than the height (SH) for total weight (TW) (R2 = 0.90 and 0.92) and the adductor muscle weight (AW) (R2 = 0.78 and 0.80). The strong functional relationship was also observed between TW and AW (R2 = 0.80 and 0.81). The relative condition factors (Kn) were high in both seasons. High meat yields were also observed in May (12.77 %) and September (14.26 %). The significant difference in meat yields (P < 0.05) can be a result of the seasonal difference manifested by the dynamics of energy partitioning during gametogenesis and spawning. These biological metrics are vital inputs in analysing mariculture prospects for the resource and a contribution to the scarce information on the biology of the species.