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Oceanographic conditions influencing the surface mixed layer at OWS Lima, N.E. Atlantic
No full textAn investigation into the oceanographic influences affecting the surface mixed layer and underlying water column at Ocean Weather Station Lima (57oN, 20oW) in the Northeast Atlantic is described. Data from an intensive field programme in 1987 are presented. The seasonal thermocline and structure of the underlying water column was influenced by the presence and admixture of various water masses. North Atlantic Water (NAW) was observed to enter the region from the south. Modified NAW (fresher and cooler) entered the region at the surface from the north, probably due to Ekman drift. During the summer months, this fresher water was `trapped' in the surface mixed layer - thus increasing the stability of the upper water column. Below a depth of 450 m, Sub-Arctic Intermediate Water entered the region from the west. Distributions of density and dynamic height indicate the presence of baroclinic instability and the considerable local influence of the Hatton Bank on circulation and hydrography of the region. Calculation of the annual heat budget indicates an annual loss of around 80 Wm-1; equivalent to an overall heat input by advection of 0.02oC per day and to a spatial meridional temperature gradient of -1.2 x 10-6oCm-1. The open nature of the heat budget has serious consequences for the application of one-dimensional mixed layer models. Comparisons between observed and modelled sea surface temperature, mixed layer depths and heat content show good agreement at times of positive net surface heat flux, when there is little or no input of heat by advection. However, during a period of cooling, the model grossly over-predicted the depth of the surface mixed layer.</p
Claiming the Lane way
No full textThe purpose of "Claiming the Lane way" was to question the identity and potential use of Brisbane lane ways through the application of street furniture design in collaboration with industry partners and local stakeholders.\ud
The basis for student furniture design and prototype construction was provided by the site specific stakeholders brief requirements. This engagement extended to the donation of construction materials, structural engineering expertise, funding and ultimately the multi disciplinary public exhibition event - "Changing Lanes". The lane way was demonstrably activated through the language of design and creative expression to bring a community together as well as identifying the potential of the lane way as significant and valuable public space in the urban environment
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The Concept of "Self" in Some Plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Beckett, Osborne, and Pinter
No full textPhDCentring on Peer Gynt's onion as a symbol of modern
man's "dissolved" self, this thesis is a study of the
changing concept of "self" and its effect on the development
of dramatic technique from Ibsen's Brand and Peer
Gynt, through Strindberg's "dream plays, " to the plays of
the three most influential post-war British playwrights,
Beckett, Osborne, and Pinter.
The aim of this comparative study is not to "prove"
direct influence, but to demonstrate affinities and to
trace the continuing process of the "dissolving self"
from Brand's monumental concept of man as a being essentially
divine, to Beckett's tramps picturing themselves
as worms in a God-forsaken universe, and from Peer Gynt's
uncentred onion self, which still adds up to a tremendous
personality, to Pinter's "classic female figure" who is
divested of personality as well as of self.
The philosophical dissolution of man's essential Godgiven
self and the redefinition of the human personality
in existentialist terms as simply the sum of one's actions,
habits, or roles, has its corollary in dramatic technique,
of which the most radical example is Strindberg's A Dream
Play, where the Dreamer's self is projected on stage, not
as one indelible personality, which is still the case in
Peer Gynt, but as a motley gallery of "dream characters, "
each representing one aspect of the Dreamer's (the poet's)
discontinuous self.
Beckett's Krapp, spooling back the tapes of his
former selves in search of his quintessential "I" and
discovering that the "self" is merely a string of discarded
habits; Osborne's Archie Rice playing for time
against the inevitable annihilation of his inauthentic
comedian's mask by "the man with the hook"; and Pinter's
stupefied Stanley Webber being "crowned" by his persecutors
with a bowler hat, the symbol of conformity, and
hence of non-identity, are all modern counterparts of
Peer Gynt, the "Emperor of Self.
Changing lanes
No full textThe purpose of Changing Lanes was to question the identity of Brisbane laneways through the collaboration of local stakeholders by promoting design. Community partners provided design briefs for student work from Architecture and Interior Design to be included in a design competition. Shortlisted student projects were featured in the Changing Lanes event during which the winners were announced. In addition to student work from Architecture and Interior Design, the five other disciplines from QUT's School of Design also exhibited samples of student work. \ud
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The engagement of local stakeholders; architectural practice, interior designers, engineers, and a media and publication agency was fundamental to the success of this event. The design work on display provided creative expression for the potential of Brisbane Laneways to bring communities together through the language of design. An underutilised area of Fortitude Valley was activated through a combination of media including drawings, videos, street furniture, and music. \ud
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Introduction
No full textThis book is concerned with access, lifelong learning and education for all. Three different but intersecting and overlapping domains.
The first is fair(er) access to post-secondary education, in particular, higher education and its elite university segment. This is key to securing greater equity in education because participation in education beyond compulsory schooling is highly stratified in terms of social class, although now less so in terms of gender (at any rate in developed countries). Fair access to initial higher education is also crucial because, for better or worse, most post-secondary education systems are heavily front-loaded in terms of resources, mass participation and public and political attention. Their predominant focus is on young adults, which makes it difficult to catch up later. In addition, because participation in post-secondary education, especially at the elite university level, is most influential in shaping the structure of (well-paid and socially respected) professional work and in (re)producing class structures, more equitable access presents a key challenge for both socio-economic modernisation and educational reform and progressive politics.
The second domain is lifelong learning—in effect, the drive to spread educational opportunities more equitably across the life cycle. To some extent, this has begun to be addressed by the advance of mass higher education systems. Despite front-loading, there has been a slow but steady chronological shift in the balance of post-secondary education. Pressure for more flexible forms of access and delivery has led to more open course structures—for example, modular and part-time courses—which can be a more congenial learning form for the no-longer young adult. Mass participation at undergraduate level has also stimulated large-scale expansion of postgraduate courses. This postgraduate expansion has tilted away from advanced academic courses, which were once its core, to more applied programmes, whether in the later stages of professional accreditation or continuing professional development. This has chimed well with the need to respond to the acceleration of economic and technological change, the advance of the so-called ‘knowledge society’. The idea of lifelong learning has also chimed with the greying of many western societies (the developing world is different), both demographically and socio-culturally.
The third domain is education for all. Even in its most expanded form, higher education is not—yet—for everyone. In many developed countries, participation rates have ground to a halt between 50 and 60 per cent, although there are some outliers, very high participation systems with rates exceeding 70 per cent. Inside these systems access to elite universities in particular remains tightly rationed, focused on a minority of academically well-qualified young people (who align uncomfortably closely with the most socially advantaged). Lifelong learning too has its own exclusionary features. It tends to be most available to those with the highest level of initial education, to those with the high-grade professional skills seen as most deserving of upgrading and development and to those with the most social capital (and money and leisure). Too often the Matthew principle has applied—‘to those who have shall be given’. Also, lifelong learning is defined in temporal terms, spreading educational opportunities over the life course. Education for all, in contrast, is defined in spatial terms, aspiring to offer universal access across class, gender, culture and ethnicity as well as age
Conceptual Art
No full textProviding a re-examination of what Osborne identifies as a major turning point in contemporary art, this monograph takes a chronological and stylistic look at conceptual art from its “pre-history” (1950-1960) to contemporary practices that use conceptual strategies. Osborne surveys the development of the movement in relation to the social, cultural and political contexts within which it evolved. With extended captions, key works are compiled according to ten themes that also serve to present a collection of critical texts, artists’ statements, interviews and commentaries. Includes biographical notes on artists (6 p.) and authors (2 p.), a bibliography (2 p.) and an onomastic index (4 p.) Circa 150 bibl. ref
On estimation algorithms for ordinary differential equations
No full textThis article addresses the problem of estimating the parameters of a system of ordinary differential equations given data derived from noisy observations on the state variables. This problem is important in a range of applications in areas such as adaptive, real time control. There are two main classes of method for attacking this problem, and their equivalence and effectiveness (consistency) are discussed. Recent rate of convergence results for the major implementation techniques are summarized, and some matters requiring further consideration indicated.
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I Remember column in which author Richard Randall writes of his family\u27s disco
No full textI Remember column in which author Richard Randall writes of his family\u27s discovery of abundant wild blueberries growing near Rocky Pond in Osborne Plantation
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