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Qualitative research from concepts to analysis

- Terry, Daniel, Lê, Quynh, Terry, Melissa, Kirschbaum, Mark

Authors: Terry, Daniel , Lê, Quynh , Terry, Melissa , Kirschbaum, Mark
Date: 2013
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Conducting Research in a Changing and Challenging World 8 p. 79-90
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Description: There are two main research approaches which are widely used by researchers: quantitative and qualitative research. They represent different research paradigms. The former is closely associated with statistically oriented scientific inquiry and the latter has become increasingly popular in social inquiry. In other words, the former is about numbers and variable relationships and the latter is about meaning and meaning making. Thematic analysis and grounded theories are often used together in qualitative inquiry in search of themes and theoretical constructs. Discourse analysis and critical discourse analysis focus more on discourse structure, social context, and empowerment. This chapter discusses these four types of analyses in qualitative research.

Agents of regional-global transformation : Federation University Gppsland education (fugue) researchers

- Plowright, Susan, Green, Monica, Johnson, Nicola

Authors: Plowright, Susan , Green, Monica , Johnson, Nicola
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Educational researchers and the regional university : agents of regional-global transformations 1 p. 1-19
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Description: The lived particulars of Gippsland, the region, the land, the people and all life, are the heart and impetus of Federation University Gippsland Education (FUGuE) researchers, the chapter and collection authors. To us, Gippsland is portentous as both a wonderful place and prophetic of the transformations required for a sustainable and just regional-global future. The Latrobe Valley, for example, home of our small, new, regional university campus, is both bucolic rural locale and site of several coal-fired power stations. For many years, non-Indigenous residents enjoyed a fairly self-contained place of financial and intergenerational security.However, decades of seismic shifts have written new layers of trauma onto the Gippsland palimpsest that began with European invasions.With global imperatives to transition to a low-carbon economy, Gippsland is a canary in the global coal mine. Assertively locating our research in this region, we address moral and institutional imperatives to act as agents in generating a new regional-global modus vivendi from hinterland and a range of other minority positionalities. To set the regional scene, we map territorial and ideational incongruences that the toponyms of 'Gippsland' and 'region' conjure.We narrate how FUGuE contrapuntally emerged from this context and argue that through 'word and deed', FUGuE challenges hegemonic positivist and dominant discourses of what counts as notable research. Like a Bach fugue masterpiece in which each voice has intrinsic integrity but in counterpoint transforms into something new, our interwoven research voices of transformative agency through educational research, disruptively reveal our appreciable, but largely underappreciated, 'impact'. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019. All rights are reserved.

Leadership : untapping the secret to regional wellbeing, belonging and resilience

- Jones, Geraldine, Moore, Kathleen, Morgan, Damian

Authors: Jones, Geraldine , Moore, Kathleen , Morgan, Damian
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges p. 117-132
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Description: The importance of the lived, performed, felt and experienced modes of place and community made available through the festival means acknowledging the ways in which a festival can engage us within networks of emotion and affect that can heighten feelings of belonging or exclusion. A ‘successful’ festival in terms of social connectedness is one that brings about a feeling of togetherness, a collective joy that transforms individuals into a community. Yet, festivals also offer opportunities for developing new networks or revitalising existing ones via social capital. Drawing on research carried out in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, this chapter focuses on identifying the networks and ties between a range of actors and stakeholders in the community in the context of the Dungog Arts Festival. © The Author(s) 2020.

Conquering everest-researching into thin air : a research journey reflection

- Terry, Daniel

Authors: Terry, Daniel
Date: 2013
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Conducting Research in a Changing and Challenging World p. 311-320
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Description: The research journey has been compared to a great river, a maze and even eating anelephant or climbing a mountain. Whatever the research journey is parallel to; there arecommon elements which are analogous within any comparison. The research journey isguided by fundamental principles of preparation, communication, negotiation andadaptation, while being underpinned by enthusiasm, determination and ethics to guidesthe process. This chapter will focus on the research journey from a personal view throughthe allegory of conquering Everest, which continues to aid my expedition. © 2010 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

Sustainable development

- Courvisanos, Jerry

Authors: Courvisanos, Jerry
Date: 2012
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics, Second Edition p. 515-523
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Description: 'The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics is a comprehensive guide to economic analyses in the tradition of Keynes and the so-called Cambridge (UK) school of economics. The coverage of themes and different theoretical orientations within Post Keynesianism is remarkable and the quality of the various entries is impressive. John King's invisible hand is responsible for a minimum of overlaps and an optimum in quality and comprehensibility. This book has already proved to be of interest to a wide range of economists and can be expected to continue to do so for a long time to come.' - Heinz D. Kurz, University of Graz, Austria. © J.E. King 2012. All rights reserved.

