266 research outputs found
West Musgrave elevation grid geodetic
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This West Musgrave elevation grid geodetic is elevation data for the West Musgrave, WA, 2002 acquired under the project No. 863 for the geological survey of WA. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m). This grid contains the ground elevation values relative to the geoid for the West Musgrave, WA, 2002. It represents the vertical distance from a location on the Earth's surface to the geoid. The data are given in units of meters. The processed data are checked by GA geophysicists using standard methods for assessing quality to ensure that the final data are fit-for-purpose.Digital Elevation data record the terrain height variations from the processed point- or line-located data recorded during a geophysical survey. This West Musgrave elevation grid geodetic is elevation data for the West Musgrave, WA, 2002. This survey was acquired under the project No. 863 for the geological survey of WA. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m). This grid contains the ground elevation relative to the geoid for the West Musgrave, WA, 2002. It represents the vertical distance from a location on the Earth's surface to the geoid. The data are given in units of meters. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose
GSWA Musgrave Extensions percent potassium grid geodetic
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This GSWA Musgrave Extensions percent potassium grid geodetic is an airborne-derived radiometric potassium grid for the Musgrave Extensions, WA, 2006. The survey was acquired under the project No. 1135 for the geological survey of WA. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m). A total of 83777 line-kilometres of data at a line spacing of 400m and 60m terrain clearance were acquired to produce this grid. This radiometric potassium grid shows potassium element concentration of the Musgrave Extensions, WA, 2006 in units of percent (or %). Noise-adjusted singular value decomposition (NASVD) has been applied to the data. NASVD is a spectral component analysis procedure for the removal of noise from gamma-ray spectra. Details of the specifications of individual airborne surveys can be found in the Fourteenth Edition of the Index of Airborne Geophysical Surveys (Percival, 2014). This Index is also available online at http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/79134.
Reference:
Percival, P.J., 2014. Index of airborne geophysical surveys (Fourteenth Edition).The radiometric, or gamma-ray spectrometric method, measures the natural variations in the gamma-rays detected near the Earth's surface as the result of the natural radioactive decay of potassium (K), uranium (U) and thorium (Th). The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.<br/>This radiometric potassium grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m) and shows potassium element concentration of the Musgrave Extensions, WA, 2006 in units of percent (or %). The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 2006 by the WA Government, and consisted of 83777 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 60m terrain clearance
Electro-optic studies of the flexoelectric effect in chiral nematic liquid crystals
No full textWith the advent of global telecommunications networks and the Internet, the development of portable display technology has gained a new impetus. Liquid crystal devices have played a major role in this area, most conspicuously as displays in laptop computers. To date, these liquid crystalline devices have been generally based on the rather slow (#approx# 30 ms) dielectric response of the achiral nematic liquid crystal phase, although more expensive devices based on the faster (< 100 #mu#s) ferroelectric switching of the smectic C* phase are in production. The research presented in this thesis relates to a new switching effect recently discovered in the chiral nematic phase. The flexoelectrically-driven rotation of the chiral nematic phase's optic axis is fast - of the order 10 #mu#s to lms - proportional to the applied field amplitude and completely in-plane. The optic axis has been deflected by over 30 deg. from the equilibrium position in some materials. These electro-optic properties make the 'flexoelectro-optic' effect a potential contender in the liquid crystal device market. The present thesis contains the first studies of the effect of molecular structure on flexoelectric coupling in the chiral nematic phase. Several homologous series of estradiol-cyanobiphenyl bimesogenic materials synthesized for this work have been characterized and their electro-optic properties investigated. The chiral nematic phases of these materials have unusually strong flexoelectro-optic effects and respond on a sub-millisecond timescale. The ratios of the effective flexoelectric coefficient to the mean splay-bend elastic constant, e-bar/K, in the present materials lie in the range 0.3 to 0.6 C N"-"1 m"-"1, and are the highest measured to date: the highest value previously published is 0.12 C N"-"1 m"-"1, measured for the commercial mixture TM216. In order to interpret the effect of the bimesogens' molecular structure, achiral nematic monomesogens and bimesogens have been doped with chiral additives and the resultant mixtures' flexoelectro-optic properties have been analysed. From this work it has been possible to determine that the polar cyanobiphenyl group is the key to the strong response in the estradiol-cyanobiphenyl materials. In conclusion, a recommendation is made, for the first time, for a general molecular structure likely to exhibit a strong flexoelectro-optic response: namely, bimesogenic materials composed of highly polar end groups separated by a flexible spacer. (author)SIGLEAvailable from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN034323 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreGBUnited Kingdo
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Supporting Children's Health and Wellbeing Masterclass Interview
No full textKATHY BRODIE: A very warm welcome to the SAGE Publishing Masterclass with me, Kathy Brodie. In today's edition, it gives me very great pleasure to be joined by author Jackie Misgrave to talk about her latest book, Supporting Children's Health and Well-being. In this great book, Jackie examines children's health and well-being, but with a focus on how this affects all other areas of learning and development. A very warm welcome to the SAGE Masterclass, Jackie.
JACKIE MUSGRAVE: Thank you, Kathy.
