Code supporting 'Testing Equality of Variances For Mulitple Univariate Populations'.

Wed 28 Aug 2024 08:40:04 AEST

Code implementing the T_AR statistic from our paper. MATLAB and R versions are provided, which compute both critical values for specified numbers of populations and sample sizes, as well as p-values for data sets.

Aeroelastic measurements, simulations, and fatigue predictions for small wind turbines operating in highly turbulent flow

Wed 18 Apr 2018 17:38:47 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Safety culture within the Australian coal mining industry: identifying the critical factors and measuring the construct

Wed 11 Apr 2018 17:12:54 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Improved estimation and regression techniques with the generalised lambda distribution

Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:19:07 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

The application of a real options valuation methodology to a coal mining project in New South Wales, Australia

Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:04:43 AEST

Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)

Trace element removal techniques with iron oxyhydroxides and the adsorption/co-precipitation removal mechanism

Wed 11 Apr 2018 12:58:25 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Sustainable area planning framework for ecologically sustainable development, case study Wyong Shire, NSW, Australia

Wed 11 Apr 2018 10:56:22 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Revelations of composer self: a hermeneutic study of fifteen Australian composers

Wed 06 Mar 2024 15:14:23 AEDT

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Phase portraits for differential geometry

Wed 04 Sep 2024 14:11:55 AEST

In the article "Phase Portraits of Hyperbolic Geometry" (submitted) we introduced the use of phase portraits for visualizing the behavior of functions on hyperbolic space. This Maple package contains all of the necessary procedures to create the various representations which appear in the paper; the accompanying worksheet contains examples of how to create each one where the functions used are the same ones which appear in the article itself. This package requires the program Maple.

Effect of disturbance regimes on populations of Darwinia glaucophylla on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia

Tue 21 Jul 2020 10:38:15 AEST

Masters Research - Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

Exploring the use of interactive voice response as a population health tool

Tue 20 Aug 2024 11:58:22 AEST

The research described in this thesis reviewed previous uses of Interactive Voice Response (IVR), developed appropriate software, and employed IVR to obtain self-report of sensitive issues in surveys and conduct brief public health interventions. Chapter 1 introduces IVR and describes a systematic critical review of the use of IVR. IVR is a telephone interviewing technique where the human speaker is replaced by a high quality recorded interactive script to which the respondent provides answers by pressing the keys of a touch-telephone (touchphone). IVR has numerous advantages, including: economy, autonomy, confidentiality, access to certain population groups, improved data quality, standardised interviewing, multi-lingual interfaces, and detailed longitudinal assessments. Despite this, there have been few survey applications of IVR compared to alternative methods such as Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI). There has not been any evaluation of the use of IVR for asking sensitive questions in surveys or as a tool for health promotion at the community level. A literature review, described in Chapter 2, was conducted to identify other methods of asking sensitive questions. The literature review identified 19 different methods. Those methods that were most successful were those that provided the greatest degree of anonymity to the respondent. It was suggested that IVR may be a suitable method for community surveys. As described in Chapter 3, a custom software called Generalized Electronic Interviewing System (GEIS) was developed. This provided both CATI and IVR interviewing modes. As described in Chapter 4, it was found that the response rate obtained using IVR was unacceptably low, and an alternative interviewing method, the Hybrid method was developed. In the Hybrid method the interview was initiated by the interviewer but completed using IVR with GEIS. As described in Chapter 5, the IVR, CATI and Hybrid methods were used to investigate self-reported rates of alcohol and drug consumption within a telephone household survey of 2880 households. The self-report rates were compared to the National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS). Response rates did not differ significantly between the CATI and Hybrid methods, however the response rate for IVR was significantly less than the other methods. The Hybrid and IVR methods obtained significantly higher self-report consumption rates for alcohol and marijuana, and significantly higher hazardous drinking scores using Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). In Chapter 6 a pilot of an IVR cervical screening brief advice interface is described. A total of 5000 households were contacted by the IVR system. The system randomly selected an eligible woman aged 18-69 per household and determined her cervical screening status. A total of 661 women listened to the IVR message. The IVR call was shown to be acceptable and inexpensive compared to a mail pamphlet intervention. In Chapter 7 a randomized controlled trial of an IVR cervical screening brief advice involving 17,008 households is described. Cervical screening rate data were obtained from the Health Insurance Commission (HIC) for a period spanning six months before and following the intervention. The cervical screening rate was increased in the intervention postcodes by 0.43% compared to the control postcodes, and the increase was greater for older women at 1.34%. This was a desirable outcome since this group is considered to be an at-risk group. The overall conclusion was that IVR technology could be feasibly used to contact women to deliver brief interventions aimed at increasing cervical screening rates, but the cost per screen was likely to be high. It is suggested that an IVR system could be linked to cervical screening registers to more directly and economically contact women, and provide an efficacious complementary approach to the existing letter reminder system.

