cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Changes public attitudes to maternal employment: Australia, in 1984 to 2001
Creators: name: Evans, M. D. R.
name: Kelley, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper investigates continuity and change in public attitudes towards paid work for mothers of young children between 1984 and 2001, using the wide range of measures on this topic available in the International Social Science Surveys of six large representative national samples of Australia. The results confirm earlier research suggesting that most Australians are generally supportive of female employment, but that most think full-time homemaking is better when there are preschoolers at home. Only around one third of Australians feel confident that young children would not suffer as a result of maternal employment, and only about one fifth think that full-time maternal employment does not make childrearing difficult. We probe more deeply into the reasons for people’s concern about deleterious effects of maternal employment on young children, and find that the most widespread concern is that maternal employment impairs mothers’ teaching activities, but that there is also concern about the likelihood o f emotional deprivation and concern that employment erodes the level of energy needed for good discipline. Attitudes toward maternal employment have remained broadly stable over almost two decades with, on many issues, a modest shift toward more supportive views of four to eight per cent points per decade. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Iodine Monochloride (ICl) as a Highly Efficient, Green Oxidant for the Oxidation of Alcohols to Corresponding Carbonyl Compounds
Creators: name: Wei, Peng
name: Zhang, Datong
name: Gao, Zhigang
name: Cai, Wenqing
name: Xu, Weiren
name: Tang, Lida
name: Zhao, Guilong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Virology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: ABSTRACTIodine monochloride (ICl) was discovered to be a highly efficient, green oxidant, which can oxidize aldose hemiacetals, diarylmethanols, arylalkylmethanols, anddialkylmethanols to the corresponding aldose lactones, diarylmethanones, arylalkylmethanones, and dialkylmethanones, respectively, in high yields. ICl as a green, metal-free oxidant is characterized by mild reaction condition, short reaction time, good yield, and broad scope.
Iodine Monochloride (ICl) as a Highly Efficient, Green Oxidant for the Oxidation of Alcohols to Corresponding Carbonyl Compounds
Creators: name: Wei, Peng
name: Zhang, Datong
name: Gao, Zhigang
name: Cai, Wenqing
name: Xu, Weiren
name: Tang, Lida
name: Zhao, Guilong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Virology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biochemistry

description: Iodine monochloride (ICl) was discovered to be a highly efficient, green oxidant, which can oxidize aldose hemiacetals, diarylmethanols, arylalkylmethanols and dialkylmethanols to the corresponding aldose lactones, diarylmethanones, arylalkylmethanones and dialkylmethanones, respectively, in high yields. ICl as a green metal-free oxidant is characterized by mild reaction condition, short reaction time, high yield and broad scope.
Rampant misattributed paternity: the creation of an urban myth
Creators: name: Gilding, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: There is a common view that misattributed paternity is widespread in Western societies, between ten and 30 per cent of all births. Such estimates are an urban myth. The actual evidence suggests that the true extent of misattributed paternity is closer to one per cent, and not more than three per cent. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Multiculturalism and citizenship: silencing the migrant voice
Creators: name: Davidson, Alastair
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: MairiAnne McKenzie (this issue) worries that multiculturalism may be going too far but Alastair Davidson believes that it has not gone far enough. He argues that multiculturalism has been confined to questions of lifestyle and welfare and that it has left Australian political and constitutional arrangements untouched. Migrant voices which might have spoken on questions of political and legal rights have been silenced. This means that Australia has missed opportunities to reshape its political institutions according to a European Continental model. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Description and distribution of Desmacella hyalina sp. nov. (Porifera, Desmacellidae), a new cryptic demosponge in glass sponge reefs from the western coast of Canada
Creators: name: Law LK,; Reiswig HM,; Ott BS,; McDaniel N,; Kahn AS,; Guillas KC,; Dinn C,; Leys SP
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Libraries
Year: 2020

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1996 census findings of interstate migration to Queensland focusing on South-East Queensland
