An electromagnetic induction technique for reconnaissance surveys of soil salinity hazards

Soil Research ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
BG Williams ◽  
GC Baker
Keyword(s):  
Soil Salinity ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Electromagnetic Induction ◽  
New South ◽  
Salinity Hazard ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Induction Technique ◽  
Actual Profile ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Reconnaissance Surveys

An assessment has been made of an electromagnetic induction (EM) technique for reconnaissance surveys of soil salinity. The instrument used provides values of apparent electrical conductivity to depths ranging from 7.5 to 60 m. A comparison of EM values with actual profile salinities at 19 sites of widely differing geological and geomorphic origin showed that approximately 65% of the variance of EM values is explained in terms of salinity alone. An area of 10000 km2 in the mid-Lachlan River Valley of New South Wales was surveyed with a grid spacing of approximately 5 km at a rate of 30-40 sites per day. This permitted the definition of areas of high subsoil apparent conductivity and hence, by inference, of high soil salinity. The EM technique was demonstrated to have a potential for providing a significant contribution to land use planning at both a regional and local scale, by defining areas of possible salinity hazard.

Young person’s well-being: Exploring material, subjective and relational factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (01) ◽  
pp. 13-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot Rawsthorne ◽  
Grace Kinsela ◽  
Karen Paxton ◽  
Georgina Luscombe
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Relational Factors ◽  
Report Data ◽  
Self Report Data ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractYoung people’s well-being has attracted significant policy and research attention in Australia and internationally for at least three decades. Despite this, there is no consensus about what it means, how it can be measured or, most importantly, what supports young people’s well-being. This paper adopts a definition of well-being as a multidimensional process, comprising subjective, material and relational factors. Drawing on self-report data collected at two time points from young people (aged 9–14 years) living in rural and regional New South Wales (N= 342 at baseline andN= 217 Wave 2), this paper seeks to identify the salience of these factors to well-being, measured through Perceived Self-Efficacy. Our analysis suggests that a sense of belonging, safety and the presence of supportive adults all appear to support enhanced well-being. The paper concludes with recommendations for policy makers and communities wishing to better support the development of young people’s well-being.

Digital mapping of RUSLE slope length and steepness factor across New South Wales, Australia

Soil Research ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xihua Yang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Soil Loss ◽  
Overland Flow ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Slope Angle ◽  
Universal Soil Loss Equation ◽  
Slope Length ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Soil Loss Equation

The Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and its main derivate, the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE), are widely used in estimating hillslope erosion. The effects of topography on hillslope erosion are estimated through the product of slope length (L) and slope steepness (S) subfactors, or LS factor, which often contains the highest detail and plays the most influential role in RUSLE. However, current LS maps in New South Wales (NSW) are either incomplete (e.g. point-based) or too coarse (e.g. 250 m), limiting RUSLE-based applications. The aim of this study was to develop automated procedures in a geographic information system (GIS) to estimate and map the LS factor across NSW. The method was based on RUSLE specifications and it incorporated a variable cutoff slope angle, which improves the detection of the beginning and end of each slope length. An overland-flow length algorithm for L subfactor calculation was applied through iterative slope-length cumulation and maximum downhill slope angle. Automated GIS scripts have been developed for LS factor calculation so that the only required input data are digital elevation models (DEMs). Hydrologically corrected DEMs were used for LS factor calculation on a catchment basis, then merged to form a seamless LS-factor digital map for NSW with a spatial resolution ~30 m (or 1 s). The modelled LS values were compared with the reference LS values, and the coefficient of efficiency reached 0.97. The high-resolution digital LS map produced is now being used along with other RUSLE factors in hillslope erosion modelling and land-use planning at local and regional scales across NSW.

Review of Handback Experience with Public–Private Partnerships

2018 ◽  
Vol 2672 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Qingbin Cui ◽  
Marcel Ham ◽  
Patrick DeCorla-Souza ◽  
Emma Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
New South ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Clear Definition ◽  
Technical Quality ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The U.S

Public–Private Partnership (P3) handback experience is very limited in the U.S. and internationally. This paper analyzes the handback experience in three highway P3 projects: East-Link Bridge in Dublin, Ireland, Highway 4 (VT4 Järvenpää-Lahti) in Finland, and M4 Tollway in New South Wales, Australia. Two of the projects did not have any material handback clauses in their P3 contracts. Still, the handback processes and outcomes of all three projects are considered successful. The projects experienced a relatively smooth handback process, mainly because of very good working relationships between the contracting authority and the P3 concessionaire. There have not been significant technical quality concerns or problems in the years immediately following the handback. Other drivers for successful P3 handback include clear definition of handback requirements, sufficient incentives and protections, clear procedures and joint inspection processes, a collaborative approach, and workforce sustainment. These contractual requirements and financial incentives and protections are very beneficial as working relationships between P3 agencies and concessionaires will not always be excellent, which could lead to less smooth handback processes.

What are Women Told about Pap Smears That Lack Endocervical Cells?

