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Cunningham, Stuart. "Regionalism in Audiovisual Production: The Case of Queensland." Queensland Review 1, no. 1 (June 1994): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600000490.
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A great deal has been made of the boom in audiovisual production based in southern Queensland (and to some extent in northern Queensland) in the 1990s. This follows a pattern throughout the so-called ‘revival’ period (since the early 1970s) in Australia which has seen successive moments of regional upsurge. In the 1970s, it was South Australia, under the energetic leadership of the South Australian Film Corporation, that saw many of the best feature films and several of the early historical mini-series of the early revival period made in that state (see, for example, Moran). During the early to mid-1980s, Western Australia, with the location of bold production houses such as Barron Films and strong independent documentary traditions, offered robust regional opportunities, culminating in such memorable films as Shame and Fran.
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Dawson, Jonathan. "Dazzled by the Sun: Corporatising Queensland Film Culture." Media International Australia 89, no. 1 (November 1998): 109–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9808900112.
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In the wake of economic rationalism and the failed cyber-fantasies of Creative Nation, there has been an increasing tendency towards the corporatisation of film funding bodies at a time when a loosening of self-defensive bureaucratic systems might have been expected. For example, the Film Finance Corporation has created increasingly complex ‘professional’ systems of management and has foreshadowed a ‘last stage’ script assessment process that has created dismay in industry guilds. After exhaustive prior script development (and many funding and script editing stops), a project will face yet another barrier immediately prior to shooting. In addition, the increasing invocation of ‘craft skills' themselves as somehow learnable and precisely quantifiable processes, has dug an even deeper moat around funding bodies. The winding down of Film Queensland and the enhanced corporatisation of the Pacific Film and Television Commission (even to office dress codes!) and incorporation of events such as the Brisbane International Film Festival into an Events Corporation are signs that many largely discredited constructs of The Market are still being applied — to strengthen the power base of the apparatchicks at the expense of their local clients. The events sketched in this paper are paradigmatic of over-regulated and inner-focused arts funding systems that have lost sight of who their real clients should be.
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Metcalf, Bill. "South Brisbane's Cultural Hub: From Post and Telegraph to Griffith Film School." Queensland Review 19, no. 2 (December 2012): 217–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2012.24.
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Entering Brisbane's South Bank from the Victoria Bridge, we walk past the concrete 1980s Queensland Performing Arts Complex, the brick Queensland Conservatorium and the modern, glass-fronted ABC Broadcasting buildings, then past assorted cafes and pseudo-beaches until reaching the Ship Inn. Here, we enter an enclave of mid- to late-nineteenth-century architectural gems, surrounding and focusing on the small but tranquil South Brisbane Memorial Park (1923). Opposite the Ship Inn (1865), Cumbooquepa (1891) and South Brisbane Town Hall (1891–92), and adjoining the Maritime Museum (1881), at the eastern edge of South Bank Parklands stands a magnificent old building now known as the Griffith Film School. This building has been the cultural hub of South Brisbane for 130 years, and provides a stylish, heritage ‘bookend’ to today's South Bank Cultural and Educational Precinct.
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Boyne, Kerry. "The legend of the ‘gentlemen of the flashing blade’: The canecutter in the Australian imagination." Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 11, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 45–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00050_1.
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The ‘gentlemen of the flashing blade’ laboured in an occupation that no longer exists in Australia: canecutting. It was a hard job done by hard men, and its iconic figure – the canecutter – survives as a Queensland legend, so extensively romanticized in the popular culture of the time as to constitute a subgenre characterized by subject matter and motifs particular to the pre-mechanization sugar country culture. Yet, it may seem like the only canecutters immortalized in the arts are Summer of the Seventeenth Doll’s Roo and Barney. To show the breadth and diversity of this subgenre, and the legend of the canecutter and sugar country culture, this article reviews a selection of novels, memoirs, plays, short stories, cartoons, verse, song, film, television, radio and children’s books. These works address the racial, cultural and industrial politics of the sugar industry and its influence on the economic and social development of Queensland. The parts played by the nineteenth-century communities of indentured South Sea Islanders and the European immigrants who followed are represented along with those of the itinerant Anglos. These works depict, and celebrate, a colourful, often brutal, part of Queensland’s past and an Australian icon comparable with the swaggie or the shearer.
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Bailey, Julie James. "Independent Film Exhibition: Country Queensland from the 1930s to the 1960s." Media International Australia 85, no. 1 (November 1997): 110–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9708500117.
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Farley, Rebecca. "It's Never a Five-Day Shoot: Queensland Screen Funding Policy and the Local Animation Industry." Media International Australia 93, no. 1 (November 1999): 131–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9909300113.
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A number of structural and policy changes have swept through Queensland's film funding organisations since 1996. Nonetheless, a monocular, rose-tinted view of what constitutes ‘industry’ has remained. Animation is one of many areas which are under-served, if not actively restricted, by this romantic view of industry. This paper looks at the capacity of Queensland's film funding bodies to fulfil the Arts Office's slogan: ‘to ensure success for Queensland's cultural industries’, both in their previous (1997) incarnation and since the implementation of the Weekes Report recommendations in 1998. It then engages with the aspects of industrial practice which are hampered by these gaps in policy.
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Ward, Susan. "National Cinema or Creative Industries? Film Policy in Transition." Media International Australia 112, no. 1 (August 2004): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0411200110.
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In 2002, ‘film’ consolidated a position within municipal governance as part of the Brisbane City Council's economic development program based on the ‘new economy’ understanding of the role of the city as the physical location of commercial and cultural activity. This positioning of film within the notion of industry clustering, and the acknowledgment that production technologies of film and television share a common ground with games development, and other forms of leisure software, represent a fundamental departure from the precepts of the traditional national cinema model. Are creative industries discourse and cluster logic opening up a new field of governance for film policy? How does this translate to the state and federal levels if policy is to become more accommodating to the structures and dynamics of specific regional locations? This paper examines two Queensland approaches to creative industries discourse and cluster logic as a way of understanding the impact this move to a ‘global knowledge-based economy’ will have on the traditional policy framework.
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PERKINS, PHILIP D. "A revision of the Australian humicolous and hygropetric water beetle genus Tympanogaster Perkins, and comparative morphology of the Meropathina (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)." Zootaxa 1346, no. 1 (October 30, 2006): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1346.1.1.
