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Young Families' Utilisation, Self-Perceived Requirements, And Satisfaction With Child Health Services In The City Of Belmont, Western Australia, Ailsa M. Munns Jan 1998

Young Families' Utilisation, Self-Perceived Requirements, And Satisfaction With Child Health Services In The City Of Belmont, Western Australia, Ailsa M. Munns

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The expectations of young families regarding care they would like to receive from community nurses working in the child health area is affected by the relationship between those expectations, utilisation and sociocultural factors such as family type, family composition and ethnicity. These factors influence family dynamics, needs, functioning and interactions with the wider community. A descriptive study with both quantitative and qualitative components was used to identify and analyse the self-identified requirements of young families utilising Child Health Services in the Belmont area, Western Australia, and their patterns of utilisation. Twenty five women who had a child or children under …

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Parametric Software Project Estimating: An Analysis Of Current Practice, Stuart Hope Jan 1998

Parametric Software Project Estimating: An Analysis Of Current Practice, Stuart Hope

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

As society and the world economy moves into the second millennium. the service industries involving knowledge workers will continue to increase. Software is the enabling technology that is driving the knowledge industry. As the development of software is mostly a design process, where new artefacts are conceived and built, the prediction of outcomes in the process is fraught with difficulties. Software project estimating is one of the essential Software Engineering techniques that will enable the rationalisation of decision-making regarding software development. Estimates that are more accurate will increase the probability of success and lower the risk. This thesis analyses the …

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An Empirical Model For Predicting The Feasibility Of Corporate Turnaround, Syed Kamalludin Bin Syed Alaudin Al Qadiri Jan 1998

An Empirical Model For Predicting The Feasibility Of Corporate Turnaround, Syed Kamalludin Bin Syed Alaudin Al Qadiri

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The primary objective of this research was to identify the determinants of corporate turnaround feasibility and their effect (in terms of their state of existence and their existence) on the probability of corporate turnaround feasibility in Successful and Non Successful Turnaround Companies. The other objective was the development of an empirical model of the determinants of corporate turnaround feasibility capable of predicting the feasibility of corporate turnarounds. One hundred 'troubled companies ' were identified out of two hundred and eleven publicly listed companies of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange through observations of their share price performance, earnings before interest and …

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Evaluation Of Revegetation Techniques Used On Degraded Agricultural Land In The Central Avon Catchment, Western Australia, Scott J. Bartholomew Jan 1998

Evaluation Of Revegetation Techniques Used On Degraded Agricultural Land In The Central Avon Catchment, Western Australia, Scott J. Bartholomew

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The agricultural region in the central Avon catchment is declining in both arable land and native vegetation. This decline has been due to the clearance of large tracts of native vegetation and its subsequent replacement by exotic crops and pasture species. The loss of vegetation has led to regional land degradation in the form of soil erosion and land salinisation. Therefore, changes in land management practices are required to make agricultural production more compatible with land conservation. Revegetation using native plants is the only management solution that integrates both land and ecological conservation with agricultural productivity. The continuation of current …

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A Systematic Evaluation Of Methods To Separate X- And Y- Bearing Sperm, Jacquelyn Irving Jan 1998

A Systematic Evaluation Of Methods To Separate X- And Y- Bearing Sperm, Jacquelyn Irving

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This project was initiated to determine if was possible to enrich either X- or Y- bearing sperm, and hence to preselect the sex of a child. Two of the possible reasons why couple might want to select the sex of a child are firstly because of a family history of an X-linked recessive genetic disorder, which usually only affect sons, and secondly families who have had several children of one sex. For this study, men with three or more children of the same sex were recruited following the publication of an article in The West Australian newspaper. The percentage of …

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Performing Cooperative Work And Conferencing On An Intranet Using Java, Thaveeporn Limpanyalers Jan 1998

Performing Cooperative Work And Conferencing On An Intranet Using Java, Thaveeporn Limpanyalers

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The process of organising, preparing and conducting a meeting is a time consuming one. Additionally, geographic separation compounds the amount of effort required. Within this study, an electronic conferencing system in an Intranet environment is designed and implemented, thus enabling employees in the same organisation to meet up electronically without the dual constraints of time and space. Specifically, the study investigates incorporation of facial expressions and an ongoing polling system. The results demonstrate that a presence of facial expressions helps users to better engage in on-line discussion and that users find an ongoing poll to be useful in determining direction …

