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Mode Shifts in Conversations with People with Dementia can Cause Confusion
(2019)We illustrate how speakers with dementia may shift the whole mode of a conversation as well as its topic or their role in it. This can confuse their unimpaired conversation partner if that partner is less aware of features ... -
Genetic diversity and kelp forest vulnerability to climatic stress
(2018)Genetic diversity confers adaptive capacity to populations under changing conditions but its role in mediating impacts of climate change remains unresolved for most ecosystems. This lack of knowledge is particularly acute ... -
Differential cosmic expansion and the Hubble flow anisotropy
(University of Canterbury. Physics and Astronomy, 2016)The Universe on scales 10–100 h−1Mpc is dominated by a cosmic web of voids, filaments, sheets and knots of galaxy clusters. These structures participate differently in the global expansion of the Universe: from non-expanding ... -
Introduced blackbirds and song thrushes: useful substitutes for lost mid-sized native frugivores, or weed vectors?
(University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2016)The New Zealand avifauna has declined from human impacts, which might leave some larger-seeded native plants vulnerable to dispersal failure. We studied fruit dispersal in a lowland secondary forest near Kaikoura, where ... -
Replicating Arabidopsis Model Leaf Surfaces for Phyllosphere Microbiology
(2019)Artifcial surfaces are commonly used in place of leaves in phyllosphere microbiology to study microbial behaviour on plant leaf surfaces. These surfaces enable a reductionist approach to be undertaken, to enable individual ... -
Variability of Acoustically Evidenced Methane Bubble Emissions Offshore Western Svalbard
(American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019)Large reservoirs of methane present in Arctic marine sediments are susceptible to rapid warming, promoting increasing methane emissions. Gas bubbles in the water-column can be detected and flow-rates can be quantified ... -
Ar-Ar age constraints on the timing of Havre Trough opening and magmatism
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)The age and style of opening of the Havre Trough back-arc system is uncertain due to a lack of geochronologic constraints for the region. 40Ar/39Ar dating of 19 volcanic rocks from across the southern Havre Trough and ... -
Linking species functional roles to their network roles
(University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2016)Species roles in ecological networks combine to generate their architecture, which contributes to their stability. Species trait diversity also affects ecosystem functioning and resilience, yet it remains unknown whether ... -
Evaluation of Parsons Problems with Menu-Based Self-Explanation Prompts in a Mobile Python Tutor
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019)The overarching goal of our project is to design effective learning activities for PyKinetic, a smartphone Python tutor. In this paper, we present a study using a variant of Parsons problems we designed for PyKinetic. Parsons ... -
The role of the anterior lateral eyes in the vision-based behaviour of jumping spiders
(COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS LTD, 2010)Jumping spiders, or salticids, sample their environment using a combination of two types of eyes. The forward-facing pair of 'principal' eyes have narrow fields of view, but exceptional spatial resolution, while the two ... -
Enchancement of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) accumulation in Arxula adeninivorans by stabilization of production
(2017)Background: In recent years the production of biobased biodegradable plastics has been of interest of researchers partly due to the accumulation of non-biodegradable plastics in the environment and to the opportunity for ... -
Effects of Beneficial Mutations in pykF Gene Vary over Time and across Replicate Populations in a Long-Term Experiment with Bacteria
(2018)Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. The fitness effects of mutations can depend on the genetic backgrounds in which they occur and thereby influence future ... -
Draft genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Hypoxylon pulicicidum ATCC 74245
(2018)Hypoxylon pulicicidum strain MF5954 (ATCC 74245) (formerly classified as Nodulisporium sp.) is a filamentous fungal species known for its production of the secondary metabolite nodulisporic acid A. We present here the ... -
Draft genome sequence of a novel Thermofilum sp. strain from a New Zealand hot spring enrichment culture
(2018)A draft genome of a new Thermofilum sp. strain was obtained from an enrichment culture metagenome. Like its relatives, Thermofilum sp. strain NZ13 is adapted to organic-rich thermal environments and has to depend on other ... -
Draft genome sequence of a Dictyoglomus sp. from an enrichment culture of a New Zealand geothermal spring
(2018)A draft genome of a novel Dictyoglomus sp., NZ13-RE01, was obtained from a New Zealand hot spring enrichment culture. The 1,927,012-bp genome is similar in both size and G+C content to other Dictyoglomus spp. Like its ... -
Deterministic X-ray Bragg coherent diffraction imaging as a seed for subsequent iterative reconstruction
(2018)Coherent diffractive imaging (CDI), using both X-rays and electrons, has made extremely rapid progress over the past two decades. The associated reconstruction algorithms are typically iterative, and seeded with a ... -
Database analysis of depression and anxiety in a community sample—response to a micronutrient intervention
(2018)Background: Depression and anxiety are common mental health concerns worldwide. Broad-spectrum multi-vitamin/mineral approaches have been found to alleviate a number of psychiatric symptoms. We investigated the effects of ... -
Differential limit on the extremely-high-energy cosmic neutrino flux in the presence of astrophysical background from nine years of IceCube data
(2018)We report a quasidifferential upper limit on the extremely-high-energy (EHE) neutrino flux above 5×106 GeV based on an analysis of nine years of IceCube data. The astrophysical neutrino flux measured by IceCube extends to ... -
Alarm calling best predicts mating and reproductive success in ornamented male fowl, Gallus gallus
(Elsevier BV, 2008)Studies of female mate choice in fowl typically invoke ornament size as the best predictor of male reproductive success. The strongest evidence comes from experiments in which a hen is presented with two unfamiliar and ... -
Vision-based ability of an ant-mimicking jumping spider to discriminate between models, conspecific individuals and prey
(BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG, 2007)Myrmarachne assimilis, an ant-like (myrmecomorphic) jumping spider (Araneae, Salticidae) from the Philippines, is a Batesian mimic of Oecophylla smaragdina, the Asian weaver ant. Salticids are well known for their acute ...
