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Sos: A Subject Online Survey Engine To Support Improvement In Teaching And Learning, Robert M. Corderoy, Ray Stace, A. Ip, P. Macleod
Sos: A Subject Online Survey Engine To Support Improvement In Teaching And Learning, Robert M. Corderoy, Ray Stace, A. Ip, P. Macleod
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
Traditionally, data relating to the conduct of subjects at the University of Wollongong has been collected for academics with one main purpose in mind: to provide the academic with supporting information as to their teaching ability for the purposes of promotion. Currently this data is collected using ‘prescribed Teaching Surveys’. The process is a formal, highly regulated mechanism and is administered by the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources (CEDIR) on request. The promotion process requires that the academic provide of not less than 4 and no more than 6 such survey reports in their application for promotion. These …
Maritime Internationalism, Rowan Cahill
Maritime Internationalism, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
An account of the long records of internationalism of the Seamen's Union of Australia (SUA) and the Waterside Workers' Federation (WWF), and the way these records contributed to vital international support for the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) during the bitter Australian 'War on the Waterfront' (1998). The MUA was formed in 1993 following the amalgamation of the SUA and the WWF.
Thermoluminescence Evidence For The Deposition Of Coastal Sediments By Tsunami Wave Action, D. M. Price, Edward A. Bryant, R. W. Young
Thermoluminescence Evidence For The Deposition Of Coastal Sediments By Tsunami Wave Action, D. M. Price, Edward A. Bryant, R. W. Young
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Changes in our coastline take on various forms and are the product of differing wave and aeolian processes. Of all these processes tsunami action surely represents the most rapid and violent agent wreaking devastation not only along the immediate shoreline but also extending many kilometres inland. Until now the main line of evidence supporting the deposition of sediments by this means has lain in the careful examination of the sedimentological record. This process is painstaking, costly and time consuming and then not necessarily conclusive. Thermoluminescence may offer an alternative line of evidence which may be taken as either confirmatory or, …
Do Migrants Rob Jobs?: New Evidence From Australia, Gary Gang Tian, Jordan Shan
Do Migrants Rob Jobs?: New Evidence From Australia, Gary Gang Tian, Jordan Shan
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This study contributes to the recent debate on immigration and unemployment in Australia by investigating the causal linkage between immigration and unemployment. The question of whether `immigrants rob jobs' is examined by identifying the sources of unemployment through causal linkages between unemployment and other key variables such as immigration. The research finds no Granger causality between immigration and unemployment, but does run from industrial structural change to the high unemployment rate in Australia. This research also finds that both GDP growth and immigration inflow reinforce each other in the course of economic development in Australia.
Community Perceptions Of Reasons For Preference For Consanguineous Marriages In Pakistan, R. Hussain
Community Perceptions Of Reasons For Preference For Consanguineous Marriages In Pakistan, R. Hussain
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Although the recent Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) show that two-thirds of marriages in Pakistan are consanguineous, the sociocultural determinants of such marriages remain largely unexplored. This paper examines the relative importance of the three commonly perceived reasons for such marriages: religious, economic and cultural. The analysis is based on qualitative data collected in 1995 from multi-ethnic and multireligious communities in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan. Results show that consanguineous marriages are preferred across all ethnic and religious groups to a varying degree, and that parents continue to be the prime decision-makers for marriages of both sons and …
Consanguineous Marriage And Differentials In Age At Marriage, Contraceptive Use And Fertility In Pakistan, R. Hussain, A. H. Bittles
Consanguineous Marriage And Differentials In Age At Marriage, Contraceptive Use And Fertility In Pakistan, R. Hussain, A. H. Bittles
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Fertility rates in Pakistan have remained consistently high over the past three decades. While numerous studies have examined sociodemographic determinants, the role of biological factors, and particularly consanguinity, has received little attention, even though marriage between close biological relatives continues to be the norm in Pakistan. Reproductive behaviour among women in consanguineous (first cousin) and non-consanguineous unions was compared, using data from a 1995 study of multi-ethnic communities in Karachi and the 1990–91 Pakistan Demographic & Health Survey (PDHS). The results show that, although female age at first marriage has been gradually rising in both study samples, women in consanguineous …
Analyzing Destination Images: A Perceptual Charting Approach, Sara Dolnicar, K. Grabler, J. A. Mazanec
Analyzing Destination Images: A Perceptual Charting Approach, Sara Dolnicar, K. Grabler, J. A. Mazanec
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Heterogeneity of perceptions is a neglected issue in market segmentation studies. Only recently parametric approaches toward modeling segmented perception-preference structures such as combined MDS and Latent Class procedures have been introduced. A completely different nonparametric method is based on topology-sensitive vector quantization (VQ) for consumers-by-brands-by-attributes data. It maps the segment-specific perceptual structures into bar charts with multiple brand positions exhibiting perceptual distinctiveness or similarity. A brief introduction into the VQ methodology is followed by a sample study on three urban destinations competing on the world travel markets. City images serve as the underlying behavioral constructs. Preferential data are based on …
Comparative Analysis Of Management Accounting Practices In Australia And Japan: An Empirical Investigation, H. Wijewardena, A. De Zoysa
Comparative Analysis Of Management Accounting Practices In Australia And Japan: An Empirical Investigation, H. Wijewardena, A. De Zoysa
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper is based on the findings of a questionnaire survey conducted on large manufacturing firms in Australia and Japan during 1997. The results of the survey have revealed a number of important differences between the two countries. For example, while management accounting practices of the Australian companies place an emphasis on cost control tools at the manufacturing stage, those of the Japanese companies devote a much greater attention to cost planning and cost reduction tools at the product design stage. Further, the Japanese companies seem to have introduced more frequent changes to management accounting practices than their Australian counterparts.
A Comparison Of Financial Services Customer Segments: Convenience-Oriented Customers Versus Personal Service-Oriented Customers, Jennifer Thornton, Lesley White
A Comparison Of Financial Services Customer Segments: Convenience-Oriented Customers Versus Personal Service-Oriented Customers, Jennifer Thornton, Lesley White
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Whilst a market segment that seeks the primary benefit of convenience has often been identified in theoretical discussions, an empirical investigation of the characteristics of convenience-oriented customers have been largely deficient. This study details the demographic characteristics of two distinct groupings of financial service customers, these being convenience-oriented customers and personal service-oriented customers. These segments were derived through the use of hierarchical cluster analysis. The main result of the study was that the demographic variables of age, occupation, income, education, type of employment and marital status could be used to form demographic profiles of convenience-oriented customers and personal service-oriented customers.
Q Methodology As A Research Methodology For Human Computer Interaction, Joseph A. Meloche
Q Methodology As A Research Methodology For Human Computer Interaction, Joseph A. Meloche
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
This paper briefly introduces the reader to QMethodology and suggests its suitability for research with the field of He!. Furthermore, this paper takes the perspective that HCI is largely aform ofhuman to human interaction. Thus design for HC! would need to take into account human understandings, of computers, systems, networks and software, by all types ofparticipants, iffruitfUl interaction between computers and people and the people who use them is to occur. This paper describes and suggests the use of an established methodology, QMethodology, for the examination of human perceptions in HCI. The example this paper gives is a study that …
Sos: Supporting Teaching And Learning Through A Customisable Subject Online Survey, Robert M. Corderoy, Ray Stace, A. Ip
Sos: Supporting Teaching And Learning Through A Customisable Subject Online Survey, Robert M. Corderoy, Ray Stace, A. Ip
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
One of the difficulties faced by many academics in their teaching is the evaluation of the teaching and learning process. The growing importance of this aspect of tertiary education has been picked up in recent years by Government in its push for quality assurance in the sector. If quality is most effectively ensured by those directly involved in the provision of a service, then tools, mechanisms and processes need to be provided so that this involvement can be facilitated. The need for evaluation of the success of teaching and learning has become even more critical as more and more in …
How Do We Know If Students Learn Online? A Case Study Of The Deep Integration Of Tertiary Literacy And Discipline-Specific Skills Into A Flexibly Delivered First Year Subject, Margaret Merten, Alisa Percy, Jan Skillen, Neil Trivett
How Do We Know If Students Learn Online? A Case Study Of The Deep Integration Of Tertiary Literacy And Discipline-Specific Skills Into A Flexibly Delivered First Year Subject, Margaret Merten, Alisa Percy, Jan Skillen, Neil Trivett
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
As universities globally move toward the flexible delivery of subjects and courses, the issue of how students learn from these modes is increasingly important for the design of these subjects. Using an action learning approach, this paper will show that this integration of learning skills into subject curriculum results in significant improvements in students’ skills levels. The main focus of the paper is to show that the conversion of subjects into flexible delivery allows a deeper level of integration of tertiary literacy instruction than is possible in campus based subjects. To explore this, the paper will present a case-study on …
Learning About Tertiary Teaching: Placing The Lecturer At The Centre Of The Learning Experience, Maureen E. Bell
Learning About Tertiary Teaching: Placing The Lecturer At The Centre Of The Learning Experience, Maureen E. Bell
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers
The attributes of effective university teachers are well documented (Ramsden, 1992). If universities wish to improve learning and teaching they need to provide academic staff with programs through which these attributes can be developed. A wide variety of courses now exist in Australian Universities that aim to develop academic staff as effective teachers (Martin & Ramsden, 1994). Some focus on developing skills through workshops and study packages, others on developing conceptions of teaching at a theoretical level or through reflective practice.
Electrospray Ionisation Mass Spectrometry Of Ruthenium And Palladium Complexes With Oligonucleotides, Jennifer L. Beck, Amy Humphries, Margaret Sheil, Stephen F. Ralph
Electrospray Ionisation Mass Spectrometry Of Ruthenium And Palladium Complexes With Oligonucleotides, Jennifer L. Beck, Amy Humphries, Margaret Sheil, Stephen F. Ralph
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
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A Relacao Escola-Familia - Um Modelo De Trocas E Colaboracao, Eliana Bhering, Iram Siraj-Blatchford
A Relacao Escola-Familia - Um Modelo De Trocas E Colaboracao, Eliana Bhering, Iram Siraj-Blatchford
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This study uses data from 21 fourth grade parents in 8 Brazilian state pre- and primary schools in Belo Horizonte - MG, Brazil, to examine their views about parental involvement and others issues related to their children's school education. The data has been collected through using Epstein's typology (in Brandt, 1989). This typology has already been validated in the past and it was created to summarise many of the kinds of parental involvement practices that any level of school education - from nursery years to secondary level - may develop. A different pattern of the parents and the schools relationship …
Economic Evaluation And Ebm, Glenn P. Salkeld
Economic Evaluation And Ebm, Glenn P. Salkeld
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
In the world of textbook economics, the "sovereign" consumer weighs up the (freely available) evidence on the costs, risks, harms and benefits before purchasing health care. The value that consumers then attach to the evidence and the expected outcomes is revealed through their purchasing decisions in the market. Ultimately, the consumer's decision represents the best or benefit maximising choice given the available information. The notion of this evidence-based market is however a long way from the reality of health care in Australia. Consumers (that is, patients) generally do not have current best evidence to hand. The same could be said …
Risk, Needs And Responsivity In Violence Rehabilitation: Implications For Programs With Indigenous Offenders, Kevin Howells, Andrew Day, Stuart Byrne, Mitchell K. Byrne
Risk, Needs And Responsivity In Violence Rehabilitation: Implications For Programs With Indigenous Offenders, Kevin Howells, Andrew Day, Stuart Byrne, Mitchell K. Byrne
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
As a group of forensic psychologists with a background in clinical practice and research with offenders, we share the perception that sensitivity to cultural issues is a neglected area in offender rehabilitation. Perhaps this should be stated more strongly: that cultural dimensions of offender rehabilitation programs require urgent attention. We are working to understand how rehabilitation programs can be most appropriately offered to Aboriginal offenders, with a particular interest in programs dealing with anger, aggression and violence ( Howells et al, 1997). Our starting point in this area has been an interest in whether the rehabilitation of offenders works - …
Hallmark Events, Kevin M. Dunn, Pauline M. Mcguirk
Hallmark Events, Kevin M. Dunn, Pauline M. Mcguirk
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The modern Olympic Games have always been an international event: a celebration of sporting competition between athletes from many nations. In an era marked by the quickening pace of global integration of the world's economic and cultural systems, the Olympics can also be thought of as a globalised 'hallmark event'. Certainly, the Games have economic, cultural and political dimensions that mirror the various processes of globalisation. The impacts of the Games on its host city are similar to the impacts of globalisation processes. In this chapter we discuss the analogies between the Olympics, as a hallmark event, and the local …
[60]Fullerene Amino Acids And Related Derivatives, Glenn A. Burley, Paul A. Keller, Stephen G. Pyne
[60]Fullerene Amino Acids And Related Derivatives, Glenn A. Burley, Paul A. Keller, Stephen G. Pyne
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
This paper is a review of the literature concerning the preparation of [60]fullerene amino acid and peptide derivatives. The structure and applications of these derivatives to the biological and material sciences is also presented.
Synthesis Of Thiazole Analogues Of The Immunosuppressive Agent (1r,2s,3r)-2-Acetyl-4(5)-(1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroxybutyl)Imidazole, George R. Jeoffreys, Alison T. Ung, Stephen G. Pyne, Brian W. Skelton, Allan H. White
Synthesis Of Thiazole Analogues Of The Immunosuppressive Agent (1r,2s,3r)-2-Acetyl-4(5)-(1,2,3,4-Tetrahydroxybutyl)Imidazole, George R. Jeoffreys, Alison T. Ung, Stephen G. Pyne, Brian W. Skelton, Allan H. White
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
The synthesis of four of the diastereoisomers of 2-acetyl-5-(1,2,3,4-tetrahydroxybutyl)thiazole and two of the diastereoisomers of 2-acetyl-5-(1,2,3,4,5-pentahydroxypentyl)thiazole and 2-acetyl-4-(1,2,3,4,5-pentahydroxypentyl)thiazole are reported. These syntheses involve the condensation of 5- or 4-metallated 2-(1,1-dimethoxyethyl)thiazoles with 2,3-O-isopropylidene-D-erythrono-1,4-lactone or 5-O-(tert-butyldimethylsilyl)-2,3-O-isopropylidene-D-ribonolactone followed by reductive ring-opening of the resulting lactols. The stereochemistries and structures of some key compounds have been determined by single crystal X-ray structural analysis.
Systematics, Biostratigraphy And Evolution Of The Late Ludlow And Pridoli (Late Silurian) Graptolites Of The Yass District, New South Wales, Australia, R B. Rickards, Anthony J. Wright
Systematics, Biostratigraphy And Evolution Of The Late Ludlow And Pridoli (Late Silurian) Graptolites Of The Yass District, New South Wales, Australia, R B. Rickards, Anthony J. Wright
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Graptolites from the Yass district of New South Wales include important material from: low in the Black Bog Shale; from the Yarwood Siltstone Member; 2 levels high in the Black Bog Shale; 2 levels low in the Rosebank Shale; low in the Cowridge Siltstone; and in the lower part of the Elmside Formation. The faunas from the lower 4 levels are late Ludlow (early Late Silurian), and the higher 4 levels are Prídolí (late Late Silurian). Twenty-seven graptolite taxa, a considerable increase on previous records from Yass, have been identified in the late Ludlow and Prídolí of the district. These …
Nutrition And Ageing In Africa, Karen E. Charlton
Nutrition And Ageing In Africa, Karen E. Charlton
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Although the proportion of elderly people in African populations is much smaller than that in developed countries, the absolute numbers of older Africans are rapidly increasing. The huge majority of Africans live in poor economic circumstances and few countries are able to offer social assistance programs. The health and wellbeing of older persons largely depend on the integral existence of informal services, social support networks and kin support. African gerontologists have urged social welfare policy makers to take cognizance of self-organized intergenerational help systems already present on the continent, and to make public-sector finance available to support these systems. Nutrition …
Validation Of A Food Frequency Questionnaire In Older South Africans, Karen E. Charlton, Estelle V. Lambert
Validation Of A Food Frequency Questionnaire In Older South Africans, Karen E. Charlton, Estelle V. Lambert
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Objectives: To assess the validity of 213-item semi-qualified food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) in estimating habitual energy and protein intake in a sample of older South Africans. Repeatability of the FFQ was assessed by comparison of reported intakes after a 6-month period. Design: Cross-sectional analytic study Methods: Twenty-one subjects were selected from a baseline sample of 200 non-institutional subjects aged 65 years and over in Cape Town, who had previously been randomly selected for a nurtition and health survey using a two-stage cluster design. Reported dietary energy and protein intakes, estimated by means of the FFQ method, were compared with 24-hour …
Evaluating Hiv/Std Interventions In Developing Countries: Do Current Indicators Do Justice To Advances In Intervention Approaches?, Catherine L. Mac Phail, Catherine Campbell
Evaluating Hiv/Std Interventions In Developing Countries: Do Current Indicators Do Justice To Advances In Intervention Approaches?, Catherine L. Mac Phail, Catherine Campbell
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
HIV continues to spread unabated in many developing countries. Here we consider the interventions that are currently in place and critically discuss the methods that are being used to evaluate them as reported in the published literature. In recent years there has been a move away from highly individual-oriented interventions towards more participatory approaches that emphasise techniques such as community-led peer education and group discussions. However, this move towards more community orientated intervention techniques has not been matched by the development of evaluation methods with which to capture and explain the community and social changes which are often necessary preconditions …
Social Identity, Domain Specific Self-Esteem And Intergroup Evaluation: The Relevance Of Important Self-Esteem Domains., John A. Hunter, Kerry O'Brien, Andrew C. Grocott
Social Identity, Domain Specific Self-Esteem And Intergroup Evaluation: The Relevance Of Important Self-Esteem Domains., John A. Hunter, Kerry O'Brien, Andrew C. Grocott
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The present investigation sought to extend recent research concerned with assessing the link between domain specific self-esteem and intergroup evaluation. It was hypothesized that, following the display of group favoring evaluations, category members would experience an increase in that domain of self-esteem judged to be more important to the ingroup. Support for this hypothesis was found. A pilot study was conducted to ascertain which domains of the self were judged by male category members to be important and unimportant to the ingroup. On the basis of this analysis, domains of self-esteem important (i.e. physical self-esteem) and unimportant (i.e. religious self-esteem) …
Turning Memories Into Memoirs: The Australian Experience, Rae Luckie
Turning Memories Into Memoirs: The Australian Experience, Rae Luckie
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
Eighteen months ago I began to teach a hybrid course of "creative writing/writing life stories" through Kiama Adult & Community Education. I searched the Internet for resources and happened upon a web page "Turning Memories into Memoirs" which promoted lifewriting and had a network of teaching affiliates. The author of the program, Denis Ledoux, has been teaching lifewriting since 1988. His partner and publisher, artist Martha Blowen and I began an e-mail correspondence of gigantic proportions. I lived through their severe ice storm, saw the Arkansas massacre through her eyes, learnt about home schooling and life in Maine. We've e-mailed …
The Toeplitz Algebra Of A Hilbert Bimodule, Neal J. Fowler, Iain Raeburn
The Toeplitz Algebra Of A Hilbert Bimodule, Neal J. Fowler, Iain Raeburn
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
Suppose a C ∗ -algebra A acts by adjointable operators on a Hilbert A -module X. Pimsner constructed a C ∗ -algebra 𝒪 X which includes, for particular choices of X , crossed products of A by Z , the Cuntz algebras 𝒪 n , and the CuntzKrieger algebras 𝒪 B. Here we analyse the representations of the corresponding Toeplitz algebra. One consequence is a uniqueness theorem for the ToeplitzCuntz-Krieger algebras of directed graphs, which includes Cuntz’s uniqueness theorem for 𝒪 ∞.
Lie Algebras Of Cohomological Codimension One, Grant F. Armstrong, Grant Cairns, Gunky Kim
Lie Algebras Of Cohomological Codimension One, Grant F. Armstrong, Grant Cairns, Gunky Kim
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
We show that if g is a finite dimensional real Lie algebra, then g has cohomological dimension cd(g) = dim(g) - 1 if and only if g is a unimodular extension of the two-dimensional non-Abelian Lie algebra aff.
Simulated Annealing: Searching For An Optimal Temperature Schedule, Harry Cohn, Mark James Fielding
Simulated Annealing: Searching For An Optimal Temperature Schedule, Harry Cohn, Mark James Fielding
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
A sizable part of the theoretical literature on simulated annealing deals with a property called convergence, which asserts that the simulated annealing chain is in the set of global minimum states of the objective function with probability tending to 1. However, in practice, the convergent algorithms are considered too slow, whereas a number of nonconvergent ones are usually preferred. We attempt a detailed analysis of various temperature schedules. Examples will be given of when it is both practically and theoretically justified to use boiling, fixed temperature, or even fast cooling schedules which have a small probability of reaching global minima. …
Magnetic Circuit Of A Synchronous Reluctance Motor, P P. Ciufo, D. Platt, B S. P Perera
Magnetic Circuit Of A Synchronous Reluctance Motor, P P. Ciufo, D. Platt, B S. P Perera
Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A
This paper presents a model of the magnetic circuit for an axially laminated synchronous reluctance motor. The basis of the modelling technique is the determination of a value for an equivalent ``q-channel'' reluctance. This reluctance contains all the effects of paths available to q-axis flux through the rotor body. Expressions for the distribution of airgap and other motor fluxes have been developed from basic analyses involving mmf and continuity of flux. The foundations of all of these expressions are the physical parameters of the motor. The equations developed have been applied to a 370 W motor and the results from …