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Action-02MCF : A robust space-time correlation filter for action recognition in clutter and adverse lighting conditions

  • Authors: lhaq, Anwaar , Yin, Xiaoxia , Zhang, Yunchan , Gondal, Iqbal
  • Date: 2016
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 17th International Conference, ACIVS 2016 p. 465-476
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  • Description: Human actions are spatio-temporal visual events and recognizing human actions in different conditions is still a challenging computer vision problem. In this paper, we introduce a robust feature based space-time correlation filter, called Action-02MCF (0’zero-aliasing’ 2M’ Maximum Margin’) for recognizing human actions in video sequences. This filter combines (i) the sparsity of spatio-temporal feature space, (ii) generalization of maximum margin criteria, (iii) enhanced aliasing free localization performance of correlation filtering using (iv) rich context of maximally stable space-time interest points into a single classifier. Its rich multi-objective function provides robustness, generalization and recognition as a single package. Action-02MCF can simultaneously localize and classify actions of interest even in clutter and adverse imaging conditions. We evaluate the performance of our proposed filter for challenging human action datasets. Experimental results verify the performance potential of our action-filter compared to other correlation filtering based action recognition approaches.

John Leslie Art Prize

  • Authors: Ross, Ewen
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Visual art work
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  • Description: Painting exhibited at the Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale- John Leslie Art Prize

Why should they pay money to the Queen?: Aboriginal miners and land claims

  • Authors: Cahir, David (Fred) , Clark, Ian
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Australian Colonial History Vol. 10, no. 1 (2008), p. 115-128
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  • Description: There is little evidence of Aboriginal involvement in the events of the Eureka Stockade, but there are numerous ways in which Aboriginal people are relevant to the Eureka story. The events took place on Aboriginal land (an obvious but rarely articulated truth) and Aboriginal people were present on the Ballarat diggings, as they were, indeed, on and around most Australian goldfields. The records are full of references to their fundamental and diverse contribution to life and work on the diggings, and to the complex and varied relationships they formed with the invaders. For Indigenous communities already reeling from the invasion of pastoralists, the arrival of 300,000 immigrant miners, swarming onto the alluvial districts of Victoria, represented a second wave of dispossession. But as we have noted elsewhere, there is abundant evidence that gold, at least in Victoria, brought many new economic opportunities for Aborigines, many of whom took advantage of these changed circumstances.' David Goodman argues persuasively for historians to consider an 'edgier interpretation' of the goldfields story. This could include a better appreciation of the social dislocation and cultural adaptations experienced by Indigenous people on the goldfields .
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A mediated model of the effects of human resource management policies and practices on the intention to promote women : An investigation of the theory of planned behaviour

  • Authors: Biswas, Kumar , Boyle, Brendan , Mitchell, Rebecca , Casimir, Gian
  • Date: 2017
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of Human Resource Management Vol. 28, no. 9 (2017), p. 1309-1331
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  • Description: This study investigates the role of supportive human resource management policies and practices in senior HR managers’ intention to promote women to senior management positions. Based on the theory of planned behaviour, we argue a model in which supportive HR policies and practices affect managers’ attitudes towards the promotion of women to senior positions and their perception of organisational norms and control over the decision. We employ partial least squares based structural equation modelling to investigate data from a sample of 183 firms in Bangladesh. Our results support the utility of the theory of planned behaviour in understanding the positive effects of HR practices on the intent of senior managers to promote women. Our findings suggest that the role of HR policies and practices is not only to eliminate opportunity for discrimination but also to encourage the development of deeper attitudinal and normative acceptance of women’s role in senior management. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Playing the ghost : Ghost hoaxing and supernaturalism in late nineteenth-century Victoria, Australia

  • Authors: Waldron, David , Waldron, Sharn
  • Date: 2016
  • Type: Text , Journal article , Review
  • Relation: Folklore (United Kingdom) Vol. 127, no. 1 (2016), p. 71-90
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  • Description: This article employs a Jungian analytical perspective in its exploration of the phenomenon of ghost hoaxing in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century colonial Victoria, Australia, as observed through its reportage in the print media of the era. © 2016The Folklore Society.

Wise men, devils and fools: History of mental illness and mental health

Hybrid simulated annealing and genetic algorithm for degree/diameter problem

  • Authors: Tang, Jianmin , Miller, Mirka , Lin, Yuqing
  • Date: 2005
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper pesented at Sixteenth Australasian Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, AWOCA 2005, Ballarat, Victoria : 18th-21st September 2005 p. 321-331
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  • Description: The degree/diameter problem is to determine the largest graphs or digraphs of given maximum degree and given diameter. This paper deals with directed graphs. General upper bounds, called Moore bounds, exist for the largest possible order of such digraphs of maximum degree d and diameter k. It is known that simulated annealing and genetic algorithm are effective techniques to identify global optimization solutions. This paper describes our attempt to build a Hybrid Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithm (HSAGA) that can be used to construct larger digraphs, and displays our preliminary results obtained by HSAGA.
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Physically preparing the fast bowler in cricket: A review of the literature

