Futures Group

Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Clean Energy Future Group - Australian Government, 2011. 

To test our hypothesis we used a non-hierarchical cluster procedure, which mostly includes partitioning methods that create disjunctive clusters. Initial clusters were made by giving the number of the future groups, which was based on the hierarchical cluster method described above. We then tested our hypotheses concerning the number of clusters (Hypothesis I) and the role of employed variables (concerning specific investments, bargaining power and contract determination. Hypothesis II). 

DW Yes. And I don t know about other schools, but perhaps rmusually, we actually saw that as a working document, the thing that we were working to. And so 1 think that what followed from that document was the need for us to involve other staff with the discussion and the debate and so on. And originally it was called the Futures Group . 

It is difficult now to recapture the excitement and the quality of debate which was such a feature of the futures group meetings. It is not too farfetched to suggest that it was an empowering process for the staff who were involved, as many of them became highly involved in the next stage - making inclusion happen. 

This standard proposal is limited to a format model. So, as it had been pointed out earlier, the implementation of this format requires some complementary work, which can partly be standardized. The definition of the Application Programming Interfaces (A.P.l.) could become a standard in the future. Nonetheless, this would require the creation of a new ad hoc group, with different technical competences. 

Nonlinear dispersion becomes relevant at sufficient pulse powers. In some fibre stmctures tire interiDlay between tire nonlinear dispersion and tire group velocity dispersion can be used to produce non-dispersive waves called solitons. Solitons, altliough beyond tire scope of tliis treatment, may revolutionize tire communication systems of tire future. A full treatment of soliton tlieory can be found in [4, 261. 

Liquid crystal polymers are also used in electrooptic displays. Side-chain polymers are quite suitable for this purpose, but usually involve much larger elastic and viscous constants, which slow the response of the device (33). The chiral smectic C phase is perhaps best suited for a polymer field effect device. The abiHty to attach dichroic or fluorescent dyes as a proportion of the side groups opens the door to appHcations not easily achieved with low molecular weight Hquid crystals. Polymers with smectic phases have also been used to create laser writable devices (30). The laser can address areas a few micrometers wide, changing a clear state to a strong scattering state or vice versa. Future uses of Hquid crystal polymers may include data storage devices. Polymers with nonlinear optical properties may also become important for device appHcations. 

Another group of conjugated thiophene molecules for future appHcations are those being developed as nonlinear optical (NLO) devices (75). Replacement of benzene rings with thiophene has an enormous effect on the molecular nonlinearity of such molecules. These NLO molecules are able to switch, route, and modulate light. Technology using such materials should become available by the turn of the twenty-first century. 

Since the 1960s the overall number of types has been decreasing, or at least remained unchanged (standard products), but some figures indicate that in the future the creation of new products might take place as a strong alternative to the previous mass-produced beers of less body or character. A traditional and overall grouping of beer can nevertheless stiU be made, ie, bottom-fermented beet and top-fermented beer. 

In future a third new group will be required, according to another preliminary statement published quite recently by a team of Australian chemists, Messrs. Hughes, Lahey, Price and Webb. They have isolated six alkaloids from three rutaceous species of that country, five of which have been definitely shown to be acridine derivatives. This appears to be the fiipst-fruits of a survey of the type referred to above, which is being carried out on the Australian flora under the auspices of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and several of the Australian Universities. ... 

No 1 -hydroxytryptamine or -tryptophan alkaloid that lacks a stabilizing group on the indole nucleus has been reported yet. However, isolation of37,38a, 38b, HUN-7293 (293) (96MI69), and apicidin (301) (96TL8077) offers indirect evidence for the existence of 1-hydroxytryptamines and/or 1-hydroxytryptophans in living organisms. We believe their isolation will be reported in the near future. 

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