KATHY BRODIE: And I was really, really interested to read this book. You cover so much. But could we just start with the rationale? What was the link between children's health and well-being that you particularly wanted to investigate in this book?
JACKIE MUSGRAVE: Well, I think that when we talk about children's health..
GSWA Musgrave Extensions ppm uranium grid geodetic
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This GSWA Musgrave Extensions ppm uranium grid geodetic is an airborne-derived radiometric uranium grid for the Musgrave Extensions, WA, 2006. The survey was acquired under the project No. 1135 for the geological survey of WA. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m). A total of 83777 line-kilometres of data at a line spacing of 400m and 60m terrain clearance were acquired to produce this grid. This radiometric uranium grid shows uranium element concentration of the Musgrave Extensions, WA, 2006 in units of parts per million (or ppm). Noise-adjusted singular value decomposition (NASVD) has been applied to the data. NASVD is a spectral component analysis procedure for the removal of noise from gamma-ray spectra. Details of the specifications of individual airborne surveys can be found in the Fourteenth Edition of the Index of Airborne Geophysical Surveys (Percival, 2014). This Index is also available online at http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/79134.
Reference:
Percival, P.J., 2014. Index of airborne geophysical surveys (Fourteenth Edition).The radiometric, or gamma-ray spectrometric method, measures the natural variations in the gamma-rays detected near the Earth's surface as the result of the natural radioactive decay of potassium (K), uranium (U) and thorium (Th). The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.<br/>This radiometric uranium grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m) and shows uranium element concentration of the Musgrave Extensions, WA, 2006 in units of parts per million (or ppm). The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 2006 by the WA Government, and consisted of 83777 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 60m terrain clearance
GSWA Musgrave Extensions magnetic grid geodetic
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This GSWA Musgrave Extensions magnetic grid geodetic is an airborne-derived Total Magnetic Intensity (TMI) grid for the Musgrave Extensions, WA, 2006 survey. The survey was acquired under the project No. 1135 for the geological survey of WA. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m). The units are in nanoTesla (or nT). A total of 83777 line-kilometres of data at a line spacing of 400m and 60m terrain clearance were acquired to produce this grid. Details of the specifications of individual airborne surveys can be found in the Fourteenth Edition of the Index of Airborne Geophysical Surveys (Percival, 2014). This Index is also available online at http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/79134.
Reference:
Percival, P.J., 2014. Index of airborne geophysical surveys (Fourteenth Edition).Total magnetic intensity (TMI) data measures variations in the intensity of the Earth's magnetic field caused by the contrasting content of rock-forming minerals in the Earth crust. Magnetic anomalies can be either positive (field stronger than normal) or negative (field weaker) depending on the susceptibility of the rock. The data are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.<br/>This GSWA Musgrave Extensions magnetic grid geodetic has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m). The units are in nanoTesla (or nT). The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 2006 by the WA Government, and consisted of 83777 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 60m terrain clearance
Data for: Defending hierarchy from the Moon to the Indian Ocean: Symbolic capital and political dominance in early modern China and the Cold War
No full textThis is an Annotation for Transparent Inquiry (ATI) data project. The annotated article can be viewed on the publisher's website.
The theory presented in the article concerns how the evolution of fields of contestation for supremacy and position within hierarchical ‘games’ generates incentives for actors to invest even massive amounts of “tangible” resources into displays of cultural competence that have no immediate “material” payoffs commensurate with that investment. The piece applies its theorizing to two disparate cases: the “treasure fleet” expeditions under the early Ming in the early fourteenth century and to the Apollo project of manned voyages by the United States in the 1960s and early 1970s.We execute our strategy of comparing explanations drawn from our theory to those drawn by generalized families of competing explanations, as well as rival explanations driven by idiosyncratic features of the specific cases, in an analytically similar but empirically different manner. In both cases, we test our theory’s explanatory power against rival explanations using a framework drawn from recent advances in the qualitative literature; we refer to this strategy as a “folk Bayes” approach (detailed more in the Supplementary Information) and argue that it allows us to isolate observations in which our theory better predicts observance (or lack of observance) of clues associated with the case compared to rivals given intuitively plausible prior beliefs.
The differing levels of documentation available in each case (even before considering language difficulties) led to different strategies for collecting evidence to allow for this testing. In the Ming case, we drew on secondary sources. This reflects the fact that neither author reads Mandarin nor any other language implicated in the Ming treasure-fleet voyages. It also derives from the fact that we understand that even much of the “primary sources” available in Mandarin are themselves secondary sources (e.g. the Ming Shilu 明实录 or “Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty”, an official record of the Ming dynasty compiled by scholar-officials after the death of each emperor). As discussed in the case, many of the “primary sources” may have been lost not merely to time and the dislocations associated with dynastic successions in e.g. 1644, 1911, and 1949 but to specific bureaucratic sabotage during the later Ming dynasty.
