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Macquarie University

EducationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
About: Macquarie University is a education organization based out in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Laser. The organization has 14075 authors who have published 47673 publications receiving 1416184 citations. The organization is also known as: Macquarie uni.
Topics: Population, Laser, Galaxy, Anxiety, Mantle (geology)


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TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the Cretaceous-Tertiary kimberlite intrusions has been used to map the Hackett and Contwoyto terranes to the ancient continental Anton terrane at part of the Slave Province.
Abstract: from some highly depleted ophiolites from convergent-margin settings, Heavy-mineral concentrates (garnets, chromites) and xenoliths from and may have formed in a similar situation during the accretion of 21 Cretaceous–Tertiary kimberlite intrusions have been used to map the Hackett and Contwoyto terranes (magmatic arc and accretionary the lithospheric mantle beneath the Lac de Gras area in the central prism, respectively) to the ancient continental Anton terrane at part of the Slave Province. Analyses of Nickel Temperature ( TNi) 2·6–2·7 Ga. The deeper layer is interpreted as a plume head, and Zinc Temperature ( TZn) have been used to place garnet and which rose from the lower mantle and underplated the existing chromite xenocrysts, respectively, in depth context. Paleogeotherms lithosphere at 2·6 Ga; evidence includes a high proportion of the derived from both xenoliths and concentrates lie near a 35 mW/ superdeep inclusion assemblage (ferropericlase–perovskite) in the m conductive model at T Ζ 900°C, and near a 38 mW/m diamond population. This event could have provided heat for model at higher T, implying a marked change in conductivity and/ generation of the widespread 2·6 Ga post-tectonic granites. Proteroor a thermal transient. Plots of garnet composition vs TNi also zoic subduction from east and west may have modified the cratonic show a sharp discontinuity in mantle composition at 900°C. root, mainly by introduction of eclogites near its base. Garnets from <145 km depth are ultradepleted in Y, Zr, Ti and Ga, whereas those from greater depths (to [200 km) are similar to garnets from Archean mantle world-wide. Relative abundances of garnet types indicate that the shallow layer consists of ~60% (clinopyroxene-free) harzburgite and 40% lherzolite, whereas the

259 citations

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19 Feb 2007
TL;DR: A study of the structure and use of vocabulary in Auslan and other signed languages in social context and issues in the study of signed languages.
Abstract: 1. Signed languages and linguistics 2. Auslan in social context 3. Auslan and other signed languages 4. Phonetics and phonology: the building blocks of signs 5. Morphology: sign formation and modification 6. Lexicon: the structure of Auslan vocabulary 7. Syntax: the structure of sentences in Auslan 8. Semantics and pragmatics: sign meaning and sentence meaning 9. Discourse: structure and use above the sentence 10. Issues in the study of signed languages.

259 citations

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TL;DR: The apparent reductions in all-cause mortality and diseases of ageing associated with meetformin use suggest that metformin could be extending life and healthspans by acting as a geroprotective agent.

258 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore an alternative hypothesis that large-scale land cover change explains the observed changes in rainfall and temperature in the southwest of Western Australia in the mid-20th century.
Abstract: [1] A sudden reduction in rainfall occurred in the southwest of Western Australia in the mid-20th century. This reduced inflows to the Perth water supply by about 120 GL (42%) and led to an acceleration of projects to develop new water sources at a cost of about $300 million. The reduction in rainfall was coincident with warmer temperatures. A major analysis of these changes indicated that the changes in temperature were likely caused by the enhanced greenhouse effect and that the changes in rainfall were likely caused by a large-scale reorganization of the atmospheric circulation. We explore an alternative hypothesis that large-scale land cover change explains the observed changes in rainfall and temperature. We use three high-resolution mesoscale model configurations forced at the boundaries to simulate (for each model) five July climates for each of natural and current land cover. We find that land cover change explains up to 50% of the observed warming. Following land cover change, we also find, in every simulation, a reduction in rainfall over southwest Western Australia and an increase in rainfall inland that matches the observations well. We show that the reduced surface roughness following land cover change largely explains the simulated changes in rainfall by increasing moisture divergence over southwest Western Australia and increasing moisture convergence inland. Increased horizontal wind magnitudes and suppressed vertical velocities over southwest Western Australia reduce the likelihood of precipitation. Inland, moisture convergence and increased vertical velocities lead to an increase in rainfall. Our results indicate that rainfall over southwest Western Australia may be returned to the long-term average through large-scale reforestation, a policy option within the control of local government. Such a program would also provide a century-scale carbon sink to ameliorate Australia’s very high per capita greenhouse gas emissions. INDEX TERMS: 1655 Global Change: Water cycles (1836); 3322 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Land/atmosphere interactions; 3329 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Mesoscale meteorology; KEYWORDS: land cover change, mesoscale modeling, regional climate change

258 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used satellite observations of land surface temperatures and convective cloud cover over West Africa to determine the impact of soil moisture on rainfall in the Sahel, and found that heterogeneity in soil moisture has a significant impact on storm initiation.
Abstract: Evapotranspiration of soil moisture can affect temperature and humidity in the lower atmosphere, and thereby the development of convective rain storms. Climate models have illustrated the importance of soil-moisture–precipitation feedbacks for weekly rainfall totals in semi-arid regions, such as the Sahel1. However, large variations exist between model feedbacks, and the mechanisms governing the strength and sign of the feedback are uncertain. Here, we use satellite observations of land surface temperatures and convective cloud cover over West Africa—collected during the wet seasons between 2006 and 2010—to determine the impact of soil moisture on rainfall in the Sahel. We show that variations in soil moisture on length scales of approximately 10–40 km exert a strong control on storm initiation—as evidenced by the appearance of convective cloud. The probability of convective initiation is doubled over strong soil-moisture gradients compared with that over uniform soil-moisture conditions. We find that 37% of all storm initiations analysed occurred over the steepest 25% of soil-moisture gradients. We conclude that heterogeneities in soil moisture on scales of tens of kilometres have a pronounced impact on rainfall in the Sahel, and suggest that similar processes may be important throughout the semi-arid tropics.

258 citations


Authors

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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Yang Yang1712644153049
Peter B. Reich159790110377
Nicholas J. Talley158157190197
John R. Hodges14981282709
Thomas J. Smith1401775113919
Andrew G. Clark140823123333
Joss Bland-Hawthorn136111477593
John F. Thompson132142095894
Xin Wang121150364930
William L. Griffin11786261494
Richard Shine115109656544
Ian T. Paulsen11235469460
Jianjun Liu112104071032
Douglas R. MacFarlane11086454236
Richard A. Bryant10976943971
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023110
2022463
20214,106
20204,009
20193,549
20183,119