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Discourses of democracy in the aftermath of 9/11 and other events : Protectivism versus humanitarianism

- Mummery, Jane, Rodan, Debbie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie
Date: 2003
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Relation: Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies Vol. 17, no. 4 (2003), p. 433-442
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Description: In responding to the events of 11 September 2001—the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington—George W. Bush announced to the world that democracy itself was under attack, and that such an attack1 represented a threat to democracy. Such an interpretation of these events, along with portraying Western democracy as a victim in need of protection and as ‘good’—and establishing thereby the moral high ground—also represented one of the main discourses in which the Tampa refugees were discussed in Australia, and has continued to be a prominent discourse in public discussion within Australia about the War on Terror, the Bali Bombings and both refugees and detention centres. Drawing on a detailed analysis of letters to the editor published in The Australian in the aftermath of 9/11, this paper seeks to show not only that discussion of the events of 2001 and 2002 has tended to coalesce around two apparently irreconcilable discourses2—that of the aforementioned desire to protect democracy or ‘our way of life’ versus that expressive of a kind of ‘globalized humanitarianism’—but that these discourses are indeed not so much irreconcilable but share a common ground along with common stakes and ends.
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Protecting the Global Commons: Comparing Three Ethico-Political Foundations for Response to Climate Change

- Mummery, Jane

Authors: Mummery, Jane
Date: 2013
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Relation: Borderlands Vol. 11, no. 3 (2013), p.
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Description: The ecological underpinnings of our world are at risk. Despite efforts by governments and the international community to set in place some protection for the global environment, industrialisation, economic development, and modern corporate-driven consumerist lifestyles are all contributing to the pollution that is driving climate change. According to the 2007 Assessment Report carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), since the start of industrialisation in the eighteenth century, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane) have markedly increased, primarily as a result of human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and changes in agriculture and other land-uses. Closer to home, human-caused greenhouse gas emissions have increased globally by 70 percent between 1970 and 2004, with carbon dioxide levels increasing by 80 percent within this same period (IPCC 2007). The panel's report further details that 'atmospheric concentrations of C[O.sub.2] [carbon dioxide] and C[H.sub.4] [methane] in 2005 exceed by far the natural range of the last 650,000 years' (IPCC 2007, p. 37; cf. Global Carbon Project 2010). Indeed, while the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere prior to the industrial revolution was 280 parts per million (ppm), in 2008 it measured 385 ppm, with an annual increase of nearly 2 ppm; furthermore, since the year 2000 carbon dioxide emissions have been growing at four times the pace of the rate of the 1990s (Global Carbon Project 2010).

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‘Making change: Digital activism and public pressure on livestock welfare’

- Mummery, Jane, Rodan, Debbie, Nolton, Marnie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie , Nolton, Marnie
Date: 2016
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Relation: New Media Philosophy Vol. 6, no. (2016), p.
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Description: Legal protection of animal welfare in Australia is problematic with livestock (defined here as all animals farmed for use and profit, including poultry and aquatic animals) being effectively excluded from the majority of animal protection statutes. Such legal exclusions, joined with the inherent challenges of legal reform in this field—significant issues to do with standing, costs bearing and jurisdiction—have increased the difficulties of successful litigation. Despite explicit recognition of the necessity for reform in Australian animal law—in 2008 the Australian Law Reform Commission journal, Reform, described animal welfare and animal rights as the ‘next great social justice movement’—a number of legal strategies for reform have been summed up by the Principal Solicitor for the Pro Bono Animal Law Service (PALS), the national legal referral service for animal law operating between 2009 and 2013, as having been exhausted. Specifically, the challenges of standing and costs bearing have meant that many meritorious animal welfare matters have not been able to be pursued within the legal domain

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Mediation for affect : coming to care about factory-farmed animals

- Mummery, Jane, Rodan, Debbie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie
Date: 2017
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Relation: Media International Australia Vol. 165, no. 1 (2017), p. 37-50
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Description: In this article, we examine the digitalised emotional campaigning of one of Australia’s peak animal welfare body, Animals Australia, focusing on their most effective digital strategies associated with their campaigns against factory farming. Our broader interest lies with sounding out the affective affordances of the technologies informing such activist work; technologies of affect in a very significant sense. This discussion comprises three parts. First, we unpack the context for the problematic faced by animal and environmental activisms: neoliberalism, showing how neoliberal assumptions constrain such activisms to emotional appeals and denounce them for such strategising. Second, we sound out some of the affordances of digital media technologies for affectively oriented activisms; and finally, we delve into some of Animals Australia’s digital campaigning with regard to issues of factory farming in order to show the efficacy of such affectively oriented mediated strategising for the forming of new relations with factory farm. © 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.

Becoming activist : The mediation of consumers in Animals Australia’s Make it Possible campaign

- Mummery, Jane, Rodan, Debbie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie
Date: 2019
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Relation: Media International Australia Vol. 172, no. 1 (2019), p. 48-60
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Description: In 2008, the Australian Law Reform Commission journal, Reform, called out animal welfare as Australia’s ‘next great social justice movement’ in 2018; however, public mobilisation around animal welfare is still a contested issue in Australia. The question stands as to how to mobilise everyday mainstream consumers into supporting animal activism given that animal activism is presented in the public sphere as dampening the economic livelihood of Australia, with some animal activism described as ‘akin to terrorism’. The questions, then, are as follows: how to mobilise everyday mainstream consumers into supporting animal activist ideals? How to frame and communicate animal activist ideals so that they can come to inform and change the behaviour and self-understandings of mainstream consumers? This article is an investigation into the possible production and mobilisation of animal activists from mainstream consumers through the work of one digital campaign, Make it Possible. Delivered by the peak Australian animal advocacy organisation, Animals Australia, and explicitly targeting the lived experiences and conditions of animals in factory farming, Make it Possible reached nearly 12 million viewers across Australia and has directly impacted on the reported behaviour and self-understandings of over 291,000 Australians to date, as well as impacting policy decisions made by government and industry. More specifically, our interest is to engage a new materialist lens to draw out how this campaign operates to transform consumers into veg*ns (vegans/vegetarians), activists and ethical consumers who materially commit to and live revised beliefs regarding human–animal relations.

States of exception

- Mummery, Jane

Authors: Mummery, Jane
Date: 2006
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Relation: Borderlands e-journal Vol. 5, no. 2 (2006), p.
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Description: States of exception cannot be understood in the terms of any otherwise prevailing rules or discourses. They are, after all, exceptional. They mark, by definition, special cases, anomalies, irregularities. And, because of this special status, we may of course take exception to them. Now this is not a new insight, we can all think of exceptional people for whom the rules just do not seem to apply, and exceptional situations where the normal rules just do not seem able to help.

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Jewgreek justice and the ethical possibilities of the “Post”

- Mummery, Jane

Authors: Mummery, Jane
Date: 2002
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Relation: Contretemps: an online journal of philosophy Vol. 3, no. (2002), p. 122-132
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Description: With the focus of much of contemporary continental philosophy being the escaping of the conditions and constrictions of an ontotheologic metaphysics (to use an expression favoured by Martin Heidegger), its resultant instantiations have tended to comprise the common project of producing some sort of thinking of a ‘post-’. It is with the possibilities of this ‘post-’—possibilities which I suggest are delineated as ethical (at least by virtue of their shared instigation)—that this paper is concerned. So we have, for instance, picking a few of the instantiations associated with such possibilities, Jean-François Lyotard’s proposed replacement of metaphysical delimitation and homogeneity through the theorizing of the excess and incommensurability of that heterogeneity opened by his thinking of agonistics, the differend and justice. Secondly, we have the Deleuzean projection of a thinking which functions otherwise than—therefore escaping from—the delimitative processes and systems seen as making up the metaphysical thinking of the State.

Facilitating the development of integrity and ethical practice via the higher education classroom

- Mummery, Jane, Nolton, Marnie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Nolton, Marnie
Date: 2017
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Relation: HETL. International Higher Education Teaching & Learning Association Vol. 7, no. (2017), p.
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Description: There is agreement between national governments, employers, teaching practitioners and researchers that one of the foundational objectives of higher education is to teach not only higher order knowledge but key generic, transferable or employability skills, with such skills seen as essential in allowing graduates to make the transition between the worlds of learning and work (Simatele, 2015). These skills have been variously defined, but lists typically include those relevant for professional environments, and for participation in the community as an engaged citizen. This paper describes how transferable skills in ethical decision-making and practice, as well as the personal attributes of integrity and tolerance, can be developed within the classroom. It is based on the review of three courses, one taught to undergraduate students and the others to graduate students. The first, an applied ethics course, is available to students from across multiple programs. The graduate courses are both framed with regards to professional ethical development requirements, one addressing pre-service teachers and the other graduates in the information and communication technologies sectors. Under discursive examination here are modes of teaching and presentation of curricula, as well as students’ own beliefs regarding their development as ethical thinkers. Our discussion of student beliefs and their evaluation of our teaching practices will be based upon a variety of self-reporting mechanisms active during course delivery between 2012 and 2015: formal and informal qualitative feedback received from course and teaching evaluations, unsolicited correspondence and feedback received from students, as well as self-reports collected annually.

Transformative climate change adaptation: bridging existing approaches with post-foundational insights on justice

- Mummery, Jane, Mummery, Josephine

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Mummery, Josephine
Date: 2019
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Relation: Local Environment Vol. 24, no. 10 (2019/10/03 2019), p. 919-930
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Description: ABSTRACT. Climate adaptation is a complex policy domain, spanning multiple sectors, scales and actors, and wherein those most at risk have the least power. The influence of linear positivist models of science uptake are proving ineffective in a world with increasingly concentrated wealth and power, institutional barriers, and rapidly growing risks facing the many. A plurality of approaches is needed to better examine those dynamics of climate adaptation which are often invisible in models of science uptake ? equity, the value of contestation, path dependency ? and to consider how to empower communities to find solutions. In this conceptual paper, we argue that bridging existing positivist and interpretivist methods with insights from post-foundational theory so as to underpin pluralism and re-orient ethical principles of justice, strengthens the capacity of social research to support transformative climate adaptation. Principles are proposed to facilitate such bridging.

The multiple modes of protesting live exports in Australia

- Mummery, Jane, Rodan, Debbie

Authors: Mummery, Jane , Rodan, Debbie
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Journal article , Review
Relation: Contention Vol. 7, no. 1 (2019), p. 49-65
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Description: Signaling dissatisfaction with particular events, policies, or situations, modes of protest encompass individual expressions through to the development and mobilization of social movements. Indeed, protests can range from bodies blocking space and time to the aggregation of clicked signatures in an online petition and the sharing of campaign content through social media. All of these modes are currently employed within the Australian public sphere to bring about change or closure of the live export industry. This article analyzes the current dimensions and flows of public protest against Australia’s live export industry, examining how they are shaped not only by a myriad of organizations but also by differing modes of protest, as well as by the different modes of appeal in use by activists to mobilize the Australian public sphere in protest. Through this discussion, insight is gained into some of the capacities and efficacies of multimodal protest and its significance for both public engagement and political and industry uptake. © 2020 Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association Academic Press. All rights reserved.

