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bandt, ros. "designing sound in public space in australia: a comparative study based on the australian sound design project's online gallery and database." Organised Sound 10, no. 2 (August 2005): 129–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771805000774.
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the purpose of this paper is to articulate some of the ways in which australian sound practitioners are already designing sound in the public domain so that current trends and practices can be examined, compared and contrasted. this paper interrogates the new hybrid art form, public sound art, and the design processes associated with it as it occurs in public space in australia. the right to quiet has been defined as a public commons (franklin 1993). public space in australia is becoming increasingly sound designed. this article investigates the variety of approaches by sound artists and practitioners who have installed in public space through a representative sample of works drawn from the australian sound design project's online gallery and article, http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au, a site dedicated to the multimedia publishing of diverse sound designs installed in public space in australia, as well as its international outreach hearing place. works include permanent public and ephemeral sculptures, time-dense computerised sound installations, museum designs, exhibits in airports, art galleries, car parks, digital and interactive media exhibitions, and real-time virtual habitats on and off the web. the degree of interactivity in the sound-designed artworks varies greatly from work to work. stylistic features and design processes are identified in each work and compared and contrasted as a basis for examining the characteristics of the genre as a whole and its impact on the soundscape now and in the future.
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Hearns, Merle, and Jegatheva (Jay Jay) Jegathesan. "Facilitating Art Education." International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments 4, no. 2 (April 2013): 107–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jvple.2013040106.
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Art and design students in SL experience the advantages of a visually rich environment where they can take a leading role in their own learning, have the opportunity to create objects that defy real world limitations, are immersive and interactive, and where they are able to collaborate with a community of global art practitioners. The 3D Art Challenges started at the University of Western Australia in Second Life in 2009. Since that time, UWA has rapidly emerged as a central hub of art activity in SL. The story of UWA’s journey into Second Life and a recent survey of past and present participants of the UWA Art Challenges indicate that the environment of a virtual world is well suited to the teaching of art and design skills. The UWA Art Challenges have the potential to be valuable resources for educators and students.
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Stevenson, Ian. "Sonic Residues 02 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, 17 November 2 December 2000." Computer Music Journal 25, no. 3 (September 2001): 82–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/comj.2001.25.3.82.
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Davis, Belinda, and Rosemary Dunn. "Children’s Meaning Making: Listening to Encounters with Complex Aesthetic Experience." Education Sciences 13, no. 1 (January 10, 2023): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/educsci13010074.
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This paper describes young children’s symbolic meaning-making practices and participation in complex aesthetic experiences in a contemporary art museum context. Through an ongoing long-term research and pedagogy project, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (MCA) is working with researchers to provide regular opportunities for young children (aged birth–5 years) and their families—all members of the same early childhood education (ECE) services—to encounter art works, engage with materials, and experience the museum environment. The program provides a rich experience of multiple forms of communication, ways of knowing and ways of expressing knowings: through connecting with images, videos and told stories about artists and their practice, sensorial engagement with tactile materials, and embodied responses to artworks and materials. Children also experience the physicality of the museum space, materials for art-making and the act of mark-making to record ideas, memories, and reflections. The project supports the development of a pedagogy of listening and relationships and is grounded in children’s rights as cultural citizens to participation, visibility and belonging in cultural institutions such as the MCA.
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Dorin, Alan. "Generative processes and the electronic arts." Organised Sound 6, no. 1 (April 2001): 47–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771801001078.
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This paper gives a personal perspective on the application and relevance of generative processes to art production. This view is that of a computer programmer, rather than that of a user of computer programs written (or hardware constructed) by others. The programmer is in the unique position of being able to describe and manipulate abstract processes which may be used as a unique means of artistic expression. This gives a greater amount of freedom to the programmer/artist than is the case when he or she is limited by programmed procedures defined by others.Prior to the development of a formal means of specifying visual and aural events, a concrete machine or set of rules for their manipulation and a means of bringing these representations back into the world as physical events, abstract processes were things to be contemplated but not experienced. Musical and spatial notations employed by artists, engineers and others, in concert with the programming of computing hardware, have opened the way for those who wish to manipulate processes in their artistic practice.In order to focus study and practice in the area of such generative computer art, the Center for Electronic Media Art (CEMA) has been established in Melbourne, Australia. The Center has spawned an international conference series on generative/process-based electronic art called Iteration. The perceived roles of the Center and Iteration conferences are discussed in this paper.
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Zachreson, Cameron, Kristopher M. Fair, Oliver M. Cliff, Nathan Harding, Mahendra Piraveenan, and Mikhail Prokopenko. "Urbanization affects peak timing, prevalence, and bimodality of influenza pandemics in Australia: Results of a census-calibrated model." Science Advances 4, no. 12 (December 2018): eaau5294. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aau5294.
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We examine salient trends of influenza pandemics in Australia, a rapidly urbanizing nation. To do so, we implement state-of-the-art influenza transmission and progression models within a large-scale stochastic computer simulation, generated using comprehensive Australian census datasets from 2006, 2011, and 2016. Our results offer a simulation-based investigation of a population’s sensitivity to pandemics across multiple historical time points and highlight three notable trends in pandemic patterns over the years: increased peak prevalence, faster spreading rates, and decreasing spatiotemporal bimodality. We attribute these pandemic trends to increases in two key quantities indicative of urbanization: the population fraction residing in major cities and international air traffic. In addition, we identify features of the pandemic’s geographic spread that we attribute to changes in the commuter mobility network. The generic nature of our model and the ubiquity of urbanization trends around the world make it likely for our results to be applicable in other rapidly urbanizing nations.
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Reichelt-Brushett, Amanda, and John Smith. "Connecting Silos - Inviting Art and Science Interactions." Leonardo 45, no. 5 (October 2012): 484–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_00453.
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In tertiary education in Australia there are often clear divisions between disciplines defined by hierarchy that is established for administrative purposes. These purposes often conflict with notions of trans-disciplinary study by creating an environment of competition rather than one of collaboration. Through this project we brought together science and art by developing a ‘hands on’ workshop where scientists and artists explored tools and techniques from unfamiliar disciplines. Collaborative projects and self emersion post workshop resulted in an exhibition of outcomes. The development of these outcomes challenged both artists and scientists to explore their discipline boundaries and connectivity by using tools and knowledge in unique ways.
