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Malay Children Vowel Recognition Using Feed-Forward Back Propagation And Elman Neural Networks., Bashar Mohammed Shaher Yafouz

Student Works (2010-2019)

Although speech recognition plays a vital role in the modern communication systems, only few studies have investigated speech recognition of children. Children’s speech recognition is more challenging than adult’s speech recognition; because of the dynamic and inconsistent nature of children’s speech. This study examined a speaker-independent recognition of 6 Malay vowels of Malay children using two different Neural Network (NN) architectures: Feed-forward Back Propagation (FFBP) and Elman. Speech samples were collected from 360 Malay children between 7 and 12 years old, and Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) was used for extracting the speech features. The data was divided according to 3-fold …

Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Carers' Perceptions Of The Cultural Appropriateness Of Carer Support Services: An Exploratory Study, Andrea Creado

Theses : Honours

Research on service utilisation by primary family carers has highlighted that carers from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds face specific barriers in accessing services, such as lack of culturally appropriate services, communication issues, prejudice, feelings of failure and misunderstanding of mental illness. However, little is known about how to best overcome these factors from the carers' perspective. The aim of this study was to investigate the perceptions CALD carers had of the cultural appropriateness of carers' support services available in Perth. Ten primary family carers from CALD backgrounds participated in a semi-structured interview to explore their perceptions of existing …

An Exploratory Study To Develop A Geotourism Typology Model Based On The Experience And The Importance Of Geotourism In The Decision To Visit A Destination, Hasoly P. Hurtado

Theses : Honours

This study develops a typology model for geotourism to address the existing gap in the literature regarding who is participating in geotourism. As geotourism is a new concept, the literature is not only lacking in this area, but there is also a conflict of definitions available from scholars and organisations. This study defines geotourism in accordance to the definition of Newsome and Dowling (2010). It also aims to reduce the gap in literature by providing a starting point to the development of future geotourism typology models through the adaptation of McKercher's Cultural Tourism Typology Model (2002). Participants eligible for this …

Voluntary Environmental Disclosure By Australian Listed Mineral Mining Companies: An Application Of Global Reporting Initiative Guidelines, Yanan Xia

Theses : Honours

There is a growing interest in studying voluntary environmental reporting around the world, especially in the mining industry, as there has been an increasingly focused debate about mining and its environmental responsibility, driven by strong public sentiment. The objectives of this study were, firstly, to evaluate the changes in environmental reporting over the period 2007-2010, in terms of type and volume of information disclosed in the Australian mineral mining industry, using the 2006 Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Guidelines and secondly, to identify the key political characteristics of companies that volunteer to disclose environmental information in their annual reports. Based on …

The Application Of Data Mining Techniques To Interrogate Western Australian Water Catchment Data Sets, Ajdin Sehovic

Theses : Honours

Current environmental challenges such as increasing dry land salinity, waterlogging, eutrophication and high nutrient runoff in south western regions of Western Australia may have both cultural and environmental implications in the near future. Advances in computer science disciplines, more specifically, data mining techniques and geographic information services provide the means to be able to conduct longitudinal climate studies to predict changes in the Water catchment areas of Western Australia.

The research proposes to utilise existing spatial data mining techniques in conjunction of modern open-source geospatial tools to interpret trends in Western Australian water catchment land use. This will be achieved …

Scald Burn Admissions To Princess Margaret Hospital In 1998 And 2008: A Comparative Analysis, Lisa Martin

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

Scald is the most common form of burn in young children, accounting for over 50% of all paediatric burn admissions in Western Australia (WA). Interventions implemented over the past few years focussed on prevention, first aid, and improved services postinjury (Department of Health Western Australia, 2009). The population of children in WA is rising and an epidemiological study was undertaken to assess changes in the profile of scald injury among WA children and to assess priorities for future action. Data were collected from all acute inpatient admissions presenting with scald injury for 1998 and 2008. These data were compared with …

Recalibrate: Models Of Successful Youth And Young Adult Ministry, Steve Case

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This resource shares the top 10 models for Youth and Young Adult Ministry. These were presented at the 180 Symposium sponsored by the Center for Youth Evangelism in the fall of 2010. Also included are seven additional models and 19 papers that were presented. A wealth of knowledge from Youth and Young Adult Ministry practitioners.

