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Inverse position procedure for manipulators with rotary Joints

Investigation of desiccation cracking using automated digital photography

  • Authors: Costa, Susanga , Kodikara, Jayantha
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 10th Australia New Zealand Conference on Geomechanics p. 338-343
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  • Description: Desiccation cracking can be heavily detrimental on the performance of clay soils in various engineering applications. Typical engineering applications include compacted clay barriers in waste containment, dam cores, canal liners and road pavements. The evolution of desiccation cracks has not been clearly understood and explained. A series of laboratory tests were conducted using Merri-Creek clay and potato starch. The evolution of cracks was captured by automated digital photography and presented in a time-lapse video format similar to the phenomenon of a blooming flower. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first time such a video has been produced. Both simultaneous and sequential types of cracking are investigated. The relationship between desiccation rate, average cell area, thickness of the specimen and etc are examined and discussed.

Is conservation extinct? The place of conservation within environmental discourse

Is the pipeline our lifeline? Water reform and sustainability in drought-affected dryland communities of rural Victoria

Issues in the provision of nursing care to people undergoing cardiac surgery who also have type 2 diabetes

  • Authors: Wellard, Sally , Cox, Helen , Bhujoharry, Claire
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International journal of nursing practice Vol. 13, no. 4 (2007), p. 222-228
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  • Description: There has been little investigation of the issues associated with caring for patients presenting for cardiac surgery with a comorbid diagnosis of diabetes although there is some evidence that the diabetes management is suboptimal. This study aimed to identify issues that patients and cardiac specialist nurses experience with the provision of inpatient services for people undergoing cardiac surgery who also have type 2 diabetes. A qualitative interpretive design, using individual interviews with patients and nurses, provided data about some of these issues. The study found that nurses had high levels of confidence in their cardiac care but little confidence in diabetes management. Patients described concerns about their diabetes care and treatment regimens. A 'typical journey' for a person with diabetes undergoing cardiac surgery was identified. The findings support the need to build increased capacity in specialist nurses to support diabetes care as a secondary diagnosis.
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It's time to wake up and stem the decline in spiritual well-being in Victorian schools

  • Authors: Fisher, John
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of Children's Spirituality Vol. 12, no. 2 (2007), p. 165-177
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  • Description: This paper reports the views of 820 teachers from state, Catholic, Christian and other independent schools in Victoria. The purpose of the study was to investigate what factors relate to teachers' views on spiritual well-being (SWB) personally, as well as the perceived help gained by students from school in this aspect of life. Spiritual well-being is reflected in the quality of relationships that people have in up to four domains, namely with self, with others, with the environment and/or with God. School type and year level contribute most to the variance in these four domains of spiritual well-being among teachers and in the help they provide to students in this area of life. Very few differences were found by gender, age or subject specialty among teachers. The teachers report that their lived experiences (how they feel) in each of the four domains of SWB do not generally measure up to their ideals. Both the teachers' ideals and how they feel were generally higher than the views they held of the help schools provide to students in each domain of SWB. A comparison with an earlier study shows a decline in the help being provided to secondary school students for SWB. It is time to stop, step aside from the busyness in schools, take stock of what is happening and find ways to nurture the relationships which enhance the SWB of students (and staff).
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John Leslie Art Prize

  • Authors: Ross, Ewen
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Visual art work
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  • Description: Painting exhibited at the Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale- John Leslie Art Prize

Keeping the patient asleep and alive : Towards a computational cognitive model of disturbance management in anaesthesia

  • Authors: Keogh, Kathleen , Sonenberg, Elizabeth
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Cognitive Systems Research Vol. 8, no. 4 (2007), p. 249-261
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  • Description: We have analysed rich, dynamic data about the behaviour of anaesthetists during the management of a simulated critical incident in the operating theatre. We use a paper based analysis and a partial implementation to further the development of a computational cognitive model for disturbance management in anaesthesia. We suggest that our data analysis pattern may be used for the analysis of behavioural data describing cognitive and observable events in other complex dynamic domains. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Learning online : Museum websites for SOSE

Legitimating private interests: Hegemonic control over 'the public interest' in national competition policy

  • Authors: McDonald, John
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Sociology Vol. 43, no. 4 (2007), p. 349-366
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  • Description: National Competition Policy (NCP), legislated in Australia in 1995, has arguably been the single most consequential economic policy over the past decade. Yet it has largely escaped sociological analysis. This article investigates how the concept of the public interest in NCP has actually had the effect of legitimizing neo-liberal ideologies concerning private, individual, economic interests. Using critical policy analysis, this article examines how this legitimization has occurred through: (1) the policy language of the public interest, and how this discourse has shifted over time; (2) the implementation of NCP, particularly the application of the public interest test; and (3) evidence proffered by dominant institutions about the social and economic distributional outcomes of NCP. This analysis demonstrates that the policy language and public discourse of the public interest has been used to secure hegemonic control to legitimate the interests of dominant groups. © 2007 the Australian Sociological Association.
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Lifting student engagement in marketing classes

  • Authors: Errey, Robert
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference 2007 : 3Rs - Reputation, Responsibility & Relevance, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand : 3rd-5th December 2007 p. 3235-3240
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  • Description: High levels of student engagement have been linked with better student learning outcomes, such as the quality of their output. With marketing students accounting for a high percentage of business school undergraduates, it is important that the level of engagement is determined and drivers of engagement identified. Marketing has traditionally been delivered in a teachercentric model, as opposed to a student-centric model which better encourages independent learning. Important aspects of the latter model are interactivity, active and collaborative learning, and enriching educational experiences. The author conducted focus groups with business students, and preliminary findings reveal that the instructor’s approach and the nature of the assignments do affect student engagement. A preliminary model of student engagement is proposed which will be tested in the quantitative research phase.
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Literacy research methodology that is up to the challenge