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Siddiqui, Shoaib Ahmed, Ahmad Salman, Muhammad Imran Malik, Faisal Shafait, Ajmal Mian, Mark R. Shortis, and Euan S. Harvey. "Automatic fish species classification in underwater videos: exploiting pre-trained deep neural network models to compensate for limited labelled data." ICES Journal of Marine Science 75, no. 1 (July 4, 2017): 374–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx109.
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Abstract There is a need for automatic systems that can reliably detect, track and classify fish and other marine species in underwater videos without human intervention. Conventional computer vision techniques do not perform well in underwater conditions where the background is complex and the shape and textural features of fish are subtle. Data-driven classification models like neural networks require a huge amount of labelled data, otherwise they tend to over-fit to the training data and fail on unseen test data which is not involved in training. We present a state-of-the-art computer vision method for fine-grained fish species classification based on deep learning techniques. A cross-layer pooling algorithm using a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network as a generalized feature detector is proposed, thus avoiding the need for a large amount of training data. Classification on test data is performed by a SVM on the features computed through the proposed method, resulting in classification accuracy of 94.3% for fish species from typical underwater video imagery captured off the coast of Western Australia. This research advocates that the development of automated classification systems which can identify fish from underwater video imagery is feasible and a cost-effective alternative to manual identification by humans.
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De Largy Healy, Jessica. "“This is the Circle of the Art World”: Joe Gumbula and the Value of Digital Repatriation in Australia and Beyond." Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 47, no. 3-4 (December 19, 2018): 149–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2018-0025.
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AbstractThe title of this article was inspired by a filmed interview that I conducted with Joe Gumbula in France in July 2007 during one of his ARC-funded research trips in response to a sceptical European curator who wanted to know why the Yolŋu wanted to have their materials back. Was it because they had lost their culture? Drawing on Joe’s eloquent response, I outline his pioneering perspective on museum collaborations and the digital repatriation of knowledge. Rather than transfixing things on computers, repatriation processes should be seen as modern pathways that link Indigenous peoples to their past, as well as present and future visions, enabling renewed performances of culture. This article has been adapted from my closing plenary address in tribute to Joe Gumbula at the 2017 Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities Symposium in Melbourne.
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Leggett, Mike. "Interzone: Media Arts in Australia by Darren Tofts. Craftsman House, Sydney, Australia. New Art Series, Series Editor: Ashley Crawford. 145 pp., illus. Paper. ISBN: 0-9757303-8-X." Leonardo 39, no. 5 (October 2006): 487–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon.2006.39.5.487.
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Yotsawat, Wirot, Pakaket Wattuya, and Anongnart Srivihok. "Improved credit scoring model using XGBoost with Bayesian hyper-parameter optimization." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 11, no. 6 (December 1, 2021): 5477. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v11i6.pp5477-5487.
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<span>Several credit-scoring models have been developed using ensemble classifiers in order to improve the accuracy of assessment. However, among the ensemble models, little consideration has been focused on the hyper-parameters tuning of base learners, although these are crucial to constructing ensemble models. This study proposes an improved credit scoring model based on the extreme gradient boosting (XGB) classifier using Bayesian hyper-parameters optimization (XGB-BO). The model comprises two steps. Firstly, data pre-processing is utilized to handle missing values and scale the data. Secondly, Bayesian hyper-parameter optimization is applied to tune the hyper-parameters of the XGB classifier and used to train the model. The model is evaluated on four widely public datasets, i.e., the German, Australia, lending club, and Polish datasets. Several state-of-the-art classification algorithms are implemented for predictive comparison with the proposed method. The results of the proposed model showed promising results, with an improvement in accuracy of 4.10%, 3.03%, and 2.76% on the German, lending club, and Australian datasets, respectively. The proposed model outperformed commonly used techniques, e.g., decision tree, support vector machine, neural network, logistic regression, random forest, and bagging, according to the evaluation results. The experimental results confirmed that the XGB-BO model is suitable for assessing the creditworthiness of applicants.</span>
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Rogers, Hannah Star. "Superhuman: Revolution of the Species Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), RMIT Galleries, Melbourne, Australia, 5 November–5 December 2009." Leonardo 43, no. 5 (October 2010): 503–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_r_00055.
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Mohd. Elmagzoub Eltahir, Najeh Rajeh Alsalhi, Geraldine Torrisi-Steele, and Sami Sulieman Al-Qatawneh. "The Implementation of Online Learning in Conventional Higher Education Institutions During the Spread of COVID-19: A Comparative Study." International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) 18, no. 01 (January 10, 2023): 68–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v18i01.36005.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate and explore the degree of success of the implementation of online learning in conventional higher education institutions instead of face-to-face learning during the spread of the Covid-19 Pandemic during the 2019/2020 academic year, via exploring the undergraduate students' perceptions of the application of the online learning system at Ajman University in UAE, and Griffith University in Australia. In the study, the descriptive approach was used. A questionnaire consisting of 40 items was designed and distributed to 630 students from Ajman University and 675 students from Griffith University, who were randomly selected from different faculties of the two universities during the 2019/2020 academic year during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results of the study revealed that students' a moderate satisfaction with the University's readiness, training, and technical support for online learning and the university's teaching and learning process during the COVID-19 pandemic, with female students finding them more satisfaction than male students. Disciplines and computer skills also showed an impact on such satisfaction, with Pharmacy & Health Science College students at Ajman University and Architecture, Art, and Design discipline students at Griffith University, and those with excellent computer skills in both Universities. In addition, the results showed positive attitudes of students towards the use of online learning at the two universities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Pikalova, Valentyna. "IMPLEMENTATION OF STEAM CONCEPT IN PREPARATION OF PRE-SERVICE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS." OPEN EDUCATIONAL E-ENVIRONMENT OF MODERN UNIVERSITY, no. 9 (2020): 95–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.28925/2414-0325.2020.9.8.
