cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agricultural Communication Practices on Increasing Wheat Production in Ethiopia: Amhara Region in Focus
Creators: name: Hussen, Ahmed
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2024

description: The study focused on agricultural communication practices to increase wheat production in Ethiopia: the case of the Amhara region. An interpretative research design was used to understand the current ways farmers are provided information by the government gave farmers information to increase wheat production. A qualitative research approach was used to analyze documents about Ethiopia's agricultural extension strategy and the farmer interview. To select the sample for the study, the researcher used purposeful sampling. Interviews, document analysis, and discourse analysis were used to gather reliable data. The study finding indicated that the government did not employ a different way of providing information to increase wheat production than other agricultural production. Therefore, development agents are the primary and direct information providers for farmers, and the mass media are the secondary and indirect information providers for farmers. To increase wheat production and ensure food security, the government's information provision should be better and updated. Furthermore, since the era is the age of information, the government should directly use the mass media to spread agricultural knowledge and information and make it available to farmers.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 8 No 1 (2023)
Evaluating the Perceived Role of Radio in Women's Empowerment: the Case of Bonga FM 97.4
Creators: name: Tilahun, Getachew
name: Tesema, Demelash
name: Ali, Hasiya
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2024

description: The main objective of this study was to evaluate the perceived role of radio in empowering women in a rural setting. The study utilized a rural radio forum that specifically targeted women listeners in two districts within the Kaffa Zone. A mixed research approach was adopted, employing a descriptive survey design and using questionnaire, interviews, and focus group discussions (FGD) as data gathering tools. Relevant theories such as developmental media theory and diffusion of innovation theory provided theoretical and conceptual frameworks related to the research topic. The study found that Bonga FM 97.4 radio played a significant role in promoting women's social, economic, and political benefits through various programs that raised awareness among both organized group of listeners and regular women listeners. Consequently, attitudinal, behavioral, and practical changes were observed among the women audiences in their socioeconomic and political domains. However, the study also identified areas for improvement. Recommendations are forwarded for Bonga FM, including conducting investigative journalism to solve women's problems, particularly in the field of justice. Challenges related to delays in court processes, lack of fairness in decision making, and problems with decision execution were highlighted as areas that require attention from the radio station. Additionally, there is a need to further strengthen women's participation in live radio programs.
description: Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 8 No 1 (2023)
The international comparison project as a source of private consumption data for a global input-output model
Creators: name: Meagher, G. A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In 1989 a major project entitled "Strategies for Environmentally Sound Economic Development" was inaugurated under the sponsorship of the United Nations. This project is designed to identify ways of alleviating pressures on the global environment and, at the same time, raise the standard of living of the poorest countries. The central component of its analytical framework is a dynamic global input-output model (GIOM) that describes trade between 15 regions in about 50 commodities, taking as its starting point the well known 1977 World Input-Output Model of Leontief, Carter and Petri. The purpose of the present paper is twofold. Firstly, it describes a contribution to the compilation of a database for the GIOM. In particular, it draws on data collected by the United Nations' International Comparison Project (ICP) to provide estimates of private consumption expenditure for 1980, the base period for the model. Secondly, it uses these estimates as a case study to examine the implications of using different price systems for each country, rather than a common set of prices, to determine expenditures on composite commodities. In preparing data for multisectoral global models, it is common practice to collect expenditure data evaluated in local (national) prices and convert to world prices using published exchange rates. The analysis of this paper suggests that, when commodities produced in different countries are treated as perfect substitutes in the model, the practice may seriously compromise the model's results.
Player sales, trade of players and draft choices and competitive balance
Creators: name: Booth, Ross
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the profitability of Australia's four major banks, covering the time period 1985 to 2001. The level of profitability achieved by the banks across this period is determined and individual components of the profit rate examined. The contribution of efficiency gains and growth in non-interest income to profitability is discussed and the extent to which these gains have been passed on to consumers is measured. Apart from a period in the early 1990's banks have been able to maintain a relatively consistent level of profitability. However, the maintenance of these levels of profitability following on from their Player Sales, Trade of Players and Draft Choices and Competitive Balance;Sports economists such as Fort and Quirk (1995) argue that in professional team sports leagues in the US, if team owners try to maximise profits, unbalanced trades of draft choices and players can provide a substitute for cash sales of players and therefore also undermine the effectiveness of a player draft in increasing competitive balance (evenness of competition). This theoretical paper extends the authors' model by analysing the effect of cash sales and trades in a league where team owners are win maximisers (that is, try to win as many games as possible subject to breaking-even financially), such as in the Australian Football League (AFL) where clubs are predominantly member-owned. In these circumstances, cash sales will undo the effects of a player draft only if wage levels are relatively high, and then only partially. Where the cash sale of player contracts is banned, it is shown that if wage levels are relatively high, unbalanced trade of player talent can act as a (partial) substitute for cash sales when team owners are either profit maximisers or win maximisers. The role of a salary cap in preventing unbalanced trades is discussed, and whether the circumstances that would lead to unbalanced trades in a league of win-maximising teams should be of concern.
