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Cool Places, Creative Places? Community Perceptions Of Cultural Vitality In The Suburbs, Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley, Beth Laurenson, Naomi Riggs, Andrew Warren, Ben Gallan, Heidi Brown Jan 2013

Cool Places, Creative Places? Community Perceptions Of Cultural Vitality In The Suburbs, Chris Gibson, Chris Brennan-Horley, Beth Laurenson, Naomi Riggs, Andrew Warren, Ben Gallan, Heidi Brown

Christopher R Brennan-Horley

This article stems from a project examining cultural assets in Wollongong - a medium-sized Australian city with a decentralized and linear suburban pattern that challenges orthodox binaries of inner-city bohemia/outer-suburban domesticity. In Wollongong we documented community perceptions of cultural assets across this unusual setting, through a simple public research method. At the city's largest annual festival we recruited the general public to nominate the city's most 'cool' and 'creative' places, by drawing on a map of Wollongong and telling their stories. Hand-drawn maps from 205 participants were combined in a Geographical Information System and 50 hours of stories transcribed for …


Work And Play: Vagaries Surrounding Contemporary Culture Production In Sydney's Dance Music Culture, Christopher Brennan-Horley Jan 2013

Work And Play: Vagaries Surrounding Contemporary Culture Production In Sydney's Dance Music Culture, Christopher Brennan-Horley

Christopher R Brennan-Horley

Much recent research has documented how, under 'creative' capitalism, approaches towards work and types of work are changing. This paper extends this research direction, uncovering the discourses that influence conditions of work in one sector of the cultural industries: what can loosely be defined as the 'dance music industry'. It examines the role that networking and social relations play in maintaining a music scene through which work opportunities are created. The paper also explores how attitudes toward work in this particular cultural pursuit are emblematic of wider shifts in working practices within the cultural and creative industries. The findings are …


Finding Creativity In A Small City:How Qualitative Mapping Methods Can Reveal New Geographies Of Creativity, Chris Brennan-Horley Jan 2013

Finding Creativity In A Small City:How Qualitative Mapping Methods Can Reveal New Geographies Of Creativity, Chris Brennan-Horley

Christopher R Brennan-Horley

This chapter outlines a qualitative mapping approach suitable for uncovering key geographical themes associated with small city creative industries. Until recently, the spatial dynamics underpinning creative economies in small cities and other places that constitute an imagined creative 'periphery' (Gibson 2010), have been absent from debates about the geography of creative industries. Instead, the focus has settled on case studies from large cities of Europe and North America, and selected ones at that, where stories of creative industry agglomeration and transformation are most obvious. Oft-cited examples include London, New York, Los Angeles, Manchester and Berlin, fuelling generalisations about the spatiality …


The Geography Of Same-Sex Families In Australia: Implications For Regulatory Regimes, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Gorman-Murray Jan 2013

The Geography Of Same-Sex Families In Australia: Implications For Regulatory Regimes, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Gorman-Murray

Christopher R Brennan-Horley

Knowledge of the geographical scope of same-sex families is useful in appealing for relationship and family formation rights. This article analyses the geography of same-sex families in Australia through a critical mapping exercise, offering geographical analysis as a means to assist with their human rights claims. While maps have been used to shore up political and legal power, ‘subversive’ maps can visually challenge dominant views and advance minority groups' constitutive and, distributional politics. We utilise 2006 Census data to map the distribution of same-sex couple family households across Australia, including variations by gender and dependent children. Same-sex families are widespread: …


Geographic Information Technologies For Cultural Research: Cultural Mapping And The Prospects Of Colliding Epistemologies, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Warren Jan 2013

Geographic Information Technologies For Cultural Research: Cultural Mapping And The Prospects Of Colliding Epistemologies, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Warren

Christopher R Brennan-Horley

No abstract provided.


