Editors' cut : Managing scholarly journals in mathematics and IT
- Authors: Hofmann, Karl , Morris, Sidney
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology Vol. 37, no. 4 (2005), p. 299-309
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- Description: The first version of this essay was jointly delivered by the authors as a colloquium lecture at the University of Ballarat on 24 November, 2004. A second, expanded and illustrated version was published in German in the Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematikervereinigung early in 2005. Because of the very positive feedback, the authors decided it would be useful to publish a version in English in a computing journal. The purpose of the essay is to provide advice and information to authors of articles about publishing in scholarly journals from an editor's perspective. Of particular importance are remarks about etiquette.
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Educating for sustainability : An innovative interactive CD and internet resource
- Authors: Kentish, Barry , Darby, Linda
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Teaching Science Vol. 51, no. 3 (2005), p. 30-33
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- Description: There is concern that interest in environmental issues is declingin, particularly among young people.
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- Description: 2003001094
Effect of metal chlorides on the sintering and densification of hydroxyapatite adsorbent
- Authors: Nzihou, A. , Adhikari, Benu , Pfeffer, R.
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research Vol. 44, no. 6 (2005), p. 1787-1794
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- Description: This work is part of a series of studies dealing with the evaluation of the effects of major elements of solid waste, especially metallic oxides, nitrates, sulfates, and chlorides, on the sintering and the densification of calcium hydroxyapatite (Ca-HAP) adsorbent. The effects of chloride salts of potassium (KCl) and zinc (ZnCl2) on sintering and densification of Ca-HAP were studied using surface area reduction and shrinkage measurements. The addition of KCl (2% w/w) activated the sintering process by bringing a swift reduction in surface area and lowering the densification temperature. However, a low final densification was achieved. Increasing the amount of this additive to 10% w/w further lowered the final densification and lowered the densification temperature of hydroxyapatite by 150 oC. On the other hand, the addition of 2 wt % of ZnCl2 deactivated the sintering process by slowing down the densification process and raising the densification temperature. However, the reduction of surface area was comparable to that of Ca-HAP. The densification rate contained two or more rate maxima indicating the additives (salts) bring multiple speeds in the densification process.
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Effects of gall induction by Epiblema strenuana on gas exchange, nutrients, and energetics in Parthenium hysterophorus
- Authors: Florentine, Singarayer , Raman, Anantanarayanan , Dhileepan, Kunjithapatham
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Biocontrol Vol. 50, no. 5 (Oct 2005), p. 787-801
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- Description: Gall induction by arthropods results in a range of morphological and physiological changes in their host plants. We examined changes in gas exchange, nutrients, and energetics related to the presence of stem galls on Parthenium hysterophorus L. (Asteraceae) induced by the moth, Epiblema strenuana Walker (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). We compared the effects of galls on P. hysterophorus in the rosette (young), pre-flowering (mature), and flowering (old) stages. Gall induction reduced the leaf-water potential, especially in flowering stage plants. In young and mature stage plants, galling reduced photosynthetic rates considerably. Gall induction reduced the transpiration rate mostly in mature plants, and this also diminished stomatal conductance. Energy levels in most galls and in shoot tissue immediately below the galls were significantly higher than the energy levels in stem tissue immediately above the galls, indicating that the gall acts as a mobilizing sink for the moth. Galling had significant effects on concentrations of minerals such as boron, chloride, magnesium, and zinc. In galled plants, reduced leaf-water potential and reduced rates of photosynthesis, transpiration, and stomatal conductance may have altered mineral element levels. These observed effects demonstrate that E. strenuana has the potential to regulate P. hysterophorus.
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- Description: 2003001078
Efficient conic decomposition and projection onto a cone in a Banach ordered space
- Authors: Baratov, Rishat
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: The goal of this research is to study general cone decomposition.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Electrokinetic remediation of arsenic contaminated soils
- Authors: Mewett, John
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "Arsenic is a common soil contaminant in Australia and worldwide. There is a need to find safe, effective and economic methods to deal with this problem. The soils used in this research were collected from central Victoria. They were contaminated with arsenic by historic gold mining activity or by past sheep dipping practices. This research investigated ten different leaching agents for their effects on three different arsenic contaminated soils. [...] Electrokinetic experiments were conducted on three arsenic contaminated soils. [...] The arsenic in these soils appears to be relatively stable and immobile under oxidising conditions. The soils had a high iron content which assists in the stabilisation of arsenic. This is beneficial with respect to the environmental impact of the arsenic contamination, however, it remains an obstacle to low cost electrokinetic remediation."
