Facilitating the development of lifelong learners through e-communication tools
- Firmin, Sally, Miller, Charlynn
- Authors: Firmin, Sally , Miller, Charlynn
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at ASCILITE 2005, 4-7 December 2005, QUT, Brisbane, Queensland, Brisbane : 4th December, 2005
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- Description: Computer mediated communication (CMC) skills are essential in todays rapidly changing, technologically focused environment. This study reports student perceptions towards using CMC to improve learning. Twenty-two Tertiary and Further Education students participated in a pilot study that measured student preferences and perceptions of e-communication tools via a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Three units of varying levels and complexities of e-communication tools were used in the study, which provided perceptions influenced through varying levels of exposure and usage. The research indicated that students perceived most tools as being useful, but not all preferred to use them. A most important finding was students indicated a shared perception and preference for combinations of e-communication tools, and that by promoting the use of these tools, teachers help encourage students to develop as lifelong learners.
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- Description: 2003001356
- Authors: Firmin, Sally , Miller, Charlynn
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at ASCILITE 2005, 4-7 December 2005, QUT, Brisbane, Queensland, Brisbane : 4th December, 2005
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- Description: Computer mediated communication (CMC) skills are essential in todays rapidly changing, technologically focused environment. This study reports student perceptions towards using CMC to improve learning. Twenty-two Tertiary and Further Education students participated in a pilot study that measured student preferences and perceptions of e-communication tools via a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. Three units of varying levels and complexities of e-communication tools were used in the study, which provided perceptions influenced through varying levels of exposure and usage. The research indicated that students perceived most tools as being useful, but not all preferred to use them. A most important finding was students indicated a shared perception and preference for combinations of e-communication tools, and that by promoting the use of these tools, teachers help encourage students to develop as lifelong learners.
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- Description: 2003001356
Developing a spiritual health and life-orientation measure for secondary school students
- Authors: Fisher, John
- Date: 1999
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Research with a regional/rural focus : proceedings of the University of Ballarat inaugural annual conference, Mt. Helen: Victoria 15th October, 1999 p. 57-63
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- Description: The problem posed in this project was the development of an instrument to give a balanced assessment of young people’s spiritual health. Spiritual health is a dynamic state of being, which can be reflected in how well people relate in up to four domains of human existence, namely with themselves; with others; with the environment; and/or with a Transcendent Other. A convenience sample of 850 secondary students in State, Catholic, Christian Community and other independent schools in Ballarat and western suburbs of Melbourne were surveyed during 1999 to determine how important they considered each of the four sets of relationships to be for an ideal state of spiritual health (called Life-Orientation). They also expressed how each area reflected their personal experience most of the time (called Spiritual Health). Extensive factor analysis enabled the original 60-item instrument to be reduced to a reliable, compact 25-item Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM for short). Analysis of variance and t-tests revealed significant variations between students’ views when compared by school type, gender, and year level. SHALOM has advantages over previous instruments in that it is balanced across the four domains of spiritual well-being, is more sensitive, and it compares people’s stated ideal position, with their lived experience, not others’, in determining the quality of relationships which constitute their spiritual well-being.
- Authors: Fisher, John
- Date: 1999
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Research with a regional/rural focus : proceedings of the University of Ballarat inaugural annual conference, Mt. Helen: Victoria 15th October, 1999 p. 57-63
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- Description: The problem posed in this project was the development of an instrument to give a balanced assessment of young people’s spiritual health. Spiritual health is a dynamic state of being, which can be reflected in how well people relate in up to four domains of human existence, namely with themselves; with others; with the environment; and/or with a Transcendent Other. A convenience sample of 850 secondary students in State, Catholic, Christian Community and other independent schools in Ballarat and western suburbs of Melbourne were surveyed during 1999 to determine how important they considered each of the four sets of relationships to be for an ideal state of spiritual health (called Life-Orientation). They also expressed how each area reflected their personal experience most of the time (called Spiritual Health). Extensive factor analysis enabled the original 60-item instrument to be reduced to a reliable, compact 25-item Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM for short). Analysis of variance and t-tests revealed significant variations between students’ views when compared by school type, gender, and year level. SHALOM has advantages over previous instruments in that it is balanced across the four domains of spiritual well-being, is more sensitive, and it compares people’s stated ideal position, with their lived experience, not others’, in determining the quality of relationships which constitute their spiritual well-being.
