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Publication 1818 The Vandemonians: Michael Howe's Victory in TasmaniaBushranger Michael Howe's four-and-a-half-year struggle with British colonial rule ended when he was bludgeoned to death on 21 October 1818. What if Howe and his Aboriginal allies had succeeded?1019 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication AcknowledgementsAs was the case ten years ago, the more than three thousand members of the Wright Community are all deeply appreciative of the efforts of the many who have given generously of their time, recollections and ongoing fellowship to make this book a proud reality. Like its earlier manifestation, Wright on Education (2006) - and much of which is still 'very evident' in this revised volume - it is a combination of record, reflection, of a willing sharing, and a pride which indeed 'shines through' - as our College motto ever enjoins us. As the compiler and sharer of this further work, I am guided by the 'Editorial' of the Annual Records of Peterhouse, Cambridge's oldest college - and the one I went to as a research student in 1964, a departure from here being then marked by the College's kidnapping the Night Train for Sydney - to recall my then strange feelings at my really but temporary departure from this home that had by then become mine, my residence in Upper Gamma. As the frontispiece indicates, Wright has lost four former and much respected Masters since 2006, and so many of our earliest students are nearing or have passed the four score tally. At the last major physical Reunion, we were homeless, but our original location was unoccupied, and so there was to be waged a long campaign to have the College re-founded, but not relocated - a process also recurring in medieval times for several Oxford Colleges. In a like fashion, the present writer had to be reassured in 1996 that Wright would rise again - as had other foundations variously truncated or bereft of their original site.1740 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Acknowledgements - and the recent passing of Warren Newman (1938-2013)Warren Newman and I, as co-editors, had agreed that here we would express our gratitude and first recognition of the most generous assistance with this compilation to the several direct contributors to the present book. And we had also wished to acknowledge the others who grappled with a topic or aspect of their New England experience, but, in the end, decided that they would not submit their texts for consideration. This meant we had many appraising discussions with another fifteen or twenty persons who were committed to the project. Their ideas, and honest appraisals, have made the whole a better anthology of personal experiences, later reflections, and encouraging advice to the Editors. The various larger groups who have assisted with this project will be found discussed in the 'Introduction'. Clearly there would have been no project - or book - without the sympathy and considerable patience of the administrative leaders of the University, of the Alumni Office, and of the project planners who were associated with the former Faculty of the Arts and Sciences. The tragic death of Warren Newman in December 2013 was one long anticipated, but he had persisted with reading of drafts and suggesting modifications until a fortnight or so before his death. It is not easy to come to an appraisal of his contribution to the live word and experience of both hills, for he had for so long been intimately involved with the life of both.1259 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Adapting to Virtual Third Space Language Learning Futures(Information Science Reference, 2009)Gesche, AstridThis chapter provides a basis for thinking about the dynamics and boundaries of foreign language learning in virtual learning communities of the future. It is suggested that their members increasingly create and operate in so called Virtual Third Spaces. Teaching and learning in these environments requires an adaptive pedagogy that goes beyond mere enthusiasm and technophilia to render them successful. Adaptations of pedagogical practice are proposed in three categories: (1) affective, (2) cognitive, and (3) operational. Consideration is given to the roles of both the learner and educator. Attention is also drawn to an important ethical dimension pertinent for the online virtual environment, but seldom mentioned in the language learning literature: data and information privacy. The chapter concludes by imagining some online language learning futures.1054 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Adult education and developmentNuno Rodrigues rides his motorcycle across Dili, Timor-Leste's capital city, every morning, from his home in Caicoli to the Non-formal Education Centre a few kilometres away in Vila Verde. The Centre occupies a group of run-down buildings which include classrooms, a gymnasium style hall and some dilapidated flats for students or teachers visiting from the districts. From a small office attached to the library, Nuno coordinates the work of the Secretariat for Timor-Leste's National Literacy Commission, which has embarked on ambitious national literacy campaign, aiming to reduce the adult literacy rate in the country from its current high of nearly 50% down to less than half of that within five years. Nuno's workmates and colleagues include a team of Cuban technical advisers, several teachers from the Non-Formal Centre, and a group of university students who are doing this work part time in their final year of studies. During the first half of 2007, they recruited and trained over 400 part-time literacy monitors or tutors to help deliver classes in every 'suco' or local government area in the country, as well as a campaign coordinator for each of the country's 65 sub-districts and the first classes began in several districts. As the campaign moves into its next stage, over 10 000 adults will be enrolled every three months in a basic literacy course, delivered via five audiovisual lessons per week, watched on government supplied TV screens and DVD players in homes, schools, community centres and other venues.1240 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Aftermath: Barrie(University of Alaska Press, 2009)McKelvey, Barrie CReturning, still rather hungry and footsore, to New Zealand and Victoria University, I spent the rest of 1959, like Peter, working on my MSc thesis. Our theses consisted of joint manuscripts and one solo effort each. Peter worked up the sedimentology of the Beacon Sandstone strata and I fear I insulted the mineralogy of the Ferrar Dolerite sills. (It was my one and only foray into igneous mineralogy and is now properly lost and forgotten.) I was busy the whole year, but after the action and excitement of VUWAE 2, felt somewhat unsettled. Then in late November Bob Clark received a cable asking if he had a candidate suitable for a research assistantship in Geology at the University of New England in New South Wales. The position would allow study for a PhD. Although the New Zealand Geological Survey had offered me a position in sedimentary petrology upon completion of the MSc, the chalice of an Australian adventure with a bonus PhD candidature proved irresistible. I obtained leave of absence from the Survey, which could perhaps see two advantages: I might learn something about sedimentary petrology in the course of the PhD and, probably more importantly, they would benefit by a two- to three-year salary saving. In July 1960 I took up tile assistantship at the University of New England, a charming rural campus situated at about 1000 metres altitude atop the New England Tablelands. Rural research was much emphasized and because of the University's farms and extensive campus, it claimed to run about a student to the acre (fewer during droughts). Signing me onto the staff the Registrar apologized for the smallness of my salary. I didn't tell him it was £50 more than my Survey position in New Zealand.934 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Análisis de procedencia de la obsidiana en Arqueología: 50 años de avances metodológicos(Institut français d’études andines, 2018-02); Los inicios de una disciplina Los estudios de proveniencia de la obsidiana en Arqueología han sido el objeto de una larga tradición por su rol clave en el estudio de las antiguas poblaciones (Poupeau et al., 2014). Presente en un gran número de sitios arqueológicos a lo largo de la Prehistoria, su sello geoquímico virtualmente indestructible y único en cada fuente permite, en efecto, identificar el origen de los artefactos hallados en las excavaciones. Según los datos adquiridos, es posible rastrear rutas de circulación y modos de consumo de esta materia semipreciosa. Jumo con los datos tipo-tecnológicos, que precisan el cipo de objeto y lo reubican en una «cadena operativa» (Leroi-Gourhan, 1971), los análisis de proveniencia nos permiten entender mejor las interacciones entre el hombre, la materia y las fuentes, pero también entre las diferentes poblaciones, sus modos de vida y su evolución económica, social y cognitiva (Luglie, 2012; Freund, 2013; Carter, 2014).
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Publication Application of theory in science education classroomsThis chapter is the mirror to Chapter 1.3. The main goal of this chapter is to provide practical examples to elaborate on and illustrate the applications of the main focus areas of Chapter 1.3. A close relationship exists between instructional design and classroom management, based on the ability of effective instruction to engage students (Scott, Nelson & Liaupsin, 2001). We therefore begin this chapter by noting that a general principle of applied theory is that instruction which engages student attention will also contribute to classroom management, an important consideration for every classroom teacher. When we get to the area of applied theory, we are dealing with highly complex elements of instructional design. Important considerations in this area include thinking about how we can best teach concepts to our students, how to develop effective problem-solving skills, how meaning is constructed from the raw information of learning, how to scaffold student learning for transfer or generalisation, and how to get students to regulate their own learning.2228 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication AssessingAustralian nurses have used the nursing process since the 1980s as a way of systematically thinking about what to do for patients they provide care for. Over time expert clinical nurses and nurse scholars have described the basic process and the terms that name its components in a number of different ways. Yet the nursing process remains a dynamic, cyclic and ongoing process of problem solving in practice. The purpose of the nursing process is to identify a patient's health status and actual or potential health care problems/needs/strengths, to establish plans to meet the identified needs, and to deliver specific nursing interventions to meet those needs. The nurse's evaluation of care will lead to changes in the implementation of care, as the patient's needs change during their stay in hospital with improvement or deterioration in their health status. The nursing process not only focuses on ways to improve the patient's physical needs, but also on social, cultural, emotional and spiritual needs as well. Accordingly, the nursing process is: • cyclic and dynamic • goal directed and patient centred • interpersonal and collaborative • universally applicable • systematic. In this chapter, the patient may be an individual, a family or a group.2382 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Assessing Clients with Bowel Elimination DisordersAfter foods are eaten and broken down into usable elements, nutrients are absorbed and indigestible materials are eliminated. Bowel elimination is the end process in digestion. This chapter describes the structure and function of the large intestine, including the rectosigmoid region and the anus, as well as the assessment of bowel function. The anatomy and physiology of the small intestine are discussed in relation to nutrition in Chapter 21; the information in this chapter is provided as a base for understanding health problems from altered bowel function. In addition, this chapter discusses the function of the small intestine in the absorption of digested end products. Malabsorption (impaired absorption of nutrients) is discussed fully in Chapter 26.2384 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Assessing clients with haematological, peripheral vascular and lymphatic disordersAs the heart ejects blood with each beat, a closed system of blood vessels transports oxygenated blood to all body organs and tissues, then returns deoxygenated blood to the heart for reoxygenation in the lungs. The blood components are the haematological system, and the branching network of vessels is the peripheral vascular system: the arteries, veins and capillaries. The lymphatic system is a special vascular system that helps maintain sufficient blood volume in the cardiovascular system by picking up excess tissue fluid and returning it to the bloodstream.1266 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Assessing science teaching and learningAssessment is an integral component of everything that you do as a teacher. The importance of assessment cannot be underestimated. This importance arises due to assessment being the tool that provides feedback to the student, teacher, school administration, and parents and caregivers about the effectiveness ofleaming and instruction in the classroom. With state and national level assessment, such as Queensland Core Skills (QCS) test, Higher School Certificate (HSC) in New South Wales and National Assessment Program - Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) nationally, it can be seen that it provides the lens through which classroom activity, student learning and teacher effectiveness are determined. By the end of this chapter, you will have a good understanding of assessment as a tool for measuring student performance and, more importantly, as a tool used by the teacher and student to make the classroom a highly effective learning environment. You will also understand the differing requirements relating to assessment and reporting imposed on teachers at the federal and state level. This chapter will present to you some of the theory behind how teachers approach the development of assessment tasks in science. You will be introduced to a number of ideas, including the use of formative assessment, used primarily as a means of informing both the student and teacher about progress and as a means of diagnosing learning challenges, and summative assessment, which will form the basis of measuring and reporting student progress. The opportunity to consider the different roles of assessment as it relates to learning will also be provided.2315 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Assessing science teaching and learning in the classroomThis chapter is the 'mirror' to Chapter 1.6 considered assessment at a relatively high level, and described a number of commonly used approaches to describing assessment, including assessment as/of/for learning and formative and summative assessment. In this chapter we will apply the principles described in Chapter 1.6 to develop a number of illustrative high quality assessment tasks. Because of the space limitation and the variety of possible assessment task types that may be developed, we will focus on the thinking that underpins the development of assessment. Initially we will consider the development of individual assessment items and then look at writing an open-ended inquiry task. This chapter should provide you with a structured approach to