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Snape, M L, NX56109
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/418264Surname: SNAPE. Given Name(s) or Initials: M L. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX56109. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 18919.241721
Item: [2016.0049.50525] "Snape, M L, NX56109
Administration of the GnRH-targeted immunocontraceptive vaccine ‘GonaCon™’ to the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii: side effects and welfare implications
No full textSnape, M.A., Hinds, L.A. Miller, L.A
Characterisation of biochar amended soil by hydropyrolysis
No full textBiochar, a solid product of biomass pyrolysis, attracts research interest due to its potential value for long-term carbon sequestration with additional agronomic benefits. The environmental potential and limitation of biochar in soil applications requires a full understanding of stability and the fate of carbon fractions and trace contaminants, such as PAHs. It is well known that a variable component of biochar is labile (degradable on annual/decadal timescales) and hence, only a proportion of total carbon in biochar provides long-term carbon sequestration. Among the various analytical techniques applied to the determination of the labile fraction and black carbon (BC) in soil, hydropyrolysis (HyPy) combined with GC-MS is an emerging approach not yet applied to biochar amended soils in long term studies. In HyPy, pyrolysis is assisted by high hydrogen pressure to facilitate the reductive removal of labile organic matter (defined as non-BCHyPy), so isolating a highly stable portion of the BC (BCHyPy) that is predominantly composed of >7 ring aromatic domains [1]. The aim of this study was to evaluate the fate of organic carbon of biochar amended soils in a four year field study. A large set of soils were amended with biochar from slow pyrolysis of pruning orchard in a vineyard at a rate of 22 t ha-1. Soils were sampled in three different years after treatment following a randomized block layout with 5 replicates. We used HyPy to remove the labile organic carbon from total organic carbon in biochar and amended soils in order to enable reliable quantification and characterisation of the BCHyPy and non-BCHyPy fractions. The distribution of PAHs generated by HyPy was compared to that of solvent extractable PAHs determined by a validated GC-MS procedure [2] to gather information on the leaching of PAHs from the biochar into the soil.
[1] W. Meredith, P.L. Ascough, M.I. Bird, D.J. Large, C.E. Snape, Y. Sun, E.L. Tilston, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 2012, 97, 131-147.
[2] D. Fabbri, A.G. Rombolà, C. Torri, K.A. Spokas, J. Anal. Applied Pyrol., 2013, 103, 60-67
Revisiting the population of the Ghost Crab, Ocypode cursor, on the sandy beaches of northern Cyprus after two decades: are there causes for concern?
No full textAs a key ecological link in food webs of sandy beaches, ghost crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) are important for the maintenance of sandy beach ecosystems due to their scavenger properties in temperate and tropical regions. A baseline study of Ocypode cursor had been carried out at Alagadi beach in northern Cyprus in 1994 and in order to address concerns that the species may be in decline on the island, the population was re-assessed over nine weeks during summer 2017. To enable comparison of data, standardised, indirect methods were used to determine population parameters such as burrow size, population size, distribution and density. Results indicated a significant, six-fold decline in population size. Average burrow densities in our study was up to 0.05 burrows/m2 in the general crab zone, while Strachan et al. (1999) had recorded up to 0.67 burrows/m2. Possible reasons or factors causing such effects were considered such as invasive pufferfishes Lagocephalus sceleratus and Torquigener flavimaculosus from the Red Sea, climate change in terms of warming sea water and air temperatures and increases in extreme weather conditions such as windiness, and anthropogenic in- terventions such as human trampling and effects of increase in urbanisation. The man- agement of sandy beaches and conservation of these species is urgent to re-stabilize the populations of O. cursor on the beaches of northern Cyprus
Securing access to international markets
No full textThe unconditional extension of the fruits of trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is giving way to bilateral and other discriminatory trade agreements. Led by the United States, GATT has taken a strong position against discrimination: the benefits of negotiations under GATT generally have been extended to all contracting parties without specific conditions or reservations. This unconditional extension of benefits - the unconditional most favored nation principle (MFN) - is now under considerable pressure. This paper finds that the threat to multilateralism and small traders will be reduced if : (i) new trade liberalizing"clubs"that are formed in the Uruguay Round, or elsewhere, are open to new members on the same terms that apply to the founders; (ii) compliance with the rules of such clubs is determined multilaterally and not unilaterally by any existing members; (iii) markets that are levered open are opened in a nondiscriminatory manner; (iv) preferential trading agreements conform to the relevant GATT rule - Article XXIV and; (v) the main safeguard provision of GATT (Article XIX) remains nondiscriminatory.TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Trade Policy,Economic Theory&Research,Trade and Regional Integration,Environmental Economics&Policies
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe 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
Historical Dictionary of International Relations
No full textThis Dictionary is published by Rowman and Littlefield in the 'Historical Dictionaries of International Organizations' series. It is a resource for students, researchers and other readers who want to learn about international relations. The book covers the practices and operations among states, organizations, people and groups. It also offers details about key events and people. Theories which help provide an understanding of international relations are also discussed
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
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