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Analysis for Wallis, Taylor, Wallis, Jackson & Bex
No full text<p>These are R scripts to reproduce the analyses in Wallis, Taylor, Wallis, Jackson & Bex (2014).</p>
<p>These files are released under the GPL-3 License. I don't offer any support. You are welcome to send me an email but I make no claim that I will (be able to) help, particularly if you are attempting to use a different platform or setup than mine (I'm running on OSX 10.8 with RStudio).</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT</strong>: If you adapt any part of these scripts for your own academic work, please help keep me employed by citing the following paper:</p>
<p>Wallis, T.S.A., Taylor, C.P.T., Wallis, J., Jackson, M.L. and Bex, P.J. (2014). Characterisation of field loss based on microperimetry is predictive of face recognition difficulties. <em>Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 55</em>(1): 142–153.</p>
Letter from M.M. Wallis to Oscar Monnig
No full textLetter from M.M. Wallis of The Uganda Society to Oscar Monnig enclosing an issue of the Uganda Journal
Wallis, M G, NX15536
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete.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/423695Surname: WALLIS. Given Name(s) or Initials: M G. Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX15536. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 1715.250210
Item: [2016.0049.55956] "Wallis, M G, NX15536
Understanding and analysing statecraft in the Pacific Islands
No full textThis book analyses how tools of statecraft are being deployed by a range of key partners and Pacific Island states with contributions by scholars from the United States, Australia, China, New Zealand, and across the Pacific Islands region.Joanne Wallis, Henrietta McNeill, Michael Rose, Alan Tidwel
The Economic Value of Wild Resources to the Indigenous Community of the Wallis Lakes Catchment
No full textThere is currently a growing policy interest in the effects of the regulatory environment on the ability of Indigenous people to undertake customary harvesting of wild resources. This Discussion Paper develops and describes a methodology that can be used to estimate the economic benefi ts derived from the use of wild resources. The methodology and the survey instrument that was developed were pilot tested with the Indigenous community of the Wallis Lake catchment. The harvesting of wild resources for consumption makes an important contribution to the livelihoods of Indigenous people living in this area.Indigenous; harvesting of wild resources; natural resource management
Wetland biodiversity in coastal New South Wales: the Wallis Lake catchment as a case study
No full textThe floristic composition and environmental relations of wetland vegetation in the Wallis Lake catchment (32˚ 09’S; 152˚ 20’E), area 1292 km2, on the lower North Coast of NSW are described. The catchment supports wetlands listed as Endangered Ecological Communities (NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995) and plant species of high conservation value. A methodology of air photo interpretation, site-based sampling (114 quadrats) and landscape differentiation was developed. A total of 393 vascular plant taxa were recorded (including 10% exotics). Wetland vegetation formations and subformations including mangrove forest, swamp sclerophyll forest, wet heathland, chenopod shrubland, tussock grassland, sedgeland and rushland are described using numerical classification. 31 plant species of national or regional conservation significance are identified. Four Endangered Ecological Communities are discussed – Coastal Saltmarsh, Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest, Swamp Sclerophyll Forest on Coastal Floodplains, and Freshwater Wetlands on Coastal Floodplains. A key recommendation is the completion of reliable wetland vegetation and soil landscape mapping for all land tenures in the catchment – to assess wetland condition and conservation significance, and representation in formal conservation reserves, thereby directing future priorities for the protection of wetland biodiversity on both public and private lands. The methodology developed can be applied to the survey and conservation of wetland biodiversity in other parts of coastal NSW
Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development: A Critical and Reflexive Approach
No full textThe concept of hybridity highlights complex processes of interaction and transformation between different institutional and social forms, and normative systems. It has been used in numerous ways to generate important analytical and methodological insights into peacebuilding and development. Its most recent application in the social sciences has also attracted powerful critiques that have highlighted its limitations and challenged its continuing usage.Edited By Lia Kent, Miranda Forsyth, Sinclair Dinnen, Joanne Wallis, Srinjoy Bos
Regulation of collagen dissolution in the human uterine cervix
No full textCollagen dissolution in the non-pregnant human uterine cervix was investigated by following the spontaneous release of hydroxyproline containing peptides from tissue explants into the surrounding culture medium. Typically, the release of these peptides was low during early days of culture and then increased until at least day 18. Progesterone and oestradiol-17 A significantly inhibited collagen dissolution. The latter was only effective if the tissue was maintained in a low oestrogen containing environment, suggesting the oestrogen receptor may be 'labile'. It is therefore concluded that the integrity of the connective tissue framework of the human cervix could be in part under steroid hormone control. Prostaglandins are used clinically to soften the human cervix, but neither PGE2 or Pr~F2 had a significant effect on collagen breakdown. Arachidonic acid, however, was a potent stimulant of collagen dissolution, the action of which was not blocked by indomethacin at concentrations that inhibit prostaglandin synthesis; possible mechanisms of action of arachidonic acid are discussed. Drugs which inhibit prostaglandin synthetase such as indomethacin and meclofenamic acid inhibit collagen dissolution, but only with concentrations greater than that required to inhibit prostaglandin synthesis. In culture cervix explants synthesise PGE, PGF and 6 keto PGFla. The synthesis of these prostanoids could not be positively correlated with the profile for collagen breakdown. It is therefore concluded that it appears unlikely that prostaglandins soften the cervix in vivo by a direct stimulation of collagen breakdown, but changes in the collagen framework mediated by other mechanisms cannot be excluded. In the rat, the softness of the cervix was positively correlated with the degree of acid solubility of collagen. Arachidonic acid, administered on day 18 of pregnancy, softened the cervix, increased the collagen solubility and decreased the collagen concentration. It is therefore possible that this drug softens the cervix in vivo by enhanced enzymatic collagen degradation, this may be mediated by collagenase or other proteases. From this and other studies collagenolytic enzymes appear to have a role in cervix softening, although the interrelationship between these enzymes and other biochemical changes, such as altered glycosaminoglycans, requires determination.</p
The ‘Blue Pacific’ strategic narrative as a tool of Pacific statecraft
No full textThis chapter turns to the final specific tool of statecraft analysed in this book: strategic narratives. The developing literature on strategic narratives as tools of statecraft has analysed their attempted use by great powers, particularly China, to influence less materially powerful states. This chapter switches focus to analyse how Pacific Island countries (PICs), which are less materially powerful, have created and deployed their own strategic narratives. It does this by analysing the Blue Pacific narrative adopted and deployed by PICs to seek to influence their more materially powerful partners. It analyses the discourse and policies of partner states and international institutions and argues that they have, at times, been influenced by this narrative to both change their own narratives, and, more significantly, their substantive policies. While it acknowledges that partner states have appropriated the Blue Pacific narrative in their own attempts to influence PICs, it concludes by arguing that the Blue Pacific narrative demonstrates how less materially powerful states can leverage geopolitical competition so that their strategic narratives can influence more materially powerful partners to advance their interests and priorities.Joanne Wallis, Maima Koro, and Corey O’Dwye
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