Executive Summary In an ideal world, review and changes to computing curricula should be driven solely by academic concerns for the needs of students. The process should be informed by industry accreditation processes and international best practice (Hurst et al., 2001). However, Australian computing curricular review is often driven by the need for financial viability of programs with declinin...

and Applied Analysis 3 Table 1: The coding sequences of the first exon of β-globin gene of different species. Species Coding sequence ATGGTGCACCTGACTCCTGAGGAGAAGTCTGCCGT Human TACTGCCCTGTGGGGCAAGGTGAACGTGGATTAAG TTGGTGGTGAGGCCCTGGGCAG ATGCTGACTGCTGAGGAGAAGGCTGCCGTCACCGG Goat CTTCTGGGGCAAGGTGAAAGTGGATGAAGTTGGTG CTGAGGCCCTGGGCAG ATGGTGCACTTGACTTCTGAGGAGAAGAACTGCA Opossum TCACTACCATCTGGTCTAAGGTGCA...

AMS 1991 subject classifications: primary 62G07 secondary 62M10 Keywords: Spatial long memory Local Whittle method a b s t r a c t A local Whittle estimator is developed to simultaneously estimate the long memory parameters for stationary anisotropic scalar random fields. It is shown that these estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal, under some weak technical conditions. A brief si...

The occurrence of flood and drought frequency is highly correlated with the temporal fluctuations of streamflow series; understanding of these fluctuations is essential for the improved modeling and statistical prediction of extreme changes in river basins. In this study, the complexity of daily streamflow fluctuations was investigated by using multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MF-DF...

BACKGROUND The fetal heart rate (FHR) is commonly monitored during labor to detect early fetal acidosis. FHR variability is traditionally investigated using Fourier transform, often with adult predefined frequency band powers and the corresponding LF/HF ratio. However, fetal conditions differ from adults and modify spectrum repartition along frequencies. AIMS This study questions the arbitrar...