4,317 research outputs found
View of the Cotter River gorge, 20 October, 1913 [picture] /
No full textPart of the collection: Photographs of the construction of Canberra, 1913-1917.; Inscriptions: "The clearing up the valley shows the proposed water level" -- in ink on reverse; "147 Cotter River Gorge 20/10/13 H&S" -- print lower left.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3299557
View of the Administrative Offices, Works Branch, Post Office and the Commonwealth Bank, Canberra, 1914 [picture] /
No full textPart of the collection: Photographs of the construction of Canberra, 1913-1917.; Inscriptions: "A-Administrative Offices, B-Works Branch, C-Post Office D-Commonwealth Bank-- in ink on reverse; "H&S 165 Canberra - Works Office, Post Office, & Commonwealth Bank" -- print lower bottom.; Title devised by cataloguer based on accompanying captions list.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3299686
Pacific University students, 1900's
No full textPresumably Pacific University students in the 1900's. One person identified is John Connell.[Front] C. Fritz,; [Back] Mabel H.? John Connell
The challenges of navigating a topic to a prospective researcher: the case of knowledge management research
No full textExploring a researchable topic and narrowing it down sufficiently to make it workable is a first task in any scientific research. This is particularly difficult when the researcher is a novice, because s(he) is unlikely to be properly aware of what the essential issues and the research question(s) in the field are. This article addresses the question of how to navigate a research topic for an academic project. The article is potentially of interest to novice researchers and researchers new to a field. Illustrating its argument by means of an example in the area of knowledge management, the article proposes a set of guidelines for narrowing down a research topic to workable size. A number of recommendations are made; by utilizing these recommendations to construct a navigation map, it is hoped that a researcher can use fully formulate research question(s). It can be argued that drawing such a navigation map is an art in which prospective researchers need to be trained
Knowledge transfer frameworks: an extension incorporating knowledge repositories and knowledge administration
No full textWhile theories abound concerning knowledge transfer in organisations, little empirical work has been undertaken to assess any possible relationship between repositories of knowledge and those responsible for the use of knowledge. This paper develops a knowledge transfer framework based on an empirical analysis of part of the UK operation of a Fortune 100 corporation, which extends existing knowledge transfer theory. The proposed framework integrates knowledge storage and knowledge administration within a model of effective knowledge transfer. This integrated framework encompasses five components: the actors engaged in the transfer of knowledge, the typology of organisational knowledge that is transferred between the actors, the mechanisms by which the knowledge transfer is carried out, the repositories where explicit knowledge is retained and the knowledge administrator equivalent whose function is to manage and maintain knowledge. The paper concludes that a ‘hybridisation’ of knowledge transfer approach, revealed by the framework, offers some promise in organisational applications.<br/
A counterexample to a conjecture of Bass, Connell and Wright
No full textLet F=X-H: → be a polynomial map with H homogeneous of degree 3 and nilpotent Jacobian matrix J(H). Let G=(G_1,...,G_n) be the formal inverse of F. Bass, Connell and Wright proved in [1] that the homogeneous component of of degree 2d+1 can be expressed as , where T varies over rooted trees with d vertices, α(T)=CardAut(T) and is a polynomial defined by (1) below. The Jacobian Conjecture states that, in our situation, is an automorphism or, equivalently, is zero for sufficiently large d. Bass, Connell and Wright conjecture that not only but also the polynomials are zero for large d. The aim of the paper is to show that for the polynomial automorphism (4) and rooted trees (3), the polynomial is non-zero for any index (Proposition 4), yielding a counterexample to the above conjecture (see Theorem 5)
J. H Ehlers, Evelyn P. Boyce, and Lois P. Connell vs. R. L. Warr : Brief of Respondent
No full textON APPEAL FROM A JUDGMENT AGAINST CROSS-DEFENDANTS BOYCE, AND CONNELL, IN THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, IN AND FOR SALT LAKE COUNTY STATE OF UTAH, HONORABLE JAMES S. SAWAYA, JUDGE, PRESIDIN
Connell and Slatyer's models of succession in the biodiversity era
No full textUnderstanding how species interactions drive succession is a key issue in
ecology. In this study we show the utility of combining the concepts and methodologies
developed within the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research program with J. H. Connell
and R. O. Slatyer’s classic framework to understand succession in assemblages where multiple
interactions between early and late colonists may include both inhibitory and facilitative
effects. We assessed the net effect of multiple species interactions on successional changes by
manipulating the richness, composition, and abundance of early colonists in a low-shore
assemblage of algae and invertebrates of the northwestern Mediterranean. Results revealed
how concomitant changes in species richness and abundance can strongly alter the net effect of
inhibitory vs. facilitative interactions on succession. Increasing richness of early colonists
inhibited succession, but only under high levels of initial abundance, probably reflecting the
formation of a highly intricate matrix that prevented further colonization. In contrast,
increasing initial abundance of early colonists tended to facilitate succession under low
richness. Thus, changes in abundance of early colonists mediated the effects of richness on
succession
Differences in abalone growth and morphology between locations with high and low food availability: morphologically fixed or plastic traits?
No full text© 2009 Springer. Part of Springer Science+Business MediaMany species of sedentary marine invertebrates exhibit large spatial variation in their morphology, which allow them to occupy a broad geographic distribution and range of environmental conditions. However, the detection of differences in morphology amongst variable environments cannot determine whether these differences represent a plastic response to the local environment, or whether morphology is genetically fixed. We used a reciprocal transplant experiment to test whether ‘stunted’ blacklip abalone (Haliotis rubra) are the result of a plastic response to the environment or fixed genetic trait. Furthermore, we related environmental factors, that affect food availability (density of abalone, water movement, algal cover and reef topography), to differences in growth and morphology. Morphological plasticity was confirmed as the mechanism causing morphological variation in H. rubra. Individuals transplanted to sites with ‘non-stunted’ H. rubra grew significantly faster when compared to stunted controls, whilst individuals transplanted to stunted sites grew significantly slower compared to non-stunted controls. The growth response was greater for individuals transplanted from ‘non-stunted’ to ‘stunted’ sites, suggesting that the environmental stressors in morphologically ‘stunted’ habitat are stronger compared to locations of faster growing morphology. We propose that these differences are related to resource availability whereby low algal cover and topographic simplicity results in stunted populations, whereas high algal abundance and topographic complexity results in non-stunted populations.T. M. Saunders, S. D. Connell and S. Mayfiel
Picking your brains: a DSS for neurosurgery
No full textThis research involves the construction of a decision support system (DSS) to assist clinical managers in costing and contracting in the new internal market for neurosurgery in the UK National Health Service. The research requires the use of a novel method to collect detailed patient costing data. This data is used to build up profiles of 'similar' patients for contracting purposes using clustering techniques. The clusters are employed in a simple DSS to evaluate and simulate the effects of cost and activity changes under different contracting scenarios. The detailed data allows further uses in clinical audit, outcome studies and macro-level health policy analysi
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