cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Industry Effects on the Capital Structure Decisions of Australian Companies
Creators: name: Love, Roger
name: Wickramanayake, J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The paper examines the applicability of the theory of optimum capital structure at the industry level, using a sample of 112 Australian companies, over 14 industrial classifications, for the period firom 1980 to 1994. A major proposition of Static Trade-Off and Pecking Order theories is that capital structure decisions are influenced by macroeconomic determinants. Accordingly, firms in the same industry which are exposed to similar economic conditions should exhibit capital structures with similar characteristics, in contrast to firms across industries. The empirical work in this paper uses three related, but distinct tests to establish that differences exist in the capital structure of the sample industry groups. Firstly, ANOVA tests are used to measure differences in the debt to equity ratio between industries, as well as to calculate the cross-sectional variance in firm leverage that can be explained by industry classification. Secondly, an OLS regression estimation procedure is applied to calculate whether industrial classification is a significant determinant of financial leverage. Finally, a seemingly unrelated regression procedure is used to test the similarity between a series of nominated industry relationships; namely size, profitability, growth and volatility. The study finds some evidence consistent with capital structure theory being relevant in the sample period and industries examined, using all three econometric techniques. Following the establishment of differences between the capital structures of the selected industries, the study uses a non-parametric test involving correlation analysis to estabhsh whether macroeconomic shocks could be expected to have a similar effect on the various capital structures. The results of a correlation analysis provide an explainable relationship for a number of industries, but overall the results are inconclusive.
A note on "An Inframarginal Analysis of the Ricardian Model"
Creators: name: Zhang, Dingsheng
name: Heling Shi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This is a note about Cheng et al's paper, in which we consider a dual structure of division of labor and trade in the model of Cheng et al that is missed by the authors. While the inclusion of the dual structure will not change major results in the paper of Cheng, et al., it explores an interesting way to use a general equilibrium model to describe a dual structure with underemployment in a transitional period of economic development.
Economic theory and the monetary valuation of health care : an overview of the issues as applied to the economic evaluation of health care programs
Creators: name: Olsen, Jan Abel
name: Smith, Richard D.
name: Harris, Anthony H.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cost-effectiveness, and cost-utility, analyses have historically been the most widely used techniques of economic evaluation applied to the evaluation of health care programs. However, in recent years there has been renewed interest in the use of cost-benefit analysis, which requires the assessment of programme benefits in monetary terms. This paper provides a brief review of the economic basis for willingness to pay, and monetary valuation more widely, used in the conduct of cost-benefit analysis. This theoretical background is placed within the framework of the evaluation of health care programs, and in particular the context of priority-setting and the concurrent use of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses. It is concluded that cost-benefit anlaysis does have a strong conceptual basis in welfare economics, whereas other techniques of economic evaluation do not. The advantage of this being that it provides cost-benefit analysis with a logical structure for guidance on issues such as what costs and benefits should be included, and how they should be measured. However, it is clear that when deciding whether to adopt CBA as a desirable technique on which to base resource allocation decisions, a number of considerations at the theoretical level are to be made, prior to consideration of methodological issues. Fundamentally, this means considering whether the maximisation of `social welfare' (as defined in welfare economics), rather than `health outcomes', is the basis on which decisions should be made. That is, should health (care) services be responsive to individual stated preference for programs, or concerned with maximing the health status of the population? Furthermore, there are also considerations to be made to allow for the difference in ranking which will result from CBA, CEA and CUA, and decision-criteria developed to account for this in the decision-making process.
A Computer Simulation of the Spread of Hepatitis C
Creators: name: Mather, Dineli
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The paper presents a generic interactive simulation model for Hepatitis C. The model can be used to predict the long term outcome of existing or custom made cohorts by changing numerous parameters simultaneously. It can also be used to estimate threshold values for parameters and immunisation strategies.
Can Tax Reform Work in an Economy Where Tax Avoidance and Evasion are Endemic?
Creators: name: Ginting, Edimon
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this model firms seek to minimise their tax liabilities by purchasing rent-seeking services from a provider who also sells legitimate public services to the government. The provider enjoys economies of scope - its two outputs are produced jointly. Tax reform in this setting can increase both government revenue and the efficiency of the economy because a type of Laffer curve is operational and because such reform can lead to resources being moved out of rent-seeking activity. Later this partial equilibrium framework will be embedded within a conventional general equilibrium model.
