List of Titles

Development and bench-marking of agoraphilic navigation algorithm in dynamic environment

- Hewawasam, Hasitha, Ibrahim, Yousef, Kahandawa, Gayan, Choudhury, Tanveer, IEEE

Authors: Hewawasam, Hasitha , Ibrahim, Yousef , Kahandawa, Gayan , Choudhury, Tanveer , IEEE
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: 2019 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics p. 1156-1161
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Description: This paper presents a summary of research which was conducted in developing a new human-like navigation methodology based on the Agoraphilic algorithm. This new methodology is capable of maneuvering robots in both static and dynamically clutter unknown environments. The Agoraphilic algorithm is an "optimistic" navigation algorithm. The algorithm is based on free space attraction rather than repulsion of obstacles for navigation. Therefore, this algorithm directs robots to follow the free space leading to the goal instead of avoiding obstacles. This approach has eliminated many draw backs of the traditional APF algorithm. However, the major limitation of the previously developed Agoraphilic algorithm could only deal with static environment. The new proposed algorithm has successfully extended the capacity of Agoraphilic algorithm to deal with environment cluttered with dynamic obstacles. The new Agoraphilic algorithm uses a tracking and prediction methodology to estimate the path of unknown moving objects. The estimated locations of the moving objects are combined with static object locations in the robot's visible region to generate time-varying free space attractive forces. These time varying forces maneuver the robot to the goal in dynamically cluttered unknown environment without collusions. To demonstrate the algorithm's ability, several simulations were performed. Furthermore, the new algorithm was tested and bench-marked against other APF published work under similar environment and conditions. The comparative results are discussed and showed the effectiveness of the new Algoraphilic navigation algorithm.

Early motherhood: A turning point in the complex lives of young mothers

- Felstead, Karen

Authors: Felstead, Karen
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Feminist perspectives on young mothers and young mothering Chapter 6 p. 119-134
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Description: Young mothers’ stories of motherhood are often invisible within the broader contexts of society, and young mothers may themselves be negatively affected by and unable to resist dominant cultural narratives circulated about them. Early motherhood manifests itself as a problem and social concern in academic literature policy and public discourses (Arai; Breheny and Stephens). Much of it invariably details the negative outcomes faced by young mothers, including poor parenting skills, health issues, welfare dependency, and lower educational attainment with little opportunity for future employability, which exacerbates their likelihood of living in poverty (Keegan and Corliss). Community judgment invariably considers young.

Enhanced transfer learning with ImageNet trained classification layer

- Shermin, Tasfia, Teng, Shyh Wei, Murshed, Manzur, Lu, Guojun, Sohel, Ferdous, Paul, Manoranjan

Authors: Shermin, Tasfia , Teng, Shyh Wei , Murshed, Manzur , Lu, Guojun , Sohel, Ferdous , Paul, Manoranjan
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Image and Video Technology Chapter 12 p. 142-1455
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Description: Parameter fine tuning is a transfer learning approach whereby learned parameters from pre-trained source network are transferred to the target network followed by fine-tuning. Prior research has shown that this approach is capable of improving task performance. However, the impact of the ImageNet pre-trained classification layer in parameter fine-tuning is mostly unexplored in the literature. In this paper, we propose a fine-tuning approach with the pre-trained classification layer. We employ layer-wise fine-tuning to determine which layers should be frozen for optimal performance. Our empirical analysis demonstrates that the proposed fine-tuning performs better than traditional fine-tuning. This finding indicates that the pre-trained classification layer holds less category-specific or more global information than believed earlier. Thus, we hypothesize that the presence of this layer is crucial for growing network depth to adapt better to a new task. Our study manifests that careful normalization and scaling are essential for creating harmony between the pre-trained and new layers for target domain adaptation. We evaluate the proposed depth augmented networks for fine-tuning on several challenging benchmark datasets and show that they can achieve higher classification accuracy than contemporary transfer learning approaches.

Ethics, self-study research methodology and teacher education

- Brandenburg, Robyn, McDonough, Sharon

Authors: Brandenburg, Robyn , McDonough, Sharon
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Ethics, self-study research methodology and teacher education 1 p. 1-14
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Description: This book examines the nuanced and situated experiences of self-study researchers. It explores the ways in which ethics are dynamic, idiosyncratic and require an ongoing ethical reflexivity. In addition, the book identifies, documents and collates the collective experiences of self-study researchers and sheds new light on the role and impact of ethics, ethical dilemmas and ensuing decisions for education researchers. The book considers the ethical dilemmas that self-study researchers in teacher education face, their careful ethical considerations while conducting research, and how they form their professional judgment and understanding of what it means to be an ethical self-study researcher. For self-study researchers, there are a number of ethical dilemmas and challenges that cannot be neatly captured by the frameworks and guidelines of an ethics board. For many, this requires researchers to be ever-present and re-engaged with the ethics of their own projects, from the development, through to the dissemination of their work. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of ethics, ethical perspectives and practices in the field of self-study research.

Exchange on the maritime frontier of southern Australia

- Cahir, David (Fred), Clark, Ian, Wright, Wendy

Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian , Wright, Wendy
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The First Wave: Exploring coastal contact history in Australia Chapter 12 p. 174-192
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Description: The intimate cross-cultural narratives that ocure when British and other European mariners maded early contacts with Australian Aboriginal people have been investigated in a number of influential historical works, including Reynolds's "The other side of the frontier", Shellam's SHaking hand on the fringe', and Clendinnen's Dancing with strangers, This chapter will draw onfrom the concepts established in these workks and explore three facets of early interculturla exchange on the maritime frontier of south-eastern Australia (1790s-1840s) through written narratives focusing on food, tools and story-telling. "From chapter".

Foundations of nursing practice

- Cramer, Rhian, Coombs, Nicole, Lyons, Judith, Kim, Jeong-Ah

Authors: Cramer, Rhian , Coombs, Nicole , Lyons, Judith , Kim, Jeong-Ah
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The road to nursing Chapter 11 p. 168-182
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Description: Becoming a safe and contemporary nurse is more than just being able to demonstrate clinical skills or understand disease processes. It is about critical thinking - understanding why we do what we do and how to do it in the most efficient and effective way. Achieving the best outcomes for the patients is always paramount. This chapter explores the foundational principles of contemporary nursing practice: evidence-based practice, person-centred care, and communication. It also introduces the growing role of technology in healthcare and looks at how numerous factors come together to influence health outcomes for the individual patient.

Frog bogs, turbines and biodiversity : bringing children's sustainability knowledge to life through handmade artefacts

- Green, Monica

Authors: Green, Monica
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations p. 153-172
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Description: Globally, sustainability is a complex and contested term with multiple meanings and interpretations. This chapter highlights research that was undertaken by a FUGuE (Federation University Australia Gippsland) academic who used a participatory arts-based methodology to frame research with Gippsland children involved in sustainability education. The study originated from the author's involvement in the Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development (known as RCE Gippsland), a global network of formal, non-formal and informal education organisations responsible for the mobilisation of education for sustainable development (ESD). Drawing on RCE Gippsland's inaugural Sustainable Schools Expo, an event that supports primary school students to engage in sustainability themes and workshops and share their respective education for sustainability initiatives, the study involved working with children who were keynote Expo speakers. A key innovation of the study was the use of sustainability artefacts created by children, which represented their sustainability learning and knowledge and were used in recorded dialogical conversations. Findings from the study highlight regional children's well-developed views about the state of the world, including their concern for humankind's impact on planetary sustainability and the subsequent decline of ecological systems locally and globally. Further to this, the immersion of regional children in places where they lived and learnt was highlighted as integral to their sustainability knowledge and understanding. The chapter concludes with a discussion about the methodological contributions of the study and its capacity to illustrate the voice of regional children and their place-oriented lifeworlds. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. All rights are reserved.

