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DOI: 10.4225/08/52787e0b1ed55
title: Modelled seabed response to possible climate change scenarios over the next 50 years in the Australian North - Stationary scenario datasets with Sedsim input files and output files

description: Using data from ocean forecast models, field observations and seabed sampling we ran a numerical sediment transport model to estimate the Australian Shelf seabed evolution under three climate change scenarios. This data collection is for the Stationary climate change scenario in which the present climate continues for next 50 years.

In this study, the interaction of seabed sediment types and hydrodynamic forces in the northern region has been investigated using a state-of-the-art numerical model, Sedsim. The simulation area  for this collection covers the Gulf of Carpentaria (GOC), the Torres Strait, north-western part of Coral Sea and the eastern part of Arafura Sea.

The model uses the known grain-size distribution of the present-day seabed based on a comprehensive analysis of currently available seabed data Information available from this data source includes grainsize, mud content, rock exposure, and estimates of critical seabed shear stress. This sediment layer is incorporated in the latest high-resolution (0.0025°) seabed bathymetry obtained from the Australian National Oceans Office (NOO). The seabed topography and present-day sediment layer are represented by a 566 (columns) by 550 (rows) grid with a spatial resolution of 2.1 km. The environmental forcing factors considered in the present model are sediment-laden river flows and turbidity currents, waves, tides, wind-driven currents, sea level change, submarine slope failure and carbonate sediment production.
DOI: 10.4225/08/52787e4c2b69e
title: Modelled seabed response to possible climate change scenarios over the next 50 years in the Australian Northeast - High Energy scenario datasets with Sedsim input files and output files

description: Using data from ocean forecast models, field observations and seabed sampling we ran a numerical sediment transport model to estimate the Australian Shelf seabed evolution under three climate change scenarios. This data collection is for the High Energy climate change scenario of:  
    highest rainfall,
    highest sediment load,
    highest outflow, and
    highest oceanographic conditions,
    maximum sea level rise in next 50 years.

In this study, the interaction of seabed sediment types and hydrodynamic forces in the northeastern region has been investigated using a state-of-the-art numerical model, Sedsim. The simulation area  for this collection covers the northeast Australia continental shelf and abyssal basins which include the Great Barrier Reef, the Marion and Queensland plateaus, the Cato, Townsville and Queensland troughs, the New South Wales Shelf and the coast from south of Jervis Bay up to Princess Charlotte Bay in the North.

The model uses the known grain-size distribution of the present-day seabed based on a comprehensive analysis of currently available seabed data Information available from this data source includes grainsize, mud content, rock exposure, and estimates of critical seabed shear stress. This sediment layer is incorporated in the latest high-resolution (0.0025°) seabed bathymetry obtained from the Australian National Oceans Office (NOO). The seabed topography and present-day sediment layer are represented by a 566 (columns) by 550 (rows) grid with a spatial resolution of 2.1 km. The environmental forcing factors considered in the present model are sediment-laden river flows and turbidity currents, waves, tides, wind-driven currents, sea level change, submarine slope failure and carbonate sediment production.
DOI: 10.4225/08/52787e91502f9
title: Modelled seabed response to possible climate change scenarios over the next 50 years in the Australian Northeast - Low Energy scenario datasets with Sedsim input files and output files

description: Using data from ocean forecast models, field observations and seabed sampling we ran a numerical sediment transport model to estimate the Australian Shelf seabed evolution under three climate change scenarios. This data collection is for the Low Energy climate change scenario of:  
    lowest rainfall,
    lowest sediment load,
    lowest outflow, and
    El-Niño year oceanographic conditions,
    no sea level rise in next 50 years.

In this study, the interaction of seabed sediment types and hydrodynamic forces in the northeastern region has been investigated using a state-of-the-art numerical model, Sedsim. The simulation area  for this collection covers the northeast Australia continental shelf and abyssal basins which include the Great Barrier Reef, the Marion and Queensland plateaus, the Cato, Townsville and Queensland troughs, the New South Wales Shelf and the coast from south of Jervis Bay up to Princess Charlotte Bay in the North.

