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ItemExcellence or Exit: Ensuring Anangu Futures through Education(School of Social and Policy Research, Charles Darwin University, 2009)The discussion and recommendations in this document aim to present Anangu leaders, schools and the enabling policy community that supports schools, with key points for debate and consideration, as the platform to develop an ambitious charter for education reform. The review advocates the need to change the approach to schooling at primary, middle and senior school levels as the key means to transform training, learning and employment ‘pathways’ into journeys that lead to exciting destinations and not disappointing dead ends.
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ItemInformation and Document Management System for Construction Sites(CIB WORKING COMMISSION, 2010)Each construction project is unique in terms of how specialist professionals manage and use project documents. A construction sites use and generate a large body of documents containing valuable information across project participants. Therefore, the efficient deployment of construction projects depends partly on the effective communication among project participants. This communication, however, is hindered by the large amount and wide variation of the project information and documents involved and the spatial dispersion of construction sites. This paper presents an intranetbased information and document management system that facilitates project information and communication management within a large construction company. The system implementation and testing have shown that it can provide structured and reliable information, quick and remote access, and prompt updating capabilities of stored documents.
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ItemCodes and conferences - a new era for building researchers and educators(AUBEA, 2010)This paper discusses building conference rankings, metrics and issues that impact on AUBEA academics under the new 2010 Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) framework. Part one this paper gives a brief outline of current ERA developments where Field of Research (FoR) Codes appear as a more weighty consideration when universities seek to establish research strength and higher ranking in clusters around the ERA classifications. For conferences listed in the ERA building discipline a basic locational and tier analysis is presented as is a listing of ‘multi-disciplinary’ conferences where building is part of the discipline mix. Part two presents the results of an electronic survey of AUBEA participants conducted in April 2010 who are active in Australian Construction Research. Survey analysis reveals a low level typically ‘business as usual’ attitude to ERA issues, however with some individual opinion on conference listings and further comment on implementation of ERA metrics, research outputs, data gathering and reporting at various levels in the individual institution, e.g. Division, Faculty or School/Department. The current and likely future implications of ERA introduction for both individual academics and HDR students are considerations addressed in the survey analysis and discussion section of the paper.
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ItemThe Singapore Flyer and design of giant observation wheels, Singapore(Informa UK Limited, 2009-01-01)Some of the engineering principles conceived behind the design of Singapore Flyer, the giant observation Wheel (GOW), built by Arup, are discussed. The wheel is 150 m in diameter, and features access gantries to allow the passenger boarding and loading platforms having two stories above ground in the terminal building located at the base of the wheel. A tropical rainforest attraction has been built into the courtyard space immediately below the wheel to attract the visitor's experience. The 2D ladder truss helps reduce wind load on the Flyer rim. The Flyer also uses cable spokes that need to be prestressed to resist compression. The structural team used purpose-written software to study rim buckling. The GOW represents one lineage of a family of visitor attractions known as ionic viewing platforms, and the engineering design process has recognized several geometric effects on the efficiency of the structure.
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ItemDisease surveillance using a hidden Markov model(BMC, 2009-08-10)BACKGROUND: Routine surveillance of disease notification data can enable the early detection of localised disease outbreaks. Although hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been recognised as an appropriate method to model disease surveillance data, they have been rarely applied in public health practice. We aimed to develop and evaluate a simple flexible HMM for disease surveillance which is suitable for use with sparse small area count data and requires little baseline data. METHODS: A Bayesian HMM was designed to monitor routinely collected notifiable disease data that are aggregated by residential postcode. Semi-synthetic data were used to evaluate the algorithm and compare outbreak detection performance with the established Early Aberration Reporting System (EARS) algorithms and a negative binomial cusum. RESULTS: Algorithm performance varied according to the desired false alarm rate for surveillance. At false alarm rates around 0.05, the cusum-based algorithms provided the best overall outbreak detection performance, having similar sensitivity to the HMMs and a shorter average time to detection. At false alarm rates around 0.01, the HMM algorithms provided the best overall outbreak detection performance, having higher sensitivity than the cusum-based Methods and a generally shorter time to detection for larger outbreaks. Overall, the 14-day HMM had a significantly greater area under the receiver operator characteristic curve than the EARS C3 and 7-day negative binomial cusum algorithms. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that the HMM provides an effective method for the surveillance of sparse small area notifiable disease data at low false alarm rates. Further investigations are required to evaluation algorithm performance across other diseases and surveillance contexts.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableCostco(Architecture Media Australia Pty Ltd, 2010)Review of Costco Wholsaler's new market in Melbourne's Docklands, designed by NH Architecture.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableDesign that Moves(Architecture Media, 2009)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableWalk the Line(Alphabet Press, 2009)Pulls together the know-how of dozens of movers and shakers from all areas of design. Full of hand-drawn maps and walking itineraries, it is a direct connection to the pulse of this inspired city.
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ItemA Practice of Ephemeral Urban Design(Common Ground Research Networks, 2009)This paper will present research that developed from two projects undertaken in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The first project was a postgraduate collaboration of researchers in the Design Research Institute at RMIT University, the second was a collaboration with video, sound and projection artists. Both projects engaged with public urban spaces on a sensory and experiential level by using different principles and practices. In this paper I will argue that space is something that is not framed in advance of inhabitation, as an a priori conceptual category. Instead space is a more elusive environment that unfolds alongside our modes of expression and perception. Further, I will demonstrate through two design research case studies how space formation is interwoven with the effects and affects of temporality, ephemerality, and the poetic and sensory potential of new and old technologies. These installations were intended to extend the quotidian perception of the city as a physical and built environment through creating an awareness of temporal, ephemeral, and intangible elements and sensations.
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ItemRelational Design for Public Life(Urbaninterior.net, 2009)Public space does not pre-exist, it only emerges once it becomes activated through inhabitation and occupation (Arendt, H. 1958; Boomkens, R. 2009 ). Within the city the individual becomes part of the collective, even if only provisionally, and the collective shares public space within a framework developed for the possibility of co-existence.