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The Australian endemic humicolous and hygropetric water beetle genus Tympanogaster Perkins, 1979, is revised, based on the study of 7,280 specimens. The genus is redescribed, and redescriptions are provided for T. cornuta (Janssens), T. costata (Deane), T. deanei Perkins, T. macrognatha (Lea), T. novicia (Blackburn), T. obcordata (Deane), T. schizolabra (Deane), and T. subcostata (Deane). Lectotypes are designated for Ochthebius labratus Deane, 1933, and Ochthebius macrognathus Lea, 1926. Ochthebius labratus Deane, 1933, is synonymized with Ochthebius novicius Blackburn, 1896. Three new subgenera are described: Hygrotympanogaster new subgenus (type species Tympanogaster (Hygrotympanogaster) maureenae new species; Topotympanogaster new subgenus (type species Tympanogaster (Topotympanogaster) crista new species; and Plesiotympanogaster new genus (type species Tympanogaster (Plesiotympanogaster) thayerae new species. Seventy-six new species are described, and keys to the subgenera, species groups, and species are given. High resolution digital images of all primary types are presented (online version in color), and geographic distributions are mapped. Male genitalia, representative spermathecae and representative mouthparts are illustrated. Scanning electron micrographs of external morphological characters of adults and larvae are presented. Selected morphological features of the other members of the subtribe Meropathina, Meropathus Enderlein and Tympallopatrum Perkins, are illustrated and compared with those of Tympanogaster. Species of Tympanogaster are typically found in the relict rainforest patches in eastern Australia. Most species have very limited distributions, and relict rainforest patches often have more than one endemic species. The only species currently known from the arid center of Australia, T. novicia, has the widest distribution pattern, ranging into eastern rainforest patches. There is a fairly close correspondence between subgenera and microhabitat preferences. Members of Tympanogaster (s. str.) live in the splash zone, usually on stream boulders, or on bedrock stream margins. The majority of T. (Hygrotympanogaster) species live in the hygropetric zone at the margins of waterfalls, or on steep rockfaces where water is continually trickling; a few rare species have been collected from moss in Nothofagus rainforests. Species of T. (Plesiotympanogaster) have been found in both hygropetric microhabitats and in streamside moss. The exact microhabitats of T. (Topotympanogaster) are unknown, but the morphology of most species suggests non-aquatic habits; most specimens have been collected in humicolous microhabitats, by sifting rainforest debris, or were taken in flight intercept traps. Larvae of hygropetric species are often collected with adults. These larvae have tube-like, dorsally positioned, mesothoracic spiracles that allow the larvae to breathe while under a thin film of water. The key morphological differences between larvae of Tympanogaster (s. str.) and those of Tympanogaster (Hygrotympanogaster) are illustrated. New species of Tympanogaster are: T. (s. str.) aldinga (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek), T. (s. str.) amaroo (New South Wales, Back Creek, downstream of Moffatt Falls), T. (s. str.) ambigua (Queensland, Cairns), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) arcuata (New South Wales, Kara Creek, 13 km NEbyE of Jindabyne), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) atroargenta (Victoria, Possum Hollow falls, West branch Tarwin River, 5.6 km SSW Allambee), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) barronensis (Queensland, Barron Falls, Kuranda), T. (s. str.) bluensis (New South Wales, Blue Mountains), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) bondi (New South Wales, Bondi Heights), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) bryosa (New South Wales, New England National Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) buffalo (Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) canobolas (New South Wales, Mount Canobolas Park), T. (s. str.) cardwellensis (Queensland, Cardwell Range, Goddard Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) cascadensis (New South Wales, Cascades Campsite, on Tuross River), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) clandestina (Victoria, Grampians National Park, Golton Gorge, 7.0 km W Dadswells Bridge), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) clypeata (Victoria, Grampians National Park, Golton Gorge, 7.0 km W Dadswells Bridge), T. (s. str.) cooloogatta (New South Wales, New England National Park, Five Day Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) coopacambra (Victoria, Beehive Falls, ~2 km E of Cann Valley Highway on 'WB Line'), T. (Topotympanogaster) crista (Queensland, Mount Cleveland summit), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) cudgee (New South Wales, New England National Park, 0.8 km S of Pk. Gate), T. (s. str.) cunninghamensis (Queensland, Main Range National Park, Cunningham's Gap, Gap Creek), T. (s. str.) darlingtoni (New South Wales, Barrington Tops), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) decepta (Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park), T. (s. str.) dingabledinga (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek, upstream from Coachwood Falls), T. (s. str.) dorrigoensis (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek, upstream from Coachwood Falls), T. (Topotympanogaster) dorsa (Queensland, Windin Falls, NW Mount Bartle-Frere), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) duobifida (Victoria, 0.25 km E Binns, Hill Junction, adjacent to Jeeralang West Road, 4.0 km S Jeerelang), T. (s. str.) eungella (Queensland, Finch Hatton Gorge), T. (Topotympanogaster) finniganensis (Queensland, Mount Finnigan summit), T. (s. str.) foveova (New South Wales, Border Ranges National Park, Brindle Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) grampians (Victoria, Grampians National Park, Epacris Falls, 2.5 km WNW Halls Gap), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) gushi (New South Wales, Mount Canobolas Park), T. (s. str.) hypipamee (Queensland, Mount Hypipamee National Park, Barron River headwaters below Dinner Falls), T. (s. str.) illawarra (New South Wales, Macquarie Rivulet Falls, near Wollongong), T. (Topotympanogaster) intricata (Queensland, Mossman Bluff Track, 5–10 km W Mossman), T. (s. str.) jaechi (Queensland, Running Creek, along road between Mount Chinghee National Park and Border Ranges National Park), T. (Topotympanogaster) juga (Queensland, Mount Lewis summit), T. kuranda (Queensland, Barron Falls, Kuranda), T. (s. str.) lamingtonensis (Queensland, Lamington National Park, Lightening Creek), T. (s. str.) magarra (New South Wales, Border Ranges National Park, Brindle Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) maureenae (New South Wales, Back Creek, Moffatt Falls, ca. 5 km W New England National Park boundary), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) megamorpha (Victoria, Possum Hollow falls, W br. Tarwin River, 5.6 km SSW Allambee), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) merrijig (Victoria, Merrijig), T. (s. str.) millaamillaa (Queensland, Millaa Millaa), T. modulatrix (Victoria, Talbot Creek at Thomson Valley Road, 4.25 km WSW Beardmore), T. (Topotympanogaster) monteithi (Queensland, Mount Bartle Frere), T. moondarra (New South Wales, Border Ranges National Park, Brindle Creek), T. (s. str.) mysteriosa (Queensland), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) nargun (Victoria, Deadcock Den, on Den of Nargun Creek, Mitchell River National Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) newtoni (Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park), T. (s. str.) ovipennis (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek, upstream from Coachwood Falls), T. (s. str.) pagetae (New South Wales, Back Creek, downstream of Moffatt Falls), T. (Topotympanogaster) parallela (Queensland, Mossman Bluff Track, 5–10 km W Mossman), T. (s. str.) perpendicula (Queensland, Mossman Bluff Track, 5–10 km W Mossman), T. plana (Queensland, Cape Tribulation), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) porchi (Victoria, Tarra-Bulga National Park, Tarra Valley Road, 1.5 km SE Tarra Falls), T. (s. str.) precariosa (New South Wales, Leycester Creek, 4 km. S of Border Ranges National Park), T. (s. str.) protecta (New South Wales, Leycester Creek, 4 km. S of Border Ranges National Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) punctata (Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park, Eurobin Creek), T. (s. str.) ravenshoensis (Queensland, Ravenshoe State Forest, Charmillan Creek, 12 km SE Ravenshoe), T. (s. str.) robinae (New South Wales, Back Creek, downstream of Moffatt Falls), T. (s. str.) serrata (Queensland, Natural Bridge National Park, Cave Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) spicerensis (Queensland, Spicer’s Peak summit), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) storeyi (Queensland, Windsor Tableland), T. (Topotympanogaster) summa (Queensland, Mount Elliott summit), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) tabula (New South Wales, Mount Canobolas Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) tallawarra (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek, Cedar Falls), T. (s. str.) tenax (New South Wales, Salisbury), T. (Plesiotympanogaster) thayerae (Tasmania, Liffey Forest Reserve at Liffey River), T. (s. str.) tora (Queensland, Palmerston National Park), T. trilineata (New South Wales, Sydney), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) truncata (Queensland, Tambourine Mountain), T. (s. str.) volata (Queensland, Palmerston National Park, Learmouth Creek, ca. 14 km SE Millaa Millaa), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) wahroonga (New South Wales, Wahroonga), T. (s. str.) wattsi (New South Wales, Blicks River near Dundurrabin), T. (s. str.) weiri (New South Wales, Allyn River, Chichester State Forest), T. (s. str.) wooloomgabba (New South Wales, New England National Park, Five Day Creek).
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White, Jessica. "‘So many sparks of fire’: Dorothy Cottrell, modernism and mobility." Queensland Review 23, no. 2 (December 2016): 164–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.27.
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AbstractThe broad brush strokes of Dorothy Cottrell's paintings in the National Library of Australia mark her as a modernist artist, although not one who painted the burgeoning Sydney Harbour Bridge or bright still-life paintings of Australian flora. Rather, she captured the dun surrounds of Ularunda Station, the remote Queensland property to which she moved in 1920 after attending art school in Sydney. At Ularunda, Cottrell eloped with the bookkeeper to Dunk Island, where they stayed with nature writer E.J. Banfield, then relocated to Sydney. In 1924 they returned to Ularunda and Cottrell swapped her paintbrush for a pen, writing The Singing Gold. After advice from Mary Gilmore, whom her mother accosted in a pub, Cottrell send it to the Ladies Home Journal in America. It was snapped up immediately, optioned for a film and found a publisher in England, who described it as ‘a great Australian book, and a world book’. Gilmore added, ‘As an advertisement for Australia, it will go far — the Ladies Home Journal is read all over the world’. Cottrell herself also went far, emigrating to America, where she wrote The Silent Reefs, set in the Caribbean. Cottrell's creative, intellectual and physical peregrinations — all undertaken in a wheelchair after she contracted polio at age five — show how the local references the international, and vice versa. Through an analysis of the life and writing of this now little-known Queensland author, this essay reflects the regional and transnational elements of modernism as outlined in Neal Alexander and James Moran's Regional Modernisms, illuminating how a crack-shot with a rifle once took Queensland to the world.
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Bradley, John, Frances Devlin-Glass, and Elizabeth Mackinlay. "Diwurruwurru: Towards a New Kind of Two-Way Classroom." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 27, no. 2 (December 1999): 24–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1326011100600546.
