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Publishing and presenting: A cross-national analysis of engineering academics in Europe

- Aarrevaara, Timo, Dobson, Ian

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. Â© WIETE 2013.

Changing employment and working conditions

- Aarrevaara, Timo, Dobson, Ian, Wikström, Janne

Authors: Aarrevaara, Timo , Dobson, Ian , Wikström, Janne
Date: 2015
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Academic Work and Careers in Europe : Trends, Challenges, Perspectives p. 95-115
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Description: This chapter considers the academic working environment in eight European countries and reports on academics' impressions of the changes that environment has undergone in recent years. We focus on the extent to which the content of academic work in these countries is similar or different; the nature of academics' working conditions and how they have changed; and what academics' affiliations are. The analysis also considers differences according to seniority. Based on interviews with European academics, we consider how changes in working conditions, employment and modes of operation have affected scholarly work and related activities, and the impact change has had on academic freedom. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.

Academics under pressure : Fear and loathing in finnish universities?

- Aarrevaara, Timo, Dobson, Ian

Authors: Aarrevaara, Timo , Dobson, Ian
Date: 2015
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Forming, Recruiting and Managing the Academic Profession p. 211-223
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Description: This chapter presents an examination of Finnish university academics and the pressures they encounter in the rapidly changing academic milieu. In addition to the evolution all societies are subject to, staff in Finnish universities has had to adjust to a Universities Act that came into force from 2010, and this ushered in fundamental changes in governance arrangements and confirmed a pattern of increasing managerialism. Evidence indicates that many academics feel little capacity to influence decision making, and some are trapped in a cycle of precarious employment by oft-renegotiated short contracts. In addition, universities find themselves in competition with other labour market segments for highly qualified knowledge workers, a factor which has the capacity to have an impact on universities and their academic workforce. Using quantitative data from the Changing Academic Profession survey and augmenting this with qualitative data from the EUROAC project, this chapter examines Finnish university academics perceptions of academic life in the twenty-first century. Â© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
Description: This chapter presents an examination of Finnish university academics and the pressures they encounter in the rapidly changing academic milieu. In addition to the evolution all societies are subject to, staff in Finnish universities has had to adjust to a Universities Act that came into force from 2010, and this ushered in fundamental changes in governance arrangements and confirmed a pattern of increasing managerialism. Evidence indicates that many academics feel little capacity to influence decision making, and some are trapped in a cycle of precarious employment by oft-renegotiated short contracts. In addition, universities find themselves in competition with other labour market segments for highly qualified knowledge workers, a factor which has the capacity to have an impact on universities and their academic workforce. Using quantitative data from the Changing Academic Profession survey and augmenting this with qualitative data from the EUROAC project, this chapter examines Finnish university academicsâ€™ perceptions of academic life in the twenty-first century. Â© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.

Classification systems based on combinatorial semigroups

- Abawajy, Jemal, Kelarev, Andrei

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 multi-tier ensemble construction of classifiers for phishing email detection and filtering

- Abawajy, Jemal, Kelarev, Andrei

Authors: Abawajy, Jemal , Kelarev, Andrei
Date: 2012
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: 4th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2012 Vol. 7672 LNCS, p. 48-56
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Description: This paper is devoted to multi-tier ensemble classifiers for the detection and filtering of phishing emails. We introduce a new construction of ensemble classifiers, based on the well known and productive multi-tier approach. Our experiments evaluate their performance for the detection and filtering of phishing emails. The multi-tier constructions are well known and have been used to design effective classifiers for email classification and other applications previously. We investigate new multi-tier ensemble classifiers, where diverse ensemble methods are combined in a unified system by incorporating different ensembles at a lower tier as an integral part of another ensemble at the top tier. Our novel contribution is to investigate the possibility and effectiveness of combining diverse ensemble methods into one large multi-tier ensemble for the example of detection and filtering of phishing emails. Our study handled a few essential ensemble methods and more recent approaches incorporated into a combined multi-tier ensemble classifier. The results show that new large multi-tier ensemble classifiers achieved better performance compared with the outcomes of the base classifiers and ensemble classifiers incorporated in the multi-tier system. This demonstrates that the new method of combining diverse ensembles into one unified multi-tier ensemble can be applied to increase the performance of classifiers if diverse ensembles are incorporated in the system. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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A data mining application of the incidence semirings

