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Labour And Birth Information Needs Of First Time Mothers In Malawi And Satisfaction With Information Received, Address M. Malata Jan 1997

Labour And Birth Information Needs Of First Time Mothers In Malawi And Satisfaction With Information Received, Address M. Malata

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Giving labour and birth information to first time mothers is one of the challenges facing the midwives in Malawi. There are many underlying health and soeioeconomic problems facing the people of Malawi particularly mothers in the child bearing age because of inadequate human and material resources in the health sector. This thesis presents findings of a study carried out in Malawi to explore labour and birth information given to first time mothers at hospitals and in the communities. Maternal satisfaction with the information received was determined. In addition labour and birth information needs of first time mothers in Malawi were …

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Radio, Community And The Public : Community Radio In Western Australia, Bob Hope-Hume Jan 1997

Radio, Community And The Public : Community Radio In Western Australia, Bob Hope-Hume

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis examines community radio in Western Australia and its relationship to "the public sphere". The public sphere is that field in which private. persons interact with other private. persons and in so doing construct a 11public". Public opinion is formed through this interaction in the public sphere. The media provide a major part of that interaction. Moreover, the media determine which voices are privileged within the communicative sphere. Drawing from Jurgen Habennas I explore theories of the public sphere arguing that community radio constructs a new form of public sphere in contemporary culture. I explore notions of democratic radio …

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Australia As Other In Singapore's Media, Lai W. Woo Jan 1997

Australia As Other In Singapore's Media, Lai W. Woo

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Since the late eighteenth century, the Western observation of the East has been based on shared ontological and epistemological assumptions made by the West of the East as different and as the "Other''. Said's concept of Orientalism revolutionized Western understanding of non-Western cultures by showing how Western projected images shaped the Occidental view of the Orient. Although much has been written about the West's perception of the East as "Other'' (Eg. Said and Schirato), to date, little has been written dealing with the West from, the "Eastern" viewpoint. This thesis will examine the concepts of Orientalism (the perception of the …

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An Investigation Of A Theoretical Model Of Willingness To Donate Blood, Douglas Adam Jan 1997

An Investigation Of A Theoretical Model Of Willingness To Donate Blood, Douglas Adam

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The Australian Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service (ARCBTS) in Western Australian faces a major problem with periodic shortages of blood components. These shortages are expected to become more frequent and severe as demand continues to increase at a faster rate than supply. Given that only five percent of the population is registered as blood donors, clearly, the challenge for the ARCBTS is to encourage more people to become regular blood donors. The current study was undertaken to assist the ARCBTS in achieving this goal, by identifying and investigating the factors that influence people's willingness to donate blood. Based on the …

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The Mathematical Modelling Of The Ross River Virus Transmission, Yoon-Hong Choi Jan 1997

The Mathematical Modelling Of The Ross River Virus Transmission, Yoon-Hong Choi

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Ross River virus is one of the most severe communicable diseases in Australia. During the 1995/96 outbreak of Ross River virus in south-western Australia, over 1 ,300 human cases were reported. Since the symptoms of the disease are sometimes too weak to be diagnosed, it is important to determine the number of humans who actually contracted the virus during outbreaks. To do this, several mathematical models with different hypotheses are constructed and analysed mathematically. The threshold mathematical conditions of these models suggest that as well as the size of the vector mosquito population, the population size and length of viraemia …

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Teaching Visual Arts Through Distance Education : An Evaluation Of The Program Anyone Can Draw, Jane Whelan Jan 1997

Teaching Visual Arts Through Distance Education : An Evaluation Of The Program Anyone Can Draw, Jane Whelan

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The problem under investigation is concerned with the teaching of drawing through distance education. Traditionally drawing has occupied a central position in visual art teaching and learning and is still regarded as a significant area of visual arts education. In the visual arts curriculum of Western Australia, drawing, which is included in the broader term visual inquiry, is regarded as the foundation for studio practice. It is therefore appropriate to include drawing as part of every visual arts teaching program. The correspondence mode of teaching, which has a text-base, is a more formal style of teaching art than the responsive …

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The Mirror Within: An Art Therapy Research Project Identifying The Links Between Anorexia Nervosa, Object Relations And The Potential Role Of Art As The Transitional Object, Bronwen Gray Jan 1997

