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Developing a practice framework

- Matthews, Audrey

  • Authors: Matthews, Audrey
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Practice Reflexions Vol. 3, no. 1 (2008), p. 47-54
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  • Description: This paper will outline the key elements of my professional identity, giving the reader a portrait of how I will operate as a social welfare worker. My practice framework includes a discussion of the values of social justice, accountability, transparency and congruence which I feel strongly about. Included is an evaluation of postmodernism, systems theory and anti-oppressive theories, three theories which have best informed my practice, and how these theories were revised, modified or confirmed (O’Connor, Wilson & Setterlund 2003:217). Issues such as the influence of the medical model in welfare work and the use of principles similar to those used during the time of the stolen generation posed a challenge to my practice on placement. I have discovered my professional identity is shaped by my belief that change is possible and can occur. I have identified closely with critical social work practice and a reflective approach.

Developing clinical judgement : a case scenario approach

- Paliadelis, Penny

Developing culturally competent reflective practitioners. Part 2. The culturally responsive reflective practice model

- Stockhausen, Lynette, Serizawa, A.

  • Authors: Stockhausen, Lynette , Serizawa, A.
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Asian Journal of Nursing Vol. 11, no. 1 (2008), p. 8-12
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  • Description: This paper extends the issues and arguments raised in Part 1 of this article, and outlines the dimensions of a new framework designed specifically for the introduction of reflective practice into different cultures and becoming culturally attuned as competent reflective practitioners. The framework for the development of culturally competent reflective practice draws on theories, models, and explanations of both reflective practice and culture, and benefits from the cultural experiences of the authors, which adds further authenticity to the model's development and use. This educational model can be used by educators to sensitise themselves to cultural nuances, aid students in becoming culturally responsive (aware, safe, or competent), provide a structure for class planning, and remind themselves of the need for cultural competence when introducing reflective practice within a 'different' culture. © 2008 Scientific Communications International Limited.
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Developing future injury prevention research leaders - in support of 'mentoring'

- Finch, Caroline, Poulos, Roslyn

Development of a model of mental health vulnerability for young men living in rural and regional areas : An investigation of the roles of sense of belonging and employment status

- Jenkins, Megan

  • Authors: Jenkins, Megan
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Doctorate
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  • Description: Professional Doctorate of Psychology (Clinical)

Development of a tennis-specific fatigue-inducing protocol and the effects of caffeine on performance

- Hornery, Daniel, Farrow, Damian, Mujika, Inigo, Young, Warren

  • Authors: Hornery, Daniel , Farrow, Damian , Mujika, Inigo , Young, Warren
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Science and Racket Sports IV p.
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  • Description: Tennis performance is multi-faceted, characterized by an intricate integration of physical attributes, perceptual skill and technical proficiency. The dyanamics of the sport and the various styles adopted by players (e.g. baseline or serve and volley), ensures that there is no predetermined match intensity or duration. Similarly, variable environmental conditions challenge sustained performance excellence. Success at the elite is often determined by one's ability to resist fatigue.

DFS based partial pathways in GA for protein structure prediction

- Hoque, Md Tamjidul, Chetty, Madhu, Lewis, Andrew, Sattar, Abdul

  • Authors: Hoque, Md Tamjidul , Chetty, Madhu , Lewis, Andrew , Sattar, Abdul
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Third IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2008
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  • Description: Nondeterministic conformational search techniques, such as Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are promising for solving protein structure prediction (PSP) problem. The crossover operator of a GA can underpin the formation of potential conformations by exchanging and sharing potential sub-conformations, which is promising for solving PSP. However, the usual nature of an optimum PSP conformation being compact can produce many invalid conformations (by having non-self-avoiding-walk) using crossover. While a crossover-based converging conformation suffers from limited pathways, combining it with depth-first search (DFS) can partially reveal potential pathways. DFS generates random conformations increasingly quickly with increasing length of the protein sequences compared to random-move-only-based conformation generation. Random conformations are frequently applied for maintaining diversity as well as for initialization in many GA variations.

