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Compounding and complementary carnivores: Australian bird species eaten by the introduced European red fox Vulpes vulpes and domestic cat Felis catus
- JOHN C.Z. WOINARSKI, ALYSON M. STOBO-WILSON, HEATHER M. CRAWFORD, STUART J. DAWSON, CHRIS R. DICKMAN, TIM S. DOHERTY, PATRICIA A. FLEMING, STEPHEN T. GARNETT, MATTHEW N. GENTLE, SARAH M. LEGGE, THOMAS M. NEWSOME, RUSSELL PALMER, MATTHEW W. REES, EUAN G. RITCHIE, JAMES SPEED, JOHN-MICHAEL STUART, EILYSH THOMPSON, JEFF TURPIN, BRETT P. MURPHY
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- Bird Conservation International / Volume 32 / Issue 3 / September 2022
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- 02 December 2021, pp. 506-522
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Two introduced carnivores, the European red fox Vulpes vulpes and domestic cat Felis catus, have had extensive impacts on Australian biodiversity. In this study, we collate information on consumption of Australian birds by the fox, paralleling a recent study reporting on birds consumed by cats. We found records of consumption by foxes on 128 native bird species (18% of the non-vagrant bird fauna and 25% of those species within the fox’s range), a smaller tally than for cats (343 species, including 297 within the fox’s Australian range, a subset of that of the cat). Most (81%) bird species eaten by foxes are also eaten by cats, suggesting that predation impacts are compounded. As with consumption by cats, birds that nest or forage on the ground are most likely to be consumed by foxes. However, there is also some partitioning, with records of consumption by foxes but not cats for 25 bird species, indicating that impacts of the two predators may also be complementary. Bird species ≥3.4 kg were more likely to be eaten by foxes, and those <3.4 kg by cats. Our compilation provides an inventory and describes characteristics of Australian bird species known to be consumed by foxes, but we acknowledge that records of predation do not imply population-level impacts. Nonetheless, there is sufficient information from other studies to demonstrate that fox predation has significant impacts on the population viability of some Australian birds, especially larger birds, and those that nest or forage on the ground.
Impact of schizophrenia genetic liability on the association between schizophrenia and physical illness: data-linkage study
- Kimberley M. Kendall, Ann John, Sze Chim Lee, Elliott Rees, Antonio F. Pardiñas, Marcos Del Pozo Banos, Michael J. Owen, Michael C. O'Donovan, George Kirov, Keith Lloyd, Ian Jones, Sophie E. Legge, James T. R. Walters
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- BJPsych Open / Volume 6 / Issue 6 / November 2020
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- 10 November 2020, e139
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Background
Individuals with schizophrenia are at higher risk of physical illnesses, which are a major contributor to their 20-year reduced life expectancy. It is currently unknown what causes the increased risk of physical illness in schizophrenia.
AimsTo link genetic data from a clinically ascertained sample of individuals with schizophrenia to anonymised National Health Service (NHS) records. To assess (a) rates of physical illness in those with schizophrenia, and (b) whether physical illness in schizophrenia is associated with genetic liability.
MethodWe linked genetic data from a clinically ascertained sample of individuals with schizophrenia (Cardiff Cognition in Schizophrenia participants, n = 896) to anonymised NHS records held in the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank. Physical illnesses were defined from the General Practice Database and Patient Episode Database for Wales. Genetic liability for schizophrenia was indexed by (a) rare copy number variants (CNVs), and (b) polygenic risk scores.
ResultsIndividuals with schizophrenia in SAIL had increased rates of epilepsy (standardised rate ratio (SRR) = 5.34), intellectual disability (SRR = 3.11), type 2 diabetes (SRR = 2.45), congenital disorders (SRR = 1.77), ischaemic heart disease (SRR = 1.57) and smoking (SRR = 1.44) in comparison with the general SAIL population. In those with schizophrenia, carrier status for schizophrenia-associated CNVs and neurodevelopmental disorder-associated CNVs was associated with height (P = 0.015–0.017), with carriers being 7.5–7.7 cm shorter than non-carriers. We did not find evidence that the increased rates of poor physical health outcomes in schizophrenia were associated with genetic liability for the disorder.
ConclusionsThis study demonstrates the value of and potential for linking genetic data from clinically ascertained research studies to anonymised health records. The increased risk for physical illness in schizophrenia is not caused by genetic liability for the disorder.
