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Nanjing University of Science and Technology
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Macquarie University
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Southern Cross University - Gold Coast Campus
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Education Systems | Community Child Health | Early Childhood Education (excl. Māori) | Curriculum and Pedagogy Theory and Development | Environmental Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Curriculum Theory And Development | Teacher Education: Early Childhood
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Child Health | Health Education and Promotion | Expanding Knowledge in Education | Early childhood education |
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Publications
Promoting obesity prevention together with environmental sustainability
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 07-02-2013
Abstract: There is mounting evidence that current food production, transport, land use and urban design negatively impact both climate change and obesity outcomes. Recommendations to prevent climate change provide an opportunity to improve environmental outcomes and alter our food and physical activity environments in favour of a 'healthier' energy balance. Hence, setting goals to achieve a more sustainable society offers a unique opportunity to reduce levels of obesity. In the case of children, this approach is supported with evidence that even from a young age they show emerging understandings of complex environmental issues and are capable of both internalizing positive environmental values and influencing their own environmental outcomes. Given young children's high levels of environmental awareness, it is easy to see how environmental sustainability messages may help educate and motivate children to make 'healthier' choices. The purpose of this paper is to highlight a new approach to tackling childhood obesity by tapping into existing social movements, such as environmental sustainability, in order to increase children's motivation for healthy eating and physical activity behaviours and thus foster more wholesome communities. We contend that a social marketing framework may be a particularly useful tool to foster behaviour change beneficial to both personal and environmental health by increasing perceived benefits and reducing perceived costs of behaviour change. Consequently, we propose a new framework which highlights suggested pathways for helping children initiate and sustain 'healthier' behaviours in order to inform future research and potentially childhood obesity intervention strategies.
Semi-supervised Discriminant Analysis with Tensor Representation
Publisher: Binary Information Press
Date: 20-03-2013
Extensional Neighborhood Preserving Embedding
Publisher: Binary Information Press
Date: 20-03-2014
Youth4Sea and marine debris: An arts-based, site-specific, youth-framed inquiry
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 09-2023
DOI: 10.1386/ETA_00139_3
AJEE Special Issue Ecologising Education: Storying, Philosophising and Disrupting
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2018.36
Abstract: Over the last decade there has been a discernable global upsurge of nature kindergartens, forest schools, bush schools and nature-based primary schools all with varying degrees of intent focused on (re)connecting children and young people in/with/as nature. Yet, not all of these educational endeavours are the same. The understanding of the role the natural world might play in pedagogy varies, the desire to work within the system or radically change it shifts according to commitments and philosophies, and the perceived ide, or lack thereof, between child and nature also has significant effects on curriculum and content. Still, there is a shared commitment among these educational movements to change existing relationships with nature and education. There is a desire and much work being done to ecologise education. In this Special Issue, with its primary focus on the west coast of Canada, we offer a pause to story, philosophise, expand, and disrupt as this ‘type’ of education presents a significant shift and fundamentally questions what school is and what education is for.
Still 'Minding the Gap' Sixteen Years Later: (Re)Storying Pro-Environmental Behaviour
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2018.32
Abstract: In their seminal 2002 paper, Kollmuss and Agyeman asked the important question ‘Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behaviour?’ The article has had a remarkably high rate of readership, with 64,900 electronic views to date, and 16 years later, this question remains significant. But are environmental educators and researchers any closer to understanding why people engage in pro-environmental behaviour? For this special issue of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education and its focus on ecologising education, it is timely not only to re-explore but to (re)story the concepts of environmental knowledge, environmental awareness and pro-environmental behaviour, in order to generate fertile ground for the creation of new understandings and practices in environmental education. After considering relevant literature published between 2000 and 2018, this article offers an original framework for considering the complex, varied, and interconnected influences on the development of pro-environmental behaviour by (re)storying the development of pro-environmental behaviour through articulating it as a living forest.
