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Harnessing the social capital of rural communities for youth mental health : An asset-based community development framework

  • Authors: Boyd, Candice , Hayes, Louise , Wilson, Rhonda , Bearsley-Smith, Cate
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Australian Journal of Rural Health Vol. 16, no. 4 (Aug 2008), p. 189-193
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  • Description: In Australia, we are facing a period of mental health reform with the establishment of federally funded community youth services in rural areas of the country. These new services have great potential to improve the mental health of rural adolescents. In the context of this new initiative, we have four main objectives with this article. First, we consider the notion of social capital in relation to mental health and reflect on the collective characteristics of rural communities. Second, we review lessons learned from two large community development projects targeting youth mental health. Third, we suggest ways in which the social capital of rural communities might be harnessed for the benefit of youth mental health by using asset-based community development strategies and fourth, we consider the role that rural clinicians might play in this process.
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Harry Potter and the Horrors of the Oresteia

Heuristic non parametric collateral missing value imputation : A step towards robust post-genomic knowledge discovery

Hidden Markov models Incorporating fuzzy measures and integrals for protein sequence identification and alignment

History

HIV/AIDS in Vietnam : a gender analysis

  • Authors: Nguyen, Huy , Saikia, Udoy
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Asian Social Science Vol. 4, no. 1 (2008), p. 89-123
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  • Description: Global statistics of HIV/AIDS infection reveals the disastrous effects of discrimination against women in the area of human health. Women’s vulnerability to HIV/AIDS reflects their wider social, economic and sexual disadvantages compared to their male counterpart. Although the gender context of HIV/AIDS has received a considerable attention recently, however, in case of Vietnam gender aspects of the epidemic have still been a neglected area of research. Little is known about how gender affects the epidemic as well as how the epidemic affects the life of women. This paper reveals that the gender context of HIV/AIDS epidemic in Vietnam has a much complex reality. Institutions, social norms and opportunity structures, of which “Doi Moi” [Renovation] has become an integral part, combine to create new norms and conditions put women more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. A gendered strategy is crucial in order to successfully fight against the growing HIV/AIDS epidemic

Host responses during experimental infection with Fasciola gigantica and Fasciola hepatica in Merino sheep II. Development of a predictive index for Fasciola gigantica worm burden

  • Authors: Raadsma, Herman , Kingsford, Nicola , Suharyanta, S. , Spithill, Terry , Piedrafita, David
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Veterinary Parasitology Vol. 154, no. 3-4 (2008), p. 250-261
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  • Description: This study reports on the predictive relationship between serological, immunological and pathological responses following experimental inoculation with incremental doses of Fasciola gigantica in sheep. Fifty, 6-month-old, naive Merino wethers were allocated to one of 5 experimental groups, four of which received 50, 125, 225 and 400 metacercariae, respectively, whilst a 5th group acted as non-inoculated control. Strong individual correlations were observed between liver score, GLDH (glutamate dehydrogenase), GGT (gamma glutamyl transferase), CatL5 (cathepsin L5) antibody titre (IgG1, IgA), eosinophilia, and the total worm count or worm biomass. A combination of multiple indicator traits performed significantly better than any single indicator trait alone. The best predictive index accounted for up to 88% of observed worm burden (Wb) if information on inoculation dose was available. Without knowledge of inoculation dose, such as under field conditions, up to 67% of variation in worm burden could be predicted. In contrast, the best single predictor variable (liver damage score) accounted for up to 50% of worm burden, and in the absence of post-slaughter information, serum levels of anti-cathepsin IgA antibody titres accounted for 35% of predicted variation in worm burden. The utility of a predictive index under both field and experimental inoculation conditions is discussed.

Houses and sheds in Australia : an exploration of the genesis and growth of neighbourhood houses and men's sheds in community settings

  • Authors: Golding, Barry , Kimberley, Helen , Foley, Annette , Brown, Michael
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Australian Journal of Adult Learning Vol. 48, no. 2 (Jul 2008), p. 237-262
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  • Description: This article reviews research into the genesis and spread of both neighbourhood houses and learning centres in Victoria and community-based men's sheds in Australia to identify some similarities and differences. Our article asks questions about the gendered communities of practice that underpin houses for women on the one hand, and sheds for men on the other. Our particular interest is with the gender issues associated with the development of the relatively mature neighbourhood house 'sector', and those associated with the very recent and developing community-based men's sheds 'sector'. Our underpinning research question has to do with the desirability (or otherwise) in each of these sectors of political and strategic decisions being either gender specific or gender neutral. We identify a number of tantalising parallels between the rationale behind the establishment of both sectors,for women and men, albeit in very different circumstances, along with some obvious differences.
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How comparable are road traffic crash cases in hospital admissions data and police records? An examination of data linkage rates

