The capacity to engage with information held in drawings is vital to the study of architecture. For beginning architecture students to fully participate in this engagement requires the ability to relate to drawings in ...

This chapter examines practices of 'doing partnership' between health professionals and users or clients of a health service. The move from expert-client modes of practice to partnership modes raises an important set of ...

Recent metropolitan strategies for Melbourne (2002) and Sydney (2005) are reviewed in order to establish why they were produced, what their main proposals are and the kind of methodology used.The central question posed ...

Regional and provincial cultures have (re)emerged in China since the 1980s, regardless of their previous existence or articulation.1 Although it is not yet clear whether this represents the seemingly powerful trend of ...

This research explores the experiences of Muslim women in contemporary Australia, focusing on the idea of 'sanctuary' or security. In the context of prevailing concerns about national security, it explores security on a ...

Much literature has established that ease-of-use is important in determining adoption of an overall product category or activities such as online shopping and trading. Its role is less clear, however, in differentiating ...

License plate recognition usually contains three steps, namely license plate detection/localization, character segmentation and character recognition. When reading characters on a license plate one by one after license ...

In this paper, to enable a fast and robust system for automatically recognizing license plates with various appearances, new and simple but efficient algorithms are developed to segment characters from extracted license ...

Unreinforced adobe or mud-brick structures have in the past suffered severe damage from seismic forces and have caused a vast number of deaths. However, a number of adobe buildings located in seismic regions have performed ...

The seismic random vibration responses of shear beam structures with uncertainty are investigated. The structural mass and stiffness are considered as random variables. The excitations adopted are stationary or non-stationary ...