  • Authors: Smyth, John , Whitehead, David
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Language and Education Vol. 21, no. 5 (2007), p. 377-386
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  • Description: This paper outlines the methodological dimensions of the secondary literacy research evaluation that is the focus of this special issue - the New Zealand-based Secondary Schools' Literacy Initiative (SSLI). We argue that these methodological dimensions are an example of the type of contextualised and critical research that might be usefully applied in exploring literacy across the curriculum in other national contexts. A particular concern addressed in the paper is the need to develop a contextualised, rich description of literacy practices in schools, while also addressing a wider policy climate, which is often preoccupied with issues of literacy achievement and, particularly, often-entrenched differential achievement for students across class and ethnicity lines. To achieve this, the researchers adopted a quasi-ethnographic, multi-locale, mixed-methods approach intended to enhance the robustness of the research design and the validity of the results. © 2007 J. Smyth & D. Whitehead.
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Lost/Found

  • Authors: Anderson, Kimberlee
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Visual art work
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  • Description: Charcoal drawings & works on mirrors & glass Exhibited at The Convent Gallery, Daylesford

Lower bound on minimum lee distance of algebraic-geometric codes over finite fields

  • Authors: Wu, Xinwen , Kuijper, Margreta , Udaya, Parampalli
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Electronics Letters Vol. 43, no. 15 (2007), p. 820-822
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  • Description: Algebraic-geometric (AG) codes over finite fields with respect to the Lee metric have been studied. A lower bound on the minimum Lee distance is derived, which is a Lee-metric version of the well-known Goppa bound on the minimum Hamming distance of AG codes. The bound generalises a lower bound on the minimum Lee distance of Lee-metric BCH and Reed-Solomon codes, which have been successfully used for protecting against bitshift and synchronisation errors in constrained channels and for error control in partial-response channels.
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Magic, Art, Religion, Science: Blurring the Boundaries of Science and Science Fiction in Marge Piercy's Cyborian Narrative

Making the familiar strange to pre-service teachers – practicum as ethnography

Market entry strategy into China by entrepreneurial new venture firms

  • Authors: Wan, Stephen , Lowe, Julian
  • Date: 2007
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at 4th International AGSE Entrepreneurship Research Exchange : Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research 2007, Brisbane Graduate School of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland : 6th-9th February 2007
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  • Description: Principal Topic: This paper examines the entry strategy and start-up of a technology based small firm entering the China market through the vehicle of a joint venture company. The research deals with two main issues: - The intersection of the entrepreneurship and internationalization literatures - The specific considerations pertinent to foreign companies operating in China The internationalization of entrepreneurship theory has been the subject of ’special issues’ in the journals Entrepreneurship in Theory and Practice (1996); and Academy of Management Journal (2000). It has its roots in the seminal work of McDougal and Oviatt (1996, 2005). Much of this literature identifies internationalization as an important determinant of performance in SMEs, and emphasizes the specific factors that link entrepreneurial perspectives and the processes of internationalization. Mode of entry choice is dominated by a number of complementary paradigms in the international business literature. These include the ’stage’ or sequential approach proposed by the Uppsala group (Johanson and Widersheim-Paul, 1975); network theory (Chen and Chen, 2002); transaction cost economics (Buckley and Casson 1976); and the resource based view (Peng, 2001). China as an international market, supplier and collaborator has changed radically since 1982, following the Deng reforms. It is now the third largest economy in the world but despite its promise has also proved a problematic partner for Western firms. Since its entry into the WTO there have been significant changes but the culture and practice of doing business in China has proved a problem. This research examines how an SME can participate in this market without incurring very high costs and risks. Methodology/Key Propositions: With some exceptions (Jolly, 1992) the issue of SME entry strategies has not received a great deal of attention in the literature. In addition Mcdougall and Oviatt, (2003) challenge the notion that the theories of market entry that dominate the international business literature are applicable to the smaller firm. Our research approach is two-fold: - An examination of Chinese government statistics to identify the distribution by industry and firm type of FDI by SMEs in China - A case study of a technology based SME that has established a successful joint venture in Northern China. We use the secondary data to examine the conventional (large firm) propositions of the international business literature; we use the case study to examine how the specific entrepreneurial and China element require a modified perspective. Results and Implications: Whilst some research has suggested that internationalization is a problematic strategy for SMEs we find that even in a high risk market like China, these companies have struck up effective but non - conventional organizational forms. The network theory of internationalization seems the dominant paradigm, although our case study introduces some specific considerations that the model had not previously acknowledged.
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Marketing curriculum - The missing jigsaw piece

Measuring perceptions of service quality within the visitor attractions sector

Men's sheds in Australia : Learning through community contexts

  • Authors: Golding, Barry , Brown, Michael , Foley, Annette , Harvey, Jack , Gleeson, Lynne
  • Date: 2007
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  • Description: ‘Men’s sheds’ organisations are typically located in shed or workshop-type spaces in community settings that provide opportunities for regular hands-on activity by groups deliberately and mainly comprising men. Men’s sheds in community organisations are shown to be a relatively new, diverse and poorly known set of community-based, grass-roots organisations—found only in Australia. These informal spaces and programs in community settings have grown recently and rapidly in parts of mainly southern Australia with a higher proportion of older men not in paid work. Men’s sheds are typically organised by, and legally constituted through, existing community organisations. They usually provide a woodworking workshop space, tools and equipment and an adjacent social area in a public, shed-type setting. Some include a metalwork area and/or an adjacent garden.
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