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    Navigating the Kingdom of Night (2021)
    University of Adelaide Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: In 2011, Amy T Matthews published End of the Night Girl, a novel which engages creatively with questions of identity politics and the ethics of fictionalising the Holocaust. Navigating the Kingdom of Night is a critical exegesis in which the author contextualises End of the Night Girl in terms of the critical debate surrounding Holocaust fiction.
    Keywords: theodor w. adorno ; exegesis ; john boyne ; d.m. thomas ; helen darville ; the white hotel ; creative wiriting ; hasidic tales of the holocaust ; art spiegelman ; jerzy kosinski ; the painted bird ; novel writing ; everything is illuminated ; yaffa eliach ; the boy in the striped pyjamas ; amy t. matthews ; helen demidenko ; the hand that signed the paper ; holocaust fiction ; maus ; navigating the kingdom of night ; end of the night girl ; jonathan safran foer ; Doctor of Philosophy ; Jews ; Nazism ; Sigmund Freud ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
    Language: English
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    An evaluation of persistent meteorological drought using a homogeneous Island of Ireland precipitation network (2015)
    Wiley
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    Publication Date: 2015-10-20
    Description: ABSTRACT This paper investigates the spatial and temporal properties of persistent meteorological droughts using the homogeneous Island of Ireland Precipitation (IIP) network. Relative to a 1961–1990 baseline period it is shown that the longest observed run of below average precipitation since the 1850s lasted up to 5 years (10 half-year seasons) at sites in southeast and east Ireland, or 3 years across the network as a whole. Dry spell and wet spell length distributions were represented by a first-order Markov model which yields realistic runs of below average rainfall for individual sites and IIP series. This model shows that there is relatively high likelihood ( p  = 0.125) of a 5-year dry spell at Dublin, and that near unbroken dry runs of 10 years or more are conceivable. We suggest that the IIP network and attendant rainfall deficit modelling provide credible data for stress testing water supply and drought plans under extreme conditions.
    Print ISSN: 0899-8418
    Electronic ISSN: 1097-0088
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
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    A cyclone climatology of the British-Irish Isles 1871–2012 (2015)
    Wiley
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    Publication Date: 2015-07-07
    Description: ABSTRACT The British-Irish Isles (BI) lie beneath the North Atlantic storm track year-round and thus are impacted by the passage of extra-tropical cyclones. Given recent extreme storminess and projections of enhanced winter cyclone activity for this region, there is much interest in assessing the extent to which the cyclone climate of the region may be changing. We address this by assessing a 142-year (1871–2012) record of cyclone frequency, intensity and ‘storminess’ derived from the 20th Century Reanalysis V2 (20CR) dataset. We also use this long-term record to examine associations between cyclone activity and regional hydroclimate. Our results confirm the importance of cyclone frequency in driving seasonal precipitation totals which we find to be greatest during summer months. Cyclone frequency and storminess are characterized by pronounced interannual and multi-decadal variability which are strongly coupled to atmospheric blocking in the Euro-Atlantic region, but we detect no evidence of an increasing trend. We observe an upward trend in cyclone intensity for the BI region, which is strongest in winter and consistent with model projections, but promote caution interpreting this given the changing data quality in the 20CR over time. Nonetheless, we assert that long-term reconstruction is helpful for contextualizing recent storminess and for identifying emerging changes in regional hydroclimate linked to cyclones.
    Print ISSN: 0899-8418
    Electronic ISSN: 1097-0088
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
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    Homogenization and analysis of an expanded long-term monthly rainfall network for the Island of Ireland (1850–2010) (2015)
    Wiley
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    Publication Date: 2015-10-07
    Description: ABSTRACT Long-term precipitation series are critical for understanding emerging changes to the hydrological cycle. To this end we construct a homogenized Island of Ireland Precipitation (IIP) network comprising 25 stations and a composite series covering the period 1850–2010, providing the second-longest regional precipitation archive in the British-Irish Isles. We expand the existing catalogue of long-term precipitation records for the island by recovering archived data for an additional eight stations. Following bridging and updating of stations HOMogenisation softwarE in R (HOMER) homogenization software is used to detect breaks using pairwise and joint detection. A total of 25 breakpoints are detected across 14 stations, and the majority (20) are corroborated by metadata. Assessment of variability and change in homogenized and extended precipitation records reveal positive (winter) and negative (summer) trends. Trends in records covering the typical period of digitization (1941 onwards) are not always representative of longer records. Furthermore, trends in post-homogenization series change magnitude and even direction at some stations. While cautionary flags are raised for some series, confidence in the derived network is high given attention paid to metadata, coherence of behaviour across the network and consistency of findings with other long-term climatic series such as England and Wales precipitation. As far as we are aware, this work represents the first application of HOMER to a long-term precipitation network and bodes well for use in other regions. It is expected that the homogenized IIP network will find wider utility in benchmarking and supporting climate services across the Island of Ireland, a sentinel location in the North Atlantic.