developing any genre of assessment.2415 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessBook ChapterAustraliaThe area of land in Australia under certified organic management continues to grow. The regulatory framework for organic certification in Australia Certification has remained stable with little change in the past year. However, the organic industry and the Australian Government continue to respond to global organic developments through review of the National Standard for Organic and BioDynamic Produce (National Standard), which was revised in 2016. Timely rain and a good growing season across Australia generally in 2016 bode well for supply of organic produce across most sectors.2539 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessBook ChapterAustralia(Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, 2019); ; ; ; ; 2425 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessBook ChapterAustraliaAustralia has seen even more growth in 2016 in the area of pastoral land under certified organic management. The number of certified organic primary producers also increased steadily in 2016. Using a limited data set, it is estimated that the overall volume (in metric tons) of Australian-grown organic products exported to other countries increased 17 percent between 2015 and 2016. The regulatory and governance arrangements in the certified organic sector in Australia have remained stable since the last World of Organic Yearbook (Lawson et al. 2107), but change is in the air. The Australian Government, organic industry groups, and the participants in the organic supply chain generally are involved in a number of initiatives aimed at enhancing value for the organic sector in Australia.2481 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Australia(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)1058 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Australia's Experiment: Tuition Fees, Student Loans, and University Income GenerationOver the last three decades, Australian higher education has shown considerable capacity for policy experimentation, as it has coped with substantial expansion in student numbers, opportunities for major recruitment of international fee-paying students, the increased application of information and communications technology to higher education, and demands of new international trade patterns and the knowledge economy. This has included major mergers of institutions to reduce the number of public higher education institutions from about 65 universities and colleges of advanced education (CAEs) to 36 universities, abolition of the binary divide between universities and CAEs, a more selective approach to public research funding, and encouragement of private higher education. However, some of the most dramatic experimentation has occurred in the areas of student tuition fees, student loans, and incentives for universities to generate increasing proportions of their own revenue.1063 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Australian Cartooning: Unequalled and UnparalleledRumours of the death of cartooning have been greatly exaggerated!
Despite, or perhaps because of, the fallout from Michael Leunig's 'Instagram mum' (October), Mark Knight's absolution by the Press Council (February), and the ending of daily cartooning by the New York Times (June), it seems that 2019 was yet another historic year for humanity's most effective means of political communication.1877 6 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Australian not by blood, but by character: Soldiers and refugees in Australian children's picture booksIn recent years, Australian children’s picture books dealing with the First World War have balanced the increasingly sentimentalized construct of the Australian soldier as a victim of trauma and the traditional use of Australian war literature as a means of exploring national identity. It is an approach that has proved quite malleable, for variations of it have been used in children’s picture books dealing with the far more polemic issue of refugees. By drawing on this framework, authors and illustrators position refugees as victims of trauma who have displayed qualities that are entirely consistent with a construct of national identity grounded in martial achievement. Readers of these texts are encouraged to welcome these arrivals at a literal level as new citizens and symbolically as new inductees into a pervasive construct of national identity.
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Publication Being Irresponsible in J.M. Coetzee's Novel 'Disgrace''Disgrace' makes visible a kind of ethics that cannot be absorbed, reconciled, or appeased by the individual and society, the self and the other, the particular and the general. The sorts of decisions, actions, and responsibilities that take place in this novel reveal the untenable divide between the single experience of injustice and general injustice, private ethics and public ethics, contemporary violence and historical violence. 