Application of smooth tests of goodness of fit to generalized linear models

Tue 11 Dec 2018 17:18:25 AEDT

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Hospital Outpatient Alcohol Project 2012-2014 Newcastle Australia

Tue 10 Sep 2024 19:12:37 AEST

Electronic screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) program for non-help-seeking hospital outpatients with hazardous or harmful drinking. Outpatients 18 years and over. Hunter New England Health, Newcastle, Australia. Dataset includes: baseline data, 6 month follow-up data, 12 month follow-up data, e-SBI tool, word version of e-SBI instrument, 6 and 12 month follow-up questionnaires, and certificate of ethics approval. GRANT INFORMATION: APP1023734 Double blind randomised controlled trial of electronic alcohol screening and brief intervention (e-SBI) for hospital outpatients

Palaeomagnetism of the Dundas–Fossey Trough data

Tue 10 Sep 2024 11:53:47 AEST

This dataset comprises palaeomagnetic and rock magnetic data collected during a B.Sc. Honours Project by Kathryn Job, who was based in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania and supervised by Dr Robert Musgrave, conjoint senior lecturer in SELS at the University of Newcastle. The analytical work was conducted at the PALM laboratory in the Newcastle Institute for Energy & Resources, University of Newcastle and in the CSIRO Division of Earth Science and Resource Engineering. The project successfully tested the hypothesis that the Dundas-Fossey Trough in Tasmania was deformed as an orocline, and incidentally provided evidence for the extent and nature of low-temperature late Cretaceous magnetic overprinting in eastern Australia. The study has been submitted for publication in Tectonophysics, with the title “Palaeomagnetism of the Dundas–Fossey Trough, Tasmania: oroclinal rotation and Late Cretaceous overprinting”, authored by Robert J. Musgrave and Kathryn Job. Data collected include palaeomagnetic remanence after stepwise thermal and alternating field (AF) demagnetisation, hysteresis parameters, saturation isothermal remanence (SIRM) acquisition and back-field demagnetisation, magnetic susceptibility, and sample mass. A total of 111 remanence and 21 rock-magnetic specimens were analysed. This dataset contains 182 files (including this metadata file), in .xlsx, .doc, and ASCII text (including Remasoft files with suffixes .rs3 and .rsf) formats. Total size 660 kB.

Primary outcomes data from a cluster-randomised controlled trial testing the effect of an organisational change intervention for increasing the delivery of smoking cessation treatment in alcohol and other drug service settings

Tue 10 Sep 2024 09:45:37 AEST

The data was collected from clients of alcohol and other drug (AOD) services participating in a cluster-randomised controlled trial (Tackling Nicotine Together (TNT) trial) testing the effect of an organisational change intervention for increasing the delivery of smoking cessation treatment to AOD service clients. The cluster-RCT with 32 governmental and non-government AOD treatment services in four mainland states or territories of Australia (NSW, ACT, Qld, and SA) was conducted between February 2015 and March 2016. The AOD services (clusters) were the unit of randomisation. Briefly, following randomisation, all 32 AOD services assisted with the recruitment of their clients (n=896) into the online baseline survey (completed in person at the service) over a 6-month period. An independent computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) team, blinded to participant’s group allocation, conducted follow-up telephone client surveys 6-weeks (n= 471) and 6-months later (n=427), following a 2-week grace period post baseline survey. Treatment service clients eligible for inclusion in the trial were aged 16 years and over and attending their first of a number of visits (to allow for repeated exposure to the intervention), were self-reported current smokers, sufficiently proficient in English, and were cognitively and mentally able to give informed consent according to service staff who approached clients. This dataset comprises the data used to assess the primary and secondary outcomes of the TNT trial. AOD client participants at baseline assessment were asked to provide information about their demographic characteristics, smoking profile, drug use and quit history and intentions. At 6-week and 6-month follow-up assessments measures of 7-day point prevalence abstinence (PPA), prolonged abstinence, nicotine dependence, number of cigarettes smoked, self-reported quit attempts, and self-reported offer and use of nicotine replacement therapy were collected. At the 6-week and 6-month follow-up assessments, participants who self-reported 7-day PPA were asked to return to the AOD service to provide a breath sample to measure carbon monoxide (CO). The CO reading was used to verify self-reported 7-day PPA to measure the primary outcome (client smoking cessation at 6-week follow-up).

Biobjective mixed integer programs instances

Tue 10 Sep 2024 09:38:25 AEST

Data instances for the journal articles “Criterion Space Search Algorithms for Biobjective Mixed Integer Programming, Part I: Integer Programs and Part II: Mixed Integer Programs”

Precedence constrained knapsack problem data instances

Tue 10 Sep 2024 07:15:45 AEST

Data instances for the journal article "Clique-based facets for the precedence constrained knapsack problem" by the same authors. Boland, N., Bley, A., Fricke, C. et al. Clique-based facets for the precedence constrained knapsack problem. Math. Program. 133, 481–511 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-010-0438-7

Supplementary materials for Shakespeare and Authorship Attribution

Thu 29 Aug 2024 16:10:49 AEST

This dataset contains supplementary materials for the publication: Craig, H. (Forthcoming). Shakespeare and Authorship Attribution Methodologies. The Arden Companion to Shakespeare and Textual Studies. Ed. L. Erne. London, Bloomsbury. It consists of Nine Excel Files, 184 KB.

Blast-RF: A probabilistic blast modelling and glazing response tool

Thu 29 Aug 2024 13:57:18 AEST

This variant of BLAST-RF is a Research version of a working probabilistic model for: (1) Blast loading from explosives, (2) The Structural response of glazing within a given building facade, and (3) The trajectory of an element of broken glazing. The outputs are contours of risk of damage and safety hazards across the given structural facade.

P-Blast (V1.0)

Thu 29 Aug 2024 13:50:48 AEST

P-Blast is a Probabilistic blast-load calculator developed by the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at the University of Newcastle, Australia. The program uses Kingery & Bulmash's polynomials as the basis for blast load calculations within each Monte-Carlo iteration. Some variables are considered deterministically, and others probabilistically. Program output is Pressure, Impuse and Duration. This is the first published version of P-Blast, and does NOT have a user friendly GUI. Given that some variables are input by the user, and others are implicit with the software, users MUST contact The Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at the University of Newcastle for guidance on correct use.

4D 128 cube topological dataset

Thu 05 Sep 2024 14:54:51 AEST

The materials in this repository comprise a 4D topological dataset and two 4D visualisations in video format. The dataset can be downloaded directly as a series of twenty 1.5GB .zip files. More details can be found in the README.txt file. This data is also available via mediated access in the following formats: A single file approximately 30GB .zip file, or a series of ten 3GB .zip files.

All code and data released with this supplementary material uses the following license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This license permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original authors & provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

Please contact researchdata@newcastle.edu.au to access the data in alternative formats.

Subliminal Faces

Thu 05 Sep 2024 09:52:32 AEST

The dataset comprises 103 jpg images of house facades or related building elements. The facade images were selected to have enough structure so that some of them could be associated with abstract face-like patterns. For example, some windows may be interpreted as eyes, some doors as noses, and so on.

Krui Catchment Soil Organic Carbon Data

Thu 05 Sep 2024 09:52:02 AEST

The two files contain soil organic carbon (% w/w) data for the Krui River catchment in NSW, Australia. It consists of field data (“Krui_20cm_SOC.csv”) and modelled data (“BIOS2_Krui_SOC_1908-2015.csv”) used to study the impact of drought on soil organic carbon. Soil organic carbon concentrations were determined using soil cores collected to 20 cm depth in 2006, 2015 and 2018 to study the impacts of recent droughts, while the BIOS2 model outputs (Haverd et al., 2013) from 1911-2015 were used to study the impacts of historical droughts. The area of study is the Krui River catchment (585 km2) in NSW, Australia. The catchment extends from 31° 49’ to 32° 13’S and from 150° 02’ to 150° 21’E. “BIOS2_Krui_SOC_1908-2015.csv” presents soil organic carbon data at annual timesteps from 1911-2015 for the catchment. “Krui_20cm_SOC.csv” presents soil organic carbon data collected across the catchment in 2006, 2014 and 2018. Reference for the BIOS2 model: Haverd, V., Raupach, M. R., Briggs, P. R., Canadell, J. G., Isaac, P., Pickett-Heaps, C., Roxburgh, S. H., Van Gorsel, E., Rossel, R. A. V. & Wang, Z. (2013). Multiple observation types reduce uncertainty in Australia's terrestrial carbon and water cycles. Biogeosciences, 10(3), 2011-2040. doi: 10.5194/bg-10-2011-2013. Data is in the following paper submitted to the journal Biogeochemistry as; Gibson, A.J., Verdon-Kidd, D.C., Hancock, G.R., Haverd, V. Temporal Stability of Soil Organic Carbon and Relationships with Drought.

