Successful 2003 Discovery Projects Grants by Institution - Australian ...

DP0344447 Dr DG Butt Ms AR Moore A/Prof JA Cartmill
Title: Systemic Safety: the meanings of behaviour in contexts of surgical care
2003 : $75,000
2004 : $75,000
2005 : $75,000
Category: 3802 - LINGUISTICS
Administering Institution: Macquarie University
APD Ms AR Moore
Summary:
This collaborative project aims to improve our understanding of interacting systems of communication, as
exemplified by the context of surgery. Increasingly, adverse events in operative care are considered
systemic rather than a product of system breakdown. Existing systems, and how they lead to adverse
events, need to be made more explicit. We will describe surgical practice as a system of
meaning-bearing systems, integrated from context to content to expression, and incorporating language
and other symbolic systems. We will display the ensemble effects of choices in these systems and how
they predispose towards or inhibit adverse outcomes through systemic networks.
DP0344688 Dr X Duong
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Title: Boundedness of Singular integral operators and applications to Bochner-Riesz
summability, Riesz transforms, and Hardy spaces.
2003 : $70,000
2004 : $60,000
2005 : $55,000
Category: 2301 - MATHEMATICS
Administering Institution: Macquarie University
Summary:
We aim to develop harmonic analysis methods to study singular integral operators and function spaces
associated to these operators. We propose to study the long standing problem of convergence of
Bochner-Riesz means in Fourier analysis, and investigate differential operators with non-smooth
coefficients acting on rough domains, or acting on general spaces like manifolds. Expected outcomes are
new techniques in harmonic analysis to be developed, with applications being solutions to a number of
open problems in the theories of harmonic analysis, partial differential equations and function spaces.
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DP0345643 A/Prof CS Evans Dr DC Burke Mr RA Peters
Title: Design of dynamic visual signals
2003 : $90,000
2004 : $90,000
2005 : $90,000
Category: 2707 - ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
Administering Institution: Macquarie University
Summary:
Models of the design of visual signals depend heavily upon analyses of static ornaments. Nothing is
known about dynamic visual signals. We will use an array of new techniques to tackle this problem for
the first time. Motion analyses will define the task faced by the visual system. Sensory limitations will be
measured to identify constraints on signal evolution. Digital video playback studies will assess recognition
and explain aspects of signal design. Results will test the generality of principles that have been
developed in studies of female mate choice and extend these ideas to address intra-sexual selection
operating through opponent assessment.
DP0345302 Dr RM Ferrell
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Title: Sexual Technologies and Reproductive Powers