cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Wellbeing: Evidence and Opportunities From Kiribati, Samoa, and Vanuatu
Creators: name: Kiddle, Gabriel L
name: Bakineti, Tokintekai
name: Latai-Niusulu, Anita
name: Missack, Willy
name: Pedersen Zari, Maibritt
name: Kiddle, Rebecca
name: Chanse, Victoria
name: Blaschke, Paul
name: Loubser, David
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2021
Subjects: classificationCode: 410499
subject: Environmental management not elsewhere classified

description: Climate change and urbanisation in combination put great pressure on terrestrial and ocean ecosystems, vital for subsistence and wellbeing in both rural and urban areas of Pacific islands. Adaptation is urgently required. Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer great potential, with the region increasingly implementing NbS and linked approaches like ecosystem-based adaptation in response. This paper utilises three Pacific island nation case-studies, Kiribati, Samoa and Vanuatu, to review current NbS approaches to adapt and mitigate the converging resilience challenges of climate change and urbanisation. We look at associated government policies, current NbS experience, and offer insights into opportunities for future work with focus on urban areas. These three Pacific island case-studies showcase their rich cultural and biological diversity and, importantly, the role of traditional ecological knowledge in shaping localised, place-based, NbS for climate change adaptation and enhanced wellbeing. But gaps in knowledge, policy, and practice remain. There is great potential for a nature-based urban design agenda positioned within an urban ecosystems framework linked closely to Indigenous understandings of wellbeing.
Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Wellbeing: Evidence and Opportunities From Kiribati, Samoa, and Vanuatu
Creators: name: Kiddle, Gabriel L
name: Bakineti, Tokintekai
name: Latai-Niusulu, Anita
name: Missack, Willy
name: Pedersen Zari, Maibritt
name: Kiddle, Rebecca
name: Chanse, Victoria
name: Blaschke, Paul
name: Loubser, David
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 50299 Environmental Science and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Climate change and urbanisation in combination put great pressure on terrestrial and ocean ecosystems, vital for subsistence and wellbeing in both rural and urban areas of Pacific islands. Adaptation is urgently required. Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer great potential, with the region increasingly implementing NbS and linked approaches like ecosystem-based adaptation in response. This paper utilises three Pacific island nation case-studies, Kiribati, Samoa and Vanuatu, to review current NbS approaches to adapt and mitigate the converging resilience challenges of climate change and urbanisation. We look at associated government policies, current NbS experience, and offer insights into opportunities for future work with focus on urban areas. These three Pacific island case-studies showcase their rich cultural and biological diversity and, importantly, the role of traditional ecological knowledge in shaping localised, place-based, NbS for climate change adaptation and enhanced wellbeing. But gaps in knowledge, policy, and practice remain. There is great potential for a nature-based urban design agenda positioned within an urban ecosystems framework linked closely to Indigenous understandings of wellbeing.
Measuring human wellbeing and advancing sustainable development: How credible are the UNDP's Human Development Reports
Creators: name: Tokuyama, Chieko
name: Pillarisetti, J. Ram
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The broad objectives of the Human Development Report (HDR) and the estimates of human wellbeing are to identify policies that reduce poverty, economic and gender inequalities and increase human wellbeing. Since inception in 1990, the HDR and the methodological and measurement issues relating to the now well known Human Development Index (HDI) have undergone several transformations. This paper empirically looks at reliability of databases from HDRs with a special focus on the estimations methodology and data revisions of the HDI, recent growth trend in HDI and real income. It also looks selectively at major shift in policy directions for sustainable development in the HDRs. This paper notes that the databases in the HDRs exhibit significant measurement errors and inadequacies. The measurement errors are more conspicuous in case of data pertaining to low-income developing countries. This paper also notes that besides database problems, issues relating to policy revisions in the recent Reports raise serious questions of credibility with the Reports.
Increasing Returns and Economic Efficiency
Creators: name: Ng, Yew-Kwang
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper argues that, from the viewpoint of Pareto optimality, the industries with increasing returns are under-expanded relative to those without increasing returns and those with higher degrees of increasing returns are under-expanded relative to those with lower degrees. Ignoring administrative and indirect (such as rent-seeking) costs, subsidies on goods produced under conditions of (high degrees of) increasing returns financed by taxes on goods produced under non-increasing and lower increasing returns may increase efficiency. This argument is related to the original Pigovian case for encouraging industries with increasing returns (Section l), demonstrated for the general case (Section 3) and illustrated for a specific case (Section 4), after providing an existence proof of average-cost pricing general equilibrium (Section 2).