Quality of life in the workplace : Spirituality, meaning and purpose
- Fisher, John, Sellers, Eileen
- Authors: Fisher, John , Sellers, Eileen
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Spirituality, Leadership and Management, Mt Helen : Victoria 1st - 4th December 2000
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- Description: This paper reports on research which aimed to investigate relationships between meaning and purpose in life and workplace expectations. It provides an overview of the methodology and outcomes of a survey conducted at a regional university. Survey methods included the distribution of two valid and reliable instruments to all employees of that university with data analysed using SPSS procedures. Analysis of the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM), developed by the principal researcher, and a purpose-designed questionnaire pertaining to meaning and purpose in the workplace, provided interesting findings. Overall, participants classified as administrators, professionals, service workers or labourers reported that they feel good about themselves and their relationships with others and the environment. The relationship with a god-type figure was of lesser importance for the spiritual well-being of the majority of participants. The participants do not expect the workplace to provide a major role in their spiritual well-being. They also reported significantly high levels of feelings of turbulence at work, and trends toward high anxiety and discomfort with autocratic managerial practices characterised by a focus on profits over people. The female staff described the workplace as more friendly, warm and caring than the males. The females also reported greater work satisfaction and were less depressed in doing their job than the males. Interpretation of these results indicates that a somewhat anxious and turbulent work place environment prevails. The personal impact of this unrest appears to be mediated by the support of families and friends of employees. The notion that workplace feelings which are negative (eg., anxiety) emanate from administrative practices, while those which are positive are a function of collegial behaviours, merits further exploration.
- Authors: Fisher, John , Sellers, Eileen
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Spirituality, Leadership and Management, Mt Helen : Victoria 1st - 4th December 2000
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- Description: This paper reports on research which aimed to investigate relationships between meaning and purpose in life and workplace expectations. It provides an overview of the methodology and outcomes of a survey conducted at a regional university. Survey methods included the distribution of two valid and reliable instruments to all employees of that university with data analysed using SPSS procedures. Analysis of the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM), developed by the principal researcher, and a purpose-designed questionnaire pertaining to meaning and purpose in the workplace, provided interesting findings. Overall, participants classified as administrators, professionals, service workers or labourers reported that they feel good about themselves and their relationships with others and the environment. The relationship with a god-type figure was of lesser importance for the spiritual well-being of the majority of participants. The participants do not expect the workplace to provide a major role in their spiritual well-being. They also reported significantly high levels of feelings of turbulence at work, and trends toward high anxiety and discomfort with autocratic managerial practices characterised by a focus on profits over people. The female staff described the workplace as more friendly, warm and caring than the males. The females also reported greater work satisfaction and were less depressed in doing their job than the males. Interpretation of these results indicates that a somewhat anxious and turbulent work place environment prevails. The personal impact of this unrest appears to be mediated by the support of families and friends of employees. The notion that workplace feelings which are negative (eg., anxiety) emanate from administrative practices, while those which are positive are a function of collegial behaviours, merits further exploration.
Enhancing university students’ spiritual well-being
- Authors: Fisher, John
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Research for a better community: Proceedings of the University of Ballarat 2nd annual research conference, Mt Helen : Victoria 8th September 2000 p. 58-61
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- Authors: Fisher, John
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Research for a better community: Proceedings of the University of Ballarat 2nd annual research conference, Mt Helen : Victoria 8th September 2000 p. 58-61
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Witnessing Tibet: testimony as political action in the Tibetan diaspora
- Authors: Fletcher, Julie
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Twelfth Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Tibetan Studies p. 1-16
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- Description: Since the beginning of the Tibetan diaspora, English-language testimonial practices, ranging from perormed oral accounts to full-length autobiographical texts, have emerged as key forms of cultural production within refugee communities. Frequently circulated as part of the political and rights-based activities of the Tibetan independence movement, these life narrative practices can be seen as increasingly important forms of non-violent transnational policical action in the diaspora.
- Authors: Fletcher, Julie
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Twelfth Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Tibetan Studies p. 1-16
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- Description: Since the beginning of the Tibetan diaspora, English-language testimonial practices, ranging from perormed oral accounts to full-length autobiographical texts, have emerged as key forms of cultural production within refugee communities. Frequently circulated as part of the political and rights-based activities of the Tibetan independence movement, these life narrative practices can be seen as increasingly important forms of non-violent transnational policical action in the diaspora.
Portal-based sound propagation for first-person computer games
- Foale, Cameron, Vamplew, Peter
- Authors: Foale, Cameron , Vamplew, Peter
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Fourth Australiasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, IE2007, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria : 3rd-5th December 2007
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- Description: First-person computer games are a popular modern video game genre. A new method is proposed, the Directional Propagation Cache, that takes adavntage of the very common portal spatial subdivision method to accelerate environmental acoustics simulation for first-person games, by caching sound propagation information between portals.
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- Authors: Foale, Cameron , Vamplew, Peter
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Fourth Australiasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, IE2007, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria : 3rd-5th December 2007
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- Description: First-person computer games are a popular modern video game genre. A new method is proposed, the Directional Propagation Cache, that takes adavntage of the very common portal spatial subdivision method to accelerate environmental acoustics simulation for first-person games, by caching sound propagation information between portals.
