The infiuential scholar Daniel Roche wrote of seventeenth-century clothing that it 'was at the centre of debates about wealth and poverty, excess and necessity, superfluity and sufficiency, luxury and adequacy' (Roche 1994: ...

In the global culture of the carly twenty~first century, in which de~ signers' names provide the subplots of films and television shows such as Sex and the City, the linking of the £1shion designer with creativity, fantasy, ...

This study investigates how academics are managing and being managed by the demands of their everyday work. Specifically, it sets out to examine how a small cohort of academics located in a former college of advanced ...

During the 1990s, many Australian universities uncritically adopted problematic and unproven online learning technologies, leading to wasted resources, unfulfilled expectations and in some cases, program and organisational ...

The idea that dress has the power \to express', that is to say that what we wear conveys meaning regarding who we are in terms of gender and class, but also who we are in terms of cultural attributes, education and taste, ...

This paper proposes a fast algorithm detecting license plates in various conditions. There are three main contributions in this paper. The first contribution is that we define a new vertical edge map, with which the ...

On-line prediction of unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) behaviour during interactions with terrain is essential for autonomous and safe operations of skid-steering UGVs. This paper presents a fast and accurate algorithm for a ...

RNA northern blots provide robust measurements of gene expression. The simple northern blot technique described in this report has been optimised to provide rapid, reproducible detection and analysis of mature and precursor ...

Marching-Graph is a new visualization that integrates the graph metaphor and the spatial metaphor into a single visualization. It provides users with highly interactive maps for accessing the logical structures of information ...