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The 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl Accident
(Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), 2011)
Simmons, Phillip R
The nuclear accident at the Chernobyl plant in 1986 is described and a summary of its immediate effects on people and the environment outlined. Then there is a summary of the important parts of the literature on diseases and deaths resulting from radiation and mortalities to date and the way mortality data became increasingly conservative over the years is discussed. Today, there is still uncertainty about future mortalities due to long latency periods for many cancers however cancer deaths in Chernobyl affected regions are expected to be similar to non-Chernobyl controls. The major literature on environmental effects on wild species, forests, water and agricultural land are then reported with a brief discussion of remediation work and of current trends. Finally, contemporary perceptions of the Chernobyl accident are described in the context of popular anti-nuclear sentiment that prevailed in 1986, the immense publicity surrounding the accident and the natural tendency of people to exaggerate prospects of unlikely, yet extreme, events.
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40 years out: Reflections on not being in the closet - a personal account
(University of Technology Sydney, 2010)
Fisher, Jeremy
When I came to write the text of this presentation, I found I was having difficulty. I'd offered a brief abstract of what I thought I was going to write about, but I wasn't certain there was much significance. Forty years of being out. It seemed so slight, so inconsequential. So I thought I’d better start at the beginning. Let's start in 1970, when I was in Year 10 and 16 years old, a country kid. I finished Year 12 in 1972 and moved to Sydney. I knew there was something happening there. The case of Peter Bonsall-Boone had been on TV, even in the country. In February 1973, I set out to find Gay Liberation - not the philosophy, which was vaguely coalescing inside my head, but the organisation. I'd heard about Gay Liberation because of its recent demonstrations and the resulting hullabaloo in the press. It was a demonstrable part of the light of change beginning to shine across Australia since the election of Gough Whitlam just two months before in December 1972. Gay Liberation had broken away from the more conservative CAMP (Campaign Against Moral Persecution), which focused on law reform, to advocate more radical public activism.
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An Aboriginal Adult Literacy Campaign in Australia using Yes I Can
(Pedagogía 2013 [Pedagogy 2013], 2013)
Beetson, Jack
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Ah Chee, Donna
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Boughton, Robert G
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LeBlanch, Jose Chala
In 2012, the remote Aboriginal community of Wilcannia agreed to pilot for the first time in Australia the mass adult literacy campaign model using the internationally renowned Cuban developed Yes I Can method for teaching adult literacy. The pilot was supported by a Cuban academic who came to Australia for this purpose, and included a participatory action research evaluation led by the University of New England Project Manager. In this symposium, the Aboriginal leaders of the project will join with the two education academics, one from Australia and one from Cuba, to describe the pilot project and reflect on its outcomes.
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Accounting professionalization amidst alternating politico-economic order of Ethiopia
(Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ), 2009)
Mihret, Dessalegn
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James, Kieran
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Mula, Joseph M
As a result of apparent variations in the social, political and economic context of countries, accounting professionalization takes diverse forms and passes through varied challenges in different countries. While accounting professionalization in Western societies has generally been well documented, studies that examine this process in developing countries appear relatively limited. This paper examines the accounting professionalization process in the context of alternating politico-economic developments in Ethiopia over the past century. A combination of functionalist, interactionist, and critical perspectives is employed to interpret the ongoing efforts to establish a viable professional accountancy body in the country. The study illustrates how the dynamics of state-profession interactions, structure of the economy, the role of the state in the market for accounting labour, interactions between the state and global forces, and attributes of the aspiring associations have impacted on the professionalization enterprise. The results are interpreted in light of the results of similar studies in other English-speaking developing countries.
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Accounting Standards and Small Firm Debt and Equity: An International Research Agenda
(University of St Gallen, Swiss Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (KMU-HSG) [Universität St Gallen, Schweizerisches Institut für Klein-und Mittelunternehmen (KMU-HSG)], 2006)
Gibson, Brian
Notwithstanding exemptions provided through professional accounting bodies around the world, standards and procedures applicable to publicly traded firms are often used to identify and analyse financial information about privately held firms. Such approaches may not always be applicable. In an environment of emerging international standardisation and differential reporting for small enterprises, the focus of this paper is on one potentially inappropriate procedure that relates to the identification of debt and equity. In many instances the debt reported in the financial reports of privately held firms is provided to the firm only because the owner's personal assets have been provided as debt collateral. Such a circumstance means the amount involved has more of an equity characteristic than a debt characteristic because the owner's personal wealth is put at risk for an uncertain return. For this reason the existence of debt secured by personal collateral is often referred to as quasi-equity. The presence of unrecognised quasi-equity generates two significant types of problem. Firstly, a potential investor analysing the financial reports of a firm in which reported debt is really quasiequity may assess the firm to be a poor investment opportunity because it has an apparently high reliance on debt in its financial structure. The second problem is that there is an increasing reliance on the content of the financial reports of privately held firms by researchers gathering and analysing data to inform and guide policy. By aggregating that data without recognition of the quasi-equity characteristic of such debt, invalid understandings of the nature of the equity and debt funding of privately held firms might be emerging. Unfortunately the accounting profession has not recognised the existence of these problems and, apart from the special reporting requirements in the United Kingdom, there does not appear to be any attempt to ensure reports prepared for privately held firms identify the presence of quasiequity.
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Active Learners in Lectures
(University of New England, Faculty of Education, Health and Professional Studies (FEHPS), 2004)
Paterson, David Leonard
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Berman, Jeanette
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Graham, Lorraine
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Harrington, Ingrid
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Maurer, Brian John
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Roach, Debbie
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Sargeant, Jonathon Gilbert
In this paper, we describe our involvement in a BEd compulsory special education unit where we attempt to make large group lectures a meaningful learning experience for all students. The large group lecture style is a common feature of university teaching, particularly in those units where alternative teaching methods are made difficult by large numbers of enrolled students. Reference is made to the interaction between teaching which takes place in lectures and complementary forms of teaching such as small group seminars. Strategies that have been implemented since this particular unit was first offered in 1999 are considered. These strategies include interactive learning tasks that take place during the lecture, the use of printed lecture notes as instructional scaffolds and questioning techniques. The nature of the teaching team, individual teaching styles and the ways that different professional experiences may be used to promote learning are discussed. We identify instructional techniques that we consider successful but also those which have limited success. Finally, we provide our own perspectives in an effort to further refine some of the shared techniques.
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Adaptive governance of cross-border river basins: Institutionalising sophisticated subsidiarity
(Global Water Forum, 2013)
Marshall, Graham R
Water resources management in both the Murray-Darling and Colorado River Basins is fragmented across the borders of states within federal government systems, as well as in the latter case across a national border (USA/Mexico). Furthermore, the governments of these states and nations have limited abilities to control other enterprises (whether public, private, civic, or hybrid) within their jurisdictions whose behaviours influence water resources management and its outcomes. In each case there is a need to find a way of achieving cohesion in the decisions and actions of multiple enterprises in order to avert a tragedy of the commons while ensuring equitable outcomes for all stakeholders. This is a problem of institutional design in settings appropriately characterised by complex adaptive systems and their irreducible uncertainties.
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Addressing the needs of low-achieving mathematics students: helping students 'trust their heads'
(University of Leeds, 2008)
Graham, Lorraine
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Pegg, John Edward
This paper reports on part of a national numeracy intervention and research program. The program has the generic title QuickSmart because it aims to teach students how to become quick (and accurate) in response speed and smart in strategy use. This intervention seeks to improve automaticity in students' responses which is operationalised as students' fluency and facility with basic academic facts and procedures in mathematics. Improved automaticity can be achieved by reducing working-memory demands on routine tasks, thereby freeing cognitive resources for higher-order processing including the fluent use of mathematical procedures and competent problem solving.
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Adult Education's Hidden History: Interrogating the 'Great Tradition'
(Adult Learning Australia, 2003)
Boughton, Robert George
Thirty years ago, Derek Whitelock, a Continuing Education lecturer at my institution, the University of New England, wrote 'The Great Tradition', the first attempt at a comprehensive history of Australian adult education. In the period since then, not only has adult education been transformed by globalising capitalism; so too has the practice of history writing, making Whitelock's notion of one 'great' tradition, emanating from the liberal university, decidedly anachronistic. This paper invites Conference participants to consider another tradition in adult education, ignored by Whitelock and his liberal colleagues, a tradition which tied education to the need for radical social change. It also aims to stimulate discussion on the relevance of this critique to more contemporary history writing in adult education in Australia and internationally.
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The Advent of Proto-Oasien Territories in The Piedmonts Of The Hajar Mountains
(Editions Association pour la promotion et la diffusion des connaissances archéologiques (Editions APDCA), 2018)
Beuzen-Waller, Tara
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Giraud, Jessica
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Gernez, Guillaume
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Courault, Romain
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Kondo, Yasuhisa
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Cable, Charlotte Marie
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Thornton, Christopher
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Desruelles, Stéphane
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Fouache, Éric
Etymologically, the term oasis in ancient Egypt means "place of habitation", in the Coptic language the word oasis means "to inhabit". In the collective imagination, oases lose their primary function and refer to isolated green areas in the middle of desert spaces. The geographical or agronomic definitions of the oases reconnect with the anthropogenic component of these areas by mentioning their sedentary and agricultural specificities. The oasis, for the geographer, is a "sedentary mode of occupying desert space. The oasis is therefore, as much as a place, a set of practices "(GARCIER R., BRAVARD J. -P., 2014:305-323). For the agronomist it is "an area intensely cultivated in a desert environment or strongly marked by aridity" (TOUTAIN G. 1967:83-151) where the cultivation of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) plays a structuring role in the construction of an ecological niche adapted to the zonal climatic constraints. Indeed, the date palm, in addition to providing very nutritious and delicious fruits, is the key plant of the oasis agroecosystem. By limiting the impact of wind and sunshine, date palm is the base of a micro-climate that allows the development of an intensive and staged agriculture. This agriculture is generally supported by irrigation systems that capture groundwater, which in turn compensate for the lack of intra-and interannual rainfalls that often prevails in arid climates.
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Almond Genetic Linkage Map and Quantitative Trait Loci for Flowering Time in a 'Nonpareil' × 'Lauranne' Population
(International Society for Horticultural Science, 2009)
Rabiei, Reza
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Wu, Shubiao
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Gibson, John
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Hunt, Peter
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Murison, Robert D
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Sedgley, Margaret
Almond ('Prunus dulcis') is the only nut crop of the Rosaceae. As one of the earliest species to bloom in spring, almond trees can experience severe crop loss due to late frosts and unfavourable climatic conditions. The Australian almond breeding program is one of the world's major almond breeding programs and has developed a genetic linkage map. One of the objectives of the project is to investigate the inheritance of flowering time. The flowering time of a 'Nonpareil' × 'Lauranne' population was evaluated for two years. The proportion of buds and flowers at seven stages of bud and flower development were recorded for each tree using the same procedures in each of two years. A proportional odds logistic model was used to analyse the data, considering the timing of development of buds and flowers as a latent variable that was estimated for each tree on each occasion recorded. These estimates of flower timing were then used in QTL analysis of flowering time. The goal of this project is to identify genetic markers useful in breeding for altered flowering time in almond.
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Analysing the development of institutional policies for sustainability and quality of OERs with a focus on the Australian context
(2010)
Bossu, Carina
Our contemporary society, including organisations and government bodies, higher education institutions, university teachers and learners, appears to be experiencing a growing awareness of the importance of education and its potential to overcome poverty and achieve sustainable development. This recognition has certainly contributed to the development and proliferation of Open Educational Resources (OERs) worldwide. Currently, more than 300 universities around the globe have launched OER projects. Millions of learners have benefited from learning through OER materials, and individual higher educational institutions, mostly distance education providers, have obtained significant rewards in terms of enhancing their reputations, increasing student enrolment and developing innovative ways to produce distance learning materials. Thus, the OER movement appears to have overcome some issues such as its resistance to giving away information and knowledge for "free", licensing, copyright and so forth. However, many questions still remain unanswered mostly those regarding the sustainability and quality of OERs. Based on the above assumption, this paper attempts to explore the existing guiding principles for sustainability and quality adopted to assure users that the OERs materials they are exploring have high-quality attributes. In addition, this paper discusses OER initiatives and policy development, with a focus on the Australian context. The issues that this paper outline are congruent with the current line of research that several organisations concerned with education, particularly with distance education worldwide, seem to follow. This is certainly the case of the DEHub, a research centre for innovation in distance education at the University of New England, Australia.
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Analysis of genotype by feeding level interaction in pigs applying reaction norm models
(Sociedade Brasileira de Melhoramento Animal [Brazilian Society of Animal Breeding] (SBMA), 2006)
Hermesch, S
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Huisman, A E
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Luxford, B G
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Graser, H-U
Progeny groups of sires may differ in their ranking for growth performance at different feed intake levels leading to genotype by feeding level (GxFL) interactions. In pig breeding, GxFLinteractions have been demonstrated in selection experiments (eg Cameron and Curran 1995).In addition, Hermesch et al. (2002) showed that feed intake level affected genetic parametersfor performance traits in pigs.Reaction norm models have been used in the analysis of genotype by environment interaction(eg Kolmodin et al. 2002; Pollott and Greeff 2004). These models describe the performanceexpressed by a genotype as a function of the environment. Often the specific environment isdescribed by the mean performance of animals, which is affected by underlying environmentalfactors as well as genotype of the animals. Allocation of litter mates across feeding levelsreduces this confounding somewhat and provides genetic linkage between feeding levels.These data allow the analysis of GxFL interaction. Estimating the response of sire progenygroups to changing feed intake levels provides additional information to conventionalperformance traits, which may lead to improved selection strategies for efficient lean meatgrowth. It was the aim of this study to estimate GxFL interaction in pigs through applyingreaction norm models which were compared with standard sire models.
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The Analysis of Traders in a Developing Country Value Chain: Pig traders in Uganda
(International Food and Agribusiness Management Association (IFAMA), 2013)
Mtimet, Nadhem
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Baker, Derek
This study analyzed pig traders in Mukono district in Uganda. The main objective was traders' characterization in terms of trading activities, seasonal fluctuations, networking, and business constraints. A second objective was comparison of results across sampling sources, and to assess the extent to which these sources influence research results. Data on traders was collected through a survey questionnaire. The survey employed samples from 3 separate sample frames: traders identified by each of retailers, farmers, and local authorities.
The results indicated a limited number of intermediaries (actors), in the pig value chain in the locality studied. A large proportion of traders are also involved in the retailing function (principally as butchers). Farmers/producers remain the main suppliers to pig traders, whereas retailers/butchers, and in lower proportion small scale producers, are the main customers of these traders. Pig traders are facing many constraints in their day-to-day operations. Limited funds, transport costs and poor transport facilities are the most-cited constraints to traders' buying activities. Business environment constraints (lack of customers, high competition between traders, unpredictable market conditions, etc.) are the most frequently-cited constraints to selling activities.
Traders were segmented into two groups in the basis of their sampling list origin: a first group composed of those drawn from the producers' or retailers' lists, and a second group composed by traders drawn from the local authority's list. Results indicated that the former group is mainly composed of young and inexperienced traders, in contrast to the second group which is composed of aged and experienced traders. Traders groups' constraints analysis showed that the two groups of traders are experiencing different constraints, especially the young and inexperienced traders who cited a large number of problems. These results highlight the importance of the sampling source.
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The Ancestry of Tibetan
(Trace Foundation, 2013)
van Driem, George
The Tibeto-Burman linguistic phylum was identified in 1823. However, the term "Tibeto-Burman" was later used with two different meanings, one by scholars following Klaproth's polyphyletic framework and another by scholars operating within the Indo-Chinese paradigm. Yet the enduring failure of Sino-Tibetanists to produce any evidence for the Indo-Chinese phylogenetic model compels us to conclude that there is no such language family as Sino-Tibetan. Instead, Tibetan forms part of the Trans-Himalayan linguistic phylum, or Tibeto-Burman in Klaproth's sense. Robert Shafer coined the terms "Bodic" and "Bodish" for subgroups including Tibetan and languages with varying degrees of linguistic propinquity to Tibetan, and Nicolas Tournadre has also recently coined the term "Tibetic." What are Tibetic, Bodish, and Bodic? Which languages are the closest relatives of Tibetan? What do we know about the structure of the Trans-Himalayan linguistic phylum as a whole? Based on the phylogeny of the language family, which inferences can be made about the ethnolinguistic prehistory of the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions?
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Antarctic Hoosh - The Genesis of a Keneally Novel
(1989)
Ryan, John S
"The cook ... proceeded to prepare the ingredients of the 'hoosh', by which term the hot, thick soup that constituted the sledging meal was generally known." (R.F. Scott, Voyage of the 'Discovery' Vol.I (1905), p.445) ... This article is concerned with the sources, actual and implicit, external, and from the writer's own earlier fiction, which make up the texture of his last published novel, 'A Victim of the Aurora' (1977), a work only released in Australia in the autumn of 1978. The method of attack was to read the book, reflect on its probably sources, investigate these thoroughly, and then to discuss them briefly with the novelist. The text given here is, it is hoped, a judicious blend of literary deduction, historical and literary biography, and a revelation of the novelist's creative speculations as to possible motor forces behind some of Antarctica's greatest heroes and most dedicated scientists. While the interpretations run the risk of appearing even more subjective than the novelist's several recensions, it is the critic's intention to show what was made of an apparently unexceptionable prototype) and how the possible psychological insights were turned to fictional use. In a number of cases the original's (subsequent) career was often surprising enough to furnish ample justification for the old adage that truth is often stranger than fiction.
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Antibiotic-free poultry production: will Nigeria be ready?
(Animal Science Association of Nigeria (ASAN), 2009)
Iiji, Paul
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Odunsi, A A
The growth-promoting effect of sub-theraputic levels of antibiotics in animal feed was first described in the late 1940s when chickens fed fermentation waste from an antibiotic (tetracycline) plant grew more rapidly than controls (Dibner and Richards, 2005). Since 1950, a wide range of in-feed antibiotics (IFAs) has been available to the broiler industry. In the 1950s, the bulk of the antibiotic agents from the pharmaceutical industry were derived from 'Streptomyces spp'. Many antibiotic substances have been shown to improve FCR and animal growth and reduce morbidity and mortality due to clinical arid subclinical diseases (Rosen, 1995). In a holo-analysis of several studies, Rosen (1995) reported that in 72 % of 12,153 studies from 55 countries, conducted in the preceding 50 years, antibiotics improved growth and feed efficiency by 2-3 %. Ewing and Cole (1994) suggested that average growth improvement of IFA is between 4-8 % and feed utilization can be improved by 2-5 %.
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Applying economics to networks: What analytical insight do we gain?
(AgEcon Search, 2013)
Baker, Derek
A case is made for theoretical and empirical specification of agribusiness systems as networks or netchains. This primarily involves characterization not only of the actors in value chains but also of the links between them. Selected recent work on applications of network analysis methods and approaches to economics generally, and agribusiness specifically, is discussed and extended to an empirical study of smallholder and informal dairy value chains in Tanzania and Uganda. Results are discussed in terms of network-related indicators and their economic and gender-related implications. A logical progression of hypotheses about network-mediated development impact is presented.
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Approches analytiques pour les etudes de provenance d'obsidiennes en Corse prehistorique
(l'Association de Recherches Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Corses, 2019)
Orange, Marie
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Le Bourdonnec, Francois-Xavier
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Bellot-Gurlet, Ludovic
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Luglie, Carlo
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Bressy-Leandri, Celine
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Gratuze, Bernard
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Dubernet, Stephan
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Dillmann, Philippe
En Corse, les outils taillés en obsidienne sont fréquents dans les séries néolithiques, or cette matière première vitreuse est allochtone. Rechercher ses sources potentielles est une étape clé pour appréhender l'organisation des habitats préhistoriques et les interactions entre les groupes humains en zone tyrrhénienne. La communication proposée s'efforcera de démontrer la nécessité d'optimiser les stratégies analytiques afin de répondre efficacement aux enjeux actuels des études de provenance
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Appropriately challenging work for all learners: what about students having fun?
(2005)
Paterson, David L
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Smith, Susen
Individual Differences: acknowledging the individuality of learners doesn't mean that we abandon what we know about effective instruction.
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Are they answering what we think we're asking?: The importance of pre-testing survey questions using cognitive interviews
(Australasian Evaluation Society (AES), 2008)
McCormack, Cathryn Louise
Evaluation often involves conducting surveys. To create a survey, a typical process consists of: drafting questions using our experience and understanding of basic principles of good question writing to guide us, and obtaining feedback from colleagues. Sometimes a focus group might be included, or conducting a small scale trial. However this process misses the vital pre-testing stage of cognitive interviews. Cognitive interviews are widely used in the development of surveys for health and social sciences, but appear to be underutilised to inform the development of instruments in other fields. In the process of reviewing its unit and teaching evaluation instruments, the University of New England (UNE) investigated both existing and proposed questions with cognitive interviews using a retrospective think aloud protocol. Over 120 interviews were conducted with students. Each student was asked three or four questions from the full set, resulting in about 20 responses for each question. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analysed for variation in understanding. The cognitive interviews identified problems with conceptualisation and phrasing in the question wording, as well as problems with variation of interpretation of the items on the response scale. These problems were not at all clear to the panel developing the survey prior to the interviews being conducted.
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Assessing Creativity in Composing Music: Product-Process-Person-Environment Approaches
(Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), 2001)
Auh, Myung-sook
How do teachers and researchers assess creativity in composing music? Four approaches can be used: assessing 1) Product, 2) Process, 3) Person, and 4) Environment. The purpose of the study was: 1) to give an overview of research studies in each of the four approaches, and 2) to suggest a Product-oriented method for assessing creativity in composing music and story-telling by children, which was successfully used with high interjudge reliabilties in Auh & Johnston (2000). The overview should give a clear picture of assessment methods for creativity in composing music. The overview shows that: 1) Product - A most commonly used method for assessing music compositions is expert judges' evaluations using criteria. Computerized content analysis has been used for Western classical masterpieces. 2) Process - Compositional strategies used by Expert vs. novice can be described as Gestaltistic vs. Atomistic. 3) Person - Visual imagery stimulated by use of graphic notations in composing music made a significant difference in musical creativity, producing more creative compositions. 4) Environment - Creativity in the East versus the West can be described as intuition vs. logic. Cross-cultural studies of musical creativity show that musicians of non-western countries emphasize aural skills, improvisation, and opportunity to exercise creative potentials.