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Let the men speak : Health, friendship, community and shed therapy
- Foley, Annette, Golding, Barry, Brown, Michael
- Authors: Foley, Annette , Golding, Barry , Brown, Michael
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AVETRA 2008 Conference, Adelaide : 3rd-4th April 2008
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- Description: Our paper is based on our recently published NCVER project on Men's sheds in Australia, Learning through Community Contexts (Golding, Brown, Foley, Harvey & Gleeson, 2007), which showed that men';s sheds informally cater for non vocational, social, health, wellbeing and learning needs of mainly older men. We deliberately used unedited transcripts from the NCVER project in the form of narratives or stories to give the men an opportunity to speak for themselves about the benefits of participating in men's sheds. The paper highlights some of the limitations of the methodology used in the attempt to allow the men themselves to make sense of the benefits they experience and enjoy from participating in men's sheds as conveyed through their own voices.
- Description: 200300647
- Authors: Foley, Annette , Golding, Barry , Brown, Michael
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AVETRA 2008 Conference, Adelaide : 3rd-4th April 2008
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- Description: Our paper is based on our recently published NCVER project on Men's sheds in Australia, Learning through Community Contexts (Golding, Brown, Foley, Harvey & Gleeson, 2007), which showed that men';s sheds informally cater for non vocational, social, health, wellbeing and learning needs of mainly older men. We deliberately used unedited transcripts from the NCVER project in the form of narratives or stories to give the men an opportunity to speak for themselves about the benefits of participating in men's sheds. The paper highlights some of the limitations of the methodology used in the attempt to allow the men themselves to make sense of the benefits they experience and enjoy from participating in men's sheds as conveyed through their own voices.
- Description: 200300647
ACE working within / outside VET
- Authors: Foley, Annette
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AVETRA 2007 Conference, Victoria University, Footscray, Victoria: 11th-13th April 2007
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- Description: This paper looks at vocational education and training (VET) policy initiatives currently being circulated within the Victorian adult and community education (ACE) sector. It particularly explores how coordinators working and managing ACE organizations are being encouraged to meet policy requirements that are in some cases at odds with their traditional roles. The paper explores how ACE and VET frontline managers/coordinators are experiencing policy reform differently in some cases and how the central role of identity and identity change in the formation of VET and ACE is being understood from a different philosophical and cultural position. The reflections and perceptions from seven ACE coordinators, four ACE/RTO managers and fourteen VET frontline managers were examined with the aim of better understanding the working experiences and perceptions of people responsible for delivering and coordinating change within their organizations. The paper and its conclusions shed light on differences in ACE/VET discursive practices and interpretations of current policy directives and the implications this difference is having on ACE practice and ACE delivery.
- Description: 2003005540
- Authors: Foley, Annette
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AVETRA 2007 Conference, Victoria University, Footscray, Victoria: 11th-13th April 2007
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- Description: This paper looks at vocational education and training (VET) policy initiatives currently being circulated within the Victorian adult and community education (ACE) sector. It particularly explores how coordinators working and managing ACE organizations are being encouraged to meet policy requirements that are in some cases at odds with their traditional roles. The paper explores how ACE and VET frontline managers/coordinators are experiencing policy reform differently in some cases and how the central role of identity and identity change in the formation of VET and ACE is being understood from a different philosophical and cultural position. The reflections and perceptions from seven ACE coordinators, four ACE/RTO managers and fourteen VET frontline managers were examined with the aim of better understanding the working experiences and perceptions of people responsible for delivering and coordinating change within their organizations. The paper and its conclusions shed light on differences in ACE/VET discursive practices and interpretations of current policy directives and the implications this difference is having on ACE practice and ACE delivery.
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Alternative possibilities : Social impulses in ACE coordinator practices
- Authors: Foley, Annette
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 38th Annual SCUTREA Conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK : 2nd-4th July 2008 p. 198-207
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- Description: This paper looks at policy initiatives in the vocational education and training sector in Australia. The paper draws on exiting work on neoliberalism in education and its impact on VET in the Australian setting and adds some new insights into the working practices of coordinators in the Victorian setting (author abstract)
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- Authors: Foley, Annette
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 38th Annual SCUTREA Conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK : 2nd-4th July 2008 p. 198-207
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- Description: This paper looks at policy initiatives in the vocational education and training sector in Australia. The paper draws on exiting work on neoliberalism in education and its impact on VET in the Australian setting and adds some new insights into the working practices of coordinators in the Victorian setting (author abstract)
- Description: 2003006462
An efficient boolean modelling approach for genetic network inference
- Gamage, Hasini, Chetty, Madhu, Shatte, Arian, Hallinan, Jennifer
- Authors: Gamage, Hasini , Chetty, Madhu , Shatte, Arian , Hallinan, Jennifer
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2021 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2021, Virtual, Online, 13-15 October 2021, 2021 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2021
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- Description: The inference of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) from time series gene expression data is an effective approach for unveiling important underlying gene-gene relationships and dynamics. While various computational models exist for accurate inference of GRNs, many are computationally inefficient, and do not focus on simultaneous inference of both network topology and dynamics. In this paper, we introduce a simple, Boolean network model-based solution for efficient inference of GRNs. First, the microarray expression data are discretized using the average gene expression value as a threshold. This step permits an experimental approach of defining the maximum indegree of a network. Next, regulatory genes, including the self-regulations for each target gene, are inferred using estimated multivariate mutual information-based Min-Redundancy Max-Relevance Criterion, and further accurate inference is performed by a swapping operation. Subsequently, we introduce a new method, combining Boolean network regulation modelling and Pearson correlation coefficient to identify the interaction types (inhibition or activation) of the regulatory genes. This method is utilized for the efficient determination of the optimal regulatory rule, consisting AND, OR, and NOT operators, by defining the accurate application of the NOT operation in conjunction and disjunction Boolean functions. The proposed approach is evaluated using two real gene expression datasets for an Escherichia coli gene regulatory network and a fission yeast cell cycle network. Although the Structural Accuracy is approximately the same as existing methods (MIBNI, REVEAL, Best-Fit, BIBN, and CST), the proposed method outperforms all these methods with respect to efficiency and Dynamic Accuracy. © 2021 IEEE.
