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Climate Change And Household Dynamics: Beyond Consumption, Unbounding Sustainability, Chris Gibson, Lesley Head, Nicholas Gill, Gordon Waitt

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Nitmiluk: Place, Politics And Empowerment In Australian Aboriginal Popular Music, Chris Gibson, Peter Dunbar-Hall

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Drunken Mobilities: Backpackers, Alcohol, 'Doing Place', Mark Jayne, Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt, Gill Valentine

Chris Gibson

This article seeks to advance the understanding of the role of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness as an important, if under-researched, element of tourism. In so doing, we work at the intersection of three bodies of writing focused on mundane mobilities; performativities of tourism and geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness. Drawing on empirical research undertaken in Australia, we highlight how alcohol, drinking and drunkenness are key to backpacking holidays: first, to help soften a number of (un)comfortable embodied and emotional materialities associated with budget travel; second, as an aid to spatial and temporal imperatives of ‘passing the time’ and ‘being …

Blue-Collar Creativity: Reframing Custom-Car Culture In The Imperilled Industrial City, Andrew Warren, Chris Gibson

Chris Gibson

This paper hitches a ride with young car enthusiasts to explore how their vehicles catalyse a unique form of vernacular creativity, in a seemingly imperilled industrial city setting.While television and print media regularly demonise young drivers for street racing and `hoon' behaviour, this paper purposely adopts a different perspective, on circuits of production and qualitative aspects of the urban custom-car design scene that constitute forms of vernacular creativity. Beyond moral panics little is known about movements, networks, and linkages between custom cars, young enthusiasts, and urban spaces from which their activities emerge. Utilising responsive, in-depth ethnographic methods in Wollongong, Australia, …

Gis, Ethnography, And Cultural Research: Putting Maps Back Into Ethnographic Mapping, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Susan Luckman, Christopher Gibson, Julie Willoughby-Smith

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Geographic Information Technologies For Cultural Research: Cultural Mapping And The Prospects Of Colliding Epistemologies, Christopher Gibson, Christopher Brennan-Horley, Andrew Warren

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Sustainable Household Capability: Which Households Are Doing The Work Of Environmental Sustainability?, Gordon Waitt, Peter Caputi, Chris Gibson, Carol Farbotko, Lesley Head, Nick Gill, Elyse Stanes

Chris Gibson

This paper presents a framework for analysing which households are doing ‘their bit’ for sustainability in an era of climate change, using a two-stage cluster analysis of sustainable household capabilities. The framework segments households by their reported level of commitment to ‘pro-sustainability’ practices common to conventional government policies. Results are presented from a large-scale survey of Wollongong households, New South Wales, Australia. Results illustrate the importance of approaching household sustainability through everyday practices. Attention is drawn to the wide variation in participation in specific household sustainability practices. Investigation into sustainable household capability by household segments shows the limits of even …

Cultural Festivals And Economic Development In Nonmetropolitan Australia, Chris Gibson, Gordon Waitt, Jim Walmsley, John Connell

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Bodily Rhythms: Corporeal Capacities To Engage With Festival Spaces, Michelle Duffy, Gordon Waitt, Andrew Gorman-Murray, Chris Gibson

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Is Green The New Black? Exploring Ethical Fashion Consumption, Chris Gibson, Elyse Stanes

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Youthful Creativity In Regional Australia: Panacea For Unemployment And Out-Migration?, Chris Gibson

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Environmental Sustainability In Practice? A Macro-Scale Profile Of Tourist Accommodation Facilities In Australia's Coastal Zone, Karen Mcnamara, Chris Gibson

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Creativity Without Borders? Rethinking Remoteness And Proximity, Chris Gibson, Susan Luckman, Julie Willoughby-Smith

Chris Gibson

No abstract provided.

Conceptualising Agency In The Lives And Actions Of Rural Young People, E. Robson, S. Bell, Natascha Klocker

Natascha Klocker

This chapter aims to build conceptually upon the accounts of young poopIe's actions in specific rural settings outlined in the proceeding chapters. like the wider body of ongoing reaearh on young people's everyday lives across the world, the foregoing chapters clearly demonstrate how the shift to viewing young people as individuals with the capacity to act and shape their own lives, i.e. to have agency, rather than seeing children simply 'adults in training' (Dunne 1980), passive and innocent dependants, or victims' has become firmly established in children's and youth studies. This volume illustrates some of the many ways in which …

An Example Of 'Thin' Agency: Child Domestic Workers In Tanzania, Natascha Klocker

Natascha Klocker

Child domestic works are children 'under the age of 18 who work in other people's households doing domestic chores, caring for children, and running errands, among other tasks' (UNICEF 1999:2). They can be paid in cash or kind and are employed by (and usually live in the homes of) adults who are not their parents. This chapter focuses on recent research centred on 'employing' three former child domestic workers (aged 14, 16 and 18) to be researchers and to undertake an investigation into CDW in the Iringa Region of Tanzania.

Anti-Cancer Activity Of An Acid-Labile N-Alkylisatin Conjugate Targeting The Transferrin Receptor, Vineesh Indira Chandran, Lidia Matesic, Julie Locke, Danielle Skropeta, Marie Ranson, Kara Vine

Danielle Skropeta

We have previously reported a series of pH-sensitive imine-linked N-alkylisatin prodrugs that are stable at pH 7.4, but readily cleaved at pH 4.5. Herein, one of the most potent prodrugs, 5,7-dibromo-N-(pmethoxybenzyl) isatin (NAI), was functionalized with a para-phenylpropionic acid linker, and the resulting NAI–imine prodrug conjugated to transferrin (Tf) to form a NAI–imine–Tf conjugate. Cytotoxicity assays revealed the conjugate was equipotent to the free drug against MCF-7 breast cancer cells, with clear selectivity patterns based on TfR levels. These results suggest that this novel isatin-based cytotoxin conjugated to a tumor targeting protein via an acid-labile linker warrants further preclinical testing.

The Effect Of Individual N-Glycans On Enzyme Activity, Danielle Skropeta

Danielle Skropeta

No abstract provided.

Domino Pericyclic Reactions Of Acyclic Conjugated (E,Z,E,E)-Tetraenes, Danielle Skropeta, Rodney Rickards

Danielle Skropeta

No abstract provided.

N-Phenethyl And N-Naphthylmethyl Isatins And Analogues As In Vitro Cytotoxic Agents, John Bremner, Stephen Pyne, Marie Ranson, Danielle Skropeta, Julie Locke, Lidia Matesic, Kara Perrow

Danielle Skropeta

Arange of N-phenethyl,N-phenacyl, and N-(1- and 2-naphthylmethyl) derivatives of 5,7-dibromoisatin 2 were prepared byN-alkylation reactions. Their activity against human monocyte-like histiocytic lymphoma (U937), leukemia (Jurkat), and breast carcinoma (MDA-MB-231) cell lines was assessed. The results allowed further development of structureactivity relationships. The compound 5,7-dibromo-N-(1-naphthylmethyl)-1H-indole-2,3-dione 5a was the most potent against U937 cells with an IC50 value of 0.19 microM.

Complete Assignment Of The 1h And 13c Nmr Spectra Of Antimicrobial 4-Arylamino- 3-Nitrocoumarin Derivatives, Vidoslav Dekic, Niko Radulovic, Rastko Vukicevic, Biljana Dekic, Danielle Skropeta, Radosav Palic

Danielle Skropeta

No abstract provided.

Synthesis And Hydrolytic Evaluation Of Acid-Labile Imine-Linked Cytoxic Isatin Model Systems, Lidia Matesic, Julie Locke, Kara Perrow, Marie Ranson, John Bremner, Danielle Skropeta

Danielle Skropeta

In this study a series of isatin-based, pH-sensitive aryl imine derivatives with differing aromatic substituents and substitution patterns were synthesised and their acid-catalysed hydrolysis evaluated. These derivatives were functionalised at the C3 carbonyl group of a potent N-substituted isatin cytotoxin and were stable at physiological pH but readily cleaved at pH 4.5. Observed rates of hydrolysis for the embedded imine-acid moiety were in the order para-phenylpropionic acid>phenylacetic acid (para>meta)>benzoic acid (meta>para). The ability to fine-tune hydrolysis rates in this way has potential implications for optimising imine linked, tumour targeting cytotoxin-protein conjugates

N-Glycolisation Regulates Endothelial Lipase-Mediated Phospholipid Hydrolysis In Apoe- And Apoa-I-Containing High Density Lipoproteins, Danielle Skropeta, Daniel Rader, Weijun Jin, Monica Mcmahon, Kate Shearston, Philip Barter, Kristine Mcgrath, Kerry-Anne Rye, Chatri Settasatian, Daniela Caiazza

Danielle Skropeta

No abstract provided.

Cytotoxic And Anticancer Activities Of Isatin And Its Derivatives: A Comprehensive Review From 2000-2008, Marie Ranson, Danielle Skropeta, Julie Locke, Lidia Matesic, Kara Perrow

Danielle Skropeta

No abstract provided.

Chemotaxonomy Of The Peppergrass Lepidium Coronopus (L.) Al-Shehbaz (Syn. Coronopus Squamatus) Based On Its Volatile Glucosinolate Autolysis Products, Niko Radulovic, Bojan Zlatkovic, Danielle Skropeta, Radosav Palic´

Danielle Skropeta

The genus Lepidium comprises approximately 175 different plant species commonly referred to as peppergrasses or pepperworts ( Al-Shehbaz, 1997 and Mummenhoff et al., 2001), which occur worldwide apart from the polar regions where they are considered rare in the Arctic and are absent from Antarctica. Lepidium is a comparatively large genus belonging to the mustard family Brassicaceae. Lepidium coronopus (L.) Al-Shehbaz, a representative of the genus, is a herbaceous annual to biennial plant that belongs to the tribe Lepidieae and has previously been described by the following synonymous species: Coronopus squamatus (Forsskal) Ascherson; C. squamatus subsp. conradi (Muschler) Maire; C. …

"Toxic" Workplaces: The Negative Interface Between The Physical And Social Environments, Linda Too, Michael Harvey

Linda Too

Toxic real estate has been used as a negative phrase to describe non-performing assets on a firm's balance sheet. Today there is another form of "TOXIC" real estate that needs management's attention, i.e. physical workplaces that are harmful to employees on a day-in and day-out basis. Particularly when productivity of workforce is now central to business competitiveness, it is timely to explore the interface between physical and social environments as many of the social/psychological impacts on employees have not been recognized or calibrated. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the links between physical workplace and social behaviour.

An Angel On The Wind: How Heroic Policy Narratives Shape Policy Realities, Elizabeth A. Shanahan Dr., Michael D. Jones Dr., Mark K. Mcbeth Dr., Ross R. Lane

Michael D. Jones

Holocene Palaeofire Records In A High-Level, Proximal Valley-Fill (Wilson Bog), Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Solomon Buckman, Katherine Brownlie, Robert Bourman, C. Murray-Wallace, Rowena Morris, Terry Lachlan, Richard Roberts, Lee Arnold, J. Cann

Solomon Buckman Dr.

No abstract provided.

Traces From The Past: The Cenozoic Regolith And Intraplate Neotectonic History Of The Gun Emplacement, A Ferricreted Bench On The Western Margin Of The Mt Lofty Ranges, South Australia, Robert Bourman, Solomon Buckman, Brad Pillans, Martin Williams, Frances Williams

Solomon Buckman Dr.

No abstract provided.

Late Quaternary Fire Regimes Of Australasia, S. Mooney, S. Harrison, P. Bartlein, A.-L. Daniau, J. Stevenson, K. Brownlie, Solomon Buckman, Matthew Cupper, Jonathon Luly, M. Black, Eric Colhoun, D. D'Costa, John Dodson, S. Haberle, Geoffrey Hope, P. Kershaw, C. Kenyon, M. Mckenzie, N. Williams

Solomon Buckman Dr.

No abstract provided.

Mount Augustus Geology And Geomorphology, Robert Bourman, Cliff Ollier, Solomon Buckman

Solomon Buckman Dr.

No abstract provided.