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Lambeck, Kurt, Greg Burgess, and R. D. Shaw. "Teleseismic travel-time anomalies and deep crustral structure in central Australia." Geophysical Journal International 94, no. 1 (July 1988): 105–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246x.1988.tb03431.x.
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Korczak, Jarosław. "EDUCATION AS AN EXPORT GOOD BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF AUSTRALIA." International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences 8, no. 2 (December 30, 2018): 266–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.9954.
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Australia is known for exporting the wide range of goods to almost every place of the world. These goods, among others, are iron, aluminum, gold, coal, natural gas and beef. However, apart from material things, services are also an important segment of exports. The main ones are those related to education and travel. Educational ser-vices themselves are the third largest asset exported by Australia. They are not limited to the science itself but constitute a wide range of services accompanying the education process of foreign students. These include travel services, rental of real estate, agencies etc. This specificity and conditions conducive to such a large amount of educational services in a country that has no immediate neighbors is the subject of this description. It covers the characteristics of exported educational services, including data on the scale of its exports, major recipients, types of educational institutions, directions that are most popular among students. In addition, Australia's export educa-tional activity will also be discussed with the Polish example.
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Lambeck, K., and G. Burgess. "Deep crustal structure of the Musgrave Block, central Australia: Results from teleseismic travel‐time anomalies." Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 39, no. 1 (February 1992): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120099208727996.
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HILLMAN, WENDY. "Grey Nomads travelling in Queensland, Australia: social and health needs." Ageing and Society 33, no. 4 (April 12, 2012): 579–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x12000116.
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ABSTRACTAt any time of the year, and particularly in the colder months of the southern part of the Australian continent, many caravans and mobile homes can be seen on the roads of northern Australia, and Queensland, in particular. Mainly during June, July, August and September, Grey Nomads frequent the northern half of Australia, to escape the colder climate of southern Australia. The term Grey Nomad is applied to the section of the older Australian population who use their retirement years as a time to experience travel once freed from the constraints of work and family commitments. This paper draws on research conducted about the health and social needs of Grey Nomads holidaying in a Central Queensland, Australia, coastal location. Open-ended, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 20 participants. Contingency plans concerning wellness, wellbeing and medical conditions all formed a part of the Grey Nomads’ daily existence while travelling. Many important and lasting friendships and social support networks were formed during the journeying and sojourning phases of the travel. Many of the Grey Nomads interviewed felt the need to keep in contact with home, even though they willingly chose to leave it, and to be ‘away’. Just as the Grey Nomad cohort have concerns and solutions about their health and related issues, so too, they have concerns for social networks and family connectedness while travelling in Australia.
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Ma, Zhenliang, Sicong Zhu, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Luis Ferreira. "Quantile Regression Analysis of Transit Travel Time Reliability with Automatic Vehicle Location and Farecard Data." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2652, no. 1 (January 2017): 19–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2652-03.
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Transit agencies increasingly deploy planning strategies to improve service reliability and real-time operational control to mitigate the effects of travel time variability. The design of such strategies can benefit from a better understanding of the underlying causes of travel time variability. Despite a significant body of research on the topic, findings remain influenced by the approach used to analyze the data. Most studies use linear regression to characterize the relationship between travel time reliability and covariates in the context of central tendency. However, in many planning applications, the actual distribution of travel time and how it is affected by various factors is of interest, not just the condition mean. This paper describes a quantile regression approach to analyzing the impacts of the underlying determinants on the distribution of travel times rather than its central tendency, using supply and demand data from automatic vehicle location and farecard systems collected in Brisbane, Australia. Case studies revealed that the quantile regression model provides more indicative information than does the conditional mean regression method. Moreover, most of the coefficients estimated from quantile regression are significantly different from the conditional mean–based regression model in terms of coefficient values, signs, and significance levels. The findings provide information related to the impacts of planning, operational, and environmental factors on speed and its variability. On the basis of this information, transit designers and planners can design targeted strategies to improve travel time reliability effectively and efficiently.
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Watson, Colin, Kirsty Smith, Ahmed Latif, Wendy Armstrong, James Ward, Rebecca Guy, and Kate Senior. "Contextual and behavioural risk factors for sexually transmissible infections in young Aboriginal people in central Australia: a qualitative study." Sexual Health 17, no. 2 (2020): 198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh19181.
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Rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in remote central Australian Aboriginal communities have been persistently high for over two decades, yet risk factors for STIs in these communities are not well understood. This qualitative study explored behavioural and contextual risk factors for STIs in young Aboriginal people in central Australia. The study identified that casual relationships between young people are common and that there is a strong association between travel, alcohol and casual sex, highlighting the ongoing need for comprehensive sexual health programs that are tailored to the specific social, cultural and interpersonal circumstances of young people in this setting.
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Leggat, Peter A., and Frances W. Leggat. "Knowledge and Acceptance of First Aid and Travel Insurance in Hostelers from North and Central Queensland, Australia." Journal of Travel Medicine 9, no. 5 (March 8, 2006): 269–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2310/7060.2002.24129.
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Wilkey, Janelle E., Katherine A. Fethers, Ahmed S. Latif, and John M. Kaldor. "Genital ulcer disease in central Australia: predictors of testing and outcomes." Sexual Health 3, no. 2 (2006): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh05048.
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Objectives: To identify factors associated with the uptake and outcome of testing for infectious causes of genital ulcer disease (GUD) in central Australia. Methods: Prospective investigation of GUD cases in central Australia from February 2002 to August 2003. Data were collected from primary health care clinics in remote indigenous communities of Central Australia. Results: During the study period, 134 cases of GUD were reported and investigated. Of these cases, 71 (53%) were in women (age range 14–75, median 28) and 63 (47%) in men (14–63, median 28). Testing for syphilis was undertaken for 111 (82.8%) cases, 75 (56%) were tested for herpes simplex virus infection, and 82 (61.2%) for donovanosis. Testing for at least one of the three sexually transmissible pathogens of interest was undertaken in 128 (95.5%) cases, while 99 (73.9%) were tested for two pathogens and 41 (30.6%) for all three agents. Of subjects tested, 19.8% had new syphilis infection, 51% had herpes simplex virus infection and 7% had donovanosis. In 19 of 41 (46.3%) subjects fully investigated no cause for genital ulceration was found. Conclusion: This study provides the first quantitative description of GUD diagnosis in central Australia. Logistic constraints limited the systematic application of diagnostic tests. Current treatment protocols may need to be reassessed in light of the higher than expected detection of genital herpes as a cause of GUD.
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Oliver, Paul M., Eric N. Rittmeyer, Janne Torkkola, Stephen C. Donnellan, Chris Dahl, and Stephen J. Richards. "Multiple trans-Torres Strait colonisations by tree frogs in the Litoria caerulea group, with the description of a new species from New Guinea." Australian Journal of Zoology 68, no. 1 (2020): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo20071.