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The article considers the current problem of improving the education system, namely the application of the concept of STEAM as an innovative approach, which is today the subject of mass interest of both researchers and teachers-practitioners. Thanks to STEAM-education, teachers have the opportunity to develop students in several subject areas - computer science, physics, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. The necessity of introducing the concept of STEAM-education into the system of training pre-service teachers, which continues the implementation of STEM ideas, caused by the transition of society to the digital age, is substantiated. STEAM approaches in the educational process are considered. The experience of such developed countries as the USA, Finland, Australia, Great Britain, Israel, Korea, Singapore was analyzed and it was found out that they implement state programs in the field of STEAM education. In Finland, a LUMA center has been opened, in Spain teachers use STEAM-Makerspace to improve the knowledge of high school students in the field of geometry, in Australia the program STEAM Professionals in Schools has been implemented that brings together teachers with STEAM professionals to improve STEAM teaching practice and provide STEAM training at Australian schools. Possibilities of realization of three main ways of introduction of STEAM-education into the learning process, such as STEAM-project, STEAM-lesson, Maker-space are covered which can be effectively introduced into the educational process of higher education institutions. The implementation of the STEAM approach using the example of training pre-service mathematics teachers is considered. The author notes the important role of teachers who are ready to implement the ideas of STEAM-education in this process. The results of experimental work on the implementation of the concept of STEAM-education within the project activities of students using the example of the project "Ukrainian embroidery" are presented. The purpose and activity of students are revealed, the research tasks which they carried out are described. The result of the study was the development of a program that "embroiders", simulates the process of embroidery in different techniques, implementing different approaches to bypass the embroidery scheme. In addition, a set of tools was created in the GeoGebra package for research and design of various ornaments based on traditional elements of Ukrainian embroidery.
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Ghose, Banani, Zeenat Rehena, and Leonidas Anthopoulos. "A Deep Learning based Air Quality Prediction Technique Using Influencing Pollutants of Neighboring Locations in Smart City." JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 28, no. 8 (August 28, 2022): 799–826. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jucs.78884.
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The level of air pollution in smart cities plays a critical role in the community’s health and quality of life. Thus, air pollution forecasting would be beneficial and would guide citizens in avoiding exposure to dangerous emissions. The air health of a place can be diagnosed by close observation of the AQI (Air Quality Index) of that place. Moreover, the AQI of a place may have some influence on the pollutant concentration of the neighboring places. To address this issue, this work introduces a hybrid deep learning framework that is able to predict the values of a corresponding metric: AQI of smart cities. As a part of this work, two algorithms are proposed. The first one replaces the missing values in the dataset and the second one formulates the influence of the nearby places’ pollutant concentrations on the air quality of a particular place. A deep learning-based forecasting model is also proposed by combining 1D-CNN and Bi-GRU. To test the applicability of the framework, a large-scale experiment is carried out with the real-world dataset collected from New South Wales, Australia. Experimental results validate that the proposed framework provides a stable forecasting result, it confirms that the AQI of a place gets affected by the pollutant concentration of the nearby places and the comparison of forecasting result with the existing state of the art models shows that the proposed model outperforms the other models.
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Khan, Kashan, Zhihua Chen, Jiadi Liu, and Khadija Javed. "State-of-the-Art on Technological Developments and Adaptability of Prefabricated Industrial Steel Buildings." Applied Sciences 13, no. 2 (January 4, 2023): 685. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13020685.
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Compared to traditional onsite steel construction, prefabricated industrial steel construction (PFISC) saves time, money, and resources. It results in sustainable steel structures that use fewer resources and are better for the environment. Despite their advantages, the private sector favors creating high-rise buildings in an old-fashioned way. In order to encourage the adaptability of prefabricated industrial steel buildings (PFISBs) in high-rise structures, this study critically evaluates the adaptable solutions offered in the literature on the recent developments, structural performances, present difficulties, and future potential. In mid-rise and low-rise structures, PFISC is frequently used. In research and case studies, PFISBs have proven to perform admirably under various adverse conditions, including in the event of an earthquake, wind, blast, impact, fire, collapse, and long-term sustained loads. The use of potential research solutions, the “Top-down” strategy, and the resolving of problems such as the structural-based design guidelines, column stability, discontinuous vertical and horizontal diaphragms, cluster columns and beams effect, damage-free and innovative inter- and intra-modular connections, high strength-to-weight modules, numerical simulation, and transportation will help PFISBs to become more widely accepted in high-rise structures. Compared to other materials, steel has recently demonstrated great promise for the construction of PFISBs. Additionally, China plans to increase their PFISC to 30% by 2026, Australia to 15% by 2025, and North America to over 5% by 2023, proving that it is a reasonable response to future urbanization concerns.
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Anandaraj, A., and P. J. A. Alphonse. "Tree based Ensemble for Enhanced Prediction (TEEP) of epileptic seizures." Intelligent Data Analysis 26, no. 1 (January 13, 2022): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/ida-205534.
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Accurate and timely prediction of seizures can improve the quality of life of epileptic patients to a huge extent. This work presents a seizure prediction model that performs data extraction and feature engineering to enable effective demarcation of preictal signals from interictal signals. The proposed Tree based Ensemble for Enhanced Prediction (TEEP) model is composed of three major phases; the feature extraction phase, feature selection phase and the prediction phase. The data is preprocessed, and features are extracted based on the nature of the data. This enables the prediction algorithm to perform time-based predictions. Further, statistical features are also extracted, followed by the process of feature aggregation. The resultant data is passed to the feature selection module to identify the attributes that exhibit highest correlation with the prediction variable. Incorporation of these two modules enhances the generalization capability of the TEEP model. The resultant features are passed to the boosted ensemble model for training and prediction. The TEEP model is analyzed using the Epileptic Seizure Recognition Data from University Hospital of Bonn and the NIH Seizure Prediction data from Melbourne University, Australia. Results from both the datasets indicate effective performances. Comparisons with the existing state-of-the-art models in literature exhibits the enhanced prediction levels of the TEEP model.
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Dinesh, N., and G. C. Dandy. "A decision support system for municipal wastewater reclamation and reuse." Water Supply 3, no. 3 (June 1, 2003): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2003.0001.