Creators: name: Barker, Ross
name: Ward, Gary
name: Moore, Iain
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: South-East Queensland continues to be the fastest-growing region in Australia, largely because of net migration. This paper examines the contribution of net interstate migration between the 1991 and 1996 censuses to this growth. More people moved into the region in 1991-1996 than in 1986-1991 but the strong out-migration of Victorians appears to have peaked in the early 1990s. However, the authors doubt that overall levels of net migration to the area will fall significantly in the immediate future. The paper also analyses some of the characteristics of interstate migrants to South-East Queensland. People aged 35-39 form the largest age group, and clerical and service-workers the largest occupational group. These trends are even more pronounced for people who move to Brisbane. People who move to South-East Queensland are, however, less likely to be employed and more likely to be unemployed or not in the labour force than those who move to Brisbane. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The potential roles of granular activated carbon in anaerobic fluidized membrane bioreactors: effect on membrane fouling and membrane integrity
Creators: name: Wu, Bing
name: Chuen Yung Wong, Philip
name: Fane, Anthony G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Physics
subject: Engineering
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: This study examined the behavior of granular activated carbon (GAC) in a hybrid GAC-microfiltration process, which was used to simulate an anaerobic fluidized membrane bioreactor. GAC can exhibit two major beneficial roles in reducing membrane fouling, namely, (1) GAC scours the membranes to limit the cake layer formation and facilitate cake layer removal; (2) GAC tends to absorb potential foulants to reduce the interaction of foulants with the membranes. However, several detrimental effects of GAC on membrane performance were also observed. For example, (1) GAC appeared to release micro- and nanoscaled fine carbon particles, which can form potential foulants. (2) GAC abrasion can induce partial membrane integrity loss, which was proven by membrane permeability increase and microscopic autopsy. Interestingly, it was found that the GAC size had little influence on the scouring-enhanced filtration performance and scouring-induced membrane damage. The properties of the membrane materials were more important in determining the extent of integrity loss of the membrane after GAC abrasion. A membrane with good elongation properties (e.g. polyvinylidene fluoride) and GAC having a suitable size (i.e. less energy consumption) with good stability (i.e. releasing less fine carbon particles) is recommended for the hybrid fluidized GAC-membrane filtration process.
title: Erstellung eines Prüfkatalogs im Bereich Cybersicherheitsmanagement in der Automobilindustrie
Creators: name: Smuda, Patrick
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cybersicherheitsmanagementsystem
subject: Sicherheit Automobilindustrie
subject: UN-Regelung Nr. 155
subject: Prüfkatalog

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Laboratory Reports on Radiocarbon Age Determination. Mabuiag, Torres Strait Islands, QLD, AUS (2013)
Creators: name: Petchey, Fiona
name: Wright, D. J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Sahul
Archaeology
Radiocarbon
SahulArch
OCTOPUS database
Lab report
Mabuiag

description: Original Radiocarbon Dating Lab reports for samples Wk-37951, Wk-37953, Wk-37954, Wk-37955, Wk-37956, Wk-37957 Sample batch originates from Mabuiag, Torres Strait Islands, QLD, AUS The University of Waikato, Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory
Two new quercetin glycoside derivatives from the fruits of Gardenia jasminoides var. radicans
Creators: name: Yu, Shaofu
name: Fu, Shuna
name: Liu, Bailian
name: Zhang, Ying
name: Zhou, Guangxiong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Two new quercetin glycoside derivatives named quercetin-3-O-[2-O-trans-caffeoyl-α-l-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 → 6)-β-d-glucopyranoside] (1) and quercetin-3-O-[2-O-trans-caffeoyl-β-l-rhamnopyranosyl-(1 → 6)-β-d-glucopyranoside] (2) along with three known flavonoids, 5-hydroxy-6,7,3′,4′,5′-pentamethoxyflavone (3), 5,7-dihydroxy-8-methoxyflavone (4) and kaempferol 3-O-β-d-glucopyranoside (5), were isolated from the fruits of Gardenia jasminoides var. radicans. The structures of the new compounds were determined by means of extensive spectroscopic analysis (1D, 2D NMR and HR-ESI-MS), glycoside hydrolysis and sugar HPLC analysis after derivatisation. This is the first report on the isolation of a pair of compounds with α or β-l-rhamnopyranosyl configuration from plant and the first detail assignment of their NMR data.