Digital image retrieval using intermediate semantic features and multistep search

- Zhang, Dengsheng, Liu, Ying, Hou, Jin

  • Authors: Zhang, Dengsheng , Liu, Ying , Hou, Jin
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Proceedings of the Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications p. 513-518
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  • Description: Recently, semantic image retrieval has attracted large amount of interest due to the rapid growth of digital image storage. However, existing approaches have severe limitations. In this paper, a new approach to digital image retrieval using intermediate semantic features and multistep search has been proposed. Instead of looking for human level semantics which is too challenging at this stage, the research looks for heuristic information and intermediate semantic features which can describe image content objectively. Different from the conventional approaches, the intermediate features are used as filters to eliminate large amount of irrelevant images. Conventional content based image retrieval techniques and relevance feedback (RF) are applied following the filtering to improve the retrieval accuracy. The proposed system has the power of capturing both regional features and global features, and making use of both semantic features and low level features. The proposed system also uses a powerful user interface to provide users with convenient retrieval mechanisms including SQL, RF and query by example. Results show the system has a significant gain over existing region based and global image retrieval approaches

Diploma and advanced diploma qualifications in the community services and health industries

- Burke, Gerald, Smith, Andy, Dumbrell, Tom, Long, Michael

  • Authors: Burke, Gerald , Smith, Andy , Dumbrell, Tom , Long, Michael
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Vol. , no. (2008), p.
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  • Description: This study investigated several aspects of the value and funding of diplomas and advanced diplomas in community services and health (CSH). It reviewed the extent of training at this level, various data on the employment of persons with these qualifications and the ways training is funded. A number of key questions are addressed in this paper. What is the value of diploma and advanced diploma qualifications in responding to the needs of the CSH industries? How are diplomas and advanced diplomas currently being funded? What is the best way to fund higher level qualifications within the CSH industries? Key findings include: student numbers in diplomas and advanced diplomas have been rising in CSH but declining in most other industries; employment in CSH has been rising rapidly and within CSH the proportion of persons with diplomas or advanced diplomas has been rising; the mandating of minimum qualifications for particular occupations has been an important factor in the increased employment of persons with diplomas in CSH; most of the training for diplomas is provided in government supported training, however, of the small numbers taking advanced diplomas, only a minority are in government supported places; about 13 per cent of all government recurrent expenditure on [vocational education and training] VET is made on CSH Training Package courses; and of that 13 per cent about a third is spent on training for diplomas and advanced diplomas.

Discourses of deficit in Higher Degree Research Supervisory pedagogies for international students

- Zeegers, Margaret, Barron, Deirdre

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Barron, Deirdre
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Pedagogies: An International Journal Vol. 3, no. 2 (2008), p. 69-84
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  • Description: Global student mobility has placed pressure on western universities to recruit students from non-western, non-English-speaking backgrounds. In this article, we argue that language requirements such as the International English Language Testing System bands are underpinned by discourses that privilege western modes of thought. We go on to argue that English language proficiency underpins discourses of deficit that construct non-western students as less able to undertake research programmes. In exploring pedagogical possibilities, we draw on a published story of an international higher degree research student, called Mei, at an Australian university. We question the idea that a research higher degree is more about linguistic skills than it is about research skills, and we argue that rigour, scholarship, and new knowledge constitute the assessable factors in what international higher degree research students produce.
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Discrete gradient method : Derivative-free method for nonsmooth optimization

- Bagirov, Adil, Karasozen, Bulent, Sezer, Monsalve

  • Authors: Bagirov, Adil , Karasozen, Bulent , Sezer, Monsalve
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications Vol. 137, no. 2 (2008), p. 317-334
  • Relation: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0666061
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  • Description: A new derivative-free method is developed for solving unconstrained nonsmooth optimization problems. This method is based on the notion of a discrete gradient. It is demonstrated that the discrete gradients can be used to approximate subgradients of a broad class of nonsmooth functions. It is also shown that the discrete gradients can be applied to find descent directions of nonsmooth functions. The preliminary results of numerical experiments with unconstrained nonsmooth optimization problems as well as the comparison of the proposed method with the nonsmooth optimization solver DNLP from CONOPT-GAMS and the derivative-free optimization solver CONDOR are presented. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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Distribution of modern diatom assemblages among small playas

- Boggs, D. A., Gell, Peter, Eliot, I., Knott, B.

