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Identification Of Phospholipids In Human Meibum By Nano-Electrospray Ionisation Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Jennifer T. Saville, Zhenjun Zhao, Mark Dp Willcox, Manjula A. Ariyavidana, Stephen J. Blanksby, Todd W. Mitchell
Identification Of Phospholipids In Human Meibum By Nano-Electrospray Ionisation Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Jennifer T. Saville, Zhenjun Zhao, Mark Dp Willcox, Manjula A. Ariyavidana, Stephen J. Blanksby, Todd W. Mitchell
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Meibum is believed to be the major source of tear !lm lipids, which are vital in the prevention of excessevaporation of the aqueous phase. The complete lipid composition of meibum has yet to be established.While earlier studies reported the presence of phospholipids in human meibum, recent mass spectrometricstudies have not detected them. In this study we use electrospray ionisation tandem massspectrometry to investigate the presence of phospholipids in meibum and provide comparison to thephospholipid pro!le of tears.Lipids were extracted from human meibum and tear samples using standard biphasic methods andanalysed by nano-electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry using targeted ion scans. …
Global Co(2) Fluxes Inferred From Surface Air-Sample Measurements And From Tccon Retrievals Of The Co(2) Total Column, Frederic Chevallier, Nicholas M. Deutscher, T J. Conway, P Ciais, L Ciattaglia, S Dohe, M Frohlich, A J. Gomez-Pelaez, David W. Griffith, F Hase, L Haszpra, Paul Krummel, E Kyro, C Labuschagne, R Lagenfelds, T Machidda, F Maignan, H Matsueda, I Morino, Justus Notholt, M Ramonet, Y Sawa, M Schmidt, V Sherlock, P Steele, K Strong, R Sussmann, Paul O. Wennberg, Steven C. Wofsy, D Worthy, Debra Wunch, M Zimnoch
Global Co(2) Fluxes Inferred From Surface Air-Sample Measurements And From Tccon Retrievals Of The Co(2) Total Column, Frederic Chevallier, Nicholas M. Deutscher, T J. Conway, P Ciais, L Ciattaglia, S Dohe, M Frohlich, A J. Gomez-Pelaez, David W. Griffith, F Hase, L Haszpra, Paul Krummel, E Kyro, C Labuschagne, R Lagenfelds, T Machidda, F Maignan, H Matsueda, I Morino, Justus Notholt, M Ramonet, Y Sawa, M Schmidt, V Sherlock, P Steele, K Strong, R Sussmann, Paul O. Wennberg, Steven C. Wofsy, D Worthy, Debra Wunch, M Zimnoch
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"We present the first estimate of the global distribution of CO(2) surface fluxes from 14 stations of the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON). The evaluation of this inversion is based on 1) comparison with the fluxes from a classical inversion of surface air-sample-measurements, and 2) comparison of CO(2) mixing ratios calculated from the inverted fluxes with independent aircraft measurements made during the two years analyzed here, 2009 and 2010. The former test shows similar seasonal cycles in the northern hemisphere and consistent regional carbon budgets between inversions from the two datasets, even though the TCCON inversion appears to be …
Envisioning The Archipelago, Elizabeth Mcmahon, Carol Farbotko, Godfrey Baldacchino, Andrew Harwood, Elaine Stratford
Envisioning The Archipelago, Elizabeth Mcmahon, Carol Farbotko, Godfrey Baldacchino, Andrew Harwood, Elaine Stratford
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Certain limitations arise from the persistent consideration of two common relationsof islands in the humanities and social sciences: land and sea, and island andcontinent/mainland. What remains largely absent or silent are ways of being, knowing anddoing¿ontologies, epistemologies and methods¿that illuminate island spaces as inter-related,mutually constituted and co-constructed: as island and island. Therefore, this paper seeks tomap out and justify a research agenda proposing a robust and comprehensive exploration ofthis third and comparatively neglected nexus of relations. In advancing these aims, the paper¿sgoal is to (re)inscribe the theoretical, metaphorical, real and empirical power and potential ofthe archipelago: of seas studded with …
Synthesis Of 3-Halo-2,5-Disubstituted Furans Via Cux Mediated Cyclization-Halogenation Reactions, Arife Yazici, Stephen G. Pyne
Synthesis Of 3-Halo-2,5-Disubstituted Furans Via Cux Mediated Cyclization-Halogenation Reactions, Arife Yazici, Stephen G. Pyne
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The Cu(I) halide (X = I, Br, Cl) mediated reactions of Cbz-protected cis-2-phenylethenyl-3-hydroxypyrrolidine gave novel 3-halo-2,5-trisubstituted furans in good yields, via a cyclization-halogenation, ring-opening reaction sequence. In contrast, the reactions with CuCN gave mainly the corresponding 3-cyanofuro[3,2-b]pyrrole formed from a cyclization-cyanation reaction.
