The main design criteria of ballasted railway tracks include rail deflections, rail bending stresses, rail wheel contact stresses, sleeper bending moments and ballast sleeper contact pressures. Numerous criteria have been defined for the design of ballasted railway tracks owing to the various mechanical properties of track components and their complex interaction. Therefore, railway track desig...

Exercising at levels of whole body accelerations exceeding 3.6g has been shown to have positive effects on cardiovascular fitness, bone density and balance. This pilot research project evaluated the whole body accelerations and cardiovascular challenge provided by selected walks in the Canberra region of Australia to determine if walks could be ranked according to potential level of impact on b...

Railway suicide is a significant public health problem. In addition to the loss of lives, these suicides occur in public space, causing traumatization among train drivers and passengers, and significant public transport delays. Prevention efforts depend upon accurate knowledge of clustering phenomena across the railway network, and spatial risk factors. Factors such as proximity to psychiatric ...

The specification of tropical cyclone atmospheric forcing for ocean response models is described with emphasis on methods that are currently actively applied in basins rich in insitu, airborne and remotely sensed meteorological data. We emphasize approaches and critical issues addressed in more detail in this workshop’s special session on Tropical Meteorology. Five alternative wind fields devel...

We have recently introduced a novel MRI methodology, so-called super resolution track-density imaging (TDI), which produces high-quality white matter images, with high spatial resolution and exquisite anatomical contrast not available from other MRI modalities. This method achieves super resolution by utilising the long-range information contained in the diffusion MRI fibre tracks. In this stud...

In this paper, we aim to perform scalable multi-target particle filter tracking. Previously, the authors presented an approach to track initiation and deletion which maintains an existence probability on each track, including a “search track” which represents the existence probability and state distribution of an unconfirmed track. This approach was seen to perform well even in cases of low det...

This paper outlines the statistical basis, construction and interpretation of probability-density (PD) plots as applied to the analysis of mixed distributions of fission-track (FT) grain ages. Such distributions can be viewed as being composed of a mixture of elemental component distributions, with each component characterized by a unique average FT age. The original PD plot of Hurford et al. i...