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Extending of L-infinity-valued operators under a twisted light

Extension and replication of an internet-based treatment program for panic disorder

  • Authors: Richards, Jeffrey , Alvarenga, Marlies
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Vol. 31, no. 1 (2002), p. 41-47
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  • Description: This study describes an internet-based intervention for people with panic disorder that consisted of a 5-module program. Participants accessed the program for 5-8 weeks and were then re-assessed 3 months later. Use of the program was associated with reductions in severity of panic disorder and in catastrophic misinterpretation of ambiguous panic body sensations in 9 people with this anxiety disorder. There were also non-significant trends for body vigilance to decrease over the course of the study. Further investigations of the efficacy of this medium for the treatment of panic disorder and the associated mechanisms of change are warranted.
  • Description: 2003000077

Factors influencing professional compliance with mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect

Father Raleigh went rapidly and amply to ruin: Irish missionary clergy in nineteenth-century Western Victoria

Fine coal recovery utilizing landfill-derived liquids

  • Authors: Hall, Stephen
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Environment Vol. 16, no. 1 (2002), p. 40-47
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  • Description: Liquid effluents that arise in the landfilling of municipal solid wastes, both leachate and gas condensates, can replace some or all of the conventional coal flotation reagents. The waste management industry currently must treat these effluents, to destroy contained organics, prior to their discharge to the environment and hence they are available at no cost, or even with "dollars attached". These landfill-derived liquids contain valuable short-chain fatty acids (e.g. valeric and caproic acids) that act as both frother and collector in flotation processes. They can be further concentrated by membrane filtration to reduce the transport costs of such liquids and the ease of their use in coal recovery systems. This paper will discuss how these liquids are formed in landfills, their typical compositions and how they can be employed to recover fine coal. Data from both conventional flotation feeds (-0.5 mm) and column flotation feeds (-0.1 mm) is presented.
  • Description: 2003000130

Focus groups and ELICOS evaluation

Francis Adams and 'Songs of the Army of the Night': Negotiating difference, maintaining commitment

  • Authors: Tasker, Meg
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Victorian Poetry Vol. 40, no. 1 (Spr 2002), p. 71-86
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  • Description: This essay examines the way in which, after establishing a broad literary and journalistic reputation in both England and Australia, Adams adopted a split writing position in Songs of the Army of the Night. Comprising mostly ballads in the style of Chartist protest poetry, the Songs are intertextually determined; to some extent they have a generic life of their own. Yet in adopting the form of popular verse, using vernacular forms and diction, Adams nonetheless constructs a persona that is consistent with much of his more "literary" writing. Songs of the Army of the Night does more than demonstrate conflict in Adams' work between the claims of "art" and "life," between his upper middle-class cultural affiliations and working-class political sympathies. Despite this element of conflict, the configuration of speaking positions is not dialectic, but dialogic in the Bakhtinian sense. (2) That is, the voices or speaking positions in the poetry do not work through opposition to achieve synthesis or progress, or to generate a new set of dialectical terms; rather, they co-exist in a synchronous multiplicity that allows the "implied poet" of the whole volume to be constructed as both a member of the oppressed masses and a middle-class sympathizer.
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  • Description: 2003000082

From supervisor to mentor : Suggestive possibilities

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Smith, Patricia
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at AARE 2002 Conference, Brisbane : 1st - 5th December, 2002
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  • Description: An age characterised by the sort of 'manufactured uncertainty' identified by Giddens (1994) throws up for scrutiny any number of taken-for-granted assumptions regarding professional practice experience in the Education field. This paper explores the suggestive possibilities of discourses of pre-service teacher practica in terms of naming, positioning and examination of taken-for-granted aspects of teacher education as they present at a regional university in Victoria, Australia. The University of Ballarat has introduced a new P-10 teacher education course. In the second year of its progress, traditional aspects of paid supervisory and assessment roles of practising teachers in relation to student teachers have been the focus of attention and activity based on reconfigured foci on the roles of both practising teachers and undergraduate students. One such focus is on what Schön (1987) describes as 'indeterminate zones of practice', and the result has been a research program exploring those zones in terms of mentorship in relation to mandated supervision and assessment requirements for graduate registration. The project is action-research based, with teacher, student, academic and semi-academic/teacher roles considered in the light of suggestive possibilities of mentorship and reflective practices as transformative possibilities in relation to roles associated with these.
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  • Description: 2003000135

Fuzzy set analysis of Australian drug safety data

  • Authors: Mammadov, Musa , Saunders, Gary
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at HIC 2002, Melbourne : 5th August, 2002
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  • Description: This report describes a preliminary analysis of the Australian Adverse Drug Reaction Database (ADRAC) using a new approach, which is being developed for the analysis of this drug safety data. This differs significantly from the statistical methods that have been used in that we utilize vectors of degrees to define drug-reaction relationships. A quasi-classification algorithm was developed to discover drugs associated with adverse reactions and possible drug-drug interactions. The machine learning algorithm FDM (Fuzzy Derivative Method) was used to predict good and bad outcomes based on observed reactions and potential vectors of degrees. This work extends existing methods for drug safety analysis and should also be of general interest in the field of data mining.
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  • Description: 2003000055

Generic arguments : A framework for supporting online deliberative discourse

Giving the laity a voice through fiction : Irish Catholic Ballarat in 1875 as portrayed in The liberator's birthday

  • Authors: Blee, Jillian
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: "This project uses narrative fiction to portray Irish Catholic laity who were part of the population of Ballarat in 1875."
  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

Global matrix

  • Authors: Mann, Allan
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Visual art work
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  • Description: 2003007065