An Unusually Flexible Expanded Hexaamine Cage And Its Cuii Complexes: Variable Coordination Modes And Incomplete Encapsulation, C-J Qin, Lloyd James, Jy D. Chartres, Leighton J. Alcock, Kimberley J. Davis, Anthony C. Willis, Alan M. Sargeson, Paul V. Bernhardt, Stephen F. Ralph
An Unusually Flexible Expanded Hexaamine Cage And Its Cuii Complexes: Variable Coordination Modes And Incomplete Encapsulation, C-J Qin, Lloyd James, Jy D. Chartres, Leighton J. Alcock, Kimberley J. Davis, Anthony C. Willis, Alan M. Sargeson, Paul V. Bernhardt, Stephen F. Ralph
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The bicyclic hexaamine "cage" ligand Me 8tricosaneN 6 (1,5,5,9,13,13,20,20-octamethyl-3,7,11,15,18, 22-hexaazabicyclo[7.7.7]tricosane) is capable of encapsulating octahedral metal ions, yet its expanded cavity allows the complexed metal to adopt a variety of geometries comprising either hexadentate or pentadentate coordination of the ligand. When complexed to Cu II the lability of the metal results in a dynamic equilibrium in solution between hexadentate- and pentadentate- coordinated complexes of Me 8tricosaneN 6. Both [Cu(Me 8tricosaneN 6)](ClO 4) 2 (6-coordinate) and [Cu(Me 8tricosaneN 6)](S 2O 6) (5-coordinate) have been characterized structurally. In weak acid (pH 1) a singly protonated complex [Cu(HMe 8tricosaneN 6)] 3+ has been …
Preliminary Validation Of Column-Averaged Volume Mixing Ratios Of Carbon Dioxide And Methane Retrieved From Gosat Short-Wavelength Infrared Spectra, David W. Griffith, G C. Toon, B Connor, R Sussmann, Thorsten Warneke, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Paul O. Wennberg, Justus Notholt, V Sherlock, J Robinson, O Uchino, C M. Roehl, I Morino, Debra Wunch, Janina Messerschmidt, Y Yoshida, M Inoue, M Rettinger
Preliminary Validation Of Column-Averaged Volume Mixing Ratios Of Carbon Dioxide And Methane Retrieved From Gosat Short-Wavelength Infrared Spectra, David W. Griffith, G C. Toon, B Connor, R Sussmann, Thorsten Warneke, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Paul O. Wennberg, Justus Notholt, V Sherlock, J Robinson, O Uchino, C M. Roehl, I Morino, Debra Wunch, Janina Messerschmidt, Y Yoshida, M Inoue, M Rettinger
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Column-averaged volume mixing ratios of carbon dioxide and methane retrieved from the Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) Short-Wavelength InfraRed observation (GOSAT SWIR XCO2 and XCH4 ) were compared with the reference calibrated data obtained by ground-based high-resolution Fourier Transform Spectrometers (g-b FTSs) participating in the Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON). Preliminary results are as follows: the GOSAT SWIR XCO2 and XCH4 (Version 01.xx) are biased low by 8.85 ±4.75 ppm (2.3±1.2 %) and 20.4±18.9 ppb (1.2±1.1 %), respectively. The standard deviation of the GOSAT SWIR XCO2 and XCH4 is about 1% after correcting the negative biases of XCO2 and …
An Assessment Of Three Harpacticoid Copepod Species For Use In Ecotoxicological Testing, Daniel J. Ward, Victor Perez-Landa, David A. Spadaro, Stuart L. Simpson, Dianne F. Jolley
An Assessment Of Three Harpacticoid Copepod Species For Use In Ecotoxicological Testing, Daniel J. Ward, Victor Perez-Landa, David A. Spadaro, Stuart L. Simpson, Dianne F. Jolley
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The relatively short life cycles of harpacticoid copepods makes them appropriate animals for use in tests that rapidly assess the #180, sublethal, or chronic effects of sediment contaminants. In this study, four harpacticoid copepod species (Nitocra spinipes, Tisbe tenuimana, Robertgurneya hopkinsi, and Halectinosoma sp.) were isolated from clean marine sediments, and procedures for laboratory culturing were developed. Halectinosoma sp. was abandoned due to handling difficulties. For the remaining species, the influence of food type and quantity on life-cycle progression was assessed. A mixed diet, comprising two species of algae (Tetraselmis sp. and Isochrysis sp.) and fish food (Sera …
