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Evaluation Of Abiotic Stress Resistance In Mutated Populations Of Cauliflower (Brassica Oleracea Var. Botrytis), Mp Fuller, Emr Metwali, Mh Eed, Aj Jellings Jan 2006

Evaluation Of Abiotic Stress Resistance In Mutated Populations Of Cauliflower (Brassica Oleracea Var. Botrytis), Mp Fuller, Emr Metwali, Mh Eed, Aj Jellings

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

An efficient in vitro screening method has been developed for cauliflower to create NEU and NMU induced mutant lines selected on hydroxyproline containing medium. Mutant lines and control plants were sub-cultured many times on maintenance medium and stored at 5°C for 2 years and then tested for salt and hydroxyproline resistance as in vitro and in vivo plants. In vitro shoot tips were also sub-cultured to media containing hydroxyproline and NaCl for 28 days and then assessed for their leaf proline content. Non-acclimated and acclimated in vivo plants were also assessed for resistance to freezing. Populations of control and selected …

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Little Understood Knowledge Trap, Hans-Dieter Evers, Solvay Gerke, Thomas Menkhoff Jan 2006

Little Understood Knowledge Trap, Hans-Dieter Evers, Solvay Gerke, Thomas Menkhoff

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

As knowledge increases, we realise how much else we do not know. Successful research always results in new questions. Any knowledge economy must be aware of such unknowns if it is to expand further through research and development. Debate on bridging the digital divide does not take this factor into account. Many of the strategies currently preached are misplaced.

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National Report On Social Capital - Singapore, Wee Liang Tan Jan 2006

National Report On Social Capital - Singapore, Wee Liang Tan

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

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The 2006 Analysis Of Information Remaining On Disks Offered For Sale On The Second Hand Market, Andrew Jones, Craig Valli, Iain Sutherland, Paula Thomas Jan 2006

The 2006 Analysis Of Information Remaining On Disks Offered For Sale On The Second Hand Market, Andrew Jones, Craig Valli, Iain Sutherland, Paula Thomas

Research outputs pre 2011

All organisations, whether in the public or private sector, use computers for the storage and processing of information relating to their business or services, their employees and their customers. A large proportion of families and individuals in their homes now also use personal computers and, both intentionally and inadvertently, often store on those computers personal information. It is clear that most organisations and individuals continue to be unaware of the information that may be stored on the hard disks that the computers contain, and have not considered what may happen to the information after the disposal of the equipment. In …

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Leading Hackers Down The Garden Path, Suen Yek Jan 2006

Leading Hackers Down The Garden Path, Suen Yek

Research outputs pre 2011

Can a hacker be controlled by predetermined deception? Limiting the decision making capabilities of hackers is one technique of network countermeasure that a honeynet enables. By furnishing a honeynet with a realistic range of services but restricted vulnerabilities, a hacker may be forced to direct their attacks to the only available exploits. This research discusses the deployment of a honeynet configured with a deceptive TELNET and TFTP exploit. Four hackers were invited to attack the honeynet and the analysis of their compromise identified if they engaged in a guided pathway to the intended deception. Hand trace analysis was performed on …

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A Hybrid P-Cycle Search Algorithm For Protection In Wdm Mesh Networks, Kungmang Lo, Daryoush Habibi, Alexander Rassau, Quoc Viet Phung, Hoang Nguyen, Byung Kang Jan 2006

A Hybrid P-Cycle Search Algorithm For Protection In Wdm Mesh Networks, Kungmang Lo, Daryoush Habibi, Alexander Rassau, Quoc Viet Phung, Hoang Nguyen, Byung Kang

Research outputs pre 2011

p-Cycle is a type of shared link protection for survivable wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) mesh networks. p-Cycle not only retains ring-like restoration speeds, but also achieves capacity efficiency in mesh networks. However, finding the optimal set of p-cycles to protect all traffic demands within a reasonable response time is difficult. This is particularity true with dense meshes or large networks, because the number of candidates is huge. Generally, p-cycles are determined by using either Integer Linear Programming (ILP) or specifically designed heuristic algorithms. However, both methods need a set of efficient candidate cycles to tradeoff between the computational time and the …

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Opto-Vlsi-Based Correlator Architecture For Multiwavelength Optical Header Recognition, Muhsen Aljada, Kamal E. Alameh, Khalid Al-Begain Jan 2006