The Mirror Within: An Art Therapy Research Project Identifying The Links Between Anorexia Nervosa, Object Relations And The Potential Role Of Art As The Transitional Object, Bronwen Gray

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This research focuses on the use of art therapy with female teenage clients suffering from anorexia nervosa. The aim was to undertake a pilot study that would establish whether art therapy could assist in identifying anorexic clients' ego boundary delineations using an object relations framework (That is, either enmeshed, inter related or isolated). Utilising Elkisch's picture analysis procedure, client art works were analysed by contrasting positive and negative characteristics as a way of gaining insight into the client's boundary delineation cognition. Five female subjects aged between thirteen and sixteen, who were taking part in the eating disorders program, located in …

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The Pedagogical Significance Of The Life And Work Of Artist Helen Grey-Smith, Gwen Phillips Jan 1997

The Pedagogical Significance Of The Life And Work Of Artist Helen Grey-Smith, Gwen Phillips

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Visual arts educational practice has been built upon a tradition which has neglected the work of women artists. The reasons for this are explored in the introduction to this research and in the literature review. The research will examine aspects of the lived experience and work of a Western Australian woman visual artist within a context of the traditional cultural and educational paradigms which influenced her development as a visual artist and which, it may be argued, continue to influence all visual artists. The participant in the research, Helen Grey Smith, has been a prominent member of the visual arts …

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Investigating Conditions For Higher Order Thinking In Telematics Environments, Catherine Mcloughlin Jan 1997

Investigating Conditions For Higher Order Thinking In Telematics Environments, Catherine Mcloughlin

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Telematics, or audiographic conferencing, enables synchronous communication via telecommunications. A telephone link and computer communications allow students in distributed classrooms to participate in an extended, or virtual classroom. Telematics is widely used as an instructional medium for the delivery of curricula to students in rural and remote parts of Western Australia. Previous studies of learning meditated by this technology have shown limitations on the forms of interactivity, tasks and learner engagement. Students typically have been found to assume a passive role, often listening to a distant and invisible teacher, but not engaging in cognitively demanding tasks. The tendency for teachers …

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Teaching Principals : Educational Restructuring And Transformational Leadership, Kevin P. Gillan Jan 1997

Teaching Principals : Educational Restructuring And Transformational Leadership, Kevin P. Gillan

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The restructuring of. the Education Department of Western Australia (EDWA) since 1987 has seen the devolution and decentralisation of administrative responsibilities from the central education authority to schools. The onset of an era of educational restructuring has significantly changed the work of primary school principals. They have become responsible for the transformation of schools from a bureaucratic form of organisation to ones that are characterised by school based decision-making and management. The new form of organisation is intended to sustain a process of continuous school improvement. As well as managing change there has also been an expectation for principals to …

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The Relationship Between Enjoyment And Ongoing Participation In A Grade Dancesport, Diana Jonas-Dwyer Jan 1997

The Relationship Between Enjoyment And Ongoing Participation In A Grade Dancesport, Diana Jonas-Dwyer

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

To date no studies have considered enjoyment in Dancesport. Scanlan, Stein and Ravizza, (1989a, 1989b & 1991) have extensively studied enjoyment and recommended further studies be conducted in individual sports. Past research has tended to identity enjoyment as a one off momentary experience termed 'peak performance' (Cohn, 1991) and 'flow' (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975; Kimiecik & Stein, 1992). Many thousands of people participate in Dancesport, the competitive arm of ballroom dancing, both nationally and internationally. Determining the predictors of enjoyment for Dancesport could provide a base upon which to plan activity programs to increase lifelong participation and health. A qualitative approach was …

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Junior High School Students' Perception Of The Messages Conveyed Through The Lyrics Of Rock Music, Steven M. Russey Jan 1997

Junior High School Students' Perception Of The Messages Conveyed Through The Lyrics Of Rock Music, Steven M. Russey

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to discover whether or not the accompaniment of a lyric sheet while listening to rock music would aid a student's correct identification of the message conveyed by that song. Participants included one 7th and one 8th grade class of "gifted" students (N = 62). Other elements examined involved students' judgment of the messages as negative or positive, as well as the tonality of each song as pleasant or unpleasant and how these judgments related to correct or incorrect identification of the messages. Results indicated that there was no statistically significant difference regarding correct or …

