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‘Decolonisation’ in China, 1949-1959
No full textIn this chapter Jonathan Howlett adopts perspectives and models from wider literatures on decolonisation to explore the Chinese Communist Party’s elimination of the British semi-colonial presence from China after the revolution of 1949 and to place it within its global context. He focuses in particular on the CCP’s attempts to address the economic, cultural and human legacies of semi-colonialism within a comparative context. In so doing, the author seeks to complicate our understanding of the Sino-British relationship by exploring one of its most dramatic phases and to further illuminate this neglected period in Chinese history
Diana Howlett
No full textResearch School of Pacific Studies - Research Scholars - Miss M. J. Steven, Dr. Ethel Drus, Dr. Paula Brown, Prof. J. A. Barnes, Dr. H. C. Brookfield, Dr. A. L. Epstein, Dr. F. J. West, Dr. G. J. R. Linge, Mr. H. E. Maude, Dr. E. S. Crawcour, Mr. T. W. Eckersley, Dr. S. A. Wurm, Mr. M. A. Jaspan, N. J. Hunter, R. L. Heathcote, Miss D. MacEachern, Mr. R. V. White, E. C. F. Bird, Mr. A. M. Healy, R. H. T. Smith, R. M. Frazer, A. Fraser, D. C. Laycock, M. R. Allen, R. D. Peranio, G. M. Appell, D. B. Howlett, J. Beckett, R. Crocombe, J. Mosley, Mrs. M. J. Retcher, P. G. Ganguly, A. Place, H. D. Chiang, M. Singarimbun, A. V. Mozley, J. J. Broomfield, B. Kent, D. Carrington, Mr. G. C. Bolton, Mr. E. P. Water
The fundamental equations for inversion of operator pencils on Banach space
No full textAbstract not availableAmie Albrecht, Phil Howlett, Charles Pearc
Bioinformatic genome analysis of the necrotrophic wheat-pathogenic fungus Phaeosphaeria nodorum and related Dothideomycete fungi
No full textPhaeosphaeria nodorum (anamorph: Stagonospora nodorum) is the causal agent of Stagonospora nodorum blotch (SNB, syn. glume blotch) in wheat. P. nodorum is estimated to cause up to 31% wheat yield loss worldwide. Within Australia it is the primary pathogen of wheat and is estimated to cause losses of $108 million per annum. The genome assembly of P. nodorum was sequenced in 2005 and was the first species in the class Dothideomycetes, a significant fungal taxon containing several major phytopathogens, to be publically released. The P. nodorum genome database has since evolved from basic sequence data into a powerful resource for studying the SNB host-pathogen interaction and advancing the understanding of fungal genome structure. The genes of P. nodorum have been annotated to a high level of accuracy and now serve as a model dataset for comparative purposes. P. nodorum gene annotations have been refined by a combination of several techniques including manual curation, orthology with related species, expressed sequence tag (EST) alignment, and proteogenomics. Analysis of the repetitive DNA in the P. nodorum genome lead to the development of software for the analysis of repeat-induced point mutation (RIP), a fungal-specific genome defence mechanism, which was a major improvement upon previous methods. Comparative genomics between P. nodorum and related species has highlighted a novel pattern of genome sequence conservation between filamentous fungi called ‘mesosynteny’ and has lead to the development of novel 'genome finishing' strategies
Method of best hybrid approximations for constructing fixed rank optimal estimators
No full textP. Howlett, C. Pearce, A. Torokhtihttp://www.imub.ub.es/events/wc2004/prg.html
Chris Howlett - "Flashbacks"
No full textThis is a review of Brisbane artist Christopher Howlett's 2009 exhibitions at Metro Arts and the Brisbane Town Hall. The review discusses the artist's use of 'modding' and other digital hacking strategies to explore the ethical dimensions of topics including Michael Jackson and the war in Iraq
Policy evaluation styles
No full textThe development of evaluation as a profession is marked by different diffusion waves and assumptions of what good governance and associated evaluation evidence entail. With every new wave, an increasing number of countries has adopted common evaluation practices. The question is whether this also implies commonalities in the way that evaluations are practised nowadays, or whether differences rather prevail. In this contribution, we analyse the volume and type of sediments which different waves have deposited. We focus on three evaluation practices that represent the major waves and that are exemplary for regulatory governance in Europe: administrative burden measurement or standard cost model; regulatory impact assessment; and randomized controlled trials and nudges. We contribute to both the policy evaluation literature and the literature on policy styles by proposing a typology that links waves of evaluation diffusion with prescriptive evaluation theories. While we do not find evidence for a homogenisation of evaluation styles, we highlight that the practices based on economic methods for consolidating evidence have a substantial impact on public administration culture
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
New perspectives on optimal transforms of random vectors
No full text© 2009 Springer. Part of Springer Science+Business MediaWe present a new transform which is optimal over the class of transforms generated by second-degree polynomial operators. The transform is based on the solution of the best constrained approximation problem with the approximant formed by a polynomial operator. It is shown that the new transform has advantages over the Karhunen–Loève transform, arguably the most popular transform, which is optimal over the class of linear transforms of fixed rank. We provide a strict justification of the technique, demonstrate its advantages and describe useful extensions and applicationsP. G. Howlett, C. E. M. Pearce and A. P. Torokhtihttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/2856558
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