Permian Sediments of the Honeysuckle Plain Graben, Benalla, Victoria
- Authors: Hughes, Martin
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Victoria Undercover, Benalla 2002 Conference Proceedings and Field Guide, Benalla, Australia : March 2002 p. 147-154
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Personality & spirituality : Christian prayer & Eastern meditation are not the same
- Authors: Fisher, John , Francis, Leslie , Kaldor, Peter
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Pastoral Psychology Vol. 50, no. 3 (2002), p. 165-172
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- Description: A random sample of 1,033 adults in an Australian community survey completed a form containing the abbreviated Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire together with questions about the practice of prayer and Eastern meditation. While prayer was associated with low psychoticism scores, Eastern meditation was associated with high psychoticism scores.
- Description: C1
- Description: 2003000203
Personality traits of the behavioural approach and inhibition systems : Associations with processing of emotional stimuli
- Authors: Gomez, Andre , Gomez, Rapson
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Personality and Individual Differences Vol. 32, no. 8 (2002), p. 1299-1316
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- Description: This study examined the relationships of the traits associated with Gray's behavioral approach system (BAS) and behavioural inhibition system (BIS) with cognitive processing of emotional information. Initially, participants completed questionnaires covering trait impulsivity and anxiety, and BAS and BIS sensitivities. They were then tested individually. After completing a questionnaire of current positive and negative moods, they completed three tasks measuring processing of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral information. Consistent with Gray's theory, the results showed that impulsivity and BAS sensitivity were associated with the processing of pleasant information, while anxiety and BIS sensitivity were associated with the processing of unpleasant information. These findings imply that Gray's BAS-BIS theory can be extended to cognitive processing of emotional information. © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
- Description: 2003000180
Peter Pilven 3 decades of clay: An Overview
- Authors: Pilven, Peter
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Ceramics exhibition held at Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
- Description: 2003007078
Phenological studies in Australia: Potential application in historical and future climate analysis
- Authors: Keatley, Marie , Fletcher, Tim , Hudson, Irene , Ades, Peter
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Climatology Vol. 22, no. 14 (Nov 2002), p. 1769-1780
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- Description: Phenological observations of eucalypts (Myrtaceae) were undertaken in four Australian states (New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia) from the late 1920s until the early 1980s, by the respective State Forest Commissions. Unfortunately, few records have survived. For Victoria, surviving records encompass 42 forest districts, covering from less than 2 years to 42 years, and approximately 50 species. This paper concentrates on the flowering of four competing species (Eucalyptus leucoxylon, E. microcarpa, E. polyanthemos, and E. tricarpa) over 23 years (1940-62) from Maryborough, Victoria, recorded on a monthly basis by one observer over the period. This study represents one of the first attempts to utilize Australian phenological data to detect responses to climate change. There were no significant trends (P = 0.05) over time in the mean flowering commencement date. Forward stepwise regression found a significant relationship between temperature and flowering commencement in two species (E. leucoxylon: R-2 = 0.42, P < 0.01; E. polyanthemos: R-2 = 0.47, P = 0.02). Rainfall also had a significant influence on flowering commencement in E. tricarpa (R-2 = 0.60, P < 0.01), E. leucoxylon (R-2 = 0.43, P = 0.02) and E. polyanthemos (R-2 = 0.24, P < 0.01). The combination of temperature and rainfall (with temperature exerting the greatest influence), however, was significant for all species and had the most explanatory power (ranging from R-2 = 0.74 to 0.85, P < 0.01). Overall, in response to predicted increases in temperature and summer rainfall, E. leucoxylon and E. tricarpa would commence flowering later. In E. polyanthemos and E. microcarpa, increased temperature and rainfall will result in an earlier onset of flowering. Copyright (C) 2002 Royal Meteorological Society.
