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Responding to Indo-Pacific rivalry: Australia, India and middle power coalitions
In this Analysis, Lowy Institute International Security Program Director Rory Medcalf and Nonresident Fellow C. Raja Mohan argue that Chinese assertiveness and uncertainties about Americaâs role in Indo-Pacific Asia are causing middle powers to look for alternative approaches to regional security. The Analysis argues that enhanced security cooperation between Indo-Pacific middle powers should be extended to the creation of âmiddle-power coalitionsâ in the region.
Key findings
Chinaâs assertiveness and uncertainties about Americaâs response are causing middle powers in Indo-Pacific Asia to looking beyond traditional approaches to security
Cooperation between Indo-Pacific middle power coalitions would build regional resilience against the vagaries of US-China relations
India and Australia are well placed to form the core of middle power coalition buildin
Assessment of changes in ecosystem service delivery:a historical perspective on catchment landscapes
Although the relationships between habitats and ecosystem services (ESs) have been acknowledged, investigating spatio-temporal change in these has received far less attention. This study assesses the influence of habitat changes on ES delivery across space and time, based on two time points some 60Â years apart, 1946 and 2009. A 1946 aerial photo coverage of two catchments in Scotland was used to construct digital photo mosaics which were then visually interpreted and digitised to derive historic habitat maps. Using the Spatial Evidence for Natural Capital Evaluation (SENCE) mapping approach, the derived habitat maps were translated into ES maps. These were then compared with contemporary ES maps of the two catchments, using the same mapping methodology. Increases in provisioning ESs were associated with increases in intensively managed habitats, with reductions in supply capacity of other regulating and supporting ESs associated with loss of semi-natural habitats. ES delivery was affected not only by gross area changes in habitats over time, but also by changes in configuration and spatial distribution of constituent habitats, including fragmentation and connectivity. It is argued that understanding historic changes in ESs adds an important strand in providing baselines to inform options for current and future management of catchments
The management of risk and investment in cell therapy process development: a case study for neurodegenerative disease
Cell-based therapies must achieve clinical efficacy and safety with reproducible and cost-effective manufacturing. This study addresses process development issues using the exemplar of a human pluripotent
stem cell-based dopaminergic neuron cell therapy product. Early identification and correction of risks to
product safety and the manufacturing process reduces the expensive and time-consuming bridging studies later in development. A New Product Introduction map was used to determine the developmental
requirements specific to the product. Systematic Risk Analysis is exemplified here. Expected current valuebased prioritization guides decisions about the sequence of process studies and whether and if an early
abandonment of further research is appropriate. The application of the three tools enabled prioritization
of the development studie
ObservaçÔes preliminares sobre a malformação em inflorescencias de mangueira (Mangifera indica L.) e fungo, alguns insetos e åcaro nelas encontrados
Mango malformation, in the States of SĂŁo Paulo and Pernambuco, characterized by the transformation of the inflorescence into a compact mass of sterile flowers in adult trees and the production of thick vegetative shoots at the growing point or in the axil of a leaf in seedlings, is related to the mite Aceria mangiferae Sayed, 1946 (Acarina, Eriophyidae) and to the fungus Fusarium moniliforme subglutinans. The fungus is considered, although empirically, the main causative organism of the disease. Several insects were also collected from the mango inflorescences, namely: a caterpillar of Eupithecia sp ( = Tephroalystis) (Lepidoptera, Geometriidae, Hydriomeninae) damaging the flowers; large numbers of Frankliniella cubensis Hood, 1925 (Thysanoptera, Thripidae); and beetles belonging to the families Nitidulidae and Cryptophagidae.A malformação de inflorescĂȘncias e o superbrotamento de gemas terminais e axilares de mangueiras dos Estados de SĂŁo Paulo e Pernambuco sĂŁo relacionados com o ĂĄcaro Aceria mangiferae Sayed, 1946 (Acarina, Eriophyidae) e o fungo Fusarium moniliforme subglutinans, sendo ĂȘste Ășltimo considerado, empĂricamente, como o principal agente causal da doença. Varios insetos associados Ă s inflorescĂȘncias de mangueiras foram coletados: lagarta de Eupithecia sp. (Tephroclystis), (Lepidoptera, Geometriidae, Hydriomeninae); Frankliniella cubensis Hood, 1925 (Thysanoptera, Thripidae); coleopteros pertencentes Ă s familias Nitidulidae e Cryptophagidae
Work Participation Interventions for Individuals with Disabilities: An Evidence-Based Practice Project
This Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) project considered the following question: What are the characteristics of interventions, programs, and services that are effective in supporting work participation for individuals with disabilities and their employers
Search for CP Violation in the Decay Z -> b (b bar) g
About three million hadronic decays of the Z collected by ALEPH in the years
1991-1994 are used to search for anomalous CP violation beyond the Standard
Model in the decay Z -> b \bar{b} g. The study is performed by analyzing
angular correlations between the two quarks and the gluon in three-jet events
and by measuring the differential two-jet rate. No signal of CP violation is
found. For the combinations of anomalous CP violating couplings, and , limits of \hat{h}_b < 0.59h^{\ast}_{b} < 3.02$ are given at 95\% CL.Comment: 8 pages, 1 postscript figure, uses here.sty, epsfig.st
Search for the glueball candidates f0(1500) and fJ(1710) in gamma gamma collisions
Data taken with the ALEPH detector at LEP1 have been used to search for gamma
gamma production of the glueball candidates f0(1500) and fJ(1710) via their
decay to pi+pi-. No signal is observed and upper limits to the product of gamma
gamma width and pi+pi- branching ratio of the f0(1500) and the fJ(1710) have
been measured to be Gamma_(gamma gamma -> f0(1500)). BR(f0(1500)->pi+pi-) <
0.31 keV and Gamma_(gamma gamma -> fJ(1710)). BR(fJ(1710)->pi+pi-) < 0.55 keV
at 95% confidence level.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
Influence of storage conditions and packaging materials on some quality attributes of water yam flour
The study investigated some quality attributes of water yam flour stored in three packaging materials [high and low density polyethylene and plastic container] under different storage conditions [relative humidity (36%, 56%, 75% and 96%), temperature (25±2, 35±2 and 45±2 °C)] for 24 weeks. The functional properties, proximate composition and microbial load of the samples were evaluated at 4 weeks interval. Significant differences (p<0.01) were observed for proximate composition, functional properties and microbial load of the samples during storage. The interactive effect of storage conditions and packaging materials was significant (p<0.01) on proximate composition and pasting properties (except trough viscosity). The yam flour samples were still shelf stable after the 24 weeks of storage
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