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The 2014 Victorian State Election
No full textVictoria is earning a reputation for producing surprising election results. According to political commentators and the opinion polls, the 1999 election was expected to return the Coalition Government and the 2010 election was expected to return the Labor Government, yet neither did.
Even though the polls had long placed Labor ahead of the Coalition, the party’s election to office at the 2014 election was still regarded as a significant outcome.
This was because of the removal of the Coalition Government after only one term in power, when history has shown us that governments in Victoria are often likely to consolidate their position at their first return to the ballot box. It had been more than half a century since Victoria experienced a single term government, in 1952-55, and it was a casualty of the split of the Australian Labor Party.
It should be noted however, that the close numbers in the Legislative Assembly in the last Parliament — 44 Coalition, 43 Labor and one Independent, and the redistribution of the state’s electoral boundaries, meant that Labor required a notional uniform swing of only around 1 per cent to gain government.
The election result was that Labor secured government by obtaining a total of 47 seats in the 88 seat Parliament with a swing of 3.6 per cent on a two-party preferred basis.
This election is also historic for the election of two representatives of the Greens Party into the Legislative Assembly: the first time the party has won seats in the Lower House in Victoria. Also, notable, was the election of an Independent in what had been a very safe National Party seat (Shepparton).
The make-up of the Legislative Council after the election was also significantly changed. Neither of the major parties won a majority in the Upper House, and the Greens and four other minor parties won ten seats between them.
As stated earlier, this paper provides a description and analysis of the results the 2014 Victorian state election, set out in three main sections.
Part A of the paper provides some context to the outcome of the election by examining the redistribution of Victoria’s state electoral boundaries, and key issues during the life of the 57th Parliament.
Part B of the paper provides an overview of the election campaign, the leaders’ debate, preference deals, social media, key policies, and polls data in the lead up to, and during the campaign. This section also includes a brief overview of the minor parties.
Part C of the paper examines the outcomes of the election in both houses and how the parties fared. It also contains a short section on women MPs, new and departing MPs, voter turnout, and the number of candidates contesting the election. Part C also provides statistical tables for each district and region and additional tables and information on relevant voter statistics
Keeping the driver in the loop: the ‘other’ ethics of automation
No full textAutomated vehicles are expected to revolutionise everyday travel withanticipated benefits of improved road safety, comfort and mobility. However,they also raise complex ethical challenges. Ethical debates have primarily centred around moral judgements that must be made by autonomous vehicles in safetycritical situations, with proposed solutions typically based on deontological principles or consequentialism. However, ethics should also be acknowledged in the design, development and deployment of partially-automated systems that invariably rely upon the human driver to monitor and intervene when required, even though they may be ill-prepared to do so. In this literature review, we explore the lesser-discussed ethics associated with the role of, and expectations placed upon, the human driver in partially-automated vehicles, discussing factors such as the marketing and deployment of these vehicles, and the impact upon the human driver’s development of trust and complacency in automated functionality, concluding that the human driver must be kept ‘in the loop’ at all times
La política exterior de Argentina y Brasil, en el periodo de dos grandes protagonistas: Estanislao Zeballos y el Barón de Rio Branco
No full textFil: Shaw, Enrique E. Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina.Fil: Calderón, Fabiana Rosana. Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina.Fil: Luque, Gustavo Adolfo. Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina.Fil: Luque, Maria Carolina. Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina.Fil: Andreis, Julio Mariano. Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina.Fil: Amante, Teófilo Deonisio. Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina.Fil: Lacey, Carina. Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina.Fil: Butiero, Maria Victoria. Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina.Fil: Gianoni, Matías, . Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina.Fil: Martínez, Catriel. Universidad Nacional de Villa María; Argentina
Petaurus australis Shaw 1791
No full textPetaurus australis Shaw, 1791. Nat. Misc., 2, pl. 60. TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney. DISTRIBUTION: Coastal Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria. ISIS NUMBER: 5301402007006001001.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Marsupialia, pp. 18-51 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735300
Imperialist women in Edwardian Britain : the Victoria League, 1899-1914
No full textThis thesis, based on private papers, society records, autobiographies and
memoirs, newspapers and periodicals, examines one mainly female imperialist
organisation - the Victoria League - and the women who ran it. It considers two related
questions - what made Edwardian women imperialist, and how, within the limits of
Edwardian society, could they express their imperialism? The thesis shows that several of
the League's founders and executive had visited South Africa during or shortly before
the Boer War, and that this experience, particularly for those who came into close contact
with Milner, was pivotal in stimulating them to active imperialism. The Victoria League,
founded April 1901, aimed to promote imperial unity and a British South Africa in a
variety of suitably 'womanly' ways: Boer War charities, imperial education, exporting
literature and art to the white dominions (particularly the Transvaal), welcoming colonial
visitors to Britain, arranging for the welcome of British settlers in the colonies, and
promoting social reform as an imperial issue. It worked overseas through a number of
independent Victoria Leagues in Australasia, the Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire
in Canada, and the Guild of Loyal Women in South Africa; and at home with a number
of similar (though largely male) imperial propaganda societies. The thesis also considers
the Victoria League's attitude to race, particularly through its debate over entertaining
Indian students. It ends with a discussion of the options available to imperialist women;
and of the obstacles they faced in questions of authority (how far and in what ways a woman