Extensional And Colisional Magmatic Records In The Apiai Terrane, South-Southeastern Brazil: Integration Of Geochronological U-Pb Zircon Ages, Oswaldo Siga Junior, Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei, Allen P. Nutman, Kei Sato, Ian Mcreath, Claudia Regina Passarelli, Dunyi Liu
Extensional And Colisional Magmatic Records In The Apiai Terrane, South-Southeastern Brazil: Integration Of Geochronological U-Pb Zircon Ages, Oswaldo Siga Junior, Miguel Angelo Stipp Basei, Allen P. Nutman, Kei Sato, Ian Mcreath, Claudia Regina Passarelli, Dunyi Liu
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The aim of this work is the presentation of a synthesis of available geochronological data for the basement inliers and metavolcano-sedimentary sequences which occur in the southern part of the Apiai Terrane, south-southeastern Brazil. These data, especially those obtained during the last decade, have made substantial modifi cations to the tectonic scenario of south-southeastern Brazil with the recognition of the presence of extensional basins (continental rifts) with magmatism and sedimentation at the late Paleoproterozoic (1790 - 1750 Ma) and of the Mesoproterozoic (1600 - 1450 Ma). These processes started at the late Paleoproterozoic in the Betara, Perau and Apiai Mirim …
An Automated Land Subdivision Tool For Urban And Regional Planning: Concepts, Implementation And Testing, Rohan Wickramasuriya, Laurie A. Chisholm, Marjetta Puotinen, Nicholas Gill, Peter Klepeis
An Automated Land Subdivision Tool For Urban And Regional Planning: Concepts, Implementation And Testing, Rohan Wickramasuriya, Laurie A. Chisholm, Marjetta Puotinen, Nicholas Gill, Peter Klepeis
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Simulation of the land subdivision process is useful in many applied and research areas. Planners use such tools to understand potential impacts of planning regulations prior to their implementation. While the credibility of both land-use change and urban growth models would be enhanced by integrating capabilities to simulate land subdivision, such research is lacking in the published literature. Of the few subdivision tools that exist, most are either not fully-automated or are unable to generate realistic subdivision layouts. This limits their applicability, particularly for high resolution land-use change models. In this paper, we present a fully-automated land subdivision tool that …
Films, Buckypapers And Fibers From Clay, Chitosan And Carbon Nanotubes, Thomas M. Higgins, Holly Warren, Marc In Het Panhuis
Films, Buckypapers And Fibers From Clay, Chitosan And Carbon Nanotubes, Thomas M. Higgins, Holly Warren, Marc In Het Panhuis
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The mechanical and electrical characteristics of films, buckypapers and fiber materials from combinations of clay, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and chitosan are described. The rheological time-dependent characteristics of clay are maintained in clay–carbon nanotube–chitosan composite dispersions. It is demonstrated that the addition of chitosan improves their mechanical characteristics, but decreases electrical conductivity by three-orders of magnitude compared to clay–CNT materials. We show that the electrical response upon exposure to humid atmosphere is influenced by clay-chitosan interactions, i.e., the resistance of clay–CNT materials decreases, whereas that of clay–CNT–chitosan increases.
