cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
International mergers and aquisitions: an Australian study on post agreement integration
Creators: name: McDonald, Jarrod
name: Coulthard, Max
name: De Lange, Paul
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This study of six Australian organisations explores four post M&A agreement integration issues previously highlighted as important in the literature: strategic planning, corporate culture, employee retention and the role of leadership. It was found that successful integration requires five key factors: (i) acceptance of the new corporate vision and mission, (ii) a complementary structure, (iii) a clear integration timetable, (iv) initiation and completion of cultural due diligence, and (v) the implementation of a process to manage cultural differences. A number of organisations interviewed had instigated strategies to retain key personnel in order to prevent knowledge drain post M & A. Toachieve M&A business objectives, integration leaders were identified as needing to focus on: innovative problem solving; developing effective communication with personnel; and relationship building.
Crafting organization
Creators: name: Cox, Julie Wolfram
name: Minahan, Stella
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The recent shift in attention away from organization studies as science has allowed for the consideration of new ways of thinking about both organization and organizing. While the play of ideas on organization studies is often represented in terms of conflict and contestation, there has been a softening of disciplinary boundaries and, as a result, consideration of inquiries that draw on the analysis and forms of narrative, discourse, metaphor, theatre, music, art and aesthetics, among others. In this paper, we take seriously calls for organization to be represented as a creative process by considering organization as craft. First, we consider crafting as a provisional means of creating forms and their boundaries; as an aesthetic enterprise in which crafter and craft, human and non-human, are mutually entangled. Organisational craft, we argue, is attractive, accessible, malleable, reproducible, and marketable. In the crafting process, materials are used and re-used, imagination and experimentation are encouraged, new pieces are added, and offcuts are saved for later. Drawing on the hierarchy of distinctions among fine art, decorative art, and craft, we then discuss this consideration of crafting as one of several recent attempts to 'bring down* organizational theorizing. Craft, we argue, is a tangible way of considering organization studies with irreverence. Second, we turn our production inside out and shift our discussion from organizational craft to the crafting organization. Here we examine the shifting forms and contexts of an Australian craftworks and marketplace known as the 'Meat Market Craft Centre' and then, until its recent closure, as 'Metro!'. From its early days as Melbourne's wholesale meat market, the site has undergone several dramatic shifts in identity while continuing some material and relational connections with the past. We draw on the language of crafting to presen t some of the ways in which Metrol's form and space has been created and re-created. We suggest that this particular convergence of craft and organization makes a contribution both to understanding Metro! and to the texture and gui(l)ding of organization studies.
Are Shocks to Energy Consumption Permanent or Temporary? Evidence from 182 Countries
Creators: name: Narayan, Paresh Kumar
name: Smyth, Russell
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper applies univariate and panel data unit root tests to annual panel data for 182 countries over the period 1979-2000 to examine the stationarity properties of per capita energy consumption. The univariate unit root test can only reject the unit root null for 29 per cent of the countries at the 10 per cent level or better without a trend and 37 per cent of the countries at the 10 per cent level or better with a trend. However, it is often argued that unit root tests have low power with short spans of data and therefore failure to reject the unit root null should be treated with caution. When we apply the panel data unit root test we find overwhelming evidence that energy consumption is stationary. We discuss the implications of these findings for econometric modeling and policy formulation.
Handout Suchoperatoren für die Recherche
Creators: name: , Grahl
name: , Herold
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Recherche, Operatoren, Suchoperatoren, Boolsche Operatoren

description: Das Handout listet für die wissenschaftliche Recherche gängige und brauchbare Suchoperatoren auf und veranschaulicht diese an Beispielen.
The Debt of Systems Theory to Thermodynamics
Creators: name: Roos, Ian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Systems theory, is often seen as unifying; spanning the physical, biological, and social sciences. The term theory is perhaps a misnomer in that in general form it is neither testable, falsifiable or predictive. However, most of the theories or laws describing the physical universe use the concept of a system. It can be argued that it fits Kuhn's concept of a paradigm. "Systems theory" as applied to organisations uses as analogies some of the concepts of thermodynamics, such as open and closed systems, exchange with the surroundings, and entropy. Thermodynamics is concerned with the interchange of energy as either heat or work. It is, therefore, surprising that a concept as difficult to understand as entropy should be borrowed and applied to organisations, but simpler concepts such as work, temperature, heat, and equilibrium ignored. This paper will explore whether there is value in using some of these concepts when describing an organisation as a system.
Efficiency and cross efficiency measures: a validation using OECD data
Creators: name: Hollingsworth, Bruce
name: Wildman, John
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper makes use of cross efficiency measures, a means of validating Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) scores using different weighting schemes. It is demonstrated using data from 30 OECD countries. We recommend this as a means of bringing non stochastic DEA and stochastic modelling closer together, especially useful in modelling of health (and health care) production functions, given their multiple output nature.
A series of 2D and 3D coordination polymers containing multicore Mn-carboxyl chain and flexible polycarboxylate ligands: synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties
Creators: name: Guo, Le
name: Gao, Yan-Peng
name: Lv, Yan-Hua
name: Wang, Li
name: Han, Yu
name: Chang, Fei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biochemistry
Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
Medicine
Pharmacology
Biotechnology
Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: We report the synthesis, crystal structures, and magnetic properties of a series of two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) coordination polymers (CPs). A solvothermal reaction of manganese metal salts with 4,4′-oxydibenzoic acid (H2oba), 4,4′-methylenebis(oxy) dibenzoic acid (H2mba), 4,4′-(propane-1,3-diylbis (oxy))dibenzoic acid (H2pba) or 1,4-bis (1H-imidazol-1-yl)-butane (bib) gives five new non-interpenetrating CPs, [Mn2(oba)2(CH3OH)(H2O)] (1), [Mn6(oba)6(bib)(DMF)2(H2O)4] · (DMF)2(CH3OH) (2), [Mn4(mba)4(bib)(CH3OH)] (3), [Mn7(pba)7 (bib)(H2O)4] · (H2O)3(DMA)(CH3OH)0.5 (4), and [Mn7(pba)7(H2O)6](DMA)3 (5). The X-ray crystal structural analyses revealed that 1, 4, and 5 are 2-D layers, whereas 2 and 3 are 3-D frameworks with 1-D Mn-carboxylate chains. In 1, 2, 4, and 5, the 1-D Mn-carboxylate chains are formed by flexible carboxylate ligands and Mn ions; these were then linked by organic ligands in different directions, leading to the formation of 2-D and 3-D frameworks. Furthermore, IR, PXRD, elemental analysis, TGA, and magnetic properties have been investigated.
title: 01_0522
Creators: name: Wesley Baldwin, John
name: Baldwin, John W.
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: L'ensemble de ces notes ont été crée par John Baldwin lors d'une de ses premières périodes de résidence à Paris. Ces documents comprennent tous les magistri qu’il avait pu rencontrer dans ses sources. Aux XIIème et XIIIème siècles, les universités n'existant pas encore, le titre de magister s'il évoque certainement une compétence n'est pas rattaché de façon systématique au passage par les écoles. De surcroît, les magistris sont le plus souvent désignés par leur seul prénom. La lecture de ces données est donc difficile et suppose un long travail pour tenter d'identifier un individu auquel on pourrait rattacher plusieurs mentions. John Baldwin avait donc renoncé à utiliser ces données pour donner un prolongement à sa magnifique étude sur les gradués d'université et leur emploi par les Capétiens et les Plantagenêts. Néanmoins, il a conservé ces données et elles sont potentiellement très utile dans le cadre de Studium, comme le sont toutes les mentions dans les volumes des Fasti Ecclesiae Gallicanae de chanoines portant ce titre de magister sans autres précisions. L'ampleur des dépouillements rend ces données très utiles et nous devons une grande reconnaissance à John Baldwin pour avoir pris la peine de faire photocopier ses fiches et de nous les avoir transmises amicalement.
Les données ainsi que les images des fiches sont accessibles sur le site Internet à l'adresse suivante : http://studium-baldwin.lamop.fr/.
Les transcriptions des fiches ont été effectuées par des étudiants de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne mais elles n'ont pas été corrigées par la suite.
description: Relation: https://lamop.hypotheses.org/
Evopol: a Framework for Optimising Social Regulation Policies
Creators: name: Petrovic-Lazarevic, Sonja
name: Abraham, Ajith
name: Coghill, Ken
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The aim of the paper is to introduce EvoPol (EVOlving POLicies): an evolutionary computation (EC) technique to optimize the if-then rules to support governmental policy analysis in restricting recruitment of smokers. EC is a population based adaptive method, which may be used to solve optimization problems, based on the genetic processes of biological organisms. Parameters of the fuzzy inference system could be adapted using a neural network learning technique (neuro-fuzzy system) or by evolutionary computation. The fuzzy decision system (FDS) was developed based on three sub-systems: fuzzification, fuzzy knowledge base (if-then rules) and defuzzification. In this paper we propose the fine-tuning of fuzzy rule base and membership function parameters using an evolutionary algorithm. We compare the present work with our previous work using neuro-fuzzy techniques. Empirical results clearly show that evolutionary learning could perform better (improvement of decision score) than the neuro-fuzzy techniques at the expense of extra computation cost.