  • Authors: Lujic, Sanja , Finch, Caroline , Boufous, Soufiane , Hayen, Andrew , Dunsmuir, William
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Australian And New Zealand Journal Of Public Health Vol. 32, no. 1 (2008), p. 28-33
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  • Description: OBJECTIVES: An assessment of linked data was used to investigate the scope and the extent to which hospitalisations data and police crash records represent road crashes in New South Wales (NSW). METHODS: Hospital separation records for the period 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2001, inclusive, were linked to police crash casualty records for the same period using probabilistic record linkage techniques. Multivariable logistic regression techniques were used to identify factors independently associated with the probability of record linkage. RESULTS: Of 17,552 road transport-related hospital records, 45.1% matched to police crash casualty records. When the analysis was restricted to road traffic crashes, 69.2% of the 9,178 records had a matching police crash casualty record. Multivariable analysis found the most significant factors contributing to the likelihood of linkage to be road user type, payment status and principal diagnosis of injury variables. Motor vehicle controllers, cases entitled to financial compensation and cases with a principal diagnosis of injury were significantly more likely to be linked than all other cases. CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate that researchers and policy makers should be cautious when examining traffic crashes based on a separate analysis of the hospitalisations data and police crash records. This is particularly true for crashes involving pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, and those resulting in less severe injuries. IMPLICATIONS: The findings have implications for use of both police crash records and hospital records in informing the development of strategies designed to prevent road trauma in the community.
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How do parents supervise their children at pools and playgrounds?

  • Authors: Petrass, Lauren , Blitvich, Jennifer , Finch, Caroline
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at 2008 Australian Water Safety Conference : Water safety - everyone's responsibility, Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales : 15th-16th May 2008 p. 30-33
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  • Description: Methods: A six-hour observation of behaviour potentially associated with injury risk was conducted at six public pools and four playgrounds. Supervision and behaviour were quantified using an observational tool based on the Saluja et al.1 model and Morrongiello’s 2 definition of supervision. Infants to 10 year-old children engaged in play and their carers were observed. Child behaviour, corresponding parent supervision, and parental intervention were recorded. Results/Evaluation: Chi-square tests showed higher levels of supervision were associated with specific behaviours in pools and playgrounds. Factors significantly linked to level of parental supervision included child age; parent age; number of children for whom parents were responsible; and in aquatic settings, swimming ability of the child. Discussion: Level of parental supervision differs with children’s play. Despite increased dangers in aquatic environments, parents supervised less at pools than playgrounds highlighting inappropriate parental dependence on lifeguards. Conclusion: Future research examining the relationship between supervision and young children’s risk of drowning at other aquatic environments is required. Attention, proximity and continuity of supervision should be assessed. Findings will enable key water safety stakeholders to further highlight this phenomenon in drowning prevention programs.
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How do preservice teachers learn to become quality teachers? Factors to consider in addressing the issues facing 'new teachers'

How to be happy by calling for change : Constructs of happiness and meaningfulness among social movement activists

  • Authors: Mills, Alice , Smith, Jeremy
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Qualitative Report Vol. 13, no. 3 (2008), p. 432-455
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  • Description: This paper focuses on how social movement activists view happiness in relation to their political involvement. Interviewers asked activists questions about their personal histories and feelings. The phenomenological strategy involved focused on interviews with subjects who could speak richly about their commitments and emotions. The data from the 11 subjects revealed that there was no simple relationship between a commitment to social activism and subjects experiences of happiness. Several subjects oriented their responses to the relationship between meaningfulness, activism, and happiness. In discussion of the analyzed data, the authors suggest that a relationship is evident between the positions articulated by interviewees and their levels of engagement in and withdrawal from activism.

HSAGA and its application for the construction of near-Moore digraphs

  • Authors: Tang, Jianmin , Miller, Mirka , Lin, Yuqing
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Discrete Algorithms Vol. 6, no. 1 (2008), p. 73-84
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  • Description: The degree/diameter problem is to determine the largest graphs or digraphs of given maximum degree and given diameter. This paper deals with directed graphs. General upper bounds, called Moore bounds, exist for the largest possible order of such digraphs of maximum degree d and given diameter k. It is known that simulated annealing and genetic algorithm are effective techniques to identify global optimal solutions. This paper describes our attempt to build a Hybrid Simulated Annealing and Genetic Algorithm (HSAGA) that can be used to construct large digraphs. We present our new results obtained by HSAGA, as well as several related open problems. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Human resource management in Australian registered training organisations

  • Authors: Smith, Andy , Hawke, Geof
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Book
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  • Description: This report forms part of a comprehensive research program that has examined issues related to building the organisational capability of vocational education and training providers. In particular, this report focuses on the current state of human resource management practice in both technical and further education and private registered training organisations. It also provides an assessment of the extent to which human resource management plays a truly strategic role and proposes approaches to improve both human resource management practice and its impact.
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Hybrid training approaches to Hidden Markov Model-based acoustic models for automatic speech recognition

