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The Forgotten Sunday: The Newcastle Sunday Mirror 1959-1961, Ron Morrison

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This thesis concentrates on a very limited period of Australian newspaper history. The Newcastle Sunday Mirror, Newcastle's only Sunday newspaper appeared briefly in 1959-61 wrapped around the Sydney Sunday Mirror. It was not a 'free' newspaper. The price of 6d. bought the reader the complete Sydney Sunday Mirror with the addition of the Newcastle paper with up to 32 pages of local stories, local pictures featuring local people together with local advertisements. Forty years later it has been largely forgotten. This thesis postulates, however, that it deserves study as a innovative venture into regional newspaper production.

The Newcastle …

Stories Of A War: Narrative And The Single Photograph, Gregory Battye

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Theoretical accounts of the communicative powers of photography characterise it, inter alia, as intrinsically a medium of the instant, depicting time only insofar as it depicts the moment of exposure. While a few special cases, such as time exposures or multiple exposures, are acknowledged as technical exceptions, the single unmanipulated photographic picture is generally held to exclude time. Since narrative, however defined or circumscribed, conveys information about the unfolding of sequential events over some period of time, it would initially seem that narrative and photography can have no common ground. This research seeks that common ground: a way of …

Transformational Drama: Theatre For Community And Social Change, Bridget Mary Aitchison

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Transformational Drama is theatre which acts as a catalyst for change in communities and in society. It addresses issues of social importance and changes people's perceptions, attitudes and reactions to those issues. This thesis explores the foundational theory behind transformational drama, including the use of drama as an applied art as found in the work of Jacob Moreno (the founder of psychodrama), Richard Scheckner and Augusto Boal. It then examines the reclamation of the transformational properties of drama from the behavioural sciences back into the conventional theatre by looking at the community theatre and Theatre-In-Education movements. Three plays are examined …

Design Processes Adopted By Sri Lankan Teacher Educators To Develop Internet-Based Study Materials, Shironica Priyanthi Karunanayaka

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This study examined the experiences of twelve Sri Lankan teacher educators as they developed Internet-based study materials at the University of Wollongong while undertaking postgraduate professional development. It investigated the approaches these experienced teacher educators, yet novices to the Internet, took as they designed and developed Web study guides.

The investigation focused on the design processes adopted by the participants during planning, designing and development of their Web study guides, and reports the process as a case study. Simultaneous data collection and analysis were undertaken mainly using questionnaire survey, in-depth interviews, analysis of Web study guides and student reflections. Nine …

Intelligent Profiles: A Model For Change In Women's Lives, Pauline Lysaght

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The effectiveness of Intelligent Profiles as a model for enabling change in the lives of six women returning to study has been explored within a comparative case study framework. Traditional approaches to counselling and assessment have been challenged because they rest on accepted ideas about knowledge that underpin the subordinate position that women occupy in our society. These approaches subtly collude with society's discriminatory views of women by failing to address issues associated with their segregation within education and the workplace. Intelligent Profiles is presented as an alternative model of counselling and assessment that enables mature-age female students to appraise …

Teaching And Learning, Professional Development And Computer Technology: An Action Research Case Study Of Five Classroom Environments, Glen Patterson

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This study documents the evolving form of the collaboratively designed professional development programs and the changes that took place in five classrooms when computers and related technologies were available and integrated into the teaching and learning environment. It also investigates the impact that this had on the teacher's view of how students "learn best" and what implication this has for future learning.

Furthermore, the study investigates changes in student learning outcomes and tracked changes in classroom climate and student/student and student/teacher interactions within the classroom. It was anticipated that this data would assist as a further indicator of changes in …

The Role Of Goal Consensus And Teacher Endorsement In Policy Implementation, Kerrie M. Eyding

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This study begins as an investigation into the role of goal consensus and teacher endorsement in the implementation of education policy. The policy chosen as the focus of the study is a popular, firmly established, Commonwealth policy, administered by a State bureaucracy, which provides broad, ambiguous goals - The Equity Element of the National Equity Program for Schools.

