cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Scheduling Staff Using Mixed Integer Programming
Creators: name: Beaumont, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper describes the solution of a problem of scheduling a workforce so as to meet demand which varies markedly with the time of day and moderately with the day of week. The main objectives were determining how many staff to emply and the times at which shifts should start. The problem was expressed as a large MIP problem initially presenting computational difficulties. The difficulties vanished when the formulation was modified and when a package allowing use of reduce and (especially) special ordered sets became available. The client commissioned the study primarily to benchmark its existing schedule by comparing it with a theoretical optimum. The optimal schedule and comparison are very sensitive to technical and cost coefficients which are not preciesely known.
Economic Leadership to Regional Industry Collaboration an Example
Creators: name: Pratt, Trevor
name: Sohal, Amrik
name: Schroder, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper represents the investigation and development of a regional economic strategy and industry initiatives to support the interaction of Regional Industry Collaboration. The work is part of the creation of industry support solutions to issues arising from regional industry development research work. The research work funded by Philip Morris was titled "The Moorabbin Project" which has focussed on South East Melbourne. The paper sets out the content and processes, data, issues and concepts used in the modelling undertaken by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research and the development of strategies and initiatives by the presenters. The results of this work collectively in precise provided the economic strategy for the Cities of Kingston and Greater Dandenong in South East Melbourne. The working paper sets out the full background to the work as an example of processes necessary to develop the overall direction for industry activity and the support for that activity from the community. A copy of the Regional Economic Strategy is available under a separate cover.
Bivariate Causality between Exchange Rates and Stock Prices on Major Asian Countries
Creators: name: Lean, Hooi Hooi
name: Halim, Marwan
name: Wong, Wing-Keung
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper studies the cointegration and the bivariate causality relationship between exchange rates and stock prices on the seven Asian countries badly hit by the Asian Financial Crisis. Our empirical results show that, before the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, all countries, except the Philippines and Malaysia, experience no evidence of Granger causality between the exchange rates and the stock prices. However, the causality but not the cointegration between the capital and financial markets appear to become strong during the Asian Financial Crisis period. Surprisingly, after the 911-terrorist-attack, the causality relationship between the two markets returns to normal as in the pre-Asian-crisis period and the cointegration relationship weakens between exchange rates and stock prices. Thus, we conclude that (1) Asian Financial Crisis has a bigger and more direct impact on the causality relationship between stock prices and currency exchanges in Asian markets and the 911-terrorist-attack basically has no impact on the causality relationship between the two markets; and (2) the financial and capital markets have become more mature and efficient after the crisis.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Sustainability of Groundwater Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems
Creators: name: Olin, Manuel
name: Olin, Manuel
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: THE SUSTAINABILITY OF a groundwater-based farmer-managed irrigation system (GW FMIS) cannot be guaranteed, but if the necessary conditions are not provided its demise is assured. A groundwater-based water users association (GW WUA) will be unsustainable if it cannot raise sufficient funds and manage its money, if it cannot obtain quality maintenance and repair (M&R) services on site, if the necessary spares are not available, if the tubewell (1W) suffers frequent breakdowns in mid-season, or if the energy supply is unreliable. Subsidized financing of M&R by the government is in the long run detrimental to the WUA as they are unsustainable. Eventually government priorities change. Provision of these services by the government prevents the spread of expertise and the development of a market for M&R services. Thus there is no backup source when the government ceases to provide them. This paper describes the concept of sustainability, the approach for achieving it and the conditions necessary. Application of this approach is being tested in the Bhairawa-Lumbini area of Nepal.
Assessing dependence changes in the Asian financial market returns using plots based on nonparametric measures
Creators: name: Silvapulle, Param
name: Zhang, Xibin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper investigates whether or not there are significant changes in the dependence between the Thai equity market and six Asian markets - namely, Singaporean, Malaysian, Hong Kong, Korean, Indonesian and Taiwanese markets - due to 1997-July financial crisis. If so, this may be an indication that the underlying bivariate joint distributions capturing the dependence between the Thai market and these six markets have changed. We employ the chi-plot proposed by Fisher and Switzer (2001) and the Kendall plot proposed by Genest and Boies (2003) to examine the dependence in these six markets for the pre- and post-1997 financial crisis periods. We find that marginal distributions of all seven markets have notably changed due to this financial crisis, and that the functional forms of the underlying joint distributions generating the dependence in the Korean, Indonesian and Taiwan markets have also changed for the post-crisis period. It appears that the same parametric copula can capture the dependence in the Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong markets for both pre- and post-crisis periods, and that only the tail indices of bivariate distributions between the Thai and these three markets have changed. It is interesting to observe that the same conclusions can be drawn using both chi- and Kendall plots.
Health production and the socioeconomic determinants of health in OECD countries: the use of efficiency models
Creators: name: Spinks, Jean
name: Hollingsworth, Bruce
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It has been proposed that cross-country comparisons of the technical efficiency of health production, estimated using data envelopment analysis (DEA), have useful applications for policy makers. In theory such an analysis utilises measures of the socioeconomic determinants of health relevant to all social policy, not just health policy. Using OECD and WHO data, this paper critically analyses a number of outstanding theoretical questions regarding the use of DEA in this setting. It concludes that until such questions are addressed, the resultant implications for policy will be based on misleading information.
Additional file 9 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Figure S5. Mismatch distribution graphs for Siem Pang population. The X and Y-axis show the number of pairwise differences and the frequency of the pairwise comparisons, respectively. The observed frequencies are represented by a dotted line. The frequency expected under the hypothesis of the constant population model is depicted by a solid line. (a) all populations-COII; (b) Siem Pang population-COII.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Utilization of Groundwater Resources in North-Western Sri Lanka: Some Issues Pertaining to Sustainable Development
Creators: name: Abhayaratna, M.D.C.
name: Abhayaratna, M.D.C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: DURING THE LAST few years there has been an increasing emphasis on the development of the groundwater resources in the intermediate and dry zones of Sri Lanka. Construction of shallow dugwells are subsidized by two implementing agencies of the government through the Agrowells Program to promote year-round cropping. Nevertheless, the Program has not proceeded by proper hydrological surveys. At the very inception the Program suffered a number of setbacks specially with reference to group wells. On the whole the subsidy covers only a fraction of the cost of constructing a well and poorer farmers are automatically excluded from the Program as they have no means of meeting the balance expenditure. Over-estimation of the potential of the agrowells, exposure of the farmers to the Program without proper training in the methods of irrigation and pump maintenance, inadequate attention given to agronomic aspects of groundwater utilization, negligence of the institution building for the post-construction phase and the failure to mobilize active farmer participation are major constraints to the sustainable development of the ground­water resources. It is imperative that the strategies followed at present should change toward achieving sustainability for the future.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Minor Irrigation Development: A Key for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Ghani, M.A.
name: Rana, S.A.
name: Ghani, M.A.
name: Rana, S.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: IN BANGLADESH, Ol'fIMUM use of water resources and especially irrigation water should be an important strategy for increasing and sustaining increased agricultural production. Minor irriga­tion covered about 93 percent of total irrigated area in Bangladesh during the years 1989/1990 and according to government projections, would cover about 90 percent by the end of the Fourth Five-Year Plan, 1994/1995 (Ghani and Rana 199 I). About 58 percent of total irrigated area during 1989/1990 was and 63 percent of the irrigated area in 1994/1995 will be covered by groundwater. Minor irrigation systems are almost entirely managed by the farmers/beneficiaries. Public intervention is only at the time of developing irrigation facilities (renting of low-lift pumps and installation of deep tube wells). Therefore, about 90 percent of the irrigation systems wiII continue to be farmer-managed irrigation systems in Bangladesh. But these facilities are operating at about 50 percent of their rated capacities. Improvement in the management and utilization levels of minor irrigation systems in the country, therefore, can cause significant improvements in overall irrigation performance. Studies in the Ganges-Kobadak (G-K), North Bangladesh Tubewell Project (NBTP), Kahalu area of Bogra and Rajshahi areas during 1989 and 1990 dry seasons indicate that water use values for rice cultivation are 0.32, 0.18, 0.96 and 0.39 hectare per liter per second (ha/lps) (or 3.13, 5.56, 1.04 and 2.56 lps/ha), respectively. Productivity of water are 3.6, 3.8 and 5.5 kilograms per hectare-millimeter (kg/ha-mm) for G-K, NBTP and Rajshahi areas, respectively. In G-K and NBTP, irrigation systems are operated and maintained by government agencies, whereas, in Bogra and Rajshahi study areas operation and maintenance are done by the farmers. From the water use and productivity figures it can be concluded that farmer-managed systems are performing better. However, it has been observed that even these systems fall short of the desired levels. Performance of minor irrigation systems can be improved by adopting water management strategies such as improvements in reliability of water supply, provision of improved operation and maintenance, fixation of irrigation targets per unit of irrigation delivery and diversified cropping plans. These practices could lead to the accrual of additional benefits from the irrigation facilities.