  • Authors: Huda, Shamsul
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

Hydraulic roughness of biofouled pipes, biofilm character, and measured improvements from cleaning

  • Authors: Barton, Andrew , Wallis, Michael , Sargison, Jane , Buia, Alexandra , Walker, Gregory
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering Vol. 134, no. 6 (2008), p. 852-857
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  • Description: The hydraulic performance of pipelines can be significantly affected by the presence of biological growth on internal surfaces. The change in wall roughness brought about by the biofilms has been studied by the use of headloss tests, precleaning and postcleaning of the pipelines in three Tasmanian hydroelectric schemes. Results of the headloss testing show that improvements to hydraulic efficiency can be achieved from the cleaning of biofouling material. The data, when plotted as a Moody diagram, shows that the friction law for conduits roughened by biological growths may not always follow a Colebrook-White type relationship, although the results are too narrow in Reynolds number to be conclusive. It was found that bacteria made up the majority of the biofilm biomass in the pipelines studied. Based on molecular analysis, members of the class Alphaproteobacteria were the most frequently detected followed by members of the phylum Chloroflexi. © 2008 ASCE.

I hope that I have got some art

  • Authors: Calderone, Ursula
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: In this thesis I have researched what I believe is the powerful, catalytic effect of poetry on the creative work of some artists. I have chosen three, Australian painters; Sidney Nolan, James Gleeson and Brett Whiteley. I have looked carefully at how the works of various poets have influenced and inspired these artists. I have put forward the idea that this engagement with the poetic realm has greatly enhanced the artist’s creative form-making. Indeed these artists have acknowledged their strong links with the world of poetry. I have touched very briefly on the ideas of some renowned philosophers who stress society’s need for fine works of art. In my opinion great works of art can come from this linking of painting with poetry and therefore, this nexus is to be encouraged. I have in my own painterly works looked to the poets for inspiration. In The Wimmera Series of landscape works, I read Brian Edwards’ and Homer Reith’s poetry, and found in their imagery a rich source of creative ideas. I continued to read the works of the poets and found that the poetry of Ezra Pound, Dante Alighieri, Judith Wright and the works of many others, were an inspirational and catalytic force. I have also discovered on this artistic journey that the very writing of poetry, my own attempts in this field, seemed to bring to my painting, a sharper, a more analytical and critical focus. Renowned art critics and art historians have criticised contemporary art for its lack of the poetic, and its boring shallowness. I would urge artists to engage with the poetic realm, and this interplay between painting and poetry, may produce fine works of lasting greatness.
  • Description: Master of Visual Arts

Identifying and distinguishing various varieties of abelian topological groups

  • Authors: McPhail, Carolyn , Morris, Sidney
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Dissertationes Mathematicae Vol. , no. 458 (2008), p.
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  • Description: A variety of topological groups is a class of (not necessarily Hausdorff) topological groups closed under the operations of forming subgroups, quotient groups and arbitrary products. The variety of topological groups generated by a class of topological groups is the smallest variety containing the class. In this paper methods are presented to distinguish a number of significant varieties of abelian topological groups, including the varieties generated by (i) the class of all locally compact abelian groups; (ii) the class of all k(w)-groups; (iii) the class of all sigma-compact groups; and (iv) the free abelian topological group on [0, 1]. In all cases, hierarchical containments are determined.

If I Belong Here...How Did That Come To Be?

  • Authors: Lambeth, Paul
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: The purpose of this research is to contribute a non indigenous perspective to current discourse on sense of place in contemporary Australia. The research employs a number of strategies to investigate current responses to our geographic and historical time position. Within the exegesis there is a vers libre poem, written from the imagined viewpoint of members of the Burke and Wills’ expedition. The poem is supported by a superimposition of the Don Quixote story over that of the ill-fated inland Australian explorers. [...]
  • Description: Master of Arts (Visual Arts)

Image retrieval based on semantics of intra-region color properties

  • Authors: Sajjanhar, Atul , Lu, Guojun , Zhang, Dengsheng , Zhou, Wanlei , Chen, Yi-Ping Phoebe
  • Date: 2008
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Proceedings of 2008 IEEE 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology p. 338-343
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  • Description: Traditional image retrieval systems are content based image retrieval systems which rely on low-level features for indexing and retrieval of images. CBIR systems fail to meet user expectations because of the gap between the low level features used by such systems and the high level perception of images by humans. Semantics based methods have been used to describe images according to their high level features. In this paper, we performed experiments to identify the failure of existing semantics-based methods to retrieve images in a particular semantic category. We have proposed a new semantic category to describe the intra-region color feature. The proposed semantic category complements the existing high level descriptions. Experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method