'Disgrace' explores an unfinished ethics operating in and through the secret heart-land of postapartheid-era South Africa. J.M. Coetzee writes within and through a developing new world order where division and difference are not destroyed or demolished, but forced underground and transformed. The external, public story of South Africa supports the small-scale story of David Lurie, a middle-aged academic whose personal sense of justice and ethics disturbs public justice and ethics. Far from the ideal hero, yet not quite "bad" enough to be an antihero, Lurie is a character whose misanthropy and cynicism jars against the public image of a nation striving for radical reconciliation and moral renewal. The complex political terrain underpinning, preceding, and surviving this novel provides a rich historical background through which an internal, private ethics us foregrounded.1393 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Beyond Difference and Domination?: Intercultural Communication in Legal ContextsThis chapter discusses intercultural communication in the legal system, an institutional context where the exercise of power through the manipulation of language is central. It examines the way that an understanding of differences between Aboriginal English and standard Australian English has been used in an initiative aimed at improving intercultural communication in the legal system. But it goes on to show some problems with the assumption's underlying this approach, problems which are highlighted in a particularly shocking court case in 1995. The discussion of this case points to the need for a new approach to intercultural communication in the legal process. The Aboriginal population comprises approximately two percent of the total of nearly 20 million Australians. Like dispossessed indigenous people the world over, Aboriginal people are the most disadvantaged ethnic group in the country in terms of poverty, ill health, discrimination, mortality rates, unemployment, and inadequate housing. They are also grossly overrepresented in police custody and prisons. The first language of most Aboriginal people is either Aboriginal English, or one of the English-lexified creoles, Kriol or Torres Strait Creole, although in the remote northern and central areas of Australia there are still a number of people speaking "traditional" languages. In their dealings with the law most Aboriginal people speak a variety of Aboriginal English or a second language variety of English.2117 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication BIM Adoption: Expectations across Disciplines(Information Science Reference, 2010)This chapter presents a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management (AEC/FM) industry and a re-assessment of its role and potential contribution in the near future, given the apparent slow rate of adoption by the industry. The chapter analyses the readiness of the industry with respect to the (1) tools, (2) processes and (3) people to position BIM adoption in terms of current status and expectations across disciplines. The findings are drawn from an ongoing research project funded by the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation (CRC-CI) that aims at developing a technological, operational and strategic analysis of adopting BIM in the AEC/FM industry as a collaboration platform.
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Publication Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Wool ProductionBiodiversity is the variety of life. It drives the ecological processes that keep the planet liveable and productive for humans and other organisms alike. We would not be here without it, so understanding more about biodiversity is in everyone's interests. A comprehensive and useful way to think about biodiversity is how it meets people's needs. This 'ecosystem service' approach identifies the goods and services that people want from the ecological functioning of the biosphere. It helps people define what products and intangibles they want, in what amounts, to whom they must turn for environmental goods and services, and how much they are prepared to pay for them (if anything). In some ways, ecosystem service thinking is nothing new. Healthy food, clean air, fresh water, comfortable attire and a pleasant environment are things that people have always desired; they are just a few of the more obvious ecosystem goods and services. In a recent study undertaken for catchment management authorities across northern Victoria, Jann Williams, Geoff Park and I documented 56 different ecosystem services - that is, specific goods or services that may be available in terrestrial or coastal areas, depending on the biodiversity present, the ecosystem type and the land and water management regime.1215 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Box 16.1: Genetics of wild water buffaloThe wild water buffalo (Asian buffalo, wild Asian buffalo) 'Bubalus arnee' (Kerr 1792) - is one of a number of 'Bubalus' species which were widely distributed in Europe and southern Asia in the Pleistocene, but later was restricted to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia (Mason 1974). Two species, 'B. teilhardi' and 'B.youngi', which were morphologically identified from bone remains in the Wei River valley (Shaanxi Province, China) apparently became extinct during the Pleistocene (Yang et al. 2008). A third species in China, 'B. mephistopheles' (Hopwood, 1925) also found in the Wei River valley and the lower Yangzi River region, survived to the Neolithic and