Courage! Cross-Disciplinary Connections & Boundary Crossings in Environmental Education and its Research
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2013
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2013.20
Evaluating the impact of teacher-designed, wellbeing and sustainability play-based learning experiences on young children’s knowledge connections: A randomised trial
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2018
Abstract: THIS PAPER REPORTS FINDINGS from a randomised investigation into the effect of teacher-designed, play-based learning experiences on preschool-aged children's knowledge connections between healthy eating and active play as wellbeing concepts, and sustainability. The investigation used a ‘ funds of knowledge’ theoretical framework to situate young children's interests in digital media and popular culture, as a site for learning these knowledge connections. The findings suggest that the intervention group children created more wellbeing and sustainability knowledge connections than the waitlist control group children. Additionally, the intervention group children demonstrated an increase in vegetable serves and a decrease in unhealthy food servings post intervention (measured by parent report). The paper suggests that more attention should be paid to early childhood teachers’ capacity for actively building children's knowledge about wellbeing and sustainability concepts through play-based learning, as opposed to top-down approaches towards obesity education and prevention alone.
Deep learning to frame objects for visual target tracking
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Teacher Education: A Diluted Environmental Education Experience
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0814062600001658
Abstract: This paper presents the findings of a small-scale research project about student teachers' perceptions and experiences of environmental education. The context of this study is a pre-service teacher education faculty in rural New South Wales, Australia. A combined methods approach was applied, with a survey designed from rich data elicited through focus group interviews. The focus of this paper is on the findings of the survey, revealing that prospective teachers' preparedness in environmental education is diluted by their teacher education experience and that such experiences are not providing a stimulus for novice teachers to practice environmental education.
THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2017/18: Overview
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-10-2017
DOI: 10.1111/BPH.13882
Weakly supervised learning for image keypoint matching using graph convolutional networks
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2015/16: Overview
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2015
DOI: 10.1111/BPH.13347
Special Issue: The “ness” of Environmental Education
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2011
A Challenge for Early Childhood Environmental Education?
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2014
Play-Based Learning in Early Childhood Education
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2014
Environmental Education and Pedagogical Play in Early Childhood Education
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2014
Deep Learning and Preference Learning for Object Tracking: A Combined Approach
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 23-10-2017
Jeanette: Pond Life
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2014
Tumor attention networks: Better feature selection, better tumor segmentation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2021
Josh: Small Is Beautiful
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2014
Robyn: Worms Underground
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2014
A Challenge Reconsidered: Play-Based Learning in Early Childhood Environmental Education
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2014
Young people’s understandings and attitudes towards marine debris: a systematic scoping review
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-12-2021
An “Issue” of Serendipity: The Discourse of Sustainability and Environmental (In)Action
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2010
THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2019/20: Ion channels
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-11-2019
DOI: 10.1111/BPH.14749
Abstract: The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2019/20 is the fourth in this series of biennial publications. The Concise Guide provides concise overviews of the key properties of nearly 1800 human drug targets with an emphasis on selective pharmacology (where available), plus links to the open access knowledgebase source of drug targets and their ligands ( www.guidetopharmacology.org ), which provides more detailed views of target and ligand properties. Although the Concise Guide represents approximately 400 pages, the material presented is substantially reduced compared to information and links presented on the website. It provides a permanent, citable, point‐in‐time record that will survive database updates. The full contents of this section can be found at oi/10.1111/bph.14749 . Ion channels are one of the six major pharmacological targets into which the Guide is ided, with the others being: G protein‐coupled receptors, nuclear hormone receptors, catalytic receptors, enzymes and transporters. These are presented with nomenclature guidance and summary information on the best available pharmacological tools, alongside key references and suggestions for further reading. The landscape format of the Concise Guide is designed to facilitate comparison of related targets from material contemporary to mid‐2019, and supersedes data presented in the 2017/18, 2015/16 and 2013/14 Concise Guides and previous Guides to Receptors and Channels. It is produced in close conjunction with the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology Committee on Receptor Nomenclature and Drug Classification (NC‐IUPHAR), therefore, providing official IUPHAR classification and nomenclature for human drug targets, where appropriate.
