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Listening for more-than-human voices : the expressive power of landscapes

- Jukes, Scott

Authors: Jukes, Scott
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Learning to confront ecological precarity : engaging with more-than-human worlds Chapter 5 p. 75-84
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Description: This chapter introduces the idea of reading landscapes in relation to more-than-human worlds. I explore the practice of reading more-than-human stories in the landscape through examples from extended bushwalks in the Australian Alps. The aim of this chapter is to engage with the expressive power of landscape, offering some pedagogical strategies for attuning to more-than-human worlds. The chapter argues that by paying close attention, we may see that different features can tell us something about our shared worlds—a movement away from colonialist practices. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Management effectiveness of wetland-protected areas

- McInnes, Rob, Gell, Peter, Finlayson, C.

Authors: McInnes, Rob , Gell, Peter , Finlayson, C.
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Ramsar Wetlands: Values, Assessment, Management Chapter 14 p. 357-376
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Description: The effective management of wetlands requires a sound policy foundation that recognises the full range of states through which a wetland may pass, the drivers of change and their periodicity, and the trajectory of present change relative to past conditions. A management plan should suit the local requirements, and be as large or complex as is required for any specific site. While the format and presentation of a management plan can vary, the process comprises six steps to implement actions to achieve the management goals, namely: Why are we here? What have we got? What are the important features? What are the important influences? What do we want? What must we do? Based on general requirements for effectiveness tracking in protected areas, a specific Ramsar Site Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (R-METT) has been formally adopted by the Ramsar Convention. This is designed to be simple and rapid to assist site managers and to facilitate wide uptake of the approach. The evaluation questions in R-METT were designed to be easily answered by the management authority without any additional research or intense and costly data collection. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Parasitic infections of the central nervous system

- Mathison, Blaine, Bradbury, Richard

Authors: Mathison, Blaine , Bradbury, Richard
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Molecular Medical Microbiology, Third Edition Chapter 159 p. 3135-3177
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Description: Parasites are an uncommon cause of infections of the human central nervous system (CNS). When they do cause CNS infections; however, the results can be detrimental and as such, an accurate diagnosis needs to be made as soon as possible so treatment can be initiated. This chapter covers the taxonomy, biology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, pathology, treatment, and diagnosis of parasites of the CNS, with an emphasis on molecular detection and identification. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Philosophical~methodological processes : immanent praxiography

- Jukes, Scott

Authors: Jukes, Scott
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Learning to confront ecological precarity : engaging with more-than-human worlds Chapter 3 p. 33-50
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Description: This chapter offers the philosophical framing for the book and introduces the methodological concept of immanent praxiography. I discuss the posthumanist disposition that influences the project and I present some of the ontological assumptions. Furthermore, this chapter frames how experimentation and play come into the methodological processes. A table is included that summarises some of the different aspects and offerings of the chapters, linking together key ideas and presenting through lines. In short, this chapter offers a map for the emergent methodological processes that have produced this book. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Politics, parliament and the courts

- Camilleri, Marg, Harkness, Alistair

Authors: Camilleri, Marg , Harkness, Alistair
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 2 p. 19-44
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Description: Recognising the oftentimes polarising nature of court decision-making—and the overt public interest and political sensitivities which exist—this chapter focuses on the public influence on legislative decision-making with regard to the courts and court processes. It considers the blurring of boundaries in regard to mandatory sentencing the parliamentary appetite for sentencing reform and the questioning of sentencing outcomes and other court practices. How to reconcile public attitudes (and thus parliamentary action) with magisterial, judicial, parole board and bail justice decision-making is a significant challenge. Various actors have a role to play in promoting accountability and positive change, including sentencing advisory councils, parliamentary law reform committees, legal services boards, community legal centres and other bodies—in advocating for positive change, fairness and equity based on sound evidence rather than potentially knee-jerk reactions to public conjecture.