Opto-Vlsi-Based Correlator Architecture For Multiwavelength Optical Header Recognition, Muhsen Aljada, Kamal E. Alameh, Khalid Al-Begain

Research outputs pre 2011

A novel optical correlator employing an opto-very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) processor to construct the routing lookup table, in conjunction with an array of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) for multiwavelength optical header recognition is demonstrated. The FBG array provides wavelength-dependent time delays, whereas the opto-VLSI processor generates wavelength intensity profiles that match arbitrary bit patterns. The recognition of 4-b optical patterns is experimentally demonstrated at 2.2 Gb/s by showing that the correlator produces an autocorrelation waveform of high peak whenever the input bit pattern matches the wavelength intensity profile.

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An Automated Sampling Soil Reduction-Oxygenation Rf Sensor Network For Cereal Crop Management, Michael Collins, Christopher C. Holme, Keng T. Tan, Leisa Armstrong Jan 2006

An Automated Sampling Soil Reduction-Oxygenation Rf Sensor Network For Cereal Crop Management, Michael Collins, Christopher C. Holme, Keng T. Tan, Leisa Armstrong

Research outputs pre 2011

There is a need for cost effective tools and data collection methods for field measurements: to increase both productivity and volumes of collected data in the quest for enhanced understanding and management of environmental systems. To such end, we explore the various RF technologies that may be combined into a cost effective soil redox sensor network, discuss the merits of each as a component of said network, describe a prototype soil redox sensor network and present the method and results of laboratory and field tests performed. The experiment was conducted by running the prototype RF based equipment alongside a closely …

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Sports Science Roundtable: Does Sports Science Research Influence Practice?, David Bishop, Angus Burnett, Damien Farrow, Tim Gabbett, Robert Newton Jan 2006

Sports Science Roundtable: Does Sports Science Research Influence Practice?, David Bishop, Angus Burnett, Damien Farrow, Tim Gabbett, Robert Newton

Research outputs pre 2011

As sports scientists, we claim to make a signifi cant contribution to the body of knowledge that infl uences athletic practice and performance. Is this the reality? At the inaugural congress of the Australian Association for Exercise and Sports Science, a panel of well-credentialed academic experts with experience in the applied environment debated the question, Does sports-science research influence practice? The fi rst task was to defi ne “sports-science research,” and it was generally agreed that it is concerned with providing evidence that improves sports performance. When practices are equally effective, sports scientists also have a role in identifying practices …

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Reusable And Shareable Learning Objects Supporting Students Learning Of Data Structures In University Courses, Kacha Chansilp, Ron Oliver Jan 2006

Reusable And Shareable Learning Objects Supporting Students Learning Of Data Structures In University Courses, Kacha Chansilp, Ron Oliver

Research outputs pre 2011

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Efficient P-Cycle Design By Heuristic P-Cycle Selection And Refinement For Servivable Wdm Mesh Networks, Kungmang Lo, Daryoush Habibi, Quoc Viet Phung, Alexander Rassau, Hoang N. Nguyen Jan 2006

Efficient P-Cycle Design By Heuristic P-Cycle Selection And Refinement For Servivable Wdm Mesh Networks, Kungmang Lo, Daryoush Habibi, Quoc Viet Phung, Alexander Rassau, Hoang N. Nguyen

Research outputs pre 2011

Using p-Cycles to protect against single span failures in Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks has been widely studied. p-Cycle retains not only the speed of ring-like restoration, but also achieves the capacity efficiency over mesh networks. However, in selecting an optimal set of p-cycles to achieve the minimum spare capacity and fast computational time is an NP-hard problem. To address this issue, we propose a heuristic approach to iteratively select and refine a set of p-cycles, which contains two algorithms: the Heuristic p-Cycle Selection (HPS) algorithm, and the Refine Selected Cycles (RSC) algorithm. Our simulation results show that the proposed approach …

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The Art Of Making Smart Big Moves, Paul Strebel, Anne-Valerie Ohlsson-Corboz Jan 2006

The Art Of Making Smart Big Moves, Paul Strebel, Anne-Valerie Ohlsson-Corboz

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

For many companies, incremental growth is not sufficient. The changing business landscape is forcing corporate leaders to learn how to reposition their businesses more fundamentally.