  • Authors: Boggs, D. A. , Gell, Peter , Eliot, I. , Knott, B.
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Australian Journal of Botany Vol. 56, no. 2 (2008), p. 131-143
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  • Description: Diatom diversity of six small playa lakes within the Yarra Yarra drainage system, Western Australia, and the environmental variables likely to influence their distribution was investigated. Thirty-one pennate diatom taxa were identified. Taxa consisted of facultative planktonic and periphytic, circumneutral to alkaliphilous or pH-indifferent forms with known adaptations to saline conditions and fluctuations in salinity in NaCl dominated waters. Data were analysed by ordination (MDS and PCA), hierarchical clustering (CLUSTER), permutation-based hypothesis testing (ANOSIM) and comparative tests on similarity matrices (RELATE). Water depth accounted for the majority of variation in the environmental data. REALTE comparisons of environmental and taxa data did not produce a significant correlation value. We propose that the poor concurrence of the datasets was influenced by the wide ecological tolerances of the taxa recorded, some crucial unmeasured environmental variable/s, possible geographical regionalisation and/or unsampled taxa variability owing to the stochastic nature of the wetlands. Broad patterns of distribution were related to hydroperiod and some taxa groups were loosely associated with environmental groups consistent with established ecological tolerances for the taxa. © CSIRO 2008.
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Distribution patterns and diversity of invertebrates of temperate rainforests in Tasmania with a focus on Pauropoda

- Greenslade, Penelope

  • Authors: Greenslade, Penelope
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Memoirs of Museum Victoria Vol. 65, no. (2008), p. 153-164
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  • Description: Pauropoda are recorded for the first time from Tasmania. Nineteen species are listed from a large collection of specimens made during an intensive survey of temperate rainforest in Tasmania. A key is provided for the identification of Tasmanian species which are recorded by voucher number and the biogeographical affinities of the fauna are discussed. Taxic richness of Pauropoda in Tasmanian rainforests is compared with that of several other groups of litter and bark invertebrates from the same collections. All groups show similar patterns of high tax.ic richness in the northwest and southeast regions with lower richness at higher altitudes. The implications for the conservation of Tasmania's highly endemic invertebrate fauna is discussed.

Diverse cytokine production by NKT cell subsets and identification of an IL-17-producing CD4-NK1.1- NKT cell population

- Coquet, Jonathan, Chakravarti, Sumone, Kyparissoudis, Konstantinos, McNab, Finlay, Pitt, Lauren, McKenzie, Brent, Berzins, Stuart, Smyth, Mark, Godfrey, Dale

Do hard playing fields increase the risk of injury in community level Australian football?

- Twomey, Dara, Otago, Leonie, Finch, Caroline, Chivers, I., Orchard, John

  • Authors: Twomey, Dara , Otago, Leonie , Finch, Caroline , Chivers, I. , Orchard, John
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at ASICS Conference of science and medicine in sport 2008, Hamilton Island : 16th-18th October 2008
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  • Description: Introduction: Certain ground conditions, including hardness, have been associated with an increased injury risk. Many sporting grounds have been deemed unplayable based on hardness measures and subsequently closed. However, most research linking injury to ground conditions has been based on subjective observations or focussed at high performance venues. The aim of this study was to identify the relationship between ground hardness and injury incidence in community level Australian football. Methodology: Measurements of ground hardness, using the Clegg hammer, were recorded on eight community level football grounds between 4 and 8 times during the 2007 season. Injury data was collected by trained data collectors over the season. The 1st Clegg hammer drop was used as the hardness measure, and injuries were ranked as ‘likely’, ‘possibly’, and ‘unlikely’ to be related to grounds by three independent assessors. Results: 130 injuries were recorded at the grounds tested. The Clegg hammer measures ranged from 55 to 134 gravities (g), with four injuries sustained at readings over 120 × g. Of the 130 injuries, 12 were classified as ‘likely’ to be related to ground conditions, 29 ‘possibly’ related, 75 ‘unlikely’ and 14 unknown due to incomplete details. None of the ‘likely’ injuries were sustained on readings over 120 × g. No significant relationships were found between ground hardness and any injury profiles (0.02 < r < 0.14, p < 0.01). Conclusions: Presently, sporting grounds are being closed with hardness readings exceeding 120 × g. The results of this study provide some evidence to challenge this, however, due to low injury rates further research with a larger cohort is necessary.

