http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland en Fez http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205552 2010-05-26T00:00:00Z McCabe, M. B. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184438 2009-10-02T00:00:00Z Crook, Gabrielle M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185403 2009-11-03T00:00:00Z Hall, Allen Harry http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189004 2009-12-03T00:00:00Z Cohen, Kay http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:202131 2010-04-09T00:00:00Z Lilley, Ian A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189971 2009-12-14T00:00:00Z Sherry, Mark http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185026 2009-10-19T00:00:00Z Nolan, Janette Gay http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:190044 2009-12-15T00:00:00Z Healy, Constance http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184075 2009-09-21T00:00:00Z Anderson, Norman Reid http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186235 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z Wilmott, Noel http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:12665 Since their discovery 150 years ago, Neanderthals have been considered incapable of behavioural change and innovation. Traditional synchronic approaches to the study of Neanderthal behaviour have perpetuated this view and shaped our understanding of their lifeways and eventual extinction. In this thesis I implement an innovative diachronic approach to the analysis of Neanderthal faunal extraction, technology and symbolic behaviour as contained in the archaeological record of the critical period between 80,000 and 30,000 years BP. The thesis demonstrates patterns of change in Neanderthal behaviour which are at odds with traditional perspectives and which are consistent with an interpretation of increasing behavioural complexity over time, an idea that has been suggested but never thoroughly explored in Neanderthal archaeology. Demonstrating an increase in behavioural complexity in Neanderthals provides much needed new data with which to fuel the debate over the behavioural capacities of Neanderthals and the first appearance of Modern Human Behaviour in Europe. It supports the notion that Neanderthal populations were active agents of behavioural innovation prior to the arrival of Anatomically Modern Humans in Europe and, ultimately, that they produced an early Upper Palaeolithic cultural assemblage (the Châtelperronian) independent of modern humans. Overall, this thesis provides an initial step towards the development of a quantitative approach to measuring behavioural complexity which provides fresh insights into the cognitive and behavioural capabilities of Neanderthals. 2007-02-14T00:00:00Z Langley, Michelle http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:8757 Foraminifera are single cell protozoa that are ubiquitous in marine environments. The hard casings, or tests, of foraminifera are routinely studied in the earth sciences, particularly for palaeoenvironmental information. Foraminifera have been little studied by archaeologists, however, despite their potential to contribute to understandings of coastal site formation processes and localised palaeoenvironments. In this study techniques and methods of foraminiferal analysis are developed and applied to the problem of distinguishing between natural and cultural marine shell deposits, using the Mort Creek Site Complex, central Queensland, as a case study. Results allow unambiguous demarcation of the natural and cultural deposits studied based on patterns of foraminiferal density. Natural deposits were found to have more than 1000 foraminifera per 100g of sediment, while cultural deposits exhibited less than 50 foraminifera per 100g of sediment. The range of taxa represented in the foraminiferal assemblage is consistent with a shallow water sub-tropical marine ecosystem, indicating general environmental stability throughout the period of deposit formation. Findings are applied to re-evaluate previous models of site formation at the Mort Creek Site Complex. 2006-01-27T00:00:00Z Rosendahl, Daniel http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185317 2009-10-30T00:00:00Z Roberts, E. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:193928 No abstract available 2010-01-27T00:00:00Z McLaren, Ian http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:192433 2010-01-13T00:00:00Z Breen, Robin M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189635 2009-12-10T00:00:00Z Johnston, Bradley http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:287569 2012-12-19T19:03:38Z St. George, Toby Dix http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:221149 Ant Colony Optimisation is a recent algorithm used for solving optimisation problems. The algorithm is modelled on the behaviour of real ant colonies, and has traditionally been used exclusively for solving problems in the discrete domain. This thesis fully implements and evaluates a specialized version of Any Colony Optimisation capable of searching continuous spaces, and evaluates its performance under a range of conditions and test cases. 2010-11-17T00:00:00Z Kuhn, Lachlan D. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:195389 2010-02-15T00:00:00Z Smith, Annette Deborah (Tam) http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:207971 2010-07-17T00:00:00Z Vasdekis, Athanasis http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185405 2009-11-03T00:00:00Z Bartlett, Leo http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:184447 2009-10-02T00:00:00Z Di Bartolo, Lawrence Mario http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:241733 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Crook, David Paul http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:200257 2010-03-22T00:00:00Z Barclay, Enid Joan. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189941 2009-12-14T00:00:00Z MacGinley, M. R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:195392 2010-02-15T00:00:00Z Cox, David N. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205340 2010-05-19T00:00:00Z Johnston, W. Ross (William Ross) http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:196343 2010-02-23T00:00:00Z Mercer, Leah (Leah Gwenyth) http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189747 2009-12-11T00:00:00Z Thompson, Thomas I. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185425 2009-11-04T00:00:00Z Jenkins, Alan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:244504 2011-07-22T00:00:00Z Anderson, Michele Elizabeth http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189970 2009-12-14T00:00:00Z Thompson, David A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:185623 This thesis is a regional study of the coastal port settlement of Bowen and its interaction with the surrounding Kennedy d istrict of North Queensland, thrown open for settlement in 1861. The primary focus of the study is the progress of the first generation of settlement, 1861-1880. Presented in generally chronological form, the experimental successes and failures of the first white inhabitants of Australia's first enduring tropical settlement are examined. The emphasis is social, but issues of regional frontier economics, immigration from Europe and other Australian colonies, patterns of settlement in the district, political development featuring the first North Queensland separation movement, race relations during initial contact between the whites and Aborigines and sea and overland communications are integral components. For administrative purposes, the Queensland Government sub-divided the Kennedy into two regions, north and south, and it was the south Kennedy with which*Bowen most interacted. Bowen was the first of several coastal frontier towns in the North Queensland area. Its early ambition was to become the capital of a new North Queensland colony, but rivalries for prominence in the region soon arose. Eventually, the centre of Townsville, to Bowen's north, overshadowed the first settlement, and by 1880, the future of Bowen as a permanent but secondary port was determined. 2009-11-11T11:34:53Z Stanley, Julie http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:190065 2009-12-15T00:00:00Z Hogarth, Joan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:220633 Pervasive Computing is a relatively new field which deals with making technology less invasive (with respect to human interaction), smarter and more productive. In the context of this thesis, Pervasive Computing is being used to create smart spaces that a computer system can monitor and control. Sensors and actuators, embedded in the surroundings, are used to provide the basic input and output for the system, and these communicate over arbitrary networking technologies to a central intelligence, which coordinates the functioning of the system. Currently, Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University, IBM, and Berkeley all have research programs which are similar in aims and goals to this thesis project (see Chapter 2). Their approaches range from PC based (Microsoft [7]), to embedded controller based (MOTES [4]), through to highly futuristic solutions (CMU’s Project Aura [6]). Microsoft has managed to implement moderately accurate ‘people tracking and PC session following’ which is one of the secondary goals of this thesis; however they have achieved this at enormous costs and technology complexity. The approach being investigated by this thesis is to create an inexpensive and simple hardware sensor (and possibly actuator) network which will communicate via Elvin events (see Section 2.1) to a central server running event correlation software (being developed by Ryan Wishart). This thesis aims to look at the development of hardware devices and the communications framework that could be used in such a Pervasive Computing system, and the issues and concepts behind it. A description of and specifications for a system, and working prototype implementations will be created and demonstrated. The items being demonstrated will include sensors (light/sound levels, door beams, etc), networking technologies (RS232, Ethernet), and displays. 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Mr Jon Kloske http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189967 2009-12-14T00:00:00Z Paasonen, Karl-Erik http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:151271 In episodic recognition memory, differentiation is the assumption that a study item's pre-existing memory trace is updated when additional study for that item is provided. The differentiation models commonly suppose that episodic memory encoding conforms to this process. Although these models have received considerable support within the literature, results inconsistent with their predictions have also been found. The present paper examined conflicting findings that resulted from study list strength manipulations with rhyming word stimuli and semantically related stimuli. As part of the investigation into this discrepancy, 79 university students participated in a computer-based recognition memory task. In this task, word categories of varying length (short vs. long) and word type (rhyming vs. taxonomic) were presented either five times or once within a mixed study list. Following study, an old-new response paradigm was used to examine recognition memory performance. Results from both the rhyming and taxonomic category stimuli were largely consistent with the previous findings in the literature, indicating that word type does appear to influence recognition memory, even within a mixed study list. These findings are interpreted primarily in terms of word type similarity predictions made by one of the differentiation models. Other possible explanations are also discussed. 