The absence of such primary documentation and access to original-language literature meant that we were reliant on English-language sources. Fortunately, these include a vast array of specialist tracts. Instead of relying on standard popularizations (e.g. Levathes 2014, When China Ruled the Seas; 436 Google Scholar citations), we used works by scholars of China and Chinese history (e.g. Dreyer 2007; Needham 1971; Cham 1988, 2007; Finlay 1991). We believe that this allowed us to better survey disputes over interpretations of the voyages’ meaning and impact; furthermore, our more capacious selection mitigates the problems mentioned by Lustick (1996). We relied most heavily on those sources that themselves seemed to be closest to archaeological, documentary, and other more-primary records.
In the Kennedy case, we benefitted from greater availability of documentary records. We consulted the secondary literature (the work of John M. Logsdon and Walter A. Macdougall, as well as a dissertation by Teasel Muir-Harmony, was particularly helpful). We also consulted contemporaneous media and other sources. However, we viewed these works more as a guide to initial surveys in archival and other primary-source research. We conducted searches for relevant records in compilations of government records such as the Foreign Relations of the United States series (for both the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations) and The American Presidency Project as well as searches among the CIA’s online reading room of declassified documents. Furthermore, we employed records held by the John F. Kennedy Library. Many of the Kennedy Library’s holdings have been digitized, but some have not. To collect those records that were unavailable, I visited the library in November 2016 to find and photograph relevant documents. (This required only a day of research, as opposed to the much longer periods that would have otherwise been necessary, because of the volume of records available online already, because of the narrow nature of our research interests, and because most of the processing of those records occurred offsite after my visit.) Documents were saved for later reference as computer files and prepared for sharing where necessary by converting them to PDFs. Finally, the processing of the Kennedy Library’s tapes allowed us to consult an unusually rich vein into the president’s thinking; the volumes compiled by the Presidential Recordings Project at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia helped us understand how the Moon project fit into the president’s thinking.
Our exposition of our research on the Kennedy case was limited in the text by the demands of the journal publication process. Consequently, as with the Ming case, much of our argumentation and fuller expositions of our findings are presented in a Supplementary Information.
References in this Data Overview
Levathes, Louise. 2014. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the Dragon Throne. Open Road Media.
Lustick, Ian S. 1996. History, Historiography, and Political Science: Multiple Historical Records and the Problem of Selection Bias. American Political Science Review 90(3):605-618.
Supplementary Information
This article’s online appendix is available at International Organization, on Harvard Dataverse, and http://www.paulmusgrave.info
GSWA Musgrave Extensions doserate grid geodetic
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This GSWA Musgrave Extensions doserate grid geodetic is an airborne-derived radiometric terrestrial dose rate grid for the Musgrave Extensions, WA, 2006 survey. The survey was acquired under the project No. 1135 for the geological survey of WA. The grid has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m). A total of 83777 line-kilometres of data at a line spacing of 400m were acquired to produce this grid. The terrestrial dose rate grid is derived as a linear combination of the filtered K, U and Th grids. Details of the specifications of individual airborne surveys can be found in the Fourteenth Edition of the Index of Airborne Geophysical Surveys (Percival, 2014). This Index is also available online at http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/79134.
Reference:
Percival, P.J., 2014. Index of airborne geophysical surveys (Fourteenth Edition).The radiometric, or gamma-ray spectrometric method, measures the natural variations in the gamma-rays detected near the Earth's surface as the result of the natural radioactive decay of potassium (K), uranium (U) and thorium (Th). The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose. The terrestrial dose rate grid is derived as a linear combination of the filtered K, U and Th grids. A low pass filter is applied to this grid to generate the filtered terrestrial dose rate grid.<br/>This GSWA Musgrave Extensions doserate grid geodetic has a cell size of 0.00083 degrees (approximately 88m) and shows the terrestrial dose rate of the Musgrave Extensions, WA, 2006. The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 2006 by the WA Government, and consisted of 83777 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 60m terrain clearance
Suicide, the music industry, and a call to action
No full textDr George Musgrave is both a musician and an academic, with first-hand experience of the music industry’s challenges. In this guest editorial, inspired by their moving and urgent new article in Frontiers in Public Health, he and co-author Dr Dorian Lamis, who is a clinical psychologist and suicide prevention expert, turn the spotlight on the toll of death by suicide in the music industry, and call for immediate action to support vulnerable artists
ALAA/ALS 2016 Conferences
No full textALAA/ALS 2016 CONFERENCESApplied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) annual conference5-7 December 2016Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) annual conference7-9 December 2016Monash University, MelbourneMonash University is delighted to host the 2016 annual conferences of the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA) and Australian Linguistic Society (ALS). There will be a combined day on Wednesday the 7th of December that will provide exciting opportunities to engage with current research and other scholars, fostering dialogue, reflection, and new research collaborations.Conference Organising Committee:Reka Benczes, Melanie Burns (ALS conference secretariat), Kate Burridge (ALS conference co-convenor), Anna Filipi, Howard Manns, Simon Musgrave (ALS conference co-convenor), Nadine Normand-Marconnet, Cathy Sell (ALAA conference secretariat), Allie Severin, Robyn Spence-Brown (ALAA conference convenor), Marianne Turner, Zchichang [email protected] [email protected]</div
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