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A project is currently underway at http://arts.deakin.edu.au which is innovative on a number of fronts. It has multiple beginnings: in the proactive, as culture dissemination work of a number of Yanyuwa and Garrwa women, who proclaimed in the white man’s world that they were ‘bosses themselves’ (Gale 1983) and who in various ways have sought to bring their culture to the attention of the wider world. This has been accomplished through a prize-winning (Atom Australian Teachers of Media awards in 1991) film, Buwarrala Akarriya: Journey East (1989), of are-enacted ritual foot-walk in 1988 from Borroloola to Manankurra 90 kilometres away. They also made a another prize winning film called Ka-wayawayarna: The Aeroplane Dance (1993) which won the Royal Anthropological Society of London award for the best ethnographic film in 1995. Since 1997 senior Yanyuwa women have been involved on a regular basis in sharing their knowledge of Yanyuwa performance practice with tertiary students in a subject called Women’s Music and Dance in Indigenous Australia which is offered as a course in anthropology through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, they have also lectured in core anthropology subjects in the faculty of Social and Behavourial Sciences Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Queensland. They have also engaged actively in work as language preservers and teachers at the Borroloola Community Education Centre (hereafter BCEC) and in the Tennant Creek Language Centre program called Papulu Apparr-Kari.
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Turnbull, D. J., and P. W. Schouten. "Utilising polyphenylene oxide for high exposure solar UVA dosimetry." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 8, no. 1 (February 6, 2008): 2129–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-8-2129-2008.
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Abstract. Researchers at the University of Southern Queensland have developed a personal UV dosimeter that can quantitatively assess high exposure solar UVA exposures. The chemical polyphenylene oxide has been previously reported on its ability to measure high UVB exposures. This current research has found that polyphenylene oxide, cast in thin film form, is responsive to both the UVA and UVB parts of the solar spectrum. Further to this, the UVB wavelengths were filtered out with the use of mylar. This combined system responded to the UVA wavelengths only and underwent a change in optical absorbance as a result of UVA exposure. Preliminary results indicate that this UVA dosimeter saturates steadily when exposed to sunlight and can measure exposures of more than 20 MJ/m2 of solar UVA radiation with an uncertainty level of no more than ±5%.
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Bravo, Luisa, and Mirko Guaralda. "Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City | Report from the Habitat III Village, Pop-up Public Space." Journal of Public Space 2, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/jps.v2i1.60.
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<p>‘Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City’ was an event held at Habitat III, the United Nations conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, in Ecuador, included in a series of meetings and events at the Pop-up Public Space, Habitat III Village, in Parque El Ejido in Quito. On 26<sup>th</sup> October 2016, we presented two research projects aiming at community engagement on issues related to the future of the urban environment:<br />- the "InstaBooth", a telephone booth-inspired portable structure developed at the Urban Informatics Lab of the Queensland University of Technology - <a href="http://www.urbaninformatics.net/projects/instabooth/">http://www.urbaninformatics.net/projects/instabooth/</a> - which uses tangible and hybrid interaction such as multi-touch screens and media façades to facilitate face-to-face and digitally mediated discussions;<br />- the cinematography competition "Urban Visions. Beyond the Ideal City", promoted by City Space Architecture - <a href="http://www.cityspacearchitecture.org/?p=urban-visions-beyond-the-ideal-city">http://www.cityspacearchitecture.org/?p=urban-visions-beyond-the-ideal-city</a> - which is the first film competition in the Italian context involving film-makers at a professional level on topics related to cities and urbanity.</p>
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Northup, BK, JR Brown, CD Dias, WC Skelly, and B. Radford. "A Technique for Near-Ground Remote Sensing of Herbaceous Vegetation in Tropical Woodlands." Rangeland Journal 21, no. 2 (1999): 229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9990229.
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Cost-effective, accurate, repeatable methods for assaying characteristics of vegetative communities are critical for developing management strategies for grasslands in dry tropical Australia. We outline a set of flexible and adaptable techniques that will allow the description of plant canopy cover, bare ground, and standing crop through near-ground remote sensing. The system consists of a gantry frame and telescoping boom arm mounted on a quad bike, digital camera (or analog camera using slide film) to capture plot images, Leica TClOlO total station (electronic theodolite with data capture card) to measure distance and bearings to centres of imaged plots, and a suite of readily available software packages to process the images. During 1997, data were collected from three experimental paddocks in different stages of degradation within a dry tropical woodland located near Charters Towers, Queensland. Comparisons of data quality and time requirements for digital and standard field estimation techniques (BOTANAL) are made, and the strengths and weaknesses of the two systems discussed.
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Lipton, Martina. "Jessie Matthews’ Construction of a Star Persona on her Post-war Australian Tours." New Theatre Quarterly 31, no. 2 (April 28, 2015): 116–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x15000238.
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Jessie Matthews’ post-war tours to Australia were part of a sequence of commercially successful imported productions then heralded as a great boom era in Australian theatre. However, Matthews’ waning popularity in Britain since the 1940s meant that she was no longer recognizable as the screen darling of the 1930s. Indeed, the Australian press had to remind its readers of ‘evergreen Jessie’s’ succession of British film hits such as The Good Companions (1933) and Evergreen (1934). This article examines the critical and public reception of Matthews’ tours with a focus on the strategic management of her star persona, both on and off stage, including her public criticism of Australian theatre management and employment opportunities for Australian theatre performers. Martina Lipton is an Honorary Associate Lecturer at the University of Queensland and was recently the Research Fellow (Australia) on the Leverhulme Research Project ‘British-Australian Cultural Exchange: Live Performance 1880–1960’. Her publications include the chapter ‘Localism and British Modern Pantomime’ in A World of Popular Entertainments (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012) and articles for Australasian Drama Studies, Contemporary Theatre Review, New Theatre Quarterly, and Popular Entertainment Studies.
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Holbert, Maleea Denise, Roy M. Kimble, Mark Chatfield, and Bronwyn R. Griffin. "Effectiveness of a hydrogel dressing as an analgesic adjunct to first aid for the treatment of acute paediatric burn injuries: a prospective randomised controlled trial." BMJ Open 11, no. 1 (January 2021): e039981. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039981.
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ObjectiveTo compare the effectiveness of two acute burn dressings, Burnaid hydrogel dressing and plasticised polyvinylchloride film, on reducing acute pain scores in paediatric burn patients following appropriate first aid.DesignSingle-centre, superiority, two-arm, parallel-group, prospective randomised controlled trial.Participants and settingPaediatric patients (aged ≤16) presenting to the Emergency Department at the Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, with an acute thermal burn were approached for participation in the trial from September 2017–September 2018.InterventionsPatients were randomised to receive either (1) Burnaid hydrogel dressing (intervention) or (2) plasticised polyvinylchloride film (Control) as an acute burn dressing.Primary and secondary outcomesObservational pain scores from nursing staff assessed 5 min post application of the randomised dressing, measured using the Face Legs Activity Cry and Consolability Scale was the primary outcome. Repeated measures of pain, stress and re-epithelialisation were also collected at follow-up dressing changes until 95% wound re-epithelialisation occurred.ResultsSeventy-two children were recruited and randomised (n=37 intervention; n=35 control). No significant between-group differences in nursing (mean difference: −0.1, 95% CI −0.7 to 0.5, p=0.72) or caregiver (MD: 1, 95% CI −8 to 11, p=0.78) observational pain scores were identified. Moreover, no significant differences in child self-report pain (MD: 0.3, 95% CI −1.7 to 2.2, p=0.78), heart rate (MD: −3, 95% CI −11 to 5, p=0.41), temperature (MD: 0.6, 95% CI −0.13 to 0.24, p=0.53), stress (geometric mean ratio: 1.53, 95% CI 0.93 to 2.53, p=0.10), or re-epithelialisation rates (MD: −1, 95% CI −3 to 1, p=0.26) were identified between the two groups.ConclusionsA clear benefit of Burnaid hydrogel dressing as an analgesic adjunct to first aid for the treatment of acute paediatric burns was not identified in this investigation.Trial registration numberAustralian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12617001274369).
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Burgess, James M., and David E. Gildfind. "CFD Analysis of Early Diaphragm Removal in Expansion Tubes." Applied Mechanics and Materials 846 (July 2016): 23–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.846.23.
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Impulse facilities generate transient high-velocity gas flows for ground testing in aerodynamics. The expansion tube is the facility type with the highest performance capability in terms of total flow enthalpy and total pressure, and is particularly useful for studies of atmospheric re-entry, chemical kinetics, scramjet flight and supersonic combustion. In operation, a thin film diaphragm that initially partitions two tube sections is required to rupture under the force of a shock-wave. Fragmented pieces are accelerated with the flow and can damage test models and instrumentation, and the rupture process itself affects flow properties. It has been proposed to replace the diaphragm with a fast open valve that clears the tube prior to shock arrival. This paper investigates the effect of early valve opening on the test flow.An inviscid, axisymmetric model was created using Eilmer3, a compressible CFD solver developed at the University of Queensland. Early valve opening was simulated at varying times for instantaneous diaphragm removal. The result was the formation of a secondary shock and expansion wave. The primary shockwave reaches the test section at a higher velocity due to passing through the expansion wave, creating a faster, higher-pressure test flow, but also higher temperature, leading to substantially reduced Mach number. The interactions with the secondary waves were found to cause unsteadiness in test flow properties.
