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Nordic Design Down Under. Swedish Modern and Scandinavian design in Australia
This essay examines the mediation and translation of âSwedish Modernâ and Scandinavian Design in Australia between 1945-68, and their contribution to the development of Australian design for the modern home. It focusses on transnational exchange during the 1950s as a vehicle in the production of a Nordic-Australian hybrid of furniture design. It concludes by considering the 1968 exhibition Design in Scandinavia as the culmination of a fertile period of influence, and a postscript for the global domination of post-war Scandinavian Design
Similarity Measures for Enhancing Interactive Streamline Seeding
Streamline seeding rakes are widely used in vector field visualization. We present new approaches for calculating similarity between integral curves (streamlines and pathlines). While others have used similarity distance measures, the computational expense involved with existing techniques is relatively high due to the vast number of euclidean distance tests, restricting interactivity and their use for streamline seeding rakes. We introduce the novel idea of computing streamline signatures based on a set of curve-based attributes. A signature produces a compact representation for describing a streamline. Similarity comparisons are performed by using a popular statistical measure on the derived signatures. We demonstrate that this novel scheme, including a hierarchical variant, produces good clustering results and is computed over two orders of magnitude faster than previous methods. Similarity-based clustering enables filtering of the streamlines to provide a nonuniform seeding distribution along the seeding object. We show that this method preserves the overall flow behavior while using only a small subset of the original streamline set. We apply focus + context rendering using the clusters which allows for faster and easier analysis in cases of high visual complexity and occlusion. The method provides a high level of interactivity and allows the user to easily fine tune the clustering results at runtime while avoiding any time-consuming recomputation. Our method maintains interactive rates even when hundreds of streamlines are used
Managing complexity in a distributed digital library
As the capabilities of distributed digital libraries increase, managing organizational and software complexity becomes a key issue. How can collections and indexes be updated without impacting queries currently in progress? How can the system handle several user-interface clients for the same collections? Computer science professors and lectors from the University of Waikato have developed a software structure that successfully manages this complexity in the New Zealand Digital Library. This digital library has been a success in managing organizational and software complexity. The researchers' primary goal has been to minimize the effort required to keep the system operational and yet continue to expand its offerings
Breeding Habitats and New Breeding Locations for Rossâs Gull (Rhodostethia rosea) in the Canadian High Arctic
Published accounts list only four breeding sites for Rossâs gull (Rhodostethia rosea) in North America, but the discovery of additional breeding sites in Queenâs Channel, Nunavut, adds to growing evidence that this species is established as a regular breeder in the Canadian High Arctic despite its current status as a Threatened Species in Canada. We present nine breeding records of Rossâs gull in Canada. Five are from Queenâs Channel alone, and these include two new breeding records from 2011. The geographic proximity and similarity in topography, microhabitat, and interspecific nesting associÂations that characterize Rossâs gull nesting sites in the Canadian High Arctic suggest that additional surveys of surrounding suitable habitat would confirm a stable and globally significant breeding population of this very poorly known species in North America.Selon des donnĂ©es dĂ©jĂ publiĂ©es, il nâexiste que quatre lieux de reproduction de la mouette rosĂ©e (Rhodostethia rosea) en AmĂ©rique du Nord. Cependant, la dĂ©couverte de nouveaux lieux de reproduction dans le chenal Queens, au Nunavut, vient renforcer les preuves selon lesquelles cette espĂšce est Ă©tablie en tant quâoiseau nicheur rĂ©gulier dans lâExtrĂȘme-Arctique canadien, mĂȘme si elle fait actuellement partie de la liste des espĂšces menacĂ©es au Canada. Nous prĂ©sentons neuf enregisÂtrements relatifs Ă la reproduction de la mouette rosĂ©e au Canada. Cinq de ces enregistrements sont relatifs au chenal Queens, dont deux nouveaux enregistrements de reproduction qui datent de 2011. La proximitĂ© gĂ©ographique et les similitudes sur le plan de la topographie, du microhabitat et des associations de nidification interspĂ©cifiques caractĂ©risant les lieux de reproduction de la mouette rosĂ©e dans lâExtrĂȘme-Arctique canadien laissent entendre que des levĂ©s supplĂ©mentaires dâhabitats environnants convenables permettraient de confirmer une population dâoiseaux nicheurs stable et gĂ©nĂ©ralement importante de cette espĂšce trĂšs peu connue en AmĂ©rique du Nord
Measuring change
A change in the reporting of HbA1c is
being adopted globally,
including in Australia.