- Description: 2003000171
Place and space in the rhetoric of Australian colonial poetry
- Authors: Healey, Margaret
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "This study focuses on poetry as evidence for the presence of a conceptual side to the nature of place. It utilises the poetry of the early European period in Australia to explore aspects of the manner in which concepts of place are transmitted through a community. It works through this poetry, seeking for rhetoric, for arguments about the nature of place and the values of particular aspects of place, rather than for particularly literary virtues of originality of language use"
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Population estimation models based on individual TM pixels
- Authors: Harvey, Jack
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing Vol. 68, no. 11 (2002), p. 1181-1192
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- Description: There is a fundamental spatial mismatch in the data available for modeling human population from satellite imagery. Spectral reflectances are available for each pixel of an image, but ground reference population data are available only for larger zones. The general response has been to build models for the average population density of the zones, utilizing spatially aggregated spectral data. This approach has limitations, both for the modeling process and for the utilization of the resulting spatially aggregated population estimates. A pixel-based alternative is described. Pixels of a Landsat TM image were classified as residential or non-residential using standard techniques. Initial reference populations were assigned by uniformly distributing the population of each zone across its residential pixels. An expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm was used to iteratively regress pixel population on spectral indicators and re-estimate pixel populations. Predictive validity was tested by applying the fitted regression equation to a second image. The pixel-based model produced population estimates of comparable accuracy to those resulting from a much more complex zone-based modeling procedure. The pixel-based procedure was also more robust and more amenable to refinement, particularly at the extremes of population density. The relative error in the estimated total urban population of both primary and secondary study areas was less than 1 percent. Median relative error in the population of individual zones was 16 percent in the primary study area (14 percent for urban zones) and 21 percent in the secondary study area (17 percent for urban zones).
- Description: 2003000103
Postnatal unhappiness : Who should direct support?
- Authors: Peart, Kerry
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Australian journal of midwifery : professional journal of the Australian College of Midwives Incorporated Vol. 15, no. 4 (2002), p. 18-20
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- Description: Depression following childbirth is a common, distressing but frequently underreported disorder. It involves a spectrum of symptoms, some of which may be self-limiting, while others can have major mental health implications in the post partum period. A range of health professionals, including midwives and mental health nurses, come into contact with women who suffer from postnatal depression; however, there is often little attempt made to integrate maternity and mental health care approaches. More collaborative frameworks of care are vital if health professionals are to adequately meet the needs of 'unhappy' women in the postnatal period.
- Description: 2003000060
Preventative therapy : The neoclassical gradualist model of transition from central administration to market relations
- Authors: Marangos, John
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: The Carl Beck Papers in Russia and East European Studies Vol. 1604, no. (2002), p. 1-55
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- Description: The fundamental basis of the neoclassical gradualist approach to transition in Russia and Eastern Europe was to establish economic, institutional, political, and ideological structures before attempting liberation. Without this minimum foundation radical reforms would have inhibited the development of a competitive market capitalist system. This was because “privatization” marketization, and the introduction of competition cannot, be contemplated in an economy reduced to barter" (Carrington 1992, 24). Also, implementation of the reform program required minimum standards of living; otherwise the social fabric of the whole society would have been at risk. The reform had to foster a social consensus that endorsed a system of secure private property rights (Murrell, 1995, 171) and had to be guided by the principles of voluntariness and free choice (Komai, 1992b, 17).
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- Description: 2003000218
Productive infection of the bone marrow cells in feline immunodeficiency virus infected cats
- Authors: Sandy, J. R. , Robinson, Wayne , Bredhauer, B. , Kyaw-Tanner, M. , Howlett, C. R.
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Archives of Virology Vol. 147, no. 5 (2002), p. 1053-1059
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- Description: Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) from cats experimentally infected with feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) were shown to contain FIV provirus using polymerase chain reaction and viral products were detected in culture supernatant using reverse transcriptase and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay techniques. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from FIV-free cats co-cultured with infected bone marrow cells became productively infected with FIV. Such evidence supports the hypothesis that BMSC are a reservoir for FIV. Furthermore, BMSC produced virions capable of infecting susceptible cells and may represent an important source of infectious virus to cells of the macrophage lineage and/or hemopoietic progenitor cells, both of which ultimately become widely disseminated throughout the body.
Prospect Portrait Prize
- Authors: Button, Loris
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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Psychiatric triage nursing : the new frontier
- Authors: Sands, Natisha
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The overall aim of the study was to provide a comprehensive definition and description of psychiatric triage nursing in Victoria."
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Re-reading interpretation : The way forward for an ethico-political engagement
- Authors: Mummery, Jane
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Philosophy Today Vol. 46, no. 3 (2002), p. 313-322
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- Description: Now if we might be inclined to endorse Heidegger's deconstruction of politics [and ethics] in modernity as being complicitous with a certain metaphysics of the will, a metaphysics which is ultimately hegemonic and destructive, we might also be willing to wonder whether the task of thinking that emerges from this diagnosis is not ultimately heading toward a philosophical dead end, one which, to be more specific, seems to rule out the very possibility of praxis.
