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Connectomes across development reveal principles of brain maturation
An animal’s nervous system changes as its body grows from birth to adulthood and its behaviours mature1–8. The form and extent of circuit remodelling across the connectome is unknown3,9–15. Here we used serial-se...
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Open AccessSareomycetes: more diverse than meets the eye
Since its resurrection, the resinicolous discomycete genus Sarea has been accepted as containing two species, one with black apothecia and pycnidia, and one with orange. We investigate this hypothesis using three...
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Growing the Constituency: A Twenty-First Century Challenge
Interest groups that have hitherto shaped disaster policies are too small, too limited in scope and too impermanent to effect meaningful long term improvements. A major expansion of public involvement is calle...
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The Role of Geotechnics in Addressing New World Problems
There are many “new world”, or recently emergent, global challenges whose solutions require geotechnical inputs. Included among these challenges are climate change, enhancement of urban sustainability and resi...
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Open AccessConsiderations and consequences of allowing DNA sequence data as types of fungal taxa
Nomenclatural type definitions are one of the most important concepts in biological nomenclature. Being physical objects that can be re-studied by other researchers, types permanently link taxonomy (an artific...
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Resilient Disaster Recovery: The Role of Health Impact Assessment
Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) offer an important way of improving infrastructure decision-making during the post-disaster recovery period. Although increasingly used in support of non-emergency planning dec...
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The influence of six pharmaceuticals on freshwater sediment microbial growth incubated at different temperatures and UV exposures
Pharmaceutical compounds have been detected in freshwater for several decades. Once they enter the aquatic ecosystem, they may be transformed abiotically (i.e., photolysis) or biotically (i.e., microbial activ...
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Urban Disasters as Indicators of Global Environmental Change: Assessing Functional Varieties of Vulnerability
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Development of a submerged-liquid sporulation medium for the johnsongrass bioherbicide Gloeocercospora sorghi
Submerged culture experiments were conducted in three phases to determine the optimal medium for rapidly producing conidia of the fungal bioherbicide Gloeocercospora sorghi. In phase I, 18 crude carbon sources we...
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Megacities and natural disasters: a comparative analysis*
Natural disasters are a worsening problem in many of the world's largest cities. Since an increasing majority of the world's population will soon live in cities, and mostly in large cities, the trend towards i...
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Urban Metabolism and Disaster Vulnerability in an Era
Research on the human dimensions of global change typically examines the vulnerability of sociotechnical systems to anticipated environmental stresses, most often in non-urban settings. This paper takes a some...
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Arias Intensity Assessment of Liquefaction Test Sites on the East Side of San Francisco Bay Affected by the Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of 17 October 1989
Uncompacted artificial-fill deposits on the east side of San Francisco Bay suffered severe levels of soil liquefaction during the Loma Prieta earthquake of 17 October 1989. Damaged areas included maritime-port...
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Arias Intensity Assessment of Liquefaction Test Sites on the East Side of San Francisco Bay Affected by the Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of 17 October 1989
Uncompacted artificial-fill deposits on the east side of San Francisco Bay suffered severe levels of soil liquefaction during the Loma Prieta earthquake of 17 October 1989. Damaged areas included maritime-port...
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Disaster Vulnerability of Megacities: An expanding problem that requires rethinking and innovative responses
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Co** with natural hazards and disasters in megacities: Perspectives on the Twenty-First Century
Changes in global urbanization and emerging patterns of disaster losses suggest that it may now be time to refocus the hazards research agenda on problems of very large cities. The resolution of urban disaster...
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Natural Hazard Predictions and Responses in Very Large Cities
This paper focuses on natural hazard prediction and associated responses in the context of large scale modern urbanization. It reviews evidence from a selection of large-city earthquake, storm and wildfire dis...
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Geotechnology and its importance in economic growth, the environment, and national security
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Chemical effects on clay farbric and hydraulic conductivity
Hydraulic conductivity and its susceptibility to changes with time or exposure to chemicals are major factors in selection of clay for use in waste containment barriers. Available concepts of clay-chemical int...
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