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1997 Survey On Women's Status And Work/Family Issues In Public Accounting : Executive Summary;Survey On Women's Status And Work/Family Issues In Public Accounting, Executive Summary;Women's Status And Work/Family Issues In Public Accounting, Executive Summary, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants Jan 1997

1997 Survey On Women's Status And Work/Family Issues In Public Accounting : Executive Summary;Survey On Women's Status And Work/Family Issues In Public Accounting, Executive Summary;Women's Status And Work/Family Issues In Public Accounting, Executive Summary, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Fidelity And Constraint , Lawrence Lessig Jan 1997

Fidelity And Constraint , Lawrence Lessig

Fordham Law Review

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A Generation Of Betrayal?, Bruce Ackerman Jan 1997

A Generation Of Betrayal?, Bruce Ackerman

Fordham Law Review

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Judging Cases V. Public Opinion, Joseph W. Bellacosa Jan 1997

Judging Cases V. Public Opinion, Joseph W. Bellacosa

Fordham Law Review

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Prosecutorial Discretion And The Death Penalty: Creating A Committee To Decide Whether To Seek The Death Penalty, John A. Horowitz Jan 1997

Prosecutorial Discretion And The Death Penalty: Creating A Committee To Decide Whether To Seek The Death Penalty, John A. Horowitz

Fordham Law Review

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Confidentiality, Counseling, And Care: When Others Need To Know What Clients Need To Disclose, Janine Sissk Jan 1997

Confidentiality, Counseling, And Care: When Others Need To Know What Clients Need To Disclose, Janine Sissk

Fordham Law Review

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The Order Of The Coif Annual Lecture, Lecture, The Constituteion Of The Procedural Republic: Liberal Rights And Civic Virtues, Michael J. Sandel Jan 1997

The Order Of The Coif Annual Lecture, Lecture, The Constituteion Of The Procedural Republic: Liberal Rights And Civic Virtues, Michael J. Sandel

Fordham Law Review

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In The Hot Box And On The Tube: Witnesses' Interests In Televised Trials, Stacy R. Horth-Neubert Jan 1997

In The Hot Box And On The Tube: Witnesses' Interests In Televised Trials, Stacy R. Horth-Neubert

Fordham Law Review

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The States And International Human Rights, Peter J. Spiro Jan 1997

The States And International Human Rights, Peter J. Spiro

Fordham Law Review

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Observing The Rules Of Law: Experiences From Northern Ireland, Angela Hegarty Jan 1997

Observing The Rules Of Law: Experiences From Northern Ireland, Angela Hegarty

Fordham Law Review

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Common Law Theories Of Liability In Derivatives Litigation, Aaron Rubinstein Jan 1997

Common Law Theories Of Liability In Derivatives Litigation, Aaron Rubinstein

Fordham Law Review

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Intersectionality And Positionality: Situating Women On Color In The Affirmative Action Dialogue, Laura M. Padilla Jan 1997

Intersectionality And Positionality: Situating Women On Color In The Affirmative Action Dialogue, Laura M. Padilla

Fordham Law Review

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Creating Problems Rather Than Solving Them: Why Criminal Parental Responsibility Laws Do Not Fit Within Our Understanding Of Justice , Tami Scarola Jan 1997

Creating Problems Rather Than Solving Them: Why Criminal Parental Responsibility Laws Do Not Fit Within Our Understanding Of Justice , Tami Scarola

Fordham Law Review

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Legal Ordering Of Family Values: The Case Of Gay And Lesbian Families, Craig W. Christensen Jan 1997

Legal Ordering Of Family Values: The Case Of Gay And Lesbian Families, Craig W. Christensen

Cardozo Law Review

In the ordinary course of events, an adoption proceeding in the New York County Surrogate's Court is an unlikely candidate for attention in the editorial pages of the New York Times. But In re the Adoption of a Child Whose First Name is Evan was not an everyday proceeding, as Times columnist Anna Quindlen observed.

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Impact Of The Relationship Between Government And Religion On Egyptian Media Content (1950-1995), Mourad Ruben Haroutunian Jan 1997

Impact Of The Relationship Between Government And Religion On Egyptian Media Content (1950-1995), Mourad Ruben Haroutunian

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Development And Vitality Of Kuwaiti Mass Media During And After The Gulf Crisis, Saud A. Alkharrz Jan 1997

Development And Vitality Of Kuwaiti Mass Media During And After The Gulf Crisis, Saud A. Alkharrz

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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