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Assessing resilience in Collie: a case study in Western Australia
No full textResilience is a system’s ability to absorb or adapt to change without losing essential structures and functions. In a changing world, resilience assessment is a means of assessing the condition of complex ecological and social systems in the face of multiple trends and threats. This thesis examines the usefulness of resilience assessment as a policy tool when applied to communities that will be affected by policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, via a case study of Collie, Western Australia. A historical analysis shows that Collie’s coal industry is in the late conservation stage of an adaptive cycle and vulnerable to collapse. Current threats to the industry include climate change, greenhouse gas mitigation policies, competition from other energies, local air quality concerns, growing industrial demand for water and finite coal reserves. While some threats are volatile and therefore predictions are uncertain, these threats appear likely to push the industry into serious decline within the near to medium term (10–15 years). Collie has some capacity to adapt to such a transition, including moderate existing economic diversity and strong social capital but it appears that community awareness about the threats could be enhanced. In addition, there is evidence that perverse resilience influences energy policy in Western Australia, with persistent structures and functions that cause social and environmental harm. These are causing unequal flow of wealth and opportunity in Collie and are undermining its adaptive capacity. If new coal projects proceed, Collie will sacrifice important assets including water supplies, rivers, clean air, rural lifestyle, sense of place and heritage, along with future opportunities to diversify its economy. Alternatively, it could prepare now for inevitable transition. Resilience assessment is a useful tool for other communities that are likely to experience transition owing to climate change and resource depletion, including north-west WA towns that are also home to high greenhouse gas-intensity industries
WPA Interview - W. S. Collie and Mrs. R. L. James
No full textA transcript of a WPA interview by Chas R. Fuller with W. S. Collie and Mrs. R. L. James regarding a building at the intersection of Houston and Weatherford St in the 1930s. The building was originally owned by Mrs. James\u27 husband. It has been the offices of a number of business before being torn down in 1930 to make sure for a building that housed the Renfro Drug Store.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_workprojectsadministration/1139/thumbnail.jp
Pay It Forward: Author Survey Results
No full textThese data files contain raw, anonymized response data, as well as a data codebook, from the author survey conducted in May and June 2015 as a part of the Pay It Forward project. The survey was distributed to approximately 15,000 academics at the University of British Columbia, The Ohio State University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis, and received an overall response rate of 14.1%.Funding provided by: Andrew W. Mellon FoundationCrossref Funder Registry ID: http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000873Award Number: 41400690Survey conducted using Qualtrics software. Respondents included faculty, graduate students, and post-doctoral researchers from the University of British Columbia, The Ohio State University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis. The survey was open from May 20, 2015 to June 10, 2015. IRB approval for this study was obtained by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Office of Research Compliance
Collie eye anomaly
No full textCollie with other several breeds share collie eye anomaly (CEA). It is an inherited and congenital eye diseases affecting choroid and sclera. Affected dogs share deletion in intron 4 of the NHEJ1 gene. The symptoms and signs can vary among affected dogs within one breed. CEA is not progressive in the usual sense. The lesion appears as an area lateral to the optic disc. In severely affected dogs, there are problems with the vision. The genetic test should be done to identify the genetic status of dogs. The CEA test is done on a sample of blood. The direct PCR method using a PICOTM Thermal Cycler was applied
Collie eye anomaly (CEA)
No full textCollie Eye Anomaly is both a hereditary and congenital disorder which is seen with great frequency in the United States and Europe. In the United States, it is seen mostly in rough and smooth collies, and to a lesser extent in Shetland sheepdogs. It is associated with microphthalmos syndrome in collies and has been inadvertently selected for in the quest for certain "desirable" facial characteristics. It has been estimated that up to 97% of all collies are affected with at least one of the phenotypic expressions of CEA. Veterinarians in the United Kingdom have found that approximately 70% of the collie population is affected by CEA. It is fortunate, however, that detectable visual impairment is found in only 2-4% of the collies examined. The lesions now believed to be associated with CEA include choroidal hypoplasia, coloboma of the optic disk and/or sclera, and intraocular hemorrhage with or without secondary retinal detachment
TARIFFS AND SUBSIDIES UNDER ASYMMETRIC OLIGOPOLY: AD VALOREM VERSUS SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTS
No full textThis paper analyses the welfare effects of ad valorem and specific trade policy instruments (import tariffs and production subsidies) under asymmetric Cournot oligopoly and then compares the efficiency of ad valorem with specific instruments. It is shown that these trade policy instruments have rationalization effects similar to those in Collie (European Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 9 (1993), pp. 275-280), and that an ad valorem production subsidy will have an additional negative rationalization effect. Also, it is shown that an ad valorem production subsidy yields lower welfare than a specific production subsidy due to this additional negative rationalization effect, and that combining ad valorem and specific instruments yields welfare gains. Copyright � 2006 The Author; Journal compilation � Blackwell Publishing Ltd and The University of Manchester 2006.