Success and Failure. The Same in Sport As in Work?
Creators: name: Hartel, Charmine E. J.
name: Hanrahan, Stephanie J.
name: Cerin, Ester
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Although it is clear that achievement goal orientations (how people define success) and attributional styles (how people explain success and failure) are related to achievement behaviour and motivation and that motivation is a critical factor in achieving success in work and sport, little sport or management research-based information is available regarding the identification of individuals likely to sustain high levels of motivation over time or in the development of sustained motivation levels. Data collected at two points in time from 224 employees and 272 athletes is presented. The findings contribute to resolving the debate over how specific attributional styles influence achievement goal orientation and help answer whether the optimal attributional style (how one explains success) depends on the adopted achievement goal orientation (how one defines success). Further, the preponderance of available research on these issues focuses on athletes and students. This knowledge largely has not been extended to the employment setting. In addition to addressing these issues in both a sporting and work context, this study represents the first empirical analysis of the popularly held view that the attributes necessary for excellence in motivation and performance at work are the same as those in sport. Thus, the research also contributes to the development of appropriate metaphors for the organisational context and expands understanding of motivational processes across contexts.
Gender, Race and Promotion in the U.S. Civil Service: A Comparative Study of Two Cohorts of Employees Entering the Civil Service in 1978 and 1988
Creators: name: Rich, Judith
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper reports the results of a study of promotions and salary outcomes in the U.S. Federal Civil Service using a Logit model and OLS regression analysis.The analysis finds that while women have a higher probability of promotion than men, they start on lower salaries and gain less from promotions than men. This could well be due to the negative influence of clerical occupations for women and the positive impact of professional and administative jobs for men. Whites have a higher probability of promotion than blacks, start on higher salaries and gain more from promotion (in monetary terms). Blue-collar and technical occupations contributed to the race effect. The longer the duration of service and, by 1988,the more educated the employee the higher the probability of promotion and the higher initial salary and salary gain. Age, while having a positive impact on salaries, had a negative impact on promotion probability.
Gomes, Pinharanda, A alma cristã da Europa, col. «Lusíada – Ensaios», Fundação Lusíada, Lisboa, 2011
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
The Economy-wide Impact of Better Governance: Cutting Informal Taxes in Indonesia
Creators: name: Ginting, Edimon
name: Powell, Alan A.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In some developing economies the costs of meeting informal taxes (corruption of various sorts) have been put as high as 30 percent of the market value of output in some industries. Current political reform in Indonesia raises the prospect of a substantial fall in such costs. To assess the consequences for Indonesia's international competitiveness and national welfare requires the development and use of an applied general equilibrium model which explicitly recognises the existence of non-official imposts and the substantial (but socially wasteful) economic activity expended in attempting to reduce them. ORANI-RSA is such a model, recently developed for this purpose. In short- and long-run simulations the nominal rate at which informal taxes are levied is halved and the response of the economy determined. Not unexpectedly, competitiveness and the trade account improve substantially (with a 2 percent short-run fall in the real foreign currency cost of the Rupiah). Indonesian welfare also improves. The only industry to decline is the service providing sector (corresponding roughly to the bureaucrats who supply intermediation between legitimate producers and the corrupt members of the power elite). The reform causes a fall in income from corruption, while redistributive effects via differential consumption patterns reinforce the improvement in the trade balance.
Home-based Telework and Telecommuting in Australia: More Myth than Modern Work Form
Creators: name: Lindorff, Margaret
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Many articles have promoted teleworking and telecommuting from home, and have suggested that large numbers of employees are working in this way. However, there has been little academic research on either the productivity of home-based teleworkers, or the psychosocial effects on employees of such programs. One explanation for the absence of such research is that home-based telework is rare, and that reports of its incidence are based on overestimates. This paper reports the results of a survey of 157 Australian companies, including 98 of the 1998 BRW "Top 100" companies. It found few employees teleworking from home. It is suggested the absence of academic research may be due to difficulties in getting adequate samples.
Morosi, Ezio, ¿Cuánto falta para que amanezca? La «noche» en nuestra vida, col. «Espiritualidad», Narcea S. A. de Ediciones, Madrid, 2011
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
Jossua, Jean-Pierre, La passion de l’infini. Littérature et théologie – Nouvelles recherches, coll. « Théologies », Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2011
Creators: name: Vila-Nova, Pedro De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 2 (2011): Novos tempos, nova pastoral
Béguerie, Philipe, Vers Écône. Mgr Lefebvre et les Pères du Saint-Esprit. Chronique des événements (1960-1968), postface de Florian Michel, coll. «Pages d’Histoire – Documents», Desclée de Brouwer, Paris, 2010
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
Technology and Process Management in the Australian Wine Industry
Creators: name: Orr, Stuart C.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Manufacturing Competence in organisations is determined by the Competitive Priorities of those organisations and the Key Operating Decisions which those organisations make to achieve those competitive priorities. This paper sets out to investigate whether manufacturing strategy can be applied to an industry which is not traditionally thought of as manufacturing by determining the industry's Competitive Priorities and Key Decision Areas and the relationship between them. It was found that there was a set of Competitive Priorities and Key Decision Areas which apply to the Australian wine industry, and that the most important Key Decision Areas (plant capacity, quality assurance, plant and equipment, production planning and control, product design and top management involvement) were similar to those which apply to many other manufacturing industries.
Cassiers, Léon, Ni ange ni bête. Essai sur l’éthique de l’homme ordinaire, coll. «Nouvelle série», Les Éditions du Cerf, 2011
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
Agostinho, Santo, O Mestre, col. «Earth Gift», Largebooks Unipessoal, s. l. [Lisboa], 2010
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
The 15-D Measure of Health Related Quality of Life: II Feasibility, Reliability and Validity of its Valuation System
Creators: name: Sintonen, Harri
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The 15D is a generic, 15-dimensional, standardised, self-administered measure of health-related quality of life (HRQOL), that can be used as a profile and single index score measure. This paper introduces alternative valuation models based on the multi-attribute utility theory for generating the single index scores, and examines their feasibility, reliability and validity by using several data sets and methods. Valuations were elicited from several representative samples of Finnish adult population by using rating scales in self-administered questionnaires and postal survey. The approach proved to be feasible and produced valuations with a high reliability. There is solid convergent evidence of construct validity for the index scores generated by additive 2-stage or 3- stage valuation models. Tests for reflective equilibrium provided strong evidence that these scores exhibit a more plausible trade-off between length and quality of life than some other single index score measures (EuroQol, QWB, McMaster), and are thus more valid for QALY calculations in cost-utility analysis. The values are consistent and quite likely widely generalisable and usable at least in Western-type societies. The 15D is thus probably the most sensitive and comprehensive HRQOL measure presently available that combines the advantages of a profile and single index score measure with a high level of reliability and validity.
Garrigues, Jean-Miguel, Le Saint-Esprit, seau de la Trinité. Le Filioque et l’originalité trinitaire de l’Esprit dans sa personne et dans sa mission, coll. «Cogitatio fidei», Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2011
Creators: name: Salgado, Luís
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
The interaction between N and P addition on grassland soil acid buffering capacity is regulated by precipitation
Creators: name: Shi, Zhan
name: Weiner, Jacob
name: Cavalieri, Andrea
name: Liu, Heyong
name: Li, Tianpeng
name: Cai, Jiangping
name: Jiang, Yong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Soil acidification induced by nitrogen (N) deposition has important effects on species diversity and ecosystem function. The potential role of phosphorous (P) limitation on these effects was overlooked and observed only after decades of atmospheric N deposition. Few studies have addressed the long-term effect of P addition on soil acidification resulting from N deposition. Changes in precipitation patterns could also have important effects on soil acidification in semi-arid regions. To investigate the effects of long-term N, P, and water addition on soil acidification, a nine-year experiment was conducted on the semi-arid steppe in north-eastern China, in which N, P and water were added in a factorial design. N addition decreased soil pH significantly, P addition decreased soil pH significantly under ambient precipitation, while there was no effect on pH when water was added. Under the ambient precipitation, N and P addition decreased soil acid buffering capacity (ABC) by 86% and 42%, respectively, and NP addition decreased ABC by 63%. Under water addition, N and NP addition decreased ABC by 74% and 58%, respectively, P addition increased ABC by 83%. Addition of water changed the way soil N and P affect soil ABC. Without additional water, there was a direct negative influence of inorganic N on soil ABC, whereas with additional water there was an indirect effect on soil pH. Without addition of water P had a positive effect on soil ABC via soil effective cation exchange capacity, whereas with addition of water, the effect of P occurred via its effects on soil organic matter. Our results suggest that long-term P addition could alleviate damage to the soil acid buffering system due to N deposition to some extent by increasing ABC. We conclude that water availability mediates the effects of N and P addition on soil ABC.
