An Investigation of Unauthorised Use of Wireless Networks in Adelaide, South Australia

An investigation into the unauthorised use of 802.11 wireless local area networks

The use of 802.11 wireless local area networks (LANs) is growing at a phenomenal rate. However, numerous flaws have been discovered in WEP, and studies have shown that many wireless LANs are installed with their default settings. These are soft targets for war drivers, who drive around with laptops and 'cantennas' locating insecure wireless LANs. While it is known that wireless LANs experience ...

Developing a Framework for a Program Theory-Based Approach to Evaluating Policy Processes and Outcomes: Health in All Policies in South Australia

Background The importance of evaluating policy processes to achieve health equity is well recognised but such evaluation encounters methodological, theoretical and political challenges. This paper describes how a program theorybased evaluation framework can be developed and tested, using the example of an evaluation of the South Australian Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative.   Methods A f...

JALDA's Interview with Peter Mühlhäusler

Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

The Knowledge Translation Complexity Network (KTCN) Model: The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts - A Response to Recent Commentaries

Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation

Many representations of the movement of healthcare knowledge through society exist, and multiple models for the translation of evidence into policy and practice have been articulated. Most are linear or cyclical and very few come close to reflecting the dense and intricate relationships, systems and politics of organizations and the processes required to enact sustainable improvements. We illus...