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Blackpoint impact model for wheat

- Armstrong, Bruce, Weiss, M., Armstrong, T.A., Aldred, Peter

Bollywood Meets Tap

- Wynen, David

  • Authors: Wynen, David
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Visual art work
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  • Description: Live performance by David Wynen in 'Bollywood Meets Tap', Commonwealth Game Live Site, Camp Street, Ballarat, March 2006. Such research is related to the combination of two opposing styles of dance, and the background work taken in investigating the history of Bollywood and Tap-two ephemeral dance/art forms. In the past tap and Bollywood has rarely been defined, archived or notated. Such work into integrating musical styles and dance took a signifcant undertaking. This had led to further research into the area of archiving and notating tap dance, creating a codified language and system of notation. The significant of this research is that it fulfils educational criteria whilst showcasing students to the commercial industry. Also integrates dance and art through its brief. Its research component relates to the historic referencing, and educational and professional outcomes.

Boys' aggression to girls : The views of year 9 girls, boys and their teachers

- Owens, Larry, Shute, Rosalyn, Slee, Phillip

  • Authors: Owens, Larry , Shute, Rosalyn , Slee, Phillip
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at the XVI World Meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression, Turku, Finland : 1st July, 2004 p. 91-95
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  • Description: Because children and young teenagers usually associate in same-sex groups, psychological research concerned with adolescent aggression has often concentrated on within-sex interactions. Sociological and feminist research, however, has highlighted boys’ victimization of girls, especially through sexual harassment. This paper reports a study of boy to girl aggression as perceived by boys, girls and their teachers. Focus group discussions were conducted with groups of Year 9 adolescents (aged between 14 and 15 years) across four middle class schools in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia. Individual interviews were also conducted with their teachers. Thematic analyses (using NUDIST software) revealed different understandings by boys, girls and teachers of the same behaviour. Girls and teachers reported that boys often use verbally offensive language including sexual harassment toward girls but boys argued that they were often not being malicious but rather just joking and that girls over-react. Boys, girls and teachers agreed that boys often harassed girls in order to impress other boys and for their own entertainment or fun. Teachers also emphasized home and cultural background factors in influencing boys’ behavior toward girls. Girls’ appearance was reported as a major contributing factor associated with boys’ victimization – while physical attractiveness could protect a girl from boys’ meanness, over-weight girls or those seen as being unattractive or “uncool” were vulnerable. However, girls were not seen universally as passive victims. Boys, girls and teachers reported that many girls respond assertively and even match boys’ aggression. Boys and girls agreed that teacher intervention was often not helpful. In contrast, teachers reported the effectiveness of school anti-harassment policies and a range of successful interventions. All three groups agreed that boys’ behavior toward girls could have devastating effects on the girl victims. This study highlights the importance of understanding behaviour from different perspectives and confirms research that emphasizes the crucial role of the peer group in influencing aggressive interactions amongst students in schools.
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  • Description: 2003002162

Caffeine has a trivial effect on 5-km running performance

- O'Rourke, Matthew, O'Brien, Brendan, Knez, Wade, Paton, Carl

Calculating the extremal number ex (v ; {C3, C4, ..., Cn})

- Tang, Jianmin, Lin, Yuqing, Miller, Mirka

  • Authors: Tang, Jianmin , Lin, Yuqing , Miller, Mirka
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics Vol. 27, no. (2006), p. 101-102
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  • Description: This paper introduces and analyzes a parallel method of simulated annealing. Borrowing from genetic algorithms, an effective combination of simulated annealing and genetic algorithms, called parallel recombinative simulated annealing, is developed. This new algorithm strives to retain the desirable asymptotic convergence properties of simulated annealing, while adding the populations approach and recombinative power of genetic algorithms. The algorithm iterates a population of solutions rather than a single solution, employing a binary recombination operator as well as a unary neighborhood operator. Proofs of global convergence are given for two variations of the algorithm. Convergence behavior is examined, and empirical distributions are compared to Boltzmann distributions. Parallel recombinative simulated annealing is amenable to straightforward implementation on SIMD, MIMD, or shared-memory machines. The algorithm, implemented on the CM-5, is run repeatedly on two deceptive problems to demonstrate the added implicit parallelism and faster convergence which can result from larger population sizes.
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Capacity of women to improve physical performance: A review: Report 13

- Payne, Warren, VanHamond, Mark, Harvey, Jack

  • Authors: Payne, Warren , VanHamond, Mark , Harvey, Jack
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Report
  • Relation: Defence Physical employment standards project: Infantry and Airfield Defence Guards
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  • Description: 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Defence Physical Employment Standards Project 1.1.1 Military operational tasks are physically demanding and incur the risk of injury. In order to address the issues and costs associated with the high injury rates and focus on ways to reduce the risk of injury to Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel, the ADF Chiefs of Service Committee (COSC) has endorsed a number of injury prevention strategies aimed at examining, analysing and evaluating injury-related risks and hazards within the ADF. In line with those strategies, COSC has affirmed that ADF employment policy is to be competency based and agreed that physical employment standards should be developed for combat arms trades. The purpose of the Defence Physical Employment Standards Project (DPESP) is to develop these performance-based competency standards

Career advancement in Australian middle managers : A follow-up study

- Wood, Glenice

  • Authors: Wood, Glenice
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Women in Management Review Vol. 21, no. 4 (2006), p. 277-293
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  • Description: Purpose - The current study followed up middle managers who had participated in a survey on attitudes to promotion in 1996. The vast majority of the original sample had responded favourably to the question: "Do you want to obtain a senior management position during your managerial career?" In addition, respondents were asked "How confident are you that this will happen?" and "How soon do you feel this will happen?" The aim of this follow up qualitative study is to contact as many of these individuals as possible, to explore the outcome to these questions, and to track what has happened to them in their management careers over the past eight years. Design/methodology/approach - Interviews were conducted with 19 male and 11 female managers. Outcomes of promotion aspirations were sought, and factors that contributed to success and personal strategies that may have been set in place were explored, as were factors that had hindered their progress. In addition, views were sought on future aspirations for promotion. Findings - Results indicated gender differences in outcome of promotion, in both proportions of women achieving senior roles, and the time it took for males and females to obtain these promotions with more male middle managers achieving their promotion to senior roles, in less time, than their female colleagues. Practical implications - The findings were considered in relation to the ongoing career advancement of men and women in management, and in particular, the continuing disproportionate numbers of men and women in senior management roles. Originality/value - As a follow-up study, confirms that fewer female managers are being promoted to senior roles despite an obvious desire on their part such promotion and their confidence in obtaining it fairly quickly. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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CFD and its contribution in mineral separation

- Siddique, Hanif, Hall, Stephen, Islam, Mofakharul

Characteristics of the female landing pattern

- Saunders, Natalie

  • Authors: Saunders, Natalie
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: "This research aimed to explore and better understand intervention protocols and their effect on lower limb control associated with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. A fundamental and unique aspect of this investigation was to establish a lab-based testing protocol that successfully mimicked actual game play. [...]This research validated a lab-based measure that best mimicked game-play to use as a pre- and post- testing measure for two common methods used in current ACL intervention strategies. In addition, further understanding of the effects of a landing training and dynamic balance training program were found."
  • Description: Doctor of Philosphy

Characterization of eccentric digraphs

- Gimbert, Joan, Lopez, Nacho, Miller, Mirka, Ryan, Joe

  • Authors: Gimbert, Joan , Lopez, Nacho , Miller, Mirka , Ryan, Joe
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Discrete Mathematics Vol. 306, no. 2 (2006), p. 210-219
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  • Description: The eccentric digraph ED(G) of a digraph G represents the binary relation, defined on the vertex set of G, of being 'eccentric'; that is, there is an arc from u to v in ED(G) if and only if v is at maximum distance from u in G. A digraph G is said to be eccentric if there exists a digraph H such that G=ED(H). This paper is devoted to the study of the following two questions: what digraphs are eccentric and when the relation of being eccentric is symmetric. We present a characterization of eccentric digraphs, which in the undirected case says that a graph G is eccentric iff its complement graph G is either self-centered of radius two or it is the union of complete graphs. As a consequence, we obtain that all trees except those with diameter 3 are eccentric digraphs. We also determine when ED(G) is symmetric in the cases when G is a graph or a digraph that is not strongly connected. Crown Copyright © 2006 Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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  • Description: 2003001601

Childlessness and women managers : 'Choice', context and discourses

- Wood, Glenice, Newton, Janice

  • Authors: Wood, Glenice , Newton, Janice
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Gender, Work and Organization Vol. 13, no. 4 (2006), p. 338-358
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  • Description: Childlessness is increasing and might reflect acceptance of diversity, scope for individual choice and a creative 'social imaginary' about being feminine without being a mother. Childlessness also appears to have a contextual manifestation arising from the recognition that the long-hours work culture in many organizations does not support appropriate parenting. A qualitative study of Australian managers reveals the contradictory discourses of childlessness around enlightened equality, maternalism, an elusive, ideal 'work-life balance' and individualism. The article explores a contextually nuanced, dynamic, generative theory of agency which does not hinge on the mother-child dyad, in explaining women managers' choices to remain childless. © Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2006.
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  • Description: 2003002074

Children as the future of China : Lu Xun's contribution to the development of modern Chinese children's and young adult literature

- Zeegers, Margaret, Zhang, Xiaohong

  • Authors: Zeegers, Margaret , Zhang, Xiaohong
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at Children's literature and social development 2006, Beijing, China : 21st September, 2006
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  • Description: This paper focuses on the unique contribution by Lu Xun in the development of Chinese Children’s Literature in the 20th Century, particularly as to ways in which Lu Xun’s ideas influenced the children of that period and its effects on the development of modern Chinese children’s literature. It examines a number of Lu Xun’s representative writings—about children, his essays, his novels, his poems, his scribbles—as not only his criticising the evils of constructs of childhood as feudalistic and inhumane, but also as his revealing the essence of such constructs as fostering children as obedient slaves in their adult years. This paper thus explores Lu Xun’s view of children developing as complete persons based on the twin aspects of spiritual and physical existence, which implies not only gaining freedom but also changing the social world so that this could happen.
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  • Description: 2003001935

Classes and clusters in data analysis

- Rubinov, Alex, Sukhorukova, Nadezda, Ugon, Julien

  • Authors: Rubinov, Alex , Sukhorukova, Nadezda , Ugon, Julien
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: European Journal of Operational Research Vol. 173, no. 3 (Sep 2006), p. 849-865
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  • Description: We discuss the relation between classes and clusters in datasets with given classes. We examine the distribution of classes within obtained clusters, using different clustering methods which are based on different techniques. We also study the structure of the obtained clusters. One of the main conclusions, obtained in this research is that the notion purity cannot be always used for evaluation of accuracy of clustering techniques. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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  • Description: 2003001593

Classification of HTML Documents

- Xie, Wei

  • Authors: Xie, Wei
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: Text Classification is the task of mapping a document into one or more classes based on the presence or absence of words (or features) in the document. It is intensively being studied and different classification techniques and algorithms have been developed. This thesis focuses on classification of online documents that has become more critical with the development of World Wide Web. The WWW vastly increases the availability of on-line documents in digital format and has highlighted the need to classify them. From this background, we have noted the emergence of “automatic Web Classification”. These mainly concentrate on classifying HTML-like documents into classes or categories by not only using the methods that are inherited from the traditional Text Classification process, but also utilizing the extra information provided only by Web pages. Our work is based on the fact that, Web documents, contain not only ordinary features (words) but also extra information, such as meta-data and hyperlinks that can be used to advantage the classification process. The aim of this research is to study various ways of using the extra information, in particularly, hyperlink information provided by HTML-documents (Web pages). The merit of the approach, developed in this thesis, is its simplicity, compared with existing approaches. We present different approaches of using hyperlink information to improve the effectiveness of web classification. Unlike other work in this area, we will only use the mappings between linked documents and their own class or classes. In this case, we only need to add a few features called linked-class features into the datasets, and then apply classifiers on them for classification. In the numerical experiments we adopted two wellknown Text Classification algorithms, Support Vector Machines and BoosTexter. The results obtained show that classification accuracy can be improved by using mixtures of ordinary and linked-class features. Moreover, out-links usually work better than in-links in classification. We also analyse and discuss the reasons behind this improvement.
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Clay mineralogy of central Victorian (Creswick) soils : Clay mineral contents as a possible tool of environmental indicator

- Sultan, Khawar

  • Authors: Sultan, Khawar
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Soil and Sediment Contamination Vol. 15, no. 4 (2006), p. 339-356
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  • Description: The clay mineralogy and heavy metal/metalloid (As, Pb and Cu) contents of soils developed on the various rock units in a central highlands environment in Victoria (Creswick, Australia) have been investigated. The clay minerals identified showed an order of abundance as: kaolinite - illite > smectite > mixed-layer (ML) ≈ vermiculite. The soil clay mineralogy did not change systematically with depth (0- 10, 10- 20 and 20- 30 cm) and showed large variations spatially. The high proportion of kaolinite was probably due to the removal of 2:1 phyllosilicates by the formation of 1:1 kaolinite through weathering, which also reduced the cation exchange capacity (CEC) and electrical conductivity (EC, soil: water ratio of 1:5) of soils by aging. Soils were classified as silty loam to loam with a low clay size (≤ 2
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  • Description: 2003001961

Clinical nursing professoriate : Reflections on Australian experiences

- Wellard, Sally, Heggen, Kristin

Coastal rock fall hazard identification, Barwon Heads, Victoria

- Dahlhaus, Peter, Muller, B., Miner, Anthony

Colocality and twisted sums of Banach spaces

- Jebreen, H. M., Jamjoom, F. B. H., Yost, David

  • Authors: Jebreen, H. M. , Jamjoom, F. B. H. , Yost, David
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications Vol. 323, no. 2 (2006), p. 864-875
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  • Description: Using the relation between subspaces of Banach spaces and quotients of their duals, we introduce the concept of colocality to give a new method that guarantees the existence of nontrivial twisted sums in which finite quotients play a major role (Theorem 1.7). An interesting point is that no restrictions are imposed on the quotients, only on the various subspaces. New examples of nontrivial twisted sums are given.
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  • Description: 2003001831

Coming out, coming in: How do dominant discourses around aged care facilities take into the account the identity and needs of ageing lesbians

- Phillips, Joy, Marks, Genee

  • Authors: Phillips, Joy , Marks, Genee
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Gay & Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review Vol. 2, no. 2 (2006), p. 67-77
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  • Description: A review of aged care policies reveals that GLBTI needs and identities are typically not included or mentioned under the category of ‘special need groups’. This may hinder the provision of aged care services as culturally sensitive, safe and inclusive. The dominant discourse of heteronormativity, evident in the field of gerontology, fails to recognise and acknowledge diversity of sexuality and gender identity. This paper reports on a qualitative research project which used a focus group interview with 6 self-identified, out lesbians aged 45 years and over. Nine aged care facilities’ brochures were also analysed to generate data. The project drew on principles of critical discourse analysis, underpinned by poststructuralism and feminist post-structuralism. The research revealed the silencing of non-heterosexual identities through the absence of representation in the brochures and the exclusion of lesbians from the construction of aged care space. It was observed that current aged care facilities’ design, amenities, flexibility of options and choice do not seem to fit with this generation’s lifestyle, activities and interests regardless of sexual-orientation issues. A proposed preferred option suggested by the members of the focus group was a culturally safe space that is accessible to women only. Recommendations are made for social work practitioners, lesbian and feminist activists, policy makers, the aged care industry, and researchers.
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Communication

- Hill, Debbie

  • Authors: Hill, Debbie
  • Date: 2006
  • Type: Text , Visual art work
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  • Description: Postcards from Tomorrow - Curated Exhibtion, held 7th June -30th August, 2006 Creative Work - Drawing This body of work explores the incongruities of modern technology versus traditional religious faith. Images have been drawn from black and white television screenings of 1960s and 1970s lunar landings juxtaposed with family snapshots of First Communions.