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On the implementation of dynamic reconfiguration in telecommunication networks

- Dzalilov, Zari, Ouveysi, Iradj

Compression Chamber

- Mestrom, Sanne

  • Authors: Mestrom, Sanne
  • Date: 2011
  • Type: Text , Visual art work
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  • Description: Gertrude Contemporary is pleased to present Octopus 11: The Matter of Air. Running for over a decade, the annual Octopus exhibition series offers a curator the opportunity to explore key ideas in current curatorial practice, experimenting with their methodology and opening up new possibilities for the discipline. The Matter of Air takes air as a starting point for broader examinations of matter in its many physical, perceptual and symbolic guises. Featuring five artists from across the globe, the exhibition considers transformation through Visual art works that traverse the threshold between the material and the immaterial. Taking poetic licence with the language of science, the artists draw upon properties of matter such as volume, weight, density and temperature to manipulate and redefine form. Whilst many of their works give shape and substance to matter that is amorphous or invisible, others dissolve traditional notions of solidity in favour of forms that are indistinct and indefinable, ultimately revealing the mutability of all things. In Michaela Gleave’s (Aus) “Cloud House” (2011), viewers climb into a raised room that is carpeted by a floor-bound field of mist. As the viewer moves around, the cloud-like form responds to the shifting air currents, swirling, dividing and regrouping like a mobile, airy composition. This work hinges on a transformation from liquid to gas, employing inaudible high frequency sound waves to break up water into a vaporous mist. Dane Mitchell (NZ) continues his investigation of substances that hover on the edge of perception and materiality in “Various Solid States” (2011), a work that draws attention to the physical properties of empty space by giving form to the humidity present in the gallery’s air. Water is collected from a dehumidifier, mixed with plaster and then poured a-top bubble wrap, with each air pocket creating a metaphorical imprint of the surrounding gallery space. In the kinetic sculpture “Double O” (2008), Zilvinas Kempinas (Lithuania) sets the air in motion and employs invisible air currents to define visible form. Loops of unspooled videotape dance in the turbulent currents formed between two industrial fans, spinning and twisting to sketch a constantly shifting line in thin air – a gravity-defying drawing in space. Melbourne-based Sannè Mestrom also gives form to the void, through her major new installation “Compression Chamber” (2011). The work is premised on the weight of air – in this case, the 6.5 kilograms of air contained by the 5 cubic metres of space in which the installation sits. Varying in shape, scale and substance, the sculptures act as visual equivalences that compact and solidify the expansive, ethereal matter of air. Exploring transformation through the lens of perception are the collaborative duo João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva (Portugal). For The Matter of Air they will present five of their dream-like 16mm filmic enquiries into the ambiguity of vision and matter. These films draw upon the possibilities of ‘pataphysics,’ or ‘the science of imaginary solutions,’ to present a speculative philosophy that challenges our perceptions of the world and makes the ordinary wonderfully strange. The Octopus series of exhibitions are made possible through generous support from Proclaim Management Solutions who have sponsored this exhibition since 2004. The Matter of Air has received support from Inspirations Paint and Colour, Instituto Camoes, the Embassy of Portugal, Canberra, and the Australian Lithuanian Foundation.

Critical imagination : A pedagogy for engaging pre-service teachers in the university classroom

- Cartwright, Patricia, Noone, Lynne

  • Authors: Cartwright, Patricia , Noone, Lynne
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii : 6th-9th January 2007 p. 610-629
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  • Description: In this paper we consider the aspect of teacher education which takes place, not in the school, but in the university classroom. Teaching about teaching, it is argued, must be grounded in students' understanding of the present, but must foster both hope and critique. Beginning from Maxine Greene's (2000) concept of imagination, this paper develops a notion of critical imagination as a way of conceptualizing a critical pedagogy in the university classroom. Two pedagogical strategies based on critical imagination are outlined and analyzed. Writing is prioritized as a pedagogical tool. Excerpts from our professional teaching journals, together with samples of students' writing in response to these strategies, clothe the strategies in the reality of teaching practice. We argue that the use of teaching strategies based on critical imagination as a means of 'jarring' students to think differently seems to move our students to think a little more humanely and a little more critically. But this is neither a simple nor unproblematic task.

