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    A new integrated lower Cambrian chronostratigraphy for the Normanville Group, eastern Stansbury Basin, with definition of the oldest small shelly fossil zones in South Australia
    (Australasian Palaeontologists, 2025)
    Castle-Jones, Jack
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    Jaquet, Sarah M
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    Chen, Feiyang
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    Zhang, Zhiliang
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    Hall, Philip A
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    Klaebe, Robert M
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    Brock, Glenn A

    The lower Cambrian Normanville Group in the eastern Stansbury Basin, South Australia is a pre-trilobitic succession of carbonates and siliciclastics, hosting a mix of endemic and cosmopolitan small shelly fossils. The mollusc Watsonella crosbyi and tommotiid Sunnaginia imbricata are two globally distributed taxa found in other Cambrian terranes. High resolution, systematic sampling of key formations has enabled the definition of eponymous zones based on these cosmopolitan faunas, which are the oldest Cambrian shelly fossil biozones in South Australia. Coupled with new δ13C and δ18O chemostratigraphy through the Fork Tree Limestone, a near complete integrated chronostratigraphic scheme for the Normanville Group is compiled. Comparisons to regional Cambrian basins suggests a Terreneuvian, Stage 2 age for most of the formations within the Normanville Group (Mount Terrible Formation, Wangkonda Formation, Sellick Hill Formation and Fork Tree Limestone), while the Heatherdale Shale has a Series 2, Stage 3 age.

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    Identification of the Cambrian Series 2 – Miaolingian boundary, western Stansbury Basin, South Australia using multiproxy chronostratigraphy
    (Australasian Palaeontologists, 2024)
    Birksmith, Courtney
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    Castle-Jones, Jack
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    Hall, Philip A
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    Klaebe, Robert M
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    Zhang, Zhiliang
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    Brock, Glenn A

    The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Series 2–Miaolingian Series boundary has been ratified in South China based on the first appearance of the trilobite Oryctocephalus indicus (Reed 1910) coincident with a major negative δ13C excursion, the Redlichiid–Olenellid Extinction Carbon isotope Excursion (ROECE). Unfortunately, O. indicus does not occur in Australian–Antarctic Cambrian successions impeding recognition of the Series 2 – Miaolingian boundary in East Gondwana. New multiproxy data integrating δ13C and δ18O chemostratigraphy and shelly fossil biostratigraphy from subsurface cores in the western Stansbury Basin, South Australia, is presented. A sharp -5.3 ‰ δ13C peak in the Stansbury Limestone in core Cur D 9 and a -2.7 ‰ δ13C peak in the same unit in core Port Julia 1A are interpreted to be synchronous and represent the global ROECE event and the Series 2 – Miaolingian boundary in this basin. Mirroring the GSSP, the last occurrence of Redlichia sp. occurs below the ROECE level and the range of the guide taxon Pagetia straddles the interpreted ROECE event. The biostratigraphic utility of the scalidophoran ecdysozoans Chalasiocranos exquisitum Brock & Cooper 1993 and Kaimenella sp. aff. K. reticulata Märss 1988 to define a potential new late Stage 4 zone/subzone in South Australia is discussed. A distinctive -2.0 ‰ δ13C peak in the Ramsay Limestone captured in two cores in the western Stansbury Basin is correlated with an identical amplitude peak in the middle part of the Wirrealpa Limestone in the Arrowie Basin, just below the last occurrence of archaeocyaths in South Australia. This event in upper Stage 4 may represent the Archaeocyathid Extinction Carbon isotope Excursion (AECE).

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    A new mickwitziid (stem group Brachiopoda) from the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) of the Baltic Sea
    (Australasian Palaeontologists, 2025) ;
    Liang, Yue
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    Zhang, Zhifei
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    Holmer, Lars E

    A new genus and species of mickwitziid—Wimanigma soderarmensis—is described from glacial drift material most probably derived from the Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) File Haidar Formation, occurring now as subcrops beneath the Bothnian Sea (the region between Sweden and Finland separating the Bay of Bothnia from the Baltic Sea). The material was previously referred to Mickwitzia Schmidt 1888, also known from glacial drift in the same area. However, Wimanigma clearly differs from the strongly mineralised Mickwitzia in having a less mineralised and softer shell, composed of easily fragmented, roughly triangular units of similar size, with very strong and regularly spaced comarginal corrugations. Each triangular unit has pustulose ornamentation typical of mickwitziids, and the shell is penetrated by vertical pores or tubules. Wimanigma soderarmensis is considered to represent a mickwitziid stem brachiopod.

