cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Determinants of Australian Expatriate Success
Creators: name: Sagiadellis, Marina
name: D'Netto, Brian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Research on expatriation has indicated that between 20 to 40 percent of expatriate managers do not successfully make the transition and return early (Baker & Ivancevich, 1971; Black, 1988; Tung, 1981). Based on the literature on person-situation fit, a model of expatriate success was developed and tested in this study. The findings of the study indicate that perceived career paths, willingness to relocate and role clarity affect expatriate success. The implications of these findings for organisations are discussed.
Are the Commissioner's Debt Recovery Powers Excessive?
Creators: name: Wyatt, Kim
name: Gumley, Wayne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The Commissioner of Taxation has broad powers for the making assessments and recovery of tax debts. A taxpayer's protection against abuse of these powers lies primarily in the rights to objection and appeal under Part JVC of the Tax Administration Act 1953. However the Commissioner may effectively nullify those rights because ss. 14ZZM and 14ZZR of the TAA permit recovery of tax and any penalties notwithstanding that a review or an appeal on the correctness of the assessment is yet to be determined. Accordingly a taxpayer may be forced to defend debt recovery and perhaps bankruptcy proceedings which could exhaust the financial resources needed to overturn the underlying assessment. This paper considers the Commissioner's policy with respect to TAA ss. l4ZZM and 14ZZR in the light of general principles of administrative law and recent developments in income tax law. The authors conclude that the Commissioner's interpretation of his power is too narrow due to a failure to take into account the broader features of the income tax system They conclude that this problem ought to be redressed by legislative reforms to generally defer the Commissioner's power of recovery until after a full hearing of the appeal against the underlying assessment.
Efficiency in Resource Allocation
Creators: name: Segal, Leonie
name: Richardson, Jeff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purpose of the present paper is to outline a health planning framework for the achievement of allocative efficiency by the comparison of programs across the entire health sector. Implementation of the framework could form the basis for improved resource allocation. In Part 1 there is a discussion of allocative efficiency; its importance, the theoretical requirements for its achievement, and identification of aspects of current health funding arrangements which inhibit the achievement of allocative efficiency. In Part 2, the health planning framework is outlined and its relationship to the prerequisites for allocative efficiency is explained. Implementation of the framework involves several key conceptual challenges, some approaches to these are discussed. Finally, current work on application of the framework to non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), in which issues to do with implementation will be explored, is introduced.
Additional file 1 of The item network and domain network of burnout in Chinese nurses
Creators: name: Wu, Lin
name: Ren, Lei
name: Wang, Yifei
name: Zhang, Kan
name: Fang, Peng
name: Liu, Xufeng
name: Yang, Qun
name: Wang, Xiuchao
name: Wu, Shengjun
name: Peng, Jiaxi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: Medicine
Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Nonparametric Spearman rho correlation matrix of the items of the MBI-GS. Table S2. Nonparametric Spearman rho correlation matrix of the domains of the MBI-GS. Fig. S1. Accuracy of edge weights. Fig. S2. Stability of node expected influences. Fig. S3. Bootstrapped difference test for edge weights. Fig. S4. Bootstrapped difference test for node expected influences. Fig. S5. Accuracy of edge weights. Fig. S6. Stability of node expected influences. Fig. S7. Bootstrapped difference test for edge weights. Fig. S8. Bootstrapped difference test for node expected influences.
A Hidden Dimension? Work Ideology And Psychological Contracts
Creators: name: O'Donohue, Wayne
name: Sheehan, Cathy
name: Hecker, Robert
name: Holland, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper explores whether the concept of psychological contracts underpinned by relational/transactional exchanges provides an adequate description of knowledge workers' contracts. Interviews were conducted with scientists from the CSIRO. The analysis identified content of the psychological contract for the knowledge worker best understood by reference to an ideological currency. It raises questions over the role of normative occupation-specific beliefs about work, and the sharing of common currency elements by individuals in the same organization within the same occupation. The analysis lends support to calls in the literature for a reconsideration of the transactional/relational interpretative framework that underpins the psychological contract.
Additional file 2 of Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with obesity: a nationwide study in Sweden
Creators: name: Lindberg, Louise
name: Hagman, Emilia
name: Danielsson, Pernilla
name: Marcus, Claude
name: Persson, Martina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2. Risk of anxiety and/or depressive disorders by gender. Grey triangles represent girls and black squares represent boys. Bars represent mutually adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals.
Additional file 1 of Clinicopathological and prognostic features of hepatitis B virus-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: a single-center retrospective study in China
Creators: name: Chen, Dao-guang
name: Chen, Gang
name: Wang, Chang
name: Ke, Long-feng
name: Wu, Hui
name: He, Hong-ming
name: Yang, Yu
name: Chen, Yan-ping
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Clinicopathological and prognostic features of hepatitis B virus-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: A single-center retrospective study in China.
An Australian MAU/QALY Instrument: Rationale and Preliminary Results
Creators: name: Hawthorne, Graeme
name: Richardson, Jeff
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The paper presents the preliminary stages in the construction of an Australian Multi-attribute Utility Instrument for obtaining preferences regarding quality of life (QoL) for economic evaluation of health services. The project was undertaken following a review of existing MAU and generic QoL instruments, none of which had been validated for use with an Australian population and most of which did not meet standard psychometric criteria. The definition of `health' adopted by the research team came from the World Health Organization's definition. Following a review of 14 MAU/QoL instruments, a model of health-related QoL was constructed. This involved defining five dimensions: illness, independent living, physical ability, psychological state and social interaction. Focus groups of doctors were used to elicit the content and items appropriate for each dimension. An iterative procedure was followed, during which items were progressively refined until there was an overall consensus about adequate coverage, item content and item language. The item bank was then submitted to a patient sample. The bulk of the paper outlines the procedures which were used to construct a preliminary version of the MAU-instrument, and describes the psychometric properties of this research tool. The paper concludes with a brief review of the further research in progress to verify the structure of the preliminary instrument, to develop appropriate weights and to undertake standard tests of validity and reliability.
Continuum Finite Element Model of a Composite-Steel Subassembly
Creators: name: El Jisr, Hammad
name: Lignos, Dimitrios
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Composite floor slab modelling , shear stud non-linear springs, Abaqus Explicit

description: The folder includes a continuum finite element model of a composite-steel subassembly that was validated with a test (SPEC3) from Zhang et. al (2004). The model is built using Abaqus Explicit v6.14. Details of the modelling approach are found in El Jisr et al. (2020). Folder content: 1- SPEC3-Explicit.inp: This input file is used to run the model under the cyclic symmetric loading protocol with an Explicit Dynamic procedure. 2- SPEC3-Buckling.inp: This input file is used to run the buckling analysis 3- VU1.for: This is a user-defined element (VUEL) that is used to model the non-linear behaviour of the shear stud connectors.
description: {"references": ["Zhang X, Ricles J, Lu LW, Fisher J. Development of seismic guidelines for deep-column steel moment connections. Lehigh University; 2004.", "El Jisr H, Lignos DG, Elkady A. Hysteretic Behavior of Moment-Resisting Frames Considering Slab Restraint and Framing Action. Journal of Structural Engineering 2020(In Press)."]}
Additional file 3 of Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with obesity: a nationwide study in Sweden
Creators: name: Lindberg, Louise
name: Hagman, Emilia
name: Danielsson, Pernilla
name: Marcus, Claude
name: Persson, Martina
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Descriptive statistics of children and adolescents with obesity (n = 12,507).
The international labour organisation and legislation relating to child labour
Creators: name: Kazi, Ashraf U.
name: Townsend, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Child labour has posed a challenge to the society since the industrial revolution. It is considered as an economic necessity. Child labour destroys the physical and mental development as a result of untimely employment, which snatches away leisure, playtime and a carefree life. As early as 1959, the General Assembly of United Nations Organisation adopted the declaration of the rights of the child. This declaration provided for special protection and care to a child in order to develop in an atmosphere of freedom and dignity. However, even after four decades, much remains to be achieved. Unprecedented attention was drawn to the problems of child labour with the declaration of the year 1979, as the "International year of the Child". The general awareness created on the causes, employment relations, problems of child labour has resulted in legislation by a number of countries. This paper examines the problems and causes of child labour, which exist to a large extent in third world countries and to some extent in developed countries. The article also focuses on the employment relations and the legislation introduced by various countries to prohibit and reduce child labour. According to the estimates made by the International Labour Organisation in 1980, a year after the declaration of the 'International year of the Child', the number of working children reached an alarming proportion of 50 million around the world. The highest rate of child labour is found in less developed nations like Africa, followed by Asia and Latin America. In these countries child labour is rampant both in the organised and unorganised sectors. It is found in rural as well as urban areas. However, most child labour is found in family or traditional sectors, where children work without any payment. Every third household in India has a working child. Most of the t hird world countries have made an attempt to combat child labour through legislation. However, child labour continues to exist, because a majority of these legislation deal with the regulation and prohibition of child labour and do not focus on the abolition of child labour.
Additional file 1 of Early- and late anthracycline-induced cardiac dysfunction: echocardiographic characterization and response to heart failure therapy
Creators: name: Kamphuis, Janine A. M.
name: Linschoten, Marijke
name: Cramer, Maarten J.
name: Doevendans, Pieter A.
name: Asselbergs, Folkert W.
name: Teske, Arco J.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Mental Health
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplemental Table 1. Reference values of echocardiographic measurements and international guidelines on echocardiographic examination [16].
The Application of Local Rules in Self Ordering Systems
Creators: name: Haslett, Tim
name: Moss, Simon
name: Osborne, Charles
name: Ramm, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the imposition of "local rules" in the mail sorting rooms of Australia Post. Local rules are patterns of behaviour at a micro-organizational level. They are used where "attempts (by an organizational subunit) to optimize its own selfish benefit, even if that is harmful to the whole, can lead....to the welfare of the whole organization." (Kauffman, 1995). Fitness landscapes and classifier networks are used to examine the emergence of local rules in the workplace. Mail sorting rates shows a clear catastrophe shift as PDOs apply local rules to maximise gains inherent in the pay structures. Such behaviour is close to that predicted by Kauffman in computer simulations of lattices and may be indicative of the application of local rules in organizations. The implications are that behaviour in social systems may be dictated by systemic and emergent processes which are outside immediate management control. A further implication is that organizations may be structured, to a significant extent by such local rules.
Rethinking Customer Expectations of Service Quality: Are Call Centres Different?
Creators: name: Dean, Alison M
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Reported studies on call centres emphasize efficiency and control, with possible implications for service priorities, customer orientation and service quality. However, there is little empirical research to test assumptions from the customer's perspective. This study aimed to establish whether customers expected (predicted) low levels of service from a call centre, how this level compared to the minimum level they considered adequate, and whether the perceived customer orientation of the call centre was related to service quality expectations. Data were collected from customers (N=289) of a large insurance provider. Key findings were that customers had very high levels of adequate (minimum) expectations and that adequate expectations behaved independently from predicted (forecast) expectations. Secondly, customer orientation was associated with predicted expectations but not adequate expectations. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research and managerial implications.
Land Tenure Research: Scope and Nature, 1962
Creators: name: Ottoson, Howard W.
name: Wunderlich, Gene
name: Diesslin, Howard G.
name: Ottoson, Howard W.
name: Wunderlich, Gene
name: Diesslin, Howard G.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: Farm Management
Labor and Human Capital
Land Economics/Use
Research Methods/ Statistical Methods

description: Excerpts from the Preface: For nearly 50 years the U.S. Department of Agriculture and State experiment stations have sought, through research, to solve new tenure problems arising out of a constantly changing agriculture. This document represents a reexamination of this continuing process of research. Following the publication of Research in Agricultural Land Tenure--Scope and Method by the Social Science Research Council in 1933, the States of four regions--North Central, Great Plains, Southeast, and Southwest (now combined into Southern) -- the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Farm Foundation formed tenure research committees to study problems of larger than local interest. These committees, separately and jointly, through their Interregional Committee, have maintained a responsibility for continuous review and evaluation of their work. The last published evaluation of the Interregional Committee was entitled Agricultural Land Tenure Research, Scope and Nature: Reappraisal, 1955. The cumbersome title of this document gave way to the shorter "Gray Report", or "Gray Book, " terms not illogically derived from the color of its cover. This report, then, is a new statement on tenure research although it builds upon the Gray Report as the latter built on similar statements before it. t should be emphasized that the report is not intended as a final work; it is "a look around" as of the present moment. Reappraisals should be made of the field of land tenure research at periodic intervals. The report was written primarily for research workers in the field of land economics. However, it will also be of interest to other social scientists, administrators of research programs, and graduate students.
Exchange rate pass-through for Australian manufactured imports: estimates from the Johansen maximum-likelihood procedure
Creators: name: Menon, Jayant
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper estimates exchange rate pass-through for Australian manufactured imports by applying an econometric procedure which avoids the pit-falls in previous studies to a carefully assembled data set. For the first time, we provide estimates of pass-through based on the Johansen (1988) ML procedure. Our finding of incomplete pass-through has important implications for policy and the macroeconomy. Incomplete pass-through brings into question the validity of the "small" country assumption and the exogeneity of the terms of trade with respect to exchange rate changes. We may also have to reconsider the extent of the apparent inflationary (deflationary) consequences of exchange rate depreciations (appreciations), and the effects of exchange rate variability on international trade flows.
Unmasking the Theta method
Creators: name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Billah, Baki
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The "Theta method" of forecasting performed particularly well in the M3-competition and is therefore of interest to forecast practitioners. The description of the method given by Assimakopoulos and Nikolopoulos (2000) involves several pages of algebraic manipulation and is difficult to comprehend. We show that the method can be expressed much more simply; furthermore we show that the forecasts obtained are equivalent to simple exponential smoothing with drift.
IN03118 Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala Rock Inscription of Bhātika Abhaya
Creators: name: Paranavitana, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03118
Epigraphia Zeylanica
Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala
Bhātika Abhaya

description: IN03118 Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala Rock Inscription of Bhātika Abhaya - Transcript and Translation Source: Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 12. Two Rock Inscriptions of Bhātika Abhaya and Mahānāga at Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 153-157.
The origins of leadership
Creators: name: Reser, Clarence L. W.
name: Sarros, James C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The purposes of this paper are to outline the origins of leadership and explain its role in human civilization. The methodology is analytical and discursive. The paper addresses three themes: leadership as a social institution, a field of inquiry, and as a vocation. The research is based on a survey of the leadership literature. The discussion is organized thematically. The paper offers five principal conclusions: leadership is ancient, a universal social institution, a key determinant of progress in human civilization, a new field of inquiry, and that the job of leader is poorly understood.
Declining ranges of southern African breeding cuckoos do not reflect host species’ range changes
Creators: name: Charli De Vos
name: Cherry, Michael I.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Global declines in cuckoo numbers have been variously attributed to reduced prey availability; changes in their hosts’ ranges; or climate-induced changes. We used data from two Southern African Bird Atlas Projects to determine whether migrant cuckoo species breeding in South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland have experienced range shifts during the past 25 years; and whether such changes corresponded to shifts in host species distribution. Changes in presence/absence data indicated that of the nine cuckoo species found breeding in this region, six showed reductions in range (African Cuckoo, African Emerald Cuckoo, Diederik Cuckoo, Great Spotted Cuckoo, Jacobin Cuckoo and Red-chested Cuckoo); two are expanding (Black Cuckoo and Levaillant’s Cuckoo) and one remains stable (Klaas’s Cuckoo). Occupancy modelling of these data indicated that the host ranges of only four of the nine species (Great Spotted Cuckoo, Klaas’s Cuckoo, Levaillant’s Cuckoo and Red-chested Cuckoo) predicted cuckoo distribution in the first instance. Of these, only in Levaillant’s Cuckoo is range expansion related to changes in the range of its sole known host species in the region, the Arrow-marked Babbler. These results imply that factors other than changes in the ranges of their hosts appear to be driving the range reductions observed in six southern African cuckoo species.
Observations on breeding Night Parrots (Pezoporus occidentalis) in western Queensland
Creators: name: Murphy, Stephen A.
name: Austin, Jeremy J.
name: Murphy, Rachel K.
name: Silcock, Jennifer
name: Joseph, Leo
name: Garnett, Stephen T.
name: Leseberg, Nicholas P.
name: Watson, James E. M.
name: Burbidge, Allan H.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: A population of Night Parrots (Pezoporus occidentalis) was discovered in 2013 in western Queensland and has become the primary focus of efforts aimed at conserving habitat and protecting the species from extinction. Critical information on nesting habitat and location, breeding season and behaviour, clutch size and breeding success is currently limited to anecdotal 19th-century observations and accounts by early natural historians. Here we describe several breeding attempts at Pullen Pullen Reserve. Our observations include nest and fledgling descriptions, habitat and clutch characteristics, breeding seasonality, adult breeding behaviour and vocalisations. We also identify a King Brown Snake (Pseudechis australis) as the predator responsible for one nesting failure. Our observations confirm historical reports of nesting habitat, egg and clutch size and breeding seasonality and provide important new information on vocalisations and adult behaviour around an active nest. These new data provide a basis for future studies and conservation management of this enigmatic threatened species.
Closure Testing the MSHT PDFs and a First Direct Comparison to the Neural Net Approach
Creators: name: Harland-Lang, L. A.
name: Thorne, R. S.
name: Cridge, T.
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2024

description: We present a brief overview of the first global closure test of the fixed parameterisation (MSHT) approach to PDF fitting. We find that the default MSHT20 parameterisation can reproduce the features of the input set in such a closure test to well within the textbook uncertainties. This provides strong evidence that parameterisation inflexibility in the MSHT20 fit is not a significant issue in the data region. We also present the first completely like-for-like comparison between two global PDF fits, namely MSHT and NNPDF, where the only difference is guaranteed to be due to the fitting methodology. To achieve this, we present a fit to the NNPDF4.0 data and theory inputs with the MSHT parameterisation. We find that this gives a moderately, but noticeably, better fit quality than the central NNPDF4.0 fits and that this difference persists at the level of the PDFs and benchmark cross sections. The NNPDF4.0 uncertainties are found to be broadly in line with the MSHT results if a textbook $T^2=1$ tolerance is applied, but to be significantly smaller if a tolerance typical of the MSHT20 fit is applied.
Insourcing, outsourcing and service level management
Creators: name: Beaumont, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper describes Service Level Management (SLM) and Service Level Agreements (SLA) noting that there is little relevant academic literature and that these concepts originated in the context of computer services (e.g. banking at ATMs) distributed to users through networks. It recommends that the SLM and SLA concepts be used to formalise any kind of insourcing or outsourcing arrangement. Insourcing denotes a department obtaining goods or services from another department of the same organisation. In Australia at least, outsourcing is becoming more common; perhaps especially because technical advances allow data to be effortlessly, instantly and cheaply transferred amongst organisations. As part of funded research on outsourcing in Australia, we will collect data on the use of SLM and SLAs, delineate their incidence and test simple research questions such as "Do SLAs contribute to participants' perceptions of the success of outsourcing arrangements?
Basis Convergence and Long Memory in Volatility when Dynamic Hedging With Spi Futures
Creators: name: Dark, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the importance of basis convergence and long memory in volatility when estimating minimum variance hedge ratios (MVHRs) using SPI futures. The paper employs a bivariate FIGARCH model with a maturity effect to model the joint dynamics of the Australian All Ordinaries Index and the basis. This new approach allows for long memory in volatility, time varying correlations and the convergence between the All Ordinaries Index and its SPI futures over the life of the futures contract. The results illustrate the importance of these effects when modelling the joint dynamics and when estimating dynamic MVHRs.
The Implementation of TQM Practices and their Effect on Organisational Performance: A Literature Review
Creators: name: Anderson, Mary
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Over the past decade, organisations are under increased pressure to compete effectively in global markets. As a result, the introduction of quality has become endemic with the worlwide introduction of quality driven processes in order to not only maintain a level of competitiveness but to survive in the longer term. A considerable amount of resources is being deployed to implement Total Quality Management and other improvement strategies. However, little is known about the impact these practices are having on organisational performance. This paper assesses the existing body of knowledge and identifies if the costs of introducing total quality programs is justified in terms of increasing performance. The review highlights the importance of providing accurate performance measurements and the inclusion of multiple industries in the research, along with measuring non-TQM firms with firms that have implemented TQM practices. One of the most important conclusions drawn from the studies is that TQM programs will have little-to-no effect unless senior management are fully supportive and that the organisational culture is responsive to TQM initiatives.
The Determinants of Immigration From Fiji to New Zealand An Empirical Re-assessment Using the Bounds Testing Approach
Creators: name: Narayan, Paresh Kumar
name: Smyth, Russell
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper re-examines Gani's (1998) findings on the determinants of migrant flows from Fiji to New Zealand through employing the bounds testing procedure to cointegration, within an autoregressive distributive lag framework. The main findings are that in the long run all variables are statistically insignificant, although correctly signed with the exception of the unemployment differential. In the short run, in sharp contrast to Gani's (1998) findings, political instability is consistently the most important determinant of migration flows while the standard of living and real wage differentials are statistically insignificant across all specifications.
Additional file 1 of Quartet protein reference materials and datasets for multi-platform assessment of label-free proteomics
Creators: name: Tian, Sha
name: Zhan, Dongdong
name: Yu, Ying
name: Wang, Yunzhi
name: Liu, Mingwei
name: Tan, Subei
name: Li, Yan
name: Song, Lei
name: Qin, Zhaoyu
name: Li, Xianju
name: Liu, Yang
name: Li, Yao
name: Ji, Shuhui
name: Wang, Shanshan
name: Zheng, Yuanting
name: He, Fuchu
name: Qin, Jun
name: Ding, Chen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary figures.
The KMOLI Spiral
Creators: name: McLean, Jeffrey J.
name: Page, Liam F.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The challenges facing today's managers are many and varied but largely consist of coping with an increasingly changeable and turbulent business environment at both the macro and micro levels. Suggested solutions to these challenges are also varied but often relate to developing strategies around the concepts of knowledge management, organisational learning, and innovation. The paper briefly examines these vital concepts and the links between them and proposes that they can be usefully integrated into one systemic meta-process (The KMOLI Spiral). It is suggested that this integrated meta-process is at the very heart of an organisation's core functions and capabilities. The paper also explores links between a range of current information technologies and their impact on various stages of the integrated meta-process.
Liability and Insurance Protection for Farmers Who Have Income-Producing Recreational Facilities
Creators: name: Rush, John D.
name: Botts, Ralph R.
name: Rush, John D.
name: Botts, Ralph R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1963
Subjects: Farm Management
Risk and Uncertainty

description: Preface: As a source of side income, some farmers near cities are providing recreational facilities for the use of fee -paying guests. Additional liability is involved. The ordinary personal liability or "farmowner's" policy does not cover these income-producing recreational facilities. It covers only the basic farm operation. A farmer needs additional insurance on the side activities. This report discusses the liability involved in operating such recreational facilities and the type of insurance needed to provide financial protection against lawsuits arising from their use by fee-paying guests.
title: Single-Cell Comparative Analysis of Early-Stage Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease-Related Changes in Brain Organoid Models
Creators: name: Sophie Le Bars
name: Mohamed Soudy
name: Enrico Glaab
Publisher: name: LCSB
Year: 2024

description: Objective: Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) are complex
neurodegenerative disorders with shared biological mechanisms, but their early molecular
similarities and differences remain poorly understood. This study aims to elucidate common
and divergent changes in cellular processes in the early stages of AD and PD using brain
organoid models.

Methods: We performed a multi-level comparative analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing
data from AD and PD brain organoids, integrating gene expression, pathway enrichment,
network and cell-cell communication analyses.

Results: Our results reveal both common and contrasting changes between AD and PD,
including a common dysregulation of apoptotic pathways in astrocytes, a common
upregulation of energy metabolism pathways in neurons, and opposing trends in
ribosome-related pathways. In particular, we identified the midkine (MDK) signalling
pathway as consistently altered across multiple levels of analysis in both diseases.

Interpretation: These findings provide new insights into the molecular basis of AD and PD,
highlighting potential cross-disease therapeutic targets and disease-specific alterations that
may inform tailored treatment strategies for neurodegenerative disorders.

Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Neurodegeneration, Brain organoids,
Single-cell transcriptomics, Comparative transcriptomics, Cell-cell communication, Systems
biology
Short-run effects of a carbon tax
Creators: name: McDougall, R. A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper presents estimates of short-run sectoral and economy-wide effects of the introduction of a carbon tax in Australia. The results are derived using an enhanced version of the ORANI multi-sectoral model of the Australian economy. We simulate the introduction of a carbon tax at a rate of 1991-92 $25 per tonne, designed to achieve the Toronto target of a 20 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions below the 1988 level by 2005. We find that the macroeconomic impact would depend critically on the extent to which price rises flowed through into wage rates. Assuming fixed money wages, real GDP would be decreased by an estimated 0.9 per cent, and employment by 1.2 per cent. To maintain a given employment level in the face of the carbon tax would require a reduction in the foreign-currency-equivalent wage rate estimated at 2.8 per cent. This would also entail a decrease in the real wage rate (defined with respect to the consumption price deflator) of 2.8 per cent. Government could promote lower wage outcomes by returning the carbon tax revenue to the community through reductions in other taxes. Enhancements to ORANI used in this simulation include disaggregation of the fossil fuel sector and provision for carbon taxation.
The changing role of HRM in transitional economies: evidence from China
Creators: name: Zhu, Cherrie Jiuhua
name: De Cieri, Helen
name: Cooper, Brian
name: Zhao, Shuming M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: China's progressive integration into the global economy has strengthened its position as a 'magnet' for foreign direct investment. The inevitably increased competition in the Chinese economy has led firms to adopt more market-oriented approaches to human resource management (HRM). Based on a survey conducted in 2005 of 813 respondents (mainly HR personnel) in industrial firms in China, this paper examines the impact of vertical integration of the human resource function, measured by the strategic integration and devolvement of HRM practices, on the performance of industrial firms in China. The results of this preliminary research found some evidence for a positive relationship between the degree of strategic integration of HRM with business strategies and firm performance. Although more analyses need to be conducted on the data collected by this study, our findings provide some signals that the HR function is emerging as a strategic player in Chinese enterprises.
Globalisation, institutions and interests: an integrated framework for comparing industrial relations reform in Australia and New Zealand
Creators: name: Wailes, Nick
name: Ramia, Gaby
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The aim of this paper is to develop an integrated theoretical framework which is capable of explaining similarities and differences in national patterns of industrial relations in the context of globalisation. The first half of the paper reviews three theoretical frameworks that can be used to compare industrial relations developments in different countries - simple globalisation, the new institutional ism and a material interest approach to political economy. It argues that whilst institutionalist arguments tend to dominate analysis of the effects of globalisation on national patterns of industrial relations, a model which combines institutionalist and material interest approaches can overcome some of the anomalies attendant in institutionalist analysis. The second section demonstrates the benefits of an integrative theoretical framework for explaining patterns of industrial relations reform in Australia and New Zealand during the 1980s.
Capturing the Shape of Business Cycles With Nonlinear Autoregressive Leading Indicator Models
Creators: name: Athanasopoulos, George
name: Anderson, Heather M.
name: Vahid, Farshid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper studies linear and nonlinear autoregressive leading indicator models of business cycles in OECD countries. The models use the spread between short-term and long-term interest rates as leading indicators for GDP, and their success in capturing business cycles is gauged by the non-parametric procedures developed by Harding and Pagan (2001). Our preliminary findings indicate that bivariate nonlinear models of output and the interest rate spread can successfully capture the shape of the business cycle. In particular, they can capture the features of recession and the deviation of the actual path of the cycles from a triangular approximation to this path, both characteristics that other models of GDP fail to reproduce.
Bayesian Trace Statistics for the Reduced Rank Regression Model
Creators: name: Strachan, Rodney W.
name: Inder, Brett A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Estimation of the reduced rank regression model requires restrictions be imposed upon the model. Two forms of restrictions are commonly used. Earlier Bayesian work relied on the triangular method of identification which imposes an a priori ordering on the variables in the system, however, incorrect ordering of the variables can result in model misspecification. Bayesian estimation of the reduced rank regression model without ordering restrictions was presented in Strachan (1998) and follows the classical approach of Anderson (1951) and Johansen (1988). This method of estimation avoids placing restrictions on the space spanned by the reduced rank relations and simplifies testing of restrictions on that space. In this paper, a method for estimating approximate marginal likelihoods and Bayes factors is presented for this model, using Laplace approximations for integrals. These Bayes factors algebraically resemble the Johansen trace statistic (1995), hence the title. We consider the model with rank l and no restrictions on the reduced rank relations.
Low Cost Carriers in Australia: Experiences and Impacts
Creators: name: Forsyth, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: As with other airline markets, the Australian market has experienced entry by low cost carriers. Most of these attempts have ended in failure; however one low cost carrier, Virgin Blue, continues to operate and prosper. The history of entry and exit by low cost carriers in Australia is outlined first. Two phases of entry are identified: the early 1990s, and the year 2000. The factors influencing success or failure are examined, in the light of experience in North America and Europe. The Australian market differs in some important respects from these markets, and this influences the ability of such carriers to compete. The strategies adopted by the low cost carriers are examined, as are the competitive responses of the incumbents. The lack of presence of low cost carriers in the market for much of the post deregulation period has meant that incumbent carriers have, until recently, not faced much pressure to reduce their costs. The impacts made by low cost carriers on fares, costs and profitability are examined in this paper. Some lessons are drawn from the Australian experience, and issues which remain to be addressed are noted. These include policy issues for the competition regulator, and strategic issues for the airlines. At present, the remaining low cost carrier is performing well, but it has gained considerably from the collapse of one of the two full service carriers. The likely patterns of competition between Virgin Blue and the full service carrier, Qantas, are explored, along with the scope for more entry by low cost carriers and perhaps fill service carriers.
O MERCADO FUNERÁRIO E O USO DAS MÍDIAS SOCIAIS
Creators: name: Silva, Wagner
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 150501 Consumer-Oriented Product or Service Development
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: O desenvolvimento dos sites das redes sociais na internet possibilitou o surgimento de diversas oportunidades de contato e interação com os clientes para as empresas dos mais variados segmentos. Dentre os segmentos que começam a apostar nas mídias sociais estão também o setor de serviços não procurados, incluído neles o setor de serviços fúnebres. No entanto, observa-se que enquanto as “Funeral Home” dos Estados Unidos da América e de outros países Europeus já começam a manter páginas nas redes sociais mais populares, no Brasil a utilização destas ferramentas ainda não é popular entre os operadores do setor. Este trabalho analisará a presença de funerárias da Região Metropolitana de Fortaleza nas Mídias Sociais, por meio da busca de páginas ou menções das empresas, no Facebook e no Twitter, duas das Redes Sociais mais populares do Brasil.
The Determinants of Takeover Risk For Acquiring and Target Companies: Australian Evidence
Creators: name: Love, Roger
name: Nagy, Paul
name: Pope, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The characteristics of acquiring and target companies involved in Australian takeovers are explored in this study. Employing fresh methodology developed by Palepu (1986), this study improves on the methodological flaws of past studies. Proxies are developed from takeover theory. These include: synergy, managerial motives and agency theory, market valuation of assets and tax considerations. Their significance is determined using both probit analysis and the independent-samples t-test procedure. The empirical findings suggest that targets are low growth companies, with potentially valuable assets that are not being utilised due to inefficient management. In addition, an inverse relationship between the characteristics of acquiring and target companies has been determined.
Lee-Carter mortality forecasting: a multi-country comparison of variants and extensions
Creators: name: Booth, Heather
name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Tickle, Leonie
name: De Jong, Piet
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We compare the short- to medium- term accuracy of five variants or extensions of the Lee-Carter method for mortality forecasting. These include the original Lee-Carter, the Lee-Miller and Booth-Maindonald-Smith variants, and the more flexible Hyndman-Ullah and De Jong-Tickle extensions. These methods are compared by applying them to sex-specific populations of 10 developed countries using data for 1986–2000 for evaluation. All variants and extensions are more accurate than the original Lee-Carter method for forecasting log death rates, by up to 61%. However, accuracy in log death rates does not necessarily translate into accuracy in life expectancy. There are no significant differences among the five methods in forecast accuracy for life expectancy.
Nonlinear Correlograms and Partial Autocorrelograms
Creators: name: Anderson, Heather M.
name: Vahid, Farshid
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper proposes neural network based measures of predictability in conditional mean, and then uses them to construct nonlinear analogues to autocorrelograms and partial autocorrelograms. In contrast to other measures of nonlinear dependence that rely on nonparametric estimation of densities or multivariate integration, our autocorrelograms are simple to calculate and appear to work well in relatively small samples.
Additional file 1 of Mendelian randomisation analysis of clustered causal effects of body mass on cardiometabolic biomarkers
Creators: name: Conde, Susana
name: Xu, Xiaoguang
name: Guo, Hui
name: Perola, Markus
name: Fazia, Teresa
name: Bernardinelli, Luisa
name: Berzuini, Carlo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Contains the metabolite labels in the same order as in Fig.Â 2. (DOCX 5 kb)
The Evolution of Industrial Relations in the ATO: Managing for Performance
Creators: name: Anderson, Eve
name: Griffin, Gerard
name: Teicher, Julian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The industrial relations framework in the Australian Public Service (APS) has moved from highly proceduralised and collective relations to direct employer-employee relations which flexibly respond to the needs of the agency. This change has occurred as part of the adoption of the New Public Management (NPM) principles in which quasi-private sector disciplines are imported to the public sector. This paper examines the evolution of industrial relations in one area of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), an organisation which has attempted to move from a bureaucratised administration to a responsive provider of services, in order to contribute to an assessment of the impact of NPM at the workplace level. The industrial relationship in the ATO has moved a considerable distance from a highly regulated and collective relationship towards a flexible and more individualised relationship. HRM strategies of controlling work through values, behaviours and performance are on the ascendancy, but in practice they are facing significant barriers to their effective implementation.