A state space framework for automatic forecasting using exponential smoothing methods
Creators: name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Koehler, Anne B.
name: Snyder, Ralph D.
name: Grose, Simone
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We provide a new approach to automatic business forecasting based on an extended range of exponential smoothing methods. Each method in our taxonomy of exponential smoothing methods can be shown to be equivalent to the forecasts obtained from a state space model. This allows (1) the easy calculation of the likelihood, the AIC and other model selection criteria; (2) the computation of prediction intervals for each method; and (3) random simulation from the underlying state space model. We demonstrate the methods by applying them to the data from the M-competition and the M3-competition.
"Two Way" Management in Aboriginal Organisations in Central Australia
Creators: name: Bell, Wendy, Dr
name: Schaber, Evelyn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Little is known about the self-managed and controlled Aboriginal Organisations in Central Australia. In fact, until recently, outside the Northern Territory many Australians had no idea that these organisations existed. Yet they have been described as 'among the most influential, important and innovative Aboriginal Organisations in Australia'. To date there has been little research on how Aboriginal cultural traditions impact on the way Aboriginal controlled organisations are managed in modem Australia, nor on those who manage them. Representations of Aboriginal organisations in the popular Australian media rarely move beyond the superficial view, depicting Aboriginal organisations as all the same, and frequently in a negative light. Very little attention is paid to the reality of those who manage these organisations, nor of the value of the essential services they provide. Both of these are something which this paper sets out to address. This paper presents a profile of the Aboriginal and Non Aboriginal managers in the Combined Aboriginal Organisations of Central Australia. It was developed as part of a research project conducted in 1990 and 1995, designed to establish the training needs of the managers of these organisations. The results were translated into a curriculum for an Associate Diploma in Business (Aboriginal Organisations Management) and a Certificate in Vocational Studies, now accredited by the national training authority in Australia and offered to employees in these and other organisations in Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and other remote communities by the Institute for Aboriginal Development (IAD). Follow-up research was conducted in 1995 as part of the process of course re-accreditation and decision-making on future directions.
A complete VARMA modelling methodology based on scalar components
Creators: name: Athanasopoulos, George
name: Vahid, Farshid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper proposes an extension to scalar component methodology for the identification and estimation of VARMA models. The complete methodology determines the exact positions of all free parameters in any VARMA model with a predetermined embedded scalar component structure. This leads to an exactly identified system of equations that is estimated using full information maximum likelihood.
Additional file 1 of Physiological, anatomical and quality indexes of root tuber formation and development in chayote (Sechium edule)
Creators: name: Cheng, Shaobo
name: Liu, Yuhang
name: Su, Lihong
name: Liu, Xuanxuan
name: Chu, Qianwen
name: He, Zhongqun
name: Zhou, Xiaoting
name: Lu, Wei
name: Jiang, Chengyao
name: Zheng, Wangang
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1.
The Effects of Current Fiscal Restraint on the Australian Economy: An Applied General Equilibrium Analysis with Imperfect Competition
Creators: name: Abayasiri-Silva, Kaludura
name: Horridge, J. Mark
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The objective of this paper is to examine the short run and long run effects of the reduction of government expenditure on the Australian economy using an applied general equilibrium model, which incorporates economies of scale and imperfect competition. The paper describes a 23-sector computable general equilibrium model of the Australian economy, and covers short-run as well as long-run profit-maximising behaviour of the firm. Economies of scale are incorporated in the model at the industry level and the firm level. The pricing behaviour is modelled as perfectly competitive, monopolistically competitive and in other ad hoc ways, as in Harris (1984). The different assumptions about technology, pricing behaviour and firm entry are combined in various ways to produce a variety of scenarios in our simulations. We present results for three different types of non-competitive regime and compare these with results generated by a traditional version of the same model.
