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Data availability and use: draft report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Productivity Commission is recommending a major overhaul of Australia\u27s data policy framework, including the introduction of a Comprehensive Right to give people more control over their data.
Productivity Commission
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A Multidirectional Textile Interface for Remote Control Using Dynamic Area‐Based Capacitance Modulation

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Here, we present a textile, wearable capacitive interface enabling multidirectional remote control by dynamically modulating electrode overlap and spacing via a freely gliding upper electrode. A forearm‐mounted prototype drives robotic and media tasks with 12–15 ms latency, maintains < 0.8% drift after 500 cycles, and remains stably functional at 90 ...
Cagatay Gumus   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Workplace relations framework: issues papers

open access: yes, 2015
The Australian Government\u27s objectives in commissioning this Inquiry are to examine the current operation of the Fair Work Laws and identify future options to improve the laws bearing in mind the need to ensure workers are protected and the need for ...
Productivity Commission
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Robotic Control for Human–Robot Collaborative Assembly Based on Digital Human Model and Reinforcement Learning

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a robotic control method for human–robot collaborative assembly based on a biomechanics‐constrained digital human model. Reinforcement learning is used to generate physiologically plausible human motion trajectories, which are integrated into a virtual environment for robot control learning.
Bitao Yao   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agro-industry management : case materials

open access: yes, 1984
Meeting: Agricultural Productivity Organization Training Course on Agro-Industry Management, 1984 ...
Tayengco, E.S.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Labour market reform in a federal system: making the best of a flawed framework

open access: yes, 2006
Considers the challenge of securing better policy outcomes from our federal system of government, with a particular focus on health, labour market and freight transportation reform.Australian Government Productivity ...
Stewart, A.
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Trends in aged care services: some implications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The ageing of Australia’s population will call for the provision of aged care services to much larger numbers of people over the next few decades. Services will also need to meet the challenges posed by the increasing diversity of older people in terms ...
Productivity Commission
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Integrating Ecology and Economics in Agent‐Based Models to Support Agricultural Policy

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Agent‐based models are valuable tools for studying social‐ecological systems in agriculture. This review maps how existing agent‐based models represent the human and natural domains of agriculture, and discusses developments in economic and ecological agent‐based modeling.
Daniel Vedder   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of medical technology in Australia

open access: yes, 2005
Progress report on the Productivity Commission\u27s study of the impact of advances in medical technology on public and private healthcare expenditure, and the associated costs and benefits for the Australian community. The commission found that in many
Productivity Commission
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Do New Zealand Firms Catch Up to the Domestic Productivity Frontier? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
New Zealand has a poor productivity track record at the level of the aggregate economy and there is little evidence of productivity “catching up” towards that of leading economies.
Conway, Paul   +2 more
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