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Fostering Flowers: Women, Landscape And The Psychodynamics Of Gender In 19th Century Australia, Pamela Hodge Jan 1998

Fostering Flowers: Women, Landscape And The Psychodynamics Of Gender In 19th Century Australia, Pamela Hodge

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

It is said that when the Sphinx was carved into the bedrock of Egypt it had the head as well as the body of Sekhmet lioness Goddess who presided over the rise and fall of the Nile, and that only much later was the head recarved to resemble a male pharaoh. Simon Schama considered the 'making over' of Mount Rushmore to resemble America's Founding Fathers constituted 'the ultimate colonisation of nature by culture … a distinctly masculine obsession (expressing) physicality, materiality and empirical externality,… a rhetoric of humanity's uncontested possession of nature. It would be comforting to think that, although …

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Accident Experience Of Commonwealth Government Employees In Western Australia : 1 June 1993 To 2 December 1995, David R. Wright Jan 1998

Accident Experience Of Commonwealth Government Employees In Western Australia : 1 June 1993 To 2 December 1995, David R. Wright

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This quantitative study documents, analyses and discusses the accident experience of Commonwealth employees in Western Australia from 1 July 1993 to 2 December 1995 as recorded on 1663 accident report forms. The research addresses the problem of lack of knowledge of accidents in the Commonwealth sector of the Western Australian work force. Its purpose is to identify possible areas of health and safety improvement and highlight where accident frequency may be reduced. Risk management is adopted as a conceptual framework to explore categories of accident related data, including month of year, time of day, day of the week of accidents, …

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Validation Of The Barkemeyer-Callon-Jones Malingering Detection Scale: The Ability Of A Scale Differentiate Simulating Malingers From Controls And Prior Litigants From Those With No Litigation Experience Within A Sample Of Men Who Have All Suffered Chronic Low Back Pain, David Curnow Jan 1998

Validation Of The Barkemeyer-Callon-Jones Malingering Detection Scale: The Ability Of A Scale Differentiate Simulating Malingers From Controls And Prior Litigants From Those With No Litigation Experience Within A Sample Of Men Who Have All Suffered Chronic Low Back Pain, David Curnow

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Chronic low back pain costs the community, and several authors have suggested that individuals often attempt to exaggerate chronic low back pain. Currently no reliable and valid scale for assessing malingering in chronic pain populations exists, and there is a large difference in opinion on the ability of experts using clinical judgment to detect malingering. The current study seeks to provide a validation for the BarkemeyerCallon-Jones Malingering Detection Scale (MDS) which has purported to be able to identify individuals attempting to malinger neurological conditions and pain. A simulation design was used, as in previous research, because it is difficult to …

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Improving Provision For Disaffected Students: Toward A New Educational Model, Cecilia Netolicky Jan 1998

Improving Provision For Disaffected Students: Toward A New Educational Model, Cecilia Netolicky

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The purpose of this study is to develop and review strategies and policies to drive retentive teaching-learning environments for disaffected students, modifying their modus operandi sufficiently for them to qualify and retain a tertiary place or position in the workforce, or sustain a return to mainstream schooling. I employed action research methods to examine Strike Four. an educational model servicing students with severe social and/ or emotional difficulties and behavioural disorders. I tested the Strike Four model during an intensive study period on two programs. Part 1 of the thesis comprises three Chapters. An introduction to the issue of the …

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Developing Performance Support Systems For Complex Tasks: Lessons From A Lesson Planning System, Martyn Wild Jan 1998

Developing Performance Support Systems For Complex Tasks: Lessons From A Lesson Planning System, Martyn Wild

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

There lacks coherent and persuasive rationales for the further development of computer-based, interactive educational materials, for tertiary settings. Indeed, educational software arising out of what might be coined the “multimedia era”, namely the mid and later 19902, has been marked by lacklustre products with an emphasis in development and evaluation placed largely on technological issues (such as the use of video, sound and animations). As such, the rapid increase in commercially available (usually CD based) products has generally met a cool adoption from academics and educationalists, with both these groups often bemoaning the paucity or non-existence of effective instructional design …

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Faculty Senate Librarian's Report-1998, Georgia Southern University Jan 1998

Faculty Senate Librarian's Report-1998, Georgia Southern University

Faculty Senate: Librarian's Reports

No abstract provided.