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Australia and New Guinea (together referred to as Sahul) were linked by land for much of the late Tertiary and share many biotic elements. However, New Guinea is dominated by rainforest, and northern Australia by savannah. Resolving patterns of biotic interchange between these two regions is critical to understanding the expansion and contraction of both habitat types. The green tree frog (Litoria caerulea) has a vast range across northern and eastern Australia and New Guinea. An assessment of mitochondrial and morphological diversity in this nominal taxon in New Guinea reveals two taxa. True Litoria caerulea occurs in disjunct savannahs of the Trans-Fly, Central Province and across northern Australia, with very low genetic divergence, implying late Pleistocene connectivity. A previously unrecognised taxon is endemic to New Guinea and widespread in lowland swampy rainforest. Date estimates for the divergence of the new species suggest Pliocene connectivity across lowland tropical habitats of northern Australia and New Guinea. In contrast, the new species shows shallow phylogeographic structuring across the central mountains of New Guinea, implying recent dispersal between the northern and southern lowlands. These results emphasise that the extent and connectivity of lowland rainforest and savannah environments across northern Australia and southern New Guinea have undergone profound shifts since the late Pliocene. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A577A415-0B71-4663-B4C1-7271B97298CD
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Andrews, Janet M. "Book Review: Lonely Planet Healthy Travel: Africa; Central and South America; Asia and India; Australia, NZ and the Pacific; Central and South America." Tropical Doctor 32, no. 1 (January 2002): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004947550203200138.
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Ma, Zhen-Liang, Luis Ferreira, Mahmoud Mesbah, and Ahmad Tavassoli Hojati. "Modeling Bus Travel Time Reliability with Supply and Demand Data from Automatic Vehicle Location and Smart Card Systems." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2533, no. 1 (January 2015): 17–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2533-03.
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Travel time reliability is an important aspect of bus service quality. Despite a significant body of research on private vehicle reliability, little attention has been paid to bus travel time reliability at the stop-to-stop link level on different types of roads. This study aims to identify and quantify the underlying determinants of bus travel time reliability on links of different road types with the use of supply and demand data from automatic vehicle location and smart card systems collected in Brisbane, Australia. Three general bus-related models were developed with respect to the main concerns of travelers and planners: average travel time, buffer time, and coefficient of variation of travel time. Five groups of alternative models were developed to account for variations caused by different road types, including arterial road, motorway, busway, and central business district. Seemingly unrelated regression equations estimation were applied to account for cross-equation correlations across regression models in each group. Three main categories of unreliability contributory factors were identified and tested in this study, namely, planning, operational, and environmental. Model results provided insights into these factors that affect bus travel time and its variability. The most important predictors were found to be the recurrent congestion index, traffic signals, and passenger demand at stops. Results could be used to target specific strategies aimed at reducing unreliability on different types of roads.
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CARTWRIGHT, DAVID I. "Austrotinodes Schmid, a South and Central American caddisfly genus, newly recorded in Australia, with the description of new species (Trichoptera: Ecnomidae)." Zootaxa 2142, no. 1 (June 26, 2009): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2142.1.1.
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Descriptions, keys and a checklist are provided for males of 11 ecnomid caddisfly species, all new to Australia. Females of 4 species are also described. These are placed in the genus Austrotinodes Schmid. The new species are: Austrotinodes bibu, A. bifurcatus, A. camurus, A. doota, A. glaya, A. gorom, A. mubar, A. pandus, A. theischingeri, A. varus and A. yalga. Austrotinodes with a total of 38 species previously recorded from South and Central America and southern USA, is here recorded from Australia for the first time.
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Christophoryová, Jana, José D. Gilgado, Ian Bobbitt, and Katarína Krajčovičová. "Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon, 1881) (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) recorded in Central Europe for the first time." Check List 17, no. 2 (March 11, 2021): 497–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/17.2.497.
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The pseudoscorpion Lamprochernes savignyi (Simon, 1881) is reported in Central Europe for the first time. The new record from Switzerland is based on a single female specimen found in a compost heap in the Conservatory and Botanical Garden in Geneva. Until now, the species is distributed mainly in Africa, Americas, and Asia, less in Australia and Oceania, Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula. The new record fills in the gap in species distribution between Northern Europe and the Anatolian Peninsula. A description of the collected female is provided.
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ROUSE, GREG W., and MARK J. GRYGIER. "Myzostoma seymourcollegiorum n.sp. (Myzostomida) from southern Australia, with a description of its larval development." Zootaxa 1010, no. 1 (June 21, 2005): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1010.1.5.
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Few Myzostomida have been recorded from southern Australian waters. Most myzostome taxa to date have been described from the warmer waters of the Indo-Pacific, where their crinoid echinoderm hosts are most diverse. In this paper a new myzostome, Myzostoma seymourcollegiorum n. sp., is described from the crinoid Cenolia trichoptera (Comasteridae) taken from Encounter Bay near Adelaide, South Australia; further records suggest its range extends also to Tasmania and around eastern Australia to central New South Wales. Myzostoma seymourcollegiorum n. sp. is an ectocommensal on C. trichoptera and C. glebosus and there has previously been no myzostome recorded from any species of Cenolia. The new species resembles a number of other Myzostoma species that are quite flat and have a nearly circular shape with 20 short marginal cirri. The early stages of its larval development are also outlined and compared with those of other Myzostomida.
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GONZÁLEZ, GUILLERMO, and HERMES E. ESCALONA. "Two new species of the ladybird beetle Hong Ślipiński from Chile (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae: Microweiseinae)." Zootaxa 3616, no. 4 (February 21, 2013): 387–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3616.4.7.
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The ladybird beetle genus Hong Ślipiński was previously known from a single female specimen from a subtropical forest in South East Queensland, Australia. Hong guerreroi sp. nov. and H. slipinskii sp. nov. from a temperate forests of Central and Southern Chile are described and illustrated. A key for the species of the genus and complementary characters, in-cluding the first description of males, are provided.
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Himes, John G., Alejandro Arteaga, Luis Enrique Vera-Pérez, and Kevin M. Enge. "The geographic distribution of Atractus lehmanni (Boettger, 1898) (Serpentes, Colubridae, Dipsadinae) in Colombia, and clarification of its status and type locality in Ecuador." Check List 18, no. 4 (July 27, 2022): 815–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/18.4.815.
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Atractus lehmanni (Boettger, 1898), Lehmann’s Ground Snake, (Serpentes, Colubridae, Dipsadinae), was described by Boettger (1898) from Cuenca, Ecuador. We examined records of snakes labeled as A. lehmanni to determine if they fit the original description of this species. The results of our record examinations, in conjunction with long-term field surveys and a review of Friedrich Carl Lehmann’s travel logs, indicate that A. lehmanni occurs in the Cordilleras Central and Occidental of Colombia. Conversely, this species is apparently absent from Ecuador, where records of this species are in error or based on misidentifications.
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Khazeni, Arash. "ACROSS THE BLACK SANDS AND THE RED: TRAVEL WRITING, NATURE, AND THE RECLAMATION OF THE EURASIAN STEPPE CIRCA 1850." International Journal of Middle East Studies 42, no. 4 (October 15, 2010): 591–614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743810000838.
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AbstractThrough a reading of 19th-century Persian travel narratives, this article locates the history of Iran and Central Eurasia within recent literature on global frontier processes and the encounter between empire and nature. It argues that Persianate travel books about Central Eurasia were part of the imperial project to order and reclaim the natural world and were forged through the material encounter with the steppes. Far from a passive act of collecting information and more than merely an extension of the observer's preconceptions, description was essential to the expansion and preservation of empire. Although there exists a vast literature on Western geographical and ethnographic representations of the Middle East, only recently have scholars begun to mine contacts that took place outside of a Western colonial framework and within an Asian setting. Based on an analysis of Riza Quli Khan Hidayat'sSifaratnama-yi Khvarazm, the record of an expedition sent from the Qajar Dynasty to the Oxus River in 1851, the article explores the 19th-century Muslim “discovery” of the Eurasian steppe world. The expedition set out to define imperial boundaries and to reclaim the desert, but along the way it found a permeable “middle ground” between empires, marked by transfrontier and cross-cultural exchanges.
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Doughty, PAUL, MITZY PEPPER, and J. SCOTT KEOGH. "Morphological and molecular assessment of the Diplodactylus savagei species complex in the Pilbara region, Western Australia, with a description of a new species." Zootaxa 2393, no. 1 (March 9, 2010): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2393.1.3.
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The gecko Diplodactylus savagei is restricted to the rocky Pilbara and Ashburton regions of Western Australia. Recent collections have enabled a reappraisal of morphological and genetic diversity within the taxon. Analysis of 1200 base pairs of the mtDNA gene ND2 and surrounding tRNA found strong support for three lineages within D. savagei: an eastern clade (which includes the type location of D. savagei from Marble Bar), a southern clade and a north-central clade. The eastern and southern clades did not differ in morphology or dorsal pattern. Although there are several subtle differences in morphological characters between the eastern and southern clades compared to the north-central form, there were clear differences in dorsal pattern with the north-central forms having finer, widely-scattered spots, a pale dorsal border to the loreal stripe and a gradual transition between the dorsal and ventral colouration. We describe the north-central form as a new species, D. galaxias sp. nov., based on the distinctiveness of its colour pattern, subtle morphological differences, mtDNA divergence and maintenance of these differences at the edge of the western Hamersley Range where the north-central and southern clades come into contact.
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Kemp, A. "A revision of Australian Mesozoic and Cenozoic lungfish of the family Neoceratodontidae (Osteichthyes:Dipnoi), with a description of four new species." Journal of Paleontology 71, no. 4 (July 1997): 713–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000040166.
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The taxonomy of the predominantly Australian fossil dipnoan genus, Neoceratodus, is revised and the Recent Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, and two fossil species, Neoceratodus eyrensis and Neoceratodus nargun, are redefined. Two new species of the related Tertiary genus, Mioceratodus, are described on the basis of tooth plates from central and northern localities in Australia. These are Mioceratodus diaphorus and Mioceratodus poastrus. A new genus, Archaeoceratodus, is erected to include three rare Tertiary species and one Mesozoic species. The Tertiary members of this genus are the type species, Archaeoceratodus djelleh, described originally as Neoceratodus djelleh, and two new species, Archaeoceratodus rowleyi and Archaeoceratodus theganus. The Mesozoic species is Archaeoceratodus avus from Triassic and Cretaceous deposits in southeastern Australia, described originally as Ceratodus avus. All three genera belong in the family Neoceratodontidae.
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Boele, Otto. "“There is Nothing There.” Dmitrii Danilov’s Travel Writing and the Lure of the Russian Provinces." ENTHYMEMA, no. 28 (January 1, 2022): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2037-2426/15463.
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Drawing on Michel de Certeau’s seminal study The Practice of Everyday Life, the author argues that Dmitrii Danilov’s travel writing (Twenty Cities, 2007-2009) reimagines Russia’s symbolic geography by destabilizing the traditional opposition centre – periphery. Rather than depicting the provincial world as either an absurd and horrid world, or as a repository of “true Russianness”, Danilov provides a “decentred” perspective on the provinces that asserts the uniqueness of each city he visits. The novel Description of a City (2012), however, resurrects the more traditional view of the provinces as a world of boredom and cultural lack. To analyse this development the article looks at the central figure of the sluggish traveller-narrator, the employment of “camera-eye narration” and other, mainly linguistic, devices that reaffirm the notion of the provincial city’s “namelessness” as one of its most defining characteristics.
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GUNTER, NICOLE L., and THOMAS A. WEIR. "Two new genera of Australian dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with the description of six new species and transfer of six described species." Zootaxa 4290, no. 2 (July 7, 2017): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4290.2.1.
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A complex of small scarabaeine dung beetles related to Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) is described, based on morphological and molecular characters. There are two new genera, six new species, and seven new combinations, including the transfer of one species to a pre-existing genus, as follows. Matthewsius Gunter & Weir new genus includes two new species, M. stricklandensis Gunter & Weir new species from central New South Wales, Australia and M. vanleeuweni Gunter & Weir new species from Pilbara region of Western Australia, Australia; two species formerly included within Aptenocanthon Matthews, 1974, M. rossi (Matthews, 1974) new combination and M. speewah (Storey & Monteith, 2000) new combination; and two species formerly included within Lepanus, M. illawarrensis (Matthews, 1974) new combination and M. penelopae (Matthews & Weir, 2002) new combination. Monteithocanthon Gunter & Weir new genus includes six species: Monteithocanthon elliotensis Gunter & Weir new species, Monteithocanthon koombooloomba Gunter & Weir new species, and Monteithocanthon paraarator Gunter & Weir new species from northern Queensland, Australia; Monteithocanthon peckorum Gunter & Weir new species from southwestern Western Australia; and two species formally included within Lepanus, Monteithocanthon arator (Matthews, 1974) new combination and Monteithocanthon glaber (Matthews, 1974) new combination. Sauvagesinella loftyensis (Matthews & Weir, 2002) new combination is transferred from Lepanus on the basis of genetic and morphological similarities.
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JAVIDKAR, MOHAMMAD, RACHAEL A. KING, STEVEN J. B. COOPER, WILLIAM F. HUMPHREYS, and ANDREW D. AUSTIN. "Taxonomy of Paraplatyarthrus Javidkar and King (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Paraplatyarthridae) with description of five new species from Western Australia, and comments on Australian Trichorhina Budde-Lunde, 1908 (Platyarthridae)." Zootaxa 4243, no. 3 (March 16, 2017): 401. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4243.3.1.
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The oniscidean fauna of Australia is generally poorly known but recent sampling has revealed a new family, Paraplatyarthridae, found in both terrestrial and groundwater calcretes of central Western Australia. The family was initially described based on a new genus and species, Paraplatyarthrus subterraneus Javidkar and King, 2015. Here we describe an additional five Paraplatyarthrus species from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia, based on both morphological and molecular evidence (COI divergences). Four species are subterranean: P. crebesconiscus Javidkar and King sp. nov., P. cunyuensis Javidkar and King sp. nov., P. occidentoniscus Javidkar and King sp. nov., and P. pallidus Javidkar and King sp. nov., and one is a surface species, P. nahidae Javidkar and King sp. nov. A key to their identification is provided along with information on their distribution. In addition, type material of the two described Australian species of Platyarthridae, Trichorhina australiensis Wahrberg, 1922 from Western Australia and T. tropicalis Lewis, 1998 from Queensland, are examined. Morphological reassessment of type material shows T. australiensis belongs to Paraplatyarthrus (comb. nov.) and that T. tropicalis is correctly placed in Trichorhina, confirming that the genus and family Platyarthridae occur in Australia.
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Adams, Henry, and Gorge French Angas. "6. Description of five new Species of Land-Shells from Madagascar, New Guinea, Central Australia, and the Solomon Islands." Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 44, no. 1 (August 21, 2009): 488–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1876.tb02590.x.
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Le Heron, Daniel Paul, Thomas Matthew Vandyk, Hongwei Kuang, Yongqing Liu, Xiaoshuai Chen, Yuchong Wang, Zhenrui Yang, Lars Scharfenberg, Bethan Davies, and Graham Shields. "Bird’s-eye view of an Ediacaran subglacial landscape." Geology 47, no. 8 (May 22, 2019): 705–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g46285.1.
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Abstract Depositional evidence for glaciation (dropstones, diamictites) is common in Neoproterozoic strata, and often debated, but erosional evidence (e.g., unconformities cut directly by ice) is rare. Only two such unconformities are known to have been well preserved globally from the Ediacaran Period (in western Australia and central China). This paper provides the first full description of a spectacular subglacial landscape carved beneath ice masses in the Shimengou area of central China, with classical subglacial bed forms including general faceted forms, müschelbruche, cavetto, spindle forms, and striations that testify to an abundance of meltwater during subglacial erosion. These features were produced during the southward, somewhat sinuous, flow of a temperate to polythermal ice mass.
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Lehmann, Jennifer, and Steven Baker. "Reflections on an international exchange experience in Germany." Children Australia 34, no. 4 (2009): 17–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200000833.
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International travel has long been associated with opening and expanding the minds of those who travel; and exposure to differences in culture, language and environment often has profound effects. Academic travel—visiting an international college or university for the purposes of teaching and learning—adds an additional layer of experience, resulting in exposure to research and teaching which is being filtered and reinterpreted through a different cultural lens. In this reflective commentary, we discuss a number of experiences encountered on a two week academic study trip to Coburg, Germany, in June this year—but first, a description of our travelling party and impressions of the Bavarian region.We were a party of four from the School of Social Work and Social Policy at La Trobe University, Bendigo Campus—Jennifer returning for a second visit to Coburg University after six years; Steven, a Year 4 Social Work Honours student ready for adventure in an already packed year of activity; Matthew Holmes, an Aboriginal graduate now working for the Department of Sustainability and Environment in Bendigo; and Catherine Cameron, a Year 3 student who was making her first journey outside of Australia. It was early summer in Europe with the fields and trees a lush green, crops growing thickly, the market places smelling of field strawberries and colourful flowers, white asparagus wonderfully juicy and tasty, and NZ apples everywhere! We were generously accommodated by the staff and students of the Social Work course at Coburg University and, in particular, Tina and Nadine provided constant assistance with translation on our visits, which ensured full appreciation of both pleasure activities and for study and teaching purposes.
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Tong, P., D. Zhao, D. Yang, X. Yang, J. Chen, and Q. Liu. "Wave-equation-based travel-time seismic tomography – Part 1: Method." Solid Earth 5, no. 2 (November 26, 2014): 1151–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-5-1151-2014.
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Abstract. In this paper, we propose a wave-equation-based travel-time seismic tomography method with a detailed description of its step-by-step process. First, a linear relationship between the travel-time residual Δt = Tobs–Tsyn and the relative velocity perturbation δ c(x)/c(x) connected by a finite-frequency travel-time sensitivity kernel K(x) is theoretically derived using the adjoint method. To accurately calculate the travel-time residual Δt, two automatic arrival-time picking techniques including the envelop energy ratio method and the combined ray and cross-correlation method are then developed to compute the arrival times Tsyn for synthetic seismograms. The arrival times Tobs of observed seismograms are usually determined by manual hand picking in real applications. Travel-time sensitivity kernel K(x) is constructed by convolving a~forward wavefield u(t,x) with an adjoint wavefield q(t,x). The calculations of synthetic seismograms and sensitivity kernels rely on forward modeling. To make it computationally feasible for tomographic problems involving a large number of seismic records, the forward problem is solved in the two-dimensional (2-D) vertical plane passing through the source and the receiver by a high-order central difference method. The final model is parameterized on 3-D regular grid (inversion) nodes with variable spacings, while model values on each 2-D forward modeling node are linearly interpolated by the values at its eight surrounding 3-D inversion grid nodes. Finally, the tomographic inverse problem is formulated as a regularized optimization problem, which can be iteratively solved by either the LSQR solver or a~nonlinear conjugate-gradient method. To provide some insights into future 3-D tomographic inversions, Fréchet kernels for different seismic phases are also demonstrated in this study.
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MARUSIK, YURI M. "On Central Asian Castianeira arnoldii Charitonov, 1946 (Araneae, Corinnidae), earlier known from juvenile specimens." Zootaxa 2226, no. 1 (September 10, 2009): 66–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2226.1.6.
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Castianeira Keyserling, 1879 is one of the largest corinnid genera. Currently it contains 131 species (Platnick, 2009) distributed all over the globe except for Australia and adjacent islands. In the Palaearctic Castianeira is restricted to the southern regions with subtropical climate. The northernmost localities lie in the Iberian Peninsula, Israel, Uzbekistan and South Korea. Four Castianeira species are known from juvenile specimens only. One of such species, Castianeira arnoldii Charitonov, 1946, was described from Uzbekistan. While studying some material collected by Alexander V. Gromov in Central Asia I found an adult female together with 3 juvenile specimens of Castianeira. These specimens were collected rather close to the type locality of C. arnoldii. The size and colour pattern of the juvenile specimens fit well the description provided by Charitonov (1946). Therefore I decided to describe the adult female of this species.
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Claybourn, Thomas M., Sarah M. Jacquet, Christian B. Skovsted, Timothy P. Topper, Lars E. Holmer, and Glenn A. Brock. "Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica." Journal of Paleontology 93, no. 3 (January 9, 2019): 437–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.84.
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AbstractAn assemblage of Cambrian Series 2, Stages 3–4, conchiferan mollusks from the Shackleton Limestone, Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica, is formally described and illustrated. The fauna includes one bivalve, one macromollusk, and 10 micromollusks, including the first description of the speciesXinjispira simplexZhou and Xiao, 1984 outside North China. The new fauna shows some similarity to previously described micromollusks from lower Cambrian glacial erratics from the Antarctic Peninsula. The fauna, mainly composed of steinkerns, is relatively low diversity, but the presence of diagnostic taxa, including helcionelloidDavidonia rostrata(Zhou and Xiao, 1984), bivalvePojetaia runnegariJell, 1980, cambroclavidCambroclavus absonusConway Morris in Bengtson et al., 1990, and bradoriidSpinospitella coronataSkovsted et al., 2006, as well as the botsfordiid brachiopodSchizopholis yorkensis(Ushatinskaya and Holmer in Gravestock et al., 2001), in the overlying Holyoake Formation correlates the succession to theDailyatia odysseiZone (Cambrian Stages 3–4) in South Australia.
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Harry, Alastair V., Paul A. Butcher, William G. Macbeth, Jess A. T. Morgan, Stephen M. Taylor, and Pascal T. Geraghty. "Life history of the common blacktip shark, Carcharhinus limbatus, from central eastern Australia and comparative demography of a cryptic shark complex." Marine and Freshwater Research 70, no. 6 (2019): 834. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf18141.
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Common and Australian blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus and Carcharhinus tilstoni) occur sympatrically in Australia, where they are reported as a complex because of their morphological similarities. This study provides the first description of the life history of C. limbatus using samples from central eastern Australia, where C. tilstoni is rare. Females (68–267cm total length (TL); n=183) and males (65–255cm TL; n=292) both matured at 8.3 years and 200cm TL, which exceeds the maximum length of C. tilstoni. Vertebral ageing revealed that female and male C. limbatus lived to 22 and 24 years respectively, exceeding known longevity in C. tilstoni. The mean (±s.d.) intrinsic rate of population increase calculated using a Euler–Lotka demographic method was 0.11±0.02year–1 for C. limbatus, compared with 0.17±0.02 and 0.20±0.03year–1 for two C. tilstoni stocks. Despite their similar appearance, these species differed in both their biological productivity and susceptibility to fishing activities. Monitoring of relative abundance should be a priority given they are likely to have divergent responses to fishing.
