Is the pipeline our lifeline? Water reform and sustainability in drought-affected dryland communities of rural Victoria
- Authors: McRae-Williams, Pamela , Deutsher, M , Schwarz, Imogen
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AWA OzWater 2007 convention and exhibition., Sydney : 4th - 8th March, 2007
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- Description: E1
A rule based plagiarism detection using decision tree
- Authors: Ghosh, Moumita , Ghosh, Ranadhir , Yearwood, John
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the CIMCA 2004: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, Gold Coast, Queensland : 12th July, 2004
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000858
Barley non-starch polysaccharide content and its relationship with kernel hardness and water uptake
- Authors: Gamlath, Jayantha
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: Harder kernels in barley are thought to be a factor affecting the modification of the endosperm during malting by restricting water and enzyme movement within the endosperm. The traditional method used in the malting industry to determine barley endosperm vitreousness is by visual assessment. Since this method is subjective, laborious and requires training, an alternative method is needed. Similarly, the causes and factors influencing kernel hardness are uncertain. The prime objectives of this study were: to identify an appropriate method to quantify kernel hardness; investigate the relationship between kernel hardness and endosperm composition; and to investigate the relationship between barley variety and environmental influences on endosperm composition in relation to the kernel hardness of malting barley.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Closing the loop between research and sustainable regional development
- Authors: Schwarz, Imogen , McRae-Williams, Pamela
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at 12th SEGRA Conference 2008 : Creative Solutions - expect them to be different, Albury, New South Wales : 18th-20th August 2008
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- Description: There is continued debate between researchers, policy makers and regional communities on the effectiveness of research in identifying and engaging with regional issues and transferring this research to facilitate polices and initiatives that are adaptive and relevant. This paper reviews these current trends in thinking and describes a model of regional engagement where researchers, decision makers and community are beginning to work together to establish an effective framework to facilitate adaptive decision making, social learning and participatory research initiatives at a regional scale. The paper describes the evolution of the Water in Drylands Collaborative Research Program (WIDCORP) in Western Victoria. The model provides insights and highlights difficulties in converting research into creative solutions for sustainable regional development. Co-location, bridging partnerships across disciplines to deliver regional research needs, and developing good communication are key elements of this model. It also suggests that models of this type may be a stepping stone to integrate research into regional development decision making.
- Description: 2003006872
Threatened sun-moths (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) of the Victorian Mallee region
- Authors: Douglas, Fabian
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria Vol. 118, no. 2 (2006), p. 341-344
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- Description: This work provides an overview of the distribution, current conservation status and biology of four species of sun-moths (Synemon spp. Lepidoptera: Castniidae) that are known to occur in the Mallee region of north-western Victoria. As it is apparent that three of these species are currently threatened, the possible reasons for this situation are briefly discussed. Some broad recommendations are also made for the conservation and management of these threatened species.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003004775
Tourism, nation and power : A Foucauldian perspective of ‘Australia’s’ Ghan Train
- Authors: Winter, Caroline
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Tourism, power, and space Chapter p. 101-121
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- Description: 2003007144
Regional online newspapers as a social marketing tool in the development of community involvement and local identity
- Authors: Knox, Ian , Hall, John , Oppenheim, Peter
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Second Australasian Non-profit and Social Marketing Conference: At the threshold: Challenges and Developments in Social, Sport and Arts Marketing., Melbourne : 22nd November, 2005
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001343
Multi label classification and drug-reaction associations using global optimization techniques
- Authors: Mammadov, Musa , Yearwood, John , Aliyea, Leyla
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at ICOTA6: 6th International Conference on Optimization - Techniques and Applications, Ballarat, Victoria : 9th December, 2004
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000890
On Fréchet subdifferentials
- Authors: Kruger, Alexander
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Mathematical Sciences Vol. 116, no. 3 (2003), p. 3325-3358
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- Description: 2003002852
The sun-moths (lepidoptera: castniidae) of Victoria, with a detailed study of the pale sun-moth (Synemon selene klug, 1850)
- Authors: Douglas, Fabian
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The sun-moths (family Castniidae) are a distinctive group of monocot-feeding diurnal Lepidoptera that contains a high proportion of threatened species worldwide. Seven of the eight Victorian Synemon species are considered as threatened. This study has determined through extensive fieldwork that most of these species are now restricted to very small remnants of their particular habitats. These findings have been integrated into a review of the current distribution, biology and habitat requirements of all the Victorian species. This has enabled recommendations for their long-term conservation and management to be made. Special attention was paid to the Pale Sun-moth (Synemon selene Klug, 1850) because it appeared to be nationally endangered and without a government strategy for its conservation. Also, there was strong circumstantial evidence of complete parthenogenesis within all of its Victorian populations. The Victorian occurrences are shown to be parthenogenetic, although specimens of both sexes are known from a ?now-extinct population near Two Wells, South Australia. It was also established that these parthenogenetic populations include five distinct morphs, two or three of which occur sympatrically at four localities in the Wimmera area. Parthenogenetic populations of these morphs cannot interbreed, this potentially restricting their genetic diversity. The extent of genetic diversity was examined with all parthenogenetic Victorian morphs of S. selene. DNA sequencing of 1515 bp of the COI gene revealed a maximum divergence level of 12 bp between some of the morphs and 1 to 2 bp within some morphs. This level of genetic diversity implies that these morphs have continued to evolve in the absence of males through time. This study has highlighted the special academic interest of S. selene and the urgent need for its adequate conservation. Some important directions for future research on the species are also discussed.
