'I can be this' : Image, identity and investment in physical education
- Authors: Brown, Leann
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: This study investigated how student expectations, experiences and involvement in physical education teacher education impacted upon and shaped identity development. The research focused on student social interactions and identified a range of behaviours and practices which reinforced student notions of what it means to be a physical educator. [...] The research itself was conducted within a creative analytical practice framework resulting in the following research products: the thesis text; a collection of one act plays titled, 'Plays from the identity playground', written about student social experiences; a CD which includes the filmed production of one of the plays 'Boys' training', and 'I can be this: a phototext', which presents key 'photographic' themes as insights into PETE student social events and activities.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
A computer-mediated framework to facilitate group consensus based on a shared understanding ConSULT
- Authors: Afshar, Faezeh
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters , PhD
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- Description: "Group decision-making usually involves a process of discussion and evaluation of alternatives. Important aspects of a group decision support system are: freedom to participate; the ability to explicitly present points of view; the ability to augment or oppose views by supporting evidence and reasoning; and the ability to use and consider other additional views .... The overall aim of this work is to develop an approach that can alleviate some of the problems associated with group commuication and consensus decision-making by effectively supporting group discussions towards consensus. Towards achieving this goal we have developed an approach called ConSULT (Consensus based on a Shared Understanding of a Leading Topic) as a computer-mediated framework to allow argumentation, collection and evaluation of discussion and group decision-making. This approach employs existing theories and techniques in computer-mediated communication, argumentation, Delphi and voting." -- Abstract.
- Description: Master of Information Technology
- Description: "Group decision-making usually involves a process of discussion and evaluation of alternatives. Important aspects of a group decision support system are: freedom to participate; the ability to explicitly present points of view; the ability to augment or oppose views by supporting evidence and reasoning; and the ability to use and consider other additional views .... The overall aim of this work is to develop an approach that can alleviate some of the problems associated with group commuication and consensus decision-making by effectively supporting group discussions towards consensus. Towards achieveing this goal we have developed an approach called ConSULT (Consensus based on a Shared Understanding of a Leading Topic) as a computer-mediated framework to allow argumentation, collection and evaluation of discussion and group decision-making. This approach employs existing theories and techniques in computer-mediated communication, argumentation, Delphi and voting." -- Abstract.
Managing occupational health and safety performance improvement : managing for significant and sustainable improvements in occupational health and safety performance in an international contractor-dominated environment
- Authors: Stacy, Robert
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: The heavy construction industry, as a contractor-dominated environment, is challenged by the need to achieve significant and sustainable improvements in occupational health and safety performance. To overcome such challenges an occupational health and safety improvement methodology was developed incorporating a transformational change model and an action research method."
- Description: Doctor of Philosphy
An examination of public attitudes to retail banks in Australia : 1993-2002, with particular reference to corporate social responsibilty
- Authors: McCarthy, Terence
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: Anecdotal and other evidence indicates that public attitudes to retail banks have been affected by changes in banking practices. There is a perceived gap between the public statements by banks as to services offered and customers' expectations and experience. By being "authorised" under legislation to operate, banks are seen to occupy a special position within the business community in Australia. The banking industry has stated that any negative attitudes to retails banks will be corrected once customers understand the need for change. "From summary"
- Description: (Doctor of Business Administration)
Ecology and habitat of river blackfish (Gadopsis marmoratus r.) in Victorian streams
- Authors: Khan, Minal
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The present study was aimed to assess the ecology and habitat of river blackfish (Gadopsis marmoratus) in two highly modified agricultural streams in central Victoria (Birch and Creswick Creek)"
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
The construct validity of DSM-IV AD/HD symptoms in Australian adolescents : a confirmatory factor analysis multitrait-multisource approach
- Authors: Smith, Felicity
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
- Full Text: false
- Description: Doctor of Psychology (Clinical)
A computational story model based on a story grammar that represents conflict
- Authors: Hall, Richard
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The work in this thesis investigates whether a computational story model can be formulated that can overcome the limitations of existing story models and also interact with stories in multiple ways, similar to the ways in which people interact with them."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
The network paradigm : considering the development of an information technology and telecommunications industy in Ballarat, Victoria with a network perspective
- Authors: Morris, Brian
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: This thesis considers how applicable is the network paradigm to understanding the development of an information technology and technology industry in Ballarat, Australia.
