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Review: The George Eliot Archive, Editor and Project Director Beverley Park Rilett
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George Eliot's Debt to Richard Wagner: Daniel Deronda and the Flying Dutchman
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Review: Jacqueline Lernie-Bouchet, Identité multiple: Dans le pas de George Eliot
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Alterations to sediment nutrient deposition and transport along a six reservoir sequence
No full textReservoir presence and construction has become commonplace along rivers due to the multitude of ecosystem services they provide. Many services are well recognized, including the effectiveness of sequestering both sediments and sediment-bound nutrients such as silts and phosphorus (P). Reservoirs are also capable of transforming or sequestering significant quantities of nutrients with more complex biogeochemical pathways, like nitrogen (N). Reservoir assessments, independent of inflow-outflow models, have primarily focused on a small number of systems creating a growing need to understand how reservoirs function both individually and as reservoir sequences within large rivers and their watersheds. Models have simulated the overall efficiency and drivers of reservoir nutrient deposition, but few have considered how a sequence of reservoirs alter deposition as an interdependent watershed-sediment-transport-system. In this study, we collected sediment cores from a six-reservoir sequence along a 5th – 6th order stream receiving treated waters from a large metropolitan area in the subtropical southeastern United States. Paleolimnological studies of subtropical reservoirs are underrepresented and are needed to understand the history of reservoir development. Using paleolimnological techniques and a known 30 year flux of riverine nutrient loading from waste water treatment facilities, we compared nutrient deposition to reservoir morphological qualities and primary producer community structure during the past ~50 years. Our findings suggest phosphorus deposition is associated with reservoir order downstream of the primary nutrient source, nitrogen deposition is linked to reservoir water retention time, and N:P is most strongly linked to reservoir surface area and watershed population density. Our results were strongly influenced by a large upstream and metropolitan nutrient source, common in large rivers, but under different conditions of nutrient loading (i.e. nonpoint source), reservoirs may express other nutrient depositional patterns.PublishedYe
HCAR breast cancer mutations
No full textSanger sequences of inherited HCAR mutations detected in breast cancer affected individuals.AcceptedYe
Heat-induced maternal effects shapes avian eggshell traits and embryo response to high temperatures
No full textPopulations without a sufficient rate of genetic adaptation may risk extinction in the face of rapid environmental change, however, phenotypic plasticity can facilitate their persistence. For example, mothers can prepare offspring for the thermal environment young will experience through transgenerational plasticity. In oviparous species, whether mothers can prepare offspring to cope with thermal stress experienced as embryos is largely unknown. We demonstrate that when zebra finch mothers are exposed to a heat stress, their offspring show altered heart rates as embryos in response to high incubation temperatures, as well as an increase in eggshell pore density that was positively correlated with survival. These results are the first to show that temperature induced transgenerational plasticity may promote embryonic survival in an oviparous species.In revie
George Eliot's Spanish in the Spanish Gypsy
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Automated Phonetic Transcription Comparison Tool
No full textThe Automated Phonetic Transcription (APT) Comparison Tool (APTct) is an online tool that facilitates the comparison of phonetic transcriptions for a variety of clinical and research purposes. It uses an IPA graphical keyboard for straightforward transcription input, and a custom edit distance algorithm designed to align transcriptions in an intuitive way and then calculate differences quantitatively. This allows for objective scoring of transcriptions of even severely impaired productions, which may be difficult to score via traditional comparison methods. APTct also includes support for comparing narrow phonetic transcriptions with diacritics. It does this by assigning gradated penalties for phoneme edits versus diacritic edits: For any substitution, addition, or deletion of an entire phoneme, the algorithm assigns a penalty of 1; for any substitution, addition, or deletion of a diacritic, the algorithm assigns a penalty of 0.5. APTct also provides average edit distance scores for all transcription comparisons input in a session. Potential uses of the tool include the following: tracking a client’s productions over time and in response to treatment, estimating the severity of sound production accuracy impairments, and calculating inter-rater reliability of multiple transcribers
Review: Still Crazy About George Eliot 200 Years Later
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George Eliot 2019: An International Bicenteniary Conference. College Court, Leicester, 17-19 July 2019
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