Priority Setting in the Public Health Service: Results of an Australian Survey
Creators: name: Olsen, Jan Abel
name: Richardson, Jeff
name: Mortimer, Duncan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This report provides technical details about an Australian population survey and also preliminary results, it does not attempt to introduce nor discuss the significance of these results. The survey elicited information relevant to the following five issues: (i) Public willingness to pay the full cost of Medicare and to increase health expenditures. (ii) The criterion for the 'value of a service' which should be adopted vis health or willingness to pay. (iii) The importance of medical urgency (the rule of rescue) versus health maximisation. (iv) Health gain verses equity. (v) The inclusion of production gains (indirect benefits) in economic evaluation.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Sustainability of Water Users Associations as Groundwater Irrigation Managers: A Case Study under On-Farm Water Management, Punjab, Pakistan
Creators: name: Gill, Muhstaq
name: Gill, Muhstaq
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: THE PAPER DISCUSSES the water users associations; their organization and operation after the reconstruction/remodeling of small-scale community irrigation schemes (watercourses), with special reference to their sustainability as groundwater irrigation managers. Watercourses carry­ing canal and groundwater (tubewell water) renovated under three different categories, i.e., managed by water users associations, a government organization and a tubewell owned by a single farmer have been discussed and compared.
Evaluation of Travis County Investments in Workforce Development: 2021 Update
Creators: name: Juniper, Cynthia
name: Patnaik, Ashweeta
name: Prince, Heath
Publisher: name: Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources
Year: 2022
Subjects: Workforce Development

description: The purpose of the evaluation is to examine outcomes and impacts for participants in Travis County-funded community-based workforce programs over time and to provide recommendations and support for County and provider staff based on data analysis and best practice research.
Some results on the identification and estimation of vector ARMAX processes
Creators: name: Poskitt, D. S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper addresses the problem of identifying echelon canonical forms for a vector autoregressive moving average model with exogenous variables using finite algorithms. For given values of the Kronecker indices a method for estimating the structural parameters of a model using ordinary least squares calculations is presented. These procedures give rise, rather naturally, to a technique for the determination of the structural indices based on the use of conventional model selection criteria. A detailed analysis of the statistical properties of the estimation and identification procedures is given and some evidence on the practical significance of the results obtained is also provided. Modifications designed to improve the performance of the methods are presented. Some discussion of the practical significance of the results obtained is also provided.
Remembrance of things past? Change, development, and paternalism
Creators: name: Cox, Julie Wolfram
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: As part of a retrospective study of effects of organizational change on interpersonal relations, this paper discusses change talk among Australian employees of an American multinational manufacturing enterprise. Interviewees tended to feel pushed into change, discussing its effects in terms of the difficulties of adolescence and earlier experiences of sudden independence. Over time, what had been a simple and firm us and them division in intergroup relations between management and unions/workers had become more fluid and subtle, and perhaps more mature. Interview data are interpreted and then re-interpreted in terms of theories of team development, nostalgia, and paternalism. It is argued that each interpretation makes differing, but complementary, assumptions about the nature of time. If developmental, progressive assumptions of organizational change are relaxed, further attention can be given to theorizing and researching subtleties in talk of the past.
Asset Demands of Heterogeneous Consumers with Uninsurable Idiosyncratic Risk
Creators: name: Hartley, Peter
name: Jones, Chris
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We examine asset market equilibrium in a dynamic economic model with individual and aggregate uncertainty and where the asset market is incomplete. Modigliani-Miller leverage irrelevance holds, even when consumers face borrowing constraints, because individual firms cannot alter the equilibrium portfolio of securities available to consumers. We show that households demand less risky portfolios as their financial wealth increases because a given asymmetry in asset holdings imparts more variability to income when wealth is high. Finally, we confirm previous results that endogenous rates of time preference, uninsurable idiosyncratic risk and household borrowing constraints produce a very low risk-free real interest rate.
