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Stope cleaning- Historical methods and future developments

- Tuck, Michael

Authors: Tuck, Michael
Date: 2010
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: Paper presented at Gravity Gold 2010 'Optimising Recovery' p. 25-26
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Description: In classical drill and blast underground mining methods, especially narrow vein operations economic quantities of broken ore can be left behind following normal mucking operations on the stope floors. The ore left behind can have significant economic value and if not collected can be lost forever. This paper reviews techniques for cleaning this material from stopes that have been used in the past and reviews possible modern techniques that can be applied to ensure this valuable material is removed from slopes.

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Stories from the back paddock : Community building in the Pyrenees shire

- Harman, Jessie, Clark, David

Authors: Harman, Jessie , Clark, David
Date: 2005
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: Paper presented at the 2nd National Conference on the Future of Australia's Country Towns, Bendigo, Victoria : 11th - 13th July, 2005
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Description: In 2001 the Victorian Government launched its Community Building initiative. As part of this initiative the government funded 11 locally based community building demonstration projects. One of these projects is located within the Pyrenees Shire. In this discussion paper the authors examine the Pyrenees Shire’s Community Building Demonstration Project, describing the program and its objectives. They focus on the factors which have had a significant impact on the community building process within the municipality, identifying factors which have both facilitated and impeded the process. In terms of facilitating factors they identify a number: the involvement of community champions, strong local government support and community readiness, the capacity to deliver ‘runs on the board’ early in the life of the project, along with a flexible planning process. Conversely, they identify factors which have impeded the community building process in the Shire. Lack of continuity of personnel, an inability to develop shared understanding on occasions and difficulties associated with engaging disparate groups are described. This paper is significant for a number of reasons. In the first instance, it contributes useful, ‘real time’ insights into the implementation of community building in regional Victoria. Secondly it may, through its contribution to theory building and managerial practice, develop and strengthen community building programs in the future. Finally, at the level of public policy, it may contribute to the growing body of knowledge around the efficiency, effectiveness and appropriateness of these types of regional interventions.
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Storying shared worlds : collaborative writing as ecological inquiry

- Jukes, Scott, Clarke, David, McPhie, Jamie

Authors: Jukes, Scott , Clarke, David , McPhie, Jamie
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Learning to confront ecological precarity : engaging with more-than-human worlds Chapter 10 p. 183-204
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Description: This chapter is co-authored with Dave Clarke and Jamie Mcphie and is an experiment in collaborative writing as a form of inquiry. We write with and through the events of our lives, to see how ontology manifests itself within our processes of collaborative inquiry in environmental education. Fires, viruses, lines and cosmopolitics infuse this chapter as we strive to think and enact inquiry in alternative ways. The chapter also offers insights into some of the further backstories and considerations that furrowed along underneath some of the other chapters in this project. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Storytelling and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: A Review of BHP 1992–2017

- Paynter, Merryn, Halabi, Abdel, Tuck, Jackie

Authors: Paynter, Merryn , Halabi, Abdel , Tuck, Jackie
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Conference proceedings
Relation: The Components of Sustainable Development. Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance. p. 205-230
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Description: The aim of this study is to critically examine the development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting through storytelling and institutionalism to understand how BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) has shaped stakeholders’ sensemaking of CSR and its CSR performance. To explore this, the study focuses on how the narrative themes in CSR reports by BHP corroborate with newspaper articles published by the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) from 1992 until 2017. Results have identified instances where BHP used CSR storytelling to manage negative impressions of its CSR conduct, restore trust and re-establish legitimacy. This reinforces literature that identifies how companies use organisational storytelling to shape stakeholders understanding of social responsibility and manage impressions about CSR conduct.

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Strategic choices and unintended consequences: Employer militancy in Victoria's Meat Industry, 1986-93

- O'Leary, Patrick, Sheldon, Peter

Authors: O'Leary, Patrick , Sheldon, Peter
Date: 2008
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Labour History Vol. 95, no. (Nov 2008), p. 223-242
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Description: Concepts of strategic choice have become widely used in industrial relations, particularly as methods of understanding recent historical changes. While the operation of strategy-choosing relative to implementation has generated debate, there has been little discussion of how strategic choices can generate unintended consequences even where there are no apparent weaknesses in implementation. We discuss these issues in the context of under-explored areas of Australian labour history: the history of industrial relations in Victoria's meat industry and employer activity in the meat industry more generally. Our focus is the creation, by employers, of an intense, industry-wide struggle with the union and, in particular, their choices regarding terrains and methods for that struggle. Using a narrative approach, we explore important unintended consequences that flowed from the interaction of employer-strategising in product and labour markets. These, in turn, generated paradoxical outcomes, given employers' original objectives.
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Strategic english learning and proficiency among vietnamese tertiary learners : beyond passive stereotypes

- Nguyen, Hoang, Terry, Daniel, Jang, Sun

Authors: Nguyen, Hoang , Terry, Daniel , Jang, Sun
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: International Journal of Learning in Higher Education Vol. 24, no. 1 (2016), p. 19-34
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Description: Practitioners and researchers worldwide have enthusiastically undertaken research on language learning strategies (LLS) since the early 1970s. They have since established solid evidence on LLS as an influential factor in determining success in second/foreign language learning. However, in the context of Vietnam, there is a dearth of evidence regarding LLS and successful second/foreign language learning. The purpose of this study was to examine the frequency and pattern of LLS use among Vietnamese students undertaking English as a foreign language (EFL) at the tertiary (university) level. Secondly, it sought to investigate the relationship between LLS use and self-rated English proficiency. Quantitative data were collected from 564 students through a researcher-generated questionnaire, the English Language Learning Strategy Questionnaire (ELLSQ), which had been pretested to ensure validity and reliability. Findings revealed that the students were moderate users of learning strategies, and frequency of strategy use was positively correlated with self-reported English proficiency. © Common Ground Research Networks, Rungnapha Khamung, Basanti Majumdar, Rana Pongruengphant, All Rights Reserved.

