Publications

2008 Refereed publications

Alam, K. (2008). Cost-benefit analysis of restoring the Buriganga River, International Journal of Water Resources Development, 24(4), 593-607.

Alam, K. & Marinova, D. (2008). Estimating the economic value of river restoration”, Transformations, Number 43, Spring. (Accepted)

Alam, K. & Marinova, D. (2008). Sustainability and river restoration in developing countries: Case study on the Buriganga River in Bangladesh. In: Marinova, D. & Hossain, A. (eds.), Sustainability Issues in Asia, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (in press)

Alam, K. & Robb, W. (2008). Issues of economic efficiencies of human service delivery in Australia, International Review of Business Research Papers. (Accepted)

Alam, K., Rolfe, J. & Donaghy, P. (2008). Assessing the cost-effectiveness of water quality interventions in South-east Queensland. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 15 (1). pp. 30-40. ISSN 1448-6563.

Al Faris, R. & Khan, S. (2008). Sine Square Distribution – A new statistical model, Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, 3(1), 163-173.

Attwood, S. J., Maron. M., House, A. P. N. & Zammit, C. (2008) Do arthropod assemblages display globally consistent responses to intensified agricultural land use and management? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 17, 585-599.

Bond, J. C., Lauretta, D. S., Tinney, C. G., Butler, R. P., Marcy, G. W., Jones, H. R. A., Carter, B. D., O'Toole, S. J. & Bailey, J. (2008). Beyond the Iron Peak: r- and s-process Elemental Abundances in Stars with Planets, Astrophysics, DOI: arXiv:0804.3354v1 (In Press)

Calbo, J. & Sabburg, J. (2008). Feature extraction from whole-sky ground-based images for cloud-type recognition. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 25 (1). pp. 3-14. ISSN 0739-0572.

Downie A.F., Le Brocque A.F. & Dearnaley, J.D.W. (2008) Molecular identification of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of the vulnerable Sophora fraseri (Fabaceae). Australasian Mycologist. (In Press)

Dunn, P. K. & Smyth, G. K. (2008). Evaluation of Tweedie exponential dispersion model densities by Fourier inversion. Statistics and Computing, 18 (1). pp. 73-86. ISSN 0960-3174 (Print), 1573-1375 (Online)

Gibbings, P, Lidstone, J & Bruce, C. (2008). How do students experience problem-based learning in virtual space?’, International Journal of Educational Research. (In Press)

Gibbings, P. & Brodie, L. (2008). Team-Based Learning Communities in Virtual Space’, International Journal of Engineering Education, (In Press).

Gibbings, P. & Brodie, L. (2008). Assessment Strategy for an Engineering Problem-solving Course’, International Journal of Engineering Education, 24 (1), pp. 153-161.

Hammer, S., Star, C. & Green, W. (2008). Facing up to the challenge: why is it so hard to develop graduate attributes? Higher Education Research and Development. (In Press).

Hoque, Z. & Khan, S. (2008). Performance of Preliminary Test Estimator under Linex Loss Function, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods. (In Press).

Khan, S.  (2008). Shrinkage estimators of intercept parameters of two simple regression models with suspected equal slopes - EMBARGOED UNTIL JAN. 2009. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 37 (2). pp. 247-260. ISSN 0361-0926 (Print), 1532-415x (Online)

Khan, S. (2008). Optimal tolerance regions for future regression vector and residual sum of squares of multiple regression model with multivariate spherically contoured errors. Statistical Papers . ISSN 0932-5026 (In Press)

Khan, S. & Saleh, A K Md E (2008). Estimation of slope for linear regression model with uncertain prior information and Student-t error. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 37(16). (In Press).

Le Brocque A.F., Goodhew K., & Zammit C. (2008) Overstorey tree density and understorey regrowth effects on plant composition, stand structure and floristic richness in grazed woodlands in eastern Australia. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. (In Press)

Liu, X.  (2008). Airborne LiDAR for DEM generation: some critical issues - EMBARGOED UNTIL 2009. Progress in Physical Geography, 32 (1). pp. 31-49. ISSN 0309-1333 (Print), 1477-0296 (Online)

M. Arashi, S. M. M. Tabatabaey, & Khan, S. (2008). Estimation in multiple regression model with elliptically contoured errors under MLINEX loss, Journal of Applied Probability and Statistics, 3(1), 23-36.

