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Two Cys Or Not Two Cys? That Is The Question; Alternative Oxidase In The Thermogenic Plant Sacred Lotus, Nicole M. Grant, Yoshihiko Onda, Yusuke Kakizaki, Kkikukatsu Ito, Jennifer R. Watling, Sharon A. Robinson
Two Cys Or Not Two Cys? That Is The Question; Alternative Oxidase In The Thermogenic Plant Sacred Lotus, Nicole M. Grant, Yoshihiko Onda, Yusuke Kakizaki, Kkikukatsu Ito, Jennifer R. Watling, Sharon A. Robinson
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Sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) regulates temperature in its floral chamber to 32°C to 35°C across ambient temperatures of 8°C to 40°C with heating achieved through high alternative pathway fluxes. In most alternative oxidase (AOX) isoforms, two cysteine residues, Cys1 and Cys2, are highly conserved and play a role in posttranslational regulation of AOX. Further control occurs via interaction of reduced Cys1 with α-keto acids, such as pyruvate. Here, we report on the in vitro regulation of AOX isolated from thermogenic receptacle tissues of sacred lotus. AOX protein was mostly present in the reduced form, …
Source Regions For Co2 At Cape Point Assessed By Modelling, 222rn And Meteorological Data, S. Whittlestone, E. Kowalczyk, E.-G Brunke, C. Labuschagne
Source Regions For Co2 At Cape Point Assessed By Modelling, 222rn And Meteorological Data, S. Whittlestone, E. Kowalczyk, E.-G Brunke, C. Labuschagne
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This study explores methods of characterising experimental and modelling data to see if trace gas measurements at the Cape Point GAW station could improve our understanding of sources from the continent. Selection criteria have been defined which make it possible to divide the samples into categories with predominant transport to Cape Point from one of four source regions: City (greater Cape Town); close rural (within about 150 km of Cape Point); distant rural (from 150 to about 500 km) and very distant rural covering the rest of southern Africa. For species with fairly uniform source such as radon or CO, …
Accumulation Of Dna Damage In Antarctic Mosses: Correlations With Ultraviolet-B Radiation, Temperature And Turf Water Content Vary Amongst Species, J. D. Turnbull, Sharon A. Robinson
Accumulation Of Dna Damage In Antarctic Mosses: Correlations With Ultraviolet-B Radiation, Temperature And Turf Water Content Vary Amongst Species, J. D. Turnbull, Sharon A. Robinson
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The susceptibility of three East Antarctic moss species to UV-B radiation was examined by measuring accumulation of cyclobutane pyrimidine dimers under natural sunlight during the austral summer season of 2002/03. The 2002/03 season was characterised by unusually low springtime ozone depletion and as such our results likely underestimate the DNA damage possible in a more typical UV-B radiation season. Despite this all three species accumulated significant DNA photoproducts. We also found a positive association between photoproduct accumulation and incident UV-B radiation in the two cosmopolitan species, Bryum pseudotriquetrum and Ceratodon purpureus, with more DNA damage in samples collected early …
Genetic Structure Of East Antarctic Populations Of The Moss Ceratodon Purpureus, L. J. Clarke, D. J. Ayre, Sharon A. Robinson
Genetic Structure Of East Antarctic Populations Of The Moss Ceratodon Purpureus, L. J. Clarke, D. J. Ayre, Sharon A. Robinson
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The capacity of the polar flora to adapt is of increasing concern given current and predicted environmental change in these regions. Previous genetic studies of Antarctic mosses have been of limited value due to a lack of variation in the markers or non-specificity of the methods used. We examined the power of five microsatellite loci developed for the cosmopolitan moss Ceratodon purpureus to detect genetically distinct clones and infer the distribution of clones within and among populations from the Windmill Islands, East Antarctica. Our microsatellite data suggest extraordinarily high levels of variation reported in RAPD studies were artificially elevated by …
Just Add Water: Colonisation, Water Governance, And The Australian Inland, Leah Maree Gibbs
Just Add Water: Colonisation, Water Governance, And The Australian Inland, Leah Maree Gibbs
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Water has played a key role in the development of the Australian inland and the nation. For European colonists, the dry and variable landscape challenged ideas about nature imported from northern temperate regions. I argue first, that colonists brought with them ideas for ordering nature and tools for transforming landscapes that led to inappropriate and destructive water management and the silencing of local voices and knowledge systems. Secondly, colonial patterns of ordering and transforming landscapes are ongoing, but new ways of governing water, which challenge colonialism, are emerging. In the first section of the paper I discuss colonial relationships with …