Post-pandemic social work and the death of neoliberalism

- Ottmann, Goetz

Authors: Ottmann, Goetz
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Post-Pandemic Welfare and Social Work: Re-imagining the New Normal Chapter 4 p. 39-50
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Description: The COVID-19 pandemic in conjunction with ecological, financial and political crises foregrounds the inadequacies and failures of neoliberal modes of governance that have become the bedrock of polities around the globe. The pandemic highlighted that most governments were not able to protect the health and wellbeing of their citizens bringing into full public view an astonishing discrepancy between governmental claims and experienced events. As a result, political leaders were scrambling to re-define the role of the state as guarantor of social welfare, to re-create a sense of humanitarian solidarity, and to re-invent the commons amidst threadbare, marketised health and social care. Ultimately, a sizeable segment of vulnerable ‘consumers’ was left without a protective safety net. And while communities rallied, providing much-needed social support to vulnerable citizens, national governments appeared to be ‘missing in action’. This chapter traces the tension between the neoliberal administration of health and welfare and the social imaginary of safety that underpins public opinion outlining socio-political currents that are transforming neoliberalism. The chapter argues that this tension translates into a new challenge for social work to ‘re-cognise’ that the neoliberal dogma, albeit incrementally changing, still permeates current human services approaches and our own thinking and to become aware of new possibilities. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Goetz Ottmann and Carolyn Noble; individual chapters, the contributors.

Post-pandemic social work and the welfare state

- Noble, Carolyn, Ottmann, Goetz

Authors: Noble, Carolyn , Ottmann, Goetz
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Post-Pandemic Welfare and Social Work: Re-imagining the New Normal Chapter 1 p. 1-14
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Description: This edited book offers a critical commentary to the social, political and cultural shifts that underpin the post-pandemic ŉew normal’. At the time of completing this edited book, most pandemic containment measures have been lifted ushering in a new socio-political landscape. Contributors to this book agree that the pandemic revealed the cracks in welfare systems resulting from decades of underfunding and posited a rethink of its value and function. COVID-19 has reminded us of our vulnerability and dependence on others. It has debunked the myth of the ideal of the self-contained, self-sufficient and independent subject at the core of liberal political and moral philosophy that is also manifest in pre-COVID-19 interpretations of welfare and visions of care. The chapter argues that post-pandemic welfare must be expanded to include relational aspects that link all beings in their inter-dependence with the planetary ecosystem. We affirm that Critical social work is a strategic activity where social workers are taking on a networked leadership role promoting grassroots activism and more democratic decision-making towards a more sustainable and equitable future. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Goetz Ottmann and Carolyn Noble; individual chapters, the contributors.

Prosecutions in the summary jurisdictions

- Camilleri, Marg, Harkness, Alistair

Authors: Camilleri, Marg , Harkness, Alistair
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 5 p. 95-119
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Description: Police prosecutors play a critical role in the Victorian summary jurisdiction. While scarce, the available literature identifies concerns about the use of police prosecutors, including a lack of independence from investigative police the opaque police prosecutor decision-making the potential bias in favour of police informants the lack of uniformity in training requirements the high workloads and the lack of clear, uniform and public guidelines all which may have real or perceived impacts upon court outcomes for accused and victims alike and upon the public’s confidence in the administration of justice. This is particularly so in the context of increasing volume, complexity and seriousness of summary offences. This chapter supports the need for an evidence-based review of police-led prosecutions which includes the impacts on case outcomes, and whether certain reforms may be necessary.

