cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Instructional powerpoint with audio instructions for balance tasks for participants
Creators: name: Vredeveld, Tom
name: Coppieters, Michel
name: Ramaekers, Stephan P. J.
name: Pool-Goudzwaard, Annelies L.
Publisher: name: University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Year: 2022
Subjects: Health Sciences

description: This is a powerpoint that contains precisely created audiofiles with automated continuation of the slides. Each slide represents information or specific guidance for the participant to listen to or to follow up with a specific task (such as: 'close your eyes'). The duration of each task or resting break follows the exact time specifications as described in the research protocol: Balance deficits in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms and low back pain. Which can be found here: https://doi.org/10.21943/auas.19705384.v1
 Please note that all instructions are provided in Dutch. Please contact the authors for more information on the audiofiles.
Control beliefs as mediators of school connectedness and coping outcomes in middle adolescence
Creators: name: Cunningham, Everarda
name: Werner, Serin C.
name: Firth, Nola V.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The external and internal resources that individuals bring to the coping process have been the focus of increasing theoretical and empirical research. Within the framework of conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989, 2002) this study examines the interplay between school-, teacher- and peer-connectedness, and mastery, coping self-efficacy and coping behaviours in a sample of 300 9th and I Oth grade high-school students. Structural equation modelling analyses supported predictions that coping self-efficacy and mastery mediate the effects of school connectedness factors on the utilisation of nonproductive coping strategies. While coping self-efficacy partially mediated the relationships between school connectedness factors and productive coping behaviours, contrary to expectations this relationship was not partially mediated by mastery. These results support a cognitive mediational model of coping resources and may have implications for school-based intervention programs that promote positive coping in adolescence.
An analysis of the involvement-commitment relationship across product categories
Creators: name: Vieceli, Julian
name: Shaw, Robin N.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: An involvement-commitment-loyalty model is proposed and tested with AMOS. The results for fast-moving-consumer-goods (fmcg) are consistent with the theory. Ego involvement influences purchase involvement, which influences brand commitment, which influences customer loyalty. The results for the more ego-involved service of hair stylists, however, showed a different result. Purchase loyalty did not mediate the relationship between ego involvement and brand commitment, but instead ego involvement had a direct relationship with brand commitment.
РЕАЛИЗАЦИЯ МАГИСТЕРСКОЙ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЙ ПРОГРАММЫ С ПРОФИЛЕМ «ЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ АРХИТЕКТУРА ЗДАНИЙ И СООРУЖЕНИЙ»
Creators: name: О. А. Ульчицкий
Publisher: name: Экология урбанизированных территорий
Year: 2020
Subjects: магистратура
современные образовательные технологии
архитектурно-экологический профиль
экологическая архитектура зданий.

description: В статье описан процесс формирования магистратуры на кафедре архитектуры ФГБОУ ВО «МГТУ им. Г. И. Носова» кратко характеризуются все этапы: первый этап, когда специалистам-архитекторам читался курс дисциплин «Экологические основы архитектурного проектирования», второй этап разработки плана научно-исследовательской работы эколого-архитектурной лаборатории ММИЭЦ (Магнитогорского межрайонного инновационного экологического центра); далее реализация госбюджетных работ по направлению эколого-архитектурного проектирования для Южного Урала, которая перешла в разработку образовательной программы по магистратуре с архитектурно-экологическим профилем и на заключительном этапе лицензирование магистратуры по направлению 07.04.01 «Архитектура» с архитектурно-экологическим профилем. Обозначена специфика подготовки магистра, связанная с формированием уникальных профессиональных компетенций в реализации проектных и научно-исследовательских видов профессиональной деятельности выпускника и востребованности его сферы деятельности в современных условиях рынка и экономики. Дается краткое описание основных профильных дисциплин и способов реализации производственных практик. В 2018 г. магистерское направление с профилем «Экологическая архитектура зданий и сооружений» успешно прошло лицензирование в Рособрнадзоре, и с 2019 г. на кафедре архитектуры института строительства, архитектуры и искусства ФГБОУ ВО «МГТУ им. Г. И. Носова» осуществляется подготовка первых магистров, ориентированных на экологическое архитектурное проектирование с региональной спецификой.
Analytic listening: a case study of radio production
Creators: name: Barbour, Jim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Radio is the ultimate auditory display: all information is conveyed aurally to a listener. Sound from a radio invokes visual images in the imagination of a listener, the theatre of the mind. Listening to a radio voice creates images of a person talking from a studio live to their audience, providing information and entertainment. However, much radio is pre-recorded, produced in a radio studio at a different time and replayed on cue, often controlled by sophisticated computer systems. The art of radio production relies on developing excellent listening skills. The craft of radio production now relies extensively on digital audio technology. How has the process of radio production changed with the introduction of new technology, particularly the visualization of audio on a computer screen? Have these changes affected the listening skills of radio producers and has this affected the quality of radio production? This paper explores these issues based on individual interviews with experienced radio producers and the author’s experience in training new producers.
The importance of intuition in the decision making strategies of entrepreneurs
Creators: name: La Pira, Frank
name: Gillin, Murray
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Whilst there are an extraordinary number of reasons postulated as to why entrepreneurs succeed the proposition put forth by this research is that entrepreneurs could attribute their success to an intuitive decision making style. The aim of this research is to develop further the ab-initio investigation carried out by Allinson, Chell et al. (2000). In their findings they argue that entrepreneurs are more intuitive in their cognitive style than non-entrepreneurs. In this research the preliminary results were derived using two-steps of a four-step process, an initial interview and an instrument developed to measure cognitive style. It is postulated that what differentiates an entrepreneur from others is their willingness to make rapid decisions when there is either too much or too little information. Furthermore, entrepreneurs interviewed for this research said that “gut feel” is a legitimate approach to making important decisions.
Help bring back the celebration of life: A community-based participatory study of rural Aboriginal women’s maternity experiences and outcomes
Creators: name: Varcoe, Colleen, 1952-
name: Brown, Helen
name: Calam, Betty
name: Harvey, Thelma
name: Tallio, Miranda
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Despite clear evidence regarding how social determinants of health and structural inequities shape health, Aboriginal women’s birth outcomes are not adequately understood as arising from the historical, economic and social circumstances of their lives. The purpose of this study was to understand rural Aboriginal women’s experiences of maternity care and factors shaping those experiences. Methods Aboriginal women from the Nuxalk, Haida and 'Namgis First Nations and academics from the University of British Columbia in nursing, medicine and counselling psychology used ethnographic methods within a participatory action research framework. We interviewed over 100 women, and involved additional community members through interviews and community meetings. Data were analyzed within each community and across communities. Results Most participants described distressing experiences during pregnancy and birthing as they grappled with diminishing local maternity care choices, racism and challenging economic circumstances. Rural Aboriginal women’s birthing experiences are shaped by the intersections among rural circumstances, the effects of historical and ongoing colonization, and concurrent efforts toward self-determination and more vibrant cultures and communities. Conclusion Women’s experiences and birth outcomes could be significantly improved if health care providers learned about and accounted for Aboriginal people’s varied encounters with historical and ongoing colonization that unequivocally shapes health and health care. Practitioners who better understand Aboriginal women’s birth outcomes in context can better care in every interaction, particularly by enhancing women’s power, choice, and control over their experiences. Efforts to improve maternity care that account for the social and historical production of health inequities are crucial.
Challenges to supervision of undergraduate ESL (English as a Second Language) Asian students in the Bachelor of Medical Science
Creators: name: Melles, Gavin
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Undergraduate research is a challenging environment for supervisors and students and the current climate of cultural diversity in higher education and medical faculties means supervisors may have responsibility for English as Second Language (ESL) Asian students. The Bachelor of Medical Science (BMedSci) is a well-established context for undergraduate research projects and is the context in this study for examining the challenges for supervisors. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty-seven academics in an Australian university with experience of supervising Indonesian medical students, which gathered supervisor perceptions of the challenges of supervising international students as compared to supervising their Australian peers. Results: Interviews and data analysis generated themes regarding culture and the individual, comprehension and feedback, disciplinary differences, developing knowledge, language and conceptual clarity, education and critical analysis. Discussion: Academic supervisors hold a nuanced view of the challenges to and benefits of supervising International ESL students compared to their Australian peers. Supervisor experience, funding and purpose of the year remain issues to be investigated in future studies.
BERND MARTIN (ed.): Japans Weg in die Moderne. Ein Sonderweg nach deutschem Vorbild?
Creators: name: Zöllner, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
WILLY KRAUS: Private Unternehmerschaft in der Volksrepublik China. Wiederbelebung zwischen Ideologie und Pragmatismus
Creators: name: Sigrist, Christoph
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
Effects of mecamylamine on human attention and visual recognition memory and reversal by the antocholinesterase donepezil
Creators: name: Thompson, J. C.
name: Stough, C.
name: Ames, D.
name: Ritchie, C.
name: Silberstein, Richard
name: Nathan, P. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Abstract not available.
title: Back to Fundamentals of Research. Interdisciplinarity. Roundtable 2: The researchers' perspective
Creators: name: de la Cruz Montserrat, Francisco Xavier
name: Mourão Moura, Ana Clara
name: van Emde Boas, Evert
name: Franceschelli, Giorgio
name: Latorre, Adriana
name: Yousefi, Yasaman
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2024

description: On October 9, 2024, the University of Bologna hosted an international event titled: “Back to fundamentals of research: Interdisciplinarity”. The event featured distinguished speakers and scholars from national and international institutions who shared their insights on interdisciplinary research and some recommendations on how foster this approach for all stakeholders, from researchers to institutions. The second of the two roundtables gathered the perspectives of 6 researchers and was moderated by prof. Anna Chiara Fariselli, Former Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies (ISA), University of Bologna. Three of the researchers are ISA visiting fellows, and the other three ISA Doctoral Prize Winners at the University of Bologna. Each researcher presented a case study and then answered questions posed by the moderator. This deck of slides includes all the case studies presented.
MONIKA SCHÄDLER: Neue Wege für Chinas Bauern - Produktion, Beschäftigung und Einkommen im nichtlandwirtschaftlichen Sektor
Creators: name: Bergmann, Theodor
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
Applying aural research: the aesthetics of 5.1 surround
Creators: name: Barbour, Jim
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Multi-channel surround sound audio offers a richer perceptual experience than traditional stereo reproduction, recreating three-dimensional aural soundfields. Understanding the limitations of human auditory perception and surround sound technology may assist the exploration of acoustic space as an expressive dimension.
title: 02_1141
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Mobilisierung von Armen: Stabilisierung oder Transformation des Status quo? Chancen und Grenzen eines Armutsorientierten Entwicklungskonzeptes im ländlichen Bangladesh
Creators: name: Nebelung, Michael
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: This article, based on field research in several Bangladesh villages, examines the chances and limitations of a poverty-oriented development strategy mainly based on mobilising the rural poor. The main elements of this approach, viz. consciousness-raising programmes, income-generating and credit schemes as well as group formation, are mainly being carried out by Bangladeshi Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) funded by Western development- and aid institutions. Regarded by many theorists and practitioners as the first approach putting the poorest landless peasants and agricultural labourers first, it raises hopes as to its potential for fundamentally changing the power structure. The article highlights the mobilisation programmes of two different NGOs, the main characteristics of the landless groups concerned and the socio-economic changes in the project areas. Conclusions are drawn with regard to the emancipatory quality of the approach, its main constraints and its potential for transforming traditional power relations.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
Rural Development as a Polititcal Process: Lessons from Marxist Rule in West Bengal
Creators: name: Von Olnhausen, Gerd
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: The east Indian border state of West Bengal is the largest political entity of the world ever to vote for a Communist government in free elections. This paper tries to give an analysis of the policy of the Left Front government which came to power in 1977 and is dominated by the Communist Party of India (Marxists). Given the preeminence of agriculture the analysis focuses on the rural development policy. The origin of left power is traced back to the profound crises accompanied by agrarian unrest in the mid-sixties which resulted in the first non-Congress government in 1967. Further, the various aspects of the land reform programme of the Left Front government are described. In a final step the electoral situation is reviewed - particularly after the 1987 elections - to assess the further prospects of land reforms in West Bengal.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
From "Stop at two!" to "Have three if you can afford it!": Singapore's Population Policy
Creators: name: Wagner, Norbert
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Singapore introduced the National Family Planning and Population Programme in 1965. The family planning effort expanded rapidly during the following years. Fertility declined in the late sixties and early seventies, and in 1975 replacement fertility was attained. However, fertility rates continued to fall in the following years, reaching a historic low of 1.44 in 1986. Concerns about the adverse implications of sustained below-replacement fertility gave rise to a comprehensive review of Singapore’s population programme. A "New Population Policy" was announced in 1987, ending the anti-natal population policy and introducing a package of measures to stop the declining fertility and to promote higher population growth. The official population policy now emphasised the goals of replacement-level fertility rates and the longterm stabilization of the population. However, it is highly questionable whether the recennt produced incentives will actually bring about the hoped for results. Moreover, Singapore’s population policy appears to discriminate according to income, favouring the higher income groups, and according to educational levels, favouring couples with higher educational qualifications.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
The Illusion of Progress: An Ethnographic Exploration of Racism, Trauma and the Academy
Creators: name: Gilbert, F.
Publisher: name: CIRCLE, University of East London
Year: 2020
Subjects: Trauma
diaspora
critical race theory
psychoanalysis
white supremacy
academic and emotional growth

description: This ethnographic inquiry draws upon empirical work to explore the experience of trauma among the “black” British African and Caribbean diaspora. Using a combination of Critical Race Theory and psychoanalytical concepts of transgenerational trauma, this study examines the role of British institutions of higher education in perpetuating racial trauma by virtue of “white” supremacy and privilege, hindering the academic and emotional growth of “black” students within its walls.
Die Vertragsverantwortungssysteme im Kontext der ordnungspolitischen Umgestaltung der chinesischen Landwirtschaft
Creators: name: Herith, Uwe
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Dealing with the development of the responsibility system in Chinese agriculture since 1978 the author stresses the relationship between the reform attempted by Chinese intellectuals and the communist party's policy of restructuring its governmental force in the countryside. The relationship between the intellectuals and the party had never been clearly defined, so the intellectuals had taken the reform concept of the party as a chance to strengthen their position within the party-dominated state. They thus looked for a role which would make them more acceptable to the party. They soon became proponents of the reform in order to accelerate economic develop- ment, which in turn would provide increasing demand for their expertise. Seen in this way, the analysis of the party’s policy of decollectivization of agriculture made by the scientists of the Guowuyuan Nongyanzhongxin Fazhanyanjiusuo (Development Research Institute at the Agricultural Research Center of the State Council) during the mid-eighties reads more like the propagation of the introduction of market forces, of commodity-orientation than of subsistence production by petty farmers, the diversification of property forms etc than of the real changes that had taken place in the countryside. The statistical material presented by the State Council’s researchers is meagre and filtered so as to stimulate continuance of the reformers’ policy. It therefore only stresses the advantages of reform and illustrates certain achievements of the restructuring policy in the early eighties like rapid income increase through peasant sideline production, house building and so on. But no attention was given by the researchers to one of the severest problems of China’s development: the impact of the household-centered agricultural policy on demographic growth and the resulting demand for food etc.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
"Chinesische Lehre als Grundlage Westlicher Lehre zum praktischen Gebrauch": Der Westen aus der Sicht Chinas am Beispiel der Rezeption der Yangwu-Bewegung
Creators: name: Leutner, Mechthild
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Within the historical debate that has been going on in the People’s Republic of China during the last ten years concerning the Yangwu Movement of the 19th century, history continues to be used as a mirror of the past able to be a guide for future generations. The debate provides an insight into the various ways of judging the Western role in the modernization process. Four groups may be distinguished here, corresponding to the differing political views: (1) the traditionalists, having a negative assessment of the West; (2) the Westerners, who highly respect the West as a source of technology and capital; (3) the modernizers, who take a positive view of the West in economic terms, but who have a negative view of the West politically; and (4) the reformers, considering the West as either equal or superior. As was the case in the Yangwu Movement, the most predominant positions are those which see the role of the West in the modernization process as an important yet inferior secondary factor.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
War Zhu Xi (1130-1200) ein Hegel avant la lettre? Verständnisprobleme zwischen China und dem Westen in der Gegenwart
Creators: name: Lackner, Michael
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Do the German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831) and the Chinese thinker Zhu Xi (1130-1200) have anything in common? Indeed, Hegel who held that "comparison represents a relatively low stage of philosophical thought" would be rather astonished about the vast number of Chinese articles which, starting with He Lin in the 1930s, compare him with the paramount thinkers of China. One of these articles, published in 1985, is the object of the present study. There is enough evidence that the Chinese authors of such comparisons have been taken in by superficial linguistic similarities created by the translations of their predecessors or even Japanese scholars. Binomical expressions with the composite character "Li" (pattern, order, "principle" in an inadequate rendering) occur frequently throughout all Chinese translations of Hegel’s works. After splitting the Chinese words for "idea", "reason", "cause", "intelligence", and even "physics" into their compounds, one of them will always be "Li", and, behold!, it can be proved that Hegel was using one of the key terms of the Chinese thought of the Song period. The analysis of this strange kind of linguistic fetishism is carried out through a philological approach. But it can also cast some light on the self-assessment of contemporary Chinese thought: if Hegel’s terminology comprises key concepts of "Chinese philosophy" used by the German philosopher for his admittedly more systematic structure of thought, then, no doubt, the intrinsic value of the Chinese tradition needs no further legitimation. One intellectual step further, there is no need for Hegel or Marx in China, because China had Zhu Xi.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
The "Rambo Mystique": Philippine Para-Military and Society
Creators: name: Van Der Kroef, Justus M.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Confronted by a persistent Communist guerilla movement (NPA - New People’s Army), the Philippine government of President Corazon Aquino, since assuming office in February 1986, has attempted to channel existing civilian and para-military organizations into a controlled counter-insurgency structure. It has three levels. At the top are the Civilian Armed Force Geographical Units (CAFGU), numbering about 44,000, and operating under direct supervision of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). The CAFGU are designed to take the place of the Civilian Home Defense Forces (CHDF), organized in 1967 under the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos. Poorly supervised, and frequently employed as private "armies" of wealthy businessmen, estate owners, and local political tycoons, the CHDF acquired an odious reputation because of its human rights abuses. Below CAFGU is the Civilian Volunteer Organization (CVO), now numbering about 20,000 and not primarily used in armed combat with the NPA, serving instead as a supportive civilian watch and village improvement organization. Unlike CAFGU, its members are not regularly supervised by the AFP. Budget allocations are such that the organizational structure and degree of formal government control over CAFGU and CVO remains haphazard. This means that, as in the past, free wheeling vigilante organizations continue to be an important (and third level) element in the government’s counter-insurgency program. Philippine vigilantism has deep historic and social roots in the country’s feudal traditions. Modern "pop-culture" imagery, including that derived from motion pictures and rock music, also pervades many vigilante groups, as does an aura of romanticized, "macho" adventurism, identified here as "the Rambo mystique." There are about 200 vigilante groups with distinctive community, religious, or more traditional "private army" origins now operating in the Philippines. They are of continuous concern to government and private human rights organizations because of their frequent involvement in organized crime and extra-judicial violence.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 21 Nr. 1-2 (1990): Internationales Asienforum
Contextual Embedding Inversion Attack (CEIA): A Novel Adversarial Method Targeting BERT Models
Creators: name: Sarikaya, Ferhat
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Artificial intelligence
subject: Machine learning
subject: Natural language processing

description: This article describes CEIA, a new, targeted adversarial attack on BERT, name as Contextual Embedding Inversion Attack. CEIA uses BERT for reversing the general meaning of the crucial phrases based on the context’s proximity while maintaining syntactical integrity. This method is entirely new in the permutation of phrases such that BERT’s contextual embeddings are used to generate contrary phrases with an especial concentration on noun chunks. Due to transforming most of the words’ meaning while preserving the grammatical structure, this method represents an essential challenge for BERT-based models addressing the selected texts.
New slant on photonic crystal fibers
Creators: name: Nguyen, Hong C.
name: Domachuk, Peter
name: Eggleton, Ben J.
name: Steel, Michael J.
name: Straub, Martin H.
name: Gu, Min
name: Sumetsky, Mikhail
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: We present the novel use of microstructured optical fibers not as 'light-pipes', but in a transverse geometry to manipulate the light propagating across the fiber. Fundamental and higher-order bandgaps were observed experimentally in this geometry using a number of techniques. The comparison of the measured spectra with photonic band structure and Finite-Difference Time-Domain simulations provide strong evidence that the spectral features are a result of the periodic nature of the fiber microstructure in the transverse direction.
CONRAD ANDERS: Korea ; RÜDIGER MACHETZKI / MANFRED POHL (eds.) Korea. Wirtschaft, Politik, Kultur, Gesellschaft, Natur, Geschichte, Reisen, Sport
Creators: name: Eikemeier, Dieter
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
LUTZ-CHRISTIAN WOLFF: Der Arbeitsvertrag in der Volksrepublik China nach dem Arbeitsvertragssystem von 1986
Creators: name: Herith, Uwe
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
RUTH CREMERIUS / DORIS FISCHER / PETER SCHIER (eds.): Studentenprotest und Repression in China, April - Juni 1989. Analyse, Chronologie, Dokumente
Creators: name: Sandschneider, Eberhard
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
The evolution and devolution of the university webmaster role
Creators: name: Wise, Lisa
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The role of university webmaster emerged in the early 1990s and has undergone a series of rapid changes concomitant with the increasing importance of the university website as the public face of the university and the interface to a range of university services. This paper describes the evolution of the webmaster role from that of a curiosity-driven technological innovator to an all-powerful system administrator controlling server setup and maintenance, site architecture, site design, writing, marking up and authorisation of content, scripting and user support. The paper then explores the subsequent devolution of the webmaster role as it grew too big for one person to handle. The role shifted away from a technology towards content, focussing on collating and marking up content and writing policy and guidelines for web authors. This shift from system administration to content administration has led to a shift of the webmaster role to that of manager of a team of web content providers, web developers, graphic designers and user experience specialists housed in an information technology division, library, or media and publishing unit. However with the advent of portals, web applications and web interfaces to databases and other corporate software, the definition of a university website and the role of university webmaster is becoming problematic or perhaps even irrelevant. The confusion about the role of websites and webmasters is in a large part due to the relative recency of the web as a publishing medium, the lag-time for senior executive to endorse web strategies for university-wide information dissemination, the inevitable inertia in large institutions to provide appropriate infrastructure support for new strategic directions and the fact that web and internet technology is a rapidly moving target.
SILKE KRIEGER / ROLF TRAUZETTEL (eds.): Konfuzianismus und die Modernisierung Chinas
Creators: name: Gransow, Bettina
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
KAUKO LAITINEN: Chinese Nationalism in the Late Qing Dynasty: Zhang Binglin as an Anti-Manchu Propagandist
Creators: name: Osterhammel, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
VOLKER SCHULT: Mindoro - Sozialgeschichte einer philippinischen Insel im 20. Jahrhundert. Studie eines verzögerten Entwicklungsprozesses
Creators: name: Wendt, Reinhard
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
BURKHARD VIEWEG: Big Fellow Man. Muschelgeld und Südseegeister. Authentische Berichte aus Deutsch-Neuguinea 1906-1909
Creators: name: Schmidt, Gerold
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
Using 'moments of truth' within an action learning approach to build quality in higher degree by research supervision
Creators: name: Lasky, Barbara
name: Hill, Railton
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper outlines one of the strategies being employed by a small non-traditional Australian university striving to maximize the cycle of service through which higher degree research occurs. Utilizing an action research, or ‘learning by doing’ approach within the context of a seminar/workshop, outcomes of the session are presented in the form of issues that are of concern to both research candidates and their supervisors. These include the need: to treat candidates with empathy and understanding; to provide timely and useful guidance and feedback; and to use positive approaches to both personal and technical problems as they arise. It is concluded that in a supportive, sharing environment, efforts to meet research imperatives through a process of identifying critical moments in a candidate’s progress, and canvassing strategies for their optimal handling, are important if higher degree research supervisors are to offer a quality service to higher degree research candidates, maximizing the research experience for both parties.
PETRA HÖRDER / HANNELORE LÖTZKE / CHRISTINA OESTERHELD / HANS-JOACHIM VOLKERT (Hg.): Erkundungen
Creators: name: Gatzlaff, Margot
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
Die Gabe und die Korruption: Form- und Funktionswandel des Tausches in China
Creators: name: Gransow, Bettina
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: In the last few years, the social pressure to give more and more expensive presents has increased tremendously in all spheres of social life in the People’s Republic of China. The phenomenon of exchanging extravagant gifts, to the extent of qualifying as corruption, is the subject of this article, in which the practice of gift-giving is analyzed, based on Marcel Mauss, as a "total social fact". Legal and illegal, legitimate and illegitimate gifts are shown as comprising a reciprocal exchange of gifts which serves specific functions within the economic and political system in the People’s Republic of China. Following an excursus on the origin of gift-giving as tokens of alliance or tributes (with particular reference to Marcel Granet), modifications in the forms and functions of the gift exchange are then discussed, especially how they have been influenced, first by a planned economy and then by a market economy. The conclusion is drawn that as long as a planned economy continues to be the dominant form, the exchange of gifts will maintain its function of compensating for dysfunctions of the economic system.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
Der Präsident spricht: Indonesien 1990
Creators: name: Widehopf, Anneliese
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: After 25 years in power Suharto has become a charismatic figure in Indonesia. The annual speech on National Independence Day provokes detailed public discussion as to the political significance of individual members of the nomenclatura, trends in power play and general political topics of the following year. In this article selected quotations from Suharto’s speech on August 17th, 1990 are contrasted with Indonesian reality as expressed by gossip and the media: human rights, social upheavals and autonomist endeavours, economic disparities and poverty, as well as development policy and the hopes for an economic take-off, the decentralization of the administration and local autonomy, and, finally, the possibilities of a change in the presidency and political openness. The present-day situation is circumscribed by Karto Wijoyo as follows: "If nothing else, the rhetoric of "openness" has helped shine some light on just how few political rights the Indonesian people enjoy and the magnitude of the struggle ahead." Although that struggle takes place mainly among the elite, it still is an important step forward. However, appeals to humanist ideals will have to be substantiated by an active engagement for the rights of the people, grass root activities, human rights groups, and free unions.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
Vom "walak" zum "proyek": Entwicklungsprozesse und sozio-ökonomische Interessen in der Provinz Nord-Sulawesi/Indonesien
Creators: name: Buchholt, Helmut
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: The consideration of regional aspects, i.e. the specific social, cultural, economic and historical development of the various regions are of special relevance for an understanding of society in general, especially in multicultural and relatively young nation-states like Indonesia. Against this background the long-term development in North Sulawesi is analyzed with regard to regional interest groups and regional resources on the one hand and specific ethnic or genealogical characteristics in the consitution of such groups on the other. Starting point of the analysis is pre-colonial Minahasa which was structured and determined by social units called walak. Furthermore, attention is paid to various steps of development in colonial as well as post-colonial times. The argumentation ends with an analysis of the contemporary development projects (proyek). It is shown that regional resources as well as interest groups changed over time while regional socio-cultural strategies of participation have shown relative continuity.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
Dynamik der Bürokratie und Konservatismus der Unternehmer: Strategische Gruppen in Thailand und den Philippinen
Creators: name: Berner, Erhard
name: Korff, Rüdiger
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: While the level of material development is fairly comparable throughout Southeast Asia, the social power structure shows remarkable differences. In this article, the authors relate the variety of military and one-party regimes, parliamentary systems and "guided democracies" to different forms of dominance. The approach of strategic group analysis is employed to conceptualize coalitions and competition of entrepreneurs, landlords, professionals, bureaucrats and the military in two Southeast Asian countries, namely Thailand and the Philippines. At first sight, the results are somewhat paradox: the Philippines, which were thoroughly "modernized" by their American masters, are facing a deep economic and social crisis since the 70s; in contrast, Thailand, an apparently "traditional" country lacking modern institutions, is about to enter the exclusive club of the NICs. The authors state that the very asset of post-independence Philippines - its outstanding political and social stability which made it the tiger-economy of Southeast Asia at that time - has become a liability: a closed oligarchy of former landlords monopolized all emerging sources of power and income and thereby effectively blocked the development of society. In Thailand, the formerly "absolutist" bureaucracy was, in its own interest, forced into a coalition with the military, the private economy and the technocrats. The resulting equilibrium in which one group can monopolize the flow of resources, is instrumental for dynamics and growth.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
Identifying the health and mental health information needs of people with coronary heart disease, with and without depression
Creators: name: Pier, Ciaran
name: Shandley, Kerrie A.
name: Fisher, Julie L.
name: Burstein, Frada
name: Nelson, Mark R.
name: Piterman, Leon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objective: To identify the health and mental health information needs of people with coronary heart disease (CHD), with and without comorbid depression. Design and setting: A qualitative study conducted in Melbourne in 2006, using thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews on the types of health information that patients with CHD considered useful to assist with the management of their illness. Structured clinical interviews were used to assess current and prior depressive episodes in these patients. Participants: 14 general practice patients (eight with current or prior history of major depression) who had experienced myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, angioplasty or angina (confirmed via testing). Results: Four themes relating to information on how patients could manage their cardiovascular health and improve their psychosocial wellbeing emerged: psychosocial; physical activity; medical; and information for family. The most prominent information needs included identification and management of risk-related physical symptoms, and psychosocial information, most notably to enhance patients' social support. Patients considered this information important for alleviating health anxiety and negative affect. Conclusion: This small patient sample endorsed the need for health and mental health information on a range of psychosocial and physical health topics. Participants desired specific types of information to assist with the self-management of their health and to assuage their health concerns.
Problems Central to Economic Policy Deregulation in Bangladesh
Creators: name: Elsenhans, Hartmut
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2017

description: In this paper, an attempt is made to apply Keynesian imbalance principles to the problem of deregulation, based on a case study of Bangladesh. It is argued that in a structurally heterogeneous economy which is characterized by dependency on equipment imports, major elements required for the smooth functioning of market mechanisms are absent. Above all, fiscal and monetary policies cannot influence total demand through their effect on equipment production. Nor will the relaunching of the business cycle after protracted depression through the replacement of physically worn out or technically obsolete machinery lead to an increase in the level of employment with additional multiplier effects. Thus, the major mechanism of redistribution of power as found in capitalist development countries is therefore lacking. Structural defects are associated with the emergence of rent, which requires non-market forms of allocation and which is closely associated to aid. As rent/aid lead to high equilibrium exchange rates, they discourage diversification and require planning and limits to deregulation. It is therefore argued that because of the misallocation of aid/rent in the actual project implementation process, the simple support of the purchasing power of the marginalized population is preferable.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 22 Nr. 3-4 (1991): Internationales Asienforum
Networking, net-worthy: the perceptions of businessmen and women
Creators: name: De Klerk, Saskia
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Numerous studies suggest that societal cultures comprise, among others, the element of masculinity and femininity. Feminine cultures are typified as being more nurturing, modest and concerned with quality-of-life issues, whereas masculine cultures seem to be more interested in equity, competitiveness and being assertive with more distinct social gender roles. Male-dominated cultures typically have more male representation in high-power roles and this carries over into expectations of appropriate behaviour in relationship building. Women's networking tactics seem to differ from those of men and it is believed that this is because their previous perceptions suggestions are sceptical. However, it is not clear whether this is a valid conclusion or whether women are only trying to make their mark? Generally, women are perceived as being in touch with their feelings and emotions and as being sensitive to externalities, whereas men are typically seen as thinkers who have absolute rules. These observations should however, not be generalised without qualification, since every person’s individuality should be taken into consideration. Men traditionally kept women from entering and succeeding in traditional male-dominant positions by excluding them from informal networks, not offering mentorship and not giving them referrals. This explorative research consists of an inter-gender comparison between male and female business owners and managers to determine whether there are differences in their networking behaviour. Data was gathered by making use of a sequential mixed AGSE 2010 619 method approach with qualitative research methods in the form of separate focus group discussions with men (n=35) and women (n=41), which served to develop a representative framework of their perspectives on networking. This was followed by means of a quantitative, structured questionnaire. The underlying objectives of this research were to investigate the perceptions of male and female, as Gauteng business owners and managers, on current networking practices. A summary of the most common differences and similarities regarding the perceptions of men and women on networking practices were then compiled.