Why isn't there a plan? Community vulnerability and resilience in the Latrobe Valley's open cut coal mine towns

  • Authors: Duffy, Michelle , Wood, Pamela , Whyte, Sue , Yell, Susan , Carroll, Matthew
  • Date: 2016
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Responses to disasters and climate Change: Understanding vulnerability and fostering resilience Chapter 19 p. 199-209
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  • Description: On February 9, 2014, the town of Morwell in Victoria, Australia, was confronted with several bushfires, resulting in a blaze at the Morwell open cut coal mine adjacent to the Hazelwood power station. For 45 days, the local communities were impacted by smoke, ash, and reports of raised carbon monoxide levels. The duration of the crisis placed an unprecedented strain on the capacity of the community and the authorities to adequately respond. Many see Morwell as vulnerable to future events because it is surrounded by coal mines, power stations, forests, and pine plantations. Drawing on interviews from key stakeholders in the community and a detailed analysis of media reports and social media, this chapter examines the factors that both harm and promote community resilience. It emphasizes the complexity of resilience and the importance of communal narratives as community members react to and recover from traumatic experiences and unknown futures.

REPLOT: REtrieving profile links on Twitter for suspicious networks detection

  • Authors: Perez, Charles , Birregah, Babiga , Layton, Robert , Lemercier, Marc , Watters, Paul
  • Date: 2013
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013 p. 1307-1314
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  • Description: In the last few decades social networking sites have encountered their first large-scale security issues. The high number of users associated with the presence of sensitive data (personal or professional) is certainly an unprecedented opportunity for malicious activities. As a result, one observes that malicious users are progressively turning their attention from traditional e-mail to online social networks to carry out their attacks. Moreover, it is now observed that attacks are not only performed by individual profiles, but that on a larger scale, a set of profiles can act in coordination in making such attacks. The latter are referred to as malicious social campaigns. In this paper, we present a novel approach that combines authorship attribution techniques with a behavioural analysis for detecting and characterizing social campaigns. The proposed approach is performed in three steps: first, suspicious profiles are identified from a behavioural analysis; second, connections between suspicious profiles are retrieved using a combination of authorship attribution and temporal similarity; third, a clustering algorithm is performed to identify and characterise the suspicious campaigns obtained. We provide a real-life application of the methodology on a sample of 1,000 suspicious Twitter profiles tracked over a period of forty days. Our results show that a large set of suspicious profiles behaves in coordination (70%) and propagates mainly, but not only, trustworthy URLs on the online social network. Among the three largest detected campaigns, we have highlighted that one represents an important security issue for the platform by promoting a significant set of malicious URLs. Copyright 2013 ACM.

Eureka Stockade

  • Authors: Beggs-Sunter, Anne
  • Date: 2009
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present Chapter p.
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  • Description: Ballarat, in the British colony of Victoria, Australia, burst into life as an instant city in 1851, following the discovery of gold. Adventurous men and women from all over the world descended on Ballarat in the 1850s, feverishly attacking the sticky clay at Golden Point. The diggers followed the gold underground, along the course of the ancient rivers, buried by the volcanic eruptions of Mounts Warrenheip and Buninyong. On the flat, 30,000 diggers collected into small cooperatives of “mates” and desperately searched for their personal Eldorado.From the first discoveries in 1851, relations between the miners and the police sent to administer the goldfields were uneasy. The government attempted to collect a monthly license fee for the right to search for gold, but the tax conferred no rights, and licenses were inspected at the point of a bayonet. The more outspoken miners, schooled in the ways of the 1848 revolutions in Europe, led a movement to protest against the gold license. The cry of “No taxation without representation” was raised, echoing the rhetoric of the American Revolution and the Chartist movement for democratic rights in Britain. [EXTRACT]

Women's experiences of learning to breastfeed

  • Authors: Sheeran, Leanne , Buchanan, Kerrie , Welch, Anthong , Jones, Linda
  • Date: 2015
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Breastfeeding Review Vol. 23, no. 3 (2015), p. 15-22
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  • Description: Aim: This research explores women's experiences of learning to breastfeed. Design: A purposive cohort of healthy mothers participated in individual audio recorded interviews late pregnancy and then 2 and 8 weeks after birth. All interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using van Manen's approach. Setting and participants: Participants were 13 first time mothers based in a rural municipality in Victoria, Australia. Key findings: Women's voices gave rich descriptions of their experience of learning to breastfeed. Women shared the physicality of having 'great big engorged breasts' or 'sore nipples', and 'learning to latch' while 'having so very many things happening'. Conclusion: Many participants felt overwhelmed with learning to breastfeed at the same time as coping with caesarean wounds, perineal trauma, uterine bleeding and extreme fatigue. Future implications: Parenting education needs to be offered early in pregnancy so couples can explore birthing and its potential outcomes and to introduce infant cues and behaviours as a base for understanding how these impact on breastfeeding and problem solving. © 2015, Australian Breastfeeding Association. All rights reserved.