The Tràng An Project: Late-To-Post Pleistocene Settlement Of The Lower Song Hong Valley, North Vietnam, Ryan Rabett, G Barker, C O. Hunt, C O. Hunt, P Piper, E Raddatz, T Reynolds, Nguyen Van Son, C Stimpson, Katherine A. Szabo, Nguyen Cao Tan, J Wilson
The Tràng An Project: Late-To-Post Pleistocene Settlement Of The Lower Song Hong Valley, North Vietnam, Ryan Rabett, G Barker, C O. Hunt, C O. Hunt, P Piper, E Raddatz, T Reynolds, Nguyen Van Son, C Stimpson, Katherine A. Szabo, Nguyen Cao Tan, J Wilson
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Tràng An is a Vietnamese government supported cultural and ecological park development covering 2,500 hectares that is centred on an isolated massif on the southern edge of the Song Hong delta in Ninh Bình Province, north Vietnam (Fig. 1). The archaeological investigation of Tràng An is being led jointly by the Xuan Truong Construction Corporation and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, under the direction of the lead author. The Corporation is creating an ecologically sensitive development – the ‘Tràng An Tourism Resort’ – within this karstic landscape, which is also the subject of a planned application …
Electrocatalytic Reduction Of Carbon Dioxide By Cobalt-Phthalocyanine-Incorporated Polypyrrole, Jun Chen, Gordon G. Wallace, Jiaxing Lu, Aijian Zhang, Weimin Zhang
Electrocatalytic Reduction Of Carbon Dioxide By Cobalt-Phthalocyanine-Incorporated Polypyrrole, Jun Chen, Gordon G. Wallace, Jiaxing Lu, Aijian Zhang, Weimin Zhang
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In the quest for catalysts for the electrocatalytic reduction of , a cobalt phthalocyanine/polypyrrole (CoPc/PPy) composite electrode has been developed. The electrode is prepared by drop casting CoPc onto the PPy film from the CoPc/tetrahydrofuran solution (1 mg/mL). The onset potential for reduction occurred at potentials 160 mV more positive than observed with a simple PPy electrode. Furthermore, in the potentiostatic electrolysis, the catalytic current for reduction at CoPc/PPy was very stable, with a higher current density and current efficiency when compared to the PPy electrode.
Establishment And Persistence Of Species-Rich Patches In A Species-Poor Landscape: Role Of A Structure-Forming Subtidal Barnacle, A. R. Davis, David. W. Ward
Establishment And Persistence Of Species-Rich Patches In A Species-Poor Landscape: Role Of A Structure-Forming Subtidal Barnacle, A. R. Davis, David. W. Ward
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Some sessile invertebrates are capable of maintaining space in barren habitats produced by sea urchins, thereby creating species-rich patches in a species-poor landscape. We sought to determine the role of a large and common barnacle, Austrobalanus imperator, in the establishment and persistence of these species-rich patches. Barnacle density was modified in 2 experiments at sites in southeastern Australia. The first experiment concerned community establishment and involved the addition of barnacles in 4 densities (zero [control], low, medium and high) to plots on vertical rock surfaces. The addition of barnacles at ecologically realistic densities and spatial arrangements rapidly resulted in statistically …
A Novel Zinc-Binding Fold In The Helicase Interaction Domain Of The Bacillus Subtilis Dnal Helicase Loader, Karin V. Loscha, Kristaps Jaudzems, Charikleia Ioannou, Xun-Cheng Su, Flynn R. Hill, Gottfried Otting, Nicholas E. Dixon, Edvards Liepinsh
A Novel Zinc-Binding Fold In The Helicase Interaction Domain Of The Bacillus Subtilis Dnal Helicase Loader, Karin V. Loscha, Kristaps Jaudzems, Charikleia Ioannou, Xun-Cheng Su, Flynn R. Hill, Gottfried Otting, Nicholas E. Dixon, Edvards Liepinsh
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The helicase loader protein DnaI (the Bacillus subtilis homologue of Escherichia coli DnaC) is required to load the hexameric helicase DnaC (the B. subtilis homologue of E. coli DnaB) onto DNA at the start of replication. While the C-terminal domain of DnaI belongs to the structurally well-characterized AAA+ family of ATPases, the structure of the N-terminal domain, DnaI-N, has no homology to a known structure. Three-dimensional structure determination by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy shows that DnaI presents a novel fold containing a structurally important zinc ion. Surface plasmon resonance experiments indicate that DnaI-N is largely responsible for binding of …
Site-Specific Covalent Attachment Of Dna To Proteins Using A Photoactivatable Tus-Ter Complex, Dahdah B. Dahdah, Isabelle Morin, Morgane Moreau, Nicholas E. Dixon, Patrick M. Schaeffer
Site-Specific Covalent Attachment Of Dna To Proteins Using A Photoactivatable Tus-Ter Complex, Dahdah B. Dahdah, Isabelle Morin, Morgane Moreau, Nicholas E. Dixon, Patrick M. Schaeffer
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Investigations into the photocrosslinking kinetics of the protein Tus with various bromodeoxyuridine-substituted Ter DNA variants highlight the potential use of this complex as a photoactivatable connector between proteins of interest and specific DNA sequences.