From northern China to hazelwood wetlands : navigating place and identity through science education

- Ma, Hongming, Green, Monica

Authors: Ma, Hongming , Green, Monica
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations 10 p. 173-190
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Description: This chapter highlights an emergent self-study or professional inquiry that sits within wider longitudinal research examining the impact of a science teacher education university-school partnership in Latrobe Valley Gippsland. Partnership stakeholders in this particular study included the two authors (Hongming and Monica-Federation University Gippsland Education (FUGuE) researchers and science teacher educators), pre-service teachers and teachers/students from a local primary school. The chapter explores a number of complexities pertaining to our redesign of a science education course in the Bachelor of Education (primary) teaching programme. Central to the changes we made was a transition from universitybased lectures to place-based science lessons conducted by pre-service teachers in a local wetland. As part of the self-study, we met regularly throughout the semesterlong science education course to discuss course preparation, implementation, design and delivery. These recorded and later transcribed conversations became the main data collection source of the study.We also generated personal autobiographies as a way of reflecting on our personal, professional and collective learning journey within the science education course.Our analysis of this overall process brings to light emergent levels of complexity and uncertainty in our attempt to reshape science education through a partnership model. While we each had and shared very different experiences of the science education course, the chapter pays attention to the strengths of our differences, and in particular, its contribution to our collaboration. The impact and implications of the self-study are discussed, and in conclusion, we highlight the contributions of place-oriented approaches and collegiality that supported us to undertake science differently. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. All rights are reserved.

Geometric design of the limaçon machine

- Sultan, Ibrahim, Phung, Truong

Authors: Sultan, Ibrahim , Phung, Truong
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Positive displacement machines : Modern design innovations and tools Chapter 3 p. 63-93
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Description: Positive displacement machines have acquired particular popularity with the current push for sustainable energy production and consumption. It is currently not acceptable to waste energy available in high-pressure gasses throttled or vented to atmosphere in industrial processes (Samuel, 2007; Shu, Yu, Tian, Wei, & Liang, 2014) or blown out of cylinders in large diesel engines (Amann, 1987; Panesar, 2015; Karvountzis-Kontakiotis, Pesiridis, Zhao, Alshammari, et al., 2017). For such applications, a suitably sized positive displacement machine would be employed to harvest energy from these gases and transform it into useful forms. Turbines that are traditionally employed in massive power plants cannot be used for energy harvesting applications due to their inability to handle neither two-phase vapors (Groniewsky, Gy€orke, & Imre, 2017) nor flow occurring at small rates. For these applications, a gas expander, which is a positive displacement machine is usually employed. In relation to pressure creation, positive displacement pumps and compressors are commonly employed to impart pressure to respectively gaseous and liquid fluids flowing at rates which are required by most industries. This chapter presents the limac¸on rotary positive displacement machine, which can be employed for energy production (i.e., as a gas expander) and energy consumption (i.e., as a compressor or a pump) with equal ease and effectiveness. The limac¸on machine (Sultan, 2005) offers a straightforward technology, which has occurred to many creative minds as evident by patents which can be traced back to the 19th century. However, it is unfortunate that such technology did not make it to mass production due to the lack of mathematical understanding of their geometric characteristics and unavailability of manufacturing tools required to machine their chambers. Recently, however, with technical papers published on the topic, industry take-up of the technology has started to emerge. A good example of this take up is shown by the patent of Nystrom (2016).

Ghosts on the Goldfields : Ballarat as a haunted city

- Waldron, David, Waldron, Sharn

Authors: Waldron, David , Waldron, Sharn
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Supernatural cities : Enchantment, anxiety and spectrality Chapter 11 p. 229-248
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Description: The history of Ballarat, situated at the heart of the goldfields of central Victoria, Australia, is closely tied to the colonial experience. As the site of the Eureka Stockade rebellion, its history is linked to the foundation myths of Australian democracy. It boasts both the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E), situated on one of the suspected sites of the rebels' stockade, and Australia's premier open air museum, the theme park of Sovereign Hill, which re-enacts life on the goldfields of the 1950s and 1860s. In Ballarat itself many of the businesses utilise symbols of the goldfields in their advertising and trademarks, as do many of the street names, festivals and public events. The Victorian architectural heritage is highly prized and showcased to the thousands of visiting tourists on Sturt and Lydiard Streets, and particularly those who come each year for Ballarat's Heritage Weekend festival held in May. Yet there is a dark side to this history. The prosperity of the gold was built on the land of the Wathawurrung Aborigines who were displaced and marginalised, and suffered under the weight of colonial occupation and environmental devastation. Likewise, despite the prominence of stories surrounding those who became wealty on the goldfields of central Victoria, many who came to Ballarat during the Victorian era found themselves displaced and living in extremen poverty, facing disease, hunger and vulnerability to crime, prostitution and dangerous working conditions. It is these stories from the underbelly of Ballarat's heritage that form the fodder of a thriving dark tourist industry, expressed in popular ghost tours and supplemented by a rich heritage of ghost stories in folklore and popular culture. In the tension between these two discordant narratives Ballarat has become, in popular imagination, a haunted city.

Grassroots activism heritage and the cultural Landscape: The loud fences campaign

- Wilson, Jacqueline, Reeves, Keir

Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline , Reeves, Keir
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: What Is Public History Globally?: Working with the past in the present Chapter 19 p.251–264
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Description: The meaning of cultural, or historic, landscape resides in both its aesthetic qualities and the memories and experiences it embodies. Cultural landscape is a complex of interwoven expressions of ideas, ideals, ideologies and aspirations, of layered and contested narratives, of shifting community identity. The connotations of a landscape are often highly personal, while simultaneously reflecting broad public values and sensibilities. This is especially true in the case of revered institutions of the sort that combine a key role in community history, a consciously profound aesthetic quality and a central place in the community’s spiritual life. Wherever it is present, the Roman Catholic church has long held a deeply significant place in the cultural landscape, in local history-making and in the urban aesthetic. Everywhere the church is strong in terms of numbers of the faithful; its ‘penetration’ of the social environment makes it highly visible, highly potent as a social agent and centrally important to the local social memory, even among non-Catholic and secular populations. The church embodies tacit narratives of moral and spiritual guidance and of participation in and shaping of the growth of communities’ civic historical identity – a dynamic relational status that exemplifies what has been termed ‘authorized heritage discourse’.[1]252 This notion of heritage as officially sanctioned practice bound up with the community’s defining narratives reveals something of a paradox. The very aspects by which it contributes to social stability and identity also render it vulnerable to the socially disruptive effects of any contestation of those narratives, especially when that contestation is revealed in ways that resonate with people’s personal connection with a collective historical consciousness. This chapter addresses some of the processes involved, and the issues that arise, when such disruptive histories become public fare."From introduction"

Healthcare decision making : allied health and equity

- Martin, Jennifer

Authors: Martin, Jennifer
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Mental health policy, practice, and service accessibility in contemporary society Chapter 3 p. 41-56
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Description: Mental health and wellbeing has become an increasingly important issue that impacts communities in multiple ways. A critical discussion on the understanding and access of mental health services by people from diverse backgrounds is important to improving global healthcare practices in modern society. Mental Health Policy, Practice, and Service Accessibility in Contemporary Society provides innovative insights into contemporary and future issues within the field of mental healthcare. The content within this publication represents the work of medical funding, social inclusion, and social work education. It is a vital reference source for post-graduate students, medical researchers, psychology professionals, sociologists, and academicians seeking coverage on topics centered on improving future practices in mental health and wellbeing. Mental health and wellbeing has become an increasingly important issue that impacts communities in multiple ways. A critical discussion on the understanding and access of mental health services by people from diverse backgrounds is important to improving global healthcare practices in modern society. Mental Health Policy, Practice, and Service Accessibility in Contemporary Society provides innovative insights into contemporary and future issues within the field of mental healthcare. The content within this publication represents the work of medical funding, social inclusion, and social work education. It is a vital reference source for post-graduate students, medical researchers, psychology professionals, sociologists, and academicians seeking coverage on topics centered on improving future practices in mental health and wellbeing.

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