In 2007 the Fisheries Management Act passed through the South Australian parliament. The Act includes several new provisions which substantially changed the nature of commercial fishing rights, resource sharing between competing sectors and rights based management.
These interrelated provisions include: (1) Commercial licences are issued for the duration of a...
In 2009 a network of 19 multiple-use Marine Parks was created in State waters under the South Australian Marine Parks Act 2007. Section 21 of the Act contains compensation provisions where rights of fishing licence holders are affected by the creation of marine parks. Management plans and zoning regulations were established...
A Fishery Gross Margin (FGM) model has been used, as a cost-effective and practical alternative to more complex economic modelling, to inform the development of structured TACC decision rules as part of the formal harvest strategy adopted for the South Australian Pipi (donax Deltiodes) fishery since 2012.
The primary economic...
The complexity of forest management has increased with the scope of resources of concern and the level of scrutiny from stakeholders. The design and use of specialized computer software, often referred to as “decision support systems” (DSS), is one method for helping managers deal with this complexity. DSS have proven...
Since their discovery in the 1990s, the great potential of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) has made them a focus of many research endeavors, including their application as components of biosensors. The inherent chemical "inertness" of CNTs makes their application to biosensing a challenge. It is necessary to "decorate" their surfaces to...
Organic compounds which contain one or more nitrogen atoms are especially important as they are disproportionately represented among biologically active molecules. As a result, significant effort has been focused on the development of methods for the synthesis of nitrogenous molecules. We identified the aminal as an under-explored functional group. Despite...
The rapid disruption of tropical forests probably imperils global biodiversity more than any other contemporary phenomenon¹⁻³. With deforestation advancing quickly, protected areas are increasingly becoming final refuges for threatened species and natural ecosystem processes. However, many protected areas in the tropics are themselves vulnerable to human encroachment and other environmental...
Exemplar-based style transfer techniques reimagine the content of a target image in the style of an exemplar image. Style transfer techniques that make use of patch-based synthesis copy sections of the exemplar to corresponding regions of the target, creating a new image in a patchwork manner. The artistic control one...
This work is concerned with determining whether nicotine has a role in promoting oxidative damage in human tissue, particularly in lung tissue. This follows from recent reports of a novel lung disease found in some E-cigarette users, characterized by oxidative damage and elevated levels of neutrophils (termed “vaping disease”). It...
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Sean Newsom, Committee Member, representing Biological and Population Health
Sciences
While historiography and interest in Tudor England at both the popular and specialist levels presents few signs of diminishing, there may nonetheless exist a sense that we have little left to learn about this period and its culture. A notable gap in our knowledge, however, remains regarding the mysterious disease...