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Edwards (David L.) Priests and Workers an Anglo-French Discussion
No full textIsambert François-André. Edwards (David L.) Priests and Workers an Anglo-French Discussion. In: Archives de sociologie des religions, n°14, 1962. pp. 170-171
Blast Formatted Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Data for TAGdb
No full textThe TAGdb is an online database enabling researchers to identify paired read sequences that share identity with a submitted query sequence. These tags can be used to design oligonucleotide primers for the PCR amplification of the region in the target genome. This tool is applicable for gene and promoter discovery in a wide range of species and greatly facilitates comparative genomics and molecular marker discovery in orphan crops or those with large and complex genomes. The collection currently includes Barley, Brassica, Diplotaxis, Hirschfeldia, Lotus, Nicotiana, Pongamia, Rye, Sinapis, Teraselmis and Wheat NGS data
Australian Wheat
No full textWheat is Australia’s largest grain crop (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2010). Intensive breeding has led to significant increases in yield and productivity. The size and complexity of the wheat genome have limited the application of advanced methods for wheat improvement. Hence, concerted efforts are required to characterise Australian bread wheat to enable the generation of superior genotypes underpinning further crop improvement, productivity and resilience. A successful model for wheat data management (T3) has been established in the USA and it has been proposed that researchers at UQ who are recognised leaders in producing advanced wheat germplasm establish a similar database for Australian wheat breeding data. The Triticeae Toolbox contains the database for Australian T3 wheat breeding data, and contains SNP, phenotypic, and pedigree data from wheat and barley germplasm. 
Chickpea Gbrowse
No full textThe Chickpea genome contains 8 Chromosomes with ~740 million bases pairs (Mbp) and 28,269 genes. It is a challenge to visualise and explore such a huge quantity of data, especially for non-bioinformatics researchers. We are part of the Chickpea Consortium and we published the Chickpea genome in Nature Biotechnology in early 2014. Currently, only the raw data of the Chickpea genome can be downloaded in NCBI, thus limiting the analysis to researchers with strong computing skills. Setting up a well-featured genome browser for the Chickpea genome is important for the plant research community, and especially beneficial to the Chickpea research community. The Chickpea browsing system will be the first Chickpea genome browser, and will attract the Chickpea research community to use it. Additionally, it will also benefit the plant research community, especially for genome comparative study.Both the Kabuli and Desi genomes can be downloaded in full as well as being searchable through Gbrowse
Investigation of acoustic cues used by humans to identify the spatial position of an object based on echoes
No full textEcholocation involves obtaining information on an object by analysis of echoes reflected from it when an outgoing emission is directed towards it. This study investigates human ability to determine the left-right position of an object using echolocation in a specific set of conditions. Previous literature demonstrated that echolocation can be used to identify the spatial position of an object, though the acoustic cues used to achieve such a task have not been identified. Understanding whether subjects are able to use binaural cues for such a task is important because, if they can, then the determination of spatial position via echolocation can be generalised to real-life conditions. Furthermore, ISVR pilot studies have demonstrated that subjects may have had access to additional echolocation cues in previous studies. This study investigates the ability of subjects with minimal (procedural) training to determine the left-right position of an object in 'virtual echolocation' experiments in which cues unrelated to echoes from the emission were eliminated. Impulse response measurements taken when an emission was directed at a board positioned at 17· to the ears of an acoustic mannequin, KEMAR, were analysed and combined (convolved) with emission signals. Convolved stimuli were presented to subjects via insert earphones in three psychoacoustic experiments conducted by the author. Experiment 1 used 18 subjects to examine sensitivity at 0.9 m using broad band stimuli of 10-400 ms, showing that sensitivity increased with signal duration. By windowing out the start of each signal, it was also shown that the precedence effect, which generally reduces a subjects' sensitivity to binaural cues within echoes, does not affect ability at the distance measured. The experiment also demonstrated that small changes to board position could have dramatic effects on information useable within the echo, explaining why many subjects have been observed moving their heads when echolocating, a technique known as 'head scanning'. A set of 13 subjects were common to experiments 2 and 3, with participants using 400 ms-duration stimuli to identify board position. Experiment 2 showed sensitivity above chance levels for echolocater to object distances of 0.6 to 1.2 m using broadband stimuli. Experiment 3 applied diotic presentation and level-roving to examine whether subjects relied on non- binaural cues at 0.9 m. Frequency-filtering isolated any binaural cues used. Results indicated that high-frequency interaural level difference (lLD) was the main cue, though 2 trained musicians showed some ability to use non-binaural cues. It is concluded that subjects with minimal training can use echolocation to determine the left-right spatial position of a large reflective object placed at a 17 degree angle from them based primarily on high-frequency lLD, at least at a distance of 0.9 m. Thus, it should be possible to identify spatial position of an object outside of the laboratory via echolocation. Furthermore, increased sensitivity with duration indicates that subjects should try to maximize energy in their emission signal when echolocating. Further work should be conducted to isolate the acoustic cues used in other echolocation tasks and the virtual technique piloted here provides a mechanism for doing so.EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo
Newspeak in the 21st Century
No full textSince 2001, Media Lens has encouraged thousands of readers to challenge the filtered and distorted version of the world provided by major newspapers and broadcasters. The media responses, collected in Newspeak, are an exposé of the arrogance and servility to power of our leading journalists and editors, starring Andrew Marr, Alan Rusbridger, Roger Alton, Jon Snow, Jeremy Bowen and even George Monbiot. Picking up where the highly acclaimed and successful Guardians of Power (2006) left off, Newspeak is packed with forensic media analysis, revealing the lethal bias in "balanced" reporting. Even the "best" UK media - the Guardian, the Independent, Channel 4 News and the BBC - turn out to be cheerleaders for government, business and war. Alongside an A-Z of BBC propaganda and chapters on Iraq and climate change, Newspeak focuses on the demonisation of Iran and Venezuela, the Israel-Palestine conflict, the myth of impartial reporting and the dark art of smearing dissidents
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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