Disease detection of collie eye anomaly in shepherd dog breeds
No full textThis thesis deals with the detection of Collie Eye Anomaly (CEA) in Shepherd breeds. CEA is a congenital hereditary eye disease whose main manifestations are choroidal hypoplasia and coloboma of the optic nerve. This disease is incurable and complications such as retinal detachment or intraocular bleeding are often associated with it. The development of this anomaly is caused by a deletion of the 7.8 kb region in intron 4 of the NHEJ1 gene. The aim of this thesis is to optimize PCR and real-time PCR methods for the detection of CEA causal mutation and subsequent screening of DNA samples from Shepherd breeds dogs. The investigated group consisted of 138 DNA samples collected from individuals of the Border Collie, Smooth Collie, Rough Collie, Sheltie, Australian Shepherd and German Shepherd breeds. Biological materials were obtained via buccal swab. Both examined methods yielded the same results with regards to the subjects' genotypes. The screening of samples confirmed the findings of previous research, that the highest incidence of CEA occurs in Rough Collie (91%) and Sheltie (23%) breeds, respectively. The lowest incidence of recessive homozygotes (4%) was found in the Border Collie breed. Among other breeds, no dogs affected by CEA were detected
Modelling airborne dispersion in the Collie basin
No full textMesoscale airborne dispersion models are useful tools for predicting the impacts of pollutant gases from industrial emissions. This study uses the Com- monwealth Scienti¯c Industrial Research Organisation's The Air Pollution Model (TAPM) to predict sulphur dioxide (SO2) dispersion in the Collie basin, South West of Western Australia. TAPM, like most mesoscale models, poorly predict light winds (< 2ms¡1) under strongly stable atmospheric boundary layer condi- tions over complex terrain. This study alters TAPM deep soil moisture (DSM) initialisation and uses a strict spatial and temporal point and pattern sensitivity analysis and time relaxed ranked comparison approaches. It was found that mod- elled DSM did not signi¯cantly perturb TAPM meteorological outputs despite patterns indicating enhanced model performance against near surface predictions of temperature and wind direction. The DSM parameterisation resulted in im- proved prediction of highest and second highest SO2 ground level concentrations at the Collie monitoring site. The TAPM results reproduced aspects previous studies on the region and known limitations
The collie eye anomaly : a simple recessive mode of inheritance?
No full textThe Collie Eye Anomaly is a congenital disorder which is equally prevalent in males and females, and among all normal coat colors of Collie dogs. Since it was first described in 1953, many estimates have been made of its prevalence, ranging from 60% to over 90%. From 1975 to June 1979 the Canine Eye Registration Foundation, Inc. (CERF) functioned as a registry for the listing of purebred dogs susceptible to hereditary eye diseases which had been examined by approved veterinary ophthalmologists and found to be free of such disease. During this period CERF received reports on examinations of a total of 17,302 Collies. Of these, 12,465 (72%) were classificed as affected.
The anomaly consists of a wide range of ocular abnormalities. When severe lesions are present, the affected animal suffers from blindness, but in milder cases, which are by far more common, there are often no outward symptoms. Although Collie Eye is bilaterally expressed, it is usually not symmetrical; an individual may be mildly affected in one eye and severely affected in the other eye. Unlike many other congenital eye diseases, the Collie Eye Anomaly is generally non-progressive. Occasionally, retinal detachment may occur later in life, but usually an affected animal's vision does not worsen with age.
Presently, the Collie Eye Anomaly is thought by most people to be due to the presence of a simple autosomal recessive gene; affected animals are presumed to be homozygous for this gene. Because the anomaly has such a high prevalence in the breed, it is assumed that most phenotypically normal-eyed dogs are actually genotypically heterozygous
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