New species of Neuroptera

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Author Correction: Cross-ancestry genome-wide association analysis of corneal thickness strengthens link between complex and Mendelian eye diseases.

Emmanuelle Souzeau, who contributed to analysis of data, was inadvertently omitted from the author list in the originally published version of this Article. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article

Genome-Wide Association Study of Retinopathy in Individuals without Diabetes

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Risultati preliminari delle indagini archeologiche ed etnografiche presso il sito di Togolok 1

Modern Turkmenistan is mainly constituted by a desert landscape, yet despite its harsh climate, cultures have been able to construct networks of water channels since the Bronze Age. This has resulted in a man-made landscape that integrates towns and villages. Extensive surveys and recent archaeological excavations have highlighted that between 2400 and 2100 BC (Namazga V period), the region of the Murghab alluvial fan was characterised by the development of complex urban societies. However, starting from the Late Bronze Age, a new group of mobile pastoralists appeared in the Murghab region and settled along the edges of the sedentary sites. Although their presence is well-attested both by survey and excavation data, their degree of interaction with the sedentary farmers is still debated. In modern Turkmenistan, semi-mobile shepherds continue to drive their cattle across the Murghab, using mobile camps for different months. This paper presents the preliminary results of the excavation of the sedentary site of Togolok 1, as well as the first ethnographic study of the mobile communities of the Murghab region

The NSW (Australia) Planning Reforms and their Implications for Planning Education and Natural and Built Environment

Planning reforms in NSW have gathered pace. In the past few years, the state government has churned out a series of reforms. These reforms are becoming more urgent in their rhetoric and more dramatic in their impacts. The reforms have included planFrist, BASIX, standardization of LEP, changes to the major projects regime, and changes to the development contribution system. Near the end of 2007, another set of major reforms was proposed through a discussion paper, and some of these reforms have already been speedily legislated. These reforms are being enacted to achieve economic efficiency through uniformity in the planning system across jurisdictions, simplicity and speed for the developers, delivery through electronic systems (ePlanning), development assessment by independent panels and private certifiers, and flexibility via voluntary mechanisms (planning agreements). It has been argued that the reforms are necessary because they are taking place internationally and in other parts of Australia. Contrarily, some sections of the society feel that the reforms are a power grab by the state government or that they are an outcome of the strong influence of the development lobby. On the other hand, a number of planning scholars believe planning reforms are a natural and inevitable outcome of the ascendance of the neo-liberal economic order of the past two to three decades. This paper reviews the motivations behind planning reforms and discuses the profound implications that changes in the planning system in NSW have for natural and built environments in the state.