Glycogen storage disease

  • Authors: Kannourakis, George
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Seminars in Hematology Vol. 39, no. 2 (2002), p. 103-106
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  • Description: Glycogen storage disease (GSD) is a rare autosomal-recessive disorder characterized by hypoglycemia, hepatosplenomegaly, seizures, and failure to thrive in infants. Neutropenia and/or neutrophil dysfunction develops in GSD1b, but not in other types. GSD1b results from a deficiency of the glucose-6-phosphate translocase enzyme and the genetic defect maps to chromosome 11q23. Patients with GSD1b are susceptible to recurrent bacterial infections, commonly involving the perirectal area, ears, skin, and urinary tract, although life-threatening infections, such as septicemia, pneumonia, and meningitis occur less frequently. Although the exact mechanism of neutropenia in patients with GSD1b is not known, treatment with recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) has reduced the incidence of infections and has improved the quality of life of these patients. Defects in neutrophil chemotaxis and intracellular bacterial killing have been described and appear to be corrected by the use of G-CSF. To date, no cases of myelodysplasia or acute myeloid leukemia have been observed in patients with GSD1b treated with G-CSF. A significant complication of cytokine therapy is the development of hypersplenism, requiring either a reduction in the dosage of G-CSF or splenectomy. Copyright 2002, Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.

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Hadamard type inequality for quasiconvex functions in higher dimensions

  • Authors: Rubinov, Alex , Dutta, J.
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications Vol. 270, no. 1 (2002), p. 80-91
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  • Description: In this article we study a Hadamard type inequality for nonnegative evenly quasiconvex functions. The approach of our study is based on the notion of abstract convexity. We also provide an explicit calculation to evaluate the asymptotically sharp constant associated with the inequality over a unit square in the two-dimensional plane. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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Heat requirement for germination of the grass, panicum laevinode

  • Authors: Florentine, Singarayer , Graham, R.A. , Fox, John
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: International Journal of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Vol. 28, no. (2002), p. 143-145
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  • Description: Annual grasses are important components of vegetation, especially where perennial grasses have declined from overgrazing. Panicum laevinode is an annual grass that occurs in large numbers in grassy Eucalyptus victrix L. Johnson and K. Hill coolibah woodland in Pilbara, Western Australia. Little is known about the seed germination pattern and requirements of this grass. Our aim was to examine the effect of heat pre-treatment on seed germination of P. laevinode. Only 12% germination was observed from seeds pre-treated at 60oC for periods ranging from 1 to 8 weeks. However seed viability study showed that 61.5% and 71.5% of seeds were viable from 3 and 17 months respectively. Germination study did not reflect results of the viability test.
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How university students were planning to study economics? Were their plans realised?

  • Authors: Marangos, John
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Economic Papers Vol. 21, no. 2 (2002), p. 45-60
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  • Description: This paper presents the questionnaire responses of students studying first year Introductory Microeconomics in the Department of Economics at Monash University across three campuses Caulfield, Clayton and Peninsula. The aim was to identify how students were planning to study Microeconomics and whether their plans were realised. In order to derive effective strategies to encourage approaches to study consistent with the changes in curriculum and teaching methods knowledge of the learning methodologies of students was essential.
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Illness attributions and myocardial infarction : The influence of gender and socio-economic circumstances on illness beliefs

  • Authors: King, Rosemary
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Advanced Nursing Vol. 37, no. 5 (2002), p. 431-438
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  • Description: Aim. To present findings from a study conducted between 1996 and 1998 to investigate participants' perceptions of illness causation following a myocardial infarction. Rationale. The underlying assumption of many practitioners is that perceptions of illness causation will influence emotions and adjustment to illness. Design. Phenomenology was the research methodology used to examine perceptions of illness causation. A convenience sample was taken of 24 men and women who were admitted to a regional hospital in Victoria, Australia, with a provisional diagnosis of myocardial infarction. Participants were interviewed shortly after hospitalization, and interviews were taped, transcribed and thematically analysed. Findings. Stress was the most commonly cited cause of illness. Men and women demonstrated distinct differences in illness attribution. Participants who verbalized concerns about their loss of autonomy and their subsequent ability for self-management were predominantly female and uniformly members of the lowest socio-economic group. Conclusion. The article concludes with a discussion of implications of the findings for practice.
  • Description: 2003000204

Images of a new sub-culture in the Australian university : Perceptions of non-nurse academics of the discipline of nursing

  • Authors: Sellers, Eileen
  • Date: 2002
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Higher Education Vol. 43, no. 2 (2002), p. 157-172
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  • Description: It is crucial to the development and credibility of the nursing profession that its knowledge base be recognised as legitimate scholarly endeavour by established members of academia. For that reason, this report concerns examination of the attitudes and values of a group of non-nurse academics employed in universities in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and the degree to which they view nursing as an epistemic entity. Perceptions are considered within the dual contexts of recent major changes in nursing education and in academia. Naturalistic Inquiry, informed by a hermeneutic attitude, is employed as a heuristic to examine the sub-culture of nursing within the broad culture of academia. Analysis of extensive interview data provided by the contemplation of study participants provides emergent themes. Several metaphors are chosen to explicate the findings that nursing is largely perceived to be nebulous, atheoretical, and subservient to the medical profession, Implications are discussed and recommendations are made with the view to encourage modernisation of the university through improving internal communication and challenging traditional models of operations within the tertiary sector.

Implementing the AGS landslide risk management guidelines in a municipal planning scheme : A case study in the Colac Otway Shire, Victoria