Dynamic Supplying Desired Web Service For E-Business, Xuejuan Huang, Xinmeng Chen, Jiazhen Xu, Jie Yang
Dynamic Supplying Desired Web Service For E-Business, Xuejuan Huang, Xinmeng Chen, Jiazhen Xu, Jie Yang
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With the number of available Web services growing large, supplying the appropriate services for e-business becomes crucial. Dynamic change of customer requirement and available service space challenges the service discovery and selection process. In this paper, we propose a Web service dynamic supplying framework, called Web service community (WSC), to facilitate invocation of one single service or the composition of several services to complete various business tasks. The prominent features of Web service description, discovery and selection in the circumstance of WSC are depicted based on the explanation of the structure of WSC. The desired Web services are dynamically discovered …
Validation Of Ozone Measurements From The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (Ace), Nicholas B. Jones, David W. Griffith, M Wolff, E Mahieu, G Bodeker, I Boyd, M De Maziere, P Demoulin, T Blumenstock, Y. Murayama, A. Kagawa, J Jin, Christopher Mcelroy, J Hannigan, M Coffey, M Hopfner, H W. Fischer, T Kerzenmacher, I Kramer, J Mellqvist, R Sussmann, K Strong, J R. Taylor, K Mizutani, Y Kasai, J Urban, D Murtagh, E Dupuy, V Catoire, S Chabrillat, P Baron, C Brogniez, G L. Manney, C Piccolo, C Randall, C Robert, C Senten, C Tetard, N J. Livesey, A Kleinbohl, S Godin-Beekmann, T Borsdorff, James Drummond, C De Clercq, J C. Lambert, U Cortesi, K W. Jucks, C Boone, H Oelhaf, M Schneider, T Steck, K A. Walker, P Bernath, T Von Clarmann, R Hughes, C Vigouroux, J Kuttippurath, A Bracher, J Mcconnell, C Mclinden, H Kullmann, L Froidevaux, J Dodion, F Vanhellemont, J P. Burrows, J Kar, F Goutail, D G. Dufour, J M. Zawodny, F Nichitiu, J-P Pommereau, C Nowlan, D Fussen, J Zou, A R Klekociuk, G Forbes, H Bovensmann, R M Bevilacqua, C Haley, S Ceccherini, S D Mcleod, P Gerard, R Skelton, B Firanski, A E Bourassa, D A Degenstein, J Davies, T Christensen, J Granville, A Parrish, C Roth, J W. Waters, C Von Savigny, A Standberg, M Mchugh, A M. Thompson, E J Llewellyn, P Von Der Gathen, M B. Tully, J C. Witte, C Roth, B T. Marshall, K B. Strawbridge, E Kyrola, M P. Mccormick, D P J Swart, N D Lloyd, D W. Tarasick, S V. Petelina, L W. Thomason, A Jones, I S. Mcdermid