Bronze Age in the Holocene (Liu et al. 2004; Yang et al. 2008). Extant 'Bubalus' species include 'B. mindorensis' (Heude 1888) or tamaraw from Mindoro Island, the Philippines, which is critically endangered (Hedges et al. 2008a), and two species of anoa from Sulawesi, Indonesia: 'B. depressicornis' (C. H. Smith 1827) or lowland anoa and 'B. quarlesi' (Ouwens 1910) or mountain anoa. There is still debate about whether these two are distinct species (Burton et al. 2005), but both are endangered (Semiadi et al. 2008a, 2008b). In historical times, the wild Asian buffalo ranged across South and Southeast Asia from Mesopotamia to Indo-China (Epstein 1971; Mason 1974; Cockrill 1984). It is currently listed as Endangered (Hedges et al. 2008b), with a world population of fewer than 4000, potentially fewer than 200, and it is even possible that no purebred wild animals exist.1185 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Bridging Practices: A Case Study in Pre-service Early Childhood Teacher Education(Dunmore Press Ltd, 2004)1026 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Bringing new learning to old cultures(Open University Press, 2009)Tynan, BelindaThe manager in this case, myself. was enticed to what could best be described as a 'clean page' in an Asian institution. My brief was to establish a faculty with a focus on e-learning. This included setting up the technical infrastructure, undertaking detailed market analysis, developing strategic business plans and developing courses for distance delivery and professional development of staff. This presented an extraordinary opportunity that crossed arts education (my discipline base) and the use of new technologies (a passion) . It was critical to initiate processes that were in alignment with the organizational vision. It was an exciting time but not one that I was completely prepared for: in experience, in my ability to negotiate a different cultural context or in the management processes of the institution itself. There is much that is not explained in this case, and the reader can draw inferences about any gaps. The case study is an attempt to analyse the challenge of introducing change to a 'clean page', and the personal impact of this process.1102 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Building identity and commitment to the teaching of scienceThis chapter is the 'mirror' to Chapter 1.2. In Chapter 1.2 you considered some of the thinking and theory that explained the process of how your identity as a teacher of science develops over time. You were introduced to a number of aspects involved in the process, including identity as a psychological construct, the role, or behaviours that we associate with each of our identities, the importance of the emotional experience of teaching science and how these emotions influence all aspects of the identity-building process. We also highlighted the importance of support from other people. In this chapter we will look at several specific strategies that you might use throughout your teaching career that will allow you to take personal control of your own identity-building process, to ensure that you become the teacher that you want to be. You will commence with a consideration of how your own personal life story has contributed to who you consider yourself to be as a science educator. The importance of aesthetic experiences in teaching will then be examined and will include techniques that will assist you in understanding your experiences. The chapter concludes with a description of a number of techniques that might be used to assist you in developing the academic identity of students.2197 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Byzantium(Millennium House, 2009)Garland, LyndaThe Byzantine Empire was founded by Constantine the Great when he moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to his new city of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), which was inaugurated in 330 CE. This new Christian capital, which became the centre of the Eastern Orthodox Church, welcomed people of all races, as long as they could speak Greek and were prepared to accept the Orthodox religion. The wealthiest, most sophisticated, and cultured city in the world for most of its existence, with perhaps a million inhabitants in its heyday, Constantinople was finally to fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.992 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Byzantium(Routledge, 2006)Garland, LyndaAlthough Byzantine society was undeniably patriarchal, attitudes toward women were ambivalent. They were arguably a marginalised group, strictly controlled within a patriarchal framework, and if there was no seclusion per se, at least separation of the genders was ideologically considered a norm. In theory women, as the inferior sex, were supposed to be seldom seen and never heard in public. They were denied the power of giving instruction in church and debarred from all priestly functions. Nevertheless, the church acknowledged that women were spiritually equal to men, and there were many well-known female martyrs and saints, while the Theotokos (the 'Mother of God') was always a central figure in the devotion of both men and women and was seen as the mediator between humanity and Christ. The