The model uses the known grain-size distribution of the present-day seabed based on a comprehensive analysis of currently available seabed data Information available from this data source includes grainsize, mud content, rock exposure, and estimates of critical seabed shear stress. This sediment layer is incorporated in the latest high-resolution (0.0025°) seabed bathymetry obtained from the Australian National Oceans Office (NOO). The seabed topography and present-day sediment layer are represented by a 566 (columns) by 550 (rows) grid with a spatial resolution of 2.1 km. The environmental forcing factors considered in the present model are sediment-laden river flows and turbidity currents, waves, tides, wind-driven currents, sea level change, submarine slope failure and carbonate sediment production.
DOI: 10.4225/08/52787edeecdcf
title: Modelled seabed response to possible climate change scenarios over the next 50 years in the Australian Northwest - High Energy scenario datasets with Sedsim input files and output files

description: Using data from ocean forecast models, field observations and seabed sampling we ran a numerical sediment transport model to estimate the Australian Shelf seabed evolution under three climate change scenarios. This data collection is for the High Energy climate change scenario of:  
    highest rainfall,
    highest sediment load,
    highest outflow, and
    highest oceanographic conditions,
    maximum sea level rise in next 50 years.

In this study, the interaction of seabed sediment types and hydrodynamic forces in the northwestern region has been investigated using a state-of-the-art numerical model, Sedsim. The simulation area  for this collection covers the northwest Australia continental shelf and abyssal basins which include Houtman Abrolhos, the Northwest Shelf, Shark Bay, Ningaloo reef and part of the Timor Sea.

The model uses the known grain-size distribution of the present-day seabed based on a comprehensive analysis of currently available seabed data Information available from this data source includes grainsize, mud content, rock exposure, and estimates of critical seabed shear stress. This sediment layer is incorporated in the latest high-resolution (0.0025°) seabed bathymetry obtained from the Australian National Oceans Office (NOO). The seabed topography and present-day sediment layer are represented by a 566 (columns) by 550 (rows) grid with a spatial resolution of 2.1 km. The environmental forcing factors considered in the present model are sediment-laden river flows and turbidity currents, waves, tides, wind-driven currents, sea level change, submarine slope failure and carbonate sediment production.
DOI: 10.4225/08/52787f27cea66
title: Modelled seabed response to possible climate change scenarios over the next 50 years in the Australian Northwest - Low Energy scenario datasets with Sedsim input files and output files

description: Using data from ocean forecast models, field observations and seabed sampling we ran a numerical sediment transport model to estimate the Australian Shelf seabed evolution under three climate change scenarios. This data collection is for the Low Energy climate change scenario of:  
    lowest rainfall,
    lowest sediment load,
    lowest outflow, and
    El-Niño year oceanographic conditions,
    no sea level rise in next 50 years.

In this study, the interaction of seabed sediment types and hydrodynamic forces in the northwestern region has been investigated using a state-of-the-art numerical model, Sedsim. The simulation area  for this collection covers the northwest Australia continental shelf and abyssal basins which include Houtman Abrolhos, the Northwest Shelf, Shark Bay, Ningaloo reef and part of the Timor Sea.

The model uses the known grain-size distribution of the present-day seabed based on a comprehensive analysis of currently available seabed data Information available from this data source includes grainsize, mud content, rock exposure, and estimates of critical seabed shear stress. This sediment layer is incorporated in the latest high-resolution (0.0025°) seabed bathymetry obtained from the Australian National Oceans Office (NOO). The seabed topography and present-day sediment layer are represented by a 566 (columns) by 550 (rows) grid with a spatial resolution of 2.1 km. The environmental forcing factors considered in the present model are sediment-laden river flows and turbidity currents, waves, tides, wind-driven currents, sea level change, submarine slope failure and carbonate sediment production.
DOI: 10.4225/08/52787f772a93b
title: Modelled seabed response to possible climate change scenarios over the next 50 years in the Australian Northwest - Stationary scenario datasets with Sedsim input files and output files

description: Using data from ocean forecast models, field observations and seabed sampling we ran a numerical sediment transport model to estimate the Australian Shelf seabed evolution under three climate change scenarios. This data collection is for the Stationary climate change scenario in which the present climate continues for next 50 years.

In this study, the interaction of seabed sediment types and hydrodynamic forces in the northwestern region has been investigated using a state-of-the-art numerical model, Sedsim. The simulation area  for this collection covers the northwest Australia continental shelf and abyssal basins which include Houtman Abrolhos, the Northwest Shelf, Shark Bay, Ningaloo reef and part of the Timor Sea.

