ORCID Profile
0000-0003-4706-0142
Current Organisations
Central Queensland University, Bundaberg Campus
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James Cook University
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University of Southern Queensland
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Publisher: ACM
Date: 19-02-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2011
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-04-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-08-2020
DOI: 10.1002/HPJA.380
Abstract: Growing evidence suggests that public parks enable physically active communities however, little is known of the impact of council‐provided exercise facilities in outdoor green spaces, and the challenges of providing this infrastructure at a local level. This paper sought to describe some of the factors, as perceived by local government area (LGA) council representatives within Queensland, Australia, that influence community use of, as well as council provision for, weight‐bearing outdoor fitness station infrastructure in public parks. A nested mixed‐methods study was employed, comprised of a survey sent to council representatives for all 78 Queensland LGAs ( Stage 1 ), and follow‐up interviews to elicit further insights into the provision of infrastructure in public parks ( Stage 2 n = 7). Perceptions around participants’ corporate role in the provision of outdoor fitness stations were the focus of analyses. A thematic analysis described themes of: Moderating public attitudes and motivation The flow of information Supporting an active community Return on investment and Safety, complianceand climate . Provision of equipment was influenced by the perception that it represented poor value for money, in terms of the desired outcome of increased physical activity, especially when compared with other types of infrastructure (particularly, walking trails) however, opinions about this lack of use outdoor exercise equipment were most often based on anecdotal evidence. Councils are motivated to support active communities. They would benefit from better access to information about park usage, strategies for marketing healthy living initiatives and data about the economic benefits of parks. The current study explores the perspectives of LGA professional “gatekeepers,” who develop and maintain public physical activity facilities. Their insights are essential to better understand the practicalities of delivering desirable urban green spaces for physically active communities.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-07-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2020
Publisher: Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
Date: 06-2021
Abstract: The growth of technologies infrastructures and platforms with less or no security protection in emerging big data and internet of things (IoT) trends increase the likelihood of cybercrime attacks. With the rise of coronavirus disease-2019 (Covid-19) pandemic towards mankind, more cybercrimes are designed to penetrate one’s cognitive mind in revealing sensitive details. In this paper an exploration of cybercrime threats in Southeast Asia country Malaysia from year 2008 up to 2020 and its hike trends and impacts will be discussed. An investigation revolving the study of cyber-criminology and the reasoning behind the growth in terms of technological advancement will be presented. The findings suggest that the consequences and impacts of the cyberspace attacks are beyond the loss of money and reputations. It now becomes the failure of the global systemic altogether. As a mechanism to handle this would be to focus on protecting mission critical applications in pervasive environment. In this paper, a comprehensive authentication and authorization framework in safeguarding applications and users in the pervasive environment will be presented.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-08-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-03-2015
Publisher: Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
Date: 12-2012
DOI: 10.4028/WWW.SCIENTIFIC.NET/AMM.241-244.2807
Abstract: This paper is about visualizing tree structured data. In particular, the emphasis is on visualizing the similarities and differences between pairs of trees. The impetus for the work comes from the field of bioinformatics, where biologists construct complex phylogenetic trees to represent the evolution of species or genes. The two main issues that arise when comparing these data is to know how to efficiently and effectively compare phylogenetic trees, and how to visually present the results of the comparison. The primary approach is to present a new framework for tree structure visualization techniques that will display pairs of trees “face to face” with leaf nodes aligned. The results show that a combination of automatic and manual rearrangement is often effective in rapidly generating an arrangement that facilitates tree comparison, even for quite large trees.
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