Thermal variation of specific contact resistance
Test structures for the determination of specific contact resistance are an area of continual research and improvement. It is always important to achieve reliable and accurate results in the extraction...
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Colloidal gold is undoubtedly one of the most extensively studied nanomaterials, with thousands of different protocols currently available to synthesise novel gold nanoparticles. While methods for the...
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espace – l’intérieur dehors / inside out is a reflective examination of the fashion practice S!X. Its focus is an exploration of the various uses and meanings of space within the practice. This...
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This thesis describes the deposition, characterisation and device applications of ZnO and Zn1–xMgxO films. Energetic deposition methods have been employed since they show promise for producing high...
View ArticleBruegelage Interrogations into nine concurrent creative practices
This research examines an experimental architectural practice and uncovers nine sub-practices within: design through explicit re-working of the propositions of other architects; design through less...
View ArticleA study of e-commerce adoption using TOE framework in Saudi retailers: firm...
There are many companies in the Middle East, particularly in Saudi Arabia, that are yet to adopt e-commerce and those that have, are mostly at the very basic levels of implementation. The objective of...
View ArticleLaser light induced domain engineering of lithium niobate for photonic and...
This thesis presents novel domain engineering techniques in lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystals by using focused laser light irradiation to path the way to sub-micron domain periods for applications in...
View ArticleCulture and international trade credit risk management: a qualitative...
The research adopts integrated, triangulated, multiple qualitative methods: focus groups, semi-structured interviews, field observation and document analysis. Informants include local suppliers of...
View ArticleSeeing animated worlds: Eye tracking and the spectator's experience of narrative
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View ArticleTowards real-time speech emotion recognition using deep neural networks
Most existing Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) systems rely on turn-wise processing, which aims at recognizing emotions from complete utterances and an overly-complicated pipeline marred by many...
View ArticlePrediction of emotional states in parent-adolescent conversations using...
This study investigates an application of nonlinear autoregressive (NAR) models to the prediction of the most likely time series of emotional state transitions of speakers engaged in dyadic...
View ArticleDetection of depression in adolescents based on statistical modeling of...
The current benchmark speech-based depression detection techniques rely on acoustic speech parameters collected from large sets of representative speech recordings. This study for the first time...
View ArticleMulti-stage classification network for automatic age estimation from facial...
Speech acoustic parameters have been reported to provide highly efficient diagnostic cues for depression. Current studies have been focused on characterizing the speech of adult patients but it is...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing the cloud: energy-aware computational offloading for pervasive...
Adaptive offloading systems achieve context specific optimization on mobile and pervasive devices by offloading computational components to a resource copious remote server or cloud. However, with the...
View ArticleStatistical differences in speech acoustics of major depressed and...
Speech acoustic parameters have been reported to provide highly efficient diagnostic cues for depression. Current studies have been focused on characterizing the speech of adult patients but it is...
View ArticleHydrological drought assessment in Northern Victoria, Australia
Drought forecasting plays an important role in the planning and management of water resources. Drought Indices based on meteorology (rainfall) are the most popular tool for monitoring, assessing and...
View ArticleMinimizing bushfire risk through optimal powerline assets replacement and...
Fires initiated by powerline faults disproportionately are associated with a majority of bushfire fatalities in South-Eastern Australia. Over 150 deaths have occurred since 1977 in South-Eastern...
View ArticleStatistical dependencies in the self-shrinking generator
Using the so-called m-sequences as input, the Self-Shrinking Generator (SSG) was introduced in 1996 and has largely withstood cryptanalytic attacks. It is natural to view the SSG as an ensemble of gen-...
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