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Selling Solutions: Emerging Patterns Of Product-Service Linkage In The Australian Economy, Jane Marceau, Nicole T. Cook, Bronwen Dalton, Brian Wixted
Selling Solutions: Emerging Patterns Of Product-Service Linkage In The Australian Economy, Jane Marceau, Nicole T. Cook, Bronwen Dalton, Brian Wixted
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The focus of the study reported here is the different forms of service provision strategies appearing across the Australian economy. Specifically, the study looks at the various ways in which firms link products and services, whether in single packages or other forms. What we found led us to question the common notion that 'manufacturing matters, but services succeed'. The data gathered show how many firms in both manufacturing and service industries are putting together products and services into 'packages', suggesting the need for a broader review of how a service-rich economy may work at firm level.
A Game Of Distinction: Football, The World Cup, And The Australian Urbane, Jason Wilson
A Game Of Distinction: Football, The World Cup, And The Australian Urbane, Jason Wilson
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The title of Johnny Warren's Shielas, Wogs and Poofters (Warren, Harper et al. 2002) encapsulates an Australian attitude towards soccer, its players and its constituency that while certainly problematic, may also be outdated. But for a brief period in the 1970s, when a team led by Warren contested the World Cup finals, Rugby League and Australian Football ruled the ball-sports roost (Rugby Union trailed a-ways behind): the sport that most of the rest of the world knows simply as football was, in all senses, marginal. More recently, and especially in the midst of a FIFA World Cup finals held in …
The Intake Of Carotenoids In An Older Australian Population: The Blue Mountains Eye Study, Fiona Manzi, Victoria Flood, Karen Webb, Paul Mitchell
The Intake Of Carotenoids In An Older Australian Population: The Blue Mountains Eye Study, Fiona Manzi, Victoria Flood, Karen Webb, Paul Mitchell
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Objective: To describe the distribution of carotenoid intakes and important food sources of carotenoids in the diet of a representative population of older Australians.
Design: Population-based cohort study.
Setting: Two post-code areas in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia.
Subjects: We studied 2012 (86%) of the 2334 participants aged 55 + years attending the 5-year follow-up of the cross-sectional Blue Mountains Eye Study (BMES), who completed a detailed semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire. The intakes for five carotenoids were studied: α-carotene, β-carotene, β-cryptoxanthin, lutein and zeaxanthin combined, and lycopene.
Results: The mean intake per day for each carotenoid was: α-carotene, 2675 …