Validation Of Ozone Measurements From The Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (Ace), Nicholas B. Jones, David W. Griffith, M Wolff, E Mahieu, G Bodeker, I Boyd, M De Maziere, P Demoulin, T Blumenstock, Y. Murayama, A. Kagawa, J Jin, Christopher Mcelroy, J Hannigan, M Coffey, M Hopfner, H W. Fischer, T Kerzenmacher, I Kramer, J Mellqvist, R Sussmann, K Strong, J R. Taylor, K Mizutani, Y Kasai, J Urban, D Murtagh, E Dupuy, V Catoire, S Chabrillat, P Baron, C Brogniez, G L. Manney, C Piccolo, C Randall, C Robert, C Senten, C Tetard, N J. Livesey, A Kleinbohl, S Godin-Beekmann, T Borsdorff, James Drummond, C De Clercq, J C. Lambert, U Cortesi, K W. Jucks, C Boone, H Oelhaf, M Schneider, T Steck, K A. Walker, P Bernath, T Von Clarmann, R Hughes, C Vigouroux, J Kuttippurath, A Bracher, J Mcconnell, C Mclinden, H Kullmann, L Froidevaux, J Dodion, F Vanhellemont, J P. Burrows, J Kar, F Goutail, D G. Dufour, J M. Zawodny, F Nichitiu, J-P Pommereau, C Nowlan, D Fussen, J Zou, A R Klekociuk, G Forbes, H Bovensmann, R M Bevilacqua, C Haley, S Ceccherini, S D Mcleod, P Gerard, R Skelton, B Firanski, A E Bourassa, D A Degenstein, J Davies, T Christensen, J Granville, A Parrish, C Roth, J W. Waters, C Von Savigny, A Standberg, M Mchugh, A M. Thompson, E J Llewellyn, P Von Der Gathen, M B. Tully, J C. Witte, C Roth, B T. Marshall, K B. Strawbridge, E Kyrola, M P. Mccormick, D P J Swart, N D Lloyd, D W. Tarasick, S V. Petelina, L W. Thomason, A Jones, I S. Mcdermid
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This paper presents extensive bias determination analyses of ozone observations from the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (ACE) satellite instruments: the ACE Fourier Transform Spectrometer (ACE-FTS) and the Measurement of Aerosol Extinction in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Retrieved by Occultation (ACE-MAESTRO) instrument. Here we compare the latest ozone data products from ACE-FTS and ACE-MAESTRO with coincident observations from nearly 20 satellite-borne, airborne, balloonborne and ground-based instruments, by analysing volume mixing ratio profiles and partial column densities. The ACEFTS version 2.2 Ozone Update product reports more ozone than most correlative measurements from the upper troposphere to the lower mesosphere. At altitude levels from …
The Synthesis Of Carbon Linked Bis-Benzylisoquinolines Using Mizoroki–Heck And Sonagashira Coupling Reactions, Uta Batenburg-Nguyen, Alison T. Ung, Stephen G. Pyne
The Synthesis Of Carbon Linked Bis-Benzylisoquinolines Using Mizoroki–Heck And Sonagashira Coupling Reactions, Uta Batenburg-Nguyen, Alison T. Ung, Stephen G. Pyne
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Novel laudanosine dimers in which two laudanosine units are linked at C-2′ via a two or three-carbon linker (alkane, alkene or alkyne) have been prepared using palladium-catalysed cross-coupling reactions (Mizoroki–Heck and Sonagashira reactions). In one example, a second three-carbon linker between the two isoquinoline N-atoms was also present leading to a novel macrocyclic ring system.
