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Investigations into Ytterbium, Ytterbium-Erbium and Thulium-doped silica-based fibre lasers
No full textRadiocarbon-dating and ancient DNA reveal rapid replacement of extinct prehistoric penguins
No full textAbstract not available.Nicolas J. Rawlence, George L.W. Perry, Ian W.G. Smith R. Paul Scofield, Alan J.D. Tennyson, Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith, Sanne Boessenkool, Jeremy J. Austin, Jonathan M. Water
Understanding and implementing an ecosystem approach to management and protection of the Strait of Georgia, Canada
No full textUnderstanding and implementing an ecosystem approach to management and protection of the Strait of Georgia, Canada R. Ian Perry 1 and Diane Masson 2 1 Fisheries and Oceans Canada Pacific Biological Station Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N7 Canada Email: [email protected] 2 Fisheries and Oceans Canada Institute of Ocean Sciences Sidney, BC V8L 4B2 Canada The Strait of Georgia is arguably the most human-dominated marine system in Canada, with approximately 75% of the population of BC living along its shores. Given its rich and diversified ecosystem as well as the current and anticipated environmental and human pressures, the Strait of Georgia was chosen as the location for Fisheries & Oceans Canada’s Pacific Ecosystem Research Initiative. The overall objective of the Initiative was to establish the bases for the management of ecosystem - human interactions in an integrative framework. This presentation summarises and integrates the findings from these projects and describes six key elements for implementing ecosystem protection in the Strait of Georgia: understanding how this system works; identifying ecosystem indicators and thresholds; a comprehensive monitoring strategy, tools for ecosystem assessments, and identifying important areas
sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465221083651 – Supplemental material for Biomechanical Role of the Superior Capsule in a Rotator Cuff Sectioned and Repaired State: A Sequential Sectioning Study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ajs-10.1177_03635465221083651 for Biomechanical Role of the Superior Capsule in a Rotator Cuff Sectioned and Repaired State: A Sequential Sectioning Study by Steven F. DeFroda, Allison K. Perry, Nabil Mehta, Muturi G. Muriuki, Johnathon R. McCormick, Robert M. Havey, Ian M. Clapp, Grant E. Garrigues and Nikhil N. Verma in The American Journal of Sports Medicine</p
James Bond: international man of gastronomy
No full textThis article is concerned with the representation of food and drink in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. In particular, it examines how the author uses Bond’s culinary knowledge and habits of consumption as an important constituent of his hero’s character. Similarly, the food choices of other characters, notably villains, are shown to be linked, by Fleming, to core aspects of their identity − principally their ethnicity. Bond’s impulse to observe and classify, very much in evidence in the novels’ food sequences, is examined in terms of the texts’ construction of Bond as a skilled identifier of signs
REIT capital structure : an examination of the use of unsecured debt over traditional equity and changes in dividend policy
Get PDFThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997 (first author), and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1997 (second author).Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-98).by Joshua T. Anderson and Ian R. Ponniah.M.S
Transforming Power Relationships: Leadership, Risk, and Hope. IHS Political Science Series No. 135, May 2013
Get PDFChronic communal conflicts resemble the prisoner’s dilemma. Both communities prefer peace to war. But neither trusts the other, viewing the other’s gain as its own loss, so
potentially shared interests often go unrealized.
Achieving positive-sum outcomes from apparently zero-sum struggles requires a kind of riskembracing leadership. To succeed leaders must: a) see power relations as potentially
positive-sum; b) strengthen negotiating adversaries instead of weakening them; and c) demonstrate hope for a positive future and take great personal risks to achieve it.
Such leadership is exemplified by Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk in the South African democratic transition. To illuminate the strategic dilemmas Mandela and de Klerk faced, we examine the work of Robert Axelrod, Thomas Schelling, and Josep Colomer, who highlight important dimensions of the problem but underplay the role of risk-embracing leadership. Finally we discuss leadership successes and failures in the Northern Ireland settlement and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Genomewide association scan of suicidal thoughts and behaviour in major depression
Get PDFBACKGROUND: Suicidal behaviour can be conceptualised as a continuum from suicidal ideation, to suicidal attempts to completed suicide. In this study we identify genes contributing to suicidal behaviour in the depression study RADIANT. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: A quantitative suicidality score was composed of two items from the SCAN interview. In addition, the 251 depression cases with a history of serious suicide attempts were classified to form a discrete trait. The quantitative trait was correlated with younger onset of depression and number of episodes of depression, but not with gender. A genome-wide association study of 2,023 depression cases was performed to identify genes that may contribute to suicidal behaviour. Two Munich depression studies were used as replication cohorts to test the most strongly associated SNPs. No SNP was associated at genome-wide significance level. For the quantitative trait, evidence of association was detected at GFRA1, a receptor for the neurotrophin GDRA (p = 2e-06). For the discrete trait of suicide attempt, SNPs in KIAA1244 and RGS18 attained p-values of <5e-6. None of these SNPs showed evidence for replication in the additional cohorts tested. Candidate gene analysis provided some support for a polymorphism in NTRK2, which was previously associated with suicidality. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: This study provides a genome-wide assessment of possible genetic contribution to suicidal behaviour in depression but indicates a genetic architecture of multiple genes with small effects. Large cohorts will be required to dissect this further.Alexandra Schosser, Amy W. Butler, Marcus Ising, Nader Perroud, Rudolf Uher, Mandy Y. Ng, Sarah Cohen-Woods, Nick Craddock, Michael J. Owen, Ania Korszun, Lisa Jones, Ian Jones, Michael Gill, John P. Rice, Wolfgang Maier, Ole Mors, Marcella Rietschel, Susanne Lucae, Elisabeth B. Binder, Martin Preisig, Julia Perry, Federica Tozzi, Pierandrea Muglia, Katherine J. Aitchison, Gerome Breen, Ian W. Craig, Anne E. Farmer, Bertram Müller-Myhsok, Peter McGuffin and Cathryn M. Lewi
URI Disambiguation in the Context of Linked Data
No full textThe Linked Data initiative has given rise to an increasing number of RDF datasets, many of which are freely accessible online. These resources often arise as a result of database exports; however sufficient consideration may not be given to the unseen implications caused when they are used in the wider context of the Semantic Web. This paper investigates two popular resources, DBLP and DBpedia, and discusses whether the issues regarding identity management and co-reference resolution have been suitably addressed. We find that a large percentage of authors in DBLP have been conflated, and that disambiguation pages have been incorrectly linked using owl:sameAs within DBpedia. Systems for dealing with these issues are presented, and directions are given for future research
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