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Peel, J. S. "Mellopegma (Mollusca) from the Middle Cambrian of North Greenland." Rapport Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse 132 (December 31, 1986): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.34194/rapggu.v132.7958.
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During the last decade, the resurgence of interest in the non-trilobite faunas of the Cambrian has resulted in the description of many new taxa of problematic molluscs. One such form is the laterally compressed helcionellacean Mellopegma, originally described from the Middle Cambrian of Australia by Runnegar & Jell (1976) but subsequently reported from the Lower Cambrian of China (Zhou & Xiao, 1984). Mellopegma has now been identified from the Middle Cambrian of central North Greenland where it occurs as phosphatised internal mouids preserved in a manner similar to that of the original Australian specimens from the Currant Bush Limestone of Queensland.
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RIGBY, CASSANDRA L., WILLIAM T. WHITE, and PETER M. KYNE. "Description of the egg cases of Dentiraja polyommata (Rajiformes: Rajidae) and Asymbolus pallidus (Carcharhiniformes: Scyliorhinidae) from Queensland, Australia." Zootaxa 4294, no. 3 (July 19, 2017): 329. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4294.3.3.
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Descriptions of the egg cases of Dentiraja polyommata (n = 16) and Asymbolus pallidus (n = 44) are provided from egg cases collected from a commercial trawl fishery off Swain Reefs, central Queensland, Australia. Egg cases of D. polyommata are rectangular, convex and golden-tan in colour and those of A. pallidus elongate, vase-shaped and golden. To determine if a comparative statistical non-metric multi-dimensional scaling approach could identify egg cases of species taken in the same region and fishery, egg cases were compared with the skate D. endeavouri and catsharks A. analis, A. rubiginosus and Figaro boardmani. The statistical approach clearly discriminated the species based on five proportional measurements and identified the morphometrics that separated genera and species. This approach is valuable in a fisheries context for accurate identification of visually similar egg cases that can assist management of oviparous chondrichthyans. A rare incidence of intraspecific chondrichthyan cannibalism was noted for A. pallidus males that consumed egg cases of their own species.
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Criscione, Francesco, and Frank Köhler. "Phylogenetic systematics of the land snail Basedowena from the Australian arid zone: taxonomic revision with description of new taxa (Stylommatophora : Camaenidae)." Invertebrate Systematics 30, no. 4 (2016): 370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/is16006.
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The land snail Basedowena Iredale, 1937 currently comprises eight species that inhabit mountain ranges in the central Australian arid zone. By studying the variation in shell and genital anatomy and the differentiation in the mitochondrial markers 16S and COI, we revise the taxonomy of this camaenid and describe new taxa. We demonstrate that the current morphology-based classification has been misled by homoplasy mainly in shell shape. In fact, Basedowena as herein revised contains species with vastly different shells, which have so far been assigned to different genera. By contrast, these species have the same general genital anatomy in common and form a clade in the mitochondrial phylogeny. Based on these findings, we transfer Pleuroxia bethana, P. hinsbyi, P. elfina, P. oligopleura, P. polypleura, P. radiata, Montanomelon angatjana and Minimelon colmani to Basedowena. While Pleuroxia and Montanomelon are maintained as distinct genera, although with fewer species, the monotypic Minimelon becomes a junior synonym of Basedowena. We identify and describe three new Basedowena species (B. bicolor, sp. nov., B. holoserica, sp. nov., B. siparium, sp. nov.). A fourth new species differs substantially from all other arid zone camaenids and is hence placed in a new genus, Xeromelon, gen. nov. The revised delineation of Basedowena renders it now the most widespread camaenid genus in Australia. It is distributed throughout the Australian arid zone from Western Australia, via the Northern Territory and South Australia into New South Wales.
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Sullivan, Brian E. "Diesel Light Rail Transit: Niche Description and Rating System." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1571, no. 1 (January 1997): 134–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1571-17.
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The appearance of a new rail car technology, combining the features of the latest in low-floor streetcar design with those of diesel freight railways, makes it possible to consider rail service for passenger flows much lower than generally have been found feasible until now. With the introduction of any new technology comes the question, What is its role? It is concluded that the provision of short-haul services—within inner and outer suburbs, and between such places and downtowns—is where the greatest potential lies. Additional applications are ( a) similar services extending beyond the commutershed into the trading hinterland of a city, ( b) those catering to cross-radial travel within a central city or region that is not oriented to downtown, and ( c) those that may sometimes involve a nonurban region or tourism. This could be a significant development, as much of the U.S. and Canadian population lives in low-density suburbs or semirural counties, both of which can be expected to continue their dominance of the growth agenda. One of the advantages of this new family of diesel light rail technology arises from its ability to use existing pathways through cities and towns. This keeps costs low and avoids the dislocation and environmental problems associated with the taking of large swaths of land required by many solutions. One way to do this is by using existing railway tracks or rights of way. Another is to share right-of-way space with a road, either in a streetcar format or on a separate strip. The results have proven useful in an assessment of freight railway lines in Calgary and Edmonton with respect to their potential for diesel light rail services.
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Amos, Kathryn, Carley Goodwin, and Angel Soria. "Incised valleys in marginal-lacustrine depositional environments: a new reservoir analogue from Lake Eyre, central Australia." APPEA Journal 52, no. 1 (2012): 513. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj11040.
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Incised-valley fill deposits can form important hydrocarbon reservoirs and provide pathways for hydrocarbon migration. Incised-valleys formed in marginal-marine environments are well described, however, marginal-lacustrine incised-valleys have been the focus of extremely few investigations and are poorly understood. This paper provides a new description of incised-fluvial systems that are presently constructing terminal deposits in embayments around the shoreline of Lake Eyre, central Australia. It is anticipated that better awareness of such deposits will assist in the recognition of these depositional environments in the rock record, which should be useful for exploration purposes and for the generation of improved models for continental dryland fluvial-lacustrine reservoir deposits. A classification of all significant river mouth deposits around Lake Eyre (width >300 m; n = 104), from topographic map and satellite image data, found that 54% are incised-valleys presently accreting a terminal deposit in a shoreline embayment (playa lake estuary). The depositional elements of three incised-valley systems have been mapped using satellite imagery in a GIS platform, from which element geometries are described. Controls on incised-valley formation are investigated by comparing these observations with evidence for past lake highstands and neotectonics and observations from satellite images, geological map data, and digital elevation model data. The terminal splay deposits of rivers around Lake Eyre are well-used analogues for dryland reservoirs; however, the focus has been on deposits accreting directly onto the playa. It is likely the incised-valleys and terminal deposits in the embayments described here will be of interest to companies exploring in, and producing from, ancient drylands and other lacustrine depositional environments.
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Bartoshyk, Nataliia. "Forensic description of cotton fabric damage caused by 8X57MM cartridges equipped with expanding bullets shot at various distances." Forensic-medical examination, no. 1 (April 13, 2016): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.24061/2707-8728.1.2016.7.
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The paper presents the results of experimental study of the damage of cotton fabric caused by 8X57mm cartridges with expanding bullets from different manufacturers shot at various distances and the data obtained for estimating impact range for shooting factors.