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Assessing the potential of Sentinel-1 in retrieving mango phenology and investigating its relation to weather in Southern Ghana
(International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA), 2022-06-29)
Torgbor, Benjamin Adjah
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Rahman, Muhammad Moshiur
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Robson, Andrew
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Brinkhoff, James
The rise in global production of horticultural tree crops over the past few decades is driving technology-based innovation and research to promote productivity and efficiency. Although mango production is on the rise, application of the remote sensing technology is generally limited and the available study on retrieving mango phenology stages specifically, was focused on the application of optical data. We therefore sought to answer the questions; (1) can key phenology stages of mango be retrieved from radar (Sentinel-1) particularly due to the cloud related limitations of optical satellite remote sensing in the tropics? and (2) does weather have any effect on phenology? The study was conducted on a mango farm in the Yilo Krobo Municipal Area of Ghana. Time series analysis for radar vegetation index (RVI) values for 2018 – 2021 was used to retrieve three key phenology stages of mango namely; Start of Season (SoS), Peak of Season (PoS) and End of Season (EoS). Characteristic annual peaks (in April/May for the major season and October/November for the minor season) and troughs (in June/July for the major season and December/January for the minor season) in the phenology trend of mango were identified. Rainfall and temperature explained less than 2% and 14% of the variability respectively in mango phenology. The application of radar remote sensing provides a cutting edge technology in the assessment of mango phenology, particularly in the tropics where cloud cover is a big challenge. This study offers an opportunity for production efficiency in the mango value chain as understanding of the crop's phenology allows growers to manage farm and post-harvest operations.
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Assessing the rigor and relevance of planned instruction on an authentic task in which pre-service teachers target the moving skills of the NSW PDHPEK-6 syllabus
(Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), 2007)
Freak, Annette
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Miller, Judith A
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Haynes, John E
The investigation of an authentic assessment task is the focus of this research. The lesson plan is used in many pre-service teacher education programs. Such plans potentially enable teacher educators to better understand pre-service teachers thinking about teaching. In an effort to investigate this potential, the International Center's Rigor/Relevance Framework is adapted to the psychomotor domain. It is then applied to pre-service teachers work samples. These pre-service teachers have completed only the mandatory unit of study on the PDHPE specialist pathway currently offered at the University of New England. In order to measure the efficacy of such a pathway, instruments are being explored and trialled as potential indicators of professional readiness to plan for successful learning in PDHPE. Challenges and contributions to tertiary education are presented in reporting the outcomes of this study.
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Assignment of Business Goodwill without the Business Name: A Franchise in Disguise
(2008)
Forrest, Heather
Even in 1901 it was said that "goodwill is bought and sold every day. It may be acquired... in any of the different ways in which property is usually acquired. When a man has got it he may keep it as his own." Despite agreement as to its proprietary nature, one hundred years on there is markedly little agreement about what exactly goodwill is or what comprises it. In the seminal judgment of Lord Macnaghten in Inland Revenue Commissioners v Muller & Co's Margarine Ltd it is described as being an 'attractive force' and composed of 'elements'. In Australia, a joint judgment of the High Court of Australia describes it as 'a valuable right or privilege' to make use of such forces or elements, a 'quality or attribute' that derives from 'sources' being the assets of the business. The intention of this paper is not to revisit the broad question of 'what is goodwill', but rather to focus more specifically on the legal relationship between business names and goodwill in business acquisitions.
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Assisting on the Return Journey: International Law and the Role of the International Community
(World Police & Fire Games Corporation, 2007)
Eburn, Michael Ernest
Most major disasters involve an element of international response, when other countries, and citizens, provide 'cash-or-kind relief' to an affected State. In this paper I will argue that how a country responds to a disaster is also a matter of significance under international law. The international community (other States, international organisations such as the United Nations and its specialised agencies as well as non-government organisations (NGOs)) are taking a greater interest in how States manage disaster recovery and are asserting new rights to intervene where they think that is appropriate.
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Australia's Values Education Movement
(Griffith University, 2006)
Jones, Tiffany
The landscape of values education in Australian schools is currently undergoing striking shifts. In the past values education in both Islamic and public schools has been termed 'inconsistent' with Australian values or 'non-existent' (Yaxley, 2004). Schools must now comply with the 'National Framework for Values Education in Australian Schools (NFVEAS)' framework (Australian Government, 2005a), introduced in 2005. While there have been studies completed on international policies, this new terrain has not yet been properly mapped out: Australian values education policy is unknown territory. Three factors make Australia's Values Education policy worth investigating: the wide-spread nature of the values education movement, the lack of adequate critique of this movement, and the fact that this framework represents the first official Australian standard of values education.
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The Australian Academic Profession: a first overview
(Hiroshima University, Research Institute for Higher Education, 2008)
Coates, H
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Goedegebuure, Leo
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Van Der Lee, Jeannet Jaantje
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Meek, Vincent Lynn
This paper provides a first preliminary analysis of the Australian CAP survey results. The Australian survey closed in early December 2007. Given the time necessary to clean and organise the database, there obviously has been little time to engage in in-depth statistical interrogation of the data. Nonetheless, even a cursory glance at the responses indicates a very rich and interesting data set that will lend itself to on-going analysis over the next months if not years.
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Australian Electricity Supply: Orientations to Growth and Prospects for Sustainability
(Australia and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (ANZSEE), 2007)
Smith, Gregory Owen
In the new competitive order, Australian electricity systems have been oriented to growth of electricity sales based on low margins and the capture of market share. Electricity is a premium fuel. The second law of thermodynamics testifies to this, as does the relationship between coal-fired electricity and the negative externality of greenhouse warming. Electricity prices should reflect its status as a premium fuel. Ease of transition in such a regime would be fostered by the taking up of options for energy efficiency and renewable sources of supply.
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Australian Experience with Private Higher Education
(Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, 2008)
Harman, Grant
This paper describes recent major expansion in private higher education in Australia. It concentrates particularly on higher education institutions as defined today in Australia as institutions offering recognised university-style degrees and diplomas, excluding vocational education and training that in other countries might be found in community colleges. It also concentrates on private higher education institutions and students, and not on other forms of privatisation that include strategies to attract private resources to support higher education institutions and students. However, reference will be made to the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) that has operated in Australia since 1990 and to its extension through FEE-HELP to tuition fee-paying domestic students in public and private institutions. Reference will also be made to entrepreneurial activities of public universities in raising substantially increased revenue, especially by charging full-cost fees from both domestic and international students, and by means of commercial activity. What is probably of most interest to an international audience are details about the recent expansion of private higher education enrolments and institutions and why this expansion has taken place; problems in defining private higher education and the lack of a robust data base; and the important role played by governments in providing a legislative base for private universities, an appropriate regulatory and quality assurance framework, including restrictions on use of the name "university" in institutional titles; and, more recently, government financial support to selective private providers for particular national priority courses and, more generally, to students in private institutions.
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Australian Higher Education Country Report
(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 2008)
Goedegebuure, Leo
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Meek, Vincent Lynn
The discussion of the Australian Country Report starts with a general overview of the higher education system's structure and function, followed by a more detailed analysis. We then describe and analyze the national policy framework in which higher education is located. Australia has had its fair share of reviews and government policy initiatives, and currently again is going through a period of major review. This makes it difficult to look forward as the system at the moment is in a veritable status quo and much of the future directions depend on political priority setting and economic developments. Nevertheless, an attempt has been made to highlight major trends an issues, both in the sections on societal commitment and on research and innovation, as well as in the separate section on this thematic. As the discussion demonstrates, market disciple and the principles of concentration and selectivity have significantly shaped the Australian higher education system in recent decades. However, this by no means implies that burdensome bureaucratic regulation has disappeared. The final section briefly discusses the main topics that were suggested under the heading "Towards a new agenda".
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Australian Media Sucks the Fun out of Media
(International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), 2022-07)
Ward, Lisa
The Australian media landscape is populated with, among others, journalists and comedians. While the island nation has a democratic political structure, there are no constitutional guarantees to freedom of speech and no bill of rights on the horizon.
What happens when media activity collides with the law? This paper argues that Australia's media laws have a chilling effect on freedom of speech. Comedians and journalists, at the lower end of aggravation, are served with cease and desist notices and, at the other extreme, dragged out of their home by counter-terrorism police. Media actors have been charged with defamation; stalking; their homes raided by federal police; and, posting online gagged. As a result, some news organisations closed their Australian Facebook presence; others, closed comments sections. This presentation explores the boundaries and restrictions on freedom of speech, and the impact on the Australian media's ability to perform the role of an effective fourth estate, essential force and check on our democracy.
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The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index: Assessing Australia's disaster resilience at a national scale
(Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, 2017-09)
Parsons, Melissa
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Morley, Phil
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Glavac, Sonya
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McGregor, James
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Hastings, Peter
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Reeve, Ian
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Stayner, Richard
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McNeill, Judith
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Marshall, Graham
The Australian Natural Disaster Resilience Index (ANDRI) is Australia's first national-scale standardised snapshot of disaster resilience. Because of its national extent, the ANDRI takes a top-down approach using indicators derived from secondary data. The ANDRI has a hierarchical design based on coping and adaptive capacities representing the potential for disaster resilience in Australian communities. Coping capacity is the means by which people or organizations use available resources, skills and opportunities to face adverse consequences that could lead to a disaster. Adaptive capacity is the arrangements and processes that enable adjustment through learning, adaptation and transformation. Coping capacity is divided into themes of social character, economic capital, infrastructure and planning, emergency services, community capital and information and engagement. Adaptive capacity is divided into themes of governance, policy and leadership and social and community engagement. Indicators are collected to determine the status of each theme. This paper will present a preliminary assessment of the state of disaster resilience in Australia, and the spatial distribution of disaster resilience across Australia. We then outline the framing of the assessment outcomes as areas of strength and opportunities for enhancing the capacities for disaster resilience in Australian communities. The utilisation of the ANDRI into emergency management agency programs and tools will also be discussed.
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Australian Tort Law: Unity, Fragmentation and Complexity
(Fudan University, Law School, 2011)
Lunney, Mark
The Second International Forum on Civil Law is concerned, amongst other things, with the unification and internationalisation of tort law. Much work has been done in Europe on developing a common set of ideas that encapsulate the main elements of the tort system of European jurisdictions. 'The Principles of European Tort Law' ('the Principles') are the tangible result of this enquiry. They do not represent every detail of the tort law that operates within each of the jurisdictions covered by the Principles, but each jurisdiction can identify the main elements of their systems within the Principles. In our current gathering of international tort law scholars, the question arises as to whether further attempts, at either a regional or global level, to develop overarching principles of tort law can or should be attempted. In the international era in which we live there is clearly merit in attempting to devise a set of principles that can explain the common features of our legal systems. This may be possible as long as we remember that we are looking for high-level, relatively abstract legal principles. We should not expect to find more detailed aspects of the tort law of our legal system represented in these principles but they should, nonetheless, be recognisable as present in our own system. In the context of this Second International Forum on Civil Law, the prospect of identifying a set of principles for a 'common' tort law of south-east Asia, or some other regional area, is appealing. A more difficult question is whether any such common tort law should have regard to the tort law of Australia. Of course, Australian tort law can be of interest comparatively, in the same way that the tort law of Europe and North American is of interest. But, arguably, Australia is different. Geographically and economically, Australia is part of Asia; in particular, the economic relationship between Australia and China is one the most robust in the region. Given the very different historical and cultural influences on the development of tort law, we should not expect the detail of Australian tort law to be recognisable in other tort systems in Asia (apart from jurisdictions based on a common law system such as Singapore). But if we look for high level, abstract principles, along the lines of the Principles, we may, perhaps, recognise that the Australian system shares features of other tort law regimes in the region. Moreover, we may also recognise that there are key differences, and we can then explore the reasons for those differences. We should attempt to explain uniformity where it exists but not to create it where it does not. In this way, a comparative analysis of tort law challenges us to explain why our own tort system is the way it is. The task of this paper is to provide an outline of some of the features of Australian tort law. Only when we have an accurate understanding of how Australian tort law actually operates can we identify its main features and determine how it might be represented in a series of high level abstract principles.
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Bank Fees and Small Firms: An Exploratory Evaluation
(Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand (SEAANZ), 2009)
Gibson, Brian
While there is some support for the actions of financial institutions in their apparent shift to charge higher fees, these shifts appear to invoke adverse reactions by customers and extensive debate between opposing advocates. Unfortunately this debate is often not well informed as issues of non lending relationships are not extensively researched and this is especially the case for small businesses. The research reported in this paper is exploratory in nature and focuses on identifying the nature of day to day trading accounts used by small firms in Australia and the cost to business and attitude of owners toward fees and charges on these accounts. Findings indicate that many (40%) small firms do not use major banks and that the majority (63%) do not source borrowings from financial institutions. Bank fees and charges are not a significant cost for most firms but owners do have concerns about the fees and charges levied and other aspects of their relationship with banks.
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Barriers to early identification of early psychosis among young rural males
(2007)
Wilson, Rhonda L
The length of duration of untreated psychosis adversely effects the long term prognosis and recovery period. Discovering the barriers to early identification of EP amongst young rural men will help to achieve a reduction in the length of untreated psychosis, thereby, improving prognoses for this group.
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Beef CRC BeefSpecs Fat Calculator
(NSW Government, Industry and Investment NSW, 2009)
McKiernan, WA
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McPhee, Malcolm John
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Walmsley, Bradley J
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Oddy, Hutton
Beef producers are constantly faced with decisions on the type of cattle to produce or acquire, the management system employed to optimise their production, and the relevant market end point. These decisions are based on their experience and knowledge of their cattle's performance, seasonal situation and potential to grow cattle and the specifications of the various markets available to them. The BeefSpecs fat calculator has been designed to assist producers in making these critical decisions. This paper describes the calculator, its application and results of testing to date.
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Beef Improvement Research Program
(Routledge, 2003)
Jeyaruban, M G
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Beginning a cross-cultural primary health care evaluation in Thailand: An analytical study of opportunities and challenges faced by early career researchers
(Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), 2006)
Ditton, M
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Lehane, L
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Beginning Teachers Employed On A Casual Basis: Their Lived Experiences And Strategies To Cope
(2008)
Kivunja, Charles
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Boyd, Jillian
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Reitano, Paul
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Harrington, Ingrid
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Jones, Marguerite A
This paper reports the findings of a study on the lived experiences of UNE graduates from a range of Primary and Secondary initial teacher education programmes who are employed as casual beginning teachers. Data were gathered through telephone interviews and analysed using the relatively new qualitative data software called Leximancer (Smith, 2007).
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