Extraction Of Chromium From Wastewater By Emulsion Ionic Liquid Membrane., Rahul Kumar Goyal

Student Works (2010-2019)

Emulsion liquid membrane (ELM) has been proven to be a competent extraction technology to extract heavy metals or organic compounds from industrial wastewaters. In this process, a prepared emulsion is dispersed into a feed phase which contains the solute to be removed. Single stage operation and less power consumption make this technology more favorable over pressure-driven membrane process and solvent extraction. Despite its comparative advantages, ELM process suffers from emulsion instability and swelling under high shear and stress during extraction, causing breakage in the membrane. The instability and swelling of the emulsion allow extracted solute and internal reagent to mix …

Reactivity Studies Of Cyclopentadienyl Complexes Of Group 6 Metals With Arylsulfides, Organo P-S And P-Se Heterocycles And Arylthiolate Phosphine Ligands., Ooi Mei Lee

Student Works (2010-2019)

The reactivity of [CpM(CO)3]2 (M = Cr (1), Mo (3)) together with their congeners, [CpM(CO)2]2 (M = Cr (2), Mo (4)) towards alkyl sulfides such as bibenzyl di- and trisulfide, organophosphorus chalcogen heterocycles such as 2,4-bis(ptolylthio) 1,3-dithia-2,4-diphosphetane-2,4-disulfide (Davy’s reagent), 1,3,2,4- dithiadiphosphetane 2,4-diselenides (Woollins’ Reagent) and thioarylphosphines have been investigated. Reactions that occurred under mild conditions for 1 was found to proceed via the highly reactive monomer radical, CpCr(CO)3·. However, the reactions with 2 and 4 required more forcing conditions at elevated temperature. Forty metal complexes were synthesized and characterized in this work. All the products were elucidated via IR, 1H, …

Maintaining And Enhancing The Integrity Of Adr Processes: From Principles To Practice Through People, Kellam, Nadja Alexander, Nadja Marie Alexander, Andrew Bickerdike, Andrew Greenwood, Margaret Halsmith, Norah Hartnett, Ian Hanger Hanger, Tom Howe, Elizabeth Kelly, Stephen Lancken, Gaye Sculthorpe, Lindsay Smith, Warwick Soden, Tania Sourdin

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Nadja Alexander was contributor to the Report as council member of National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council.In this Report, the National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council (NADRAC) canvasses particular issues that support the integrity of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes, and that are identified in the Terms of Reference. These are: conduct obligations, rules about confidentiality and inadmissibility of communications within ADR processes, and immunity of ADR practitioners from being sued. The Report explains NADRAC’s understanding of the breadth of the concept of integrity as it applies to ADR processes, canvasses the views of interested parties about the integrity of …

Long-Lived Neutral Hadrons In The Calorimeter Of The Zeus Detector., Faridah Mohamad Idris

Student Works (2010-2019)

During the electron-proton collision at HERA, the long-lived neutral hadrons in their final states may travel from the centre of the ZEUS detector to reach the calorimeter and deposit its energy in the calorimeter as islands of energies. The neutral hadrons travel in straight path and were not deflected by the magnetic field in the ZEUS detector. In this thesis, measurements of the long-lived neutral hadrons 0 L K and neutron in the final states in the calorimeter of the ZEUS detector has been carried out using the energy deposited by ZEUS Unidentified Flow Objects (ZUFOs) that were not associated …

Payroll Taxes, Wealth And Employment In Neoclassical Theory: Neutrality Or Nonneutrality?, Hian Teck Hoon

Research Collection School Of Economics

The theoretical proposition that temporarily below-normal tax rates on labor this year, when merged with the prospect of reversion to normal rates next year, will encourage households to squeeze more work into this year and to work less in future years is well-founded. This proposition was recently tested anew on Icelandic data and performed well empirically (Bianchi, Gudmundsson, and Zoega 2001). But would a permanent cut in tax rates on labor encourage more work permanently—with no diminution of effectiveness? Conversely, does a permanent increase in tax rates on labor cause a permanent decline in hours worked?

Monetary Policy In Singapore And The Global Financial Crisis, Hwee Kwan Chow, Peter Wilson

Research Collection School Of Economics

Prior to the crisis the consensus amongst central bankers in advanced economies was that price stability, in the form of low and stable price inflation, was a top priority for monetary policy and could best be achieved by targeting interest rates (usually overnight) or monetary aggregates, such as Narrow Money (M1) and Broad Money (M2). Liquidity in the banking system could be flexibly adjusted on a daily basis through open market operations to increase or decrease the monetary base which would be transmitted to the rest of the economy through financial intermediation. Financial markets would then adjust longer-term interest rates …

Three Essays In Macroeconomics, Kyoung Jin Choi

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The scope of the dissertation is: broadly-defined) general macroeconomics. The first essay is on optimal taxation and capital structure, the second essay is on firm dynamics, and the third essay is on financial crises. The first essay clarifies the role of the corporate income tax: as a form of double taxation) for achieving socially optimal allocations in the Mirrlees framework when the government cannot tax unrealized capital income at the individual level. Use of the corporate tax requires changes in the individual capital tax. The novelty of the paper is that the sophisticated tax system is designed to influence the …

Erst War Es Immer, Und Dann War Es Nicht. Speed And The Poetics Of Movement In Rainer Maria Rilke's Neue Gedichte, Erika Kontulainen

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Essays On Margin Requirements, Endogenous Illiquidity, And Portfolio Choice, Yajun Wang

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This dissertation includes three essays. The first essay studies the effects of margin requirements. The second essay studies how asymmetric information and imperfect competition affect equilibrium illiquidity. The third essay derives new comparative statics results for the distribution of portfolio payoffs. Margin requirements have long been implemented in almost all financial markets and are often used as an important regulatory tool for improving market conditions. However, their economic impact beyond affecting default risk is still largely unknown. The first essay proposes a tractable and flexible equilibrium model with and without information asymmetry to examine how margin requirements on both long …

Essays On Microeconomics With Incomplete Information, Jie Zheng

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My dissertation devotes to the understanding of people's interactions under uncertainty.. It contains four essays on Microeconomics with Incomplete Information. Chapter 1 focuses on the existence of rational bubbles in an Allen-Morris-Postlewaite: 1993) setting, and finds positive and negative results for bubbles in an asset market featuring rational expectations equilibrium. An expected bubble is said to exist if it is mutual knowledge that the price of the asset is higher than the expected dividend. Similarly we call it a strong bubble if everyone knows that the price is higher than the maximum possible dividend. Substituting common knowledge for mutual knowledge, …

Towards The Borderlands: An Investigation Into The Works Of Yi Yang-Ji, Michael Toole

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Affirmative Action Plan 2011, Office Of Equal Opportunity, Ethics, & Access

Affirmative Action Plans

Illinois State University Affirmative Action Plan

[Introduction To] Stakeholder Theory: Impact And Prospects, Robert A. Phillips

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Honoring the twenty-fifth anniversary of R. Edward Freeman’s Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, one of the most influential books in the history of business strategy and ethics, this work assembles a collection of contributions from some of the most renowned and widely-cited scholars working in the area of stakeholder scholarship today.

Skeletal Muscle Impairments In People With Diabetes And Peripheral Neuropathy, Lori Tuttle

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Abstract of the Dissertation Skeletal Muscle Impairments in People with Diabetes and Peripheral Neuropathy by Lori Jeanne Tuttle Doctor of Philosophy in Movement Science Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 Dr. Michael J. Mueller, Chairperson Diabetes mellitus: DM) is a chronic disease that affects almost 24 million people and has large socioeconomic costs. Of these 24 million people, 60-70 % will develop some form of nervous system impairment, including peripheral neuropathy: PN). It is important to understand muscle structure and impairments in people with DM+PN in order to determine appropriate interventions to limit the disability that is associated with DM+PN. …

Han'gul For The Nation, The Nation For Han'gul: The Korean Language Movement, 1894-1945, Daniel Pieper

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Aerosol Route Synthesis And Applications Of Doped Nanostructured Materials, Manoranjan Sahu

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Nanotechnology presents an attractive opportunity to address various challenges in air and water purification, energy, and other environment issues. Thus, the development of new nanoscale materials in low-cost scalable synthesis processes is important. Furthermore, the ability to independently manipulate the material properties as well as characterize the material at different steps along the synthesis route will aide in product optimization. In addition, to ensure safe and sustainable development of nanotechnology applications, potential impacts need to be evaluated. In this study, nanomaterial synthesis in a single-step gas phase reactor to continuously produce doped metal oxides was demonstrated. Copper-doped TiO2 nanomaterial properties: …

And Others: Pursuit Of Individuality In Minority Creative Expression 1984 - Present, Michelle Thomas

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Three Essays On The Macroeconomics Of Information, Yu Zheng

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This is a collection of essays on the macroeconomics of information. The first chapter, "The Skill Premium, College Enrollment and Education Signals" explores the quantitative implications of a signaling model of education for the evolution of the skill premium for young workers in the US since the 1970s. I formalize the idea that as college education becomes more affordable for a larger fraction of population, not having a college degree becomes a more precise signal about low ability, increasing the college wage premium. The model, when calibrated, suggests that about 17 percent of the growth in college premium is produced …

Sworn Siblings In Sanyan Stories, Daowen Chen

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The Missing Central Bank: A Case History Of The United States Of America 1791-1913, Samia Husain

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This paper explores the economic, political, and social motivations for why the United States of America chose not to have a central bank between the years of 1775 and 1913. The paper will explain why in the initial years of the republic there was support for the national bank but over time opinions drastically changed. In addition, it will explore how even after several financial crises during the 1800s, there was still little desire to have a central bank. The paper will conclude by explaining how the presence of a central bank became essential to the U.S. financial markets in …

Personality Differences In Never-Married Versus Divorced Individuals In Later Life Using The Neo Pi-R, Krystle Disney

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Previous research has shown that personality disorder symptoms are significantly higher in divorced and never-married individuals compared to married individuals. Although personality pathology is elevated in these two groups, specific trait differences between the two are still unclear. In a large representative community sample: N = 1473) of older adults between the ages of 55-64, a multivariate analysis of variance was conducted on the 30 facets of the NEO Personality Inventory-Revised using data from divorced, never-married, and married participants. Significant differences between marital groups were found in 15 facets: four Neuroticism, five Extraversion, two Openness, two Agreeableness, and two Conscientiousness). …

Disney And The Classroom: How Children's Perceptions Can Help Inform Teacher Practice, Kimberly Lynn Burken

Honors Program Theses

The purpose of this research was threefold: to examine how race was represented in cartoon Disney movies, to determine if cartoon Disney movies influence racial perceptions in children, and to determine how to effectively address racial perceptions in the classroom.

The Effects Of Hypergravity On Xenopus Embryo Growth And Cardiac Hypertrophy, Bryce Joseph Duchman

Honors Program Theses

All life on earth has developed and evolved in a 1 G environment. Therefore, any deviation below or above unit gravity will likely have an effect on the development of organisms, including the migration of cells and the dispersion of nutrients. The purpose of this research project is to analyze the effects of hypergravity on the overall body length and cardiac growth of Xenopus laevis embryos. I predict that cardiac hypertrophy will occur in embryos subjected to hypergravity because of the increased force required from the heart to adequately circulate blood and, thus, disperse nutrients. Upon reaching early gastrulation, embryos …