Conclusions. The experimental shots using 8x57 mm cartridges equipped with expanding bullets fired from 1, 2, 2.5, 3 and 5 meters showed that the three types of bullets from the different manufacturers differ in expansion; morphological features of damage to the white fabric have been shown to be markedly different. With Geco bullets, it was established that upon impact they fragment forming two or more fragments. The resulting defects in the fabric were round or of irregular round shape, with the central defect of the fabric having the diameter of 0.9 to 0.7 cm. Experimental shots from 1 m caused complete central defect of the fabric. As the shooting distance increased, the number and length of the threads protruding into the shot hole grew. RWS bullets were shown to expand upon impact considerably increasing in diameter and forming a trifolium or quadrifolium tightly held by the core. The resulting defects of the fabric were round-shaped with the central defect of the fabric having 0.9 to 0.7 cm in diameter. Shot holes made from 1 m had threads protruding into the holes with considerably separated fibers. Shots from 2, 3 and 5 meters resulted in complete central defect of the fabric, the holes being rimmed with threads of the fabric from the four sides forming a square, and their length increased with increase in the shooting distance.
For Sellier&Веllot bullets, it was found that upon impact they deform, increasing in size. Defects caused to the cotton fabric were of irregular round shape or square shape with 0.7x0.7-1x0.7 cm central defects of the fabric. Isolated threads with considerably separated fibers protruded into the shot holes. Assessment of the range of impact of shot factors allowed establishing that additional fac- tors, in particular unburnt powder particles travel 2.5 m in experimental shots for all three types of cartridges. Using contact-diffusion method of color prints, such metals as copper and lead were detected in various amounts. X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy detected zinc, lead, copper and iron in the regions of damage and estimated their percentages for defects caused by various types of 8x57 mm hunting cartridges containing expanding bullets.
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TAUCARE-RIOS, ANDRES, and ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT. "Description of the male, redescription of the female and new records of Odo patricius Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Zoridae)." Zootaxa 3527, no. 1 (October 26, 2012): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3527.1.7.
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The family Zoridae (F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1893) is currently represented by 14 genera and 79 species distributed worldwide (Platnick, 2012), of which only the genera Xenoctenus Mello-Leitão, 1938 and Odo Keyserling, 1887 are present in Americas. Xenoctenus is represented by four species, all endemic to Argentina, while Odo has, so far, a total of 27 species distributed in Central America, South America, West Indies and Australia (Platnick, 2012). The type species of Odo is O. lenis Keyserling, 1887, a specimen female described from Nicaragua. The genus Odo has never been revised and given its wide distribution and number of species, it is probably a polyphyletic genus and a complete revision is required. Also, no new material of O. lenis or O. patricius has been described since 1900.
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SENNA, ANDRÉ R., and CRISTIANA S. SEREJO. "Amaryllididae and Lysianassidae (Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) from off the central coast of Brazil (11oS-22oS), with descriptions of three new species." Zootaxa 1718, no. 1 (March 3, 2008): 45. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1718.1.3.
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Material collected on the central Brazilian coast from the REVIZEE Benthos Program was analyzed and three new species were herein described. Knowledge about sexual dimorphism on Bonassa is improved. The hypothesis of endemism of the genus Amaryllis to Australia is contested with the discovery of a new species of Amaryllis in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean. A new species of Lysianassa is described, and its differences to L. brasiliensis are commented too. Lysianopsis concavus Senna, 2007 is herein described with more details in description and figures. The distributions of the described species are given. Keys to identification of Brazilian Lysianassoidea families and Lysianassidae species are presented in this paper.Key-words: Amaryllis, Bonassa, Lysianassa, Lysianopsis, taxonomy, Brazilian province
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Brougham, Tom, Elizabeth T. Smith, and Phil R. Bell. "Isolated teeth of Anhangueria (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia." PeerJ 5 (May 3, 2017): e3256. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3256.
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The fossil record of Australian pterosaurs is sparse, consisting of only a small number of isolated and fragmentary remains from the Cretaceous of Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria. Here, we describe two isolated pterosaur teeth from the Lower Cretaceous (middle Albian) Griman Creek Formation at Lightning Ridge (New South Wales) and identify them as indeterminate members of the pterodactyloid clade Anhangueria. This represents the first formal description of pterosaur material from New South Wales. The presence of one or more anhanguerian pterosaurs at Lightning Ridge correlates with the presence of ‘ornithocheirid’ andAnhanguera-like pterosaurs from the contemporaneous Toolebuc Formation of central Queensland and the global distribution attained by ornithocheiroids during the Early Cretaceous. The morphology of the teeth and their presence in the estuarine- and lacustrine-influenced Griman Creek Formation is likely indicative of similar life habits of the tooth bearer to other members of Anhangueria.
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Lens, Frederic, Steven Jansen, Elmar Robbrecht, and Erik Smets. "WOOD ANATOMY OF THE VANGUERIEAE (IXOROIDEAERUBIACEAE), WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON SOME GEOFRUTICES." IAWA Journal 21, no. 4 (2000): 443–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22941932-90000260.
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The Vanguerieae is a tribe consisting of about 500 species ordered in 27 genera. Although this tribe is mainly represented in Africa and Madagascar, Vanguerieae also occur in tropical Asia, Australia, and the isles of the Pacific Ocean. This study gives a detailed wood anatomical description of 34 species of 15 genera based on LM and SEM observations. The secondary xylem is homogeneous throughout the tribe and fits well into the Ixoroideae s.l. on the basis of fibre-tracheids and diffuse to diffuse-in-aggregates axial parenchyma. The Vanguerieae include numerous geofrutices that are characterised by massive woody branched or unbranched underground parts and slightly ramified unbranched aboveground twigs. The underground structures of geofrutices are not homologous; a central pith is found in three species (Fadogia schmitzii, Pygmaeothamnus zeyheri and Tapiphyllum cinerascens var. laetum), while Fadogiella stigmatoloba shows central primary xylem which is characteristic of roots. Comparison of underground versus aboveground wood shows anatomical differences in vessel diameter and in the quantity of parenchyma and fibres.
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LOWRY, J. K. "Talitrid amphipods from ocean beaches along the New South Wales coast of Australia (Amphipoda, Talitridae)." Zootaxa 3575, no. 1 (December 7, 2012): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3575.1.1.
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The sand-hopper Bellorchestia mariae sp. nov. is described from Honeymoon Bay on the north coast of Jervis Bay, NewSouth Wales, Australia. It is the sister species of B. richardsoni Serejo & Lowry, 2008 and appears to have a limited dis-tribution from about Narrawallee in the south to northern Jervis Bay. The distribution of B. richardsoni Serejo & Lowry,2008 is extended from Point Ricardo, Victoria, northwards to Ulladulla on the New South Wales coast. A new synonymyis proposed for the sand-hopper Notorchestia quadrimana (Dana, 1852) which includes N. novaehollandiae (1899) andN. lobata Serejo & Lowry, 2008. It is considered to be a wide-ranging species from Shark Bay in Western Australia aroundthe south coast to at least Maitland Bay in central New South Wales. The beach-hopper Orchestia dispar Dana, 1852 isdescribed from Valla Beach in northern New South Wales and moved to the new genus Vallorchestia. This is the first re-cord of V. dispar since its original description 160 years ago. The beach-hopper Platorchestia smithi sp. nov. is describedfrom Brooms Head, New South Wales, Australia. It is common on ocean beaches from Bendalong in the south to Ballina in northern New South Wales. South of Bendalong beach-hoppers on ocean beaches appear to be absent.
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Maver, Igor. "Slovenia as a locale in contemporary Australian verse." Acta Neophilologica 30 (December 1, 1997): 73–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.30.0.73-75.
