422 research outputs found
The vanishing author in computer-generated works: a critical analysis of recent Australian case law
No full textAbstract
The use of software is ubiquitous in the creation of many copyright works, yet the requirement in copyright law that every work have a human author who engages in independent intellectual effort means that its use may prevent copyright subsistence. Several recent Australian cases have refocused attention on authorship as an essential criterion of copyright subsistence, and these cases suggest that much computer-produced output may be authorless and thus lack copyright protection. This article, the first in a two-part series, analyses how each case deals with the question of authorship of computer-produced works and why the use of software diminishes copyright protection for a significant number of computer-generated works. The article critiques the application of conventional notions of human authorship developed in the pre-computer age to modern productions and suggests alternative approaches to authorship that satisfy both the major objectives of copyright policy and the need to adapt to the computer age. The article argues that, without a broader judicial approach to authorship of computer-generated works, Parliament must remedy the lacuna in protection for these ‘authorless’ works. Possible solutions for reform are suggested. In a forthcoming article, the author comprehensively examines those reform proposals
Changing learning to improve practice : hand hygiene education in Queensland medical schools
No full textThe aim of Queensland Health’s ‘Clean hands are life savers’ program is to change the culture and behaviour of healthcare workers related to hand hygiene. Hand hygiene is considered to be the most effective means of preventing pathogen cross-transmission and healthcare-associated infections. Most hospitals throughout Queensland as well as Australia now manage a hand hygiene program to increase the hand hygiene compliance of all healthcare workers. Reports taken from routine hand hygiene observations reveal that doctors are usually less compliant in their hand-washing practices than other healthcare worker groups. The Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance and Prevention (CHRISP) has attempted to have an impact on this challenging group through their Medical Leadership Initiative. With education as a core component of the program, efforts were made to ensure our future doctors were receiving information that aligned with Queensland Health standards during their formative years at medical school. CHRISP met with university instructors to understand what infection prevention education was currently included in the curriculum and support the introduction of new learning activities that specifically focused on hand hygiene. This prompted change to the existing curriculum and a range of interventions were employed with mixed success. Although met with challenges, methods to integrate more infection prevention teaching were found
Before the Gold Rush: Culture Without Industry in China
No full textKeane illustrates the fundamental concepts of creativity and creativity industries with the rising trend of a state-dominated model as represented by China. This chapter discusses the “creativity” element in the cultural-creative industries by returning to the fundamental question of how creativity interacts with the market and economics. Keane also problematizes the term “industries,” which mistakenly focuses on neoliberalism. The author suggests in the highly regulated market under the pretext of cultural policy in China, is in fact a kind of authoritarian liberalism under which the role of the creative industries is highly questionable
Keane - introductory talk
No full textPsychosis on Screen is a season of three contemporary films depicting various experiences of psychosis. It aims to uncover the creativity often inherent in psychosis and to develop a shared, more human understanding of these sometimes frightening experiences.
'Shock of the Fall' author Nathan Filer will offer an introductory talk before the first screening. 'Keane' is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Lodge Kerrigan
The Polish Premiere of John Millington Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World”
No full textThe article traces the history of the Polish premiere and an early reception of
J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. The author draws attention to similarities between Irish and Polish political and historical situations in which the plays premiered, respectively, in 1907 and in 1913. Firstly, Keane concentrates on analyzing the translator’s strategy in rendering the difficult Hyberno-English dialect present in Synge’s play. The translator, Florian Sobieniowski, chose to render the specific diction of the play using the poetic language of the Young Poland movement. He also modelled his translation on the language and partly the imagery of Stanislaw Wyspianski’s acclaimed play The Wedding (Wesele, 1901). Keane discusses some of the translator’s choices and provides the summary of the critical response to what he terms the acculturation policy of the translator. Analyzing fragments of most characteristic reviews of the Polish premiere of Synge’s play, Keane discusses the presence of cultural stereotyping and the reactions to acculturation in the Polish theatre and culture
On the universality of Keane & Adrian's valid detection probability in PIV
No full textFor the reliable estimation of velocity vector fields by means of particle image velocimetry (PIV), the cross-correlation functions calculated from the signal within each interrogation window must feature a distinct peak that represents the average shift of the particle image ensemble. A high valid detection probability (VDP) of the correct orrelation peak is necessary in order to compute valid but also accurate velocity fields. According to Keane and Adrian it is believed that the so-called effective number of particle images NIFIFO must be around 6 to obtain 95% valid detection probability (Keane and Adrian 1992 Appl. Sci. Res. 49 191-215). To prove the findings of Keane and Adrian, this work examines the sensitivity of the VDP on image parameters, flow parameters as well as on evaluation parameters in more detail. The most important result is that the effective number of particle images NIFIFO is not suited to predict the VDP in the case of moderate or strong out-of-plane motion. This can be explained by the fact that the VDP depends not only on the number of particle images correctly paired, but also on the number of particle images remaining without partner, which yield spurious correlation peaks. This point remained unnoticed in the work of Keane and Adrian. The findings of this investigation help to better understand the occurrence of false vectors and enable the PIV user to improve the measurement setup as well as the PIV evaluation in order to minimize spurious vectors.Aerodynamic
What's so good about democracy?
No full text We fight wars to defend it, vote to uphold it and pride ourselves upon it. But what\u27s so good about democracy? In this wide ranging talk, Professor John Keane, author of "The Life and Death of Democracy", discusses the history of an evolving ideal that continues to shape our world, from the Ancients through to today. Australian-born John Keane is a professor of Politics in and founder of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster. He also holds a chair at Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin (WZB). He is the author of several books including "The Media and Democracy", "Violence and Democracy" and "Global Civil Society?"  
An introduction to the fiction of Molly Keane (M. J. Farrell)
No full textMolly Keane began writing stylish witty novels in the 1920\u27s under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell. The Anglo-Irish society which she was born into was receding to a distant vanishing point in the memories of the last survivors. As a young writer Keane sensed that this was a unique culture that was worth writing about and she did so in fourteen novels and four plays over a sixty-year career. This dissertation is intended to be a general introduction to Keane\u27s fiction, examining the novels in chronological sequence, identifying the controlling ideas, literary techniques and image patterns. The author\u27s work is considered in the context of the Irish Big House novel. Keane\u27s early romance novels focus on the thrill of the fox hunt as much as the thrill of young love. But in the 1930\u27s her novels take on a darker hue. Her wit becomes more pungent and her irony more penetrating. The powerful figure of the cruel matriarch emerges and casts a shadow over those Ascendancy families living in decaying splendor. In the 1940\u27s Keane widened her audience, writing country house farces for London\u27s West End. Then at the high point of her popularity she was left a widow with two children. She eventually stopped writing and didn\u27t produce another novel for thirty years. Good Behavior, a finalist for the Booker Prize in 1981, launched Keane on a successful return to the literary scene as an octogenarian. As Vera Kreilkamp and other critics have pointed out, Keane is not merely elegizing the lost golden age of a culture, rather she is expressing with measured compassion and irony the arrogance and improvidence of a doomed aristocracy. Keane exposes, with a certain spite and malice, the cruelty and heartlessness that often passes as good behavior. Furthermore, the author records with an insider\u27s perception the tensions that prevailed within families as well as between the Anglo-Irish gentry and the subject Catholic population. Her writing captures the texture and the taste of a carefully designed life-style, one that bore the seeds of its own destruction
Estimating Fully Observed Recursive Mixed-Process Models with cmp
No full textAt the heart of many econometric models is a linear function and a normal error. Examples include the classical small-sample linear regression model and the probit, ordered probit, multinomial probit, Tobit, interval regression, and truncateddistribution regression models. Because the normal distribution has a natural multidimensional generalization, such models can be combined into multi-equation systems in which the errors share a multivariate normal distribution. The literature has historically focused on multi-stage procedures for estimating mixed models, which are more efficient computationally, if less so statistically, than maximum likelihood (ML). But faster computers and simulated likelihood methods such as the Geweke, Hajivassiliou, and Keane (GHK) algorithm for estimating higherdimensional cumulative normal distributions have made direct ML estimation practical. ML also facilitates a generalization to switching, selection, and other models in which the number and types of equations vary by observation. The Stata module cmp fits Seemingly Unrelated Regressions (SUR) models of this broad family. Its estimator is also consistent for recursive systems in which all endogenous variables appear on the right-hand-sides as observed. If all the equations are structural, then estimation is full-information maximum likelihood (FIML). If only the final stage or stages are, then it is limited-information maximum likelihood (LIML). cmp can mimic a dozen built-in Stata commands and several user-written ones. It is also appropriate for a panoply of models previously hard to estimate. Heteroskedasticity, however, can render it inconsistent. This paper explains the theory and implementation of cmp and of a related Mata function, ghk2(), that implements the GHK algorithm.econometrics, cmp, GHK algorithm, seemingly unrelated regressions
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