Reading (in/and) Miranda

"Australian fiction, like that of all nations, is written, published, received and read in the context of a literary canon, both national and transnational. In regards to women's fiction in Australia, this canon is predominantly composed of writers from two particular eras: authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (like Henry Handel Richardson, Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard and Christina Stead) and women writers who came to prominence during the 1980s (like Helen Garner, Kate Grenville, Elizabeth Jolley, Barbara Hanrahan, Jessica Anderson and Beverley Farmer ... The second-wave feminist movement was responsible for the creation of this dual canon: in the first case, due to a desire to recover and reclaim women writers of the past, and in the second, due to a desire to celebrate and explore contemporary Australian women's fiction. Indeed, it is the preoccupation of second-wave feminism with uncovering and celebrating women's occluded stories that underlies the current critical focus on realist and experiential aspects of Australian women's fiction ... Among those whose work has been occluded by the critical attention given to the canonical figures of Australian women's writing, Wendy Scarfe is indicative in various ways.

Soundings: the Newsletter of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the American Cetacean Society. 1996

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Development of an Underwater Infrared Camera to Detect Manatees

In calendar year 2004, watercraft related mortality was the second leading cause of death of the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) accounting for 25% of total known manatee deaths. In an attempt to reduce this significant cause of manatee mortality, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute has instituted two rounds of Manatee Avoidance Technology grants. Herein I report the results of an evaluation of the ability of underwater infrared video cameras to detect captive manatees and other non-living targets. If such cameras could detect manatees at sufficient distances, they could be mounted in the bows of watercraft and the resultant images could be projected at the helm of the vessel, enabling the vessel operator to reduce speed, take evasive action, or both. Two types of cameras were examined: 1) A SeaView underwater video camera system from PowerLinx, St. Petersburg, FL, and 2) An Atlantis underwater camera system (AUW-535C) from JJC Communications, Inc., Englewood, NJ. Preliminary investigations of the ability of these cameras to detect small objects indicated that their resolution decreased with distance from the target and depth, with the highest resolution closest to the target and near the surface. However, even at optimal depth, the maximum detection distance for the small target with the SeaView Camera was less than 3 m, and less than 5.5 m for the Atlantis camera. Thus, the Atlantis camera was marginally better able to detect the small target than was the SeaView camera. The cameras were then tested on a plywood silhouette of a manatee placed vertically in the water. In this case the detection distance increased with depth, being greatest at a depth of 2 m, but in no case was the detection distance greater than 5 m. As before, the Atlantis camera was marginally better able to detect the plywood manatee silhouette than was the SeaView camera. The cameras were then tested using living captive manatees at the Lowry Park Zoo (LPZ). Due to the clarity of the water at LPZ, manatees were visualized by both cameras at a distance of up to approximately 15 m, independent of depth. The Atlantis camera was better able to detect the living manatees than was the SeaView camera. Because these cameras emit infrared light in order to enhance their water penetration and image detection, there was some concern on the effect of this light on the manatees. However, the infrared light emitted by the cameras appeared to elicit no alarm or aversion from the manatees, and in fact seemed to increase their curiosity about the cameras and to attract them to the cameras. The larger size of the Sea View camera also appeared to draw the attention of the animals to the camera, and to prompt them to approach it in a playful manner. Over the course of this investigation, one NSU Oceanographic Center graduate student has started on a thesis research project. The results of this investigation were presented at the second Florida Marine Mammal Health Symposium, held 7-10 April 2005 in Gainesville, FL (Wright and Keith 2005). The currently available underwater infrared camera technologies evaluated here do not seem to have sufficient detection distances to enable their immediate incorporation into a operator manatee awareness system, in order to utilize the cameras as described above. Our future plans are to approach the manufacturers of these cameras to determine if the technology can be enhanced to enable the cameras to detect manatees at sufficient distance to enable them to be used as described above

Introduction: Changing times, changing places

This history of Tokanui Hospital and mental health services in the Waikato is a collection of the different stories of the many members of that community. We have chosen to tell these stories through the eyes of several writers, with some of them perhaps even competing perspectives, hoping to capture close to the full range of responses to and experiences of mental health in the Waikato over time. Tokanui Hospital- for a time, the main focus of mental health services in the region - was itself plural and complex. Through our collectively authored history, we show how the closure of Tokanui impacted upon its many residents and staff and the wider community around the hospital, and how the dispersal of mental health functions into the community has continued to evoke resounding memories of Tokanui

An empirical study of proximity effect of comprehensive commercial development on adjacent private residential property price

Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-115).Thesis (B.Sc)--University of Hong Kong, 2008.published_or_final_versio

Four decades of transmission of a multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis outbreak strain

The rise of drug-resistant strains is a major challenge to containing the tuberculosis (TB) pandemic. Yet, little is known about the extent of resistance in early years of chemotherapy and when transmission of resistant strains on a larger scale became a major public health issue. Here we reconstruct the timeline of the acquisition of antimicrobial resistance during a major ongoing outbreak of multidrug-resistant TB in Argentina. We estimate that the progenitor of the outbreak strain acquired resistance to isoniazid, streptomycin and rifampicin by around 1973, indicating continuous circulation of a multidrug-resistant TB strain for four decades. By around 1979 the strain had acquired additional resistance to three more drugs. Our results indicate that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) with extensive resistance profiles circulated 15 years before the outbreak was detected, and about one decade before the earliest documented transmission of Mtb strains with such extensive resistance profiles globally.Fil: Eldholm, Vegard. Norwegian Institute of Public Health; NoruegaFil: Monteserin, Johana. Dirección Nacional de Institutos de Investigación. Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud. Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Rieux, Adrien. Colegio Universitario de Londres; Reino UnidoFil: Lopez, Beatriz. Dirección Nacional de Institutos de Investigación. Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud. Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas; ArgentinaFil: Sobkowiak, Benjamin. Colegio Universitario de Londres; Reino UnidoFil: Ritacco, Gloria Viviana. Dirección Nacional de Institutos de Investigación. Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud. Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Balloux, Francois. Colegio Universitario de Londres; Reino Unid

Seqotron: A user-friendly sequence editor for Mac OS X

© 2016 Fourment and Holmes. Background: Accurate multiple sequence alignment is central to bioinformatics and molecular evolutionary analyses. Although sophisticated sequence alignment programs are available, manual adjustments are often required to improve alignment quality. Unfortunately, few programs offer a simple and intuitive way to edit sequence alignments. Results: We present Seqotron, a sequence editor that reads and writes files in a wide variety of sequence formats. Sequences can be easily aligned and manually edited using the mouse and keyboard. The program also allows the user to estimate both phylogenetic trees and distance matrices. Conclusions: Seqotron will benefit researchers who need to manipulate and align complex sequence data. Seqotron is a Mac OS X compatible open source project and is available from Github https://github.com/4ment/seqotron/