- Authors: Gamage, Hasini , Chetty, Madhu , Shatte, Arian , Hallinan, Jennifer
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 2021 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2021, Virtual, Online, 13-15 October 2021, 2021 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CIBCB 2021
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- Description: The inference of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) from time series gene expression data is an effective approach for unveiling important underlying gene-gene relationships and dynamics. While various computational models exist for accurate inference of GRNs, many are computationally inefficient, and do not focus on simultaneous inference of both network topology and dynamics. In this paper, we introduce a simple, Boolean network model-based solution for efficient inference of GRNs. First, the microarray expression data are discretized using the average gene expression value as a threshold. This step permits an experimental approach of defining the maximum indegree of a network. Next, regulatory genes, including the self-regulations for each target gene, are inferred using estimated multivariate mutual information-based Min-Redundancy Max-Relevance Criterion, and further accurate inference is performed by a swapping operation. Subsequently, we introduce a new method, combining Boolean network regulation modelling and Pearson correlation coefficient to identify the interaction types (inhibition or activation) of the regulatory genes. This method is utilized for the efficient determination of the optimal regulatory rule, consisting AND, OR, and NOT operators, by defining the accurate application of the NOT operation in conjunction and disjunction Boolean functions. The proposed approach is evaluated using two real gene expression datasets for an Escherichia coli gene regulatory network and a fission yeast cell cycle network. Although the Structural Accuracy is approximately the same as existing methods (MIBNI, REVEAL, Best-Fit, BIBN, and CST), the proposed method outperforms all these methods with respect to efficiency and Dynamic Accuracy. © 2021 IEEE.
Experimental evaluation of methods for reclaiming sulfur loaded amine absorbents
- Garg, Bharti, Pearson, Pauline, Cousins, Ashleigh, Verheyen, Vincent, Puxty, Graeme, Feron, Paul
- Authors: Garg, Bharti , Pearson, Pauline , Cousins, Ashleigh , Verheyen, Vincent , Puxty, Graeme , Feron, Paul
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 14th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-14); Melbourne, Australia; 21st-26th October 2018 p. 1-8
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- Description: Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is a major flue gas contaminant that has a direct effect on the performance of amine-based carbon dioxide capture units operating on power plant flue gases. In many countries, flue gas desulfurisation (FGD) is an essential upstream requirement to CO2 capture systems, thereby increasing the overall operational and capital cost of the capture system. In Australia, the efficacy of CO2 capture may be compromised by the accumulation of SO2 in the absorption solvent. CSIRO’s CS-Cap process is designed to capture of both these acidic gases in one absorption column, thereby eliminating the need for a separate FGD unit which could potentially save millions of dollars. Previous research at CSIRO’s post-combustion capture pilot plant at Loy Yang power station has shown that mono-ethanolamine (MEA) solvent absorbs both CO2 and SO2, resulting in a spent amine absorbent rich in sulfates. Further development of the CS-Cap concept requires a deeper understanding of the properties of the sulfate-rich absorbent and the conditions under which it can be effectively regenerated. In the present study, thermal reclamation and reactive crystallisation processes were investigated, allowing the parameters affecting the regeneration of sulfate-loaded amine to be identified. It was found that amine losses were considerably higher in thermal reclamation than in reactive precipitation. During thermal reclamation, vacuum conditions were more effective than atmospheric, and pH of the initial solution played a significant role in recovery of MEA from the sulfate-rich absorbent. Reactive crystallisation could be effectively accomplished with the addition of KOH. An advantage of this process was that high purity K2SO4 crystals (~99%) were formed, despite the presence of degradation products in the solvent.
- Authors: Garg, Bharti , Pearson, Pauline , Cousins, Ashleigh , Verheyen, Vincent , Puxty, Graeme , Feron, Paul
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 14th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-14); Melbourne, Australia; 21st-26th October 2018 p. 1-8
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- Description: Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is a major flue gas contaminant that has a direct effect on the performance of amine-based carbon dioxide capture units operating on power plant flue gases. In many countries, flue gas desulfurisation (FGD) is an essential upstream requirement to CO2 capture systems, thereby increasing the overall operational and capital cost of the capture system. In Australia, the efficacy of CO2 capture may be compromised by the accumulation of SO2 in the absorption solvent. CSIRO’s CS-Cap process is designed to capture of both these acidic gases in one absorption column, thereby eliminating the need for a separate FGD unit which could potentially save millions of dollars. Previous research at CSIRO’s post-combustion capture pilot plant at Loy Yang power station has shown that mono-ethanolamine (MEA) solvent absorbs both CO2 and SO2, resulting in a spent amine absorbent rich in sulfates. Further development of the CS-Cap concept requires a deeper understanding of the properties of the sulfate-rich absorbent and the conditions under which it can be effectively regenerated. In the present study, thermal reclamation and reactive crystallisation processes were investigated, allowing the parameters affecting the regeneration of sulfate-loaded amine to be identified. It was found that amine losses were considerably higher in thermal reclamation than in reactive precipitation. During thermal reclamation, vacuum conditions were more effective than atmospheric, and pH of the initial solution played a significant role in recovery of MEA from the sulfate-rich absorbent. Reactive crystallisation could be effectively accomplished with the addition of KOH. An advantage of this process was that high purity K2SO4 crystals (~99%) were formed, despite the presence of degradation products in the solvent.
Past and future ecosystem change in the coastal zone
- Authors: Gell, Peter
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 2nd International Conference on Tropical and Coastal Region Eco Development 2016, ICTCRED 2016; Bali, Indonesia; 25th-27th October 2016; published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Vol. 55, p. 1-8
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- Description: The coastal zone is in a constant state of flux. Long term records of change attest to high amplitude sea level changes. Relative stability though the Late Holocene has allowed for the evolution of barrier dune systems, estuaries and coastal lakes with associated plant and faunal associations. This evolution has been interspersed with changes in the balance between climate driven changes in outflow from catchments. These interactions have been considerably disturbed through the impacts of industrialised people who have diverted and consumed water and invested in infrastructure that has impacted on river flows and the tidal prism in estuaries. This has impacted their provisioning services to humans. It has also impacted their regulating services in that development along the coastline has impacted on the resilience of the littoral zone to absorb natural climate extremes. Looking from the past we can see the pathway to the future and more easily recognise the steps needed to avoid further coastal degradation. This will increasingly need to accommodate the impacts of future climate trends, increased climate extremes and rising seas. Coastal societies would do well to identify their long term pathway to adaptation to the challenges that lie ahead and plan to invest accordingly. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Description: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
- Authors: Gell, Peter
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 2nd International Conference on Tropical and Coastal Region Eco Development 2016, ICTCRED 2016; Bali, Indonesia; 25th-27th October 2016; published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Vol. 55, p. 1-8
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- Description: The coastal zone is in a constant state of flux. Long term records of change attest to high amplitude sea level changes. Relative stability though the Late Holocene has allowed for the evolution of barrier dune systems, estuaries and coastal lakes with associated plant and faunal associations. This evolution has been interspersed with changes in the balance between climate driven changes in outflow from catchments. These interactions have been considerably disturbed through the impacts of industrialised people who have diverted and consumed water and invested in infrastructure that has impacted on river flows and the tidal prism in estuaries. This has impacted their provisioning services to humans. It has also impacted their regulating services in that development along the coastline has impacted on the resilience of the littoral zone to absorb natural climate extremes. Looking from the past we can see the pathway to the future and more easily recognise the steps needed to avoid further coastal degradation. This will increasingly need to accommodate the impacts of future climate trends, increased climate extremes and rising seas. Coastal societies would do well to identify their long term pathway to adaptation to the challenges that lie ahead and plan to invest accordingly. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Description: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Assessing change in floodplain wetland condition in the Murray Darling Basin
- Authors: Gell, Peter , Reid, Michael
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Symposium on Australia-China Wetland Network Research Partnership; Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) Nanjing, China; 23rd-28th December 2014 p. 27-35
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- Description: Lowland Australian rivers and their floodplains have been affected by the progressive introduction of agriculture, flow regulation and invasive exotic species for more than a century. In the context of this complex suite of stressors, our capacity to understand and mitigate the causes of ecosystem change is limited by the lack of historical records of the condition of ecosystems over the past 200 to 300 years. However, records of change over this critical time period can be established through analysis of sedimentary records. Such records can be used to provide benchmarks of the range of natural conditions prior to European settlement and, by providing a long time series of conditions, enhanced capacity to detect trends and trajectories of change. Over the past two decades, more than 50 sediment records from billabongs, lagoons and waterholes throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been subject to palaeoecological analysis. The picture that emerges from these studies is of ecosystems that have undergone substantial ecological change in response to human activities; however, there are also intriguing differences in the timing and nature of change experienced by aquatic ecosystems in different parts of the Murray-Darling Basin. These patterns of ecosystem response appear to reflect underlying differences in the resilience of these ecosystems in relation to different anthropogenic stressors, which, in turn, may result in contrasting hydrologic, geomorphologic and climatic contexts. This paper presents an attempt to systematically compile and summarise the palaeoecological evidence of change in the aquatic ecosystems of the Murray-Darling Basin and, in so doing, shed light on what the principal drivers of change are in floodplain wetlands across the basin, and hence provide guidance as to how these systems can be best preserved and restored.
- Authors: Gell, Peter , Reid, Michael
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Symposium on Australia-China Wetland Network Research Partnership; Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) Nanjing, China; 23rd-28th December 2014 p. 27-35
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- Description: Lowland Australian rivers and their floodplains have been affected by the progressive introduction of agriculture, flow regulation and invasive exotic species for more than a century. In the context of this complex suite of stressors, our capacity to understand and mitigate the causes of ecosystem change is limited by the lack of historical records of the condition of ecosystems over the past 200 to 300 years. However, records of change over this critical time period can be established through analysis of sedimentary records. Such records can be used to provide benchmarks of the range of natural conditions prior to European settlement and, by providing a long time series of conditions, enhanced capacity to detect trends and trajectories of change. Over the past two decades, more than 50 sediment records from billabongs, lagoons and waterholes throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been subject to palaeoecological analysis. The picture that emerges from these studies is of ecosystems that have undergone substantial ecological change in response to human activities; however, there are also intriguing differences in the timing and nature of change experienced by aquatic ecosystems in different parts of the Murray-Darling Basin. These patterns of ecosystem response appear to reflect underlying differences in the resilience of these ecosystems in relation to different anthropogenic stressors, which, in turn, may result in contrasting hydrologic, geomorphologic and climatic contexts. This paper presents an attempt to systematically compile and summarise the palaeoecological evidence of change in the aquatic ecosystems of the Murray-Darling Basin and, in so doing, shed light on what the principal drivers of change are in floodplain wetlands across the basin, and hence provide guidance as to how these systems can be best preserved and restored.
Long term water quality changes in Murrumbidgee floodplain wetlands revealed by fossil diatom assemblages
- Authors: Gell, Peter , Little, Fiona
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Murrumbidgee Wetlands Forum, Leeton p. 43-65
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- Authors: Gell, Peter , Little, Fiona
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Murrumbidgee Wetlands Forum, Leeton p. 43-65
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Caught in the middle : Tensions rise when teachers and students relinquish algorithms
- Gervasoni, Ann, Brandenburg, Robyn, Turkenburg, Kathie, Hadden, Teresa
- Authors: Gervasoni, Ann , Brandenburg, Robyn , Turkenburg, Kathie , Hadden, Teresa
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at PME33: 33rd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Thessaloniki, Greece : 19th-24th July 2009
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- Description: 2003007610
- Authors: Gervasoni, Ann , Brandenburg, Robyn , Turkenburg, Kathie , Hadden, Teresa
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at PME33: 33rd Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Thessaloniki, Greece : 19th-24th July 2009
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- Description: 2003007610
The Ballarat Clemente Program: A doorway to the treasures of humanities education
- Gervasoni, Ann, Smith, Jeremy, Howard, Peter
- Authors: Gervasoni, Ann , Smith, Jeremy , Howard, Peter
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Proceedings of the Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE Conference 2011) p. 1-12
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- Description: This paper provides insight into the experience of Clemente education for five Ballarat students who each took part in an audio-taped semi-structured interview. The interviews explored the impact that university study had on the lives of each student, and the responses suggest that the Clemente Program was life-giving for these students. Student insights identified through an analysis of interview transcripts included: the importance of providing a supportive learning environment for people lacking life opportunities and routine; students feeling better and happier with themselves because of personal learning achievements; doing something that was about ‘me’; the significance of support from the Learning Partners and the program’s counsellor; students appreciating their strengths; students rekindling dreams; students seeing a way out of poverty for their family; finding friendship and connection; students appreciating the academic disciplines; improvements in well-being and mental health; pride in achievements; and apprehension of what comes in the future after graduation. These insights highlighted the treasures that students found when engaged in a humanities education based upon community-based socially supported educational structures that enabled them to engage and participate initially.
- Authors: Gervasoni, Ann , Smith, Jeremy , Howard, Peter
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Proceedings of the Australian Association of Research in Education (AARE Conference 2011) p. 1-12
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- Description: This paper provides insight into the experience of Clemente education for five Ballarat students who each took part in an audio-taped semi-structured interview. The interviews explored the impact that university study had on the lives of each student, and the responses suggest that the Clemente Program was life-giving for these students. Student insights identified through an analysis of interview transcripts included: the importance of providing a supportive learning environment for people lacking life opportunities and routine; students feeling better and happier with themselves because of personal learning achievements; doing something that was about ‘me’; the significance of support from the Learning Partners and the program’s counsellor; students appreciating their strengths; students rekindling dreams; students seeing a way out of poverty for their family; finding friendship and connection; students appreciating the academic disciplines; improvements in well-being and mental health; pride in achievements; and apprehension of what comes in the future after graduation. These insights highlighted the treasures that students found when engaged in a humanities education based upon community-based socially supported educational structures that enabled them to engage and participate initially.
Tandem research: Analysis as data for self-study research
- Gervasoni, Ann, Brandenburg, Robyn
- Authors: Gervasoni, Ann , Brandenburg, Robyn
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Changing practices for changing times: Past, present and future possibilities for self-study research; Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex August 3rd-7th; published in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices. p. 94-99
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- Description: This paper explores the findings of self-study research (LaBoskey, 2004; Loughran, 2006; Samaras, 2010; Samaras & Freese, 2006) that emerged from a separate Teacher Identify research project in which both authors were engaged. The Teacher Identity research project explored the professional identities of 192 pre-service teachers who were enrolled in the first year of their course at two Universities in a regional Australian city. As part of the data collection phase of the Teacher Identify research in 2010, we invited the pre-service teachers to produce a visual representation of a teacher. The representations were produced in the first weeks of their respective courses to minimize any influence of the program and our teaching, on their initial visual representations of themselves as a teacher. It was during the sorting and coding of these visual representations that we realised we had initiated a self-study without deliberately setting out to do so. The process of data analysis had become a context that deeply challenged our assumptions about our teaching and our students’ learning. We had both ‘turned to self’ (Bullough & Pinnegar, 2001). This realisation prompted us to formalise the self-study research that was emerging and then to purposefully collect data about the critical moments (Brandenburg, 2008; Brandenburg & Gervasoni, 2012; Kosnik, 2001; Tripp, 1993) that arose as we analysed the Teacher Identify research data. Reflecting ‘in and on action’ (Schön, 1985; 1991) provided the framework to enable us to identify critical moments in our analysis of the Teacher Identity data and to further understand the implications of this new knowledge for our practice as teacher educators, and for self-study methodology.
- Authors: Gervasoni, Ann , Brandenburg, Robyn
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Changing practices for changing times: Past, present and future possibilities for self-study research; Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex August 3rd-7th; published in Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices. p. 94-99
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- Description: This paper explores the findings of self-study research (LaBoskey, 2004; Loughran, 2006; Samaras, 2010; Samaras & Freese, 2006) that emerged from a separate Teacher Identify research project in which both authors were engaged. The Teacher Identity research project explored the professional identities of 192 pre-service teachers who were enrolled in the first year of their course at two Universities in a regional Australian city. As part of the data collection phase of the Teacher Identify research in 2010, we invited the pre-service teachers to produce a visual representation of a teacher. The representations were produced in the first weeks of their respective courses to minimize any influence of the program and our teaching, on their initial visual representations of themselves as a teacher. It was during the sorting and coding of these visual representations that we realised we had initiated a self-study without deliberately setting out to do so. The process of data analysis had become a context that deeply challenged our assumptions about our teaching and our students’ learning. We had both ‘turned to self’ (Bullough & Pinnegar, 2001). This realisation prompted us to formalise the self-study research that was emerging and then to purposefully collect data about the critical moments (Brandenburg, 2008; Brandenburg & Gervasoni, 2012; Kosnik, 2001; Tripp, 1993) that arose as we analysed the Teacher Identify research data. Reflecting ‘in and on action’ (Schön, 1985; 1991) provided the framework to enable us to identify critical moments in our analysis of the Teacher Identity data and to further understand the implications of this new knowledge for our practice as teacher educators, and for self-study methodology.
A fully automated CAD system using multi-category feature selection with restricted recombination
- Ghosh, Ranadhir, Ghosh, Moumita, Yearwood, John, Mukherjee, Subhasis
- Authors: Ghosh, Ranadhir , Ghosh, Moumita , Yearwood, John , Mukherjee, Subhasis
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2007, Melbourne, Victoria : 11th-13th July 2007 p. 106-111
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- Description: In pattern recognition problems features plays an important role for classification results. It is very important which features are used and how many features are used for the classification process. Most of the real life classification problem uses different category of features. It is desirable to find the optimal combination of features that improves the performance of the classifier. There exists different selection framework that selects the features. Mostly do not incorporate the impact of one category of features on another. Even if they incorporate, they produce conflict between the categories. In this paper we proposed a restricted crossover selection framework which incorporate the impact of different categories on each other, as well as it restricts the search within the category which searching in the global region of the search space. The results obtained by the proposed framework are promising.
