Fisheries statutory management authority inquiry background paper

The objective of this paper is to provide factual background to the issues that are likely to be relevant to the Advisory Committee’s considerations and to the interests of stakeholders. It also pulls together relevant reference material and experiences from within WA and from other fisheries jurisdictions in Australia

Deploying AI Frameworks on Secure HPC Systems with Containers

The increasing interest in the usage of Artificial Intelligence techniques (AI) from the research community and industry to tackle "real world" problems, requires High Performance Computing (HPC) resources to efficiently compute and scale complex algorithms across thousands of nodes. Unfortunately, typical data scientists are not familiar with the unique requirements and characteristics of HPC environments. They usually develop their applications with high-level scripting languages or frameworks such as TensorFlow and the installation process often requires connection to external systems to download open source software during the build. HPC environments, on the other hand, are often based on closed source applications that incorporate parallel and distributed computing API's such as MPI and OpenMP, while users have restricted administrator privileges, and face security restrictions such as not allowing access to external systems. In this paper we discuss the issues associated with the deployment of AI frameworks in a secure HPC environment and how we successfully deploy AI frameworks on SuperMUC-NG with Charliecloud.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2019 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conferenc

THE NEW ECONOMICS OF COMMUNITY: LOCAL EXCHANGE AND TRADING SCHEMES (LETS)

Research into LETS has concentrated on the structural, economic and political dimensions of LETS involvement. In this context, LETS have often been portrayed as a solution to the problem of social exclusion. This thesis, however, suggests that involvement in LETS is more to do with communal sociability, and consequently has devoted attention to the ways in which community was created and maintained through LETS involvement. The thesis reports on a study of the communal activities of members from Kingsbridge and Yeovil LETS. The analyses are based on data derived from a questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews and participant observation. The fieldwork was conducted between 1995 and 1998. The data indicate that the active creation of community is part of an on-going process of social, cultural, economic and symbolic reproduction, which is characterized by perceived structural changes taking place in members' lives. These perceived changes, the creation of shared communal symbols and participation in a common symbolic discourse are important ways in which members reflexively construct the boundaries between themselves and non members

Management measures for the Cockburn Sound Mussel Fishery.

The Cockburn Sound professional fishery has seen a rapid increase in fishing effort in recent years. In response to this Cockburn Sound has been declared to be a restricted area for commercial fishing pending the introduction of long term management measures. Interim endorsements have therefore been issued for commercial fishing within Cockburn Sound

The aquaculture of non-endemic species in Western Australia Silver perch (Bidyanus bidyanus)

For a number of years silver perch, a species native to the Murray-Darling river system of eastern Australia, has been allowed into Western Australia for the purpose of stocking rural, inland farm dams. Improts have only been allowed under licence, subject to disease-free certification and on the basis of fish being placed into impounded waters. The development of commercial aquaculture of a non-endemic species such as silver perch raises a number of important issues relating to tanslocation. These include potential of the introduced species to: Impact on genetic diversity, Introduce disease, Impact on the natural environment and the biodiversity of native species. This Management Paper has been drafted in liaison with the Department of Environmental Protection in accordnace with the principles of risk assessment, taking into account the above issues. It is considered that the implementation of this policy will protect the natural environment and native fish species. It will also allow for the develpment of a silver perch industry and provide the first step towards self-regulation of that industry

The aquaculture of non-endemic species in Western Australia Silver perch (Bidyanus bidyanus)

The development of commercial aquaculture of a non-endemic species such as silver perch raises a number of important issues relating to translocation. These include the potential of the introduced species to: impact on genetic diversity; introduce disease; and impact on - the natural environment; and - the biodiversity of native species. This Management Paper has been drafted in liaison with the Department of Environmental Protection in accordance with the principles of rish assessment, taking into account the above issues. It is considered that the implementation of this policy will protect the natural environment and native fish species. It will also allow for the development of a silver perch industry and provide the first step towards self-regulation of that industry

Offshore Constitutional Settlement 1995

The Offshore Constitutional Settlement OCS is a legal arrangement between the Commonwealth and State Governments, and defines control over the fisheries which operate off each State of Australia. For the Western Australian coast, the first set of arrangements took effect in 1987. The OCS of 1995 specifies five arrangements, under which the fisheries inside the 200 nautical mile approximately 370 km limit of the Australian Fishing Zone AFZ come under either State, Commonwealth, or joint control

To Follow Up or Not? A new model of supportive care for early breast cancer: Interim Results

To Follow Up or Not? A New Model of Supportive Care for Early Breast Cancer Background: Routine follow-up after curative treatment for early breast cancer exists to monitor for local recurrence and provide support for patients. Hospital visits can be stressful for patients and evidence indicates most recurrences are first identified by the patient. The value of resource-intense clinical follow-up is constantly being questioned. Many believe that time spent seeing essentially well-women is not clinically beneficial or an efficient use of time. Methods: This pilot study tested the feasibility and acceptability of a new supportive model of follow-up using quality-of-life (QOL) questionnaires plus qualitative diary evaluations. All patients attended four half day patient education workshops with course evaluations, followed by randomised to open access (OA) or hospital follow up (HFU). QOL including Hospital Anxiety and Depression Score (HADS), EORTC QLQ-C30 and BR23 were performed at baseline and 6 months, with further results awaited for 12, 18 and 24 months. Results: 106 women were recruited to the pilot study. 53 were randomised to HFU and 53 to OA. Multivariate analyses of covariance (MANCOVA) tests were conducted on all QOL data. Age was included as a covariate. Follow-up ANCOVAs on individual function and symptom outcomes were also conducted. The MANCOVA analyses indicated no statistically significant differences in change scores between HFU and OA groups, or between patients of different ages, on any of the three questionnaires. In all cases the effect of group had a greater effect on change (baseline-6 months) scores than the effect of age. Univariate ANCOVA tests and descriptive analyses showed performance improvement in many of the individual function and symptom scales in the OA group. Conclusions: While open access patients showed greater mean improvements in more scales than patients seen in clinic, follow-up method does not appear to significantly affect overall outcomes on any of the three questionnaires. As an influencing factor, the patients' age is less significant than the assigned group. This new model is feasible and acceptable. It is being adopted as standard across the Yorkshire Cancer Network