Publishing and presenting: A cross-national analysis of engineering academics in Europe
- Authors: Aarrevaara, Timo , Dobson, Ian
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Global Journal of Engineering Education Vol. 15, no. 3 (2013), p. 148-154
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- Description: The international Changing Academic Profession (CAP) survey was used to compare several measures of research output in participating European countries. When looking at the output of books, articles, reports and conference presentations, results indicated variations between countries and between the engineering field of education and other fields of education. European university engineering academics produced relatively more research reports/monographs written for a funded project, but tended to produce at lower rates than academics overall in the other three forms of written research output. © WIETE 2013.
Classification systems based on combinatorial semigroups
- Authors: Abawajy, Jemal , Kelarev, Andrei
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Semigroup forum Vol. 86, no. 3 (2013), p. 603-612
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- Description: The present article continues the investigation of constructions essential for applications of combinatorial semigroups to the design of multiple classification systems in data mining. Our main theorem gives a complete description of all optimal classification systems defined by one-sided ideals in a construction based on combinatorial Rees matrix semigroups. It strengthens and generalizes previous results, which handled the more narrow case of two-sided ideals.
A data mining application of the incidence semirings
- Authors: Abawajy, Jemal , Kelarev, Andrei , Yearwood, John , Turville, Christopher
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Houston Journal of Mathematics Vol. 39, no. 4 (2013), p. 1083-1093
- Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP0990908
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- Description: This paper is devoted to a combinatorial problem for incidence semirings, which can be viewed as sets of polynomials over graphs, where the edges are the unknowns and the coefficients are taken from a semiring. The construction of incidence rings is very well known and has many useful applications. The present article is devoted to a novel application of the more general incidence semirings. Recent research on data mining has motivated the investigation of the sets of centroids that have largest weights in semiring constructions. These sets are valuable for the design of centroid-based classification systems, or classifiers, as well as for the design of multiple classifiers combining several individual classifiers. Our article gives a complete description of all sets of centroids with the largest weight in incidence semirings.
About error bounds in metrizable topological vector spaces
- Authors: Abbasi, Malek , Théra, Michel
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Set-Valued and Variational Analysis Vol. 30, no. 4 (2022), p. 1291-1311
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- Description: This paper aims to present some sufficient criteria under which a given function between two spaces that are either topological vector spaces whose topologies are generated by metrics or metrizable subsets of some topological vector spaces, satisfies the error bound property. Then, we discuss the Hoffman estimation and obtain some results for the estimate of the distance to the set of solutions to a system of linear equalities. The advantage of our estimate is that it allows to calculate the coefficient of the error bound. The applications of this presentation are illustrated by some examples. © 2022, This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply.
Best practices in online therapy
- Authors: Abbott, Jo-Anne , Klein, Britt , Ciechomski, Lisa
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Technology in Human Services Vol. 26, no. 2-4 (2008), p. 360-375
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- Description: This article discusses important issues in delivery of best practice Internet-based therapy (etherapy). Etherapy is first defined as the interaction between a consumer and a therapist via the Internet (commonly via e-mail) in association with the use of a structured web-based clinical treatment program. A summary of the professional and ethical issues is provided, along with illustrated examples of best-practice principles experienced in clinical and research work by members of the Swinburne University of Technology Etherapy Unit (formerly the Etherapy Research, Education, and Training Unit in the Department of General Practice at Monash University). Etherapy has been found to be effective in treating a range of psychological disorders. Future research investigating methods of enhancing consumers' ability to engage in etherapy should further increase the effectiveness of this type of therapy. © 2008 by The Haworth Press. All rights reserved.
A cluster randomised trial of an internet-based intervention program for tinnitus distress in an industrial setting
- Authors: Abbott, Jo-Anne , Kaldo, Viktor , Klein, Britt , Austin, David , Hamilton, Catherine , Piterman, Leon , Williams, Ben , Andersson, Gerhard
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Vol. 38, no. 3 (2009), p. 162-173
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- Description: The effectiveness of a therapist-supported Internet intervention program for tinnitus distress in an industrial setting was evaluated using a cluster randomised design. Fifty-six Australian employees of two industrial organisations were randomly assigned, based on their work site (18 work sites from BP Australia and five from BHP Billiton), to either a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) program or an information-only control program. Participants were assessed at pre- and postprogram, measuring tinnitus distress, depression, anxiety, stress, quality of life, and occupational health. The CBT program was not found to be superior to the information program for treating tinnitus distress. A high attrition rate and small sample size limit the generalisability of the findings, and further developments of the program and assessment process are needed to enhance engagement and compliance. © 2009 Taylor & Francis.
The appearance of appearance: Absolute truth in Abbas Kiarrostami's ABC Africa
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Senses of Cinema Vol. July, no. 67 (2013), p. 1-7
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- Description: In Ten on Ten, a 2004 documentary featuring ten short scenes in which Abbas Kiarostami speaks in a car on his work in filming 2001’s Ten, itself a ten part movie featuring short video sequences shot entirely inside a car, the filmmaker makes a series of extremely provocative statements. This occurs in the context of a discussion of the radical possibilities that he claims opened to him when, starting with one famous and beautiful scene at the very end of 1997’s Taste of Cherry, Kiarostami started using digital cameras. Referring to the production of ABC Africa – his first feature length digital production, and which was shot in Uganda – he says: I felt that a 35mm camera would limit both us and the people there, whereas the video camera displayed truth from every angle, and not a forged truth. To me this camera was a discovery. Like a God it was all encompassing, omnipresent. The camera could turn 360 degrees and thus reported the truth, an absolute truth. (1)
Grey gardens and the problem of objectivity : Notes on the ethics of observational documentary
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Projections Vol. 13, no. 2 (2019), p. 108-122
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- Description: This article turns to the Maysles brothers’ 1975 film Grey Gardens to problematize the philosophical assumptions at work in debates about objectivity and direct cinema. With a suitable picture of documentary objectivity we can avoid endorsing the claim that no film can be objective or the corollary that only documentaries that reflexively acknowledge the biases of their makers can succeed aesthetically or ethically. Against critics who have attacked Grey Gardens for its problematic claims to objectivity as well as theorists defending it for how it undermines objectivity, I argue that the film’s objective treatment of its subjects is part of its aesthetic and ethical achievement. In the context of observational documentary, being objective does not mean taking a purely dispassionate stance toward one’s subjects, but treating them without prejudice or moralism and letting them reveal themselves.
The animal for which animality is an issue : Nietzsche, agamben, and the anthropological machine
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities Vol. 16, no. 4 (2011), p. 87-99
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- Description: There is congruence between Nietzsche’s philosophy of life and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. For both philosophers the human animal possesses a divided relationship to its being alive. For both philosophers this division is of a political nature, such that membership in political community as we know it is conditional on the human animal’s alienation from its biological being. Both philosophers are also concerned with the possibility of transformation and, because of the connection they establish between politics and animality, link this possibility to a change in the relationship between humans and their being alive. Yet both philosophers end up with an entirely different understanding of the nature of this change, and of its potential scope.
The problem of wild minds : Knowing animals in grizzly man and ming of harlem
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sub-Stance Vol. 45, no. 3 (2016), p. 137-154
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The poetic experience of the world
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Philosophical Studies Vol. 18, no. 4 (2010), p. 493-516
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- Description: In this article I develop Heidegger’s phenomenology of poetry, showing that it may provide grounds for rejecting claims that he lapses into linguistic idealism. Proceeding via an analysis of the three concepts of language operative in the philosopher’s work, I demonstrate how poetic language challenges language’s designative and world‐disclosive functions. The experience with poetic language, which disrupts Dasein’s absorption by emerging out of equipmentality in the mode of the broken tool, brings Dasein to wonder at the world’s existence in such a way that doubt about its reality cannot enter the picture.
- Description: Abstract In this article I develop Heidegger’s phenomenology of poetry, showing that it may provide grounds for rejecting claims that he lapses into linguistic idealism. Proceeding via an analysis of the three concepts of language operative in the philosopher’s work, I demonstrate how poetic language challenges language’s designative and world‐disclosive functions. The experience with poetic language, which disrupts Dasein’s absorption by emerging out of equipmentality in the mode of the broken tool, brings Dasein to wonder at the world’s existence in such a way that doubt about its reality cannot enter the picture.
Kiarostami's picture theory : Cinematic skepticism in the Wind Will Carry Us
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sub-Stance Vol. 42, no. 1 (2013), p. 165-179
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- Description: The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) opens with a series of long takes of a car winding steadily down a road in the Iranian countryside. In other words, it opens with a sequence which, to anybody who knows Kiarostami's work, will be immediately recognizable as typical of it: Life and Nothing More (1992) returns repeatedly to such sequences, and ends with one; such sequences turn up in Through the Olive Trees (1994) and Taste of Cherry (1997); the protagonist of Where is the Friend's Home? (1987) is too young to drive, but we see him from a distance meandering in a similar pattern on more than one occasion (and sequences of the same type return in Certified Copy (2010)). As with the other sequences, the opening of The Wind Will Carry Us is beautiful, intriguing and, with its muted semi-screwball feel, kind of funny. By the time of the film's release, however, the car on screen was bringing this cinematic history with it. Thus there is something self-aware or even self-effacing about these opening images: Kiarostami is referring here, both seriously and playfully, not only to his previous works but also perhaps to himself, and to the by-then internationally recognizable figure called "Kiarostami." So if Jean-Luc Nancy is right to say that such long aerial takes are Kiarostami's "signature" ( Evidence of Film, 10)âthat "a person or a car's zigzagging path on the background of an unchanging landscape traverses, like a single trajectory, five movies [...] and turns into an emblematic summary of all the films" (24)âthen this is complicated here by a certain irony. Indeed it would be possible to read the reflexivity of these images as playfully mocking Kiarostami's own signature, and thus perhaps as problematizing the very notion: Kiarostami doesn't let us forget that we are watching one of his films, and pokes fun at us, and at himself, in reminding that fact. This is to say that in the opening sequence of the film Kiarostami cites his own signature, with all the epistemological and metaphysical complications that such a gesture entails. Yet this self-effacing gesture is not simply ironic, and it is not in spite but also partly because of its extreme reflexivity that the opening sequence of this film in particular is so beautiful, intriguing, and gently funny. After all, gestures of self effacementâironic nods to the mediality of cinemaâare perhaps as typical of Kiarostami's films as are long aerial takes of meandering cars. If Kiarostami is citing his own signature, then that is also his signature. Thus I want to disagree with Nancy when he writes that "there is no room for reflexivity" (18) in Kiarostami's cinema. Yet I also want to agree with the intuition that appears to be guiding Nancy's statement. For what's remarkable about Kiarostami's films is how his relentless problematization of the real, his dogged insistence on the mediality of the image, does not leave us in some Baudrillardian hall of mirrors, or quasi-Derridean free play of significations: if the opening sequence of this film is an example of "intertextuality," it is not because Kiarostami is spruiking some pop postmodernism. Rather, in problematizating the category of representation in this way, Kiarostami has been able to raise the question of the real in a new and profoundly affecting manner. His repeated attempts at turning our attention to the medium itself, to the very fact of film, do not produce a Verfremdungseffekt. Or if they do, this distancing is bound up with the powers of the films themselves. Note that this is not really paradoxical: my argument is that what Kiarostami shows is how the real can be evokedâ or "evidenced," to use Nancy's termâ precisely by undermining our attachments to the philosophical picture and cinematic frame of representation.
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SDN-Based load balancing service for cloud servers
- Authors: Abdelaziz, Ahmed , Ahmed, Ejaz , Fong, Ang , Gani, Abdullah , Imran, Muhammad
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: IEEE Communications Magazine Vol. 56, no. 8 (2018), p. 106-111
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- Description: With the continuous growth, heterogeneity, and ever increasing demand of services, load balancing of cloud servers is an emerging challenge to meet highly demanding requirements (e.g., data rates, latency, quality of service) of 5G network applications. Although various load balancing techniques have been proposed, some of these techniques either require installation of dedicated additional load balancers for each service, or manual reconfiguration of the device to handle new services is desired. These techniques are expensive, time-consuming, and impractical. Moreover, most of the existing load balancing schemes do not consider service types. This article presents an SDN-based load balancing (SBLB) service for cloud servers to maximize resource utilization and minimize response time of users. The constituents of the proposed scheme are an application module that runs on top of an SDN controller and server pools that connect to the controller through OpenFlow switches. The application module consists of a service classification module, a dynamic load balancing module, and a monitoring module. The controller handles all messages, manages host pools, and maintains the load of host in real time. Experimental results validate the performance of the proposed scheme. Through experimental results, SBLB demonstrates significant decrease in average response time and reply time. © 1979-2012 IEEE.