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Despite the fact that the writer Patrick White had worked on his novels for a short while also at Lake Bled in Slovenia at Hotel "Toplice", just like Agatha Christie did at Lake Bohinj, Slovenia has only recently come to feature in mainstream Australian literature, more precisely in contemporary Australian poetry. It should be stressed that Slovenia is thus no longer present only in Slovene migrant poetry written in Australia as has so far been the case: it entered the major contemporary Australian anthologies. This testifies to the fact that Slovenia no longer belongs to the uncharted part of Central Europe on the geographical and consequently also on the Australian literary map. Rather than that Slovenia increasingly makes part of an average Australian 'Grand Tour' travel itinerary in Europe; it has thus become present in the Australian cultural consciousness. In this light two recent Australian poems with Slovenia as a literary locale are discussed, Andrew Taylor's "Morning in Ljubljana" I and Susan Hampton's poem "Yugoslav Story".
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Maver, Igor. "Slovenia as a locale in contemporary Australian verse." Acta Neophilologica 30 (December 1, 1997): 73–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.30.1.73-75.
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Despite the fact that the writer Patrick White had worked on his novels for a short while also at Lake Bled in Slovenia at Hotel "Toplice", just like Agatha Christie did at Lake Bohinj, Slovenia has only recently come to feature in mainstream Australian literature, more precisely in contemporary Australian poetry. It should be stressed that Slovenia is thus no longer present only in Slovene migrant poetry written in Australia as has so far been the case: it entered the major contemporary Australian anthologies. This testifies to the fact that Slovenia no longer belongs to the uncharted part of Central Europe on the geographical and consequently also on the Australian literary map. Rather than that Slovenia increasingly makes part of an average Australian 'Grand Tour' travel itinerary in Europe; it has thus become present in the Australian cultural consciousness. In this light two recent Australian poems with Slovenia as a literary locale are discussed, Andrew Taylor's "Morning in Ljubljana" I and Susan Hampton's poem "Yugoslav Story".
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Jiao, Jiacheng, John Rollo, Baibai Fu, and Chunlu Liu. "Exploring Effective Built Environment Factors for Evaluating Pedestrian Volume in High-Density Areas: A New Finding for the Central Business District in Melbourne, Australia." Land 10, no. 6 (June 19, 2021): 655. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10060655.
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Previous studies have mostly examined how sustainable cities try to promote non-motorized travel by creating a walking-friendly environment. Such existing studies provide little data that identifies how the built environment affects pedestrian volume in high-density areas. This paper presents a methodology that combines person correlation analysis, stepwise regression, and principal component analysis for exploring the internal correlation and potential impact of built environment variables. To study this relationship, cross-sectional data in the Melbourne central business district were selected. Pearson’s correlation coefficient confirmed that visible green ratio and intersection density were not correlated to pedestrian volume. The results from stepwise regression showed that land-use mix degree, public transit stop density, and employment density could be associated with pedestrian volume. Moreover, two principal components were extracted by factor analysis. The result of the first component yielded an internal correlation where land-use and amenities components were positively associated with the pedestrian volume. Component 2 presents parking facilities density, which negatively relates to the pedestrian volume. Based on the results, existing street problems and policy recommendations were put forward to suggest diversifying community service within walking distance, improving the service level of the public transit system, and restricting on-street parking in Melbourne.
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Bartleet, Brydie-Leigh, Naomi Sunderland, and Gavin Carfoot. "Enhancing intercultural engagement through service learning and music making with Indigenous communities in Australia." Research Studies in Music Education 38, no. 2 (October 6, 2016): 173–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1321103x16667863.
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This article explores the potential for music making activities such as jamming, song writing, and performance to act as a medium for intercultural connection and relationship building during service learning programs with Indigenous communities in Australia. To set the context, the paper begins with an overview of current international perspectives on service learning and then moves towards a theoretical and practical discussion of how these processes, politics, and learning outcomes arise when intercultural engagement is used in service learning programs. The paper then extends this discussion to consider the ways in which shared music making can bring a sense of intercultural “proximity” that has the potential to evoke deep learning experiences for all involved in the service learning activity. These learning experiences arise from three different “facings” in the process of making music together: facing others together; facing each other; facing ourselves. In order to flesh out how these theoretical ideas work in practice, the article draws on insights and data from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University’s award winning Winanjjikari Service Learning Program, which has been running in partnership with Barkly Regional Arts and Winanjjikari Music Centre in Tennant Creek since 2009. This program involves annual service learning trips where university music students travel to Central Australia to work alongside Aboriginal and non-Indigenous musicians and artists on a range of community-led projects. By looking at the ways in which shared music making brings participants in this program “face to face”, we explore how this proximity leads to powerful learning experiences that foster mutual appreciation, relationship building, and intercultural reconciliation.
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VANDERDUYS, ERIC, CONRAD J. HOSKIN, ALEX S. KUTT, JUSTIN M. WRIGHT, and STEPHEN M. ZOZAYA. "Beauty in the eye of the beholder: a new species of gecko (Diplodactylidae: Lucasium) from inland north Queensland, Australia." Zootaxa 4877, no. 2 (November 10, 2020): 291–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4877.2.4.
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The Einasleigh Uplands bioregion of central north Queensland, Australia, harbours a unique suite of reptiles that have begun to receive significant attention in the last 20 years. This has resulted in a number of new reptile species being described, and recognition that others await description. We describe a new species of Lucasium Wermuth, 1965 from the western Einasleigh Uplands. Lucasium iris sp. nov. is genetically distinct and morphologically diagnosable from all congeners by its large size, long and narrow tail, nares in contact with rostral scale, homogeneous body scales, distinct vertebral stripe, and paired, enlarged, apical subdigital lamellae. It is known from low rocky hills in a localised area of the Gregory Range, has the most restricted known distribution of any Lucasium, and is the only Lucasium endemic to Queensland. The new species appears most closely related to L. steindachneri (Boulenger, 1885), based on mitochondrial DNA sequences, but has a colour-pattern more similar to L. immaculatum Storr, 1988. All three of these species occur in the Einasleigh Uplands, but only L. steindachneri is known to occur in sympatry with L. iris sp. nov. In addition to the description of the new species, we present records of Lucasium immaculatum from the Einasleigh Uplands, which represent a significant known range extension.
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GUNTER, NICOLE L., and THOMAS A. WEIR. "Revision of Australian species of the dung beetle genus Lepanus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae): key to species groups and description of 14 new species from the L. pygmaeus species group." Zootaxa 4564, no. 1 (March 4, 2019): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4564.1.2.
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Lepanus Balthasar, 1966 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) is one of the most diverse genera of dung beetles in Australasia and includes large numbers of undescribed species. This publication is the first part in an ongoing revision of the Australian members of this genus and outlines ten informal species groups. Fourteen new species that are similar to Lepanus pygmaeus (Macleay, 1888) are described here: Lepanus mckenziei new species from the Pilbara region of Western Australia; Lepanus sauroni new species from coastal regions of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley region of Western Australia; Lepanus gubara new species, Lepanus pecki new species, Lepanus podocarp new species and Lepanus pungalina new species from the Top End, Northern Territory; Lepanus lentil new species from the Top End, Northern Territory and central Queensland; Lepanus crenidens new species, Lepanus lingziae new species, and Lepanus menendezae new species from northern Queensland; Lepanus andersonorum new species, and Lepanus tozerensis new species from Cape York Peninsula, far north Queensland; Lepanus feehani new species from the Australian Wet Tropics; and Lepanus guthrieae new species from the east to west coast of northern Australia. Lepanus pygmaeus is redescribed and a lectotype designated for it. A lectotype is designated for Panelus arthuri Blackburn, 1900. The synonymy of L. pygmaeus with P. arthuri is confirmed. A key to species groups within Lepanus is provided, as well as a key to species in the L. pygmaeus species group.