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The Role Of European Governments In The Digital Economy, Arnoud Cyriel Leo De Meyer Jan 2006

The Role Of European Governments In The Digital Economy, Arnoud Cyriel Leo De Meyer

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

What is the role of government in the digital economy? It is not our intention to go into an in-depth ideological debate on whether governments should intervene in the business sector. We will try to adopt a pragmatic approach and explore what already happens in practice. It is up to the reader to make a judgment to what extent the governments should be involved in the ICT sector. There is enough indication that, due to network externality effects, governments need to take on an active role in stimulating an e-environment to jump-start the move toward a higher level of e-readiness.In …

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Beyond Marks And Measurement: Developing Dynamic And Authentic Forms Of E-Assessment, Catherine E Mcloughlin, Joseph Luca Jan 2006

Beyond Marks And Measurement: Developing Dynamic And Authentic Forms Of E-Assessment, Catherine E Mcloughlin, Joseph Luca

Research outputs pre 2011

E-learning has transformed both pedagogy and learning environments and a new generation of learners has emerged, who require immediacy, connection and personalised opportunities for both formal and informal learning. Instead of using narrowly defined learning outcomes tested by examinations, social software tools offer scope for social connection and self-governed assessment tasks such as critical inquiry, collaboration and team work, giving learners multiple channels of expression, and perspective taking. While social software tools can be closely inter-woven with learning management systems, and be used to scaffold authentic tasks for assessment, there remain design and pedagogical challenges. The paper critiques current practice …

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Establishing A Vendor Neutral Skills Based Framework For Digital Forensics Curriculum Development And Competence Assessment, Craig Valli Jan 2006

Establishing A Vendor Neutral Skills Based Framework For Digital Forensics Curriculum Development And Competence Assessment, Craig Valli

Research outputs pre 2011

This paper outlines an approach being undertaken between ECU and the Australian Electronic Evidence Special Advisory Group (EESAG) in the production of vendor neutral skills matrix for developing curriculum and evaluating competence. The framework is constructed using Blooms Taxonomy of Learning. This is a work in progress paper and covers the inital stages of the development

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Responses Of Elbow Flexors To Two Strenuous Eccentric Exercise Bouts Separated By Three Days, Trevor C. Chen, Kazunori Nosaka Jan 2006

Responses Of Elbow Flexors To Two Strenuous Eccentric Exercise Bouts Separated By Three Days, Trevor C. Chen, Kazunori Nosaka

Research outputs pre 2011

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Curriculum As Praxis: Ensuring Quality Technical Education In Singapore For The 21st Century, Tiew Ming Yek, Dawn Penney Jan 2006

Curriculum As Praxis: Ensuring Quality Technical Education In Singapore For The 21st Century, Tiew Ming Yek, Dawn Penney

Research outputs pre 2011

Singapore, a small island city-state, has achieved notable economic advancement within 40 years since independence. It is fast becoming a global city and a knowledge society. In education and training, the Singapore system has evolved from its British roots. Macro performance indicators of participation rate, literacy rate and mean years of schooling, show that the current education system can be regarded as highly successful. The contributions of general education as well as technical education and training1 to the overall success of the nation are often cited. Technical education and training, which is globally perceived as having a lower status than …

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Judith Dinham: An Artistic Journey, Judith Dinham Jan 2006

Judith Dinham: An Artistic Journey, Judith Dinham

Research outputs pre 2011

STUDENTS AND TEACHERS of secondary and tertiary visual arts studies will find this book of immense value. It is a unique resource in that it brings together, in a single work, a wide variety of primary texts focused on a single artist. To gather such a diverse range of material on any single artist would require months of research. The book serves multiple functions: it is at one level a history of a very fine artist, Judith Dinham, in another sense it is a history of a period of the development of a specific research trajectory. It maps the artist's …

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Reliability Of Normalisation Methods For Emg Analysis Of Neck Muscles, Kevin Netto, Angus F Burnett Jan 2006

Reliability Of Normalisation Methods For Emg Analysis Of Neck Muscles, Kevin Netto, Angus F Burnett

Research outputs pre 2011

Acceptable reliability of normalisation contractions in electromyography (EMG) is paramount for testing conducted over a number of days or if normal laboratory strength testing equipment is unavailable. This study examined the reliability of maximal voluntary isometric contractions (MVIC) and sub-maximal (60%) isometric contractions for use in neck muscle EMG studies. Surface EMG was recorded bilaterally from eight sites around the neck at C4/5 level from five healthy male subjects. Subjects performed MVIC and sub-maximal normalisation contractions using an isokinetic dynamometer (ID) and a portable cable dynamometer with attached strain gauge (PCD) in addition to a MVIC against a manual resistance …

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Raising Edith: The Transformation Of A New Generation University: Edith Cowan University 1995-2005, Ken Spillman Jan 2006

Raising Edith: The Transformation Of A New Generation University: Edith Cowan University 1995-2005, Ken Spillman

Research outputs pre 2011

Adaptation is an important theme in ECU's history between 1995 and 2005, but the university's transmutation in that decade was revolutionary as well as evolutionary. Organisational reform was deliberate, broad, swift and consequential. It was accomplished in the face of significant resistance. The impact was measurable. ECU was ineradicably altered by means of a change management operation which, in the strictly corporate world, might well be described as 'reengineering'- a radical redesign process to 'achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance'.2

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Opening Pandora's Box: Teacher Librarianship In The Twenty-First Century, Barbara Combes Jan 2006

Opening Pandora's Box: Teacher Librarianship In The Twenty-First Century, Barbara Combes

Research outputs pre 2011

In a world that is currently struggling to come to terms with the Internet, the exponential explosion in the volume of readily available information and a plethora of delivery modes and resource formats; the role of the teacher librarian and the school library in this new information landscape is murkier than ever before, This presentation looks at how teacher librarians can reinvent themselves and their school libraries to become an essential component of the core business of the school, i.e." teaching and learning, It is all about unlocking hidden talents, facing challenges and taking control.

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A Review Of Landholder Motivations And Determinants For Participation In Conservation Covenanting Programmes, Thomas Kabii, Pierre Horwitz Jan 2006

A Review Of Landholder Motivations And Determinants For Participation In Conservation Covenanting Programmes, Thomas Kabii, Pierre Horwitz

Research outputs pre 2011

Conservation covenants (or easements) are flexible but legally enforceable documents attached to a land title restricting the use of that land, providing for the protection of important conservation values, while allowing the landholder to retain possession. Given the attractiveness of covenants to those who seek to expand national and regional nature conservation initiatives, it is important to understand landholder motivations for participation in programmes that covenant for nature conservation. This paper examines the likely influences on landholder decision making when it comes to conservation initiatives. A review of literature highlights key motivations and determinants, such as landholder demographics and the …

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Identifying The Challenges In Teaching Computer Science Topics Online, Yuwanuch Gulatee, Barbara Combes Jan 2006

Identifying The Challenges In Teaching Computer Science Topics Online, Yuwanuch Gulatee, Barbara Combes

Research outputs pre 2011

In an attempt to provide educational opportunities to the students who are working or have other constraints on their time, many universities are developing distance education programs. In the past decade, web technology has been adopted to assist learners with studying at a distance. However, distance learning in the field of computer science, such as studying programming languages, remains challenging to teach via the web medium. There is little evidence that the effectiveness of web-based learning includes a process to solve complex problems. REFERENCES IN AN ABSTRACT!? In particular it can be problematic for technical subjects to be taught online …

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Low-Cost Rfid Identification Variation, Koong Lin, Tzu-Chang Yeh, Yao-Yuan Liu, Chad Lin Jan 2006

Low-Cost Rfid Identification Variation, Koong Lin, Tzu-Chang Yeh, Yao-Yuan Liu, Chad Lin

Research outputs pre 2011

Interests continue to grow in recent years for the adoption of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in many different areas including transportation and supply chain management. Those RFID-included objects can be targeted more efficiently by real-time tracking and instant management. However, because of the contact-less type of RFID remote retrieval, the transmission of data in the air is very vulnerable to eavesdropping or appropriation. A primary security concern surrounding RFID technology is the illicit tracking of consumer location and analyzing of their shopping habits or behavior. This paper proposes a more secure and lightweight RFID variation protection protocol which enhances the …

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High-Speed (2.5 Gbps) Reconfigurable Inter-Chip Optical Interconnects Using Opto-Vlsi Processors, Muhsen Aljada, Kamal Alameh, Yong Lee, Il-Sug Chung Jan 2006

High-Speed (2.5 Gbps) Reconfigurable Inter-Chip Optical Interconnects Using Opto-Vlsi Processors, Muhsen Aljada, Kamal Alameh, Yong Lee, Il-Sug Chung

Research outputs pre 2011

Reconfigurablele optical interconnects enable flexible and high-performance communication in multi-chip architectures to be arbitrarily adapted, leading to efficient parallel signal processing. The use of Opto-VLSI processors as beam steerers and multicasters for reconfigurable inter-chip optical interconnection is discussed. We demonstrate, as proof-of-concept, 2.5 Gbps reconfigurable optical interconnects between an 850nm vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSEL) array and a photodiode (PD) array integrated onto a PCB by driving two Opto-VLSI processors with steering and multicasting digital phase holograms. The architecture is experimentally demonstrated through three scenarios showing its flexibility to perform single, multicasting, and parallel reconfigurable optical interconnects. To our …

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Distributed Wireless Optical Communications For Humanitarian Assistance In Disasters, Muhsen Aljada, Kamal Alameh, Khalid Al-Begain Jan 2006

Distributed Wireless Optical Communications For Humanitarian Assistance In Disasters, Muhsen Aljada, Kamal Alameh, Khalid Al-Begain

Research outputs pre 2011

We propose an optical wireless communication network architecture employing an all-optical central communication unit and optical transceiver units. The network can easily be installed when communication network facilities are partially damaged by a disaster. The network performance is simulated at 1Gbit/s, over 1km under different weather conditions.

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An Approach To Resolve Data Model Heterogeneities In Multiple Data Sources, Chaiyaporn Chirathamjaree Jan 2006

An Approach To Resolve Data Model Heterogeneities In Multiple Data Sources, Chaiyaporn Chirathamjaree

Research outputs pre 2011

To gain a competitive advantage, it is imperative for executives to be able to obtain one unique view of information, normally scattered across disparate data sources, in an accurate and timely manner. To interoperate data sources which differ structurally and semantically, particular problems occur, for example, problems of changing schema in data sources affect the integrated schema. This paper presents an approach to resolve data model heterogeneities in databases and legacy systems through mediation and wrapping techniques. The system is well supported by the mediated data model (MDM), a semantically-rich data model which can describe and represent heterogeneous data schematically …

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Creative Writing As Practice-Led Research, Lelia Rosalind Green Jan 2006

Creative Writing As Practice-Led Research, Lelia Rosalind Green

Research outputs pre 2011

This paper accepts that new knowledge in the Arts is created through practice-led research and that creative writing is one expression of a practice leading to practice-led research outcomes. However, in trying to explain this methodological approach to 'outsiders: the practice-led researcher may be accused of circularity and/or self-delusion. The alleged circularity tends to be represented back to the researcher as '50 what you're saying is that 'practice-led research leads to knowledge that results from engaging in practice' Is that right?'

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Child-Centred Environments To Limit Early Aggression (Childhood Aggression Prevention (Cap) Project) Progress Report: Presented To The Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation, Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University Jan 2006

Child-Centred Environments To Limit Early Aggression (Childhood Aggression Prevention (Cap) Project) Progress Report: Presented To The Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation, Child Health Promotion Research Centre, Edith Cowan University

Research outputs pre 2011

A growing body of evidence indicates that early intervention may be most effective in preventing the high health and social costs of violence, victimisation, and other outcomes of aggression. The Childhood Aggression Prevention (CAP) Project is a trial of a new classroom-based intervention designed to prevent problems associated with aggression and other problem behaviours in early-primary years students. The intervention was developed through a review of established and previously-evaluated programs with similar aims and through a formative study conducted previously by the Child Health Promotion Research Centre. The CAP Project aims to reduce overt physical and verbal aggression, but also …

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Shuffling Buddies: How An Online Community Supports Heart Patients With Healthier Lifestyle Choices - An Early Indication Of Physical Activity And Exercise Outcomes From The Heartnet Intervention, Leesa Costello, Arshad Omari, Maurice Gerard Swanson Jan 2006

Shuffling Buddies: How An Online Community Supports Heart Patients With Healthier Lifestyle Choices - An Early Indication Of Physical Activity And Exercise Outcomes From The Heartnet Intervention, Leesa Costello, Arshad Omari, Maurice Gerard Swanson

Research outputs pre 2011

No abstract provided.

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