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    ‘Through the unknown, remembered gate’: the Brian Nettleton lecture – Outdoors Victoria conference, 2022

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    This paper is an adapted version of the Brian Nettleton Lecture given at the Outdoors Victoria Conference, 2022. It explores how the last two decades have seen an ever-accelerating Digital Revolution which has impacted on almost every aspect of human experience to the point that it is now omnipresent. Life is now mediated through the screen. As a result, children and young people have become hyper-vigilant, overly anxious, experience a sense of climate trauma, and have decreasing access to, and time spent in, the outdoors. In addition, children have just experienced two years of isolation as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and evidence suggests that they are already experiencing significant mental health issues as a result. This paper considers the implications of this for Outdoors Victoria and Outdoor Education. © The Author(s) 2023

    Partitioning of gases to ice in the atmosphere: effects on nitric acid and the formation of sulfate

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    This thesis describes the first implementation of gas-to-ice partitioning of three inorganic gases (HNO3, SO2 and H2O2), along with subsequent chemical reactions and changes in gas phase and particle mass concentrations in the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) chemical transport model. Adsorbed HNO3 was assumed to condense and partition to the aerosol phase. Adsorbed SO2 and H2O2 reacted to form sulfate on the ice surface. Four different simulations were performed with CMAQv4.7.1 for August 12th-25th of 2005: 1) base case simulation without the addition of lightning-generated NOx, 2) a simulation with the addition of lightning-generated NOx, 3) 100% partitioning case and 4) 25% partitioning case. Simulations 3) and 4) provided an upper and lower bound for the partitioning of adsorbed HNO3 to remain in the aerosol phase. Considerable decreases, greater than 25% in gas phase HNO3, were noted in the 100% partitioning case for 200-600 mb, with the largest changes at 300 mb and 400 mb. Potential effects induced on other gases in the nitrogen budget (NOx and HONO) and oxidant cycling of atmosphere (O3) due to gas-to-ice partitioning of HNO3 were considered. Decreases in NOx and HONO gas mixing ratios were found to be as high 20%, but were generally less than 10%. Changes in O3 concentration were less than 1%. Increases in nitrate aerosol mass concentration were as high as 0.15 µg/m3 for the upper levels of the atmosphere. No changes in H2O2, SO2, or sulfate aerosol concentrations were observed.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Brian P. Marm

    In Honour of Brian MacWhinney: A Personal Account

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    While this volume and the writings have made it amply clear what significant contributions Professor Brian MacWhinney has made to the field at large, in this afterword, we begin with a senior member of our author team (Ping Li, PL) followed by a mid-career member (Helen Zhao, HZ) and an early career member (Zhe Gao, ZG), to provide our personal accounts of Brian not only as a leading scholar but also as a role model who touches and changes people’s lives

    70th Anniversary of the Bombing of Darwin

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    On 20th February 2012, I was sitting next to Brian Winspear at the Commemoration Ceremony. Brian Came up from Tasmania, to lay a wreath for No. 2 Squadron (Hudson's) RAAF. Name WINSPEAR, ROGER BRIAN Service Royal Australian Air Force Service Number 408126 Date of Birth 26 Sep 1920 Place of Birth BURNIE, TAS Date of Enlistment 6 Dec 1940 Locality on Enlistment Unknown Place of Enlistment HOBART Next of Kin WINSPEAR, R Date of Discharge 26 Nov 1945 Rank Flight Lieutenant Posting at Discharge 100 SQUADRON Brian has written 2 books: My backseat war / Brian Winspear. Author Winspear, Brian. Published [Rosny Park, Tas.] : B. Winspear, 21 cm. Physical Description 78 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Tasmania's at war in the air, 1939-1945 / edited by Sue Johnson and Brian Winspear. Other Authors Johnson, Sue. Winspear, Brian. Published Rosny Park, Tas. : B. Winspear, c2002.Richards, Joh

    Cognition and visual information: an examination of human evolution, cognitive models and my artistic practice

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    An examination of my cross-disciplinary artistic practice that attempts to bring together Asian meditative disciplines with Western inquiry through visualizing social and physical statistics. As I explore the relationship between language and sensation, I use Charles Pierce's three referential modes: the iconic, indexical and symbol-symbol to view how humanity as come to understand the world through images, objects and rituals. Paralleling this investigation is a systems theory that attempts to visualize the fluidity of a non-discrete universe where social interaction correlates with the physical world.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical references (p. 39-42)by Brian J Bulfe

    Ending inflation

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    Inflation (Finance) ; Monetary policy - United States

    Brian Massumi, The Politics of Affect

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    The Politics of Affect By: Brian Massumi Description Buy book / Order Exam Copy Reviews Table of Contents Author Information ShareThis Description 'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from being enclosed in the interiority of a subject, affect concerns an immediate p..

    Brian Massumi, The Politics of Affect

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    The Politics of Affect By: Brian Massumi Description Buy book / Order Exam Copy Reviews Table of Contents Author Information ShareThis Description 'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from being enclosed in the interiority of a subject, affect concerns an immediate p..

    Properties or homes?: alternatives to traditional market processes

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    Over the last few years shortcomings have been revealed in the most traditional forms of tenureship in the housing market. Housing finance has become tied to international financial markets, with deregulation creating a direct line between households and global capital flow. The promise of expanded homeownership that came with this expanded access to credit has turned sour. Foreclosure rates have dramatically increased, most significantly in lower-income neighborhoods in the more disinvested cities. Alternative models of homeownership such as limited-equity cooperatives, community land trusts, deed-restricted housing, and mutual housing associations provide another way for residents to relate to their homes. Instead of the relationship being dictated by the market, it can instead be directed by the social needs of communities, neighborhoods, and households. If these models of social housing were implemented on a larger scale, crises like the most recent one could be minimized and perhaps even avoided.M.A.Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-57)by Brian Robert Stromber
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