It's anticipated that this
change will, among other
things, make it easier for doctors
to educate their patients
about the importance of glycaemic
control. However, to
understand how this change
will help in practice, it's useful
to firstly understand what
HbA1c is and to know something
of the history of how
laboratories have measured
the HbA1c assay
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MASELTOV Deliverable Report 7.1.2: Incidental Learning Framework
This document describes progress in the development of an âIncidental Learning Frameworkâ, building on the work reported in Deliverable D7.1.1, submitted July 2012.
The goal of the Incidental Learning Framework (ILF) is to facilitate the creation of technology rich learning opportunities for immigrants within cities. The framework is a descriptive mechanism that permits analysis, and a generative tool to support software system design, and it facilitates the communication of learning design ideas both visually and textually. The framework focuses on incidental learning i.e. learning that is spontaneous and unplanned, in the knowledge domains of interest to the MASELTOV project including health care, culture, and language and information access. Its use should encourage links and triggers to structured and reflective learning to back up and deepen learning that happens incidentally.
This document describes the Incidental Learning Framework developed for the MASELTOV project, presents a examples of its use, and describes some conclusions and recommendations for future work
- Introduction
- Purpose of the framework
- Challenges with ILF from its initial conception
- Work carried out developing ILF for use in the project
--Literature
--Alternative visualisations
--Focus workshops in OU
--Partner testing
--Template for testing
--Examples of the partnersâ testing their tools against the template
-Reporting on incidental learning reflections with language learning and serious games
- Conclusions and recommendations
It should be noted that this document is a high level review, identifying significant literature and the on-going development of the framework through dialogue with educational experts and MASELTOV partners. This document offers recommendations therefore in general terms. Decisions about the specific implementation of the learnerâs journey as framed by an incidental learning approach will be made in coordination with technical partners as the dialogue progresses
Professional autonomy and surveillance: the case of public reporting in cardiac surgery
Professional autonomy has come under greater scrutiny due to managerialism,
consumerism, information and communication technologies (ICT), and the
changing composition of professions themselves. This scrutiny is often portrayed
as a tension between professional and managerial logics. Recently, medical
autonomy has increasingly been shaped in terms of transparency, where
publication of clinical performance (via ICT) might be a more pervasive form of
surveillance. Such transparency may have the potential for a more explicit
managerial logic but is contested by clinicians. This paper applies notions of
surveillance to public reporting of cardiac surgery, involving the online publication
of mortality rates of named surgeons. It draws on qualitative data from a casestudy
of cardiac surgeons in one hospital, incorporating interviews with health care
managers and national policymakers in England. We examine how managerial
logics are mediated by professional autonomy, generating patterns of enrolment,
resistance and reactivity to public reporting. The managerial âgazeâ of public
reporting is becoming widespread but the surgical specialty is accommodating it,
leading to a re-assertion of knowledge, based on professional definitions. The
paper assesses whether this form of surveillance is challenging to or being
assimilated by the medical profession, thereby recasting the profession itself
The NIRSPEC Brown Dwarf Spectroscopic Survey II: High-Resolution J-Band Spectra of M, L and T Dwarfs
We present a sequence of high resolution (R~20,000 or 15 km/s) infrared
spectra of stars and brown dwarfs spanning spectral types M2.5 to T6.
Observations of 16 objects were obtained using eight echelle orders to cover
part of the J-band from 1.165-1.323 micron with NIRSPEC on the Keck II
telescope. By comparing opacity plots and line lists, over 200 weak features in
the J-band are identified with either FeH or H2O transitions. Absorption by FeH
attains maximum strength in the mid-L dwarfs, while H2O absorption becomes
systematically stronger towards later spectral types. Narrow resolved features
broaden markedly after the M to L transition. Our high resolution spectra also
reveal that the disappearance of neutral Al lines at the boundary between M and
L dwarfs is remarkably abrupt, presumably because of the formation of grains.
Neutral Fe lines can be traced to mid-L dwarfs before Fe is removed by
condensation. The neutral potassium (K I) doublets that dominate the J-band
have pressure broadened wings that continue to broaden from ~50 km/s (FWHM) at
mid-M to ~500 km/s at mid-T. In contrast however, the measured
pseudo-equivalent widths of these same lines reach a maximum in the mid-L
dwarfs. The young L2 dwarf, G196-3B, exhibits narrow potassium lines without
extensive pressure-broadened wings, indicative of a lower gravity atmosphere.
Kelu-1AB, another L2, has exceptionally broad infrared lines, including FeH and
H2O features, confirming its status as a rapid rotator. In contrast to other
late T objects, the peculiar T6 dwarf 2MASS 0937+29 displays a complete absence
of potassium even at high resolution, which may be a metallicity effect or a
result of a cooler, higher-gravity atmosphere.Comment: 53 pages, 21 figures, data will be available at
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~mclean/BDSSarchive
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