cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Psychological climate: what is it and what does it look like?
Creators: name: Clissold, Gemma
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Within the field of management and organisational behaviour research, the climate concept is relatively common. Despite its presence in the literature, however, at times it is poorly defined, particularly in terms of the distinction between psychological climate and organisational climate. Further, there is ongoing discussion in the literature regarding the content of the climate construct and whether it is best conceptualised as multidimensional or a single higher order factor. This paper seeks to address these major issues through discussing two questions associated with the psychological climate literature. The first question is what is psychological climate? The second research question is what does psychological climate look like? The first question is addressed through a review of the current literature in the field. The second question is addressed through the results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses conducted on psychological climate data gathered from 739 employees of one organisation. The results of the data analysis indicate that the psychological climate construct is best represented as a multidimensional construct.
The use of the ORANI model in the immigration debate
Creators: name: Peter, Matthew W.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Since 1985, a number of influential studies on the economic effects of immigration have been based on the ORANI model of the Australian economy (eg Baker-CEDA, 1985; CIE-CAAIP, 1988; CIEBIR, 1990). The results have generally been interpreted as showing that the economic effects of immigration are favourable. Critics of the use of ORANI argue that the model's results are too dependent on assumptions built into the model or imposed for particular experiments. This paper considers the influence of the assumptions on the results in the studies and reports results from simulations with alternative assumptions.
TQM In Higher Education: The Australian And Swedish Experience
Creators: name: Anderson, Mary
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Institutions of higher education now operate in a global marketplace and, as a result, compete for both scarce resources and research funds within a market that is fast reaching maturity. Alongside of this 'globalisation' and saturated market is the increasing emphasis placed on the concept of quality and its impact on the providers of education programs. The aim of this paper is threefold: firstly, to look at the concept and meaning of the internationalisation of higher education; secondly, to explore the issues of quality in the higher education sector and their relationship to the internationalisation process; and, finally, to provide an overview of quality assurance systems within the Australian and Swedish higher education sector.
Additional file 5 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 5 TFR, TFH and B cells in EAE mice. A) Frequencies of TFR, TFH and GL7+ B cells in spleen (SP) and spinal cord (SC) of mice, as in Fig. 4a. B) Ratios of TFH : TFR of CD4+ T cells from SP and SC of each mouse in Fig. 4a. WT: FoxP3YFP-Cre, KO: Prdm1fl/flFoxP3YFP-Cre. *P < 0.05 (unpaired two-tailed Student’s t-test). Bars, mean ± SEM.
Participation in Labour Adjustment Assistance: The Regional State and Local Agency
Creators: name: Webber, Michael
name: Weller, Sally
name: O'Neill, Phillip
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The paper draws on case studies of participation in the Textiles Clothing and Footwear Labour Adjustment Package in eleven locations across Australia. Case studies revealed that location is the decisive factor in determining the participation of retrenched TCF workers in this assistance package. This paper documents this effect and examines the influences that underlie the importance of location. It is argued that places have institutionalised characteristics that constitute local identity and that local differences are reproduced by variations in the regional administration of the national state as it pursues national policy whilst simultaneously embedded in local conditions. Regional variations in state activity affect different gender, ethnic and age groups in the labour market in different ways, thereby transforming the local division of labour. The paper concludes by exploring the implications for labour market interventions more generally.
ฉากสวรรค์ในภาพภูมิทั้ง 6 ระหว่างยุคกลาง-ต้นยุคก่อนสมัยใหม่ในประเทศญี่ปุ่น
Creators: name: น้ำใส ตันติสุข
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2562
Subjects: สวรรค์
ภาพภูมิทั้ง 6
ญี่ปุ่น
คามาคุระ
มุโรมาจิ
อะสึจิโมโมยามะ

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 39, 5, 1.-21
Questioning the ethical in social and ethical auditing
Creators: name: Greenwood, Michelle
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The organisational practice of social and ethical auditing is commonly seen as an advancement towards ethical business in that it enhances the moral treatment of organisational stakeholders. In effect, social and ethical auditing is the practice of measuring and reporting social performance through engagement with stakeholders. The AA1000 framework provides an internationally recognised standard for social and ethical auditing. However, despite the positive assumption that social and ethical auditing is ethical, questions exist. Both the practice of social and ethical auditing and the gestalt of social and ethical auditing are ripe for ethical exploration. This paper seeks to raise some concerns regarding social and ethical auditing and in doing so open these issues to further research scrutiny.
An investigation of the neglected issue of innovation and teamwork in manufacturing organisations
Creators: name: Teicher, Julian
name: Mrkic, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Teams and team working within a manufacturing organisation play a critical role in the innovation process. The argument is that team members, through cooperation and collaboration, may develop new and innovative ideas and solutions that are intended to improve the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation. However, there have been comparatively few studies that have focused on innovation at the team level. In particular, there have been few attempts to associate the different types of innovation with the different team classifications. This paper reports on a study undertaken in order to explore the relationship between the different types of innovation and the state of operation linked with the various team classifications. The study was conducted within a unit of an Australian automotive components manufacturer. The paper concludes that there is strong evidence to support the analytical framework that was developed for investigation and provides a basis for further research.
Exploring Learning Organizations: Enacting Mental Models: The Power of the Rosenthal Stage
Creators: name: Morrison, Michael
name: Rosenthal, Annie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The only true source of sustainable competitive advantage seems to be by building learning organizations. In order to ensure the survival of their organizations, managers need to focus on individual and organizational learning, the development of a shared vision, an awareness of the internal environment and the external context. A key requirement in this process is the ability to surface and test the mental models of people throughout the organization. One of the ways of testing mental models is within the context of action. The exploration of effective action is examined using the Rosenthal Stage. In this paper we will build on the work of Senge (1992), Moreno (1953) and Williams (1991). This application is an action-based method using a miniature stage. The Rosenthal Stage involves a five step process of surfacing, externalising, reflecting, revealing, and active dialogue of peoples' perceptions of their organization. A case study will be presented which demonstrates the surfacing of a mental model of a senior manager in a multi-national communications organization. The power of the Rosenthal Stage enabled this manger, after one session, to gain contextual insight into the breath of his organization, and the value of his contribution.
Modelling and forecasting Australian domestic tourism
Creators: name: Athanasopoulos, George
name: Hyndman, Rob J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper, we model and forecast Australian domestic tourism demand. We use a regression framework to estimate important economic relationships for domestic tourism demand. We also identify the impact of world events such as the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2002 Bali bombings on Australian domestic tourism. To explore the time series nature of the data, we use innovation state space models to forecast the domestic tourism demand. Combining these two frameworks, we build innovation state space models with exogenous variables. These models are able to capture the time series dynamics in the data, as well as economic and other relationships. We show that these models outperform alternative approaches for short-term forecasting and also produce sensible long-term forecasts. The forecasts are compared with the official Australian government forecasts, which are found to be more optimistic than our forecasts.
Foreign direct investment and services trade: evidence from Malaysia and Singapore
Creators: name: Wong, Koi Nyen
name: Tang, Tuck Cheong
name: Fausten, Dietrich K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Services trade is an important source of growth in Malaysia and Singapore. Both economies are export-oriented and actively court foreign direct investment (FDI) to advance their economic objectives of industrialisation and economic development. This paper examines the causal linkages between inward FDI and the country’s engagement in services trade in bi-variate and tri-variate VAR frameworks. The empirical findings for Singapore show evidence of bidirectional causality between inward FDI and the total trade volume in services (i.e. the absolute sum of payments and receipts) as well as between FDI and services imports (in the tri-variate specification). This may reflect her relative open foreign investment policy and free trade regime in services. For Malaysia, the evidence of causality is weaker and unidirectional, from inward FDI to services imports. These findings are consistent with the different stages of economic development and openness attained by the two sample countries, and they provide useful background for trade and foreign investment policies and development strategies.
ชื่อสถานที่ท่องเที่ยวลำปาง : กลวิธีและข้อผิดพลาดที่พบในการแปลภาษาไทยเป็นภาษาจีน
Creators: name: เพ็ญพรรษา ชัยธีระสุเวท
name: มณันญา ศรีหิรัญ
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2562
Subjects: ชื่อสถานที่
กลวิธีการแปล
ข้อผิดพลาด
ภาษาจีน
ลำปาง

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 39, 5, 22-41
การใช้วัจนกรรมการชมเชยและการตอบรับคำชมเชยภาษาเกาหลี ของนักศึกษาชาวไทย มหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร
Creators: name: สิรินาถ ศิริรัตน์
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2562
Subjects: วัจนกรรมการชมเชย
วัจนกรรมการตอบรับคำชมเชย
ผู้เรียนภาษาเกาหลีชาวไทย
วัจนกรรมการชมเชยภาษาเกาหลี
การสอนวัจนกรรมการชมเชย

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 39, 5, 42-65
Local linear multivariate regression with variable bandwidth in the presence of heteroscedasticity
Creators: name: Ye, Azhong
name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Li, Zinai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We present a local linear estimator with variable bandwidth for multivariate non-parametric regression. We prove its consistency and asymptotic normality in the interior of the observed data and obtain its rates of convergence. This result is used to obtain practical direct plug-in bandwidth selectors for heteroscedastic regression in one and two dimensions. We show that the local linear estimator with variable bandwidth has better goodness-of-fit properties than the local linear estimator with constant bandwidth, in the presence of heteroscedasticity.
Forecasting accuracy and estimation uncertainty using VAR models with short- and long-term economic restrictions: a Monte-Carlo study
Creators: name: De Carvalho Guillén, Osmani Teixeira
name: Issler, João Victor
name: Athanasopoulos, George
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Using vector autoregressive (VAR) models and Monte-Carlo simulation methods we investigate the potential gains for forecasting accuracy and estimation uncertainty of two commonly used restrictions arising from economic relationships. The first reduces parameter space by imposing long-term restrictions on the behavior of economic variables as discussed by the literature on cointegration, and the second reduces parameter space by imposing short-term restrictions as discussed by the literature on serial-correlation common features (SCCF). Our simulations cover three important issues on model building, estimation, and forecasting. First, we examine the performance of standard and modified information criteria in choosing lag length for cointegrated VARs with SCCF restrictions. Second, we provide a comparison of forecasting accuracy of fitted VARs when only cointegration restrictions are imposed and when cointegration and SCCF restrictions are jointly imposed. Third, we propose a new estimation algorithm where short- and long-term restrictions interact to estimate the cointegrating and the cofeature spaces respectively. We have three basic results. First, ignoring SCCF restrictions has a high cost in terms of model selection, because standard information criteria chooses too frequently inconsistent models, with too small a lag length. Criteria selecting lag and rank simultaneously have a superior performance in this case. Second, this translates into a superior forecasting performance of the restricted VECM over the VECM, with important improvements in forecasting accuracy - reaching more than 100% in extreme cases. Third, the new algorithm proposed here fares very well in terms of parameter estimation, even when we consider the estimation of long-term parameters, opening up the discussion of joint estimation of short- and long-term parameters in VAR models.
Risk factor study: how to reduce the burden of harm from poor nutrition, tobacco smoking, physical inactivity and alcohol misuse: cost-utility analysis of 5 interventions to discourage tobacco smoking
Creators: name: Mortimer, Duncan
name: Segal, Leonie
name: Dalziel, Kim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No abstract supplied
Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Fertility in China, 1952-2000
Creators: name: Narayan, Paresh Kumar
name: Peng, Xiujian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study investigates the determinants of the fertility rate in China over the 1952-2000 period. Consistent with theory, the key explanatory variables in our fertility model are real per capita income, infant mortality rate, female illiteracy and female labour force participation rates. The long-run results and the test for cointegration are based on the Johansen (1990) and Johansen and Juselius (1988) approach. Our long-run results conform to theory in that all variables appear with their expected signs, and the dummy variable used to capture the effects of the family planning policy indicates that in the years of the policy, fertility rates have been falling by around 10-12%. We do not find support for the often-held claim of Chinese policy makers and scholars that China's fertility transition owes largely to the "awesome strength" of the family planning policy. Our results suggest that socio-economic development played a bigger role than the family planning policy - a result more consistent with the traditional structural hypothesis than with the recent 'ideational' hypothesis.
Industrial relations and management style in small firms
Creators: name: Barrett, Rowena
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In Australia the bulk of firms are small, while over one third of the Australian workforce is employed in small firms (ABS, 1996). The Australian case is consistent with that which occurs in many other economies. There are, however, only a few studies (Australian examples include: Callus, Kitay and Sutcliffe, 1992; Isaac, Kates, Peetz, Fisher, Macklin and Short, 1993; Isaac, 1993; Moorehead, Steele, Alexander, Stephen and Duffin, 1997) which address a range of industrial relations and management issues in small firms. In such studies small firms are generally defined primarily in terms of their size of employment. This has led to an assumption that employment size is a unifying property and, as such, an homogeneous small firm sector exists (Scott, 1986). When statistics are used that reveal a lack of industrial action and low unionisation in small firms (Australian examples include: Callus, Moorehead, Cully and Buchanan, 1991; Isaac et al., 1993; Moorehead, Steele, Alexander, Stephen and Duffin, 1997), the result is to attribute inherent industrial relations characteristics to small firms, particularly harmonious industrial relations (Rainnie, 1989; Schumacher, 1973).
Age at First Birth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh
Creators: name: Maitra, Pushkar
name: Pal, Sarmistha
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh and argues that high child mortality among adolescent mothers could in part be explained in terms of little/no use of available health inputs. In doing so, the present paper determines mother's age at birth, hospital delivery, child vaccination and child mortality as correlated processes, after taking account of the parents/mother specific unobserved heterogeneity. Our estimation results show that children born to older mothers, those delivered in hospitals and those vaccinated against major childhood diseases have better chances of survival. These results also indicate the significant potential for lowering mortality by inducing high-risk adolescent women to delay child birth and make use of available health inputs.
title: Plans for world domination
title: art to textile
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Reynolds, Anna Christine
Publisher: name: Charles Darwin University
Year: 2018

description: Plans for World Domination presents a visual matrix of relational and creative propositions that position the Digital Frontier as a mythical mindset rendered in the whimsical code of Dada-Data, whilst mapping an emerging environment, culture and community through the creative comingling of textile and computer. The code is imagined as a tactile and pictorial fragmentation of key characters, icons, symbols and index that interrelate within the actions of Travel, Community and Textile, functioning as prosumers in relational narratives of the Information Age. The artist’s interest in philosophical and global perspectives surrounding the digital era have been inspired by the ongoing experience of world travel and art residencies alongside the theories and work of Nicolas Bourriaud’s provocation in the Altermodern. The exegesis expands the on-off function that drives the algorithms of e-culture in a retelling of old and new technologies, embodied as ‘lens-based practice’. At the making site, the research approximates cloth as environmental logic and apparel of the Anthropocene, while raw material revels in a retelling, repeating, rebooting, reusing, reducing, reinventing, recycling and the readymade. The research oscillates between hero and hack in this copy and paste saga whilst navigating through the Altermodern Archipelago holding a computer as a compass to the terrain of the World Wide Web. The work archives the intersection of past time and future place by drawing from the natural and the human-built, seeking to illuminate and push the boundaries of commenting on environmental, digital and human conditions alongside contemporary global perspectives through art practice.
Habit formation and dependency in the welfare state
Creators: name: Jakee, Keith
name: Sun, Guang-Zhen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: External habit formation explains why welfare states can be expected to exhibit increasing dependency over time through increases in the share of the population receiving welfare transfers, while the average number of hours worked decreases. Under plausible parameter values, the rate of taxation (and also the welfare expenditure share of national income) monotonically increases over time and asymptotically approaches a steady state. A positive interactive feedback loop between slow-moving external habits and welfare policies makes the extent of redistribution a "moving target". Consequently, setting arbitrary redistributive goals may never satisfy redistributional demands in future periods. At the same time, technological progress may mask the underlying dynamic effects of the welfare state.
AA.VV., Diálogo, Testemunho e Profecia. Actas do Simpósio «Para uma Missão ad gentes no III Milénio», Ed. de Obras Missionárias Pontifícias, Lisboa, 2004
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2005

description: Theologica, v. 40 n. 1 (2005): Doutrina social da Igreja: um panorama
What is retail centre convenience? A model for the 21st century
Creators: name: Reimers, Vaughan
name: Clulow, Val
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Across many markets, the unplanned centre (also referred to as the downtown or town centre) continues to lose market share to the planned shopping centre. This trend is not new. Some unplanned centres have been forfeiting market share for more than half a century. Efforts to revive the unplanned centre have often proven less than successful. One possible explanation is that convenience has been largely ignored as a strategy for rejuvenation. Research into retail centre patronage has consistently found that convenience does not serve as a salient determinant over consumer spatial behaviour. Yet other studies continue to suggest the emergence of a convenience-oriented society. This paper offers a more conclusive definition of retail centre convenience to its predecessors; one that incorporates its dimensions and its attributes. In doing so, it highlights the need to treat existing patronage studies with caution, and the need for research to revisit the convenience concept.
The marginalised and vulnerable within the professional contractor workforce
Creators: name: McKeown, Tui
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The advent of globalization 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 vulnerable to marginalisation and disadvantage. The very nature of this workforce also makes it difficult for unions to access, organize and protect. These concerns are well known and continue to be an important focus of union, social and religious groups. This paper contends that it is a focus that also needs to be extended to work arrangements more typically associated with privilege and advantage - because the reality is often in sharp contrast. The arrangement used to show this is the professional contractor and the solution advanced for discussion is that it is time for a union tailored to the professional peripheral worker to be considered.
Sustainability: Are Economists on the Right Track?
Creators: name: Wills, Ian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Economists commonly express the concept of sustainability using economic growth models. These models allow exploration of the impacts of technological progress, different types of natural resources, degrees of resource substitutability and inter-temporal preferences on long-term economic growth. However since such models require perfect knowledge of technologies and preferences, they are institution-free, and provide no guide to actual implementation of sustainability. In particular, since changes in complex adaptive social-ecological systems are unlikely to be gradual or linear or predictable, models that aim at better control of environmental and social outcomes are unlikely to lead to sustainability. Alternative views of sustainability, springing from philosophy and systems analysis,suggest that institutional arrangements are likely to be better guides to implementation of sustainability. It may be better sought by creating flexible institutions that promote progressive learning and the incorporation of new knowledge into the institutions and organizations that guide human decisions.
1st Open Webinar ORCID Austria
Creators: name: Marín-Arraiza, Paloma
name: Gumpenberger, Christian
name: Withanage, Dulip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: ORCID Austria
ORCID Integrations
Open Journal System

description: Folien vom ersten offenen Webinar von ORCID Austria, das am 13. Februar 2020 stattfand.
 Behandelte Themen: Das österreichische ORCID-Konsortium Aktive Integrationen in Österreich Integration des offenen Zeitschriftensystems (OJS) - ORCID
Modelling Export Activity in a Multicountry Economic Area: The APEC Case
Creators: name: Matyas, Laszlo
name: Konya, Laszlo
name: Harris, Mark N.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The gravity model has long been used for modelling and predicting trade flows. This paper generalises the gravity model allowing for proper representation of local and target country effects and also the business cycle(s). The new approach is based on a panel data framework (instead of a simple cross sectional or times series approach) where the additional information available from using both types of data is utilised to properly model all the specific effects. The model is then estimated for a panel of APEC countries.
Are financial sector policies effective in deepening the Malaysian financial system?
Creators: name: Ang, James B.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper provides an empirical assessment of the effects of financial sector policies on development of the financial system in Malaysia over the period 1959-2005. The technique of principal component analysis is used to construct a summary measure of interest rate policies in order to account for the joint influence of various interest rate controls imposed on the Malaysian financial system. The results show that economic development, interest rate controls and capital liquidity requirements positively affect the level of financial development. However, higher statutory reserve requirements and the presence of directed credit programs appear to be harmful for development of the Malaysian financial system. The results provide some support to the argument that some form of financial restraints may help promote financial development.
ลำดับของรูปพยัญชนะในภาษาไทย
Creators: name: ม.ล.จรัลวิไล จรูญโรจน์
Publisher: name: สำนักงานบริหารการวิจัย นวัตกรรมและการสร้างสรรค์
Year: 2562
Subjects: ภาษาไทย
พยัญชนะ
อักษร

description: วารสารมหาวิทยาลัยศิลปากร, 39, 5, 66-85
Additional file 4 of Quantifying the phase separation property of chromatin-associated proteins under physiological conditions using an anti-1,6-hexanediol index
Creators: name: Shi, Minglei
name: You, Kaiqiang
name: Chen, Taoyu
name: Hou, Chao
name: Liang, Zhengyu
name: Liu, Mingwei
name: Wang, Jifeng
name: Wei, Taotao
name: Qin, Jun
name: Chen, Yang
name: Zhang, Michael Q.
name: Li, Tingting
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 4: Supplementary Table S3. Table S3. Quality control of BL-Hi-C experiments.
Demographics and perceptions as determinants of consumers' use of electronic banking
Creators: name: Tan, Adele
name: Beaumont, Nicholas
name: Freeman, Suzanne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Australian banks, pressured by competitors and smaller margins have been impelled to introduce alternative methods of service delivery. Electronic banking (ATMs and EFTPOS) is replacing over the counter banking as the primary mode of contact between the customer and the bank. For banks to increase service levels and patronage of electronic banking they must assess consumer characteristics, especially demographics and perceptions of quality affecting consumer behaviour. To this end, this paper investigates the frequency and type of electronic banking transactions and the relationship between consumer demographics, perceptions of service quality and the use of electronic banking services (specifically, ATMs and EFTPOS) by Australian consumers. Perceptions of service quality were measured using the SERVQUAL model; this comprises five components: accessibility, ease of use, reliability, responsiveness and security. Quantitative data was obtained from 100 respondents by mall-interception and 102 by telephone interviews. Statistical analysis revealed significant correlations between electronic banking use and demographic variables (eg. age and income) and components of the SERQUAL model (eg. accessibility, ease of use, and security). These variables collectively explained approximately 60% of the variability in electronic banking use. The findings imply that banks should jointly promote ATMs and EFTPOS (they attract the same target segments), increase the number of ATMs, improve consumer's perceptions of ease and security of use.
Shell Egg Market Structure in Five Eastern Metropolitan Areas
Creators: name: Pedersen, John R.
name: Mitchell, William L.
name: Pedersen, John R.
name: Mitchell, William L.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This report presents detailed information on egg marketing channels in 5 eastern metropolitan areas. It also briefly describes the weekly reports of movement of eggs into retail channels as issued by U. S. Department of Agriculture's Dairy and Poultry News Branch. This is the third of a group of studies on the movement of shell eggs into retail channels in large metropolitan areas of the United States. This study covers the New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore markets. It is part of a broad program of research to obtain basic information on marketing channels, and to assist the Agricultural Marketing Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, in appraising and improving its current poultry market news reports.
Managing workforce diversity in Australia
Creators: name: Dagher, Joseph
name: D'Netto, Dr Brian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Inspite of the growing importance of workforce diversity in Australia, very little empirical research has been done to assess practices used to manage diversity. This study sought to assess the extent to which organisations in Australia were using diversity practices when performing their Human Resources functions. The study also assessed the perceived challenges and benefits of diversity in the workforce. Five hundred organisations, selected at random from the manufacturing industry, were surveyed using a standardised questionnaire. The study was conducted on a national basis. The findings of this study indicated that the extent of adoption of diversity management practices in Australia is only "average". The only Human Resources function in which good diversity management practices were used was "Remuneration". The data indicates that Australian managers do not consider workforce diversity to be a major challenge nor do they believe that it provides significant benefits to the organisation. The significance of these findings and the implications for future research are discussed.
The Robustness of Estimators for Dynamic Panel Data Models to Misspecification
Creators: name: Harris, Mark N.
name: Longmire, Ritchard J.
name: Matyas, Laszlo
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It is well known that the usual techniques for estimating random and fixed effects panel data models are inconsistent in the dynamic setting. As a consequence, numerous consistent estimators have been proposed in the literature. However, all such estimators rely on certain well defined assumptions, which in practice may often be violated. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how robust the available estimators are to such misspecifications, thus providing guidance to the applied researcher as to an appropriate choice of estimator in such situations.
Contingent Valuation: Indiscretion in the Adoption of Discrete Choice Question Formats?
Creators: name: Smith, Richard D
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Contingent valuation (CV) refers to a hypothetical survey method of valuing the benefits of an intervention in monetary terms by estimation of the individuals maximum willingness-to-pay (WTP). Currently, an issue in the application of CV methods is the technique used to elicit this monetary valuation. Historically, the favoured technique has been the `open-ended' questionnaire, where the respondent is asked directly for their maximum WTP for the commodity being valued. However, in recent years there has been a move away from the use of this open-ended technique, towards the use of discrete choice questionnaires (also referred to variously as closed-ended, binary or dichotomous choice questionnaires; as well as referendum surveys if the median, rather than mean, WTP is the desired measure of value). In contrast to open-ended questionnaires, discrete choice questions offer the respondent a single value (bid), which they either accept or reject. By varying this single bid across various sub-samples a demand curve for the commodity is estimated, and from this the maximum WTP calculated. The basis for the use of discrete surveys in preference to open-ended seems to rest on some combination of: (i) a belief that this technique offers a more `realistic' market, and will therefore lead to more valid responses (a truer estimate of actual WTP by respondents); and (ii) the supposed tendency of discrete surveys to yield higher response rates, through reduced mental demands (especially for mailed surveys). This paper presents a review of the use of discrete versus open-ended survey techniques, and addresses these issues as well as others of importance. It is concluded that, although there are issues yet to be resolved concerning the degree of bias within the open-ended technique, there appear to be substantial additional issues with the use of discrete survey techniques. While the discrete choice questionnaire seems to have been favoured, major problems still remain in its implementation. These problems arise from the fact that, simply, discrete choice survey design and analysis is very complex. Survey design elements include total sample size, bid range, specific bid levels, allocation of the total sample among the bid levels, and form of statistical model used to analyse such data. None of these issues has by any means been clearly resolved. This author would therefore suggest that the choice of discrete versus open-ended techniques is by no means settled, and is potentially a red-herring in the search for `valid' WTP values derived from CV surveys. There appears no reason why the open-ended survey should be summarily dismissed, and research may better be targeted to refinement of the open-ended approach to reduce bias. In the meantime, it is recommended that caution be exercised in the seemingly indiscreet adoption of the discrete choice question approach.
Stock Market Liquidity and Optimal Management Compensation: Theory and Evidence
Creators: name: Garvey, Gerald T.
name: McCorry, Michael S.
name: Swan, Peter L.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Recent research strongly suggests that CEO incentive schemes are not solely determined by the standard considerations of risk-sharing and effort. Here, we examine the effect of the microstructure of the market in which the firm's shares are traded. If informed traders are free to choose both the size of orders they place on the market and the amount of information they gather, an increase in market liquidity makes the stock price more informative and increases the optimal linkage between CEO compensation and shareholder wealth. If on the other hand informed traders are severely restricted in their ability to take positions by considerations such as wealth constraints, increased liquidity reduces the informativeness of share price and dilutes optimal CEO incentives. We find evidence to support the second view in a sample of 329 large US corporations. There is a positive relationship between a CEO's observed pay-for-performance and the bid-ask spread that prevails in the market for the firm's shares, even after controlling for firm size and riskiness. The relationship is weaker for CEO incentives due to their stockholdings. This suggests that the positive observed relationship between incentives and the spread is not due to simple reverse causality whereby higher insider stockholdings increases informed trading and increases the spread. Our sample contains firms that are listed on either the NYSE or the NASD. The relationship between CEO incentives and the spread is significant and positive only for the NYSE firms, and NYSE firms have significantiy higher pay-performance sensitivities. We also find for our sample that, controlling for firm size, volatility is higher for NASD firms with a smaller bid-ask spread. These results suggest a regulatory explanation whereby the monopoly specialist on the NYSE widens the bid-ask spread on small trades and subsidises on more informative large trades because of an affirmative duty to dampen large price movements. This makes NYSE stock prices more informative, especially when the observed spread is wide.
Dismissing a Departmental Secretary: an Overt Exercise of Power in Public Employment
Creators: name: Pullin, Len
name: Haidar, Ali
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper explores changes in the nature of public employment at the Commonwealth level in Australia following the election of the Hawke Labour government. It argues that these changes significantly altered the senior public servant employment relationship by discarding a 130-year-old tradition of separating public employment from political control. These changes effectively give ministers the power to dismiss public servants under their control without fault or incapacity on their part. The dismissal of the Secretary, Department of Defence, Paul Barratt in 1999 is examined to exemplify the extent and nature of this power.
Barriers to the improvement of occupational safety performance: a leadership group's perspective
Creators: name: Clissold, Gemma
name: Sohal, Amrik
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Whilst a large portion of contemporary occupational safety research is focused on understanding safety culture and safety climate as antecedents of unsafe behaviour, there is very little research that explores the barriers to the achievement of a positive safety culture or climate. Additionally, there is a paucity of research in the field of organisational safety that utilises qualitative research methodologies. This paper presents some of the results from semi-structured interviews conducted with 120 managers and occupational health and safety professionals working within one organisation. The organisation was in the process of introducing and implementing an occupational safety strategy aimed at decreasing injury and accident rates through the improvement of organisational safety culture and safety climate. Whilst a range of important themes emerged from the interview transcripts, this paper focuses on the barriers to the improvement of organisational safety as identified by the participants. The main barriers outlined were the commitment of organisational members to the improvement process, the dedication of resources, and characteristics of the existing culture. Similarities are drawn between the outcomes of this research and the literature associated with organisational change and resistance to change. Future research directions for the field of occupational safety are suggested highlighting the importance of drawing from research associated with organisational change.
title: Developing bottom trawls to improve size and species selectivity in North Atlantic fisheries
Creators: name: Nguyen, Vang Y
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Bottom trawling is an important and principal capture technique in groundfish fisheries, providing a high proportion of fisheries production to the Northern Atlantic. However, bottom trawling is associated with the bycatch of undersized fish and unwanted species, a large concern from a marine ecosystem perspective. Thus, developing gear designs to improve trawl selectivity (reduce the capture of non-target species and juveniles of target species) is necessary. This thesis has focused on developing trawl designs for an emerging redfish (Sebastes spp.) fishery in Canada and understanding the groundgear selectivity of an Icelandic commercial bottom trawl. Firstly, I developed a shaking codend by attaching an elliptical-shaped canvas at the posterior of a T90 codend (codend mesh rotated 90˚ in the transversal direction) to reduce the capture of undersized redfish in the catch. The results showed that the shaking codend had a higher amplitude ratio, period, and total acceleration and captured less redfish < 22 cm than the T90 codend without canvas. Secondly, I developed a semi-pelagic trawl to capture redfish using the French rigging technique. Semi-pelagic trawls are effective at capturing redfish off the seabed and potentially reduce bycatch of unwanted species. Next, I quantified the length-dependent escape of fish under a commercial bottom trawl in Iceland. The results showed length-dependent escape for roundfish, where more small fish escaped under the groundgear than did large fish, compared with flatfish, whose escape varied among species. Finally, I quantified fish behavior at the mouth of a bottom trawl. Small roundfish (Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) < 20 cm and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) < 11 cm) tend to escape under the trawl at the center area of the groundgear, while larger individuals with greater swimming capacity seek escape openings under the fishing line at the wing areas. For flatfish and monkfish, the results varied. These length-dependent behaviors are related to fish response behavior, escape behavior, size, and likely swimming capacity. The findings of this thesis can have potential implications for the development of the emerging redfish fishery in Canada and for developing groundgear to improve bottom trawl selectivity in North Atlantic fisheries.
The Relevance of Investor Risk Classes in Ranking Fund Performance: An Application of the Extended Mean-Gini CAPM
Creators: name: Benson, Karen
name: Pope, Peter
name: Faff, Robert
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The primary focus of this paper is to investigate whether the introduction of investor risk classes to the fund performance model affects relative performance rankings. In other words, are investor risk classes relevant? This analysis is conducted in an Extended Mean Gini (EMG) CAPM framework. Our results support the conclusion that investor risk class is not relevant to the performance ranking of a fund. Thus, it would seem that fund managers are not developing portfolios which are suited to a particular class of risk averse investors. Furthermore, based on our results equity fund managers are unable to outperform the market portfolio. Finally, we find no relationship between performance and perceived level of activity - thus suggesting the irrelevance of perceived management style.
Comparison and Classification of Stationary Multivariate Time Series
Creators: name: Maharaj, Ann
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Time series often have patterns that form a basis for comparing them or classifying them into groups. Pattern recognition of time series arises in a number of practical situations. Procedures for the comparison and classification of univariate stationary series already exist in the literature. A famous application is the comparison and classification of earthquake and nuclear explosion waveforms - Shumway (1982). In this paper we present procedures to compare and classify stationary multivariate time series. Simulations studies show that the procedures perform fairly well for reasonably long series.
ПАРАМЕТРЫ ИММУННОЙ СИСТЕМЫ У ДЕТЕЙ, БОЛЬНЫХ АЛЛЕГИЧЕСКИМ ДЕРМАТИТОМ
Creators: name: Юсупов, Дилшод
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Аллергический  дерматит представляет собой хроническое рецидивирующее воспалительное заболевание кожи со сложным патогенезом, с участием генетической предрасположенности, дисфункции иммунологического и эпидермального барьера, а также факторов окружающей среды. Главным симптомом является зуд; высыпания на коже варьируют от легкой эритемы до тяжелой лихенификации и эритродермии. Диагностика включает сбор анамнеза и обследование. Лечение включает в себя рекомендации по правильному уходу за кожей, избегание провоцирующих факторов, а также местное применение кортикостероидов и иммунодепрессантов. Также важно лечение зуда и суперинфекций. В тяжелых случаях может потребоваться системная иммуносупрессивная терапия. Аллергический дерматит, развившийся в детстве, часто регрессирует или его проявления значительно ослабевают во взрослом возрасте.
Additional file 11 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 11: FigureS4.Validation of the existence of PD-1+CD8+ TRMcells in HBV+ samples. (A) Multiplex immunofluorescence staining offormalin-fixed paraffin-embedded INT and TB tissues of enrolled HCC patients as shown in Figure 4A.
知的財産推進計画における デジタルアーカイブ推進政策と ジャパンサーチの位置づけ (2020/2/20 デジタルアーカイブ学会公開セミナー)
Creators: name: Cabinet Office
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: 知的財産推進計画における デジタルアーカイブ推進政策と ジャパンサーチの位置づけ