- Description: Masters of Applied Science
Electrokinetics to deal with salinity impacts on urban and rural infrastructure : A laboratory based investigation
- Authors: Jayasekera, Samudra
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Women in Research (WiR) ‘Women Doing Research’ 2005 conference, Gladstone, Canada : November, 2005
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- Description: In this project, an in-situ soil treatment technique based on electrokinetics was tested in order to identify the potential of this approach to modify the engineering properties of salt affected soils.
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- Description: 2003001097
Electronic submission of suspected adverse reactions to drugs and vaccines reports
- Authors: Darby, Jane , Lynton-Moll, Chris , Boyd, Ian
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at HIC 2005: Thirteenth National Health Informatics Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne : 31st July - 2nd August, 2005
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- Description: The objective of this project is to improve and simplify data collection of Suspected Adverse Reactions to Drugs and Vaccines (commonly referred to as the ‘blue card’) (TGA, 2004) by electronic transmission of quality data to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). General Practitioners (GPs) will create an electronic ‘Suspected Adverse Reaction to Drugs and Vaccines Report’ in their desktop prescribing software and send the report securely to TGA. The electronic messaging project will show early benefits to GPs by enhancing the efficiency of the reporting process. Additionally, it is anticipated that the increase in efficiency and ease of reporting will result in a steady rise in the volume of reporting which in turn will provide more information to the Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (ADRAC) database for analysis.
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- Description: 2003001353
Electronic transfer of radiology requests and reports with decision support
- Authors: Darby, Jane , Lynton-Moll, Chris , Measday, Andrew
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare Vol. 3, no. 4 (2005), p. 219-226
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- Description: Objective: To develop a secure electronic system for transporting radiology requests and reports coupled with an electronic decision support tool to assist general practitioners with appropriate selection of radiology investigations. Anticipated benefits of the system include increased evidence-based practice, improved patient appointment scheduling and ultimately better patient care. Setting: The system was trialed by a single general practice and a radiology department located in a rural area of Australia. Methods: A secure e-mail system, known as Argus was developed to transport the electronic radiology requests and reports. The system is based on Health Level 7 (HL7) messaging standards. The electronic request forms were prepared by working with the vendor of Medical Director (a widely used GP desktop software package) to modify their radiology request function. This maximised efficiency and minimised data errors as the system automatically imports patient data from the existing GP patient electronic record into the request form. A standard decision support framework was utilised for the decision support tool. The module developed was for lower back pain and was based on guidelines from the Royal Australasian College of Radiologists. Results: Successful transmission of radiology requests and results was achieved. Over 150 requests were sent during the trial, with the project demonstrating the ability to provide timely, accurate, secure information flow with guaranteed delivery between a general practice and a radiology department in a rural health setting. The decision support module was also implemented and successfully utilised. Conclusion: The project has achieved a first for Australia in that it successfully transmitted electronic radiology requests from a local GP practice to the local radiology department using Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) encryption and HL7 messaging. The system successfully incorporated a decision support module for lower back pain and it is now planned to extend this decision support to incorporate other medical conditions. © The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare.
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- Description: 2003001354
Elevated levels of herbivory in urban landscapes: Are declines in tree health more than an edge effect?
- Authors: Christie, Fiona , Hochuli, Dieter
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Ecology and Society Vol. 10, no. 1 (2005), p.
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- Description: Urbanization is one of the most extreme and rapidly growing anthropogenic pressures on the natural world. Urban development has led to substantial fragmentation of areas of natural habitat, resulting in significant impacts on biodiversity and disruptions to ecological processes. We investigated the levels of leaf damage caused by invertebrates in a dominant canopy species in urban remnants in a highly fragmented urban landscape in Sydney, Australia, by assessing the frequency and extent of chewing and surface damage of leaves in urban remnants compared to the edges and interiors of continuous areas of vegetation. Although no difference was detected in the frequency of leaves showing signs of damage at small, edge, and interior sites, small sites suffered significantly greater levels of leaf damage than did interior sites. Trees at edge sites showed intermediate levels of damage, suggesting that edge effects alone are not the cause of higher levels of herbivory. These findings are the first to demonstrate the effects of urbanization on invertebrate damage in dominant trees at coarse scales. This is consistent with hypotheses predicting that changes in species composition through urban fragmentation affect ecological interactions. Copyright © 2005 by the author(s).