The model uses the known grain-size distribution of the present-day seabed based on a comprehensive analysis of currently available seabed data Information available from this data source includes grainsize, mud content, rock exposure, and estimates of critical seabed shear stress. This sediment layer is incorporated in the latest high-resolution (0.0025°) seabed bathymetry obtained from the Australian National Oceans Office (NOO). The seabed topography and present-day sediment layer are represented by a 566 (columns) by 550 (rows) grid with a spatial resolution of 2.1 km. The environmental forcing factors considered in the present model are sediment-laden river flows and turbidity currents, waves, tides, wind-driven currents, sea level change, submarine slope failure and carbonate sediment production.
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v2n1p1
title: Ranking services for students via preference elicitation at Padua university

description: The University of Padua conducted a survey to elicit the preferences of its students for new services that the university, the city and local authorities could offer to improve student life before, during and after graduation. In this paper, we present the statistical methodology for ranking services according to students� preferences and discuss the resulting ranks of the services grouped in 10 thematic areas. We conclude that the preference elicitation method and the rank estimation method adopted in our research are appropriate for within-university prioritisation of student services.
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v2n1p15
title: Cumulative correspondence analysis to improve the public train transport

description: To a company, improving customer satisfaction (CS) is a strategic element to increase market share, for example in public transport a growth of users implies a positive effect as private transport reduced.
Consequently, the use of statistical methods directed to the analysis of CS is very important to get information necessary to support strategic decisions. In this paper, through Taguchi method for design of experiment, we set nine different hypothetic public train transport (called scenarios) and we asked to potential users to evaluate them by an ordinal scale. In order to analyse this data we use an integrated approach based on Cumulative Correspondence Analysis and the Taguchi's index, it allows to find a scenario that maximizes the satisfaction of potential users.
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v2n1p25
title: Evaluating research activity: impact factor vs. research factor

description: The Impact Factor (IF) �has moved ... from an obscure bibliometric indicator to become the chief quantitative measure of the quality of a journal, its research papers, the researchers who wrote those papers, and even the institution they work in� ([2], p. 1). However, the use of this index for evaluating individual scientists is dubious. The present work compares the ranking of research units generated by the Research Factor (RF) index with that associated with the popular IF. The former, originally introduced in [38], reflects article and book publications and a host of other activities categorized as coordination activities (e.g., conference organization, research group coordination), dissemination activities (e.g., conference and seminar presentations, participation in research group), editorial activities (e.g., journal editor, associate editor, referee) and functional activities (e.g., Head of Department). The main conclusion is that by replacing the IF with the RF in hiring, tenure decisions and awarding of grants would greatly increase the number of topics investigated and the number and quality of long run projects.
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v2n1p54
title: A method for the evaluation of the peculiar lexicon significance

description: In this work, a methodology for semi-automatic derivation of knowledge from document collections is proposed. In order to extract relevant information from documents, a process integrating both statistical and lexical approaches is applied. We propose a strategy for the semantic evaluation of the index terms extracted in order to ensure a good correspondence between the information searched for and the information retrieved. Therefore, we propose a system for the peculiar lexicon extraction and assessment. The system can be used for defining an ontological model to be used in the semantic processing of a corpus of documents belonging to a specialist domain.
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v3n1p1
title: Course organisational structure as a determinant of academic success. some evidence from the University of Padova (Italy)

description: This work is part of a research project funded by the University of Padova, focusing on the main learning difficulties encountered by university students, and on the most suitable strategies to overcome and/or prevent them. We present an analysis by students cohort and by degree courses using data from the administrative archives of the University of Padova. Our aim was to examine the influence of the contextual characteristics of the degree courses on educational failure/success. The analysis is in two steps. First we use Multiple-decrement life tables to describe, by means of survival rates and cumulative decrement rates, levels of withdrawal, change of course and delay, to segment the courses into homogenous groups.Then, by means of hierarchical regression models, we examine the effects of contextual variables which, together with personal characteristics, influence withdrawal.
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v3n1p15
title: Estimating Accidents at Work in European Union

description: This paper describes safety at work as an issue to be addressed in terms of legislation, with due statistical knowledge of the phenomenon. Through the application of multiple indicators while investigating the rate of homogeneity and non-homogeneity of available data, especially at international level, the concept at study can be analyzed using specific scientific methods. The Total Frequency Rate of accidents could be influenced by a country�s industrial structure. The standardization of  industrial structures into NACE divisions or sub-divisions (and not only on an aggregate activity level), has proved very useful as an integral part of the statistical infrastructure used within the European statistical system for producing comparable statistics. Looking at the distribution of the Total Frequency Rates (TFR) of accidents in different world regions, the picture is quite different, as the phenomenon is by no means evenly spread across the globe. Fatalities are proportionately much higher in some regions than in others. Carrying out a country-by-country analysis would in no doubt reveal greater variations. Occupational accidents and work-related diseases in some European countries are twice as high as in some others.We show that the shadow economy has an important impact in outlining an �effective frequency rate of accidents�. In Italy, the impact of an excessive economy and the influence of organized crime in the South, which could alter the basis for reporting work-related accidents and occupational safety performance indicators, has led to the consideration of the actual rate of accidents in Italy slightly higher than the European average.
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v3n1p49
title: Evaluation of customer satisfaction of services with subgroups data

description: Frequently Customer Satisfaction (CS) surveys in services are carried out with respect to body that supply different services articulated in different contexts. These differences imply that CS surveys cannot be performed as a whole at an agency level, but need to be articulated in specifically devoted sub-surveys for each services. Differences of services and, often, also of customers, imply that CS surveys make use of ad hoc questionnaires that are administered to independent samples from different populations. Nevertheless, the goal of these surveys is to obtain information not only to evaluate each service separately, but also to obtain a valuation regarding the agency/firm as a whole. For this reason it is often desirable to obtain a measure of CS to perform separate as well as global CS evaluation. In this paper two different methods are considered to analyze CS data coming from different populations with the aim to compare and to pool CS measured at service level. By using data from an Italian Public Service, this procedure is applied to analyse the users� satisfaction with services supplied.
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v3n1p59
title: Hedging Instruments in Conventional and Islamic Finance

description: The paper presents instruments of hedging and risk management applied in both conventional and Islamic banking market places. We compare the framework, modes and instruments of financing in these two banking environments and explore the speculative behavior of Islamic Banking. In this research, we refer to information from different papers, proceedings and websites to identify distinguishing aspects of these two banking systems and the related risk mitigation (hedging) instruments. We show that hedging for risk management in these two banking systems are actually quite similar, although the concept, framework, goals and objectives, as well as risks, are different in their respective business activities. Using available information it also presents a simulated normal model of Islamic Cross-Currency Swap in relation with that of conventional swap market. Further investigation is needed to identify why Islamic banks replicate the conventional banking hedging instruments and how the Islamic hedging instruments are effectively based on double rules and regulations such as Shariah and Local Government, as well as four-fold tax obligations (Zakat and Government Tax).
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v3n1p75
title: The Rasch model for victimization analysis: a proposal of an insecurity perception index

description: This work focuses on the application of the Rasch Model for the Victimization Analysis. The aim of this paper is to propose a new Citizen Insecurity Perception Index referring to the Italian Country as well as to its Regions or Geographical areas. The Index is defined by means of the person location parameters estimated by a Rasch Model. This procedure is particularly suitable since the synthetic value of the latent variable �Insecurity Perception� is first evaluated at individual level; its estimated scores are then naturally aggregated to higher levels.
DOI: 10.1285/i22808949a2n1p43
title: Dalla normalizzazione alla normalit�. La partnership Russia-Cina tra realt� e percezione (1986-2008)

description: For twenty years after Sino-Soviet normalization (1989), bilateral relations between Moscow and Beijing have been variously termed as "constructive", "strategic", "limited", "pragmatic", and eventually "normal". Drawing on international literature, this article provides a historical overview of Russian-Chinese intercourse focusing on the shifts and changes that have occurred in Russian approach to China for two decades (1986-2008). Russia's concerns for the shifting balance of power between the two countries and its efforts to counter its decline relying on a preferential partnership with the United States set out the ground for Moscow's erratic China policy in the Nineties and in the early twenty-first century. Finally, this article devotes attention to the stabilization of bilateral relations under Vladimir Putin, trying to escape the good deal of presentism which affects many contemporary analyses. The aim is to assess a historical process and understand what brought about the current state of Russian-Chinese relations, which are based on shared common interests, but still reveal their fault lines.
DOI: 10.1285/i2037-3627v2n1p65
title: Discrete choice models as a tool for transit service quality evaluation

description: In this paper discrete choice Logit models for measuring transit service quality are proposed. Multinomial and Mixed Logit models are used as a tool for evaluating the importance of the different transit service aspects on the overall service quality. Particularly, Mixed Logit models are proposed in order to take into account the heterogeneity of perceptions across individuals. The models were calibrated on the basis of Stated Preferences choice experiments, in which decision makers choose among transit services characterized by different quality levels. The research work is supported by a sample survey addressed to the users of an urban bus service in a medium-sized town.
DOI: 10.1285/i22808949a2n1p85
title: Between Arab Nationalism and Zionism: Fascist Politics and Propaganda in the Middle East in the 1930s

description: This article examines the ambiguous and often fraught relationship between the Fascist regime and nationalist movements in areas under British direct and indirect administration; it will focus primarily on the political and ideological relationship between Italy and Arab nationalist forces, but will also outline the regime�s seemingly contradictory overtures to the Zionist Revisionist movement. The evidence examined in this article illustrates that Mussolini�s ambition to restore Italian hegemony in the Mediterranean through propaganda and political contacts, and to compete with the European imperial powers of the time was not supported by a coherent imperial strategy, but reacted to diverse stimuli and opportunities that arose over time