Maraseni, T. N.  (2008) Selection of non-timber forest species for community and private plantations in the high and low altitude areas of Makawanpur District, Nepal. Small-Scale Forestry, 7 (2). pp. 151-161. ISSN 1873-7617 (Print), 1873-7854 (Online)

Maraseni, T. N. & Dargusch, P. (2008). Expanding woodland regeneration on marginal southern Queensland pastures using market-based instruments: a landowners’ perspective. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 15, 104-112.

Maraseni, T. N. & Maroulis, J. (2008) Piggery: from environmental pollution to a climate change solution. Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B: Pesticides, Food Contaminants, and Agricultural Wastes, 43 . pp. 358-363. ISSN 0360-1234 (Print), 1532-4109 (Online)

Maraseni, T. N., Maroulis, J. & Cockfield, G. (2008). An estimation of willingness to pay for asparagus (Asparagus racemosus Willd.) collectors in Makawanpur District, Nepal. Journal of Forest Science, 54 . pp. 131-137. ISSN 1212-4834

Maraseni, T.N., Mathers, N.J., Harms, B., Cockfield, G., A. Apan, A. & Maroulis, J. (2008). Comparing and predicting soil carbon quantities under different land use systems on the Red Ferrosol soils of Southeast Queensland, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 63 (4): 250-257.

Marcy, G. W., Butler, R. P., Vogt, S. S., Fischer, D. A., Wright, J. T., Johnson, J. A., Tinney, C. G., Jones, H. R. A., Carter, B. D., Bailey, J., O'Toole, S. J. & Upadhyay, S. (2008). Exoplanet properties from Lick, Keck and AAT. Physica Scripta, T130, pp. 014001 (7pp). DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/2008/T130/014001

McDougall, K., Liu, X., Basnet, B. B. & Apan, A. (2008). Evaluation of current DEM accuracy for Condamine Catchment. In: Li, Deren and Ge, Yong and Foody, Giles M, (eds.) Accuracy in geomatics. World Academic Press, Liverpool, England. ISBN 1-84626-171-6.

Memon, M., Khan, S., Yunus, R., Barr, R., & Memon, B. (2008). Meta-Analysis Of Laparoscopic And Open Distal Gastrectomy For Gastric Carcinoma, Journal of Surgical Endoscopy. (In Press).

Nanson. G. C., Price, D. M., Jones, B. G., Maroulis, J. C., Coleman, M., Bowman, H., Cohen, T. J. & Pietsch, T. (2008). Alluvial evidence for major climate and flow-regime changes during the Middle and Late Quaternary in eastern central Australia, Geomorphology (In Press)

Parisi, A., Sabburg, J., Turner, J. & Dunn, P. K. (2008) Cloud observations for the statistical evaluation of the UV index at Toowoomba, Australia. International Journal of Biometeorology, 52 (3). pp. 159-166. ISSN 0020-7128 (Print), 1432-1254 (Online).

Rahman, A. & Khan, S. (2008). Prediction distribution for linear regression model with multivariate Student-t errors, Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 24(1), 35-48.

Star, C.  & Hammer, S. (2008) Teaching generic skills: eroding the higher purpose of universities, or an opportunity for renewal? - EMBARGOED UNTIL DECEMBER 2009. Oxford Review of Education, 34 (2). pp. 1-15. ISSN 0305-4985 (Print), 1465-3915 (Online)

Williams, A.A.J. & Stone, R.C. (2008) ‘An assessment of relationships between the Australian sub-tropical ridge, rainfall variability, and high latitude circulation patterns’ International Journal of Climatology (In Press).

Wilson, I. R. G., Carter, B. D. & Waite, I. A. (2008). Does a Spin-Orbit Coupling Between the Sun and the Jovian Planets Govern the Solar Cycle? Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 25 (2), 85-93. DOI: 10.1071/AS06018.

Conference publications

Alam, K. & Robb, W. (2008). Models of public investment in human services in Australia: Issues of economic efficiency, Proceedings of the Annual London Conference on Money, Economics and Management, July 3-4, 2008, Imperial College, London. Published by World Business Institute, Melbourne.

Alam, K. & Robb, W. (2008). Emerging models of investment: The case of human service in Australia, Paper to be presented at the 10^th West Lake International Conference on Small and Medium Business, October 25-27, Hangzhou, China.

Apan, A., Wells, N., Reardon-Smith, K., Richardson, L., McDougall, K., & Basnet, B. (2008). Predictive Mapping of Blackberry in the Condamine Catchment Using Logistic Regression and Spatial Analysis, Proceedings of the Queensland Spatial Conference 2008, 17-19 July 2008, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, pp. 1-11.