Hybrid training approaches to Hidden Markov Model-based acoustic models for automatic speech recognition

- Huda, Shamsul

  • Authors: Huda, Shamsul
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

‘Rough and ready’ : Makeshift, abstraction and the Australian patina

- Brooks, Terri

  • Authors: Brooks, Terri
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: Ned Kelly’s armour, the Eureka flag, and the premise that underlies the title of the most famous exhibition in Australian art history; the 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition held in Melbourne in 1889, are makeshift. This exegesis records the spirit of ‘making do’ or ‘makeshift’ in Australia’s post-settlement history including its manifestation in art. As this history is traced, the role of the harsh Australian landscape, and assertions of cultural convergence in post-settlement history, raised by historians including Russel Ward and Philip Jones are explored. Makeshift maps this country’s history of adversity, and popular bush story tellers, including Henry Lawson, contributed to makeshift flourishing in Australia and developing ‘everyday’ cultural associations.
  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

Student perceptions of podcasting to enhance learning and teaching in an information systems course

- Miller, Charlynn, Newnham, Leon

  • Authors: Miller, Charlynn , Newnham, Leon
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at 14th International Conference ALT-C 2007: Beyond Control. Learning Technology for the social network generation, Nottingham University EMCC, Nottingham, England, UK : 4th-6th September 2007 p. 104-115
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  • Description: Universities are challenged to seek methods to improve student learning. Leading edge technologies, such as podcasts, that put the focus on learner-chosen activities may be one way to accomplish this. This study explored student perceptions of podcasting as a learning and teaching tool in a first semester information systems course within an Australian university. Students were provided with a short podcast to supplement face-to-face lectures. Students were then surveyed to determine their perceptions of the impact of this podcast on their learning. A high number of respondents agreed that they used the podcast, that it increased their understanding of the lecture material and that it assisted their learning in the unit overall. The findings in this preliminary study lend support to the concept that podcasting can enhance learning when used as a supplement to traditional teaching methods.
  • Description: 2003002687

Beyond cognition : Affective learning and undergraduate education student engagement in learning

- Zeegers, Margaret

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at The European Conference on Educational Research: From Teaching to Learning?, Gothenburg, Sweden : 10th-12th September 2008
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  • Description: In this paper I report on a project designed to enhance student teacher engagement in learning by developing an explicit pedagogy of affective learning, traditionally ignored in teacher education as discipline-based studies have dominated the field. Strategies investigated are based on reading engaged on affective levels, intertwined with current approaches to academic reading, with metacognitive responses recorded by the students as part of student evaluation of their own learning. Reading has been structured around literature reading circles (affective reading component), and academic reading circles (professional reading component). The project uses strategy in relation to the identifiable stages in a teaching sequence which help students to realise a learning goal, so that they use learning strategies and respond to teaching strategies that scaffold their learning. The reading program pushes the boundaries of their discipline-based learning, engaging what Schön refers to as ‘indeterminate zones of practice’ as giving an affective dimension, having wider implications for student engagement in discipline-based units than straight academic encounters with discipline-based literature allows. The reading is designed to integrate discipline-based knowledge, the implications of this for professional lives, and the affective dimensions of professional practice. The results of this project indicate that, according to student evaluations, their capacities for self monitoring and self evaluation was enhanced at the same time as their own engagement with relevant literature deepened their understandings of issues that emerged from that engagement.
  • Description: 2003006620

Does major regional infrastructure influence the resilience of a rural community?

- Schwarz, Imogen, McRae-Williams, Pamela

Understanding male domestic partner abusers

- Gregory, Raeleene, Richards, Jeffrey, McLachlan, Angus, Scott, Wayne

  • Authors: Gregory, Raeleene , Richards, Jeffrey , McLachlan, Angus , Scott, Wayne
  • Date: 2004
  • Type: Report
  • Relation: Trends and issues in crime and criminal justice No. 283
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  • Description: Research in the past decade has found that certain ways of responding to domestic partner abusers, particularly psycho-educational approaches, can be effective in modifying abusive behaviours. The study described in this paper sought to classify male domestic partner abusers by certain identified characteristics and determine whether they responded differently to a Men's Behaviour Change Program conducted by community agencies in regional Victoria. It was found that some types of male abusers appeared to derive greater benefits from the standard 12-week program than others. Those with antisocial personality disorders tended not to respond favourably. Further research work is now required to identify interventions that will be successful with abusers who have significant antisocial personalities.