Gis, Ethnography, And Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back Into Ethnographic Mapping, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Susan Luckman, Christopher Gibson, Julie Willoughby-Smith Jan 2013

Gis, Ethnography, And Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back Into Ethnographic Mapping, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Susan Luckman, Christopher Gibson, Julie Willoughby-Smith

Christopher R Brennan-Horley

No abstract provided.


(Putting) Mobile Technologies In Their Place: A Geographical Perspective, Chris Gibson, Susan Luckman, Chris Brennan-Horley Jan 2013

(Putting) Mobile Technologies In Their Place: A Geographical Perspective, Chris Gibson, Susan Luckman, Chris Brennan-Horley

Christopher R Brennan-Horley

No abstract provided.


Pottery Technology At Linaminan, Katherine Szabo, Timothy Vitales Jan 2013

Pottery Technology At Linaminan, Katherine Szabo, Timothy Vitales

Katherine A Szabo

No abstract provided.


Invertebrate Remains From Linaminan, Katherine Szabo Jan 2013

Invertebrate Remains From Linaminan, Katherine Szabo

Katherine A Szabo

No abstract provided.


The Archaeology Of Linaminan, Central Palawan: A Preliminary Report On Excavations, Eusebio Dizon, Katherine Szabo Jan 2013

The Archaeology Of Linaminan, Central Palawan: A Preliminary Report On Excavations, Eusebio Dizon, Katherine Szabo

Katherine A Szabo

No abstract provided.


People Of The Ancient Rainforest: Late Pleistocene Foragers At The Batadomba-Lena Rockshelter, Sri Lanka, Nimal Perera, Nikos Kourampas, Ian Simpson, Siran Deraniyagala, David Bulbeck, Johan Kamminga, Jude Perera, Dorian Fuller, Katherine Szabo, Nuno Oliveira Jan 2013

People Of The Ancient Rainforest: Late Pleistocene Foragers At The Batadomba-Lena Rockshelter, Sri Lanka, Nimal Perera, Nikos Kourampas, Ian Simpson, Siran Deraniyagala, David Bulbeck, Johan Kamminga, Jude Perera, Dorian Fuller, Katherine Szabo, Nuno Oliveira

Katherine A Szabo

Batadomba-lena, a rockshelter in the rainforest of southwestern Sri Lanka, has yielded some of the earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in South Asia. H. sapiens foragers were present at Batadomba-lena from ca. 36,000 cal BP to the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. Human occupation was sporadic before the global Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Batadomba-lenas Late Pleistocene inhabitants foraged for a broad spectrum of plant and mainly arboreal animal resources (monkeys, squirrels and abundant rainforest snails), derived from a landscape that retained equatorial rainforest cover through periods of pronounced regional aridity during the LGM. Juxtaposed hearths, palaeofloors with habitation debris, postholes, excavated …


Engraved Prehistoric Conus Shell Valuables From Southeastern Papua New Guinea: Their Antiquity, Motifs And Distribution, Wal Ambrose, Fiona Petchey, Pamela Swadling, Harry Beran, Elizabeth Bonshek, Katherine Szabo, Simon Bickler, Glenn Summerhayes Jan 2013

Engraved Prehistoric Conus Shell Valuables From Southeastern Papua New Guinea: Their Antiquity, Motifs And Distribution, Wal Ambrose, Fiona Petchey, Pamela Swadling, Harry Beran, Elizabeth Bonshek, Katherine Szabo, Simon Bickler, Glenn Summerhayes

Katherine A Szabo

In the early 1900s thirteen engraved Conus shell valuables were dug from prehistoric midden mounds in Oro Province. Since the early 1970s nineteen undated surface finds have been found in the northern Massim of Milne Bay Province. When three artifacts became available for AMS radiocarbon dating, provided they were restored after sampling to their original visual appearance, a specialist team was assembled and this paper reports its findings regarding the thirty-two shells. The paper covers sampling and conservation, dating (including new information on the local oceanic reservoir effect), distribution, art, depositional and cultural histories. These distinctive Conus shell valuables are …


