cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Golden anniversaries: tourism and the 150th anniversary of the gold rushes in California and Victoria festivals
Creators: name: Frost, Warwick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Anniversary festivals celebrate historical events which occurred an appropriate number of years ago. The choice of the number of years is subjective, though typically multiples of fifty or one hundred years are viewed as worth celebrating. The choices of events worth celebrating are wide-ranging. Common subjects include anniversaries of founding of nations or cities, revolutions, wars, explorations and the births and deaths of famous people. In the literature of festivals and tourist events, anniversary celebrations are given little consideration. They generally only appear as one of the types of festivals, with little analysis and no discussion as to whether they have any special characteristics or difficulties. For example in Michael Hall's coverage of hallmark tourist events he lists five types of events. Under one - 'cultural events' - he presents a sub-category of 'historical milestones'. This is not defined, but instead just represented by three examples: the US Bicentenary (1977), the Australian Bicentenary (1988) and the 500th Anniversary of Columbus (1992). There is no further explanation or discussion of the special characteristics of events in this sub-category (Hall 1992,22). However anniversary festivals do differ from other types of festivals and events. They are especially fraught with difficulties for organisers in two main ways: - through their lack of continuity and the controversy they create.
Loza, José, Génesis. 1-11, col. «Comentarios a la Nueva Biblia de Jerusalén», Desclée de Brouwer, Bilbao, 2005
Creators: name: Correia, João Alberto Sousa
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Persistence, Distance and Silence: Bottom-up Organisational Change Talk
Creators: name: Bryant, Melanie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Located in southeast Australia, the Latrobe Valley has been subjected to rapid, large-scale organisational change subsequent to the privatisation of its electricity supply industry. In this paper, narratives of employee experiences of organisational transformation and the impact on employee career opportunities is discussed. The narratives are drawn from an interview study of 25 people working within the electricity, healthcare, paper manufacturing, education and water industries in the Latrobe Valley. Employees in this study argue that they are not resistant to organisational change per se. However, they suggest that the degree of communication and the overall management of the change process were inadequate. Consequently, employees chose to react to change in two particular ways, with the use of voice to communicate their dissatisfaction, or by withdrawing and/or remaining silent. An emergent theme across the narratives indicates that employees frame their talk of organisational change in relation to voice and silence. Respondents suggest that management, with the removal of decision-making power, career advancement opportunities, and in some cases, pressure to exit the organisation, silenced staff who openly voiced dissatisfaction and actively challenged organisational change. Organisational silence literature indicates that management may attempt to silence employees if they perceive staff will either provide negative feedback or challenge management actions. Employees in this study also argue that management perceived high levels of knowledge and position power amongst staff as a threat to successful organisational change, and thus sought their elimination. In comparison, employees who remained silent throughout the process of change reaped the rewards of career development and promotion prospects. In addition, these employees suggest that staff who challenged management not only jeopardised their futures in the organisation, but made the process of change harder for all staff. As such they argue that employees who remained silent are worthy of career rewards, whereas those who voiced dissatisfaction are not. Within this paper the relationship between silence, voice and career outcomes is further explored.
The impact of cultural differences on an Austrlian firm doing business in China
Creators: name: Chung, Mona
name: Smith, Wendy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the global business environment today, it is inevitable that activities are increasingly across cultures. As a major emerging market, China offers many MNCs great potential in their future growth. This paper explores issues in cross-cultural management area in the setting of joint ventures in China. It investigates expatriates' cross-cultural abilities in adjusting to working and living in China and its impact on their performance. It further discusses the management style appropriateness and cultural differences in leadership styles and the impact of these issues on effective management in China for Western MNCs. Using the method of a case study, this paper provides some insights from the point of view of the local Chinese staff working in Australia-China joint ventures. This is valuable for senior management since cross-cultural perspective is needed to be balanced rather than narrowly viewed. It is argued that the qualitative method is most appropriate since the cross-cultural studies are complex and cases are generally large. Therefore, the qualitative method, in this paper a case study is considered most appropriate.
Action research in management - ethical considerations
Creators: name: Walker, Beverly
name: Haslett, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper discusses the application of the guiding ethical principles for the conduct of research involving human subjects in an action research project in a membership based community psychiatric disability organisation. Action research is a collaborative process of critical inquiry between the researcher and the people in the situation, in this case the management executive. The ethical issues related to manager participants as participant-researchers, participant selection, consent, anonymity and confidentiality, and the process of conflict resolution in action research are identified and strategies implemented to address them are discussed.
Martínez, Julio L., Ciudadanía, migraciones y religión. Un diálogo ético desde la fe cristiana, col. «Teología Comillas» 3, San Pablo, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, 2007
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
A Case For Happiness, Cardinalism and Interpersonal Comparability
Creators: name: Ng, Yew-Kwang
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Despite economists' preference for the more objective concepts like preference, more emphasis should be given to the more subjective concepts like happiness, as happiness is our ultimate objective and as more money does not buy more happiness much, despite the rate race for material growth due to relative-income effects. Confinement to the more objective concepts, especially reinforced by economists' self denial of cardinal utility and interpersonal comparison, makes economics less relevant and even misleading. Utility is cardinally measurable and interpersonally comparable if appropriate methods are used. However, for many purposes, the willingness to pay may be used to measure the intensity of preference and used in an interpersonally acceptable sense.
Some factors affecting the coverage of foreign events by 107 American newspapers
Creators: name: Hurrat, Khalid Serhan, 1953-
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1988
Subjects: subject: Foreign news coverage
subject: United States press coverage
subject: American press coverage
subject: International news coverage
subject: Newspaper content analysis
subject: American newspapers
subject: American media output
subject: Factors influencing press coverage
subject: Foreign news--Press coverage--United States
subject: American newspapers

description: The purpose of this study was to perform a content analysis of the patterns of international news coverage as reflected in 107 American newspapers. The study was based on the assumption that there are several environmental, institutional, cultural, and ideological factors that jointly or separately influence the daily output of the media. Nine hypotheses were tested by analyzing the coverage of 150 selected international events for seven days from the month of November 1984. Univariate and multivariate statistics were used to test the hypotheses. Five out of the nine hypotheses were supported by the findings of the study. The hypothesis that there was a relationship between the circulation size of a newspaper and the coverage of foreign events by that newspaper was supported by both correlational and t-test analyses. The hypothesis that there was a positive relationship between the number of news services for a newspaper and the coverage of foreign events by that newspaper was also supported by the analyses of correlation, multiple regression and the t-test. The hypothesis that there was an important association between the involvement of the United States in a foreign event and the coverage of that event by American newspapers was supported by the findings, too. The hypothesis that factors of population size, GNP size, economic affinities, and U.S.-involvement in events are the best predictors of coverage was partially supported by multiple regression analysis; variables of population size, GNP size, and economic affinities appeared to be insignificant in explaining the variance of foreign events coverage by U.S. newspapers. The number of news services and the involvement of the United States in an event proved to be the best predictors of coverage. The hypothesis that news categories of accidents and disasters, war and violence, crime and vice, and foreign relations are more likely to be covered than other event categories was partially supported. Four of the hypotheses, which were about the relationship between coverage of foreign events and the independent variables of press freedom, GNP, population, economic affinities, and geographical proximity were not supported
García López, Félix, Éxodo, col. «Comentarios a la Nueva Biblia de Jerusalén», Desclée de Brouwer, Bilbao, 2007
Creators: name: Correia, João Alberto Sousa
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
The Significance of Age and Duration of Effect in Social Evaluation of Health Care
Creators: name: Nord, Erik
name: Street, Andrew
name: Richardson, Jeff
name: Kuhse, Helga
name: Singer, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: To give priority to the young over the elderly has been labelled `ageism'. People who express "ageist" preferences may feel that, all else equal, an individual has a greater right to enjoy additional life years the fewer life years he or she has already had. We shall refer to this as egalitarian ageism. They may also emphasise the greater expected duration of health benefits in young people that derives from their greater life expectancy. We may call this utilitarian ageism. Both these forms of ageism were observed in an empirical study of social preferences in Australia. The study lends some support to the assumptions in the QALY approach that duration of benefits, and hence also age, should count in prioritising at the budget level in health care.
Local rules: some propositions for their establishment and continuation
Creators: name: Haslett, Tim
name: Osborne, Charles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper is based findings from field research that identified local rules in two organizations. It develops these findings into a set of propositions that may explain the processes by which local rules survive or become extinct. The central metaphor for this argument is the fitness landscape developed by Stuart Kaufrman and John Holland. This metaphor provides a useful distinction between those who set dimensions of landscapes and those who act on those landscapes through the use of local rules. It is proposed that local rules have domains of action on fitness landscapes and that there is a set of conditions for establishment and continuation based on the interactions across the domain boundaries. It is further proposed that there are conditions, characterised by co-adaptation, under which rules will survive in relatively stable forms and other conditions, characterised by competition, under which local rules change.
Rocha, Afonso, O Mal no Pensamento de Sampaio (Bruno). Uma Filosofia da Razão e do Mistério, 2 vols, col. «Temas portugueses», Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, Lisboa, 2006
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
The effects of mindfulness app use to decrease nurse practitioner’s burnout: a quality improvement project
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Sonia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2021

description: Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement the use of a mindfulness practice app into nurse practitioners’ everyday routine to assess if nurse practitioner burnout decreases or is prevented by using the Mindfulness app compared to nurse practitioners who do not use the Mindfulness app. Methodology: The daily goal of mindfulness practice for this project was 4 to 6 minutes per day every day during the 5-day introductory program Get Started. The main clinical question of this project was: Can a mindfulness app decrease or prevent nurse practitioner burnout? The primary goal of this quality improvement project was to introduce a mindfulness app to nurse practitioners to determine if there was a reduction in their burnout after using the app. The project was flexible and available (online and offline) to accommodate nurse practitioners’ busy schedules and stressful work environments. Results: The project goals evaluation was performed with a pre and post assessment tool, the OLBI questionnaire. A two-tailed paired t test was performed and determined that the results were statistically significant. The pre_score was statistically significant than the post_score (t(35) = 3.32, p = .002). Implications for Practice: Clinical Practice: Mindfulness practice introduction to nurse practitioners assisting them to develop and establish new healthy habits. Economic: Mindfulness app is free and leads to reduction and prevention of burnout. Healthcare quality and safety: Mindfulness app reduces nurse practitioners’ burnout and therefore further research is needed to establish a correlation on burnout, quality of care provided and client safety. Policy implication and practice change: Mindfulness app can be easily integrated into the nurse practitioner’s daily routine as well as be part of the new organizational strategies to mitigate burnout.
Additional file 1 of Reconsidering N component of cancer staging for T1-2N0-2M0 small-cell lung cancer: a retrospective study based on multicenter cohort
Creators: name: Wu, Lei-Lei
name: Qiu, Li-Hong
name: Chen, Xiaolu
name: Yu, Wan-Jun
name: Li, Chong-Wu
name: Qian, Jia-Yi
name: Liang, Shen-Hua
name: Lin, Peng
name: Long, Hao
name: Zhang, Lan-Jun
name: Li, Zhi-Xin
name: Li, Kun
name: Jiang, Feng
name: Ma, Guo-Wei
name: Xie, Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1: The X-tile software determined the optimal cutoff point of ELNs. ELNs: examined lymph nodes
Vidal, Marciano, Orientaciones éticas para tiempos inciertos. Entre la Escila del relativismo y la Caribdis del fundamentalismo, col. «Biblioteca Manual Desclée» 53, Desclée de Brouwer, Bilbao, 2006
Creators: name: Pereira, Dias
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Will More Doctors Increase or Decrease Death Rates? : An econometric analysis of Australian mortality statistics
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
name: Peacock, Stuart
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: There is now documented evidence that adverse events associated with medical interventions have a seriously deleterious affect on population health. However this literature does not indicate whether or not the net affect of an increase in the doctor supply is positive or negative. There are, additionally, other mechanisms by which an increase in the doctor supply could reduce the quality and length of life. This paper revisits two hypotheses concerning doctor induced ill health. Econometric results using Australian cross-sectional data are presented. They are consistent with the hypothesis that an increase in the doctor supply is associated with an increase in mortality.
World Income Distribution and Tax Reform: Do Low-Income Countries Need Direct Tax System?
Creators: name: Pillarisetti, J. Ram
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Tax reform constitutes one of the core areas of recent economic reform programs in the developing countries. Utilizing new tax burden indexes, this paper argues that a flat or zero income tax creates pro-growth initiatives, reduces corruption and the size of informal sectors and generates over all institutional improvements in low income countries. Tax policy should also balance the growth effects from a flat or zero tax with broad-based consumption and innovative ecologically oriented taxes to ensure sustainability.
Encel, Stéphane, Histoire et religions : l’impossible dialogue? Essai d’analyse comparative des grilles de lecture historique et monothéistes, coll. «Questions contemporaines», L’Harmattan, Paris, 2006
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
The employment relationship in Gippsland local government: a concurrent jurisdiction
Creators: name: Pullin, Len
name: Haidar, Ali
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the last two decades there has been considerable change in the nature of public sector employment in Australia and other English speaking commonwealth countries. This paper explores these changes in the context of the senior officer employment relationship in Gippsland local government. Two 'ideal employment relations (ER) types'- the 'diarchic' and 'monocrotic'- are conceptualised based on the scope of superordinate power extant in the relationship. The 'diarchic' type is defined as a system where power over managers is divided between his/her employer and superiors. In contrast, within a monocrotic relationship, the superior controls both the human resource domain and the task domain. The findings show that as a result of the implementation of the Victorian Local Government Act 1989 (VLGA89), the diarchic type senior officer employment relationship in Gippsland local government has been replaced by a monocrotic type relationship. However, although senior officer employment is no longer influenced by externalities such as registration boards etc, an informal internal diarchic employment relationship has developed involving the CEO and the councillors. This diarchic relationship has no basis in statute and can be described as an accommodative reality recognising the interpersonal power relationships in local government.
The SST-1M imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope for gamma-ray astrophysics
Creators: name: Alispach, C.
name: Araudo, A.
name: Balbo, M.
name: Beshley, V.
name: Biland, A.
name: Blažek, J.
name: Borkowski, J.
name: Bulik, T.
name: Cadoux, F.
name: Casanova, S.
name: Christov, A.
name: Chudoba, J.
name: Chytka, L.
name: Dědič, P.
name: della Volpe, D.
name: Favre, Y.
name: Garczarczyk, M.
name: Gibaud, L.
name: Gieras, T.
name: Hamal, P.
name: Heller, M.
name: Hrabovský, M.
name: Janeček, P.
name: Jelínek, M.
name: Jílek, V.
name: Juryšek, J.
name: Karas, V.
name: Lacave, B.
name: Lyard, E.
name: Mach, E.
name: Mandát, D.
name: Marek, W.
name: Michal, S.
name: Michałowski, J.
name: Moderski, R.
name: Montaruli, T.
name: Muraczewski, A.
name: Muthyala, S.
name: Müller, A. L.
name: Nagai, A.
name: Nalewajski, K.
name: Neise, D.
name: Niemiec, J.
name: Nikołajuk, M.
name: Novotný, V.
name: Ostrowski, M.
name: Palatka, M.
name: Pech, M.
name: Prouza, M.
name: Rajda, P.
name: Schovanek, P.
name: Seweryn, K.
name: Sliusar, V.
name: Stawarz, Ł.
name: Sternberger, R.
name: Stodulska, M.
name: Świerblewski, J.
name: Świerk, P.
name: Štrobl, J.
name: Tavernier, T.
name: Trávníček, P.
name: Pujadas, I. Troyano
name: Vícha, J.
name: Walter, R.
name: Zietara, K.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The SST-1M is a Small-Sized Telescope (SST) designed to provide a cost-effective and high-performance solution for gamma-ray astrophysics, particularly for energies beyond a few TeV. The goal is to integrate this telescope into an array of similar instruments, leveraging its lightweight design, earthquake resistance, and established Davies-Cotton configuration. Additionally, its optical system is designed to function without a protective dome, allowing it to withstand the harsh atmospheric conditions typical of mountain environments above 2000 m. The SST-1M utilizes a fully digitizing camera system based on silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). This camera is capable of digitizing all signals from the UV-optical light detectors, allowing for the implementation of various triggers and data analysis methods. We detail the process of designing, prototyping, and validating this system, ensuring that it meets the stringent requirements for gamma-ray detection and performance. An SST-1M stereo system is currently operational and collecting data at the Ondřejov observatory in the Czech Republic, situated at 500 m. Preliminary results from this system are promising. A forthcoming paper will provide a comprehensive analysis of the performance of the telescopes in detecting gamma rays and operating under real-world conditions.
Preclinical assessment of clinically streamlined, 3D‐printed, biocompatible single‐ and two‐stage tissue scaffolds for ear reconstruction
Creators: name: Brennan, Julia R.
name: Cornett, Ashley
name: Chang, Brian
name: Crotts, Sarah J.
name: Nourmohammadi, Zahra
name: Lombaert, Isabelle
name: Hollister, Scott J.
name: Zopf, David A.
Publisher: name: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: nonlinear finite element analysis
subject: 3D‐printing
subject: auricular reconstruction
subject: bioscaffolds
subject: Materials Science and Engineering
subject: Biomedical Engineering
subject: FOS: Medical engineering
subject: Health Sciences

description: Auricular reconstruction is a technically demanding procedure requiring significant surgical expertise, as the current gold standard involves hand carving of the costal cartilage into an auricular framework and re‐implantation of the tissue. 3D‐printing presents a powerful tool that can reduce technical demands associated with the procedure. Our group compared clinical, radiological, histological, and biomechanical outcomes in single‐ and two‐stage 3D‐printed auricular tissue scaffolds in an athymic rodent model. Briefly, an external anatomic envelope of a human auricle was created using DICOM computed tomography (CT) images and modified in design to create a two‐stage, lock‐in‐key base and elevating platform. Single‐ and two‐stage scaffolds were 3D‐printed by laser sintering poly‐L‐caprolactone (PCL) then implanted subcutaneously in five athymic rats each. Rats were monitored for ulcer formation, site infection, and scaffold distortion weekly, and scaffolds were explanted at 8 weeks with analysis using microCT and histologic staining. Nonlinear finite element analysis was performed to determine areas of high strain in relation to ulcer formation. Scaffolds demonstrated precise anatomic appearance and maintenance of integrity of both anterior and posterior auricular surfaces and scaffold projection, with no statistically significant differences in complications noted between the single‐ and two‐staged implantation. While minor superficial ulcers occurred most commonly at the lateral and superior helix coincident with finite element predictions of high skin strains, evidence of robust tissue ingrowth and angiogenesis was visible grossly and histologically. This promising preclinical small animal model supports future initiatives for making clinically viable options for an ear tissue scaffold.
Sanz Giménez-Rico, Enrique, Profetas de misericordia. Transmisores de una palabra, col. «Teología Comillas» 2, San Pablo, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, 2007
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Gesellschaft, Behinderung und Stigmatisierung. Stigmatisierungsprozesse bei Menschen mit einer Behinderung und konkrete Ansätze zur Entstigmatisierung und Inklusion im Regelschul- oder heilpädagogischen Unterricht
Creators: name: van Koppenhagen, Selina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Behinderung
Stigmatisierung
Inklusion
Masterarbeit

description: Die Idee, einen differenzierten, inklusiven Unterricht zu gestalten, um die soziale Integration von Menschen mit einer Behinderung zu begünstigen und den Lernerfolg von heterogenen Schulklassen zu verbessern, ist keineswegs neu. Die Umsetzung in der schulischen Praxis gestaltet sich jedoch immer noch schwierig (vgl. Corno, 2008 in Wember & Melle, 2018, S. 58).
 „[…] Jeder Mensch hat das Recht auf eine Bildung, die gleiche und gerechte Chancen eröffnet. Dagegen schafft Exklusion Vorbedingungen für eine Verletzung nicht nur der Menschenrechte, sondern auch der demokratischen und friedlichen Grundlagen des menschlichen Zusammenlebens. Die UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention […] unterstützen die Inklusion deshalb in einem umfassenden Sinne, um Diskriminierungen in jeder Form […] zu überwinden“ (Reich, 2016, S. 6).
 Dies gilt auch für das Schweizer Schulsystem, welches Inklusion grundsätzlich befürwortet und integrative Lösungen einem separativen Schulsystem theoretisch bevorzugt („Integration und Inklusion“, o. J.). Doch auch wenn die gesetzlichen Weichen gestellt sind: In der Praxis wird vor allem die Inklusion von Schüler:innen mit einer Behinderung von vielen Lehrpersonen als besonders schwierige und herausfordernde Aufgabe erlebt (vgl. Bender, Drolshagen, Rose, Leišytė & Rothenberg, 2018, S. 218). Die Problematik von Stigmatisierungs- und Etikettierungsprozessen spielt hierbei eine folgenschwere Rolle. Einerseits vereinfachen Stigmen komplexe Situationen, entlasten von Reflexion oder sichern Handlungsroutinen. Andererseits können die meist eindeutigen Grenzziehungen abwerten, aussondern und daher gezielte Personengruppen – wie bspw. Menschen mit einer Behinderung – diskriminieren. Inklusion verspricht hierbei, dass es „normal“ werden soll, verschieden zu sein. Dies bringt Hoffnung, dass durch eine gelingende Inklusion, differenzierten Unterricht und den Einsatz von geeigneten didaktischen Lehrmitteln, langfristige Prozesse der Entstigmatisierung entstehen könnten. Diese Arbeit untersucht diese Prozesse in Bezug auf das Schweizer Schulsystem, dafür bereits bestehende didaktische Materialien auf ihren Inhalt, sowie ihre Eignung als entstigmatisierende Instrumente für den heilpädagogischen Unterricht.
Scale efficiency in the New Zealand dairy industry: a non-parametric approach
Creators: name: Jaforullah, Mohammad
name: Whiteman, John L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The objective of this paper is to measure the scale efficiency of the New Zealand dairy industry and to examine the relationship between farm size and efficiency. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to a sample of 264 dairy farms. The results suggest that 19 per cent of these farms are operating at optimal scale, 28 per cent at above optimal scale, and 53 per cent at below optimal scale. On average the optimal size for New Zealand dairy farms is estimated at 83 hectares with a herd of 260 animals. Average technical efficiency is estimated at 89 per cent.
Social Pensions, Migration and Household Composition: Evidence from South Africa
Creators: name: Inder, Brett A.
name: Maitra, Pushkar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Universal availability of social pension is a recent development in South Africa. This paper examines the impact of the aged pension on household size and composition, and on working-age adult migration decisions. Estimation results show that receipt of the aged pension increases household dissolution: on average, a household with more pension recipients will also have more working-age adults migrating away from the household in search of employment. The economic theory in the paper suggests that receipt of the pension gives households a higher income, making them less risk averse, thus making the risky option of migration more attractive.
Guichet, Jean-Luc, Rousseau, l’animal et l’homme. L’animalité dans l’horizon anthropologique des Lumières, col. «La nuit surveillée», Les Éditions Du Cerf, Paris, 2006
Creators: name: Fernandes, A. Oliveira
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
A Cusp Catastrophe Analysis of Anxiety Levels in Pre-University Students
Creators: name: Haslett, Tim
name: Smyrnios, Kosmas X.
name: Osborne, Charles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study analysed non-linear or discontinuous change using a catastrophe shift model on data collected on the anxiety levels of school leavers immediately before and immediately after they received offers of university places. It was proposed that students' anxiety levels were likely to be subject to rapid change from prearrival of university offers to postarrival offers. This is described, in catastrophe shift terms, as discontinuous or non-linear change and can be indicative of a change in state rather than a linear change in degree. Findings revealed significant differences in anxiety levels from prearrival offers to postarrival offers for preference groups l, 2, and 3, and bi-modality using ANOVA. However, analysis using cubic regression indicated that only preference groups 1 and 2 demonstrated significant non-linear change. These findings suggest that the use of cubic regression analysis to identify non-linear change might reveal more complex changes than that indicated by the use of ANOVA alone.
Business Failures and Economy-wide Factors in Australia 1973-1995: An Empirical Analysis
Creators: name: Wickramanayake, Jayasinghe
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper presents an empirical analysis of business failures, bank advances/gross domestic product (GDP) ratio, unemployment, price level and stock market index in Australia using annual data for the period 1973-1995. After testing the relevant variables for unit roots, the absence of cointegration among them forced the investigation to be conducted using the general-to-specific modelling approach within the framework of an autoregressive distributed lag (ADL) model. Econometric results generated in this study show that the number of business failures has a tendency to increase with high bank advances/GDP ratio (excessive debt), level of unemployment and price level while the stock market index is negatively related to the number of business failures.
Empirical Ethics: Or the Poverty of Ethical Analyses in Economics and the Unwarranted Disregard of Evidence in Ethics
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Normative conclusions in economics are usually based upon a set of assumptions which are untenable in the health sector. Persistence with these assumptions highlights a more fundamental problem: the epistemology of normative economics - the methodology for drawing conclusions with respect to the improvement of social wellbeing - is itself flawed. Orthodox economics does not include a process for selecting relevant ethical assumptions or context specific ethical theories. Likewise, however, ethics as a discipline is flawed as judged by this same criterion, ie the ability to provide an ethical basis for economic and other analyses which reflects defensible social values. Implicit criteria of universality and immunity from criticism, no matter how contrived the context, leaves ethical principles in an epistemological never-never land: never to be accepted because of empirical evidence about social values and never demonstrable from logical argument alone. It is suggested below that empiricism and ethical theory should be combined in a process described here as 'Empirical Ethics'. The endpoint of the suggested process would be, as in the physical sciences, the best currently available theory or hypothesis. The procedure cannot produce certainty and it is itself an epistemological theory which cannot be conclusively 'proved' by logic or empiricism. It is argued that, like old age, it is nevertheless the best of the available options.
Rousse-Lacordaire, Jérôme, Ésotérisme et christianisme. Histoire et enjeux théologiques d’une expatriation, coll. «Cogitatio fidei», Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2007
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Triangulation in post-positivist research: a review
Creators: name: Cox, Julie Wolfram
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The metaphor and method of triangulation are discussed in terms of both positivist measurement of distance and reflexive post-positivist/postmodemist stance. Post-positivist possibilities for triangulation include following nomothetic lines, taking an ideographic overview, and finding an angle. Impossibilities and implications for "data capture, "perspective, and "enclosure" are raised.
Léonard, Mgr André, Métaphysique de l’être. Essai de philosophie fondamentale, coll. «La nuit surveillée», Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2006
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
Loureiro, Armindo S., Pontos de interrogação e reticências. Sobre a revelação de Deus aos homens, Ed. do Autor, Benedita, 2005
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
Additional file 2 of Reconsidering N component of cancer staging for T1-2N0-2M0 small-cell lung cancer: a retrospective study based on multicenter cohort
Creators: name: Wu, Lei-Lei
name: Qiu, Li-Hong
name: Chen, Xiaolu
name: Yu, Wan-Jun
name: Li, Chong-Wu
name: Qian, Jia-Yi
name: Liang, Shen-Hua
name: Lin, Peng
name: Long, Hao
name: Zhang, Lan-Jun
name: Li, Zhi-Xin
name: Li, Kun
name: Jiang, Feng
name: Ma, Guo-Wei
name: Xie, Dong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 2: The X-tile software determined the optimal cutoff point of LNR. LNR: lymph node ratio
Fitzgerald, Allan D. (dir.); Vannier, Marie-Anne (dir. éd. française); Lancel Serge (Préface), Encyclopédie Saint Augustin. La Méditerranée et l’Europe IVe–XXIe Siècle, Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2005
Creators: name: Sousa, Pio G. Alves De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
Mori, Geraldo Luiz De, Le temps: énigme des hommes, mystère de Dieu, Préface de Christoph Theobald, col. «Cogitatio Fidei», Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2006
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
Muanamosi, Matumona, Cristianismo e mutações sociais. Elementos para uma Teologia Africana da Reconstrução, Ed. SEDIPU, Uíje (Angola), 2005
Creators: name: Sepúlveda, A.
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2006

description: Theologica, v. 41 n. 2 (2006): Diálogo inter-religioso
Bandwidth Selection for Multivariate Kernel Density Estimation Using Mcmc
Creators: name: Zhang, Xibin
name: King, Maxwell L.
name: Hyndman, Rob J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Paper not available. Full text of working paper suppressed by author. We provide Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for computing the bandwidth matrix for multivariate kernel density estimation. Our approach is based on treating the elements of the bandwidth matrix as parameters to be estimated, which we do by optimizing the likelihood cross-validation criterion. Numerical results show that the resulting bandwidths are superior to all existing methods; for dimensions greater than two, our algorithm is the first practical method for estimating the optimal bandwidth matrix. Moreover, the MCMC algorithm for bandwidth selection for multivariate data has no increased difficulty as the dimension of data increases.
Factors Associated With Choice in Health Insurance Decisions
Creators: name: Burrows, Colin
name: Brown, Kaye
name: Gruskin, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Following an earlier exploratory survey of health insurance choice and decision-making, and an extensive literature review, a survey was carried out using as a population the employees of two large organisations. The objectives were (a) to extend the earlier survey in content and to a larger population; and (b) to gather information on reasons for choice and information sought and used in making decisions. The decision to insure and level of cover chosen were related to expected characteristics such as age, income and marital status together with history of medical expenses. History of hospital costs played a lesser role in choice of level of cover. Neither dependents nor health status nor expectations of costs appeared to be important and, although the proportion of insured was high, the population and their families were very healthy. In general, information sought and used was meagre and there is considerable support for concluding that decisions are not based on considered analysis of risks, costs and available options. Rather it would appear that decisions are related to general notions of risk aversion, the influence of media coverage of health care matters and aggressive advertising by the health funds. For those who did not insure, ideological factors - private enterprise medicine and rights to health care - were important.
An Equilibrium Model of Hierarchy
Creators: name: Yang, Xiaokai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper presents a general equilibrium model which formalizes the tradeoff between economies of specialization in producing goods and transaction costs and the tradeoff between economies of specialization in producing transaction services and transaction costs in delivering such services. The comparative statics of the equilibrium, based on comer solutions, indicate that the equilibrium will shift between several market structures as parameters have reached some critical values. As the transaction cost coefficient of transaction services falls and/or as the degree of economies of specialization increases, the level of division of labor in producing goods and transaction services and the number of layers of a hierarchical structure of division of labor and transactions will increase. A small number of layers of the hierarchy emerges from the division of labor with partially specialized production of goods and transaction services. A larger number of layers of the hierarchy emerges from a higher level of division of labor between wholesale and retail middlemen and between specialist producers of goods.
Effective global regularity and empirical modeling of direct, inverse and mixed demand systems
Creators: name: McLaren, Keith R.
name: Wong, K.K. Gary
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper, we utilize the notion of "effective global regularity" and the intuition stemming from Cooper and McLaren (1996)'s General Exponential Form to develop a family of "composite" (product and ratio) direct, inverse and mixed demand systems. Apart from having larger regularity regions, the resulting specifications are also of potentially arbitrary rank, which can better approximate non-linear Engel curves. We also make extensive use of duality theory and a numerical inversion estimation method to rectify the endogeneity problem encountered in the estimation of the mixed demand systems. We illustrate the techniques by estimating different types of demand systems for Japanese quarterly meat and fish consumption. Results generally indicate that the proposed methods are promising, and may prove beneficial for modeling systems of direct, inverse and mixed demand functions in the future.
Additional file 1: of Establishment and molecular characterization of a human ovarian clear cell carcinoma cell line (FDOV1)
Creators: name: Jiang, Wei
name: Ye, Shuang
name: Xiang, Libing
name: Yang, Wentao
name: He, Tiancong
name: Pei, Xuan
name: Guo, Lin
name: Yang, Huijuan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. The primer of Sanger sequence for specific genes mutation in FDOV1. (DOCX 15 kb)
Work-family balance among dual-career parents: defining the desirable
Creators: name: McLean, Jill
name: Lindorff, Margaret
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The meaning of work-family balance was explored with twenty parents from dual-career families using semi-structured interviews. The findings suggest that, for such individuals, work-family balance may be defined as a state in which a range of needs are met by allocating time to both work and family roles according to a combination of individual priorities and the demands of work and family. However, these individual priorities are affected by gender. The absence of work-family conflict appears to be a common, but not an essential, characteristic of work-family balance. Thus work-family balance can be viewed as a matrix that comprises a work-family conflict/no conflict continuum and a work-family balance/imbalance continuum.
Economic Evaluation of Dental Sealant and Fluoride Mouthrinsing Program in Two Non-Fluoridated Regions of Victoria
Creators: name: Crowley, Steven
name: Morgan, Mike
name: Wright, Clive
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Purpose: This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of a 3 year school-based dental sealant and fluoride mouthrinsing (DS and FMR) program in 2 non-fluoridated regions in Victoria, Australia. Methods: The primary analysis was based on a community intervention in 5 schools comparing an intervention group receiving the DS and a weekly FMR, and a non-intervention group. The study measured mean differences in DMFS increments between study groups. Results: The mean discounted DMFS gain between study groups was 1.22 DMFS over 3 years. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio between intervention to control groups varied between a net saving of $7.00 to a cost of $35.60 per DMFS gained. The results were sensitive to assumptions on program effectiveness, dental examination rates, and baseline DMFS of students. The program became more cost-effective with each successive year. Extrapolation of results of the 3-year intervention to the wider non-fluoridated community over a 10 year time frame resulted in a benefit- to-cost ratio above unity, regardless of assumptions used for either program cost or effectiveness. Conclusions: The introduction of such a preventive program in non-fluoridated regions of Victoria will represent an efficient use of community resources. Policy issues that need consideration are whether to target adolescents with a history of high dental disease experience, and whether dentists or auxiliaries are to be used. There is a need for a systematic evaluation (including an economic evaluation component) of dental prevention and treatment programs in Victoria.
Diffusion and Adoption of Thematic Interpretation at an Interpretive Historic Site
Creators: name: Ham, Sam H.
name: Weiler, Betty
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Thematic interpretation has become a standard approach in both natural and cultural heritage interpretation programs, and institutions across the world have begun the process of training their staff in the thematic approach. Depending on many factors, successful transition to this new way of thinking can be fast or slow, smooth or difficult. Using the recent experience of Sovereign Hill (a well-known outdoor museum in Victoria, Australia) as a case study, this paper examines the diffusion and adoption of the thematic interpretive approach in order to explore the extent to which the process, from conception to adoption, is occurring at Sovereign Hill. At an organisational level, Sovereign Hill is seen as possessing an advantageous combination of factors that can facilitate and accelerate the adoption process, along with predictable barriers. Rogers' 'diffusion and adoption model' offers a useful conceptual framework for understanding how organisations like Sovereign Hill gradually embrace this new way of approaching interpretation. Implications for training and institutional adaptation are presented.