Ellen Kelly
- Authors: Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Australian dictionary of biography Chapter p. 213-214
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Engaging future teachers in a critical literacy pedagogy in the tertiary classroom
- Authors: Noone, Lynne , Cartwright, Patricia
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at Twelfth International Conference on Learning, Granada, Spain : 11th-14th July 2005
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- Description: This paper explores some of the possibilities and dilemmas that have arisen for us as tertiary teachers of future teachers as we attempt a critical pedagogy through literacy. We are interested in problematising both the so-called 'literacy problems' of current preservice teachers, and also the orthodox canonical understanding of academic literacies. Grounded in the constraints of contemporary neo-conservative socio-political circumstances of life, including education, we imagine the possibility that education could be otherwise. Our critical literacy pedagogical approach seeks to disrupt our students' taken-for-granted understandings of themselves, their world and what it is, and could be like, to be teachers in schools. The material on which this paper is based is derived from our reflections on students' written responses to our pedagogy as we engage in on-going action research about our teaching. Through the language used in the responses, we see evidence of students' engagement (or not) in the critical enterprise. Contradictions emerge regarding the varying discourses about learning, knowledge, teaching and academic literacies that the students and we, as teachers, live out in the tertiary classroom. In making visible our struggles to explore with our students that which is 'not yet', we foreground and celebrate tertiary teaching.
English community school teacher education and English as a second language in Papua New Guinea
- Authors: Zeegers, Margaret
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education Vol. 33, no. 2 (2005), p. 135-146
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- Description: This article explores community (primary) school teacher education in the subject, English, at a Papua New Guinea (PNG) teachers' college as manifested in end-of-year English lessons in practicum rounds of pre-service community school teachers. English is the official language overlaid on 700 indigenous languages in this country where reconstructionism informs policy decisions. Given this, the importance of success in English in schools is not to be underestimated. The research focuses on the implementation the knowledge, skills, strategies and materials acquired by pre-service English teachers in a coastal province in PNG in the context of a number of public statements on educational policy and practice. It examines the impact of these as indicated in lesson plans and supervisors' reports
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- Description: 2003003551
Enhancing effective communication of statistical analysis to non-statistical audiences
- Authors: Martin, Peter
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at International Association for Statistics Education, Proceedings of the IASE/ISI-Satellite Conference on Statistics Education and the Communication of Statistics, Sydney : 4th - 5th April, 2005
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- Description: This paper explores the potential of enhancing effective communication of information arising from statistical analyses to a non-statistical audience using various graphical forms. In this regard we can learn a lot from the business world where often senior management don’t have the time to wade through complex summary tables of statistical analyses. It is far more efficient to use good graphic displays in order to communicate the essential ideas. Modern computer software packages offer a goldmine of opportunities to present statistical information to non-statistical audiences. As communicators we need to provide appropriate experiences within the structure of our teaching and/or consulting programs. The importance of context in understanding graphical output is discussed as well as examples of a few of the many and various graphical options available in several commonly used software packages.
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- Description: 2003001430
Enterprises' commitment to nationally recognised training for existing workers
- Authors: Smith, Erica , Pickersgill, Richard , Smith, Andy , Rushbrook, Peter
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Book
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- Description: This report aims to provide a clearer understanding of how and why enterprises use nationally recognised type of training. It finds that an enterprise's decision to engage in recognised training is not made lightly and decisions are made afresh each time a new training need arises. Successfully embedding training in enterprises involves a three-phase process - engagement, extension and integration. In most cases, it is dependent on: positive initial engagement; extension of training through a 'VET evangelist' who 'sells' the benefits of recognised training and persuades management; and, integration of competency standards associated with recognised training into many human resource processes. The availability of funding strongly influences whether enterprises use recognised training. However, one of the key reasons why more enterprises have not taken up this training is lack of awareness.