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BRUNTON, DANIEL F., and JOVANI B. DE SOUSA PEREIRA. "Description of Isoetes afloramientorum, sp. nov. (Isoetaceae), and a second record for Isoetes santacruzensis, two granite outcrop quillworts in Bolivia." Phytotaxa 451, no. 3 (July 6, 2020): 215–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.451.3.4.
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A second population of the diploid Isoetes santacruzensis is reported. This extends the range of that newly described endemic of granite outcrop pools by approximately 100 kms southward into central Bolivia from its type location. Another distinct taxon has been detected in the vicinity of the new I. santacruzensis population. The morphology of probably tetraploid I. afloramientorum sp. nov. is described. A cluster of distinct taxa comparable to similar complexes seen in North America, Australia and northern Brazil may be present on Bolivian granite outcrops. There is an urgent need for field investigation of this unique and important habitat to determine the contemporary status and protection requirements of its rare and possibly endangered flora.
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Minter, D. W., and P. F. Cannon. "Stereocaulon dactylophyllum . [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria]." Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria 227 (January 2021): 2268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/dfb/20210391613.
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Abstract A description is provided for Stereocaulon dactylophyllum . Some information on its associated organisms and substrata, dispersal and transmission, habitats and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (Arctic Ocean (Greenland), Asia (Japan, Mongolia, Russia, Turkey), Atlantic Ocean (Portugal, Azores, Madeira), Australasia (Australia), Caribbean, (Guadeloupe, Martinique), Central America (Costa Rica, Nicaragua), Europe (Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK), North America (Canada, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan, France, Mexico, USA, Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin), South America (Argentina, Colombia)).
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HOSKIN, CONRAD J., STEPHEN M. ZOZAYA, and ERIC VANDERDUYS. "A new species of velvet gecko (Diplodactylidae: Oedura) from sandstone habitats of inland north Queensland, Australia." Zootaxa 4486, no. 2 (September 27, 2018): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4486.2.1.
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We describe a new species of velvet gecko (Diplodactylidae: Oedura) from the sandstone ranges of central-north Queensland, Australia. Oedura argentea sp. nov. is a medium-sized (SVL 61–80 mm) gecko that is distinguished from its congeners by a combination of its relatively small size, a pattern of 5–6 dark-edged pale transverse bands from neck to pelvis, a silvery iris, a slender tail, a single cloacal spur, and in possessing 14–22 pre-cloacal pores in males. Oedura argentea sp. nov. is a sandstone specialist currently known only from the Gregory Range and nearby sandstone outcropping at Bulleringa National Park. Further surveys are required to determine the limits of distribution through this region. Oedura argentea sp. nov. is the fifth described species of Oedura in north-eastern Queensland. We also assess the name O. fracticolor De Vis, 1884 because it is an unresolved name pertaining to this general region. Based on colour-pattern and locality in the original description, we conclude that O. fracticolor is a senior synonym of O. castelnaui (Thominot, 1889); however, we propose that priority be overturned under Articles 23.9.1.1 and 23.9.1.2 of the ICZN (1999) and that the name O. fracticolor be regarded as nomen oblitum and O. castelnaui a nomen protectum.
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Garwood, Melissa, Eliza A. Hawkes, Leonid Churilov, Andrew Grigg, and Geoff Chong. "Patient Selection for High-Dose Methotrexate As Central Nervous System Prophylaxis in Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in Australia: Are We Getting It Right?" Blood 128, no. 22 (December 2, 2016): 4217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1182/blood.v128.22.4217.4217.
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Abstract Introduction: Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common lymphoid malignancy. While central nervous system (CNS) relapse in DLBCL is uncommon, it is usually fatal. As many relapses are parenchymal, systemic high-dose methotrexate (HDMTX) has largely replaced intrathecal methotrexate as CNS prophylaxis in high risk patients (historically characterised using IPI score/number of extranodal sites) in Australia. However, the efficacy of HDMTX in this context remains undetermined, can be associated with nephrotoxicity, myelosuppression and hepatotoxicity and necessitates the use of significant hospital resources for administration and monitoring. The German high-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma study group (DSHNHL) prognostic model separates patients with DLBCL into 3 risk groups for CNS disease based on a score derived from 6 factors. The aims of this study were to evaluate the toxicity of HDMTX, and describe outcomes in HDMTX and non-HDMTX patients according to the DSHNHL model. Methods: 150 patients diagnosed with DLBCL between 2004 and 2014, initially treated with RCHOP-like chemotherapy and given or not given HDMTX for CNS prophylaxis were identified by pharmacy records at two teaching hospitals. Patient records were retrospectively reviewed for HDMTX toxicity, CNS disease risk factors as specified in the DSHNHL model and CNS relapse. All surviving patients had at least a year of follow-up. The toxicity parameters of 28 HDMTX patients was graded according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4, up to 30 days from the date of the last dose of HDMTX. Statistical analysis was performed using STATA Data Analysis and Statistical Software version 13. Analysis involved Fisher's exact test for categorical variables and Mann-Whitney U test for continuous variables. A p-value was statistically significant if it was equal to or less than 0.05. Results: 28 patients with DLBCL selected to receive HDMTX were planned for 2 doses. All initial doses were administered at a concentration of 3g/m2 except for 2 patients who had a first dose of 1.5g/m2. Two of 28 patients received only one dose, and 3 had their second dose reduced, all due to renal impairment. 20 of 28 patients (71%) did not experience nephrotoxicity and no patient progressed to grade 4 or 5 renal toxicity. Myelosuppression was the most common toxicity, with anaemia grade 3-4 in 1 (4%), grade 3 and 4 neutropenia in 8 and 3 (but with febrile neutropenia in only one case) and grade 3-4 thrombocytopenia in 2 (7%) patients. 24 of 28 HDMTX patients and 122 non-HDMTX had sufficient data available for the 6 components of the DSHNHL model. Comparison of the DSHNHL model score for HDMTX and non-HDMTX patients showed no significant difference in the distribution of scores (p-value 0.478). No patient had all 6 factors. Fourteen (58%) HDMTX and 66 (54%) non-HDMTX patients were categorized as low risk (score 0 to 2), 8 (33%) HDMTX and 31 (25%) non-HDMTX were intermediate risk (score 3) and 2 (8%) HDMTX and 25 (20%) non-HDMTX were high risk (score 4 to 6) according to the DSHNHL model. The 2 (of 24) HDMTX patients who relapsed in the CNS had DSHNHL model scores of 1 and 3. Of the 122 non-HDMTX patients, 3 relapsed in the CNS, all with intermediate or high risk disease. Conclusions: HDMTX was well-tolerated by patients, therefore can safely be administered as CNS prophylaxis under current hospital protocols. Application of the DSHNHL prognostic model identifies a different population of candidates for CNS prophylaxis compared to historical risk factors and may lead to better patient selection for this intervention. Disclosures Hawkes: Merck Serono: Research Funding; BMS: Other: travel expenses, Research Funding; Takeda: Other: travel expenses.