- Description: Doctor of Philosphy
The sign of the witch : neo-paganism and the romantic episteme
- Authors: Waldron, David
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The central premise of this dissertation is that the process by which representations of witchcraft are formed within the neo-Pagan movement are indicative of the broader interrelationship of Romantic and Enlightenment themes in Western culture."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Global minimization of some classes of generalized convex functions
- Authors: Andramonov, Mikhail
- Date: 2001
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
- Full Text: false
- Description: "A number of methods of global optimization are proposed and their convergence is proved"
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
The legal construction of victim/survivors in parent-child intrafamilial sexual abuse trials in the Victorian County Court of Australia in 1995
- Authors: Taylor, Caroline
- Date: 2001
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
- Full Text: false
- Description: "This thesis presents a sociological analyses of 14 cases of intrafamilial rape and sexual assault that took place in Victorian County Courts during 1995."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
A region-based progressive image compression technique : RePic
- Authors: Bell, Daniel
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
- Full Text: false
- Description: "This thesis is concerned with the development of RePIC, a new method for the representation and compression of images in such a way that allows the image to be progressively reconstructed."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Economic modelling of countries in transition and artificial intelligence applications to economic
- Authors: Veliev, Raoul
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: The basic aims of this research were twofold. Firstly to develop a new macroeconomic model, which was aimed at capturing particularities of countries in transition and the case study was the economy of Azerbaijan. Secondly several methods of artificial intelligence data mining were developed and applied to economic modelling.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Exercise-induced hypervolemia : mechanisms and regulation
- Authors: O'Brien, Brendan
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The primary purpose of this dissertation is to elucidate the mechanisms and sources of fluid contributing to exercise-induced hypervolemia. The second aim is to identify changes in blood volume regulation that act to retain this fluid in the vascular space. A final aim is to identify the mechanisms responsible for inducing training bradycardia".
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
The reading/spelling connection : case studies of readers and spellers
- Authors: O'Brien, Terence
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The thesis argues that reading and spelling are interdependent and complex processes, and that "good" readers. but "poor" spellers, read in ways which do not assist in their developing spelling repertoires: their reading behaviours contribute to overall text meanings wihout contributing to individual word knowledge. As well, their writing behaviours do not allow for this knowledge to be used, practised, or displayed."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
The Rhetoric and reality of client education within a nursing context
- Authors: Moore, Heather
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
- Full Text: false
- Description: "Client education undertaken by nurses, its content, delivery, and focus on health outcomes provided the direction for this study".
- Description: Doctor of Philosphy
A study of recovery and separation of heavy metal ions from waste solutions using precipitate flotation
- Authors: Ren, Xiang (Sean)
- Date: 1999
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: An important industrial problem is the production of wastewater containing a large amount of heavy metal ions. The study described in this thesis is trying to use precipitate flotation technology to explore techniques for not only removing heavy metal ions from the solution, but also selectively separating them to recycle of the recoyered metal value from industry wastewater. Zinc and copper hydroxide precipitation and flotation behaviour have been studied. lt shows that it is almost impossible to separate copper and zinc ion using hydroxide precipitate flotation when the solution contains Fe3+ or Al3+ ions. The influence of additional ions such as Ca2+ and Mg2+, and other electrolytes on the flotation and separation have been studied. DLVO theory has been used to explain the mechanisms occurring in the process. A new process, named "self-carrier" precipitate flotation us~g anionic surfactants, has been developed to improve the flotation recovery and reduce the consumption of collector. The mechanism of the process is discussed in detail with reference to data collected from Optical Microscopy, Scanning Electron Microscopy and Zeta Potential Measurement. The xanthates are the most commonly used class of sulphide mineral collectors. This study investigated the copper sulphide precipitate reactions and the aggregation behaviour, the influence of oxidation, additional ions etc., and successfully used xanthate to float the sulphide precipitates. The mechanisms occurring in this process have been discussed. The investigation of the sulphide precipitate flotation behavior using a cationic collector has also been carried out to discover the possibility of copper and zinc separation. An important application of this study is the flotation and separation of copper and zinc ions from industry wastewater. The tailing wastewater from a mineral processing plant, Woodlawn Mines (N.S.W., Australia), which contains high concentrations of harmful heavy metal ions was used to test the flotation and separation of the heavy metal ions. Both xanthate and cationic collectors have been investigated for the flotation separation. Effective separation has been achieved .
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Between the public and personal voices : discourses and meanings of quality teaching in higher
- Authors: Crebbin, Wendy
- Date: 1999
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
- Full Text: false
- Description: "This thesis is an analysis of the construction of, and contestation over, meanings about quality teaching in higher education in Ausralia, during the period 1992-1996."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Using narrative strategies in contemporary figurative painting
- Authors: Coutts, Maryanne
- Date: 1999
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
- Full Text: false
- Description: "This project applies an analysis of narrative, its elements, strategies and devices to figurative painting within the practical project of producing visual narrative fiction."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Composition and ecology of the flora and fauna of remnant native grasslands of the western basalt plains and northern plains of Victoria : implications for management on private property
- Authors: Hadden, Susan A.
- Date: 1998
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
- Full Text: false
- Description: "This thesis investigated a) the effects of the removal of grazing on the botanical composition, structure and biomass of two long-grazed species-rich grassland remnants, b) the habitat use and requirements of the ground-dwelling mammal, reptile and amphibian fauna and c) the composition, and abundance of the beetle, ant and spider assemblages."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy