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Visual Perception Of Touchdown Point During Simulated Landing, Stephen A. Palmisano, Barbara Gillam
Visual Perception Of Touchdown Point During Simulated Landing, Stephen A. Palmisano, Barbara Gillam
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Experiments examined the accuracy of visual touchdown point perception during oblique descents (1.5o-15o) toward a ground plane consisting of (a) randomly positioned dots, (b) a runway outline, or (c) a grid. Participants judged whether the perceived touchdown point was above or below a probe that appeared at a random position following each display. Although judgments were unacceptably imprecise and biased for moving dot and runway displays, accurate and unbiased judgments were found for griddisplays. It is concluded that optic flow per se does not appear to be sufficient for a pilot to land an airplane and …
Applying Formal Concept Analysis To Semantic File Systems Leveraging Wordnet, Benjamin Martin, Peter W. Eklund
Applying Formal Concept Analysis To Semantic File Systems Leveraging Wordnet, Benjamin Martin, Peter W. Eklund
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Formal Concept Analysis can be used to obtain both a natural clustering of documents along with a partial ordering over those clusters. The application of Formal Concept Analysis requires input to be in the form of a binary relation between two sets. This paper investigates how a semantic filesystem can be used to generate such binary relations. The manner in which the binary relation is generated impacts how useful the result of Formal Concept Analysis will be for navigating one’s filesystem.
Schizophrenia, Fats And Lab Rats, Teresa M. Du Bois
Schizophrenia, Fats And Lab Rats, Teresa M. Du Bois
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
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Young People's Help-Seeking For Mental Health Problems., Debra Rickwood, Frank P. Deane, Coralie J. Wilson, Joseph V. Ciarrochi
Young People's Help-Seeking For Mental Health Problems., Debra Rickwood, Frank P. Deane, Coralie J. Wilson, Joseph V. Ciarrochi
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This paper summarises an ambitious research agenda aiming to uncover the factors that affect help-seeking among young people for mental health problems. The research set out to consider why young people, and particularly young males, do not seek help when they are in psychological distress or suicidal; how professional services be made more accessible and attractive to young people; the factors that inhibit and facilitate help-seeking; and how community gatekeepers can support young people to access services to help with personal and emotional problems. A range of studies was undertaken in New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT, using both …
A Cognitive-Behavioural Comparison Of Binge Eating And Non-Binge Eating In A Non-Clinical Population, Brianna K. Richards, Leanne E. Warner, Christen Elks, Craig J. Gonsalvez
A Cognitive-Behavioural Comparison Of Binge Eating And Non-Binge Eating In A Non-Clinical Population, Brianna K. Richards, Leanne E. Warner, Christen Elks, Craig J. Gonsalvez
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Binge eating episodes occur in a significant proportion of the non-clinical population, although only a small proportion of these individuals progress to developing disabling eating disorders. The purpose of this research was to examine the nature of binge eating episodes verses non-binge eating episodes and the nature of subjective binge eating episodes and objective binge eating episodes as they occur in a non-clinical population. This study consisted of 113 undergraduate psychology students who completed a range of self-report measures including the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2), demographics questionnaire and binge diary. Sixty-seven percent reported that they had experienced a binge-eating episode …
An Allometric Comparison Of Microsomal Membrane Lipid Composition And Sodium Pump Molecular Activity In The Brain Of Mammals And Birds, Anthony J. Hulbert, Paul Else, Nigel Turner
An Allometric Comparison Of Microsomal Membrane Lipid Composition And Sodium Pump Molecular Activity In The Brain Of Mammals And Birds, Anthony J. Hulbert, Paul Else, Nigel Turner