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Wastewater reclamation and reuse is being viewed increasingly as a sustainable approach to integrated water resources management in many countries including Australia. The technical feasibility of reclamation and reuse has been demonstrated by a number of successful projects. The current state-of-the art of reclamation technologies can produce water of any desired quality (including potable quality). However, the increasing number of efficient treatment processes has made the selection of an optimum treatment train a difficult task for planners and decision-makers. A decision support system (DSS) can be particularly useful in wastewater reclamation and reuse as it can provide assistance in the evaluation and selection of treatment alternatives for a given reuse application before exhaustive simulation or pilot studies are conducted. This paper highlights the ongoing research on the development of a computer based DSS named MOSTWATAR(©) (which stands for Model for Optimum Selection of Technologies for WAstewater Treatment And Reuse). MOSTWATAR(©) has a database of the performance characteristics and costs of commonly used reclamation technologies and an optimization module based on genetic algorithms to generate and optimize treatment trains. It also contains detailed reuse guidelines applicable in the various Australian States. This model is intended to assist planners and decision-makers in the techno-economic assessment of reclamation technologies and aid in the selection of the best 5 treatment trains for a given end use and location, wastewater characteristics, and flow rate. This paper describes salient features of the MOSTWATAR(©) package and demonstrates its application to a case study. The results from user-generated options are presented and it is shown that this model can be a very useful tool for selecting the best treatment trains for wastewater reclamation and reuse.
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Ellahi, Rahmat. "Special Issue on Symmetry and Fluid Mechanics." Symmetry 12, no. 2 (February 13, 2020): 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym12020281.
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This Special Issue invited researchers to contribute their original research work and review articles on “Symmetry and Fluid Mechanics” that either advances the state-of-the-art mathematical methods through theoretical or experimental studies or extends the bounds of existing methodologies with new contributions related to the symmetry, asymmetry, and lie symmetries of differential equations proposed as mathematical models in fluid mechanics, thereby addressing current challenges. In response to the call for papers, a total of 42 papers were submitted for possible publication. After comprehensive peer review, only 25 papers qualified for acceptance for final publication. The rest of the papers could not be accommodated. The submissions may have been technically correct but were not considered appropriate for the scope of this Special Issue. The authors are from geographically distributed countries such as the USA, Australia, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Abu Dhabi, UAE, South Africa, and Vietnam. This reflects the great impact of the proposed topic and the effective organization of the guest editorial team of this Special Issue.
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Rowley, David B. "Phanerozoic reconstructions: What and how do we know it." Paleontological Society Special Publications 6 (1992): 253. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2475262200008133.
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Paleobiogeography will play an important role in furthering our understanding of global change, particularly with respect to providing constraints on past climates. As a result of this there is increasing emphasis within the paleontological community on the past spatial distributions of faunas, extinctions, and originations. Thus there is an increasing interest in reconstructions of the past distributions of continents, so that maps and paleo-latitudes of faunas, extinctions or originations can be determined. This results in an increasing need to understand the state of the art of global plate reconstructions through the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, and global continental reconstructions through the Paleozoic, i.e. what we know and how well do we know it. The talk will summarize our present understanding of Mesozoic and Cenozoic plate motions using computer animations followed by a brief summary of the present understanding of individual continental apparent polar wander paths (APWP's) as well as motions in the global frame. Global and continental mean poles at approximately 20 Ma intervals have been computed for all of the major continents of the Phanerozoic using data from Van der Voo (1992) and plate motions derived from a detailed analysis of Mesozoic and Cenozoic seafloor spreading data. Comparison of mean continental poles reconstructed into the same reference frame shows that although there is general agreement, statistically different pole positions are quite commonly observed. This is particularly true for the Late Cretaceous and pre-Late Jurassic of the northern Hemisphere, and has resulted in some controversy concerning appropriate Atlantic fits. The differences in predicted (or reconstructed) paleo-latitudes are not trivial, particularly for areas of esatern Gondwanaland such as Australia and New Zealand, and are not easily visualized from a simple comparison of mean pole positions. A final focus will be with regards to reconstructions of Asia. Comparison of recently published Permian global reconstructions in the McKerrow and Scotese (1989) volume demonstrates that vast differences of interpretation persist and that paleontologists among others cannot accept exisiting reconstructions uncritically.
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Jones, Stephen. "Synthetics: A History of the Electronically Generated Image in Australia." Leonardo 36, no. 3 (June 2003): 187–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/002409403321921389.
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This paper takes a brief look at the early years of computer-graphic and video-synthesizer–driven image production in Australia. It begins with the first (known) Australian data visualization, in 1957, and proceeds through the compositing of computer graphics and video effects in the music videos of the late 1980s. The author surveys the types of work produced by workers on the computer graphics and video synthesis systems of the early period and draws out some indications of the influences and interactions among artists and engineers and the technical systems they had available, which guided the evolution of the field for artistic production.
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Harle, Rob. "Impossible Nature: The Art of Jon McCormack by Jon McCormack, Jon Bird, Alan Dorin and Annemarie Jonson. Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia, 2004. 136 pp., illus. ISBN: 1-920805-08-7; ISBN (DVD): 1-920805-09-5." Leonardo 39, no. 5 (October 2006): 483–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon.2006.39.5.483.
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Gao, Guangliang, Zhifeng Bao, Jie Cao, A. K. Qin, and Timos Sellis. "Location-Centered House Price Prediction: A Multi-Task Learning Approach." ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 13, no. 2 (April 30, 2022): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3501806.
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Accurate house prediction is of great significance to various real estate stakeholders such as house owners, buyers, and investors. We propose a location-centered prediction framework that differs from existing work in terms of data profiling and prediction model. Regarding data profiling, we make an important observation as follows – besides the in-house features such as floor area, the location plays a critical role in house price prediction. Unfortunately, existing work either overlooked it or had a coarse grained measurement of locations. Thereby, we define and capture a fine-grained location profile powered by a diverse range of location data sources, including transportation profile, education profile, suburb profile based on census data, and facility profile. Regarding the choice of prediction model, we observe that a variety of approaches either consider the entire data for modeling, or split the entire house data and model each partition independently. However, such modeling ignores the relatedness among partitions, and for all prediction scenarios, there may not be sufficient training samples per partition for the latter approach. We address this problem by conducting a careful study of exploiting the Multi-Task Learning (MTL) model. Specifically, we map the strategies for splitting the entire house data to the ways the tasks are defined in MTL, and select specific MTL-based methods with different regularization terms to capture and exploit the relatedness among tasks. Based on real-world house transaction data collected in Melbourne, Australia, we design extensive experimental evaluations, and the results indicate a significant superiority of MTL-based methods over state-of-the-art approaches. Meanwhile, we conduct an in-depth analysis on the impact of task definitions and method selections in MTL on the prediction performance, and demonstrate that the impact of task definitions on prediction performance far exceeds that of method selections.
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McNeil, Peter. "Across the Water: “Images of the Pacific Rim” Images of the Pacific Rim: Australia and California, 1850–1935 by Erika Esau (Sydney: Power Institute Foundation for Art and Visual Culture Publications, 2010), ISBN 9780909952396, 368 pages, illustrated, paperback ($59.95)." Design Issues 31, no. 2 (April 2015): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi_r_00328.
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Davey, Bill, and Arthur Tatnall. "Two Computer Systems in Victorian Schools and the Actors and Networks Involved in their Implementation and Use." International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation 5, no. 3 (July 2013): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jantti.2013070104.
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As in Australia school education is the responsibility of State Governments, this article will consider two computer systems in the Australian State of Victoria. The article takes a socio-technical stance to examine two computer systems currently in use in schools in Victoria: CASES21 and the Ultranet. After describing these systems, the article makes use of actor-network theory to explore the actors involved in their creation, development, implementation and use (or in one case non-use), and the networks they established in doing so. It looks at the associations involving both the human and non-human actors and how these contributed to successful adoption and use of these systems. A comparison of two systems within the same organisational environment allows a unique perspective on the formation of networks. The ANT approach permits an understanding of the difference in adoption where very few factors differ between the cases.
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Mohammadi, Masoud, Maria Rashidi, Vahid Mousavi, Yang Yu, and Bijan Samali. "Application of TLS Method in Digitization of Bridge Infrastructures: A Path to BrIM Development." Remote Sensing 14, no. 5 (February 25, 2022): 1148. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs14051148.
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Over the past years, bridge inspection practices and condition assessments were predicated upon long-established manual and paper-based data collection methods which were generally unsafe, time-consuming, imprecise, and labor-intensive, influenced by the experience of the trained inspectors involved. In recent years, the ability to turn an actual civil infrastructure asset into a detailed and precise digital model using state-of-the-art emerging technologies such as laser scanners has become in demand among structural engineers and managers, especially bridge asset managers. Although advanced remote technologies such as Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) are recently established to overcome these challenges, the research on this subject is still lacking a comprehensive methodology for a reliable TLS-based bridge inspection and a well-detailed Bridge Information Model (BrIM) development. In this regard, the application of BrIM as a shared platform including a geometrical 3D CAD model connected to non-geometrical data can benefit asset managers, and significantly improve bridge management systems. Therefore, this research aims not only to provide a practical methodology for TLS-derived BrIM but also to serve a novel sliced-based approach for bridge geometric Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model extraction. This methodology was further verified and demonstrated via a case study on a cable-stayed bridge called Werrington Bridge, located in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. In this case, the process of extracting a precise 3D CAD model from TLS data using the sliced-based method and a workflow to connect non-geometrical information and develop a BrIM are elaborated. The findings of this research confirm the reliability of using TLS and the sliced-based method, as approaches with millimeter-level geometric accuracy, for bridge inspection subjected to precise 3D model extraction, as well as bridge asset management and BrIM development.
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Kutay, Cat. "Knowledge Management as Enterprise." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 36, S1 (2007): 137–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1326011100004816.
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AbstractIndigenous people have been for a long time deprived of financial benefit from their knowledge. Campaigns around the stolen wages and the “Pay the Rent” campaign highlight this. As does the endemic poverty and economic disenfranchisement experienced by many Indigenous people and communities in Australia. Recent enterprises developed by Indigenous people, such as the sale of art works, can be seen as examples of people receiving remuneration for tangible products deriving from their knowledge. Also, tourism involves the sale of selected knowledge in context. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a rich and expanding area of enterprise development which supports the development of knowledge and its use in enterprise. While such work depends on the owner’s, or in this case Indigenous, control of the knowledge, it can open up new avenues for enterprise development. Knowledge about local land can be included in children’s computer games, knowledge about successful projects can be shared between communities through the immediacy and multimedia format afforded by online environments, and government reports and statistics can be accessed and analysed by Indigenous groups, given tools that suit a community’s abilities and needs. In particular the way in which ICT can be adapted to individual requirements make such tools ideal for communities which form such a varied and complex environment. The author believes it is important that Indigenous communities not only benefit from ICT by taking control of the technology for their purposes, but are also part of its creation and design to suit their aspirations. ICT is a highly flexible technology which can be tailored to many different enterprises. This paper presents some of the projects being developed at the University of New South Wales and suggests how these can be extended.
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Hile, Jack. "Dude, Where’s My Data? The Effectiveness of Laws Governing Data Breaches in Australia." Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy 9, no. 2 (June 29, 2021): 47–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.18080/jtde.v9n2.381.
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The increasing prevalence of large-scale data breaches prompted Australia to strengthen the Privacy Act by enacting the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act to regulate the behaviour of entities entrusted with personal data. However, this paper argues that these legislative instruments are ineffective when dealing with data breaches and their associated problems. In supporting this conclusion, this paper first develops a criterion for effective data breach law, and then evaluates the Australian framework against this criterion to determine its operational effectiveness. In addition, this paper analyses practical developments in the area of data-breach law to garner insights as to how the Australian framework can be made more effective. Ultimately, this paper concludes that the Australian framework is ineffective when dealing with large-scale data breaches, and recommends future legislative amendment as a means of bolstering its effectiveness.
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Hoang, Long, Suk-Hwan Lee, Eung-Joo Lee, and Ki-Ryong Kwon. "GSV-NET: A Multi-Modal Deep Learning Network for 3D Point Cloud Classification." Applied Sciences 12, no. 1 (January 4, 2022): 483. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12010483.
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Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), which applies light in the formation of a pulsed laser to estimate the distance between the LiDAR sensor and objects, is an effective remote sensing technology. Many applications use LiDAR including autonomous vehicles, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR). The 3D point cloud classification is now a hot research topic with the evolution of LiDAR technology. This research aims to provide a high performance and compatible real-world data method for 3D point cloud classification. More specifically, we introduce a novel framework for 3D point cloud classification, namely, GSV-NET, which uses Gaussian Supervector and enhancing region representation. GSV-NET extracts and combines both global and regional features of the 3D point cloud to further enhance the information of the point cloud features for the 3D point cloud classification. Firstly, we input the Gaussian Supervector description into a 3D wide-inception convolution neural network (CNN) structure to define the global feature. Secondly, we convert the regions of the 3D point cloud into color representation and capture region features with a 2D wide-inception network. These extracted features are inputs of a 1D CNN architecture. We evaluate the proposed framework on the point cloud dataset: ModelNet and the LiDAR dataset: Sydney. The ModelNet dataset was developed by Princeton University (New Jersey, United States), while the Sydney dataset was created by the University of Sydney (Sydney, Australia). Based on our numerical results, our framework achieves more accuracy than the state-of-the-art approaches.
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Swalwell, Melanie, Helen Stuckey, Denise de Vries, Cynde Moya, Candice Cranmer, Sharon Frost, Angela Goddard, Steven Miller, Carolyn Murphy, and Nick Richardson. "Archiving Australian Media Arts: A Project Overview." Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 51, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 155–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2022-0026.
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Abstract This article presents an overview of the ARC Linkage Project “Archiving Australian Media Arts: Towards a method and a national collection,” which addresses the challenges of preserving digital media artworks that are stored on obsolete media and that require legacy computer environments to access. It lays out the challenges facing digital media arts, articulates the significance of the deposit of local media art organisation archives into the custody of major, jurisdictionally-appropriate cultural institutions, and details the selection of case studies for research from these organisations’ archives and other existing digital media art collections in our partner organisations’ custody. Case studies consist of the ANAT archive (formerly the Australian Network for Art and Technology), floppy disks from the Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski archive, Experimenta Media Art’s exhibition “Virtualities” (1995), dLux media art’s exhibition “Matinaze 97” (1997), and the Griffith University Art Museum’s collection of interactive CD-ROMs. The article reports on progress to date against two of the project’s aims, outlines the collective benefits to partners and to researchers of artworks and other materials from these archives being available, and indicates that access to born digital materials should improve in the near future with digital emulation infrastructure set to be built.
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Hackett, Jim. "Onboard Electronic Fraud: Piracy in the Twenty-First Century?" Air and Space Law 36, Issue 6 (December 1, 2011): 453–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/aila2011042.
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Internet access is available on some international flights; this will become more commonplace in the future. Internet frauds abound. Already, most personal banking is performed using the Internet; it is easy to transfer funds from one account to another, including from a personal or trust account to that of a fraudster. For example, if a trustee who is both an Australian citizen and a Hong Kong permanent resident, on board an aircraft (Cathay Pacific, Virgin Atlantic, or Qantas) in international airspace flying from Hong Kong to Australia, uses a personal computer to access an Australia-based trust account and (while unauthorized) transfers money to a personal account, has the trustee committed any crime for which he/she may be arraigned in any jurisdiction? It will be argued that the answer may be 'no'. What if the trustee is flying Cathay Pacific? This is partly because the law of Hong Kong insists that Hong Kong has jurisdiction over acts committed by persons aboard Hong Kong-registered aircraft yet does not recognize Internet activity of the type indicated above as a crime if the perpetrator is in international airspace. Similarly, if the trustee is on Virgin Atlantic, the United Kingdom claims jurisdiction and holds that no crime has been committed unless a trust fund based in the home country has been plundered. However, the (Australian) Criminal Code 1995 (Cth) (hereinafter 'the Code') appears to forbid the type of fund transfer mentioned (whether the trustee is on Cathay Pacific, Virgin Atlantic, or Qantas); it thus seems at first blush that the trustee has committed a crime in Australia. The problem is that a Commonwealth prosecutor cannot (it is submitted) access the Code, because the Crimes (Aviation) Act 1991 (Cth) (promulgated earlier in time than the Code) effectively states that no non-violent act in which a person engages on an Australia-bound aircraft (Qantas or otherwise) in international airspace after takeoff from a foreign country is a crime. On such a flight, the Code is inapplicable. The maxim generalia specialibus non derogant is relevant. One solution is that concerned States should draft and sign a treaty that puts national law to one side to ensure that modern-day pirates (such as the errant trustee) are nowhere safe. Similar treaties are already in force to deal with high-seas pirates and aircraft hijackers; the meaning of piracy requires expansion in the twenty-first century.
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Halverson, Aniko L., and Joye Volker. "The integration of computer services with academic arts libraries: new strategies for the hybrid professional." Art Libraries Journal 26, no. 3 (2001): 8–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200012268.
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Two libraries, the National Institute of the Arts at the Australian National University and California Institute of the Arts in Southern California, describe how each has an interdependent relationship with the information technology or network services units in their respective institutions. Major considerations for both are the introduction of electronic full-text art information on the Web and its pedagogical implications, issues faced by arts libraries in the integration of computer services with library services in universities and colleges, and the changing roles of arts librarians and libraries.
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Le, Vincent. "The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare." Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 17, no. 2-3 (December 30, 2020): 8–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.51151/identities.v17i2-3.468.
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In 1950, Turing proposed to answer the question “can machines think” by staging an “imitation game” where a hidden computer attempts to mislead a human interrogator into believing it is human. While the cybercrime of bots defrauding people by posing as Nigerian princes and lascivious e-girls indicates humans have been losing the Turing test for some time, this paper focuses on “deepfakes,” artificial neural nets generating realistic audio-visual simulations of public figures, as a variation on the imitation game. Deepfakes blur the lines between fact and fiction, making it possible for the mere fiction of a nuclear apocalypse to make itself real. Seeing oneself becoming another, doing and saying strange things as if demonically possessed, triggers a disillusionment of our sense of self as human cloning and sinister doppelgängers become a reality that’s open-source and free. Along with electronic club music, illicit drugs, movies like Ex Machina and the coming sex robots, the primarily pornographic deepfakes are how the aliens invade by hijacking human drives in the pursuit of a machinic desire. Contrary to the popular impression that deepfakes exemplify the post-truth phenomenon of fake news, they mark an anarchic, massively distributed anti-fascist resistance network capable of sabotaging centralized, authoritarian institutions’ hegemonic narratives. That the only realistic “solutions” for detecting deepfakes have been to build better machines capable of exposing them ultimately suggests that human judgment is soon to be discarded into the dustbin of history. From now on, only a machine can win the Turing test against another machine.
Author(s): Vincent Le
Title (English): The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare
Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020)
Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje
Page Range: 8-18
Page Count: 11
Citation (English): Vincent Le, “The Deepfakes to Come: A Turing Cop’s Nightmare,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 8-18.
Author Biography
Vincent Le, Monash University
Vincent Le is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Monash University. He has taught philosophy at Deakin University and The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy. He has published in Hypatia, Cosmos and History, Art + Australia, Šum, Horror Studies and Colloquy, among other journals. His recent work focuses on the reckless propagation of the will to critique.
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Kahn, Douglas. "The Lyre's Island: Some Australian Music, Sound Art and Design." Leonardo Music Journal 6 (1996): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1513327.
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Cohen, T. J., M. A. Cohen, S. J. K. Kermode, and Mike Leggett. "Ten Trenches: A Science-Art Collaboration." Leonardo 46, no. 1 (February 2013): 74–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_00488.
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Collaborative and cross-disciplinary research by a group of artists and scientists in an Australian rural setting generates data and ideas that form the basis of a wider understanding of the ramifications of global warming and cooling within the local, regional and national community. The work is viewed as an initial educational platform that will allow the public to see and understand the complexities of climate-based research.
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Swalwell, Melanie, and Maria Garda. "Art, Maths, Electronics and Micros: The Late Work of Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski." Arts 8, no. 1 (February 15, 2019): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8010023.
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To date, most work on computers in art has focused on the Algorists (1960s–) and on later cyber arts (1990s–). The use of microcomputers is an underexplored area, with the 1980s constituting a particular gap in the knowledge. This article considers the case of Polish-Australian artist, Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski (b. 1922, d. 1994), who after early exposure to computers at the Bell Labs (1967), returned to microcomputers late in his life. He was not a programmer yet used micros in his practice from the early 1980s, first a BBC in his BP Christmas Star commission, and later a 32-bit Archimedes. This he used from 1989 until his death to produce still images with a fractal generator and the ‘paintbox’ program, “Photodesk”. Drawing on archival research and interviews, we focus on three examples of how Ostoja deployed his micro, highlighting the convergence of art, maths, electronics, and a ‘hands-on’ tinkering ethic in his practice. We argue that when considering the history of creative microcomputing, it is imperative to go beyond the field of art itself. In this case, electronics and the hobbyist computing scenes provide crucial contexts.
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Szulakowska, Urszula. "Electronic Space in Contemporary Australian Art: Practice and Theory." Leonardo 24, no. 2 (1991): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1575289.
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Botea, Adi, and Daniel Harabor. "Path Planning with Compressed All-Pairs Shortest Paths Data." Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling 23 (June 2, 2013): 293–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icaps.v23i1.13600.
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All-pairs shortest paths (APSP) can eliminate the need to search in a graph, providing optimal moves very fast. A major challenge is storing pre-computed APSP data efficiently. Recently, compression has successfully been employed to scale the use of APSP data to roadmaps and gridmaps of realistic sizes. We develop new techniques that improve the compression power of state-of-the-art methods by up to a factor of 5. We demonstrate our ideas on game gridmpaps and the roadmap of Australia. Part of our ideas have been integrated in the Copa CPD system, one of the two best optimal participants in the grid-based path planning competition GPPC.
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Shams, Foyez, Fiona Dyer, Ross Thompson, Richard P. Duncan, Jason D. Thiem, Zuzana Majtánová, and Tariq Ezaz. "Karyotypes and Sex Chromosomes in Two Australian Native Freshwater Fishes, Golden Perch (Macquaria ambigua) and Murray Cod (Maccullochella peelii) (Percichthyidae)." International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20, no. 17 (August 30, 2019): 4244. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20174244.
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Karyotypic data from Australian native freshwater fishes are scarce, having been described from relatively few species. Golden perch (Macquaria ambigua) and Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii) are two large-bodied freshwater fish species native to Australia with significant indigenous, cultural, recreational and commercial value. The arid landscape over much of these fishes’ range, coupled with the boom and bust hydrology of their habitat, means that these species have potential to provide useful evolutionary insights, such as karyotypes and sex chromosome evolution in vertebrates. Here we applied standard and molecular cytogenetic techniques to characterise karyotypes for golden perch and Murray cod. Both species have a diploid chromosome number 2n = 48 and a male heterogametic sex chromosome system (XX/XY). While the karyotype of golden perch is composed exclusively of acrocentric chromosomes, the karyotype of Murray cod consists of two submetacentric and 46 subtelocentric/acrocentric chromosomes. We have identified variable accumulation of repetitive sequences (AAT)10 and (CGG)10 along with diverse methylation patterns, especially on the sex chromosomes in both species. Our study provides a baseline for future cytogenetic analyses of other Australian freshwater fishes, especially species from the family Percichthyidae, to better understand their genome and sex chromosome evolution.
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Dodds, Agnes E., Jeanette A. Lawrence, Kellie Karantzas, Abi Brooker, Ying Han Lin, Vivienne Champness, and Nadia Albert. "Children of Somali refugees in Australian schools: Self-descriptions of school-related skills and needs." International Journal of Behavioral Development 34, no. 6 (July 6, 2010): 521–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025410365801.
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We examined self-descriptions of children of Somali refugee families in Australian primary schools, focusing on how children’s school-related skills and needs relate to the interpretive frames of mainstream and ethnic cultures. Three groups of Grade 5 and 6 children (Somali, Disadvantaged, Advantaged) made choices among school-related skills, and rated feelings and needs for the transition to high school. Findings indicate a general goodness of fit between emphases of the mainstream culture and Somali children’s choices (sport, maths), while reflecting some values of their ethnic interpretive frames (rejecting art, music). Gender stereotypic differences did not interact with culture. Children’s computer-based choices provide a basis for bringing together studies of development and acculturation, and for differentiating between refugee status and socio-economic disadvantage.
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Carter, B. D., M. C. B. Ashley, C. S. Bembrick, P. W. Brooks, P. Mitchell, and J. W. V. Storey. "Astronomy with the Automated Patrol Telescope." International Astronomical Union Colloquium 148 (1995): 44–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0252921100021667.
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AbstractThe Automated Patrol Telescope (APT) is a wide-field CCD imaging telescope operated by the University of New South Wales at Siding Spring Observatory in Australia. The optical design employed resembles that of a Schmidt, but uses a 3-element lens to achieve a wide, corrected field of view. The APT was developed by extensively modifying the optical, mechanical and electronic systems of a Baker-Nunn satellite tracking camera. Telescope motion and operation of the CCD have been placed under computer control, allowing automated observations for longterm survey and monitoring projects. The APT has 0.5 m aperture f/1 optics which produce a 5° flat field, of which a 2°×3° field is covered by the CCD currently installed. The telescope is being used for studies of stellar activity in open clusters and regions of star formation, and comet and minor planet investigations. A number of other projects for the APT are being considered, including searches for novae, supernovae in clusters of galaxies, and brown dwarfs.