‘They couldn’t wait, every day they would say are they coming today?’ Stakeholder perceptions of School–University partnership approaches to science teacher education
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-09-2023
'It's all about Ben10™'
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2013
A novel fused convolutional neural network for biomedical image classification
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-07-2019
DOI: 10.1007/S11517-018-1819-Y
Abstract: With the advent of biomedical imaging technology, the number of captured and stored biomedical images is rapidly increasing day by day in hospitals, imaging laboratories and biomedical institutions. Therefore, more robust biomedical image analysis technology is needed to meet the requirement of the diagnosis and classification of various kinds of diseases using biomedical images. However, the current biomedical image classification methods and general non-biomedical image classifiers cannot extract more compact biomedical image features or capture the tiny differences between similar images with different types of diseases from the same category. In this paper, we propose a novel fused convolutional neural network to develop a more accurate and highly efficient classifier for biomedical images, which combines shallow layer features and deep layer features from the proposed deep neural network architecture. In the analysis, it was observed that the shallow layers provided more detailed local features, which could distinguish different diseases in the same category, while the deep layers could convey more high-level semantic information used to classify the diseases among the various categories. A detailed comparison of our approach with traditional classification algorithms and popular deep classifiers across several public biomedical image datasets showed the superior performance of our proposed method for biomedical image classification. In addition, we also evaluated the performance of our method in modality classification of medical images using the ImageCLEFmed dataset. Graphical abstract The graphical abstract shows the fused, deep convolutional neural network architecture proposed for biomedical image classification. In the architecture, we can clearly see the feature-fusing process going from shallow layers and the deep layers.
Critical Climate Change Education in a Posthuman Milieu
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-11-2022
CTumorGAN
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-03-2020
Encountering the Anthropocene
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-11-2022
Opening to the Australian Journal of environmental education special 30-year anniversary issue
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2014.12
Abstract: 2014 represents the 30th year of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education ( AJEE ), making it one of the oldest academic journals in environmental education still in publication. The oldest is The Journal of Environmental Education , founded in 1969. Another journal, The International Journal of Environmental Education and Information , was founded in 1981 but is no longer in publication, and the Southern African Journal of Environmental Education , also founded in 1984, has not had any issues since 2011.
Children of an Earth to Come
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-11-2022
Surfaces of Experience
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-11-2022
An Ecological Aesthetics of Childhood
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-11-2022
Education for what? Shaping the field of climate change education with children and young people as co-researchers
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2018
Social Ecology as Education
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 26-07-2013
Face recognition: a novel deep learning approach
Publisher: The Optical Society
Date: 04-2015
Child-framed video research methodologies: issues, possibilities and challenges for researching with children
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2013
Robust Object Tracking Based on ORB Features and Particle Filter
Publisher: Binary Information Press
Date: 10-04-2013
Robust multi-object tracking using deep learning framework
Publisher: The Optical Society
Date: 08-2015
Through School: Ecologising Schooling: A Tale of Two Educators
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 26-07-2013
Promoting healthy eating, active play and sustainability consciousness in early childhood curricula, addressing the Ben10™ problem: a randomised control trial
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-06-2014
A Discussion Paper: The Development of Professional Teacher Standards in Environmental Education
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0814062600000537
Abstract: Professional teaching associations in Australia and abroad have been developing teacher and/or teaching standards and associated professional learning and assessment models in the key discipline areas since the 1990s. In Australia, a specific intent of this approach is to capture and recognise the depth and range of accomplished educators' teaching. Despite the increasing work in this area, there has been a dearth of discussion about teacher standards in environmental education and no previous attempt to research and/or develop professional teacher standards for environmental education in Australia. This paper discusses the history of teacher standards in Australia, and considers the implications for the development of teacher standards in environmental education. In doing so, we present a research-practice model that is currently being piloted in Victoria for developing accomplished professional teacher standards and learning in environmental education with and for accomplished Australian primary and secondary teachers.
