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Set up an inspection microscope and image processing software
No full textEmpirical thesis.Bibliography: pages 78-79.1. Introduction -- 2. System model and development -- 3. Safety precautions -- 4. Application of the device in the real world -- 5. Comparison between the most industry products to this system -- 6. Future development -- 7. Bibliography -- 8. Consultation form -- 9. Appendix.This project aims to re-engineer the Inspection Microscope Opti Spec ME3000 to be an automated PC controlled inspection microscope with image processing software. This document describes the design and implementation of the mechanical development on the inspection microscope along with the image processing software.Mode of access: World wide web.1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) colour illustrations
Proton precession magnetometer
No full textEmpirical thesis.Bibliography: page 71.1. Introduction -- 2. Background and related work -- 3. Requirements and experimental procedures -- 4. Results and discussion -- 5. Conclusions and future work -- Index -- Appendices -- Bibliography.Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique to produce images of the anatomy and physiological processes of the body. MRI devices use very strong magnetic fields and radio waves to process these images of the human body. MRI is based on the physical principle of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). This is a phenomenon where and atom's nucleus, placed in an external magnetic field, absorbs and emits radio frequency. The cost of a conventional clinical MRI scanner is in the order of 2-3 million dollars and additional maintenance and operating costs make a single MRI exam cost about $1000. Also, sometimes, an MRI of the entire body is not required. From this originates the idea of this project, which is to prototype a proton precision magnetometer (PPM), which will lead us to explore the possibilities for cheaper MRI technology. This magnetometer will be first prototyped to measure the earth's magnetic field, but in the longer term it can be further extended for other industrial and biomedical applications. Similar to clinical MRIs, the PPM relies on the signal from processing nuclear magnetic dipoles. The frequency of the precession is directly proportional to the external magnetic field strength. And when there are enough precessing protons resulting, an oscillating magnetic field will be created. The frequency of the generated oscillating field is exactly what we will be measuring with the PPM which will correspond to earth's magnetic field.Mode of access: World wide web.1 online resource (xiii, 71 pages illustrations (some colour)
Mobile WiFi-calling feature and algorithms
No full textEmpirical thesis.Bibliography: pages 57-58.1. Introduction -- 2. Project background -- 3. Handoff between WLAN and cellular networks -- 4.Simulation setup -- 5. Simulation results -- 6. Conclusions and future work -- Appendices -- Bibliography.The increasing demand in mobile broadband services urged communication system operators to take advantage of small cells and the frequency reuse factor of one in 4G LTE. However, a key problem is the weak coverage of cellular networks within indoor places. On the other hand, wireless local area networks (WLAN), which have become increasingly popular over recent years, cover most of the interior areas in residential and commercial areas, as well as shopping malls. However, the problem of performance degradation when transitioning between open areas where cellular networks have coverage and indoor places where WiFi access points (AP) provide better connectivity, is of paramount importance to be tackled. The technology which allows seamless transition between WLAN and cellular networks is referred to as vertical hando. Vertical handover is the automatic fall-over (or switch) between two technologies aiming to maintain communication. However, the hando requires a certain amount of time to be implemented, which might result in temporary disconnection of the communication link, which results in call dropping. One way to alleviate the issue is to add a hand-o trigger node (HTN) which helps the mobile station to initiate vertical hando prior to reaching the WLAN coverage border. This way, the mobile station will have ample time to accomplish vertical hando before WiFi coverage is lost. This report outlines the background concept of vertical handover and presents the HTN methodology as a practical solution for seamless transition between WLAN and cellular networks. MATLAB simulations are presented to validate the efficacy of the proposed method.Mode of access: World wide web.1 online resource (xv, 58 pages diagrams, graphs
Mechanical performance of 3D- printed Ti-6Al-4V