- Abawajy, Jemal, Kelarev, Andrei, Yearwood, John, Turville, Christopher

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

- Abbasi, Malek, Théra, Michel

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

- Abbott, Jo-Anne, Klein, Britt, Ciechomski, Lisa

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

- Abbott, Jo-Anne, Kaldo, Viktor, Klein, Britt, Austin, David, Hamilton, Catherine, Piterman, Leon, Williams, Ben, Andersson, Gerhard

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

- Abbott, Mathew

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)

Glory, spectacle and inoperativity : Agamben's praxis of theoria

- Abbott, Mathew

Authors: Abbott, Mathew
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Agamben and Radical Politics (Critical Connections series) Chapter 2 p. 27-48
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Description: In this chapter, I work to show how Agamben has extended and complicated his account of this differential relation in The Kingdom and the Glory. Connecting theoria with spectatorship, he intertwines a quasi-Marxist critique of spectacle with a Heideggerian thesis regarding the history of being as nihilism. The resultant political ontology has at its centre a dialectical notion of theoria as a form of praxis.

Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy

- Abbott, Mathew

Authors: Abbott, Mathew
Date: 2017
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Description: Mathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami's films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work. Crossing the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, he draws on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Alice Crary, Noel Carroll, Giorgio Agamben, and Martin Heidegger, bringing out the thinking at work in Kiarostami's most recent films: Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa, Ten, Five, Shirin, Certified Copy, and Like Someone in Love.

Grey gardens and the problem of objectivity : Notes on the ethics of observational documentary

- Abbott, Mathew

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 figure of this world : Agamben and the question of political ontology

- Abbott, Mathew, Watkin, Christopher

Authors: Abbott, Mathew , Watkin, Christopher
Date: 2014
Type: Text , Book
Relation: Crosscurrents
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Description: A fundamental re-reading of Agamben that defends and develops his philosophy as post-Heideggerian political ontology. What if we've been wrong when reading Agamben? Mathew Abbott argues that Agamben's thought is misunderstood when read in terms of critical theory or traditional political philosophy. He shows instead that it engages in political ontology: studying the political stakes of the question of being. Abbott demonstrates the crucial influence of Martin Heidegger on Agamben's work, locating it in the post-Heideggerian tradition of the critique of metaphysics. He also positions it in relation to the thought of Benjamin, Nietzsche, Levinas, Nancy, and Wittgenstein. As he clarifies it, Abbott links Agamben's philosophy with Wittgenstein's picture theory and Heidegger's concept of the world-picture, showing the importance of this for understanding - and potentially overcoming - the forms of alienation characteristic of the society of the spectacle. © Mathew Abbott, 2014.

Michael Fried and philosophy : Modernism, intention, and theatricality

- Abbott, Mathew

Authors: Abbott, Mathew
Date: 2018
Type: Text , Book
Relation: Routledge Research in Aesthetics series Vol. 1
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Description: This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, and anti-theatricality can throw new light on problems in and beyond philosophical aesthetics. Featuring an essay by Fried and articles from world-leading scholars, this collection engages with philosophical themes from Fried’s texts, and clarifies the relevance to his work of philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Morris Weitz, Elizabeth Anscombe, Arthur Danto, George Dickie, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, G. W. F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Denis Diderot, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, Jacques Rancière, and Søren Kierkegaard. As it makes a case for the importance of Fried for philosophy, this volume contributes to current debates in analytic and continental aesthetics, philosophy of action, philosophy of history, political philosophy, modernism studies, literary studies, and art theory.

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