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Faculty Senate Minutes-1998 Jan 1998

Faculty Senate Minutes-1998

Faculty Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Diagnostic Evaluation Of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology In The Management Of Palpable Breast Lesions, S. H. Shah, Naila Kayani, S. H. Hasan, I. N. Soomro, Shahid Pervez, A. S. Hussainy Jan 1998

Diagnostic Evaluation Of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology In The Management Of Palpable Breast Lesions, S. H. Shah, Naila Kayani, S. H. Hasan, I. N. Soomro, Shahid Pervez, A. S. Hussainy

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

A total of 113 fine needle aspirates of the breast masses were evaluated in which the subsequent biopsy or mastectomy specimen were also available for histological examination. The age ranged from 16 to 80 years with a mean of 42 years. In benign conditions the mean age was 34.7 years while in malignant cases it was 48 years. The cytological diagnoses were compared with the histological results which revealed that the specificity and sensitivity of fine needle aspiration cytology in the palpable breast lesions was 86.1% and 89.2% respectively with a positive predictive value of 93% and efficiency of 88.2%. …

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The Effects Of A Goal Setting Intervention And Dispositional Optimism/Pessimism On Selected Golf Skills: A Qualitative Design, Matthew James Wilson Jan 1998

The Effects Of A Goal Setting Intervention And Dispositional Optimism/Pessimism On Selected Golf Skills: A Qualitative Design, Matthew James Wilson

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a goal setting intervention on selected golf skills over the course of a competitive golf season. A secondary purpose of this study was to investigate a comparison of optimism and pessimism in relationship to goal attainment. Subjects (n=7) were elite golfers from a university men's golf team. A two-month goal setting intervention was implemented consisting of the individual golfers selecting three golf skills from five separate categories (fairways in regulation, greens in regulation, total putts per round, up and downs conversion rate, and putts per green in regulation) to …

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A Further Study Of Deprivation And Revolutions, Roddy James Hatch Iii Jan 1998

A Further Study Of Deprivation And Revolutions, Roddy James Hatch Iii

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

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Georgia's Lottery Funded Prekindergarten: Is It Working In Rural Georgia?, Elizabeth Jenkins Kimball Jan 1998

Georgia's Lottery Funded Prekindergarten: Is It Working In Rural Georgia?, Elizabeth Jenkins Kimball

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

This study examined the impact of Georgia's lottery-funded PreK on its participants' preparedness for kindergarten. The following question was posited: Have Georgia's lottery-funded PreK participants in rural Georgia entered kindergarten with differences in preparedness from entering kindergartners who did not participate? Participation in alternate types of prekindergarten included participation in Head Start, participation in the category of other programs (private, church, or day-care), or no participation in any type of program. Data was collected in twelve school systems in five Regional Educational Service Agencies (RESA) districts in rural southern Georgia. Two criteria were established for participation in this study: (1) …

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Evaluation Of Coverboards For Sampling Salamanders In South Georgia, Charles Michael Houze Jr. Jan 1998

Evaluation Of Coverboards For Sampling Salamanders In South Georgia, Charles Michael Houze Jr.

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

Salamanders are important components of many forested communities. However, their fossorial habits and seasonality often make them difficult to sample. The use of artificial coverboards (coverboards) is a relatively new and little-studied technique for monitoring the terrestrial activity of salamanders Coverboards are designed to simulate fallen tree limbs and logs, and to provide a moist refuge for forest salamanders. Despite several studies, questions remain concerning the value of coverboards. Therefore, I conducted an experiment in 1996-1997 to determine whether coverboards are as effective for sampling salamanders as searching natural cover objects such as logs and branches. Using a paired design, …

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Unreasonable Risk: Model Rule 1.6, Environmental Hazards, And Positive Law, Irma S. Russell Jan 1998

Unreasonable Risk: Model Rule 1.6, Environmental Hazards, And Positive Law, Irma S. Russell

Washington and Lee Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Macris & Associates, Inc V. Neways, Inc, Thomas E. Mower And Leslie D. Mower : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

Macris & Associates, Inc V. Neways, Inc, Thomas E. Mower And Leslie D. Mower : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Appeal from the Fourth Judicial district Court for Utah County, State of Utah, the Honorable Judge Howard H. Maetani, District Court Judge