- Description: Master of Applied Science
An intelligent offline handwriting recognition system using evolutionary neural learning algorithm and rule based over segmented data points
- Authors: Ghosh, Ranadhir , Ghosh, Moumita
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology Vol. 37, no. 1 (2005), p. 73-86
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- Description: In this paper we propose a novel technique of using a hybrid evolutionary method, which uses a combination of genetic algorithm and matrix based solution methods such as QR factorization. The training of the model is based on a layer based hierarchical structure for the architecture and the weights for the Artificial Neural Network classifier. The architecture for the classifier is found using a binary search type procedure. The hierarchical structured algorithm (EALS-BT) is also a hybrid, because it combines the Genetic Algorithm based method with the Matrix based solution method for finding weights. A heuristic segmentation algorithm is initially used to over segment each word. Then the segmentation points are passed through the rule-based module to discard the incorrect segmentation points and include any missing segmentation points. Following the segmentation the contour is extracted between two correct segmentation points. The contour is passed through the feature extraction module that extracts the angular features, after which the EALS-BT algorithm finds the architecture and the weights for the classifier network. These recognized characters are grouped into words and passed to a variable length lexicon that retrieves words that have the highest confidence value.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003001367
D.B. Copland and the aftershocks of the Premiers' plan 1931-1939
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Australian Conference of Economists, 2005, Melbourne : 26th September, 2005
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- Description: Since Roland Wilson’s (1951) tribute to L. F. Giblin as ‘the grand old man’ or father figure of modern Australian economics there has been a tendency to underestimate the achievements and legacy of Douglas Berry Copland. It became fashionable, moreover, with the post-war generation of economists to belittle his contribution to interwar Australian economic thought especially that relating to stabilisation policy. Copland was quite aware of the chiselling away at his reputation. Commenting to a friend while reading Harrod’s biography of Keynes he wrote ‘Still reading Keynes and I remember most of the controversy and the discussion he was involved from the 1920’s onwards. A few of us had been working on similar lines and I have somewhere a set of memorandums to the government of NSW from 1932 to 1936 urging with all the persuasion I could muster an expansionist policy, but we could not get pass the Commonwealth Treasury. It would be fun to dig them out now and circulate for the younger brethren who still think we are past praying for. I’m sure he (Keynes) would disown Coombs and his school if he was with us now’. By that reflection Copland revealed not just his close dealings with Keynes but his fear that a hydraulic Keynesianism was taking hold within the Australian economics fraternity. It also showed Copland’s pride of the policy advocacy and controversies he had actively participated in during the 1930’s.
- Description: 2003001451
Teaching safer diving – Innovative teaching through application of research
- Authors: Blitvich, Jennifer , McElroy, G. Keith , Blanksby, Brian
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at AUSTSWIM National Conference Canberra, Canberra : p. 1-9
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- Description: E1
Improvements of truck fuel economy using mechanical regenerative braking
- Authors: Boretti, Alberto
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at SAE 2010 Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress, Illinois, USA : 5th-6th October 2010
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- Description: Improvements of truck fuel economy are being considered using a flywheel energy storage system concept. This system reduces the amount of mechanical energy needed by the thermal engine by recovering the vehicle kinetic energy during braking and then assisting torque requirements. The mechanical system has an overall efficiency over a full regenerative cycle of about 70%, about twice the efficiency of battery-based hybrids rated at about 36%. The technology may improve the vehicle fuel economy and hence reduced CO2 emissions by more than 30% over driving cycles characterized by: frequent engine start/stop, vehicle acceleration, brief cruising, deceleration and stop. The paper uses engine and vehicle simulations to compute: first the fuel benefits of the technology applied to passenger cars, then the extension of the technology to deal with heavy duty vehicles.