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margot J Schofield ◽  
Julie E Byles ◽  
Rob Sanson-Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Pap Smear ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Pap Test ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Pap Smears ◽  
Test Results ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Test Result

Background — Debate exists about the definition of what constitutes an adequate Pap smear and about the recommended rescreening interval for Pap smears lacking an endocervical component. This study aimed at determining whether women are currently informed about the endocervical status of their Pap smears and what rescreening recommendations are made to women whose smears lack endocervical cells. Method — Consecutive Pap smears lacking an endocervical component were identified from pathology records. After obtaining consent from the referring doctor, 165 women were interviewed by telephone. Results — Only 110 (67%) of 165 women received active notification of their Pap test result and only six (4%) were aware that their smear lacked endocervical cells. Thirteen (8%) had been advised to have a repeat smear within three months. Nearly half the women reported that they would like more information about their result. Conclusions — It seems that current Pap smear notification patterns for women in New South Wales could be improved. One third are not actively informed at all about their results, and few are given detailed information about their Pap test results. Methods of enhancing the level of information women are given about their medical and screening tests need to be improved.

scholarly journals 'Remember Aesi':

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 46-71
Author(s):  
Kiera Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Large Male ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Familiar Figure ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Outer Domain ◽  
Indigenous Uses ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

In this article I draw upon a definition of ‘dialogical memorial’ offered by Brad West to offer an experimental artist's brief that outlines the various ways that a contemporary monument to the colonial artist, Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside (1831-1867), could ‘talk back’ to the nineteenth-century statues of her contemporaries, and ‘converse’ with more recent acts of history making. In contrast to the familiar figure of the individual hero, which we associate with the statuary of her age, I suggest a group monument that acknowledges the intimate intergenerational female network which shaped Aesi's life and also ‘re-presents’ – a term coined by the historian Greg Dening – several native born and convict women from the Georgian, Regency and Victorian eras who influenced her life. Instead of elevating Aesi upon a plinth, I recommend grounding this group monument on Gadigal country and planting around it many of the Australian Wildflowers she painted in ways that draw attention to the millennia-old Indigenous uses of the same plants. And finally, by situating Aesi’s monument in the Outer Domain (behind the New South Wales Art Gallery in Sydney’s Botanic Gardens and to the east of the Yurong Pennisula, near Woolloomooloo Bay), in an area where she once boldly assumed centre stage before a large male audience in a flamboyant moment of her own theatrical history-making, I argue that this memorial will have the capcity to speak for itself in ways that challenge the underepresentation of colonial women in Sydney's statuary, abd, as West suggests, do much to ‘alter the stage on which Sydney's colonial history 'is narrated and performed’.   [i] Greg Dening, Performances, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1992, p37.

scholarly journals The Australian Great Flood of 1954: Estimating the Cost of a Similar Event in 2011

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Roche ◽  
K. John McAneney ◽  
Keping Chen ◽  
Ryan P. Crompton
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Flood Vulnerability ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Insured Loss ◽  
Insurance Penetration ◽  
The Cost

Abstract As in many other parts of the globe, migration to the coast and rapid regional development in Australia is resulting in large concentrations of population and insured assets. One of the most rapidly growing regions is southeastern Queensland and northern New South Wales, an area prone to flooding. This study reexamines the Great Flood of 1954 and develops a deterministic methodology to estimate the likely cost if a similar event had occurred in 2011. This cost is estimated using council flood maps, census information, historical observations, and Risk Frontiers' proprietary flood vulnerability functions. The 1954 flood arose from heavy rainfall caused by the passage of a tropical cyclone that made landfall on 20 February near the Queensland–New South Wales border, before heading south. Responsible for some of the largest floods on record for many northern New South Wales' river catchments, it occurred prior to the availability of reliable insurance statistics and the recent escalation in property values. The lower-bound estimate of the insurance loss using current exposure and assuming 100% insurance penetration for residential buildings and contents is AU$3.5 billion, a cost that would make it the third-highest ranked insured loss due to an extreme weather event since 1967. The corresponding normalized economic loss is AU$7.6 billion but the uncertainty about this figure is high. The magnitude of these losses reflects the accumulation of exposure on the floodplains. Risk-informed land-use planning practices and improved building regulations hold the key to reducing future losses.

The Gravely Inadequate Definition of a “Mentally Ill Person” in the Mental Health Act (New South Wales) 1983

1988 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Durham
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
New South ◽  
Involuntary Hospitalization ◽  
Main Structure ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Definition Of

The definition, given in Section 5 of the new Act, of a “mentally ill person” is examined. It is argued that this “definition” is cumbersome, logically incoherent, and impractical. It is predicted that if given effect it will have very unwelcome consequences. Various sources of inherent misunderstanding and uncertainty are noted. Arguments are presented for allowing severe mental illness itself rather than its consequences to be the ground for involuntary hospitalization in certain circumstances. Various suggestions are proposed for the Section's amendment. These fall into two categories, depending upon alternative assumptions: (1) minor improvements, upon the pessimistic assumption that the main structure and content of the definition will be retained; (2) more radical amendment, involving the abandonment of the entire present structure of the section, and the adoption of a working definition of “mental illness” with clear safeguards against error and abuse. The nature and requirements of such a definition are discussed.

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