Altering the playing field: The U.S. redefinition of the use-of-force
This article will interrogate the degree to which the Obama administration has continued, even at times inadvertently, the Bush administration's challenge on international law. Notwithstanding the...
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Foreign housing investment is an outcome of increased mobility in the era of globalisation. The literature has acknowledged the impacts of global migration and capital flows on space. However, an...
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 ArticleDesign of fiber metamaterials with negative refractive index in the infrared
Metamaterials possess intricate, sub-wavelength microstructures, making scalability a salient concern in regard to their practicality. Fiber-drawing offers a route to producing large quantities of...
View ArticleBusiness schools in an age of globalization
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of the business school now and in the future. Design/methodology/approach - The paper takes the form of an editorial review and argument....
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 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 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...
View ArticleLipid profile remodeling in response to nitrogen deprivation in the...
Many species of microalgae produce greatly enhanced amounts of triacylglycerides (TAGs), the key product for biodiesel production, in response to specific environmental stresses. Improvement of TAG...
View ArticleHigh energy density metal-air batteries: A review
In the last few decades, there are some exciting developments in the field of lithium (Li)-ion batteries from small portable devices to large power system such as electric vehicles (EVs). However, the...
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 ArticleHighly efficient nanosized Mn and Fe codoped ceria-based solid solutions for...
Ceria (CeO2) is a well-known material for various industrial applications due to its unique redox properties. Such properties, dominated by structural defects that are primarily oxygen vacancies...
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 ArticleAll optical polarization-insensitive light tuning properties in sliver...
Active plasmonics has been an interesting and important topic recently. Here we demonstrate the all-optical, polarization-insensitive tunable manipulation of a hybrid system that integrates a silver...
View ArticleAltering the playing field: The U.S. redefinition of the use-of-force
This article will interrogate the degree to which the Obama administration has continued, even at times inadvertently, the Bush administration's challenge on international law. Notwithstanding the...
View ArticleClimate change adaptation and scenario planning: framing issues and tools
Climate change adaptation means that not only do we have difficult decisions to make, but we also need improved ways of making them. Although not new, scenario planning is one tool increasingly being...
View ArticleCulture, language, and knowledge: cultural learning styles for international...
This article reports on a study that attempts to examine the cultural learning styles of international students learning Chinese in China and their engagement in activities associated with linguistic...
View ArticleWine bottle colour and oxidative spoilage: whole bottle light exposure...
Exposure of a Chardonnay wine to light from a mercury vapour lamp under controlled temperature conditions showed that colour enhancement was dependent on bottle colour. The increase in colouration was...
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...
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