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State Of Utah V. Boyd L. Jentzsch, Quest Sport And Fitness, Homestead Insurance Company, International Special Events And Recreation Association : Brief Of Appellees, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

State Of Utah V. Boyd L. Jentzsch, Quest Sport And Fitness, Homestead Insurance Company, International Special Events And Recreation Association : Brief Of Appellees, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Appeal from the judgment of dismissal by the Third Judicial District Court, Salt Lake county, Judge Anne Stirba

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State Of Utah V. Boyd L. Jentzsch, Quest Sport And Fitness, Homestead Insurance Company, International Special Events And Recreation Association : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

State Of Utah V. Boyd L. Jentzsch, Quest Sport And Fitness, Homestead Insurance Company, International Special Events And Recreation Association : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Appeal from the judgement granted by the Third Judicial District Court. Salt Lake County, State of Utah, the Honorable Anne M. Stirba presiding

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The State Of Utah V. Edward Dean Christensen : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

The State Of Utah V. Edward Dean Christensen : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM A JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION FOR THE OFFENSES OF FAILURE TO PAY TAX, FOUR COUNTS, ALL SECOND DEGREE FELONIES, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANNOTATED 59-1-401(6)(c), FAILURE TO FILE TAX RETURNS, FOUR COUNTS, ALL THIRD DEGREE FELONIES, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANNOTATED 59-1-401(6)(b), AND FAILURE TO PAY TAX, TWO COUNTS, BOTH CLASS B MISDEMEANORS, IN VIOLATION OF UTAH CODE ANNOTATED 59-14A-92(5), BEFORE THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, IN AND FOR SEVIER COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH, THE HONORABLE DON V. TIBBS, JUDGE, PRESIDING.

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Haven Whitear V. Brown & Root Inc, Highlands Insurance, Employers Reinsurance Fund, And The Labor Commission Of Utah : Brief Of Respondent, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

Haven Whitear V. Brown & Root Inc, Highlands Insurance, Employers Reinsurance Fund, And The Labor Commission Of Utah : Brief Of Respondent, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

Appeal from the Labor Commission of Utah Administrative Law Judge Donald L. George

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Rory J. Atcitty, By And Through His Parent Roger Atcitty, Sr. V. Board Of Education Of The San Juan County School District, Lyman Grover : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

Rory J. Atcitty, By And Through His Parent Roger Atcitty, Sr. V. Board Of Education Of The San Juan County School District, Lyman Grover : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

BRIEF OF APPELLANT Appeal From The Seventh Judicial District Court In And For San Juan County, Utah, The Honorable Bryce K. Bryner, Presiding.

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Mary M. Tuck V. The Beehive House, A Utah Limited Partnership, And S. Chad Godfrey, And Individual : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

Mary M. Tuck V. The Beehive House, A Utah Limited Partnership, And S. Chad Godfrey, And Individual : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

On Appeal from the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County Judge Anne M. Stirba

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State Of Utah, Department Of Human Services, Ex Rel., State Of Pennsylvania, Ex Rel., Robin E. Kirby V. Avi Alex Jacoby : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

State Of Utah, Department Of Human Services, Ex Rel., State Of Pennsylvania, Ex Rel., Robin E. Kirby V. Avi Alex Jacoby : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

No abstract provided.

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Wilner A. Blakley V. Utah Labor Commission : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

Wilner A. Blakley V. Utah Labor Commission : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

No abstract provided.

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Interwest Construction, A Utah Corporation V. R. Roy Palmer And Val W. Palmer, D.B.A. A.H. Palmer & Sons: Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

Interwest Construction, A Utah Corporation V. R. Roy Palmer And Val W. Palmer, D.B.A. A.H. Palmer & Sons: Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM A JUDGMENT IN THE FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF CACHE COUNTY THE HONORABLE GORDON J. LOW, DISTRICT JUDGE

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Chris Swanson And Laurie Swanson V. Beverly Swanson, Clinton Swanson, And Nikki Shumway Dba Swanson Enterprises : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 1998

Chris Swanson And Laurie Swanson V. Beverly Swanson, Clinton Swanson, And Nikki Shumway Dba Swanson Enterprises : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM THE FOURTH DISTRICT COURT. UTAH COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH THE HONORABLE ANTHONY W. SCHOFIELD, JUDGE

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