The importance of language in the changing usage of particular environments is a topic worthy of greater attention than hitherto. Fraser Island has passed through a period of intense political conflict to one in which it is dominated by the new discourse of ecotourism. It is now part of that global development in which it is claimed that tourists can become properly informed about, and become p...

We report on measurements of low-frequency noise in a single-electron transistor SET from a few hertz up to 10 MHz. Measurements were done for different bias and gate voltages, which allow us to separate noise contributions from different noise sources. We find a 1 / f noise spectrum with two Lorentzians superimposed. The cut-off frequency of one of the Lorentzians varies systematically with th...

The aim of the New Zealand Southern ALPs EXperiment (SALPEX) was to study chiefly, but not exclusively, how the Southern Alps promote precipitation on the upwind side of the mountain chain in pre-frontal northwesterly airstreams. The third and most extensive field phase of the experiment ran for three weeks during October 1996, and documented two events in considerable detail. The present paper...

Single-electron transistors (SETs) are used to perform sensitive charge measurements and are widely discussed as possible components of dense integrated circuit. An exact model for a single-electron transistor (SET) was developed [1] early, within the circuit simulation package SPICE; it's constituted by two tunnel junctions, with two gates coupled to the island. We will present here a descript...

Duplicate neutralization tests were done on 401 avian and 101 human sera from island residents collected in the Coral Sea and on Australia's Great Barrier Reef against 19 known arboviruses. Antibodies to a potentially harmful flavivirus, Gadget's Gully virus, were equally present (4%) in both avian and human sera. Antibodies to another flavivirus, Murray Valley Encephalitis, and an ungrouped is...

It has been hypothesized that biogeographical boundaries are a feature of Burkholderia pseudomallei ecology, and they impact the epidemiology of melioidosis on a global scale. This study examined the relatedness of B. pseudomallei sourced from islands in the Torres Strait of Northern Australia to determine if the geography of isolated island communities is a determinant of the organisms' disper...

INTRODUCTION There are large Pacific island communities in western and south-western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In 2011 and 2012, measles outbreaks disproportionally affected children and youth within these communities. The objectives of this study were to explore barriers to immunization in a Pacific island community from the perspectives of community members and health professionals ...

A revision of the New Zealand Kunzeaericoides complex is presented. This paper is the final of a series that has explored the systematics of the New Zealand Kunzea complex using cytological and molecular variation, as well as experimental hybridisations between postulated segregates. As a result of those studies ten species, all endemic to New Zealand, are recognised; seven of these are new. On...

Diffusion of small two-dimensional Cu islands containing up to 10 atoms on Cu 111 has been studied using the newly developed self-learning Kinetic Monte Carlo SLKMC method which is based on a database of diffusion processes and their energetics accumulated automatically during the implementation of the SLKMC code. Results obtained from simulations in which atoms hop from one fcc hollow site to ...

Recent collections of pontoniine shrimps from Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, have provided further additions to the Australian marine fauna. A new species, Periclimenes poriphilus sp. nov., is described and illustrated. It is the first species of its genus to be found actually in a sponge host. Several other Periclimenes species have been reported as associates of sponges. Periclime...