cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Participation in Training and Development
Creators: name: Tharenou, Phyllis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper reviews the evidence and theories explaining participation in training and development at individual, job and organizational levels. Employees' demography and training attitudes, occupation types, the immediate work environment of supervisor career support, and organizational internal employment systems and high performance work practices increase participation in training and development.
The Use of Soft Systems Methodology As a Tool for Creativity
Creators: name: Molineux, John
name: Haslett, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Soft Systems Methodology is a tool that is especially useful in diagnosing and addressing organisational problems and designing new systems in cultures that are characterised by pluralistic views and values. This paper demonstrates how SSM workshops in a large government agency resulted in a high level of creativity. SSM is then proposed as a methodology which could enhance group creativity in organizational design contexts.
Governance within a globalizing framework
Creators: name: Coghill, Ken
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Governance has emerged as a major challenge at various levels of society, and is one of the most fiercely debated issues of our time. We are witnessing the countervailing trends towards increasing roles for global organisations of various kinds on the one hand, and yet towards greater localisation on the other. There has been a major shift in many countries away from the dominance of the state towards a complex inter-relationship between the state, the market and the community sector. These trends raise major policy issues for governance in all democratic societies.
Additional file 1 of Homocysteine induces ferroptosis in endothelial cells through the systemXc−/GPX4 signaling pathway
Creators: name: Shi, Jiahao
name: Chen, Di
name: Wang, Zilin
name: Li, Shaolin
name: Zhang, Shuying
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional File 1: Western Blot Original Image
Additional file 4 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 4: Figure S1. Map of the populations from different geographical regions. Populations of mitochondrial COII sequences: KH, Siem Pang County (Stung treng, Cambodia); Tri, Tripura (India); Ch, Cheema (Punjab, India); Ba, Bathinda (Punjab, India); Nag, Nagaland (India); Ass, Assam (India); MM, Myanmar; TH, Thailand; Miz, Mizoram (India); Meg, Meghalaya (India). The map was prepared by using LocaSpace Viewer.
Small States Down Under? an Antipodean Test of Katzenstein's 1985 Model
Creators: name: Ramia, Gaby
name: Wailes, Nick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Since its publication in 1985, Katzenstein's Small States in World Markets has been extremely influential in explaining the policy responses of small European states to their vulnerability in the international economy. The Katzenstein framework has also been important in underpinning accounts of public policy in the non-European small states. In particular, it forms the basis of the 'domestic defence' model (Castles 1988; 1989), which has become the dominant account of the policy pattern in Australia and New Zealand throughout the twentieth century. The application of the arguments in Small States to the case of Australia and New Zealand provides the opportunity to indirectly assess the generalisability of Katzenstein's model. In this paper we argue that an assessment of the domestic defence model reinforces many of the criticisms that have recently been levelled at Small States in the European context. Some of these criticisms have their basis in dissatisfaction with the institutionalist flavour of the model. This resonates with our analysis of the Australasian case, which elevates the importance of considering political-economic interests as well as institutions. We find that the institutionalist bias of much of the comparative policy literature on Australia and New Zealand skews conclusions regarding similarity and difference between the two in terms of policy processes and outcomes.
The Reform of Public Hospital Funding in Australia : Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Public Hospital Funding
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
name: Segal, Leonie
name: Watts, Jenny
name: Carter, Rob
name: Mortimer, Duncan
name: Peacock, Stuart
name: Robertson, Iain
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No abstract supplied
The way ahead for new public management
Creators: name: Hughes, Owen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In recent years the public sectors of a number of countries have experienced what has been called 'new public management' (Hood, 1991; Hughes, 1998). This movement has resulted in, within some jurisdictions, a transformation of the management of the public sector: as traditional public administration has been replaced; as former public enterprises have been privatised; as the terms and conditions for employing public servants have become more like those of the private sector and as the contracting out of services has proceeded apace. The changes induced by the new public management have continued for a number of years now. In many respects the reforms have been successful, in others they have not. Some countries have proceeded further than others; Australia and Malaysia are two of the countries which have adopted much of the model. The next thing to look at, however, is what comes next, that is what are the lessons from those aspects which have or have not worked well and those which have worked badly. As with any reform movement there are critics: such criticism is at its strongest over the application of new public management to developing countries. There are some lessons which point to a way ahead for managerial reform. Of course, some would favour abandoning the reform movement altogether and returning to the certainties of the traditional model of public administration. Such a move would be a mistake and is unlikely to occur. What is needed instead is an appreciation of where the new public management reforms have succeeded and failed and where they are likely to proceed. A particular focus in what follows concerns developing countries. Instead of arguing, as some do, that new public management should not be applied to developing countries, it is more useful to set out the preconditions in order for these reforms to work in any country regardless of its state of development. From this a research agenda can be devised.
Workplace Violence: Cause for Concern or the Construction of a New Category of Fear?
Creators: name: Mullen, Elizabeth A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper discusses the problems raised by growing media, official and organisational attention to workplace violence. At present this issue is documented in a diffuse, and frequently inflammatory way with little attention to accurate quantification of incidence nor any systematic attempt to place the risk in context. Suggestions are made for definition, classification and operationalisation of the variables which constitute workplace violence to facilitate agency data collection, research and management.
Course-seminar for the instructors of European scientific divers
Creators: name: Abbiati, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1997
Subjects: Scientific diving
Training course
European standards draft
SCUBA diving

description: The Course (1-11 May 1997) is organised by the Scientific staff of the International School for Scientific Diving and by the Department of Human and Environmental Sciences of the University of Pisa under the EC, DG XII, Science Research and Development, MAST programme. Representatives from European research institutions are involved in the Course as invited lecturers (IRL, UK, BE, SP, IT, FR, GR, USA, AUS)
description: Course supported by the grant MAS3-CT96-6351 from the European Commission
description: {"references": ["Abbiati M. (ed). 1997. Course-seminar for the instructors of European scientific divers. Marine Science and Technology (MAST 1994-1998), Sub-area D. Supporting initiatives, 2. Standards for training and work, Training, working and safety standards for scientific divers. European Commission, DGXII, MAST, Cavo (Isola d'Elba, Italy), 1-11 May 1997"]}
CMAS Standard for Scientific Diver (version 2.1.)
Creators: name: Norro, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2000
Subjects: Scientific Diving
Initial training standards
Volunteering

description: The goals of the CMAS Standards for Scientific Diving are:-
 a) to assure the mobility of fully trained scientific divers,
 b) to enable specialist courses and optional training, above the minimum, to be developed on a CMAS basis so as to provide a more effective use of self contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) diving techniques in science.
 There are two different levels of standard, both of which are professional.
 a) the CMAS Scientific Diver. (CSD).
 b) the CMAS Advanced Scientific Diver. (CASD).
description: This text only concerns volunteer amateur divers who can participate in underwater scientific activities. There are other standards for occupational scientific diving by professional scientists (technicians, engineers, researchers, teachers and under certain conditions and in some countries only, graduate students, PhD students and post-Doc)
description: {"references": ["Norro A. 2000. CMAS Standard for Scientific Diver (version 2.1.), Scientific Committee of CMAS, 10 pp."]}
Additional file 5 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5: Figure S2. Distribution heatmap of haplotype based on COII. KH-St-Sp, Siem Pang County (Stung treng, Cambodia); MM, Myanmar; TH, Thailand; IN-Pun-Ba, Bathinda (Punjab, India); IN-Pun-Ch, Cheema (Punjab, India); IN-Tri, Tripura (India); IN-Meg, Meghalaya (India); IN-Ass, Assam (India); IN-Nag, Nagaland (India); IN-Miz, Mizoram (India). The numbers of haplotypes are shown on the right side of the figure. The color scale ranges from blue to red, showing a range from minimum number (0) to maximum numbers (19) for each haplotype.
A model for the development of structure in voluntary not-for-profits
Creators: name: Walker, Beverly C
name: Haslett, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper is an account of structural changes that came about in the process of an action research project undertaken in a not-for-profit Members serving community disability service organisation. With the growth of externally funded services there was an increased requirement for count ability in the administration of those funds and the development of structures to meet accountabilities external to the organisation in addition to the Members. The interacting issues that arose between governance and management as a result of manger endeavours to discharge their responsibilities to their Board and its strategic directions were significant.
CMAS standard for scientific diver
Creators: name: Norro, Alain
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2001
Subjects: Scientific Diving
Citizen Science
Training standards
Volunteering

description: The goals of the CMAS Standards for Scientific Diving are:-
 a) to assure the mobility of fully trained scientific divers,
 b) to enable specialist courses and optional training, above the minimum, to be developed on a CMAS basis so as to provide a more effective use of self contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) diving techniques in science.
 There are two different levels of standard, both of which are professional.
 a) the CMAS Scientific Diver. (CSD).
 b) the CMAS Advanced Scientific Diver. (CASD).
description: This text only concerns volunteer amateur divers who can participate in underwater scientific activities. There are other standards for occupational scientific diving by professional scientists (technicians, engineers, researchers, teachers and under certain conditions and in some countries only, graduate students, PhD students and post-Doc).
description: {"references": ["Norro A. 2000. CMAS Standard for Scientific Diver (v. 2.1.)"]}
The relationship between total quality management practices and operational performance
Creators: name: Samson, Danny
name: Terziovski, Milé
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Total quality management (TQM) has been a widely applied process for improving competitiveness around the world, but with mixed success. A review of the literature revealed gaps in research in this area of quality/operations management, particularly in the area of empirical testing of the effectiveness of TQM implementation. The aim of this study was to examine the total quality management practices and operational performance of a large number of manufacturing companies in order to determine the relationships between these practices, individually and collectively, and performance. We used a large data base of 1200 Australian and New Zealand manufacturing organisations. The reliability and validity (construct, content, criterion) of the practice and performance measures were evaluated. Our study showed that the relationship between TQM practice and organisational performance is significant in a cross-sectional sense, in that T QM practice intensity explains a significant proportion of variance in performance. Some but not all of the categories of TQM practice were particularly strong predictors of performance. The categories of leadership, management of people and customer focus were the strongest significant predictors of organisational performance. This is consistent with literature findings that behavioural factors such as executive commitment, employee empowerment and an open culture can produce competitive advantage more strongly than TQM tools and techniques such as process improvement, benchmarking, and information and analysis.
A New Approach to Model GNP Functions: An Application of Non-Separable Two-Stage Technologies
Creators: name: Wong, Gary K. K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper shows that two-stage technologies can provide a general procedure for combining profit and value-added functions to obtain new specifications of import demand and output supply systems. In such technologies, we assume that imports interact with other exogenous variables to produce intermediate inputs, which are in turn used to produce final outputs. To show the utility of this new approach, we use it to specify and estimate the Australian GNP function. As will be seen, our proposed framework has an attractive property: the capability of incorporating exogenous effects such as labour and capital endowments within a strong theoretical underpinning. We investigate a new GNP function for which the demand and supply systems are effectively globally regular. Our results demonstrate that the new approach is feasible and promising while the estimated elasticities are not significantly different from those of the traditional models.
International students: a segregated and vulnerable workforce
Creators: name: Nyland, Chris
name: Forbes-Mewett, Helen
name: Marginson, Simon
name: Ramia, Gaby
name: Sawir, Erlenawati
name: Smith, Sharon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The growth of the international education market has generated a new workforce that works part-time while studying in a host country. These workers are highly vulnerable, growing in number and are very much under-researched. Drawing on interviews with 200 international students studying in Australia we argue international student workers are in many cases compelled to accept forms of work and levels of payment that are unacceptable to domestic students.
Introduction and Wrap up Slides from Co-chairs: Maryann Martone and Shelley Stall
Creators: name: Martone, Maryann
name: Stall, Shelley
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Institutional Repository
Generalist Repository
FAIR Data
Data Reuse
Data Discovery

description: Slides presented by the co-chairs during the introduction and wrap up on the first day of the NIH Workshop: The Role of Generalist and Institutional Repositories to Enhance Data Discoverability and Reuse Workshop Objective: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) aims to develop a unified strategy to support effective data sharing through both domain-specific and generalist/institutional repositories. The NIH has a strong history of supporting domain-specific biomedical data repositories that support data sharing for specific scientific communities or types of data. To establish a more comprehensive FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) biomedical data ecosystem, the NIH is investigating the roles of generalist and institutional data repositories in the biomedical data repository landscape. Both generalist and institutional repositories address the needs of researchers by providing data sharing solutions when no appropriate domain-specific repositories exist.
Additional file 6 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S3. Neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of An. nivipes haplotypes based on COII sequences from GenBank and original data in this study. Bootstrap values (1000 replicates) of Neighbor-Joining analyses are shown above/below the main lineages. Lineage designation is indicated on the right. Bars represent 2.0 substitutions per site based on COII. Different colors indicated different population groups of An. nivipes.
Καταιγιδοφόρα νέφη και πλυμμυρικά φαινόμενα
Creators: name: Charalampopoulos, Ioannis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Παρουσίαση άσκησης "Καταιγιδοφόρα νέφη και πλυμμυρικά φαινόμενα"
Habitability conditions and radio emission under calm space weather conditions around Proxima b
Creators: name: Peña-Moñino, Luis
name: Pérez-Torres, Miguel
name: Varela, Jacobo
name: Zarka, Philippe
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: We present magneto-hydrodynamic simulations to study the calm space weather conditions around Proxima b, and its effect on the habitability of the planet and the radio emission arising from them, using the PLUTO 3D MHD code.  We consider both sub- and super-Alfvénic regimes for Proxima b,  as well as different values of the planetary magnetic field and of the inclination of the magnetic field with respect to the stellar wind.

We find that the magnetopause standoff distance of Proxima b is large enough for any planetary tilt, but the most extreme (close to 90 deg), to shield the surface from the cosmic radiation, for an Earth-like magnetic field and under calm space weather condiionss.

We obtain the somewhat paradoxical result that the magnetopause standoff radius is, for the same values of the planetary titl and planetary magnetic field, smaller in the sub-Alfvénic regime than in the super-Alfvénic one.  We also find that the energy dissipation at the bow shock is essentially independent of the angle between the planet’s magnetic dipole and the incident stellar wind flow.

We also find that the radio emission from the reconnection regions can be as high as 7E19 erg/s in the super-Alfvénic regime, and is on average almost an order of magnitude larger than the radio emission in the sub-Alfvénic cases. The energetics are enough to account for the observed radio emission from Proxima b, although this would require that this energy travelled back to the star.  While this is not expected in the Alfvén wing model, where both the planet and the star are interconnected via magnetic loops, in the magnetic reconnection scenario we could expect that a fraction of electrons could travelled back to the star and eventually radiate at relatively high radio frequencies (~1.7 GHz) via the electron-cyclotron mechanism.
description: We acknowledge financial support through grants CEX2021-001131-S, PID2020-117404GB-C21 and PID2020-114461GB-I00, funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033, and through the "Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa" award to the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709)" Luis Peña-Moñino also acknowledges funding through the grant PRE2020-095421, funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by FSE Investing in your future.
Additional file 7 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Table S4. Genetic differentiation and Gene flow among the Geographic Groups based on COII. The pairwise FST values and Nm values based on the COII are shown below and above the diagonal, respectively. Characters in bold indicate the significance (P < 0.05). inf, infinite. KH_St_Sp, Siem Pang County (Stung treng, Cambodia); IN_Tri, Tripura (India); IN_Pun_Ch, Cheema (Punjab, India); IN_Pun_Ba, Bathinda (Punjab, India); IN_Nag, Nagaland (India); IN_Ass, Assam (India); MM, Myanmar; TH, Thailand; IN_Miz, Mizoram (India); IN-Meg, Meghalaya (India).
Testing for Serial Correlation in the Presence of Dynamic Heteroscedasticity
Creators: name: Silvapulle, Param
name: Evans, Merran
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A test for the presence of serial correlation is routinely carried out as a test for efficiency in financial markets. The problems inherent in such testing in the presence of dynamic heteroscedasticity are addressed in this paper. The accuracy of using standard critical values of serial correlation tests in the presence of autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (ARCH), generalized ARCH (GARCH), normal and non-normal disturbances is investigated. Tests examined include the conventional Durbin-Watson, Box-Pierce, Ljung-Box, Lagrange multiplier tests, proposed ARCH-corrected versions of these tests, and the robust tests of Diebold (1986) and Wooldridge (1992). Standard serial correlation tests are derived assuming that the disturbances are homoscedastic, but this study shows that asymptotic critical values are not accurate when this assumption is violated. Asymptotic critical values for the ARCH(2)-corrected LM, BP and BL tests are valid only when the underlying ARCH process is strictly stationary, whereas Wooldridge's robust LM test has good size and power properties overall. These tests exhibit similar behaviour even when the underlying process is GARCH (1, 1). When the regressors include lagged dependent variables, the sizes and powers of the corrected tests depend on the coefficient of the lagged dependent variables, and the ratio of signal to noise. They appear to be robust across various disturbance distributions.
Operating Cashflow Per Share: A Significant Improvement on Current Practice
Creators: name: Goyal, Mahendra
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Earnings per Share (EPS) forms the base for the Price/Earning (PE) ratio and is widely reported daily in the financial press for companies. EPS is calculated from the reported earnings. Cashflow statements provide useful information in addition to earnings. Cashflow from operation per share is not commonly reported by companies but is proven to be a very effective analytical tool in financial distress situation of a company. This paper examines such issues: Whether cashflow from operation per share is a better indicator of performance than EPS; Whether cashflow from operation per share would represent a significant improvement on current practice. Two groups ie Chief Executive Officers/Financial Controllers (CEOs/FCs) and Accounting Academics have been selected as subjects. Cross-tab statistics show a slightly difference in their score of perceptions. Where t-test shows there are no significant differences on perceptions between these two groups. However, another t - test was conducted to test of both groups' perceptions on whether there is too much useless regulation in the content and presentation of financial statements in Australia. A significant difference was found.
Adoption and use of Quality Management Practices in Australian Organisations: Comparison of two Empirical Studies
Creators: name: Sohal, Amrik S.
name: Terziovski, Mile
name: Beaumont, Nick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper evaluates the findings of a survey of quality practices in Australian manufacturing firms.The results of two studies are compared in order to identify any differential improvements that may have taken place over a three year period in the adoption and use of modem quality management practices. The barriers to the implementation of these practices are also investigated. The analysis shows that significant improvements in the adoption and diffusion of quality management practices have taken place. A high proportion of organisations are using Total Quality Management (TQM) and preparing a corporate quality mission statement. There have been substantial increases in the use of ISO 9000 quality system certification and benchmarking. These are the dominant quality practices of the 1990s and are driving the implementation of TQM and quality improvement programs in Australian industry. However, quality management practices are still concentrated in the manufacturing function, with little increase in the use of these practices in other areas such as human resources, administration and marketing functions. Based on the two studies, we conclude that there is a clear shift towards making quality the responsibility of all employees of the organisation.
Invariant-based strategy synthesis for nondeterministic probabilistic programs
Creators: name: Biskup, Tom
Publisher: name: RWTH Aachen University
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: 004

description: Masterarbeit, RWTH Aachen University, 2023; Aachen 92 Seiten (2024). = Masterarbeit, RWTH Aachen University, 2023
description: Published by Aachen
Medium-run Consequences for Australia of an APEC Free-Trade Area: CGE Analyses using the GTAP and MONASH Models
Creators: name: Huff, Karen M.
name: McDougall, Robert
name: Pearson, K. R.
name: Powell, Alan A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The inauguration of APEC In October 1994 raises the prospect of large reductions to impediments to trade within the Asia-Pacific region. The global trade analysis model GTAP (see Hertel [16]) is a research tool well suited to the analysis of such developments. Recent work with GTAP by Young and Huff explores the consequences for ten regions of the development of APEC in the post-NAFTA era. The present paper amplifies this GTAP work (by using a 37 rather than a 3 commodity disaggregation) and focuses it on Australia (by treating Australia as a separate region). The consequences for Australia of the development of APEC are explored in detail by feeding results from GTAP into a highly disaggregated (115 commodity) national model of Australia, MONASH. The latter Is regularly used as the basis for medium and long range forecasts of the Australian economy (Adams, Dixon and McDonald ID). APEC is good news for Australia, causing a 3 per cent improvement in its terms of trade, and allowing real expenditure to Increase by about one half of one per cent at a fixed setting of the trade balance and with fixed total endowments of capital and labour. However some Industries producing internationally traded goods run into major structural pressures: the black coal industry reduces output by almost 14 per cent relative to base case, while non-ferrous metals, some food products, and some suppliers to the textiles sector experience falls In output of about half this magnitude.
Nikephoros ouranos, eunuchism, and masculinity during the reign of emperor Basil II
Creators: name: Masterson, Mark
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: History and archaeology

description: Discussions of Byzantine eunuchs have generally relied on accounts that speak directly of a man’s eunuch status. This has meant that scholars have constructed discussions of eunuchs from a destabilizing mix of highly critical and highly laudatory languages. This article proposes to de-emphasise the languages of difference, i.e., exclusion or excessive praise, and to consider how the eunuchs and the bearded, i.e., the intact, got along with one another as men. Discussing instances from Byzantine historiography and epistolography and employing Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s notion of reparative reading, we focus on the life and career of Nikephoros Ouranos. He was one of emperor Basil II’s leading generals and hitherto not identified as a eunuch in the secondary literature. Nikephoros Ouranos is a good personage to use for considering how eunuch and bearded got along at a time in which they were highly integrated with one another in the government of the empire. Approaching the sources from a standpoint prioritising the fact that bearded and eunuch could perform many of the same roles and called each other men helps us develop an understanding of Byzantine elite masculinity that moves beyond dichotomies that speak more of rhetorical intent than quotidian realities. Scholarly conceptions of Byzantine elite masculinity, at least during the time of the Macedonians (ninth to eleventh centuries), need to move beyond the Classical model of dominating and penetrative masculinity, which appears to be less relevant for understanding this later time. Considering eunuch and bearded in this way is one way to make this move. Manhood and masculine authority frequently appear independent of any necessary masculine bodily configuration during these centuries.
Foreign Market Entry Into Poland: Success Versus Failure
Creators: name: Reid, Imogen
name: Freeman, Susan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The concept of a 'transitional turbulent market' is not clearly defined in extant international business literature. Emerging communistic markets in Eastern Europe undergoing 'transition' to market based economies, are defined as such. The constraints facing foreign firms for entry mode and operations are considerable, with high risk of failure associated with this 'turbulent' environment. This is more so for western firms. The aim of this paper is the identification of western firm perceptions of the constraints to foreign market entry into 'turbulent transitional markets' and what impact this has on entry mode. Findings suggest multiple entry modes are sought. In addition, international business theory does not singularly explain this process for western firms and findings suggest that foreign direct investment, stage model and network perspective are used concurrently. However, emphasis was found for the network perspective to explain how western firms manage the particular constraints operating in 'turbulent transitional markets'.
Additional file 8 of Molecular phylogeny of Anopheles nivipes based on mtDNA-COII and mosquito diversity in Cambodia-Laos border
Creators: name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhang, Canglin
name: Yang, Rui
name: Luo, Chunhai
name: Deng, Yan
name: Liu, Yan
name: Zhang, Yilong
name: Zhou, Hongning
name: Zhang, Dongmei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S4. Cluster analysis based on COII sequences in Anopheles nivipes populations. UPGMA dendrogram based on Nei ‘s unbiased genetic distance between different populations of An. nivipes. Bars represent 0.7 substitutions per site based on COII. KS, Siem Pang County (Stung treng, Cambodia); IN_Tri, Tripura (India); IN_Pun_Ch, Cheema (Punjab, India); IN_Pun_Ba, Bathinda (Punjab, India); IN_Nag, Nagaland (India); IN_Ass, Assam (India); MM, Myanmar; TH, Thailand; IN_Miz, Mizoram (India); IN_Meg, Meghalaya (India).
Preregistration documents
Creators: name: Crook, Zander
name: Deary, Ian
name: Booth, Tom
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2017
Subjects: Lothian Birth Cohort 1936
allostatic load
cognitive ability
cognitive ageing
intelligence
longitudinal

description: This component contains two preregistration documents for the linked study: a background document covering previous research in the area and a preregistration document for our study.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Sustainability of FArmer-Managed Groundwater Irrigation Systems in Drought-Prone Areas: The Role of Socioeconomic Conditions
Creators: name: Reddy, M
name: Reddy, M
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: IN INDIA. USING groundwater for agricultural purposes is one of the oldest forms of irrigation. Traditionally dugwells were the chief means of irrigation in drought-prone areas. Farmers evolved indigenous methods to lift water from shallow dugwells. Waterlifts were mostly drawn by bullocks and also by human beings, depending upon the depth of well and the area to be irrigated. Over the years economic compulsions and technological innovations seemed to have influenced to a great extent the spatial and temporal spread of groundwater irrigation. The increase in population has necessitated the optimum utilization of available groundwater. This has led to the construction of dug-cum-borewells and tubewells. Animal-drawn waterlifts were gradually replaced by diesel and electric pumpsets. Single-farm wells have become multi-farm wells, because of the division of property among brothers and other kinship members. The emergence of all these techno-economic changes in the ways and means of groundwater exploitation is believed to have posed a threat to the sustainable supply of water for agriculture. It is therefore attempted in this paper to highlight the understanding 􀄠f groundwater management problems by the farmers and methods adopted by them to handle aquifer drawdown.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable Groundwater Development and Management in Nepal: Major Issues Confronted by a Development Bank in Nepal
Creators: name: Pradhan, Ujjwal
name: Thapa, Ganesh
name: Pradhan, Ujjwal
name: Thapa, Ganesh
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION WITH newer technologies and its use in Nepal are very recent as compared to some other South Asian countries. The Agriculture Development Bank/Nepal (ADB/N) has been intimately involved in groundwater development for the past two decades. It is very probable that, in the future, the functions of the Bank will be limited only to lending activities without the technical support. Were it to be so, the Bank will need to find avenues for filling in the newly created vacuum if irrigation development is to be fully realized. Therefore, this paper assesses the institutional capacity and the adequacy of irrigation support services to shallow tube wells (STWs) by the ADB/N by analyzing several systems supported by the Bank. The economic performance of the selected STWs is also presented. Suggestions are made for enhancing the Bank's institutional capacity regardless of whether it retains technical support as one of its functions. The paper also addresses the issue of subsidy and its impact on groundwater development. It concludes with issues that confront STW development and sustainability in Nepal, in view of the positive contribution that ADB/N can make toward the goals of irrigation development in the country.
Bayesian Analysis of a Cointegration Model Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Creators: name: Martin, Gael M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper presents a strategy for conducting Bayesian inference within the context of the trianguiax cointegration model. The numerical analysis is based on a hybrid of the Gibbs and Metropolis Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. The use of a combination of two Markov Chain algorithms rather than a straight Gibbs Sampler occurs as a consequence of the complications induced by the prior specification. The specific form of the latter is, in turn, required for two purposes. First, in order to offset an identification problem which occurs when the cointegration model is extended to allow for the possibility of no cointegration. Second, in order to allow for an objective prior density on the parameter which determines the existence of cointegration.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Groundwater and Electricity Co-Management: Generating New Options
Creators: name: Moench, Marcus
name: Moench, Marcus
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: GROUNDWATER OVERDEVEWPMENT IS a problem throughout Northern Gujarat. In India, horse­power (hp) based electricity charges encourage inefficient water and energy use in overdeveloped areas. Pumping accounts for 30 percent of electricity consumption in Gujarat and underlies the state's power crisis. The social conditions necessary for farmers to manage groundwater overdevelopment are difficult to meet. User group and resource boundaries are poorly defined, information is not available, private well ownership complicates free rider control, and large heterogeneous groups utilize aquifers. Government regulatory attempts have not been successful. Institutional structures which address groundwater problems need lo be created at the required scale to meet the necessary social conditions, and rectify pumping incentives. Cooperatives have been proposed as a response to the state's electricity crisis. Electricity to village-level organizations should be metered. They can then meter membership consumption. Since pumping is often the primary end use, unit charges should create incentives for electricity and water conservation at organization and end-use levels. As a result, the organizations could provide an appropriate nucleus for water management activities. Defining management entities using the electrical system could address many of the free rider, user group, and information issues complicating emergence of farmer-based groundwater management systems.
Drug Testing in the Workplace: It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It
Creators: name: Holland, Peter
name: Pyman, Amanda
name: Teicher, Julian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Alcohol and illicit substance abuse in the workplace is increasingly becoming a major human resource and employee relations issue. Whilst more sophisticated measures have been developed to test and monitor drug use in the workplace, and despite tacit union support on the grounds of occupational health and safety (OH&S), the implementation of drug testing procedures remains a contentious issue. This paper firstly examines the arguments for and against drug testing, and secondly, examines the issue through two case studies in the Australian mining industry where the introduction of the drug testing resulted in industrial disputation that was resolved in very different outcomes.
Farmer Management of Groundwater Irrigation in Asia: Utilization of Water under Different Deep Tubewell Management Systems in the Rajshahi Area of Bangladesh
Creators: name: Hassan, M
name: Islam, M
name: Hassan, M
name: Islam, M
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1994
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: A STUDY WAS conducted in the deep tubewell (D1W) irrigation projects of Rajshahi. The D1WS were operated under four different management systems, i.e., Barind Integrated Area Develop­ment Project (BIADP) of Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC), BADC Rental Program, Rental-Rajshahi Krishi Unyan Bank (RAKUB), and private systems (owned by farmers). In BIADP Project, informal groups are provided with deep tubewells and the groups are to pay irrigation charges based on estimated command area. Management responsibility lies with the farmer groups or the leaders of such groups but BADC retains enough control on the wells to ensure that irrigation charges are paid by the group. The farmer groups pay BADC an annual rent ofTaka(Tk) 5,000 (approximately US$135.14) in the rental program. The groups are responsible for operation and maintenance costs. BADC retains some responsibilitie􀀚 for repair, but has little control over management aspects. The government has been selling D1Ws to farmer groups since 1973. The groups are responsible for all aspects of operation and management. The rental program of BADC is supported by RAKUB for seasonal crop production credit requirements. Credit is provided for operation and maintenance (0&M) and other relevant services. Raj shahi is a dry area of the country where temperature ranges from 5 to 46°C and total rainfall during the months of May to September is around 1,200 millimeters (mm). A negligible amount of rain occurs during the months of October to April. The soils range from clay to loam with seepage and percolation rates of 2.3 to 3.5 mm/day. The dominant cropping patterns of the area are boro-fallow-aman, wheat-aus-aman, and potato-aus-aman. Water distribution in each D1W is characterized by block rotation as well as by head-, middle- and tail-rotation systems. The designed discharge of each D1W was 56.6 liters per second (lps). But actual discharge varied from 26 to 51 lps. Discharge of all the wells were below the designed capacity. Full irrigation was applied for the boro season and supplementary irrigation was applied during the aman season.
A Review of Methodological Issues in the Conduct of Willingness-to-Pay Studies in Health Care III: Issues in the Analysis and Interpretation of WTP Data
Creators: name: Smith, Richard
name: Olsen, Jan Abel
name: Harris, Anthony H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cost-effectiveness, and cost-utility, analyses have historically been the most widely used techniques of economic evaluation applied to the evaluation of health care programs. However, in recent years there has been renewed interest in the use of cost-benefit analysis, which requires the assessment of programme benefits in monetary terms. The emerging consensus is that such monetary valuation is most appropriately obtained using a survey of individual `willingness-to-pay' (WTP) for the program of interest. There are obviously a considerable number of methodological issues and potential biases to be considered in performing such a survey, which may be grouped into three main areas: (i) the construction and specification of the contingent market; (ii) the administration of the survey; and (iii) the analysis and interpretation of the WTP data. In addition, there are a few issues which also warrant consideration, such as assessing validity and the impact of ability to pay and income distribution issues. This paper is concerned with assessing the analysis and interpretation of WTP data, including the assessment of validity and distributional impact of WTP. The paper considers the literature relating to these issues, and uses this to derive a set of `recommendations' for current `state of the art' conduct of WTP surveys with respect to market construction. WTP studies conducted to date in health and health care are then reviewed with such recommendations in mind, to assess the degree to which they reflect this `state of the art'. It is concluded that such studies perform poorly when judged in this manner.
Economies of Scale and Imperfect Competition in an Applied General Equilibrium Model of the Australian Economy
Creators: name: Abayasiri-Silva, Kaludura
name: Horridge, J. Mark
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Recently some researchers have suggested that economies of scale and imperfect competition play a major role in determining the effects of exogenous policy shocks. Thus they have emphasised the need to incorporate industrial organisation features into computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. However, our knowledge of this new paradigm is still in its infancy - it is not yet clear how models of this type should be specified and to what extent their predictions are sensitive to the choice of specification. This paper describes a 23-sector CGE model of the Australian economy, based on ORAM and on Horridge (1987a and 1987b), which incorporates economies of scale and imperfect competition. The model is used to investigate whether adding these new features affects simulation results. We present results for three different types of non-competitive regime and compare these with results generated by a traditional (constant returns and perfect competition) version of the same model.
International management skills for small business: the development of the construct of international capability
Creators: name: Townsend, Peter
name: Wan, Caroline
name: Poh, Huay Jun
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Globalisation and recently formalised free-trade agreements have diversified the cultural environment of small business managers. Managers with international experiences and desirable international management competencies are increasingly sought after not only by multinational corporations, but also by small businesses, which find themselves competing in the global arena in their homeland. This paper, thus, identifies the factors relevant to the interpersonal skills of international managers. The factors are derived from previous elements described in the research literature, which conceptualises them through the theoretical construct of International Capability using the capability framework.The contributions of this research to the body of entrepreneurship literature are: the creation of the theoretical construct of International Capability and the application of a capability framework to the analysis of interpersonal skills of international managers. For this research, a sample of international students in the Asia Pacific Basin, studying an international business degree was utilised for the data analysis, which consisted of quantitative surveys and confirmatory factor analysis.