Reshaping The Destination To Fit The Film Image: Western Films And Tourism At Lone Pine, California
Creators: name: Frost, Warwick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Lone Pine is a small town in the eastern Sierra Nevada of California. It has been the location for over 300 films. In this paper I use Lone Pine as a case study to examine three aspects of the relationship between film and destination image which have previously been scarcely considered in the literature. The first aspect is the role of Western films in shaping tourists' images and expectations of the western USA. Second, in multiple-film locations, such as Lone Pine, the development of an image is evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Third, reacting to what has been projected in films, Lone Pine has reshaped itself as a Western-style town with a Western heritage.
Supplementary document for Solution-processed WS2 and its doping in PEDOT:PSS for tailoring hole injection in near ultraviolet organic light-emitting diodes - 5118065.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Honghang
name: Li, Dongliang
name: Yuan, Yongfang
name: Chi, Feng
name: Liu, Liming
name: Wang, Lihui
name: Lu, Zongliu
name: Lin, Zhidong
name: Zhang, Xiao-Wen
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supporting Information
Incorporating a tracking signal into state space models for exponential smoothing
Creators: name: Snyder, Ralph D.
name: Koehler, Anne B.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It is a common practice to complement a forecasting method such as simple exponential smoothing with a monitoring scheme to detect those situations where forecasts have failed to adapt to structural change. It will be suggested in this paper that the equations for simple exponential smoothing can be augmented by a common monitoring statistic to provide a method that automatically adapts to structural change without human intervention. It is shown that the resulting equations conform to those of damped trend corrected exponential smoothing. In a similar manner, exponential smoothing with drift, when augmented by the same monitoring statistic, produces equations that split the trend into long term and short term components.
International Joint Venture: An Ideal Mode of Entry in a Developing Country
Creators: name: Ali, M. Yunus
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Bangladesh has a great potential for foreign firms for both trade and investment but Australian companies have shown little or no interest to that opportunity. Since the liberalisation of its investment policy in the early 1980s, Bangladesh has attracted a considerable number of foreign investment projects, mostly in joint venture with local companies. There is a myth in the foreign investment community that international joint ventures (IJV) are less successful in developing countries. Empirical data on performance of IJVs in Bangladesh are used to examine that myth. The paper also answers the question: why some international joint ventures succeed while other fail? Key determinants of IJV performance have been identified by statistical analyses of empirical data. The paper concludes with recommendations for the prospective Australian investors in Bangladesh.
D9.1 EPQ - Requirement No. 1
Creators: name: Becherini, Francesca
name: Natali, Marco
name: Panizza, Matteo
name: Tamburini, Sergio
name: Ducman, Vilma
name: Manesis, Fotis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: InnoWEE
H2020
project
ethics

description: Deliverable D9.1 "EPQ-Requirement No.1" identifies and deals with possible ethics issues that may arise from any part of the InnoWEE project.
Prediction Intervals for Exponential Smoothing State Space Models
Creators: name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Koehler, Anne B.
name: Ord, J. Keith
name: Snyder, Ralph D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The main objective of this paper is to provide analytical expressions for forecast variances that can be used in prediction intervals for the exponential smoothing methods. These expressions are based on state space models with a single source of error that underlie the exponential smoothing methods. Three general classes of the state space models are presented. The first class is the standard linear state space model with homoscedastic errors, the second retains the linear structure but incorporates a dynamic form of heteroscedasticity, and the third allows for non-linear structure in the observation equation as well as heteroscedasticity. Exact matrix formulas for the forecast variances are found for each of these three classes of models. These formulas are specialized to non-matrix formulas for fifteen state space models that underlie nine exponential smoothing methods, including all the widely used methods. In cases where an ARIMA model also underlies an exponential smoothing method, there is an equivalent state space model with the same variance expression. We also discuss relationships between these new ideas and previous suggestions for finding forecast variances and prediction intervals for the exponential smoothing methods.
What Predicts Receptivity to International Careers of Young Employees? The Links of Personal Agency and the Perceived Environment
Creators: name: Tharenou, Phyllis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study sought to understand the person and environment factors related to young employees' receptivity to international careers using constructs from social cognitive career theory. The longitudinal sample comprised 213 Australian employees aged 26 or younger who responded to a follow-up survey, two years after they were surveyed when final year undergraduate business students. Beyond 2-year earlier receptivity to international careers and control variables, receptivity to international careers was positively related to current and 2-year earlier outcome expectancies, negatively to current family influence and presence of partners, and positively to working in organizations with an international focus. Destination made a difference. Employees who preferred countries easy to work in had lower receptivity to working in culturally dissimilar but not culturally similar countries to Australia than those who did not. The qualitative results supported respondents' missing family and friends as the major barrier to taking international jobs, and outcome expectancies as a key factor. Discussion centered on the links found for barriers, opportunities, and outcome expectancies, to receptivity to international careers, in contrast to the lack of links found for human resource support and self-efficacy for international work and life.
Czech and Ukrainian Parallels to the Proverbs of Russian Paremiological Minimum (based on thematic group "Person")
Creators: name: Community Of Reviewers Of The International Research Journal
Publisher: name: Cifra LLC
Year: 2024
Subjects: Russian paremiological minimum
Czech proverbs
Ukrainian proverbs
paremiological vision of the world
proverbial parallels
proverbial lacunae
паремиологический минимум русского языка
чешские пословицы
украинские пословицы
паремиологическая картина мира
пословичные параллели
пословичные лакуны

description: Russian Linguistic Bulletin, Выпуск 6 (54) 2024
Bayesian Analysis of the Stochastic Conditional Duration Model
Creators: name: Strickland, Chris M.
name: Forbes, Catherine S.
name: Martin, Gael M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo methodology is developed for estimating the stochastic conditional duration model. The conditional mean of durations between trades is modelled as a latent stochastic process, with the conditional distribution of durations having positive support. The sampling scheme employed is a hybrid of the Gibbs and Metropolis Hastings algorithms, with the latent vector sampled in blocks. The suggested approach is shown to be preferable to the quasi-maximum likelihood approach, and its mixing speed faster than that of an alternative single-move algorithm. The methodology is illustrated with an application to Australian intraday stock market data.
A General Equilibrium Model with Impersonal Networking Decisions and Bundling Sales
Creators: name: Li, Ke
name: Yang, Xiaokai
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper develops a general equilibrium model of impersonal networking decisions and bundling sales, which departures from the other models of bundling and tying by allowing substitution between goods, flexible quantities of goods, resale of any goods, competitive market, and ex ante identical utility function for all individuals. Applying Inframarginal Analysis, this model shows that the function of bundling sales in a competitive market is to avoiding direct pricing of goods with the lowest transaction eflciency, like intangible information goods, meanwhile getting them involved in the division of labour and commercialised production, thereby promoting division of labour and aggregate productivity. According to this theory of bundling, bundling in a competitive market is Pareto eficient and it plays a very important role to utilize positive network eflects of division of labour on aggregate productivity. Antitrust prosecution should pay more attention to the intention to block free entry rather than bundling itself.
Taxation to Minimise the Social and Economic Costs of Alcohol Consumption
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
name: Crowley, Steve
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper considers alternative approaches to the evaluation of the economic cost of alcohol consumption in Australia. It calculates the impact of alternative tax rates on beer, wine and spirits separately and the welfare cost of these taxes in terms of the distortion caused to consumption patterns. Two separate analyses are carried out. First optimal taxation is calculated which minimises the total welfare plus economic cost. Secondly, the benefits of life are separated from other benefits and the impact of tax expressed in terms of the cost per life year gained.
Refining the Application of Construal Level Theory: Egocentric and Nonegocentric Psychological Distances in Climate Change Visual Communication
Creators: name: Duan, Ran
name: Zwickle, Adam
name: Takahashi, Bruno
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Recent studies have found mixed evidence about the role of psychological distance of climate change in people’s engagement with the issue. To gain more clarity in the application of construal level theory of psychological distance in climate change communication, we used two online experiments to investigate how abstract and concrete construals of climate change imagery may differentially influence people’s perceived psychological distances to the issue. Specifically, we clarified the conceptual differences between two subdimensions (i.e. egocentric and nonegocentric) of psychological distance and showed how the two types differ in climate change communication. Findings also showed that concrete construals of climate change images made participants estimate less egocentric geographical, temporal, and social distances to climate change, which led to greater mitigation behavioral intentions. But this construal-level effect did not exist when participants estimated the nonegocentric distances – the perceived distances between climate change and others (i.e. other locations, other people).
