Coral Reef Protection Implementation Plan

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Crowd Sourced Governance in a Post-Disaster Context

“…Beginning in the late 1990's legal and social science scholars began to explore the unique insights of new governance mechanisms within a range of public and private sector arenas. This has included thoughtful analysis of the contribution of new governance to expanded participation and partnership on the part of governments and non-state actors in solving public problems 23 ; the questioning of doctrinal divides between legal fields 24 ; a learning-focused orientation 25 ; the use of public private partnership in regulatory reform 26 ; the role of the state as a convener, catalyst and coordinator 27 ; and the relationship between new governance and development of problem-solving capabilities 28 . In addition, recent scholarship has examined the challenges facing new governance; including ensuring participants have the necessary skills for participation 29 , the development of managerial and procedural safeguards 30 , the difficulties of achieving stakeholder participation under conditions of social conflict 31 and distributional inequalities 32 .…”

“…The new governance literature described above provide useful insights into the contribution of new governance to expanded participation and partnership on the part of governments and non-state actors in solving public problems 90 ; a learning-focused orientation 91 ; the use of public private partnership in regulatory reform 92 ; the role of the state as a convener, catalyst and coordinator 93 ; and the relationship between new governance and development of problem-solving capabilities 94 . This form of decision-making has largely responded to a growing dissatisfaction with the inefficiencies of rigid 'top-down' decision-making styles.…”

Design Considerations of a Robotic Head for Telepresence Applications

“…One of the earliest rear projection head is the "Talking Head Projection" [17] [18] implemented as an experimental work in telepresence in 1980. A large plane mirror is mounted behind the head, adapting to keep the projector near the head while projecting an image on the face.…”

The role of acoustics within the sensory landscape of coral larval settlement

“…The ocean was once described as 'The Silent World' by Cousteau and Dumas in 1953, but we now know that coral reefs are bioacoustically rich. Many reef inhabitants produce sound during a wide array of behaviors which together contribute to the ambient soundscape of the "choral" reef (Schmitz, 2002;Lobel et al, 2010;Lobel, 2013;Radford et al, 2014a). This ambient soundscape has been shown to act as an orientation cue for the pelagic larvae of many fish, decapod crustaceans and reef-building corals, assisting their orientation towards suitable settlement sites (Tolimieri et al, 2000;Tolimieri et al, 2002;Jeffs et al, 2003;Simpson et al, 2004;Leis and Lockett, 2005;Simpson et al, 2005;Montgomery et al, 2006;Vermeij et al, 2010;Radford et al, 2011).…”