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Taylor, Hollis. "A Taste for the Beautiful." Leonardo 44, no. 3 (June 2011): 292–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_00196.
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Bowerbirds are named for the structures they build, paint, and decorate. This photo essay documents the efforts of three species of Australian bowerbirds. The influence of sexual selection is pertinent, as the female bowerbird performs her concomitant function as art critic.
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SAMUEL, GRAEME. "CARTELS, MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS - THE RAPIDLY CHANGING FACE OF AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION REGULATION." Deakin Law Review 10, no. 2 (July 1, 2005): 512. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/dlr2005vol10no2art290.
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<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>[</span><span>Australia’s </span><span>Trade Practices Act </span><span>is a piece of legislation that is constantly evolving to deal with the constantly evolving processes and practices of business – good and bad. Regardless of whether the country’s main tele- communications company, Telstra is privatised, or whether we get one or a hundred new TV channels or even abandon our TV sets for computer screens, the </span><span>Trade Practices Act </span><span>will continue, as it has done now for 30 years, to evolve with the economy to continue to protect and promote com- petition for the good of the Australian people</span><span>.] </span></p></div></div></div>
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Mehnert, Andrew James, Andrew Janke, Marco Gruwel, Wojtek James Goscinski, Thomas Close, Dean Taylor, Aswin Narayanan, George Vidalis, Graham Galloway, and Andrew Treloar. "Putting the Trust into Trusted Data Repositories: A Federated Solution for the Australian National Imaging Facility." International Journal of Digital Curation 14, no. 1 (September 11, 2019): 102–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v14i1.594.
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The National Imaging Facility (NIF) provides Australian researchers with state-of-the-art instrumentation—including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), positron emission tomography (PET), X-ray computed tomography (CT) and multispectral imaging – and expertise for the characterisation of animals, plants and materials.
To maximise research outcomes, as well as to facilitate collaboration and sharing, it is essential not only that the data acquired using these instruments be managed, curated and archived in a trusted data repository service, but also that the data itself be of verifiable quality. In 2017, several NIF nodes collaborated on a national project to define the requirements and best practices necessary to achieve this, and to establish exemplar services for both preclinical MRI data and clinical ataxia MRI data.
In this paper we describe the project, its key outcomes, challenges and lessons learned, and future developments, including extension to other characterisation facilities and instruments/modalities.
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Sohal, Amrik S. "AMT implementations in Australia: mini cases and implications for management." International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management 1, no. 4/5 (2000): 389. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmtm.2000.001358.
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Elwes, Catherine. "TEN SKIES, Erika Balsom (2021)." Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) 10, no. 1 (September 1, 2021): 236–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00074_5.
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Lomb, Nick. "Scientific Society Journals: the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia." Historical Records of Australian Science 29, no. 2 (2018): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr18002.
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In the 1950s and 1960s the increased specialization of science led to the formation of discipline-based scientific societies. Some of these, among them the Astronomical Society of Australia, began their own refereed journals. The Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, which has now been continuously published by the Society for over 50 years, has undergone many changes in that time in response to the changes in the publication landscape. The method of production has advanced from manual to computer typesetting and from printed volumes to purely electronic publishing. The content of the journal has changed from short conference papers to formal research papers that now, under the impact of citation indices, face strict refereeing and are mixed with major invited review papers. Dedicated editors have maintained the journal despite a preference from many members to publish in better known overseas journals as well as strong opposition from within the society to the costs involved in maintaining a research journal.
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Schibeci, Renato, Ian Barns, Shona Kennealy, and Aidan Davison. "Public attitudes to gene technology: the case of the MacGregor's® tomato." Public Understanding of Science 6, no. 2 (April 1997): 167–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0963-6625/6/2/004.
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This paper reports the pilot phase of a three-year project, `Public perceptions of biotechnology', conducted in Perth, Western Australia. The purposes of this pilot investigation were (1) to develop a computer-based method for investigating public perceptions of biotechnology, and (2) to report the perceptions of four `interested publics' about the Flavr Savr™/MacGregor's® tomato, a genetically engineered tomato. By `interested publics' we mean members of groups who are not experts in the field, but have an interest because of their membership of the group. We developed a computer-based database of information about this tomato to stimulate, in interviews, respondents' articulation of their knowledge and perceptions of biotechnology. The database was a multimedia package, based on a HyperCard stack on a Macintosh PowerBook 180C, with information about the tomato in ten different categories. The data suggest that our methodology has the potential to provide a fruitful approach to exploring the background knowledges and perceptions of different publics.
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Hoare, Alexander, Richard T. Gray, and David P. Wilson. "Could implementation of Australia's National Gay Men's Syphilis Action Plan have an indirect effect on the HIV epidemic?" Sexual Health 9, no. 2 (2012): 144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh10145.
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Objectives The number of incident infections of syphilis and HIV have increased over the past decade across Australia, particularly among gay men. In other industrialised settings, syphilis epidemics have also resurged coincidentally with increases in HIV diagnoses. Sexually transmissible infections (STI) are a biologically plausible cofactor for increasing HIV transmission. We pose the question: could strategies purely targeting syphilis also have an indirect impact on HIV incidence? Methods: We developed an agent-based computer model that simulates the transmission and disease progression of HIV and syphilis among a population of sexually active gay men, calibrated to reflect the epidemics in Victoria, Australia. The model was informed by detailed behavioural data from a variety of sources and was used to investigate the potential epidemiological impact of different public health interventions. Results: Assuming that syphilis could act as a biological cofactor for HIV transmission, from no effect to increasing risk by five-fold, our model indicates that if Australia’s syphilis action plan is effectively implemented then the number of HIV infections could decrease by up to 48% over the next decade in the absence of any specific HIV interventions. Conclusion: It is plausible that effective implementation of interventions targeting syphilis epidemics can have an indirect effect of mitigating the spread of HIV. The possible effects of STI should be considered in the design, implementation and evaluation of public health strategies and programs.
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Bannigan, Phillip, and Sue Harris. "An Electronic Arts Network for Australia." Leonardo 24, no. 2 (1991): 227. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1575305.
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