Intraoperative Endoscopic Augmented Reality in Third Ventriculostomy

In neurosurgery, as a result of the brain-shift, the preoperative patient models used as a intraoperative reference change. A meaningful use of the preoperative virtual models during the operation requires for a model update. The NEAR project, Neuroendoscopy towards Augmented Reality, describes a new camera calibration model for high distorted lenses and introduces the concept of active endoscopes endowed with with navigation, camera calibration, augmented reality and triangulation modules

Contributions to statistical machine learning algorithm

This thesis's research focus is on computational statistics along with DEAR (abbreviation of differential equation associated regression) model direction, and that in mind, the journal papers are written as contributions to statistical machine learning algorithm literature

The Kennedy Miller method: a half-century of Australian screen production

Kennedy Miller is the most notable of Australian film and television production companies since the industry's `revival' in the 1970s, and arguably even across the entire century or more of the Australian film industry. Despite this, the company (now known as Kennedy Miller Mitchell) has been largely under-researched and incompletely understood. What scholarship there is tends to focus strictly on its co-founder, internationally lauded filmmaker George Miller, or its most famous franchise, the Mad Max films, or else dates only to a short phase of its unusually long-lasting operations. Drawing on extensive primary sources, including oral histories, company documentation, and new qualitative interviews with past Kennedy Miller creative personnel, this production history of Kennedy Miller gives an account of the company across its four main periods of operation: from its founding and first works in the 1970s, to its time of continuous production in the 1980s, its reshaping in the 1990s, and its ambitious expansion in the 2000s and 2010s. Particular attention is given to the concept of the Kennedy Miller `method', a label once applied to the collaborative principles that were said to characterise the company's operations. The `method' is redefined here as describing the firm's corporate culture, collaborative production practices, and house style. I argue that by understanding the Kennedy Miller method we can better observe the conditions underlying the firm's sustainability, as well as its corporate authorship over production, and its place in the Australian national industry. This thesis not only fills a significant gap in Australian screen scholarship, and in our understanding of recent Australian screen history, but also builds a conceptual foundation for future scholarly research on this globally influential company, its creative principals, and its productions

The Role of Medicinal Plants in New Zealand's Settler Medical Culture, 1850s-1920s

Throughout history, medicinal plants have been important components of medical practices in almost all cultures of the world. This thesis focuses specifically on the changing uses and understandings of medicinal plants in New Zealand‘s settler medical culture from 1850 to 1920. Using a wide range of source material, and both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, it examines the plant species most popular in New Zealand, the reasons for their popularity, the introduction of these into the Colony, and their use and interpretation by three groups of healers: domestic healers, herbalists and doctors. This thesis deploys the concept of translation to argue that different qualities were attributed to the same plant in response to the needs and approaches of domestic healers, herbalists and doctors, each of whom had different ways of gathering, collating and assessing medico-botanical information. While British understandings of botany and medicine introduced during the course of colonisation guided healers and their use of plants in New Zealand significantly, this thesis posits that the flow of medico-botanical knowledge was more diffuse and highly complex, moving in multiple directions, and adapting and incorporating multiple meaning

The criticism of idealism in the thought of GE Moore and RB Perry

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Abstracts of papers submitted in 1980 for publication : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts

This Summary of Abstracts contains all abstracts submitted for publication during calendar year 1980 by the staff and students of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The Austronesian languages

This is a revised edition of the 2009 The Austronesian languages, which was published as a paperback in the then Pacific Linguistics series (ISBN 9780858836020). This revision includes typographical corrections, an improved index, and various minor content changes. The release of the open access edition serves to meet the strong ongoing demand for this important handbook, of which only 200 copies of the first edition were printed. This is the first single-authored book that attempts to describe the Austronesian language family in its entirety. Topics covered include: the physical and cultural background, official and national languages, largest and smallest languages in all major geographical regions, language contact, sound systems, linguistic palaeontology, morphology, syntax, the history of scholarship on Austronesian languages, and a critical assessment of the reconstruction of Proto Austronesian phonology.Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacifi