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A Numerical Approach To Design The Kretschmann Configuration Based Refractive Index Graphene-Mos2 Hybrid Layers With Tio2-Sio2 Nano For Formalin Detection, Md. Biplob Hossain, Tamanna Tasnim, Lway Abdulrazak, Md Masud Rana, Md Rabiul Islam
A Numerical Approach To Design The Kretschmann Configuration Based Refractive Index Graphene-Mos2 Hybrid Layers With Tio2-Sio2 Nano For Formalin Detection, Md. Biplob Hossain, Tamanna Tasnim, Lway Abdulrazak, Md Masud Rana, Md Rabiul Islam
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
In this paper, a Kretschmann configuration based surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor is numerically designed using graphene-MoS2 hybrid structure TiO2-SiO2 nano particles for formalin detection. In this design, the observations of SPR angle versus minimum reflectance and SPR frequency (FSPR) versus maximum transmittance (Tmax) are considered. The chitosan is used as probe legend to perform reaction with the formalin (40% formaldehyde) which acts as target legend. In this paper, both graphene and MoS2 are used as biomolecular acknowledgment element (BAE) and TiO2 as well as SiO2 bilayers is used to improve the sensitivity of the sensor. The numerical results show …
Analog Least Mean Square Loop For Self-Interference Cancellation: Implementation And Measurements, Anh Tuyen Le, Le Chung Tran, Xiaojing Huang, Y. Jay Guo
Analog Least Mean Square Loop For Self-Interference Cancellation: Implementation And Measurements, Anh Tuyen Le, Le Chung Tran, Xiaojing Huang, Y. Jay Guo
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Analog least mean square (ALMS) loop is a simple and efficient adaptive filter to cancel self-interference (SI) in in-band full-duplex (IBFD) radios. This paper proposes a practical structure and presents an implementation of the ALMS loop. By employing off-the-shelf components, a prototype of the ALMS loop including two taps is implemented. The prototype is evaluated in IBFD systems which have 20 MHz and 50 MHz bandwidths, respectively, with the carrier frequency of 2.4 GHz. The performance of the prototype with different roll-off factors of the transmit pulse shaping filter is also examined. Experimental results show that the ALMS loop can …
Ftn Signaling-Aided Space-Time Multi-Mode Index Modulation Systems With A Gmp-Based Receiver, Shaoang Li, Nan Wu, Qiaolin Shi, Qinghua Guo
Ftn Signaling-Aided Space-Time Multi-Mode Index Modulation Systems With A Gmp-Based Receiver, Shaoang Li, Nan Wu, Qiaolin Shi, Qinghua Guo
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
In this paper, we propose a faster-than-Nyquist (FTN) signaling-aided space-time multi-mode index modulation (IM) scheme with a low-complexity Gaussian message passing (GMP) based receiver. The advantages of spatial domain IM, time-domain IM relying on multiple modes and FTN signaling are explored. Specifically, multi-mode IM is employed in time domain by activating all time slots, hence the spectral efficiency is improved substantially compared to its single-mode counterpart. Meanwhile, the transmission rate is further increased by utilizing FTN signaling. At the receiver, based on the state-space model of IM symbols, a two-layer Forney style factor graph (FG) representation for the system is …
Scattering Transform Framework For Unmixing Of Hyperspectral Data, Yiliang Zeng, Christian H. Ritz, Jiahong Zhao, Jinhui Lan
Scattering Transform Framework For Unmixing Of Hyperspectral Data, Yiliang Zeng, Christian H. Ritz, Jiahong Zhao, Jinhui Lan
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
2019 by the authors. The scattering transform, which applies multiple convolutions using known filters targeting different scales of time or frequency, has a strong similarity to the structure of convolution neural networks (CNNs), without requiring training to learn the convolution filters, and has been used for hyperspectral image classification in recent research. This paper investigates the application of the scattering transform framework to hyperspectral unmixing (STFHU). While state-of-the-art research on unmixing hyperspectral data utilizing scattering transforms is limited, the proposed end-to-end method applies pixel-based scattering transforms and preliminary three-dimensional (3D) scattering transforms to hyperspectral images in the remote sensing scenario …