Quality assurance in design, construction and building maintenance as the imperative of a global market economy
Creators: name: Petrovìc-Lazarevìc, Sonja
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A global market recognizes only those companies that gain and sustain competitive advantage. Such companies have low cost and differentiation of their products and services. They run their businesses through a modern quality management approach by comprehensive care for a safe and healthy environment. In order to compete in the global system, while focusing on safe and healthy environment, building companies should possess such quality assurance that provides customers with goods and services of appropriate quality. In this respect industrialized building organizations aiming to compete worldwide should take actions to gain and sustain superior efficiency, superior quality, superior innovation, and superior customer responsiveness. This would result in higher profits compared to other global competitors. If higher profits can be sustained in the long term, this would ensure a sustained competitive advantage supporting the issues of healthy environment.
Corporate universities: a catalyst for strategic human resource development?
Creators: name: Holland, Peter
name: Pyman, Amanda
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The corporate university has become a major area of research and debate in the field of strategic human resource development. At the centre of this debate, is whether it is a simple relabelling of the functional area of training or a paradigm shift in the development of organisational human capital. This paper explores this issue through an in-depth single case study of Australia's largest private sector employer, Coles Myer Limited, which has recently developed a corporate university. A typology developed by Taylor and Paton (2002), is used to analyse the role and integration of the corporate university within CMLs strategic human resource management (HRM) agenda. The analysis indicates that the corporate university is clearly linked to the strategic objectives of the organisation.
Ethical dilemma in defining the role of chief information officer
Creators: name: Petrovìc-Lazarevìc, Sonja
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Electronic business is based on using computers and networks in all aspects of business. This new business concept is developing its own culture, which faces many ethical dilemmas. One is the role of chief information officer. As a leader of information technology application in business, the chief information officer's ethical behaviour influences electronic business culture ethics in the organisation. In electronic business both the chief executive officer and chief information officer are responsible for the organisational culture. That is, the chief information officer having capabilities for reasoning, forming values and making information decisions contributes to creating corporate core values. From an employee's prospective the chief information officer is treated as the employer. But being employed by the organisation in a similar way to the rest of the employees, the chief information officer can be treated as an employee of the organisation. This duality in the role of chief information officer causes ethical dilemmas that may be solved through establishing ethical codes that are based on existing global ethical codes.
Larrañaga, Ignacio, Las fuerzas de la decadencia, col. «Betel», San Pablo, Madrid, 2004
Creators: name: Arieiro, José
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2004

description: Theologica, v. 39 n. 2 (2004): Europa e cristianismo | No 1.º centenário do nascimento de Karl Rahner
An anisotropic model for spatial processes
Creators: name: Deng, Minfeng
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: One of the key assumptions in spatial econometric modelling is that the spatial process is isotropic, which means that direction is irrelevant in the specification of the spatial structure. On one hand, this assumption largely reduces the complexity of the spatial models and facilitates estimation and interpretation; on the other hand, it appears rather restrictive and hard to justify in many empirical applications. In this paper a very general anisotropic spatial model, which allows for a high level of flexibility in the spatial structure, is proposed. This new model can be estimated using maximum likelihood and its asymptotic properties are well understood. When the model is applied to the well-known 1970 Boston housing prices data, it significantly outperforms the isotropic spatial lag model. It also provides interesting additional insights into the price determination process in the properties market.
The relationship between Female Labour Force Participation and Fertility in G7 Countries: Evidence from Panel Cointegration and Granger Causality
Creators: name: Mishra, Vinod
name: Nielsen, Ingrid
name: Smyth, Russell
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the relationship between the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate for the G7 countries over the period 1960 to 2004 using panel unit root, panel cointegration. Granger causality and long-run structural estimation. The paper's main findings are that the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate are cointegrated for the panel of 07 countries; that long-run Granger causality runs from the total fertility rate to the female labour force participation rate and that a 1-per cent increase in the total fertility rate results in a 0.4 per cent decrease in the female labour force participation rate for the G7 countries.