could pronounce on imperial subjects) and of ideology (as expressed through the anti-suffrage
campaign). It concludes that the Victoria League, by transferring areas of
activity long acknowledged as 'feminine' to the imperial stage, redefined areas of female
competence and enlarged woman's 'separate sphere' to include the active propagation of
imperialism
Modeling vessel noise emissions through the accumulation and propagation of Automatic Identification System data
No full textRecent research has demonstrated the importance of soundscape characterization, modeling, and mapping with regard to their potential to highlight noise levels that can adversely affect fish behavior. Models and noise maps are seen as valuable tools for generating comprehensive information at relatively low costs; a model-based approach presents a powerful and cost-effective way to evaluate noise levels. This research aims to develop a vessel noise modeling method using Automatic Identification System (AIS) and online data. The vessel noise map is produced using estimated source levels of individual ships at each AIS transmission point along a vessel transit line. The accumulation and propagation of these transit line emissions, in 1 km grid squares, produces an ocean shipping noise map showing average received levels over the desired time period. The results show temporal and spatial differences in vessel noise emissions, with summer months nosier than winter months, and coastal areas and known shipping channels much nosier than the open ocean. Unlike many previous models, this approach uses individual vessel source emissions, and is very computationally efficient even for large datasets
Study protocol: a multi-centre randomised study of induction chemotherapy followed by capecitabine ± nelfinavir with high- or standard-dose radiotherapy for locally advanced pancreatic cancer (SCALOP-2)
No full textBackground: induction chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation is a treatment option for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC). However, overall survival is comparable to chemotherapy alone and local progression occurs in nearly half of all patients, suggesting chemoradiation strategies should be optimised. SCALOP-2 is a randomised phase II trial testing the role of radiotherapy dose escalation and/or the addition of the radiosensitiser nelfinavir, following induction chemotherapy of gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel (GEMABX). A safety run-in phase (stage 1) established the nelfinavir dose to administer with chemoradiation in the randomised phase (stage 2).Methods: patients with locally advanced, inoperable, non-metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma receive three cycles of induction GEMABX chemotherapy prior to radiological assessment. Those with stable/responding disease are eligible for further trial treatment. In Stage 1, participants received one further cycle of GEMABX followed by capecitabine-chemoradiation with escalating doses of nelfinavir in a rolling-six design. Stage 2 aims to register 262 and randomise 170 patients with responding/stable disease to one of five arms: capecitabine with high- (arms C + D) or standard-dose (arms A + B) radiotherapy with (arms A + C) or without (arms B + D) nelfinavir, or three more cycles of GEMABX (arm E). Participants allocated to the chemoradiation arms receive another cycle of GEMABX before chemoradiation begins. Co-primary outcomes are 12-month overall survival (radiotherapy dose-escalation question) and progression-free survival (nelfinavir question). Secondary outcomes include toxicity, quality of life, disease response rate, resection rate, treatment compliance, and CA19–9 response. SCALOP-2 incorporates a detailed radiotherapy quality assurance programme.Discussion: SCALOP-2 aims to optimise chemoradiation in LAPC and incorporates a modern induction regimen
Macropus giganteus Shaw 1790
No full textMacropus giganteus Shaw, 1790. Nat. Misc., 1, pl. 33 (text). TYPE LOCALITY: Australia, Queensland, Cooktown (=" New Holland "). DISTRIBUTION: E. and C. Queensland; Victoria; New South Wales; S. South Australia; Tasmania. COMMENT: Opinion 760 of the ICZN placed this name on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology; see Anon., 1966, Bull. Zool. Nomenci., 22:292-295; and Calaby, Mack, and Ride, 1963, Bull. Zool. Nomenci., 20:376-379 for discussion. Revised by Kirsch and Poole, 1972, Aust. J. Zool., 20:315-319. PROTECTED STATUS: U.S. ESA - Threatened, all subspecies except M. g. tasmaniensis. U.S. ESA - Endangered as M. g. tasmaniensis subspecies only. ISIS NUMBER: 5301402012011007001.Published as part of James H. Honacki, Kenneth E. Kinman & James W. Koeppl, 1982, Order Marsupialia, pp. 18-51 in Mammal Species of the World (1 st Edition), Lawrence, Kansas, USA :Alien Press, Inc. & The Association of Systematics Collections on page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.735300
Using choice architecture to exploit a university Distinct Urban Mine
No full textThere are widespread concerns regarding the potential future scarcity of ferrous and non-ferrous materials. However, there are already potentially rich reserves of secondary materials via high ownership of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) in economically-developed nations. Young people are particularly high consumers of EEE, thus university students and campuses may present an opportunity to harness this potential. University Distinct Urban Mines (DUM) may be used to exemplify how potential reserves of secondary metals may be exploited, and could contribute to the transition from a linear to a circular economy. This study aimed to evaluate small household appliances (SHA) DUM from a UK university, with the objectives to identify and quantify student households’ SHA ownership, WEEE recycling, stockpiling and discarding habits amongst student households, assess and evaluate the monetary potential of SHA DUM at UK level, and propose methods to exploit DUM for universities in the UK. To this purpose, a quantitative survey was undertaken to measure students’ ownership and discarding behaviour with respect to SHA. The amounts of ferrous and non-ferrous materials were then estimated and converted to monetary values from secondary materials market data to appraise the SHA DUM overall value. Thirty-five per cent of SHA are discarded in the general refuse. Broken personal care appliances (PCA) tend to be discarded due to hygiene and small size factors. When in working order, SHA tend to be equally reused, recycled or stockpiled. We conclude that a total of 189 tonnes of ferrous and non-ferrous materials were available via discarding or being stockpiled at the University of Southampton. Extrapolated to UK higher education level, discarded and stockpiled SHA represent a potential worth _USD 11 million. To initiate DUM exploitation within Higher Education campuses, we suggest improving users’ choice architecture by providing collection methods specific to broken SHA
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