2008-06-11T00:00:00Z McFarlane, Kimberley A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:203862 2010-04-21T00:00:00Z Evans, Raymond http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:186248 2009-11-16T00:00:00Z White, Francis D. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:190992 2009-12-24T00:00:00Z Fagence, Michael http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:195401 2010-02-15T00:00:00Z Armstrong, John Brian http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:190075 2009-12-15T00:00:00Z Merefield, Matt http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:12268 The starting point of this thesis was a desire to explain the rapid demise in the popularity which the Communist Party enjoyed in Queensland during the second world war. Wartime Queensland gave the Australian Communist Party its highest state vote and six years later Queensland again gave the Communist Party its highest state vote - this time however, to ban the Party. From this I was led into exploring the changing policies, beliefs and strategies of the Party, as well as the many sub-groups on its periphery, and the shifts in public response to these. In 1939 Townsville elected Australia's first Communist alderman. Five years later, Bowen elected not only Australia's first but also the British Empire's first, Communist state government member. Of the five electorates the Australian Communist Party contested in the 1944 Queensland State elections, in none did the Party's candidate receive less than twenty per-cent of the formal vote. Not only was the Party seemingly enjoying considerable popular support but this was occurring in a State which, but for the Depression years (May 1929 - June 1932) had elected a Labor State Government at every state election since 1915. In the September 1951 Constitution Alteration Referendum, 'Powers To Deal With Communists and Communism', Queensland regist¬ered the nation's highest "Yes" majority - 55.76% of the valid vote. Only two other states registered a majority in favour of the referendum's proposals, Western Australia and Tasmania. As this research was undertaken it became evident that while various trends exhibited at the time, anti-Communism, the work of the Industrial Groups, Labor opportunism, local area feelings, ideological shifts of the Party, tactics of Communist-led unions, etc., were present throughout the entire period, they were best seen when divided into three chronological phases of the Party's history and popularity. The first period covers the consolidation of the Party's post-Depression popularity during the war years as it benefited from the Soviet Union's colossal contribution to the Allied war efforts, and this support continued for some six months or so after the war. Throughout the period Communist strength within the trade union movement greatly increased as did total Party membership. The second period was marked by a rapid series of events starting in March 1946, with Winston Churchill's "Official Opening" of the Cold War by his sweeping attack on Communism and Russia, at Fulton. Several days later the first of a series of long and bitter strikes in Communist-led unions occurred, as the Party mobil¬ized for what it believed would be a series of attacks on the working class from a ruling class, defending a capitalist system on the verge of an economic collapse. It was a period when the Party believed this ruling class was using Labor reformism as a last desperate 'carrot' to get workers to accept their lot within a capitalist economic framework. Out of the Meat Strike emerged the Industrial Groups, who waged not only a determined war against Communist trade union leadership but also encouraged the A.W.U.-influenced State Labor apparatus to even greater anti-Communist antagonisms. The Communist Party's increasing militancy and Labor's resistance to it, ended finally in the collapse of the Chifley Labor government. Characteristically the third period opens with the Communist Party making an another about-face, desperately trying to form an alliance with the Labor Party and curbing its former adventurist industrial policy, as it prepared for Menzies' direct assault. The Communist Party's activities were greatly reduced, a function of both a declining member-ship and, furthermore, a membership reluctant to confront an increasingly hostile society. In examining the changing policies, beliefs and strategies of the Party and the shifts in public response to these, I have tried to distinguish between general trends occurring within Australia and the national party, and trends peculiar to Queensland and the Queensland branch of the Party, The Communist Party suffered a decline in support and membership right across Australia throughout this period as a result of the national policies of the Party, and the changing nature of world politics. There were particular features of this decline that were peculiar to Queensland. I have, however, singled out three features of particular importance throughout the period for a short but more specifically detailed analysis, than would be possible in a purely chronological study: i.e. the Party's structure, the Party's ideological subservience to Moscow, and the general effect upon it of the Cold War. 2007-02-02T00:00:00Z Beatson, Jim http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:106525 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z Brannock, Matthew William Darcey http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:266148 2012-01-27T00:00:00Z Forde, Therese. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:188756 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z Edwards, Denise Terence. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:193959 2010-01-27T00:00:00Z Eckermann, Anne-Katrin http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:190032 2009-12-15T00:00:00Z Fridemanis, Helen http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:192100 2010-01-11T00:00:00Z Craig, J. D. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:192591 2010-01-14T00:00:00Z Nissen, Judith