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The International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting and the Coastal Hazards Symposium
Following the 13th International Workshop on Wave Hindcasting and Forecasting
and 4th Coastal Hazards Symposium in October 2013 in Banff, Canada, a topical
collection has appeared in recent issues of Ocean Dynamics. Here we give a
brief overview of the history of the conference since its inception in 1986 and
of the progress made in the fields of wind-generated ocean waves and the
modelling of coastal hazards before we summarize the main results of the papers
that have appeared in the topical collection
A marker suitable for sex-typing birds from degraded samples
A new primer set was developed for sex-typing
birds, Z37B. This primer set was designed to amplify alleles
of small size to render it suitable for sex-typing degraded
samples, including shed feathers. This marker
successfully sex-typed 50 % of the species tested, including
passerines, shorebirds, rails, seabirds, eagles and the
brown kiwi Apteryx australis (allele size range
=81–103 bp), and is therefore expected to be suitable for
sex-typing a wide range of species. Z37B sex-typed nondegraded
samples (blood), degraded tissue (dead unhatched
embryos, dead nestlings and museum specimens) and
samples of low quantity DNA (plucked feathers and buccal
swabs). The small amplicon sizes in birds suggest that this
marker will be of utility for sex-typing feathers, swabs and
degraded samples from a wide range of avian species
MBE growth and characterisation of II-VI semiconductor materials and devices
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Commentary on Horsburgh D and Ross J (2013) Care and compassion: experiences of newly qualified staff nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing 22, 1124-1132
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