Achieving Intertemporal Efficiency and Symmetry through Intratemporal Asymmetry: (Eventual) Turn Taking in a Class of Repeated Mixed-Interest Games
Creators: name: Lau, Sau-Him Paul
name: Mui, Vai-Lam
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Turn taking is observed in many field and laboratory settings. We study when and how turn taking can be supported as an equilibrium outcome in a class of repeated games, where the stage game is a symmetric two-player mixed-interest game with asymmehic joint-payoff-maximizing outcomes that may or may not be Nash equilibria. We consider the "turn taking with independent randomizations" (TTIR) strategy that achieves the following three objectives: (a) helping the players get onto a joint-payoff-maximizing turn-taking path, (b) resolving the question of who gets to start with the good turn first, and (c) deterring defection. The TTIR strategy is simpler than those time-varying strategies considered in the Folk Theorem for repeated games. We determine conditions under which a symmetric TTIR subgame-perfect equilibrium exists and is unique. We also derive comparative static results, and study the welfare properties of the TTIR equilibrium.
Agostinho, Santo, Da Grandeza da Alma, col. «Earth Gift», Largebooks Unipessoal, s. l. [Lisboa], 2010
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
Quality culture and its impact on quality performance
Creators: name: Barrett, Brendan
name: Waddell, Dianne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In the past, research has focussed on how a range of quality tools or techniques affects product quality. This overwhelming interest in the manufacturing sector has resulted in a serious lack of research on those 'softer' quality factors that are essential for service organisations to meet or exceed their performance targets. The findings of this research indicate that those quality culture factors often overlooked (top management leadership, teamwork, employee empowerment, commitment to customers) have a significant influence on common quality performance outcomes (financial and service performance, employee and customer satisfaction). Employers should be aware of these relationships to create and maintain an effective quality focussed corporate culture.
Economic Theories of Privatisation and Corporatisation
Creators: name: King, Stephen
name: Pitchford, Rohan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Despite the widespread use of privatisation and corporatisation to reform public sector enterprises, there are very few models which formally analyse these policy tools from a contract-theoretic perspective. This paper develops such a model. Following Schmidt (1990) we argue that if contracts are complete, then the choice between public and private ownership of assets should be a matter of indifference to a benevolent policy-maker. Further, for a trade-off to exist between private and public ownership, we argue that incompleteness is required over some aspects of both profits and non-profit social surplus. If contracts are complete over social and not private surplus, then privatisation with regulation is optimal. If contracts are complete over private surplus and not social surplus, then we are indifferent between ownership structures. Issues of partial privatisation and corporatisation are also discussed. In particular, it is demonstrated that corporatisation can lead to outcomes which are worse than partial privatisation, and should be questioned as a policy tool, when partial privatization is feasible.
Moist Wound Dressings and Pressure Relieving Surfaces : Mechanisms, Materials and a Review of Some Cost-Effectiveness Findings
Creators: name: Mortimer, Duncan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper is intended to provide background to guide future work in establishing the cost-effectiveness of modern wound care practices. An outline of the rationale, indications and effectiveness is given for two aspects of the total wound care protocol: pressure relief and moist wound dressings. Against this background of mechanisms and materials for wound healing, methodology employed in reported cost-effectiveness studies is appraised with a view to identifying a set of rigorous studies that might accurately reflect the value of adopting alternative wound care methods as part of a standard treatment protocol. Several methodological shortcomings were identified in the studies reviewed. Moreover, these studies generally fell well short of the rigorous application of CEA methods necessary to inform questions of resource allocation at the societal level. Nonetheless, reviewed findings provide a guide to the magnitude of key factors influencing the cost-effectiveness of pressure relieving surfaces and moist wound healing. Further, modelling cost-effectiveness around reviewed findings could well produce robust estimates of C/E suitable to guide resource allocation.
Social Welfare Effects of Taxes on Energy Products in Pakistan: A Computable General Equilibrium Approach
Creators: name: Naqvi, Farzana
name: Centre Of Policy Studies
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Using a 1983 social accounting matrix, we develop a computable general equilibrium model of energy-economy interactions in Pakistan (GE-PAK). The model is applied to evaluate energy pricing policy in Pakistan. Simulation results include the marginal social welfare effects of changes in taxes on eight commercial energy products. This paper computes the elasticities of social welfare with respect to indirect tax revenues generated by energy taxes. The paper reports these elasticities and ranks the eight energy products according to these elasticities. The model is simulated for two scenarios; one of the scenarios considers income distributional effects. Results show the energy products which have relatively high social welfare elasticities and how their rankings change when income distributional or equity effects are taken into account.
