Creating a legal framework for copyright management of open access within the Australian academic and research sector

This chapter analyses the copyright law framework needed to ensure open access to outputs of the Australian academic and research sector such as journal articles and theses. It overviews the new knowledge landscape, the principles of copyright law, the concept of open access to knowledge, the recently developed open content models of copyright licensing and the challenges faced in providing greater access to knowledge and research outputs.

Southeast White Oak River shellfish restoration project

The 42-mile-long White Oak River is one of the last relatively unblemished watery jewels of the N.C. coast. The predominantly black water river meanders through Jones, Carteret and Onslow counties along the central N.C. coast, gradually widening as it flows past Swansboro and into the Atlantic Ocean. It drains almost 12,000 acres of estuaries -- saltwater marshes lined with cordgrass, narrow and impenetrable hardwood swamps and rare stands of red cedar that are flooded with wind tides. The lower portion of the river was so renowned for fat oysters and clams that in times past competing watermen came to blows over its bounty at places that now bear names like Battleground Rock. The lower river is also a designated primary nursery area for such commercially important species as shrimp, spot, Atlantic croaker, blue crabs, weakfish and southern flounder. But the river has been discovered. The permanent population along the lower White Oak increased by almost a third since 1990, and the amount of developed land increased 82 percent during the same period. With the growth have come bacteria. Since the late 1990s, much of the lower White Oak has been added to North Carolina’s list of impaired waters because of bacterial pollution. Forty-two percent of the rivers’ oyster and clam beds are permanently closed to shellfishing because of high bacteria levels. Fully two-thirds of the river’s shellfish beds are now permanently off limits or close temporarily after a moderate rain. State monitoring indicates that increased runoff from urbanization is the probable cause of the bacterial pollution. (PDF contains 4 pages)

List 229: Irish and English Dendrochronology

These results cover dating undertaken since the last published list of dated building from Ireland (Brown (2002)); one English church building is also included in the list. Thanks are due to the owners of the buildings and especially to everyone who assisted in taking of the samples: Phil Barrett, Sapphire Mussen, Charles Lyons, Jon Pilcher and Mike Baillie, Amanda Pedlow, Caimin O’Brien and Martin Timoney. Most of the descriptions of the buildings are taken from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage http://www.buildingofi reland.ie/. The correlation values were generated by CROSS84 (Munro, 1984), which provides a signifi cance level for the date to be correct; *** (extremely signifi cant), ** (very signifi cant), * (signifi cant), nsm (not signifi cant). Estimated felling date ranges are based on the Belfast sapwood estimate of 32 ± 9 years. Date ranges have been calculated by adding and subtracting 9 years from the calculated estimated felling dates. Timbers from the following buildings could not be dated. Cork: St Finbarre’s Cathedral (W 675 715); Dublin: Christchurch Cathedral (O 152 341); Galway: Cloghan Castle (M 972 119); Kilkenny: Rothe House (S 506 563); Offaly: Boveen House (S 075 956); Waterford: Christchurch Cathedral (S 616 121). Generally only single oak samples were recovered from these structures. References: D.Brown, ‘Dendrochronological dating building from Ireland’, VA 33 (2002), 71–3; M. Munro, ‘An improved algorithm for crossdating tree-ring series’, Tree-Ring Bulletin 44 (1984), 17–27.

Entwicklung des Laserionenquellen und -fallenprojekts LIST für Ultraspurendetektion und Grundlagenforschung

Die vorliegende Dissertation beschreibt die Realisation des neuartigen Konzepts der Laserionenquellenfalle für die on-line Produktion exotischer Nuklide und für den Nachweis von Spurenisotopen in Proben mit starken Isobarenkontaminationen. Ziel dieser Entwicklung ist eine wesentliche Steigerung der Isobarenselektivität einer herkömmlichen Laserionenquelle, sowie die Erzeugung zeitlich kontrollierter Ionenpulse mit hervorragender Strahlqualität. Es konnte die prizipielle Funktionsfähigkeit des Systems in Kombination mit einem Titan:Saphir-Lasersystem für die Elemente Gallium, Calcium und Nickel demonstriert und Ionenpulse mit einer minimalen Pulslänge von 1 µs erzeugt werden. Nach ersten Abschätzungen ist die Effizienz des Systems etwa einen Faktor 2500 geringer als die einer herkömmlichen Laserionenquelle. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem spurenanalytischen Nachweis von 99-Tc, mit dem Ziel, das Verhalten von 99-Tc in der Umgebung eines möglichen Endlagers für nukleare Abfälle studieren zu können. Hier wurden erste Studien mit dem kurzlebigen Isomer 99m-Tc zur Wechselwirkung von Tc(VII) mit Huminsäure und Kaolinit durchgeführt. Für den Einsatz der Laserionenquellenfalle in der Ultraspurenanalyse, wurde ein effizientes Anregungsschema für Titan:Saphir-Laser entwickelt und 99-Tc in einer herkömmlichen Ionenquelle nachgewiesen. Der letzte Teil der Arbeit beschreibt Machbarkeitsstudien zum Aufbau einer Laserionenquelle auf Basis eines Titan:Sahphir-Lasersystems, die parallel zu oben genannten Entwicklungen am Oak Ridge National Laboratory durchgeführt wurden. Im Rahmen dieser Messungen wurden Anregungsschemata für die resonante Anregung und Ionisation von Kupfer und Palladium für Titan:Saphir-Laser getestet. Dabei konnte zum ersten Mal frequenzvervierfachtes Laserlicht in einer Laserionenquelle eingesetzt werden. Am ORNL wurden Studien zur Zeitstruktur von Laserionenpulsen, sowie Emittanzmessungen von Laser- und Oberflächenionenstrahlen durchgeführt werden.

Isotopes in biochemistry and biosynthesis of labeled compounds; a selected list of references.

Cover title.

Cumulated numerical list of available unclassified U. S. Atomic Energy Commission reports.

Mode of access: Internet.

Engineering materials list.

Cummulative indexes issued.

Scintillation detectors : a selected list of unclassified reports.

Mode of access: Internet.

Translation title list and cross reference guide.

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The principal rots of English oak,

At head of title: Department of scientific and industrial research. Forest products research.

List of certified Illinois nursery stock dealers.

Description based on: 1981-1982; title from cover.

Status of highly enriched uranium processing capability at Building 9212 Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant.

"December 8, 1995."

Journal kept by David Douglas during his travels in North America 1823-1827, together with a particular description of thirty-three species of American oaks and eighteen species of Pinus, with appendices containing a list of the plants introduced by Douglas and an account of his death in 1834. Published under the direction of the Royal Horticultural Society.

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A beginning teachers’ wish list for professional development

Voluntary professional associations such as ETAQ exist to develop and assist English teachers in their professional renewal. This paper offers the combined perspectives of an experienced teacher educator, the research data from a project on new teachers and PD and a beginning teacher about the PD needs of beginning teachers.