Attwood, S. J., Park, S. E., Maron, M., Collard, S. J., Robinson, D., Reardon-Smith, K. M. & Cockfield, G. (2008). Declining birds in Australian agricultural landscapes – potential lessons from the European agri-environment model. BirdLife International World Conservation Conference 2008, Conference proceedings (CD format).

McDougall, K., Liu, X., Basnet, B. & Apan, A. (2008). Digital Elevation Model Accuracy Requirements for Catchment Management, Proceedings of the Queensland Spatial Conference 2008, 17-19 July 2008, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, pp. 1-9.

Boddington, M. & Dearnaley, J.D.W. (2008). Endophytic fungi associated with rainforest and non-rainforest flora in South East Queensland. International conference for plant biotic interactions, Brisbane, 27-29 March 2008.

Boddington, M., Kotiw, M. & Dearnaley, J.D.W. (2008). A screening method for the detection of fungi with potentially antimicrobial secondary metabolites. Australian Society of Microbiology Annual Scientific Meeting, Melbourne, 6-10 July 2008.

Cottrill, A., Ribbe, J., Maron, M. (2008). A Detailed Proxy Rainfall Record from Lake Broadwater, Dalby, Southeast Queensland. Poster presented at the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering 4th Quaternary Dating Workshop, Sydney, 26-27 March.

Dearnaley, J.D.W., Downie A.F., Murray, A.J. & Le Brocque A.F. (2008). Molecular identification of mycorrhizal fungi in Australian threatened plant species. International conference for plant biotic interactions, Brisbane, 27-29 March 2008.

Faqih, A., Ribbe, J., Meinke, H. (2008). An Assessment of Rainfall Simulations for the Austral-Indonesian Region from the Climate Models. WMO Fourth International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-IV). Beijing, China, 20-25 October 2008, accepted paper.

Faqih, A., Ribbe, J., Meinke, H. (2008). Interdecadal Variability of Regional Sea Surface Temperature and Rainfall in the Austral-Indonesian Region. WMO Fourth International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-IV). Beijing, China, 20-25 October, accepted paper.

Gibbings, P, Lidstone, J. & Bruce, C, How do students experience problem-based learning in virtual space?, Proceedings of the 2008 AaeE Conference, Yeppoon (Submitted Paper).

Gräwe, U., Ribbe, J., Wolff, J.-O. (2008). Stability of an Australian inverse bay. Extended Abstract accepted. Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Sea, August 25-29.

Jones, H. R. A., Butler, R. P., Wright, J. T., Marcy, G. W., Fischer, D. A., Vogt, S. S., Tinney, C. G., Carter, B. D., Johnson, J. A., McCarthy, C., &; Penny, A. J. (2008).  A Catalogue of Nearby Exoplanets, Precision Spectroscopy in Astrophysics , Proceedings, ESO/Lisbon/Aveiro Conference, Aveiro, Portugal, 11-15 September 2006. Ed: N.C. Santos, L. Pasquini, A.C.M. Correia, and M. Romanielleo. Garching, Germany, 2008 pp. 205-206.

McDonald, J., Collins, P., Hingst, R. D., Kimmins, L., Lynch, B. & Star, C. (2008) Community learning: member’s stories about their academic community of practice. In: HERDSA 2008 International Conference: Engaging Communities, July 1-4, Rotorua, New Zealand.

McDonald, J. & Star, C. (2008) The challenges of building an academic community of practice: an Australian case study. In: HERDSA Conference 2008: Engaging Communities, 1-4 July 2008, Rotorua, New Zealand. (In Press)

McDougall, K., Liu, X., Basnet, B. B. & Apan, A. (2008) Digital elevation model accuracy requirements for catchment management. In: Queensland Spatial Conference 2008, 17-19 July 2008, Surfers Paradise, Australia.

McDougall, K. (2008) Unlocking the potential of spatial information through data sharing - it’s a two way street. In: Queensland Spatial Conference 2008, 17-19 July 2008, Surfers Paradise, Australia.

Paudyal, D. R. & McDougall, K. (2008) Building spatial data infrastructure to support sustainable catchment management. In: Queensland Spatial Conference 2008, 17-19 July 2008, Surfers Paradise, Australia.

Pretty, G. (June, 2008). Understanding, facilitating and networking "multiple layers" of people's sense of communities within a geographic context: Research and consultation methods. 2^nd World Conference of Community Psychologists, Lisbon, Portugal.

Star, C. (July, 2008). Locating justice in a warming world: developing notions climate justice in the UK and the USA, Australasian Political Science Association Conference, Brisbane.