Диалог в вербальных текстах мюзиклов и музыкальных мультфильмов: интертекстуальность, полифония и гибридность
Creators: name: Лебединская, Виктория
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2024
Subjects: polyphony
hybridity
intertextuality
English
Spanish
полифония
гибридность
интертекстуальность
английский язык
испанский язык

description: Russian Linguistic Bulletin, Выпуск 6 (54) 2024
Exosomes derived from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells regulate pyroptosis via the miR-143-3p/myeloid differentiation factor 88 axis to ameliorate intestinal ischemia-reperfusion injury
Creators: name: Wan, Zhanhai
name: zhang, Yan
name: Lv, Jipeng
name: Yuan, Yuan
name: Guo, Wenwen
name: Leng, Yufang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Intestinal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is a condition in which tissue injury is aggravated after ischemia due to recovery of blood supply. Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived exosome (BMSC-exo) showed a protective effect on I/R injury. This study aimed to investigate the possible mechanisms by which BMSC-exos ameliorate intestinal I/R injury. We isolated mouse BMSC-exos by super-centrifugation and found that they effectively increased cell viability in a cell model, alleviated intestinal barrier injury in a mouse model, and downregulated the expression of inflammatory cytokines and pyroptosis-related proteins, suggesting that BMSC-exos may alleviate intestinal I/R injury in vitro and in vivo by regulating pyroptosis. We identified miR-143-3p as a differentially expressed miRNA by microarray sequencing. Bioinformatic analysis predicted a binding site between miR-143-3p and myeloid differentiation factor 88 (MyD88); a dual-luciferase reporter assay confirmed that miR-143-3p could directly regulate the expression of MyD88. Our findings suggest that miR-143-3p regulates pyroptosis by regulating NOD-like receptor thermal protein domain associated protein 3 (NLRP3) through the toll-like receptor (TLR)-4/MyD88/nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-кB) pathway. This study describes a potential strategy for the treatment of intestinal I/R injury using BMSC-exos that act by regulating pyroptosis through the miR-143-3p mediated TLR4/MyD88/NF-кB pathway. BMSC-exos ameliorate intestinal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injurymiR-143-3p levels were reduced in I/R injury and increased with BMSC-exo treatmentmiR-143-3p directly targeted and downregulated the expression of MyD88BMSC-exos regulate pyroptosis in intestinal I/R injury via the miR-143-3p-MyD88 axis BMSC-exos ameliorate intestinal ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury miR-143-3p levels were reduced in I/R injury and increased with BMSC-exo treatment miR-143-3p directly targeted and downregulated the expression of MyD88 BMSC-exos regulate pyroptosis in intestinal I/R injury via the miR-143-3p-MyD88 axis
Quality managers: are their personal and professional development needs being fulfilled?
Creators: name: Stewart, Deb
name: Waddell, Dianne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This project is an attempt to identify the personal and professional training needs of Quality Managers. It has been presumed that training is the single most important factor in improving quality, once commitment is present. This study investigates if Quality training is objectively, systematically, and continuously performed in Australia, and if so, by whom. The primary aim of the research is to explore whether their organisations or appropriate professional bodies are fulfilling the training needs of quality managers. Such a study is conspicuous by its absence. It is an area that has been overlooked in the push for competitive advantage but a thorough understanding of the personal and professional development needs of managers is crucial for successful implementation of quality management.
Additional file 3 of Relationship between lipoprotein concentrations and short-term and 1-year mortality in intensive care unit septic patients: results from the HIGHSEPS study
Creators: name: Tanaka, Sébastien
name: Stern, Jules
name: Bouzid, Donia
name: Robert, Tiphaine
name: Dehoux, Monique
name: Snauwaert, Aurélie
name: Zappella, Nathalie
name: Cournot, Maxime
name: Lortat-Jacob, Brice
name: Augustin, Pascal
name: Atchade, Enora
name: Tran-Dinh, Alexy
name: Meilhac, Olivier
name: Montravers, Philippe
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Virology

description: Additional file 3: S3. Kaplan–Meier estimates of survival in the 28 days after the onset of sepsis for patients with different initial levels of lipoproteins in the septic shock subgroup. TC: Total cholesterol; HDL: High-density lipoprotein; LDL: Low-density lipoprotein; TG: Triglycerides.
Purchaser/Provider and Managed Competition: Importing Chaos?
Creators: name: Street, Andrew
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A purchaser/provider separation and managed competition have been recommended as options for reform of Australia's health system. This paper presents the theoretical basis and supposed advantages of each model. The introduction of the purchaser/provider separation in the United Kingdom and New Zealand is described, as are the proposals for implementation of managed competition in the United States and The Netherlands. The potential for either model to deliver its promised benefits is critically evaluated in the light of existing evidence. It is concluded that neither model can command unqualified support, and that alternative policy options might merit consideration before importing solutions from overseas.
Translational research in the area of inequalities in health related to obesity in Australia
Creators: name: Hollingsworth, Bruce
name: Hauckm, Katharina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Health inequalities are a fundamental policy issue. However despite various policy initiatives in this area inequality persists, and in fact may be on the increase. Effective policy requires an understanding of the causes of inequalities. Health economics has developed tools and theories purported to be useful in measuring and identifying inequalities. We question current economic theories in the area of obesity, an important, if not the most important, public health concern of the future. We summarise economic work in this area, suggesting a different economic perspective to that of rational choice, and go on to present some preliminary results of quantitative analysis of Australian data to support our theories, before mapping out possible areas for future research. This paper asks more questions as it answers, aiming to set a framework for a dialogue which may ultimately help translate research findings into useable evidence for policy makers.
Examining human resource management in post-soviet Kazakhstan
Creators: name: Minbaeva, Dana B.
name: Hutchings, Kate
name: Thomson, S. Bruce
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In post-Soviet Eastern Europe, the former communist nations have increasingly internationalized through inward foreign direct investment initially from Western European and North American multinationals and more recently, from other transition economy multinationals. This paper specially explores human resource management (HRM) practices in foreign-owned subsidiaries in Kazakhstan to examine the development of HRM in Kazakhstan and the extent to which practices and policies are reflective of their countries of origin, older-style Soviet and post-Soviet practices, or an emerging Kazakhstan. The discussion is based on the findings of research which utilized a questionnaire-based survey, supplemented with secondary data and informal interviews with HR managers. The paper concludes with suggesting that the HRM and employee relations practices utilized in these subsidiaries in Kazakhstan are a hybrid of old style Soviet practices and Western-based approaches (both US and European), and provides some implications for theory and managerial practice.
Suppl Figure 1 from Non-linear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups
Creators: name: Linossier, Juliette
name: CHARRIER, Isabelle
name: Mathevon, Nicolas
name: Casey, Caroline
name: Reichmuth, Colleen
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310901
subject: Animal behaviour

description: Plots of estimated marginal means at the scale response for the 6 acoustic variables measured in pups' calls. A) number of NLP varying with age, B) occurrence of biphonation varying with age, C) occurrence of chaos varying with age, D) occurrence of vibrato varying with Agesex, E) occurrence of subharmonics varying with sex and F) age of the pups, G) occurence of Frequency Jumps varying with sex.
An analysis of different kinds of organisational culture
Creators: name: Knowles, M.C.
name: Reddy, Prasuna
name: Konczey, Kinga
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study analysed the different types of organisational cultures in which a sample of 370 managers were working. The four types of organisational culture were classified as power, role, task and person. The most prevalent organisational cultures in which these managers believed they worked were the role, power and task cultures, with role culture being the most prominent. When asked what type of organisational culture they preferred to work in, respondents' ratings favoured task culture over power, person and role cultures. These preferences particularly applied to respondents who were older in age, had higher levels of salary, and greater years of work experience. Gender differences were also found on ideal culture ratings with women showing greater preference for person cultures. Furthermore, when ratings on current and ideal cultures were compared, respondents rated their organisations as having greater power or role cultures than desired, and less task or person cultures than desired. The implications of these kinds of discrepancies are discussed with respect to leadership and management practice.
The Operation of the Banking System and the Creation of Inside Money: An Exercise
Creators: name: Crowley, Michael J.
name: Tennant, Judith K.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper is designed to provide students studying in the area of 'Money and Banking' with an understanding of the concept of 'inside money' through a simple balance sheet exercise. The implications for the financial system of the banks ability to create inside money are looked at using the Quantity Theory as a base. The impact of Non-Bank Financial Intermediaries on the financial system through their effect on both the velocity of circulation of the money stock and on the size of the money stock are explored briefly.
Uncertainty, Insurance and the Division of Labor
Creators: name: Lio, Monchi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper provides a general equilibrium model to explore the relationships between transaction risks, transportation costs and division of labor. It is shown that insurance against transaction risks will change the extent of the market, the level of specialization, productivity and the level of division of labor.
Teaching towards knowledge integration in learning force and motion
Creators: name: Nie, Ying
name: Xiao, Yang
name: Fritchman, Joseph C.
name: Liu, Qiaoyi
name: Han, Jing
name: Xiong, Jianwen
name: Bao, Lei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Knowledge integration is essential to achieve deep conceptual understanding, which requires students to develop well-connected knowledge structures through the central idea of a concept. To effectively represent and analyze knowledge integration, a conceptual framework model on force and motion is developed to map learners’ knowledge structures in terms of how conceptual ideas and contextual conditions are connected. Two studies have been conducted. First, the misconceptions on force and motion held by Chinese middle school students are examined. Although the Chinese students had experienced extensive problem-drilling in instruction, which is notably different from that of the populations documented in the literature, their misconceptions are similar to those previously reported. This suggests that traditional problem-drilling does not substantively improve conceptual development. In addition, detailed analysis of students’ qualitative and quantitative responses also suggests that students’ misconceptions can be viewed through the conceptual framework model as local connections among subsets of contextual features, which indicate fragmented knowledge structures. The second study evaluates the effectiveness of a modified instruction that targets knowledge integration by explicitly emphasizing the learning of the central idea and making the needed connections with it. The results indicate that the modified instruction outperforms the traditional method in promoting knowledge integration.
Literature Review - Managing Information and Communication Technology Project Risk
Creators: name: Henderson, Susan
name: Beaumont, Nicholas
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The abstract nature of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) creates unique issues for IT practitioners and non-practitioners as they manage project uncertainty and its associated risk. Organisations are often driven by the need to acquire the latest technology without assessing potential risks, often believing the technology will be able to evolve to fit their user requirements. This paper examines the literature to ascertain if themes pertaining to the type of strategies organisation have adopted or should adopt to reduce or remove risks due to project uncertainty have emerged.
Bivariate Error Correction FIGARCH and FIAPARCH Models on the Australian All Ordinaries Index and Its SPI Futures.
Creators: name: Dark, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper we extend the univariate FIGARCH and FIAPARCH models to a bivariate framework. We estimate bivariate error correction FIGARCH and FIAPARCH models between the All Ordinaries Index and its SPI futures using constant correlation and diagonal parameterisations. We therefore employ a flexible estimation approach that captures the long run equilibrium relationship between the two markets, bi-directional return causality, long memory and asymmetries in volatility, and time varying correlations. The results strongly support the use of this approach. Strong bi-directional return causality exists with the index bearing the burden of adjustment to deviations from long run equilibrium. The results also illustrate the importance of allowing for long memory, asymmetries in volatility, and time varying correlations.
The Edge of Chaos: a Simulation of a Kanban System
Creators: name: Haslett, Tim
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: A widely discussed notion in the field of non-linear theory is that of the Edge of Chaos where systems, and in particular organisations, are presumed to be at their most creative. This paper presents evidence from a simulation model of a Kanban system that improved its performance as the system became less predictable and less stable. The results from spectral analysis indicate that the system moves towards a chaotic regime under certain input conditions while at the same time improving performance on one of the key performance measures of a Kanban system. This paper suggests that movement towards a chaotic regime is accompanied by improvement performance.
ЭВФЕМИЯ КАК СТИЛИЗАЦИЯ УСТАРЕВШЕЙ РЕЧЕВОЙ СТЕРЕОТИПИИ ВЕРБАЛЬНЫМИ И НЕВЕРБАЛЬНЫМИ СРЕДСТВАМИ КИНО
Creators: name: Булгарова, Белла
Publisher: name: ООО Цифра
Year: 2024
Subjects: verbal signs
non-verbal means
paraverbal means
polymodality
euphemia
вербальные знаки
невербальные средства
паравербальные средства
полимодальность
эвфемия

description: Russian Linguistic Bulletin, Выпуск 6 (54) 2024
Demand for Malaysia's Exports: Evidence from the Electronics Industry
Creators: name: Wong, Koi Nyen
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study estimates the determinants of foreign demand for Malaysia's top five electronics exports by SITC (Standard International Trade Classification) product groups from 1990 to 2001. Cointegration results indicate a unique long-run relationship between export demand for electronic products and relative prices and foreign income. Both the estimated long-run income and price elasticities of export demand are greater than 1, conforming to a pattern found in most fast-growing economies and implying price is an important factor in explaining export growth with the exception of semiconductor exports. The present study has important policy implications to the competitiveness of electronics exports that can lead Malaysia's transition towards high-technology industrialization.
Establishing Mutual Dependence Between TQM and the Learning Organisation: A Multiple Case Study Analysis
Creators: name: Terziovski, Mile
name: Howell, Andrea
name: Sohal, Amrik
name: Morrison, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Increased competition has motivated managers world-wide to evaluate their competitive strategies and management practices with the aim of improving organisational performance. Total Quality Management (TQM) and the Learning Organisation (LO) concept are seen as two independent change strategies. Many companies have misunderstood the reality that TQM based on continuous improvement requires a commitment to learning - and TQM is a means to a learning organisation culture. There is also little empirical evidence in the literature to support the proposition that these two concepts are dependent on each other. In order to establish dependence, qualitative data was gathered from five Australian companies that had established practices in the TQM field. Characteristics of the learning organisation based on Garvin and Senge's principles were identified. Cross case content analysis was then undertaken to verify the dependence between the concepts of TQM and learning organisations. Our analysis shows that there are six emerging themes/traits that are common to both concepts: vision/strategy; information and analysis/knowledge; human resource development/communication, recognition; strategic planning/customer focus, process management/benchmarking; and a climate of continuous improvement and learning. Based on our findings, we conclude that the TQM principles and concepts underpin the evolution of the learning organisation.
Welfarism or non-welfarism? public preferences for willingness to pay versus health maximisation
Creators: name: Richardson, Jeff
name: McKie, John
name: Olsen, Jan Abel
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We distinguish between different forms of welfarism and non-welfarism, along three dimensions: “self-motivation”, “social goal”, and “role of government”. The paper then reports the results of a survey of the “meta-preferences” of the Australian public concerning the principles that should govern priority setting in health care. Of 743 respondents, 77.4 per cent thought that resources should be allocated on the basis of health outcomes (non-welfarism), whereas only 11.6 per cent thought that priorities should reflect individuals’ preferences as stated through willingness to pay (welfarism). The Discussion section considers three arguments supporting WTP: first, that it is the “theoretically correct” method for valuing health effects due to its foundation in welfare economics; second, that it is the most flexible technique for evaluating health services, as it is able to include a variety of factors in addition to health that are important to individuals; and third, that it places a dollar value on life and quality of life, which is necessary if allocative efficiency is to be achieved. We argue that these arguments for individual WTP are unpersuasive.
Employment Relationship And Politicisation: Views Of Malaysian Civil Servants Working In Penang
Creators: name: Haidar, Ali
name: Pullin, Len
name: Hai, Lim Hong
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper examines the issue of the politicisation of public servant employment in the context of the Malaysian public service. Based on a survey of the Administrative and Diplomatic Service (ADS) officers the elite civil service the papers suggests that the employment aspects of the ADS officers is not as 'non-political' as many Malaysian public management commentators claim. The ADS officers perceive that politicians substantially influence such employment matters as recruitment, selection, promotion and dismissal. The paper argues that the political influence on employment matters is related to the manner in which the governing political parties cooperate with each other and the way some of the public service management processes have been implemented.
Labour Market Outcomes Among Retrenched Workers in Australia: A Review
Creators: name: Webber, Michael
name: Campbell, Iain
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In any one year perhaps five per cent of the workforce experiences retrenchment in Australia. Retrenchment causes people shock and loss of income; they become socially isolated and their psychological health deteriorates. A large number of studies has examined the subsequent labour force experience of retrenched workers, depending on conditions in the labour market, retrenchment practices, hiring practices, state policies and the personal characteristics of the workers. This paper reviews the evidence about the factors that influence the prospects of retrenched workers, identifies some flaws in the design of studies in which that evidence has been collected, and points to ways in which more comprehensive evidence can be collected. An informed interpretation of evidence requires appropriate methods for identifying cause and effect, should rest on a clear identification of the forms of employment that exist, and needs to be sensitive to the manner in which personal characteristics are used by employer as hiring markers.
The appropriation of emotion
Creators: name: Cox, Julie Wolfram
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The subject of emotion has attracted renewed interest, including a recent explosion of publications on the subject of emotional intelligence (EI), a type of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others' emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use the information to guide one's thinking. It is suggested that the lure of EI has as much to do with emotional appropriation as appropriateness, and that the possibility of appropriation/incorporation for the purposes of interdisciplinary extension can be compared with the contradictory dynamic of containment and control that pervades the literature on emotion. These dynamics are explored, and it is argued that not only has emotion been allowed to creep 'back in' to organizational life, it has been appropriated/re-appropriated within the psychological study of intelligence.
Fuzzy multiple objective decision making in the construction industry
Creators: name: Petrovìc-Lazarevìc, Sonja
name: Prascevic, Zivojin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Business decisions relate to future events. They influence the future business success of an organisation. Business decisions must be continuously revised. The model of multiple objective decision making, based on fuzzy logic, seems to apply when continuous business decision making revisions are used. The linear mathematical formulation of multiple objective decision making of Lai might be implemented in a decision making process in the construction industry. That is the fuzzy parameters of linear programming are modeled by preference-based membership functions. These functions represent subjective degrees of satisfaction or, degree of optimalities or feasibilities within given tolerance. The membership functions are similar to utility functions. They are determined by subjective judgment. This paper deals with Lai's model of multiple objective decision making. The first part of the paper explains the modified version of the model itself to construction industry circumstances. The second part gives an example that illustrates the improvement of business decision making when it is supported by computer technology.
Testing Convergence in Economic Growth for OECD Countries
Creators: name: Nahar, Syfun
name: Inder, Brett A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper we propose a new test procedure with more general steady state information to test the convergence hypothesis for a specific economy. We consider a model where demeaned per capita output of an economy is a function of time trend and then set the convergence hypothesis as negative average slope of that model. Applying the new procedure to 22 OECD countries we find strong evidence of convergence for 20 countries towards their average level. We also consider the per capita output of USA as a common steady state level for OECD countries. Then using the per capita output gap from USA we test the convergence hypothesis for an individual economy. This approach also shows strong evidence in favour of convergence towards the USA for most economies. France and Iceland do not converge towards the average level of OECD countries although they are converging towards USA. Australia and New Zealand are showing the opposite pattern as they are converging towards the average level but moving away from USA. This study also points out why using standard unit root tests with Bernard and Durlauf s (1995) definition of convergence is inappropriate.
The relationship of training motivation to participation in training and development
Creators: name: Tharenou, Phyllis
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The aim of this study was to assess how train in g motivation in terms of the expectation of gaining valued outcomes (i.e., motivation through expectation) and motivation to leam explains participation in training and development. Direct, mediator, and moderated explanations were tested. Survey data were gathered at Time 1 and a year later at Time 2, providing a longitudinal sample of 1705 Australians. Multiple regression analyses showed that, the higher the training motivation (both types), the more employees participated in training and development in the next 12 months, as they also did from higher supervisor support. Training motivation did not mediate the effects of the work environment on participation but moderated the prediction by employer support. Employer support predicted participation in training and development in the next 12 months more for employees with higher than lower training motivation. Motivation to learn and motivation through expectation, chiefly instrumentality, similarly explained participation in training and development.
Using VSM to integrate SD modelling into an organisation context
Creators: name: Haslett, Tim
name: Oka, Marvin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: For some time, writers and practitioners, such as Vennix, Andersen and Richardson have addressed the problem of integrating the work of the system dynamics modellers into the decision making processes of an organisation. The method known as "group modelling techniques" has been widely discussed and used. This paper suggests that, in addition to a process which involves the facilitation of the modelling process with a group of internal organisational participants, it is necessary to provide a structure which integrates the outcomes of the group process into the broader organisational context. The model proposed here has been developed during consulting practice and uses Stafford Beer's Viable Systems Model as the basis for turning System Dynamics Modelling results into strategic intelligence.
Teaching economics to non-economics students: a case study of tourism and hospitality economics
Creators: name: Frost, Warwick
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper considers the problems of teaching economics to non-economics students. Increasingly economics is being taught as a single, introductory, compulsory subject in a wide range of field's of study. Students learning economics under such circumstances may have special problems. They may not see the need for economics, they may not be interested in it and they may find it difficult to cope with a style of subject and teaching which is quite different to their core interest. These issues are examined through a case study of the subject Tourism and Hospitality Economics, which is compulsory for students studying Tourism and Hospitality at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University.
IN03120 Kuccavēli Rock Inscription
Creators: name: Paranavitana, S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IN03120
Epigraphia Zeylanica
Kuccavēli
Kuchchaveli

description: IN03120 Kuccavēli Rock Inscription - Transcript and Translation Source: Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 13. Kuccavēli Rock Inscription (A. S. I., No. 383.),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 158-161.