Heterogeneous Impacts of Climate Change – The Ricardian Approach Using Vietnam Micro-Level Panel Data
Creators: name: Nguyen Chau, Trinh
name: Scrimgeour, Frank
name: Nguyen Chau, Trinh
name: Scrimgeour, Frank
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Climate change
subject: Vietnam
subject: Ricardian approach
subject: Hsiao two-step method

description: This analysis investigates economic impacts of climate changes on Vietnam agriculture. The Ricardian approach is applied to ten-year panel data using the Hsiao two-step method. Estimates of the Ricardian model suggest heterogeneous impacts of climate change. Rising temperature is especially harmful to the Northern Central and the Southern region. Shortage of rainfall in spring only causes losses to the Central Highlands and Northern region. Rising summer precipitation is extremely harmful. Increases in precipitation help to harness the benefit of rising autumn temperature. The simulation indicates net agricultural surpluses in the long-run, with the Central Highlands being an exception.
Ortega Gazo, Daniel, El Jesús de las parábolas, col. «Horizontes », San Pablo, Madrid, 2011
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
Exploring the Relationship Between Time Trade-off and Willingness-to-Pay: An Empirical Investigation
Creators: name: Smith, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper explores the relative sensitivity of the Time Trade Off (TTO) and Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) valuation techniques to changes in health status. This was achieved by administering a WTP survey to a population of 50 subjects who had previously completed a TTO. These two sets of data were then analysed for relative sensitivity in valuing changes in health state, and also for any trend within the data which might illustrate a level of comparability between TTO and WTP values. The main findings were that: (i) TTO appeared to perform well in differentiating significantly between different levels of health within each dimension, but not so well in differentiating between different dimensions of health at the same nominal `level' of health status; (ii) WTP, compared with TTO, appeared to perform far less well in differentiating significantly between different dimensions of health at the same nominal `level' of health status, but performs slightly better at differentiating between different levels of health within each dimension; and (iii) there was no significant correlation found between the two values. Subject to two important caveats (that these results can only be considered indicative, rather than definitive, as they are based on a small sample, and that the WTP values reflect only a limited range of benefit - that of health status), this study indicates that, with the possible of exception of very poor health states, these two techniques should not be considered comparable, although, overall, WTP seems to be more sensitive to changes in levels of health status. However, the directions in which the data point are interesting, novel and worthy of continued research. These are: (i) that WTP values show greater dispersion around the mean/median as states become `worse', indicating perhaps the increasing impact of the budget constraint; (ii) that neither TTO nor WTP differentiates very well between broad dimensions of health (likely due to either the dimensions used, or that it is the level of health status which is important, and the dimension within which that level occurs is irrelevant); (iii) that WTP better differentiates between levels of health status within a dimension than TTO, implying that it is a more sensitive measure in the valuation of small changes in health status; and (iv) any comparability between techniques would have to be at the levels of health which are commonly viewed as being the worst, where the WTP in time or money is substantial to avoid them.
Assessing AMT implementations: an empirical field study
Creators: name: Sohal, Amrik S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper reports the results of a study carried out to assess a number of different AMT implementations in different organisations. A case study method of investigation was used and the experiences of seven companies were documented. The analysis carried out on the data gathered is presented on the following: competitive priorities and company goals, reasons for adopting the new technology, planning and implementation procedures/issues, benefits achieved from the AMT investment and the difficulties and limitations associated with adopting the AMT. The critical factors in the adoption of AMTs are identified as: learning from the experiences of others, appointment of a champion, establishment of committees and project teams, on-going and on-the-job training, technical support for the users, and appropriate changes to the organisational structure and managerial responsibilities.
Rus, Éric de, La personne humaine en question. Pour une anthropologie de l’intériorité, Cahier d’études steiniennes nº 3, Ad Solem / Les Éditions du Cerf / Éditions du Carmel, Paris, 2011
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
Creativity at the edge of chaos
Creators: name: Haslett, Tim
name: Osborne, Charles
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 which indicates that the system performed better as it became less predictable and 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. While not being able to establish that the system is at the edge of chaos, nor indeed being able to establish where a the edge of chaos actually is, this paper is able to suggest that movement towards a chaotic regime is accompanied by improvement performance.