Women and Part-Time Employment: The Waverley Survey
Creators: name: Willis, Judith S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper contributes data about women and part-time employment in Australia. "Part-time" is defined as one or more, but less than thirty-five hours per week. Findings from a survey conducted throughout the City of Waverley, Melbourne (1977) are given against a background of similar data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (1977-1996) and the Women and Employment Survey of Great Britain (1980). Aspects of part-time employment are reported for part-time working women and for women who had no paid work, but "would... like to work part-time now". These aspects include range of hours, pattern and number of hours by school level of youngest child, number of weekdays worked, trade union membership, casual work, travel time to work, work at home, employment benefits (including promotion) and work preferences.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Experience of Community-Managed Tubewells in the Command of a Surface Irrigation Project
Creators: name: Verdhen, T
name: Sinha, R
name: Verma, A
name: Verdhen, T
name: Sinha, R
name: Verma, A
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: THE FARMERS OF an area situated in the tail end of a branch canal offtaking from the lower-middle reaches of the eastern main canal of Gandak Project, which was planned to provide surface irrigation to the western part of North Bihar, took an assertive initiative of rejecting the planned extension of canal irrigation on account of its doubtful benefits and definite damages to their area. Instea\l, they took the positive action of providing themselves with groundwater irrigation. They formed a registered society, named as V aishali Area Small Farmers Association (V ASFA) in 1971 charged with the responsibility of installation, operation and maintenance, and management of tubewells, the number of which grew to 36 during the course of a decade since the inception of VASFA. An experience of about two decades of the functioning ofV ASFA and the performance of the irrigation system provided by it indicate that V ASFA was eminently successful in achieving its purpose and objective. Non-expansion ofVASFA's irrigation membership, the stagnation of the number of tubewells under its management and other developments in the area indicate that the experiment of VASFA in its original form and activities is not replicable for other areas, primarily due to the change in the techno-economic context. However, the basic lessons of VASFA, i.e., adoption of an irrigation strategy appropriate to the agro-hydro-ecological regime of the area, farmers' control and management of irrigation and community initiative and action in the face of inaction or misaction of the government are universally relevant for development of sustainable and productive irrigation in North Bihar and other areas having similar socioeco­nomic and agrohydrological conditions.
Union satisfaction in the Pacific Rim a comparison of union-member relations and satisfaction with unions in Australia and South Korea
Creators: name: Hanley, Glennis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of this paper is to explore whether there are distinguishing characteristics accounting for unionmember relationships and satisfaction with unions in Australia and South Korea. Over the past two decades, some research attention has been directed toward explaining overall, or global union satisfaction. Rather surprisingly however, there has been little systematic research effort expended into identifying discrete determinants of member-union satisfaction. What has emerged from the few extant studies [which employed U.S., Swedish, and South Korean data sets] is that explanations of member-union satisfaction can be distilled into two principal groupings: most importantly, members' satisfaction with the level of union democracy (or what can be described as member-union relationship issues) -and, important but less so, the traditional bread and butter or economic issues. The unionists utilised in this paper have endured dramatic workplace change: economic recessions, restructures, downsizing, whole-sale sell-offs of public utilities, and hostile political environments - all of which have reformed not only their working environments, but also the very fabric of trade unionism in Australia and South Korea. The findings of this paper suggests that despite contextual differences, that there are remarkable similarities between Australian and South Korean unionists in their reported levels of satisfaction with union representation. Indeed, like their U.S. and Swedish counterparts, it appears that a union's somewhat intangible resources of attention, time and patience, or in other words, relationship issues are foremost in accounting for their satisfaction with overall union representation.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Capabilities of Water Users Associations in Managing Groundwater Pump Irrigation: A Case Study from East Java, Indonesia
Creators: name: Pakpahan, Agus
name: Sumaryanto
name: Pakpahan, Agus
name: Sumaryanto
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: MAJOR ISSUES RELATED to the enhancement of benefits from groundwater pump irrigation are resource fixity, size of investment, and costs of transaction associated with effective decisions and operations of Water Users Associations (WUAs), Sustainability of a groundwater pump irrigation system depends to a large extent on the adaptive and innovative capacity of a WUA, This paper outlines the process of adaptation and innovation of WU As in responding to resource fixity. size, and costs of transaction based upon a case study of groundwater pump irrigation systems in East Java, Indonesia. Based upon organization performance such as pump working hours, areal utilization index, and WUA' s savings and revenue, the adaptation and innovation capacity of the WUAs were evaluated and classified, The process of adaptation and innovation is analyzed with reference to crop selection and diversification, water price fixation and pricing procedures, increase of savings, management of external agents and structural changes. On the whole, this research concludes that learning capability of WU As to recognize the problems, and to find and execute alternative solutions is one of the most important factors pertaining to the sustainability of groundwater pump irrigation.
Undertaking international work overseas and at home: why are alumni willing?
Creators: name: Tharenou, Phyllis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: These data gathered from Monash alumni answer six questions about interest in international careers. (1) Are organisations in Australia in which Monash alumni work increasing their international focus and why?: They are, chiefly in order to grow and because of their industries' focus. They also use jobs with international responsibilities managed from Australia strategically, from necessity, and to develop staff. (2) Are there effects on alumni careers e.g. possible expatriation and undertaking jobs with international responsibilities managed from Australia? Yes. A third of alumni have domestic jobs with international work especially when >40 and in late career than early or mid-career, dealing with countries mostly in the Anglo and Far Eastern/Oriental countries, and others could be asked to take up that work. Moreover, alumni could be asked to expatriate especially when 31 to 40 than >40 and in early to mid-career, and to Anglo, Far Eastern/Oriental, and Latin European countries. (3) How willing are alumni to relocate overseas to work or to work in jobs with international responsibilities managed from Australia? Moreover, what do the latter jobs comprise? Alumni are quite willing to undertake domestic international work. They are not very willing to relocate internationally for work, less so to culturally dissimilar countries to Australia, less so when it is a more permanent international career pattern, but more so when 30 or less and in early career. (4) What factors help or hinder an interest in international careers, both as expatriation and as international jobs performed in Australia? Family hinders international work the most, especially partner reluctance and career, children's education, and time away and lost contacts, especially worst if aged 41 to 50, married and with high school children, and in mid-career than late or early career . Expecting personal development through cross-cultural experience and job challenge helps an interest in relocation overseas for work, (5) Are alumni experienced in and confident about dealing with international work? Alumni do not have much international experience but are very confident about living and working in a country with a culture different to their own. (6) What are the human resource policies the organisations of alumni are using for international work and how do they help address factors hindering an interest in it? Few human resource policies are offered for international work. Those least offered are the ones that deal with the reasons alumni are not likely to undertake international work e.g. partner employment and training and assistance with children's education. The policies offered have to do with travel and accommodation, providing strategic information, rewards/financial, and career paths.
Agile innovation: the role of team climate in rapid research and development
Creators: name: Pirola-Merlo, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The impact of team dynamics (as distinct from project management techniques) on speed of R&D project completion was studied in a sample of 35 R&D teams. West's (1990) model of team climate for innovation was measured and analyzed in relation to ratings of project progress over the following nine-month period. Hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) was used to analyse the longitudinal data, and results show that team climate was a significant predictor of project progress. Teams with more positive team climates for innovation progressed significantly faster towards project completion than teams with less positive climates. This result still held after controlling for the initial (pre-survey) estimates of expected project duration, suggesting that project scope (complex, long term vs simpler, short term projects) was not a confound. The results complement previous research that has linked team climate with levels of team innovation. These results support Nonaka’s (1990) argument that when multifunctional teams establish positive team processes and interpersonal dynamics, obstacles can be overcome and projects completed much faster.
