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The archaeology of Australia's deserts
\"This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, one of the world's major habitats and the largest block of drylands in the southern hemisphere. Over the last few decades, a wealth of new environmental and archaeological data about this fascinating region has become available. Drawing on a wide range of sources, The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts explores the late Pleistocene settlement of Australia's deserts, the formation of distinctive desert societies, and the origins and development of the hunter-gatherer societies documented in the classic nineteenth-century ethnographies of Spencer and Gillen. Written by one of Australia's leading desert archaeologists, the book interweaves a lively history of research with archaeological data in a masterly survey of the field and a profoundly interdisciplinary study that forces archaeology into conversations with history and anthropology, economy and ecology, and geography and earth sciences\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts
This is the first book-length study of the archaeology of Australia's deserts, one of the world's major habitats and the largest block of drylands in the southern hemisphere. Over the last few decades, a wealth of new environmental and archaeological data about this fascinating region has become available. Drawing on a wide range of sources, The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts explores the late Pleistocene settlement of Australia's deserts, the formation of distinctive desert societies, and the origins and development of the hunter-gatherer societies documented in the classic nineteenth-century ethnographies of Spencer and Gillen. Written by one of Australia's leading desert archaeologists, the book interweaves a lively history of research with archaeological data in a masterly survey of the field and a profoundly interdisciplinary study that forces archaeology into conversations with history and anthropology, economy and ecology, and geography and Earth sciences.
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Coastal Victoria road trips
Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Coastal Victoria Road Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering coastal Victoria by car. Featuring 4 amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, experience the world-famous Great Ocean Road, Melbourne's favorite summer playgrounds and wild coastal landscapes, all with your trusted travel companion.
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Burke and Wills
This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition.
The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian Exploring Expedition as a serious scientific exploration of hitherto unexplored regions of inland and northern Australia. Members of the expedition were issued with detailed instructions on scientific measurements and observations to be carried out, covering about a dozen areas of science. The tragic ending of the expedition meant that most of the results of the scientific investigations were not reported or published. Burke and Wills: The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition rectifies this historic omission.
It includes the original instructions as well as numerous paintings and drawings, documents the actual science undertaken as recorded in notebooks and diaries, and analyses the outcomes. It reveals for the first time the true extent and limits of the scientific achievements of both the Burke and Wills expedition and the various relief expeditions which followed.
Importantly, this new book has led to a re-appraisal of the shortcomings and the successes of the journey. It will be a compelling read for all those interested in the history of exploration, science and natural history, as well as Australian history and heritage.
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Sand swimmers : the secret life of Australia's desert wilderness /
In the center of Australia lies a strange desert wilderness called the Dead Heart. It's difficult to imagine anything can exist in such a forbidding place, but the Dead Heart contains amazing stories of adaptation and survival. Follow in the footsteps of early explorers like Charles Sturt and learn what the indigenous people of Australia have long known: not all is quite as it seems.
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Photovoltaic Power Forecasting with Weather Conditioned Attention Mechanism
Accurate Photovoltaic (PV) generation forecasts can reduce power redeploy from the grid, thus increasing the supplier’s profit in the day-ahead electricity market. However, the PV process is affected differently by various factors under different weather conditions, resulting in significantly different energy output curves. In this context, this paper proposes a day-ahead PV power forecasting method with weather conditioned attention mechanism. We propose a Multi-Stream Attention Fusion Network (MSAFN) which utilizes an algorithm to derive the optimal decomposition algorithm for different weather conditions. The proposed Conditional Decomposition (CD) algorithm searches for the decomposition algorithms and corresponding hyperparameters of the prediction model, aiming to achieve the optimal prediction performance. The MSAFN incorporates multiple attention modules to learn the energy output patterns under various weather conditions. Notably, the attention modules adeptly learn patterns under diverse conditions, while simultaneously, the sharing of weights among the remaining components of the model effectively enhances prediction accuracy and facilitates a reduction in training time. We compare the state-of-the-art decomposition algorithms (VMD, EEMD, MSTL, etc.) and prediction models (BPN, LSTM, XGBoost, transformer, etc.) commonly used in PV prediction. The results show that the MSAFN model is more accurate than the models above, which has a noticeable improvement compared to other recent day-ahead PV predictions on Desert Knowledge Australia Solar Centre (DKASC) dataset.
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Outback Australia : road trips
Discover the freedom of open roads with Lonely Planet Outback Australia Road Trips, your passport to uniquely encountering Australia's Outback by car. Featuring four amazing road trips, plus up-to-date advice on the destinations you'll visit along the way, experience Australia's iconic wide-open spaces and unforgettable landmarks, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the Outback, rent a car, and hit the road!
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Dry Times
With knowledge from our deserts, Australians can reshape the human story. Dry Times: Blueprint for a Red Land provides new insights into how our desert environments and institutions work - and how this affects the people living in them, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal alike. It shows that the desert offers solutions to the challenges of living in an uncertain and threatening age, teaching us new ways to live, manage scarce resources, and cope with climatic extremes, isolation and lack of water and energy. These lessons apply not only to remote regions, but also to cities and entire nations as humanity faces growing scarcity of vital resources. With vivid examples drawn from Australia's desert life, outback people, animals and plants, Dry Times holds many positive lessons for our nation and humanity in a changing and resource-depleted world.
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In the desert
While in the Australian desert, ant-sized Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot are carried away by a dust-devil and face many dangerous creatures, from a flock of wild parakeets to a Perenti lizard, as they try to make their way back to Uncle Al.
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Understanding managers of businesses in desert Australia
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to understand what was important to managers of businesses in desert Australia, and in particular, what they needed for the businesses to be successful.Design methodology approach - There were two studies. In Study 1, 88 managers of business in remote desert Australia were interviewed. In Study 2, 112 managers who had business in regional desert Australia participated in an on-line survey.Findings - In both studies, the respondents claimed that their businesses were reasonably successful. In Study 1, the interviewees said that making a living and seeing the business grow were important indices of success. In Study 2, customer client satisfaction was the strongest indicator of business success. Factors such as safe and all-weather roads, internet e-mail access and reliable power supplies were important to this success. The importance to business success of a number of leadership behaviours was also identified.Research limitations implications - Future research needs to encourage a larger number of managers to participate. In addition, suppliers and customers of the businesses need to be included.Originality value - This is the first study in which managers were included, because normally, only owner-managers are involved. It is also the first study of its kind to be undertaken in desert Australia.
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