cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Zelandobius Tillyard 1921
Creators: name: McLellan, Ian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Plecoptera
Gripopterygidae
Zelandobius

description: Genus Zelandobius Tillyard, 1921 Confusus Group Zelandobius alatus McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius albofasciatus McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius brevicauda McLellan, 1977 (apterous) Zelandobius childi McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius confusus Tillyard, 1923 Zelandobius cordatus McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius dugdalei McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius foxi McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius gibbsi McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius illiesi McLellan 1969 Zelandobius inversus McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius jacksoni McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius kuscheli McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius macburneyi McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius mariae McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius montanus McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius ngaire McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius patricki McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius peglegensis McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius takahe McLellan, 1993 Zelandobius wardi McLellan, 1993
description: Published as part of McLellan, Ian, 2006, Endemism And Biogeography Of New Zealand Plecoptera (Insecta), pp. 15-23 in Illiesia 2 (2) on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4754562
From Kashgar to Xanadu in the Travels of Marco Polo
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Satellite images
China
Xanadu
Google Earth
Wikimapia
Travels of Marco Polo
Taklamakan
Southwest Xinjiang
Lop Desert

description: In two previous papers (Philica, 2017, Articles 1097 and 1100), we investigated the travels of Marco Polo, using Google Earth and Wikimapia. We reconstructed the Polo’s travel from Beijing to Xanadu and from Sheberghan to Kashgar. Here we continue the analysis of this travel from today Kashgar to Xanadu.
Leveraging social marketing strategies to promote global citizenship among university students
Creators: name: Lobo, Antonio
name: Brennan, Linda
name: Whitefield, Anthony
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Universities globally are increasingly seeking to improve the international mobility of their students. There are several latent benefits that accrue to a university, whose students and staff actively participate in international exchange programs. Essentially this can lead to an increase in the university's international reputation, opportunities for benchmarking against best practices, capacity to develop international relationships, diversity of student population and access to potential recruitment markets. In this paper we review extant literature to elicit the range of practical factors that play a role in the decision of students to study abroad. We then recommend practical social marketing strategies to enhance student mobility and promote global citizenship. The implications of these recommendations for universities and the broader student population are discussed with suggestions for future research.
Encouraging sustainable cleaning In childcare through participatory design
Creators: name: Barnes, Carolyn
name: Taffe, Simone
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper reports on an example of the use of participatory design to develop behavior change communications in respect of sustainability. It concerns design work for the 2007 Safe and Sustainable Indoor Cleaning project (SASI Clean), a government-funded study into low-chemical cleaning in Victorian childcare. Relevant authorities accept such practices as effective for cleaning, but many centres use harsh proprietary chemicals that impact on the environment and health, suggesting information alone is inadequate in influencing attitudes and behaviour. In the SASI Clean study, participatory design merged designers' visual communication skills with childcare workers' insights into the communication context to develop targeted information materials to encourage the use of sustainable cleaning practices. Our example represents participatory design as an innovative technique for harnessing people's creative ideas to the specificity of the communication task; the scale of current environmental problems demanding responses pitched at the macro and micro levels and observing the need for trust in information and consideration of people's perspectives. The paper uses a case study approach to enable an exploration of the complex human and organisational issues associated with the project.
Seismic performance of a brick veneer steel-framed house
Creators: name: Paton-cole, Vidal
name: Gad, Emad
name: Clifton, Charles
name: Heath, David
name: Davies, Christopher
name: Hicks, Stephen
name: Lam, Nelson
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The use of high-strength, cold-formed steel frames in residential construction is steadily increasing in both Australia and New Zealand. One common form of this construction uses brick veneer as a cladding, where non-structural brick walls are attached to the structural frame via brick ties. Under earthquake loading there is a complex interaction between the frame and veneer walls. While there is a standard component test method for assessing the seismic capacity of brick ties, this method has been developed around brick veneer on timber studs and its application to the very different steel stud characteristics is inappropriate. In order to realistically assess the overall performance of brick veneer construction with steel framing, a full scale one-room test structure 'Test House' was tested on a shaking table. The Test House incorporated veneer walls with different geometries. It was subjected to varying levels of the El Centro earthquake ranging from moderate serviceability limit state ground motion to well beyond the design maximum considered earthquake for New Zealand. These levels of shaking were selected in order to ascertain the response for specific limit states to the Australasian Loadings Standard and to compare against minimum performance requirements. Comprehensive measurements on the frame and veneer walls were taken including acceleration, drift and differential movements between the frame and veneer. The Test House performed very well, with no brick loss up to 2.6 times El Centro (ElC) earthquake which is well in excess of all performance requirements.
Shaking table tests on strength degradation behaviour
Creators: name: Kafle, B.
name: Paton-cole, Vidal
name: Lam, Nelson
name: Gad, Emad
name: Wilson, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Structures such as unreinforced masonry walls, soft-storey buildings, gravity structures and components which include free-standing objects are well known to be non-ductile and yet they are commonly found in regions of low-moderate seismicity. Potential significant degradation in strength in these structural systems in projected earthquake scenarios has been a cause for concern. Shaking table experiments undertaken recently by the authors revealed very interesting phenomena with the behaviour of the (“non-ductile”) free-standing objects in an earthquake. Vulnerability to overturning is shown not to be sensitive to the height of the object nor its aspect ratio. The trends revealed earlier by the authors based on analytical modeling have been confirmed experimentally. Importantly, the displacement time histories predicted by program Rowmanry and Romain are shown to be very consistent with recordings from the shaking table experiments.
The anatomy of accountability in local government
Creators: name: Kluvers, Ron
name: Tippet, John
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Despite its importance, accountability in Victorian local government is still relatively under-researched. With important governance developments emerging in recent years across the whole public sector, it is timely to study accountability in the public sector in this changing context. This study attempts to understand accountability from the perspective of Local Government councillors and managers. There have been many normative studies of accountability that have suggested its important constituent elements. This paper is an empirical study investigating how accountability is conceptualised by local government councillors and managers. Data for the research reported in this paper was collected from 79 Victorian municipalities. A survey instrument, using a seven point likert scale, was distributed to councillors and managers. The survey statements were centred on participants' understanding of the operation of accountability. Using factor analysis, six factors were generated that reveal the elements that contribute to the operation of accountability. Whilst respondents' views of accountability were generally in accordance with those discussed in the literature, an individual's values were also found to be important. The literature has not previously explored this facet of accountability. A further indicator of the complexity of accountability is the apparent difficulty of managing the accountability relationship, which is very much affected by an individual's values.
The multi dimensional scaling: an interactive method for establishing perceptions of the appearance of products
Creators: name: Azhari Bin Md Hashim
name: Raja Ahmad Effendi, Raja Ahmad Azmeer
name: Whitfield, T. W. Allan
name: Jackson, Simon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In order to design successful products feedback from potential users is essential. Normally this is accomplished through market research that feeds back into the product development process. Market research relies heavily upon two distinct methods, the focus group and the questionnaire survey. The former delivers qualitative information in the form of language, while the latter delivers quantitative information in the form of numbers. Neither fits comfortably with the designers' preferred mode of communication: the visual. In addition, neither method is designed to discriminate between fine distinctions in the visual appearance of products. Finally, neither involves users in an interactive task that deals directly with the visual and does so in a way that requires only visual judgements. A method is presented here that overcomes these limitations. It derives from the semantic differential but, rather than relying upon statistical factor analysis, it uses a visual field format where participants manoeuvre and position products relative to one another in a visual space. The examples presented are from the car and motorcycle industries with participants from Australia and Malaysia. The resulting semantic differential profiles indicate user perceptions of the products on the dimensions of interest and the cross-cultural differences that emerge in such perceptions. A distinctive feature of this technique is the ease with which similarities and differences can be quickly assimilated and understood.
Excuse me, but did the IPD-work consortium just “falsify” the job-strain model?
Creators: name: Ingre, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Applied Psychology
subject: Diseases
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology

description: A closer look at the published data from a large individual participant meta-analysis suggests that the reported association between job strain and coronary heart disease (CHD) might be fully explained by low job control. This issue can be resolved by fitting model 3 & 4 discussed in this commentary. The data also showed that job demand was not associated with CHD and that combining it with job control to form an exposure of job strain reduced the population attributable risk to less than half (3.4%) of that of job control alone (8.5%). These results suggest that more focus should be put on understanding low job control as a risk factor for CHD rather than job demand or job strain. Note. If you arrived here by a privately shared link please follow the link below to the full public preprint manuscript with citation information and doi.
The Product Effect: a new technique for automotive market research
Creators: name: Raja Ahmad Effendi, Raja Ahmad Azmeer
name: Azhari Bin Md Hashim
name: Whitfield, T. W. Allan
name: Jackson, Simon
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In competitive markets the appearance of a product is crucial to its success. In the automotive industry, where competition is fierce, market research is customarily conducted as part of new product development. The methods used are predominantly variants of the focus group and the survey questionnaire. A common feature is their focus upon the product per se and how people perceive and evaluate it. An alternative method, and the subject of the research described here, focuses upon the person associated with the product: in other words, the effect the product has upon how people perceive its owner. This method derives from environmental psychology. Termed the 'room effect', it explored the effect the setting had upon perceptions of the person. This method has not until now been applied to products. The research described shows its use with both cars and motorcycles, and in application in Malaysia and Australia. The results indicate a distinct product effect and one subject to both nationality and gender differences.
title: La réception de Thucydide, de l'Antiquité au XIXe siècle. 3 : Thucydide chez les Modernes : XVe-XIXe siècles
Publisher: name: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Year: 2008

description: Quelle a été l'influence de Thucydide sur la construction des connaissances et de l'image que nous possédons d'Athènes, à côté de l'autre grande source privilégiée jusqu'à la veille de la Révolution, les Vies parallèles de Plutarque ? Quelles lectures, à ce sujet, firent de Thucydide non seulement Machiavel, Bodin, Hobbes, son traducteur (1629), mais encore Benjamin Constant, George Grote... ?   D'autre part, comment, par un ensemble d'emprunts, mais surtout d'écarts, de ruptures, parfois de méprises, l'épistémologie et l'écriture de l'histoire des Modernes, telles qu'elles s'élaborent au XIXe, se sont-elles façonnées à partir des pratiques et des catégories de Thucydide : la "recherche de la vérité", le concept de "grandeur", la préoccupation de "trouver" ou d'"établir" les faits ?
A coordinated control to improve performance for a building cluster with energy storage, electric vehicles, and energy sharing considered
Creators: name: Huang, Pei
name: Lovati, Marco
name: Xingxing Zhang
name: Bales, Chris
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: PV
Electric Vehicle
Energy Sharing
Building Cluster
Coordinated Control

description: Distributed renewable energy systems are now widely installed in many buildings, transforming the buildings into ‘electricity prosumers’. Existing studies have developed some advanced building side controls that enable renewable energy sharing and that aim to optimize building-cluster-level performance via regulating the energy storage charging/ discharging. However, the flexible demand shifting ability of electric vehicles is not considered in these building side controls. For instance, the electric vehicle charging will usually start once they are plugged into charging stations. But, in such charging period the renewable generation may be insufficient to cover the EV charging load, leading to grid electricity imports. Consequently, the building-cluster-level performance is not optimized. Therefore, this study proposes a coordinated control of building prosumers for improving the cluster-level performance, by making use of energy sharing and storage capability of electricity batteries in both buildings and EVs. An EV charging/discharging model is first developed. Then, based on the predicted future 24h electricity demand and renewable generation data, the coordinated control first considers the whole building cluster as one ‘integrated’ building and optimizes its operation as well as the EV charging/discharging using genetic algorithm. Next, the operation of individual buildings in the future 24h is coordinated using nonlinear programming. For validation, the developed control has been tested on a real building cluster in Ludvika, Sweden. The study results show that the developed control can increase the cluster-level daily renewable self-consumption rate by 19% and meanwhile reduce the daily electricity bills by 36% compared with the conventional controls.
The evolution of open access to research and data in Australian higher education
Creators: name: Picasso, Vicky
name: Phelan, Liam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education

description: Open access (OA) in the Australian tertiary education sector is evolving rapidly and, in this article, we review developments in two related areas: OA to scholarly research publications and open data. OA can support open educational resource (OER) efforts by providing access to research for learning and teaching, and a range of actors including universities, their peak bodies, public research funding agencies and other organisations and networks that focus explicitly on OA are increasingly active in these areas in diverse ways. OA invites change to the status quo across the higher education sector and current momentum and vibrancy in this area suggests that rapid and significant changes in the OA landscape will continue into the foreseeable future. General practices, policies, infrastructure and cultural changes driven by the evolution of OA in Australian higher education are identified and discussed. The article concludes by raising several key questions for the future of OA research and open data policies and practices in Australia in the context of growing interest in OA internationally.
Adaptation is not enough: Why Insurers Need Climate Change Mitigation
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: Harwood, Susan
name: Henderson-Sellers, Ann
name: Taplin, Ros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: Current insurer responses to anthropogenic climate change are generally adaptive and weakly mitigative rather than strongly mitigative. In this chapter, we argue successful insurance system adaptation to anthropogenic climate change depends on returning the climate to a stable, familiar and relatively predictable state. Effective mitigation is therefore a necessary precondition for successful longer-term insurance system adaptation to climate change. To make this argument, we highlight important ways the Earth system, the global economy and insurance are all inter-connected.
Providing feedback on collaboration and teamwork amongst off-campus students
Creators: name: McIntosh, Craig
name: Weaver-Cowdroy, Debbi
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: While the importance of developing and giving feedback on generic skills is widely recognised for on-campus students, this is still largely ignored for off-campus students, primarily due to the practical difficulties involved. This paper reports on 2 phases of the implementation of a compulsory group work project into an off-campus unit, delivered through Open Universities Australia. Wikis were used as the technical tool to facilitate the project, which was successful for students, albeit requiring more support than anticipated from staff. While all participating students successfully completed group projects, few groups demonstrated high levels of collaboration during the process. At the completion of the second trial, students were provided with feedback on their teamwork skills, meeting the initial objective of the project.
Electrification of Urban Freight Transport - a Case Study of the Food Retailing Industry
Creators: name: Martins-Turner, Kai
name: Grahle, Alexander
name: Nagel, Kai
name: Göhlich, Dietmar
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten
subject: freight transport
subject: decarbonisation
subject: electrification
subject: MATSim
subject: vehicle routing problem
subject: VRP
subject: Güterverkehr
subject: Elektrifizierung
subject: Tourenplanung
subject: Dekarbonisierung
subject: agentenbasierte Modellierung

description: Decarbonisation is a major challenge for the coming decades, for all industries, including the transport sector. Battery electric vehicles are a potential solution for the transport sector to reduce its carbon impact. Asides from the question whether there is sufficient supply of electric vehicles for freight transport, it is also unclear whether battery-powered trucks meet the practical requirements, especially in terms of their driving range. To investigate this, synthetic tours were generated by solving a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). This also generates the fleet size and composition depending on a set of different vehicle types. The network with underlying traffic conditions comes from an publicly available transport model. The generated tours are then simulated with an open-source transport simulation (MATSim), for both diesel and battery electric vehicles (BEVs). In a sensitivity study, two different purchase prices were considered for calculating vehicle costs. The case study uses a model of the food retailing industry for the city of Berlin. 56% of the tours can be driven without recharging. When recharged one time, 90% of the tours are suitable for BEVs. The costs for transporting the goods will increase by 17 to 23% depending on the assumption for the purchase prices for the BEVs. Using a well-to-wheel calculation, the electrification of all tours leads to a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 26 to 96% depending on the assumed electricity production.
Bringing New Ph.D.s Together for Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: Jones, Holly
name: Marlon, Jennifer
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science
Education

description: Climate change is complex and thus requires interdisciplinary research, and new scholars are rising to that challenge. The Dissertations Initiative for the Advancement of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS (pronounced “discourse”); see http://www.disccrs.org) brings together select groups of recent PhD graduates to encourage interdisciplinary work on climate change. The DISCCRS Symposium VII held just outside of Colorado Springs, Colo., brought together 33 graduates from fields as diverse as climatology, ecology, anthropology, and political science for an intensive week of cross-disciplinary engagement in activities like facilitation and leadership training, collaborative research development, peer networking, communication training, and analysis of working group processes.
The political economy of addressing the climate crisis in the Earth system: Undermining perverse resilience.
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: Henderson-Sellers, Ann
name: Taplin, Ros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: This paper draws on antenarrative research and writing techniques to analyse the long-running transnational campaign seeking to improve respect for human rights in the supply chains of Nike and other major sportswear companies. The antenarrative approach challenges scholars to look beyond pre-existing expectations, both in terms of which actors and processes are likely to be most influential and in terms of what is motivating participation in those processes which are significant. In this paper we construct antenarrative accounts of two aspects of the Nike campaign and counterpoint each of our antenarratives with an established scholarly account based on more traditional narrative approaches. We conclude antenarrative analysis can provide useful insights into interaction between global activist networks and global corporations, particularly by drawing attention to the generative possibilities of the complex combination of ordered and disordered processes which often characterise that interaction.
Cooperative governance: one pathway to a stable-state economy
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: McGee, Jeffrey
name: Rhyall Gordon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: Exponential increases in material and energy use globally threaten Earth System stability in many ways including through climate change. Yet societies remain committed to economic growth, reflected in the way publicly traded corporations are legally obliged to maximise shareholders’ profits. In con- trast, businesses governed cooperatively by members, i.e. democratically and transparently, may be better suited to operating in an ecologically sustainable way, enacting their members’ ethical commitments. Combining a complex adaptive systems approach with community economies theory, we argue that cooperatives offer a significant transformative opportunity to resocialise and repoliticise economies away from the growth imperative. Cooperative governance is consistent enough with currently dominant neoliberal govern- ance (itself closely aligned with economic growth) to gain initial policy traction. Ultimately, we seek an overall shift to a stable-state economy – a global economy whose operation sustains rather than threatens the familiar (to humans and our civilisations) stable state of the Earth System.
Microstructual investigation of direct metal deposition of H13 steel on high strength copper substrate
Creators: name: Imran, M.
name: Masood, Syed
name: Brandt, Milan
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: This paper presents an investigation on the microstructure analysis of a bimetallic component consisting of the steel powder deposited on the solid copper substrate using laser cladding technology, Direct Metal Deposition (DMD). Study includes the variation of formation of microstructures of copper particles and porosity in the laser cladded structure at various thicknesses. Results obtained from the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) display a metallurgically sound and fully dense steel layer, where copper in rounded form was seen in the layer, which decreased with the increase of layer thickness. It is observed that porous holes also reduce with the increase of the thickness.
Unravelling the affective appearance of products: an interactive instrument for application in the packaging industry
Creators: name: Wright, Emily
name: Whitfield, T. W. Allan
name: Barron, Deirdre
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A growing body of empirical research is available to aid design decision-making. Much of it comes from other disciplines, making it difficult to assemble and codify in an accessible form. One such area concerns people's emotional and aesthetic reactions to a product's appearance, where disciplines allied to psychology and neuroscience have made considerable headway. Various models now exist that describe the processes underlying product evaluation and identify key facets of these processes. The project to be described incorporates this information in a software instrument for use in the packaging design industry. It is interactive and multilayered and incorporates real-life scenarios to illustrate its application to different consumer markets and for different packaging products. Scenarios are used to illustrate its application in different consumer markets and for different packaging products. A feature of the instrument is its layered construction whereby the designer can dig deeper into each facet and draw upon the actual empirical research that underpins it. It can therefore be used at different levels of sophistication; its underlying goal being to unpack the complexity of this area and to make it accessible to the design team.
Plant and soil P determine functional attributes of subalpine Australian plants
Creators: name: Salter, William T.
name: Turnbull, Tarryn L.
name: Okazaki, Yozo
name: Saito, Kazuki
name: Kreuzwieser, Jürgen
name: Rennenberg, Heinz
name: Adams, Mark
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Replacement of phospholipids with phosphorus (P)-free lipids in cellular membranes has been identified as a mechanism facilitating fast rates of photosynthesis when phosphorus availability is limited. We measured photosynthetic rates, leaf and soil P fractions, and foliar membrane lipid compositions for five species (Geranium antrorsum, Ranunculus graniticola, Poa costiniana, Poa hiemata, and Veronica derwentiana) common to two Australian subalpine ecosystems of contrasting parent material to characterize the extent to which they have adapted to long-term P availability. Our results indicate limited tolerance to reduced P, albeit adaptation strategies differ among species. Under reduced P conditions, phospholipids were replaced in foliage by galactolipids and sulfolipids, but photosynthesis was still impaired owing to reduced stomatal conductance. Accumulation of antioxidants, including carotenoids and alpha-tocopherol, in leaves with limited P supply suggests oxidative stress. Our field study shows that while subalpine Australian plants of a variety of life forms adapt to P availability by replacing phospholipids with P-free lipids in foliar membranes, this adaptation is insufficient to fully mitigate the effects of reduced P on photosynthesis.
Climate change, carbon prices and insurance systems
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: Henderson-Sellers, Ann
name: Taplin, Ros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: Market approaches to limit CO2e emissions such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes (ETSs) aim to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change by ascribing a financial cost to emissions. Yet such approaches have failed to establish either emissions limits or carbon prices equal to the task. We propose an approach to carbon pricing that better reflects the biogeophysical limits of the Earth system by drawing on aspects of insurance systems including forms of social insurance and the insurance industry. Our proposal achieves this by: (i) creating a financial liability link between current emissions and attributable near future losses; and (ii) applying Fraction Attributable Risk (FAR) analysis to determine the contribution of anthropogenic climate change to increased probability of experienced damaging weather events. Our proposal, a departure from current approaches to pricing CO2e emissions, has aspects that are consistent with existing forms of insurance. It requires participation by states and a small number of larger and established reinsurers. Our proposal provides both the scientific–technical capacity and the political–economic incentive to shift the anchor point for carbon prices away from pressing short-term political and economic considerations and closer to strategic ecological requirements for Earth system stability: the balance is shifted to favour changes in the global economy necessary to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change over current estimations of what is politically and economically feasible or desirable. Our proposal is an example of reflexive mitigation, grounded in complex adaptive systems theory, and centres on relationships between the Earth system, the global economy and insurance systems.
Excuse me, but did the IPD-work consortium just “falsify” the job-strain model?
Creators: name: Ingre, Michael
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Applied Psychology
subject: Diseases
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Organizational Behavioral Psychology

description: A closer look at the published data from a large individual participant meta-analysis suggests that the reported association between job strain and coronary heart disease (CHD) might be fully explained by low job control. This issue can be resolved by fitting model 3 & 4 discussed in this commentary. The data also showed that job demand was not associated with CHD and that combining it with job control to form an exposure of job strain reduced the population attributable risk to less than half (3.4%) of that of job control alone (8.5%). These results suggest that more focus should be put on understanding low job control as a risk factor for CHD rather than job demand or job strain.
The political economy of addressing the climate crisis in the Earth system: Undermining perverse resilience.
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: Henderson-Sellers, Ann
name: Taplin, Ros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description:
This paper draws on antenarrative research and writing techniques to analyse the long-running transnational campaign seeking to improve respect for human rights in the supply chains of Nike and other major sportswear companies. The antenarrative approach challenges scholars to look beyond pre-existing expectations, both in terms of which actors and processes are likely to be most influential and in terms of what is motivating participation in those processes which are significant. In this paper we construct antenarrative accounts of two aspects of the Nike campaign and counterpoint each of our antenarratives with an established scholarly account based on more traditional narrative approaches. We conclude antenarrative analysis can provide useful insights into interaction between global activist networks and global corporations, particularly by drawing attention to the generative possibilities of the complex combination of ordered and disordered processes which often characterise that interaction.
Mitigation of the Earth’s Economy: A Viable Strategy for Insurance Systems
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: Henderson-Sellers, Ann
name: Taplin, Ros
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: This paper proposes reflexive mitigation as an ecologically effective insurance system response to dangerous anthropogenic climate change. Reflexive mitigation is an adaptive approach to mitigating climate change recognizing (1) atmospheric CO2e concentrations consistent with Earth system stability will vary over time in response to changes in the Earth system and the global economy, and in the relationship between them; and (2) relationships between the Earth system, the economy and the insurance system are evolving, and therefore under- standing of them is necessarily incomplete. The paper presents a complex adaptive systems approach to anthropogenic climate change and demonstrates that the Earth system, the global economy and the insurance system are connected social–ecolo- gical systems. Current insurance system responses to anthropogenic climate change are generally adaptive and weakly mitigative rather than strongly mitigative. The paper argues successful insurance system adaptation to anthropogenic climate change depends on returning the climate to a stable, familiar and relatively predict- able state: effective mitigation is therefore a necessary precondition for successful longer-term insurance system adaptation.
Assessment Is a Many Splendoured Thing: Fostering Online Community and Lifelong Learning
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education

description: This paper presents the design and application of a major individual assessment task created in part to develop students’ capacity for lifelong assessment, a key element of lifelong learning. Additionally the task contributes to fostering a sense of community in asynchronous online learning environments. The task is a supra disciplinary report, recently trialled and now adopted for two postgraduate environmental studies courses offered online. The task design’s theoretical underpinnings are reviewed with reference to (i) lifelong assessment, (ii) the value of lifelong assessment from the perspective of environmental studies, and (iii) the importance of fostering community to support learning in online contexts. The paper describes the task’s disaggregation into three discrete stages, and the opportunities this provides for fostering community and for supporting students to engage in critical assessment of the quality of their own and their peers’ written work, through a transparent, structured process of giving and receiving peer feedback.
Politics, Practices, and Possibilities of Open Educational Resources
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Education

description: In this article, I reflect on the politics, practices and possibilities of the open educational resources (OER). OER raise important implications for current and potential students, for postsecondary education institutions, and for those currently teaching in higher education. The key questions raised by OER centre on the role of teaching in learning, the potential for a shift in societal conceptualizations of learners from didactic to autodidactic beings, and what roles teachers may play in a potentially radical broadening of access to postsecondary education.
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: a two country study for small service firms
Creators: name: Verreynne, Martie-Louise
name: Scheepers, Rens
name: Meyer, Denny
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The relationship between aspects of environmental uncertainty, such as dynamism and hostility, and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has been well established in the literature. Drawing predominantly on perceptions of uncertainty, there is general consensus that dynamism and hostility nurtures EO. This study uses data from small service firms in New Zealand (NZ) and South Africa (SA) to structurally analyse and compare the nature of this relationship. The findings contribute to the current understanding of the environmental uncertainty and EO relationship as follows. First, although the mean levels for EO are similar between firms in the more dynamic NZ environment and the more hostile SA environment, the factors that nurture such an EO differ significantly between countries. More specifically, EO in small service firms is supported by higher levels of environmental hostility in NZ and by higher levels of internal strategy processes in SA. Second, it contributes to research methodology by using and confirming the use of country of origin as an objective measure of environmental uncertainty.
New cooling channel design for injection moulding
Creators: name: Saifullah, Abul
name: Masood, Syed
name: Sbarski, Igor
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Injection moulding is one of the most versatile and important operation for mass production of plastic parts. In this process, cooling system design is very important as it largely determines the cycle time. A good cooling system design can reduce cycle time and achieve dimensional stability of the part. This paper describes a new square sectioned conformal cooling channel system for injection moulding dies. Both simulation and experimental verification have been done with these new cooling channels system. Comparative analysis has been done for an industrial part, a plastic bowel, with conventional cooling channels using the Moldflow simulation software. Experimental verification has been done for a test plastic part with mini injection moulding machine. Comparative results are presented based on temperature distribution on mould surface and cooling time or freezing time of the plastic part. The results provide a uniform temperature distribution with reduced freezing time and hence reduction in cycle time for the plastic part.
Ecological Viability or Liability? Insurance System Responses to Climate Risk
Creators: name: Phelan, Liam
name: Henderson-Sellers, Ann
name: Albrecht, Glenn
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2015
Subjects: Climate Science

description: Climate change is a phenomenon of the Earth system, which is characterized by thresholds and non‐linear change. This analysis considers the adequacy of insurance (in its broadest sense) responses to climate risk. This paper provides novel critiques of insurance system responses to climate change and of the attendant political economy perspective on the relationship between insurance and climate change. A complex adaptive systems (CAS) analysis suggests that ecologically effective (i.e. strong) mitigation is the only viable approach to manage medium‐ and long‐term climate risk – for the insurance system itself and for human societies more widely. In contrast, we find that even the most substantial insurance system responses to date are generally adaptive and weakly mitigative. This analysis extends an earlier political economy perspective that explains the limitations of insurance system responses to climate change, but provides little guidance to the ecological implications of such responses. As such, this paper raises questions about the ongoing viability of the insurance system, and hence about the many aspects of human societies globally reliant on the insurance system as their primary risk governance tool. We conclude that the CAS approach provides new insights, which could prompt insurance system evolution in support of effective climate risk governance. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
The cave and the retrospective construction of design
Creators: name: Huppatz, Daniel
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Historical narratives begin at a particular point in space and time, but the openings of design histories are inconsistent in this respect. While industrial design histories tend to begin with European industrialization in the 18th or early 19th centuries, interior design and graphic design histories each claim the Paleolithic caves in Southern France and Spain as their mythical birthplace: Altamira, Lascaux and/or Chauvet are used as a conventional starting point in standard textbook narratives. This paper analyses such conventional narratives that have retrospectively constructed the Paleolithic cave as a creative or designed artefact. While we know nothing about the creators of the mythical cave, our writing and re-writing constructs and re-constructs the cave in order to reinforce existing discourses about design and its origins.
Cultural homogeneity in Australia and Japan
Creators: name: Farquharson, Karen
name: Omori, Maho
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: At the start of the 20th century both the Japanese and Australian nations were organised around an ideology of cultural homogeneity. At the start of the 21st century, Japan is still committed to monoculturalism while Australia has instead shifted to an ideology of multiculturalism, or cultural heterogeneity. We investigate how two nations with similar ideologies initially have moved in such different directions. We focus on the reasons behind migration, in particular the need for labour, to help us understand the different directions the two nations took. We argue that Japan's negative experience with its unskilled foreign worker intake from Korea around WWII, which caused assimilation problems and threatened Japanese cultural homogeneity, is the main reason why the Japanese government is still reluctant to open its doors to foreign countries. We further argue that Australia's relatively positive experience with its post-war migrants, coupled with international pressure on Australia to drop the White Australia policy, led it to become a multicultural nation.
Discourses of 'Generation Y': where are the sociologists?
Creators: name: Geldens, Paula
name: Zardo, Pauline
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: The discourses surrounding 'Generation Y' in the public domain are pervasive and powerful. The magnitude and impact of the barrage of public scholarship in this area raises interesting questions for sociologists. As a means to beginning a dialogue with this body of discourse, this research sought to explore the apparent purpose of this literature, the audience for whom the material appeared to have been published and to record the most prominent voices within this field. Data comprised the collection of materials from 6 publicly accessible websites. Most of the data retrieved through this process were coded as 'media sources', and a small proportion were 'academic peerreviewed sources'. Analysis revealed that the purpose of this material tended to be descriptive and that most seemed to be targeted towards a general audience. There were, however, many sources which were clearly targeted to particular readerships and were instructive rather than simply descriptive. Of the prominent authors within this field, sociologists were few. This small study has shown that academic scholarship, and in particular sociological voices, are markedly absent from a popular discourse around 'Generation Y'.
A Web 2.0 recipe for effective feedback
Creators: name: Robbie, Diane
name: Zeeng, Lynette
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: One of the most powerful tools for learning is feedback. In design education feedback is vital and integral to the learning process. Verbal feedback, while used regularly in class, is often forgotten or misinterpreted later. Depending on the delivery and timing of feedback it may have a negative effect on learning outcome. Reviewing the existing feedback given in a design education unit a decision was made to improve the type and methods of feedback given. With the expeditious growth of Web 2.0 technology, a part of students' daily routine, we incorporated it to augment feedback. The Web 2.0 technology has embedded skill-building properties and extended design education through peer-to-peer collaboration, analysis and critiquing the visual. Student outcomes improved through highly interactive and collaborative feedback techniques. Students now have access to a vastly superior system where feedback is accessed anywhere, any time, increasing knowledge and developing design principles.
Treating cancerous cells with viruses: insights from a minimal model for oncolytic virotherapy
Creators: name: Jenner, Adrianne L.
name: Coster, Adelle C. F.
name: Kim, Peter S.
name: Frascoli, Federico
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: In recent years, interest in the capability of virus particles as a treatment for cancer has increased. In this work, we present a mathematical model embodying the interaction between tumour cells and virus particles engineered to infect and destroy cancerous tissue. To quantify the effectiveness of oncolytic virotherapy, we conduct a local stability analysis and bifurcation analysis of our model. In the absence of tumour growth or viral decay, the model predicts that oncolytic virotherapy will successfully eliminate the tumour cell population for a large proportion of initial conditions. In comparison, for growing tumours and decaying viral particles there are no stable equilibria in the model; however, oscillations emerge for certain regions in our parameter space. We investigate how the period and amplitude of oscillations depend on tumour growth and viral decay. We find that higher tumour replication rates result in longer periods between oscillations and lower amplitudes for uninfected tumour cells. From our analysis, we conclude that oncolytic viruses can reduce growing tumours into a stable oscillatory state, but are insufficient to completely eradicate them. We propose that it is only with the addition of other anti-cancer agents that tumour eradication may be achieved by oncolytic virus.
Narrative interactive pedagogy for creative writing supervision after globalisation
Creators: name: Hecq, Dominique
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Recent government intervention in research in both literacy and higher degree policy across the globe has sharpened universities' focus on the quality of their students' productivity, research experience and timely completion rates (Kamler, 2001; Manathunga, 2005). Researchers have sought to highlight the factors that predict students' timely completion of their studies and students' participation in the workforce is one such measure of outcome which leaves the discipline of Creative Writing outside the main discourse. This paper addresses the disciplinary and methodological specificity of the PhD in practice-led research and advocates an interactive narrative pedagogy inspired by the psychoanalytic teachings of Lacan (2007[1968-69]) and the 'radical pedagogy' developed by Mark Bracher (1999; 2006). It sets into motion an innovative engagement between the fields of Psychoanalysis, Writing and Pedagogy in order to consider the problem transference poses for psychoanalysis and creative writing in an increasingly market driven academia.