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In environmental monitoring, the ability to obtain high‐quality data across space and time is often limited by the cost of purchasing, deploying and maintaining a large collection of equipment, and the employment of personnel to perform these tasks. An ideal design for a monitoring campaign would be dense enough in time to capture short‐range variation at each site, long enough in time to examine trends at each site and across all sites, and dense enough in space to allow modelling of the relationship between the means at each of the sites. This paper outlines a methodology for semiparametric spatiotemporal modelling of data that is dense in time but sparse in space, obtained from a split panel design, the most feasible approach to covering space and time with limited equipment. The data are hourly averaged particle number concentration (PNC) and were collected as part of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health's Ultrafine Particles from Traffic Emissions and Children's Health (UPTECH) project. The panel design comprises two weeks of continuous measurements taken at each of a number of government primary schools in the Brisbane Metropolitan Area, with each school visited sequentially. The school data are augmented by data from long‐term monitoring stations at three locations in Brisbane, Australia. The temporal part of the model explains daily and weekly cycles in PNC at the schools. The temporal variation is modelled hierarchically with a penalised random walk term common to all sites and a similar term accounting for the remaining temporal trend at each site. The modelling of temporal trends requires an acknowledgement that the observations are correlated rather than independent. At each school and long‐term monitoring site, peaks in PNC can be attributed to the morning and afternoon rush hour traffic and new particle formation events. The spatial component of the model describes the school‐to‐school variation in mean PNC at each school and within each school ground. The spatial term in the model is derived from a stochastic partial differential equation and approximates a Gaussian process with a Gaussian Markov Random field. Fitting the model helps describe spatial and temporal variability at a subset of the UPTECH schools and the long‐term monitoring sites, which can be used to estimate the exposure of school children to ultrafine particles. Parameter estimates and their uncertainty are computed in a computationally efficient approximate Bayesian inference environment, R‐INLA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a brief summary of the history, development and variety of applications of electron microscopy techniques to analyze coals, organic-rich shales, and carbonaceous materials. General construction and principles of operation of transmitted (TEM) and scanning electron microscope (SEM) are outlined, along with guidance on specimen preparation, and a brief overview of published TEM and SEM applications related to coal, shales, and carbonaceous materials. This work was accepted as the chapter 18.2 of International Committee for Coal and Organic Petrology Methods Handbook at the ICCP Plenary Session on September 27, 2018 in Brisbane (Australia). • Construction and operational principles of a TEM and SEM. • Specimens' preparation techniques used for TEM and SEM study. • Application of TEM to study coals and carbon materials. • Application of SEM to study coals, organic-rich shales and carbonaceous matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reflects on Q fever, which was first recognised as a clinical entity in an outbreak of respiratory illness in abattoir workers in Brisbane, Queensland, caused by Coxiella burnetii, providing information on its clinical presentation, control and biological and pathogenesis of C. burnetii. He discusses the paper by Schimmer and colleagues on the disease in dairy sheep and supports the notion that the pattern of higher seroprevalence in dairy animals extends to sheep.

A lecturer at the University of Queensland has developed an excellent model to give students an authentic, hands-on experience of ecological research. The first-year university students have been learning about biodiversity as they carry out the task of beetle Identification. This partnership gives the students a chance to contribute to an existing study of urban biodiversity and contextualises the topics about which they are learning. Combining the work of researchers with the educational experiences of students is beneficial to both parties and can be successfully replicated by teachers in their classrooms. Partnering with an existing research project Is one of the easiest ways to give students a contextualised real-world experience of the scientific process. This paper examines how teaching and research were combined and makes suggestions for similar entomology projects that could be undertaken by school students in their local areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights the conference of the Australian and new Zealand Communication Association in Brisbane, Queensland. Theme of the conference; Topics covered in the papers presented; Keynote speakers.

Information about several papers discussed at the Australian Dermatopathology Society's 15th Annual Conference, which was held on August 5-7, 1994 in Brisbane, Queensland is presented. Among the topics discussed were spongiotic tissue reactions, small cell carcinoma and clinical spectrum of fungal infections. The symposium featured several dermatologists including David Weedon, Neil Smith and Steven Kossard.

