Journal articles: 'Brookii Complex'

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CHAITANYA, R., ISHAN AGARWAL, APARNA LAJMI, and AKSHAY KHANDEKAR. "A novel member of the Hemidactylus brookii complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India." Zootaxa 4646, no. 2 (July 24, 2019): 236–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4646.2.2.

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A new rupicolous gecko from the Hemidactylus brookii complex is described from the forests and plateaus of Amboli, in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra. This medium sized (average adult SVL 56.2±5.0 to at least 62 mm), nocturnal species is superficially similar to other congeners from the ‘H. brookii’ clade, but can be distinguished from them in having 17 or 18 fairly regular longitudinal rows of enlarged, conical, keeled tubercles at midbody, extending from posterior part of the head to groin; tubercles in parasagittal rows smaller, feebly keeled and more rounded; approximately six rows of tubercles on either side of parasagittal tubercle rows, highly enlarged, remarkably conical and strongly keeled; lamellae divided in a straight transverse series—seven or eight lamellae beneath fourth digit (manus and pes) and five or six beneath first digit (manus and pes). Males with nine or ten (rarely eight) femoral pores separated by four or five poreless scales; supralabials 11–13; infralabials 8–11. Molecular data based on the mitochondrial ND2 gene supports the distinctiveness of this species and helps ascertain its phylogenetic position within the ‘H. brookii’ group of the Indian Hemidactylus radiation.

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Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray, Rameshwaran Mariappan, Satpal Gangalmale, Vivek Waghe, Swapnil Pawar, and Ishan Agarwal. "A remarkable new species of gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Hemidactylus) from scrublands at the southern tip of India." Vertebrate Zoology 73 (May 11, 2023): 433–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e101871.

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We describe a new species of Hemidactylus based on an integrative taxonomic framework from scrub habitats at the southern tip of India, in Thoothukudi District, Tamil Nadu. The new species has the most densely packed tubercles among Indian Hemidactylus, almost resembling the most tuberculate Indian Cyrtopodion. Hemidactylus quartziticolussp. nov. is phylogenetically placed within the brookii group of Indian Hemidactylus, where it is sister to the H. gleadowi complex from western-central India. The new species is 14.5–23.7% divergent in ND2 mitochondrial sequence data from other brookii group members, and can be easily diagnosed from regional congeners by its unique dorsal scalation, the number and arrangement of precloacal-femoral pores, the number of dorsal tubercle rows at midbody, number of lamellae under digit I and IV of manus and pes. The new species is currently known only from two isolated, low quartzite hillocks 45 km apart with scrubby, thorn forests and loose, stony soil.

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Lajmi, Aparna, Varad B. Giri, and K. Praveen Karanth. "Molecular data in conjunction with morphology help resolve the Hemidactylus brookii complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae)." Organisms Diversity & Evolution 16, no. 3 (March 7, 2016): 659–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13127-016-0271-9.

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KATHRINER, ANDREW, MARK O’SHEA, and HINRICH KAISER. "Re-examination of Hemidactylus tenkatei van Lidth de Jeude, 1895: Populations from Timor provide insight into the taxonomy of the H. brookii Gray, 1845 complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae)." Zootaxa 3887, no. 5 (November 27, 2014): 583. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3887.5.5.

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Okano, Satoshi, Saeki Yamamuro, and Toshiro Tanaka. "Synthesis of Brookite-Typed Titania from Titanium Chloride Solution." Materials Science Forum 610-613 (January 2009): 285–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/msf.610-613.285.

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The brookite-phase TiO2 was prepared by a hydrothermal synthesis of titanium chloride solution. The thermolysis time and the pH value of the solution were controlled during the synthesis. X-ray diffraction experiments showed that TiO2 powders partially containing the brookite-phase were successfully obtained. A higher amount of OH- in the reaction solution was found to be important to obtain the brookite phase because the intermediate complex leading to the brookite phase consumes more amount of OH- than other phases like the rutile.

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Ohara, Chiaki, Teruhisa Hongo, Atsushi Yamazaki, and Toshio Nagoya. "Synthesis and characterization of brookite/anatase complex thin film." Applied Surface Science 254, no. 20 (August 2008): 6619–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2008.04.030.

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Szabó, László József, Csilla Vajda, Petra Éva Szalay, Olga Kis, Margit Miskolczi, and György Dévai. "Change of morphometric and allometric patterns on wings of banded demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) males in case of ecologically different watercourse types." Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 68, no. 1 (February 14, 2022): 99–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.17109/azh.68.1.99.2022.

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In the nature, larvae living in watercourses are exposed to a complex system of environmental influences. It is known that different watercourse types (creeks, brooks, streams, little rivers and medial rivers) provide different conditions for larval development (water depth, flow rate, temperature, oxygen content, substrate type, nutrient supply, etc.). These conditions can vary significantly between watercourse types, but be very similar within types. In this work, we examined the body sizes and wing morphometric characteristics of males of Calopteryx splendens reared from different watercourse types (brook, stream, creek, little river, medial river). Although there were no significant differences in body size among watercourse types, we found significant differences in the wing features. We found the most differences between the individuals reared from streams and creeks and between the individuals reared from stream and medial river. Our results show that the individuals reared from different watercourse types were clearly separated on the two wings. The results also suggest that there are significant differences in the number and pattern of allometric features on the wings of individuals reared from different watercourse types.

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RUNYON, JUSTIN B., and HAROLD ROBINSON. "Hurleyella, a new genus of Nearctic Dolichopodidae (Diptera)." Zootaxa 2400, no. 1 (March 16, 2010): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2400.1.6.

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The new micro-dolichopodid genus Hurleyella and two new species, H. cumberlandensis and H. brooksi are described from the Nearctic. Hurleyella resembles the subfamily Medeterinae in having the legs bare of major setae, a depressed posterior mesonotum, and concave dorsal postcranium, but the complex male genitalia is unlike the relatively simple structure of traditional Medeterinae (e.g., Medetera, Thrypyicus, Corindia, etc.). Until the relationship of Hurleyella to other genera can be determined, and the limits of dolichopodid subfamilies refined, it should be considered as incertae sedis.

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Browning, Daphne A. "The Weeping Brook: The Ophelia Complex in Lorca's Poetry." Romance Notes 53, no. 1 (2013): 73–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rmc.2013.0010.

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Jordanous, Anna. "Intelligence without Representation: A Historical Perspective." Systems 8, no. 3 (September 15, 2020): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/systems8030031.

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This paper reflects on a seminal work in the history of AI and representation: Rodney Brooks’ 1991 paper Intelligence without representation. Brooks advocated the removal of explicit representations and engineered environments from the domain of his robotic intelligence experimentation, in favour of an evolutionary-inspired approach using layers of reactive behaviour that operated independently of each other. Brooks criticised the current progress in AI research and believed that removing complex representation from AI would help address problematic areas in modelling the mind. His belief was that we should develop artificial intelligence by being guided by the evolutionary development of our own intelligence and that his approach mirrored how our own intelligence functions. Thus, the field of behaviour-based robotics emerged. This paper offers a historical analysis of Brooks’ behaviour-based robotics approach and its impact on artificial intelligence and cognitive theory at the time, as well as on modern-day approaches to AI.

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Currie, K. L. "Contrasting metamorphic terranes near Chéticamp, Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 24, no. 12 (December 1, 1987): 2422–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e87-228.