A Method For Dynamic 3d Shape Measurements Based On Multiple-Shot Ftp And Motion Compensation, Chengpu Duan, Jun Tong, Jiangtao Xi, Yiwei Zhang, Yanguang Yu, Qinghua Guo, Lei Lu
A Method For Dynamic 3d Shape Measurements Based On Multiple-Shot Ftp And Motion Compensation, Chengpu Duan, Jun Tong, Jiangtao Xi, Yiwei Zhang, Yanguang Yu, Qinghua Guo, Lei Lu
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
2019 SPIE. Fringe projection profilometry (FPP) has attracted considerable interests for addressing the challenge of measuring three-dimension (3D) shapes of moving objects. Compared with phase shift profilometry (PSP) which requires the capture of multiple fringe patterns and is thus only suitable for static objects, Fourier transform profilometry (FTP) is less sensitive to motion-induced errors. However, FTP is prone to the influence of background lights and variations of the surface reflectivity, which may result in less accurate measurements. There are studies aimed to reduce the measurement errors with FTP using more sophisticated processing of the fringe patterns. However, existing works focus …
A Fringe Projection Profilometry Scheme Based On Embedded Speckle Patterns And Robust Principal Component Analysis, Yiwei Zhang, Jun Tong, Jiangtao Xi, Chengpu Duan, Yanguang Yu, Qinghua Guo, Lei Lu
A Fringe Projection Profilometry Scheme Based On Embedded Speckle Patterns And Robust Principal Component Analysis, Yiwei Zhang, Jun Tong, Jiangtao Xi, Chengpu Duan, Yanguang Yu, Qinghua Guo, Lei Lu
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
2019 SPIE. Phase unwrapping is one of the key steps for fringe projection profilometry (FPP)-based 3D shape measurements. Conventional spatial phase unwrapping schemes are sensitive to noise and discontinuities, which may suffer from low accuracies. Temporal phase unwrapping is able to improve the reliability but often requires the acquisition of additional patterns, increasing the measurement time or hardware costs. This paper introduces a novel phase unwrapping scheme that utilizes composite patterns consisting of the superposition of standard sinusoidal patterns and randomly generated speckles. The low-rankness of the deformed sinusoidal patterns is studied. This is exploited together with the sparse nature …
Experimental Investigations Of Stress-Gas Pressure Evolution Rules Of Coal And Gas Outburst: A Case Study In Dingji Coal Mine, China, Bo Zhao, Jie Cao, Haitao Sun, Guangcai Wen, Linchao Dai, Bo-Chu Wang
Experimental Investigations Of Stress-Gas Pressure Evolution Rules Of Coal And Gas Outburst: A Case Study In Dingji Coal Mine, China, Bo Zhao, Jie Cao, Haitao Sun, Guangcai Wen, Linchao Dai, Bo-Chu Wang
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Coal and gas outburst is a potentially fatal risk during the mining of gassy coal seams, which seriously threatens the safe mining of collieries. To understand the outburst mechanism and evolution rules, a new apparatus (LSTT) was developed to conduct simulated experiment. In the context of an outburst accident in Dingji coal mine, the authors launched an authentic outburst experiment to replay the outburst accident. Experimental apparatus, similar criterion, coal‐like materials and gas sources, and experimental design were discussed systematically in this paper. Experimentally, the study analyzed the geo‐stress has significant influence on the outburst evolution. At the driving face, …
Creep Characteristics And Constitutive Model Of Coal Under Triaxial Stress And Gas Pressure, Liang Zhang, Xiangchun Li, Jia-Xing Gao, Zhen-Xing An, Xiaohan Yang, Baisheng Nie
Creep Characteristics And Constitutive Model Of Coal Under Triaxial Stress And Gas Pressure, Liang Zhang, Xiangchun Li, Jia-Xing Gao, Zhen-Xing An, Xiaohan Yang, Baisheng Nie
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Creep behavior is one of the most important mechanical behaviors of coal. In the present study, we systematically carried out a series of creep experiments of briquette samples under triaxial compression and gas pressure. The experimental results showed that the creep deformation characteristics of coal were related to deviatoric stress and gas pressure. The accelerating creep stage initiated when the deviatoric stress reached or exceeded the yield stress until failure took place. In contrast, when the deviatoric stress was less than the yield strength, only transient and steady creep stage occurred. Besides, gas pressure played a positive role in the …
Effect Of Geogrid Reinforcement On The Drying Shrinkage And Thermal Expansion Of Geopolymer Concrete, Abbas Sahib Abd-Ali Al-Hedad, Nabeel Farhan, Mengying Zhang, M Neaz Sheikh, Muhammad N. S Hadi
Effect Of Geogrid Reinforcement On The Drying Shrinkage And Thermal Expansion Of Geopolymer Concrete, Abbas Sahib Abd-Ali Al-Hedad, Nabeel Farhan, Mengying Zhang, M Neaz Sheikh, Muhammad N. S Hadi
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
2019 fib. International Federation for Structural Concrete The effect of triaxial geogrid reinforcement on the thermal expansion and drying shrinkage of geopolymer concrete (GPC) was experimentally investigated. Three groups of GPC prism specimens with a length of 280 mm and a cross-section of 75 mm x 75 mm were prepared and tested in this study. The first group included six unreinforced GPC specimens and was considered as the control group of specimens. The second group included six GPC specimens reinforced with one layer of geogrid. The third group included six GPC specimens reinforced with two layers of geogrid. The triaxial …
Optimizing Vibration Attenuation Performance Of A Magnetorheological Damper-Based Semi-Active Seat Suspension Using Artificial Intelligence, Xinhua Liu, Ningning Wang, Kun Wang, Hui Huang, Zhixiong Li, Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan, Weihua Li
Optimizing Vibration Attenuation Performance Of A Magnetorheological Damper-Based Semi-Active Seat Suspension Using Artificial Intelligence, Xinhua Liu, Ningning Wang, Kun Wang, Hui Huang, Zhixiong Li, Thompson Sarkodie-Gyan, Weihua Li
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
© Copyright © 2019 Liu, Wang, Wang, Huang, Li, Sarkodie-Gyan and Li. This paper aims to improve control performance for a magnetorheological damper (MRD)-based semi-active seat suspension system. The vibration of the suspension is isolated by controlling the stiffness of the MRD using a proportion integration differentiation (PID) controller. A new intelligent method for optimizing the PID parameters is proposed in this work. This new method appropriately incorporates particle swarm optimization (PSO) into the PID-parameter searching processing of an improved fruit fly optimization algorithm (IFOA). Thus, the PSO-IFOA method possesses better optimization ability than IFOA and is able to find …
Experimental Investigation And Performance Analysis Of An Organic Rankine Cycle For Low-Temperature Heat To Electricity Generation, Lili Wei, Zhenjun Ma, Xuemei Gong, Xiujuan Guo
Experimental Investigation And Performance Analysis Of An Organic Rankine Cycle For Low-Temperature Heat To Electricity Generation, Lili Wei, Zhenjun Ma, Xuemei Gong, Xiujuan Guo
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
© 2019 The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press. This paper presents experimental investigation of low-temperature heat to electricity generation system based on Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) using R152a as the working fluid. Both energy efficiency and exergy efficiency were analyzed based on the experiments. Although energy efficiency was low to 5.0% when the evaporating and cooling temperatures were 65°C and 11°C, respectively, the exergy efficiency reached 25%, which showed great competitiveness among low-temperature heat utilization technologies. To reveal the energy recovery proportion from the waste heat, both energy extraction efficiency and exergy extraction efficiency as well as energy …
Uncertainty Analysis Of The Limits To Growth Model: Sensitivity Is High, But Trends Are Stable, Ashley Heath, Brad Stappenbelt, Montserrat Ros
Uncertainty Analysis Of The Limits To Growth Model: Sensitivity Is High, But Trends Are Stable, Ashley Heath, Brad Stappenbelt, Montserrat Ros
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
©2019 A.W. Heath et al. Uncertainty analysis is an important step in determining the reliability of a model. Models which are used to determine policies or guide decisions must be reliable to ensure sound choices are made. The Limits to Growth model by Donella Meadows and colleagues was one of the first computer models to investigate global issues of population growth and resource constraints. The model received much attention and criticism, sometimes being accused of being too sensitive to variations in input parameters. This paper studies the model's sensitivity to input error through an uncertainty analysis, and examines if this …
Periodic Topology Optimization Of A Stacker Crane, Hongyu Jiao, Feng Li, Zhengyi Jiang, Ying Li, Zhao Yu
Periodic Topology Optimization Of A Stacker Crane, Hongyu Jiao, Feng Li, Zhengyi Jiang, Ying Li, Zhao Yu
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
© 2013 IEEE. The stacker crane is a long-and-thin structure with a large length-to-width ratio. It is difficult to obtain a topology configuration with good period properties using traditional optimization methods. While the mathematical model of periodic topology optimization - in which the elements' relative densities are selected as design variables, and mean compliance as the objective function - is established. To find a topology configuration with a good period property, an additional constraint condition must be imported into the mathematical model. According to the optimization criteria method, the iterative formula of design variables is derived in the virtual sub …
Achieving High Resolution Measurement Using Laser Diode Operating At Period One, Yuxi Ruan, Bairun Nie, Yanguang Yu, Jiangtao Xi, Qinghua Guo, Jun Tong, Zhuqiu Chen
Achieving High Resolution Measurement Using Laser Diode Operating At Period One, Yuxi Ruan, Bairun Nie, Yanguang Yu, Jiangtao Xi, Qinghua Guo, Jun Tong, Zhuqiu Chen
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Copyright 2019 SPIE. When a part of light emitted by a laser is back-reflected or back-scattered from an external target and re-enters the laser cavity, both the laser intensity and its wavelength can be modulated. This is so-called self-mixing effect (SME), the optical feedback interferometry (OFI) utilizes such effect in an LD developed various applications. In this paper, we use a dualcavity OFI system that operating in period one state, the laser intensity from this system exhibits an oscillation with its amplitude modulated by a traditional single cavity OFI signal. The dual-cavity OFI system has the same measurement resolution as …
Effect Of Windowing On A Sensing Signal Generated By Self-Mixing Interferometry, Han Wang, Yuxi Ruan, Yanguang Yu, Jiangtao Xi, Qinghua Guo, Jun Tong
Effect Of Windowing On A Sensing Signal Generated By Self-Mixing Interferometry, Han Wang, Yuxi Ruan, Yanguang Yu, Jiangtao Xi, Qinghua Guo, Jun Tong
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Copyright 2019 SPIE. The laser diode (LD) is modulated by the injection current of triangular waveform and a photo diode (PD) is packaged in the rear of the LD. The laser reflected by the target re-enters the cavity of LD and contains the target's displacement information. The information is carried within the laser intensity and can be pickup by the PD. We call this laser intensity as self-mixing interferometry (SMI) signal. While processing the sensing SMI signals, we should carefully determine the windowing function and reduce the effect of windowing in the FFT and IFFT process while applying the mathematical …
A Two-Layer Channel Access Approach For Rf-Energy Harvesting Networks, Hang Yu, Kwan-Wu Chin
A Two-Layer Channel Access Approach For Rf-Energy Harvesting Networks, Hang Yu, Kwan-Wu Chin
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
2013 IEEE. We consider a Hybrid Access Point (HAP) that charges one or more energy harvesting devices via Radio Frequency (RF). These devices then transmit their data to the HAP. To date, prior works assume devices use Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) for channel access, and these devices are able to transmit using any amounts of harvested energy. By contrast, we consider Dynamic Framed Slotted Aloha (DFSA) and devices can only transmit if they have sufficient energy. Moreover, nodes are not aware of each other's energy level, meaning the HAP and devices are unaware of the number of devices that …
High-Performance K-Co2 Batteries Based On Metal-Free Carbon Electrocatalysts, Wenchao Zhang, Chuangang Hu, Zaiping Guo, Liming Dai
High-Performance K-Co2 Batteries Based On Metal-Free Carbon Electrocatalysts, Wenchao Zhang, Chuangang Hu, Zaiping Guo, Liming Dai
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
2019 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Metal-CO2 batteries have attracted much attention owing to their high energy density and use of greenhouse CO2 waste as the energy source. However, the increasing cost of lithium and the low discharge potential of Na-CO2 batteries create obstacles for practical applications of Li/Na-CO2 batteries. Recently, earth-abundant potassium ions have attracted considerable interest as fast ionic charge carriers for electrochemical energy storage. Herein, we report the first K-CO2 battery with a carbon-based metal-free electrocatalyst. The battery shows a higher theoretical discharge potential (E⊖=2.48 V) than that of Na-CO2 batteries (E⊖=2.35 V) and can …
Numerically Pricing Convertible Bonds Under Stochastic Volatility Or Stochastic Interest Rate With An Adi-Based Predictor-Corrector Scheme, Sha Lin, Song-Ping Zhu
Numerically Pricing Convertible Bonds Under Stochastic Volatility Or Stochastic Interest Rate With An Adi-Based Predictor-Corrector Scheme, Sha Lin, Song-Ping Zhu
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
2019 Elsevier Ltd In this paper, the pricing problem for the American-style convertible bonds with the Heston stochastic volatility and that with the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross (CIR) stochastic interest rate are both considered. Due to the complexity of both problems, resulting from an additional stochastic factor, it is almost impossible to find any analytical solution. Therefore, a predictor-corrector scheme is chosen as the numerical scheme to solve the partial differential equations (PDEs), with the Douglas-Rachford (D-R) method being utilized as one of the Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) methods for the correction step to obtain the numerical solution. Finally, the accuracy of our …
Untwisting Twisted Spectral Triples, Magnus Goffeng, Bram Mesland, Adam C. Rennie
Untwisting Twisted Spectral Triples, Magnus Goffeng, Bram Mesland, Adam C. Rennie
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
2019 World Scientific Publishing Company. We examine the index data associated to twisted spectral triples and higher order spectral triples. In particular, we show that a Lipschitz regular twisted spectral triple can always be "logarithmically dampened" through functional calculus, to obtain an ordinary (i.e. untwisted) spectral triple. The same procedure turns higher order spectral triples into spectral triples. We provide examples of highly regular twisted spectral triples with nontrivial index data for which Moscovici's ansatz for a twisted local index formula is identically zero.
A Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Fair Meeting Location Determination Scheme, Hua Shen, Mingwu Zhang, Hao Wang, Fuchun Guo, Willy Susilo
A Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Fair Meeting Location Determination Scheme, Hua Shen, Mingwu Zhang, Hao Wang, Fuchun Guo, Willy Susilo
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Equipped with mobile devices, people relied on location-based services can expediently and reasonably organize their activities. But location information may disclose people's sensitive information, such as interests, health status. Besides, the limited resources of mobile devices restrict the further development of location-based services. In this paper, aiming at the fair meeting position determination service, we design a lightweight privacy-preserving solution. In our scheme, mobile users only need to submit service requests. A cloud server and a location services provider are responsible for service response, where the cloud server achieves most of the calculation, and the location services provider determines the …
Facilitating Application-Aware Bandwidth Allocation In The Cloud With One-Step-Ahead Traffic Information, Dian Shen, Junzhou Luo, Fang Dong, Jiahui Jin, Junxue Zhang, Jun Shen
Facilitating Application-Aware Bandwidth Allocation In The Cloud With One-Step-Ahead Traffic Information, Dian Shen, Junzhou Luo, Fang Dong, Jiahui Jin, Junxue Zhang, Jun Shen
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Bandwidth allocation to virtual machines (VMs) has a significant impact on the performance of communication-intensive big data applications hosted in VMs. It is crucial to accurately determine how much bandwidth to be reserved for VMs and when to adjust it. Past approaches typically resort to predicting the long-term network demands of applications for bandwidth allocation. However, lacking of prediction accuracy, these methods lead to the unpredictable application performance. Recently, it is conceded that the network demands of applications can only be accurately derived right before each of their execution phases. Hence, it is challenging to timely allocate the bandwidth to …
