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Missing In Action: Research On Occupational Health And Safety Management In Organizations, Michael Zanko Jan 2006

Missing In Action: Research On Occupational Health And Safety Management In Organizations, Michael Zanko

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

The enormous problem of workplace injuries and deaths continues to beset countries. Reflexive OHS regulation often places primary responsibility on employers’ management of OHS in organizations. This paper seeks to ascertain how OHS management at the organizational level has been treated in the research literature. A review of leading journals (13 in management, 6 in HRM) from 1994 to 2005 showed OHS management to be largely missing as the subject or field of study. Naturally, the OHS literature was more fruitful: 5 main categories were identified. However, there was little in the way nuanced explanation of OHS management at the …

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Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science Jan 2006

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the thirty-ninth annual Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2006.

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Domains Of Group A Streptococcal M Protein That Confer Resistance To Phagocytosis, Opsonization And Protection: Implications For Vaccine Development., Jason D. Mcarthur, Mark J. Walker Jan 2006

Domains Of Group A Streptococcal M Protein That Confer Resistance To Phagocytosis, Opsonization And Protection: Implications For Vaccine Development., Jason D. Mcarthur, Mark J. Walker

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus) colonises skin and throat tissues resulting in a range of benign and serious human diseases. Opsonisation and phagocytosis are important defence mechanisms employed by the host to destroy group A streptococci. Antisera against the cell-surface M protein, of which over 150 different types have been identified, are opsonic and contribute to disease protection . In this issue of Molecular Microbiology, Sandin and colleagues have comprehensively analysed the regions of M5 protein that contribute to phagocytosis resistance and opsonisation. Human plasma proteins bound to M5 protein B- and C-repeats were shown to block opsonisation, an observation …

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Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide (Ocs) Variation From 1992-2004 By Ground-Based Solar Ftir Spectrometry, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Nicholas B. Jones, David W. Griffith, S. W. Wood, F Murcray Jan 2006

Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide (Ocs) Variation From 1992-2004 By Ground-Based Solar Ftir Spectrometry, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Nicholas B. Jones, David W. Griffith, S. W. Wood, F Murcray

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Analysis of ground-based high-resolution solar FTIR absorption spectra from four sites was performed to determine trends and variability in OCS columns over the period 1992–2004. The sites were Wollongong, Australia (34.45° S, 150.88° E), Lauder, New Zealand (45.0° S, 169.7° E), Arrival Heights, Antarctica (77.8° S, 166.6° E) and Mauna Loa, Hawaii (19.5° N, 155.6° W). Small but significant long-term trends of −0.18±0.02% yr-1 above Hawaii, −0.30±0.12% yr-1 above Wollongong and −0.29±0.14% yr-1 above Lauder, were seen. No significant trend was seen above Arrival Heights. A large peak-to-peak seasonal difference observed in 1996–1997 above Wollongong and reported …

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Ostracodos (Crustacea, Ostracoda) Y Carofitos (Chlorophyta, Charales) De La Formacion Desencuentro (Mioceno Superior), Provincia De La Rioja, Argentina, Gabriela Cusminsky, Adriana Garcia, Rafael Herbst Jan 2006

Ostracodos (Crustacea, Ostracoda) Y Carofitos (Chlorophyta, Charales) De La Formacion Desencuentro (Mioceno Superior), Provincia De La Rioja, Argentina, Gabriela Cusminsky, Adriana Garcia, Rafael Herbst

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

Dust deposition in the Wollongong-Port Kembla region, New South Wales, Australia, arising from local industrial and mining activities, has been of major concern since the early 1960s. Reports dealing with dust deposition rates in the region have been published by different organisations where the data have been averaged for the region. This provides a general trend for the deposition rates for the whole region without considering the trends occurring in specific locations. This study was the first to examine the trends observed at 35 individual gauges to identify more localised trends in dust deposition rates in the Wollongong-Port Kembla region, …

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Identification Of The Rest Regulon Reveals Extensive Transposable Element-Mediated Binding Site Duplication, Rory Johnson, Richard J. Gamblin, Lezanne Ooi, Alexander W. Bruce, Ian J. Donaldson, David R. Westhead, Ian Wood, Richard M. Jackson, Noel J. Buckley Jan 2006

Identification Of The Rest Regulon Reveals Extensive Transposable Element-Mediated Binding Site Duplication, Rory Johnson, Richard J. Gamblin, Lezanne Ooi, Alexander W. Bruce, Ian J. Donaldson, David R. Westhead, Ian Wood, Richard M. Jackson, Noel J. Buckley

