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Hayes & Eburn: Criminal Law and Procedure in New South Wales
No full textThe first edition of this book was written when the original authors, Michael Eburn and Robert Hayes, were teaching criminal law at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, NSW. It was designed to fill a gap by providing a text for a one semester course that covered the subjects necessary to meet the learning objectives for criminal law prescribed by the Legal Profession Admission Rules. A book designed for that purpose cannot, and does not, aim to cover the entire range of criminal offences, nor does it aim to provide a critical analysis of the criminal law. It was intended to assist students, early in their legal career, to identify the law and to understand how the statutes that are passed by parliament are supplemented and interpreted by the courts. That was our intention when we wrote the first edition and it remains our intention today. A most significant change between the third edition and the present edition has been a change in authors. Sadly Robert Hayes died in 2011. Robert was an inspirational teacher and keen advocate for the less advantaged in society. When he left UNE he took up a position at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) where he continued to inspire his students and motivate them to achieve. Part of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go to the Robert Hayes Memorial Scholarship for Law that is available to support third or fourth year law students at UWS who have demonstrated a passion for and commitment to the law and who can demonstrate financial or other hardship or who are the first in their family to attend university. Two new authors have come on board for the fourth edition: the Honourable Roderick Howie, a former judge of the NSW Supreme Court, and Paul Sattler, solicitor and lecturer in law at the UNE. Rod, who is also a co-editor, with Peter Johnson, of Howie and Johnson's 'Annotated Criminal Legislation of NSW' (LexisNexis) and editor of the LexisNexis service, 'Criminal Practice and Procedure' NSW, brings to the work an encyclopaedic knowledge of the criminal law which has informed the entire work. Paul brings both practical and academic experience and maintains the book's links to the UNE. Michael Eburn remains a contributing author, though he has now moved from the UNE to the Australian National University in Canberra. The book remains true to its original philosophy, providing a careful analysis of the legislation and case law that define the chosen criminal offences in New South Wales as well as the provisions that govern criminal procedure. It states the law as at May 2013
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
Get PDFJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Commonwealth caprice [music] : pour piano /
No full textCaption title.; Date approximated from p. 2, Traralgon Record, Tuesday 23 December 1902: "We have received from the composer, Miss Daisy R. Hughes, daughter of Mr E.F. Hughes, pro prietor of the 'Casterton News,' a copy of a special piece of pianoforte music, entitled the 'Commonwealth Caprice' published by Messrs Allan and Co., Melbourne, from whom it can be procured wholesale at a very moderate price."--http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64264107; NLA's N copy: Cover inscribed by composer. ANL; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn5350188; NLA's N copy from the collection of Keith Watson. ANL
Modelling desiccation cracking in a homogenous soil clay layer: comparison between different hypotheses on constitutive behaviour
Get PDFDesiccation cracks are usually thought to start from the surface of an evaporating soil layer, and the available simplified models for crack initiation and propagation are based on this hypothesis. On the contrary, experimental results on a Dutch river clay showed that cracks in an evaporating soil layer may start and propagate below the surface, confirming earlier findings by other researchers. A simple one-dimensional model was set up to analyse the consequences of different hypotheses about the material behaviour on the crack onset in a homogenous soil layer undergoing surface drying. The results of the model show that dependence of the material behaviour on the rate of water content change is a necessary requirement for cracks to initiate below the surface. The conclusion suggests that, to properly understand cracking in an evaporating soil layer, an intrinsic time scale for the mechanical response must be accounted for, among all the other factors which were previously highlighted by other researchers. The key factor to predict crack onset below the surface is the dependence of the drying branch of the water retention curve of the compressible soil on the rate of drying, which would be justified by a rate dependent fabric evolution
Landscape-painter as landscape-gardener : the case of Alfred Parsons R.A.
Get PDFIn 2 vols.Available from British Library Document Supply Centre-DSC:DXN016830 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo
Portfolio Planning Methods: Faulty Approach or Faulty Research? A Rejoinder to 'Making Better Decisions' by Wensley
Get PDFWensley (1994) makes three key points. First, it is worthwhile to conduct empirical studies of the value of management techniques. Second, managers probably misuse portfolio methods. Third, the Armstrong and Brodie study is flawed. We agree with all three points.marketing, portfolio planning methods
The impact of steering ratio variability to road profiles on driver acceptance and driving behaviour
No full textVariable steering systems have the ability to change the ratio between the steering wheel and the front wheels while driving. These adjustable steering systems have led to an improvement in traffic and road safety and decrease in driver’s workload. A previous study concludes that driver steering behaviour is significantly dependent on vehicle speed and road curvature (number and sharpness of bends). Interestingly, variable steering ratio systems often depend on speed but not on road curvature. Variable steering ratio dependent on road curvature possibly influences driving behaviour and might be desirable for safety and driver acceptance. The goal of this research is to investigate driver acceptance and driving behaviour for two separate steering ratios (1:12 and 1:40) and two different road profiles (i.e. specific curvatures straight highway and curvy country road) at a constant speed. We hypothesize that on a curvy country road low steering ratio (1:12) leads to higher safety margins and subjective ratings, whereas on a straight highway a high steering ratio (1:40) leads to higher safety margins and subjective ratings. Therefore we conducted a within-subject driving experiment (N=24) in a fixed-based passenger vehicle simulator at constant speed. The results show that on a country road a vehicle with a low steering ratio increases time-to-line- crossing (TLC) safety margins and increases self-reported subjective ratings compared to the high steering ratio setting. Likewise, on a highway, a vehicle with a high steering ratio leads to higher safety margins and comfort rating compared to a low steering ratio. Thereby it can be concluded that steering ratio variable to the road profile improves safety and acceptance. These results provide promising evidence to make steering systems adaptable to road profile (e.g. steer-by-wire and active rear wheel steering).Mechanical Engineering | Vehicle Engineering | Human Factor
