Transformational adaptation: agriculture and climate change
Climate change presents the need and opportunity for what the Stern report called 'major, non-marginal change'. Such transformational adaptation is rapidly emerging as a serious topic in agriculture....
View ArticlePower splitting strategy for solar hydrogen generation
A standalone solar-hydrogen power generation system employing photovoltaic array and hydrogen storage of excess energy is an attractive solution for remote and portable applications. A demonstration...
View Article(In Press) "Not a lot of people read the stuff": Australian urban research in...
At the 2013 State of Australian Cities (SOAC) Conference, a dedicated plenary session examined the blunt prospect of "Who cares about Australian Urban Research?" One group apparently not reading, or...
View ArticleBoiling lines and lightning sketches: process and the animated drawing
Animation has often involved some degree of drawing, but 'boiling' and animated sketching are two unique forms of drawn animation that overtly foreground the process of drawing. In this article, the...
View ArticleI'm just a 17 year-old girl. I can't take on the AFL'. The St. Kilda...
[Truncated abstract] In 2010, a young woman aged seventeen received widespread media attention after she posted photographs on social networking site Facebook of AFL (Australian Football League)1...
View ArticlePromises and pitfalls of using social media in public e-procurement: An...
Social Media (SM), in recent years, is emerging as a common platform for low cost information exchange, and has attracted a critical mass of users both at corporate and retail levels. Theoretically, SM...
View ArticleMetabolic profiling of a transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans Alzheimer model
Despite decades of research, no early-onset biomarkers are currently available for Alzheimer's disease, a cureless neurodegenerative disease afflicting millions worldwide. In this study, transgenic...
View ArticleMode-matching metasurfaces: Coherent reconstruction and multiplexing of...
Metasurfaces are promising two-dimensional metamaterials that are engineered to provide unique properties or functionalities absent in naturally occurring homogeneous surfaces. Here, we report a type...
View ArticleUnlocking the black box of the conceptual relationship between HRM system and...
Despite the promising relationship that has been reported between HRM and Organization Performance (OP) in the last two decades, it is found that good HRM system and practices do not directly lead to...
View ArticleUnderstanding convergence and divergence in the framing of climate change...
Adaptation is a highly malleable concept and people may use various framings of adaptation to support what they are already doing and limit their need to change. By analysing organizations' different,...
View ArticleFactors Associated with Awareness, Attitudes and Practices Regarding Common...
To assess the awareness, attitudes, and practices associated with common eye diseases and eye care utilization in a rural district of Bangladesh.
View Article(In Press) Discriminating talent-identified junior Australian football...
This study examined if a video decision-making task could discriminate talent-identified junior Australian football players from their non-talent-identified counterparts. Participants were recruited...
View Article(In Press) On the redistribution of wealth in a developing country:...
We experimentally study the effect of framing and size of large windfall gains on the redistribution of such gains. Randomly selected individuals from villages in Bangladesh were invited to take part...
View ArticleIn the Passenger Seat: Investigating comfort measures in autonomous cars
The prospect of driverless cars wide-scale deployment is imminent owing to the advances in robotics, computational power, communications, and sensor technologies. This promises highway fatality...
View ArticleDesign optimization of scaffold microstructures using wall shear stress...
Tissue scaffolds aim to provide a cell-friendly biomechanical environment for facilitating cell growth. Existing studies have shown significant demands for generating a certain level of wall shear...
View ArticlePolarization-dependent thin-film wire-grid reflectarray for terahertz waves
A thin-film polarization-dependent reflectarray based on patterned metallic wire grids is realized at 1 THz. Unlike conventional reflectarrays with resonant elements and a solid metal ground, parallel...
View ArticleUnderstanding survival sex: young Women, homelessness and intimate relationships
This article seeks to explore gendered experiences of homelessness through an examination of survival sex. Survival sex is usually understood to be the exchange of sex for material support, however,...
View ArticleTransformational adaptation: agriculture and climate change
Climate change presents the need and opportunity for what the Stern report called 'major, non-marginal change'. Such transformational adaptation is rapidly emerging as a serious topic in agriculture....
View ArticleUltra-thin perfect absorber employing a tunable phase change material
We show that perfect absorption can be achieved in a system comprising a single lossy dielectric layer of thickness much smaller than the incident wavelength on an opaque substrate by utilizing the...
View ArticleEfficient, decentralized computation of the topology of spatial regions
The capability to query the topology of spatial regions is fundamental to today's centralized spatial computing systems, like spatial databases and GIS. By contrast, this paper explores decentralized...
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