Geographies of trust : A politics of resistance for an alternative education

- Smyth, John

Authors: Smyth, John
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education Chapter 25 p. 385-400
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Description: This state-of-the-art, comprehensive Handbook fully explores the field of alternative education on an international scale. Alternatives to mainstream schooling and education are becoming increasingly recognised as pertinent and urgent for better understanding what really works in successfully educating children and adults today, especially in light of the increased performance driven and managerially organised economic modelling of education that dominates. For too long we have wondered what exactly education done otherwise might look like and here we meet individual examples as well as seeing what alternative education is when a collection becomes greater than the sum of parts. The Handbook profiles numerous empirical examples from around the world of education being done in innovative and excitingly democratic and autonomous ways from Forest Schools and Home Education through to new technologies, neuroscience and the importance of solitude. The book also sets out important theoretical perspectives to inform us why seeing education through an alternative lens is useful as well as urgently needed. Global in its perspective and definitive in content, this one-stop volume will be an indispensable reference resource for a wide range of academics, students and researchers in the fields of Education, Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy as well as educational practitioners.

Does blockchain technology drive sustainability? An exploratory review

- Jayawardhana, Jayawardhana, Colombage, Sisira

Authors: Jayawardhana, Jayawardhana , Colombage, Sisira
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility p. 17-42
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Description: Blockchain technology is an extension of distributed ledger technology and it is used in cryptocurrencies. Many studies describe blockchain technology and cryptocurrency is an application of it in a very broad sense. Blockchain technology has several applications. Some of these applications could have direct or indirect relevance to either or both pillars of sustainability advocated by Crowther, Seifi, and Wond (2019). Extending to cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, one possible connection to sustainability may be the reduction of the use of paper for printing currency notes, which can save forests. Furthermore, the growing cryptocurrency market attracted the investors to focus on the price fluctuations but making them forget about the terrifying carbon problem associated with cryptocurrencies. However, this possibility has not been demonstrated anywhere so far. The issue examined here is how blockchain technology can be used for solving sustainability problems. We initiate a qualitative study of the blockchain technology/cryptocurrency and sustainability using the twin pillars of sustainability: (1) responsibility, (2) governance. An exploratory review linking blockchain technology/cryptocurrency and sustainability and its two pillars revealed many actual and trial applications by corporates as CSR initiatives and other novel programs by various agencies in various countries. In governance, corporates use the CSR route to address sustainability issues. However, no definition is an available linking cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, and sustainability and we developed a definition to fill the gap. This paper stresses that the sustainability perspective has not been used to develop the cryptocurrency definition, but rather technological and legal perspectives have employed. © 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited.

- Bowden, Stephen, Scalzo, Simon

Authors: Bowden, Stephen , Scalzo, Simon
Date: 2017
Type: Book chapter
Relation: Dementia, Fifth Edition p. 857-867
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Description: Alcohol abuse and dependence is an increasing public health concern worldwide, and excessive alcohol intake is a risk factor for cognitive impairment (Caetano and Babor, 2006; Christensen et al., 2006; Gupta and Warner, 2008). e severity of impairment across individuals may vary from subtle impairments that are dicult to detect at clinical interview, or masked by intoxication, through to a severe dementia, which may persist long aer drinking ceases (Victor, 1994; Ritchie and Villebrun, 2008). Within any one individual, cognitive impairment associated with excessive alcohol use may vary across time, perhaps associated with level of alcohol intake, general nutritional and health status and other factors less well understood (Lishman, 1998; Bowden and Ritter, 2005; Pfeerbaum, et al., 2007; Bates et al., 2008). Excessive alcohol use is an underappreciated problem in older people, in the age range at highest risk for dementia (Gupta and Warner, 2008; Perney et al., 2008). © 2017 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Taxpayer rights and protections in a digital global environment

- Bentley, Duncan

Authors: Bentley, Duncan
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Ethics and Taxation p. 251-294
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Description: This chapter explores the impact on taxpayer rights of digital developments in electronics and systems, artificial intelligence, and security.Using an integrated rights framework comprising principles of tax administration and compliance, together with legal rights, it sets out the challenges and opportunities offered by digital disruption. It addresses issues such as proportionality, discrimination, equity and fairness, transparency and bias in legal and administrative decision-making, security, privacy and confidentiality. The chapter takes a global and comparative perspective in addressing significant legal issues that require detailed research and debate. It emphasises the opportunities for government service obligations to taxpayers, using artificial intelligence and secure systems, to provide advanced assistance to taxpayers and businesses and boost economic growth and trade. The chapter concludes that the opportunities are available to enable global implementation of an integrated rights framework to protect taxpayers even more effectively through digital disruption. © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020.

Survey of recent cyber security attacks on robotic systems and their mitigation approaches

- Chowdhury, Abdullahi, Karmakar, Gour, Kamruzzaman, Joarder

Authors: Chowdhury, Abdullahi , Karmakar, Gour , Kamruzzaman, Joarder
Date: 2017
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Detecting and mitigating robotic cyber security Risks p. 284-299
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Description: With the rapid expansion of digital media and the advancement of the artificial intelligence, robotics has drawn the attention of cyber security research community. Robotics systems use many Internet of Things (IoT) devices, web interface, internal and external wireless sensor networks and cellular networks for better communication and smart services. Individuals, industries and governments organisations are facing financial loses, losing time and sensitive data due these cyber attacks. The use these different devices and networks in robotics systems are creating new vulnerabilities and potential risk for cyber attacks. This chapter discusses about the possible cyber attacks and economics losses due to these attacks in robotics systems. In this chapter, we analyse the increasing uses of public and private robots, which has created possibility of having more cyber-crimes. Finally, contemporary and important mitigation approaches for these cyber attacks in robotic systems have been discussed in this chapter. © 2017, IGI Global. All rights reserved.

Ecosystem services and agriculture in Punjab, India

- Kumar, Lalit, Sandhu, Harpinder

Authors: Kumar, Lalit , Sandhu, Harpinder
Date: 2017
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Ecosystem Functions and Management: Theory and Practice p. 59-84
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Description: Agroecosystems supply food, fibre and a range of ecosystem services (ES) to human beings. At the same time, they are dependent on regulating services such as freshwater, biodiversity, healthy soils for their proper functioning. It is known that agricultural activities impact negatively on environment and its resources. We present a case study of agriculture in Punjab, India to reflect how it is supplying food to growing population but also impacting other ES. We conclude by discussing trade-offs between food production and natural resources and discuss options for applying ecosystem based approach for long term sustainability of agroecosystems. © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.

How bioregional history could shape the future of agriculture

- Brown, Julian, Barton, Philip, Cunningham, Saul

Authors: Brown, Julian , Barton, Philip , Cunningham, Saul
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Advances in Ecological Research p. 149-189
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Description: Biodiversity conservation and agriculture are becoming intimately intertwined. Wildlife-friendly agriculture is promoted as a way to conserve biodiversity, connect nature reserves, facilitate climate-driven range shifts and enhance ecosystem services to agriculture. Yet some approaches that increase native biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, such as tropical agroforestry, may support a suite of species that is distinct from nearby remnant habitat. Wildlife-friendly farming, therefore, does not necessarily facilitate native species persistence through landscape conversion to agriculture or facilitate the movement of local species among nature reserves. We argue the historical composition of native species in agricultural landscapes can be maintained by enhancing ecological similarity between production land uses and natural ecosystems. Some agricultural systems already support native species from, and share some ecological attributes with, natural grasslands, wetlands and forests. However, we suggest there are benefits to be gained by focusing on the finer details of similarities in structure, floristic composition (e.g. crop species) and disturbance regimes occurring across natural and modified habitat types. A key advancement of this approach is that the composition of agricultural diversity and its spatio-temporal dynamics are selected and managed according to the spatial and temporal habitat requirements of the wildlife species naturally inhabiting the local area. We argue that ensuring ecological similarity between agricultural systems and the ecosystems they replaced or lie between will strengthen the capacity of agricultural landscapes to maintain historical species pools and provide spatial and temporal connectivity between nature reserves and analogous future climatic zones. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd

Advances in the discovery and development of anthelmintics by harnessing natural product scaffolds

- Herath, H. M. P. Dilrukshi, Taki, Aya, Sleebs, Brad, Hofmann, Andreas, Nguyen, Nghi, Preston, Sarah, Davis, Rohan, Jabbar, Abdul, Gasser, Robin

Authors: Herath, H. M. P. Dilrukshi , Taki, Aya , Sleebs, Brad , Hofmann, Andreas , Nguyen, Nghi , Preston, Sarah , Davis, Rohan , Jabbar, Abdul , Gasser, Robin
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Advances in Parasitology p. 203-251
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Description: Widespread resistance to currently-used anthelmintics represents a major obstacle to controlling parasitic nematodes of livestock animals. Given the reliance on anthelmintics in many control regimens, there is a need for the continued discovery and development of new nematocides. Enabling such a focus are: (i) the major chemical diversity of natural products; (ii) the availability of curated, drug-like extract-, fraction- and/or compound-libraries from natural sources; (iii) the utility and practicality of well-established whole-worm bioassays for Haemonchus contortus—an important parasitic nematodes of livestock—to screen natural product libraries; and (iv) the availability of advanced chromatographic (HPLC), spectroscopic (NMR) and spectrometric (MS) techniques for bioassay-guided fractionation and structural elucidation. This context provides a sound basis for the identification and characterisation of anthelmintic candidates from natural sources. This chapter provides a background on the importance and impact of helminth infections/diseases, parasite control and aspects of drug discovery, and reviews recent work focused on (i) screening well-defined compound libraries to establish the methods needed for large-scale screening of natural extract libraries; (ii) discovering plant and marine extracts with nematocidal or nematostatic activity, and purifying bioactive compounds and assessing their potential for further development; and (iii) synthesising analogues of selected purified natural compounds for the identification of possible ‘lead’ candidates. The chapter describes some lessons learned from this work and proposes future areas of focus for drug discovery. Collectively, the findings from this recent work show potential for selected natural product scaffolds as candidates for future development. Developing such candidates via future chemical optimisation, efficacy and safety evaluations, broad spectrum activity assessments, and target identification represents an exciting prospect and, if successful, could pave the way to subsequent pre-clinical and clinical evaluations. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd

HTLV-I and strongyloides in Australia : the worm lurking beneath

- Gordon, Catherine, Shield, Jennifer, Bradbury, Richard, Muhi, Stephen, Page, Wendy

Authors: Gordon, Catherine , Shield, Jennifer , Bradbury, Richard , Muhi, Stephen , Page, Wendy
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Advances in Parasitology p. 119-201
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Description: Strongyloidiasis and HTLV-I (human T-lymphotropic virus-1) are important infections that are endemic in many countries around the world with an estimated 370 million infected with Strongyloides stercoralis alone, and 5–10 million with HTVL-I. Co-infections with these pathogens are associated with significant morbidity and can be fatal. HTLV-I infects T-cells thus causing dysregulation of the immune system which has been linked to dissemination and hyperinfection of S. stercoralis leading to bacterial sepsis which can result in death. Both of these pathogens are endemic in Australia primarily in remote communities in Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. Other cases in Australia have occurred in immigrants and refugees, returned travellers, and Australian Defence Force personnel. HTLV-I infection is lifelong with no known cure. Strongyloidiasis is a long-term chronic disease that can remain latent for decades, as shown by infections diagnosed in prisoners of war from World War II and the Vietnam War testing positive decades after they returned from these conflicts. This review aims to shed light on concomitant infections of HTLV-I with S. stercoralis primarily in Australia but in the global context as well. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. *Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Richard Bradbury" is provided in this record**

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