Responding to climate change through outdoor environmental education : pedagogy for confronting a crisis

- Jukes, Scott

Authors: Jukes, Scott
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Learning to confront ecological precarity : engaging with more-than-human worlds Chapter 11 p. 205-222
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Description: This chapter looks to address the fact that OEE has not responded in any significant way to the climate crises. Thus, this chapter confronts the issue of climate change by exploring some of the climate change education literature that may provide useful insights for OEE pedagogy. I then offer four examples of practice where climate change education is delivered through OEE. These examples include taking advantage of pedagogic moments, planning activities and experiences with climate change education in mind along with an example of tertiary curriculum development for climate change education within OEE. The chapter highlights that conceptualising and bearing witness to climate change are steps towards collective action and fostering response-ability. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Review and experimental investigation of retarder for alkali-activated cement

- Holschemacher, Klaus, Tekle, Biruk

Authors: Holschemacher, Klaus , Tekle, Biruk
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Proceedings of the 75th RILEM Annual Week 2021: Advances in Sustainable Construction Materials and Structures p. 614-625
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Description: Alkali-activated cement (AAC) cured at ambient temperature conditions have a wider application area compared to heat cured AAC. High calcium precursor materials such as ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) are commonly used to achieve ambient curing behavior. However, the GGBS results in a short setting time. Hence setting adjustment is critical in such AAC systems. This paper reviews state-of-the-art in the area of retarders for AAC systems. The most promising prospective retarders such as zinc salts, borax, sucrose, and phosphates are investigated. The retarder’s effect is dependent on the precursor materials and alkaline activators used. Consequently, in the review, these are identified for each retarder discussed. Some of the retarders were then tested in AAC with a blended precursor system containing fly ash (FA) and GGBS activated with sodium hydroxide and sodium silicate. The results showed that each borax percentage, with respect to the total solid binder, increases the setting time by about 50% of the mix without borax. Sucrose, sodium acetate, acetic, and phosphoric acids have no significant effect on the investigated AAC’s setting time. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Review on variants of restricted boltzmann machines and autoencoders for cyber-physical systems

- Ul Haq, Qazi, Imran, Muhammad, Saleem, Kashif, Zia, Tanveer, Al Muhtadi, Jalal

Authors: Ul Haq, Qazi , Imran, Muhammad , Saleem, Kashif , Zia, Tanveer , Al Muhtadi, Jalal
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Internet of Things Security and Privacy: Practical and Management Perspectives Chapter 8 p. 188-207
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Description: To understand the variants of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and Auto-encoders, we first need to outline what they are: RBMs are generative and unlike auto-encoders that are biased towards a limited set of data. RBMs are capable of generating new data with the joint set distribution. They are used to solve problems such as pattern recognition where there is a handwritten text that needs to be deciphered or a random pattern. It can also be used for recommendation engines where in collaboration with filtering techniques, recommendations are made to an end-user, and radar target recognition where it is used to detect intra-pulse with extremely low SNR and high noise. On the contrary, auto-encoders are not very commonly used in real-life applications; however, they are useful in reducing dimensionality and variational auto-encoders (VAE), where VAE learns the limitations of a probability distribution modeling the input data rather than learning the absolute function. RBMs and auto-encoders can be used for cyber-physical systems (CPS); RBMs are a dual-layer, two-part, erratic graphical model, allowing data to flow in two ways rather than one which forms the foundation of DBNs. CPS aims to use RBMs in making the model understand various functions, which will ultimately help to identify the hidden state and minimize the energy of the system. RBMs assign probabilities rather than definite values. Auto-encoders are unsupervised neural networks that use input vectors and try to match them to similar output vectors. These vectors are extremely skilled as they study compressed data encoding autonomously. This chapter will discuss in detail the breakthroughs with CPS and their findings. Previously CPS were only evaluated with techniques that did not differentiate the facts from the internal view, which ultimately resulted in a mismatch between the behavior of theoretical models and their real-life counterparts. This ultimately gave way to the question of how they could perform critical safety tasks. Another vital breakthrough related to CPS revolves around Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts. They both revolve around the design and analysis of Artificial Intelligence as an integral part of CPS; the findings for these breakthroughs will be discussed in detail in the chapter. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, [Ali Ismail Awad, Atif Ahmad, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, Saqib Hakak]; individual chapters, the contributors.