What does it mean to be un-Australian? : views of Australian Muslim students in 2006
Creators: name: Kabir, Nahid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Recent political and media debates have focused on Australian values, Australianness and being un-Australian. The current war on terror and the Cronulla riots in December 2005 have raised the question of whether Muslim Australians are willing to adopt Australian values. This paper reports on sixty in-depth face-to-face interviews with Muslim students in Sydney and Perth. The main topic of the interviews was: what it means to be ‘Australian’ and ‘un-Australian’. The study focuses on the students’ outlook. It concludes that these youthful participants hold very positive views about Australian values, but most of them were very distressed by the Cronulla riots. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Tale of two multilingual cities in a multilingual continent
Creators: name: Clyne, Michael
name: Hajek, John
name: Kipp, Sandra
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This article constitutes a first analysis of language data from the 2006 Australian census. Some comparisons are made with previous censuses. The article focuses particularly on differences in the distribution of community languages throughout the Sydney and Melbourne metropolitan areas. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Adsorption of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol by magnetic mesoporous SiO2 and the adsorption capacity regeneration by UV photolysis
Creators: name: Cui, Jie
name: Ma, Xiaoliang
name: Wu, Xiaogang
name: Zhang, Xu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Hematology

description: The adsorption of 2,4,6-trichlorophenol (2,4,6-TCP) on synthesized magnetic mesoporous silica (Fe3O4/SiO2/m-SiO2, MMS) composites and the regeneration of its adsorption capacity through direct UV photolysis was performed in this work. MMS exhibited good performance in removing 2,4,6-TCP from aqueous solutions. The adsorption ratio of 2,4,6-TCP was determined to be influenced by aquatic pH, dissolved humic acids, ionic strength, temperature, and the loaded adsorbents. The adsorption isotherm fit the Freundlich and Polanyi–Manes model better than the Langmuir model, which indicated that the adsorption of 2,4,6-TCP was more likely a pore-filling process. The calculated adsorbed capacity for 2,4,6-TCP on MMS was 55 mg/g. Direct UV photolysis could decompose the adsorbed 2,4,6-TCP and later regenerate the adsorption capacity of MMS to a certain degree; however, the outer mesoporous silica layer was not UV-persistent, and large parts of the mesoporous silica layer were also shown to be corrupted from the Fe3O4/SiO2 core. Therefore, after long duration UV irradiation, the adsorption of 2,4,6-TCP on regenerated MMS was much lower than on freshly synthesized MMS. These results suggest that the photostability of magnetic core-shell-like nanocomposites should be investigated because parts of the composites might leach into the bulk phase during practical use and cause potential environmental risks, similar to other well-known nanomaterials.
Impulse der nordrhein-westfälischen Landesinitiative für Forschungsdatenmanagement - fdm.nrw für eine FDM-Landesstrategie
Creators: name: Cyra, Magdalene
name: Fingerhuth, Matthias
name: Rehwald, Stephanie
name: Schreyer, Lioba
name: Slowig, Benjamin
name: Stegemann, Jessica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Forschungsdatenmanagement
Landesinitiative fdm.nrw
FDM-Strategie
Kooperationen
Nordrhein-Westfalen

description: Die nordrhein-westfälische Landesinitiative für Forschungsdatenmanagement - fdm.nrw möchte mit vorliegendem Papier Impulse für eine strategische Entwicklung von Forschungsdatenmanagement in NRW setzen. Abgeleitet von aktuellen Handlungsfeldern werden Konzepte für landesweit nutzbare und auf übergeordneter Ebene anschlussfähige Forschungsdatenmanagement-Infrastrukturen und Dienste vorgeschlagen.
Australian ambitions: population and sustainability
Creators: name: Lines, Bill
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Australian state politicians have been making strong, in principle, commitments to policies of environmental sustainability. At the same time, several have also put in place population policies which aim for high population growth, driven by overseas immigration. This article explores the extent to which any inconsistencies between these two positions are recognized and addressed. It focuses on the South Australian and Victorian experience. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Variable Selection With Prior Information for Generalized Linear Models via the Prior LASSO Method
Creators: name: Jiang, Yuan
name: He, Yunxiao
name: Zhang, Heping
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: LASSO is a popular statistical tool often used in conjunction with generalized linear models that can simultaneously select variables and estimate parameters. When there are many variables of interest, as in current biological and biomedical studies, the power of LASSO can be limited. Fortunately, so much biological and biomedical data have been collected and they may contain useful information about the importance of certain variables. This article proposes an extension of LASSO, namely, prior LASSO (pLASSO), to incorporate that prior information into penalized generalized linear models. The goal is achieved by adding in the LASSO criterion function an additional measure of the discrepancy between the prior information and the model. For linear regression, the whole solution path of the pLASSO estimator can be found with a procedure similar to the least angle regression (LARS). Asymptotic theories and simulation results show that pLASSO provides significant improvement over LASSO when the prior information is relatively accurate. When the prior information is less reliable, pLASSO shows great robustness to the misspecification. We illustrate the application of pLASSO using a real dataset from a genome-wide association study. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Population ageing in a nutshell: phenomenon in your dimensions
Creators: name: Jackson, Natalie
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Growing awareness of the issue of population ageing is not necessarily correlated with growing understanding of the phenomenon. A recent rise in Australia’s birth rate, for example, has generated speculation in some quarters that Australia’s population ageing ‘problem’ may have been resolved. To understand why this is not so it is necessary to understand that the phenomenon has four ‘technical’ dimensions: numerical ageing, structural ageing, natural decline, and absolute decline. This paper provides a potted outline of the nature, causes and implications of these dimensions. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Variable Selection with Prior Information for Generalized Linear Models via the Prior LASSO Method
Creators: name: Jiang, Yuan
name: Zhang, Heping
name: He, Yunxiao
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: LASSO is a popular statistical tool often used in conjunction with generalized linear models that can simultaneously select variables and estimate parameters. When there are many variables of interest, as in current biological and biomedical studies, the power of LASSO can be limited. Fortunately, so much biological and biomedical data have been collected and they may contain useful information about the importance of certain variables. This paper proposes an extension of LASSO, namely, prior LASSO (pLASSO), to incorporate that prior information into penalized generalized linear models. The goal is achieved by adding in the LASSO criterion function an additional measure of the discrepancy between the prior information and the model. For linear regression, the whole solution path of the pLASSO estimator can be found with a procedure similar to the Least Angle Regression (LARS). Asymptotic theories and simulation results show that pLASSO provides significant improvement over LASSO when the prior information is relatively accurate. When the prior information is less reliable, pLASSO shows great robustness to the misspecification. We illustrate the application of pLASSO using a real data set from a genome-wide association study.
Its like we're their culture: second-generation migration women discuss Australian culture
Creators: name: Zevallos, Zuleyka
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Young women of Latin and Turkish origin living in Melbourne find it hard to see any Australian culture. Some see a vacuum; others see a bland milieu populated with ‘average looking’ people. In contrast, they feel that their own migrant cultures are strong. They ‘get through more’. If there is any Australian culture it is, in their opinion, losing ground to migrant cultures. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Synthesis and characterization of chiral ruthenium(II) complexes Λ/Δ-[Ru(bpy)2(H2iip)](ClO4)2 as stabilizers of c-myc G-quadruplex DNA
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhao
name: Mei, Wenjie
name: Wu, Xiaohui
name: Wang, Xicheng
name: Wang, Baoguo
name: Chen, Sidong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics
Hematology
Cancer
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: In this article, two chiral ruthenium(II) complexes, Λ/Δ-[Ru(bpy)2(H2iip)](ClO4)2 (Λ-1 and Δ-1, bpy = 2,2-bipyridine; H2iip = 2-(indol-3-yl)-imidazo[4,5f][1, 10]phenanthroline), were synthesized and investigated as c-myc G4 DNA stabilizers. The interaction of both complexes with c-myc G4 DNA has been studied using UV–vis spectra, CD spectra, and ITC experiments, and the results show that both isomers strongly bind with c-myc G4 DNA. Furthermore, the FRET melting point experiments give a ΔTm for Λ-1 and Δ-1, which is about 9.5 and 8.3 °C, respectively, indicating that both isomers can stabilize the G-quadruplex conformation of c-myc oncogene in vitro. As a result, the replication ability of c-myc DNA, as evaluated by using PCR-stop assay, by both isomers. Besides, the inhibitory activity evaluated by MTT assay showed that Λ-1 and Δ-1 can inhibit the growth of MDA-MB-231 cells, suggesting their potential utility as inhibitors targeting to c-myc G-quadruplexe in chemotherapy.
The prevalence of childlessness in Australia
Creators: name: Merlo, Rosangela
name: Rowland, Don
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Estimates of historical and contemporary levels of childlessness are both subject to assumptions about data and method. In Australia, the proportion childless has fluctuated considerably over the past century, ranging from 30 per cent of women born around the turn of the twentieth century to below 10 per cent in the cohorts that produced the baby boom. Although childlessness is increasing among women currently in their childbearing years, a return to record levels is unlikely in the short term. It is expected that about one in five women currently of reproductive age will remain childless. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Thema eingrenzen
Creators: name: Grahl, Tina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Mit der Eingrenzungstabelle können Sie Ihr Thema nach bestimmten Kategorien eingrenzen. Außerdem können Sie anhand der ausgefüllten Tabelle eine Fragestellung entwickeln.

 Quelle: Grieshammer, Ella; Liebetanz, Franziska; Peters, Nora et al (2016): Zukunftsmodell Schreibberatung: Eine Anleitung zur Begleitung von Schreibenden im Studium. 3. korr. Aufl. Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren. S. 176f
The myth of too many university students
Creators: name: Birrell, Bob
name: Edwards, Daniel
name: Dobson, Ian R.
name: Smith, T. Fred
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Coalition Government has recently asserted that too many young Australians are training to become professionals and not enough as traditional tradespersons. By implication, there is a surfeit of young professionals. This article challenges these assertions. It shows that there has been a substantial increase in the employment of professionals since the Coalition came to power in 1996. Yet over the same period, the number of domestic students in Australian universities at the undergraduate level has hardly increased at all. All of the increase in professional training at the undergraduate level in Australian universities has been directed at overseas students. Partly as a consequence, there has been a rapid increase in the intake of professional migrants to satisfy employer needs. The article concludes that there is a need for more training of domestic undergraduate students, not less. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Synthesis and characterization of chiral ruthenium(II) complexes Λ/Δ-[Ru(bpy)2(H2iip)](ClO4)2 as stabilizers of c-myc G-quadruplex DNA
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhao
name: Mei, Wenjie
name: Wu, Xiaohui
name: Wang, Xicheng
name: Wang, Baoguo
name: Chen, Sidong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Physics
Hematology
Cancer
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Biochemistry
Biophysics

description: In this paper, two chiral ruthenium(II) complexes, Λ/Δ-[Ru(bpy)2(H2iip)](ClO4)2 (Λ-1 and Δ-1, bpy = 2,2-bipyridine; H2iip = 2-(indol-3-yl)-imidazo[4,5f][1,10]phenanthroline), were synthesized and investigated as c-myc G4 DNA stabilizers. The interaction of both complexes with c-myc G4 DNA have been studied by using Uv-vis spectra, CD spectra, and ITC experiments, and the results show that both isomers strongly bind with c-myc G4 DNA. Furthermore, the FRET melting point experiments to give a ΔTm for Λ-1 and Δ-1 is about 9.5 and 8.3 °C, indicating that both isomers can stabilize the G-quadruplex conformation of c-myc oncogene in vitro. As a result, activity of Taq polymerase was inhibited, as evaluated by using PCR-stop assay, by both isomers. Besides, the inhibitory activity evaluated by MTT assay showed that Λ-1 and Δ-1 can inhibit the growth of MDA-MB-231 cells, suggesting their potential utility as inhibitors to c-myc in chemotherapy.
English language communication skills: what are the issues for international pharmacy students
Creators: name: Stupans, Ieva
name: Rao, Deepa
name: March, Geoffrey J.
name: Elliot, Elizabeth E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Like any other group of professionals, pharmacy graduates in Australia need good English. The authors teach pharmacy at the University of South Australia. Here they explore factors that appear to affect their efforts to help international students improve their English skills. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Widening gap between demand for and supply of university graduates in Australia
Creators: name: Birrell, Bob
name: Edwards, Daniel
name: Dobson, Ian R.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The rapid growth in demand for university-trained personnel over recent years has mainly been filled by growth in the skilled migration program. The authors argue that more domestic students should be trained. The Coalition Government does not agree. It claims that ‘unmet demand’ from prospective university students has been met and, anyway, that additional subsidised places are to be created. This article scrutinises these claims and concludes that they are not correct. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The cosmopolitan social agenda and the referendum on the republic
Creators: name: Betts, Katharine
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Should Australia become a republic with a head of state elected by a two-thirds majority of Parliament? In November 1999 this question was put to the people in a referendum and lost. The October 1998 Australian Election Study can help us understand this result. This survey shows that economic class and region were both associated with attitudes to the referendum; better-off, better-educated people in inner-city suburbs were more likely to vote yes and poorer, less well-educated people in the outer suburbs and rural areas were more likely to vote no. Trust in political institutions is also important; the more people trust government and political parties the more likely they were to vote yes. However, another factor has a stronger effect on the vote than either economic class, region or trust, and that is attitudes to the new cosmopolitan social agenda developed in the Hawke and Keating years. This agenda includes closer integration with Asia, support for minority rights, especially Aboriginal rights, and support for multiculturalism and immigration. People who approve of this agenda were more likely to have voted yes than people who do not. Economic and locational variables can be thought of as one major set of causes of the outcome of the referendum and attitudes to the cosmopolitan agenda as another. There is an overlap between the two sets but this overlap is only partial, and the effect of support for the cosmopolitan agenda is stronger than the effect of economic circumstances or region. The effect of trust is mid-way between the two major sets. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Regional Impacts of Direct Payments on Farm Productivity and Efficiency in the European Union
Creators: name: Jambor, Attila
name: Szerletics, Akos
name: Jambor, Attila
name: Szerletics, Akos
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: direct payment
subject: CAP
subject: regional
subject: effect
subject: land productivity
subject: labour productivity

description: This paper analyses the regional impacts of direct payments on the labour and land productivity of European farms. The basic assumption of the research is that direct CAP subsidies have a positive effect on productivity and efficiency. This was tested by quantitative regression-analysis models, which were based on NUTS2-level regional data from 2008-2018. The results show that direct subsidies have a negative effect on labour and productivity in agriculture, a finding that can be attributed to a number of underlying factors. The direction and magnitude of these productivity effects differ markedly between old and new Member States.
Empirical Analysis of Crash Injury Severity on Mountainous and Nonmountainous Interstate Highways
Creators: name: Ma, Xiaoxiang
name: Chen, Feng
name: Chen, Suren
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Molecular Biology

description: Objective: Mountainous (MT) highways usually exhibit complex geometry features such as steep gradients or sharp curves, which can cause considerably different driver behavior and vehicle performance compared to nonmountainous (NM) ones. In addition, MT highways experience adverse weather conditions more often than NM counterparts. We examine different characteristics of crash injury severity from an MT highway and an NM highway.Methods: One major interstate highway with typical MT terrain and another one with NM terrain in Colorado were selected for this study. A comparative investigation about the impact on injury severity from MT and NM highways is conducted. Separate mixed logit models are estimated for both highways with 4-year detailed crash data.Results: Incorporating 2 major interstate highways from the same region into the comparative study offers some unique strength on investigating the impacts from different causes. As a result, the study provides better insights about contributing factors and associated mechanism for injury severity on MT highways. Substantial differences in the magnitude and direction of the influence of some contributing factors between MT and NM models are observed. Some new findings about injury severity on MT highways are made possible for the first time.Conclusion: The findings in this study provide scientific guidance to potentially improve the current highway design and traffic management policy on thousands of miles of MT highways in the country.
Empirical Analysis of Crash Injury Severity on Mountainous and Non-Mountainous Interstate Highways
Creators: name: Ma, Xiaoxiang
name: Chen, Feng
name: Chen, Suren
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Science Policy
Biological Sciences
Molecular Biology

description: Objective: Mountainous highways usually exhibit complex geometry features such as steep gradients or sharp curves, which can cause considerably different driver behavior and vehicle performance as compared to non-mountainous ones. In addition, mountainous highways are more often to experience adverse weather conditions than non-mountainous counterparts. We examine different characteristics of crash injury severity from a mountainous (MT) highway and a non-mountainous (NM) highway. Methods: One major interstate highway with typical mountainous (MT) terrain and another one with non-mountainous (NM) terrain in Colorado have been selected for this study. A comparative investigation about the impact on injury severity from mountainous and non-mountainous highways is conducted. Separate mixed logit models are estimated for both highways with four-year detailed crash data. Results: Incorporating two major interstate highways from the same region into the comparative study offers some unique strength on investigating the impacts from different causes. As a result, the study provides better insights about contributing factors and associated mechanism for injury severity on mountainous highways. Substantial differences in the magnitude and direction of the influence of some contributing factors between MT and NM models are observed. Some new findings about injury severity on mountainous highways are made possible for the first time. Conclusion: The findings in this study provide scientific guidance to potentially improve the current highway design and traffic management policy on thousands of miles of mountainous highways in the country.
Employment for mothers of pre-school children: evidence from Australia and 23 other nations
Creators: name: Evans, M. D. R.
name: Kelley, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Seventy one per cent of Australian mothers think that mothers should not work when their children are of pre-school age and only two per cent think that they should work full time. Though 12 per cent of such mothers actually worked full-time during most of the time their children were under school age, some of them may have been working longer hours than they would have liked and 62 per cent in fact stayed at home through most of this stage of life. Family policy should reflect the diversity of preferences among parents of young children, but as most prefer full-time homemaking this is the option that should be given pride of place. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The Unity Party and the attempt to mobilise Australian electoral support for multiculturalism
Creators: name: Healy, Ernest
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Unity Party sought to mobilise public electoral support for multiculturalism at the 1998 Federal election. It was largely unsuccessful in this attempt. This article explores the Party’s agenda and the reasons for its poor national showing. It also examines voting patterns in the electorate of Fowler in south-western Sydney where Unity scored its greatest success Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Thionyl Chloride–Mediated Synthesis of tert-Butyl ((S)-1-((R)-Oxiran-2-yl)-2-phenylethyl)carbamate with Boc-Involved Neighboring Group Participation
Creators: name: Li, Tao
name: Mei, Mei
name: Gao, Hongjun
name: Li, Yuanqiang
name: Yan, Yongliang
name: Che, Daqing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A convenient, high-yielding preparation of tert-butyl ((S)-1-((R)-oxiran-2-yl)-2-phenylethyl)carbamate is described. An efficient chiral inversion as the key step is furnished via Boc-involved neighboring group participation mediated by thionyl chloride. This preparation has significant advantages over the previously reported methods with respect to simplicity, cost efficiency, yield, and purification procedure as well as industry reliability.
Object Identification and Pose Estimation Using Bio-Inspired Tactile-Enabled Multi-Joint Fingers for In-Hand Manipulation
Creators: name: Prado Da Fonseca, Vinicius
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2020
Subjects: Machine learning
Robotics
Tactile sensing

description: In-hand manipulation is a major challenge that has to be addressed in order for robots to achieve human-like skills and manipulation abilities. A new generation of humanoid robots will need dexterous hands able to deal with uncertainties, especially when they are expected to operate in unstructured environments, such as homes and hospitals. Given the human ability to quickly obtain and understand tactile data, one promising direction in order to achieve enhanced robotic dexterous skills is to investigate and emulate human manipulation capabilities. In humans, a combination of somatosensory subsystems deals with everyday manipulation tasks. This thesis introduces a new approach for estimating the pose of a grasped object by combining tactile sensing data and visual frames of reference inspired by the human “Where” subsystem. While tactile sensing produces local data about objects during in-hand manipulation, a vision system generates egocentric and allocentric frames of reference. Object recognition in the early grasp phases in unstructured environments is also a fundamental ability for robots to achieve human-level manipulation skills. Humans developed a so-called “haptic glance” where non-exploratory manipulation perform fast object identification. Tactile sensors contribute useful information about the objects manipulated by robots, especially during in-hand operations. Drawing inspiration from the functionality of the “What” somatosensory pathway, the proposed solution uses machine learning methods to recognize objects in the early phases of manipulation. The thesis describes innovative work on object recognition using data collected from bio-inspired multi-modal tactile sensing modules in static and dynamic tasks. The system takes advantage of the module’s compliant structure and inertial, magnetic and pressure measurements. During all experiments, a dual fuzzy logic controller autonomously achieves and maintains stable grasping conditions while forces applied to in-hand objects expose the tactile system to various object configurations. This thesis also presents results on simultaneous object characterization during exploratory procedures using teleoperation.
Thionyl Chloride–Mediated Synthesis of tert-Butyl ((S)-1-((R)-Oxiran-2-yl)-2-phenylethyl)carbamate with Boc-Involved Neighboring Group Participation
Creators: name: Li, Tao
name: Mei, Mei
name: Gao, Hongjun
name: Li, Yuanqiang
name: Yan, Yongliang
name: Che, Daqing
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Science Policy
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A convenient, high-yielding preparation of tert-butyl ((S)-1-((R)-oxiran-2-yl)-2-phenylethyl)carbamate is described. An efficient chiral inversion as the key step is furnished via a Boc-involved neighboring group participation mediated by thionyl chloride. This preparation has significant advantages over the early-reported methods in respect of simplicity, cost efficiency, yield and purification procedure as well as industry reliability.
Formalising human resource practices in family-owned accommodation Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs): Integrating owner-manager’s personal characteristics with aspects of the UTAUT model
Creators: name: Nyamubarwa, Willard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 350599
subject: Human resources and industrial relations not elsewhere classified
classificationCode: 350503
subject: Human resources management
classificationCode: 350504
subject: Industrial and employee relations

description: The decision to formalise human resource (HR) practices by family-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) is regarded as one of the key managerial practices that the owner-manager may institute to unlock firm value. Given this owner manager’s overarching role in the decision-making processes, the extent to which his or her personal attributes manifest themselves in deciding to formalise human resource management practices within a specific decision-making model is still a grey area in studies of family businesses.