Exploring Co Pollution Episodes Observed At Rishiri Island By Chemical Weather Simulations And Airs Satellite Measurements: Long-Range Transport Of Burning Plumes And Implications For Emissions Inventories, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Keiichi Sato, Tim Butler, Mark G. Lawrence, Jenny A. Fisher, M Kopacz, Robert M. Yantosca, Yugo Kanaya, Shungo Kato, Tomoaki Okuda, Shigeru Tanaka, Jiye Zeng
Exploring Co Pollution Episodes Observed At Rishiri Island By Chemical Weather Simulations And Airs Satellite Measurements: Long-Range Transport Of Burning Plumes And Implications For Emissions Inventories, Hiroshi Tanimoto, Keiichi Sato, Tim Butler, Mark G. Lawrence, Jenny A. Fisher, M Kopacz, Robert M. Yantosca, Yugo Kanaya, Shungo Kato, Tomoaki Okuda, Shigeru Tanaka, Jiye Zeng
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The summer of 2003 was an active forest fire season in Siberia. Several events of elevated carbon monoxide (CO) were observed at Rishiri Island in northern Japan during an intensive field campaign in September 2003. A simulation with a global chemistry-transport model is able to reproduce the general features of the baseline levels and variability in the observed CO, and a source attribution for CO in the model suggests that the contribution from North Asia dominated, accounting for approximately 50% on average, with contributions of 7% from North America and 8% from Europe and 30% from oxidation of hydrocarbons. With …
North Polar Frontal Clouds And Dust Storms On Mars During Spring And Summer, Huiqun Wang, Jenny A. Fisher
North Polar Frontal Clouds And Dust Storms On Mars During Spring And Summer, Huiqun Wang, Jenny A. Fisher
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The complete archive of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) Mars Daily Global Maps (MDGM) are used to study north polar clouds and dust storms that exhibit frontal structures during the spring and summer (Ls 0–180°). Results show that frontal events generally follow the edge of the polar cap during spring and mid/late summer with a gap in the distribution in early summer. The exact duration and timing of the gap vary from year to year. Twww.lw20.comen to twenty percent of spring and summer time frontal events exhibit complex morphologies. Distinct temperature signatures are associated with features observed …
Invasion And Management Of A Woody Plant, Lantana Camara L., Alters Vegetation Diversity Within Wet Sclerophyll Forest In Southeastern Australia, Ben Gooden, Kris French, Peter J. Turner
Invasion And Management Of A Woody Plant, Lantana Camara L., Alters Vegetation Diversity Within Wet Sclerophyll Forest In Southeastern Australia, Ben Gooden, Kris French, Peter J. Turner
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Plant invasions of natural communities are commonly associated with reduced species diversity and altered ecosystem structure and function. This study investigated the effects of invasion and management of the woody shrub Lantana camara (lantana) in wet sclerophyll forest on the south-east coast of Australia. The effects of L. camara invasion and management on resident vegetation diversity and recruitment were determined as well as if invader management initiated community recovery. Vascular plant species richness, abundance and composition were surveyed and compared across L. camara invaded, non-invaded and managed sites following L. camara removal during a previous control event by land managers. …
Impact Threshold For An Alien Plant Invader, Lantana Camara L., On Native Plant Communities, Ben Gooden, Kris French, Peter J. Turner, Paul O. Downey
Impact Threshold For An Alien Plant Invader, Lantana Camara L., On Native Plant Communities, Ben Gooden, Kris French, Peter J. Turner, Paul O. Downey
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Alien plant invaders significantly threaten native community diversity, although it is poorly understood whether invasion initiates a linear or non-linear loss of resident species. Where low abundances of an invader have little impact on native species diversity, then a threshold level may exist, above which native communities rapidly decline. Our aim was to assess the broadscale effects of an alien thicket-forming shrub, lantana (Lantana camara L.), on wet sclerophyll forest in southeastern Australia. Vascular plant species richness, abundance and composition were measured and compared along a gradient of lantana invasion. There was a strong negative non-linear relationship between native species …
Factors Governing Performance Of Continuous Fungal Reactor During Non-Sterile Operation - The Case Of A Membrane Bioreactor Treating Textile Wastewater, Faisal I. Hai, Kazuo Yamamoto, Fumiyuki Nakajima, Kensuke Fukushi
Factors Governing Performance Of Continuous Fungal Reactor During Non-Sterile Operation - The Case Of A Membrane Bioreactor Treating Textile Wastewater, Faisal I. Hai, Kazuo Yamamoto, Fumiyuki Nakajima, Kensuke Fukushi