Do inadequacies in ICD-10-AM activity coded data lead to underestimates of the population frequency of sports/leisure injuries?

- Finch, Caroline, Boufous, Soufiane

  • Authors: Finch, Caroline , Boufous, Soufiane
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Injury Prevention Vol. 14, no. 3 (Jun 2008), p. 202-204
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  • Description: Aims: To assess the use of the International Classification of Diseases Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM) activity sub-codes for identifying sports/leisure injury hospitalizations and the impact of missing codes on population incidence estimates. Methods: Injury-related hospital separations in New South Wales, Australia, for the period 2003-04 were examined with sports/leisure cases identified by the ICD-10-AM activity codes. Results: Over 30% of all injury hospitalizations had either a missing or unspecified activity code. Among cases with valid activity codes, 13.9% of all injury hospitalizations were associated with sports/leisure. When adjusted for underreporting associated with undefined or missing activity codes, sports/leisure injuries accounted for up to 20% of injury hospitalizations. Conclusion: Defining sports/leisure injury cases on the basis of activity codes is likely to lead to an underestimate of their contribution to the overall injury burden. Improvements need to be made to the completeness of activity coding of hospitalization data.
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Does education for sustainability encourage Leopold's "Intense Consciousness of Land"?

- Kentish, Barry, Robottom, Ian

Does weight status influence associations between children's fundamental movement skills and physical activity?

- Hume, Clare, Okely, Anthony, Bagley, Sarah, Telford, Amanda, Booth, Michael, Crawford, David, Salmon, Jo

  • Authors: Hume, Clare , Okely, Anthony , Bagley, Sarah , Telford, Amanda , Booth, Michael , Crawford, David , Salmon, Jo
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Vol. 79, no. 2 (Jun 2008), p. 158-165
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  • Description: This study sought to determine whether weight status influences the association among children's fundamental movement skills (EMS) and physical activity (PA). Two hundred forty-eight children ages 9-12 years participated. Proficiency in three object-control skills and two locomotor skills was examined. Accelerometers objectively assessed physical activity. Body mass index was calculated to determine weight status. Correlations between physical activity and FMS proficiency were evident among boys and girls. No significant interaction was apparent when examining FMS proficiency scores, PA variables, and weight status. Future studies should examine a broader range of skills and types of activities to better characterize this relationship and to inform the promotion of movement skill proficiency and PA.
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Dramatic level analysis for interactive narrative

- Macfadyen, Alyx, Stranieri, Andrew, Yearwood, John

  • Authors: Macfadyen, Alyx , Stranieri, Andrew , Yearwood, John
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at NILE 2008: 5th International Conference on Narrative and Interactive Learning Environments, Edinburgh, Scotland : 6th-8th August 2008 p. 17-22
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  • Description: In interactive 3D narratives, a user’s narrative emerges through interactions with the system and embodied agencies (characters) mediated through the 3D environment. We present a methodology that identifies and measures four factors in interactive narrative where agency is present. We describe a technique for measuring drama, agency and engagement and compare the centrality of a designed interactive narrative with the emergent participatory narrative. This methodology has application as an analytic device for any interactive narrative where agency is fundamental. The adoption of the FrameNet semantic resource and the interpretation of interaction in narrative, situate this work in the domain of 3D interactive narratives, mixed and augmented realities and polymorphic narratives that cross forms of media.
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Drowning in Australia is more than coastal drowning

- Blitvich, Jennifer