Regional scaling of groundwater recharge

Mon 25 Sep 2023 10:24:10 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosphy (PhD)

Ecotoxicity of construction and demolition waste fine residues from material recovery facilities

Mon 23 Sep 2024 12:24:48 AEST

This data includes experimental setups and results designed to assess the ecotoxicity potential of fine residues from construction and demolition waste (C&DW) collected at material recovery facilities. It investigates the ecotoxic effects of these C&DW residues on the early growth of Sinapis alba and Triticum aestivum, as well as the reproduction of Eisenia fetida.

Visualising the D'harawal Seasons and Climatic Cycles

Mon 23 Sep 2019 14:25:52 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

New prior sampling methods and equidistribution testing for nested sampling

Mon 23 Sep 2019 14:04:40 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Exquisite drawing machines: a tinkerer's guide

Mon 23 Sep 2019 13:58:34 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

An extravgagant burlesque: 19th century blackface minstrelsy and its contemporary revival

Mon 23 Sep 2019 12:35:45 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Projection algorithms for non-separable wavelets and Clifford Fourier analysis

Mon 23 Sep 2019 11:58:37 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Interpretation and aporias: perspectives from a classical musician in the 21st century

Mon 23 Sep 2019 10:49:07 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

The Proterozoic history of the northern and western Siberian cratonic margins based on results of U-Pb-Hf detrital zircon analysis

Mon 23 Sep 2019 10:47:23 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Aeschylus as oral performance: rhythm, structure, and meaning in the Persians

Mon 23 Sep 2019 10:19:07 AEST

Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Meteorological observations for Eversleigh Station, near Armidale, New South Wales, Australia 1877-1922

Mon 09 Sep 2024 12:02:55 AEST

The collection contains a series of recorded meteorological observations taken daily between 1877-1922 by pastoralist, astronomer and meteorologist Algernon Henry Belfield at Eversleigh Station in the New England region, 20 kilometres north west of Armidale. The collection comprises 42 Meteorological Observation Books, available as 28 PDF files containing scans of front cover, back cover and each page for each Meteorological Observation Book. The combined size of all data files is 477MB. The original Meteorological Observation Books for years 1879, 1880 and 1881 are missing and therefore are not digitally available. Daily observations/readings include: attached thermometer, barometer, dry bulb, wet bulb, maximum temperature (Fahrenheit), minimum temperature (Fahrenheit), rain (measure), direction of wind, wind force 0-12, cloud coverage 0-10, visual daily weather observations including fine and clear, cloudy, fog, thunder, showery, dull, cloudless, squally. Monthly tallies were recorded including: total days of rain, total days of lightning, mean diurnal range, greatest diurnal range, greatest range, mean temperature, mean maximum, mean minimum, mean dry, mean wet, mean cloud, mean humidity, inches of rain, inches of rain (since beginning of the year), winds. The original Meteorological Observing Books were deposited in the University of New England Heritage Centre by Mr Richard E.H. Belfield, Algernon Belfield's grandson. The collection was digitised for Cultural Collections, University of Newcastle by William Oates, University Archivist at the University of New England Heritage Centre.

C++ implementation of the algorithms given in the journal article “A New Method for Optimising a Linear Function over the Efficient Set of a Multi-objective Integer Program"

Fri 30 Aug 2024 16:11:38 AEST

C++ implementation of the algorithms given in the journal article “A New Method for Optimising a Linear Function over the Efficient Set of a Multi-objective Integer Program”. This project is a Netbeans IDE 7.3.1 C++ project which is written in Linux (Ubuntu). It should also be mentioned that the code is only able to solve instances of multi-objective integer programs (with an arbitrary number of objective functions) when all objective function coeecients are integer.