Extract from white nation: fantasies of white supremacy in a multicultural society
Creators: name: Hage, Ghassan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Both MairiAnne Mackenzie and Alastair Davidson (this issue) comment on the relationship between immigration and multiculturalism. The following extract is reprinted with permission from the last seven pages for Ghassan Hage’s new book, White Nation. It draws the two phenomena together and argues that public concern about immigration stems from the distress that ‘White Australians’ feel in the face of their declining power in multicultural Australia. The term ‘White’ stands for people of European origin while the term ‘Third World-looking’ people denotes most of the rest. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The future eaters: some further thoughts on population policy
Creators: name: Flannery, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The history of the land of Australia and her near neighbours and the history of the peoples of these lands has much to tell us about our environment: both its potential and its limits. Tim Flannery's book The Future Eaters draws on these lessons with skill and insight. We reproduce an excerpt here and then invite the author to tell us about the reactions to his work, especially in the context of the recent Jones report on Australia's population. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
The impact of the skilled migration program on the domestic opportunity in information technology
Creators: name: Kinnaird, Bob
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: High levels of immigration to Australia of information technology (IT) professionals from both offshore and onshore sources have occurred in recent years, at the same time as the domestic IT labour market has been depressed. This article explores the implications of this immigration for domestic IT workers and students. It also examines the role of the Australian Computer Society in facilitating this migration flow. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Danby versus Held: the story of the two Jewish candidates in Melbourne Ports—take two
Creators: name: Mendes, Philip
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The federal electorate of Melbourne Ports has long been a safe Labor seat. It also has a high proportion of Jewish voters. Since 1998 it has been held by Michael Danby, a Jew and a strong supporter of Israel. Recent boundary and demographic changes may have made the seat marginal and in the 2007 election the Liberal Party selected Adam Held, another Jewish supporter of Israel, to run against Danby. Both emphasised their pro-Israel credentials but, while the swing to Labor was not as high as it was nationally, Danby increased his vote. With the aid of Greens preferences, he held the seat comfortably. Nevertheless, in six out of nine key Jewish booths a majority voted Liberal. The author argues that Jewish voters are only unified on the question of Israel; on other issues they are diverse. Some are attracted to the Liberals on economic questions and others to Labor and the Greens on social and environmental questions. But any candidate who did not support Israel would be unlikely to win Melbourne Ports. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Patient education in Australian hospitals: how do private and medicare admissions differ?
Creators: name: Temple, Jeromey
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Recently, the Premier of Queensland has proposed placing restrictions upon privately insured patients electing to be treated as Medicare patients in public hospitals as is currently permitted under the Australian Health Care Agreements. The purpose of this paper is to examine differences in four kinds of patient admissions in Australian hospitals. Results drawn from the 2001 Australian Bureau Statistics (ABS) National Health Survey show that almost 11 per cent of all hospital admissions in 2001 were by privately insured patients admitting themselves as Medicare (public) patients. A further 37 per cent were by privately insured patients in either private or public hospitals. Of the remaining 48 per cent of hospital admissions, approximately six per cent were by uninsured persons who are admitted as private patients in either private or public hospitals. The final 42 percent of admissions were uninsured Medicare patients in the public hospital sector. These four groups of patients are found to differ considerably by their socio-economic characteristics, use of hospitals and also by reported reasons for purchasing or not purchasing private health insurance. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Declining fertility: welcome wherever it occurs
Creators: name: Curnow, Jill
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Fertility rates in developed countries are declining and many are fearful of a future in which populations will be older and less numerous. These fears are unfounded since future generations may have a better quality of life in older, smaller nations. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s
Practical Approach for Synthesis of 2-Amino-benzoxazole in Water
Creators: name: Cao, Ke
name: Wang, Jia-Ling
name: Wang, Lin-Hui
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: A practical copper-catalyzed amination of benzoxazole with secondary amine in water has been developed. This reaction has proved to be effective to some cyclic amines, and the substituted group of nitrogen has a great impact on the amination reaction. A copper-catalyzed/ amine-induced ring opening of the benzoxazole and recyclization/oxidation mechanism was also proposed.
Reproduction and survival in an unknown world
Creators: name: Coleman, D. A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This is an excerpt from a larger analysis in which Coleman explores a wide range of possible theories about influences on contemporary fertility levels in industrial societies. The passages below examine the role of economic factors and changing values in explaining fertility levels. Among many challenging observations Coleman notes that in the 1970s women in European societies with high levels of workforce participation tended to have fewer births. But, by the 1990s, this relationship had reversed. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s