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Previous research has shown that the lipid milieu surrounding membrane proteins may be an important factor in determining their activity. To investigate this we have examined sodium pump molecular activity and microsomal membrane lipid composition in the brain of five mammalian and eight avian species ranging in size from 30 g mice to 280 kg cattle and 13 g zebra finches to 35 kg emus, respectively. Sodium pump (Na+,K+-ATPase) activity was higher in the smaller species and showed a significant allometric decline with body mass in both the mammals (μmol Pi h-1 mg wet …
Membranes And The Setting Of Energy Demand, Anthony J. Hulbert, Paul Else
Membranes And The Setting Of Energy Demand, Anthony J. Hulbert, Paul Else
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
In his classic 1961 book, The Fire of Life, Max Kleiber presented a critique of the theories advanced to explain the BMR-body size relationship. One of the theories he dismissed was that the chemical composition of animals varies with body size. Since this time, however, much has been learned about the make-up of BMR in different animals as well as the chemical composition of different-sized animals. Specifically, in recent years it has become obvious that mammal species and bird species do vary in chemical composition in a systematic manner associated with the body size of the species. Small mammal …
Pocket Gamelan: A Pure Data Interface For Mobile Phones, Greg Schiemer, Mark Havryliv Mh675@Uow.Edu.Au
Pocket Gamelan: A Pure Data Interface For Mobile Phones, Greg Schiemer, Mark Havryliv Mh675@Uow.Edu.Au
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper describes software tools used to create java applications for performing music using mobile phones. The tools provide a means for composers working in the Pure Data composition environment to design and audition performances using ensembles of mobile phones. These tools were developed as part of a larger project motivated by the desire to allow large groups of non-expert players to perform music based on just intonation using ubiquitous technology. The paper discusses the process that replicates a Pure Data patch so that it will operate within the hardware and software constraints of the Java 2 Micro Edition. It …
Pocket Gamelan: An Extensible Set Of Microtonal Instruments, Greg Schiemer, Mark Havryliv Mh675@Uow.Edu.Au
Pocket Gamelan: An Extensible Set Of Microtonal Instruments, Greg Schiemer, Mark Havryliv Mh675@Uow.Edu.Au
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper describes the prototype for a set of mobile instruments in which java phone technology has been adapted for performing microtonal music. The prototype was developed using widely available mobile phone handsets instead of building new hardware. The paper discusses aspects of j2me development together with limitations of the mobile platform used for the project. Development issues such as real-time audio, microtonal MIDI implementation and control using Bluetooth communication are discussed. The paper also describes tools developed so existing algorithmic composition and tuning software can be used to compose music for mobile devices. It concludes with discussion of various …
Long Distance Composing For Computer Controlled Microtonal Acoustic Instruments, Warren A. Burt
Long Distance Composing For Computer Controlled Microtonal Acoustic Instruments, Warren A. Burt
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
From mid 2004 until early 2005, I was involved in a project to compose works for a series of computercontrolled acoustic instruments, some of which are microtonal, built by Godfried Willem Raes and associates at the Logos Foundation in Gent, Belgium. However, I was in Wollongong. I composed for these works by long distance, using the internet, in a slow, non-real time manner. Further, I composed the music for these instruments using a series of over two dozen mathematical functions that I implemented for John Dunns ArtWonk and SoftStep Windows algorithmic composing environments. The pieces then, are the product of …
Artwork Exhibited In The Exhibition "Bleak Epiphanies.", Julius G. Van Den Berg
Artwork Exhibited In The Exhibition "Bleak Epiphanies.", Julius G. Van Den Berg
Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)
The artistic director of Australia's biggest ever contemporary art exhibition (the 1982 Sydney Biennale) creates a special show for Sydney's smallest art venue, the Virginia Art office on Darley Street in Darlinghurst. Virginia Wilson asked William Wright to curate an end of year show tor her small space in Darlinghurst, a request he responded to with alacrity.