Effectiveness of a training program for ECT nurses

- Munday, Jo, Deans, Cecil, Little, John

Authors: Munday, Jo , Deans, Cecil , Little, John
Date: 2003
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Relation: Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services Vol. 41, no. 11 (2003), p. 21-26
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Description: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a highly technical procedure requiring a team that consists of an anesthetist, a psychiatrist, a clinical nurse specialist, and recovery nurses. Traditionally, nursing education and training in the context of providing a safe and high standard of care has not been addressed. Ninety-two nurses from 42 different health agencies participated in a training program focusing on defibrillation, electrocardiogram (ECG) and electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring, intubation, stimulus dosing, setting up the ECT equipment, and caring for the patient. A non-experimental, one-group, pretest-posttest research design was used in this study to evaluate the effectiveness of the training program for nurses working with ECT. Effective training for nurses was hypothesized to make a difference in the standards of practice and clinical effectiveness for patients undergoing ECT. Findings from this study indicated a major knowledge deficit in key components of ECT among nurses who have responsibilities in this area of nursing care. With effective training, nurses’ confidence levels increased related to setting up the equipment, administering a double dose, helping with intubation, and using a defibrillator. If nurses are to effectively function as team members in the ECT procedure, they must receive the training necessary to prepare them for this important role. The results of this study support the recommendation of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists that ECT nurses should be appropriately trained in anaesthetic and resuscitation techniques and modern ECT practice.
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Voxel-based extraction of individual pylons and wires from lidar point cloud data

- Munir, Nosheen, Awrangjeb, Mohammad, Stantic, Bela, Lu, Guojun, Islam, Syed

Authors: Munir, Nosheen , Awrangjeb, Mohammad , Stantic, Bela , Lu, Guojun , Islam, Syed
Date: 2019
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Relation: ISPRS annals of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences Vol. IV-4/W8, no. (2019), p. 91-98
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Description: Extraction of individual pylons and wires is important for modelling of 3D objects in a power line corridor (PLC) map. However, the existing methods mostly classify points into distinct classes like pylons and wires, but hardly into individual pylons or wires. The proposed method extracts standalone pylons, vegetation and wires from LiDAR data. The extraction of individual objects is needed for a detailed PLC mapping. The proposed approach starts off with the separation of ground and non ground points. The non-ground points are then classified into vertical (e.g., pylons and vegetation) and non-vertical (e.g., wires) object points using the vertical profile feature (VPF) through the binary support vector machine (SVM) classifier. Individual pylons and vegetation are then separated using their shape and area properties. The locations of pylons are further used to extract the span points between two successive pylons. Finally, span points are voxelised and alignment properties of wires in the voxel grid is used to extract individual wires points. The results are evaluated on dataset which has multiple spans with bundled wires in each span. The evaluation results show that the proposed method and features are very effective for extraction of individual wires, pylons and vegetation with 99% correctness and 98% completeness.

Service deployment strategy for predictive analysis of FinTech IoT applications in edge networks

- Munusamy, Ambigavathi, Adhikari, Mainak, Balasubramanian, Venki, Khan, Mohammad, Menon, Varun, Rawat, Danda, Srirama, Satish

Authors: Munusamy, Ambigavathi , Adhikari, Mainak , Balasubramanian, Venki , Khan, Mohammad , Menon, Varun , Rawat, Danda , Srirama, Satish
Date: 2023
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Relation: IEEE Internet of Things Journal Vol. 10, no. 3 (2023), p. 2131-2140
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Description: The seamless integration of sensors and smart communication technologies has led to the development of various supporting systems for financial technology (FinTech). The emergence of the next-generation Internet of Things (Nx-IoT) for FinTech applications enhances the customer satisfaction ratio. The main research challenge for FinTech applications is to analyze the incoming tasks at the edge of the networks with minimum delay and power consumption while increasing the prediction accuracy. Motivated by the above-mentioned challenge, in this article, we develop a ranked-based service deployment strategy and an artificial intelligence technique for financial data analysis at edge networks. Initially, a risk-based task classification strategy has been developed for classifying the incoming financial tasks and providing the importance to the risk-based task for meeting users' satisfaction ratio. Besides that, an efficient service deployment strategy is developed using $Hall's$ theorem to assign the ranked-based financial data to the suitable edge or cloud servers with minimum delay and power consumption. Finally, the standard support vector machines (SVMs) algorithm is used at edge networks for analyzing the financial data with higher accuracy. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy and SVM model at edge networks over the baseline algorithms and classification models, respectively. © 2014 IEEE.