The cost-effectiveness of primary prevention for non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus
Creators: name: Segal, Leonie
name: Dalton, Andrew
name: Richardson, Jeff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This report covers one stage of a research program undertaken at the Centre for Health Program Evaluation to develop a health planning model for the achievement of allocative efficiency, (Segal and Richardson 1994). The model applies economic principles, within a disease based framework to establish how the health status of the community can be improved by redistribution of health resources for disease prevention and management (in this case for NIDDM) within current budget allocations . The wider research program is concerned with the optimal distribution of health resources, between stages of disease and between health service delivery settings, and models of care. The health planning framework is being applied to non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), in order to demonstrate issues in the application of the model. Research results will also contribute to the identification of the optimal health service mix for the prevention and management of NIDDM. The research program involves economic analyses of interventions for the prevention and management of NIDDM, across all stages of disease from primary prevention, and early diagnosis to patient management for the prevention of complications.
Reconstructing a slave society: Building the DWI panel, 1760-1914
Creators: name: Galli, Stefania
name: Theodoridis, Dimitrios
name: Rönnbäck, Klas
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for an entire population in the Caribbean over a long time span: the DWI panel. The panel contains over 1.4 million observations spanning 154 years, well over 100 variables, and its records are linked across sources along demographic and geographic lines throughout the entire period. This richness is all the more valuable in light of the limited source availability characteristics of the area and is hoped to lead to a renewed debate on our understanding of former slave societies, while fostering collaborations with scholars who rely on similar datasets for other areas of the world.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Case Study of Management of Three Deep Tubewells in Tangail, Bangladesh
Creators: name: Rashid, M.H.
name: Mridha, M.A.K.
name: Smout, Ian
name: Rashid, M.H.
name: Mridha, M.A.K.
name: Smout, Ian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: THE OPERATION OF irrigation systems on three deep tubewells in Tangail District, Bangladesh, was monitored from 1989 to 1991. These systems used buried cement concrete pipe to distribute water from the tubewells, to irrigate diversified crops during the dry season. This paper focuses on the management of the deep tubewells and the irrigation systems. Each tubewell was installed by the government agency (the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation or BADC) following application from a cooperative of villagers (Krishak Samabay Sarnity or KSS), that took out a loan to purchase the tubewell. In principle the KSS owned and managed the tubewell, but in practice it was dominated by a few prominent individuals. The paper describes the membership of KSS on each tubewell, their participation in the management of the system, the management structure and KSS meetings. It also describes the financial arrangements made for operating the tubewell. Budgets were prepared each season, but not followed. Varying records of loan repayments of the three KSSs are also discussed. The utilization rates of all the tubewells were disappointing, averaging 3.88 hours per day at a discharge of about 35 lps compared to the design of 56 lps. The irrigated areas were typically less than half the design ( 40 ha), and irrigation intervals were high. The reasons for this poor performance were found to be a combination of social, managerial and agro-economic factors, and these are discussed in the paper. The management and operation procedures are compared with the recommendations of the Irrigation Management Programme (IMP) and possible improvements are discussed. These include moving to systematic irrigation of fields fed by the same branch, instead of the current erratic distribution of water under the farmers' fuel system. This case study illustrates some of the difficulties of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems (FMIS) where farmers' resources are unevenly distributed, particularly in the complex technical and management environment of deep tubewell irrigation. The study was undertaken as part of a UK/Bangladesh research project on buried pipe distribution systems for surface irrigation which. was funded by the Overseas Development Administration, UK.
Strategic FDI and Industrial Ownership Structure
Creators: name: Ellis, Christopher J.
name: Fausten, Dietrich
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We argue that different industrial ownership structures generate different incentives for firms to engage in FDI. We compare (partially) cooperative structures such as the Japanese kieretsu and Korean chaebol systems, with competitive structures such as US firms. We find significant differences in the probability of initial FDI and the lag between initial entry and subsequent investments. This has further implications for the optimal FDI incentives of potential host countries.
Explaining employees' responses to large scale organizational change: an integrated model of key affective and cognitive factors
Creators: name: Paterson, Janice M.
name: Hartel, Charmine E. J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The organizational change literature offers recommendations about how to manage change to reduce employee resistance and avoid the potentially negative effects of downsizing. This literature suggests that change program characteristics that feature effective communication and change management procedures can increase acceptance of change and have other beneficial outcomes, but there is little agreement on the mechanisms that explain these effects. One popular explanation draws on the stress and coping literature and focuses on the role of emotions by proposing that communication about the change and procedures to implement it reduces resistance by reducing anxiety. In contrast, the justice- based approach emphasizes the role of cognitions by suggesting that the communication and procedural aspects of change programs reduce resistance by increasing the perceived fairness of the change. This paper incorporates these two explanations into a single theoretical model. Specifically, the paper develops a cognitive-affective model that integrates anxiety emotions and justice cognitions to explain the effects of change program characteristics on employees' responses to downsizing, and proposes that the strategies employees use to cope with downsizing represent acceptance and resistance to change.
Policy and practice in general print: the workplace reality of national bargaining
Creators: name: Healy, Geraldine
name: Telford, Jim
name: Rainnie, Al
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: As a counterweight to analysis which stresses the necessity of moves to individual or workplace bargaining in the UK and Australia, the paper investigates the operation of the National Agreement in the General Printing Industry in the UK. Set against a highly competitive, technologically dynamic environment, the paper demonstrates the general resilience of the National Agreement alongside a complex and uneven picture at the level of the workplace.
From fragmentation to integration: towards an integrated model of knowledge management and organisational learning
Creators: name: McLean, Jeffrey J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: "In the Knowledge Society, knowledge is the most important resource and learning the most important process". (Vestager 1999) Effective Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning (K.M.& O.L) are now increasingly recognised as among the most important sources of individual and organisational effectiveness and sustainable competitive advantage. With rapid and increasing change an individual's, organisation's or society's ability to acquire, manage, make sense of and utilise vast amounts of information and knowledge i.e. to learn is no longer merely desirable, but is essential for sustainable survival and success. Over the last decade the concepts of K.M.& O.L. and related topics have increasingly become some of the most addressed topics both in academic and practitioner publications. This trend is likely to intensify in the decades ahead. However, the relationships and linkages between these important concepts are often confusing, and sometimes seemingly non-existent. This paper introduces and outlines an Integrated model of K.M.&O.L. This exploratory model consists of three levels. Firstly, a broad strategic K.M.& O.L. framework level, secondly, the cultural and infrastructure supports required for effective K.M.& O.L. and thirdly the five crucial phases in the K.M.& O.L. process - these being to 'generate, integrate, retain & recall, interpret and utilise' a firms knowledge.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Community Sprinkler System in Sullikere Village, Bangalore Urban District, South India
Creators: name: Rao, D.S.K.
name: Rao, D.S.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: DURING THE LAST three decades there has been a substantial increase in well irrigation in many parts of India. This has resulted in a sharp increase in groundwater draft, leading to a decline of water levels in many areas, particularly in the low-rainfall hard-rock (LR HR) areas, such as, the eastern dry zone (EDZ) in the southeastern parts of Kamataka State. Water level decline has depressed well yields and increased well failures, particularly in respect ofborewells (BWs). This has also led to a steep increase in the cost of well construction, seriously affecting the viability o· wells. As a result, many small and marginal farmers are denied access to well irrigation. The above situation has prompted a group of 16 marginal farmers, owning a contiguous piece of 13 hectares (ha) ofland in Sullikere Village ofBangalore District (Urban), to form a cooperative society (CS). The state government has given a grant to the CS for 3 BWs, 3 submersible pumpsets (SPs) and for installing a sprinkler system. The above farmers have been practicing community BW and sprinkler irrigation for the last two years, cultivating a judicious mix of perennial and field crops and deriving a steady flow of income.
An Empirical Analysis of the Australian Dollar Swap Spreads
Creators: name: Fang, Victor
name: Muljono, Ronnie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the relationship between the Australian dollar interest rate swap spread and the term structure of the interest rates, and also the determinants of interest rate swap spreads. For this purpose, we estimate the term structure of interest rates using the parsimonious fitting function of Nelson and Siegel (1987) for the Australian government bonds and Australian interest rate swaps for certain maturities that are not available. The sample period covers the daily interval from 6 December 1996 to 31 December 1999. We analyse the swap spread over the term structure of the Government bonds and how the changes in swap determinants affect the changes in swap spreads.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Farmer-Managed Pump Irrigation Systems: A Case Study of Guimba-Cuyapo Network in the Philippines
Creators: name: Flores, Vicente
name: Mejia, Avelino
name: Flores, Vicente
name: Mejia, Avelino
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: THE PAPER PRESENTS the experiences gained and the lessons learned by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), the Philippines, during the installation in the mid-1970s of some 35 groundwater pump systems; and in the conceptualization of feasible and affordable arrangements for the subsequent turnover of the operation and maintenance (O&M) of the schemes to Irrigators' Associations (!As). It will also discuss the policies of the irrigation agency on pump irrigation systems, as well as the activities and programs undertaken to assist the !As, in developing their capacities in managing the pump schemes and improving their water delivery systems, cropping pattern and schedules to overcome the high cost of electric power while still improving their productiV'ity. The success and failure in operating the pumps will also be presented including the strategies adopted by both the NIA and !As to overcome the problems and constraints. Specific topics will also be included to present the various arrangements forged by the NIA and the !As relative to the O&M of the pump systems which will embrace rental arrangements, full management takeover by the !As and eventual ownership of the pump system. Some critical issues and problems encountered such as drawdown effects on the shallow wells used as domestic water supplies in the nearby communities, collection of water charges, shutting down of pump operations, etc., will also be discussed. Highlights of the paper will likewise include the stringent rules and regulations as well as the strategies adopted by some !As in their quest to instill discipline among the water users particularly in implementing the planned water delivery and cropping schedules and thereby reducing O&M costs, and in their incessant desire to transform from government-dependent organizations into self-reliant and financially viable associations of formerly rain-fed farmers. Last, the paper will provide insights into the plans of the NIA and the !As to initiate programs toward sustaining the operation of the groundwater pump systems and in further improving the productivity of the farmlands served by the pumps. This is in line with the renewed five-year vision of the agency for a dynamic and functioning NIA and !As working in partnership toward accelerating irrigation development and providing an efficient level of service.
Resource Inflows and Household Composition: Evidence From South African Panel Data
Creators: name: Maitra, Pushkar
name: Ray, Ranjan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Economic analysis of household behaviour, usually, assumes that household size and composition are fixed and exogenous. This study departs from this practice by analysing resource and household compositional variables, using an interdependent framework that treats them as jointly endogenous. The study is conducted using panel data set of Black households residing in Kwazulu Natal province in South Africa. The results provide evidence of fluidity of household structure, and point to new hypotheses on its responsiveness to changes in resources and other variables. The results also point to some sharp changes in South Africa between 1993 and 1998 in the direction and magnitude of the impact of several key variables.
Economic Modelling and the National Strategy for Vocational Education and Training
Creators: name: Meagher, G. A.
name: Parmenter, Brian R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In 1994, the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) was established by agreement between the Commonwealth, State and Territory governments. Central to the agreement Is the National Strategy for Vocational Education and Training (VET) which is organized around the four main themes of responsiveness, quality, accessibility and efficiency. To promote efficiency in the allocation of training resources, ANTA and a number of State government agencies responsible for VET planning take Into account employment forecasts generated using the MONASH model of the Australian economy. To promote responsiveness to the needs of Industry, a network of Industry training and advisory bodies (ITABs) has been set up. The ITABs' responsibilities include the development of "industry-credible, high-quality industry training plans as frameworks for identifying training needs in each industry, and for considering resource requirements". In this paper we review some of the issues that eirise in reconciling the information produced at these diverse levels of planning. In particular, we consider the role of the MONASH forecasting system as a planning framework for vocational education and training, and the caveats that must be borne in assessing the performance of the system in this role.
Training ecotour guides in developing countries: lessons learned from Panama's first guides course
Creators: name: Weiler, Betty
name: Ham, Sam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: "Ecotourism" is increasing throughout the world, and in particular in less developed countries where it is seen as a strategic force for sustainable development. Although competent guides are widely agreed to play a pivotal role in this process, little systematic research has been undertaken to understand the process of competency development. This paper reports on an on-going research project that is monitoring the development, delivery and outcomes of training programs for ecotour guides in developing countries. It presents the fmdings of this first phase of the research in the form of "lessons learned" from the interpretive guiding component of a six-week training program conducted in April and May, 1999 in Panama. The context of the course is presented first, followed by a description of the qualitative and quantitative methods used to assess the training. The findings are presented in the form of five lessons learned and their possible implications for guide training in developing countries.