Moving dialysis treatment into people's homes

- Wellard, Sally

  • Authors: Wellard, Sally
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: The Renal Society of Australasia Journal Vol. 5, no. 2 (2009), p. 102-104
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  • Description: Home based dialysis treatments were among the earliest high technology treatments widely adopted in Australia for home use. Advances in membrane technology together with the development of access devices and delivery systems provided the opportunity of extending dialysis as a treatment to a wider group of patients. The evolution of home dialysis was infl uenced by serendipity. The right people and technology came together at the same time. Dr John Dawborn, supported by Sue Evans, trained with the fi rst home haemodialysis patient Peter Morris in Melbourne, who subsequently transferred to Sydney.
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Effective teaching and support of students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds : Practical advice for institutional policy makers and leaders

- Devlin, Marcia, Kift, Sally, Nelson, Karen, Smith, Liz, McKay, Jade

  • Authors: Devlin, Marcia , Kift, Sally , Nelson, Karen , Smith, Liz , McKay, Jade
  • Date: 2012
  • Type: Text , Journal article , Technical report
  • Relation: Vol. , no. (2012), p. 1-32
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  • Description: This resource has been developed as part of a national research project, Effective teaching and support of students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds: Resources for Australian higher education . This guide provides practical advice about the teaching characteristics and strategies that contribute to the success of students from low socioeconomic status (LSES) and about the ways in which student agency may be enabled. This raises the question of how to identify LSES students. While it is necessary to identify students from LSES backgrounds at a policy level, and perhaps for measuring performance and allocating funds, it is very difficult, and potentially undesirable, to target students from LSES backgrounds individually for teaching and learning or support purposes. Good practice in teaching and supporting LSES students benefits all students. This guide has been prepared with this in mind. This guide is not intended as a manual for teaching LSES students, nor is it prescriptive about how the advice it offers might be implemented. Instead, it offers general, practical advice that has emerged from relevant literature in the field, 26 interviews with academic and professional staff in six universities experienced in the effective teaching and support of LSES students, and 89 interviews with successful LSES students in three universities about what helped them succeed. The guide draws on the voices of staff and students and through sharing their views offers broad advice in five areas of teaching that may be of assistance to busy teaching staff. We recommend considering the advice and suggestions in this guide within the context of your discipline and workload.

Effective teaching and support of students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds : Practical advice for teaching staff

- Devlin, Marcia, Kift, Sally, Nelson, Karen, Smith, Liz, McKay, Jade

  • Authors: Devlin, Marcia , Kift, Sally , Nelson, Karen , Smith, Liz , McKay, Jade
  • Date: 2012
  • Type: Text , Journal article , Technical report
  • Relation: Vol. , no. (2012), p. 1-32
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  • Description: This resource has been developed as part of a national research project, Effective teaching and support of students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds: Resources for Australian higher education . This guide provides practical advice about the teaching characteristics and strategies that contribute to the success of students from low socioeconomic status (LSES) and about the ways in which student agency may be enabled. This guide is not intended as a manual for teaching students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, nor does it prescribe how the advice it offers might be implemented. Instead, it offers general, practical advice that has emerged from relevant literature in the field, 26 interviews with academic and professional staff in six universities experienced in the effective teaching and support of LSES students, and 89 interviews with successful LSES students in three universities about what helped them succeed. The guide draws on the voices of staff and students and, through sharing their views, offers broad advice in six areas of teaching that may assist busy teaching staff. We recommend considering the advice and suggestions in this guide within the context of your professional life, discipline and workload.

The Body

- Forbes, Rodney

  • Authors: Forbes, Rodney
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Visual art work
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Saving our Skins

- Forbes, Rodney

  • Authors: Forbes, Rodney
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Visual art work
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C6 : A holistic model for decision making in web services

- Sun, Zhaohao, Meredith, Grant, Jia, Long

  • Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Meredith, Grant , Jia, Long
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at 20th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria : 2nd-4th Dec 2009 p. 904-914
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  • Description: Web services are playing a pivotal role in e-business, service intelligence, service science and information systems. This article will examine how the main players make decisions for activities in web service lifecycle (WSLC) and propose a holistic model for decision making in web services. More specifically, this article first examines main players in web services. It also reviews the existing web service lifecycles and proposes a demand-driven web service lifecycle for web service requesters. It will then examine six driving factors for web services, look at their interrelationships and propose a holistic model for decision making in web services, C6, which consists of six Cs: communication, competition, coordination, collaboration, cooperation and control, taking into account the main players in web services and web service lifecycle (WSLC). The proposed approach will facilitate research and development of web services, e-services, service intelligence, service science and service computing.
  • Description: 2003007874

Beyond the workplace : An investigation into older men's learning and wellbeing in Northern Ireland

- Mark, Rob, Montgomery, Vanessa, Graham, Harry

  • Authors: Mark, Rob , Montgomery, Vanessa , Graham, Harry
  • Date: 2010
  • Type: Text , Report
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  • Description: Report for the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) by the Institute of Governance, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast. To be presented at Men’s learning & wellbeing: A One Day Forum, hosted by University of Ballarat at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute, Friday 26 February 2010.