No full textEmpirical thesis.Bibliography: pages 47-48.Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Background and related work -- Chapter 3. Experimental procedure -- Chapter 4. Results and analysis -- Chapter 5. Discussion -- Chapter 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Future work -- Bibliography.Titanium alloys have a wide range of applications in industry, especially in the aerospace industry and biomechanical applications. Ti-6Al-4V is an α-β phase titanium alloy with high strength, low weight ratio and high corrosive resistance. The traditional manufacturing of such an alloy takes plenty of time and money to achieve required features when compared to the 3D-printed method. 3D printing is famous for the efficiency as well as the geometry shape it can create, but there are lots of settings when manufacturing it, such as the thickness of the layer and the moving speed of the nozzle. In this paper, samples with 60μm layer thickness and 1029mm/s scanning speed using the selective laser melting (SLM) method will be studies, and focus on the harness mapping along the building direction before and after heat treatment as well as the microstructure. The connection between the dimensions of the samples and their related mechanical features will be discussed as well.Mode of access: World wide web.1 online resource (48 pages illustrations (some colour)
Reading the New Testament in Australia: an historical account of the origins, development and influence of D. W. B. Robinson's Biblical Scholarship
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 212-2261. Introduction -- 2. Formation:1922-1951 from son of the diocese to Cambridge scholar -- 3. Foundations:1952-1959 early scholarship at Moore College -- 4. Teacher of the New Testament,1960-1972 -- 5. Spirit, word, and worship:the scholarly bishop in Parramatta,1973-1981 -- 6. Synthesis: faith's framework (1981) -- 7. Reformed Catholicism: archbishop Robinson,1982-1993 -- 8. Robinson after the episcopate:1993-2016 interlude #2 -- 9. The influence of D.W.B.Robinson on reading the bible in Australia -- 10. Conclusion.This thesis explores the origins, development,and influence of the thought of Australian scholar and churchman D. W. B. Robinson (1922-). Much of the historiography in which Robinson appears has struggled to account for the complexity of his ideas. He is sometimes presented as a straight-forward conservative, committed to prohibiting modern developments such as the ordination of women. On the other hand, those who knew his New Testament work are more likely to see him as a radical-someone whose original insights into the scriptures suggested new and innovative patterns of church and ministry. The complexities of grasping Robinson are further shaped by a career in two distinct halves: first as a scholar (1947-1972) and secondly as a bishop (1973-1993).I will argue that Robinson's scholarly work was the product of a synthesis between three main sources: classical evangelicalism, engagement with leading post-war biblical scholars at Cambridge,and a deep grasp of the Anglican liturgical inheritance, understood by Robinson as the tradition of Reformed Catholicism. It was these three strands, allowed to flourish and develop in the particular conditions of post-war Sydney, that shaped his distinctive approach to scripture-an approach at once radical and conservative. When a comprehensive account of Robinson's thought is established, many of the tensions between scholar and bishop are relieved, and a more integrated picture emerges. The thesis concludes by demonstrating that Donald Robinson's scholarship has exerted a profound influence on the way scripture is read, taught, preached,and studied by Sydney Anglicans and more widely. I will contend that, alongside D. B. Knox, the approach of D. W. B. Robinson to scripture has been the essential shaping influence on modern Sydney Anglican theology, decisively contributing to a complex and dynamic theological tradition.1 online resource (229 pages
‘On sovereign ground’: the politics of everyday life : Kachin at the Thai-Burma border
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 177-189.Chapter One. Introduction : contours of belonging -- Chapter Two. Movement and belonging : the village as centre -- Chapter Three. Continuities and divergences within cross-border Kachin cultural and social practices -- Chapter Four. The camp -- Chapter Five. Border camp to border village -- Chapter Six. The non-assimilable subject -- Chapter Seven. Exceptions, decisions and borders -- Bibliography -- Appendices.The movement of people and their social organisation across nation-state and cultural borders is a primary research focus of contemporary anthropology. My thesis which centres on this general concern focuses on how state control over territory and people is exercised in local settlement areas wherein specific ethnic groups are moving across real or imagined borders, and on how local and state relations are articulated and negotiated. With particular focus on the Kachin at the Thai-Burma border, the thesis entails an ethnography of mobility and settlement analysing cross-border movement from specific points of rupture. It aims to challenge the preconceived image of fixed landscapes of independent nations and autonomous local or peripheral cultures and settlements. This thesis offers a critical analysis of questions surrounding the production and reproduction of “sovereignty”, “exceptionalism” and “belonging”.This thesis shifts focus from a study of the effects of state policy on marginal people, which is basically a view from the state centre, to an ethnography concentrating on people at the margins, or periphery. The purpose of the thesis is to highlight and explore such ambiguity in the context of the historical movement and settlement of Kachin in northern Thailand. This thesis focusses on the certain aspects and process of the lives of individuals and regulatory institutions that constitute and refashion, so to speak, instances of exceptionalism.Border politics are thus the primary focus of my research that investigates institutions and practices defining and controlling social space, sovereignty and the historical trajectories of negotiation across different power regimes. In effect, the thesis explores the degree to which the sum of the above is crystallised in the history of – and everyday life within – the Kachin village of Jinghpaw Kahtawng at the Thai-Burma border. What this shows us is the complexity and ambiguities of belonging and non-belonging for cross-border populations as they attempt to integrate into larger state institutions as well as simultaneously reproduce a connection to a perceived homeland.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (xvi, 215 pages) illustrations, colour map
Discursive constructions of identity: talking to immigrant graduates in German
No full textTheoretical thesis.Bibliography: pages 171-182.1. Introduction and structural outline -- 2. Germany as country of migration -- 3. Constructions of professional identity -- 4. Specific research context: immigrant graduates at university -- 5. Methodological framework -- 6. Data analysis -- 7. LYA: characterisation of a representative case -- 8. Conclusion -- 9. Beyond this study.Germany is a country of immigration. This has de facto been the case since the beginning of 'guest worker' recruitments in the 1950s, but Germany only legally acknowledged that it was incorrect to maintain that 'Germany is not a country of immigration' ('Deutschland ist kein Einwanderungsland') only 16 years ago, with a shift in migration policy that affected both the political and the social discourse on immigration and integration. Since 2000, a new Citizenship Act has granted citizenship based on place of birth ('Ius Soli') rather than on descent only ('Ius Sanguini'). In 2005, a new Immigration Act took effect and addressed matters of integration at the federal level (Castro Varela & Mecheril 2010: 25).Debates on successful integration became prevalent in the political discourse, and a national action plan on integration ('Nationaler Integrationsplan' 2006, 2007; 'Nationaler Aktionsplan Integration' 2012) declared measures to improve the situation of migrants in Germany. Among other issues, the plan aims to ease the entrance of highly skilled migrants to the German labour market (National Action Plan on Integration 2012: 20).Through the 2005 Immigration Act, Germany started to foster immigration of highly skilled migrants for the first time since the end of 'guest worker' recruitments in 1973, a series of contracts that encouraged migration to post-war Germany. 'Guest workers' helped to rebuild the German economy and formed the first big migration wave to Germany in the 20th century (Castro Varela & Mecheril 2010), but they were expected to leave after a short period of work and their integration did not form part of the 'guest worker' recruitment. Besides, few of them worked in the highly skilled sector. With the implementation of the new Immigration Act, Germany now invests in the acquisition of knowledge via immigration (Act on the Residence, Economic Activity and Integration of Foreigners in the Federal Territory, Sections 19, 19a & 21), and thereby tries to address the skills shortage (The Federal Government 2014).However, many highly skilled migrants living in Germany did not immigrate as part of the initiative to reduce the skills shortage, but came as refugees, ethnic German repatriates or for family reunification. Although there have been recent initiatives to improve the acknowledgement of their degrees and certificates, various studies prove that their professional potential is not tapped, and that they too often face deskilling (Henkelmann 2012; Nohl, Ofner & Thomsen 2010). This is contrary to research that finds professional integration a relevant criterion for satisfactory integration into society (Peirce 1995; Nohl, Schittenhelm & Schmidtke 2014; Pätzold 2010; Brizić 2013).Despite increasing skills shortages in fields such as engineering (e.g. The Association of German Engineers VDI 2016), the knowledge and qualifications of highly skilled migrants seem to have lost significance on the German labour market (Flam 2007: 118). This situation frames the qualitative study at hand. To reveal perspectives on professional skills and career paths after migration to Germany, 17 semi-structured interviews were conducted with immigrant graduates who participated in a requalification project. As part of the project, all participants had enrolled at the