Illicit image detection using erotic pose estimation based on kinematic constraints
- Authors: Islam, Mofakharul , Watters, Paul , Yearwood, John , Hussain, Mazher , Swarna, Lubaba
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Innovations and Advances in Computer, Information, Systems Sciences, and Engineering p. 481-495
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: With the advent of the Internet along with sophisticated digital image processing technology, the Internet quickly became the principal medium for the distribution of pornographic content favouring pornography to become a drug of the millennium. With the advent of GPRS mobile telephone networks, and with the large scale arrival of the 3G networks, along with the cheap availability of latest mobile sets and a variety of forms of wireless connections, the internet has already gone to mobile, drives us toward a new degree of complexity. The detection of pornography remains an important and significant research problem, since there is great potential to minimize harm to the community. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to investigate and implement a pornography detection technique towards a framework for automated detection of pornography based on most commonly found erotic poses. Compared to the results published in recent works, our proposed approach yields the highest accuracy in recognition. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media.
Introduction: older worker in an ageing society
- Authors: Taylor, Philip
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Older Workers in an Ageing Society: Critical topics in research and policy p. 1-16
- Full Text: false
- Reviewed:
- Description: This chapter briefly describes the changing position of older workers in labour markets. Working longer is high on the agenda of policymakers in most of the industrialized nations as they wish to minimize the 'burden' presented by the ageing of populations, namely the sustainability of pensions and healthcare systems, while there are also supposed threats to the labour supply as the 'Baby Boomers' retire and young labour market entrants are fewer. However, critical thinking on the issue of ageing and work has been lacking in current debates, in particular how policy objectives are to be achieved, at what cost, and in particular, what the role of employers and the risks for older people will be.
Learning through experience: The Influence of context on the development of Rugby coaches' beliefs and practice
- Authors: Hassanin, Remy , Light, Richard
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Educational Research and Sports Education p. 92-96
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: Aim. This article reports on a case study that inquired into how coaches' beliefs about and dispositions toward coaching that structure their practice were developed through long-term experience. Method. Focused on three coaches working at high performance levels in Victoria, Australia data was generated through three rounds of semi-structured interviews and observation over a three-month period. Results. The three coaches were from three diferent countries with the study highlighting the powerful influence of socio-cultural context on the construction of a coaching habitus and the ways in which it structurted their coaching.
Qualitative and quantitative analysis of Six Sigma in service organizations
- Authors: Chakraborty, Ayon , Tan, Kay
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Total Quality Management and Six Sigma p.247-286
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
Customer decision making in web services
- Authors: Sun, Zhaohao , Zhang, Ping , Dong, Dong
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Handbook of Research on E-Business Standards and Protocols: Documents, Data and advanced web technologies p. 210-232
- Full Text: false
- Reviewed:
- Description: Web services play an important role in successful business integration and other application fields such as e-commerce and e-business. Customer decision making (CDM) is an indispensable factor for e-business and Web services. This chapter examines customer decision making in Web services. More specifically, it first looks at decision making in Web services, and proposes a novel P6 model for CDM in Web services, which consists of 6 Ps: privacy, perception, propensity, preference, personalization, and promised experience. This model integrates the existing 6 P elements of marketing mix as the environment of customer decision making in Web services. The new integrated P6 model deals with the inner world of the customer for decision making (DM) and incorporates what the customer sees and thinks during a DM process. The purpose of this novel P6 model is to assist customers in the decision process to acquire the most satisfactory Web service. This chapter also examines case-based decision making in Web services and provides a theoretical foundation for case-based decision making under the condition of one problem with multiple solutions in Web services. The proposed approach will facilitate research and development of e-business, Web services, decision support systems, intelligent systems, and soft computing.
Palaeoecology as a means of auditing wetland condition
- Authors: Gell, Peter
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Terra australis 34 p. 445-458
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: One could line up a suite of palaeoecological research papers published about Australian sites and, while they would not extend from Lake Wangoom to Lynch’s Crater, they would fill much of the pollen microscope laboratory at Monash University. In one way, that, in fact, would be the best place to start to assemble the bibliography, as many of the papers have emanated from Peter Kershaw and the long list of honours and postgraduate students he has supervised, his post-doctoral fellows and the palaeoecological diaspora that is the legacy of this legend from Littleborough.
- Description: 2003009401
Analysis of individual molecular events of DNA damage response by flow- and image-assisted cytometry
- Authors: Darzynkiewicz, Zbigniew , Traqanos, Frank , Zhao, Hong , Halicka, H Dorota , Skommer, Joanna , Wlodkowic, Donald
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Methods in Cell Biology p. 115-147
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: This chapter describes molecular mechanisms of DNA damage response (DDR) and presents flow- and image-assisted cytometric approaches to assess these mechanisms and measure the extent of DDR in individual cells. DNA damage was induced by cell treatment with oxidizing agents, UV light, DNA topoisomerase I or II inhibitors, cisplatin, tobacco smoke, and by exogenous and endogenous oxidants. Chromatin relaxation (decondensation) is an early event of DDR chromatin that involves modification of high mobility group proteins (HMGs) and histone H1 and was detected by cytometry by analysis of the susceptibility of DNA in situ to denaturation using the metachromatic fluorochrome acridine orange. Translocation of the MRN complex consisting of Meiotic Recombination 11 Homolog A (Mre11), Rad50 homolog, and Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome 1 (NMR1) into DNA damage sites was assessed by laser scanning cytometry as the increase in the intensity of maximal pixel as well as integral value of Mre11 immunofluorescence. Examples of cytometric detection of activation of Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM), and Check 2 (Chk2) protein kinases using phospho-specific Abs targeting Ser1981 and Thr68 of these proteins, respectively are also presented. We also discuss approaches to correlate activation of ATM and Chk2 with phosphorylation of p53 on Ser15 and histone H2AX on Ser139 as well as with cell cycle position and DNA replication. The capability of laser scanning cytometry to quantify individual foci of phosphorylated H2AX and/or ATM that provides more dependable assessment of the presence of DNA double-strand breaks is outlined. The new microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip platforms for interrogation of individual cells offer a novel approach for DDR cytometric analysis.
Decentralizing power generation to limit national distribution networks and cleaner production strategies for essential distribution infrastructure
- Authors: Howgrave-Graham, Alan , Panther, Barbara
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Clean energy: Resources, Production and Development p.
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: Energy is only really valuable at its point of use and it therefore makes sense that the closer the point of generation is to the point of consumption, the less infrastructure is required for its distribution. This is less of a problem in largely populated areas where economies of scale make infrastructure installation more viable, or where distribution lines are only required to be relatively short due to settlements being close to each other. However, vast unpopulated countries such as Australia or even sparsely populated tracts of land such as in the world‘s deserts require a less capital and resource intensive solution to ensure the populations‘ access to power. All installations require energy, whether it be for digging holes in which to plant power poles, the production of concrete or the smelting of steel; and the less power that is used to make infrastructure to generate or distribute power, the cleaner the energy. It follows that the longer the infrastructure is made to last, the less energy is required for its maintenance and replacement. In some areas small-scale renewable energy production may be the best solution eliminating the need for large scale distribution systems. This chapter investigates, using Australia as the main example, how energy can be made cleaner by using different available renewable generation sources and materials and making those that are currently used last longer for cheaper and more energy efficient power distribution. The cost (and therefore environmental) benefits of using current distribution systems will be compared to those of small-scale renewable alternatives driven by recyclable or reusable materials and wastes. Barriers to implementation of such systems will be discussed with special reference to Australia. In essence, this chapter will discuss the choices that can be made for energy distribution and small-scale energy generation depending.
Heat: Art and climate change
- Authors: Orr, Jill
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Transdiscourse 1: Mediated environments p.
