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Agent-Based Task Allocation In Dynamic And Open Grid And Cloud Environments, Yan Kong

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Task allocation is an important problem in grid/cloud environments in both research and applications. With the rapid development of grid/cloud environments, the features of openness and dynamism of environments put two new challenges to the development of task allocation approaches and strategies in such environments. Firstly, the participants in the environments normally have only local views about the environments due to the administrative independencies between the participants and the limited communication abilities of the participants. Secondly, task allocation methods/ approaches have to handle the dynamism and openness of the environments. In particular, task allocation methods/approaches have to respond to and …

Modelling Vertical Drains With Vacuum Preloading Considering The Soil Structure Characteristics, Matharage Darshana Anuradha Perera

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Vertical drains accelerate consolidation and as such they are a very effective and popular ground improvement method. When vacuum preloading is applied with vertical drains, consolidation increases even more and the stability of an embankment is enhanced due to the inward lateral movement exerted by vacuum preloading. Previous analytical models developed to predict consolidation when vacuum preloading is used with vertical drains assumed average compressibility and permeability values within the applied stress range. Even though the smear effects were incorporated into the solution by considering a reduced but constant permeability inside the smear zone, the actual variation of permeability was …

What Was Ground?: A Functional Analysis Of Grinding Stones From Madjedbebe And Lake Mungo, Australia, Elspeth Hayes

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This thesis addresses the use of grinding stones and fragments in Australia through an integrated use-wear and residue analysis of tools from two early occupation sites: Madjedbebe (MJB; formerly known as Malakunanja II), in northern Australia, and Lake Mungo, in western New South Wales. Grinding stones are ubiquitous in Australia and are present in the some of the earliest human occupation sites of Sahul (the Pleistocene landmass comprising Australia and New Guinea), but our knowledge of grinding stones has been overshadowed by a general focus on flaked stone artefacts. Moreover, the function of grinding tools has mostly been inferred on …

The Design And Synthesis Of Novel Michellamine B Analogues Targeting Hiv, Yueting Lu

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The dimeric naphthylisoquinoline alkaloid michellamine B, with its moderate anti-HIV activity, has gained significant interest as a potential lead compound. Herein, both monomeric and dimeric analogues with novel isoquinoline units were synthesized to evaluate the importance of this isoquinoline unit for HIV RT inhibitory activity.

The synthesis started from the preparation of key precursors of naphthylboronic acid/ester and halogenated dihydroisoquinolines. The naphthylboronic acid 37 was synthesized by a Diels-Alder method over 8 steps proceeding in 37% overall yield from commercially available 3,3-dimethylacrylic acid 59. The naphthylboronic ester 38, with an ethyl ester substituent in the naphthyl ring, was prepared by …

Implications Of Family Control For Corporate Governance: Evidence From Chinese Listed Firms, Liangbo Ma

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This thesis focuses on the implications of family control for corporate governance in the Chinese markets. This research is mainly motivated by the following factors. First, although family-controlled firms represent the predominant form of businesses in both developed and developing economies, it was not until the 1980's that family businesses emerged as a field of academic study (Casillas and Acedo, 2007). Despite a "collective sense that significant progress has been made" (Litz, Pearson, and Litchfield, 2012) in family business research, whether family control is beneficial for all shareholders, however, largely remains an open question (Morck, Wolfenzon, and Yeung, 2005; Lins, …

Mingled With All Kinds Of Colours, Teresa Bell

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The Book of Ambiguity is a term I use to define texts that exist outside formal genres and categories created by market forces. The Book of Ambiguity takes reader and writer outside familiar narrative structures, outside traditional positioning of gender, sanity, and sexuality, to an ambiguous meeting place of ecstasy. In this liminal space there is a merging of writer, reader and character, until the sense of a third person, or uninvolved narrator, is challenged. There is a mingling of writer as reader, reader as writer, writer as character, reader as character, reader as book, writer as book, and the …

Power Struggles: The Strategies And Tactics Of The Anti-Nuclear Movement In Contemporary Tokyo, Alexander James Brown

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

In this thesis I explore the strategies and tactics of the anti-nuclear movement in the Japanese capital Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. A little over a year later the anti-nuclear movement had grown to become the largest social movement in the archipelago in more than half a century. The compound effects of the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March 2011 and the nuclear accident at Fukushima intensified existing dissatisfaction not only with the nuclear industry but with the decaying institutions of Japan’s capitalist developmental state. In this thesis I use autonomist Marxist perspectives to situate the …

Shadows Of Exile: An Installation Of Puppets, Masks And Musical Instruments, Kraig Grady

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

My creative research project includes an installation and an exegesis. The project investigates whether installation art can materialise an imagined space that might externalise the experience of exile. I explore the potential for installation art to incorporate elements that are traditionally found in performance and to recontextualise them in an immersive and playful environment. This project draws on three decades of my creative practice including shadow theatre, silent films, fictional narratives, musical performance and composition with handcrafted instruments which have been situated in a mythopoetic space called Anaphoria Island. The current work attempts to make tangible this space in an …

Application Of Acoustic Emission Monitoring To Pipeline Fracture Tests, Turbadrakh Chuluunbat

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Maximization of benefits in the oil and gas transportation industries requires an increase in the size and operating pressure of the pipeline, which in turn requires an increase in the strength of line pipe steel. To ensure reliable operation, public safety, and environmental protection, the design of pipelines must include strategies for controlling fractures. Identifying defect(s) where crack initiation is possible and predicting the crack propagation are of great importance when considering fracture control of pipelines.The current research is aimed at developing an improved method using the acoustic emission (AE) technique for determining fracture initiation and propagation in the line …

Stress Measurement In Coal Seam Ahead Of Longwall Face – Case Study, Radovan Kukutsch, Petr Konicek, Petr Waclawik, Jiri Ptacek,, Lubomir Stas, Martin Vavro, Alice Hastikova

Resource Operators Conference

Stress measurement and stress monitoring is an important task in mining geomechanics, because knowledge of the stress-strain state in a rock mass is the determining factor for the proper planning of roadway support and for the correct design of underground mining. This strategy is useful for ensuring mining safety, because increasing depth causes several issues, especially in areas with rockburst hazard, when roadways are loaded by the pressure ahead of an advanced longwall or by the stresses induced by destress blasting in overlying rock. Besides, mining is influenced by stress induced by previous excavations, mining edges in the overburden or …

Investigation Into A New Approach For Roadway Roof Support Design That Includes Convergence Data, Terry Medhurst

Resource Operators Conference

The results of a recent investigation into roadway roof support design using the Geophysics Strata Rating (GSR) are presented. A key aim of the investigation was to identify an ability to relate changes in roof conditions and support performance to our primary roof stability indicator, roof convergence. By developing these links, an ability to differentiate between operating factors such as support type and installation practice; and traditional geotechnical factors can be established. This paper outlines progress on the development of a convergence based roof support design method that is complementary to the current TARPS based strata management process. Some examples …

Numerical Simulation Of Seismic Dynamic Response Of Ground Surface Above Mined-Out Area, Xiaoming Zhang, Xiaochen Yang, Zuo Wang, Kyuro Sasaki

Resource Operators Conference

Most coal mines are in the seismic intensity 7（12 degree evaluation or even higher in China. Large-scale mined-out spaces formed in the strata have been increased, because of excessive coal mining exploitation. The seismic response of mine surface will be different from other places because of the impact of the mined-out area on the seismic wave’s propagation. This paper studies the seismic response acceleration, peak acceleration and displacement at the ground surface above unstable and compacted mined-out areas by FLAC3D numerical models for various conditions. The results of the numerical simulation are consistent with the surface seismic response of Zhaogezhuang …

Explosion Prevention In Coal Mine Tbm Drifts-An Operational Knowledge Share, Bharath Belle, Adam Foulstone

