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Geant4 Physics Processes For Microdosimetry Simulation: Design Foundation And Implementation Of The First Set Of Models, S. Chauvie, Z. Francis, S. Guatelli, S. Incerti, B. Mascialino, P. Moretto, P. Nieminen, Maria Pia Dec 2012

Geant4 Physics Processes For Microdosimetry Simulation: Design Foundation And Implementation Of The First Set Of Models, S. Chauvie, Z. Francis, S. Guatelli, S. Incerti, B. Mascialino, P. Moretto, P. Nieminen, Maria Pia

Susanna Guatelli

New physical processes specific for microdosimetry simulation are under development in the Geant4 Low Energy Electromagnetic package. The first set of models implemented for this purpose cover the interactions of electrons, protons and light ions in liquid water; they address a physics domain relevant to the simulation of radiation effects in biological systems, where water represents an important component. The design developed for effectively handling particle interactions down to a low energy scale and the physics models implemented in the first public release of the software are described.


Capitalizing A Future Unsustainable: Finance, Energy And The Fate Of Market Civilization, Timothy Dimuzio Dec 2012

Capitalizing A Future Unsustainable: Finance, Energy And The Fate Of Market Civilization, Timothy Dimuzio

Timothy DiMuzio

Liberal capitalist polities are being held up as the ultimate civilizational achievement precisely at a point in time when the energy-demanding built environments and growth imperatives of these societies are threatened by global climate change and the coming end of cheap and abundant carbon energy. Throughout the twentieth century, this pattern of energy-intensive social reproduction was largely shaped by the oil and gas sector creating what I call a petro-market civilization. However, given the challenges presented by peak oil and global warming, transitioning to a low-carbon or green energy future has gathered increasing attention and investment. In this paper, I …


Video-Recorded Usability Testing Of A Web-Based Self-Administered Dietary Assessment, Yasmine Probst, David Steel, Linda Tapsell Dec 2012

Video-Recorded Usability Testing Of A Web-Based Self-Administered Dietary Assessment, Yasmine Probst, David Steel, Linda Tapsell

Professor David Steel

No abstract provided.


Heimo Lattner, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Heimo Lattner, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.


Beyond The Surface: Susan Ballard, Kim Pieters, Seraphine Pick And Maryrose Crook, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Beyond The Surface: Susan Ballard, Kim Pieters, Seraphine Pick And Maryrose Crook, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

Extracts from Catalogue essay: Pages and paintings generate spaces of activity, where basic white is always stung by experience. In Beyond the Surface, three painters and one writer present these visual spaces as fragments that unfold before the viewer. Travelling between the paintings and words in this exhibition, we find ourselves in seemingly exotic places and other worlds, watching fleeting half-lives which are often pervaded by the perfume of earlier thoughts or memories. Pick’s shelf of Earthly Possessions offers an archive of yet another kind. These Possessions may be disguised in white paint, but unlike most found objects they do …


Audible, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Audible, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.


Pixel Focus, Su Ballard, Nathan Thompson, Peter Stapleton Dec 2012

Pixel Focus, Su Ballard, Nathan Thompson, Peter Stapleton

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.


Virtual Affection: Bodies And Installation Spaces, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Virtual Affection: Bodies And Installation Spaces, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

Discourses of the digital and their central concerns with issues such as duration, sensation, interactivity, immersion and affect offer new positions from which to view and articulate contemporary installation art. The digital as used here refers broadly to installations that have passed through a digital environment (such as an editing suite or a computer), or are simply informed by digital presence. Digital installation involves many aspects, including - but not limited to - space, light, time, viewer, projection, apparatus, objects and shadows, and as such is a machine operating across different thresholds. Like Alice's experiences in Wonderland, or Dorothy in …


Performing Visual-Bodies, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Performing Visual-Bodies, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.


"Whakaruruhau", Su Ballard Dec 2012

"Whakaruruhau", Su Ballard

Su Ballard

"In 1997 the whare at Araiteuru marae was destroyed by arson. In 2003 the whare was rebuilt. Through an interdisciplinary use of dance, performance, video, sound, light, collected stories and memories Louise Potiki Bryant explores three integrated aspects of the Araiteuru marae: the importance of the wharenui to the community and to the individual; the mauri or life force of the whare; and, the relationship of the whare to the human body. Whakaruruhau is the shelter, the space within which Bryant moves, tells the story of a community, and in particular takes us to the story of Emma Potiki Grooby …


Nonorganic Life: Encounters Between Frequency And Virtuality In Antarctica, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Nonorganic Life: Encounters Between Frequency And Virtuality In Antarctica, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

This paper is not about Antarctica at all. In many imaginaries Antarctica exists as a virtualized yet real utopia. It is a place known through material productions that oscillate between the fictional and the scientific. The discovery of the Don Juan Pond lead scientists towards life formed by brine-derived nitrates (a kind of molecular self-organization by non-carbon sources) and onwards to the possibility of life on Mars. If it is autonomous, can reproduce and evolve, it must be life, mustn’t it? Amidst complex computational models, nonorganic matter is not static; it changes and tying it to either nature or culture …


Nonorganic Life: Frequency, Virtuality And The Sublime In Antarctica, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Nonorganic Life: Frequency, Virtuality And The Sublime In Antarctica, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

How do we understand what it means to live on a planet? First, we might examine the qualities of a planet: spherical, rotating around an axis, revolving around a star (in the case of our Earth, the sun). Perceived according to these properties, it becomes clear that certain locations on the surface of this sphere are subject to different conditions of life. For example, due to the rotation of the Earth, most locations on its surface are subject to a 24-hour cycle of light and dark. However, two places, the axis points of the Earth's rotation, experience a vastly different …


Flickering Affect, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Flickering Affect, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.


Et Al. That's Obvious! That's Right! That's True!, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Et Al. That's Obvious! That's Right! That's True!, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

A review of an installation by et al. for Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna o Waiwhetu. July 23 - 22 November 2009.


Seeing Things, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Seeing Things, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.


Distraction And Feedback: Sound, Noise And Movement In Aotearoa New Zealand, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Distraction And Feedback: Sound, Noise And Movement In Aotearoa New Zealand, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

If sound is a material and digital media have lead images toward a realm where they engage materiality at a deeply coded level, then it is only logical that at some point sound and image will meet on similar ground. In Aotearoa New Zealand artists playing with and shifting the distinct materialities of sound and image enabled by, and in response to, digital technologies have generated significant bodies of work. Much of this work does not only cross the boundaries of sound and image but blurs their material distinctions. This short essay focuses on some recent installations by artists Nathan …


Time-Based Art: An Introduction, Su Ballard Dec 2012

Time-Based Art: An Introduction, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.


Aotearoa Digital Arts Emerge, Su Ballard, Stella Brennan Dec 2012

Aotearoa Digital Arts Emerge, Su Ballard, Stella Brennan

Su Ballard

No abstract provided.


The Geekosystem: Adam Hyde And Julian Priest, With David Merritt, Su Ballard Dec 2012

The Geekosystem: Adam Hyde And Julian Priest, With David Merritt, Su Ballard

Su Ballard

Many of us have memories, now reduced to nostalgic reminiscence, of the first time we persuaded our family’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum to move a glowing green pixel a centimetre or two to the left. At this moment we experienced the magic of programmed motion. Too quickly these early machines disappeared into obsolescence and the desire for faster and more became the dominant feature of human computer relationships, as we succumbed to the lure of the next techno-gadget. In the early twenty-first century it is essential to think about the technological footprints we are leaving in our wake as we continuously …


Emergence: The Generation Of Material Spaces In Anthony Mccall's "Line Describing A Cone", Su Ballard Dec 2012

Emergence: The Generation Of Material Spaces In Anthony Mccall's "Line Describing A Cone", Su Ballard

Su Ballard

This paper begins from a belief that all media are material, and that in their specificity time-based media can introduce us to different kinds of relationships and experiences across material surfaces and forces within gallery spaces. To this end, it will demonstrate how a 16mm film installation within a gallery space presents materiality as emergent. The paper focuses on an artwork that draws on installation's cinematic legacy Line Describing a Cone by Anthony McCall (1973). Line Describing a Cone is currently undergoing a renaissance of sorts possibly because it invokes a particularly affective interactive experience that echoes many works being …


Information, Noise, Et Al., Susan Ballard Dec 2012

Information, Noise, Et Al., Susan Ballard

Su Ballard

Divided into three sections, Error brings together established critics and emerging voices to offer a significant contribution to the field of new media studies. In the first section," Hack," contributors explore the ways in which errors, glitches, and failure provide opportunities ...


Book Review: H-Net, By Zachary Fredman (December, 2012), Zheng Wang Nov 2012

Book Review: H-Net, By Zachary Fredman (December, 2012), Zheng Wang

Zheng Wang

No abstract provided.