የጥያቄ-መልስ ትስስር ብልሃት የተማሪዎችን አንብቦ የመረዳትና የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነት የማሳደግ ሚና
Creators: name: Girma, Tsegaye
name: Alemu, Marew
name: Meka, Sefa
Publisher: name: Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2024

description: የዚህ ጥናት ዓላማ የጥያቄ-መልስ ትስስር ብልሃት በተማሪዎች አንብቦ የመረዳትና የግለብቃት እምነት ላይ ያለውን ሚና መመርመር ነበር። ጥናቱ የተካሄደው ፍትነትመሰል ቅድመትምህርትና ድኅረትምህርት ፈተና ባለቁጥጥር ቡድን (quasi-experimental pretest-posttest comparison group) ስልትን መሰረት በማድረግ ነው። የጥናቱ ተሳታፊዎች በ2015 ዓ.ም በባሕር ዳር ከተማ በቁልቋል ሜዳ የመጀመሪያ ደረጃ ትምህርትቤት ከነበሩት ሦስት የሰባተኛ ክፍል መማሪያ ክፍሎች ውስጥ በተራ የዕጣ ንሞና ዘዴ የተመረጡ 110 የኹለት ክፍል (55 የቁጥጥር፣ 55 የፍትነት ቡድን) ተማሪዎች ናቸው። ለ12 ሳምንታት (ለ12 ክፍለጊዜ) የፍትነት ቡድን ተማሪዎች በጥያቄ-መልስ ትስስር ብልሃት፣ የቁጥጥር ቡድኑ ደግሞ በመደበኛው ሥርዐተትምህርት መሰረት አንብቦ የመረዳት ትምህርት ተምረዋል። አንብቦ በመረዳት ፈተናና በግለብቃት እምነት መጠይቅ የተሳታፊዎች ቅድመትምህርትና ድኅረትምህርት አንብቦ የመረዳት ችሎታና የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነት ተለክቷል። በቁጥጥርና በፍትነት ቡድኖች መካከል ያለው ፆታ ተመጣጣኝነት በካይ ካሬ፣ የዕድሜና የቀደመ ዕውቀት አቻነት በባእድ ናሙና ቲ-ቴስት ተፈትሾ ኹለቱ ቡድኖች አቻ መሆናቸው ተረጋግጧል። የተገኙ መረጃዎችም በመዋቅራዊ ስሌት ሞዴል (Structural equation model) የSPSS AMOS 23 ሶፍትዌርን በመጠቀም ተተንትነዋል። የትንተናው ውጤትም የጥያቄ-መልስ ትስስር ብልሃት በተማሪዎችን አንብቦ የመረዳት ችሎታ ላይ (β = .567, t= 3.431, P= .001) እና የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነት ላይ (β = .229, t= 2.135, P= .033) ቀጥተኛ፣ የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነትን በማጎልበት አንብቦ በመረዳት ችሎታ ላይ ደግሞ (B= 1.074, t= 1.888, p= .010) ቀጥተኛ ያልሆነ ተጽእኖ እንዳለው (P<.05) አረጋግጧል። ይህም የጥያቄ-መልስ ትስስር ብልሃት በአማርኛ ቋንቋ አንብቦ የመረዳት ችሎታንና የማንበብ ግለብቃት እምነትን እንደሚያሻሽል አመላክቷል።
description: Ethiopian Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 8 No 1 (2023)
Adoption and modification of human resource management ideas (HRMI) in organizations: the impact of strategy, organizational contingencies, and national culture
Creators: name: Mamman, Aminu
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The paper has raised the issue of why organizations introduce human resource management ideas (HRMI). In particular, it attempts to explain why managers sometimes modify HRMI. It is argued in the paper that attitudes and behavior of managers towards novel ideas cannot be divorced from organizational strategy as well as their cultural orientations. Particularly, organizational contingencies such as resource availability, politics and industry also impact on the adoption and modification of HRMI.
Changing Modes of Work
Creators: name: McKeown, Tui
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The advent of globalisation and decreasing government labour market within the Western World have wreaked havoc with the concept of what has been thought of as traditional employment. As work becomes increasingly casual, part-time and temporary it also results in a workforce that is increasingly dynamic and fluid features which present an ever-increasing challenges for organisations to manage. This paper investigates some of these challenges within the professional contractor workforce (a working relationship that typifies the speed of the change from the traditional and ongoing employer/employee relationship). Implications for the individual, the organisation and organisational culture as well as future research needs are discussed.
MOESM6 of Immune cell extracellular vesicles and their mitochondrial content decline with ageing
Creators: name: Zhang, Xin
name: Hubal, Monica
name: Kraus, Virginia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 6: Figure S5. Univariable regressions between age and the expression levels of surface markers in the subsets of plasma EVs of HCs.
Asymmetric Information and the Composition of Foreign Investment
Creators: name: Fausten, Dietrich K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper seeks to apply to the recent foreign investment experience of Mainland China some insights from the macro finance approach to foreign investment. Specifically, potential implications of information asymmetries for the choice of investment type, and hence for the composition of foreign investment inflows, are examined. The strong bias in favor of FDI in newly emerging market economies dissipates with the progressive development of the domestic financial sector. The association between host country financial development and the share of portfolio flows in foreign investment raises the question whether this relation can be systematically exploited by discriminatory policies for the purpose of promoting financial development.
Public relations orientation: the construct and its dimensions
Creators: name: Black, Leeora D.
name: Hartel, Charmine E. J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The concept of public relations orientation (PRO) is advanced as a way of conceptualizing public relations practice and linking differences in practice to differences in public relations effectiveness. Public relations orientation is defined as the possible philosophical stances organizations adopt when relating with publics. Public relations orientation, therefore, embraces the range of public relations goals, behaviours and transactions pursued by organizations. The three aspects of PRO were elaborated through analysis of interviews conducted with managers of a range of large Australian companies. Sub-dimensions for each category were identified and linked to the literature. The article concludes by discussing how PRO relates to the strengths and liabilities an organization has with respect to license to operate, reputation, and business performance.
MOESM7 of Immune cell extracellular vesicles and their mitochondrial content decline with ageing
Creators: name: Zhang, Xin
name: Hubal, Monica
name: Kraus, Virginia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 7: Table S2. Spearman correlations between age and the expression levels (percentage, %; number, #; MFI) of MitoTracker Deep Red FM in gated plasma EV subpopulations.
National Patterns of Temporary Employment: The Distinctive Case of Casual Employment in Australia
Creators: name: Campbell, Iain
name: Burgess, John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Globalisation is sometimes treated as a dominant and homogenising influence on national patterns of employment. Employment is indeed a site of major change in the current period. However, the empirical evidence points both to the persistence of substantial diversity and indeed in many respects to an increasing divergence in patterns of employment at the national level. One important example of divergence, which has attracted attention because of its potential for consolidating new workforce divisions, is the pattem in the development of non-permanent forms of waged employment. This paper examines the example of casual employment in Australia and seeks to situate this example in terms of the current international discussion of nonpermanent waged employment, ie 'temporary' employment. In the panorama of diverse national patterns of temporary employment, Australia appears to occupy a distinctive and indeed extreme position. In most OECD countries temporary employment remains a relatively minor phenomenon, and only in a few countries is there any clear trend of growth in its relative significance. But in Australia casual employment, the main form of non-permanent waged employment, constitutes a major and rapidly growing component of the workforce. This paper introduces the category and practice of casual employment in Australia, and it draws out the similarities and differences with the category and practice of temporary employment in other OECD countries, including in particular the countries of the European Union. It examines the profile of casual employment in Australia, and it seeks to identify the features that appear distinctive in cross-national comparison. It concludes that casual employment is distinctive by virtue of its weighting to part-time status, its concentration in low-skill occupational groups, its concentration in small workplaces in the private sector, its more even spread amongst all age groups and amongst both men and women (with the fastest rates of growth being for young workers and for prime age men), and its markedly precarious character The distinctive case of casual employment underiines the need for a conceptual framework that can explore the way in which employer calculations and choices are mediated by institutional factors at a national level.
A Pile of Rocks and a Hole in the Ground: Heritage Tourism and Interpretation of the Gold Rushes at the Mount Alexander Diggings
Creators: name: Frost, Warwick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Mount Alexander Diggings is a series of 33 linked Gold Rush sites at Castlemaine and Maldon in the state of Victoria, Australia. The sites are not reconstructions, a small number have been restored, but the majority are ruins - piles of rocks and holes in the ground. Interpretation is provided through either a guidebook, guided tours or (in a small number of cases) on site signage. The sites are nearly all on public land. In 2002 many of the sites were given National Parks status in the newly established Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park. The Victorian Government is currently engaged in developing a World Heritage Listing application for the area. Historic tourism focussing on the Gold Rushes in Australia is dominated by one large-scale tourist attraction. This is the Sovereign Hill Outdoor Museum at Ballarat, 90 kilometres south. This highly successful reconstruction of the Gold Rushes has the highest level of visitation of any tourist attraction in regional Victoria and of any historic attraction in Australia. Developments such as the Mount Alexander Diggings are strongly influenced by the style of Sovereign Hill (including its interpretation) and by its success as an attraction and as a focus of regional tourism for Ballarat. This study considers three main issues arising from the development of the Mount Alexander Diggings and its positioning in relation to Sovereign Hill. The first is the difficulty of providing meaningful interpretation for visitors to historic mining landscapes. The success of Sovereign Hill at Ballarat and of a number of historic gold towns throughout Australia has preconditioned tourists to associate the Gold Rushes with townscapes and buildings. However, in the case of the Mount Alexander Diggings few of its sites are standing buildings and many are in isolated bush areas. This study highlights how this contrast may be turned into an asset rather than a liability through appropriate interpretation. The second issue concerns the role of interpretation in adding depth to the experience of visiting historic sites of extreme environmental degradation. For the Mount Alexander Diggings this includes attempts to interpret what the landscape was like before 1851 and how the various features of the Gold Rushes changed it. The third issue relates to the characteristics, activities and expectations of those who visit such historic sites. Unfortunately in Australia there has been very little published research into the types of tourists who are attracted to historic areas. Here the study draws on preliminary results from the Mount Alexander Tourist Survey which commenced in 2001.
Coherent Predictions of Low Count Time Series
Creators: name: McCabe, B.P.M.
name: Martin, Gael M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The application of traditional forecasting methods to discrete count data yields forecasts that are non-coherent. That is, such methods produce non-integer point and interval predictions which violate the restrictions on the sample space of the integer variable. This paper presents a methodology for producing coherent forecasts of low count time series. The forecasts are based on estimates of the p-step ahead predictive mass functions for a family of distributions nested in the integer-valued first-order autoregressive (INAR(1)) class. The predictive mass functions are constructed from convolutions of the unobserved components of the model, with uncertainty associated with both parameter values and model specification fully incorporated. The methodology is used to analyse two sets of Canadian wage loss claims data.
Bayesian Exponential Smoothing
Creators: name: Forbes, Catherine S.
name: Snyder, Ralph D.
name: Sharmi, Roland G.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper, a Bayesian version of the exponential smoothing method of forecasting is proposed. The approach is based on a state space model containing only a single source of error for each time interval. This model allows an improvement to current practices in exponential smoothing by providing both point predictions and measures of the uncertainty surrounding them. The method proposed calculates posterior prediction and parameter distributions via Monte Carlo composition. We evaluate the method with a Monte Carlo simulation study and apply it to forecasting car part demand. The main advantage of the approach is that it produces exact, small sample prediction distributions. It also works very quickly on modern computing machines.
Change of corporate culture in the electricity supply industry
Creators: name: Petrovìc-Lazarevìc, Sonja
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The electricity supply industry (ESI) is the industry that significantly influences Gippsland regional growth. After privatisation ESI corporations face the challenge of competitive advantages. The socio-economic aspect of competitive advantage relates to the change of corporate culture. If the need to change the corporate culture is fully satisfied the ESI Corporation will face competitive advantage which should contribute to Gippsland economic prosperity.
Digital Humanities Questionnaire, survey of humanities researchers' recognition and opinions on the digital humanities database——Educators' database
Creators: name: Zhao, Xing
name: Li, Shuning
name: Xiao, Ya'nan
name: Huang, Haiqing
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: digital humanities database

description: This is a questionnaire used in a survey for humanities researchers' recognition and opinions on the digital humanities database——Educators’ database during the thesis work of Xing Zhao, Shuning Li, Ya'nan Xiao and Haiqing Huang.
description: Figure 3 source: https://lbs.amap.com/
Re-evaluating off-shoring - the role And influence of stakeholders
Creators: name: Nash, Brad
name: Holland, Peter
name: Pyman, Amanda
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The concept of outsourcing or 'off-shoring' has become a major topic of debate in countries including Australia, the UK and the USA, permeating political, economic and academic discussions. The focus has been on the export of skilled 'home country' jobs to more cost-effective regions on the one hand, versus the acceptance of a global market and an increase in skill and knowledge levels in developing markets on the other. This debate has been particularly evident in relation to the export of information technology and call centre operations to countries such as India, Mexico and China. Many commentators view such moves as representing a fait accompli, due to significant labour cost advantages and access to skilled labour and infrastructure in the global economy. However, there are a variety of issues associated with the process of outsourcing, including the more obvious issue of the loss of employment and the management (control) of the work, that permeate both the economic, social and moral decision making of management. In addition, organisational stakeholders can play an influential role in off-shoring decisions and their success or failure. Recent high profile cases in Australia and the US, illustrate not only the importance of involving stakeholders in decisions to outsource, but also their ability to reverse or reject the off-shoring route. This paper utilises stakeholder theory to explore the role and influence of stakeholders in organisational decisions to outsource.
TQM in Australia: Factors Critical to Success
Creators: name: Sohal, A. S.
name: Terziovski, M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Based on the results of three questionnaire surveys and a number of case studies, this paper discusses the status of Total Quality Management in Australian businesses. The results show that TQM is still largely implemented in the manufacturing/operations function with little progress in other functional areas. Overall, the popularity for TQM, statistical process control and quality circles has diminished. The obstacles to the adoption of quality management practices point to the short-term vision of Australian managers and the costs and benefits of TQM. The paper highlights the factors which influence the adoption of quality management practices and presents a profile of a TQM organization.
O'QUVCHILARNI MUSIQA IJROCHILIGIGA TAYYORLASHDA O'ZIGA BO'LGAN ISHONCHINI ORTTIRISHNING PEDAGOGIK-PSIXOLOGIK SHART-SHAROITLARINI TASHKIL ETISH BO'YICHA USLUBIY TAVSIYALAR
Creators: name: Karimov, Dilshod
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Mazkur maqolada asosiy ta’lim va qo’shimcha mashg’ulotlar va innovatsion texnologiyalardan to’g’ri foydalanish bilan birga, o’quvchilar o’z-o’zini anglashning yangi bosqichiga chiqish jarayoni haqida so’z yuritiladi. O’quvchi yoshlarning psixologik va fiziologik xususiyatlarini ijobiy tomonga o’zgartirish yo’lida musiqa va ijodiy harakatlarning samarasi katta ahamiyat kasb etishini asosiy vazifalari haqida ko’rsatmalar berib borilgan. Bunday sintezda o’quv jarayoni o’quvchilarning kundalik vazifasi bo’lib qoladi, u sevimli mashg’ulotlarga aylanadi. Maqola mavzusining dolzarbligi hozirgi davr yoshlarining ijodiy qobiliyatlarini rivojlantirishda pedagogika sohasi alohida ahamiyatga ega ekanligini ko’rsatadi.
MOESM8 of Immune cell extracellular vesicles and their mitochondrial content decline with ageing
Creators: name: Zhang, Xin
name: Hubal, Monica
name: Kraus, Virginia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 8: Table S3. Antibodies used for flow cytometry.
Facial age affects emotional expression decoding
Creators: name: Fölster, Mara
name: Hess, Ursula
name: Werheid, Katja
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: emotional facial expressions
subject: facial expression decoding
subject: older face
subject: aging
subject: own-age advantage
subject: response bias
subject: expressivity
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: Facial expressions convey important information on emotional states of our interaction partners. However, in interactions between younger and older adults, there is evidence for a reduced ability to accurately decode emotional facial expressions. Previous studies have often followed up this phenomenon by examining the effect of the observers' age. However, decoding emotional faces is also likely to be influenced by stimulus features, and age-related changes in the face such as wrinkles and folds may render facial expressions of older adults harder to decode. In this paper, we review theoretical frameworks and empirical findings on age effects on decoding emotional expressions, with an emphasis on age-of-face effects. We conclude that the age of the face plays an important role for facial expression decoding. Lower expressivity, age-related changes in the face, less elaborated emotion schemas for older faces, negative attitudes toward older adults, and different visual scan patterns and neural processing of older than younger faces may lower decoding accuracy for older faces. Furthermore, age-related stereotypes and age-related changes in the face may bias the attribution of specific emotions such as sadness to older faces.
Prospect and Markowitz Stochastic Dominance
Creators: name: Wong, Wing-Keung
name: Chan, Raymond H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Levy and Levy (2002, 2004) develop the Prospect and Markowitz stochastic dominance theory with S-shaped and reverse S-shaped utility functions for investors. In this paper, we extend Levy and Levy's Prospect Stochastic Dominance theory PSD and Markowitz Stochastic Dominance theory MSD to the first three orders and link the corresponding S-shaped and reverse S-shaped utility functions to the first three orders. We also provide experiments to illustrate each case of the MSD and PSD to the first three orders and demonstrate that the higher order MSD and PSD cannot be replaced by the lower order MSD and PSD. Prospect theory has been regarded as a challenge to the expected utility paradigm. Levy and Levy 2002 prove that the second order PSD and MSD satisfy the expected utility paradigm. In our paper we take Levy and Levy's results one step further by showing that both PSD and MSD of any order are consistent with the expected utility paradigm. Furthermore, we formulate some other properties for the PSD and MSD including the hierarchy that exists in both PSD and MSD relationships; arbitrage opportunities that exist in the first orders of both PSD and MSD; and that for any two prospects under certain conditions, their third order MSD preference will be `the opposite' of or `the same' as their counterpart third order PSD preference. By extending Levy and Levy's work, we provide investors with more tools for empirical analysis, with which they can identify the first order PSD and MSD prospects and discern arbitrage opportunities that could increase his/her utility as well as wealth and set up a zero dollar portfolio to make huge profit. Our tools also enable investors to identify the third order PSD and MSD prospects and make better choices.
Firm Compliance with Social Insurance Obligations where there is a Weak Surveillance and Enforcement Mechanism: Empirical Evidence from Shanghai
Creators: name: Maitra, Pushkar
name: Neilsen, Ingrid
name: Nyland, Chris
name: Smyth, Russell
name: Zhu, Cherrie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper draws on a unique data set collected in audits in 2001 and 2002 by the Bureau of Labour and Social Security in Shanghai to examine why firms in Shanghai comply or over-comply with social insurance obligations in a regulatory environment where the expected punishment for non-compliance is low. Drawing on Harrington (1988), we test two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that based on the first audit, the BOLSS will segment firms into low (non-aggressive) and high (aggressive) categories and those in the high category will be more likely to be re-audited. The second hypothesis is that if the identified non-complier is re-audited, it will be more likely to comply with its social insurance obligations in order to be returned from the high (aggressive) category into the low (non aggressive) category. Our first main finding is that firms found to be in non-compliance in the first audit in 2001 were moved into a separate violation category and the probability of being reaudited in 2002 was significantly higher if the firm was in that category. Our second main result is that across the board, firms which were reaudited continued to underpay in 2002 but the extent of underpayment was significantly reduced.
Organisational decline and renewal in an Austalian voluntary association
Creators: name: Minahan, Stella
name: Inglis, Loretta
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Voluntary associations are an integral form of social capital in democratic societies. These associations make vital contributions to community life. Many associations are successful in meeting the needs of their constituency and thrive over many decades. These long serving associations are not static vehicles, like all organisations, they are subject to internal and external pressures for change. It is a significant challenge for volunteer associations to maintain 'a watch' on the external environment whilst responding to the needs of their stakeholders. Previously vibrant associations may experience a decline in membership and social standing as a result of significant changes in society and technology. We track a nonprofit voluntary association from its inception in the 1960s through it responses to major environmental turbulence during the late 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s when the survival of the organisation was in doubt. We outline the changes that took place from 2003 that reorientated, revitalised and reshaped the association including a major shift in focus from services to members to services to the community. This study provides academics and practitioners with an appreciation of the forces of organisational decline and a case study of successful change in a voluntary association.
A new measure of entrepreneurial decision-making style
Creators: name: Gray, Judy
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study examines the development of a new measure: The Entrepreneurial Decision-Making Inventory to investigate a previously neglected area of research, namely entrepreneurial decision-making style. Questionnaires were distributed to 578 Victorian New Enterprise Incentive Scheme graduates resulting in 255 useable responses. Confirmatory factor analysis using AMOS 4.0 (Arbuckle and Wothke, 1999) indicated three distinct dimensions in the instrument: Convergent, Divergent, and Inventive decision-making styles. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to gather qualitative data which supported the confirmatory factor analysis and confirmed the multi-dimensional nature of the construct. The new instrument should assist researchers and practitioners to further understanding of the role of decision-making in small business development.
Economic Evaluation of Health Promotion: Friend or Foe?
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It is commonly believed that economic evaluation is hostile to health promotion and that the requirement for health programs to be cost effective will result in a distortion in the allocation of funds towards programs that can demonstrate short-run benefits as defined by inadequate outcome measures. The paper is concerned with the validity of this perception. It is argued that contrary to this belief economic evaluation has the potential for treating health promotional activities on an equal basis with other health interventions. The major obstacle to this does not arise from the theory of economics but from a lack of information about outcomes. Without this information any evaluation - economic or otherwise - is flawed. Two problems relating to the economic evaluation of health promotion activities are first considered. These are: (1) the potential for economic - or any other - evaluation to be counter-productive if applied to an `immature' project and (2) the discounting of future health benefits. The paper does acknowledge that the measurement of health outcomes is problematical. A fourfold classification of possible outcomes is suggested which is based upon a distinction between disease cure, health promotion, social justice and systemic change designed to promote either individual health or social welfare. The capacity of economics to incorporate these objectives is discussed. With respect to systemic change it is argued that summative economic evaluation is likely to be problematical as the benefits of systemic change are too difficult to predict with confidence. At best, formative evaluation may be undertaken to identify key variables that are likely to determine the desirability or otherwise of systemic change. By focussing attention upon such variables such analysis may influence the direction of health policy.
Across the great divide: the economy of the inland corridor
Creators: name: Frost, Lionel
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In current debates about regional Australia, many observers point to a gap in incomes and access to services between Australia’s capital cities and the rest of the nation. Supporters of this view tend to see government intervention as necessary to reverse the declining fortunes of regions and encourage industries to relocate away from congested capital cities. An alternative view is that regional Australia has become differentiated, which suggests that more flexible government intervention, targeting regions that are capable of driving growth in local economies, is warranted. This paper considers the ways in which a historical perspective might shed light on this debate. An overview of the economic history of the Inland Corridor in the 19th and 20th centuries reveals complex patterns of conditions that varied across space and over time. A dense network of small towns, established when transport and manufacturing technologies were simple, provided a connection between primary producers and external markets. After World War I, technological and global forces weakened the traditional link between farm output and economic activity and left country towns vulnerable to decline. None of these trends is explained adequately by the ‘divide’ that contemporary observers perceived between politically powerful, parasitic capital cities and their resource-starved hinterlands. This suggests that it is more appropriate to see the regional Australia of today as an evolving system of conditions, with some regions diversifying and responding to new economic opportunities more effectively than others, rather than a sector that is in general decline.
Additional file 3 of Dysregulated follicular regulatory T cells and antibody responses exacerbate experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
Creators: name: Luo, Lin
name: Hu, Xianzhen
name: Dixon, Michael L.
name: Pope, Brandon J.
name: Leavenworth, Jonathan D.
name: Raman, Chander
name: Meador, William R.
name: Leavenworth, Jianmei W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 3 Gating strategy for analysis of splenic CD4/B cells (A), spinal cord CD4/B cells (B) and brain myeloid/microglial cells (C).
Is Chinese Provincial Real GDP Per Capita Nonstationary? Evidence From Panel Data and Multiple Trend Break Unit Root Tests
Creators: name: Smyth, Russell
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the unit root hypothesis for real GDP per capita in China's provinces using standard Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF), panel data and multiple trend break unit root tests. Standard ADF tests suggest there is a unit root in real GDP per capita for about two-thirds of China's provinces. The panel data test fails to reject the unit root null for the h11 sample. However, when we allow for structural breaks in the individual ADF tests, the results provide much stronger evidence against a unit root. The null hypothesis that real GDP per capita has a unit root is rejected in favour of the alternative hypothesis for 19 or 20 of the 24 regions depending on the exact model.
Additional file 8 of Single-cell analysis reveals HBV-specific PD-1+CD8+ TRM cells in tumor borders are associated with HBV-related hepatic damage and fibrosis in HCC patients
Creators: name: Liu, Lulu
name: Liu, Junwei
name: Li, Pan
name: Luo, Jijun
name: Qin, Rui
name: Peng, Qiao
name: Li, Bin
name: Wei, Xuyong
name: Wang, Tian
name: Shi, Hongyu
name: Wang, Ming-Da
name: Li, Chao
name: Fang, Weijia
name: Chen, Wei
name: Xu, Xiao
name: Yang, Tian
name: Yin, Weiwei
name: Zeng, Xun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 8: FigureS1.CyTOF data analyses of immune cells from HCC and HH tissues.(A) Thegating strategy of CyTOF data for live and singleton immune cells. (B) The tSNEplots of selected markers as in (Figure 1B). (C) The heatmap of 100 SOMsubclusters, major immune cell subtypes, and cluster frequencies were labeledon the top.
An inductive model of servant leadership: the considered difference to transformational and charismatic leadership
Creators: name: Chin, David T.
name: Smith, Wendy A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This research aims to better understand the phenomenon of servant leadership in organizations by exploring its generic values and attributes. The paper presents an inductive model of servant leadership which has been constructed using computer-aided content analysis of archival documents relating to six preeminent historic servant leaders. Results showed that these servant leaders share special values and attributes that are also linked. The profile of servant leaders is differentiated from transformational and charismatic leaders.
Additional file 4 of Dysregulated follicular regulatory T cells and antibody responses exacerbate experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
Creators: name: Luo, Lin
name: Hu, Xianzhen
name: Dixon, Michael L.
name: Pope, Brandon J.
name: Leavenworth, Jonathan D.
name: Raman, Chander
name: Meador, William R.
name: Leavenworth, Jianmei W.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 4 Blimp1-deficient Tregs are unstable and display impaired CNS Treg features in EAE mice. A) MFI of each molecule in SP and SC FoxP3+ Tregs from mice at day 20 post-EAE induction in Fig. 2b. B) MFI of each protein expressed in spleen (SP) and brain (BR) Tregs, as in Fig. 3a. C-D) Expression of CD103 (C) and CD69 (D) in FoxP3+ Tregs from the spleen (SP), spinal cord (SC) and brain (BR) of mice at d20 post-EAE induction, as in Fig. 1a. Right, MFI of each protein. WT: FoxP3YFP-Cre; KO: Prdm1fl/flFoxP3YFP-Cre. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001 and ****P < 0.0001 (unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test). Bars, mean ± SEM.
Planning processes for advanced manufacturing technology by large American manufacturers
Creators: name: Millen, Robert
name: Sohal, Amrik S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In response to an increasingly competitive environment, many manufacturers have invested in advanced manufacturing technology (AMT). While many studies regarding the use of AMT have been performed, little is known about how firms plan and manage their AMT investments. This is surprising given the evidence about the impact such investments can have on an organization. To address this, a survey of large American manufacturing firms was conducted. Respondents were asked, among other questions, why their firms made such investments and the fit with their business strategy; which functional areas were involved in idea generation, the planning process, and proposal assessment; and what the anticipated risks, difficulties and benefits were from making such investments. The results from this survey are provided along with an analysis of the responses.
Stakeholder Engagement As Social (ir)responsibility
Creators: name: Greenwood, Michelle R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The assumption of a direct and positive relationship between engagement of stakeholders and responsibility towards stakeholders within both practitioner and academic literature is a dilemma. There is an apparent soundness of logic to the assumption that the more an organisation engages with its stakeholders the more responsible and accountable the organisation is likely to be towards these stakeholders. This concurrence could exist, and perhaps we believe should exist, but to assume it necessarily does exist is highly problematic. It is problematic not just because it is may be inaccurate but, more importantly, because it may be misleading. I intend to make this case by firstly illustrating that this assumption exists in the literature though it is rarely made explicit. Next I will make a case for why it may not necessarily hold. I will show why it is essential to consider that the relationship between stakeholder engagement and responsibility may be a neutral relationship or, even more importantly, a negative relationship. Finally I will argue that, by erroneously assuming convergence, thus disallowing separation, the writer or practitioner is at risk of, intentionally or unintentionally, deceiving their audience.
Additional file 9 of Single-cell analysis reveals HBV-specific PD-1+CD8+ TRM cells in tumor borders are associated with HBV-related hepatic damage and fibrosis in HCC patients
Creators: name: Liu, Lulu
name: Liu, Junwei
name: Li, Pan
name: Luo, Jijun
name: Qin, Rui
name: Peng, Qiao
name: Li, Bin
name: Wei, Xuyong
name: Wang, Tian
name: Shi, Hongyu
name: Wang, Ming-Da
name: Li, Chao
name: Fang, Weijia
name: Chen, Wei
name: Xu, Xiao
name: Yang, Tian
name: Yin, Weiwei
name: Zeng, Xun
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 9: FigureS2. The clinical-related immunealterations in TB tissues. (A) Comparisons of the frequencies of selectedmeta-clusters between INT and TB tissues. (B) The heatmap of the comparisons ofmeta-cluster frequencies across patients grouped by defined clinical featuresin TB tissues, colored by the signed -log10(p-value). (C)Comparisons of the meta-cluster frequencies in TB tissues between early-stageand advanced-stage patients classified as in (B). Unpaired student’s t-test wasused in (A-C), with *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, and ***p < 0.001.
Resistance: an impediment to integrating environmental principles?
Creators: name: Blacklow, Susan
name: Waddell, Dianne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper investigates and measures the presence of resistance to environmental management change, implementation of ISO 14000, in an Australian Dairy Manufacturing Company. A method of determining the type of resistance present, and the degree of knowledge and understanding of new environmental standards, was developed. After an organization wide survey, the information was analysed and conclusions were drawn as to the position of the organization as to its preparedness for the implementation of ISO 14000. This resulted in recommendations for specific training and management strategies so that resistance can be effectively utilised and managed ensuring successful implementation of these environmental management principles. Results indicate that provided correct techniques are applied, resistance will not impede the integration of environmental management programs but will, in fact, enhance it. Such a measuring tool would be advantageous for other organizations facing similar challenges.
The financial viability of heritage tourism attractions: three cases from rural Australia
Creators: name: Frost, Warwick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Heritage tourism (whether historic, cultural or natural) is widely seen as one of the mainstays of rural tourism. Most research on heritage tourism has focussed on issues such as the protection of the physical fabric at heritage attractions, balancing authenticity and accessibility in interpretation and the meaning of heritage for people. However the issue of the viability and sustainability of heritage tourism operations as businesses has in contrast hardly been considered. This paper addresses this issue by focussing on three rural heritage tourism attractions which have experienced financial problems. They are:
1. The Toolangi Forest Discovery Centre. A government run attraction presenting the story of forestry.
2. Coal Creek Heritage Village. A community run recreation of a 1880s farming and mining community.
3. Seal Rocks Sea Life Centre. A privately operated attraction which allows observation of nearby seal colonies.
All three are between 60 to 90 miles of Melbourne, Australia.
In addition to examining the nature and causes of their difficulties, the paper explores two factors which may limit research into the financial viability of attractions. The first is that problems may be manifested in many different ways, of which bankruptcy and closure are only the most extreme. The second is the difficulty of gaining useful objective information from and regarding businesses in trouble.