cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Motives and performance: why academics research
Creators: name: Inglis, Loretta
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Australian higher education system has changed considerably since the late 1980s as a result of government policy. One consequence for academics has been much greater emphasis on research activity as the major indicator of performance. Engagement in research was a completely new requirement for many academics from the colleges of advanced education. However, it is also the case that many university academics had not been involved in research activity. Analysis of interview data, from sixteen academics working in a large university, reveals that differences in orientations to particular work activities are strongly related to their previous experiences and to their reference groups. It also reveals that, for more than half of those interviewed, orientations remained stable once formed. Those who went straight from study into a position in a university or college of advanced education developed work orientations as a result of this experience, and they have remained stable. Those who came to academia from other occupations are more likely to have dynamic work orientations that change according to circumstances.
Trade Union Strategies in a Sophisticated Human Resource Management Environment
Creators: name: Pyman, Amanda
name: Holland, Peter
name: Teicher, Julian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Sophisticated human resource management strategies, underpinned by a unitarist (rather than a pluralist) frame of reference, have the potential to undermine the role and function of trade unions. This has forced unions to `rethink' their strategies to maintain a position of relevance in this new environment. In this context, the Organising Model of unionism has emerged as a possible panacea for membership decline and a mechanism for self-transformation and renewal. This case study explores the strategic response of a union to sophisticated human resource management strategies, in the broader context of a major industrial dispute.
The Socially Optimal Level of Saving in Australia, 1960-61 to 1994-95
Creators: name: Guest, Ross S.
name: McDonald, Ian M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper a model is developed which determines the socially optimal level of saving for a small open economy. The model also determines the socially optimal-disposition of saving between domestic capital accumulation and overseas asset accumulation. The model is then applied to the Australian economy for the period 1960-61 to 1994-95. For each year of that period socially optimal levels of saving investment and the current account of the balance of payments are determined. Two main conclusions emerge. Firstly, while Australia under-saved by an average of 1.7% of GDP from 1974/7s5 to 1994/95, it over-saved by an average of 5.3% of GDP in the earlier period from 1960-61 to 1973-74. Secondly, Australia did not make optimal use, of world capital markets to smooth consumption in the period from 1960-61 to 1994-95; although there is less, evidence for this since 1984-85, suggesting that deregulation of capital markets may have facilitated the optimal smoothing of consumption.
КОММУНИКАТИВНО- ПРАГМАТИЧЕСКИЕ ТИПЫ ФРАЗЕОВЕРБАЛИЗАТОРОВ КОНЦЕПТА "HEAD/ГОЛОВА/ГЛАВА" В АНГЛИЙСКОМ И РУССКОМ ЯЗЫКАХ
Creators: name: Юсупжанова, Феруза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: В статье рассматриваются прагматические и коммуникативные особенности функционирования провербиальных фразеовербализаторов концепта “head/голова/глава” в английском и русском языках. Анализ проводится с опорой на классификацию речевых актов и типологию коммуникативных интенций, реализуемых через паремиологические единицы. Исследование выявляет сходства и различия в глубинных концептосемантических структурах русских и английских провербий, а также демонстрирует культурно-национальную специфику прагматических стратегий их употребления.
Distributed Leadership: a Case Study of an Australian Voluntary Nonprofit Organization
Creators: name: Inglis, Loretta
name: Sarros, James C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The paper discusses a topic raised in recent leadership literature, that of distributed leadership. This concept is an alternative to the current focus on individual, sole leaders, and proposes that leadership is often distributed among two, more or many members of an organization. The literature on distributed leadership is discussed, with particular emphasis on the writings of Gronn (1999; 2002) who classifies distributed leadership as either numerical or concertive action, containing the properties of interdependence and coordination. A case study of an Australian nonprofit organization follows. This study seeks to determine if distributed leadership exists in this organization and if it could be understood using Gronn's concepts. The study indicates that distributed leadership does exist with three individuals being responsible for various leadership roles. The distributed leadership is seen as concertive action which is institutionalised in the organization. Distributed leadership succeeds, in this case, because of the interdependence of the roles of the leaders and because they work hard at coordination of their roles. The study concludes that while distributed leadership appears in this case, more research on the topic is needed.
