Toward reflexive climate adaptation research
Climate adaptation research is expanding rapidly within an increasingly reflexive society where the relationship between academia and other social institutions is in a state of flux. Tensions exist...
View ArticleEffect of MnOx Loading on Structural, Surface, and Catalytic Properties of...
Nanosized CeO2-MnOx mixed oxides with different Ce/Mn ratios were prepared by a citric acid-assisted sol-gel method. The effect of the MnOx content on structural, redox, and surface properties of the...
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 ArticleCatalytic oxidation and adsorption of elemental mercury over nanostructured...
A nanostructured CeO2-MnOx catalyst was synthesized by a coprecipitation method and subjected to different calcination temperatures at 773 and 1073 K to understand the surface structure and the thermal...
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 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 ArticleClimate change through the farming systems lens: challenges and opportunities...
Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in Australian agriculture has included research at the plant, animal, and soil level; the farming system level; and the community and landscape level....
View ArticleBarriers to effective climate change mitigation: the case of senior...
While the case for rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is compelling, actions being taken by most senior decision makers (SDMs) in government and business compound the problem. Given the...
View ArticleFast food planning conflicts in Victoria 1969-2012: is every unhappy family...
In 2012, a planning application for a McDonald's 'convenience restaurant' in Tecoma, Melbourne's Dandenong Ranges region, was approved at Victoria's planning tribunal. Although generating a...
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 Article"Fight the towers! Or kiss your car park goodbye": How often do residents...
At around 20 square metres per space and occupying over 30% of the ground area of many cities, car parking is an expected but unnoticed land use - pulling the proverbial devil's trick of "convincing...
View ArticleThe influence of dwell time deviation constraint (DTDC) parameter on...
To investigate how the dwell time deviation constraint (DTDC) parameter, applied to inverse planning by simulated annealing (IPSA) optimisation limits large dwell times from occurring in each catheter...
View Article(In Press) Urban growth boundaries and betterment: rent-seeking by landowners...
Melbourne's Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) was legislated in 2002 and expanded substantially in 2010. Although based on strategic planning goals, UGBs have the capacity to influence land and housing...
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 ArticleCity profile Seoul
Seoul is a major global city with a history of over 600 years. Its development trajectory, current status in the world economy, and challenges faced in socio-spatial dynamics present an excellent case...
View ArticleSelf-imaging of plasmonic void arrays
A plasmonic device is proposed to produce a self-imaging surface plasmon void array (2D surface bottle beam array) by the interference of two nondiffracting surface beams, namely, cosine-Gauss beams....
View ArticleIron(III) tartrate as a potential precursor of light-induced oxidative...
The potential for iron(III) tartrate to act as a photoactivator in light-induced oxidative degradation of white wine is described. Using a tartaric-acid-based model wine system containing 5 mg/L iron,...
View ArticleDeferred decentralized movement pattern mining for geosensor networks
This article presents an algorithm for decentralized (in-network) data mining of the movement pattern flock among mobile geosensor nodes. The algorithm DDIG (Deferred Decentralized Information Grazing)...
View ArticleThe role of light, temperature and wine bottle colour on pigment enhancement...
Pigmentation enhancement in a Chardonnay wine with high flavan-3-ol concentration was examined by irradiating the wine under controlled conditions. Heating the wine in darkness required temperatures in...
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