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Two contrasting metamorphic terranes can be recognized in northwestern Cape Breton Island. One terrane (Pleasant Bay complex) consists of biotite gneiss and quartzite with minor calc-silicate lenses that were metamorphosed in Late Precambrian time (about 550 Ma) and were subsequently intruded by Silurian salic and mafic plutons that were, in turn, deformed and intruded by granite in Devonian time. The other terrane (Jumping Brook complex) consists of volcanogenic and sedimentary schists of probable Silurian age that were metamorphosed in Devonian time. P–T estimates indicate that the older parts of the Pleasant Bay complex were metamorphosed at about 790 °C and 7 kbar (1 kbar = 100 MPa) at low to moderate water fugacities during a major intrusive episode. The Jumping Brook complex exhibits a single progressive metamorphic sequence now disrupted by faulting. P–T conditions during this Devonian (370–390 Ma) metamorphism varied from greenschist (300 °C at <3 kbar) to amphibolite (650 °C at 4 kbar) facies. Metamorphism probably occurred in a thermal dome. The data suggest a moderately deformed basement–cover relation between the Pleasant Bay and Jumping Brook complexes.

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Yang, Jiandong, Jun Wang, Wenshu Yang, Ying Zhu, Shuang Feng, Pengyu Su, and Wuyou Fu. "Low-Temperature Processed Brookite Interfacial Modification for Perovskite Solar Cells with Improved Performance." Nanomaterials 12, no. 20 (October 18, 2022): 3653. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nano12203653.

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The scaffold layer plays an important role in transporting electrons and preventing carrier recombination in mesoporous perovskite solar cells (PSCs), so the engineering of the interface between the scaffold layer and the light absorption layer has attracted widespread concern. In this work, vertically grown TiO2 nanorods (NRs) as scaffold layers are fabricated and further treated with TiCl4 aqueous solution. It can be found that a thin brookite TiO2 nanoparticle (NP) layer is formed by the chemical bath deposition (CBD) method on the surface of every rutile NR with a low annealing temperature (150 °C), which is beneficial for the infiltration and growth of perovskite. The PSC based on the TiO2 NR/brookite NP structure shows the best power conversion of 15.2%, which is 56.37% higher than that of the PSC based on bare NRs (9.72%). This complex structure presents an improved pore filling fraction and better carrier transport capability with less trap-assisted carrier recombination. In addition, low-annealing-temperature-formed brookite NPs possess a more suitable edge potential for electrons to transport from the perovskite layer to the electron collection layer when compared with high-annealing-temperature-formed anatase NPs. The brookite phase TiO2 fabricated at a low temperature presents great potential for flexible PSCs.

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Auld, K., B. Thomas, J. Goodall, and J. Benson. "THE JOHN BROOKES GAS DISCOVERY—AN EVOLVING STORY." APPEA Journal 42, no. 1 (2002): 443. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj01024.

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John Brookes–1 was drilled as part of a work commitment for the WA-214-P Joint Venture in 1998 and discovered an 85 m gross dry gas column. The objective of the well was to test a structural closure at the base of the Muderong Shale regional seal on the Tryal Rocks anticline, up-dip from Tryal Rocks–1, drilled in 1970. Tryal Rocks–1, the 31st offshore well to be drilled within the Carnarvon Basin, WA, was initially considered a dry hole. However, a review of the well data in 1997–98 suggested that Tryal Rocks–1 might contain a hydrocarbon column. The mapping of the structure using initially 2D seismic data acquired post Tryal Rocks–1, then 3D data, indicated that Tryal Rocks–1 was drilled within closure, but off crest, and that significant closure existed up-dip. The John Brookes–1 location was selected to test this updip potential. The John Brookes–1 discovery confirmed the validity of the structural mapping. However, the unexpected nature of the reservoir, interpreted as a well developed turbiditic channel of Birdrong Sandstone age, changed the emphasis from purely structural to a play with structural/stratigraphic potential. An amalgamated turbidite complex model was invoked which infers that the John Brookes–1 reservoir represents a confined channel system cut into the underlying substrate. This model explains the results to date, with the John Brookes–1 gas reservoir being in direct continuity with the sandstones at Tryal Rocks–1. A review of the 3D seismic data across the field and seismic modelling support the stratigraphic model developed from the palynological interpretation.

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Liston, Glen E., and Matthew Sturm. "A snow-transport model for complex terrain." Journal of Glaciology 44, no. 148 (1998): 498–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.3189/s0022143000002021.

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AbstractAs part of the winter environment in middle- and high-latitude regions, the interactions between wind, vegetation, topography and snowfall produce snow covers of non-uniform depth and snow water-equivalent distribution. A physically based numerical snow-transport model (SnowTran-3D) is developed and used to simulate this three-dimensional snow-depth evolution over topographically variable terrain. The mass-transport model includes processes related to vegetation snow-holding capacity, topographic modification of wind speeds, snow-cover shear strength, wind-induced surface-shear stress, snow transport resulting from saltation and suspension, snow accumulation and erosion, and sublimation of the blowing and drifting snow. The model simulates the cold-season evolution of snow-depth distribution when forced with inputs of vegetation type and topography, and atmospheric foreings of air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation. Model outputs include the spatial and temporal evolution of snow depth resulting from variations in precipitation, saltation and suspension transport, and sublimation. Using 4 years of snow-depth distribution observations from the foothills north of the Brooks Range in Arctic Alaska, the model is found to simulate closely the observed snow-depth distribution patterns and the interannual variability.

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Liston, Glen E., and Matthew Sturm. "A snow-transport model for complex terrain." Journal of Glaciology 44, no. 148 (1998): 498–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022143000002021.

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AbstractAs part of the winter environment in middle- and high-latitude regions, the interactions between wind, vegetation, topography and snowfall produce snow covers of non-uniform depth and snow water-equivalent distribution. A physically based numerical snow-transport model (SnowTran-3D) is developed and used to simulate this three-dimensional snow-depth evolution over topographically variable terrain. The mass-transport model includes processes related to vegetation snow-holding capacity, topographic modification of wind speeds, snow-cover shear strength, wind-induced surface-shear stress, snow transport resulting from saltation and suspension, snow accumulation and erosion, and sublimation of the blowing and drifting snow. The model simulates the cold-season evolution of snow-depth distribution when forced with inputs of vegetation type and topography, and atmospheric foreings of air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and precipitation. Model outputs include the spatial and temporal evolution of snow depth resulting from variations in precipitation, saltation and suspension transport, and sublimation. Using 4 years of snow-depth distribution observations from the foothills north of the Brooks Range in Arctic Alaska, the model is found to simulate closely the observed snow-depth distribution patterns and the interannual variability.

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Kolesnik, Irina V., Andrey N. Aslandukov, Anatoly S. Arkhipin, and Daniil A. Kozlov. "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Layered Titanium Phosphate Ti2O2H(PO4)[(NH4)2PO4]2 and Its Potential Application in Cosmetics." Crystals 9, no. 7 (June 28, 2019): 332. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cryst9070332.

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Titanium phosphates were recently revealed as promising cosmetic pigments; however, their photocatalytic activity and sun protective factor (SPF) levels have not been investigated in detail. In this study, we used hydrothermal conditions to prepare nanocrystalline anatase, brookite, and layered titanium phosphate using the titanium lactate complex, NH4H2PO4, and urea as precursors. The samples were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) in addition to Raman spectroscopy, transmission and scanning electron microscopy (TEM, SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), and UV-Vis spectroscopy. Furthermore, the photocatalytic activity, sun protective factor, and moisture retention ability were determined for the samples. Brookite exhibited the highest SPF value and anatase the lowest, while Ti2O2H(PO4)[(NH4)2PO4]2 displayed highly promising UV protection and moisture retention properties and, therefore, represents a polyfunctional pigment that is particularly well suited for cosmetic applications.