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    Orgasmic Gushing: where does the fluid come from and how is it produced?
    (Women in Research (WiR), 2005)
    O'Brien, GM
    There are three sexual fluids from women: lubrication (e.g. transudation of fluid across the mucosa of the vagina, and mucus from the greater vestibular glands); female ejaculation (from paraurethral glands); and gushing. Orthodox western medicine and physiology does not yet have a standardized description or explanation for the third, gushing. The present paper proposes that the gushing fluid is a filtrate of plasma, produced by the mechanism known as transudation. This is an additional application for the transudation mechanism, after the well accepted roles in lubrication of the vagina, and in generating serous fluids. The present model proposes that the fluid released in a gush arises from the ventral wall of the vagina due to the presence there of increased surface area of mucosa, dilated arterioles, pressurized venous and lymphatic plexuses, and compression provided by muscle contraction during orgasm.
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    Mapping Long Term Changes in Mangrove Cover and Predictions of Future Change under Different Climate Change Scenarios in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh
    (2018-05-22)
    Ghosh, Manoj Kumer
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    Ground-based readings of temperature and rainfall, satellite imagery, aerial photographs, ground verification data and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) were used in this study. Ground-based meteorological information was obtained from Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) for the period 1977 to 2015 and was used to determine the trends of rainfall and temperature in this thesis. Satellite images obtained from the US Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) website (www.glovis.usgs.gov) in four time periods were analysed to assess the dynamics of mangrove population at species level. Remote sensing techniques, as a solution to lack of spatial data at a relevant scale and difficulty in accessing the mangroves for field survey and also as an alternative to the traditional methods were used in monitoring of the changes in mangrove species composition, . To identify mangrove forests, a number of satellite sensors have been used, including Landsat TM/ETM/OLI, SPOT, CBERS, SIR, ASTER, and IKONOS and Quick Bird. The use of conventional medium-resolution remote sensor data (e.g., Landsat TM, ASTER, SPOT) in the identification of different mangrove species remains a challenging task. In many developing countries, the high cost of acquiring high- resolution satellite imagery excludes its routine use. The free availability of archived images enables the development of useful techniques in its use and therefor Landsat imagery were used in this study for mangrove species classification. Satellite imagery used in this study includes: Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) of 57 m resolution acquired on 1st February 1977, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) of 28.5 m resolution acquired on 5th February 1989, Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) of 28.5 m resolution acquired on 28th February 2000 and Landsat Operational Land Imager (OLI) of 30 m resolution acquired on 4th February 2015. To study tidal channel dynamics of the study area, aerial photographs from 1974 and 2011, and a satellite image from 2017 were used. Satellite images from 1974 with good spatial resolution of the area were not available, and therefore aerial photographs of comparatively high and fine resolution were considered adequate to obtain information on tidal channel dynamics. Although high-resolution satellite imagery was available for 2011, aerial photographs were used for this study due to their effectiveness in terms of cost and also ease of comparison with the 1974 photographs. The aerial photographs were sourced from the Survey of Bangladesh (SOB). The Sentinel-2 satellite image from 2017 was downloaded from the European Space Agency (ESA) website (https://scihub.copernicus.eu/). In this research, elevation data acts as the main parameter in the determination of the sea level rise (SLR) impacts on the spatial distribution of the future mangrove species of the Bangladesh Sundarbans. High resolution elevation data is essential for this kind of research where every centimeter counts due to the low-lying characteristics of the study area. The high resolution (less than 1m vertical error) DEM data used in this study was obtained from Water Resources Planning Organization (WRPO), Bangladesh. The elevation information used to construct the DEM was originally collected by a Finnish consulting firm known as FINNMAP in 1991 for the Bangladesh government.
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    Reinforced Behavioral Variability and Sequence Learning Across Species
    (Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), 2012)
    Doolan, Kathleen
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    McEwan, James
    Previous research shows that reinforcement of variable responding will facilitate sequence learning in rats (Neuringer, Deiss & Olson, 2000) but may interfere with sequence learning in humans (Maes & van der Goot, 2006). The present study aimed to replicate and extend previous research by assessing the role of behavioral variability in the learning of difficult target sequences across 3 species: humans (n = 60), hens (n = 18) and possums (n = 6). Participants were randomly allocated to one of three experimental conditions (Control, Variable, Any). In the Control conditions sequences were only reinforced if they were the target sequence, in the Variability conditions sequences were concurrently reinforced on a Variable Interval 60-s schedule if the just entered sequence met a variability criterion, and in the Any condition sequences were concurrently reinforced on a Variable Interval 60-s schedule for any sequence entered. The results support previous findings with animals and humans; hens and possums were more likely to learn the target sequence in the Variability condition, and human participants were more likely to learn the target sequence in the Control condition. Possible explanations for differences between the performance of humans and animals on this task will be discussed.
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    The drivers and consequences of change to the physical character of waterholes on an Australian dryland river
    This dataset provides all the raw and analysed data for the thesis titled 'The drivers and consequences of change to the physical character of waterholes on an Australian dryland river'.
    The data has been divided into four folders that are aligned with the data chapters for the thesis. These being: (Ch 2) waterhole mapping, (Ch 3) floodplain gullies, (Ch 4) sediment transport and (Ch 5) fish.
    A README file is provided for each chapter which contains a description of the individual datasets and a list of files that make up each dataset.
    The data in this archive is a combination of data obtained from desktop studies as well as field work on the Darling River (i.e., the fish data).
    Further, fish data were collected on the Darling River between Bourke and Wilcannia. Waterhole mapping was undertaken on the Barwon-Darling between Walgett and Wilcannia. Gully mapping was undertaken on the Barwon-Darling River between Mungindi and Wilcannia. Sediment transport capacity was assessed at five sites between Collarenebri and Tilpa.
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    A Review into Effective Classroom Management and Strategies for Student Engagement: Teacher and Student Roles in Today’s Classrooms
    (Redfame Publishing Inc, 2019-12)
    Franklin, Hayley
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    A teacher's role encompasses far more than just imparting curricula outcomes to their students: they need to equip students with the necessary tools to experience social and academic success both inside the classroom and beyond it. Teachers need to empower students with the means to critically analyse the world around them in order to develop into critical independent thinkers. Students need to be proficient in utilising skills associated with higher levels of thinking, that will empower them with the ability to identify, analyse and evaluate the infinite volume of information available through our rapidly changing digital world. Just as teachers need to take responsibility for the various methods of teaching and instruction in the classroom, it is essential for students to take ownership of the learning process, to ensure future success in university environments, where sustained personal effort and metacognitive skills are fundamental to academic success. The object of the review of the literature surrounding the roles of teacher and student, effective classroom management strategies, and successful evidence-based teaching and learning pedagogies, is to assist new and experienced teachers in the promotion of a positive classroom experience for all.
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