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White-rot fungi, unlike bacteria in conventional activated sludge system, can degrade wide varieties of textile dyes. Their large scale implementation, however, has been impeded due to lack of appropriate reactor system that can sustain stable performance under non-sterile environment. In this study, contrary to virtually complete decoloration of an azo dye (Acid Orange II, 100 mg L−1) in pure culture batch test, a fungal membrane bioreactor (MBR) achieved 93% removal during long-term non-sterile operation at a hydraulic retention time (HRT) of 1 d. Through a set of novel observations made in MBR and parallel batch tests, the interrelated factors responsible …
Where Is Creativity In The City? Integrating Qualitative And Gis Methods, Christopher R. Gibson, Christopher Brennan - Horley
Where Is Creativity In The City? Integrating Qualitative And Gis Methods, Christopher R. Gibson, Christopher Brennan - Horley
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This paper discusses a new blend of methods developed to answer the question of where creativity is in the city. Experimentation with new methods was required because of empirical short- comings with existing creative city research techniques; but also to respond to increasingly important questions of where nascent economic activities occur outside the formal sector, and governmental spheres of planning and economic development policy. In response we discuss here how qualitative methods can be used to address such concerns, based on experiences from an empirical project charged with the task of documenting creative activity in Darwinöa small city in Australia's …
Towards Understanding The Cultural Aspects Of Climate Change In The Snow, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray
Towards Understanding The Cultural Aspects Of Climate Change In The Snow, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray
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Ranking Habitat Patches By Contribution To Network Connectivity: Tradeoffs Between Processing Time And Spatial Realisation, B Cook, Marjetta L. Puotinen, Rittick Borah
Ranking Habitat Patches By Contribution To Network Connectivity: Tradeoffs Between Processing Time And Spatial Realisation, B Cook, Marjetta L. Puotinen, Rittick Borah
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Biochemical Characteristics And Function Of A Fucosyltransferase Encoded By Ste7 In Ebosin Biosynthesis Of Streptomyces Sp. 139, Y Liu, Liping Bai, Jun-Jie Shan, Rong Jiang, Ren Zhang, Lian-Hong Guo, Chang Ming, Yang Zhang
Biochemical Characteristics And Function Of A Fucosyltransferase Encoded By Ste7 In Ebosin Biosynthesis Of Streptomyces Sp. 139, Y Liu, Liping Bai, Jun-Jie Shan, Rong Jiang, Ren Zhang, Lian-Hong Guo, Chang Ming, Yang Zhang
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Dragon's Paradise Lost: Palaeobiogeography, Evolution And Extinction Of The Largest-Ever Terrestrial Lizards (Varanidae), Scott A. Hocknull, Michael J. Morwood, Rokus Awe, Gerrit D. Van Den Bergh, P Piper, I Kurniawan
Dragon's Paradise Lost: Palaeobiogeography, Evolution And Extinction Of The Largest-Ever Terrestrial Lizards (Varanidae), Scott A. Hocknull, Michael J. Morwood, Rokus Awe, Gerrit D. Van Den Bergh, P Piper, I Kurniawan
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Background The largest living lizard species, Varanus komodoensis Ouwens 1912, is vulnerable to extinction, being restricted to a few isolated islands in eastern Indonesia, between Java and Australia, where it is the dominant terrestrial carnivore. Understanding how large-bodied varanids responded to past environmental change underpins long-term management of V. komodoensis populations. Methodology/Principal Findings We reconstruct the palaeobiogeography of Neogene giant varanids and identify a new (unnamed) species from the island of Timor. Our data reject the long-held perception that V. komodoensis became a giant because of insular evolution or as a specialist hunter of pygmy Stegodon. Phyletic giantism, coupled with …
Queer-Friendly Neighbourhoods: Interrogating Social Cohesion Across Sexual Difference In Two Australia Neighbourhoods, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray, Gordon R. Waitt
Queer-Friendly Neighbourhoods: Interrogating Social Cohesion Across Sexual Difference In Two Australia Neighbourhoods, Andrew W. Gorman-Murray, Gordon R. Waitt
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Musical Work In A University Town: The Shifting Spaces And Practices Of Djs In Dunedin, Andrew Mcgregor, Christopher R. Gibson
Musical Work In A University Town: The Shifting Spaces And Practices Of Djs In Dunedin, Andrew Mcgregor, Christopher R. Gibson