- Description: 2003005429
- Authors: Ghosh, Ranadhir , Ghosh, Moumita , Yearwood, John , Mukherjee, Subhasis
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, ICIS 2007, Melbourne, Victoria : 11th-13th July 2007 p. 106-111
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- Description: In pattern recognition problems features plays an important role for classification results. It is very important which features are used and how many features are used for the classification process. Most of the real life classification problem uses different category of features. It is desirable to find the optimal combination of features that improves the performance of the classifier. There exists different selection framework that selects the features. Mostly do not incorporate the impact of one category of features on another. Even if they incorporate, they produce conflict between the categories. In this paper we proposed a restricted crossover selection framework which incorporate the impact of different categories on each other, as well as it restricts the search within the category which searching in the global region of the search space. The results obtained by the proposed framework are promising.
- Description: 2003005429
A modular framework for multi category feature selection in digital mammography
- Ghosh, Ranadhir, Ghosh, Moumita, Yearwood, John
- Authors: Ghosh, Ranadhir , Ghosh, Moumita , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at ESANN 2004 Proceedings: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belguim : 28/04/2004 Vol. Elsevier, p. 175-180
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- Description: Many existing researches utilized many different approaches for recognition in digital mammography using various ANN classifier-modeling techniques. Different types of feature extraction techniques are also used. It has been observed that, beyond a certain point, the inclusion of additional features leads to a worse rather than better performance. Moreover, the choice of features to represent the patterns affects several aspects of pattern recognition problem such as accuracy, required learning time and necessary number of samples. A common problem with the multi category feature classification is the conflict between the categories. None of the feasible solutions allow simultaneous optimal solution for all categories. In order to find an optimal solutions the searching space can be divided based on individual category in each sub region and finally merging them through decision spport system. In this paper we propose a canonical GA based modular feature selection approach combined with standard MLP.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000872
- Authors: Ghosh, Ranadhir , Ghosh, Moumita , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at ESANN 2004 Proceedings: European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Bruges, Belguim : 28/04/2004 Vol. Elsevier, p. 175-180
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- Description: Many existing researches utilized many different approaches for recognition in digital mammography using various ANN classifier-modeling techniques. Different types of feature extraction techniques are also used. It has been observed that, beyond a certain point, the inclusion of additional features leads to a worse rather than better performance. Moreover, the choice of features to represent the patterns affects several aspects of pattern recognition problem such as accuracy, required learning time and necessary number of samples. A common problem with the multi category feature classification is the conflict between the categories. None of the feasible solutions allow simultaneous optimal solution for all categories. In order to find an optimal solutions the searching space can be divided based on individual category in each sub region and finally merging them through decision spport system. In this paper we propose a canonical GA based modular feature selection approach combined with standard MLP.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000872
Measuring relationships within a fine art cluster under conditions of dislocation
- Authors: Giblin, Deidre
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the CRIC Cluster Conference 2005, Ballarat, Australia : 30th June - July 1st, 2006
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- Description: Business relationships and activities will be mapped to establish the functional characteristics of the fine art industry cluster of which the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has long been the dominant figure. Many of the core activities of the NGV have been severely disrupted between 1999 and 2003 due to refurbishment. This circumstance has made it possible to examine and determine the effects of dislocation of the dominant member on the way a cluster functions. This research will provide information on how fine arts businesses, including some that are competitors, interrelate, and how and to what extent a previously dominant member can reinstate its position after a period of dislocation. This research project employs a longitudinal design so that cluster functioning and level of innovation can be compared before, during, and after disruption of the NGV’s core activities. This circumstance provides a unique opportunity to identify groups of firms with similar innovation patterns and consequent strategic types (personality), test conflicting expectations arising from alliance capitalism and market capitalism models and to examine the assumption that the strategic type (personality) of the cluster, to which a firm belongs, has a bearing on the innovative status of the cluster and its consequent adaptability to change in turbulent environments.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001301
- Authors: Giblin, Deidre
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the CRIC Cluster Conference 2005, Ballarat, Australia : 30th June - July 1st, 2006
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- Description: Business relationships and activities will be mapped to establish the functional characteristics of the fine art industry cluster of which the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has long been the dominant figure. Many of the core activities of the NGV have been severely disrupted between 1999 and 2003 due to refurbishment. This circumstance has made it possible to examine and determine the effects of dislocation of the dominant member on the way a cluster functions. This research will provide information on how fine arts businesses, including some that are competitors, interrelate, and how and to what extent a previously dominant member can reinstate its position after a period of dislocation. This research project employs a longitudinal design so that cluster functioning and level of innovation can be compared before, during, and after disruption of the NGV’s core activities. This circumstance provides a unique opportunity to identify groups of firms with similar innovation patterns and consequent strategic types (personality), test conflicting expectations arising from alliance capitalism and market capitalism models and to examine the assumption that the strategic type (personality) of the cluster, to which a firm belongs, has a bearing on the innovative status of the cluster and its consequent adaptability to change in turbulent environments.
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- Description: 2003001301