Designing capacity : Broadening and deepening design capacity through design education

- Barron, Deirdre, Zeegers, Margaret

  • Authors: Barron, Deirdre , Zeegers, Margaret
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at The European Conference on Educational Research: From Teaching to Learning?, Gothenburg, Sweden : 10th-12th September 2008
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  • Description: In this paper we canvass a shift in professional practice for teachers and teaching and learning as it focuses on Design Education. We acknowledge that changes in formal educational settings result from the scope and rapidity of changes in emerging technologies and understandings of pedagogical influences on teaching and learning. In canvassing the changes, in this paper we identify issues that emerge in relation a number of proposed solutions in dealing with gaps in teacher education in the field of Design Education. We suggest that these same solutions draw on traditional disciplines which ignore the possibilities of Design to engage 21st Century problems in teaching and learning. We draw attention to a neglect in current teacher education programs in relation to teachers of design and what this may imply for classrooms, teachers, and their work.
  • Description: 2003006590

The relationship of VFR travellers with tourism industries

- Backer, Elisa

  • Authors: Backer, Elisa
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at New Zealand Tourism & Hospitality Research Conference 2008: Re-creating Tourism, Hanmer Springs, New Zealand : 3rd-5th December 2008
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  • Description: This research explores the extent to which hosts, local industries and destination regions influence VFR (Visiting Friends and Relatives) travellers’ purpose of visit. Whilst VFR travellers are often assumed to travel for the purpose of visiting friends and relatives, this research, based in the Sunshine Coast Australia, indicates that VFR is only one reason that motivates VFR travellers to travel. The simplistic view that VFRs are travellers whose purpose of visit is only VFR is challenged by these research findings showing that 26.6% of visitors who stayed with friends and relatives stated a Non-VFR purpose of visit. Clearly, if purpose of visit is used as a sole measurement for considering the size of VFR travel then a significant portion of VFR travellers will be missed. Interestingly, visitors staying with relatives were more inclined than friends to be travelling with this purpose in mind. Whilst 80.6% of visitors staying with relatives reported VFR to be their purpose of visit, only 63.4% of visitors staying with friends were travelling for VFR purposes. VFR travellers were also found to be significantly more likely than Non-VFRs to rely on word of mouth than other sources in terms of planning their trip. As such, the role that the local host has in influencing, not only the purpose of trip to begin with, but the activities undertaken during the visit is also critical. This relationship that VFR travellers have with industries, the destination, and the host are all interlinked and can influence the purpose, or purposes, of the trip. A VFR purpose of visit model is proposed to explain the relationships between these elements, also demonstrating that VFR is only one type of purpose of visit amongst VFR travellers.
  • Description: 2003006242

Visiting the Destination or Visiting us? A Look at VFR

- Backer, Elisa

  • Authors: Backer, Elisa
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at Tourism Futures National Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland : 2nd-4th June 2008
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  • Description: Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) Travel represents a large and significant component of tourism. However, despite this, VFR Travel has been largely ignored by tourism marketing practitioners, and has remained under-researched in many domains. VFR Travel tends to be overlooked in tourism marketing campaigns, in part because these travellers have been regarded as ones who cannot be influenced, and in part because of their perceived minimal economic impact. However, VFR travellers are not always attracted solely by the hosts. The attractiveness of the destination can also have an influencing role on VFR trips. Whilst little research has been done to examine these issues, this paper utilises a whole tourism systems model to examine the linkages between VFR travellers and destination regions. A comparative analysis compares VFR research undertaken in two different regions in Australia. Through this approach, it is shown that VFRs are often influenced to embark on VFR trips because of the attractiveness of a destination. As such, whilst any region can attract VFRs because of the hosts, the attractiveness of a region as a tourist destination can influence the length of stay and visitor spend and, as such, enhance the impact of VFR Travel on a local economy.
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The effect of water-soluble vitamins on spoilage organisms in beer

- Hucker, Barry, Wakeling, Lara, Vriesekoop, Frank

  • Authors: Hucker, Barry , Wakeling, Lara , Vriesekoop, Frank
  • Date: 2010
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 31st Asia Pacific Convention 2010
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  • Description: The vitamin content of beer and brewing related products might not only be of interest from a human health perspective, but determining their presence and relative quantities might also help to understand the role they play in product stability. Water-soluble vitamins are important in the brewing industry, as they are essential nutrients for yeasts and potential spoilage organisms. The presence of particular vitamins in beer has been linked to deterioration (light strike) and it is possible that many vitamins may be linked to increased bacterial spoilage potential in beer. There is strong evidence to support that lactic acid bacteria require a variety of vitamins in order to grow effectively and can aid in the increased spoilage of beer and beer related products. This study investigates the effect of a variety of water-soluble vitamins on the growth of commonly found spoilage organisms, Lactobacillus brevis and Pediococcus damnosus.