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Gill, Neeraj S., John A. Allan, Belinda Clark, and Alan Rosen. "Human rights implications of introducing a new mental health act – principles, challenges and opportunities." Australasian Psychiatry 28, no. 2 (February 24, 2020): 167–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1039856220901483.
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Objective: The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), 2006 has influenced the evolution of mental health legislation to protect and promote human rights of individuals with mental illness. This review introduces how the human rights agenda can be systematised into mental health services. Exploration is made of how some principles of CRPD have been incorporated into Queensland’s Mental Health Act 2016. Conclusion: Although progress has been made in some areas, e.g. heavier reliance on capacity assessment and new supported decision-making mechanisms, MHA 2016 has continued to focus on involuntary treatment. A Human Rights Act 2019 has been passed by the Queensland parliament, which may fill in the gap by strengthening positive rights.
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McWilliam, Kelly. "We're Here All Week: Public Formation and the Brisbane Queer Film Festival." Queensland Review 14, no. 2 (July 2007): 79–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600006656.
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The Brisbane Powerhouse was reopened in 2000, an election year for the Brisbane City Council, by then Lord Mayor Councillor Jim Soorley. Built in a decommissioned power station, the ‘Centre for the Arts’ was one of the culminations of Soorley's $4 billion Urban Renewal Program (‘About Urban Renewal’). It was also a major — $22 million worth, to be precise — addition to the Brisbane arts scene (Buzacott: 11). It is of particular interest, then, that one of the highest profile events of the Brisbane Powerhouse's inaugural program was the first screening of the Brisbane Queer Film and Video Weekend (now the Brisbane Queer Film Festival or ‘BQFF’). Now in its eighth year, and still screened at the Brisbane Powerhouse, the BQFF continues to be Queensland's only regular public film festival dedicated to explicitly queer films. But at a time when queer film festivals around the world are under increasing pressure to disband, given claims that ‘queer’ is supposedly such an accepted part of mainstream media that separate events are superfluous, what role — if any — does the BQFF have in Brisbane's and Queensland's queer culture (see Rich 2006)?
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Van Hemert, Tess, and Elizabeth Ellison. "Queensland's film culture: the challenges of local film distribution and festival exhibition." Studies in Australasian Cinema 9, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 39–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2014.1002269.
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Brakel, A. T., J. M. Totterdell, A. T. Wells, and M. G. Nicoll. "Sequence stratigraphy and fill history of the Bowen Basin, Queensland." Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 56, no. 3 (April 2009): 401–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08120090802698711.
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Paynter, Ann-Maree, and Elizabeth Taylor. "Attracting teachers to rural and remote Queensland: A case study." Australian and International Journal of Rural Education 29, no. 3 (November 6, 2019): 105–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v29i3.226.
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For many years the supply of graduate teachers, including specialist secondary teachers for Queensland state schools, has largely met demand. In recent years however, attracting and retaining specialist teachers in some Queensland locations and curriculum areas has become more challenging. Reflective of wider Australian and international trends, balancing the supply of specialist teachers to meet current and future demands requires planning and early action. Taking a traditional approach to recruiting teachers (as vacancies arise) can result in shortfalls when unplanned absences, retirements and promotions occur unexpectedly. Subjects that are already hard to fill such as senior mathematics and science, English, languages, industrial technology and design (manual arts) are even more elusive in the middle of a school term. Many schools located in low socio-economic, regional, rural and remote communities are also experiencing challenges in recruiting teachers for the breadth of learning phases and curriculum areas.
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Ellison, Elizabeth, and Tess Van Hemert. "Regional screen cultures: the precarity and significance of Queensland’s film festival landscape." Studies in Australasian Cinema 14, no. 2 (May 3, 2020): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2020.1834226.
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Pittaway, Pamela A., and Tania R. van den Ancker. "Properties of natural microlayers on Australian freshwater storages and their potential to interact with artificial monolayers." Marine and Freshwater Research 61, no. 10 (2010): 1083. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf09159.
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Microlayers are natural surface films derived from hydrophobic organic compounds that form on most lakes and streams. Holarctic brown-water lakes have been most commonly studied, with Australian research limited to marine microlayers. Artificial monolayers based on long-chain fatty alcohols have been applied to freshwater storages to reduce evaporative loss. As a water conservation strategy, monolayer technology was not widely adopted because of variable field performance. However, the role of natural microlayers in reducing monolayer performance has not previously been investigated. In the present study, microlayer and subsurface samples from six water storages in Queensland were characterised for water-quality indices, including biochemical oxygen demand, permanganate index and ultraviolet light absorbance. Microlayer enrichment in south-eastern Queensland is comparable to or higher than that in holarctic lakes. The results indicated that microlayer compounds have the potential to disrupt monolayers in at least the following three ways: as substrates for microbes capable of degrading monolayer compounds, as chromophores accelerating photodegradation, and as impurities disrupting the molecular packing required to reduce evaporative loss. The knowledge gained from studying natural microlayers can also be used to benchmark novel monolayer compounds, to minimise their environmental impact on freshwater ecosystems.
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Jorand, C., K. Connors, L. Pryer, and C. Pietrucha. "A new spatially continuous basement heat flow map for NW Queensland." APPEA Journal 59, no. 2 (2019): 879. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj18042.
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A recently released open file study of the depth-to-basement and basement heat flow is presented, which covers the Queensland portion of the South Nicholson Basin and includes basins underlying the Lawn Hill Platform and Georgina Basin. The present-day basement heat flow model is derived from an analysis of basement composition, structure and history, with the crustal radiogenic and mantle heat flow assessed separately. Resulting from an integrated, iterative interpretation and analysis of a wide range of publicly available spatially continuous geophysical and geological datasets, the heat flow model reproduces faithfully sharp and high-amplitude variations of the published heat flow at small distances. Variations are replicated through the integration of interpreted basement composition and a geologically driven determination of heat production within the radiogenic crustal layer. The values of mantle heat flow based on lithosphere thickness derived from seismic tomography models are consistent with published stable mantle heat flow under terranes of similar age. The long-wavelength regional variations can be attributed to the change in the thickness of the lithosphere. Regionally, the highest values of heat flow are found where radiogenic crust is the thickest and the composition is interpreted to comprise radiogenic intrusives.
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McConachie, B. A., J. Filatoff, and N. Senapati. "STRATIGRAPHY AND PETROLEUM POTENTIAL OF THE ONSHORE CARPENTARIA BASIN, QUEENSLAND." APPEA Journal 30, no. 1 (1990): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj89009.
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Over the past four years Comalco in joint venture with Bridge Oil have undertaken extensive exploration within the Carpentaria Basin. Over 3000 km of multifold reflection seismic data has been acquired and four petroleum exploration wells were drilled. In addition, the Queensland Department of Mines (GSQ) has drilled four cored full-section stratigraphic wells in the deeper parts of the basin.Analysis of the work to date indicates that the basin is not as structurally simple as first thought. Four sub- basins are recognised based on the composition and timing of Mesozoic sedimentary fill. These are the Weipa, Western Gulf, Staaten and Boomarra sub-basins. The Boomarra Sub-basin contains a Middle Triassic red-bed sequence which is 250 m thick in drill hole GSQ Dobbyn- 1. Thick, Middle Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous, basal fluvial and marine sandstone sequences are restricted to the Weipa and Staaten sub-basins, where they are confined principally to the palaeotopographic valleys. The Western Gulf Sub-basin is believed to contain minimal basal Mesozoic sandstone.Although sedimentary depositional environments exhibit widespread continuity throughout the Carpentaria Basin, variations in lithology and provenance as well as diachronism can be demonstrated between the various sub-basins. Most notably the late Neocomian marine transgression began earlier at Weipa than in the southern sub-basins. A basin-wide stratigraphy has been developed from deep drill hole correlations and mapping of outcrop sections around the margin of the basin in the Olive River, Gregory Range and Melish Park areas thus enabling the petroleum reservoir character of the basin to be determined.
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McConachie, B. A., P. W. Stainton, M. G. Barlow, and J. N. Dunster. "THE OFFSHORE CARPENTARIA BASIN-GULF OF CARPENTARIA, NORTH QUEENSLAND." APPEA Journal 34, no. 1 (1994): 614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj93047.