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Van Staal, Cees R., Dave M. Chew, Alexandre Zagorevski, Vicki McNicoll, James Hibbard, Tom Skulski, Sébastien Castonguay, Monica P. Escayola, and Paul J. Sylvester. "Evidence of Late Ediacaran Hyperextension of the Laurentian Iapetan Margin in the Birchy Complex, Baie Verte Peninsula, Northwest Newfoundland: Implications for the Opening of Iapetus, Formation of Peri-Laurentian Microcontinents and Taconic – Grampian Orogenesis." Geoscience Canada 40, no. 2 (August 24, 2013): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.12789/geocanj.2013.40.006.

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The Birchy Complex of the Baie Verte Peninsula, northwestern Newfoundland, comprises an assemblage of mafic schist, ultramafic rocks, and metasedimentary rocks that are structurally sandwiched between overlying ca. 490 Ma ophiolite massifs of the Baie Verte oceanic tract and underlying metasedimentary rocks of the Fleur de Lys Supergroup of the Appalachian Humber margin. Birchy Complex gabbro yielded a Late Ediacaran U–Pb zircon ID–TIMS age of 558.3 ± 0.7 Ma, whereas gabbro and an intermediate tuffaceous schist yielded LA–ICPMS concordia zircon ages of 564 ± 7.5 Ma and 556 ± 4 Ma, respectively. These ages overlap the last phase of rift-related magmatism observed along the Humber margin of the northern Appalachians (565–550 Ma). The associated ultramafic rocks were exhumed by the Late Ediacaran and shed detritus into the interleaved sedimentary rocks. Psammite in the overlying Flat Point Formation yielded a detrital zircon population typical of the Laurentian Humber margin in the northern Appalachians. Age relationships and characteristics of the Birchy Complex and adjacent Rattling Brook Group suggest that the ultramafic rocks represent slices of continental lithospheric mantle exhumed onto the seafloor shortly before or coeval with magmatic accretion of mid-ocean ridge basalt-like mafic rocks. Hence, they represent the remnants of an ocean – continent transition zone formed during hyperextension of the Humber margin prior to establishment of a mid-ocean ridge farther outboard in the Iapetus Ocean. We propose that microcontinents such as Dashwoods and the Rattling Brook Group formed as a hanging wall block and an extensional crustal allochthon, respectively, analogous to the isolation of the Briançonnais block during the opening of the Alpine Ligurian–Piemonte and Valais oceanic seaways.SOMMAIRELe complexe de Birchy de la péninsule de Baie Verte, dans le nord-ouest de Terre-Neuve, est constitué d’un assemblage de schistes mafiques, de roches ultramafiques et de métasédiments qui sont coincés entre des massifs ophiolitiques d’ascendance océanique de la Baie Verte au-dessus, et des métasédiments du Supergroupe de Fleur de Lys de la marge de Humber des Appalaches en-dessous. Le complexe de gabbro de Birchy a donné une datation U-Pb sur zircon ID-TIMS correspondant à la fin de l’Édiacarien, soit 558,3 ± 0,7 Ma, alors qu’un gabbro et un schiste tufacé intermédiaire montrent une datation LA-ICP-MS Concordia sur zircon de 564 ± 7,5 Ma et 556 ± 4 Ma, respectivement. Ces datations chevauchent la dernière phase de magmatisme de rift observée le long de la marge Humber des Appalaches du Nord (565-550 Ma). Les roches ultramafiques associées ont été exhumées vers la fin de l’Édiacarien et leurs débris ont été imbriqués dans des roches sédimentaires. Les psammites de la Formation de Flat Point susjacente ont donné une population de zircons détritiques typique de la marge laurentienne de Humber des Appalaches du Nord. Les relations chronologiques et les caractéristiques du complexe de Birchy et du groupe de Rattling Brook adjacent, permettent de penser que ces roches ultramafiques pourraient être des écailles de manteau lithosphérique continental qui auraient été exhumées sur le plancher océanique peu avant ou en même temps que l’accrétion magmatique de roches mafiques basaltiques de type dorsale médio-océanique. Par conséquent, elles seraient des vestiges d’une zone de transition océan-continent formée au cours de l’hyper-extension de la marge de Humber avant l’apparition d’une dorsale médio-océanique plus loin au large dans l’océan Iapétus. Nous proposons que des microcontinents comme de Dashwoods et du groupe de Rattling Brook ont constitués respectivement un bloc de toit et un allochtone crustal d’extension, de la même manière que le bloc Briançonnais a été isolé lors de l’ouverture des bras océaniques alpins de Ligurie-Piémont et de Valais.

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Warnock, Will G., and Joseph B. Rasmussen. "Assessing the effects of fish density, habitat complexity, and current velocity on interference competition between bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in an artificial stream." Canadian Journal of Zoology 91, no. 9 (September 2013): 619–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2013-0044.

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In this experiment, competition was observed among native bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus (Suckley, 1859)) and non-native brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1814)) in artificial streams. In intraspecific competitions, brook trout engaged in territorial interference foraging strategies, and their foraging success was correlated with occupancy of the lead position in the stream. No correlation was apparent for bull trout, most of which engaged in nonterritorial scramble foraging tactics. In interspecific competitions, four stream environments were constructed in which fish density, habitat complexity, and current velocity were altered. Bull trout outcompeted brook trout for food in simple pool habitat devoid of cover when competition was head-to-head (density = 3 fish·m−2) between the species. When competitor number was doubled in this habitat, the two became equal competitors. At this higher density, bull trout again outcompeted brook trout for food when the habitat was changed to a complex riffle with substrate cover. Brook trout were more aggressive towards bull trout than vice versa, and interspecific aggression was decreased by low density, cover, and high stream velocity. Territorial brook trout aggressively interfere with their competitor for access to resources, but the success and intensity of this tactic against bull trout may be mitigated by environmental factors.

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Farina, Jonathan. "Middlemarch and “that Sort of Thing”." Articles, no. 53 (May 12, 2009): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/029903ar.

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Abstract Mr. Brooke fails to become an elected political representative, but he nevertheless functions as a representative of Middlemarch society’s dominant mode of abstraction. Brooke’s comic idiom of “that sort of thing,” “that kind of thing,” and other variations of the word “thing” may be taken as a paradigm for George Eliot’s style throughout Middlemarch. Brooke parodies how characters and the narrator employ a grammar of things to articulate their relationships both to what they value in the material world and to their own interiority. I ascribe this grammar of things to what I call an “epistemology of character” because Eliot uses the same grammar of things to generate complex subjectivity within fully developed characters like Dorothea and Ladislaw as she does to describe scientific, conventional, religious, commercial, and physical realities.

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RAJAKARUNA, R. S., J. A. BROWN, K. H. KAUKINEN, and K. M. MILLER. "Major histocompatibility complex and kin discrimination in Atlantic salmon and brook trout." Molecular Ecology 15, no. 14 (September 5, 2006): 4569–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2006.03113.x.

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Duk, Karolina, Patrycja Schulz, Piotr Podlasz, and Andrzej Krzysztof Siwicki. "Egg microinjections – method experimental viral infections in brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1815) and rainbow brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis ♂ × Oncorhynchus mykiss ♀." Fisheries & Aquatic Life 30, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 169–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aopf-2022-0015.

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Abstract Microinjection is a micromanipulation technique that has been used in various fields and in a variety of species, including teleost fish, for over a hundred years. Microinjection is mainly used in genetic, molecular, and toxicological research. The paper describes an experimental study of a microinjection technique for the administration of Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus (IPNV) in fertilized eggs of brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill), and a rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum) hybrid, Salvelinus fontinalis ♂ × Oncorhynchus mykiss ♀. The oocytes and embryos of these salmonids have complex structures that require modifying the method commonly used in zebrafish, Danio rerio (Hamilton), research. A modular apparatus and technique for injecting brook trout and rainbow brook trout fish embryos with IPNV are described. The modified microinjection method can be used successfully to administer to salmonid eggs infectious substances that simulate the vertical transmission of pathogens.

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Thorne, Kathleen G., Leslie R. Fyffe, and Robert A. Creaser. "Re-Os geochronological constraints on the mineralizing events within the Mount Pleasant Caldera: implications for the timing of sub-volcanic magmatism." Atlantic Geology 49 (August 14, 2013): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.4138/atlgeol.2013.007.

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The Mount Pleasant granite-related polymetallic deposit, located on the southwestern margin of the Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous Mount Pleasant Caldera Complex in southwestern New Brunswick, contains a significant resource of tin, tungsten, molybdenum, zinc, indium, and bismuth. The Caldera Complex comprises Intracaldera, Exocaldera, and Late Caldera-Fill sequences and associated subvolcanic granitic rocks. Three granitic phases of the Mount Pleasant Granitic Suite (Granite I, II, and III) are recognized in the vicinity of the Mount Pleasant deposit and are interpreted to be fractionates of the more regionally exposed McDougall Brook Granitic Suite. Granite I and Granite II are associated with tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth, and tin-zinc-indium mineralization, respectively. Despite extensive research within the Caldera Complex, the exact age of mineralization at Mount Pleasant has never been firmly established. An inferred age of 363 ± 2 Ma was based on the proposed synchronicity of the U-Pb dated Bailey Rock Rhyolite of the Exocaldera Sequence with that of the undated McDougall Brook Granitic Suite, which intrudes the Intracaldera Sequence. Here, we present Re-Os dating of two molybdenite samples associated with the tungsten mineralization related to Granite I at the Fire Tower Zone, that constrain the initial onset of mineralization at Mount Pleasant to be between 369.7±1.6 Ma and 370.1±1.7 Ma. The new Re-Os ages clearly indicate that the McDougall Brook Granitic Suite, which pre-dates mineralization, must be at least seven million years older than the Bailey Rock Rhyolite, whose type-section is located within the Exocaldera Sequence. A re-examination of the gradational relationship between the McDougall Brook Granitic Suite and purported rocks of Bailey Rock Rhyolite within the Intracaldera Sequence revealed that the latter should instead be assigned to the Seelys Formation. Thus, deposition of the polymetallic mineralization likely took place contemporaneously with caldera collapse and an early phase of resurgent doming in response to degassing of the magma chamber rather than being coincident with erosion of the volcanic edifice as inferred from previous modeling of the eruptive history at Mount Pleasant.

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Armstrong, Gordon. "Theatre as a Complex Adaptive System." New Theatre Quarterly 13, no. 51 (August 1997): 277–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00011271.

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The functioning of human consciousness in interpreting and staging a theatrical performance is, as Gordon Armstrong argues in this article, among the most highly selective and adaptive operations known to physical science. According to this view, the theatre, as a substrate of consciousness, was part of the package that defined modern man as a reflective species: whereas for the first four million years of human existence man was silent about a probable inner life, the dawn of empathy some 200,000 years ago saw a neural explosion – the enlargement of the angular gyrus in the left hemisphere of the brain, unlocking a new kind of reflective consciousness. In isolation, this aberrant neurological connection proved so advantageous for hunting and for communication that members of a tribe who possessed this aberration prospered: and adaptation to the ice ages that began 200,000 years ago was a motivating factor in stimulating the emergence of what we can recognize as art. Gordon Armstrong is immediate past Secretary of the American Society for Theatre Research, and Review Editor for Theatre Research International. He has taught at UCLA, SUNY Stony Brook, and the University of Rhode Island, and has designed and directed productions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York. His full-length works include the revised Golden Ages of the Theatre and Samuel Beckett, W.B. Yeats, and Jack Yeats: Images and Words.

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Aronsen, Lawrence R. "Canada’s Postwar Re‑armament: Another Look at American Theories of the Military‑Industrial Complex." Historical Papers 16, no. 1 (April 26, 2006): 175–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/030874ar.

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Résumé De 1947 à 1953, le budget canadien pour la défense nationale est passé de 195 millions de dollars à 1,8 milliard. La défense nationale, comme le signalait Brooke Claxton, est devenue la plus grande industrie du Canada. L'auteur se propose donc de nous éclairer sur les aspects économiques de la politique de défense et, entre autres, sur celui de la mobilisation de l'industrie au service de la guerre. Les raisons d'être de cette mobilisation sont étudiées plus particulièrement de même que le processus de son développement et l'impact qu'elle a exercé sur l'économie canadienne. Dans le regard qu'il porte sur ce problème, l'auteur se demande de plus dans quelle mesure la littérature américaine concernant le MIC (Military-Industrial-Complex) peut aider à l'analyse de la question du réarmement dans cette période de l'après-guerre canadienne. Il conclut en expliquant les raisons pour lesquelles le Canada n'a pas développé un « complexe de l'industrie militaire » comparable à celui qui a été édifié aux Etats-Unis pendant la même période.

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Kobayashi, Makoto, Koji Tomita, Valery Petrykin, Shu Yin, Tsugio Sato, Masahiro Yoshimura, and Masato Kakihana. "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Nanosized Titania Photocatalysts Using Novel Water-Soluble Titanium Complexes." Solid State Phenomena 124-126 (June 2007): 723–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/ssp.124-126.723.

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Highly crystalline titania nano-particles were synthesized by hydrothermal method using novel stable water-soluble titanium complexes. It was confirmed that single phase anatase, rutile and brookite, which can be rarely synthesized as a single phase, can be obtained by varying the ligand in the complex and pH of the aqueous solution. TEM observations and BET specific surface area measurements had shown that these samples consisted of nanosized particles of 5~200 nm and had high specific surface areas of 25~150 m2/g. According to UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectra, these titania samples absorbed light in the visible region (λ > 400 nm). Photocatalytic activities in NO oxidation reaction exhibited by synthesized titania powders under the irradiation by UV- visible light were higher than the activity of the commercial TiO2 photocatalyst P25 (Degussa). Especially, under illumination by only visible light of above 510 nm wavelength, photocatalytic activity of the obtained specimens exceeded that of P25 more than four times. We also clearly demonstrated that single phase brookite had high photocatalytic activity for NO oxidation.

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Ranwaha, Tshifhiwa, Ife Elegbeleye, Nnditshedzeni Maluta, and Rapela Maphanga. "Optical and electronic properties of croconates dye molecules adsorbed on TiO2 brookite nanocluster for dye sensitized solar cells application." Materials Express 10, no. 11 (November 1, 2020): 1917–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/mex.2020.1848.

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Density functional theory simulations were employed to explore the geometric, electronic and optical properties of two croconate dye molecules adsorbed on TiO2 brookite nanocluster. The calculations were based on determination of conjugate length, absorption spectra and light harvesting efficiency. The absorption energies, absorption spectra and electronic states of the dye-TiO2 complex were calculated using TD/DFT. The analysis of the excited state properties shows that CR1 and CR2 showed excitation around 580 nm and 680 nm respectively with a corresponding maximum light harvesting efficiency of 66% and 33.9% for CR1 and CR2 respectively. The absorption wavelength support that the croconate dye molecules can improve the efficiency of DSSCs as they can absorb the near infrared photons which increases the absorption range of DSSCs on the solar spectrum. The adsorption energies of CR1 and CR2 on TiO2 brookite are 3.93 eV and 5.53 eV respectively, suggesting a stable grafting of the dyes onto the surface of the semiconductor. The shifting of the absorption wavelength towards the infrared region upon adsorption gives probability of more electron transport into the large band gap of TiO2.

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O'CALLAGHAN, MICHELLE. "‘TALKING POLITICS’: TYRANNY, PARLIAMENT, AND CHRISTOPHER BROOKE'S THE GHOST OF RICHARD THE THIRD (1614)." Historical Journal 41, no. 1 (March 1998): 97–120. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x97007644.

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The career of the MP and poet Christopher Brooke, in particular his The ghost of Richard the third (1614) and his activity in the 1614 ‘addled’ parliament, forms the basis of this study of Jacobean political culture. Brooke's career foregrounds the close interaction of political and literary cultures in the period; he was a leading member of the political circle, the ‘Sireniacs’, which had strong parliamentary ties, and was one of the Inns of Court-based ‘oppositional’ Spenserian poets. Together with his fellow ‘Sireniac’ MPs, Brooke vehemently opposed the definition of impositions as the domain of absolute rather than ordinary powers of the crown because of the threat this posed to the rights of parliament and the subject. The ghost of Richard the third provides an example of parliamentary debates entering a wider print culture, where impositions merged with broader civic issues. Political language in this period was not confined to the realms of high theory and Brooke's poem illustrates the complex mediation of political discourses through literary forms. A humanist discourse of tyranny provided Brooke with a coded language, enabling him to articulate his concern for the health of the commonwealth and to address areas of ideological conflict in early Stuart political culture.

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Meadows, Maxwell C., Soni M. Pradhanang, Takahiro Fujioka, Hitoshi Kodamatani, Menu B. Leddy, and Thomas B. Boving. "N-Nitrosodimethylamine Formation from Treatment of Seasonally and Spatially Varying Source Water." Water 11, no. 10 (September 28, 2019): 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w11102019.

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N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) is a disinfection by-product (DBP) that has been classified as a probable human carcinogen in multiple risk assessments. NDMA presence in drinking water is widespread and dependent on source water, disinfectant type, precursors, and water treatment strategies. The objectives of this study were to investigate NDMA formation potential in a modeled monochloramine water treatment plant (WTP) fed by seasonally and spatially varying source water; and to optimize DBP precursor removal by combining conventional and additional treatment techniques. After NDMA analysis, it was found that NDMA formation was significantly dependent on source water type and monochloramine contact time (CT); e.g., at 24 h CT, Cork Brook produced 12.2 ng/L NDMA and Bailey Brook produced 4.2 ng/L NDMA, compared with 72 h CT, Cork Brook produced 4.1 ng/L NDMA and Bailey Brook produced 3.4 ng/L NDMA. No correlations were found between traditional DBP precursors such as total organic carbon and total nitrogen, and the formation of NDMA. The laboratory bench-top treatment system was highly effective at removing traditional DBP precursors, highlighting the need for WTPs to alter their current treatment methods to best accommodate the complex system of DBP control.

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Brook, Alan H., Toby E. Hughes, Grant C. Townsend, Richard N. Smith, and Matthew D. Brook O'Donnell. "The development of the mammalian dentition as a complex adaptive system." Dental Anthropology Journal 26, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.26575/daj.v26i3.46.

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General characteristics of Complex Adaptive Systems include self-adaptation and or-ganisation, emergence, multitasking, robustness, critical phases, diversity and compatibility with such statistical models as Thresholds and Scale Free Networks. The aim was to investigate wheth-er dental development exhibits the general and statistical characteristics of a Complex Adaptive System, by examining data on normal and abnormal dental development. The findings were that self-adaptation and organisation occur while interactions between genes, epigenetic and environmental factors lead to the emergence of cells, tooth germs and mineralised teeth. Multitasking occurs as signalling pathways act simultaneously and reiteratively during initiation and morphogenesis. Tooth germs that do not attain a critical threshold during development may undergo apoptosis. Diversity is evident in tooth number, size, shape and mineralisation. Statistical investigation shows that males have significantly larger teeth and higher prevalences of megadontia and supernumerary teeth (p<0.05), supporting Brook’s Threshold Model which is further developed here to include shape. Image Analysis of tooth dimensions showed they followed a Power Law distribution, with the first 8 of 34 factors in upper lateral inci-sors accounting for 94.4% of the total variation. In conclusion, the development of the dentition shows the general and statistical characteristics of a Complex Adaptive System.

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Cawood, Peter A., Jeroen A. M. van Gool, and Greg R. Dunning. "Geological development of eastern Humber and western Dunnage zones: Corner Brook–Glover Island region, Newfoundland." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 33, no. 2 (February 1, 1996): 182–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e96-017.

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The Corner Brook–Glover Island region records the development of the internal domain of the Humber Zone and its relationship to the adjoining external domain and Dunnage Zone. The region preserves both the Laurentian margin basement–cover contact and the siliciclastic–carbonate transition within the cover sequence. Precambrian Grenville basement of the Corner Brook Lake Complex is the oldest lithostratigraphic unit and yielded a U/Pb zircon age of 1510 ± 6 Ma. Three main lithostratigraphic assemblages overlie basement: silicic and mafic igneous rocks of the Lady Slipper Pluton which yielded a U/Pb zircon age of [Formula: see text] Ma; siliciclastic lithologies which include the South Brook and Summerside formations; and carbonate-dominated sequences with clastic incursions which include the Port au Port, St. George, and Table Head groups, and the Breeches Pond, Irishtown, and Pinchgut formations. Dunnage Zone units include plutonic ultramafic to mafic rocks of the Grand Lake Complex, dated by U/Pb zircon from trondhjemite at 490 ± 4 Ma, volcanic and epiclastic rocks of the Glover Island Formation, and the Matthews Brook Serpentinite, the latter restricted to fault slivers within the Humber Zone sequence. The deformed Glover Island Granodiorite intrudes the Dunnage Zone rocks on Glover Island and is dated by U/Pb zircon and titanite at 440 ± 2 Ma. Little deformed Carboniferous sedimentary rocks unconformably overlie both Humber Zone and Dunnage Zone rock units. Timing of regional deformation and peak amphibolite-facies metamorphism in the eastern Humber Zone is constrained by isotopic data to the Early Silurian. In the Dunnage Zone, shear zones and foliation development both pre- and postdate the age of the Glover Island Granodiorite, with the later possibly temporally equivalent to deformation in the Humber Zone. Final juxtaposition of the two zones occurred during Carboniferous movement of the Cabot Fault.

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BUCHANAN, WALTER, JAGANNATHAN GOMATAM, and BONNIE STEVES. "GENERALIZED MANDELBROT SETS FOR MEROMORPHIC COMPLEX AND QUATERNIONIC MAPS." International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 12, no. 08 (August 2002): 1755–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218127402005443.

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The concepts of the Mandelbrot set and the definition of the stability regions of cycles for rational maps require careful investigation. The standard definition of the Mandelbrot set for the map f : z → z2+ c (the set of c values for which the iteration of the critical point at 0 remains bounded) is inappropriate for meromorphic maps such as the inverse square map. The notion of cycle sets, introduced by Brooks and Matelski [1978] for the quadratic map and applied to meromorphic maps by Yin [1994], facilitates a precise definition of the Mandelbrot parameter space for these maps. Close scrutiny of the cycle sets of these maps reveals generic fractal structures, echoing many of the features of the Mandelbrot set. Computer representations confirm these features and allow the dynamical comparison with the Mandelbrot set. In the parameter space, a purely algebraic result locates the stability regions of the cycles as the zeros of characteristic polynomials. These maps are generalized to quaternions. The powerful theoretical support that exists for complex maps is not generally available for quaternions. However, it is possible to construct and analyze cycle sets for a class of quaternionic rational maps (QRM). Three-dimensional sections of the cycle sets of QRM are nontrivial extensions of the cycle sets of complex maps, while sharing many of their features.

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Hall, Simon R., Victoria M. Swinerd, Francisco N. Newby, Andrew M. Collins, and Stephen Mann. "Fabrication of Porous Titania (Brookite) Microparticles with Complex Morphology by Sol−Gel Replication of Pollen Grains." Chemistry of Materials 18, no. 3 (February 2006): 598–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm0524087.

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Ward, Jessica L., and Deborah A. McLennan. "Mate choice based on complex visual signals in the brook stickleback, Culaea inconstans." Behavioral Ecology 20, no. 6 (2009): 1323–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arp112.

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Owen, J. Victor. "Cordierite + spinel parageneses in pelitic gneiss from the contact aureoles of the Mistastin batholith (Quebec) and the Taylor Brook gabbro complex (Newfoundland)." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 28, no. 3 (March 1, 1991): 372–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e91-034.

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The contact aureoles of the Mistastin batholith and the Taylor Brook gabbro complex contain cordierite + spinel-bearing assemblages derived from quartz-, K-feldspar-, sillimanite-, garnet-, and biotite-bearing pelitic gneiss. Andalusite occurs locally. As a result of continuous, cordierite-forming reactions, garnet and biotite have recrystallized to relatively Fe-rich compositions compared with their counterparts outside the aureoles.Mosaics of fine-grained cordierite and spinel replace sillimanite and biotite throughout the Mistastin aureole. Similar assemblages and textures are preserved in metapelite in the outer part of the Taylor Brook aureole, where garnet adjacent to sillimanite is replaced by cordierite + spinel. The formation of spinel-free cordierite porphyroblasts by garnet-, sillimanite-, biotite-, and quartz-consuming reactions depleted metapelites in both aureoles in quartz, permitting the formation of the undersaturated assemblages. The undersaturated cordierite + spinel assemblages formed on a domainal scale (individually, a few hundred cubic millimetres in volume) and coexist metastably with saturated assemblages elsewhere in the same rock. Peak temperatures (700–750 °C) determined for both aureoles were insufficient to stabilize quartz + spinel parageneses owing to the low gahnite content of the oxide (ZnO < 2 wt.%).Metapelites in the innermost part of the Taylor Brook aureole appear to have been desilicified by the formation and fractionation of anatectic melt, yielding migmatitic rocks virtually devoid of quartz and K-feldspar. In contrast, migmatite in the inner part of the Mistastin aureole retains a quartz + two-feldspar mineralogy, so, as in the nonmigmatitic paragneiss, undersaturated assemblages are present only on a domainal scale.These aureole rocks demonstrate that undersaturated assemblages are not only characteristic of thermally- recrystallized low-grade pelites but also can occur in contact aureoles developed in granulite-facies paragneiss. Aluminous rocks can become undersaturated by subsolidus, quartz-consuming reactions yielding cordierite, or by the formation of anatectic liquids.

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Murray, David F. "Notes on Eritrichium (Boraginaceae) in North America III. Three new species of Eritrichium." Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 11, no. 1 (July 24, 2017): 19–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v11.i1.1133.

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Three new species of Eritrichium Schrad. ex Gaudin from boreal and arctic Alaska and Yukon are described: E. arenosum, E. boreale, and E. grandiflorum. These species are morphologically allied with the primarily Asiatic E. sericeum complex. Eritrichium arenosum is apparently restricted to sand dunes of the central Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska. Eritrichium boreale and E. grandiflorum occur on mountain slopes and rocky summits from the western Brooks Range through the interior of Alaska, and east to Yukon, Canada.

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O'sullivan, Paul B., Catherine L. Hanks, Wesley K. Wallace, and Paul F. Green. "Multiple episodes of Cenozoic denudation in the northeastern Brooks Range: fission-track data from the Okpilak batholith, Alaska." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 32, no. 8 (August 1, 1995): 1106–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e95-092.

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The northeastern Brooks Range of Alaska is a complex Mesozoic to Cenozoic northward-verging fold and thrust belt. In response to regional compression, shortening in the upper crust has occurred through the duplexing of thrust sheets and formation of associated fault-bend folds. Apatite and zircon fission-track data from the Okpilak batholith and adjacent sedimentary rocks exposed within the northeastern Brooks Range provide new constraints on the timing, magnitude, and rate of cooling of these thrust sheets as they were rapidly denuded in response to uplift during Cenozoic time. Fission-track results indicate that a previously recognized episode of Paleocene cooling was followed by at least two younger episodes of rapid cooling during Middle Eocene and Late Oligocene time. The two younger episodes of rapid cooling are interpreted to reflect denudation in response to uplift resulting from Cenozoic thrusting and related folding. As a result of structural thickening, up to 8 km of material was eroded from the top of the batholith between ~41–45 Ma (Middle Eocene). Renewed shortening and emplacement of an underlying thrust sheet at ~25 Ma (Late Oligocene) resulted in at least 2 km of uplift and erosion of sedimentary rocks immediately north of the batholith. These results suggest that, even though Paleocene uplift and erosion may have occurred across the northeastern Brooks Range, the major episode of thrust faulting, responsible for structural emplacement of the batholith into its present position and kilometre-scale denudation, most likely occurred during Middle Eocene time.

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Cihlar, Jaroslav, Vit Kasparek, Marcela Kralova, and Klara Castkova. "Biphasic anatase-brookite nanoparticles prepared by sol–gel complex synthesis and their photocatalytic activity in hydrogen production." International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 40, no. 7 (February 2015): 2950–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2015.01.008.

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Kobayashi, Makoto, Valery Petrykin, Koji Tomita, and Masato Kakihana. "Hydrothermal synthesis of brookite-type titanium dioxide with snowflake-like nanostructures using a water-soluble citratoperoxotitanate complex." Journal of Crystal Growth 337, no. 1 (December 2011): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrysgro.2011.09.046.

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MORISHIMA, Yusuke, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Valery PETRYKIN, Masato KAKIHANA, and Koji TOMITA. "Microwave-Assisted Hydrothermal Synthesis of Brookite Nanoparticles from a Water-Soluble Titanium Complex and Their Photocatalytic Activity." Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 115, no. 1348 (2007): 826–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2109/jcersj2.115.826.

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MORISHIMA, Yusuke, Makoto KOBAYASHI, Valery PETRYKIN, Shu YIN, Tsugio SATO, Masato KAKIHANA, and Koji TOMITA. "Hydrothermal synthesis of brookite type TiO2 photocatalysts using a water-soluble Ti-complex coordinated by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid." Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 117, no. 1363 (2009): 320–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2109/jcersj2.117.320.

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Barr, Sandra M., Robert P. Raeside, and Otto van Breemen. "Grenvillian basement in the northern Cape Breton Highlands, Nova Scotia." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 24, no. 5 (May 1, 1987): 992–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e87-096.

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The northernmost Cape Breton Highlands are underlain by the Blair River Complex, a distinctive assemblage of basement rocks including felsic and mafic gneisses, foliated gabbroic to granitic rocks, anorthosite, and foliated and unfoliated varieties of syenite. Major faults and mylonite zones separate the complex from schists, gneisses, and granitoid rocks typical of the rest of the Cape Breton Highlands. U–Pb dating of zircon from the Lowland Brook syenite of the Blair River Complex indicates a metamorphic age of [Formula: see text] and an igneous age of 1100–1500 Ma. These ages and the distinctive rock assemblage allow the Blair River Complex to be correlated with the Grenvillian rocks in the Long Range Inlier and Indian Head Range Complex of western Newfoundland. This is the first confirmed report of Grenvillian basement in Cape Breton Island, and it places new constraints on correlations between Newfoundland and the northern mainland Appalachians.

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Goerig, Elsa, Theodore Castro-Santos, and Normand Émile Bergeron. "Brook trout passage performance through culverts." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73, no. 1 (January 2016): 94–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2015-0089.

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Culverts can restrict access to habitat for stream-dwelling fishes. We used passive integrated transponder telemetry to quantify passage performance of >1000 wild brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) attempting to pass 13 culverts in Quebec under a range of hydraulic and environmental conditions. Several variables influenced passage success, including complex interactions between physiology and behavior, hydraulics, and structural characteristics. The probability of successful passage was greater through corrugated metal culverts than through smooth ones, particularly among smaller fish. Trout were also more likely to pass at warmer temperatures, but this effect diminished above 15 °C. Passage was impeded at higher flows, through culverts with steep slopes, and those with deep downstream pools. This study provides insight on factors influencing brook trout capacity to pass culverts as well as a model to estimate passage success under various conditions, with an improved resolution and accuracy over existing approaches. It also presents methods that could be used to investigate passage success of other species, with implications for connectivity of the riverscape.

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Kopp, Radovan, Štěpán Lang, Tomáš Brabec, and Jan Mareš. "The influence of physicochemical properties of water on plasma indices in brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis, Mitchill) reared under conditions of intensive aquaculture." Acta Veterinaria Brno 82, no. 4 (2013): 427–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2754/avb201382040427.

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The breeding of salmonids in intensive aquaculture has increasing importance in terms of high quality fish crude. The aim of our study was to figure out if the physicochemical properties of water can influence the physiological condition of fish organism. Blood samples were taken from the heart of 86 healthy, randomly selected brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) with the standard length of 242.3 ± 10.8 mm and body mass of 261.10 ± 29.81 g. Sampling was done on three trout farms in the Czech Republic in the period between autumn 2009 and summer 2011. Blood plasma was analysed for the presence of 23 plasma indices by automated blood plasma analyser. Chemical properties of water had a significant (P < 0.001) influence on the content of alkaline phosphatase, cholinesterase, amylase, lipase, total protein, albumin, P, Ca and K in plasma of the brook trout. Plasma indices were influenced especially by water temperature, oxygen saturation, and the content of ammonium ions, total nitrogen, iron and conductivity. This is the first complex study focusing on the influence of chemical and physical composition of water on blood plasma indices of brook trout.

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Sokoloff, Naomi. "Reading for the Plot? Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America." AJS Review 30, no. 2 (October 27, 2006): 305–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009406000146.

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In his study Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks defines plot as that which “makes us read forward, seeking in the unfolding of narrative a line of intention and a portent of design that hold the promise of progress toward meaning.” Plot proves to be a rich and multifaceted concept to explore in reading Philip Roth’s novel The Plot against America (2004), in which counterfactual histories, personal plotlines, a cluster of subplots, and the reader’s awareness of metanarrative (“masterplot”) all contribute to the complex shaping of the text.

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Jiang, Feng Jun, and Wei Dong Xue. "Preparation of Tris(8-Hydroxyquinoline-5-Sulfonic Acid) Iron(III) Complex and Photocatalytic Property of Surface Modified TiO₂." Advanced Materials Research 399-401 (November 2011): 1481–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.399-401.1481.

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Tris(8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonic acid) iron(III) complex (Fe(HQS)3) was prepared and characterized by elemental analysis, infrared, nuclear magnetic resonance and Raman spectrum. The results indicated that the Fe atom was located at the center of the Fe(HQS)3complex and the sulfonic groups did not present in the quinoline three-coordinate structure. The TGA analysis result showed that the three ligands were thermally stable within wide temperature range (364 °C, 512 °C, 628 °C,). According to XRD and UV-vis data, the nano-TiO2prepared by hydrothermal method was mainly in the form of anatase and brookite, and the Fe(HQS)3complex had single crystal structure. Neither Fe(HQS)3nor nano-TiO2has observable photocatalytic activity according to the result of our methyl orange degrading experiment. The Fe(HQS)3-TiO2complex, however, demonstrated strong spectral response and photocatalytic activity under visible light.

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Pautov, Leonid A., Mirak A. Mirakov, Elena Sokolova, Maxwell C. Day, Frank C. Hawthorne, Manuchekhr A. Schodibekov, Vladimir Yu Karpenko, Saimudasir Makhmadsharif, and Abdulkhak R. Faiziev. "Shakhdaraite-(Y), ScYNb2O8, from the Leskhozovskaya granitic pegmatite, the valley of the Shakhdara River, southwestern Pamir, Gorno-Badakhshanskii Autonomous Region, Tajikistan: New mineral description and crystal structure." Canadian Mineralogist 60, no. 2 (February 25, 2022): 369–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3749/canmin.2000122.

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ABSTRACT Shakhdaraite-(Y), ideally ScYNb2O8, is a new mineral from the Leskhozovskaya miarolitic granitic pegmatite at the Shakhdara River, southwestern Pamir (Tajikistan). Shakhdaraite-(Y) occurs mainly as grains from 10 to 150 μm in size in a near-miarolitic pegmatite complex in association with quartz, albite, pyrochlore-microlite, fersmite, and an unnamed Sc-Nb oxide; only one large, single, well-shaped crystal 200 μm long was found in a small cavity with quartz, albite, bertrandite, pyrochlore, and jarosite. Shakhdaraite-(Y) is black to dark-brown, streak is brown. Luster is vitreous semi-metallic. It is brittle with conchoidal fracture. Mohs hardness is 5. VHN100 = 436 kg/mm2. Dcalc. = 5.602 g/cm3. In reflected light, it is light gray and its reflective capacity is moderate to low. Anisotropy is distinct, without color effects. Pleochroism was not observed. Internal reflections are red-brown. Reflectance values were measured in air with SiC as reference material [λ(nm), Rmax, Rmin]: 470, 14.6, 13.9; 546, 14.0, 13.4; 589, 13.9, 13.3; 650, 13.8, 13.1. Electron probe microanalysis (WDS mode, 7 points) gives (wt.%): Nb2O5 50.70; Ta2O5 4.52; TiO2 0.08; WO3 0.79; SnO2 1.54; CaO 1.01; Sc2O3 11.35; MnO 1.38; FeO 0.01; Y2O3 12.00; Ce2O3 0.21; Pr2O3 0.04; Nd2O3 0.27; Sm2O3 0.32; Eu2O3 0.07; Gd2O3 0.86; Tb2O3 0.22; Dy2O3 2.07; Ho2O3 0.29; Er2O3 1.33; Tm2O3 0.35; Yb2O3 2.80; Lu2O3 0.32; PbO 0.24; ThO2 1.90; UO2 3.30, total 97.97. The empirical formula of shakhdaraite-(Y) based on O = 8 apfu (atoms per formula unit) is (Nb1.91Sc0.83Y0.53Ta0.10Mn0.10Ca0.09 Yb0.07U4+0.06Dy0.06Sn0.05Th0.04Er0.03Gd0.02W6+0.02Pb0.01Ce0.01Nd0.01Sm0.01Tb0.01Ho0.01Tm0.01Lu0.01Ti0.01)Σ4.00O8, Z = 2. The simplified formula is Sc(Y,Yb)Nb2O8, where Yb is the dominant lanthanoid. Shakhdaraite-(Y) is monoclinic, space group P2/c, a 9.930(2), b 5.6625(11), c 5.2108(10) Å, β 92.38(3)°, V 292.7(5) Å3, Z = 2. The crystal structure was solved by direct methods [R1 = 0.0269, 878 unique reflections (F > 4σF)]. There are three cation M sites: [6]M(1) = Nb2apfu, [6]M(2) = Sc apfu, and [8]M(3) = Y apfu, ideally M = ScYNb2apfu. The M(1) and M(2) octahedra each form a brookite chain along c. The Y-dominant [8]M(3A) polyhedra form a brookite-like kinked chain, and each M(3A) polyhedron of one brookite-like chain shares two edges with the two M(3A) polyhedra from the adjacent brookite-like chain, thus forming a [Y2O8]10– layer. In the structure of shakhdaraite-(Y), M(1A) and M(2) brookite chains and a layer of [8]-coordinated M(3A) polyhedra alternate along a. Shakhdaraite-(Y) is isostructural with samarskite-(Y), ideally YFe3+Nb2O8. Shakhdaraite-(Y) [Russian Cyrillic: шахдараит-(Y)] is named after its type locality: the valley of the Shakhdara River in the southwest of the Pamir Mountains.

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Machado, Vanderlei Gageiro, Fabíola Maria Testoni, Samya Maren Schuhmacher, Lizandra Maria Zimmermann-Dimer, and Jaqueline Nicolini. "MONTAGEM E ESTUDO DE UM QUIMIOSSENSOR CROMOGÊNICO PARA A DETECÇÃO DE CIANETO E DE ÁLCOOIS UTILIZANDO UM ÁCIDO BORÔNICO COMO RECEPTOR E UM CORANTE SOLVATOCRÔMICO COMO UNIDADE SINALIZADORA." Revista Dynamis 14, no. 1 (March 3, 2008): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.7867/1982-4866.2008v14n1p80-88.

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Estudos foram realizados para analisar o comportamento do ácido fenil borônico (AB) em acetonitrila na presença da merocianina de Brooker (MB) e do corante de Reichardt. Verificou-se, por exemplo, que a adição de AB a uma solução de MB fez desaparecer a banda solvatocrômica do corante em 571,0 nm simultaneamente ao aparecimento de outra banda em 385,9 nm. Sugeriu-se que em excesso de AB, o complexo predominante apresenta uma estequiometria AB-MB 1:1, mas que se a concentração de AB for diminuída, uma mistura de três complexos, AB-MB, AB-(MB)2 e AB-(MB)3, é obtida. Foi verificado que o sistema AB-MB pode ser usado eficientemente como um quimiossensor para o fluoreto e para o cianeto, pois somente os dois ânions, dentre os vários estudados, tornaram violeta a solução incolor de AB-MB. Isto se deve ao fato de que estes ânions são ótimos nucleófilos e podem interagir eficazmente com o centro de boro, deslocando nucleofilicamente a MB, que pode assim colorir a solução. Ensaios também foram realizados para a montagem de um quimiossensor cromogênico para detecção de álcoois, usando-se AB e a MB. Foi observado que o complexo AB-MB atua eficientemente como quimiossensor cromogênico, permitindo a discriminação entre álcoois primários, secundários e terciários. Esta discriminação visual pode ser explicada pelo fato de que, com o aumento do impedimento estéreo no álcool, a interação com o centro de boro fica dificultada, tornando a reação mais lenta. Palavras-chave: quimiossensor cromogênico, detecção visual, merocianina de Brooker, álcoois, cianeto.

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Macdonald, Kenneth S., and J. Emmett Duffy. "Two New Species of Sponge-Dwelling Snapping Shrimp from the Belizean Barrier Reef, with a Synopsis of the Synalpheus brooksi Species Complex." American Museum Novitates 3543 (December 2006): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3543[1:tnsoss]2.0.co;2.

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Kobayashi, Makoto, Hideki Kato, Takamichi Miyazaki, and Masato Kakihana. "Hydrothermal Synthesis of Pseudocubic Rutile-Type Titania Particles." Ceramics 2, no. 1 (January 18, 2019): 56–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ceramics2010005.

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The functional properties of materials depend strongly on their morphologies. Here, the hydrothermal synthesis of rutile-type titania crystals with pseudocubic shapes using a water-soluble titanium complex is reported. This approach does not require extra additives or doping. Transmission electron microscopy and selected-area electron diffraction analysis revealed that they exposed high-index facets, such as {121}, and high-energy facets, such as {001}, which do not usually appear in rutile crystal. In terms of the formation of steps and kinks on pseudocubic rutile and coexisting anatase and brookite nanoparticles, the adsorption of nanoparticles might inhibit crystal growth, resulting in the formation of crystals with uncommon shapes exposing high-index and high-energy facets.

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Nicolle, Dean, and John G. Conran. "Variation in the Eucalyptus flocktoniae complex (Myrtaceae) and the description of four new taxa from southern Australia." Australian Systematic Botany 12, no. 2 (1999): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb98006.

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Eucalyptus flocktoniae is considered to be a complex distinguished within EucalyptusseriesSubulatae by decurrent juvenile leaves and glossyadult leaves. The geographical range of E. flocktoniae(Maiden) Maiden was examined to quantify the patterns of variation in bothadult and seedling morphology. The putatively related speciesE. aspersa Brooker & Hopper,E. cooperiana F.Muell.,E. socialis F.Muell. exMiq.,E. transcontinentalis Maiden sens.lat.and E. yumbarrana Boomsma werealso studied to assess similarity and relationships toE. flocktoniae sens. lat. Phenetic analysis of adult andjuvenile data sets (46 and 21 characters, respectively) indicated that theE. flocktoniae complex consisted of five distinct taxa,distinguishable from one another in habit, branchlet pruinosity, leaf colourand gloss, inflorescence pruinosity, umbellaster orientation, bud size andornamentation, and fruit shape and ornamentation. These taxa areE. flocktoniae subsp. flocktoniae,here redefined, as restricted to between Three Springs and the Oldfield Riverin Western Australia (WA); subsp. hebes Nicolle subsp.nov. from Balladonia to north-east of Ravensthorpe, WA;E. neutra Nicolle sp. nov., from the south-centralwheatbelt of WA; E. peninsularis Nicolle sp. nov. fromlower Eyre Peninsula in SA; and E. urna Nicolle sp.nov., a common and widespread species between Kondinin and Caiguna in WA. Akey and distribution maps are provided for taxa of theE. flocktoniae complex.

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