427 research outputs found
Letter from Henry G. Graham to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Bishop Auxiliary Henry G. Graham, 3 Seton Place, Edinburgh, to Hagan. Asking for character and academic reference for Manus O'Donnell, now seeking to be incardinated in their diocese. Asking whether the only reasons preventing his ordination were smoking outside hours and speaking to junior students when the rules prohibited it. Adding that he is in want of priests very much
Papua New Guinea’s refugee track record and its obligations under the 2013 Regional Resettlement Arrangement with Australia
Full text linkThis paper examines Papua New Guinea\u27s track record in assessing and resettling asylum seekers, its current obligations under the 2013 Regional Resettlement Arrangement, and the sustainability of this arrangement.
Introduction
In the lead-up to the Australian Federal Election in September 2013, public attention focused dramatically on Papua New Guinea (PNG) in terms of the joint PNG–Australia Regional Resettlement Arrangement, the subject of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed on 6 August 2013. In short, Australia would transfer asylum seekers who arrived in Australia by boat after 19 July 2013 to PNG where their claim for refugee status would be assessed, under PNG law, and those found to be refugees would be resettled in PNG ‘and in any other participating regional, including Pacific Island, states’. (Nauru is the only other current participating regional state, with Cambodia considering resettlement of asylum seekers at the time of publication.) While the Migration Legislation Amendment (Regional Processing and Other Measures) Act 2012 provided for assessment of asylum seekers by PNG, it was the August 2013 Regional Resettlement Arrangement (mentioned as the 2013 Arrangement) that provided for resettlement in PNG, of asylum seekers determined to be refugees. In accordance with the 2013 Arrangement, the full cost of implementing the arrangement in PNG, that is, transfer, assessment, and resettlement, would be met by Australia.
PNG has a track record related to the assessment and resettlement of asylum seekers. The discussion paper begins with a brief outline of PNG policy responses to West Papuan asylum seekers from neighbouring Indonesian Papua. It focuses on the permissive residence system (part of a PNG ‘Limited Integration’ policy) offered to West Papuan refugees living at the former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resettlement site at East Awin in Western Province since 1997. Limitations of the permissive residence permit, particularly issues related to eligibility and permit renewal, illustrate challenges faced by the PNG government and bureaucracy to design and administer a visa system. PNG’s track record of assessing and resettling West Papuan asylum seekers since 1984 is looked at against the terms of the 2013 Arrangement, which requires PNG to determine the refugee status of asylum seekers transferred by Australia to the offshore processing centre on Manus Island, review negative determinations, and resettle in PNG those determined to be refugees.
The second section considers PNG’s obligations under the terms of the 2013 Arrangement. In relation to status determination, an efficient and procedurally fair determination process requires legislation i.e., domestic refugee law, and an effective immigration bureaucracy. It can be argued that neither of these elements were present at the time of the 2013 Arrangement. However, at the time of publication of this paper in mid-2014, some status determinations and a review process had been announced. In relation to resettlement, ongoing disagreement by the PNG government over the terms of resettlement (which refugees are to be resettled, how many refugees will be resettled) threatens to undermine the terms of the 2013 Arrangement. Australia has underwritten the costs of implementing resettlement under the Arrangement, although the details are not explicit. Nor are details available about any social planning being undertaken for the resettlement of refugees. The author takes up UNHCR’s charge of a ‘xenophobic phenomenon’ in relation to the reception of non-Melanesian refugees in PNG, and offers some context. It is argued that social planning that works towards minimising inter-community tension is critical to resettlement.
The 2013 Arrangement is subject to annual review by the Australian–PNG Ministerial Forum. The sustainability of the Arrangement in terms of legal challenges and security issues is the subject of the third section. Responding to the announcement of the first status determination decisions at the time of publication of this paper, the conclusion summarises some of the major issues related to PNG’s responsibilities under the Arrangement: procedurally fair assessment and review processes, and resettlement planning
The Proposed Model Surrogate Parenthood Act: A Legislative Response to the Challenges of Reproductive Technology
Full text linkIn this Article, Manus proposes a Model Surrogate Parenthood Act. He examines the medical and scientific history of surrogacy and reviews the jurisprudence in the area, specifically the constitutional relationship between procreation rights and surrogacy. The author asserts that surrogate motherhood cannot be, and indeed, should not be, eradicated through legislation criminalizing it. The proposed Model Act, presented here in its entirety, attempts to reduce the problems inherent in the concept of surrogate parenthood by putting the process under strict court supervision and by zealously protecting the rights of the surrogate mother and the child to be conceived
Manus, sacrum, and caudals of Sauropoda. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 20, article 14.
No full textp. 181-190 : ill. ; 24 cm.Structure of the manus -- Sacro-pelvic arcade. Morosaurus. Diplodocus. Brontosaurus -- Coalescence of caudals -- Small terminal caudals
'Damnas esto' e 'manus iniectio' nella lex Aquilia: un indizio paleografico?
No full textOver the last decades, scholars analysed the matters concerning the direct effect with manus iniectio of the “damnas esto” of the lex Aquilia only from a substantive law perspective. The author here emphasises the relevance of Studemund’s apographum of Gai. IV, 21 and tests the weakness of Goeschen’s hypothesis compared to Studemund’s interpretation of the Codex Veronensi
Keynote: An Introduction to Prism Signal Processing
No full textThe Prism (precise, repeat integral signal monitor), is a recently developed signal processing object [1, 2]. It is based upon a Fourier-style double integration applied recursively via a sliding windows calculation. Either one or two outputs are generated. If there are two outputs, these form an orthogonal sine/cosine pair from which the properties of the input signal, such as amplitude, phase and frequency, can be calculated. Unlike conventional, convolution-based FIR filters, the Prism calculation is fully recursive, so it has a low computational cost, which is independent of window length. Other benefits include a linear phase response, and a low design cost, as the filter ‘coefficients’ are simply linearly spaced sine and cosine values. Although the Prism frequency response is relatively inflexible compared to conventional FIR and IIR filter designs, networks of Prisms can be designed to provide a wide range of responses. This talk will provide an introduction to the basic mathematics of the Prism, and describe some elementary Prism signal processing techniques such as signal tracking, notch and bandpass filtering, and the tracking of multiple frequency components in a signal. As a worked example, a Prism-based ultra-narrowband filter (say 1 billion samples in length) can run in real time on a single FPGA, whereas the conventional convolution-based equivalent would require supercomputing resources to run at the same sample rate.The talk will include a brief survey of current and future applications of Prism Signal Processing, and demonstrate how it matches the requirements for sensor development for the era of the Internet of Things.References[1] Henry, MP, Leach, F, Davy, M, Bushuev, O, Tombs, MS, Zhou, FB and Karout, S. “The Prism: Efficient Signal Processing for the Internet of Things”, IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine, pp 2–10, December 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MIE.2017.2760108.[2] Henry, MP. “The Prism: recursive FIR signal processing for instrumentation applications”. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, May 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2019.2916943<br/
[Jeu de cartes au portrait de Lyon] : [estampe]
No full textAncien possesseur : Allemagne, Henry-René d' (1863-1950). Ancien possesseurAppartient à l’ensemble documentaire : JeuCartCarte à joue
Book review: No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison By Behrouz Boochani. Translated by Omid Tofighian. Sydney, Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2018. xxxiv + 374 pp. ISBN 9781760555382 (pbk). AU$32.99.
No full textThe author, Behrouz Boochani, is a Kurdish-Iranian writer, journalist, filmmaker and was a prisoner on Manus Island..
An ultra-precise fast fourier transform
Full text linkThe Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is a cornerstone of digital signal processing, generating a computationally efficient estimate of the frequency content of a time series. Its limitations include: (1) information is only provided at discrete frequency steps, so further calculation, for example interpolation, is often used to obtain improved estimates of peak frequencies and amplitudes; (2) ‘energy’ from spectral peaks may ‘leak’ into adjacent frequencies, potentially causing lower amplitude peaks to be distorted or hidden; (3) the FFT, like many other DSP algorithms, is a discrete time approximation of continuous time mathematics. This paper describes a new FFT calculation which uses two windowing functions, derived from Prism Signal Processing. Separate FFT results are obtained from each windowing function applied to the data set. Calculations based on the two FFT results yields high precision estimates of spectral peak location (frequency), amplitude and phase. This technique addresses FFT limitations as follows: (1) spectral peak parameters are calculated directly, unrestricted by FFT frequency step discretization; (2) the windowing functions have narrowband characteristics which attenuate and localize spectral leakage; (3) the windowing functions incorporate a Romberg Integration mechanism to overcome the discrete/continuous time approximation
Low cost, low pass Prism filtering
Full text linkPrism signal processing is a new FIR signal processing technique offering a fully recursive calculation and minimal design cost, which is well-suited to the requirements of IoT sensing. This paper describes a family of low pass filter designs using one or more layers of Prisms, where the frequency response has minimal stopband gain. Combined with heterodyning and Prism-based tracking, these filters provide flexible and powerful real-time tracking of signal component properties for use in measurement applications
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