/library/oar/handle/123456789/8339 2025-11-03T03:28:07Z 2025-11-03T03:28:07Z Muscat, Adrian /library/oar/handle/123456789/139002 2025-09-15T09:25:27Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Three women, three generations : an in-depth case study of language retention and shift in one family from the Maltese Australian community in Melbourne Authors: Muscat, Adrian Abstract: This paper analysis one family pertaining to the Maltese Australian community in Melbourne and investigates the retention of the Maltese language The Maltese Australian community is a small community that is getting smaller since migration from Malta to Australia has largely stopped Thus the Maltese language is spoken mostly by the first generation of immigrants who left the island after the Second World War seeking a better future The second generation born in Australia usually understands the language but lacks the opportunity or the will to speak the language except with members of the family The third generation raised in a multicultural country normally has very little fluency in the Maltese language The investigation is grounded in interview data gathered among a family of three generations of Maltese origin in Melbourne The findings of this research show that the aging population of the Maltese community and the dominance of the English language do not favour the retention of the Maltese language in the future With the end of the first generation of post-World War Two migrants and the emergence of the fourth and fifth generations probably there will be an absolute shift to English the de-facto national language of Australia

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Ye, Ziqiang Liao, Sikai Gao, Yulan Fang, Shu Xiao, Yue Xiao, Ming Zammit, Saviour /library/oar/handle/123456789/135636 2025-05-21T13:03:53Z 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: CA-FedRC : codebook adaptation via federated reservoir computing in 5G NR Authors: Ye, Ziqiang; Liao, Sikai; Gao, Yulan; Fang, Shu; Xiao, Yue; Xiao, Ming; Zammit, Saviour Abstract: With the burgeon deployment of the fifth-generation new radio (5 G NR) networks, the codebook plays a crucial role in enabling the base station (BS) to acquire the channel state information (CSI). Different 5 G NR codebooks incur varying overheads and exhibit performance disparities under diverse channel conditions, necessitating codebook adaptation based on channel conditions to reduce feedback overhead while enhancing performance. However, existing methods of 5 G NR codebooks adaptation require significant overhead for model training and feedback or fall short in performance. To address these limitations, this letter introduces a federated reservoir computing framework designed for efficient codebook adaptation in computationally and feedback resource-constrained mobile devices. This framework utilizes a novel series of indicators as input training data, striking an effective balance between performance and feedback overhead. Compared to conventional models, the proposed codebook adaptation via federated reservoir computing (CA-FedRC), achieves rapid convergence and significant loss reduction in both speed and accuracy. Extensive simulations under various channel conditions demonstrate that our algorithm not only reduces resource consumption of users but also accurately identifies channel types, thereby optimizing the trade-off between spectrum efficiency, computational complexity, and feedback overhead.

2025-01-01T00:00:00Z Depasquale, Etienne Victor Preist, Chris /library/oar/handle/123456789/130962 2025-01-24T09:37:37Z 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A case for the development of data standards for reporting projections of growth in the Internet’s energy consumption Authors: Depasquale, Etienne Victor; Preist, Chris Abstract: A growing body of literature (the “energy literature”), from academic as well as industrial sources, is contributing to knowledge about the growth of the Internet’s energy consumption. Despite a general consensus on trends, there exist significant differences in the values published as well as in the scope of the network under study. A separate body of literature (the “architecture literature”) deals with the architecture of the Internet. The architecture literature describes the various segments of the Internet, ranging from the first mile to the trans-oceanic backbones that link continents. It also describes current- and next-generation architectures of these segments, with emphasis on the first- and second-mile technologies. A rationalisation of the architecture literature is attempted. This is used to facilitate a comparison of a sample of works from the energy literature. Works in this sample forecast energy consumption of metro-area implementations built according to the current-generation architecture, that presents at least two aggregation stages before the level of the network-network-interface at the service provider’s core. The rationalisation is presented as a recommendation for authors to facilitate the application of their work as the foundation of research directed towards controlling the Internet’s energy consumption.

2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Depasquale, Etienne Victor Salam, Humaira Abdul Davoli, Franco /library/oar/handle/123456789/130918 2025-01-23T10:09:05Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: PAD : a graphical and numerical enhancement of structural coding to facilitate thematic analysis of a literature corpus Authors: Depasquale, Etienne Victor; Salam, Humaira Abdul; Davoli, Franco Abstract: We suggest an enhancement to structural coding through the use of (a) causally bound codes, (b) basic constructs of graph theory and (c) statistics. As is the norm with structural coding, the codes are collected into categories. The categories are represented by nodes (graph theory). The causality is illustrated through links (graph theory) between the nodes and the entire set of linked nodes is collected into a single directed acyclic graph. The number of occurrences of the nodes and the links provide the input required to analyze relative frequency of occurrence, as well as opening a scope for further statistical analysis. While our raw data was a corpus of literature from a specific discipline, this enhancement is accessible to any qualitative analysis that recognizes causality in its structural codes. Through our work, we claim: • To extend the semantic potential of structural coding, where the structural codes are causally related, and • To extend the methodological scope of systematic review.

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