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Wednesday 9.30pm, 21/03/2012 on ABC1 Narrated by Adam Zwar, Agony Uncles is a six-part series that charts the do's and don'ts of picking up, falling in love and getting your heart broken.
Background Briefing - 4 April 2010 - Space rules the world
Satellite receivers are being put into mines, trucks, trains, ships, phones, containers of bananas, stock exchanges; almost everything is now being tethered by digital signals to space. Satellites are fast becoming part of everything we do, from farming to banking, and dating to driving. Ian Townsend : In New South Wales, for instance, the Roads and Traffic Authority is testing a safety device, said to be the biggest thing since seatbelts. Ian Townsend : A technologist with the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority, John Wall, says a revolution in road safety is around the corner.
ABC RN: Background Briefing - 26 December 2010
Satellite receivers are being put into mines, trucks, trains, ships, phones, containers of bananas, stock exchanges; almost everything is now being tethered by digital signals to space. Satellites are fast becoming part of everything we do, from farming to banking, and dating to driving. Ian Townsend : In New South Wales, for instance, the Roads and Traffic Authority is testing a safety device, said to be the biggest thing since seatbelts. Ian Townsend : A technologist with the New South Wales Roads and Traffic Authority, John Wall, says a revolution in road safety is around the corner. John Wall : We can use GPS to make what is unpredictable today on the road, predictable tomorrow. I guess one of the applications would be dedicated short range communications.
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Global Positioning System
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman runs through a checklist during Global Positioning System satellite operations. The Global Positioning System ( GPS ) is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather, anywhere on or near the Earth, where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.
ABC Science: How does GPS work?
I've just bought a new phone that is GPS-enabled and it got me wondering, how does GPS actually work? And how accurate is it? If you've ever been walking in an unfamiliar city and got lost in a maze of streets, you'd appreciate having a mobile with GPS to let you know exactly where you are. These phones contain a GPS receiver, similar to the ones you can buy for your car.Committed to assuring 100-percent space mission success. This is our promise. Space provides critical global resources like navigation and is key to our national security. The failure of a launch vehicle or satellite can have catastrophic consequences to both the global economy and our national security. The Aerospace Corporation's No. 1 role is helping assure space mission success.
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USA: GPS.gov
The solar activity in early March did not significantly degrade reception of the GPS signals. It also had no impact on the 31 operational GPS satellites in space.
FAQ: GPS.gov
The GPS User Support page provides links to the appropriate points of contact in the government for reporting GPS outages, interference, and other anomalies. Go there... Like all radio-based services, GPS is subject to interference from both natural and human-made sources.
Map Convicted child sex offender Graeme Paul Hancock appeared in court yesterday charged with making and possessing child exploitation material. "There are people who suggest that we should have global positioning system monitoring or GPS monitoring and again that's something which we'll continue to look at. "But again, I just want to stress none of these electronic systems are foolproof." Queensland Police Union (QPU) acting president Ian Leavers says the Government should explore all options for electronically monitoring serial sex offenders.
Govt considering GPS tracking of sex offenders
Four Corners - 02/11/2009: Further Resources
Australian National Child Offender Register A web-based system designed to assist police to register, case manage and share mandatory information about registered persons as required by legislation. Community Notification of Sex Offenders | Bravehearts Inc. | 2009 While it continues to be our position, based on overseas experience and research, that broad general notification laws do not work, this updated paper outlines our support for the implementation of restricted notification legislation.Ethics of dementia care and funding
ELEANOR HALL: An expert on dementia says governments need to change their attitudes to the condition or risk exacerbating the problem as Australia's population ages. He told Simon Lauder that although millions of dollars are spent on dementia research in Australia it's not enough and that many ethical issues don't get sufficient consideration. JULIAN HUGHES: I can instantly think of two broad areas to talk about. One would be to do with research and the need to do more research for people with dementia and the other would be to do with long-term care and sort of, especially institutional care for people with dementia. It's easy to ignore the sort of ethical imperative to get things right.The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust has worked with a technology company to develop an electronic tag for people with the condition. "So suddenly at eight o'clock at night he will say: 'There's a lovely sunset; I think I'll just go and see if I can see it better'. And that's when he will disappear. "I mentioned to our GP this was becoming a problem. We'd had a couple of really bad incidents where we'd had to call the police out and he'd been missing for more than 24 hours, overnight." Secure website
Tracking dementia patients with GPS
References Agouridis C, Stombaugh T, Workman S, Koostra B, Edwards D, Vanzant E (2004 ) Suitability of a GPS collar for grazing studies. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers 47 , 1321–1329.
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This is a story of chaos versus order. It's the story of how engineers and mathematicians are trying to impose order on one of the greatest plagues of the modern era - traffic. Australia has one of the world's leading systems for adaptive traffic control. But we're all still sitting in traffic jams, getting angry, and Catalyst wants to know why. It seems the problem with traffic is human behaviour; it's the one thing that's hard to build into traffic systems.
ABC Catalyst: Science of Traffic
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