Sad, bad or mad : the denial of agency to women who kill

- Morrissey, Belinda

Authors: Morrissey, Belinda
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women's Acts of Violence Chapter 23 p. 361-375
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Description: Murder is overwhelmingly a male affair (UNODC Global Study on Homicide, 2019). So, when women kill, their crimes gain a lot of attention and even more hysteria in both courts and media. This chapter will analyse the cases of Sally Challen, Belinda van Krevel and Maxine Carr to show that portrayals of women who are involved in killing exist on a continuum, from abused victims to those simply 'born evil' to the incomprehension of those whose crimes render them outside society altogether; or in simple terms, from sad, to bad, to mad. In all cases, the agency of the women is presented as incomplete or impossible, indicating our inability in heteropatriarchy to acknowledge that women are as capable as men of exhibiting the full spectrum of human behaviour. Denying agency, particularly to violent women, allows Western societies to avoid having to face and thus, attempt to understand, the female capacity for aggression. © 2023 Belinda Morrissey. All rights reserved.

Storying shared worlds : collaborative writing as ecological inquiry

- Jukes, Scott, Clarke, David, McPhie, Jamie

Authors: Jukes, Scott , Clarke, David , McPhie, Jamie
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Learning to confront ecological precarity : engaging with more-than-human worlds Chapter 10 p. 183-204
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Description: This chapter is co-authored with Dave Clarke and Jamie Mcphie and is an experiment in collaborative writing as a form of inquiry. We write with and through the events of our lives, to see how ontology manifests itself within our processes of collaborative inquiry in environmental education. Fires, viruses, lines and cosmopolitics infuse this chapter as we strive to think and enact inquiry in alternative ways. The chapter also offers insights into some of the further backstories and considerations that furrowed along underneath some of the other chapters in this project. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

The response of wetlands to long-term climate change

- Riedinger-Whitmore, Melanie, Gell, Peter, Mills, Keely

Authors: Riedinger-Whitmore, Melanie , Gell, Peter , Mills, Keely
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Ramsar Wetlands: Values, Assessment, Management Chapter 8 p. 195-217
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Description: The Earth has been subjected to cyclical climatic variations that are attributable to a range of forces that have return times ranging from days to many millennia. Most of the world’s wetlands were formed since the last glaciation, yet they have varied greatly in condition even through the relatively stable climates of the Holocene. Many wetlands listed under the Ramsar Convention have experienced conditions that are different than those observed at the time they were listed. Cyclical changes that drive natural variation will continue to influence wetlands. These natural drivers, however, will combine with anthropogenic influences that will alter the natural ecological character. As many wetlands change, Ramsar reporting will be faced with assessing changes in condition and accommodating the expectations of nations to provide guidance that can help manage these driving forces. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

The three Cs of psychological mate preferences : the psychological traits people want in their romantic and sexual partners

- Jonason, Peter, March, Evita

Authors: Jonason, Peter , March, Evita
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Romantic Relationships Chapter 3 p. 74-93
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Description: In this chapter, we discuss the psychological traits desired in modern romantic and sexual relationships. We begin by distinguishing and providing a brief overview of modern relationships, including long-term, committed, monogamous relationships, casual, primarily sexual relationships, and hybrid relationships such as booty-call and friends-withbenefits relationships. Following this, we explore the psychological traits desired in these relationships. These psychological traits are thematically organized into three higher-order psychological preferences: competence, compassion, and compatibility. For each of these higher-order preferences, we outline the traits captured by the theme (e.g., compassion includes kindness and agreeableness), and explore the research on preferences for these traits across the different types of modern relationships. We then explore the “why” of these trait preferences by appealing to sociocultural and evolutionary psychological models. Lastly, we consider limitations of previous research and provide suggestions for future research exploring psychological mate preferences in modern relationships. © Oxford University Press 2023.

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