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Participatory Policy Development: Reflections on Designing the Strong Roots for Our Futures Program in Victoria

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we trace the journey to create the Strong Roots for our Futures Program, a government program to resource and support Traditional Owners to undertake a range of activities in areas where no state recognition existed. We provide a background to state recognition in Victoria before considering the program design, leading to an ...
Nell Reidy, Bhiamie Williamson, Jesse Williams   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Access to Healthy Built and Natural Environments and Physical Activity and Screen Time in New Zealand Adolescents: A Geospatial Cross‐Sectional Study

GeoHealth
The built and natural environment can facilitate (un)healthy behaviors in adolescence. However, most previous studies have focused on examining associations between singular aspects of the environment.
L. Marek, J. Wiki, S. Mandic, J. C. Spence, M. Smith, E. García Bengoechea, K. J. Coppell, S. Kingham, M. Hobbs   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Merging Special Collections with GIS Technology to Enhance the User Experience [PDF]

, 2016
This analysis evaluates how PhillyHistory.org merged their unique special collection materials with geospatial-based progressive technology to challenge and educate the global community.
Nichols, Gina L
core   +1 more source

Anatomical information science [PDF]

, 2005
The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) is a map of the human body. Like maps of other sorts – including the map-like representations we find in familiar anatomical atlases – it is a representation of a certain portion of spatial reality as it exists at ...
Kumar, Anand, Mejino, Jose L V, Rosse, Cornelius, Schultz, Stefan, Smith, Barry   +4 more
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National and International Monitoring of Student Literacy and Numeracy Attainment: The Case for Rigorous Macro and Micro Analysis

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In her 2024 paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data, Larsen compiled an impressive summary of major international (PISA, PIRLS and TIMSS) and national (NAPLAN) standardised assessments pertaining to literacy and numeracy.
Pamela C. Snow, Tanya A. Serry, Jennifer Buckingham, Lorraine S. Hammond, Stephen Dinham, Eamon Charles, Tessa A. Weadman, Nathanial R. Swain, Susan Hiland, Tessa Daffern   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strategies for near-term scale-up of cellulosic biofuel production using sorghum and crop residues in the US

Environmental Research Letters, 2018
The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) initially set ambitious goals for US cellulosic biofuel production and, although the total renewable fuel volume reached 80% of the established target for 2017, the cellulosic fuel volume reached just 5% of the original ...
Xinguang Cui, Olga Kavvada, Tyler Huntington, Corinne D Scown   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

IDCube Lite: Free Interactive Discovery Cube software for multi and hyperspectral applications

Journal of Spectral Imaging, 2021
Multi- and hyperspectral imaging modalities encompass a growing number of spectral techniques that find many applications in geospatial, biomedical, machine vision and other fields.
Deependra Mishra, Helena Hurbon, John Wang, Steven T. Wang, Tommy Du, Qian Wu, David Kim, Shiva Basir, Qian Cao, Hairong Zhang, Kathleen Xu, Andy Yu, Yifan Zhang, Yunshen Huang, Roman Garnett, Maria Gerasimchuk-Djordjevic, Mikhail Y. Berezin   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

GeomRDF: A Geodata Converter with a Fine-Grained Structured Representation of Geometry in the Web [PDF]

, 2014
In recent years, with the advent of the web of data, a growing number of national mapping agencies tend to publish their geospatial data as Linked Data.
Abadie, Nathalie, Bucher, Bénédicte, Feliachi, Abdelfettah, Hamdi, Fayçal   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Urban agriculture and Anopheles habitats in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2009
A cross-sectional survey of agricultural areas, combined with routinely monitored mosquito larval information, was conducted in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to investigate how agricultural and geographical features may influence the presence of ...
Castro, Marcia C, Dongus, Stefan, Drescher, Axel W, Fillinger, Ulrike, Gosoniu, Laura, Kannady, Khadija, Killeen, Gerry F, Mshinda, Hassan, Mtasiwa, Deo, Nyika, Dickson, Tanner, Marcel   +10 more
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Planning for Sustainable Cities in Africa: Experiences, Challenges and Prospects of Monitoring Geospatial Indicators

Remote Sensing, 2022
The African continent is receiving unprecedented pressure from population growth, urbanisation, decreased agricultural productivity and changing climate. However, the continent lacks technological advancement.
Shrijwal Adhikari, Preeti Koirala, Amit Ghosh, Matieu Henry   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source