Investigating successes and failures of tobacco control instruments
Creators: name: Zhang, Jian Ying
name: Young, David
name: Borland, Ron
name: Coghill, Ken
name: Petrovic-Lazarevic, Sonja
name: Yeh, Chung Hsing
name: Bedingfield, Susan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Reducing tobacco use is a challenging task and cannot be accomplished within a short period of time. Although a diverse range of tobacco control instruments have been put into place over the years, significant problems still remain. In this paper, we develop a high level framework for investigating success and failure of tobacco control instruments. The main contributions of this paper are as follows. First, we provide a brief literature review of the current status of tobacco control, including what instruments have been put into place, how much these instruments are helping, and what problems we still have. Second, we develop a high level framework for analysing tobacco control issues and the reasons for current problems. Third, we provide a conceptual model to illustrate the process of developing new tobacco control measures, using smoke-free places as an example. Finally, the future directions for this project are outlined. This paper has the potential to support decision-making, decision- refinement, ongoing management of government activities, and tobacco control.
Rahner, Karl, Escritos de Teología – Tomo VI: Escritos del tiempo conciliar, col. «Obras selectas y homenajes», Ediciones Cristiandad, Madrid, 2007
Creators: name: Duque, João
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 2 (2007): Cristianismo, sexualidade e educação sexual
Gelingensbedingungen für den Übergang von der Neonatologie nach Hause. Eine Studie auf der Grundlage von Leitfadeninterviews mit Eltern eines sehr frühgeborenen Kindes
Creators: name: Imbach, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Frühgeborene
neonatologische Intensivstation
Masterarbeit

description: Abstract Sehr kleine Frühgeborene und ihre Eltern werden oft mehrere Wochen auf der neonatologischen Intensivstation betreut. Die Entlassung aus dem Spital ist ein einschneidender Moment, da die Familie plötzlich auf sich allein gestellt ist und nicht mehr auf die Rundumbetreuung der Fachpersonen zählen kann. Mit Hilfe von Leitfadeninterviews mit betroffenen Eltern verfolgt diese Arbeit die Fragestellungen, welche Bedingungen zu einem gelingenden Übergang von der Neonatologie nach Hause führen und welche familienorientierten Unterstützungsangebote zur Bewältigung des Lebensalltages zu Hause beitragen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen auf, dass der Übergang nach Hause einer sorgfältigen Vorbereitung bedarf, damit die Anpassung zu Hause für die ganze Familie gelingt. Zudem zeigt sich, dass die Eltern eine Unterstützung und Begleitung bereits während des Spitalaufenthaltes ihres Kindes mit einer Weiterführung durch dieselbe Person nach der Entlassung begrüssen. Dabei wünschen sie sich eine Begleitung, die sich in der Thematik der Frühgeburt auskennt. Dies kann dazu beitragen, die Entwicklung der Eltern-Kind-Beziehung zu fördern und das familiäre Belastungserleben zu reduzieren, was sich wiederum positiv auf die Entwicklung des Kindes auswirkt.
Design and Development of a Dual-Actuator Mixed-Mode Interaction Tester
Creators: name: Gandhi, Vatsa
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2018
Subjects: engineering honors thesis
engineering mechanics
fracture mechanics
mechanics of materials
mechanics of solids
composite materials

description: A dual-actuator system is designed and developed to test mixed-mode fracture of laminated beams. Material and geometric properties of silicon/epoxy interface was used to develop a failure envelope of energy release rates with respect to mode-mix. This failure envelope was then used to determine the critical moment, and load envelope. Beam theory analysis in and critical loads were used to obtain a failure envelope for displacements and end rotations. Failure envelopes were validated using finite element analysis in ABAQUS. Given critical load and displacement envelopes, load cells and actuators were selected and a loading device was manufactured. Labview was used to communicate with the actuator and to synchronize data acquisition of actuators, cameras, and load cells. Primary tests were conducted for polystyrene/PDMS interface under mode I loading conditions. Critical envelopes were validated experimentally and load-displacement curves were analyzed.
The Management of Change in Not-for-profit Aid Organisations
Creators: name: Lewis, Rowan
name: Waddell, Dianne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper represents a small contribution to the collective knowledge that already surrounds the nature of change management by focusing on an often neglected type of organisation, the not-for-profit aid organisation. Specifically, the study explores whether aid organisations are managing change by utilising a so called 'soft' management technique - that is, implementing change in manner that is incremental and participative. This approach is quite strongly advocated by not-for-profit theory because, the argument suggests, it is more compatible with the organisation's non-economic, social orientation. But this paper describes an aid organisation, which does not in fact display a tendency to manage the change process participatively, regardless of the degree of change undertaken. This is explored further and it is concluded that participative techniques should be carefully utilised in a change process in such organisations and a number of recommendations are offered to this end.