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Epidemiology of scalds in vulnerable groups in New South Wales, Australia, 1998/1999 to 2002/2003
- Authors: Boufous, Soufiane , Finch, Caroline
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Journal of Burn Care & Research Vol. 26, no. 4 (2005), p. 320-326
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- Description: In this study, the recently introduced International Classification of Disease, 10th revision, code for hot tap water scalds was used to examine the epidemiology of these cases and other scalds injuries in children younger than 5 years of age and adults aged 65 years and older. Although the trunk was the most common area in which scalds occurred, young children were more likely to sustain head and neck scalds (15%, 95% confidence interval 10.8-18.3) because of hot tap water than older people (2%, 95% confidence interval 0.2-4.4). Hospital separation rates for hot water scalds decreased significantly during the study period in both boys ([chi]2 = 15.6, df = 1, P < .001) and girls ([chi]2 = 5.6, df = 1, P < .001) who were younger than 5 years of age, which might be attributable to the introduction of new standards regulating the provision of hot tap water to various buildings. The severity of scalds cases did not seem to be correlated with the length of hospital stay, which remained unchanged in both age groups.
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Europe's Atlantic empires : Early modern state formation reconsidered
- Authors: Smith, Jeremy
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Political Power and Social Theory Chapter 11 p. 101-150
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- Description: 2003001225
Evaluation of learning outcomes for the Engineering Resource Package (ERP)
- Authors: Culvenor, John , Cowley, Stephen , Else, Dennis , Hall, Stephen
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Report
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- Description: The Australian Safety and Compensation Council recently released "Safe Design for Engineering Students - A Resource Package". This package won the Society of Technical Communication Excellence Award for technical communication. Much of the Resource Package was drawn from The Principles of Safe Design (Culvenor, 2004). The report above was an evaluation of the implementation trial and it lead to the identification of improvements - one which was the inclusion of substantial additional material on accident causation and prevention concepts and activities (Culvenor, J. 2005, Editing the final stage of the Safe Design: An Engineering Resource Package).
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- Description: 2003002681
Evaluation of training on the use of Graseby syringe drivers for rural nonspecialist nurses
- Authors: Fisher, John , Hayes, Anne , Brumley, David , Habegger, Lawrence , Wade, Mary , Ashby, Michael
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: International Journal of Palliative Nursing Vol. 11, no. 2 (2005), p. 84-92
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- Description: AIM: to assess the impact of a training programme on nurse confidence in: setting up the Graseby syringe driver (GSD); explaining the GSD to patient and family; setting the rate on the GSD; putting appropriate type and dose of drugs in the GSD. STUDY DESIGN: training programme with pre-training, post-training and follow-up questionnaires. SAMPLE AND SETTING: palliative care nurse consultants presented half-day training sessions to 270 non-specialist nurses throughout the rural Grampians Health Region of Victoria, Australia. Nurses were from rural acute and sub-acute care settings, aged care facilities, and district nursing and nurse education services. MEASUREMENTS: demographic details of participants, previous experience and training with GSDs, comparative analyses of the four confidence parameters and participants' assessment of interest, new knowledge and usefulness of the training programme. Results: increases in confidence levels were found in participating nurses in relation to each of the four confidence parameters. A follow-up survey tested residual benefit three months after the training programme. Statistically significant variations were found in nurses' confidence levels in relation to frequency of use. CONCLUSIONS: regular use of, and/or refresher sessions about the GSD are recommended to maintain optimum confidence, effective and safe nursing use of the GSD in palliative care.
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- Description: 2003001210
Evolution and the Study of Human Behaviour: A Primer for the Scientist–Practitioner
- Authors: Daws, Alisdair , Boyd, Candice
- Date: 2005
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Behaviour Change Vol. 22, no. 2 (2005), p. 114-121
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- Description: The theory of evolution has transformed biology from a largely descriptive science to a causal one. However, few psychologists have a thorough understanding of evolution. As a result, psychologists tend not to consider evolutionary explanations for the phenomena they investigate, or they present flawed evolutionary arguments that violate fundamental principles of evolutionary theory. The primary objective of this article is to outline the basic principles of evolution as they relate to the study of behaviour in general. The article then goes on to demonstrate the application of evolutionary theory to the study of human behaviour in particular, and concludes with a discussion of problems that can occur when evolutionary theory is applied incorrectly.
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- Description: 2003001239