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Impact of domestic travel restrictions on transmission of COVID-19 infection using public transportation network approach

- Murano, Yayoi, Ueno, Ryo, Shi, Shoi, Kawashima, Takayuki, Nguyen, Huy

Authors: Murano, Yayoi , Ueno, Ryo , Shi, Shoi , Kawashima, Takayuki , Nguyen, Huy
Date: 2021
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Relation: Scientific Reports Vol. 11, no. 1 (2021), p.
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Description: The international spread of COVID-19 infection has attracted global attention, but the impact of local or domestic travel restriction on public transportation network remains unclear. Passenger volume data for the domestic public transportation network in Japan and the time at which the first confirmed COVID-19 case was observed in each prefecture were extracted from public data sources. A survival approach in which a hazard was modeled as a function of the closeness centrality on the network was utilized to estimate the risk of importation of COVID-19 in each prefecture. A total of 46 prefectures with imported cases were identified. Hypothetical scenario analyses indicated that both strategies of locking down the metropolitan areas and restricting domestic airline travel would be equally effective in reducing the risk of importation of COVID-19. While caution is necessary that the data were limited to June 2020 when the pandemic was in its initial stage and that no other virus spreading routes have been considered, domestic travel restrictions were effective to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on public transportation network in Japan. Instead of lockdown that might seriously damage the economy, milder travel restrictions could have the similar impact on controlling the domestic transmission of COVID-19. © 2021, The Author(s).

Vegetation change in Hattah Kulkyne National Park: A state-and-transition model

- Murdoch, Fiona

Authors: Murdoch, Fiona
Date: 2006
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Relation: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria Vol. 118, no. 2 (2006), p. 305-312
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Description: Many arid landscapes worldwide are degraded. Restoration ecology offers a variety of tools to enable managers to restore valued processes to landscapes. One such tool is state-and-transition (S-T) modelling which provides a way to summarise knowledge of vegetation dynamics, tools for restoration and the impact of restoration activities. A theoretical S-T framework was developed and used to organise the history of degradation and restoration in the semi-arid woodlands of Hattah Kulkyne National Park, north-west Victoria. This process highlighted four main opportunities to enhance restoration success including: exploring where, when and why natural recruitment of key species was occurring, utilising the artificial stimulation of root suckers as an alternative tool to enhance the regeneration of desirable species, understanding and developing techniques to enable regenerating or partially restored woodlands to move to the desirable state of a self-perpetuating, restored woodland and a need to monitor and manage the threat posed by emerging weeds.
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Ecology of the common marsupial tick (Ixodes tasmani Neumann) (Acarina: Ixodidae), in eastern Australia

- Murdoch, Fiona, Spratt, David

Authors: Murdoch, Fiona , Spratt, David
Date: 2005
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Relation: Australian Journal of Zoology Vol. 53, no. 6 (2005), p. 383-388
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Description: Ixodes tasmani is one of the most common and widespread of the Australian species of Ixodes and a vector of zoonotic rickettsial diseases. The tick was reared successfully in the laboratory; the entire life cycle was completed in 4 months. A diurnal rhythm of detachment from captive hosts (laboratory Rattus norvegicus) was observed for all stages and, combined with other evidence, suggests that I. tasmani is nidicolous. The prevalence and intensity of tick infestation on wild-caught, common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula), was least during the summer months. To investigate questing activity, laboratory-reared nymphs were held in enclosures in one sheltered (tree hollows) and three exposed (vegetation) microhabitats. Questing was continuous but at low intensity in tree hollows, and nocturnal and at an increased (higher) intensity in vegetation. The observed questing activity appeared to maximise host contact with T. vulpecula, which is nocturnal but retires by day to tree hollows. Field and laboratory observations suggest that the risk for humans of tick-bite from I. tasmani and consequent transmission of zoonotic diseases may be low compared with the risk from other tick species. © CSIRO 2005.
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