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The Carpentaria Basin is late Jurassic to early Cretaceous in age and underlies most of the Gulf of Carpentaria and surrounding onshore areas. The Carpentaria Basin is stratigraphically equivalent to the Eromanga and Papuan Basins where similar reservoir rocks produce large volumes of hydrocarbons.Drillholes Duyken–1, Jackie Ck–1 and 307RD12 provide regional lithostratigraphic and tectonic control for the Q22P permit in the offshore Carpentaria Basin. Duyken–1 penetrated the upper seal section in the Carpentaria Basin and a full sequence through the overlying Karumba Basin. Jackin Ck–1 intersected the lower reservoir units and a condensed upper seal section of the Carpentaria Basin. Coal drillhole 307RD12 tested the late Jurassic to early Cretaceous reservoir section in the Carpentaria Basin and also intersected an underlying Permian infrabasin sequence.Little is known of the pre Jurassic sedimentary section below the offshore Carpentaria Basin but at least two different rock packages appear to be present. The most encouraging are relatively small, layered, low velocity, channel and half-graben fill, possibly related to Permian or Permo-Triassic sedimentary rocks to the east in the Olive River area. The other packages consist of poorly defined, discontinuous, high velocity rocks believed to be related to those of the Bamaga Basin which have been mapped further north.During the period 1990-1993 Comalco Aluminium Limited reprocessed 2188 km of existing seismic data and acquired 2657 km of new seismic data over the offshore Carpentaria Basin. When combined with onshore seismic and the results of drilling previously undertaken by Comalco near Weipa on northwestern Cape York Peninsula, it was possible to define a significant and untested play in the Carpentaria Depression, the deepest part of the offshore Carpentaria Basin.The main play in the basin is the late Jurassic to early Cretaceous reservoir sandstones and source rocks, sealed by thick early Cretaceous mudstones. Possible pre-Jurassic source rocks are also present in discontinuous fault controlled half-grabens underlying the Carpentaria Basin. New detailed basin modelling suggests both the lower part of the Carpentaria Basin and any pre Jurassic section are mature within the depression and any source rocks present should have expelled oil.
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Young, Ian F. "Late Jurassic Channels and Associated fill, Eromanga Basin (ATP 259P), Queensland: A Seismic Stratigraphic Study." Exploration Geophysics 18, no. 1-2 (March 1, 1987): 238–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/eg987238.
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Ku, Harry, Peter Wong, J. Huang, H. Fung, and Mohan Trada. "Flexural Properties of Epoxy Composites Filled with Glass Powder: Preliminary Results." Advanced Materials Research 410 (November 2011): 309–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.410.309.
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Epoxy resin was filled with glass powder with a view to increasing strength of the composite for structural applications by a research Centre on composites, University of Southern Queensland (USQ). In order to reduce costs, the Centre wishes to fill as much glass powder as possible subject to maintaining sufficient strength of the composites in structural applications. This project varies the percentage by weight of the glass powder in the composites which are then subjected to flexural tests. The results show that composite with 25 % by weight of the glass powder produces the highest flexural strength and Young’s modulus combined with a reasonable fluidity for casting; the highest flexural strain was achieved when the percentage by weight of glass powder is 10 %.
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Draper, J. "GEORGINA BASIN—AN EARLY PALAEOZOIC CARBONATE PETROLEUM SYSTEM IN QUEENSLAND." APPEA Journal 47, no. 1 (2007): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj06006.
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Queensland contains a number of carbonate-bearing basins which are under-explored for petroleum, but contain the elements of potentially economic petroleum systems. The oldest such basin is the Neoproterozoic to Ordovician Georgina Basin which straddles the Queensland-Northern Territory border and is traversed by the Ballera to Mount Isa gas pipeline.The basin developed across several major crustal blocks resulting in regional variations in deposition and deformation. Thick Neoproterozoic rocks of the Centralian Superbasin form the base of the sequence in apparently fault-bounded, extensional sub-basins. These rocks are generally tight and source rocks are unknown. The Cambrian to Ordovician rocks have the best petroleum potential with the most prospective part of the basin being the Toko Syncline. The Burke River Structural Belt is less prospective, but is worthy of further exploration. Basin fill consists of Cambrian and Early Ordovician rocks which are dominantly carbonates, with both limestones and dolostones present. In the Early to Middle Ordovician, the rocks became predominantly siliciclastic.The main phase of deformation affecting the Georgina Basin occurred in the Devonian as part of the Alice Springs Orogeny. The Toomba Fault, which forms the western boundary of the asymmetric Toko Syncline, is a thrust fault with up to 6.5 km of uplift. The angle of thrusting is between less than 40 degrees and up to 70 degrees. Rich, marine source rocks of Middle Cambrian age in the Toko Syncline are mature for oil except in the deepest part of the syncline where they are mature for dry gas. The deeper part of the Toko Syncline may be gas saturated.Potential hydrocarbon targets include large folds associated with fault rollovers, stratigraphic traps and faultbounded traps. Vugular, secondary porosity in dolostones offers the best chance for commercial reservoirs within the Ninmaroo and Kelly Creek formations and Thorntonia Limestone. There are also oolitic carbonates which may have good primary porosity, as well as interbedded sandstones in the carbonates with preserved porosity. Structurally controlled hydrothermal dolomite facies represent potential reservoirs. The dominantly siliciclastic Ordovician sequence is water flushed. Fracture porosity is another possibility (cf. the Palm Valley gas field in the Amadeus Basin). As the deeper part of the Toko Syncline appears to be gas saturated, there may be potential for basin-centred gas. Fine-grained carbonates and shales provide excellent seals. There has not been a valid structural test; although AOD Ethabuka–1 flowed 7,000 m3/d of dry gas, the well was abandoned short of the target depth.
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Silcock, RG, LM Williams, and F. Smith. "Quality and storage characteristics of the seeds of important native pasture species in South-West Queensland." Rangeland Journal 12, no. 1 (1990): 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9900014.
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Seeds of native plants can be difficult to germinate reliably. In addition, the useful life of a carefully harvested seed lot needs to be known. This paper reports on the laboratory germination over eight years of seed of 27 native pasture species hand-harvested near Charleville after the 1972-73 summer and stored in a laboratory without special conditions. The legumes had prolonged hard-seededness and high viability. Forb species varied in their degree of hard-seededness and the level of initial dormancy, Most perennial grasses produced high quality seed which attained best germination between one and three years after harvest. The Andropogoneae had much poorer seed fill than most other species. Laboratory germination of annual and small seeded grasses was often low, even after scarification. Thus, the use of freshly harvested or old, untested seed of native rangeland species in - research programmes is very unwise.
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Mangan, John, and Bernard Trendle. "Hard-to-fill vacancies: An analysis of demand side responses in the Australian state of Queensland." Economic Analysis and Policy 54 (June 2017): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2016.10.002.
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Grol, Monique G. G., Julie Vercelloni, Tania M. Kenyon, Elisa Bayraktarov, Cedric P. van den Berg, Daniel Harris, Jennifer A. Loder, Morana Mihaljevic, Phebe I. Rowland, and Chris M. Roelfsema. "Conservation value of a subtropical reef in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, highlighted by citizen-science efforts." Marine and Freshwater Research 72, no. 1 (2021): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf19170.
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Subtropical reefs are important habitats for many marine species and for tourism and recreation. Yet, subtropical reefs are understudied, and detailed habitat maps are seldom available. Citizen science can help fill this gap, while fostering community engagement and education. In this study, 44 trained volunteers conducted an ecological assessment of subtropical Flinders Reef using established Reef Check and CoralWatch protocols. In 2017, 10 sites were monitored to provide comprehensive information on reef communities and to estimate potential local drivers of coral community structure. A detailed habitat map was produced by integrating underwater photos, depth measurements, wave-exposure modelling and satellite imagery. Surveys showed that coral cover ranged from 14% to 67%. Site location and wave exposure explained 47% and 16% respectively, of the variability in coral community composition. Butterflyfishes were the most abundant fish group, with few invertebrates being observed during the surveys. Reef impacts were three times lower than on other nearby subtropical reefs. These findings can be used to provide local information to spatial management and Marine Park planning. To increase the conservation benefits and to maintain the health of Flinders Reef, we recommend expanding the current protection zone from 500- to a 1000-m radius.
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Ku, Harry, Mohan Trada, and Rezwanul Huq. "A Pilot Study on the Flexural Properties of Vinyl Ester Composites Filled with Glass Powder." Advanced Materials Research 123-125 (August 2010): 3–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.123-125.3.