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Strategic recommendations for new product adoption in the Chinese market

- Chao, Chih-Wei (Fred), Reid, Mike, Lai, Po-Hsin, Reimers, Vaughan

Authors: Chao, Chih-Wei (Fred) , Reid, Mike , Lai, Po-Hsin , Reimers, Vaughan
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of Strategic Marketing Vol. 28, no. 2 (2020), p. 176-188
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Description: This study extended current understandings of the relationships among domain specific innovativeness (DSI), the desire for unique consumer products (DUCPs), perceived new product characteristics (PNPCs), and Chinese consumers’ new product adoption behavior. It also investigated the indirect effect of vicarious learning behavior on Chinese consumers’ acceptance of new products. Data was collected in Shanghai, China. The results demonstrated that DSI and PNPCs were the primary drivers of new product adoption. The study also showed that PNPCs played a mediating role in the relationship between vicarious learning and the adoption of new products by Chinese consumers. The results confirmed the predictive power of DSI and how PNPCs affect Chinese innovative buying behavior. The results also suggest that PNPCs facilitate Chinese consumers’ new product learning behavior. © 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Strategic responses and disclosures in a sporting drugs scandal : the case of the Essendon Football Club

- Halabi, Abdel, O’Connell, Brendan

Authors: Halabi, Abdel , O’Connell, Brendan
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing Vol. 21, no. 3-4 (2021), p. 265-293
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Description: This case utilises Oliver’s (1991) framework of strategic responses to institutional processes to provide insights into the actions of an Australian football club faced with a prominent drugs scandal. It analyses public disclosures and statements by senior executives and coaching staff of the club across the period 2012 to 2016 in the face of heavy media attention, as well as narrations and content through its annual reports. A defiance response strategy is identified and characterised using Oliver’s framework. This case study presents lessons on how organisations may deal with these types of scandals, and how actors may alter their strategies to have their best interests served in a public sports scandal. Copyright © 2021 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.

Strategies for implementing consumer involvement in nursing handover on acute mental health in-patient units

- Olasoji, Michael, Plummer, Virginia, Cross, Wendy

Authors: Olasoji, Michael , Plummer, Virginia , Cross, Wendy
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Issues in Mental Health Nursing Vol. 42, no. 10 (2021), p. 951-959
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Description: Consumer participation in the process of care delivery is crucial to recovery-oriented care. Nursing handover is an important process during the delivery of care on acute in-patient units. Despite the importance of involving consumers in this process, it remains a relatively new concept within mental health. This is due to the complexities involved in the provision of care within the mental health setting. There is a paucity of research on how to successfully implement consumer involvement in nursing handover within mental health settings even though this practice has been occurring within generalist settings for some time now. This paper reports on the findings on the implementation of consumer involvement on an acute in-patient unit. The views of consumers and mental health nurses about the process have already being reported. This current paper describes how a new handover system was implemented using a modified version of the model for successful change to bedside handover by McMurray et al. which was based on Lewin’s force-field model of unfreezing, moving and refreezing and Kotter’s model of change. The key elements of successful implementation are discussed. There is a need to carefully design and implement consumer involvement in nursing handover within acute in-patient units. There are lessons to be learnt in the process adopted and described in this paper. © 2020 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Strategies for marketing greenness: A case study of an architectural design firm in China

- Song-Turner, Helen, Courvisanos, Jerry, Zeegers, Margaret

Authors: Song-Turner, Helen , Courvisanos, Jerry , Zeegers, Margaret
Date: 2012
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: World Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 2, no. 7 (2012), p. 79-94
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Description: This paper is based on a case study conducted in China on green perception and motivation as well as green marketing strategy and practices of an architectural design firm. The study is set in the context of growing emphasis on environmental protection and building energy efficiency investment and the implementation principles of sustainable development in China. Drawing on the literature on firms’ motivation to go green and characteristics of firms which are instrumental in inducing firm’s green initiatives, this paper selected an architectural design firm to investigate whether all of some of those drivers as identified from literature are relevant to green initiatives decision making. Findings from this case indicate that while motivations identified from the literature contribute to the firm’s greening commitment, it is the top management’s knowledge, leadership and vision that are the decisive driving forces. In addition, the research has found that traditional Chinese culture also plays an influential role in the firm’s greening behaviors. Results further suggest that green building is still in an early adopter period. Problems and implications for green marketing practices are also discussed.
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Strategies of social activists: An NLP interpretation

- Mills, Alice, Smith, Jeremy

Authors: Mills, Alice , Smith, Jeremy
Date: 2007
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Borderlands e-journal Vol. 6, no. 1 (2007), p. 1-8
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Description: In this paper we analyse three interviews with social activists, using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) methodology to discern each respondent's characteristics strategies for social activism via their choice of words and phrase. Our main aim is to determine whether social activists' statements can be analysed in terms of Dilts' studies into the strategies of genius.
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