Maldamé, Jean-Michel, Création par évolution. Science, philosophie et théologie, coll. «Théologies», Les Éditions du Cerf, Paris, 2011
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
The vector innovation structural time series framework: a simple approach to multivariate forecasting
Creators: name: De Silva, Ashton
name: Hyndman, Rob J.
name: Snyder, Ralph D.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The vector innovation structural time series framework is proposed as a way of modelling a set of related time series. Like all multivariate approaches, the aim is to exploit potential inter-series dependencies to improve the fit and forecasts. Equations that describe the evolution of these components through time are used as the sole way of representing the inter-temporal dependencies. The approach is illustrated on a bivariate data set comprising Australian exchange rates of the UK pound and US dollar. Its forecasting capacity is compared to other common uni- and multivariate approaches in an experiment using time series from a large macroeconomic database.
Rigal, Jean, Ces questions qui remuent les croyants, Lethielleux (Groupe Desclée de Brouwer), Paris, 2011
Creators: name: Vila-Nova, Pedro De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
The Contribution of Rental Flat in a Buffer Regency of a Metropolitan City for Occupants
Creators: name: Wido Prananing Tyas, Ajeng Febry Hapsari
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Home-based enterprise
Low-income household
Socio-economics
Slum
Government housing
Kampong improvement
Public housing
Housing affordability
Rental house.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 3, 13A3A: 1-15
Amezcua, Cesário, y García, Sylvia, Oír el silencio. Lo que buscas fuera lo tienes dentro, col. «Espiritualidad», Narcea S. A. de Ediciones, Madrid, 2011
Creators: name: Amado, Raul
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
U.S. Deficit Sustainability: A New Approach Based on Multiple Endogenous Breaks
Creators: name: Martin, Gael M.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Recent empirical work has questioned the consistency of U.S. fiscal policy with an intertemporal budget constraint. Empirical results have tended to indicate that the deficit process has undergone at least one structural shift during recent decades, with the deficit becoming either unsustainable or sustainable in only a weak sense in the postshift period. In this paper, we re-examine sustainability using a new approach, based on a cointegration model with multiple endogenous breaks. A Bayesian methodology is applied, incorporating Markov chain Monte Carlo simulators. In contrast to previous analyses, we find evidence of a sustainable deficit process over the 1947 to 1992 period, despite the occurrence of breaks during the 1970's and 1980's.
«Como é belo viver sob o impacto da Palavra de Deus e da Eucaristia»: uma abordagem sobre a educação eucarística dos jovens
Creators: name: Stala, Józef
name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 2 (2011): Novos tempos, nova pastoral
COVID-19 and Global Education: Experiences of Pakistani International Students
Creators: name: Samra Maqbool, Hafiz Muhammad Ihsan Zafeer
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: COVID-19
Higher Education
Challenges and Experience
Pakistani Students
China

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 3, 13A3B: 1-12
Understanding urban stormwater microplastics: a characterization of buoyant and non-buoyant polymer profiles, particle size and concentration
Creators: name: Ochoa Romero, Lilia
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2023

description: The prevalence of plastic pollution in waters is a global concern. As plastics fragment, the polymer pieces become more likely to accumulate in aquatic biota and cause adverse effects. Stormwater runoff is a significant pathway of entry for microplastics (MP), (plastics <5mm) to the aquatic environment. A variety of sampling and extraction techniques have been employed to study stormwater MP to date, with many studies focusing on the analysis of buoyant environmental particles. The objective of this study was to quantify MP in the 500-5000 μm range in urban and suburban areas identifying their size, morphology, and chemical composition using methods to capture buoyant and non-buoyant microplastics. Composite samples were collected at eight stormwater outfalls and one bioretention basin across nine rain events. Particles were extracted with wet peroxide oxidation followed by cellulose digestion for analysis with attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared (ATR FTIR) spectroscopy. The most prevalent polymers were polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyurethane, and polyvinyl chloride. Approximately 50% of the polymer profile consisted of non-buoyant polymer types. The concentration of microplastics ranged from 0.08- 4.58 MP/L and greater concentrations were observed in the smallest size class (500-1000 μm vs 1000-5000 µm) of this study. Additionally, Random Forest analysis indicated that 48.64% of the variance explained in MP concentration could be attributed to three factors: the sampling site, cumulative rainfall, and antecedent dry days accounting for 8.99 %, 4.31 %, and 3.60 % of the increase in mean square error, respectively. Particle size measurements demonstrated the particle size distributions and indicated non-target size particles were retained on the sieves, a potential source of error in studies reporting particle concentrations by size class. The results provide valuable insight into the character of this pollutant in stormwater, as a function of measured particle size and land use These data may serve as an essential input for risk assessment and constructing reliable models of fate and transport of microplastics, designing mitigation strategies, and raising public awareness to mitigate the discharge of microplastics.