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Increasing attention is being paid to how workers in the creative industries negotiate transitions from amateur to professional status and seek opportunities for work and spaces for expression that suit artistic desires. The settings have usually been large cities with populations that can support diverse and specialised audiences and subcultural scenes. In this paper, we discuss research where we participated in a music scene, and talked to dance music disc jockeys and venue owners in a small, regional university city - Dunedin. In Dunedin opportunities for musical work are comparatively plentiful but are constrained in a number of ways. Disc …
Ion-Molecule Reactions Of O,S-Dimethyl Methylphosphonothioate: Evidence For Intramolecular Sulfur Oxidation During Vx Perhydrolysis, Jilliarne Williams, Martin Paine, Stephen J. Blanksby, Michael L. Rogers, Andrew M. Mcanoy
Ion-Molecule Reactions Of O,S-Dimethyl Methylphosphonothioate: Evidence For Intramolecular Sulfur Oxidation During Vx Perhydrolysis, Jilliarne Williams, Martin Paine, Stephen J. Blanksby, Michael L. Rogers, Andrew M. Mcanoy
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The alkaline perhydrolysis of the nerve agent O-ethyl S-[2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl] methylphosphonothioate (VX) was investigated by studying the ion-molecule reactions of HOO- with O,S-dimethyl methylphosphonothioate in a modified linear ion-trap mass spectrometer. In addition to simple proton transfer, two other abundant product ions are observed at m/z 125 and 109 corresponding to the S-methyl methylphosphonothioate and methyl methylphosphonate anions, respectively. The structure of these product ions is demonstrated by a combination of collision-induced dissociation and isotope-labeling experiments that also provide evidence for their formation by nucleophilic reaction pathways, namely, (i) S(N)2 at carbon to yield the S-methyl methylphosphonothioate anion and (ii) nucleophilic …
Ion-Molecule Reactions Reveal Facile Radical Migration In Peptides, Stephen J. Blanksby, Benjamin N. Moore, Ryan R. Julian
Ion-Molecule Reactions Reveal Facile Radical Migration In Peptides, Stephen J. Blanksby, Benjamin N. Moore, Ryan R. Julian
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Ion-molecule reactions between molecular oxygen and peptide radicals in the gas phase demonstrate that radical migration occurs easily within large biomolecules without addition of collisional activation energy.
Prenylated Alkylbisphenols From Grevillea Whiteana, Stephen J. Blanksby, Hao Wang, Paul I. Forster, David N. Leach, Peter G. Waterman, Michael C. Thomas
Prenylated Alkylbisphenols From Grevillea Whiteana, Stephen J. Blanksby, Hao Wang, Paul I. Forster, David N. Leach, Peter G. Waterman, Michael C. Thomas
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Eleven new bisresorcinols including four mixtures each of two isomers and one resorcinol/phloroglucinol derivative, together with five known resorcinols have been isolated from the ethyl acetate extract of sterns of Grevillea whiteana. The new Compounds were identified as 4-(3-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)grebustol-B (10a), 4'-(3-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)grebustol-B (10b), 4-(4-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)grebustol-B (2a) and 4'-(4-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl) rebustol-B (2b), 2,2-dimethyldihydropyrano grebustol-B (11a) and iso-2,2-dimethyldihydropyranogrebustol-B (11b), 2,2-dimethyl-3 xi-hydroxydihydropyranogrebustol-B (7a) and iso-2,2-dimethyl-3 xi-hydroxydihydropyranogrebustol-B (7b), 15-(2-(4-hydroxy-3-methylbutyl)-resorcinol-5-yl)-1-(phloroglucinolyl )-9(Z)pentadecen-one (whiteanone) (4), 5,5'-(hexadecan-diyl)bisresorcinol (12) and 2-methyl-5,5'-(8(Z)hexadecen-1,16-diyl)bisresorcinol (9). This is the first record of pyranobisresorcinols in the genus and the first report of a phloroglucinol terminal Phenolic unit in any Grevillea species.
Planning At The Urban Periphery In Australia: Issues Relating To Private Residential Back And Front Yards, Andrew H. Kelly
Planning At The Urban Periphery In Australia: Issues Relating To Private Residential Back And Front Yards, Andrew H. Kelly
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This narrative focuses on three planning issues affecting the suburban residential periphery in Sydney, Australia: (i) amenity, (ii) biodiversity conservation and (iii) bushfire potential. All relate to private front and back yards, which provide key elements of the residential landscape. Embedded in the paper is the complexity of the planning system and the subsequent inconsistency between dealing with the three issues. Considerable attention is paid to local government and its changing legislative terrain. In particular, several local statutory planning instruments are investigated to illustrate this. The conclusion calls for further research while stressing more action is warranted within and outside …
Sepioloidea Magna Sp. Nov.: A New Bottletail Squid (Cephalopoda : Sepiadariidae) From Northern Australia, Amanda Reid
Sepioloidea Magna Sp. Nov.: A New Bottletail Squid (Cephalopoda : Sepiadariidae) From Northern Australia, Amanda Reid
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