Reflections On Community Engagement For Transforming Praxis: Lessons From The Learning And Teaching Creatively Project, Alison Wicks, Brian Cambourne, Robbie Collins, Marcel De Roo Nov 2012

Reflections On Community Engagement For Transforming Praxis: Lessons From The Learning And Teaching Creatively Project, Alison Wicks, Brian Cambourne, Robbie Collins, Marcel De Roo

Robbie Collins

The Learning and Teaching Creatively project involved collaboration between the Bundanon Trust, the University of Wollongong’s Faculty of Education and Shoalhaven Campus and the Australasian Occupational Science Centre. The aim of the project was provide opportunity for Graduate Diploma of Education (Primary) students at the Shoalhaven Campus to experience the creative process, thereby enabling them to develop ways of facilitating creativity in primary school students. Additionally, the project was designed to initiate a long term partnership between the Shoalhaven Campus and Bundanon, a highly valued internationally renowned ‘living arts centre’ located in the Shoalhaven. The Knowledge Building Community and occupational …


Psychology And The Enhancement Of Medication Adherence, Mitchell Byrne, Frank Deane Nov 2012

Psychology And The Enhancement Of Medication Adherence, Mitchell Byrne, Frank Deane

Mitchell K Byrne

This paper reports on a new approach to the enhancement of medication adherence - Medication Alliance. Medication Alliance was developed and piloted by a project team that includes Mitch Byrne as project leader, Frank Deane as research supervisor, and two consultants, Tim Coombs and Gordon Lambert. Because Medication Alliance borrows heavily from psychological principles such as functional analysis and cognitive therapy, this presentation is entitled 'Psychology and the Enhancement of Medication Adherence '. However, Medication Alliance is a non-discipline specific therapy approach that fits well within the purview of any clinician delivering psychosocial interventions. The theoretical underpinnings of the various …


Eeg In Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Patrick Heaven, Robert Barry, Mitchell Byrne, Adam Clarke, Rory Mccarthy, Mark Selikowitz Nov 2012

Eeg In Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Patrick Heaven, Robert Barry, Mitchell Byrne, Adam Clarke, Rory Mccarthy, Mark Selikowitz

Mitchell K Byrne

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is the most common psychiatric disorder of childhood, but it is becoming increasingly more apparent that more than half the childhood sufferers will continue to manifest symptoms of the disorder as adults. While EEG coherence in children with AD/HD has been examined extensively, no studies have investigated coherence in adults with the disorder. This study investigated EEG coherence in adults with AD/HD. EEG was recorded from 18 adult males with AD/HD, and an age- and gender-matched control group, during an eyes-closed resting condition. Waveshape coherence was calculated for 8 intrahemispheric electrode pairs (4 in each hemisphere), and …


Training Models For Psychiatry In Primary Care: A New Frontier, Mitchell Byrne, Rachael Murrihy Nov 2012

Training Models For Psychiatry In Primary Care: A New Frontier, Mitchell Byrne, Rachael Murrihy

Mitchell K Byrne

No abstract provided.


The Detection Of Malingered Psychopathology And Cognitive Deficits: Employing The Fake Bad Scale And The Raven's Standard Progressive Matricies, Mitchell Byrne, Peter Golus, Steven Sellers Nov 2012

The Detection Of Malingered Psychopathology And Cognitive Deficits: Employing The Fake Bad Scale And The Raven's Standard Progressive Matricies, Mitchell Byrne, Peter Golus, Steven Sellers

Mitchell K Byrne

No abstract provided.


Predicting Vicarious Traumatization In Those Indirectly Exposed To Bushfires, Mitchell Byrne, Doukessa Lerias, Nichole Sullivan Nov 2012

Predicting Vicarious Traumatization In Those Indirectly Exposed To Bushfires, Mitchell Byrne, Doukessa Lerias, Nichole Sullivan

Mitchell K Byrne

No abstract provided.


Medication Alliance: Enhancing Adherance And Therapeutic Outcomes For People With Psychosis, Frank Deane, Mitchell Byrne Nov 2012

Medication Alliance: Enhancing Adherance And Therapeutic Outcomes For People With Psychosis, Frank Deane, Mitchell Byrne

Mitchell K Byrne

No abstract provided.


The Level Of Service Inventory-Revised (Lsi-R) And Australian Offenders: Factor Structure, Sensitivity, And Specificity, Ching-I Hsu, Peter Caputi, Mitchell Byrne Nov 2012

The Level Of Service Inventory-Revised (Lsi-R) And Australian Offenders: Factor Structure, Sensitivity, And Specificity, Ching-I Hsu, Peter Caputi, Mitchell Byrne

Mitchell K Byrne

No abstract provided.