Chemically Activated Reactions On The C7h5 Energy Surface: Propargyl + Diacetylene, I-C5h3 + Acetylene, And N-C5h3 + Acetylene, Gabriel Da Silva, Adam J. Trevitt
Chemically Activated Reactions On The C7h5 Energy Surface: Propargyl + Diacetylene, I-C5h3 + Acetylene, And N-C5h3 + Acetylene, Gabriel Da Silva, Adam J. Trevitt
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This study uses computational chemistry and statistical reaction rate theory to investigate the chemically activated reaction of diacetylene (butadiyne, C4H2) with the propargyl radical (C •H2CCH) and the reaction of acetylene (C 2H2) with the i-C5H3 (CH 2CCCC•H) and n-C5H3 (CHCC •HCCH) radicals. A detailed G3SX-level C7H 5 energy surface demonstrates that the C3H3 + C4H2 and C5H3 + C2H 2 addition reactions proceed with moderate barriers, on the order of 10 to 15 kcal mol-1, and form activated open-chain C 7H5 species that can isomerize to the fulvenallenyl radical with the highest barrier still significantly below the entrance channel …
Novel Folding And Stability Defects Cause A Deficiency Of Human Glutathione Transferase Omega 1, Huina Zhou, Joseph Brock, Marco G. Casarotto, Aaron J. Oakley, Philip G. Board
Novel Folding And Stability Defects Cause A Deficiency Of Human Glutathione Transferase Omega 1, Huina Zhou, Joseph Brock, Marco G. Casarotto, Aaron J. Oakley, Philip G. Board
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The polymorphic deletion of Glu-155 from human glutathione transferase omega1 (GSTO1-1) occurs in most populations. Although the recombinant ΔGlu-155 enzyme expressed in Escherichia coli is active, the deletion causes a deficiency of the active enzyme in vivo. The crystal structure and the folding/unfolding kinetics of the ΔGlu-155 variant were determined in order to investigate the cause of the rapid loss of the enzyme in human cells. The crystal structure revealed altered packing around the Glu-155 deletion, an increase in the predicted solvent-accessible area and a corresponding reduction in the buried surface area. This increase in solvent accessibility was consistent with …
Inkjet Printing Of Self-Assembling Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels, Skander Limen, Donald Mccallum, Gordon G. Wallace, Marc In Het Panhuis, Paul Calvert
Inkjet Printing Of Self-Assembling Polyelectrolyte Hydrogels, Skander Limen, Donald Mccallum, Gordon G. Wallace, Marc In Het Panhuis, Paul Calvert
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Inkjet printing of alternate layers of anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes allows organized gels to form with structures similar to those made by layer-by-layer dipping methods but very much faster. Structures of gels formed using slow and fast inkjet printing systems are compared using elemental analysis, swelling and diffusion kinetics as characterization methods. After printing and washing, most sodium or chloride counter-ions are lost from the gel, leaving only the polymer complex. The swelling properties of the printed and washed gel depend on the deposition rate and on the ratio of the two polymers as originally printed.
