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University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
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Urban Synergies Group
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Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-05-2019
Publisher: Unpublished
Date: 2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-09-2020
Publisher: City Space Architecture
Date: 30-04-2020
Abstract: The urban fabric enables people to move between climate-controlled environments (such as home and indoors work) and non-controlled ones (such as parks and beaches). The planning and design of urban spaces, on the other hand, largely define the way we live and affect our health as it can, for instance, promote or hinder active lifestyles and social cohesion (Owen, 2009 Speck, 2012). But even when the cities have compact built form and provide key features and infrastructure conducive to healthy lifestyles, local climate can indirectly dictate and restrict the use of public open spaces if the weather is prohibitive (Tavares & Swaffield, 2017). Climate responsive urban planning and design is, therefore, key to secure a healthy urban lifestyle (Barton, Thompson, Burgess, & Grant, 2015 Kent et al., 2017 Mouratidis, 2017) especially in light of frequency and severity of extreme weather events.
Publisher: City Space Architecture
Date: 30-11-2020
Abstract: “Do not touch me, touch and deal with other people in the spirit of love” is stated upfront in Zizek (2020) recent reflection on the unprecedented global pandemic that has a firm grip on our societies. The quote makes two strong points that highlight the essence of this commentary. First, it implies that during the global COVID19 pandemic each and every one of use is forced to deal with their on human spirit embodied through the ontological state of existence and apply mindfulness and accountability for their actions in their everyday life routines. Second, public life in cities is different. Quickly the ‘new normal’ dictates our everyday life routines while systemic spatial issues being lified, while social distancing measures are in place and restriction on social encounter being enforced. We present an argument that is based on direct observations of lockdown conditions during the first wave in 2020 in the Australian context. Careful framing around the concepts of ‘urban loveability’ and public space allows us to critically examine the synergy between aspects of the human spirit that celebrate and unite us. Whether the ‘new normal’ embraces death or life is evident if we pay attention to detailed traces of dynamic and intangible elements in public spaces. They remind us what makes us human and holding the possibility to realise a new ontological state of existence.
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2019
Publisher: City Space Architecture
Date: 30-11-2020
Abstract: “Do not touch me, touch and deal with other people in the spirit of love” is stated upfront in Zizek (2020) recent reflection on the unprecedented global pandemic that has a firm grip on our societies. The quote makes two strong points that highlight the essence of this commentary. First, it implies that during the global COVID19 pandemic each and every one of use is forced to deal with their on human spirit embodied through the ontological state of existence and apply mindfulness and accountability for their actions in their everyday life routines. Second, public life in cities is different. Quickly the ‘new normal’ dictates our everyday life routines while systemic spatial issues being lified, while social distancing measures are in place and restriction on social encounter being enforced. We present an argument that is based on direct observations of lockdown conditions during the first wave in 2020 in the Australian context. Careful framing around the concepts of ‘urban loveability’ and public space allows us to critically examine the synergy between aspects of the human spirit that celebrate and unite us. Whether the ‘new normal’ embraces death or life is evident if we pay attention to detailed traces of dynamic and intangible elements in public spaces. They remind us what makes us human and holding the possibility to realise a new ontological state of existence.
Publisher: City Space Architecture
Date: 30-04-2018
DOI: 10.5204/JPS.V3I1.330
Abstract: Urban Agendas are important guiding tools that frame thinking and point to major directions and changes needed. The dominant planning and city development practices in the 20th century resulted in the proliferation of modern cities that brought numerous problems that urban planners and designers are still dealing with. Do we have the capacity and appropriate tools to change the cities of tomorrow to make them more liveable places?The challenges may seem overwhelming. However, there are advantages in strategies that combine acting locally and synergising with other places. Using insights from the Urban Synergies Group this paper represents a summary of initial pathways that may effectively implement the NUA (New Urban Agenda) – a collective vision for sustainable and healthy cities. To address the main issues of the NUA we discuss five key themes. First, we consider the level of commitment to achieve healthier cities for all during the 9th World Urban Forum (WUF 9). Second, we narrow our focus to examine child health and well-being. Third, we introduce an exemplary collaboration that harnesses collective wisdom through empowerment of participants. Fourth, we provide the rationale for the focus on public space. Within the fifth point we summarise tangible actions within the nexus of child health and public space that help to implement the NUA on the ground.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-01-2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
Date: 2022
Publisher: AIP Publishing
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.1063/5.0002311
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Date: 03-2022
DOI: 10.2174/2666255813999200904114023
Abstract: Stemming is an important preprocessing step in text classification, and could contribute in increasing text classification accuracy. Although many works proposed stemmers for English language, few stemmers were proposed for Arabic text. Arabic language has gained increasing attention in the previous decades and the need is vital to further improve Arabic text classification. This work combined the use of the recently proposed P-Stemmer with various classifiers to find the optimal classifier for the P-stemmer in term of Arabic text classification. As part of this work, a synthesized dataset was collected. The previous experiments show that the use of P-Stemmer has a positive effect on classification. The degree of improvement was classifier-dependent, which is reasonable as classifiers vary in their methodologies. Moreover, the experiments show that the best classifier with the P-Stemmer was NB. This is an interesting result as this classifier is wellknown for its fast learning and classification time. First, the continuous improvement of the P-Stemmer by more optimization steps is necessary to further improve the Arabic text categorization. This can be made by combining more classifiers with the stemmer, by optimizing the other natural language processing steps, and by improving the set of stemming rules. Second, the lack of sufficient Arabic datasets, especially large ones, is still an issue. In this work, an improved P-Stemmer was proposed by combining its use with various classifiers. In order to evaluate its performance, and due to the lack of Arabic datasets, a novel Arabic dataset was synthesized from various online news pages. Next, the P-Stemmer was combined with Naïve Bayes, Random Forest, Support Vector Machines, KNearest Neighbor, and K-Star.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 18-02-2022
Location: Australia
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 2019
Funder: University of Canberra
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2021
End Date: 2024
Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council
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