High Level Learning By Design: The Nuts And Bolts Of Assessment And Evaluation In A Doctorate Of Business Administration Program, S. M. Lipu, A. Hill
High Level Learning By Design: The Nuts And Bolts Of Assessment And Evaluation In A Doctorate Of Business Administration Program, S. M. Lipu, A. Hill
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Commerce is the largest faculty at the University of Wollongong; it supports postgraduate coursework, Masters and PhD programs. In 2003 work began on preparing a pilot program that was designed to position the Faculty at the top level of commerce-related research within Australia. It was called the Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) and the plan was that it would be fully implemented into the Faculty's research program at a later stage. The pilot DBA program comprised four research subjects, four postgraduate level commerce subjects and the doctoral thesis itself. This paper is based on a subject called Advanced Business Specialisation …
Representation For (Re)Invention, Alisa Percy, Jeannette Stirling
Representation For (Re)Invention, Alisa Percy, Jeannette Stirling
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
In her plenary address to the 2001 Australian Language and Academic Skills Conference, Carolyn Webb (2002, p. 7) suggested that in comparison to other educational developers in the university context, Language and Academic Skills (LAS) practitioners had been less strategic in addressing their identity and practice ‘to secure their place in the landscape of university work, [and] to reinvent themselves for securing future places’. She concluded with the suggestion that LAS practitioners might wish to see themselves as ‘facilitators of organisational learning’ (Webb, 2002, p. 17). Both of these points will be addressed in the following discussion. This paper argues …
Boomerangs Of Academic Freedom, Brian Martin
Boomerangs Of Academic Freedom, Brian Martin
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The Ted Steele case is an important episode in the defense of academic freedom in Australia. In addition, it offers a wealth of evidence on how a dismissal, perceived as an attack on academic freedom and free speech, can boomerang on the administration. Yet the matter is more complex than a simple boomerang: the actions of dissidents and unions can also boomerang. In this paper, I examine academic boomerang dynamics through a close analysis of the Steele case.
Neo-Liberal Think Tanks And Neo-Liberal Restructuring: Learning The Lessons From Project Victoria And The Privatisation Of Victoria's Electricity Industry, Damien Cahill, Sharon Beder
Neo-Liberal Think Tanks And Neo-Liberal Restructuring: Learning The Lessons From Project Victoria And The Privatisation Of Victoria's Electricity Industry, Damien Cahill, Sharon Beder
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In 1990, neo-liberal think tanks the Institute of Public Affairs and the Tasman Institute collaborated with 13 employer associations to form 'Project Victoria' - a venture which outlined a neo-liberal agenda for the incoming Victorian (Coalition) Government. This article analyses Project Victoria and the privatisation of Victoria's electricity industry as a case study of the impact of neo-liberal think tanks. The analysis of Project Victoria highlights three main aspects of the impact of neo-liberal think tanks in contemporary Australia. First, neo-liberal think tanks are inextricably bound to the interests of business. Second, neo-liberal think tanks provide a broad framework within …
Digging Your Own Grave, Sharon Beder
Digging Your Own Grave, Sharon Beder
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
[Extract] The work ethic is one of the most neglected problems in society today, and at the root of many social ills and environmental problems. It’s at the heart of what I propose is a major environmental problem; there is too much production in affluent countries. All of the things we are producing day after day are not only creating a huge environmental impact - in terms of resource use, pollution, waste disposal and so on - but in order to get people to buy this huge amount of products, we are constantly bombarded with advertisements and marketing and turned …
Vampiric Decolonization: Fanon, 'Terrorism' And Mudrooroo’S Vampire Trilogy, Gerry Turcotte
Vampiric Decolonization: Fanon, 'Terrorism' And Mudrooroo’S Vampire Trilogy, Gerry Turcotte
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
[Extract] Long before the fact of Australia was ever confirmed by explorers and cartographers it had already been imagined as a grotesque space, a land peopled by monsters.1 The idea of its existence was disputed, was even heretical for a time, and with the advent of the transportation of convicts its darkness seemed confirmed. The Antipodes was a world of reversals, the dark subconscious of Britain. It was, for all intents and purposes, Gothic par excellence, the dungeon of the world. It is perhaps for this reason that the Gothic as a mode has been a consistent presence in Australia …
Embodying Transnationalism: The Making Of The Indonesian Maid, Lenore T. Lyons
Embodying Transnationalism: The Making Of The Indonesian Maid, Lenore T. Lyons
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Extract: Female domestic workers are emblematic of the increasing movement of peoples across national borders. The global economic and cultural flows associated with transnational migration play a significant role in shaping the construction of gender in both sending and receiving countries by creating new forms of subjectivity and community, and destabilising traditional national boundaries. The interplay between local expressions of gender relations, and macro-level global processes, is central to the processes of nation-building and nationalism. This paper examines the material and discursive practices that produce foreign domestic workers as ‘symbolic border guards’ (Armstrong) between ‘here’ and ‘there’, between ‘us’ and …
Review - Perry Anderson, Marxism And The New Left, Anthony Ashbolt
Review - Perry Anderson, Marxism And The New Left, Anthony Ashbolt
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Perry Anderson is a towering figure in the annals of contemporary Marxism. As such, he deserves a special sort of intellectual history, one that engages and illuminates and challenges. Blackledge only succeeds in a partial and rather unsatisfactory way. In a sense this is a book in two parts, even though it is not divided as such. The first deals with the Anderson of the 1960s and 1970s, the second with Anderson’s later developments. The first part is very dry and somewhat confused intellectual history, the second has a few acute observations about the shifts in Anderson’s thinking. I suspect …
Collaboration And Closure: Negotiating Indigenous Mourning Protocols In Australian Life Writing, Michael Jacklin
Collaboration And Closure: Negotiating Indigenous Mourning Protocols In Australian Life Writing, Michael Jacklin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Examines 'indigenous mourning protocols, as they are negotiated in life writing texts and in all manner of public discourse in Australia...' (p.190)
Computer-Mediated Communication And The Italian News: An Integrated Approach To Foreign Language Learning, Mariolina Pais Marden
Computer-Mediated Communication And The Italian News: An Integrated Approach To Foreign Language Learning, Mariolina Pais Marden
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper describes a project which integrated email communication between native speakers (NS) and non-native speakers (NNS) and the Italian daily broadcast telegiornale (tg) in the context of foreign language learning. For one semester students of Italian at the University of Wollongong regularly watched the Italian telegiornale and met once a week to discuss it with the instructor and the rest of the class. As part of the project learners participated in one-to-one email interactions with selected NS of Italian and discussed a range of topics presented in the news. This paper discusses some of the key characteristics of the …
The Green Constituency - Evidence From Cunningham, Stephen M. Brown, Damien Cahill
The Green Constituency - Evidence From Cunningham, Stephen M. Brown, Damien Cahill
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
There has been much interest during recent years in the factors underpinning a rise in support for the Greens in Australian politics. For several years, the Greens have laid claim to the title of a third force in Australian politics. Their leader, Bob Brown, is now one of the more recognizable politicians in the news media. At the 2004 Federal election, support for the Greens easily surpassed, for the first time, that of the Democrats, hitherto the Greens’ main rival in the 'third political force' stakes. Examining the Federal seat of Cunningham as a case study, this paper seeks to …
The Struggle For Generational Legitimacy: Youth, Antiracism And Counter Movements In Australia Since The Mid-1900'S, Robert Carr
The Struggle For Generational Legitimacy: Youth, Antiracism And Counter Movements In Australia Since The Mid-1900'S, Robert Carr
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
This paper examines the ways in which many young people have attempted to directly assert and define their place in Australian life since the mid-1990s. It analyses how young people have attempted to actively grasp a sense of social power through racial debates. Since the mid-1990s, a great number of young people have become active participants on two opposing sides of the antiracism movement. On the one hand, many young people attempted to resist mainstream political rhetoric on immigration, land rights and multiculturalism, partaking in protests and school walkouts. On the other hand, counter to antiracism, there have been movements …
Caviar And Friendship: Sensational Trials And The Reinvention Of Public Space, Nicola J. Evans
Caviar And Friendship: Sensational Trials And The Reinvention Of Public Space, Nicola J. Evans
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In the mid 1860s, Sydney was electrified by the trial of Louis Bertrand, a dentist accused of murder and adultery.1 As the press and citizenry furiously debated Bertrand’s guilt and motivations, a curious assortment of bigotry and superstition entered public discourse. Explanations for the dentist’s putative crime were sought in his ancestry, his gender and his reading habits. Thus Bertrand was rumoured (falsely) to be the son of a mixed marriage between a Jew and a Turk, to be an unmanly character prone to sentimentality and crossdressing and to have a deplorable taste for frivolous French fiction. He was, as …
The Intervention You Have When You're Not Having An Intervention': Australia, Png And The Enhanced Cooperation Program, Charles M. Hawksley
The Intervention You Have When You're Not Having An Intervention': Australia, Png And The Enhanced Cooperation Program, Charles M. Hawksley
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The idea of non-interference in the domestic affairs of states has been a hallmark of international relations since the seventeenth century. The universalisation of the nation-state model following decolonisation over the twentieth century rendered this ideal of state sovereignty the basis of the modem international political system. States mostly keep out of each other’s business, but intervention may take the form of war to enforce regime change.
Removing E-Wrinkles: An Extreme Inter-Facelift For An Elderly Hypercard Servant, Brian Mccarthy
Removing E-Wrinkles: An Extreme Inter-Facelift For An Elderly Hypercard Servant, Brian Mccarthy
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
A project to develop a comprehensive set of modules (see Appendix 1) for basic French grammar review and maintenance, and for audio-supported notion-oriented learning activities was begun in 1991 and completed in 2000. The total process involved some 8,000 hours for design, preparation of linguistic data, programming, trialling, and integration into the curriculum. HyperCard was chosen as the platform for delivery because of its considerable flexibility, and because of the area of expertise of staff available for programming and design support at the time. The process was fruitful in terms of both software output, and teaching and learning enhancement. The …
Crafts, Consumers And Consumption: Asian Artisanal Crafts And The Marketing Of Exotica, Timothy J. Scrase
Crafts, Consumers And Consumption: Asian Artisanal Crafts And The Marketing Of Exotica, Timothy J. Scrase
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In a globalizing and more integrated world economy, craft goods which are sourced from the developing world are increasingly becoming part of the decorative arrangement in first world households. While there has recently emerged detailed research on artisans and their integration into global markets, and on consumption more generally, there has been relatively little sociological research concerning the advertising and consumption of these artisanal products. In light of studies concerning the marketing of third world crafts, and based on content analysis of a number of web sites and catalogues marketing Asian crafts undertaken in 2004, this paper has two main …
Beta-Utopian Order, Teodor E. Mitew
Beta-Utopian Order, Teodor E. Mitew
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In one of its most popular works – Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas, the Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) outlines what it views as a major power shift characterizing the present, namely, the traditional public space – the street, has turned into ‘dead capital’. Borrowing from Guy Debord’s ideas on spectacular society, CAE theorizes that the spectacle has appropriated all, while power has mutated into a nomadic form of pure absence – ‘power itself cannot be seen; only its representation appears.’
War In The Age Of Intelligent Machines And Unintelligent Government, Ian Buchanan
War In The Age Of Intelligent Machines And Unintelligent Government, Ian Buchanan
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The 2004 US election must have caused hearts to sink everywhere in the Third World. The bloody insurgency in Iraq only strengthened the position of the 'War President', giving him greater license to continue his campaign of terror. Atthe time of the election the death toll of US soldiers was nearing a thousand with the number injured seven times that. To which toll one must add the haunting fact that of the 500 000 plus US servicemen and women who served in theFirst Gulf War some 325 000 are now on disability pensions suffering a variety of acute maladies generally …
Kim Scott's Benang: Monstrous (Textual) Bodies, Lisa Slater
Kim Scott's Benang: Monstrous (Textual) Bodies, Lisa Slater
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
In Kim Scott’s Benang, bodies in excess of, or incompatible with, assimilationist and eugenicist discourse, narrate and make sense of their world. Scott has composed a novel that opens up a space to affirm and re-articulate subjectivities, and hence challenge the fantasy of a uniform civic body. Although he is the body who mediates the plurality of stories, his voice does not synthesise heterogeneous stories into a unified and coherent whole. Instead, Harley’s narrative— like his performance— creates a meeting place where diverse and multifarious stories are articulated. Scot t introduces the reader to Harley as a hybrid, floating being: