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2017-10-18: Personalnachweisung der Berliner Gemeindeverwaltung und der mit ihr in Verbindung stehenden Verwaltungen und Anstalten;

2017-10-15: The role of knowledge in good governance for tourism

Moscardo, Gianna

This chapter discusses the role of knowledge in good governance for tourist destinations. In this context, the chapter identifies the broad processes and institutions involved in governance and decision making regarding tourism. These include levels ...

2017-10-15: Tourist destination governance: practice, theory and issues

Laws, Eric;Agrusa, Jerome;Scott, Noel;Richins, Harold

This introductory chapter summarizes key aspects of the development of thinking in reference to tourist destination governance. It reviews the changing contexts of tourist destination governance, identifying and analyzing the main sources of its rece...

2017-10-15: Survival over winter and spring emergence of Lucilia cuprina (Diptera:Calliphoridae) in south-eastern Australia

De Cat, Sandra;Larsen, John W.A.;Anderson, Norman

Overwintering of larvae of the Australian sheep blowfly, Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann), was studied over 2 years in south-eastern Australia. There was a biphasic pattern of emergence of flies from larvae entering the ground during April. Some larvae de...

2017-10-18: Collaborative and competitive strategies for agile scrum development

Ramanujam, Rohit;Lee, Ickjai

Agile scrum software development has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years due to its flexibility,responsiveness and reliability. This article extends it to multivendor competing situations, and introduces a collaborative framework for ...

2017-10-18: Fits and misfits of linked public participation and spatial information in water quality management on the Great Barrier Reef coast (Australia)

De Freitas, Debora M.;King, David;Cottrell, Alison

Public participation is experiencing increasing recognition as an indispensable component of effective communication and engagement between resource users and managers in natural resource planning and management. To bridge a gap between communication...

2017-10-18: Thermal sensitivity of Aedes aegypti from Australia: empirical data and prediction of effects on distribution

Richardson, Kelly;Hoffman, Ari;Johnson, Petrina;Ritchie, Scott;Kearney, Michael

An understanding of physiological sensitivity to temperature and its variability is important for predicting habitat suitability for disease vectors under different climatic regimes. In this study, we characterized the thermal sensitivity of larval d...

2017-10-18: Contribution of climate change to degradation and loss of critical fish habitats in Australian marine and freshwater environments

Pratchett, Morgan S.;Bay, Line;Gehrke, Peter C.;Koehn, John D.;Osborne, Kate;Pressey, Robert L.;Sweatman, Hugh P.A.;Wachenfeld, David

Australia's aquatic ecosystems are unique, supporting a high diversity of species and high levels of endemism; however, they are also extremely vulnerable to climate change. The present review assesses climate-induced changes to structural habitats t...

2017-10-18: A 3D modeling method to calculate the surface areas of coral branches

Jones, A.M.;Cantin, N.E.;Berkelmans, R.;Sinclair, B.;Negri, A.P.

The quantification of physiological and biochemical parameters in coral branches require normalization to a stable factor, such as the tissue biomass or surface area. Three dimensional (3D) animation software (Gmax®) was evaluated for estimating the ...

2017-10-18: Abdominal aortic aneurysm is associated with a variant in the low density lipoprotein receptor related protein 1(LRP1) gene.

Bown, Matthew J.;Jones, Gregory T.;Harrison, Seamus C.;Wright, Benjamin J.;Bumpstead, Suzannah;Baas, Annette F.;Gretarsdottir, Solveig;Badger, Stephen A.;Bradley, Declan T.;Burnand, Kevin;Child, Anne H.;Clough, Rachel E.;Cockerill, Gillian;Hafez, Hany;Scott, D. Julian A.;Futers, Simon;Johnson, Anne;Sohrabi, Soroush;Smith, Alberto;Thompson, Matthew M.;van Bockxmeer, Frank M.;Waltham, Matthew;Matthiasson, Stefan E.;Thorleifsson, Gudmar;Thorsteinsdottir, Unnar;Blankensteijn, Jan D.;Teijink, Joep A. W.;Wijmenga, Cisca;de Graaf, Jacqueline;Kiemeney, Lambertus A.;Assimes, Themistocles L.;McPherson, Ruth;CARDIoGRAM Consortium,;Global BPgen Consortium,;DIAGRAM Consortium,;VRCNZ Consortium,;Folkersen, Lasse;Franco-Cereceda, Anders;Palmen, Jutta;Smith, Andrew J.;Sylvius, Nicolas;Wild, John B.;Refstrup, Mette;Edkins, Sarah;Gwilliam, Rhian;Hunt, Sarah E.;Potter, Simon;Lindholt, Jes S.;Frikke-Schmidt, Ruth;Tybjaerg-Hansen, Anne;Hughes, Anne E.;Golledge, Jonathan;Norman, Paul E.;Van Rij, Andre;Powell, Janet T.;Eriksson, Per;Stefansson, Kari;Thompson, John R.;Humphries, Steve E.;Sayers, Robert D.;Deloukas, Panos;Samani, Nilesh J.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality and has a significant heritability. We carried out a genome-wide association discovery study of 1866 patients with AAA and 5435 controls and replication of promising signals...