The article focuses on two members of the editorial advisory board of the "Journal of Learning Disabilities." John H. Johnson, President and Editor of Ebony, Chicago, Illinois, has come a long way from his humble beginning in Arkansas City, Arkansas. In 1933 Johnson migrated to Chicago with his mother and became the editor of his high school paper and year book. Then he joined Supreme Life Insurance Co. of America, as an employee and thirty years later he was elected as the chairman of the board of directors of the same insurance company. Conceiving the idea of starting a publication, Johnson took a loan and released out his first magazine "Negro Digest." Presently Johnson is a director of the Magazine Publishers Association. The other member of the Board is John McLeod, Administrative Head of Educational Research Centre of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Educated at English and Scottish universities, McLeod obtained an Australian Ph.D., his current major research interests being in the field of learning disabilities, which he interprets to embrace mental retardation and reading failure. He is co-editor of the Australian journal "The Slow Learning Child," and has edited and co-authored two books.

Information about several papers discussed at the 14th IUAPPA World Clean Air and Environmental Protection Congress, hosted by the Clean Air Act Society of Australia and New Zealand. The conference was held September 9-13, 2007 in Brisbane. The congress focuses on air quality and health, transport emissions, modelling, particle measurements, emission inventories, rural and urban partnerships, energy sources and air quality, and indoor air pollution.

Information about head and neck oncology discussed at the 9th annual scientific meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Head and Neck Society in Brisbane, Queensland in July 2007 is presented. The meeting was attended by multidisciplinary organization for surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, and nursing, and allied health professionals. Papers from all the specialties and from nursing and allied health personnel were presented during the meeting.

Information about several papers discussed at the 14th International Union of Air Pollution and Environmental Protection Associations (IUUPPA) World Congress and 18th Clean Air Society of Australia & New Zealand (CASANZ) Conference from September 9-13, 2007 in Brisbane, Queensland is presented. Topics discussed include air quality and health, atmospheric process methods and model performance. Ian Lowe of Australian Conservation Foundation provided the opening remarks of the event.

Information about several papers discussed at the 14th International Union of Air Pollution and Environment Protection Associations (IUAPPA) World Clean Air Congress on September 9 to 13, 2007 in Brisbane, Queensland is presented. It was hosted by the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ) and attended by over 400 delegates from 15 countries. Speakers discussed air quality and climate change co-benefits and the measures to minimize and solve the problem.

Regional planners, policy makers and policing agencies all recognize the importance of better understanding the dynamics of crime. Theoretical and application-oriented approaches which provide insights into why and where crimes take place are much sought after. Geographic information systems and spatial analysis techniques, in particular, are proving to be essential for studying criminal activity. However, the capabilities of these quantitative methods continue to evolve. This paper explores the use of geographic information systems and spatial analysis approaches for examining crime occurrence in Brisbane, Australia. The analysis highlights novel capabilities for the analysis of crime in urban regions.[/p] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents poetry editor John Knight's experience of poetizing in Brisbane, Queensland. He attended the monthly meeting of the Paper Wasp haiku group and monthly gathering of poetry workshop group. He comments on behavior of poets in discussion groups and analyses their aggression and destructive criticism.

This article highlights the fifth International Conference on Language and Social Psychology in Brisbane, Queensland on July 6-9, 1994. Keynote speakers are presented. In addition to general paper sessions, invited symposia include: language, social psychology, and power; language and minority groups; interpersonal deception; and, language and health. And the deadline for passing research abstracts is on February 1, 1994.

The article focuses on the Fifth Australian Family Research Conference held in Brisbane, Queensland from November 27-29, 1997. A wide range of academic fields was represented including psychology, sociology, education, health, criminology, social work, social policy, law, demography, economics and theology. The conference program comprised keynote addresses, symposia, papers grouped by theme, as well as a policy debate. The poster session, given prominence by being unopposed by any other sessions, was well attended and of a generally high standard. The buzz in the room indicated lively discussion.