University of Duisburg-Essen to obtain a German university degree with a view to enhancing their chances on the labour market. Since they had migrated to Germany 2-20 years before, none of the participants had been able to work in the fields they obtained their degrees in.Experiences of immigrant graduates in the context of their 'insufficient incorporation' (Nohl, Schittenhelm & Schmidtke 2014: 4) into the German labour market have been subject to recent studies (e.g. Nohl, Ofner & Thomsen 2007; Ofner 2011; Henkelmann 2012; Nohl, Schittenhelm, Schmidtke & Weiß 2014; Jacoby 2011), but more research is required on how participation in professional communities is assessed by migrant graduates in the context of their de-skilling. Through examining how ideas on professional participation and agency are verbalised in interviews, the study at hand addresses this desideratum.'Agency' and 'participation' are main factors in the analysis of the data presented in this thesis, and their definition builds on the assumption that '"doing" is at the heart of identity formation', linking action to processes of identity formation (Pratt 2012: 26). The present study suggests that expressions of agency and participation reveal how professional identities are discursively constructed in interviews. This leads to two research questions:1. What kind of strategies did the interviewees use to support the discursive construction of their professional identities?2. How did the respondents demonstrate agency in discursive constructions of professional identities?To analyse the data for strategies of identity construction, a qualitative content analysis (Mayring 2010, 2014; Kuckartz 2014, 2014; Schreier 2012) was carried out. Thus, the data was structured according to the aforementioned research questions (Mayring 2010). This was achieved by assigning text units to categories that were formed deductively from research about the notion of professional identity and its construction (Turner 1991; Pratt 2012; Ashforth, Kreiner, Clark & Fugate 2007; Caza & Creary 2016), as well as inductively from interview data. Hence, the result of the coding procedure was a number of text units that were filtered with the help of categories and that showed different types of strategies for the construction of professional identities. The filtered text units were then examined according to how agency was demonstrated within them. The analysis showed that various types of discursive strategies were located. These strategies helped to construct, deconstruct or maintain professional identities. The strategies involved agency to different extents. Whereas resigning and adapting strategies showed only little or no agency on the part of the interviewees, regaining and disclosing strategies involved more agency in the construction of professional identities.These findings are discussed with regards to two aspects. The first aspect is how the typology of discursive strategies relates to the theoretical framework of the study. It can be shown that participation in professional communities increases agency and supports the construction of professional identities, while unsatisfactory participation is reflected in a lack of identification as a professional. The construction of professional identities is clearly linked to participation in actual or imagined professional communities. The validation of these actions contributes to the construction of confident professional identities (Pratt 2012: 26). Moreover, comparing and contrasting (Kelle & Kluge 2010) discursive strategy types shows how metaphorical references to power (Lakoff & Johnson 1980) support the processes of constructions of professional identities. The second aspect is the validity of the findings. It will be demonstrated that although the qualitative approach of this research project includes the subjective perspective of the researcher, there are certain quality criteria such as the transparency of the analysis process and a second analysis procedure at a different point of time that ensure a satisfactory level of internal validity (Malterud 2001: 484).The transferability of the findings to other contexts is outlined in the conclusion. More specifically, the findings can be transferred and applied to further research in two different ways. Firstly, a similar analysis should be conducted with the same participants at a different point of time. The hypothesis that professional participation enhances the construction of professional identities could then be re-evaluated after a longer period of employment in the field of graduation. Secondly, this hypothesis could be transferred to a different migration setting, for instance to Australia, to test whether the construction of professional identities changes according to the context of another immigration country.1 online resource (242 pages
Metapsychology and the foundations of psychoanalysis : attachment, neuropsychoanalysis and integration