Acoustic phenomena as a model for music composition: representing acoustic phenomena in musical composition through the extrapolative and interpolative modelling of the phenomena's characteristics and behaviour

Fri 07 Dec 2018 16:26:35 AEDT

Masters Research - Master of Philosophy (MPhil)

Play corpus details and a list of verb forms

Fri 06 Sep 2024 14:41:34 AEST

This is a list of the plays forming a set of 275 early modern English plays, with some metadata, and a list of 180 verb forms showing both –th and –s endings, for an index of ratios of –th endings to –s endings. This dataset contains supplementary materials for the publication: Hugh Craig, “Coriolanus and the Datasphere,” in Liam Semler, ed., Coriolanus: A Critical Reader (London, Bloomsbury, forthcoming). It consists of two csv files, 8 KB.

Frequencies of principal divisor ranks of the first trillion positive integers grouped in millions

Fri 06 Sep 2024 14:23:59 AEST

Entry f_r_by_M[r,M] is the count of those integers in the range [(M-1)*10^6 + 1 .. M*10^6] with principal divisor rank r. We list f_r_by_M[r,M] for r in [1..11] and M in [1..10^6]. Implicitly, we have: f_r_by_M[0,1] eq 1 (the integer 1 uniquely has principal divisor rank 0), and f_r_by_M[0,M] eq 0 for every M gt 1.

Investigating the effects of study time, study repetition, semantic and orthographic similarity, and category length on item recognition memory receiver operating characteristics

Fri 06 Sep 2024 14:12:02 AEST

Four experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of study time, study repetition, semantic and orthographic similarity, and category length on item recognition memory receiver operating characteristics (ROCs). The collection contains 5 square tab-delimited text files in .txt format, containing individual participant response frequencies for Experiments 1, 2 and 3 and a readme text file. Note: Datasets are available for Experiments 1, 2 and 3.

XRD semi-quantitative supplementary data

Fri 06 Sep 2024 12:35:10 AEST

Spreadsheet of semi-quantitative X-Ray Diffraction results, collected at The University of Adelaide in 2019 (Supplementary data for PhD Paper 2 (University of Adelaide)). XRD analysis was of 57 rock and soil samples from a southern Gawler Ranges study area. This data was collected using a Bruker D8 Advance, Cu X-Ray tube with 1.5406 A wavelength of radiation. Samples measured between 5 - 65.02 deg (2theta) with steps of 0.02deg. Mineralogy identified using Bruker Diffrac.EVA V4.2.1 software and semi-quantitative analysis obtained using RockJock11 macro in Microsoft Excel 2007. Geographical location: southern Gawler Ranges, SA. Easting and Northing coordinates for each sample in the Geographic Coordinate System GDA Zone 53 South are included in the spreadsheet.

A novel approach to non-surgical sterilization

Fri 06 Sep 2024 12:12:38 AEST

Microscope images, phage binding and gonocyte vitality data to support “A novel approach to nonsurgical sterilization; application of menadione-modified gonocyte-targeting M13 bacteriophage for germ cell ablation in utero”, a research article published in the journal “Pharmacology Research and Perspectives” in September 2020. This work was funded by ARC Discovery Grant funded by the Australian Government. Grant details are: Title: Use of quinone adducted peptides in the regulation of fertility CIs: R.J. Aitken, B. Nixon. Awarded: Jan 2015. Years: 3 years; Amount: $417,344; Grant number: DP150103231

IODP Site U1437 rock-magnetic data

Fri 06 Sep 2024 11:08:18 AEST

This dataset comprises rock magnetic data collected in support of IODP sample request number 010161IODP for Robert John Musgrave. The project is a study of the influence of pore-water fluids (including hydrocarbons) on magnetic diagenesis in a volcano-bounded basin setting. The study has been submitted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. Measurements were conducted at the PALM laboratory, Newcastle Institute for Energy & Resources, University of Newcastle; Black Mountain palaeomagnetic laboratory, Australian National University; the Institute for Rock Magnetism, University of Minnesota; and the shipboard paleomagnetic laboratory on the research ship JOIDES Resolution. Data collected include hysteresis parameters, first-order reversal curves (FORCs), saturation isothermal remanence (SIRM) acquisition and back-field demagnetisation, low-temperature cycling of SIRM, and magnetic susceptibility. A total of 256 samples were analysed. This data is comprised of 68 files 9including this metadata file), in .xlsx, .doc, and ASCII text (.frc) formats. Total size 6.61 MB. This project was funded by the Australia-New Zealand IODP Consortium.