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Processes Controlling Metal Transport And Retention As Metal-Contaminated Groundwaters Efflux Through Estuarine Sediments, Stuart L. Simpson, Edward J. Maher, Dianne F. Jolley
Processes Controlling Metal Transport And Retention As Metal-Contaminated Groundwaters Efflux Through Estuarine Sediments, Stuart L. Simpson, Edward J. Maher, Dianne F. Jolley
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Factors affecting the transport and retention of Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn in acidic groundwaters as they pass through estuarine sediments were investigated using column experiments. Acidic groundwaters caused the rapid dissolution of iron sulfide (AVS) and other iron and manganese phases from sediments that are important for metal binding and buffering. Metal breakthrough to overlying water occurred in the order of Ni>Zn>Cd>>Cu>>Cr/Pb. Metal transport increased as the sediment permeability increased, reflecting the low resistance to flow caused by larger sand-sized particles and the decreased abundance of metal adsorption sites on these materials. Metal …
Protecting Group Effects On The Efficiency Of The Ruthenium-Catalyzed Alder-Ene Reaction, Joseph Hartley, Stephen G. Pyne
Protecting Group Effects On The Efficiency Of The Ruthenium-Catalyzed Alder-Ene Reaction, Joseph Hartley, Stephen G. Pyne
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
The efficiency of the ruthenium-catalysed Alder-ene reaction of hydroxy alkenes depends heavily on the nature of the O-protecting groups employed as well as the length of the carbon spacer between the hydroxy and alkene group.
Drug Companies And Schizophrenia: Unbridled Capitalism Meets Madness, L. R. Mosher, R. Gosden, Sharon Beder
Drug Companies And Schizophrenia: Unbridled Capitalism Meets Madness, L. R. Mosher, R. Gosden, Sharon Beder
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
While the major thrust of this volume is an examination of the psychosocial origins and approaches to dealing with the problem labeled as “schizophrenia” it must also provide a historical context and examine critically how the current complete domination of schizophrenia’s “treatment” by the neuroleptic drugs (we’ll use this term and antipsychotic interchangeably) came to be. Not only do they dictate practice but they also buttress the biomedical theorizing that dominates thinking about the problem.
Terrorism: Ethics, Effectiveness And Enemies, Brian Martin
Terrorism: Ethics, Effectiveness And Enemies, Brian Martin
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
Discussions of terrorism usually contain unstated assumptions about ethics, effectiveness and "enemies." These assumptions usually serve to sideline nonviolent options. Ulf Sundhaussen’s otherwise perceptive article fits this pattern. Terrorism is nearly always assumed to be unethical. Indeed, the very label "terrorism" has become a hostile judgement disguised as a description (Gearty, 1997). In conventional western accounts of terrorism, there is a double standard: only terrorism by nonstate groups or US-government-defined "rogue states" is counted. Sundhaussen, like other critics, instead adopts a definition that includes terrorism by dominant states, especially the United States. His next step is to focus on injustices …
Segmenting Markets By Bagged Clustering, Sara Dolnicar, Friedrich Leisch
Segmenting Markets By Bagged Clustering, Sara Dolnicar, Friedrich Leisch
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
We introduce bagged clustering as a new approach in the field of post hoc market segmentation research and illustrate the managerial advantages over both hierarchical and partitioning algorithms, especially with large binary data sets. The most important improvements are enhanced stability and interpretability of segments based on binary data. One of the main goals of the procedure is to complement more traditional techniques as an exploratory segment analysis tool. The merits of the approach are illustrated using a tourism marketing application.
An Exploratory Study Of Older Adults' Perceptions Of Dtca For Prescription Medications, Sandra C. Jones, Judy Mullan
An Exploratory Study Of Older Adults' Perceptions Of Dtca For Prescription Medications, Sandra C. Jones, Judy Mullan
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
There are many arguments for and against Direct-To-Consumer-Advertising (DTCA) and their impact on the consumer. A study involving 97 older consumers was carried out to investigate their perceptions about long or short versions of written DTCA for arthritis or diabetes medication. The results indicate that even though the ads may improve doctor-patient discussion about medications, they would not necessarily empower them to make decisions. Some of the consumers also believed that DTCA might cause people to ask for inappropriate medicines, become confused and possibly stop seeking medical advice.
An Exploratory Study On The Effect Of Positive (Warmth Appeal) And Negative (Guilt Appeal) Print Imagery On Donation Behaviour In Animal Welfare, M. Haynes, Jennifer Thornton, Sandra C. Jones
An Exploratory Study On The Effect Of Positive (Warmth Appeal) And Negative (Guilt Appeal) Print Imagery On Donation Behaviour In Animal Welfare, M. Haynes, Jennifer Thornton, Sandra C. Jones
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Very few studies in social marketing empirically compare the effectiveness of positive and negative appeals. This study examines the effect of positive (warmth appeal) and negative (guilt appeal) print imagery on donation behaviour to an animal welfare organisation. A quasiexperimental design was used to test the appeals, using a convenience sample of 282 university students, with each experimental group being exposed to only one type of appeal. The results indicated that negative imagery which evoked guilt was more effective than positive imagery which evoked warmth, on intention to donate money and time to the animal welfare organisation.
The Influence Of Magazine Advertising On Parents' Nutrition Ratings Of Food Products For Children, Christina Hoang, Sandra C. Jones, Jennifer Thornton
The Influence Of Magazine Advertising On Parents' Nutrition Ratings Of Food Products For Children, Christina Hoang, Sandra C. Jones, Jennifer Thornton
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Childhood obesity currently affects approximately 22 million children under the age of five worldwide (Rochinni, 2002) and its increasing prevalence in developed nations makes it one of the most common nutritional problems among children (Sorof and Stephen, 2002). A study was conducted to investigate parents’ health-related perceptions for a series of magazine advertisements for commonly advertised and popular children’s food products. The study revealed that confusion exists among parents and this was most evident in relation to the energy content of food products. Parents are important due to the instrumental role they play in their child’s nutrition - both as …
Geographical Or Behavioural Segmentation? The Pros And Cons For Destination Marketing, Sara Dolnicar, Friedrich Leisch
Geographical Or Behavioural Segmentation? The Pros And Cons For Destination Marketing, Sara Dolnicar, Friedrich Leisch
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Market segmentation is a widely applied concept in destination management. Although the general trend in tourism marketing research has constantly been developing toward data-driven (a posteriori, post-hoc) approaches, national tourism organisations (NTOs) still mostly use the commonsense (a priori) approach of geographical segmentation. This paper compares the advantages and drawbacks of both methods and illustrates some of them using a real empirical example.
No Risk, No Fun: The Role Of Perceived Risk In Adventure Tourism, Tracey Dickson, Sara Dolnicar
No Risk, No Fun: The Role Of Perceived Risk In Adventure Tourism, Tracey Dickson, Sara Dolnicar
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
There is a long tradition in tourism research to investigate the issue of perceived risk. The reason lies in the tourism industry’s aim to reduce the risk perceptions among tourist in order to increase sales. Perceived risk is thus seen as a hurdle to attracting tourists and the managerial aim is to reduce it. At the same time there is a sub-sector of tourism industry, adventure tourism that seems to work in precisely the opposite way: perceived risk is something attractive to the potential consumers, something they are actively searching for. The aim of this paper is to investigate past …
Towards More Thorough Data-Driven Segmentation In Tourism - A Tracking Framework For Exploring Segment Development, Sara Dolnicar
Towards More Thorough Data-Driven Segmentation In Tourism - A Tracking Framework For Exploring Segment Development, Sara Dolnicar
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Market segmentation has become a standard concept in tourism marketing. A priori and a posteriori (data-driven, post-hoc) segmentation approaches enjoy high popularity among both practitioners and researchers. In order to optimise the market segmentation strategy it is not only necessary to identify relevant market segments, describe them, evaluate the match between corporate or destination strengths and segment needs but to understand how segments develop over time. This knowledge is typically accounted for when a priori segments are used. In the case of a posteriori segments, however, such trend tracking is neglected. In this paper a simple tracking framework is presented …
Tracking Data-Driven Market Segments, Sara Dolnicar
Tracking Data-Driven Market Segments, Sara Dolnicar
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Market segmentation has become a standard concept in tourism marketing. A priori and a posteriori (data-driven) segmentation approaches enjoy high popularity among both practitioners and researchers. In order to optimize the market segmentation strategy it is not only necessary to identify relevant market segments, describe them, evaluate the match between corporate or destination strengths and segment needs but also, to determine how segments develop over time. This knowledge is typically accounted for when a priori segments are used. In the case of a posteriori segments, however, such trend tracking is neglected. In this paper a tracking framework is presented that …
Book Review - Allison Levy, Widowhood And Visual Culture In Early Modern Europe, Louise D'Arcens
Book Review - Allison Levy, Widowhood And Visual Culture In Early Modern Europe, Louise D'Arcens
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The past decade has witnessed the appearance of a number of excellent edited essay collections dealing with widowhood in the European past, including Louise Mirrer’s Upon My Husband’s Death: Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe (1992), Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl’s Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages (1999), and Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner’s Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1999). The essays assembled by Allison Levy in Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe offer a distinctive contribution to the existing scholarship, shifting the focus away from social, legal, …
Support Or Spoon Feeding? Research Skills Training For First Year Marketing Students In A Large Class, S. R. Lambert, V. K. Yanamandram
Support Or Spoon Feeding? Research Skills Training For First Year Marketing Students In A Large Class, S. R. Lambert, V. K. Yanamandram
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
This paper describes the work done by the authors to develop and evaluate a new worksheet and quiz assessment developed to explicitly teach the skills required by marketing students to complete their studies and to be successful professional marketers. While concerns were raised in the teaching faculty that such interventions might amount to spoon feeding, the authors felt that there was sufficient evidence to suggest that such an activity was an effective learning support, especially in such a large first year class. Student survey results indicate that for many students the activity successfully taught a repeatable process of how to …
Export Expansion And The Choice Of Export Mode - Is There Evidence Of Switching Over Time?, Ann Hodgkinson
Export Expansion And The Choice Of Export Mode - Is There Evidence Of Switching Over Time?, Ann Hodgkinson
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Stage theory argues that firms expand exports incrementally and, in the process, pass through a series of increasingly more resource intensive export channels. This paper tests this hypothesis for NSW regional exporters in the period 1996/97 to2000/01. Consistent with other studies, we found general support for incremental export expansion, and that firms added more sophisticated export modes as commitment increased. However, they did not discard earlier modes in this process. One major contradiction to stage theory lay with ‘born global’ firms, which move immediately tohigh export ratios. A second more unexpected one lay with long term, intensiveexporters, which persisted in …
Learning And Doing In Communities: Understanding Knowledge Management Through The Lens Of Activity Theory, Helen M. Hasan
Learning And Doing In Communities: Understanding Knowledge Management Through The Lens Of Activity Theory, Helen M. Hasan
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
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Coming Of Age: Developing A Genealogy Of Knowledge In The Las Field, Alisa Percy, Jeannette Stirling
Coming Of Age: Developing A Genealogy Of Knowledge In The Las Field, Alisa Percy, Jeannette Stirling
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Quality teaching and learning in higher education has become a mantra in the rhetoric of university policies, and, increasingly, assuring successful student learning is seen asthe core business of the modern university. Ironically, this comes at a time when academic staff are faced with unprecedented demands on their teaching repertoire while being expected to function with fewer resources. Not surprisingly then, many LAS staff find themselves, their knowledge and their skills central to ensuring the university's aspirations, yet in many ways still under threat of intellectual erasure. A contributing factor to this threat, it is argued, is the lack of …
Minimizing Total Setup Cost For A Metal Casting Company, Xue-Ming Yuan, Hsien Hui Khoo, Trevor A. Spedding, Ian Bainbridge, David Taplin
Minimizing Total Setup Cost For A Metal Casting Company, Xue-Ming Yuan, Hsien Hui Khoo, Trevor A. Spedding, Ian Bainbridge, David Taplin
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
The optimizing sequence of production for a set of customer orders - in order to minimize machine set-up time and costs - is one of the typical problems found in many manufacturing systems. In this paper, we develop a simulation model to capture a practical system of a metal casting company in Queensland, Australia, and optimize the production sequence for a set of customer orders. The method addressed in the paper can be applied to other optimization problems in manufacturing industry.
Customer Relationship Success, Tim Coltman, Timothy Devinney
Customer Relationship Success, Tim Coltman, Timothy Devinney
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
What makes companies such as National Australia Bank in Australia, Otto Versand in Germany, Tesco in the United Kingdom and Capital One in the US so much better at managing customer relationships than their competitors? This question was the basis of a large survey of senior managers in medium to large Australian companies. The findings demonstrate that relationship leaders outperform their rivals by proactively identifying new market developments and seeking to meet latent or unarticulated needs of their customers. To punch above their weight in today’s competitive environment, companies need databases and software to gain a deep understanding of customer …
Science For Life: An Evaluation Of New Zealand's Health Research Investment System Based On International Benchmarks, Samuel Garrett-Jones, Tim Turpin, Brian Wixted
Science For Life: An Evaluation Of New Zealand's Health Research Investment System Based On International Benchmarks, Samuel Garrett-Jones, Tim Turpin, Brian Wixted
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
During the past decade there have been major developments in the way that research investments have been monitored and evaluated. While there are differences in the ways governments fund research around the world, and a diversity of approaches to evaluation, there are a number of common themes that can be observed in national experiences. As the importance of evaluation increases, the gap between current practice and best practice becomes more significant, and the need for comparative study and methods development grows. Current international ‘better-practice’ approaches to research evaluation and performance indicators reflect two important considerations. First, they make a clear …
Renovating Reality Tv, Ian Buchanan
Renovating Reality Tv, Ian Buchanan
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
The Block was Australia's hit TV show of 2003. Its viewing audience regularly topped the 2 million mark, easily surpassing all the other 'lifestyle' shows - DIY Rescue, Burke's Backyard, Backyard Blitz, Changing Rooms, Better Homes and Gardens , Location Location, Auction Squad, Hot Auctions , the list is practically endless. Australian made TV drama has meanwhile delivered its worst ratings performance in years, virtually guaranteeing The Block will not only be repeated but cloned as well. David Castran, the managing director of Audience Development Australia, explains it this way: "recent world turmoil has brought people closer to home to …
The Causal Ordering Of Key Cross-Functional Relationship Dimensions: A Replication Study Using The Marketing/R&D Relationship, Elias Kyriazis, Graham Massey
The Causal Ordering Of Key Cross-Functional Relationship Dimensions: A Replication Study Using The Marketing/R&D Relationship, Elias Kyriazis, Graham Massey
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
How do working relationships between functional managers develop, and how are they maintained? Does interpersonal trust drive communication, or is communication the building block of interpersonal trust? Massey and Dawes (2002) examined the causal ordering of three key behavioural constructs - communication behaviours, interpersonal trust, and interpersonal conflict in cross-functional relationships between Marketing Managers and Sales Managers. By using three competing models they found evidence that CFRs are built on a foundation of effective communication, specifically, bidirectional communication. This current paper is a replication of their study in the context of the Marketing/R&D relationship during 184 Australian new product development …