- Description: 2003004481
Reading comprehension and a computerised analytic model : theoretical possibility, technical feasibilty and intrinsic limitations
- Authors: Lin, Zheng
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "This study comprises a formulated approach to the prediction of EFL reading comprehension. Based on a study of the interactions between bottom-up and top-down processing, between different sources of prior knowledge, and between the reader and the writer via the text, a schematic developmental model is devised to account for L2 reading comprehension. According to the model, the EFL, conceptual and sociocultural knowledge that an EFL text involves, and that the EFL reader brings to the reading task, determines the outcome of the EFL reading event."
- Description: Doctor of Philosphy
Reading, writing and unruliness : Female education in the St Trinian's films
- Authors: Speed, Lesley
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Cultural Studies Vol. 5, no. 2 (2002), p. 221-238
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- Description: This article examines how the St Trinian’s films (1954–1980) engage with shifts in the social organization of gender and class, while celebrating the defiance of social constraints on women. Focusing on the films’ depiction of unruly female behaviour, the article addresses the historical and social dimensions of the films in relation to carnival, adolescence and education. The films express public responses to the increasing public significance of female youth, and celebrate the predominantly female environment of the girls’ school.
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- Description: 2003002837
Reducing the energy cost of dragging sheep during sheep shearing
- Authors: Payne, Warren , Culvenor, John , Lawrance, Michael , Harvey, Jack , Cowley, Stephen , Stuart, David , Williams, Robyn
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Occupational Health and Safety - Australia and New Zealand Vol. 18, no. 2 (2002), p. 173-179
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- Description: The task of dragging sheep into position for shearing has been reported by shearers as the most physically demanding and one of the highest injury risk aspects of shearing, particularly with regard to back injury. This study aimed to identify which of the currently used drag paths induced the lowest energy consumption and risk of injury. The drag path with the lowest work economy (oxygen cost per sheep dragged per minute) and highest injury risk is used by left-handed shearers who are shearing from a workstation which is designed for right-handed shearers. Importantly, there were no significant differences in the work economy of the two drag paths which were used most frequently and which involved the lowest injury risk. These data have been used in advocating the adoption of simple shearing shed design solutions to assist in the control of injury risk and energy expenditure in the wool industry.
- Description: 2003000247
Refuelling the practicum : From 'neophytes' and 'experts' to collaborative, reflective relationships
- Authors: Ryan, Janette , Brandenburg, Robyn
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, Brisbane : December, 2002
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- Description: In 2001, the University of Ballarat introduced a new Bachelor of Education course, and a new model for professional experience aimed at changing the focus away from assessment of the placement, to the learning that occurs within it. As part of this re-generation of the program, we wanted to ensure that the initial enthusiasm generated (Brandenburg & Ryan, 2001) continued to provide the 'fuel' for new approaches to student learning. One of the key themes that emerged from students' responses about their experiences in the program, was the relationships that they were developing. As part of a further development of the program, this year we introduced a mentoring system, where the placement is self-assessed, in collaboration with a mentor/teacher. This is aimed at encouraging not only a shift in the learning that occurs within the placement, but also a fundamental change in the nature of the relationships within it. One of the aims of this shift is to encourage a reflective approach amongst our pre-service teachers as well as their teacher/mentors, and in the development of the program itself, so that a more collaborative framework is emerging, and in this paper we report on the resultant changes in students' attitudes.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003002339
Regarding history
- Authors: Button, Loris
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Visual art work
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- Description: Exhibition held 2nd-19th April, 2003, Goya Galleries cnr Spring and Latrobe St , Melbourne
Regolith Mapping of the Bendigo region of Victoria
- Authors: Kotsonis, Andrew , Joyce, Bernard
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Victoria Undercover, Benalla 2002 Conference Proceedings and Field Guide, Benalla, Australia : March 2002 p. 147-154
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- Description: E1
Regolith of the West Victorian Uplands, Victoria, Australia
- Authors: Carey, Stephen , Hughes, Martin
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Victoria Undercover, Benalla 2002 Conference Proceedings and Field Guide, Benalla, Australia : March 2002 p. 147-154
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- Description: E1
- Description: 2003000193