Analytical Examination Of Animal Remains From Borneo: The Painting Of Bone And Shell, F Pyatt, G Barker, R Rabett, Katherine Szabo, B Wilson Jan 2013

Analytical Examination Of Animal Remains From Borneo: The Painting Of Bone And Shell, F Pyatt, G Barker, R Rabett, Katherine Szabo, B Wilson

Katherine A Szabo

Examination of a selection of shell and bone from archaeological assemblages excavated at Niah Cave and Gua Sireh, both of which are located in Sarawak, Borneo, has revealed the deliberate application of coloured material to one or more surfaces. Small fragments of the surface colourant were analysed using a variety of techniques, including microscopy, energy dispersive microwave analysis and infra-red spectrophotometry. These procedures established that, although red in colour, the applied coating in each instance was not red iron oxide. It is suggested that, based on the chemical components present, this coating was a tree resin or a similar organic …


Foraging-Farming Transitions At The Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo, Graeme Barker, Llindsay Lloyd-Smith, Huw Barton, Franca Cole, Chris Hunt, Philip Piper, Ryan Rabett, Victor Paz, Katherine Szabo Jan 2013

Foraging-Farming Transitions At The Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo, Graeme Barker, Llindsay Lloyd-Smith, Huw Barton, Franca Cole, Chris Hunt, Philip Piper, Ryan Rabett, Victor Paz, Katherine Szabo

Katherine A Szabo

The Niah Caves in Sarawak, Borneo, have captured evidence for people and economies of 8000 and 4000 years ago. Although not continuous on this site, these open two windows on to life at the cultural turning point, broadly equivalent to the transition fromMesolithic to Neolithic. They have much in common, inferring that the occupants, perhaps belonging to an older maritime dispersal, had a choosy appetite for the Neolithic package.


The Fish Bone Remains, Geoffrey Clark, Katherine Szabo Jan 2013

The Fish Bone Remains, Geoffrey Clark, Katherine Szabo

Katherine A Szabo

Fisheries are a fundamental part of Remote Oceanic economies and lifeways, used for different types of fishing, invertebrate capture and collection, and the gathering of marine plants. Where no bones or calcareous parts remain, these activities are invisible to archaeologists, but modern studies of marine exploitation in Fiji and elsewhere in the Pacific (e.g. Rawlinson et al. 1994; Dalzell et al. 1996) indicate that a good portion of activities should leave traces in the archaeological record. As with marine mollusca, tropical Indo-Pacific fish species diversity is high. However unlike the mollusca, our inability to identifY remains beyond the family level …


Inland Shell Midden Site-Formation: Investigation Into A Late Pleistocene To Early Holocene Midden From Tràng An, Northern Vietnam, Ryan Rabett, Joanna Appleby, Alison Blyth, Lucy Farr, Athanasia Gallou, Thomas Griffiths, Jason Hawkes, David Marcus, Lisa Marlow, Mike Morley, Nguyen Cao Tan, Nguyen Van Son, Kirsty Penkman, Tim Reynolds, Christopher Stimpson, Katherine Szabo Jan 2013

Inland Shell Midden Site-Formation: Investigation Into A Late Pleistocene To Early Holocene Midden From Tràng An, Northern Vietnam, Ryan Rabett, Joanna Appleby, Alison Blyth, Lucy Farr, Athanasia Gallou, Thomas Griffiths, Jason Hawkes, David Marcus, Lisa Marlow, Mike Morley, Nguyen Cao Tan, Nguyen Van Son, Kirsty Penkman, Tim Reynolds, Christopher Stimpson, Katherine Szabo

Katherine A Szabo

Over the course of the past two decades there has been growing research interest in the site formation processes of shell middens. This stands along-side and is being used to inform cultural, dietary and palaeo-environmental reconstructions. Just as midden site formation processes have turned out to be many and varied, however, the kinds of shell-bearing sites that past human communities created are likely to have been no less diverse. Subsuming such sites under a single category – shell middens – normalises that variation and may lead to the misinterpretation of site function. The greater part of research in this field …


Molluscs In A World Of Islands: The Use Of Shellfish As A Food Resource In The Tropical Island Asia-Pacific Region, Katherine Szabo, Judith Amesbury Jan 2013

Molluscs In A World Of Islands: The Use Of Shellfish As A Food Resource In The Tropical Island Asia-Pacific Region, Katherine Szabo, Judith Amesbury

Katherine A Szabo

The vast Asia-Pacific region, spanning from the islands of Indonesia and Borneo in the west through Melanesia, Micronesia, andWest Polynesia in the east, is a panorama of water and islands. Encompassing the “coral triangle”, this region is the most speciose of the global marine biogeographic provinces with a mosaic of high-biomass habitats such as mangrove swamps and coral reefs as well as rocky shores, seagrass meadows and beaches. The importance of molluscs across this region, as a consistent source of food as well as providing raw materials for artefacts, can hardly be overestimated. The western parts of this region have …


Synthesis Of Functionalised 2-Aryl-5-Nitro-1h-Indoles And Their Activity As Bacterial Nora Efflux Pump Inhibitors, John Bremner, Siritron Samosorn, Anthony Ball, Kim Lewis Jan 2013

Synthesis Of Functionalised 2-Aryl-5-Nitro-1h-Indoles And Their Activity As Bacterial Nora Efflux Pump Inhibitors, John Bremner, Siritron Samosorn, Anthony Ball, Kim Lewis

Kim Lewis

No abstract provided.


Conjugating Berberine To A Multidrug Resistance Pump Inhibitor Creates An Effective Antimicrobial, John Bremner, Siritron Samosorn, Anthony Ball, Gabriele Casadei, Terence Moy, Frederik Ausubel, Kim Lewis Jan 2013

Conjugating Berberine To A Multidrug Resistance Pump Inhibitor Creates An Effective Antimicrobial, John Bremner, Siritron Samosorn, Anthony Ball, Gabriele Casadei, Terence Moy, Frederik Ausubel, Kim Lewis

Kim Lewis

No abstract provided.


Structure-Activity Relationships Of 2-Aryl-1h-Indole Inhibitors Of The Nora Efflux Pump In Staphylococcus Aureus, John Bremner, Michael Kelso, Joseph Ambrus, Kim Lewis, Anthony Ball, Gabriele Casadei Jan 2013

Structure-Activity Relationships Of 2-Aryl-1h-Indole Inhibitors Of The Nora Efflux Pump In Staphylococcus Aureus, John Bremner, Michael Kelso, Joseph Ambrus, Kim Lewis, Anthony Ball, Gabriele Casadei

Kim Lewis

The synthesis of 22 2-aryl-1H-indoles, including 12 new compounds, has been achieved via Pd- or Rh-mediated methodologies, or selective electrophilic substitution. All three methods were based on elaborations from simple indole precursors. SAR studies on these indoles and 2-phenyl-1H-indole in Staphylococcus aureus as NorA efflux pump inhibitors indicated 5-nitro-2-(3-methoxycarbonyl)phenyl-1H-indole was a slightly more potent inhibitor than the lead INF55. A promising new antibacterial lead compound against S. aureus (2-phenyl-1H-indol-5-yl)-methanol, was also found.


Getting To The Source: Where Does Wikipedia Get Its Information?, Heather Ford, Shilad Sen, David Musicant, Nathaniel Miller Dec 2012

Getting To The Source: Where Does Wikipedia Get Its Information?, Heather Ford, Shilad Sen, David Musicant, Nathaniel Miller

Shilad Sen

No abstract provided.


Pedagogy Of Vulnerability, Edward Brantmeier, A. Dean Dec 2012

Pedagogy Of Vulnerability, Edward Brantmeier, A. Dean

Edward J. Brantmeier

No abstract provided.