No full textMetapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis redresses faults in Freud’s original conception to develop a coherent theoretical basis for psychodynamic theory. Simon Boag demonstrates that Freud’s much maligned ‘metapsychology’, once revised, can provide a foundation for evaluating and integrating the plethora of psychodynamic perspectives, by developing a philosophically-informed position that addresses the embodied, interconnected relationship between motivation, cognition and affects. The book centres upon the major concepts in psychoanalysis, including the notion of unconscious mental processes, wish-fulfilment, fantasy, and repression. Both philosophical considerations and empirical evidence are brought to bear upon these topics, and used to extract the valuable insights from major approaches. As a result, Boag’s revised general psychology, which stays true to Freud’s intention, addresses psychoanalytic pluralism and shows it is possible to develop a unified account, integrating the insights from attachment theory and object relational approaches and acknowledging the rightful role for neuropsychoanalysis. Metapsychology and the Foundations of Psychoanalysis will be of interest to psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, philosophers of mind and psychologists, as well as anyone concerned with neuropsychoanalysis or psychoanalysis and attachment theory.Introduction -- The metaphysics of metapsychology -- The biological foundations of personality : drives and affects -- Repression and the metapsychology of defence -- The metapsychology of the unconscious -- The metapsychology of the self -- The metapsychology of object relations -- Conclusion164 page(s
Global trade and promotion of cleantech industry : a post-Paris agenda
No full textThe Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 puts the world on a new footing for global solutions to the issue of mitigation of climate change. In the formulation of climate policy, the issues of trade in cleantech goods, and the promotion of cleantech industries through industrial policy measures such as local content requirements, now loom large. The case for reconciliation between the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and World Trade Organization (WTO) is now becoming stronger, and calls for specific steps to enable trade to accommodate green industry promotion strategies. Specifically, it is proposed that the next Conference of the Parties under the UNFCCC, to be staged in Morocco late in 2016, adopt a resolution calling on the WTO to recognize the authority of the UNFCCC in recognizing climate change mitigation as a ‘public good’, whose pursuit might allow for temporary use of industrial development policies such as local content requirements, if countries wished to follow such a strategy. Policy relevance Countries’ trade policies are currently formulated without reference to climate change, while climate change strategies are formulated without reference to principles of fair trade. The article proposes means through which the two regimes, governing trade and climate change, and the two principal bodies involved, the WTO and UNFCCC, can be brought to a state of mutual recognition and (prospective) harmony. The implications for climate policy are traced.9 page(s
Supply chain agility: from systematic review to empirical examination
No full textEmpirical thesis.Bibliography: pages 84-93.1. Introduction -- 2. Part one: a systematic analysis of supply chain agility -- 3. Part two: an empirical investigation of the relationship between supply chain agility and a form's performance -- 4. Implications -- 5. Limitations and future research endeavour -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Appendices.Supply chain agility (SCA) is a widely studied and discussed issue in supply chain and operations management. Despite this popularity, literature on SCA seems to suffer from definitional ambiguity and structural fragmentation. This study, in its first part, aims to rectify these issues by offering a systemic review which serves two primary purposes: 1) to develop a complete and new definition for SCA in order to reduce ambiguity surrounding the meaning of this concept; and 2) to develop an integrative framework for the antecedents and consequences of SCA.The thesis further extends the review with empirical work in regard to supply chain agility performance. It argues that supply chain agility is a well-known enabler of a firm's financial performance. However, the link between the two seems to be more complex than a direct association. In order to investigate this relationship, the study proposes that supply chain agility is an operational capability which first enhances a firm's operational performance, through which the financial performance is enhanced. Using data from 222 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Australia with a lagged financial performance indicator, t he study found empirical evidence for this relationship. The results suggest that operational performance is, in fact, a mediator of supply chain agility and financial performance. The thesis concludes with a discussion on implications, limitations and a future research agenda.Mode of access: World wide web1 online resource (103 pages) illustration