Call for Research – The Consuming Child-in-Context in Unhealthy and Unsustainable Times
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2010
DOI: 10.1017/S0814062600000811
Abstract: Childhood obesity is a highly complex issue with serious health and environmental implications. It has been postulated that young children (preschool-aged in particular) are able to internalise positive environmental beliefs. Applying a socioecological theoretical perspective, in this discussion paper we argue that although children may internalise such beliefs, they commonly behave in ways that contradict these beliefs as demonstrated by their consumer choices. The media directly influences these consumer choices and growing evidence suggests that media exposure (particularly commercial television viewing) may be a significant “player” in the prediction of childhood obesity. However, there is still debate as to whether childhood obesity is caused by digital media use per se or whether other factors mediate this relationship. Growing evidence suggests that researchers should examine whether different types of content have conflicting influences on a child's consumer choices and, by extension, obesity. The extent to which young children connect their consumer choices and the sustainability of the produces they consume with their overall health and wellbeing has not previously been researched. To these ends, we call for further research on this socioecological phenomenon among young children, particularly with respect to the influence of digital media use on a child's consumer behaviours.
Everyday Environmental Education Experiences: The Role of Content in Early Childhood Education
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1017/S0814062600001348
Abstract: In recent years discussions surrounding early childhood curriculum has focused on the movement from developmental to sociocultural theory. A further area worthy of investigation involves the role of content in early childhood education, specifically the relationship between content, context and pedagogy. The paper draws on teacher vignettes to consider how environmental education can be represented as a content area in early years education. Issues associated with environmental education as an emerging area of importance in early childhood education are also discussed.
Correlation Matters: Multi-scale Fine-Grained Contextual Information Extraction for Hepatic Tumor Segmentation
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Incremental Graph Regulated Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Face Recognition
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1155/2014/928051
Abstract: In a real world application, we seldom get all images at one time. Considering this case, if a company hired an employee, all his images information needs to be recorded into the system if we rerun the face recognition algorithm, it will be time consuming. To address this problem, In this paper, firstly, we proposed a novel subspace incremental method called incremental graph regularized nonnegative matrix factorization (IGNMF) algorithm which imposes manifold into incremental nonnegative matrix factorization algorithm (INMF) thus, our new algorithm is able to preserve the geometric structure in the data under incremental study framework secondly, considering we always get many face images belonging to one person or many different people as a batch, we improved our IGNMF algorithms to Batch-IGNMF algorithms (B-IGNMF), which implements incremental study in batches. Experiments show that (1) the recognition rate of our IGNMF and B-IGNMF algorithms is close to GNMF algorithm while it runs faster than GNMF. (2) The running times of our IGNMF and B-IGNMF algorithms are close to INMF while the recognition rate outperforms INMF. (3) Comparing with other popular NMF-based face recognition incremental algorithms, our IGNMF and B-IGNMF also outperform then both the recognition rate and the running time.
Openings for researching environment and place in children’s literature: ecologies, potentials, realities and challenges
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Beyond CNNs: Exploiting Further Inherent Symmetries in Medical Image Segmentation
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 11-2023
Children of an Earth to Come: Speculative Fiction, Geophilosophy and Climate Change Education Research
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2017
What's there, what if, what then, and what can we do? an immersive and embodied experience of environment and place through children's literature
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2010
Backyard Perspectives: Considering a biogeographical, sociocultural and socioecological framing of environmental education in Australasia and Asia
Publisher: The Japanese Society of Environmental Education
Date: 2017
Posthumanist learning: Nature as event
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 07-09-2020
Touchstones for Deterritorializing the Socioecological Learner
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 07-09-2019
Where Are Children and Young People in Environmental Education Research?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2014.32
Abstract: In 1984, the Australian Journal of Environmental Education commenced. At that time I was 6 years old, in my first year of primary school at Tieri State School in Central Western Queensland. I knew nothing of the Australian Journal of Environmental Education ( AJEE ), or environmental education for that matter (at least not in a formal sense). In many respects, I was perhaps part of the intended audience (the future generation). As was the case with many children of my generation (Generation X, on the cusp of Generation Y), environmental education at school was largely incidental. Having grown up in a mining town (from 1983 to 1991), environmental conservation was certainly not a welcomed perspective. All the same though, my childhood was free, untamed and unsupervised in the Australian bush. It was that pastime or playtime where my environmental consciousness began its emergence.