An introduction to business continuity planning
Creators: name: Siutryk, Terry Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is a management decision-making process aimed at minimising business loss and maximising business recovery and continuance following any disaster that may occur at any time. A worldwide history of disasters (whether man-made or natural) has shown that corporate decision-makers have either been unaware of the BCP philosophy and its organisational implication or have indeed been aware but have ignored its application and implementation. In either case, serious outcomes have resulted in not only organisational, but also human loss. The first in a planned series of research papers on this topic, this paper provides an introduction to Business Continuity Planning and raises potential hypotheses for specific and further research. It generally concludes that BCP is not a widely practised business function nor is it the subject of any broadly based academic management instruction.
Robust Estimation of Multiple Regression Model with Non-normal Error: Symmetric Distribution
Creators: name: Wong, Wing-Keung
name: Bian, Guorui
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper, we develop the modified maximum likelihood (MML) estimators for the multiple regression coefficients in linear model with the underlying distribution assumed to be symmetric, one of Student's t family. We obtain the closed form of the estimators and derive their asymptotic properties. In addition, we demonstrate that the MML estimators are more appropriate to estimate the parameters in the Capital Asset Pricing Model by comparing its performance with that of least squares estimators (LSE) on the monthly returns of US portfolios. Our empirical study reveals that the MML estimators are more efficient than the LSE in terms of relative efficiency of one-step-ahead forecast mean square error for small samples.
Exponential smoothing for inventory control: means and variances of lead-time demand
Creators: name: Snyder, Ralph D.
name: Koehler, Anne B.
name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Ord, J. Keith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Exponential smoothing is often used to forecast lead-time demand for inventory control. In this paper, formulae are provided for calculating means and variances of lead-time demand for a wide variety of exponential smoothing methods. A feature of many of the formulae is that variances, as well as the means, depend on trends and seasonal effects. Thus, these formulae provide the opportunity to implement methods that ensure that safety stocks adjust to changes in trend or changes in season.
Additional file 2: of Aerobic exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in Chinese patients with coronary heart disease: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Cao, Richard
name: Zheng, Hongchao
name: Mi, Qiongyao
name: Li, Qing
name: Yuan, Wenchao
name: Ding, Yueyou
name: Yang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: CONSORT checklist. (DOC 226 kb)
D7.2 Initial Exploitation Plan & Risk Management Plan
Creators: name: IZNAB
name: CNR-ISAC
name: CNR-ITC
name: CNR-ICMATE
name: ECO
name: RED
name: MAGNETTI
name: AMS
name: TECNALIA
name: PIETRE
name: ZAG
name: VOULA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: InnoWEE
H2020
project
exploitation plan
key exploitable results
risk management

description: In the deliverable D7.2 the first exploitation plan is presented, in order to establish the responsibilities and strategy of the Exploitation Manager that will monitor and help in exploiting the established objectives of the project.
The Incidence of Gains and Taxes Associated With R & D and Promotion in the Australian Beef Industry
Creators: name: Zhao, X.
name: Mullen, J.D.
name: Griffith, G.R.
name: Piggot, R.R.
name: Griffiths, W.E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The issue of the relative returns to farmers from R&D and promotion is examined using a multi-sectoral equilibrium displacement model of the Australian beef industry. Total economic surplus changes and their distributions among various industry groups resulting from 1% cost reductions in various farm and off-farm sectors, and from 1% price premiums from domestic and export market promotion, are estimated. The results are consistent with previous studies in showing that in general, the share of total benefits to farmers is larger from on-farm research than from most off-farm research, and is larger from most types of research than from domestic promotion. The share of total benefits to farmers is larger from export promotion than from off-farm research, and from domestic promotion. The net returns from the different cost-reduction or demand-enhancing scenarios depend on the costs of achieving them.
Financial Covenants and Related Contracting Processes in the Australian Private Debt Market: An Experimental Study
Creators: name: Mather, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Private debt markets are characterised by covenant restrictive but renegotiation-flexible debt contracts as financial intermediaries lending in private debt markets have a comparative advantage over investors in public debt markets in offering such contracts. The two research questions investigated in this paper are 'What determines the restrictiveness of financial covenants in private debt contracts?' and 'Under what conditions will loan officers waive technical default on financial covenants?' Two behavioural experiments involving loan officers examined these contracting processes in the Australian private debt market. The first experiment examined whether several borrower-and contract-pecific characteristics detemiine the restrictiveness of financial covenants in private debt contracts. Management reputation and security were found to be associated with the number and tightness of financial covenants, whilst high financial risk was associated with increased tightness, but not the number, of such covenants. The effect of the interaction, management reputation x security, was also significant. The second experiment examined the association between several borrowerand contract-specific characteristics and the likelihood of loan officers waiving technical default on financial covenants. Low financial risk, security and defaults caused solely by a change in accounting standards were found to be associated with the likelihood of the default being waived.
The reform of employee compensation in China's industrial enterprises
Creators: name: Zhu, Cherrie Jiuhua
name: De Cieri, Helen
name: Dowling, Peter J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Although employee compensation reform in Chinese industrial sector has been discussed in the literature, the real changes in compensation system and pay practices have received insufficient attention and warrant further examination. This article briefly reviews the pre- and post-reform compensation system, and reports the results of a survey of pay practices in the four major types of industrial enterprises in China. The research findings indicate that pay is linked more to individual performance and has become an important incentive to Chinese employees. The current pay practices are positively correlated to the enterprise overall effectiveness.
Additional file 1: of Aerobic exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in Chinese patients with coronary heart disease: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Cao, Richard
name: Zheng, Hongchao
name: Mi, Qiongyao
name: Li, Qing
name: Yuan, Wenchao
name: Ding, Yueyou
name: Yang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: SPIRIT checklist. (DOCX 38 kb)
Additional file 3: of Aerobic exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation in Chinese patients with coronary heart disease: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Cao, Richard
name: Zheng, Hongchao
name: Mi, Qiongyao
name: Li, Qing
name: Yuan, Wenchao
name: Ding, Yueyou
name: Yang, Jian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Informed consent. (DOCX 26 kb)
Exponential Smoothing Methods of Forecasting and General ARMA Time Series Representations
Creators: name: Shami, Roland G.
name: Snyder, Ralph D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The focus of this paper is on the relationship between the exponential smoothing methods of forecasting and the integrated autoregressive-moving average models underlying them. In this paper we derive, for the first time, the general linear relationship between their parameters. A method, suitable for implementation on computer, is proposed to determine the pertinent quantities in this relationship. It is illustrated on common forms of exponential smoothing. It is also applied to a new seasonal form of exponential smoothing with seasonal indexes which always sum to zero.
Additional file 1: of Facilitating HIV/AIDS and HIV testing literacy for emergency department patients: a randomized, controlled, trial
Creators: name: Merchant, Roland
name: Liu, Tao
name: Clark, Melissa
name: Carey, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Virology

description: Study instruments and video/pictorial brochure elements and script. (DOC 393 kb)
Corporate Governance in Building and Construction Industry
Creators: name: Petrovic-Lazarevic, Sonja
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Building and Construction Industry (BCI) has characteristics that distinguish it from other industries. These are the physical nature of the product, the structure of the industry and the organization of the building and construction process. As a consequence, governance in this industry differs from governance in other industries. The aim of this paper is to point to characteristics of governance in both large and small BCI organizations and suggest in what direction BCI should develop in order to remain globally competitive. To balance the interest of all stakeholders, a social responsibility committee under the auspices of the board should be established in large BCI organizations. The committee would overview the role of corporate governance and consequently overcome the gap between what organizations present in their organisational mission as their aspiration and intention to achieve, and a community perception of it. On the other hand, if small enterprises follow the process of corporate entrepreneurship management, they would achieve a balance among strategic innovation implementation needs, holding management accountable to the shareholders and financial control. Both activities, in large and small organizations, would contribute to sustaining BCI competitive advantage.
Competing Methods for Efficiency Measurement : A Systematic Review of Direct DEA vs SFA/DFA Comparisons
Creators: name: Mortimer, Duncan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Various authors have advised a wait and see approach in evaluating the relative precision of alternative techniques, such as data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), in estimating industry-average and firm-specific inefficiency. Chirikos and Sear (2000), for example, contend that "policy-makers may be well advised to wait until additional research clarifies reasons why DEA and stochastic frontier models yield divergent results" (p. 1389). The main objective of this paper is to highlight the likely trade-offs between competing methods based on direct empirical comparisons using simulated data and to demonstrate the wealth of evidence bearing on a range of real-world applications. Whilst this systematic review indicates that a good deal of evidence is already available, evidence of a different sort may be required to identify a `correct' approach in addressing specific policy problems. In particular, the now routine practice of cross checking should be taken one step further to include realistic simulation studies along-side real-world DEA vs SFA comparisons.
Object Loan Policy and Agreement Form of the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor
Creators: name: University of Missouri Research Reactor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This is the Object Loan Policy and Agreement Form of the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri Research Reactor. It describes the terms of use and procedures for borrowing physical objects, including obsidian source samples and calibration sets, from the Lab. This plan is also published on the Archaeometry Laboratory's website.
Severity as an independent determinant of the social value of a health service
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
name: McKie, John
name: Peacock, Stuart
name: Iezzi, Angelo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The measure of benefit in cost utility analysis (CUA) is the increase in utility which is attributable to a health service. This paper reviews the evidence that the severity of an illness – the health state before receipt of the health service – may be independently important for social (as distinct from individual) preferences for different services. An earlier 1997 Australian study is summarised. Data from a 2004 survey are used to quantify the apparent importance of severity. Person trade off (PTO) scores are used to measure social preferences and time trade off (TTO) scores to measure individual preferences. Econometric results suggest the severity may more than double the index of social value of a health service.
Rationalism, Theoretical Orthodoxy and Their Legacy in Cost Utility Analysis
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The theme of this paper is that there is a malaise in a significant part of theoretical economics which has adversely affected its character and growth and which has spilled over into applied economics in a particular way; viz by reducing the scope of hypotheses that have been the subject of empirical enquiry and by promoting policies on the basis of their conformity with an established orthodoxy, in preference to policies supported by evidence. The approach to this topic is both historical and epistemological. It is argued that the history of science has been characterised by a struggle between the conflicting paradigms of Rationalism and Empiricism with intellectual progress being broadly determined by the extent to which the latter and not the former has been ascendant. It is argued that the reason for this arises from the epistemological structure of the competing paradigms. While Empiricism leads to a method which encourages the growth of knowledge, Rationalism encourages an ultimately sterile focus upon analytical techniques per se. It is suggested that economic orthodoxy and, more specifically, health economic theory has adopted the form and increasingly the substance of Rationalist paradigm and that the inhibiting influence of this can explain the neglect of a series of issues which arise in Cost Utility Analysis and, more broadly, in economic evaluation; issues which, for a non-economist, would have prima facie candidacy for investigation and for possible inclusion in economic theory. Ten examples are given. It is concluded that the opportunity cost of our adoption of methodological Rationalism in terms of intellectual progress elsewhere and policy prescriptions may have been very high.
Earnings And Impressions Management In Financial Reports: The Case Of CEO Changes
Creators: name: Godfrey, Jane
name: Mather, Paul
name: Ramsay, Alan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines earnings management, as well as the presentational format of graphs (impression management) in the financial reports of Australian listed public companies changing chief executive officers (CEOs). Prior US evidence suggests downward earnings management in the year of senior management changes and upward management in the following year (Pourciau, 1993). We argue that new managers not only have incentives to manage earnings but also have similar incentives to engage in impression management by manipulating the impressions created by graphs in financial reports. Examining both earnings and impression management simultaneously facilitates the possibility of distinguishing between between management opportunism and attempts to reflect underlying economic performance as explanations for any observed earnings management. In the year of CEO change, we hypothesise and find evidence of downward earnings management but no evidence of any unfavourable impression management of the key financial variables (KFVs) graphed. As posited, we find evidence of upward earnings management and favourable impression management in the year after a CEO change. These results are strongest for the sub-sample where the CEO change was due to a resignation rather than a retirement. To our knowledge, this is the first study to link the earnings and impression management literature and is also the first study to examine impression management in the context of CEO change. Accordingly, it contributes to the literature exploring context-specific incentives for earnings management, impression management and the role of accounting in corporate contracting.
Additional file 4 of Effect of genetic liability to migraine and its subtypes on breast cancer: a mendelian randomization study
Creators: name: Fang, Tian
name: Zhang, Zhihao
name: Zhou, Huijie
name: Wu, Wanchun
name: Ji, Fuqing
name: Zou, Liqun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 4
What's in a Name? Employment Relations Constructs and Labels for International Business Research
Creators: name: Seen, Andrew
name: Liesch, Peter
name: Baker, Megan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: With the increased internationalisation of enterprises and the proliferation of international business literatures, labels attached to constructs used in international business research must be appropriate in the cross-national context. There is a tendency for researchers examining the employment context [industrial, employee and employment relations] to use codified constructs which can be readily operationalised [such as legal standards]. However, for constructs to be successfully applied to international business, they should be broad enough to encompass phenomena that underlie the overt, often codified, manifestation of the concept under investigation. This paper examines the terms used to describe the interactions of parties within the employment context to determine their suitability for use in cross-national research and business. To overcome the challenges facing cross-national researchers, it is suggested that 'etic' constructs be identified and operationalised as 'emic' constructs to ensure valid comparisons.
Understanding the Enemy: Ngammadjidj or Foreign Invader? Aboriginal Perception of Europeans in Nineteenth Century Western Victoria
Creators: name: Clark, Ian D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of this paper is to consider the ways in which traditional Aboriginal spatial organization influenced how western Victorian Aboriginal people understood Europeans. To come to terms with this understanding, it is essential to explore notions of violence and invasion in traditional Aboriginal formations. For example, if a history of invasion within and between Aboriginal groups can be shown to have existed, then the question of the relevance of the ethnic origin of the invader must be examined - presumably, whether the invaders were foreign and enemy Aboriginal people, or foreign and enemy non-Aboriginal people, would not be of any particular consequence to the dispossessed clan. Regarding European associations with 'tenure' of Aboriginal land, western Victorian clans had to come to terms with three classes of Europeans: sea sojourners; land sojourners; and settlers. Clans attempted to understand their experiences of these three different classes of Europeans within a framework of traditional thought, and it is worth exploring these classes to uncover differences in the way they were perceived.
Consumers' Purchasing Behavior towards Pork Products in Khon Kaen Province, Thailand
Creators: name: Parichard Sangkumchaliang;Somsamorn Grawborisut;Sajee Kunhareang
Publisher: name: Faculty of Agriculture
Year: 2020
Subjects: consumer behavior, marketing mix, pork product, market channel

description: Khon Kaen Agriculture Journal, 48, 1, 105-118
The Contribution of Household and Small Manufacturing Establishments to Indonesian Economic Development 1986-2000
Creators: name: Rice, Robert C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Household and small manufacturing industries (HMIs and SMIs) are very important especially in terms of employment generation in the densely populated areas of Indonesia like Java. This is because in 1996 they accounted for 44% and 17% of manufacturing industry employment respectively, but only 6% and 5% of manufacturing industry value-added. They were even more important in rural areas because 95% and 59% of HMI and SMI employees were in rural areas and 92% and 44% of their value-added. Many of the establishments in rural areas processed imported raw materials instead of locally produced materials. The rates of growth of household and small manufacturing industries real value-added were high from 1986 to 1996 in spite of unfavourable government policies, 7.2% and 12.3% per annum, but lower than medium/large establishments at 16.4%. HMS and SMIs were hit hard by the economic crisis of 1997, especially those selling fully or partially non-tradeable goods using fully tradable inputs, although they recovered quite quickly. There is a good potential for firther development of HMIs and SMIs that can be facilitated by the expansion and improvement of financial institutions and supplies of privately delivered business services, and improved foreign direct investment and marketing, micro-establishment retailing, and local government economic policies.
Specialization and Division of Labor: A Survey
Creators: name: Yang, Xiaokai
name: Ng, Siang
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The paper first briefly reviews the literature of specialization from Petty up to the 1980s. The classical research line of specialization that is followed by Young, Stigler, and Houthakker is distinguished from neoclassical economics structured by Marshall. The modern literature of formal models of specialization and division of labor is then surveyed in detail. Three lines of research are identified. One is associated with neoclassical trade theory which assumes constant returns to scale and explains the pattern of specialization and division of labor by exogenous comparative advantage between countries. The second line is associated with new trade and growth models which endogenize one aspect of the division of labor, the number of goods, by formulating the tradeoff between economies of scale and economies of variety of consumption or producer goods. The third line is associated with the models that endogenize all aspects of the division of labor individuals' level of specialization, the length of a roundabout production chain, and the number of goods in each link of the chain. In particular, the implications of new classical economics and inframarginal analysis for the resurrection of the spirit of classical economics in a modem body are explored.
Efficiency Of Foreign Exchange Markets: A Developing Country Perspective
Creators: name: Wickremasinghe, Guneratne B
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study tests weak and semi-strong form efficiency of the foreign exchange market in Sri Lanka during the recent float using six bilateral exchange rates. Weak-form efficiency is examined using unit root tests while semi-strong form efficiency is tested using co-integration, Granger causality tests and variance decomposition analysis. Results indicate that the Sri Lankan foreign exchange market is consistent with the weak-form of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. However, the results provide evidence against the semi- strong version of the Efficient Market hypothesis. These results have important implications for government policy makers and participants in the foreign exchange market of Sri Lanka.
Using Turn Taking to Mitigate Conflict and Coordination Problems in the Repeated Battle of the Sexes Game
Creators: name: Lau, Paul
name: Mui, Vai-Lam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Battle of the Sexes game, which captures both conflict and coordination problems, has been applied to a wide range of situations. We show that, by reducing conflict of interests and enhancing coordination, (eventual) turn taking supported by a "turn taking with independent randomizations" strategy allows the players to engage in intertemporal sharing of the gain from cooperation. Using this insight, we decompose the benefit from turn taking into conflict-mitigating and coordination-enhancing components. Our analysis suggests that an equilibrium measure of the "intertemporal degree of conflict" provides an intuitive way to understand the sources of welfare gain from turn taking in the repeated Battle of the Sexes game. We find that when this equilibrium measure is higher, players behave more aggressively and the welfare gain from turn taking is smaller.
The future for quality managers
Creators: name: Waddell, Dianne
name: Mallen, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A review on current quality management literature discloses a conglomeration of sentiments amongst quality managers with regards to the future of their quality profession. These sentiments can primarily be grouped into two major categories: 1) that quality managers will no longer play a role in functional management, as quality will become an integral part of the organisations; alternatively 2) they will play a significantly different role, leading to a specialised job design. Despite the fact that many voiced their concerns regarding the future of the quality profession, little formal research has been conducted to address this issue. Thus, the significance of undertaking this research aims to verify and substantiate their sentiments. Findings of the research may also contribute as a signal to quality managers with regards to their future roles and may inspire them to better prepare themselves to meet future quality related endeavours. It is important not to prophesise the precise future role of the quality managers, as no one outside the psychic industry will claim capable of it. Rather, the research endeavours to prognosticate the role of quality manager in the next decade by conducting interviews with various professionals in the quality related fields, testing the significance of research questions generated from these interviews through surveys and reviewing current employment advertisements. Thus synthesising the results from the above mentioned means to predict the role of quality managers in the years beyond 2000.
Leading arts organizations: traditional styles or different realities?
Creators: name: Inglis, Loretta
name: Cray, David
name: Freeman, Susan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Despite the large amount of research into leadership available in academic journals, little relates to the roles leaders play in arts organizations, particularly the many small arts organizations which provide major contributions to arts performance, exhibition and education in Australia today. This paper explores leadership in small arts organizations, using in-depth interviews with four executives to discover who leads these organizations, and what style of leadership is considered appropriate. Our findings suggest that these organizations are usually led by more than one person with leadership often shared between an artistic director and an arts administrator. We also found that the dominant leadership style in these organizations appears to be transformational.
Consumer And Provider Views On Assessing The Quality Of Residential Aged Care
Creators: name: Doyle, Collen
name: Carter, Mary
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study explored how people who provide and receive care in nursing homes thought that the quality of their care should be assessed. Qualitative data were gathered from interviews with nursing home residents, their advocates, residents' committees and nursing home staff. Interviews were structured around the seven objectives and 31 standards set out by the Commonwealth/State Working Party on Nursing Home Standards, which are currently used by the government to assess the quality of care in nursing homes. The discussions explored awareness of the standards, how respondents would assess quality of care, and what aspects of nursing home life were considered the most important determinants of their quality of life. This paper will report on progress in the analysis of these interviews.