Recalibrating Aeolian Sand Transport Models, Douglas Sherman, Bailiang Li, Jean Ellis, Eugene Farrell, Luis Maia, Helena Granja Dec 2012

Recalibrating Aeolian Sand Transport Models, Douglas Sherman, Bailiang Li, Jean Ellis, Eugene Farrell, Luis Maia, Helena Granja

Jean Taylor Ellis

No abstract provided.


Detrital Zircon Provenance Of The Proterozoic Midcontinent Rift, Lake Superior Region, Usa, John Craddock, A Konstantinou, J. Vervoort, K. Wirth, C. Davidson, L. Finley-Blasi, N. Juda, E. Walker Dec 2012

Detrital Zircon Provenance Of The Proterozoic Midcontinent Rift, Lake Superior Region, Usa, John Craddock, A Konstantinou, J. Vervoort, K. Wirth, C. Davidson, L. Finley-Blasi, N. Juda, E. Walker

John Craddock

No abstract provided.


A New, Richly Fossiliferous Member Comprised Of Tidal Deposits In The Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Northwestern Madagascar, Raymond Rogers, David Krause, Sophia Kast, Madeline Marshall, Lydia Rahantarisoa, Colin Robbins, Joseph Sertich Dec 2012

A New, Richly Fossiliferous Member Comprised Of Tidal Deposits In The Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Northwestern Madagascar, Raymond Rogers, David Krause, Sophia Kast, Madeline Marshall, Lydia Rahantarisoa, Colin Robbins, Joseph Sertich

Raymond Rogers

No abstract provided.


Meridional Shifts Of The Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone Since The Last Glacial Maximum, J. Arbuszewski, P. Demenocal, C. Cleroux, Louisa Bradtmiller, A. Mix Dec 2012

Meridional Shifts Of The Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone Since The Last Glacial Maximum, J. Arbuszewski, P. Demenocal, C. Cleroux, Louisa Bradtmiller, A. Mix

Louisa I. Bradtmiller

No abstract provided.


Proton Transfer In Surface-Stabilized Chiral And Polar Motifs Of Croconic Acid, Axel Enders Dec 2012

Proton Transfer In Surface-Stabilized Chiral And Polar Motifs Of Croconic Acid, Axel Enders

Axel Enders

No abstract provided.


Thermal, Non-Catalyzed Huisgen Cycloaddition For The Preparation Of 4,5-Bis(Trimethylsilyl)-1h-1,2,3-Triazoles, Ronald Brisbois, A. Bergan, A. Ellison, P. Griffin, K. Hackbarth, S. Larson Dec 2012

Thermal, Non-Catalyzed Huisgen Cycloaddition For The Preparation Of 4,5-Bis(Trimethylsilyl)-1h-1,2,3-Triazoles, Ronald Brisbois, A. Bergan, A. Ellison, P. Griffin, K. Hackbarth, S. Larson

Ronald Brisbois

No abstract provided.


Patterns And Exemplars: Compelling Strategies For Teach- Ing Parallel And Distributed Computing To Cs Undergraduates, J. Adams, R. Brown, Elizabeth Shoop Dec 2012

Patterns And Exemplars: Compelling Strategies For Teach- Ing Parallel And Distributed Computing To Cs Undergraduates, J. Adams, R. Brown, Elizabeth Shoop

Elizabeth Shoop

No abstract provided.


Direct Analysis In Real Time Mass Spectrometry (Dart-Ms) Of Ionic Liquids, G. Mazzotta, R. Pace, B. Wallgren, Samuel Morton, K. Miller, D. Smith Dec 2012

Direct Analysis In Real Time Mass Spectrometry (Dart-Ms) Of Ionic Liquids, G. Mazzotta, R. Pace, B. Wallgren, Samuel Morton, K. Miller, D. Smith

Samuel A Morton

No abstract provided.