Digital media, political affect, and a youth to come: rethinking climate change education through Deleuzian dramatisation
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-09-2023
Staying-with the traces: mapping-making posthuman and indigenist philosophy in environmental education research
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2020
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2020.31
Abstract: We acknowledge and pay respect to the people of the Yugambeh Nation on whose Land we work, meet and study. We recognise the significant role the past and future Elders play in the life of the University and the region. We are mindful that within and without the buildings, the Land always was and always will be Aboriginal Land. 1 This paper introduces staying-with the traces of inter/intra-subjective experience, with and within place, in mapping-making philosophy in environmental education. Through a conceptualisation of philosophy as concepts or knots in an infinite composition of knowledge, rather than separate knowledges, we use staying-with the traces 2 as method, whereby our embodied patterns of human and more than human relationality across place and time may engage with philosophy. This grounding of philosophy foregrounds the erse onto-epistemologies of posthumanism and indigenist 3 ways of knowing, acknowledging tensions and searching for the possibilities of connectivity between them. Through an embodied arts-based walking practice, our approach challenges the perpetuation of reductionist perspectives, including nature/culture binaries, within environmental education. We stay with the traces of bird, meeting, tree, watery and concrete in mutual inseparable relation and becoming.
Mapping-making philosophy in environmental education: Lines, knots and knotting
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2020
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2020.30
Playing With Environmental Education
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2014.38
Abstract: This article represents the early collaboration of Cutter-Mackenzie and Edwards in early childhood environmental education. The article grappled with the notion of knowledge and its role in the teaching and learning of early childhood education. At that time, ‘knowledge’ was viewed as difficult to integrate with play-based approaches to learning in early childhood education due to reliance in the field of traditional theories of play as a basis for early childhood pedagogy. This meant that open-ended or free play dominated practice, where the role of the teacher was invariably to be seen but not heard .
Everyday environmental education experiences: The role of content in early childhood education
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2014
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2014.37
The socioecological learner in big history: Post-Anthropocene imageries
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 07-09-2020
The Historical, Present and Futurenessof Environmental Education in India
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2011
DOI: 10.1017/S0814062600000124
Abstract: What is distinctive or indistinctive about environmental education in schools and other formal education settings in India? In essence, what is the ness of environmental education in the Indian education system? Our responses to these important questions form the focus of this paper, shedding light on the historical, present and future directions (or ness ) of environmental education in India. In effect, we attempt to capture the ness of environmental education by considering practice, policy and research developments throughout the various contemporary and traditional environmental education movements. In so doing, we identify a theory-practice gap and a dire lack of research as some of the pertinent issues facing environmental education in India. In conclusion we discuss possible future directions that environmental education might take in addressing these issues.
Feasibility of conducting a randomized trial to promote healthy eating, active play and sustainability awareness in early childhood curricula
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-02-2016
A New Construction Method of Neighbor Graph for Locality Preserving Projections
Publisher: Binary Information Press
Date: 20-03-2013
Toward a Model for Early Childhood Environmental Education: Foregrounding, Developing, and Connecting Knowledge Through Play-Based Learning
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2013
Research Handbook on Childhoodnature
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2018
Curious and Curiouser Questions
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 2011
Pedagogical Play Types: What Do They Suggest for Learning About Sustainability in Early Childhood Education?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-03-2013
A systematic review of climate change education: giving children and young people a ‘voice’ and a ‘hand’ in redressing climate change
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-06-2019
Walking as a radical and critical art of inquiry: Embodiment, place and entanglement
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 03-2021
DOI: 10.1386/ETA_00047_2
Posthuman research playspaces
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 24-11-2022
Young children learning about well-being and environmental education in the early years: a funds of knowledge approach
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-07-2016
Fast and Accurate Lung Tumor Spotting and Segmentation for Boundary Delineation on CT Slices in a Coarse-to-Fine Framework
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2019
Extended Marginal Fisher Analysis Based on Difference Criterion
Publisher: Binary Information Press
Date: 05-2013
The parental milieu: Biosocial connections with nonhuman animals, technologies, and the earth
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-11-2018
A novel end-to-end classifier using domain transferred deep convolutional neural networks for biomedical images
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.CMPB.2016.12.019
Abstract: Highly accurate classification of biomedical images is an essential task in the clinical diagnosis of numerous medical diseases identified from those images. Traditional image classification methods combined with hand-crafted image feature descriptors and various classifiers are not able to effectively improve the accuracy rate and meet the high requirements of classification of biomedical images. The same also holds true for artificial neural network models directly trained with limited biomedical images used as training data or directly used as a black box to extract the deep features based on another distant dataset. In this study, we propose a highly reliable and accurate end-to-end classifier for all kinds of biomedical images via deep learning and transfer learning. We first apply domain transferred deep convolutional neural network for building a deep model and then develop an overall deep learning architecture based on the raw pixels of original biomedical images using supervised training. In our model, we do not need the manual design of the feature space, seek an effective feature vector classifier or segment specific detection object and image patches, which are the main technological difficulties in the adoption of traditional image classification methods. Moreover, we do not need to be concerned with whether there are large training sets of annotated biomedical images, affordable parallel computing resources featuring GPUs or long times to wait for training a perfect deep model, which are the main problems to train deep neural networks for biomedical image classification as observed in recent works. With the utilization of a simple data augmentation method and fast convergence speed, our algorithm can achieve the best accuracy rate and outstanding classification ability for biomedical images. We have evaluated our classifier on several well-known public biomedical datasets and compared it with several state-of-the-art approaches. We propose a robust automated end-to-end classifier for biomedical images based on a domain transferred deep convolutional neural network model that shows a highly reliable and accurate performance which has been confirmed on several public biomedical image datasets.
Young Children's Play and Environmental Education in Early Childhood Education
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2014
Australian Waste Wise Schools Program: Its Past, Present, and Future
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-03-2010
Pedagogies of Hope (with Feathers)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2012
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2012.1
Abstract: At the heart of Issue 1 Volume 28 is pedagogy and hope. It is a reminder of Paulo Freire's ‘Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ . As Freire eloquently articulates: Without hope, we are hopeless and cannot begin the struggle to change. To attempt to do without hope, which is based on the need for truth as an ethical quality of the struggle, is tantamount to denying that struggle one of its mainstays. (p. 8) Emilia Fägerstam commences this issue with a study about environmental education centre officers' and teachers' observations and perceptions of urban children and young people's experiences with/of/in nature. The study was situated in New South Wales, Australia, revealing some of the unique challenges in the Australian natural environment. Consistent with existing research and commentary, Fägerstam identifies that teachers perceive urban children and young people as having limited experience in nature, often mediated by fear and agitation. She echoes the increasingly identified need for nature to be readily and authentically experienced by children and young people at school and in their everyday lives, alongside a call for teacher education to incorporate outdoor education.
Combining Deep Learning and Preference Learning for Object Tracking
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2016
Un/Folding Socioecological Learning: An Aesthetic Portrayal
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 07-09-2019
Generation Y and protected areas: A scoping study of research, theory, and future directions
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2018
An end-to-end weakly supervised learning framework for cancer subtype classification using histopathological slides
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2024
Schooling Food in Contemporary Times: Taking Stock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2015
DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2015.26
Abstract: Over the past decade we have witnessed a proliferation and intensification of food pedagogies across a range of sites. This article begins by considering two pedagogical scenes that attempt to address food. They were enacted within educational settings in Australia one a Year 8 (13 years of age) health education classroom, the other a professional learning seminar. Each were heavily imbued with the obesity prevention imperatives that have come to characterise social, political and educational discourse around food in contemporary times. Using these scenes as a springboard, we move to consider the place where we initially envisioned food might intersect with environmental education. We imagined that it would be a space with significant potential for approaching teaching and learning about food in new ways. Deploying menu as metaphor, the authors explore the possibilities for this new terrain and argue that bringing a Foucauldian inspired ‘ethics of discomfort’ to the table might help us take stock of contemporary approaches and their effects. Given the dominance of crisis-driven responses that tend to characterise school food education, we conclude by suggesting that we need to interrupt the dominant discourses that circulate around food and try to engage with some new possibilities for teaching and learning about food.