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Vinyl ester resin was filled with of glass powder with a view to increasing the flexural strength of the composites for civil and structural applications by a research Centre on composites, University of Southern Queensland (USQ). In order to reduce costs, the Centre wishes to fill as much glass powder as possible to the resin subject to maintaining sufficient strength of the composites in civil and structural applications. This project varies the percentage by weight of the glass powder in the composites, which are then subjected to flexural tests. The flexural strength and strain of the glass powder filled vinyl ester composites decreased with increasing filler content but the flexural modulus was highest at 20 w/t % of glass powder. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was used to analyze the fractured samples and it was found that the fractured surfaces examined were correlated with the flexural properties.
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Lakhani, Ali, David P. Watling, Ross Duncan, Peter Grimbeek, Peter Harre, Jos Stocker, and Sanjoti Parekh. "General practitioner identification and retention for people with spinal cord damage: establishing factors to inform a general practitioner satisfaction measure." Australian Journal of Primary Health 26, no. 3 (2020): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py20017.
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People with spinal cord damage (SCD) report a high level of GP use. There is a dearth of research investigating factors that contribute to GP identification and retention for people with SCD. Furthermore, a GP satisfaction measure developed specifically for people with SCD is non-existent. This preliminary study sought to identify factors contributing to GP identification and retention. A total of 266 people with SCD primarily based in Queensland, Australia, completed a cross-sectional survey that aimed to fill these knowledge gaps. Descriptive statistics and correlational analyses clarified the factors contributing to GP identification and GP retention respectively. An exploratory factor analysis utilising the principal components analysis method clarified a set of items that could underpin key domains for a SCD-specific GP satisfaction measure. The findings confirm that knowledge about SCD, physically accessible services, and trust are seminal considerations aligned with GP identification and retention for people with SCD.
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Thorn, Vanessa C. "Phytolith evidence for C4-dominated grassland since the early Holocene at Long Pocket, northeast Queensland, Australia." Quaternary Research 61, no. 2 (March 2004): 168–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2003.12.002.
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Preliminary phytolith analysis of ephemeral lake fill sediment at Long Pocket, near Toomba, northeast Queensland, Australia, indicates that a C4-dominated grassland with a minor woody component has been present in the region since ca. 8000 cal yr B.P. Based on the modern distribution of C4 and C3 native grasses in Australia, this suggests that mean summer temperatures of at least 14°C (ca. 10°C cooler than present) were maintained since the early Holocene. This interpretation is comparable with previous studies, which together imply that the establishment of C4-dominated grasses in central and northeast Australia occurred between the last glacial maximum (most likely after ca. 16,000 14C yr B.P.) and ca. 7200 14C yr B.P. (ca. 8000 cal yr B.P.). Taxonomic composition of the grassland appears relatively consistent since the early Holocene at Long Pocket and includes phytoliths comparable with those from modern Arundinoideae, Panicoideae, and Chloridoideae. Rare non-grass phytoliths are also present. A gradual decrease in abundance of saddle phytolith forms (attributed to Chloridoideae grasses) from the base of the record at ca. 6500–7000 cal yr B.P. suggests decreasing aridity throughout the Holocene. This trend could reflect a locally drawn out effect of the end of the postglacial arid period due to the well-drained basalt flow catchment maintaining a local arid habitat for the Chloridoideae grasses.
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Flynn, Asher, and Mark Halsey. "Critical Criminology: Guest Editors' Introduction." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v5i1.297.
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This issue of the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy stems from selected papers delivered at the 2013 and 2014 Critical Criminology conferences convened in, respectively, Adelaide (Flinders University) and Melbourne (Monash University). This was the final occasion when the Critical Criminology event would be held in successive years. In future, this conference will alternate with the Crime, Justice and Social Democracy Conference (hosted biennially by the Queensland University of Technology). As guest editors and the conferences’ facilitators, we examined the abstracts across both events and listened to as many speakers as possible with the view to inviting submissions from a mix of Australian and international delegates, including a selection of postgraduate and early career researchers.The papers published in this issue provide solid evidence of not only the liveliness of critical criminological thought, but also its relevance to the twenty-first century problems besetting various governments and communities around the world.To find out more about this special edition, download the PDF file from this page.
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Korsch, Russell, Heike Struckmeyer, Alison Kirkby, Laurie Hutton, Lidena Carr, Kinta Hoffmann, Richard Chopping, et al. "Energy potential of the Millungera Basin: a newly discovered basin in north Queensland." APPEA Journal 51, no. 1 (2011): 295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj10020.
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Deep seismic reflection surveys in north Queensland that were collected in 2006 and 2007 discovered a previously unknown sedimentary basin, now named the Millungera Basin, which is completely covered by a thin succession of sediments of the Jurassic–Cretaceous, Eromanga-Carpentaria Basin. Interpretation of regional aeromagnetic data suggests that the basin could have areal dimensions of up to 280 km by 95 km. Apart from regional geophysical data, virtually no confirmed geological information exists on the basin. To complement the seismic data, new magnetotelluric data have been acquired on several lines across the basin. An angular unconformity between the Eromanga and Millungera basins indicates that the upper part of the Millungera Basin was eroded prior to deposition of the Eromanga-Carpentaria Basin. Both the western and eastern margins of the Millungera Basin are truncated by thrust faults, with well-developed hangingwall anticlines occurring above the thrusts at the eastern margin. The basin thickens slightly to the east, to a maximum preserved subsurface depth of ˜3,370 m. Using sequence stratigraphic principles, three discrete sequences have been mapped. The geometry of the stratigraphic sequences, the post-depositional thrust margins, and the erosional unconformity at the top of the succession all indicate that the original succession across much of the basin was thicker–by up to at least 1,500 m–than preserved today. The age of the Millungera Basin is unknown, but petroleum systems modelling has been carried out using two scenarios, that is, that the sediment fill is equivalent in age to (1) the Neoproterozoic-Devonian Georgina Basin, or (2) the Permian–Triassic Lovelle Depression of the Galilee Basin. Using the Georgina Basin analogue, potential Cambrian source rocks are likely to be mature over most of the Millungera Basin, with significant generation and expulsion of hydrocarbons occurring in two phases, in response to Ordovician and Cretaceous sediment loading. For the Galilee Basin analogue, potential Permian source rocks are likely to be oil mature in the central Millungera Basin, but immature on the basin margins. Significant oil generation and expulsion probably occurred during the Triassic, in response to late Permian to Early Triassic sediment loading. Based on the seismic and potential field data, several granites are interpreted to occur immediately below the Millungera Basin, raising the possibility of hot rock geothermal plays. Depending on its composition, the Millungera Basin could provide a thermal blanket to trap any heat which is generated. 3D inversion of potential field data suggests that the inferred granites range from being magnetic to nonmagnetic, and felsic (less dense) to more mafic. They may be part of the Williams Supersuite, which is enriched in uranium, thorium and potassium, and exposed just to the west, in the Mount Isa Province. 3D gravity modelling suggests that the inferred granites have a possible maximum thickness of up to 5.5 km. Therefore, if granites with the composition of the Williams Supersuite occur beneath the Millungera Basin, in the volumes indicated by gravity inversions, then, based on the forward temperature modelling, there is a good probability that the basin is prospective for geothermal energy.
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Ohlsen, Daniel J. "Comparison of modern classifications for filmy ferns (Hymenophyllaceae) and a new combination in Trichomanes L. for the filmy fern Macroglena brassii Croxall, from Queensland, Australia." Muelleria: An Australian Journal of Botany 39 (December 21, 2020): 75–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/p.340571.
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McKergow, Lucy A., Ian P. Prosser, Rodger B. Grayson, and Dale Heiner. "Performance of grass and rainforest riparian buffers in the wet tropics, Far North Queensland. 1. Riparian hydrology." Soil Research 42, no. 4 (2004): 473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr02155.
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The long and intense storms of the wet tropics present extreme conditions for testing the effectiveness of riparian buffers. This study presents results of a hydrometric investigation of 4 riparian buffers on 2 commercial banana plantations in Far North Queensland, Australia. It investigates runoff generation and riparian hydrology on hillslopes with differing slopes, contributing areas, and topographic convergence. Both grass and rainforest buffers were examined. Surface and subsurface hydrology were measured for 4 wet seasons (December–April) using paired flumes, piezometers, and tensiometers. All buffers experienced large volumes of surface runoff, with peak discharges ranging from 30 L/s on planar hillslopes to 350 L/s on a highly convergent site. Event runoff : rainfall ratios ranged between 0.01 and 0.65. Grass buffers with smaller contributing areas (<0.3 ha) were able to dissipate the energy of surface runoff under all conditions. In a larger (5 ha), highly convergent hillslope, surface runoff became channelised upslope of the buffer and the vetiver hedges and grass were not able to prevent scouring of a channel through the buffer, reducing its performance. Infiltration occurred in all buffers during small events, and at the convergent buffer during large events, most likely due to the presence of deep soil fill. In contrast, exfiltration occurred in the grass buffers on planar and moderately converging slopes during large events. There, the riparian soil approached saturation and return flow and seepage were measured. Under exfiltration, soil strength may be decreased and riparian buffers are needed to decrease erosion hazard. Localised saturation was observed in the rainforest buffer beneath a planar hillslope during large events, where soils were deeper and dried out more quickly than in the adjacent grass buffer. This study documents the high runoff volumes and peak discharges on cropped slopes in the wet tropics, and evaluates riparian hydrological processes. Infiltration is unlikely to be an important buffer function in this environment, but an additional role of buffers is to reduce the erosion hazard presented by exfiltration.
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de Andrade Vieira Filho, Claudio L., Mark Reilly, Suzanne Hurter, and Zsolt Hamerli. "Integration of biostratigraphy into a sequence stratigraphic framework for the Surat Basin, eastern Australia." APPEA Journal 59, no. 2 (2019): 863. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj18071.
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A new sequence stratigraphic framework (SSF) for the Early–Late Jurassic Surat Basin, eastern Australia, is evolving. A second and third order framework based upon an integrated methodology of well-to-well correlations supported by well tied seismic data is being developed. The integration of an additional dataset (palynology) to test for regionally consistent sequence stratigraphic well correlations offers an improvement in defining sequence boundaries related to the geological timescale. The palynological data from 33 wells covering the north-east Surat Basin were extracted from the Queensland Digital Exploration (QDEX) open-file reports, some of which date back to the 1960s. These data were correlated and superposed on the SSF for age comparison. The dataset used in this study represents only a subset of all existing palynology information, as not all data are captured in QDEX. However, the palynology data in this exploratory study generally fits and supports the new SSF with only one exception, the reason for which is not understood at this stage. We recommend expanding this study to include more data because palynology can support stratigraphic interpretation, especially in wells that do not intercept, or have log data across, regional datums.
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Mattone, Carlo, and Marcus Sheaves. "The intertidal benthic community of mangrove dominated estuaries: the ecological implications of a decoupled habitat." ICES Journal of Marine Science 76, no. 7 (August 5, 2019): 2329–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz145.
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Abstract The benthic infauna of mangrove forests have received little research despite their importance in regulating ecological processes and nutrient cycling. The majority of studies of benthic community in mangrove systems have either focused on the adjacent tidal flats, or areas with high density of pneumatophores without entering within the forest, giving a misleading impression that mangrove infauna community is understood in detail. To fill the knowledge gap we investigated the composition and distribution of benthic taxa across a tidal gradient in two meso-tidal tropical estuarine mangrove forests in north Queensland, Australia. We used a 10-cm corer to sample inside the mangrove forest and on the adjacent tidal flat. Taxonomic composition was vastly different between the tidal flat and the mangrove forest. In fact, although peracarid (e.g. amphipods) characterized the community of tidal flats, they were never recorded within the forest. The contrasting community composition likely denotes contrasting ecological role of the two habitats. In particular, because peracarids are a key component of juvenile fish diets, their absence within the forest probably limits foraging opportunities for many juvenile fish within the forest, while their dominance on adjacent tidal flats suggests that these are likely to be the key feeding areas.
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Tsatsaros, Julie H., Iris C. Bohnet, Jon E. Brodie, and Peter Valentine. "Improving Water Quality in the Wet Tropics, Australia: A Conceptual Framework and Case Study." Water 12, no. 11 (November 10, 2020): 3148. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12113148.
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The Wet Tropics region of north Queensland contains the highest biological diversity in Australia, has outstanding environmental values, is economically important and located adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Increasing urban development and agricultural intensification in the Wet Tropics has raised serious water quality concerns. To successfully achieve water quality improvement outcomes, the integration of social and biophysical knowledge, in particular clarifying the roles and responsibilities of multiple stakeholders for knowledge integration, has been identified as a key issue and research priority. However, research into the processes supporting knowledge integration and clarifying roles and responsibilities of multiple stakeholders for improving water quality is largely lacking. To fill this gap, we further developed and advanced a social-ecological planning framework to improve our understanding of how multiple-stakeholders can contribute to successful water quality management outcomes. Our conceptual framework, applied in the Tully basin adjacent to the GBR: (1) provides a transdisciplinary approach; (2) enhances the integration of social and biophysical knowledge through tailored methods fitting the local context; (3) shares knowledge and provides recommendations; (4) outlines factors that may promote or inhibit the implementation of freshwater quality objectives; (5) highlights inadequacies of existing government guidelines, policies, and presents co-management opportunities and (6) offers a novel collaborative approach supporting water quality improvement in the Wet Tropics of Australia and beyond.
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Giblin-Davis, Robin M., Natsumi Kanzaki, Kerrie A. Davies, Weimin Ye, Yongsan Zeng, Barbara J. Center, Alejandro Esquivel, and Thomas O. Powers. "Ficotylus laselvae n. sp. (Tylenchomorpha: Anguinidae) associated with Ficus colubrinae in Costa Rica." Nematology 16, no. 10 (2014): 1139–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685411-00002839.
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Ficotylus laselvaen. sp. was recovered from under the bracts of figs (syconia) ofFicus colubrinaefrom La Selva, Costa Rica, during a survey of nematode rainforest biodiversity and is described herein. This is only the second report of an association between the nematode suborder Tylenchina and the sycones of figs. Previous reports of most nematode associates of the sycones of figs have been from the lumen and involved transmission by female fig wasp pollinators (Agaonidae) during pollination/oviposition (e.g.,SchistonchusandParasitodiplogasterspp.). The association betweenF. laselvaen. sp. andFicus colubrinaemay involve an invertebrate host, but none was recovered from dissections of the bracts during this study. It is also possible that this is a rainforest understory nematode that feeds ectoparasitically in protected areas on the aerial parts ofF. colubrinae. Molecular analysis using near-full-length sequences of the small subunit (SSU) rRNA and D2-D3 expansion segments of the large subunit (LSU) rRNA genes ofFicotylus laselvaen. sp. suggests that it is a member of the suborder Tylenchina (infraorder: Tylenchomorpha; family: Anguinidae) and that the closest sequenced species isF. congestaefrom the lumen of sycones ofFicus congestafrom Queensland, Australia. Although both nematode species are associated with figs, they are morphologically divergent, suggesting that the different micro-niches that they fill provide different selective pressures for evolution of differing morphological characters or they represent different life history morphotypes of a dicyclic genus.
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Bell, M. J., G. C. Wright, and G. Harch. "Environmental and Agronomic Effects on the Growth of Four Peanut Cultivars in a Sub-tropical Environment. II. Dry Matter Partitioning." Experimental Agriculture 29, no. 4 (October 1993): 491–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0014479700021190.
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SummaryThe partitioning of dry matter between vegetative and reproductive yield components was analysed for four diverse peanut cultivars at a range of sowing dates and plant populations in sub-tropical Queensland, Australia. Rates of accumulation of pods (pod addition) varied significantly with both cultivar and sowing date. Within cultivars, much of this variation could be attributed to variation in crop growth rate during the critical pod addition period. The proportion of current assimilate distributed to pods depended on inherent cultivar characteristics and also correlated well with the current crop growth rate relative to the crop growth rate during pod addition (that is, with relative source activity). Neither plant density nor spatial arrangement had any significant effects on patterns of assimilate distribution. All cultivars appeared capable of remobilizing stored assimilate to maintain constant rates of pod yield increase despite fluctuations in crop growth rate which might be expected to produce short term source limitations to pod yield accumulation. The harvest index (HI) increased linearly during the entire pod fill period in all cultivars except the very early maturing Spanish cultivar Chico. Neither density nor spatial arrangement affected rate of increase in HI except in Chico, where increased density produced increased rates of increase in HI. Variation in the rate of HI increase among sowing dates was small.Distributión de la materia seca en el maní
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Esterle, J. S., G. Le Blanc Smith, and J. V. R. Yago. "GEOMETRY AND CONNECTIVITY OF DISTRIBUTARY CHANNEL SANDSTONES IN THE LATE PERMIAN MORANBAH COAL MEASURES, BOWEN BASIN, AUSTRALIA." APPEA Journal 40, no. 1 (2000): 379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj99022.
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The fluvio-deltaic Moranbah Coal Measures are an extensively mined Late Permian coal-bearing sequence that crops out along the western limb of the Bowen Basin, Queensland. Data from operating coal mines provide high resolution datasets for detailed petroleum reservoir analogue studies. In this study, data from subsurface drilling and high wall exposures were used to produce a three-dimensional sub surface model of coal and sandstone geometry in a 200 m stratigraphic section over an area of 184 km2. Detailed analysis of the interval between the extensive Goonyella Middle seam and the 'P'-Tuff identified: 1) thin (10 km long) interpreted as trunk distributary channel-fill deposits. These are flanked by finer grained sediments containing a series of heterolithic units that display large siltstone-draped accretionary cross-stratification reflecting channel/splay deposition. Reservoir continuity in the Moranbah Coal Measures is controlled by coal seam splitting and the degree of amalgamation between sandstone bodies. Analogues for potential reservoirs within these systems include 1) very thick (>40 m), vertically-stacked amalgamated sandstone sequences with good connectivity; 2) thick (>25 m) stacked sandstone units separated by carbonaceous mudstone horizons that reduce vertical connectivity; and 3) thick sing le-sequence sandstone units with good lateral connectivity Marginal zones are fine grained and often faulted, acting as barriers to connectivity between potential reservoir sandstones.
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Ku, Harry, Peter Wong, J. Huang, H. Fung, and Mohan Trada. "Tensile Tests of Glass Powder Reinforced Epoxy Composites: Pilot Study." Advanced Materials Research 214 (February 2011): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.214.1.
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Epoxy resin was filled with glass powder to optimize the strength and of the composite for structural applications by a research centre in the University of Southern Queensland (USQ). In order to reduce costs, the centre wishes to fill as much glass microspheres as possible subject to maintaining sufficient strength and fracture toughness of the composites in structural applications. This project varies the percentage by weight of the glass powder in the composites. After casting the composites to the moulds, they were cured at ambient conditions for 24 hours. They were then post-cured in a conventional oven and subjected to tensile tests. It was found that the best percentage of glass powder by weight that can be added to the epoxy resin to give an optimum yield and tensile strengths as well as Young modulus and cost was five percent. It was also found that the fractured surfaces examined under scanning electron microscope were correlated with the fracture toughness. The contribution of the study was that if tensile properties were the most important factors to be considered in the applications of the composites, glass powder is not a suitable filler. It is also hoped that the discussion and results in this work would not only contribute towards the development of glass powder reinforced epoxy composites with better material properties, but also useful for the investigations of tensile properties in other composites.
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Pirotta, Vanessa, David P. Hocking, Jason Iggleden, and Robert Harcourt. "Drone Observations of Marine Life and Human–Wildlife Interactions off Sydney, Australia." Drones 6, no. 3 (March 11, 2022): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/drones6030075.
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Drones have become popular with the general public for viewing and filming marine life. One amateur enthusiast platform, DroneSharkApp, films marine life in the waters off Sydney, Australia year-round and posts their observations on social media. The drone observations include the behaviours of a variety of coastal marine wildlife species, including sharks, rays, fur seals, dolphins and fish, as well as migratory species such as migrating humpback whales. Given the extensive effort and multiple recordings of the presence, behaviour and interactions of various species with humans provided by DroneSharkApp, we explored its utility for providing biologically meaningful observations of marine wildlife. Using social media posts from the DroneSharkApp Instagram page, a total of 678 wildlife videos were assessed from 432 days of observation collected by a single observer. This included 94 feeding behaviours or events for fur seals (n = 58) and dolphins (n = 33), two feeding events for white sharks and one feeding event for a humpback whale. DroneSharkApp documented 101 interactions with sharks and humans (swimmers and surfers), demonstrating the frequent, mainly innocuous human–shark overlap off some of Australia’s busiest beaches. Finally, DroneSharkApp provided multiple observations of humpback and dwarf minke whales with calves travelling north, indicating calving occurring well south of traditional northern Queensland breeding waters. Collaboration between scientists and citizen scientists such as those involved with DroneSharkApp can greatly and quantitatively increase the biological understanding of marine wildlife data.
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Willink, R. J., and R. L. Harvey. "THE NEW ROYAL OIL FIELD: A CASE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY AND APPRAISAL OF A SUBTLE, STRATIGRAPHICALLY TRAPPED HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATION IN THE TRIASSIC SHOWGROUNDS SANDSTONE, SURAT BASIN." APPEA Journal 43, no. 1 (2003): 415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj02022.
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The New Royal Oil Field is located in a structural embayment on the eastern flank of the Kincora High, western Surat Basin, Queensland. Hydrocarbons have accumulated in the Middle Triassic Showgrounds Sandstone, specifically in a thin basal fluvial unit, interpreted as part of an incised valley fill deposit, that displays excellent reservoir properties but is highly localised in its distribution. The Showgrounds Sandstone overlies either granitic basement or a veneer of Permian clastics including coals. Whereas the Showgrounds Sandstone is an established hydrocarbon bearing reservoir in a number of structural settings elsewhere in the basin, trapping in the New Royal field is primarily stratigraphic.Since its discovery in November 1995, various exploration techniques and technologies have been applied, including the acquisition of 3D seismic data, in an attempt to understand the trapping mechanism of this field and predict its lateral extent, albeit with mixed success. Twelve wells have now been drilled in the greater New Royal field area, only four of which were successfully completed as oil producers from the basal Showgrounds Sandstone. Production to date totals 1.1 million barrels of oil and reservoir simulation studies indicate that original-oil-in-place was 4.6 million barrels.This case history serves as a timely reminder that despite all the technology now available to the petroleum geoscientist, serendipity still plays an important role in the discovery and successful appraisal of certain hydrocarbon accumulations in the Surat Basin.
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Hansen, Dale, Brooklin E. Hunt, Caylee A. Falvo, Manuel Ruiz-Aravena, Maureen K. Kessler, Jane Hall, Paul Thompson, et al. "Morphological and quantitative analysis of leukocytes in free-living Australian black flying foxes (Pteropus alecto)." PLOS ONE 17, no. 5 (May 25, 2022): e0268549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268549.
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The black flying fox (Pteropus alecto) is a natural reservoir for Hendra virus, a paramyxovirus that causes fatal infections in humans and horses in Australia. Increased excretion of Hendra virus by flying foxes has been hypothesized to be associated with physiological or energetic stress in the reservoir hosts. The objective of this study was to explore the leukocyte profiles of wild-caught P. alecto, with a focus on describing the morphology of each cell type to facilitate identification for clinical purposes and future virus spillover research. To this end, we have created an atlas of images displaying the commonly observed morphological variations across each cell type. We provide quantitative and morphological information regarding the leukocyte profiles in bats captured at two roost sites located in Redcliffe and Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, over the course of two years. We examined the morphology of leukocytes, platelets, and erythrocytes of P. alecto using cytochemical staining and characterization of blood films through light microscopy. Leukocyte profiles were broadly consistent with previous studies of P. alecto and other Pteropus species. A small proportion of individual samples presented evidence of hemoparasitic infection or leukocyte morphological traits that are relevant for future research on bat health, including unique large granular lymphocytes. Considering hematology is done by visual inspection of blood smears, examples of the varied cell morphologies are included as a visual guide. To the best of our knowledge, this study provides the first qualitative assessment of P. alecto leukocytes, as well as the first set of published hematology reference images for this species.
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Young, Kate, Evonne Miller, Stuart Ekberg, and Natalie Bradford. "The Experiences and Healthcare Needs of Families Living With Pediatric Brain Tumor: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study Protocol." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 19 (January 1, 2020): 160940692098132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406920981324.
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For most children and adolescents diagnosed with a brain tumor, whether malignant or not, there will be an irrevocably negative impact on their life and that of their family. In Australia, 5 year disease-free survival is 76% meaning that many young people will go on to live with the negative consequences—including neurological and cognitive deficits, reduced school performance, psychological problems, and problems with peer social relationships—of the tumor and associated treatment. Little is known about the experiences and psychosocial healthcare needs of families living with brain tumor, particularly from the perspectives of children and adolescents. We will fill this knowledge gap with a multimethods approach for flexible data collection that addresses the diverse needs of children and families living with a life-threatening illness. Recruited through the largest state pediatric health service in Queensland, Australia, we will follow families from diagnosis to capture their experiences and healthcare needs as they navigate their child’s treatment and survivorship or death. Data collection methods include semi-structured interviews, virtual tours and Photovoice; all family members will be invited to participate. Reflexive thematic analysis will be used to explore the lived experiences of families, and their community and health services needs and associated facilitators and barriers to receiving such care. Our analysis will consider multiple perspectives: the individual, dynamics within each family, and patterns observed across families. This research will inform the co-design of interventions with families to address the service gaps and healthcare needs identified by participants.