A5058617986- Pasture and Agricultural Systems
- Law, logistics, and international trade
- Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
- Maritime Security and History
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Rural development and sustainability
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- International Law and Human Rights
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Peacebuilding and International Security
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Global Security and Public Health
- scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
- Transport and Economic Policies
University of Hertfordshire
2023
United States Geological Survey
2017
Metabolism and Renal Physiology
2013
University of British Columbia
2012
Australian National University
2010
Clifford Chance
1986
Synthesis centers offer a unique amalgam of culture, infrastructure, leadership, and support that facilitates creative discovery on issues crucial to science society. The combination logistical support, postdoctoral or senior fellowships, complex data management, informatics computing capability expertise, most all, opportunity for group discussion reflection lowers the "activation energy" necessary promote creativity cross-fertilization ideas. are explicitly created operated as...
The Grain & Graze program attempted to improve the ‘triple bottom line’ of mixed-farming systems in Australia through a major research, development and extension (RD&E) that operated across nine regions, with total budget A$31million provided by four R&D corporations over 60 regional partners. Regional activities were complemented series national projects management governance arrangements organised at both levels significant producer input. While two-tiered structure resulted...
The continued evolution of mixed farming systems will depend on the development technology which addresses basic biophysical constraints agro ecological zone within these have developed. However, application technologies increasingly extent to they address all dimensions social–economic–environmental system farmers operate. Grain & Graze program has accelerated adoption several that can provide a basis for continuing (e.g. grazing cereals, drought containment livestock, perennial...
Grain & Graze was a mixed-farming systems program conducted across nine regions of Australia over 2003–08. It had goal ensuring adoption recommended practices on 6800 farms within the 5-year life program. This extension-based success target further reflected in targets set contracts for each regions, and embedded into program’s extension initiative, Change-on-farm strategy. By 2008, achieved 3200 farms. While less than half target, this considered by many remarkable achievement, raising...
The Sustainable Grazing Systems (SGS) National Experiment used 13 innovative research and development integrating processes to combine 6 diverse sites across the southern high rainfall zone into a single, integrated experiment. Sites collected common data set about productivity sustainability of grazing systems, so that issues beyond site level could be explored. Essential this approach were database modelling tools enabled across-site examined by mix conventional analyses scenarios. This...
In this paper I will establish that the SGS constituted not one, but many interrelated social spaces within which science performance was undertaken. These different comprised their own unique boundaries, narratives, and contestations negotiations between actors. The implications of claims made in are pertinent to analysts attempting understand dynamics involved complex research programs common today's environment. notion single arenas, agoras, fields or other contestation embrace full...
A regional workgroup comprised of individuals from regulatory agencies, uni versities, and consulting companies was formed to develop an approach for incor porating information on chemical availability in soils into risk assessment based decision making. The consists the following framework including availability: (1) Determine usefulness incorporating bioavailability; (2) Identify needs a conceptual model exposure site pathways judged critical assessment; (3) soil factors that affect (4)...
Limited information is available on the management and delivery of national-scale biodiversity projects. Even less such projects operating in agricultural matrices, particularly how they address expectations multiple stakeholders from paddock to farm, regional national scales. This paper describes approach taken implement deliver Biodiversity Grain & Graze project, which was focus, operation local delivery. The project instigated by four research development corporation partners who were...
Grain & Graze was an innovative, multi-scale, multi-organisational, inter-disciplinary and triple bottom line research, development extension (RD&E) program conducted to investigate improve mixed-farming systems in Australia from 2003 2008. This paper reports on a sociological evaluation of the program’s institutional arrangements that undertaken as one small number social research projects within program. Based discourse analysis investigation participant experiences, it found...
Modern science and contemporary research development programs are characterised by societal, managerial political expectation that they be integrated. For some this means paying attention to the principles of triple bottom line; for others it is about taking a holistic approach finding solutions complex problems; whereas yet maximising co-investment, partnerships collaboration focusing these on problems day. Each aspirations involves integration, although in very different ways. Grain &...
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) treatment of brain tumors is complicated by heating the skull. Here, our goal to overcome this limitation developing an ultrasound-microbubble-based therapeutic approach that complements HIFU mechanically-damaging tumor tissue, occluding blood flow, and depositing 5-FU bearing controlled-release nanoparticles into at reduced power levels. Experiments for monitoring nanoparticle delivery, flow changes, regression will be performed using implanted in...