Becoming-with as Becoming-Maternal—Writing with Our Children and Companion Species: A Poetic and Visual Autoethnographic Portrayal of Mothering Assemblages
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
Universalization of narrow methods: Case study on autoencoders
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 11-2014
Leveraging deep preference learning for indexing and retrieval of biomedical images
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 05-2017
Touchstones for Deterritorializing Socioecological Learning
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2020
A novel biomedical image indexing and retrieval system via deep preference learning
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.CMPB.2018.02.003
Abstract: The traditional biomedical image retrieval methods as well as content-based image retrieval (CBIR) methods originally designed for non-biomedical images either only consider using pixel and low-level features to describe an image or use deep features to describe images but still leave a lot of room for improving both accuracy and efficiency. In this work, we propose a new approach, which exploits deep learning technology to extract the high-level and compact features from biomedical images. The deep feature extraction process leverages multiple hidden layers to capture substantial feature structures of high-resolution images and represent them at different levels of abstraction, leading to an improved performance for indexing and retrieval of biomedical images. We exploit the current popular and multi-layered deep neural networks, namely, stacked denoising autoencoders (SDAE) and convolutional neural networks (CNN) to represent the discriminative features of biomedical images by transferring the feature representations and parameters of pre-trained deep neural networks from another domain. Moreover, in order to index all the images for finding the similarly referenced images, we also introduce preference learning technology to train and learn a kind of a preference model for the query image, which can output the similarity ranking list of images from a biomedical image database. To the best of our knowledge, this paper introduces preference learning technology for the first time into biomedical image retrieval. We evaluate the performance of two powerful algorithms based on our proposed system and compare them with those of popular biomedical image indexing approaches and existing regular image retrieval methods with detailed experiments over several well-known public biomedical image databases. Based on different criteria for the evaluation of retrieval performance, experimental results demonstrate that our proposed algorithms outperform the state-of-the-art techniques in indexing biomedical images. We propose a novel and automated indexing system based on deep preference learning to characterize biomedical images for developing computer aided diagnosis (CAD) systems in healthcare. Our proposed system shows an outstanding indexing ability and high efficiency for biomedical image retrieval applications and it can be used to collect and annotate the high-resolution images in a biomedical database for further biomedical image research and applications.
Global and Local Information Based Spherical Marginal Fisher Analysis for Face Recognition
Publisher: Binary Information Press
Date: 03-2013
Positive Youth Development
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.7591/CORNELL/9781501705823.003.0018
Abstract: This chapter examines the relationship between urban environmental education and positive youth development. It first defines positive youth development and applies it to environmental education before discussing three programs from Australia and the United States that illustrate different pedagogies for integrating positive youth development in environmental education aimed at fostering urban sustainability. The first program involves young people in participatory action research through a child-framed approach, the second develops young people's leadership capacities as peer educators, and the third facilitates youth civic engagement through local environmental action. The chapter shows that participatory action research, peer education, and youth civic engagement can lead to positive change for both urban environments and youths living within them.
Fine-grained tumor segmentation on computed tomography slices by leveraging bottom-up and top-down strategies
Publisher: SPIE
Date: 10-03-2020
DOI: 10.1117/12.2550511
Findings, windings and entwinings: cartographies of collaborative walking and encounter
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 09-2015
Abstract: In the continuing ‘Not Ourselves’ practice-based project, we are attempting to unravel the harmonics of the collaborative voice in educational research, in which the singular voice of the ‘author’ also gives voice to multiple others. We approached this project as an enquiry into the process of ‘collaboration in the making’ and as an emergent practice. Each of the authors of the article has a different professional background: one an environmental educator another an arts educator and the third a contemporary artist. We explored walking together|apart to yield outcomes that were not tied to traditional notions of collaboration. The maps we created as we walked speak to collaborations that are rutted, insecure and ambiguous through irregular cooperations. This visual essay is structured into three sections where we collectively and in idually explore concepts we refer to as ‘findings, windings and entwinings’.
Incorporating Sustainability as a Socio-scientific Reality into Science Teacher Education
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2015
Ecological literacy: the ‘missing paradigm’ in environmental education (part one)
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2003
General Ecology and Speculative Pedagogies
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 16-06-2023
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