League-Revenue Sharing and Competitive Balance
Creators: name: Booth, Ross
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper contributes to the debate on revenue sharing by considering the effect of an increase in shared league-revenue on competitive balance in a league comprised of profit-maximising clubs compared with a league comprised of win-maximising clubs. Taking into account the effect of the relative (but not absolute) quality of the teams on the clubs' revenues, it is shown that under win maximisation increases in shared league-revenue tend to increase competitive balance and raise player wages. This is different from the case of profit maximisation, where increases in shared league-revenue have no impact on either competitive balance or player wages.
title: Vocational Teacher Educators’ Identity
title: a symbiosis of roles and contexts
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Said, Alison
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2020

description: The objective of this thesis is to gain a deeper understanding of the professional role identities of vocational teacher educators (VTEs) when compared with mainstream teacher educators (MTEs) in Malta. VTEs are underrepresented in research and policy and misapprehended as an occupational group, even though they are crucial players in sustaining a high-quality vocational teaching workforce and have a significant impact on the quality of teaching and learning in schools. Using identity theory from the structural symbolic interactionism (SI) perspective (Burke & Stets, 2009), this study examines the identity changes of VTEs during an initial teaching education (ITE) programme in Malta and investigates how employers view the role identities of VTEs in Malta. The data was collected through semi-structured interviews with twenty-two participants, adopting Braun and Clarke’s (2006) thematic analysis (TA); and metaphor analysis. The results show that VTEs and MTEs underpin their teaching differently, influenced by the perceptions they have about their professional role identities. Moreover, both VTEs and employers were almost unanimous in their perspectives of what VTEs should be. There is no ‘one size fits all’ solution for each country, yet this study contributes to a field with a limited research base, by providing recommendations for policymakers and vocational education and training (VET) practitioners.
Market Structure and its Effects on the Pricing of Derivative Securities in Australia
Creators: name: Chan, Howard
name: Pinder, Sean
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines whether two securities that have identical payoffs, the equity warrant and the exchange traded option, are priced differently when they are subject to different microstructure issues. The results show that different trading processes, the behaviour of market makers and short-selling restrictions seem to have an effect on relative pricing. This study indicates that, on average, a warrant is priced higher relative to an equivalent option. It appears that this pricing difference may be related to greater liquidity in the warrant market as compared to the option market.
From powerless to empowered: a case study and critique of production teams
Creators: name: Edwards, Ron
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the introduction of team-based production systems in three Australian manufacturing facilities, all being small parts of much larger global concerns. Using a longitudinal case study approach, the paper identifies a range of problems experienced by the firms when introducing teams. While all firms enjoyed significant productivity growth, at least in part because of teams, a range of other reforms also contributed to this result. The quality of working life for production workers improved but managers and supervisors experienced an increase in work intensity.
Incomplete Contingent Labor Contract, Asymmetric Residual Rights and Authority, and the Theory of the Firm
Creators: name: Yang, Xiaokai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the paper the trade-offs among endogenous transaction costs caused by two-sided moral hazard, exogenous monitoring cost, and economies of specialization are specified in a Grossman, Hart and Moore (GHM) model to absorb Maskin and Tirole's recent critique and Holmstrom and Milgrom's criticism of the model of incomplete contract. The extended GHM model allowing incomplete contingent labor contract as well as complete contingent trade contract of goods is used to explore the implications of structure of ownership and residual rights for the equilibrium network size of division of labor and productivity.
Water pricing and investment in Melbourne: general equilibrium analysis with uncertain streamflow
Creators: name: Horridge, J. Mark
name: Dixon, Peter B.
name: Rimmer, Maureen T.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We describe the theory, computation and results of a multiperiod general equilibrium model designed to assist an urban water authority in its pricing and investment decisions. The model includes gestation periods in the creation of dams, main sewers and treatment plants. It allows for lumpy capital items and recognizes cost differences in the provision of services in peak and non-peak times. Its general equilibrium framework is convenient for handling links between the water authority and the rest of the economy, especially the housing sector. We have used two computational approaches. In the first, we reformulate the model as a single-entity optimization problem and then apply a linear programming package. We have found that a better approach is to apply Newton-Raphson methods to a formulation of the model as a set of equations depicting purely competitive behaviour in all productive activities. A special feature of this paper is an integration of the model's results, obtained under the assumption of certainty, with data on weather-induced variations in streamflow and demand. Using Monte Carlo techniques we assess the risks of water shortages associated with the investment and pricing strategies that our model indicates.
Manual for Economic Data Collection in Pharmacotherapy Trials for Heroin Dependence
Creators: name: Gospodarevskaya, Elena
name: Harris, Anthony H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of the manual is to assist with the data collection necessary for economic evaluation of new opioid withdrawal and substitution therapies within a number of clinical trials in Australia. The trials are designed to evaluate a range of therapies and take place in a number of different settings. Section 1 of the manual provides a brief introduction to the framework of economic evaluation. Sections 2 and 3 discuss the principles underpinning the data collection for outcomes and costs respectively and provide some worked examples. Section 4 provides a number of sample data collection forms, which can be used in a range of settings.
Inter-organizational Network Participation: Implications for Global Human Resource Development
Creators: name: Fenwick, Marilyn
name: De Cieri, Helen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A qualitative study of a research and development network of major global mining companies is reported in this article. In this international inter-organizational network, emergent global human resource development and, particularly, career development challenges for participating individuals and organizations are analyzed. These challenges arise from two important dimensions of present and future network effectiveness, the boundary activities of network centrality, and building and maintaining optimal trust. Implications for future research and practice are identified.
Governance in the UK: fuzzy federalism
Creators: name: Coghill, Ken
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper Dr Coghill argues that the complexity of modern British society and the uncertain environments in which governments operate require new approaches to governance. Whitehall must question whether good governance is increasingly endangered by impossible contradictions between the desire for central control over events and the stifling impact of centralism on the innovation required to provide the responsive rule which is at the heart of democracy. The implications and potential benefits of approaching U K society as a decentralised complex adaptive system rather than basing governance on centralised control from Westminster are examined and possible areas for research discussed.
Lang, Uwe Michael, Volverse hacia el Señor: orientación en la plegaria litúrgica, col. «Teología sistemática», Ediciones Cristiandad, Madrid, 2007
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 2 (2007): Cristianismo, sexualidade e educação sexual
Forecasting age-specific breast cancer mortality using functional data models
Creators: name: Erbas, Bircan
name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Gertig, Dorota M
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Accurate estimates of future age-specific incidence and mortality are critical for allocation of resources to breast cancer control programs and evaluation of screening programs. The purpose of this study is to apply functional data analysis techniques to model age-specific breast cancer mortality time trends, and forecast entire age-specific mortality function using a state-space approach. We use yearly unadjusted breast cancer mortality rates in Australia, from 1921 to 2001 in 5 year age groups (45 to 85+). We use functional data analysis techniques where mortality and incidence are modeled as curves with age as a functional covariate varying by time. Data is smoothed using nonparametric smoothing methods then decomposed (using principal components analysis) to estimate basis functions that represent the functional curve. Period effects from the fitted functions are forecast then multiplied by the basis functions, resulting in a forecast mortality curve with prediction intervals. To forecast, we adopt a state-space approach and an extension of the Pegels modeling framework for selecting among exponential smoothing methods. Overall, breast cancer mortality rates in Australia remained relatively stable from 1960 to the late 1990's but declined over the last few years. A set of K=4 basis functions minimized the mean integrated squared forecasting error (MISFE) and accounts for 99.3% of variation around the mean mortality curve. 20 year forecast suggest a continual decline at a slower rate and stabilize beyond 2010 and by age, forecasts show a decline in all age groups with the greatest decline in older women. We illustrate the utility of a new modelling and forecasting approach to model breast cancer mortality rates using a functional model of age. The methods have the potential to incorporate important covariates such as Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and interventions to represent mammographic screening. This would be particularly useful for evaluating the impact of screening on mortality and incidence from breast cancer.
title: Campus Racial Climate and Mental Well-being Among College Students: The Role of Feeling Valued, Sense of Belonging, and Racial Saliency
Creators: name: Kandlur, Raksha
name: Glenn, Catherine
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Around 73% of students report experiencing a mental health crisis during college, and 64% report dropping out for mental health reasons. Research indicates that negative campus racial climate contributes to poor mental health, but few studies have examined factors that may moderate this impact. The current study examined potential moderators of the impact of negative campus racial climate on students’ mental health, including whether: (1) feeling valued and (2) belongingness at school may buffer, or reduce, risk and (3) higher racial saliency may increase risk. Data were drawn from the Healthy Minds Study, administered to a random sample of 4,000 students at Old Dominion University in March 2021.

Of the 413 students who completed the survey, 167 (40.4%) rated the climate at school for persons from various racial/ethnic backgrounds to be “disrespectful” or “very disrespectful”. Feeling valued and belonging at school buffered this risk. Specifically, compared to students who did not feel valued at school, those who felt valued had lower anxiety.
How Should We Decide Which Ethical Preferences to Include in The Economic Analyses of The Health Sector
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It is argued that orthodox economics has failed to acknowledge the extent to which ethical judgments permeate evaluation and policy advice. It has likewise failed to make explicit and debate the prior issue of how we should approach the task of evaluating ethical theories - that is, the ethical assumptions which underpin policy advice. Three such approaches are discussed. These are: (i) the approach implied in economic theory (`Platonic orthodoxy'); (ii) the approval adopted by the ethics profession (`Ethics') and (iii) an approach labelled `Empirical Ethics'. It is concluded that the latter is the most secure and rewarding basis for theory and policy. The argument draws upon several empirical studies which are summarised.
Illanes, José Luis, Tratado de Teología Espiritual, col. «Biblioteca de Teología», EUNSA, Pamplona, 2007
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 2 (2007): Cristianismo, sexualidade e educação sexual
Conventional Model Update for Rotational Deformation
Creators: name: Ries, John
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2017
Subjects: Rotational deformation
Mean pole
IERS Geodetic conventions

description: Presentation to the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 2017.
description: Rotational deformation (also called the “pole tide”) is the deformation resulting from the centrifugal effect of polar motion on the solid earth and ocean, which manifests itself as variations in ocean heights, in the gravity field and in surface displacements. The model for rotational deformation assumes a primarily elastic response of the Earth to the centrifugal potential at the annual and Chandler periods and applies body tide Love numbers to the polar motion after removing the mean pole. The original model was conceived when the mean pole was moving (more or less) linearly, largely in response to glacial isostatic adjustment. In light of the significant variations in the mean pole due to present-day ice mass losses, an ‘appropriately’ filtered mean pole was adopted for the conventional model, so that the longer period variations in the mean pole were not included in the rotational deformation model. However, the elastic Love numbers should be applicable to longer period variations as well, and only the secular (i.e. linear) mean pole should be removed. A model for the linear mean pole is recommended based on a linear fit to the IERS C01 time series spanning 1900 to 2015: in milliarcsec, Xp = 55.0+1.677*dt and Yp = 320.5+3.460*dt where dt=(t-t0), t0=2000.0 and assuming a year=365.25 days. The consequences of an updated model for rotational deformation for site motion and the gravity field are illustrated.
Schönborn, Cardinal Christoph, Hasard ou plan de Dieu? La création et l’évolution vues à la lumière de la Foi et de la Raison, Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2007
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 2 (2007): Cristianismo, sexualidade e educação sexual
Der Einfluss subjektiver Theorien von Lehrpersonen und Eltern auf den Integrationsprozess von Kindern mit Autismus-Spektrum-Störung in der Regelklasse
Creators: name: Feichtinger, Fabienne
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Vertiefungsrichtung Schulische Heilpädagogik
Autismus-Spektrum-Störung
Integration
Regelklasse
Masterarbeit

description: In dieser Arbeit wird den subjektiven Theorien von Lehrpersonen und Eltern nachgegangen und wie sie sich auf den Integrationsprozess der Kinder mit Autismus-Spektrum-Störung (ASS) in integrativen Regelklassen auswirken. Dazu wurden von drei Kindern mit ASS je eine Lehrperson und ein Elternteil zu ihren subjektiven Theorien hinsichtlich der Integration des Kindes mit ASS in der Regelklasse befragt. Ziel war es, mittels einer Gegenüberstellung von subjektiven Theorien deren Einfluss auf den Integrationsprozess herauszuarbeiten. Aus den Ergebnissen lassen sich Empfehlungen ableiten: Die SHP sollte einerseits eine verstärkt beratende Rolle hinsichtlich einer positiven Beziehungsgestaltung zwischen Lehrpersonen und Eltern einnehmen und andererseits ihren Einfluss auf die Lehrpersonen zur Weiterentwicklung adaptiver Lehrkompetenzen verstärken.
Who Have Been Asked to Value What? A Review of 54 `Willingness-to-Pay' Surveys in Health Care
Creators: name: Olsen, Jan Abel
name: Smith, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The aims of this paper is to outline three types of arguments put forward that WTP is superior to QALYs, and to review how empirical studies adhere to their implications. The first, that WTP is the `theoretically correct' approach, because of its foundation in welfare economics, is being dismissed, as it is no argument. The second, that WTP imposes no restrictions as to which attributes of a programme people are allowed to value, makes sense. The paper will therefore focus on an inquiry into the scenario descriptions in the surveys. The third argument is the cost-benefit view that WTP can assist in improving social efficiency. We argue that it is impossible to infer from a partial WTP study (38 studies were partial) that a new programme should be funded from a given total health care budget. This we cannot tell without knowing the opportunity costs in terms of the benefits forgone from the displaced programmes.
Rocha, José Júlio Mendes, O teatro da consciência. Uma leitura teológico-moral da obra de Raul Brandão, col. «Biblioteca Humanística e Teológica», UCP-Porto, 2006
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 2 (2007): Cristianismo, sexualidade e educação sexual
Electricity Consumption, Employment and Real Income in Australia
Creators: name: Narayan, Paresh Kumar
name: Smyth, Russell
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper has two objectives. The first is to ascertain whether there is a stationary, long run equilibrium relationship between electricity consumption, employment and income in Australia. The second is to examine the temporal causality between these variables. Our main findings are that electricity consumption, employment and real income are cointegrated and that in the long run employment and real income Granger cause electricity consumption, while in the short-run there is weak unidirectional Granger causality running from income to electricity consumption and from income to employment. The paper discusses the implications of these findings for energy conservation policies in Australia, which are designed to reduce greenhouse emissions and to move towards generating electricity from renewable resources.
Theobald, Christoph, Le christianisme comme style. Une manière de faire de la théologie en postmodernité, coll. «Cogitatio Fidei», Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2007
Creators: name: Duque, João
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 2 (2007): Cristianismo, sexualidade e educação sexual
Central Provident Fund and Savings in Singapore: A Cointegration and Error Correction Analysis
Creators: name: Wickramanayake, J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This empirical study examines how compulsory social security savings channelled through the Central Provident Fund (CPF), along with the demographic profile (dependency ratio) impact on aggregate savings in Singapore. Annual time-series data for the period 1970-1994 was used in this study. After testing the relevant variables for unit roots, cointegration between real CPF savings, other forms of aggregate savings in real terms, real GDP and the dependency ratio was found to exist using an unrestricted error-correction model (UECM). Econometric results generated in this study show that CPF savings and real GDP have significant positive effects on the generation of all forms of savings in real terms. The dependency ratio was found to exert a substantial negative impact on savings. These results indicate that it is possible for countries to increase retirement savings and mobilise domestic resources increasingly for development.
Smart Cards: Some Social Implications
Creators: name: Crowley, Michael John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines some of the social implications of Smartcard technology in the context of its role as a retail payment mechanism and explores some of the consequences in relation to what, in the future, may come to constitute money. It draws heavily on the research undertaken on behalf the Commission for the Future, by the School's Centre of Electronic Commerce, and a truncated version of it appears as Chapter 6 of the Centre's Report to the Commission.
Additional file 1 of “They want you to know who they really are inside of the old visage”—biographical storytelling as a methodological tool to explore emotional challenges in old age
Creators: name: Fang, Chao
name: Comery, Alastair
name: Carr, Sam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Data and Results
Creators: name: Keweloh, Arno Ingraban
name: Weissgerber, Sophia C.
name: Kiunke, Felix
name: Fahle, Johanna
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2019
Subjects: CREP
Epistemic Intuitions
Folk Epistemology
Justified True Belief
Knowledge
Multilab
Multilevel Modeling
Replication
Social Cognition

description: Will be added after data collection
Local rule theory: an ecological model of organizational stability and change
Creators: name: Haslett, Tim
name: Osborne, Charles
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Theories of organizational change processes must necessarily be predicated on theories of organizational stability. This paper develops local rule theory which suggests that patterns of behaviour, generated at an individual or group level, are a major determinant of organizational stability. Local rule theory further suggests that human behaviour should be viewed from an ecological perspective where two key determinants of behaviour are competition and co-evolution. The central metaphor in this context is a fitness landscape where adaptive behaviours create peaks, which constitute increasing optimization of payoffs, for individuals and groups. Such adaptive behaviours are responses to the immediate and local demands of the environment. In this respect, local rule theory suggests that locally determined behaviour may be a significant determinant of organizational performance and stability. The organizing principle in the development of local rules is a bottom-up process of emergence where successful local rules will spread to wide localities and where the interaction between sets of local rules remains stable over time. Evidence from two organizations is cited in support of local rule theory. The first uses a catastrophe model to demonstrate the nonlinearities underlying stable patterns of behaviour arising from local rules and the second uses a System Dynamics computer simulation to demonstrate the effects that a set of local rules has on organizational performance. The paper concludes with some suggestions of the dynamic nature of the interaction between domains of local rules based an ecological model.
Business Process Reengineering: Application and Success in Australia
Creators: name: O'Neill, Peter
name: Sohal, Amrik S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper presents the results of a study undertaken in Australia which investigated the extent of Australian thinking and experience with Business Process Reengineering (BPR). The data for the study was gathered through a postal questionnaire survey which was mailed to 535 of Australia's top businesses. The findings of the survey are compared with earlier studies on BPR conducted in the United States and the United Kingdom/Europe. The hypothesis that "expectant business process change is not significantly related to business improvements along dimensions of benefits and corporate impact" is tested. Finally the paper provides recommendations for mangers which are seen as important for successfully implementation of BPR projects.
Trust and a "certain type of relationship"
Creators: name: Davis, Patricia
name: McLean, Jeffrey J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper explores the issue of trust within workplace relationships, from the perspective of the ideas of Carl Rogers. While Rogers was originally focused upon therapeutic or helping relationships, the characteristics of effective relationships are considered generic and can be easily applied to any set of relationships within the wider workplace. It is maintained that the essential ingredient, the glue if you will, to enable workplace relationships to be effective is the trust that exists between self and others within the relationship. Trust is integral to Rogers' "helping relationship, enabling each individual to "find their inner wisdom and confidence" to make "increasingly healthier and more constructive choices" (Kirschenbaum Henderson, 1990). As it could be suggested that any system, including an organization, is nothing but a set of relationships, it is imperative that the process of helping others to learn and operate through the medium of trusting relationship (Rogers' "certain type of relationship") is seen as mandatory for success. The interesting dichotomy is that abounding within the workplace today is control, high competition and individuality; a culture within which the "certain type of relationship" as suggested by Rogers is unlikely to flourish.
Para uma interpretação da ‘Sequência’ das Bem-Aventuranças (Mt 5,3-16): o intertexto bíblico (I)
Creators: name: Hipólito, Isaías
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 2 (2007): Cristianismo, sexualidade e educação sexual
Alves, Ângelo, Prolegómenos a uma Ontologia pluridimensional: dialéctica, ascensional, plenificante, col. «Estudos Gerais – Série Universitária», Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, Lisboa, 2005
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
The olive branch or the sword? : unraveling the riddle of diplomacy
Creators: name: Corley, Julia Katherine
name: 0000-0003-0686-9607
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2020
Subjects: Diplomacy
Negotiation
Simulation
Sudan
South Sudan

description: Using the techniques of narrative journalism, this nonfiction long-form story chronicles the International Strategic Crisis Negotiation Exercise that took place at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin on February 6-8, 2020. The report follows Master of Global Policy Studies students through the 48-hour simulated international summit centered on the ongoing conflict between Sudan and South Sudan, illustrating the issues fueling the war as well as the key components of diplomatic negotiation.
МЕТОДИКА ИЗУЧЕНИЯ ФОНЕТИКИ, ГРАФИКИ, ОРФОЭПИИ.
Creators: name: Гиёсова, Василя
name: Туйчибаева, Наргиза
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Статья посвящена разработке эффективной методики освоения основ русского произношения, письма и правильного звучания речи. Рассматриваются ключевые аспекты фонетического анализа звукового строя языка, особенности русской графической системы и принципы правильной постановки ударений согласно нормам литературного произношения. Представлены практические рекомендации для педагогов, направленные на повышение качества усвоения материала учащимися различных возрастных групп. Особое внимание уделено использованию современных образовательных технологий и интерактивных методов, способствующих развитию навыков аудирования, говорения и грамотного написания текста. Описаны упражнения и задания, стимулирующие осознанность восприятия устной и письменной речи, а также предлагаются пути решения проблем, связанных с акцентуацией, дикцией и артикуляционной техникой учащихся.
Reformulating Critical Values for the Bounds F- statistics Approach to Cointegration: An Application to the Tourism Demand Model for Fiji
Creators: name: Narayan, Paresh Kumar
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the short-and long-run relationships between visitor arrivals to Fiji, real disposable incomes, and own-hotel price and substitute hotel price for the period 1970-2000, using the bounds testing approach to cointegration and error correction models. The paper's main contribution is that it generates bounds F-statistic critical values specific to the study's sample size (31 observations) and finds that critical values are 35.5% higher than those reported in Pesaran et al. (2001) for 1000 observations and 17.1% higher than those reported in Pesaran and Pesaran (1997) for 500 observations for a model with 4 regressors and an intercept. In the light of this, we tabulate critical values for sample sizes ranging from 30 observations to 80 observations, which will be usefull for future researchers using the bounds testing approach to cointegration.
Lopes, Dinis da Silva, Monografia de São Miguel de Laundos – Póvoa de Varzim, col. «Na linha do horizonte – Biblioteca Poveira» 11, Ed. da Câmara Municipal da Póvoa de Varzim, 2006
Creators: name: Soares, Franquelim Neiva
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 1 (2007): Transmissão da fé
Algorithmic or Human Source? Examining Relative Hostile Media Effect With a Transformer‐Based Framework
Creators: name: Jia, Chenyan
name: Liu, Ruibo
Publisher: name: Cogitatio Press
Year: 2021
Subjects: algorithms
automated journalism
computational method
hostile media effect
source credibility

description: The relative hostile media effect suggests that partisans tend to perceive the bias of slanted news differently depending on whether the news is slanted in favor of or against their sides. To explore the effect of an algorithmic vs. human source on hostile media perceptions, this study conducts a 3 (author attribution: human, algorithm, or human-assisted algorithm) x 3 (news attitude: pro-issue, neutral, or anti-issue) mixed factorial design online experiment (N = 511). This study uses a transformer-based adversarial network to auto-generate comparable news headlines. The framework was trained with a dataset of 364,986 news stories from 22 mainstream media outlets. The results show that the relative hostile media effect occurs when people read news headlines attributed to all types of authors. News attributed to a sole human source is perceived as more credible than news attributed to two algorithm-related sources. For anti-Trump news headlines, there exists an interaction effect between author attribution and issue partisanship while controlling for people’s prior belief in machine heuristics. The difference of hostile media perceptions between the two partisan groups was relatively larger in anti-Trump news headlines compared with pro-Trump news headlines.
IRSA 2021 : Tagungsband, Proceedings : 3rd International Railway Symposium Aachen, Aachen, Germany, 21-23 November 2021
Creators: name: de Doncker, Rik W.
name: Nießen, Nils
name: Friesen, Nadine
name: Schindler, Christian
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2022

description: 3rd International Railway Symposium Aachen, IRSA 2021, Aachen, Germany, 21 Nov 2021 - 23 Nov 2021; Aachen : RWTH Aachen University 1 Online-Ressource (592 Seiten) : Illustrationen, Diagramme (2022).
description: Published by RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
The impact of entrepreneurial orientation on the Australian automotive components industry
Creators: name: Loos, Justin Adrian Anthony
name: Coulthard, Max
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study found that all Lumpkin and Dess' (1996) Entrepreneurial Orientation EO dimensions impacted on firm performance within the Australian Automotive Components industry. Proactiveness was identified as the dominant dimension in terms of improving firm performance though it followed a reactive approach rather than providing first mover advantage. Competitive aggressiveness represented the need to continually monitor and control the supply base whilst risk taking met the definition of calculated and moderated types. Innovation was driven by quickly responding to customer demands and having in-house research and development units. There was difficulty in assessing autonomy due in part to most of the organisations surveyed being constrained by overseas boards.
A novel way to improve the labour market attachment of older Australian workers
Creators: name: Hanley, Glennis
name: McKeown, Tui
name: O'Connell, Megan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper investigates a novel way of improving the labour market attachment of older Australian workers. The paper employs a transitional labour market approach to investigate the best method governments may use to support people to actively engage in skill development. The paper looks to the U.K. Sweden and the U.S to examine individual learning accounts in addressing skill gaps and supporting older workers to acquire new skills. The paper argues that additional funding for training needs to come from industry, individuals and government. The paper proposes that a learning account pilot be run in the Victorian public service to establish learning accounts as a best practice model.
Combining Choice Set Partition Tests for the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives Property: Size Properties in the Four Alternatives Setting
Creators: name: Brooks, Robert D.
name: Fry, Tim R. L.
name: Harris, Mark N.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper conducts a Monte Carlo analysis of the size properties of combining choice set partition tests of the independence of irrelevant alternatives property in the Logit model in the four alternatives setting. Most of the tests have poor size properties. The exception is a version of the test proposed by Small and Hsiao (1985).
Fatigue Analysis of a Gallop-based Piezoelectric Wind Energy Harvester and Strategies for Long-Term Performance Optimization
Creators: name: Trostle, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: galloping
energy harvesting
piezoelectric
optimization
aeroelasticity
fatigue
simulation
monte carlo

description: With great demand for novel forms of renewable energy, there has been substantial interest in wind energy harvesting based on aeroelastic excitations with the aid of piezoelectric materials. While most research has been dedicated to optimizing power output [17], relatively little research has been done on the device’s behavior in response to fatigue, which may be a key failure mode given its persistent cyclic loading. A Python program was created to simulate a galloping piezoelectric wind energy harvesting (GPEH) under varying wind conditions in real time, monitoring performance metrics until fatigue failure. This can generate Monte Carlo distributions for optimizing GPEH system parameters for durability. This could then determine if such a form of renewable energy is currently feasible and if so, provide a database of effective materials for the device’s implementation. In tandem with this, analytical optimization methods were tested, but remain partially inconclusive, requiring better dimensional analysis to simplify the myriad of system parameters. However, initial runs of the code still provided useful data, identifying an optimal performance state of all those tested, indicating that the tradeoff between performance and durability is not either-or.
Lima, José da Silva, A peregrinação. Percursos e Palavra, col. «Estudos Gerais – Série Universitária», Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, Lisboa, 2007
Creators: name: Duque, João
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2007

description: Theologica, v. 42 n. 2 (2007): Cristianismo, sexualidade e educação sexual