CHROMagar COL-APSE : A selective bacterial culture medium for the isolation and differentiation of colistin-resistant gram-negative pathogens
- Authors: Abdul Momin, Muhd , Bean, David , Hendriksen, Rene , Haenni, Marisa , Phee, Lynette , Wareham, David
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Medical Microbiology Vol. 66, no. 11 (2017), p. 1554-1561
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- Description: Purpose. A selective chromogenic culture medium for the laboratory isolation and differentiation of colistin resistant Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, Stenotrophomonas and Enterobacteriaceae spp. (CHROMagar COL-APSE) was developed, evaluated and compared to an existing selective bacterial culture medium (SuperPolymyxin). Methodology. The medium was challenged with 84 isolates, including polymyxin B (POL B)-susceptible and-resistant type strains and colistin (COL)-resistant organisms recovered from human and animal samples. Susceptibility to COL and POL B was determined by agar dilution and broth microtitre dilution. The lower limit for the detection of COL-resistant organisms was also calculated for both CHROMagar COL-APSE and SuperPolymyxin media. The ability to isolate and correctly differentiate COL-resistant organisms within mixed cultures was also assessed and compared using both media. Results. Using CHROMagar COL-APSE, Gram-negative pathogens (n=71) with intrinsic (n=8) or acquired COL (n=63) resistance were recovered with 100% specificity down to the lower limit of detection of 101 colony-forming units (c.f.u.). The growth on SuperPolymyxin was similar, but notably weaker for COL-resistant non-fermentative bacteria (Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas and Stenotrophomonas). CHROMagar COL-APSE was also more sensitive in supporting the growth of Enterobacteriaceae with COL resistance associated with the carriage of mcr-1. Conclusion. CHROMagar COL-APSE is a sensitive and specific medium for the growth of COL-resistant bacterial pathogens. Due to the low limit of detection (101 c.f.u.), it may be useful as a primary isolation medium in the surveillance and recovery of COL-resistant bacteria from complex human, veterinary and environmental samples, especially those with plasmidmediated MCR-1 or novel mechanisms of polymyxin resistance. © 2017 The Authors.
Credit default prediction using a support vector machine and a probabilistic neural network
- Authors: Abedin, Mohammad , Guotai, Chi , Colombage, Sisira , Fahmida-E-Moula
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Credit Risk Vol. 14, no. 2 (2018), p. 1-27
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- Description: The design of consistent classifiers to forecast credit-granting choices is critical for many financial decision-making practices. Although a number of artificial and statistical techniques have been developed to predict customer insolvency, how to provide an inclusive appraisal of prediction models and recommend adequate classifiers is still an imperative and understudied area in credit default prediction (CDP) modeling. Previous evidence demonstrates that the ranking of classifiers varies for different criteria with measures under different circumstances. In this study, we address this methodological flaw by proposing the simultaneous application of support vector machine and probabilistic neural network (PNN)-based CDP algorithms, together with frequently used high-performance models. We fill the gap by introducing a set of multidimensional evaluation measures combined with some novel metrics that are helpful in discovering unseen features of the model’s performance. For effectiveness and feasibility purposes, six real-world credit data sets have been applied. Our empirical study shows that the PNN model is more robust than its rivals, and traditional performance evaluations are more or less consistent with their original counterparts. With these contributions, therefore, our investigations offer several advantages to practitioners of financial risk management.
A new feature selection technique for load and price forecast of electrical power systems
- Authors: Abedinia, Oveis , Amjady, Nima , Zareipour, Hamidreza
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: IEEE transactions on power systems Vol. 32, no. 1 (2017), p. 62-74
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- Description: Load and price forecasts are necessary for optimal operation planning in competitive electricity markets. However, most of the load and price forecast methods suffer from lack of an efficient feature selection technique with the ability of modeling the nonlinearities and interacting features of the forecast processes. In this paper, a new feature selection method is presented. An important contribution of the proposed method is modeling interaction in addition to relevancy and redundancy, based on information-theoretic criteria, for feature selection. Another main contribution of the paper is proposing a hybrid filter-wrapper approach. The filter part selects a minimum subset of the most informative features by considering relevancy, redundancy, and interaction of the candidate inputs in a coordinated manner. The wrapper part fine-tunes the settings of the composite filter.
Impact of entry mode on students' approaches to learning: a study of accounting students
- Authors: Abhayawansa, Subhash , Tempone, Irene , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Accounting Education: An International Journal Vol. 21, no. 4 (2012), p. 341-361
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- Description: This study examines the impact of prior learning experience on students' approaches to learning (SAL). It compares SAL of accounting students admitted to university in Australia on the basis of Institutes of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) qualifications (TAFE-to-university) and through direct entry mode (Year 12-to-university). The motivation for the study lies in the need to understand potential learning differences to inform learning interventions for optimal learning outcomes for all students—regardless of entry mode. The findings suggest that prior TAFE learning experience impacts SAL in university. However, the findings question the stereotypical view of the TAFE learning context as fostering surface approaches to learning, as higher scores on deep and achieving approaches were recorded by TAFE-to-university students. The level of adoption of a surface approach was found to be less among students undertaking predominantly third-year units regardless of entry mode. This study's findings have important implications for designing curricula and assessment for accounting units to cater for all students from different educational pathways, for university teachers to adopt an inclusive approach, and for higher education access policy.
Students’ conceptions of learning in the context of an accounting degree
- Authors: Abhayawansa, Subhash , Bowden, Mark , Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Accounting Education Vol. 26, no. 3 (2017), p. 213-241
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- Description: Students' conceptions of learning (CoL) play an important role in the learning process leading to the development of generic skills. This paper investigates whether CoL of accounting students can be developed by incorporating high-level cognitive skills progressively within the accounting curriculum. First, the study explored, using phenomenography, the variation in accounting students' CoL. The findings highlighted some nuances in accountings students' CoL and that lower-order CoL were prevalent among accounting students. However, more (less) third-year students than second-year students adopted higher- (lower-) order CoL. Upon examining the learning objectives, teaching methods and assessment of all units comprising the accounting major of the host university, evidence was found that CoL are progressively developed and shaped, albeit in a limited way, based on the levels of cognitive domain emphasised within the curriculum. The findings highlight the need for accounting educators to take a whole of the programme approach to developing higher-order CoL. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Saturday night and Sunday morning: value monism and pluralism in contemporary evangelical musicianship
- Authors: Abraham, Ibrahim
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of contemporary religion Vol. 36, no. 3 (2021), p. 483-500
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- Description: Drawing on interviews with, and ethnographic observations of, evangelical Christian musicians with experience of contemporary worship music-as well as secular heavy metal and punk rock-this article analyses the competing value relations underpinning contemporary evangelical musicianship. Developing the work of Joel Robbins on value theory and the anthropology of Christianity and the work of Klisala Harrison on ethnomusicology, this article analyses four examples of different value relations between religious service and expressive individualism: strong monism, stable monism, stable pluralism, unstable pluralism. It is shown through case studies of individual musicians that, whereas strong value monist approaches to evangelical musicianship efface the presence of the subjective self and stable monist approaches suspend its presence, stable pluralism allows both religious and secular vocations to co-exist in separate social spaces, while strong value pluralist approaches to evangelical musicianship emphasise or celebrate the presence of the subjective self and, in so doing, sometimes undermine the ritual aims of congregational worship.
Middle-class anxiety and moderate prosperity: South Africa and China in comparative perspective
- Authors: Abraham, Ibrahim
- Date: 2020
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The Australasian review of African studies Vol. 41, no. 2 (2020), p. 5-26
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- Description: This article presents the first comparative study of the middle class in Africa and China, drawing on published research from both regions, furnished with analysis of popular culture and ethnographic insights from research on South Africa's new black middle class. This study explores four topics of theoretical and empirical significance. Firstly, definitional debates about the qualitative and quantitative classification of the middle class, including the appropriateness of the term in (South) Africa and China. Secondly, the appropriation of the Chinese concept of xiaokang (moderate prosperity) for the study of Africa. Thirdly, anxiety over social and economic status, related in particular to distinctions between strata within the middle class, building on a distinction between middle-class moderate prosperity and middle-class affluence. Fourthly, anxiety over contradictions between emerging individual desires and traditional familial commitments, impacting South Africa's moderately prosperous in particular, with broader cultural implications for emerging African and Chinese modernities.