Elvis In The Country: Transforming Place In Rural Australia, Christopher R. Gibson, John Connell
Elvis In The Country: Transforming Place In Rural Australia, Christopher R. Gibson, John Connell
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Inkjet And Extrusion Printing Of Conducting Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Tracks On And Embedded In Biopolymer Materials, Charles A. Mire, Animesh Agrawal, Gordon G. Wallace, Paul Calvert, Marc In Het Panhuis
Inkjet And Extrusion Printing Of Conducting Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Tracks On And Embedded In Biopolymer Materials, Charles A. Mire, Animesh Agrawal, Gordon G. Wallace, Paul Calvert, Marc In Het Panhuis
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Two printing methods, extrusion and inkjet, are used to deposit tracks of PEDOT/PSS conducting polymer onto biopolymer films with a view to prepare implantable tissue mimics containing electronic devices. Extruded tracks offer lower printing resolution, but better electrical characteristics compared to inkjet printed tracks. The biopolymer–ink interaction results in narrower printed tracks compared to those on glass. This affects the final conductivity, which is lower for printed tracks on biopolymer than for lines printed on glass, due to the part of the track lying below the surface. Extrusion printing is used to embed tracks into a biopolymer matrix, resulting in …
Ion Selectivity In Channels And Transporters, Benoit Roux, Simon Berneche, Berhard Egwolf, Bogdan Lev, Sergei Y. Noskov, Christopher N. Rowley, Haibo Yu
Ion Selectivity In Channels And Transporters, Benoit Roux, Simon Berneche, Berhard Egwolf, Bogdan Lev, Sergei Y. Noskov, Christopher N. Rowley, Haibo Yu
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Towards Space Based Verification Of Co2 Emissions From Strong Localized Sources: Fossil Fuel Power Plant Emissions As Seen By A Carbonsat Constellation, Voltaire A. Velazco, M Buchwitz, H Bovensmann, M Reuter, O Schneising, J P. Heymann, T Krings, K Gerilowski, John P. Burrows
Towards Space Based Verification Of Co2 Emissions From Strong Localized Sources: Fossil Fuel Power Plant Emissions As Seen By A Carbonsat Constellation, Voltaire A. Velazco, M Buchwitz, H Bovensmann, M Reuter, O Schneising, J P. Heymann, T Krings, K Gerilowski, John P. Burrows
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Reactions Of Simple And Peptidic Alpha-Carboxylate Radical Anions With Dioxygen In The Gas Phase, Tony Ly, Benjamin B. Kirk, Pramesh I. Hettiarachchi, Berwyck L. Poad, Adam J. Trevitt, Gabriel Da Silva, Stephen J. Blanksby
Reactions Of Simple And Peptidic Alpha-Carboxylate Radical Anions With Dioxygen In The Gas Phase, Tony Ly, Benjamin B. Kirk, Pramesh I. Hettiarachchi, Berwyck L. Poad, Adam J. Trevitt, Gabriel Da Silva, Stephen J. Blanksby
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α-Carboxylate radical anions are potential reactive intermediates in the free radical oxidation of biological molecules (e.g., fatty acids, peptides and proteins). We have synthesised well-defined α-carboxylate radical anions in the gas phase by UV laser photolysis of halogenated precursors in an ion-trap mass spectrometer. Reactions of isolated acetate (CH2CO 2-) and 1-carboxylatobutyl (CH3CH 2CH2CHCO2-) radical anions with dioxygen yield carbonate (CO3-) radical anions and this chemistry is shown to be a hallmark of oxidation in simple and alkyl-substituted cross-conjugated species. Previous solution phase studies have shown that Cα-radicals in peptides, formed from free radical damage, combine with dioxygen to form …
Continental Aridification And The Vanishing Of Australia's Megalakes, Timothy J. Cohen, Gerald C. Nanson, John D. Jansen, B. G. Jones, Zenobia Jacobs, P Treble, David M. Price, Jan-Hendrik May, A Smith, Linda K. Ayliffe, John C. Hellstrom
Continental Aridification And The Vanishing Of Australia's Megalakes, Timothy J. Cohen, Gerald C. Nanson, John D. Jansen, B. G. Jones, Zenobia Jacobs, P Treble, David M. Price, Jan-Hendrik May, A Smith, Linda K. Ayliffe, John C. Hellstrom
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The nature of the Australian climate at about the time of rapid megafaunal extinctions and humans arriving in Australia is poorly understood and is an important element in the contentious debate as to whether humans or climate caused the extinctions. Here we present a new paleoshoreline chronology that extends over the past 100 k.y. for Lake Mega-Frome, the coalescence of Lakes Frome, Blanche, Callabonna and Gregory, in the southern latitudes of central Australia. We show that Lake Mega-Frome was connected for the last time to adjacent Lake Eyre at 50-47 ka, forming the largest remaining interconnected system of paleolakes on …
