Spoken languages make up only one aspect of the communicative landscape Indigenous Australia—sign are also an important part their rich and diverse language ecologies. Australian sign predominantly used by hearing people as a replacement for speech in certain cultural contexts. Deaf or hard-of-hearing known to use these languages. In some circumstances, may be alongside speech, others it replac...

Cytogenetic studies were performed on 150 cases of Down's syndrome (DS) in Iran. The standard trisomy 21 was found in 132 (88 % ) and translocation-trisomy 21 (+21) in 18 (12%) patients, i.e., t(21,21) in 1(0.63%) and mosaicism in 17(11.33%) cases. The comparison of the frequencies for mosaicism between different populations such as Denmark, Hungary, Egypt, Iraq, India, Australia and Iran ...

1 Coral Reef Research Unit, School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2 Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 3 Seychelles National Parks Authority, Mahé, Seychelles, 4 Research and Development Centre – Marine, Coastal and Small Islands, Universitas Hasanuddin, Makassar, Indonesia, 5 Central Caribbean Marine Institute, Princet...

BACKGROUND Tick-borne haemoparasites Babesia vogeli and Anaplasma platys are common among the free-roaming canine populations associated with Aboriginal communities in Australia, whilst the prevalence of haemoplasmas, which are also suspected to be tick-borne, remained unexplored. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of haemoplasma infection in these populations, and to identif...

Ixodes holocyclus (Acarina: Ixodidae) and Ixodes cornuatus (Acarina: Ixodidae) are two tick species found in the more densely populated areas of Australia and are known to be the cause of the neurotoxic disease tick paralysis in humans and mammals. Borreliosis otherwise known as Lyme disease is an emerging infectious disease in humans in Australia. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto (Spirochaet...

Commonly, invaders have different impacts in different places. The spread of cane toads (Rhinella marina: Bufonidae) has been devastating for native fauna in tropical Australia, but the toads' impact remains unstudied in temperate-zone Australia. We surveyed habitat characteristics and fauna in campgrounds along the central eastern coast of Australia, in eight sites that have been colonized by ...

Late Precambrian to early Cambrian sediments of the Amadeus Basin, Central Australia, contain two stable directions of magnetization. Lithologies are diverse and include red beds, green beds, and carbonates, all of which respond to thermal cleaning. Positive fold and unconformity tests, and a well-defined polarity zonation reveal the primary component and direction of magnetization. This direct...

We present the first data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities and stellar atmosphere parameters (temperature, metallicity, surface gravity) of up to one million stars using the 6dF multi-object spectrograph on the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO). The RAVE program started in 2003, ob...

3 H. M. Sharon Goh, Scott A. Beatson, Makrina Totsika, Danilo G. Moriel, Minh-Duy 4 Phan, Jan Szubert, Naomi Runnegar, Hanna E. Sidjabat, David L. Paterson, Graeme R. 5 Nimmo, Jeffrey Lipman and Mark A. Schembri 6 7 Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, School of Chemistry and Molecular 8 Biosciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia. 9 Pathology Queensland C...