Global optimization of marginal functions with applications to economic equilibrium
- Authors: Bagirov, Adil , Rubinov, Alex
- Date: 2001
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Global Optimization Vol. 20, no. 3-4 (Aug 2001), p. 215-237
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- Description: We discuss the applicability of the cutting angle method to global minimization of marginal functions. The search of equilibrium prices in the exchange model can be reduced to the global minimization of certain functions, which include marginal functions. This problem has been approximately solved by the cutting angle method. Results of numerical experiments are presented and discussed.
The true story of the Pikeman's Dog at the Eureka Stockade : The rebel's dog with the royal award
- Authors: Williams, Paul
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: The faithful dog has the ability to become an Australian legend, as has Simpson's Donkey of Gallipoli. The true, heartrending tale of a devoted terrier's reaction to the death of his master, a pikeman at the ill-fated and brutal Eureka Stockade, is what legends are made of.
- Description: 2003008030
Strengthening primary health care : Building the capacity of rural communities to access health funding
- Authors: McDonald, John , Brown, Leann , Murphy, Angela
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian journal of rural health Vol. 10, no. 3 (2002), p. 173-177
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- Description: Present health funding models can place onerous pressures on rural health services. Staff may lack the time, resources, access to data, and the expertise needed to complete complex and lengthy funding submissions. This present study describes an innovative capacity-building approach to working with Victorian rural communities seeking to access health care funding through the Regional Health Services Program. This approach used several strategies: engaging stakeholders in targeted rural communities, developing an information kit and running a workshop on preparing submissions to the Regional Health Services Program, facilitating community consultations, and providing ongoing support with submissions. Six rural communities were supported in this way. Four have been funded to date, with a combined annual recurrent budget for new primary health care services of over $2.5 million. Each community has developed a service delivery model that meets the particular needs of their local area. This capacity-building approach is both effective and replicable to other health funding opportunities. The definitive version of this article is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com
- Description: 2003000079
Corporation governance, performance and CEO turnover evidence from listed companies in China
- Authors: Pi, Lili , Lowe, Julian , O'Connor, Christine
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the 4th Teaching, Learning and Research Conference (IERA), Ballarat, Australia : 22nd - 25th November, 2004
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000813
Work/life balance through a critical ‘gender lens’ : A cross-country comparison of parental leave provisions and take-up in Australia and Sweden
- Authors: Zacharias, Nadine
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: Work/life balance researchers have documented the low take-up rates of corporate work/life balance policies at the same time as there are reports of persistent work/life pressures. This research aims to provide more comprehensive explanations of the phenomenon of low policy take-up than those currently available in the work/life balance literature which focus on organisational and individual factors. The research project is based on a critical review of the work/life balance literature which focuses on organisational solutions and starts from the assumption that the organisational approach to researching and addressing work/life conflicts is inherently limited, mainly because it does not theorise gender as a social structure and does not take into consideration the social and political context in which work/life arrangements are negotiated but focuses, instead, on individual employees and organisations. I integrated my critical review of the organisational work/life balance literature with concepts in the feminist literature, most importantly the gendered public/private divide, to create an explicit ‘gender lens’ which guides the interpretations of my findings. I applied this gender lens to Habermas’ model of societal evolution to operationalise it as an analytical tool for this research. From this theoretical basis, I designed a comparative research project, using Australia and Sweden as country case studies, which compares the approaches to work/life balance in the two countries. The focus of the analysis is on parental leave as one important example of work/life balance policies. The data for this research includes the parental leave legislation, public documents released by governments and associated bodies as well as national surveys on the take-up of parental leave provisions in both countries. This material is analysed in the light of the conceptual framework. [...]
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
"Living on the edge" : A case of school reform working for disadvantaged adolescents
- Authors: Smyth, John , McInerney, Peter
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Teachers College Record Vol. 109, no. 5 (2007), p. 1123-1170
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP110102619
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- Description: The issue of why so many young adolescents around the world are disengaging from school and making the choice to drop out is one of the most intractable, vexed, perplexing, and controversial issues confronting educators. Tackling it requires courage and a radical rethinking of school reform around issues of power, ownership of learning, and the relevance of schooling and curriculum for young lives. This means a heightened institutional capacity to "listen." This article describes an instance of a disadvantaged urban Australian government school that realized it had little alternative but to try new approaches; "old ways" were not working. The article describes an ensemble of school reform practices, philosophies, and strategies that give young adolescents genuine ownership of their learning. This school stands out as a beacon that school reform is possible, even for young adolescents from the most difficult of circumstances. However, such approaches look markedly different from where mainstream educational reform is taking us at the moment. Copyright © by Teachers College, Columbia University.
- Description: 2003005576