icon of the Theotokos holding the Christ child, known as the Hodegetria, was one of the holiest relics in Constantinople. While virginity was considered to be a primary virtue for both men and women, unless women entered the monastic life their major functionswere expected to be marriage and the procreation of children. Motherhood was exalted in the cult of the Theotokos and infertility was thought to be a curse.2116 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Cambrian of the Stansbury and Arrowie Basins(Government of South Australia, Department of State Development, 2016-07); ; García-Bellido, D CCambrian sedimentation in southeastern South Australia was the culmination of deposition in the Adelaide Fold Belt, a meridional belt of deep subsidence and correspondingly thick sediment accumulation initiated in the early Cryogenian (Fig. 7). Sedimentation took place on a basement of Archaean to early Mesoproterozoic Gawler Craton to the west, and Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic Curnamona Province to the east (Gravestock & Gatehouse 1995, Belperio et al. 1998, Preiss 2000, 2002).786 8 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Capital StructureIf capital structure doesn't matter the answers to the following scenarios should be straightforward. Maria Costa has an investment opportunity. For $100 000 she can own her own swimwear fashion design and manufacturing business. Maria is independently wealthy and has the necessary money available in some short-term money market investments. Her accountant has indicated that, rather than using her own savings, there might be a benefit in borrowing some of the money needed for the investment. Should Maria borrow some or all of the $100 000? Are there circumstances where borrowing could make a difference? Maxel Manufacturing Ltd (MML) is a (mythical) Australian company with 1 million issued shares currently trading at $2 each and $1.5 million in debt. The management of MML have identified an investment opportunity with a positive net present value that requires an initial outlay to purchase and install new plant and equipment worth $500 000. Should management borrow the money or issue new equity? What will be the effect on the value of the company? Does the amount of existing debt matter? Michael Moynihan owns shares in MML and has heard the rumours that the company is considering borrowing to finance a new investment opportunity. What will this do to the value of Michael's shares? Can Michael change the outcome of the recapitalisation? ... In this chapter we investigate the mix of debt and equity that is best used to finance a firm's investment opportunities. An obvious extension of the Modigliani and Miller (M&M) proposition outlined on the opening page of this chapter is that capital structure is not important because it doesn't influence the value of the firm. This implies that Maria, the managers of MML and Michael may not have to worry about the questions they are asking. It also implies that this chapter should be very short. The M&M propositions were initially framed in a highly simplified environment that assumed no taxes and no transaction costs. We know, however, that transaction costs and taxation are realities and that recognizing the impact of these realities leads to circumstances where capital structure does become important.1010 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Cardiovascular disease(University Press of Southern Denmark, 2022); 650 11 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Case Study 6: Visiting Sacred Sites in India: Religious Tourism or Pilgrimage?Travel provides an opportunity to fulfil one's desire to move away from the routines of life in order to seek changes, such as spiritual, religious or recreational. Such travel, depending on the motivation, the destination and the journey, generally finds expression within the spectrum of two polar types of movements, pilgrimage and tourism. While the focus in pilgrimage is on the association with some sacred and numinous supernatural power and the ability to go closer to it by means of religious practices, tourism is mainly about 'getting away' to experience a change, and is replete with hedonistic pursuits. There has been a substantial body of literature dominated by discussions on the similarities and differences between the two (MacCannell, 1973; Graburn, 1978; Turner and Turner, 1978; Cohen, 1992; Smith, 1992).1074 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Chronic and palliative care settingsThis chapter is concerned with the care of those people who are living with a chronic or life threatening illness. These scenarios illustrate situations that can occur in the chronic care and/or palliative care settings. They are designed to stimulate your thinking about the most appropriate ways of assessing patient needs and to manage care given the unique situation you are presented with. This chapter is also designed to stimulate your thinking about the guiding principles of chronic and palliative care and how a sound knowledge of these principles can help you to find the best approach to care for an individual and his/her family members.1083 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Climate change, complexity, agriculture and challenged governanceThis chapter takes a systems approach to understanding the degree to which rural sustainability might be achievable under conditions of climate change. It considers the problem of legal effectiveness from a strategic perspective, considering first the interconnectivity of fundamental biophysical systems, and then links these to socio-economic dynamics to provide a rich understanding of the likely effects of climate change on rural areas and on governance itself. The chapter highlights the extent to which the nature of environmental problems will continue to depart from the ones that are well understood, to different self-generating and very complex types, for which innovative governance approaches are essential. Key Words: governance systems, complexity, rural communities, agriculture.
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Publication Community and Policing in Australia: Styles of Policing Rural and Urban CommunitiesOur premise is that the strategies and techniques that police officers employ are adaptations to the types of communities they serve and the law enforcement system of which they are part. A characteristic of Australian policing is that law enforcement occurs through a single state police service. Observations of policing in rural and urban areas of New South Wales (NSW), Australia, indicate that, despite being part of a single state police service, officers develop working philosophies that are systematically adapted to the locations they serve.1234 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Computer love, bed seduction, data datesThe German electronic quartet, Kraftwerk, predicted the reality of online dating- the data date - almost four decades ago with the above humble yet weighty lines. TI1en came COVID, something I am sure even these renegade, techno prophets could not have anticipated. In 2020 the data date had now literally retreated to the bedroom. The song's line, 'another lonely night,' took on new meaning. Data dating became bed seduction for those on the hunt and trawling for online sex, closeness, and intimacy in its various forms. Kraftwerk's soft preaching about screens, loneliness, and different varieties of abstract love-made-real was now upon us: computer love. COVID times and dating apps had heralded a kind of digital, sexual profiteering to inoculate against alone time. This was all offered from the warmth and comfort of your favourite place to rest. Pillow talk had never before been so textual-sexual. Textuality sexuality. Bed seduction was made flesh, virtually available. People are out there. Lots of them. And they want to be close to others. To me. And they want sex. But there are screens in between. That three-letter word again: sex. We can do it, make it, create it, together. Baby. Again, that word: sex. Kraftwerk forecasted text sex before I got my first mobile phone in 2003. There are lots of women out there. And they want me. Now. At least for a time.674 5 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Open AccessBook ChapterConclusionAlthough virtual worlds, and 3D virtual environments more broadly, have been used in educational contexts for more than 20 years, there remains a great deal that we still do not know about how best to design and use them to maximize learning effectiveness and outcomes. The contributors to this volume have explored a range of research topics related to the use of virtual worlds in education. Topics spanned human-computer interaction issues related to navigation, communication, identity formation, and authentic learning; leading-edge technologies that have the potential to take learning in virtual worlds forward in new directions, with a specific focus on conversational agents and computer-controlled avatars; and considerations and frameworks for designing and implementing learning in virtual worlds. The contributions made by these chapters within the broad areas of human-computer interaction, advanced technologies, and learning design and implementation are discussed in turn in the following parts before concluding with a summary of the main contributions of the book as a whole and the opportunities that exist for future research.1605 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication ConclusionThe European Union ('EU') has been particularly proactive in the area of international economic regulation, promoting multiple innovations in this space. These advances are essentially rooted in geo-economic considerations, which have become fundamental for the EU and other countries to negotiate international economic agreements, leveraging mechanisms such as countermeasures to constrain the behaviour of potential competitors. This is evidenced, for example, by the move from cultural diplomacy to an instrumental view of culture, whereby the Union protects its own audio-visual sector as a vital objective in trade negotiation policies. Notably, geo-economics may be the principal reason for the Union to decisively embrace a bilateral approach to international economic negotiations, shifting from bi-regionalism to a complex bilateral approach, as shown by the diffculties encountered in the negotiation of the EU-Association of Southeast Asian Nations free trade agreement.
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