Effect Of Particle Size On Microstructure And Element Diffusion At The Interface Of Tungsten Carbide/High Strength Steel Composites, Hongmei Zhang, Hongnan Li, Ling Yan, Chao Wang, Fangfang Ai, Yan Li, Nan Li, Zhengyi Jiang
Effect Of Particle Size On Microstructure And Element Diffusion At The Interface Of Tungsten Carbide/High Strength Steel Composites, Hongmei Zhang, Hongnan Li, Ling Yan, Chao Wang, Fangfang Ai, Yan Li, Nan Li, Zhengyi Jiang
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
The microstructure and micro-hardness of tungsten carbide/high strength steel (WC/HSS) composites with different particle sizes were analyzed by optical microscopy (OM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), ultra-high temperature laser confocal microscopy (UTLCM) and micro-hardness testing. The composites were prepared by cold pressing and vacuum sintering. The results show that WC density tends to increase as the average grain size of WC decreases and the micro-hardness of WC increases with the decrease of WC particle size. The micro-hardness of WC near the bonding interface is higher than that in other regions. When the particle size of WC powder particles is 200 nm, …
Formula For Sediment Transport Subject To Vertical Flows, Shu-Qing Yang
Formula For Sediment Transport Subject To Vertical Flows, Shu-Qing Yang
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
Sediment transport is a geophysical phenomenon in which sediment particles are driven to move in streamwise and vertical directions by various forces. Almost all existing formulas of sediment transport were derived without considering vertical flows V, resulting in a large discrepancy between measured and predicted transport rates, as has been reported in the literature. This paper investigates the effect of vertical motion on sediment transport. It was found that upward fluid velocity increases particles' mobility, and downward motion increases particles stability. Furthermore, the investigation showed that decelerating flows can promote upward flow and vice versa. New equations were developed to …
Mixed Convection Of Non-Newtonian Nanofluid In An H-Shaped Cavity With Cooler And Heater Cylinders Filled By A Porous Material: Two Phase Approach, Zhixiong Li, Pouya Barnoon, Davood Toghraie, Reza Balali Dehkordi, Masoud Afrand
Mixed Convection Of Non-Newtonian Nanofluid In An H-Shaped Cavity With Cooler And Heater Cylinders Filled By A Porous Material: Two Phase Approach, Zhixiong Li, Pouya Barnoon, Davood Toghraie, Reza Balali Dehkordi, Masoud Afrand
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B
In the present problem, two-phase mixed convection of a non-Newtonian nanofluid in a porous H-shaped cavity is studied. Inside the enclosure there are four rotating cylinders, using the Boussinesq approximation, mixed convection is created. Nanofluid includes H2O + 0.5% CMC and copper oxide nanoparticles. The mixture model was used to model physical phenomena. Different aspect ratios were used in order to achieve the best heat transfer rate. The Darcy and Richardson numbers ranges are 10−4 ≤ Da ≤ 10−2 and 1 ≤ Ri ≤ 100 respectively. Also, the aspect ratio and dimensionless angular velocities of cylinders ranges are 1.4 ≤ …
Life And Death With Horses: Gillian Mears’ Novel Foal’S Bread, Deborah Wardle
Life And Death With Horses: Gillian Mears’ Novel Foal’S Bread, Deborah Wardle
Animal Studies Journal
Gillian Mears’ novel Foal’s Bread (2011) invites an examination of horses in fiction, opening a platform for exploring the horse in Australian literature from a zoocritical perspective. This paper argues that writing horses into stories involves addressing, indeed flouting the ‘sin’ of anthropomorphism. The problems and paradoxes of ascribing subjectivity to fictional equine characters are discussed. The death of the main equine character, Magpie, is framed as a site of disregard, an example of human disconnection from the lives and deaths of animals. Using excerpts from the award-wining novel, Foal’s Bread, as well as examples from other equine literature, the …
How Shall We Live Together? A Response To Paola Cavalieri, Sue Donaldson
How Shall We Live Together? A Response To Paola Cavalieri, Sue Donaldson
Animal Studies Journal
