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Postformal priorities for postnormal times - A rejoinder to Ziauddin Sardar

Gidley, J - 2010

This essay is a postformal rejoinder to Ziauddin Sardar's Welcome to Postnormal Times. I have no quarrel with Sardar's conclusion that these times are postnormal, nor do I disagree with many of his observations, but our standpoints regarding implications are somewhat contradictory....

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Increasing profits and reducing risks in crop production using participatory systems simulation approaches

Meinke, H; Baethgen, WE; Carberry, PS; Donatelli, M; … - 2001

The development of cropping systems simulation capabilities world-wide combined with easy access to powerful computing has resulted in a plethora of agricultural models and consequently, model applications. Nonetheless, the scientific credibility of such applications and their relevance to...

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Infusing the use of seasonal climate forecasting into crop management practice in North East Australia using discussion support software

Nelson, RA; Holzworth, DP; Hammer, GL; Hayman, PT - 2002

Seasonal climate forecasting offers potential for improving management of crop production risks in the cropping systems of NE Australia. But how is this capability best connected to management practice? Over the past decade, we have pursued participative systems approaches involving...

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Efficient accommodation of local minima in watershed model calibration

Skahill, B. E.; Doherty, J. E. - 2006

The Gauss-Marquardt-Levenberg (GML) method of computer-based parameter estimation, in common with other gradient-based approaches, suffers from the drawback that it may become trapped in local objective function minima, and thus report optimized parameter values that are not, in fact, optimized...

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Successive nonparametric estimation of conditional distributions

Vargas-Guzman, J. A.; Dimitrakopoulos, R. - 2003

Spatial characterization of non-Gaussian attributes in earth sciences and engineering commonly requires the estimation of their conditional distribution. The indicator and probability kriging approaches of current nonparametric geostatistics provide approximations for estimating conditional...

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Economic and environmental impacts of pollution control in a system of environment and economic interdependence

Leeves, GD; Herbert, RD - 2002

The importance of the rate of change of the pollution stock in determining the damage to the environment has been an issue of increasing concern in the literature. This paper uses a three-sector (economy, population and environment), non-linear, discrete time, calibrated model to examine...

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A framework to monitor sustainability in the grains industry

Dalal, RC; Lawrence, P; Walker, J; Shaw, RJ; Lawrence, G; … - 1999

, properties or characteristics) of sustainability through consultation with growers, stakeholders, experts and community members … by using relevant sustainability indicators to benchmark and monitor resources; (iii) adopt a collaborative approach by … use of sustainability indicators would assist in validating and refining these indicators and evaluating sustainable …

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Decision-rule cascades and the dynamics of speculative bubbles

Earl, P. E.; Peng, T.; Potts, J. - 2007

We combine Minsky's financial fragility analysis, behavioural analysis of decision rules and the evolutionary economics of rule trajectories to provide an empirically grounded and computationally tractable theory of the complex evolutionary dynamics of speculative financial upswings. The...

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Understanding business process management: implications for theory and practice

Smart, P.A.; Maddern, Harry; Maull, Roger S. - 2008

This paper presents an empirically validated conceptual model of Business Process Management(BPM) to enable the pursuit of BPM theory. Phase One of the research focussed on the development of an initial model of BPM, derived from a synthesis of current literature. Thismodel consists of five key...

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Conceptual Modelling and Development of an Intelligent Agent-Assisted Decision Support System for Anti-Money Laundering

Gao, Caddie Shijia; Xu, Dongming - 2006

Criminal elements in today's technology-driven society are using every means available at their disposal to launder the proceeds from their illegal activities. While many-anti-money laundering solutions have been in place for some time within the financial community, they cannot adapt to the...

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