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    Electronic ISSN: 1097-0088
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
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    Identification of Palmitoyl Protein Thioesterase 1 in Human THP1 Monocytes and Macrophages and Characterization of Unique Biochemical Activities for This Enzyme (2013)
    American Chemical Society (ACS)
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    Publication Date: 2013-10-19
    Description: Biochemistry DOI: 10.1021/bi401138s
    Print ISSN: 0006-2960
    Electronic ISSN: 1520-4995
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
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    Conditioning temperature-index model parameters on synoptic weather types for glacier melt simulations (2014)
    Wiley
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    Publication Date: 2014-04-15
    Description: Temperature-index models are widely favoured as a pragmatic means of simulating glacier melt due to their generally good performance, computational simplicity, and limited demands for in-situ data. However, their coefficients are normally treated as temporally stationary, unrealistically assuming a constancy of the prevailing weather. We address this simplification by prescribing model coefficients as a function of synoptic weather type, in a procedure that utilizes reanalysis data and preserves the minimal data requirements of temperature-index models. Using a cross-validation procedure at Vestari Hagafellsjökull, Iceland, and Storglaciären, Sweden, we demonstrate that applying transient model coefficients, for three temperature-index models, results in statistically-significant increases in the skill with which melt is modelled: median simulation improvements in the Nash-Sutcliffe Efficiency Coefficient of 7.3% and 23.6% are achieved when hourly and daily melt totals are evaluated, respectively. Our weather-type modelling approach also yields insight to processes driving parameter variability, revealing dependencies which are consistent with a priori considerations of the surface energy balance (SEB). We conclude that incorporating weather types into temperature-index models holds promise for improving their performance, as well as enhancing understanding variability in coefficient values. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
    Print ISSN: 0885-6087
    Electronic ISSN: 1099-1085
    Topics: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Surveying , Geography
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    Inter-decadal variability in potential glacier surface melt energy at Vestari Hagafellsjökull (Langjökull, Iceland) and the role of synoptic circulation (2014)
    Wiley
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    Publication Date: 2014-11-14
    Description: ABSTRACT The surface energy balance (SEB) of glaciers, although of considerable importance for understanding the melt response to climate change, is rarely analysed for more than a few melt seasons due to the logistical challenges of meteorological measurement campaigns on glaciers. Insight into low-frequency (inter-decadal) changes in the SEB in response to climate warming and variable atmospheric circulation patterns has thus been limited. Here this problem is addressed by using ERA-Interim reanalysis data to extend glacier-meteorological records at two locations on Vestari Hagafellsjökull (Iceland) for the period 1979–2012. Trend analysis is conducted for this series before the role of synoptic circulation in modulating surface energetics is investigated. The results indicate that potential melt energy has increased significantly throughout the period of simulation at both locations (by 19.7 and 32.4%), with the largest increase evident for the turbulent heat fluxes (36.3 and 93.1%). The synoptic conditions associated with the recent high melt rates on the proximate Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) do not result in similarly extreme melt conditions for our Icelandic location. We also find that the North Atlantic Oscillation Index is significantly correlated with the radiative and latent heat components of the SEB. This association remains hidden if the melt rate is assessed in isolation, highlighting the utility of the SEB approach presented here for assessing synoptic aspects of glacier-climate interactions.
    Print ISSN: 0899-8418
    Electronic ISSN: 1097-0088
    Topics: Geosciences , Physics
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    Atomic-scale visualization of inertial dynamics (2005)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2005-04-16
    Description: The motion of atoms on interatomic potential energy surfaces is fundamental to the dynamics of liquids and solids. An accelerator-based source of femtosecond x-ray pulses allowed us to follow directly atomic displacements on an optically modified energy landscape, leading eventually to the transition from crystalline solid to disordered liquid. We show that, to first order in time, the dynamics are inertial, and we place constraints on the shape and curvature of the transition-state potential energy surface. Our measurements point toward analogies between this nonequilibrium phase transition and the short-time dynamics intrinsic to equilibrium liquids.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lindenberg, A M -- Larsson, J -- Sokolowski-Tinten, K -- Gaffney, K J -- Blome, C -- Synnergren, O -- Sheppard, J -- Caleman, C -- Macphee, A G -- Weinstein, D -- Lowney, D P -- Allison, T K -- Matthews, T -- Falcone, R W -- Cavalieri, A L -- Fritz, D M -- Lee, S H -- Bucksbaum, P H -- Reis, D A -- Rudati, J -- Fuoss, P H -- Kao, C C -- Siddons, D P -- Pahl, R -- Als-Nielsen, J -- Duesterer, S -- Ischebeck, R -- Schlarb, H -- Schulte-Schrepping, H -- Tschentscher, Th -- Schneider, J -- von der Linde, D -- Hignette, O -- Sette, F -- Chapman, H N -- Lee, R W -- Hansen, T N -- Techert, S -- Wark, J S -- Bergh, M -- Huldt, G -- van der Spoel, D -- Timneanu, N -- Hajdu, J -- Akre, R A -- Bong, E -- Krejcik, P -- Arthur, J -- Brennan, S -- Luening, K -- Hastings, J B -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Apr 15;308(5720):392-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory/Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15831753" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa (2012)
    Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
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    Publication Date: 2012-11-09
    Description: There is consensus that the modern human lineage appeared in Africa before 100,000 years ago. But there is debate as to when cultural and cognitive characteristics typical of modern humans first appeared, and the role that these had in the expansion of modern humans out of Africa. Scientists rely on symbolically specific proxies, such as artistic expression, to document the origins of complex cognition. Advanced technologies with elaborate chains of production are also proxies, as these often demand high-fidelity transmission and thus language. Some argue that advanced technologies in Africa appear and disappear and thus do not indicate complex cognition exclusive to early modern humans in Africa. The origins of composite tools and advanced projectile weapons figure prominently in modern human evolution research, and the latter have been argued to have been in the exclusive possession of modern humans. Here we describe a previously unrecognized advanced stone tool technology from Pinnacle Point Site 5-6 on the south coast of South Africa, originating approximately 71,000 years ago. This technology is dominated by the production of small bladelets (microliths) primarily from heat-treated stone. There is agreement that microlithic technology was used to create composite tool components as part of advanced projectile weapons. Microliths were common worldwide by the mid-Holocene epoch, but have a patchy pattern of first appearance that is rarely earlier than 40,000 years ago, and were thought to appear briefly between 65,000 and 60,000 years ago in South Africa and then disappear. Our research extends this record to ~71,000 years, shows that microlithic technology originated early in South Africa, evolved over a vast time span (~11,000 years), and was typically coupled to complex heat treatment that persisted for nearly 100,000 years. Advanced technologies in Africa were early and enduring; a small sample of excavated sites in Africa is the best explanation for any perceived 'flickering' pattern.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Brown, Kyle S -- Marean, Curtis W -- Jacobs, Zenobia -- Schoville, Benjamin J -- Oestmo, Simen -- Fisher, Erich C -- Bernatchez, Jocelyn -- Karkanas, Panagiotis -- Matthews, Thalassa -- England -- Nature. 2012 Nov 22;491(7425):590-3. doi: 10.1038/nature11660. Epub 2012 Nov 7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23135405" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Archaeology ; History, Ancient ; Humans ; South Africa ; Technology/*history ; Time Factors ; Weapons/*history
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Fast release at ribbon synapses [Neuroscience] (2014)
    National Academy of Sciences
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    Publication Date: 2014-06-11
    Description: Ribbon synapses of photoreceptor cells and second-order bipolar neurons in the retina are specialized to transmit graded signals that encode light intensity. Neurotransmitter release at ribbon synapses exhibits two kinetically distinct components, which serve different sensory functions. The faster component is depleted within milliseconds and generates transient postsynaptic responses that...
    Print ISSN: 0027-8424
    Electronic ISSN: 1091-6490
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General
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