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
Images of home: A Sound based community cultural development research project for youth in Officer
- Authors: Merlino, Dean , Duffy, Michelle
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Creative Arts in Research for Community and Cultural Change p. 255-256
- Full Text: false
- Reviewed:
Apprenticeships
- Authors: Smith, Erica
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: International Encyclopedia of Education Chapter Vocational education and training - Industry and employers p. 312-319
- Full Text:
Constructing the Australian school history curriculum : Ideology, high politics and the History Wars in the Howard Years
- Authors: Taylor, Anthony
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms p. 19-38
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: In mid-2006, John Howard, conservative prime minister of Australia, convened a national history summit. The purported objective of the occasion was a commonly agreed national approach to the teaching and learning of Australian history in schools, a controversial issue at that time. This chapter, based on the personal involvement of the author in the process, outlines the background to the summit, details the inside story of the occasion and explains the political background to the John Howard’s hidden agenda in calling the 2006 history summit. This chapter discusses the events surrounding the Australian version of school history wars 2005-2007 as a memoir, but also as a study in high politics that deliberately emphasises the motivations and actions and roles of individuals, often quite obscure individuals, in the mechanics of political action and education policy formulation at the federal level.
Employability Skills
- Authors: Smith, Erica
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: International Encyclopedia of Education Chapter Vocational education and training - Teaching and learning p. 368-375
- Full Text:
Globalisation of chronic illness research
- Authors: Wellard, Sally
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Translating chronic illness research into practice Chapter 1 p. 1-16
- Full Text:
- Description: 2003008029
Novel spectral descriptor for object shape
- Authors: Sajjanhar, Atul , Lu, Guojun , Zhang, Dengsheng
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia: Advances in Multimedia Information Processing p. 58-67
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: In this paper, we propose a novel descriptor for shapes. The proposed descriptor is obtained from 3D spherical harmonics. The inadequacy of 2D spherical harmonics is addressed and the method to obtain 3D spherical harmonics is described. 3D spherical harmonics requires construction of a 3D model which implicitly represents rich features of objects. Spherical harmonics are used to obtain descriptors from the 3D models. The performance of the proposed method is compared against the CSS approach which is the MPEG-7 descriptor for shape contour. MPEG-7 dataset of shape contours, namely, CE-1 is used to perform the experiments. It is shown that the proposed method is effective
Sunshine Coast
- Authors: McConville, Chris
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Queensland Historical Atlas p.
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
Using real-life scenarios in law to prepare graduates for professional work practices
- Authors: Holm, Eric
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Preparing graduates for the professions using scenario-based learning p. 169-177
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
'Dig a hole and bury the past in it' - Reconciliation and heritage of genocide in Cambodia
- Authors: Long, Colin , Reeves, Keir
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Places of Pain and Shame - Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage p.
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
Constructing stochastic mixture policies for episodic multiobjective reinforcement learning tasks
- Authors: Vamplew, Peter , Dazeley, Richard , Barker, Ewan , Kelarev, Andrei
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: AI 2009 : Advances in Artificial Intelligence : 22nd Australasian Joint Conference, Melbourne, Australia, December 1-4, 2009. Proceedings Chapter p. 340-349
- Full Text:
- Description: Multiobjective reinforcement learning algorithms extend reinforcement learning techniques to problems with multiple conflicting objectives. This paper discusses the advantages gained from applying stochastic policies to multiobjective tasks and examines a particular form of stochastic policy known as a mixture policy. Two methods are proposed for deriving mixture policies for episodic multiobjective tasks from deterministic base policies found via scalarised reinforcement learning. It is shown that these approaches are an efficient means of identifying solutions which offer a superior match to the user’s preferences than can be achieved by methods based strictly on deterministic policies.
- Description: 2003007906
Genetic algorithm in ab initio protein structure prediction using low resolution model : a review
- Authors: Hoque, Md Tamjidul , Chetty, Madhu , Sattar, Abdul
- Date: 2009
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Biomedical Data and Applications p. 317-342
- Full Text:
- Reviewed:
- Description: Proteins are sequences of amino acids bound into a linear chain that adopt a specific folded three-dimensional (3D) shape. This specific folded shape enables proteins to perform specific tasks. The protein structure prediction (PSP) by ab initio or de novo approach is promising amongst various available computational methods and can help to unravel the important relationship between sequence and its corresponding structure. This article presents the ab initio protein structure prediction as a conformational search problem in low resolution model using genetic algorithm. As a review, the essence of twin removal, intelligence in coding, the development and application of domain specific heuristics garnered from the properties of the resulting model and the protein core formation concept discussed are all highly relevant in attempting to secure the best solution.