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Adolescents and the extended residential learning program : A case study

- McDonough, Sharon

  • Authors: McDonough, Sharon
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: The purpose of this study was to explore, through the use of a case study, the impact of an eight-week residential learning program upon self-concept, learning and understanding of community amongst adolescent participants. The study utilized multiple methods of data collection including interviews, focus groups, observation, the Learning Process Questionnaire and the Self-Description Questionnaire II in order to address the research question.
  • Description: Master of Education (Research)

An analysis of autonomic nervous system fuctioning in panic disorder and its relation to negative affect / Marles E. Alvarenga

- Alvarenga, Marlies

  • Authors: Alvarenga, Marlies
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: "The present studies investigated the issue of potential explanatory mechanisms for the observed association between panic disorder (PD) and the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Specifically, this research aimed to elucidate more clearly the contribution of psychological variables. physical processes and social relations to the onset of cardiopathology."
  • Description: Doctor of Clinical Psychology

An analysis of the forces required to drag sheep over various surfaces

- Harvey, Jack, Culvenor, John, Payne, Warren, Cowley, Stephen, Lawrance, Michael, Stuart, David, Williams, Robyn

  • Authors: Harvey, Jack , Culvenor, John , Payne, Warren , Cowley, Stephen , Lawrance, Michael , Stuart, David , Williams, Robyn
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Applied Ergonomics Vol. 33, no. 6 (Nov 2002), p. 523-531
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  • Description: Some occupational health and safety hazards associated with sheep shearing are related to shearing shed design. One aspect is the floor of the catching pen, from which sheep are caught and dragged to the shearing workstation. Floors can be constructed from various materials, and may be level or gently sloping. An experiment was conducted using eight experienced shearers as participants to measure the force exerted by a shearer when dragging a sheep. Results showed that significant changes in mean dragging force occurred with changes in both surface texture and slope. The mean dragging forces for different floor textures and slopes ranged from 359 N (36.6 kg) to 423N (43.2 kg), and were close to the maximum acceptable limits for pulling forces for the most capable of males. The best floor tested was a floor sloped at 1:10 constructed of timber battens oriented parallel to the path of the drag, which resulted in a mean dragging force 63.6N (15%) lower than the worst combination.
  • Description: C1
  • Description: 2003000244

An integrated approach to wallrock alteration in the Bendigo goldfield, Victoria, Australia

- Swan, Haydn

  • Authors: Swan, Haydn
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: "Wallrock alteration associated with the world-class, vein-gold deposits of the Bendigo goldfield is more extensive than has been previously documented. Alteration is characterised by the development of a pervasive and extensive carbonate alteration halo, as well as a somewhat lesser sulphide alteration halo. Alteration features observed resulted from the passage of large volumes of hydrothermal fluids over a protracted period, with alteration features being centred on major structures that acted as the main fluid conduits. The location and history of the evolution of these structures was a dominant control on the location, intensity and extent of wallrock alteration developed."
  • Description: Master of Engineering Science

Aspects of stuckness in Mervyn Peakes's fiction / Alice Mills

- Mills, Alice

  • Authors: Mills, Alice
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: "This thesis argues that stuckness is a central trope in all of Mervyn Peake's extended works of fiction and that most of Peake's characters become stuck at critical points in their lives."
  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

Attitudes and beliefs of rural health and welfare professionals about sexual assault / Margaret J. Radcliffe

- Radcliffe, Margaret

  • Authors: Radcliffe, Margaret
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: "The study aims to document the attitudes and beliefs of a group of rural health and welfare professionals in the Central Highlands region of Victoria, to identify if theoretical frameworks of participants for the explanation of sexual assault reflect community attitudes based on traditional mythologies and misconceptions. The study also aims to highlight where specific training about sexual assault is required, based on needs of participants, and to recommend components for a future training program."
  • Description: Master of Arts

Aurora Leigh : Elizabeth Barrett Browning's novel approach to the woman poet

- Tasker, Meg

  • Authors: Tasker, Meg
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Tradition and the poetics of self in nineteenth-century women's poetry Chapter p. 23-41
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  • Description: "Tradition and how far writers fit into or diverge from the demands of tradition is one of the most debated issues in literary discussion. Gender, however, is not often part of discussions which depend on such questions at the decisiveness of the Modernist break with the Victorian period or whether Postmodernism makes tradition meaningless. By contrast the very existence of a specifically female tradition is still an urgent subject of debate, and it is clear that many nineteenth-century women writers were troubled in their search for literary foremothers. This autobiographical impetus can be located in the work of each of the poets discussed in Tradition and the Poetics of Self Nineteenth-Century Womens Poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Caroline Bowles Southey, Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. An exploration of the self, either in the abstract or in a more closely personal sense, appears in a concern with the craft of poetry and the role of the poet, in a teasing out of language as a marker of a personal encounter with the world, in an adventurous play with genre and a rewriting of myth, and in a bold confrontation with received notions of a womans place. Adventurousness marks the work of each of these poets and is a central focus of these essays."
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  • Description: 2003000084

Australia victrix : Francis Adams and The Melbournians (1892), a romance of nationalism

- Tasker, Meg

Australian women's stories of work and play

- Newton, Janice

  • Authors: Newton, Janice
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Oral history Vol. 30, no. 1 (2002), p. 54-62
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  • Description: In the 1920s and 1930s working-class people from the inner suburbs of Melbourne, Australia took to the foothills of the nearby Dandenong ranges on weekends and public holidays to enjoy a bush picnic or holiday. It was a time in both Britain and Australia when working people were able to take family holidays in greater numbers. Unstructured interviews with former female visitors began with the purpose of gaining an insight into the leisure of the time. Information obtained along the way about working lives reinforced the importance of thinking about work and leisure in association with each other. The incidents that some women remembered from their working lives presented a strong and autonomous view of themselves. While such power could be seen as a realistic view of their holidays in the bush, it appears that the context of the interview relationship contributed to the highlighting of an assertive and lively work identity.
  • Description: C1
  • Description: 2003000092

Changes of names, contents and attitudes to mathematical units

- Turville, Christopher, Pierce, Robyn, Barker, Ewan, Giri, Jason

  • Authors: Turville, Christopher , Pierce, Robyn , Barker, Ewan , Giri, Jason
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics, Crete, Greece : 1st June, 2003
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  • Description: Will this material be on the exam? Why do I need to know this stuff? These are the sorts of questions that have been regularly asked by our mathematics students. Pre-service mathematics teachers often suggest that they do not need to learn anything that they do not have to teach. Generally, these students appear to have very little aesthetic appreciation for mathematics and its applications. Currently, we teach five traditional mathematical content units that are provided mainly for pre-service mathematics teachers. These units have been adapted and modified over the years from units that were designed primarily for science students. They contained a heavy focus on calculus with a limited breadth of mathematical experience. After consulting widely on the best mathematical practices throughout Australia and internationally, it was decided to reform all of the mathematics units to make them more attractive to a wider audience. The units that are currently being developed are: Profit, Loss and Gambling; Upon the Shoulders of Giants; Logic and Imagination; Modelling and Change; Algorithms, Bits and Bytes; Space, Shape, and Design; and Modelling Reality. The overall goal of this redevelopment is to improve student attitudes and motivation by exposing them to a wide range of topics in mathematics that are usable and relevant. All of these units will incorporate current technology, contain realistic problems, and include visiting speakers. Student assessment in these units will consist of portfolios, projects and examinations. The introduction of these new units will result in students having a greater choice of the units they wish to study. In order to overcome potential logistical problems of a small mathematics department, innovative changes to the structure of the units will also be examined. This paper will provide the details of the establishment and content of these units.
  • Description: E1
  • Description: 2003000085

Changing places : Making links

- Smith, Patricia, Callingham, Rosemary, Nicholson, Vicky

  • Authors: Smith, Patricia , Callingham, Rosemary , Nicholson, Vicky
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at AARE Brisbane 2002, Brisbane : 1st December, 2002
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  • Description: Changing Places - Making Links are parallel programs that have a focus on improving outcomes for Indigenous students in the middle years of schooling (Grades 4 to 8), through an inclusive approach. In recent years there has been a move to improve the educational experiences of students in the middle years. In addition there are emerging conceptions of curriculum that have a different perspective on fields of knowledge and, as a consequence, demand changed approaches to assessment and teaching. This paper describes the framework for professional development in Changing Places - Making Links that was developed to take account of these issues. Overarching organisers are drawn from the new Essential Learnings curriculum in Tasmania. Two major themes run through the professional development: Indigenous cultural and community involvement, and new approaches to assessment. The Essential Learnings are addressed through a focus on literacy, numeracy, and personal development. The professional development both models and encourages inclusive practice.
  • Description: E1
  • Description: 2003000140

Contestability and social justice : The limits of competitive tendering of welfare services

- McDonald, John

  • Authors: McDonald, John
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Australian Social Work Vol. 55 , no. 2 (2002), p. 99-108
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  • Description: This paper critically analyses competitive tendering as a model for the provision of welfare services. Competitive tendering, driven by National Competition Policy and other imperatives for greater efficiency and a smaller public sector, is now used extensively by governments to fund welfare services. However, the suitability of this funding model to welfare services generally, and specifically welfare services in non·metropolitan areas, can be criticised on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Competitive tendering is grounded in economic rationalist, urbo-centric assumptions that are largely inappropriate for welfare provision, and have limited validity in rural areas. There is lillie rigorous empirical evidence of improved efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery under this model. Conversely, there is mounting evidence about the negative impacts. In rural areas this includes the erosion of community service obligations, less collaboration and greater secrecy between agencies, the reduction of choice, limited opportunities for local planning, cost shifting, and threats to continuity of care. This paper concludes with a call for greater application of the 'public benefit' test under the provisions of the National Competition Policy, and the development of more sophisticated frameworks for assessing the contestability of welfare services. Social workers have a leading role to play in challenging the dominant ideology of competition·orientated welfare reforms.
  • Description: C1
  • Description: 2003000195

Designing a research agenda to examine the implementation of the health and physical education curriculum & standards framework II

- O'Meara, James, Swan, Peter

Discovering interesting association rules from legal databases

- Ivkovic, Sasha, Yearwood, John, Stranieri, Andrew

  • Authors: Ivkovic, Sasha , Yearwood, John , Stranieri, Andrew
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Information & Communication Technology Law Vol. 11, no. 1 (2002), p. 35-47
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  • Description: The Knowledge Discovery from Databases (KDD) technique called 'association rules' is applied to a large data set representing applicants for government-funded legal aid. Results indicate that KDD can be an invaluable tool for legal analysts. Association rules discovered identify associations between variables that are present in the data set though are not necessarily causal. Interesting rules can prompt analysts to formulate hypotheses for further investigation. The identification of interesting rules is typically performed using an objective measure of 'interesting' although this measure is often not sufficiently accurate to eliminate all uninteresting rules. In this article, a subjective measure of interestingness is adopted in conjunction with the objective measures. This leads to the ability to focus more accurately on those rules that surprise the analyst and are therefore more likely to be interesting. In general, KDD techniques have not been applied to law despite possible benefits because data is often stored in narrative form rather than in structured databases. However, the impending introduction of data warehouses that collect data from a number of organizations across a legal system presents invaluable opportunities for analysts using KDD.
  • Description: C1
  • Description: 2003000037

Domesticating surface, domesticating space : valuing "home" in art during the twentieth century

- Saxton, Louise

  • Authors: Saxton, Louise
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: "This research project aims to shed light on the important role that domesticity has played in art, during the twentieth century. The research proposes that the mundane activities, the ordinary objects and the everyday life of home informs and at times has determined, many historical and contemporary works of art including my own."
  • Description: Master of Arts (Visual Art)

Exotic fish impacts on lake community structure and function in Western Victoria, Australia

- Khan, Tariq

  • Authors: Khan, Tariq
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: The researcher investigated a number of closed catchment lakes in western Victoria that have been stocked with exotic fish. Exotic-native fish interactions were studied and the potential of the exotic species to affect the lake ecosystem structure was explored.
  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

Extending of L-infinity-valued operators under a twisted light

- Cabello Sanchez, Felix, Castillo, Jesus, Moreno, Y, Yost, David

Focus groups and ELICOS evaluation

- Zeegers, Margaret

Francis Adams and 'Songs of the Army of the Night': Negotiating difference, maintaining commitment

- Tasker, Meg

  • Authors: Tasker, Meg
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Victorian Poetry Vol. 40, no. 1 (Spr 2002), p. 71-86
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  • Description: This essay examines the way in which, after establishing a broad literary and journalistic reputation in both England and Australia, Adams adopted a split writing position in Songs of the Army of the Night. Comprising mostly ballads in the style of Chartist protest poetry, the Songs are intertextually determined; to some extent they have a generic life of their own. Yet in adopting the form of popular verse, using vernacular forms and diction, Adams nonetheless constructs a persona that is consistent with much of his more "literary" writing. Songs of the Army of the Night does more than demonstrate conflict in Adams' work between the claims of "art" and "life," between his upper middle-class cultural affiliations and working-class political sympathies. Despite this element of conflict, the configuration of speaking positions is not dialectic, but dialogic in the Bakhtinian sense. (2) That is, the voices or speaking positions in the poetry do not work through opposition to achieve synthesis or progress, or to generate a new set of dialectical terms; rather, they co-exist in a synchronous multiplicity that allows the "implied poet" of the whole volume to be constructed as both a member of the oppressed masses and a middle-class sympathizer.
  • Description: C1
  • Description: 2003000082

Generic arguments : A framework for supporting online deliberative discourse

- Yearwood, John, Stranieri, Andrew