Xylan degradation in filamentous fungi and bacteria
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Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemBiochemical characterization of two recombinant gh10 family glycosyl hidrolases and differential expression in two model filamentous fungi
Polysaccharides from plant cell walls are the most abundant biomass on Earth and are important resource for biofuel production. The main components of plant cell walls are cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Hemicellulose is the second most abundant component of renewable biomass and as arabinoxylan, is mainly composed of xylose and arabinose. Filamentous fungi, such as Trichoderma reesei, produce gram-per-liter levels of glycoside hydrolases (GHs). GH enzymes are required for hydrolysis of the glycosidic bonds present in complex polysaccharides, releasing fermentable sugars. In this project, we investigated the biochemical characteristics of two endoxylanases in two model filamentous fungi, Neurospora crassa and Aspergillus nidulans. Putative endoxylanase genes from N. crassa (ncu05924) and A. nidulans (an1818) were expressed homologously and heterologously in both filamentous fungi. Here, we demonstrate that A. nidulans was able to expressed and secrete at the same levels, both the recombinant homologous (AN1818) and heterologous (NCU05924) proteins, while N. crassa expressed the recombinant homologous protein at 26-fold more than the recombinant heterologous protein. All 4 endoxylanases had similar optimal pH (~5.8) and temperature (50 to ~55°C), similar secondary structures, and comparable glycosylation patterns. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was used to identify the end products released by each enzyme from xylan substrates. The specific activity of AN1818 was ~50% higher than NCU05924 on different model xylans.
Xylan degrading enzymes from human colonic bacteroides intestinalis1
Many human diets contain arabinoxylan, and the ease of genome sequencing coupled with reduced cost have led to unraveling the arsenal of genes utilized by the colonic Bacteroidetes to depolymerize this polysaccharide. The colonic Bacteroidetes with potential to ferment arabinoxylans include Bacteroides intestinalis. In this study, we analyzed the hydrolytic activities of members of a xylan degradation cluster encoded on the genome of Bacteroides intestinalis DSM 17393. Here, it is demonstrated that a cocktail of the xylanolytic enzymes completely hydrolyze arabinoxylans found in human diets. Fascinatingly, this bacterium and other relatives have evolved and secrete a unique bifunctional endoxylanase/arabinofuranosidase in the same polypeptide. The bifunctional enzyme and other secreted enzymes attack the polysaccharides extracellularly to remove the side-chains, exposing the xylan backbone for cleavage to xylo-oligosaccharides and xylose. These end products are transported into the cell where a β-xylosidase cleaves the oligosaccharides to fermentable sugars. While our experiments focused on B. intestinalis, it is likely that the extracellular enzymes also release nutrients to members of the colonic microbial community that practice cross-feeding. The conservation of the genes characterized in this study in other colonic Bacteroidetes alludes to a conserved strategy for energy acquisition from xylans, a component of human diets.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01The student, Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira, accepted the attached license on 2016-12-09 at 10:19.The student, Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-12-09 at 15:15.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-12-09 at 16:58.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10491 on 2017-02-28 at 14:43:37Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-01T17:02:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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A Hierarchy of Hyperbolic Macrodynamic Equations as a Model for Network Training
No full textThe author proposes mathematical models of hyperbolic type for training of neural networks, and its computational implementation using the Markov Chain approximation method. I. Introduction Let a mapping x t : R ! \Sigma be a sigmoidal function (activator) coupled to a neural network defined by its neurons x t ffi ¯ : T\Omega \Sigma\Omega UT ! R; (1) where ¯ : T\Omega \Sigma\Omega UT ! R will be referred to as the decision making function. In (1) we assume that the network is trained by a dynamic system with the state space \Sigma during time defined by a set T, and UT is a set of all permissible training strategies. Let H be a mapping XT ! R M ; and HT : N ! N is a T-computable function. Then H can be in principle arbitrarily well approximated by a network implementing HT due to the Godel numeration procedure. On the one hand if XT is a compact Borel set and H 2 L 1 (XT ) then for any arbitrary small ffl ? 0 there exists a feedforward neural network (FNN) ~ H such that jj..
Cavitation analysis of a double acting podded drive during ice milling
Get PDFPropeller ice interaction is a complex phenomenon, which relies on innovative and complex experimental research in dedicated ice tank facilities. Whilst the ice tanks model the contact forces with good agreement, the hydrodynamic loading is often only assumed due to the inability to scale atmospheric pressure during these experiments. A small amount of research is however being conducted in cavitation tunnels using innovative methods to represent full scale ice milling conditions. Propulsor ice interaction tests in a cavitation tunnel are therefore both novel and uncommon due to their complexity. The Emerson Cavitation Tunnel at the University of Newcastle (ECT) has pioneered a series of ice milling tests within a cavitation tunnel using model ice. These ice milling tests allow an ice propulsor to experience correctly scaled cavitation numbers as a propeller interacts with ice. In all of the conditions tested, the current research observed presence and influence of cavitation and showed it to be a significant factor, something that is missing from standard ice tank tests. The work published in this paper forms part of a PhD research into the topic by the principal author [1].http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/84309/1/CAV2009-final135.pd
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