Resource Operators Conference

Since the first record of a colliery explosion in Belgium, nearly 300 years ago, significant improvements have been achieved in the prevention of explosions in mines. However, based on the past surface TBM project safety statistics, gas explosion hazards are not unique to coal mines but also occur in TBM projects with 48 explosion fatalities recorded worldwide calling for continued diligence and improvements in explosion risk management. Success of TBM in civil engineering infrastructure in poor ground conditions resulted in consideration of its application to a coal mine in QLD. This paper provides a first time case study of TBM …

Strength Properties Of Fibre Glass Dowels Used For Strata Reinforcement In Coal Mines, David Gilbert, Ali Mirzaghorbanali, Xuwei Li, Haleh Rasekh, Naj Aziz, Jan Nemcik

Resource Operators Conference

Glass-Reinforced Polymer (GRP) bolts, commonly known as Fibre Glass (FG) dowels are increasingly applied for strata reinforcement in mines. The most popular dowels used in coal mines are the 22 mm diameter fully threaded type. A series of tests were undertaken to evaluate various strength properties of FG dowels. These include tensile failure tests by the double-embedment method, single and double guillotine shear tests, double shear tests in concrete medium and punch shear tests. Punch shear tests were used to evaluate the dowel shear strength parallel and perpendicular to the fibre glass strands or elements direction of extrusion. The study …

Animal Studies Journal 2015 4 (1): Cover Pages, Table Of Contents, Notes On Contributors And Editorial, Colin Salter, Melissa J. Boyde, Sally Borrell

Animal Studies Journal

Cover pages, table of contents, contributor biographies and editorial for Animal Studies Journal Vol. 4 No.1, 2015. Guest editor - Colin Salter.

The Animal Question And Condition: Intersectionality And Critical Animal Studies In The Asia-Pacific, Colin Salter

Animal Studies Journal

The intersectional commitment of engaged and activist scholarship is a necessary feature in the evolution of animal studies and the emergence of the critical turn. The rise of Critical Animal Studies (CAS), which differentiates itself through focus on the question and condition of the animal Other, has brought to the surface a number of tensions – many of which have existed in one form or another in fields of activist scholarship and praxis. As Nik Taylor and Richard Twine note, the critical ‘expresses the urgency of our times in the context of ecological crisis’

Consider The Possum: Foes, Anti-Animals, And Colonists In Paradise, Nicholas Holm

Animal Studies Journal

The brushtail possum is not treated like other animals in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Publically decried, officially poisoned, frequently shot at and intentionally steered towards, the possum is a despised animal. Indeed, as prior writers on the subject have noted, in order to be a New Zealander, it is almost compulsory to hate the possum (Isern, Potts). Building on that prior descriptive work, this article takes up that hatred of the possum in terms of larger discourses surrounding colonialism and environmentalism in order to make sense of the ideological work of possum-hating. Beginning with the observation that those who are most committed …

Vulnerability In The City: Reading Healing Narratives In East Asian Animal Films, Fiona Y.W. Law

Animal Studies Journal

Narratives of mourning and healing have become a popular discourse in films about animalhuman relationships set in the contemporary East Asian urban milieu. From the mainstream to the arthouse, from micro films to personal documentaries, images of the dying pet have triggered poignant revelations about human existence. While most of these films focus on the process of how the human protagonists come to the enlightening moment of self-understanding through the grieving experience, the deaths of their animal companions are often the imperative origins of such self-making. Interestingly, the cause of these animals’ loss is either evaded by or mirrored through …

The Effects Of The Cove And Bold Native On Audience Attitudes Towards Animals, Lara Newman

Animal Studies Journal

While much research has been done on the relationship between film and social change, studies on audience responses to animal rights films are scarce. In light of current international debates surrounding the capture and dissemination of footage of animal slaughter and mistreatment, this article explores audience receptions of The Cove and Bold Native. A number of academic studies of The Cove have been conducted, and numerous interviews and opinion pieces on both Bold Native and The Cove have been published online. However, previous discussions of The Cove and Bold Native have focused on a textual analysis of the films rather …

Live Animal Export, Humane Slaughter And Media Hegemony, Nick Pendergrast

Animal Studies Journal

After graphic footage of cows sent from Australia being slaughtered in Indonesia was shown on the current affairs program Four Corners, the issue of live animal export from Australia entered the national spotlight. While debate about the validity of live export was passionate and involved many different voices, an animal welfare frame dominated. The philosophy of animal welfare accepts and promotes the idea that the slaughter of other animals can be humane, whereas an animal rights position rejects this slaughter, regardless of how it is carried out. Ideally, the media would present a wide range of frames on political issues. …

Ecofeminism And Animal Advocacy In Australia: Productive Encounters For An Integrative Ethics And Politics, Esther Alloun

Animal Studies Journal

The paper considers how ecological feminist philosophies can enrich the animal advocacy movement and its liberatory politics and ethics. Building on existing literature, I argue that ecofeminist theories can help deepen our thinking about our relationship with animals and the more-than-human world; about our intersectional struggle to end oppression; and about putting this into practice, especially in relation to food. I focus on the work of Australian philosopher and feminist Val Plumwood to work through these issues. I examine Plumwood’s critique of dualism and anthropocentrism and how it reflects a particular Australian vision of nature. Her take on animal Others …

Animal Studies Journal 2015 4 (2): Cover Pages, Table Of Contents, Notes On Contributors And Editorial, Melissa J. Boyde, Sally Borrelll, Michael R. Griffiths

Animal Studies Journal

Cover pages, table of contents, contributor biographies and editorial for Animal Studies Journal Vol. 4 No.2, 2015.

A Day With Crows - Rarity, Nativity And The Violent-Care Of Conservation, Thom Van Dooren

Animal Studies Journal

This article explores the intermingled violence and care of endangered species conservation. The structure of the paper takes the form of a narrative account of a day spent at the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center in Hawai‘i, observing staff taking care of a captive population of critically endangered Hawaiian crows (Corvus hawaiiensis). Over the course of the day some animals were cared for (especially endangered birds), while others were trapped and killed as part of the conservation management of the larger property (i.e. feral pigs). This article works with these examples and the broader context of the Hawaiian crow project to …

The Ongoing Impact Of Domestic Violence On Animal Welfare, Catherine M. Tiplady, Deborah B. Walsh, J. C. Phillips

Animal Studies Journal

A study of five women who had left violent relationships six months previously was undertaken to elicit information on the importance of companion animals during the violence and subsequent period. The questions focused on the women’s experiences of companion animal ownership during domestic violence, incidents of animal abuse/neglect, animals’ behavioural changes, experiences of veterinarians as a source of support and perpetrators’ use of human/animal directed violence. We found that (1) companion animal behavioural changes persisted after the violent relationship, (2) perpetrators selectively controlled their violent behaviour and (3) veterinarians were not considered useful sources of support by all women interviewed. …

Miffy And Me: Developing An Auto-Ethnographic Approach To The Study Of Companion Animals And Human Loneliness, Adrian Franklin

Animal Studies Journal

Despite the consistent claim that companion animals can and do alleviate human loneliness, a recent systematic review of quantitative studies of human loneliness and companion animals (Gilbey and Tani 2015) found no evidence to support this ‘belief’ (as they put it), except in animal-assisted therapy (and even there the authors were not entirely convinced that they do). Taking their article as a starting point this paper develops a critical examination of quantitative methodologies that have been used to date and suggests that they have not taken into account the extent and complexity of contemporary human loneliness or how companion animals …

Talks Through Me, Lianuska Gutierrez

Animal Studies Journal

After a deer hunt, and inspired by Matthew Scully’s examination of the ‘holy hunter’

What He Heard, Joshua Lobb

Animal Studies Journal

‘What he heard’ is a creative exploration of Jacob von Uexküll’s concept of Umwelt. von Uexküll posits that the earth comprises ‘unique worlds with equal completeness’ and that ‘the first task of Umwelt research is to identify each animal’s perceptual cues among the stimuli in its environment and to build up the animal’s specific world with them’ (von Uexküll 1957, 13). The three animals in the story perceive the world in markedly different ways. The first animal, the dog, perceives his environment as an olfactory space. He configures the world into a series of ‘scent lines’: the bushland becomes a …