Australian pattern

Myrtaceae), known locally as kanuka. Fifty-one specimens from New Zealand along with six from Australia (and other species of Kunzea) were included in the study. Oils from Australian and New Zealand specimens were quite similar with a-pinene as the most prominent component in both, along with lower but similar levels of p-cymene and 1,8-cineole. Although two chemotypes can be defined within this taxon, they occur within populations and do not show the geographic patterning seen in manuka. 

Butcher, P. A., Bell, J. C. and Moran, G. E. 1992. Patterns of genetic diversity and nature of the breeding system in Melaleuca altemifolia (Myrtaceae). Australian J. Bot. 40 365-375. 

The variety of breeding patterns displayed by the American and Australian metatheria and the lack of comparative experimentation hampers general conclusions on any fundamental division from eutherian mammals. 

The cross-national prescribing database using the same methodology provided a useful and valid comparison of patterns of prescribing psychotropic medications in mental health services in Australia, Thailand, and Malaysia (Ng et al, submitted). The study was carried out in three outpatient mental health centres in North Western Mental Health (NWMH) in Melbourne (September to November 2002), Prince of Songkla University Hospital in Hat Yai (January to March 2003), and Hospital Kuala Lumpur (January to March 2003). The proportions of outpatients treated with a primary diagnosis of a psychotic illness were 91%, 41%, and 75% in the Australian, Thai, and Malaysian samples respectively. Considering psychotropic prescriptions in schizophrenia alone, the majority of patients were prescribed antipsychotics Australia (93.7%), Thailand (92.9%), and Malaysia (97.7%). 

In Australian tenebrionid beetles, defensive compounds and their patterns seem to be of only low chemotaxonomic value. However, the aforementioned aromatic compounds are restricted to the genus Tribolium. Abdominal defensive compounds were used as chemosystematic characters in order to construct a phylogenetic tree for the genus Tribolium [330]. The defensive secretion of adults of Tenebrio molitor was shown to contain toluquinone 7 and m-cresol 89 [333]. The quantification of benzoquinones in single individuals of Tribolium castaneum at different days after adult eclosion indicates that the amount of toxic quinone only shows a maximum subsequent to cuticle sclerotization. Obviously, there is a need for an adequate cuticular barrier for self-protection from these defensive compounds [334]. 

Nance WB, Taylor SR (1976) Rare earth element patterns and crustal evolution—I. Australian post-Archean sedimentary rocks. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 40 1539-1551 Nishio Y, Nakai S (2002) Accurate and precise lithium isotopic determinations of igneous rock samples using multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Anal Chim Acta 456 271-281 Nishio Y, Nakai S, Hirose K, Ishii T, Sano Y (2002) Li isotopic systematics of volcanic rocks in marginal basins. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 66 A556... 

Williams, C.A. et al., Elavonoid patterns and the revised classification of Australian Restionaceae, Phytochemistry, 49, 529, 1998. 

Cestodes produce a range of end-products as a result of their respiratory metabolism (Table 5.4). Bryant Flockhart (104) have usefully divided the patterns of respiratory metabolism among parasitic helminths into three types. The metabolism of larval and adult cestodes fits broadly into the first two categories of this biochemical classification and these are illustrated in Fig. 5.4. Type 1 contains the homolactate fermenters in which carbohydrate is degraded, via glycolysis, to lactate and excreted. The ANU (Australian) strain of H. diminuta tends towards this type of metabolism (see below). 

In arid regions the majority of water and nutrients in un-dammed rivers can be exported during a few major storms. In a study of 7 subtropical, Australian rivers, approximately 75% of the annual TN load was delivered in 20% of the time (two 10-day flood periods during 1996 Eyre and Pont, 2003). This contrasts with a number of temperate systems in which it takes 23—52% of the time to deliver 75% of the annual TN load (Eyre and Pont, 2003). Different N forms also exhibited different patterns of export in this study of Australian rivers, with DON typically accounting... 

Figure 5 Comparison of REE patterns between (a) average post-Archean shales and loess and (b) various estimates of the upper continental crust composition. PA AS = post-Archean Australian Shale (Taylor and McLennan, 1985) NASC = North American shale composite (Haskin et al., 1966) ES = European shale composite (Haskin and Haskin, 1966) ECPAS = Eastern China post-Archean shale (Gao et al., 1998a). The loess range includes samples from China, Spitsbergen, Argentina, and France (Gallet et al., 1998 Jahn et al., 2001).

Mabbutt, J.A. (1979) Pavements and patterned ground in the Australian stony deserts. Stuttgarter Geographische Studien 93, 107-123. 

Figure 7.10 ESI-MS patterns of pathogenesis-related protein of juice from three different white grape varieties. (This figure was first published by the Australian and New Zealand Wine Industry Journal, May-June 18(3), 2003, and is reproduced here with kind permission of the publisher, Winetitles www.winebiz.com.au)...

Post WW II concerns about the impact of mass fires led to studies in Europe and the United States of the physics and behavior of very large fires. A joint research effort called Project Flambeau by Australian, Canadian and United States foresters and civil defense agencies examined fire development over simulated urban regions in the late 1960s. They created simulated housing areas by creating 10 ft (2 m) high piles of pine and juniper wild-land fuels distributed in checkerboard patterns. Measurements were made of wind speeds, temperature, and fuel consumption rates. Fire whirls and fire tornadoes were observed to frequently occur [133,422],... 

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