Building machines that learn and think for themselves
- Matthew Botvinick, David G. T. Barrett, Peter Battaglia, Nando de Freitas, Darshan Kumaran, Joel Z Leibo, Timothy Lillicrap, Joseph Modayil, Shakir Mohamed, Neil C. Rabinowitz, Danilo J. Rezende, Adam Santoro, Tom Schaul, Christopher Summerfield, Greg Wayne, Theophane Weber, Daan Wierstra, Shane Legg, Demis Hassabis
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- Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 40 / 2017
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- 10 November 2017, e255
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We agree with Lake and colleagues on their list of “key ingredients” for building human-like intelligence, including the idea that model-based reasoning is essential. However, we favor an approach that centers on one additional ingredient: autonomy. In particular, we aim toward agents that can both build and exploit their own internal models, with minimal human hand engineering. We believe an approach centered on autonomous learning has the greatest chance of success as we scale toward real-world complexity, tackling domains for which ready-made formal models are not available. Here, we survey several important examples of the progress that has been made toward building autonomous agents with human-like abilities, and highlight some outstanding challenges.
Very Long Baseline Interferometry in the Southern Hemisphere
- D. S. Robertson, J. S. Gubbay, A. T. Legg
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- Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 2 / Issue 4 / October 1973
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- 25 April 2016, pp. 184-187
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Phase coherent interferometers with intercontinental baselines became possible because of the development of stable frequency standards. With sufficiently stable frequency standards, no connection is necessary between the two ends of an interferometer. The first VLBI experiments were conducted by a group at the University of Florida who used an intensity interferometer with independent tape recorders for observations of Jupiter. Later, they changed to a coherent system using crystal-controlled oscillators. Since then, several interferometer systems have been developed. A Canadian group developed a system using video tape recorders at each end of the interferometer. They recorded the data in analogue form and managed to bring the two tapes together and to synchronize them to an accuracy of better than a microsecond. After synchronization, the outputs were combined and fringes extracted. Their system has a bandwidth of about 4 MHz. No-one else has attempted a wide-band analogue system.
Analysis of copy number variations at 15 schizophrenia-associated loci
- Elliott Rees, James T. R. Walters, Lyudmila Georgieva, Anthony R. Isles, Kimberly D. Chambert, Alexander L. Richards, Gerwyn Mahoney-Davies, Sophie E. Legge, Jennifer L. Moran, Steven A. McCarroll, Michael C. O'Donovan, Michael J. Owen, George Kirov
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- The British Journal of Psychiatry / Volume 204 / Issue 2 / February 2014
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 108-114
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A number of copy number variants (CNVs) have been suggested as susceptibility factors for schizophrenia. For some of these the data remain equivocal, and the frequency in individuals with schizophrenia is uncertain.
AimsTo determine the contribution of CNVs at 15 schizophrenia-associated loci (a) using a large new data-set of patients with schizophrenia (n = 6882) and controls (n = 6316), and (b) combining our results with those from previous studies.
MethodWe used Illumina microarrays to analyse our data. Analyses were restricted to 520 766 probes common to all arrays used in the different data-sets.
ResultsWe found higher rates in participants with schizophrenia than in controls for 13 of the 15 previously implicated CNVs. Six were nominally significantly associated (P<0.05) in this new data-set: deletions at 1q21.1, NRXN1, 15q11.2 and 22q11.2 and duplications at 16p11.2 and the Angelman/Prader–Willi Syndrome (AS/PWS) region. All eight AS/PWS duplications in patients were of maternal origin. When combined with published data, 11 of the 15 loci showed highly significant evidence for association with schizophrenia (P<4.1×10−4).
ConclusionsWe strengthen the support for the majority of the previously implicated CNVs in schizophrenia. About 2.5% of patients with schizophrenia and 0.9% of controls carry a large, detectable CNV at one of these loci. Routine CNV screening may be clinically appropriate given the high rate of known deleterious mutations in the disorder and the comorbidity associated with these heritable mutations.
Theories of reading should predict reading speed
- Denis G. Pelli, Susana T. L. Chung, Gordon E. Legge
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- Behavioral and Brain Sciences / Volume 35 / Issue 5 / October 2012
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- 29 August 2012, pp. 297-298
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Reading speed matters in most real-world contexts, and it is a robust and easy aspect of reading to measure. Theories of reading should account for speed.
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Industrial Lead Poisoning
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- Journal of Hygiene / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / January 1901
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The principal data which form the basis of the present paper were tabulated by the writer for the Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories for 1899, and were obtained as a result of an enactment in the Factories and Workshops Act of 1895. This enactment requires every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit a patient whom he believes to be suffering from lead poisoning, contracted in a factory or workshop, to notify the case forthwith to the Chief Inspector of Factories at the Home Office; and a similar obligation is imposed on the occupier of a factory or workshop to send written notice of every such case to the Certifying Surgeon and Inspector of Factories for the district.
Pot-culture experiments with an electric discharge1
- V. H. Blackman, A. T. Legg
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- The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 14 / Issue 2 / April 1924
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Pot-culture experiments carried out during a period of four years with Wheat, Barley and Maize show that these plants exhibit increase of dry weight when subjected to minute electric currents (of an intensity as low as 0·1 × 10–10 amp. per plant) from wire networks charged to a high voltage suspended above them. Of 28 sets in which the cultural conditions were satisfactory 23 showed an increased yield.
A percentage increase in dry weight of 27 ± 5·8 was shown by Maize plants grown under glass and little more than a month old. With Barley the largest percentage increase was 18 ± 2·4.
Direct currents were mostly studied, but increased growth was obtained with both direct and alternating current, the alternating current being apparently as effective or even more effective than the direct; the plants themselves, however, are able to bring about a slight rectification of the current.
Electrification of Barley for the first month of the growing season appears to be as effective as electrification during the whole growing season.
The discharging networks were usually charged positively, but a similar stimulating effect on dry weight production was obtained with a negative charge on the network.
Currents of the order of 1 × 10–8 amp. per plant and higher are injurious, causing a reduction of dry weight.
In one experiment plants screened from the normal atmospheric current by a series of parallel “earthed” wires (0·35 mm. diameter) showed, by comparison with the controls, a percentage decrease of 4·7 ± 2·3, which is hardly significant. It indicates however that though a favourable effect may be exerted by the normal atmospheric (air-earth) current, yet the effect can be but slight.
In one experiment with Barley indications of a differential effect of the discharge were obtained, for the increase in grain yield brought about by the discharge was greater than the increase in total dry weight.
The effect is to be.classed as of the nature of a stimulation since the energy-value of the additional plant material produced is out of all proportion to the energy supplied by the electric discharge.
These experiments with pot-cultures fall into line with those from the field (1) and from the laboratory(2); they leave no uncertainty as to the favourable action of the electric discharge.
Use of medium-range ensembles at the Met Office I: PREVIN - a system for the production of probabilistic forecast information from the ECMWF EPS
- T P Legg, K R Mylne, C Woolcock
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- Meteorological Applications / Volume 9 / Issue 3 / September 2002
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- 20 August 2002, pp. 255-271
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This is the first of a pair of papers covering the production and use of probability forecasts at ranges of 3 to 10 days at the Met Office using the ECMWF Ensemble Prediction System (EPS). The use of ensembles is intended to provide a set of forecasts which cover the range of possible uncertainty, recognising that it is impossible to obtain a single deterministic forecast which is always correct. We present a brief review of ensemble forecasting techniques and their use for the generation of probability forecasts. A wide range of probability forecasting products and tools are now available to forecasters at the Met Office, generated from the EPS. These will be described, and their use and interpretation discussed, both for site-specific forecast data and for fields of data covering a wider area. An important part of any forecasting system is verification: this is covered in some detail using several different methods, for the site-specific forecasts of surface weather parameters. Comparisons are made between the probabilistic forecasts and equivalent deterministic forecasts generated from the high-resolution ECMWF model, and it is evident that the former are more skilful according to most assessment methods for forecasts more than three days ahead. The companion paper shows how forecasters use the vast amounts of information available in forecast production (Young and Carroll 2002).
Radiocarbon Accelerator (AMS) Dates for the Epipaleolithic Settlement At Abu Hureyra, Syria
- A M T Moore, J A J Gowlett, R E M Hedges, G C Hillman, A J Legge, P A Rowley-Conwy
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- Radiocarbon / Volume 28 / Issue 3 / 1986
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- 18 July 2016, pp. 1068-1076
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The prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra in Syria was occupied in both the Epipaleolithic and Neolithic periods. It has provided significant evidence for changes in economy at the time of the inception of agriculture in southwest Asia. Twenty accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates have been obtained to determine the duration of occupation of the Epipaleolithic settlement there and the precise age of samples of cereal grains and animal bones found within it. The results have demonstrated that the AMS technique can answer such questions because it dates exceedingly small samples with high precision. The dates indicate that the Epipaleolithic settlement was inhabited for about a millennium, from before 11,000 to nearly 10,000 bp, significantly longer than had been anticipated from study of the artifacts.
The Canadian Long Baseline Array
- T. H. Legg
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union / Volume 110 / 1984
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- 04 August 2017, pp. 383-389
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On 1983 May 31, the National Research Council of Canada gave formal approval to a new national facility, the ‘Canadian Long Baseline Array’. The instrument will be made up of eight radio telescopes spaced across southern Canada, with a ninth antenna, primarily for geophysics, in the north. Though the project is still some way from being funded, the NRC approval was an important and encouraging step in a process that started five years ago.
Evidence of Doppler Beaming in Variable Radio Sources
- T. H. Legg
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union / Volume 110 / 1984
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- 04 August 2017, pp. 183-185
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Total flux observations of variable sources (Andrew et al. 1978) have been re-examined to test their consistency, or lack of it, with the Doppler beaming hypothesis of Scheuer and Readhead (1979).
The Excavation of Tell Abu Hureyra in Syria: A preliminary report
- A. M. T. Moore, G. C. Hillman, A. J. Legge
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- Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society / Volume 41 / December 1975
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- 27 May 2014, pp. 50-77
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- December 1975
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In the last decade the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic has undertaken a number of projects to develop the economy of the country. The most important of these has been the construction of a dam on the Euphrates at Tabqa (fig. 1), 40 km upstream from Raqqa. This project will bring great economic benefits to Syria but, as the valley behind the dam fills with water, many ancient sites will be drowned. Because very little was known about the archaeology of this stretch of the Euphrates the Directorate-General of Antiquities and Museums in Syria organised an international programme of surveys and excavations to recover as much information as possible about past human settlement in the valley before the dam was completed. This programme has yielded excellent results; important sites in almost every period from the prehistoric to the Islamic have been discovered and excavated. The work has been carried out by the Syrian authorities themselves and fifteen other teams. We were asked to excavate a prehistoric site as our contribution to the programme and so in 1971 we made a brief survey of the valley to look for a site.
Pioneer surveys and excavations by de Contenson and others had established an outline of the later prehistory of Syria. Neolithic settlements (fig. 2) had been excavated at Ras Shamra (Schaeffer 1962, 153 ff.) and Tabbat el-Hammam (Braidwood 1940, 196 ff.) on the coast, Tell Ramad (de Contenson 1971, 279 ff.) and other smaller sites near Damascus, and Buqras (de Contenson and van Liere 1966, 182 ff.) in the Euphrates valley. From these excavations the later Neolithic of the sixth millennium bc and after was relatively well-known. This was the period when ‘dark-faced burnished ware’, the earliest pottery found in Syria, was first made. The archaeological sequence could be taken further back as seventh millennium aceramic Neolithic levels had been found at Ras Shamra, Ramad and Buqras. Then there was a gap in the sequence, representing the earlier seventh and the later eighth millennia bc. Only one earlier site was known; this was Mureybat which had been discovered when the first surveys of the Tabqa dam area were made (Rihaoui 1965, 106; van Loon 1967, 15). The first campaign of excavations here, directed by van Loon, had revealed tantalising remains of a settlement dating from 8000 bc (van Loon 1968, Table 1), the very beginning of the Neolithic in Syria.
High-Resolution Observations of Variable Radio Sources
- A. T. Moffet, J. Gubbay, D. S. Robertson, A. J. Legg
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union / Volume 44 / 1972
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- 14 August 2015, pp. 228-229
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Preliminary results are reported of a long-term program to test models of variable radio sources by direct observations of diameter changes. Although further confirmation is needed, increase in angular diameter attributed to a centimetric component of 3C 279 found in 1966 implies relativistic expansion with α ≳ 2.
In order to sort out events taking place in variable sources it is necessary to observe frequently and at many wavelengths, especially at short wavelengths.