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Deficit Financing In Lcds: Evidence From South Asia, Muhammad K. Chowdhury
Deficit Financing In Lcds: Evidence From South Asia, Muhammad K. Chowdhury
Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)
Fiscal policy triggers three distinct effects on the economy such as (1) interest rate effect (2) price effect and (3) exchange rate effect. A VAR system was developed to capture these effects in jive South Asian countries. Empirical results suggest that budgetary action does not have any perceptible influence ·on the interest rate of the sampled countries. In terms of the price effect, fiscal action has opposite effects in Bangladesh and India. Fiscal action tends to increase aggregate price level in India but reduces the price level in Bangladesh, although the magnitude is very small. For Pakistan the price effect …
Macrochannels And Their Significance For Flood-Risk Minimisation, West Dapto, New South Wales, E. L. Roper, Ivars Reinfelds, Gerald C. Nanson
Macrochannels And Their Significance For Flood-Risk Minimisation, West Dapto, New South Wales, E. L. Roper, Ivars Reinfelds, Gerald C. Nanson
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
A prominent characteristic of streams draining catchments in West Dapto, New South Wales, are well developed macrochannels that have formed within alluvial terraces in mid-catchment zones. A detailed hydraulic modelling study using HEC-RAS, HEC-GeoRAS and Arcview GIS indicates that these macrochannels are scaled to accommodate high magnitude floods. They offer a significant degree of natural protection from flood events up to and in excess of 100 years recurrence interval, essentially by operating as 'bankfull' channels during such events. Macrochannel landforms can be clearly distinguished and mapped on fine-scale digital elevation models (DEMs) and other GIS data sources such as rectified …
Effects Of Javan Rusa Deer (Cervus Timorensis) On Native Plant Species In The Jibbon-Bundeena Area, Royal National Park, New South Wales, David Keith, Belinda Pellow
Effects Of Javan Rusa Deer (Cervus Timorensis) On Native Plant Species In The Jibbon-Bundeena Area, Royal National Park, New South Wales, David Keith, Belinda Pellow
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
A reconnaissance survey and exclosure experiment were carried out to examine the effects of Javan rusa deer on native flora and vegetation in Royal National Park on the southern outskirts of Sydney, Australia. Of 78 native plant species examined during the survey, only nine showed no evidence of vertebrate herbivory or physical damage and the majority of these plants were ferns and sedges. The other 69 species showed effects that included defoliation (young and/or old leaves), removal of shoots, bark-stripping, stem breakages and destruction or consumption of reproductive material. These effects varied in severity between species and from place to …
A New Species Of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) From Nocoleche Nature Reserve, Far Western Plains, New South Wales, Belinda J. Pellow, John L. Potter
A New Species Of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) From Nocoleche Nature Reserve, Far Western Plains, New South Wales, Belinda J. Pellow, John L. Potter
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Goodenia nocoleche was cultivated in sediment collected from a freshwater temporary wetland in Nocoleche Nature Reserve. Here it is newly described and illustrated with additional notes on its ecology.
Development Of Watershed Management In New South Wales, Australia: A Coastal Perspective, Pedro I. J Fidelman, Robert John Morrison, Ron J. West
Development Of Watershed Management In New South Wales, Australia: A Coastal Perspective, Pedro I. J Fidelman, Robert John Morrison, Ron J. West
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Watershed management has become a prominent approach to natural resource management (NRM) in Australia and elsewhere. In the Australian State ofNew South Wales (NSW), catchment management - the NSW watershed management initiative - has been in place both in coastal and non-coastal areas for nearly two decades. In coastal areas, it is suggested that catchment management could play an important role in coastal and marine issues (NSW Coastcare et aI., 2004; Zann, 1996), as the Australia's coastal and marine environments have, in general, been affected by watershed-based activities (see e.g., Zann, 1996). Such a role would, however, require institutional changes, …
Development Of A Novel Nutrition Screening Tool For Use In Elderly South Africans, Karen E. Charlton, Tracy Kolbe-Alexander, Johanna Nel
Development Of A Novel Nutrition Screening Tool For Use In Elderly South Africans, Karen E. Charlton, Tracy Kolbe-Alexander, Johanna Nel
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Objective: To develop a nutrition screening tool for use in older South Africans. Design: A cross-sectional validation study in 283 free-living and institutionalised black South Africans (60+ years). Methods: Trained fieldworkers administered a 24-hour recall and the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) screening tool, and performed anthropometric measurements and physical function tests. Cognitive function was assessed using a validated version of the Six-Item Cognitive Impairment Test. Biochemical indicators assessed included serum albumin, haemoglobin, ferritin, vitamin B12, red-blood-cell folate, cholesterol and vitamin C. The MNA was used as the gold standard against which a novel screening tool was developed using a six-step …
Development And Validation Of Instruments Measuring Body Image And Body Weight Dissatisfaction In South African Mothers And Their Daughters, Zandile Mciza, Julia Goedecke, Nelia P. Steyn, Karen E. Charlton, Thandi Puoane, Shelly Meltzer, Naomi Levitt, Estelle V. Lambert
Development And Validation Of Instruments Measuring Body Image And Body Weight Dissatisfaction In South African Mothers And Their Daughters, Zandile Mciza, Julia Goedecke, Nelia P. Steyn, Karen E. Charlton, Thandi Puoane, Shelly Meltzer, Naomi Levitt, Estelle V. Lambert
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Objective We sought to validate questionnaires concerning body image perception, body size dissatisfaction and weight-related beliefs in multi-ethnic South African mothers and their daughters. Settings and subjects: Girls attending primary school (ages 9-12 years, n = 333) and their mothers (n = 204) were interviewed regarding their demographics and body image. Weight, height and skinfold thicknesses were measured. Body image questions and body mass index (BMI) were compared with silhouettes adapted from the Pathways Study for girls and Stunkard's body image figures for mothers. A Feel-Ideal Difference (FID) index score was created by subtracting the score of the silhouette selected …
Knowledge Of Iodine Nutrition In The South African Adult Population, Pieter Jooste, Nicola Upson, Karen E. Charlton
Knowledge Of Iodine Nutrition In The South African Adult Population, Pieter Jooste, Nicola Upson, Karen E. Charlton
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Objectives To determine the level of knowledge regarding iodine nutrition and its relationship with socio-economic status in the South African population. Design A cross-sectional population survey collecting questionnaire information on knowledge of iodine nutrition and sociodemographic variables in a multistage, stratified, cluster study sample, representative of the adult South African population. Setting Home visits and personal interviews in the language of the respondent. Subjects Data were collected from one adult in each of the selected 2164 households, and the participation rate was 98%. Results Only 15.4% of respondents correctly identified iodised salt as the primary dietary source of iodine, 16.2% …
Structure, Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages And 40ar/39ar Geochronology Of The Early Palaeozoic Girilambone Group, Central New South Wales: Subduction, Contraction And Extension Associated With The Benambran Orogeny, Christopher L. Fergusson, C M Fanning, D. Phillips, Benjamin Ackerman
Structure, Detrital Zircon U-Pb Ages And 40ar/39ar Geochronology Of The Early Palaeozoic Girilambone Group, Central New South Wales: Subduction, Contraction And Extension Associated With The Benambran Orogeny, Christopher L. Fergusson, C M Fanning, D. Phillips, Benjamin Ackerman
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
The Early Palaeozoic Cape River Metamorphics consist mainly of psammitic gneiss and schist and occur as an extensive linear belt at the western margin of the Charters Towers Province 200 km southwest of Townsville in the northern Tasmanides. A prominent foliation (S2) is the main structure in the belt and is associated with tight to isoclinal folds, subparallel mineral and intersection lineations, and boudinaged pods of vein quartz and pegmatite. In the southwest, the main foliation is a crenulation cleavage (S2) related to D2 deformation. It overprints steeply dipping foliation (S1) formed in …
Infiltrators, Illegals And Undesirables : Gender And Forced Migration In South Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
Infiltrators, Illegals And Undesirables : Gender And Forced Migration In South Asia, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
It will be argued within this paper, that women’s experiences of displacement and exclusion need to be situated in the relationship between globalisation and neoliberalism. I argue that forced and economic migrations are closely related and are often interchangeable expressions of global inequality. Neo liberal globalisation diminishes all human pursuits into buying and selling. It is elites in the North who have implemented neo-liberal policies into both the North and South over the past twenty five years. These policies have resulted in the eradication of social safeguards which have led to massive gendered displacement. While globalisation may conjure up a …