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Thermal Load And Physical Mobility Implications Of Body Armour Systems With Different Levels Of Protection, Daniel C. Billing, Jace R. Drain, Anne Van Den Heuvel, Gregory E. Peoples, Aaron J. Silk, Nigel A.S Taylor, Mark J. Patterson Jan 2010

Thermal Load And Physical Mobility Implications Of Body Armour Systems With Different Levels Of Protection, Daniel C. Billing, Jace R. Drain, Anne Van Den Heuvel, Gregory E. Peoples, Aaron J. Silk, Nigel A.S Taylor, Mark J. Patterson

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

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Emergence, Change And Precarious Systems: A New Lens On People And Organisation, Helen M. Hasan, Mary Barrett Jan 2010

Emergence, Change And Precarious Systems: A New Lens On People And Organisation, Helen M. Hasan, Mary Barrett

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

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Genetic Structure And Dispersal Patterns Of The Invasive Psocid Liposcelis Decolor (Pearman) In Australian Grain Storage Systems, Katarina Maryann Mikac, N N. Fitzsimmons Jan 2010

Genetic Structure And Dispersal Patterns Of The Invasive Psocid Liposcelis Decolor (Pearman) In Australian Grain Storage Systems, Katarina Maryann Mikac, N N. Fitzsimmons

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Microsatellite markers were used to investigate the genetic structure among invasive L. decolor populations from Australia and a single international population from Kansas, USA to determine patterns of dispersal. Six variable microsatellites displayed an average of 2.5-4.2 alleles per locus per population. Observed (H-O) heterozygosity ranged from 0.12-0.65 per locus within populations; but, in 13 of 36 tests, H-O was less than expected. Despite low levels of allelic diversity, genetic structure estimated as theta was significant for all pairwise comparisons between populations (theta = 0.05-0.23). Due to suspected null alleles at four loci, ENA (excluding null alleles) corrected F-ST estimates …


A State-Based Knowledge Representation Approach For Information Logical Inconsistency Detection In Warning Systems, Jun Ma, Guangquan Zhang, Jie Lu Jan 2010

A State-Based Knowledge Representation Approach For Information Logical Inconsistency Detection In Warning Systems, Jun Ma, Guangquan Zhang, Jie Lu

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Detecting logical inconsistency in collected information is a vital function when deploying a knowledge-based warning system to monitor a specific application domain for the reason that logical inconsistency is often hidden from seemingly consistent information and may lead to unexpected results. Existing logical inconsistency detection methods usually focus on information stored in a knowledge base by using a well-defined general purpose knowledge representation approach, and therefore cannot fulfill the demands of a domain-specific situation. This paper first proposes a state-based knowledge representation approach, in which domain-specific knowledge is expressed by combinations of the relevant objects' states. Based on this approach, …


Iterative Soft Compensation For Ofdm Systems With Clipping And Superposition Coded Modulation, Jun Tong, Li Ping, Zhonghao Zhang, Vijay Bhargava Jan 2010

Iterative Soft Compensation For Ofdm Systems With Clipping And Superposition Coded Modulation, Jun Tong, Li Ping, Zhonghao Zhang, Vijay Bhargava

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

This paper deals with the clipping method used in orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) systems to reduce the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). An iterative soft compensation method is proposed to mitigate the clipping distortion, which can outperform conventional treatments. The impact of signaling schemes on the residual clipping noise power is studied via the symbol variance analysis. It is found that superposition coded modulation (SCM) can minimize the residual clipping noise power among all possible signaling schemes. This indicates that SCM-based OFDM systems are more robust to clipping effect than other alternatives when soft compensation is applied. It is also shown …


Balanced Truncation Of Linear Second-Order Systems: A Hamiltonian Approach, Carsten Hartmann, Valentina-Mira Vulcanov, Christof Schutte Jan 2010

Balanced Truncation Of Linear Second-Order Systems: A Hamiltonian Approach, Carsten Hartmann, Valentina-Mira Vulcanov, Christof Schutte

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

We present a formal procedure for structure-preserving model reduction of linear second-order and Hamiltonian control problems that appear in a variety of physical contexts, e.g., vibromechanical systems or electrical circuit design. Typical balanced truncation methods that project onto the subspace of the largest Hankel singular values fail to preserve the problem's physical structure and may suffer from lack of stability. In this paper, we adopt the framework of generalized Hamiltonian systems that covers the class of relevant problems and that allows for a generalization of balanced truncation to second-order problems. It turns out that the Hamiltonian structure, stability, and passivity …


Organisational Culture And Organisational Impacts Of Information Systems: A Review Of The Empirical Literature, Fei Peng, Rajeev Sharma, Sherah Kurnia, Reeva Lederman, Suelette Dreyfus Jan 2010

Organisational Culture And Organisational Impacts Of Information Systems: A Review Of The Empirical Literature, Fei Peng, Rajeev Sharma, Sherah Kurnia, Reeva Lederman, Suelette Dreyfus

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Organisational culture is an important influence in shaping the organisational impacts of Information Systems. However, the conceptualisation and operationalisation of culture in empirical studies does not reflect the richness of the theoretical literature. In particular, our review finds that the dynamic, emergent and reciprocal nature of the IS-culture relationship has not been adequately examined in the empirical literature. This is partly due to the methodologies employed in existing research. Suggestions for enriching empirical research into the ISculture relationship are discussed.