Paola Cavalieri asks whether the animal rights/liberation (AR/L) movement should be ‘selfsufficient and self-reliant’,2 and develop ‘an autonomous presence both in the political arena and in the electoral process’3 rather than focusing on alliance building with the broader Left. Cavalieri’s hesitation about alliance-building is motivated by worries about diffusion and loss of focus, but also by the thought that ‘humanism leads the worse-off to cling to their humanity to the detriment of animals’. Thus, acting ‘as a full member of the family of social justice struggles’ will lead either to wasting energy on alliances that never materialize, or to watering …
[Review] Joshua Lobb, The Flight Of Birds. Sydney University Press, 2019. 322pp, Alex Lockwood
[Review] Joshua Lobb, The Flight Of Birds. Sydney University Press, 2019. 322pp, Alex Lockwood
Animal Studies Journal
Why, one could ask, does such a high proportion of the very best works of recently published literary and creative prose, which choose to engage with climate change, environmental shock, biodiversity crises, and extinction risks – the existential threats we face as a global multispecies population – all tell stories with and of nonhuman animals? My theory, one shared by Amitav Ghosh in The Great Derangement (although with differing conclusions) is that the very nature of the threats we face is a reckoning with our alienation from the nonhuman world. It is a reckoning we need to have, without ‘hiding’ …
[Review] Michael Lundblad, Editor, Animalities: Literary And Cultural Studies Beyond The Human. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 249pp, Wendy Woodward
[Review] Michael Lundblad, Editor, Animalities: Literary And Cultural Studies Beyond The Human. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. 249pp, Wendy Woodward
Animal Studies Journal
Lundblad’s introduction defines and separates human-animal studies, animality studies and posthumanism. While there are perhaps more cross-overs than Lundblad suggests, the introduction provides a lucid discussion of these fields, sub-fields and their provenance. In addition, each essay in Animalities locates its analysis in relation to these categorizations. Cary Wolfe’s essay on ‘The Poetics of Extinction’ considers the case of Martha, an individual, named passenger pigeon who was the last of her species, partly via Michael Pestel’s installation which memorialises her and seems to offer some hope that she might live again. Neel Ahuja continues with the spectre of extinction and …
A Spira Inspired Approach To Animal Protection Advocacy For Rabbits In The Australian Meat Industry, Reem Lascelles, Alexandra Mcewan
A Spira Inspired Approach To Animal Protection Advocacy For Rabbits In The Australian Meat Industry, Reem Lascelles, Alexandra Mcewan
Animal Studies Journal
This paper explores the relevance of Henry Spira’s approach to the animal protection advocacy in the context of Australian rabbit meat farms. The Australian rabbit meat industry is a relatively unexplored area of animal protection scholarship. Of particular significance is the fact that, in contrast to the move towards ‘free range’ for other domestic species used for meat, there is no such thing, nor it seems will there ever be, ‘free range’ domestic rabbit meat. The status of ‘the rabbit’ as a pest species in Australia means that, in the domestic realm at least, the rabbit faces existence in a …
Towards Multispecies Solidarity: Individual Stories Of Learning To Consume Ethically, Elisabeth Valiente-Riedl
Towards Multispecies Solidarity: Individual Stories Of Learning To Consume Ethically, Elisabeth Valiente-Riedl
Animal Studies Journal
This research problematises the translation of economic agency into political agency through ethical consumption. Employing narrative enquiry, the experiences and perceptions of three young women are documented and analysed. This permits a grounded examination of the advocacy and consumption nexus, including participants relative prioritisation of (competing) ethical values and practices relative to traditional consumption concerns. A key finding is that prioritisation of wellbeing, comprising that of humans, animals and other forms of life, requires a rearticulation of the traditional concept of ‘political solidarity’ to a more multifaceted conception of ‘multispecies solidarity’. Moreover, conception of self and of solidarity through consumption …