Significance Of P2x7 Receptor Variants To Human Health And Disease, Ronald Sluyter, Leanne Stokes
Significance Of P2x7 Receptor Variants To Human Health And Disease, Ronald Sluyter, Leanne Stokes
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The human P2X7 receptor is a trimeric ligand-gated cation channel coded by the P2RX7 gene located at chromosome position 12q24. P2X7 is expressed in a wide variety of normal and disease-associated cell types. Activation of this receptor by extracellular adenosine 5’-triphosphate results in numerous downstream events including the release of pro-inflammatory mediators, cell proliferation or death, and killing of intracellular pathogens. As a result, P2X7 plays important roles in inflammation, immunity, bone homeostasis, neurological function and neoplasia. The P2RX7 gene encodes a P2X7 subunit 595 amino acids in length, however splice isoforms that can alter receptor expression and function, and …
Alunite Formation Within Silica Stalactites From The Sydney Region, South-Eastern Australia, Robert A. Wray
Alunite Formation Within Silica Stalactites From The Sydney Region, South-Eastern Australia, Robert A. Wray
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"This paper presents X-ray diffraction and SEM evidence for the formation of alunite, and possibly small quantities of natroalunite, within opal-A stalactites formed on quartz sandstone near Sydney in south-eastern, Australia. Alunite has been reported as a speleogenetic mineral from sediments within a number of caves around the world, but this is believed to be the first report of speleothemic alunite in opaline silica speleothems. Individual alunite crystals have not been visually identified, but SEM X-ray element mapping suggests the alunite has formed amongst kaolinite clay. Sedimentary alunite and natroalunite formation is usually associated with the reaction of sulphuric acid …
Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Trilobitomorpha: Trilobites, Anthony J. Wright, Roger A. Cooper
Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Trilobitomorpha: Trilobites, Anthony J. Wright, Roger A. Cooper
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This volume is the second of three that provide a complete review and inventory of New Zealand's entire living and fossil biodiversity - an international effort involving more than 220 New Zealand and overseas specialists and the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Together, the three volumes will list every one of the almost 55,000 known species of New Zealand's animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms. Volume 2 mostly deals with the major branch of the animal kingdom known as Ecdysozoa (moulting animals), which includes arachnids, centipedes and millipedes, crustaceans and insects. It also includes the enigmatic phylum Chaetognatha …
The Moral Terrains Of Ecotourism And The Ethics Of Consumption, Robert Melchior Figueroa, Gordon R. Waitt
The Moral Terrains Of Ecotourism And The Ethics Of Consumption, Robert Melchior Figueroa, Gordon R. Waitt
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In this chapter, we provide a brief overview of Western philosophical ethics as they may peliain to tourism. Our discussion then turns to one of the most popular attempts to address sustainability across the globe: ecotourism. Ecotourism as distinct from tourism writ large is earmarked by appeals to concepts and ethical practices peliaining to sustainability (in all its varied meanings), consumption, preservation, and the politics of colonialism and the dynamics of global development strategies. In order to bring the ethics of consumption into the context of ecotourism, we provide a case account of ecotourism that represents one of the more …
Soils Of Low Elevation Coral Structures, John Morrison
Soils Of Low Elevation Coral Structures, John Morrison
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The small islands of the South Pacific region, like many other parts of the world, arc (~\I\j riencing population growth and, more particularly, the movement of people into )11,1I1!1 urban centres. Most Pacific cities, especially the capitals of regional countries, arc locili ",I in naturally protected coastal waterways. This is a historical situation, arising from III,' need to provide protected deep-water harbours for ships, the main form of internaliol\,d travel and trade. These waters are protected by offshore barrier reefs, by islands or by ril(,1 ine deltas. However, these protective mechanisms also have the effect of limiting mix!II): of near-shore …
Paleoclimate From Corals, Helen V. Mcgregor
Paleoclimate From Corals, Helen V. Mcgregor
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Ocean- atmosphere interactions in the tropics have farreaching conscqucnccs for climate variabi lity across the globe. The tropics drive heat transfer to the poles, and tropical inter-annual oscillations such as the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean dipole (IOD), via atmospheric tcleconncctions, affcct rain rail patterns and climate conditions in arcas far bcyond the tropics (Ropelewski and Halpert, 1987), causing major socioeconomic impacts. Monitoring eIT0l1s have focused on improving obscrvations and undcrstanding of tropical climate variability, with the view to refining modeling or the tropical oceans and atmosphere. Despite these efforts, most instrumcntal records span only the past few …
Synthesis Of Novel Sugar Diamino Acids, M Thillakan, A Katsifis, D Skropeta
Synthesis Of Novel Sugar Diamino Acids, M Thillakan, A Katsifis, D Skropeta
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Sugar amino acids (SAAs) are found in nature as good construction elements for the preparation of peptide mimetics and oiigosaccharides in drug design and development. The synthesis of SAAs is readily accomplished in few steps and more than 40 SAAs have been synthesised to date.2 Sugar amino acids with an additional amino group, the sugar diamino acid (SDAs) would represent a useful expansion to the library of SAAs available because one of the amino group and carboxylic acid is available for peptide coupling and the another amino/azide group allow to do further derivatisation via peptide or click chemistry such as …
Reappraising The Role Of Suburban Workplaces In Darwin's Creative Economy, Chris Brennan-Horley
Reappraising The Role Of Suburban Workplaces In Darwin's Creative Economy, Chris Brennan-Horley
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Traditionally, suburbs have been conceived as dormitory – in binary opposition to the inner-city (Powell). Supporting this stereotypical view have been gendered binaries between inner and outer city areas; densely populated vs. sprawl; gentrified terraces and apartment culture vs. new estates and first home buyers; zones of (male) production and creativity against (female) sedate, consumer territory. These binaries have for over a decade been thoroughly criticised by urban researchers, who have traced such representations and demonstrated how they are discriminatory and incorrect (see Powell; Mee; Dowling and Mee). And yet, such binaries persist in popular media commentaries and even in …
Preparation And Characterisation Of Conducting Biopolymer-Carbon Nanotube Composite Materials, Ali Aldalbahi, Marc In Het Panhuis
Preparation And Characterisation Of Conducting Biopolymer-Carbon Nanotube Composite Materials, Ali Aldalbahi, Marc In Het Panhuis
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In this work, kappa-carrageenan (KC) is used to prepare composite dispersions consisting of single-walled (SWNTs) and multi-walled (MWNTs) carbon nanotubes. Free-standing composite films were prepared by evaporative casting and vacuum filtration of these dispersions.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Uav) Remote Sensing For Hyperspatial Terrain Mapping Of Antarctic Moss Beds Based On Structure From Motion (Sfm) Point Clouds, A Lucieer, Sharon A. Robinson, D Turner
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Uav) Remote Sensing For Hyperspatial Terrain Mapping Of Antarctic Moss Beds Based On Structure From Motion (Sfm) Point Clouds, A Lucieer, Sharon A. Robinson, D Turner
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This study is the first to use an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for mapping moss beds in Antarctica. Mosses can be used as indicators for the regional effects of climate change. Mapping and monitoring their extent and health is therefore important. UAV aerial photography provides ultra-high resolution spatial data for this purpose. The aim of this study is to use Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques to generate a detailed 3D point cloud of the terrain from overlapping UAV photography.
Membrane Biological Reactors, F I. Hai, K Yamamoto
Membrane Biological Reactors, F I. Hai, K Yamamoto
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Membrane biological reactors combine the use of biological processes and membrane technology to treat wastewater. The use of biological treatment can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. It became a standard method of wastewater treatment by the 1930s (Rittmann, 1987). Both aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment methods have been extensively used to treat domestic and industrial wastewater (Visvanathan et al., 2000). After removal of the soluble biodegradable matter in the biological process, any biomass formed needs to be separated from the liquid stream to produce the required effluent quality. In the conventional process, a secondary settling tank is …