The study was conducted within one discrete administrative education region. With input from teachers (by a questionnaire), principals and the government officers w h o oversee the implementation of the policy (by interview), information regarding school and workplace demographics, school climate and …

Patterns Of Management Control In A Family Managed Business In An Emerging Economy: The Case Of Dilmah Tea In Sri Lanka, Siriyama Kanthi Herath

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This study is concerned with the patterns of management control existing in a family controlled tea exporting company in Sri Lanka, Ceylon Tea Services Ltd (Dilmah). The focus of the research is on the procedures and processes of control operated in the researched organisation. The study begins with a detailed discussion of the theory of management control. It examines both traditional and contemporary views of management control. A review of the basic concepts of control precedes the detailed review of literature on management control. A model of management control is developed as a guide to the study based on the …

Population-Based Randomised Controlled Trials To Promote Physical Activity Using A Self-Help Print Intervention, Alison L. Marshall

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Physical activity was once an obligatory part of daily life but in recent decadescustomary physical activity has been replaced with inactive occupational, domesticand recreational pursuits making people more sedentary in the process. Decreased physical activity levels preceded the rapid onset of many modern lifestyle diseasesincluding cardiovascular disease, hypertension, obesity and Type II diabetes and assuch physical activity is now recognised as not only a major risk factor for these diseases but an effective means of preventing illness and enhancing quality of life.

Unfortunately, the accumulating scientific evidence surrounding the benefits ofphysical activity has not translated into increased participation levels. Insomuch, …

Investigation Of Polyaniline Emeraldine Salts For The Protection Of Plain Carbon Steel, Anton Josip Dominis

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

A great deal of work has been undertaken throughout the world over the past 50 years to increase the corrosion resistance of plain carbon steel (PCS) or mild steel (MS), and many successful techniques were developed. For example, chemical inhibitors, modified alloys, barrier coatings, various pretreatment processes and conversion coatings. However, there are drawbacks associated with some of these practices such as acute toxicity and pollution, factors that are now strictly regulated by modern Governments throughout the world. Even though conversion coatings such as chrornate and non-chromate types (phosphates) work well for corrosion protection of certain structural materials they will …

Isotopic Characterisation Of Atmospheric Nitrous Oxide Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy, Federico Turatti

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Nitrous oxide is the third most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after CO2 and CH4 and contributes 6% of the total terrestrial radiative forcing due to greenhouse gases. It is closely involved in the depletion of stratospheric ozone by providing one of the main sources of NO radicals. Biological processes such as nitrification and denitrification are primarily responsible for N2O production. Despite its importance and years of research, the estimates of the global size of N2O sources and sinks remain highly uncertain, and its budget is not yet fully balanced.

Analysis of N2O isotopes can aid in reducing the large uncertainties …

The Use Of Conducting Polymer Sensors For Environmental Monitoring, Roderick L. Shepherd

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This thesis details the development of conducting polymer (CP) sensors, and associated devices for monitoring chemical species of environmental significance. A key aspect of this work was the fabrication and testing of novel CP gas sensors, based on inexpensive polymer substrates with screen-printed carbon electrodes. These devices were used in electronic nose systems for the identification and discrimination of organic vapours, and on a small autonomous robot to detect, track and locate the source of ammonia vapour plumes. The possibility of modifying chemically deposited Polypyrrole (PPy) thin films post-polymerisation using solution based anion exchange methods was evaluated, in an attempt …

Landslide Hazard And Risk Assessment Along A Railway Line, Chit Ko Ko

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Various methods of landslide hazard assessment and zonation, have been developed in the past. Some research has also progressed towards the assessment of consequence and risk related to slope instability. This thesis is a contribution towards the development of rational and systematic approaches, qualitative and quantitative, for the assessment of landslide hazard and risk. Slope stability and the occurrence of landslides is an interdisciplinary area of study and inputs may be required from some or all of the following discipline areas: geomechanics, engineering geology, geomorphology, hydrology, hydrogeology, statistics and probability theory, and decision science.

In order to assess landslide hazard, …

Approaches To Evaluation Of Research And Development In Agriculture: A Case Study Of Rice Productivity In Thailand 1967-1998, Kriangsak Siripongsaroj

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The contribution of agricultural R&D investment to productivity is recognized as one of the most important indicator for policy making in economic development. Several empirical studies of R&D evaluation have attempted to create an appropriate approach to calculate the rates of return to agricultural R&D investment. Although many approaches are used to evaluate agricultural R&D investment, none is superior in all situations. This study attempts to use a new approach, employing R&D knowledge stock and its depreciation, modem time series data analysis, and OLS method to calculate the rate of return to R&D investment, rather than R&D expenditures with specific …

Integral And Pulse Mode Silicon Dosimetry For Dose Verification On Radiation Oncology Modalities, Grigori I. Kaplan

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Radiation oncology is an important part of cancer therapy. In 1996 a Committee of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council recommended that 50-55% of all the new cancers include radiotherapy as part of their treatment. Cancer patients are treated with different radiation oncology modalities and while most are treated by conventional x-ray therapy a growing number is treated by hadron therapies such as fast neutron therapy (FNT), brachytherapy, proton therapy, heavy ion therapy and boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). A new radiation oncology modality, microbeam radiation therapy (MRT), is currently under development. The outcome of radiation treatment in …

Introducing Concurrent Engineering In An Indonesian Aircraft Manufacturing Company: A Processual Analysis, Zuhriati Zainuddin

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

This thesis addresses a significant gap in the empirical research on concurrent engineering (CE) implementation, namely the process of change in CE introduction over time. This study captures the dynamic and temporal reality of this process and explores the way CE is shaped and transformed in a setting that is different from its. original context. The setting is an Indonesian aircraft manufacturing company. The researcher employs Dawson's (1994) processual approach to organisational change as the basis for a research framework to address this important issue.

Exploring The Links: The Association Between Clinical Nursing Practice And The Biophysical Sciences In Undergraduate Nursing Curricula, Deborah Ann Neyle

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The uncritical acceptance of a role for the biological sciences in undergraduate nursing curricula is based on historical patterns of nursing education in a socially constructed environment that values scientific knowledge above other forms of knowledge.

This thesis seeks to explore the association between clinical nursing practice and the biophysical sciences of the undergraduate nursing curricula in order to ensure a better fit between these two elements. Specifically, the thesis seeks to identify those elements of the biophysical sciences that can be demonstrated as relevant to the work requirements of newly graduated registered nurses. The imperative of this demonstration of …

Semantic Priming: An Event-Related Potential Investigation Using Pseudohomophone Primes, Alistair Lethbridge

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The N400 component of the ERP has proven highly sensitive to lexical manipulations involving semantic congruity. This sensitivity is typically manifest as a comparative reduction in N400 amplitude when 'target' items are preceded by semantically related, as opposed to unrelated, 'primes'. The nature of the N400 has been extensively studied, with one of the more dominant theories regarding its functional significance suggesting that the underlying processes reflect mechanisms associated with lexical integration. Models of the visual word-recognition system typically delineate lexical information in terms of orthography, phonology and semantics. In some models, the representation of linguistic information is considered to …

A Study Of Flow Interruptions In The Hyl Iii Reactor, Petrus Sriyanto

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Since January 1994, PT Krakatau Steel has been operating a new Direct Reduction plant with the Hyl HI process, a continuous moving bed reactor. During the operation, some problems emerged regarding flow interruptions at the outlet of reactor. It is quite difficult to observe the reason why the flow interruption occurs in actual operation because it requires considerable cost and will certainly disturb the production. Therefore, developing and implementing a model (one tenth of the actual size) representing the actual reactor is a method to simplify the observation.

Synthesis Of Tribulusterine, A Potent Toxic Alkaloid From Tribulus Terrestris, Waya Sengpracha

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Synthetic approaches to tribulusterine (15), a suspected toxic alkaloid from Tribulus terrestris, have been investigated via nucleophilic and electrophilic substitution reactions, and the Pictet-Spengler cyclisation reaction. Nucleophilic substitution reactions of the 9-(N,A^-dimethylsulfamoyl)-p-carboline-A^-oxide (50) with the furyllithium (46a) yielded the new 1-substituted P-carboline, l-(3- furyl)methoxy-9-(A^,A/'-dimethylsulfamoyl)-(3-carboline (52). Bromination of the Pcarboline derivative (51) afforded 1,3,6,8-tetrabromo-P-carboline and 3,6,8-tribromop- carboline as major products when the lithiated P-carboline (51) was treated with Nbromosuccinimide (NBS) and bromine, respectively. The Pictet-Spengler reaction approach may have yielded the required alkaloid, tribulusterine (15), based on some spectroscopic evidence. The new furan derivative, 3-(hydroxymethyl)-2-furaldehyde (66), required for the Pictet-Spengler approach, …

Weed Distribution Along The Boundary Of The Royal National Park In Relation To The Cultural And Environmental Characteristics Of The Landscape : A Gis Approach, Steven Smith

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have only recently been applied to ecological research and environmental management applications. GIS provide opportunities for exploring spatial relationships between plant species and cultural and environmental characters in the landscape that would otherwise be extremely expensive or impossible to investigate (Smith et al. 1995). This research uses a widely adopted and available GIS in Australia, called Arcview® to analyse cultural and environmental data sets of the landscape, together with weed distribution data for five weed species that occur in the region. The boundary of the Royal National Park (RNP), Sydney was used as an example of …

The Representation Of The Feminine, Feminist And Musical Subject In Popular Music Culture, Emma Mayhew

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The world of commercial popular music has been dominated by patriarchal representations of women and interpretations of female performance. This is certainly true even with the commercial success of female musical stars like Madonna and Alanis Morissette in the global marketplace. This thesis argues that women are still understood in terms of patriarchal categories and stereotypes within the mainstream music press. The femme fatale, androgyne, the little girl, the mother figure and the temperamental diva are all contemporary icons of feminine performance both visually and sonically. In particular this thesis analyses the popular music print media and the w a …

Ethnic Nationalism And The State In Pakistan, Adeel Khan

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Nationalism is a way of dealing with a world where 'everything melts into thin air'. It is a form of self-love in which individuals elebrate their collective identity. And like all forms of self-love it gets its strength more from the hatred of others than its love for the self Here lies the secret behind some of the most intractable conflicts in the world.

Nationalism is, probably, the only form of self-love that gets its life-blood from an institution, the modem state. Had the state not been behind the self-love of the Germans, they would not have been able to …

Sacred & Profane: Sacred & Violent : Towards Understanding Priestly Sexual Violence, Mary Medley

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

In the last two decades 'clerical sexual abuse' emerged as a specific category within the more general phenomenon of male sexual violence. The Australian Catholic Church formulated policies to address this coercive sexual activity by some of its clerical men. 1 employ a feminist approach to call into question these Church responses by examining the significance of gender to issues of male violence and by indicating the Church's disregard of either the systemic or gendered aspects of the problem. This thesis situates Catholic clerical sexual abuse into the religio-social context in which this highly particularised violence occurs.

Reading Durkheim's sacred/profane …

Aesthetics, Athletics And Art: A Study Of Men Who Dance, Michael Gard

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

In this thesis I present the findings of an interview-based, qualitative study of male theatrical dancers. Specifically, my central research question asked: what resources are mobilised in constructing the subjectivities of male theatrical dancers? The primary means for addressing this question was a series of interviews with Australian men who are or have been employed as professional ballet or contemporary dancers. By way of background to these data, I considered the different ways in which male theatrical dancers have been discursively produced over the last 300 years or so in both scholarly and popular literature. In addition, 1 present a …

Far Infrared Spectroscopy Of Some Impurities In Germanium, Richard Baker

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Quantitative piezo- and temperature dependent spectroscopy have been carried out on antimony in germanium. Here the behaviour of the unperturbed spectrum with temperature is followed in much more detail than previously. The changes in the energies and intensities of spectral lines with temperature show that the spacing of the chemically split ground state, 4Δ_C, is slightly temperature dependent. The variation in intensities of spectral lines from the split ground state to a common excited state is shown to obey the Boltzmann distribution for the relative populations of the two ground substates.

The application of stress along a direction …

The Role Of Classroom Interaction In Second Language Acquisition In Sri Lanka, Marie Elizabeth Perera

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The objective of teaching English as a second language in the secondary schools in Sri Lanka is for oral communication. Between 1985 to 1999, the English Every Day (EED) learning materials were used in all Sri Lankan schools. These materials were informed by Communicative Language Teaching (CLT), which advocates oral interaction. The available literature suggests that the teaching of English in Sri Lanka is not satisfactory and does not meet the needs of the majority of Sri Lankan students. Attempts have been made to find ways of improving the teaching of English by changing the curriculum regularly, yet very few …

Surface Engineering Of Coinage Dies, H. Yasbandha

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

In this work, the feasibility of applying surface engineering technologies to enhance life of coinage dies has been investigated. This project was essentially conducted in four stages or phases.

The first phase of this investigation involved microstructural characterisation, fractographic examination and, hardness measurement of six different tool steels, as part of the screening program to select the best tool steel(s) for further processing. The steels were characterised, in terms of size, shape and morphology of carbides, inclusions, and porosity. The steels were screened according to the requirements at Royal Australian Mint (RAM) for coinage dies e.g. cleanliness and homogeneity of …

Contributions To Fail-Stop Signature Schemes, Willy Susilo

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

In an electronic world, a person can electronically sign a document such that the signature is verifiable by everyone. A problem may arise if an enemy who sees the electronic transaction has unlimited computational power: he can break the underlying computational assumption of the system and forge a signature. In this situation, there is no way to distinguish whether the signer is trying to deny his own signature, or someone else is trying to forge the signature. To protect against this problem, Fail-Stop Signature (FSS) schemes were introduced. A general construction proposed for FSS uses bundling homomorphisms. There has …

Unconditionally Secure Schemes For Distributed Authentication Systems, Huaxiong Wang

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

One of the main goals of a cryptographic system is to provide authentication, which simply means providing assurance about the content and origin of communicated message. Historically, cryptography began with secret writing and this remained the main area of development until very recently. With the rapid progress in data communication, the need for providing message integrity and authenticity has escalated to the extent that currently authentication is seen as the more urgent goal of cryptographic systems. Traditionally, it was assumed that a secrecy system provides authentication by the virtue of the secret key being only known by the intended communicants; …