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The Proceedings of 15th Australian Information Security Management Conference, 5-6 December, 2017, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
Conference Foreword
The annual Security Congress, run by the Security Research Institute at Edith Cowan University, includes the Australian Information Security and Management Conference. Now in its fifteenth year, the conference remains popular for its diverse content and mixture of technical research and discussion papers. The area of information security and management continues to be varied, as is reflected by the wide variety of subject matter covered by the papers this year. The papers cover topics from vulnerabilities in âInternet of Thingsâ protocols through to improvements in biometric identification algorithms and surveillance camera weaknesses. The conference has drawn interest and papers from within Australia and internationally. All submitted papers were subject to a double blind peer review process. Twenty two papers were submitted from Australia and overseas, of which eighteen were accepted for final presentation and publication. We wish to thank the reviewers for kindly volunteering their time and expertise in support of this event. We would also like to thank the conference committee who have organised yet another successful congress. Events such as this are impossible without the tireless efforts of such people in reviewing and editing the conference papers, and assisting with the planning, organisation and execution of the conference. To our sponsors, also a vote of thanks for both the financial and moral support provided to the conference. Finally, thank you to the administrative and technical staff, and students of the ECU Security Research Institute for their contributions to the running of the conference
Global shifts in the policing of mental health
This special edition outlines the changing landscape
of policing and mental health and provides
readers with an introduction to a multitude of
policy and practice innovations from the UK,
the Netherlands, Canada, the USA, and Brazil.
These examples of innovative and evolving practice
address the challenge of fair, effective, and
equitable responses to people suffering mental
health crises. The special edition takes, as its starting
point, a presumption that knowledge of
mental ill health within policing, as elsewhere, is
limited. This is not to state that there is little
discussion about mental health and policing. On
the contrary, mental health is subject to much
discussion at the policy level but there remains
a gap between policy noise and consistent actionable
change. The articles that follow thus represent
an attempt to enhance and expand the
research agenda in this area and to build an evidence-
base to inform future decision-making
using global and multidisciplinary perspectives
from police officers, health workers, policymakers,
and academics
Sustainable fish production in Lake Nasser: ecological basis and management policy
The aim of the Lake Nasser Project is to integrate social, economic, and ecological factors in the formulation of a management policy for sustainable fish production. The workshop was held to review the present state of knowledge, identify constraints, evaluate existing information and state of the art techniques, and determine future research objectives and strategy.Lake fisheries, Fishery management, Artificial lakes, Nasser Lake, Egypt, Arab. Rep.,
Computation of a combined spherical-elastic and viscous-half-space earth model for ice sheet simulation
This report starts by describing the continuum model used by Lingle & Clark
(1985) to approximate the deformation of the earth under changing ice sheet and
ocean loads. That source considers a single ice stream, but we apply their
underlying model to continent-scale ice sheet simulation. Their model combines
Farrell's (1972) elastic spherical earth with a viscous half-space overlain by
an elastic plate lithosphere. The latter half-space model is derivable from
calculations by Cathles (1975). For the elastic spherical earth we use
Farrell's tabulated Green's function, as do Lingle & Clark. For the half-space
model, however, we propose and implement a significantly faster numerical
strategy, a spectral collocation method (Trefethen 2000) based directly on the
Fast Fourier Transform. To verify this method we compare to an integral formula
for a disc load. To compare earth models we build an accumulation history from
a growing similarity solution from (Bueler, et al.~2005) and and simulate the
coupled (ice flow)-(earth deformation) system. In the case of simple isostasy
the exact solution to this system is known. We demonstrate that the magnitudes
of numerical errors made in approximating the ice-earth system are
significantly smaller than pairwise differences between several earth models,
namely, simple isostasy, the current standard model used in ice sheet
simulation (Greve 2001, Hagdorn 2003, Zweck & Huybrechts 2005), and the Lingle
& Clark model. Therefore further efforts to validate different earth models
used in ice sheet simulations are, not surprisingly, worthwhile.Comment: 36 pages, 16 figures, 3 Matlab program
Prototyping of the ILC Baseline Positron Target
The ILC positron system uses novel helical undulators to create a powerful
photon beam from the main electron beam. This beam is passed through a titanium
target to convert it into electron-positron pairs. The target is constructed as
a 1 m diameter wheel spinning at 2000 RPM to smear the 1 ms ILC pulse train
over 10 cm. A pulsed flux concentrating magnet is used to increase the positron
capture efficiency. It is cooled to liquid nitrogen temperatures to maximize
the flatness of the magnetic field over the 1 ms ILC pulse train. We report on
prototyping effort on this system.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figures, Proceedings of the International Workshop on
Future Linear Colliders, Granada Spain, 26-30 September 201
RESULTING TRUST-STATUTE OF FRAUDS-ADVANCE OF PURCHASE MONEY IN EXCHANGE FOR TRANSFEREE\u27S PROMISE TO FURNISH A LIFE HOME FOR THE PAYOR
Plaintiff, an illiterate sharecropper, advanced money to purchase an eighty acre farm, record title being taken in the name of defendant and wife with whom plaintiff had been living for more than a year pursuant to an agreement that defendant was to furnish plaintiff with a home for life. The arrangement worked satisfactorily for more than thirty years, during which time the premises were improved and a mortgage discharged by plaintiff. Defendant then remarried and the friction which followed was climaxed by defendant ordering plaintiff off the premises. Suit was filed in equity, under an Oklahoma statute to have defendant declared constructive trustee and plaintiff the equitable owner. Held, one justice specially concurring in the reversal of the judgment of the lower court, although dissenting with the holding of the majority that the presumption of resulting of the fee was rebutted by parol evidence, and that plaintiff should have a life tenancy in an undivided half interest in the farm. Brinkley v. Patton, (Okla. I944) 149 P. (2d) 261
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Digitizing observations from the Met Office Daily Weather Reports for 1900â1910 using citizen scientist volunteers
We describe the digitization of 1.8 million subâdaily and daily weather observations which were recorded in the UK Met Office Daily Weather Reports during the 1900â1910 period. The data were rescued from scanned images of the original documents by 2,148 volunteer citizen scientists using the weatherrescue.org website. The rescued observations include dry and wet bulb temperatures, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, daily rainfall amounts and subâdaily seaâlevel pressure from 72 different locations across western Europe. These observations will be used to fill gaps in existing pressure, temperature and rainfall records and are one of the largest recoveries of weather data by citizen scientists. The value of these additional observations is highlighted by comparing the pressure observations to the Twentieth Century Reanalysis version 3 ensemble for some specific case studies
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