Two new exponential families of Lorenz curves
Creators: name: Wang, ZuXiang
name: Smyth, Russell
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: We present two new Lorenz curve families by using the basic model proposed by Sarabia, Castillo and Slottje (1999). We present estimations which show that the models in our new families are very efficient when applied to data on income distribution for a range of countries from Shorrocks (1983).
Managerial Recommendations for Enhancing Lecturers' Working Motivation of Universities in Dong Nai Province of Vietnam
Creators: name: Hanh, Duong Thi Phuong
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Working motivation
Lecturer job satisfaction
Lecturers' engagement
Organizational culture
Performance evaluation
University policy
Job characteristics, Professor income
Human resource development
Training
Promotion opportunity
Leadership
University's commitment
Working condition
Relationship with colleagues.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 3, 13A3C: 1-11
Environmental management systems implementation: some experiences of Australian auditors
Creators: name: Zutshi, Ambika
name: Sohal, Amrik S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In recent years there has been rapid growth globally in the number of organisations that have adopted and implemented an Environmental Management System (EMS). This paper presents the experiences of eight leading Auditors with respect to the adoption of EMS/ ISO 14000. The benefits perceived by organisations from adopting an EMS/ ISO 14000 and issues relating to the auditing process are discussed.
Algorithm for Selecting Local Frame Fragments for the Reprint Model of Objects in the Image
Creators: name: Alexander A. Kulikov, Andrey V. Rachkov
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Neural network
image recognition
image identification
identification model
facial image identification

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 3, 13A3D: 1-7
Messages from the Margins? Cubism, Collage and Controversy
Creators: name: Schapper, Jan
name: Cox, Julie Wolfram
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: In this paper we argue that discussion of marginality can be informed by the particular exemplar and changing positioning of cubist art. After introducing the principles of cubist art and the loose periodisation of analytic and synthetic cubism, we concentrate on the latter to discuss cubism's shifting reception through the twentieth century, and to introduce three different views on the causes, extent and consequences of cubism's early marginal position. We then argue that just as cubism may not have been all that subversive, it may also not have been ontologically conservative, discussing a variety of positions on cubist realism and representation that belie simple categorisation or periodisation.
The Belgorod Model of Pig Breeding Development Investments, Competitiveness and Food Security.
Creators: name: A.N. Semin, A. Ya. Kibirov
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Pig breeding
investment
investment development
agro-food market
competition
competitiveness
food security
export
globalization.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 3, 13A3E: 1-12
Martínez Navarro, Emilio, Ética profesional de los profesores, col. «Ética de las profesiones», Desclée de Brouwer, Bilbao, 2010
Creators: name: Vila-Nova, Pedro De
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2010

description: Theologica, v. 45 n. 2 (2010): Estudos em homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Jorge Peixoto Coutinho na sua jubilação
Sesboüé, Bernard, Invitación a creer. Unos sacramentos creíbles y deseables, col. «Frontera», San Pablo, Madrid, 2010
Creators: name: Coutinho, Jorge
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos
Influence of Age and Lactation Period on the Variability of Blood Biochemical Composition of Kazakh Whitehead Cows
Creators: name: M.A. Derkho, B.K. Balabaev
Publisher: name: TuEngr Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cow blood test
Lactation period
Blood biochemical composition
Cow age
Cow blood protein, Cow blood albumins, Cow blood urea, Cow blood ALT, Cow blood AST, Cow blood total lipids, Cow blood triglycerides
Cow blood cholesterol
Catabolic
Cow milk secretion.

description: International Transaction Journal of Engineering, Management, & Applied Sciences & Technologies, 13, 3, 13A3F: 1-12
Carvalho, Joaquim Félix de, Pontifical de luxo brácaro-romano. Ms. 870 do Arquivo Distrital de Braga [1485-1516], Pedra Angular, Lisboa, 2010
Creators: name: Marques, José
Publisher: name: Theologica
Year: 2011

description: Theologica, v. 46 n. 1 (2011): Gramática dos afectos: XIX Semana de Estudos Teológicos