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Trust in network relationships

Combination strategies for finding optimal neural network architecture and weights

  • Authors: Verma, Brijesh , Ghosh, Ranadhir
  • Date: 2004
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Neural information processing : Research and development Chapter p. 294-319
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  • Description: The chapter presents a novel neural learning methodology by using different combination strategies for finding architecture and weights. The methodology combines evolutionary algorithms with direct/matrix solution methods such as Gram-Schmidt, singular value decomposition, etc., to achieve optimal weights for hidden and output layers. The proposed method uses evolutionary algorithms in the first layer and the least square method (LS) in the second layer of the ANN. The methodology also finds optimum number of hidden neurons and weights using hierarchical combination strategies. The chapter explores all different facets of the proposed method in terms of classification accuracy, convergence property, generalization ability, time and memory complexity. The learning methodology has been tested using many benchmark databases such as XOR, 10 bit odd parity, handwriting characters from CEDAR, breast cancer and heart disease from UCI machine learning repository. The experimental results, detailed discussion and analysis are included in the chapter.
  • Description: 2003004097

Creating and sustaining online communities : Web-based services meeting the diverse needs of regional and rural Australia

Francis Adams

ICT educational (dis)advantage : Cultural resources and the digital divide

Inequity in Australian vocational education training by location

Innovation and investment in capitalist economies 1870-2000 : Kaleckian dynamics and evolutionary life cycles

Introduction : Histories, recognition and subjectivities

Issues and debates in contemporary social and critical philosophy

Kissing the toad in twentieth century children's literature

Mental imagery in sport

Michal Kalecki as a behavioural economist : Implications for modern evolutionary economic analysis

Nurses as managers; Education and support for the role

Teacher and curriculum development : A clinical analysis perspective

Teachers doing their 'economic' work

Teachers' work : What is happening to it?

The Eden woodchip scheme and its implications for forest fauna : A political ecology perspective

  • Authors: Penna, Ian
  • Date: 2004
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna (second edition) Chapter p. 63-80
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  • Description: A 'political ecology' perspective was used to examine the implications of the export woodchip scheme located near Eden in south east New South Wales (NSW) for the region's public forests and their fauna. The modern paper industry's political economy emphasises the importance of a large supply of wood fibre of suitable price and quality for competitive papermaking. The evolution of the Japanese paper industry and the exploitative history of forests in south east NSW interacted to create the opportunity to establish such a supply in Australia for the Japanese papermaker Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co from 1970. The ‘Harris-Daishowa’ export woodchip scheme at Eden was based on the guaranteed supply of large volumes of pulpwood from the region’s public native forests. Meeting this supply entailed restructuring available forests through clearfell logging over about 40 years. Features of the regime used to manage these forests and supply pulpwood were examined within this context, and the consequences of woodchipping for fauna protection are discussed. Fauna populations were being restructured by this regime, which ‘squeezed’ them between priorities for wood production and fire management. In particular; forest-dependent fauna, such as gliders, some possums and koalas, have been detrimentally impacted. Substantial changes to public forest management in south east NSW took almost 30 years to achieve. However, while export woodchipping continues, the ‘political ecology’ of local forest fauna will be influenced by international pulp and paper markets.
  • Description: 2003007326

They're the future and they're going to take over everywhere

Who's doing the hunting and gathering? An exploration of gender segmentation of adult learning in small remote communities

  • Authors: Golding, Barry
  • Date: 2004
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Equity in Vocational Education and Training: Research reading Chapter 17 p. 225-241
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  • Description: Adults in Australia have tended to return relatively recently to learning in patterns that are significantly different by gender. These patterns of gender segmentation for adults are particularly noticeable in the findings of recent research by the author into adult, community and vocational learning in small and remote towns in Victoria. The issues associated with such patterns form the basis of this exploratory paper.
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  • Description: 2003000772

Action research methods : Case study