Staff of Snowy River Stores, Orbost [picture].

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  • Description: Item held by Centre for Gippsland Studies, Federation University Australia.
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  • Description: Orbost progresses - POT 49
  • Description: 13-May-92

Expanding social inclusion in community sports organizations: Evidence from rural Australian football clubs

  • Authors: Frost, Lionel , Lightbody, Margaret , Halabi, Abdel
  • Date: 2013
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal Of Sport Management Vol. 27, no. 6 (2013), p. 453-466
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  • Description: Australian Football clubs have traditionally been seen as contributing social benefits to the rural communities in which they are embedded. Declining numbers of participants, both players and volunteers, suggest that this role may not be as strong today. Critical explorations of the extent to which football has driven social inclusion and exclusion in such environments emphasizes a historic masculine culture of drinking and violence that segregates and marginalizes women and children. Less is known about the contemporary strategic efforts of clubs to use social capital to support their activities, and whether the resources they generate have positive impacts on social inclusion in the wider community. We use evidence from the Parliament of Victoria's Inquiry into Country Football (2004) to explore the current focus of rural Australian Football clubs regarding social inclusion, in light of changes occurring in society and rural towns in the 21st century.

Geotechnical Challenges for the European TEN-T Network – SMARTRail and Beyond

  • Authors: Gavin, Kenneth , Reale, Cormac , Xue, Jianfeng
  • Date: 2014
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 3rd International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure – CETRA 2014 p. 21-34
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  • Description: Climate change is leading to increased incidence of slope instability across the globe. As well as causing a risk to human life, slope failures can cause severe disruption to transport networks. Infrastructure managers who control road and rail networks need to manage risks associated with earth slopes, many of which were built before the advent of modern design and construction standards. This paper discusses two key steps in the slope management process: (i) locating potential failures and (ii) rational analysis of slopes. Recent work completed in the EU FP7 SMARTRAIL project is described and a case study is presented demonstrating how the potential damaging effects of rainfall can be considered in a rational framework.

Accountants and the info-wars of the late 20th century

  • Authors: Radford, Jack , Hettihewa, Samanthala , Wright, Christopher
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Asia Pacific Conference Proceedings
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  • Description: This paper draws attention to a commercial struggle that, after simmering over many centuries, has in recent decades progressively intensified into an all-out competitive brawl. The rising intensity in this conflict is evidenced by firms having to divert an ever-larger share of budgets and management resources avoid being overwhelmed by information. Even though few accountants and managers are aware of the nature, extent, or even history of this struggle, it increasingly constrains and defines their jobs. In this conflict, the few firms that think they have won, sooner or later, find their victory to be a pyrrhic, temporary delusion- as they are forced back, to re-join the mass of firms that have to do all they can, in struggle to avoid joining the ranks of the dazed, over-whelmed, information losers. After reviewing the roots, nature, and history of this intensifying struggle, this paper extrapolates from extant strategies (that reduce information toward the know-who/-minimum), to postulate how accountants and other information specialists are likely to prosecute the near to intermediate future of their portion of the ever-escalating information wars.
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Building partnerships through discovery - collaborative online teaching and learning

Producing a GIS based multiple criteria analysis tool for regional sustainability assessment: the problem of weighting

Aboriginal Language Areas in Northeast Victoria: 'Mogullumbidj' Reconsidered

  • Authors: Clark, Ian
  • Date: 2010
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Victorian Historical Journal Vol. 81, no. 2 (2010), p.
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  • Description: This article focuses on Aboriginal language area reconstruction in north-east Victoria, particularly Mogullumbidj, one of the most problematical areas in Victoria. It shows that a careful analysis of primary sources is still capable of generating fresh insights and removing some of the confusion that surrounds language area reconstruction. The re-analysis of primary references shows that none of the earlier delineations, such as Tindale, Barwick, Clark and Wesson, has integrity. The resolution of the significance of the label 'Mogullumbidj" was found by examining the reaction of southwest Victorian aboriginal peoples to the Tasmanian Aboriginal man who accompanied Robinson on his 1841 journey through their lands. This revealed that the word was descriptive and not a linguistic lab

Three women [picture].

  • Authors: Lacey, Ellen.
  • Date: 1920-1929
  • Type: Still Image
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  • Description: Three women are sitting near a fence. They were nurses at Gippsland Hospital at Sale in the 1920s.
  • Description: Item held by Centre for Gippsland Studies, Federation University Australia.
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  • Description: Photograph from album held at Gipsland Base Hospital, Sale
  • Description: 22-Feb-94