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

The genome-wide mapping of gene-regulatory motifs remains a major goal that will facilitate the modelling of gene-regulatory networks and their evolution. The repressor element 1 is a long, conserved transcription factor-binding site which recruits the transcriptional repressor REST to numerous neuron-specific target genes. REST plays important roles in multiple biological processes and disease states. To map RE1 sites and target genes, we created a position specific scoring matrix representing the RE1 and used it to search the human and mouse genomes. We identified 1301 and 997 RE1s inhuman and mouse genomes, respectively, of which >40% are novel. By employing an …

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Annotated Records Of The Feathertail Glider, Acrobates Pygmeus, From The Victorian Naturalist, Jamie M. Harris, K Shane Maloney Jan 2006

Annotated Records Of The Feathertail Glider, Acrobates Pygmeus, From The Victorian Naturalist, Jamie M. Harris, K Shane Maloney

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

The Victorian Naturalist was surveyed for past records of the Feathertail Glider Acrobates pygmaeus. We document many important records of their occurrence, as well as accounts on their feeding and behaviour. This report should be useful to researchers seeking primary source observations of this species.

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Sme Innovation Within The Australian Wine Industry: A Cluster Analysis, David Aylward, John Glynn Jan 2006

Sme Innovation Within The Australian Wine Industry: A Cluster Analysis, David Aylward, John Glynn

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

This paper assesses core innovation activity among SMEs within different levels of cluster development. The aim of the paper, using empirical data from the Australian wine industry, is to demonstrate that innovation levels and activity intensify as an industry cluster develops. By dividing wine clusters into ‘innovative’ (highly developed) and ‘organised’ (less developed) models, the paper uses selected core indicators of innovation activity to explore levels of integration within each model. This integration is examined in the context of Porter’s theory of ‘competitive advantage’, with implications for SMEs in particular, and lessons for industry clusters in general.

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Pop Promotions For Alcolhol: Increasing Brand Loyalty Or Just Increasing Binge Drinking?, Melissa Lynch, Sandra C. Jones Jan 2006

Pop Promotions For Alcolhol: Increasing Brand Loyalty Or Just Increasing Binge Drinking?, Melissa Lynch, Sandra C. Jones

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

The consumption of alcohol by young Australians in general, and at risky levels has increased. University students, as part of this group, display consistent and increasing risky drinking patterns. One key area of interest in understanding this situation is the use of alcohol advertising and marketing. Of particular interest to this research is the use of point-of-purchase promotions in licensed venues and the impact they may have on consumption. In order to help understand these promotions, focus groups were conducted with male university students between the age of 18 and 24 years from the University of Wollongong. Overall, the perception …

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Art And Politics: Mas Evatt And The Evatt Collection, Melissa Boyde Jan 2006

Art And Politics: Mas Evatt And The Evatt Collection, Melissa Boyde

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Mary Alice Evatt hung her large collection of paintings in every room of her Canberra house, including the kitchen. "And why not?" she said to a journalist in the 1960s, "It's the room in which a woman probably spends most of her time." It was in her daughter's kitchen in Leura, more than thirty years later, that I first admired a painting hanging on the wall above the workbench; it was Mary Alice's Woman in red. Mary Alice was born at Ottumwa, Iowa, USA in 1898 to Samuel and Alice Maud ('Nene') Sheffer. In the same year they moved to …

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Ethical Issues In Social Marketing, Sandra C. Jones, Danika V. Hall Jan 2006

Ethical Issues In Social Marketing, Sandra C. Jones, Danika V. Hall

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

"As a community ofprofessionals we have adopted no standards of ethics and it is probable that most of our community has not read or analysed the guidelines set up for either commercial advertising or commercial marketing" (Smith, 2001) Unfortunately, deciding what is ethical in social marketing (as in marketing in general) is rarely simple. In most cases, there is not a definitive right and wrong; for example, it is often the case that we are dealing with controversial products or sensitive behaviours (e.g., contraceptives and central practices) and/or two principles which are seen to be "right" by different groups are …

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The Desire For Connection—Shame And Its Many Faces, Mary Zournazi Jan 2006

The Desire For Connection—Shame And Its Many Faces, Mary Zournazi

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

A review of Elspeth Probyn, Blush: Faces of Shame (University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2005).

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Content Analysis Of Social, Environmental Reporting: What Is New?, J. Guthrie, Indra Abeysekera Jan 2006

Content Analysis Of Social, Environmental Reporting: What Is New?, J. Guthrie, Indra Abeysekera

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to review the use of content analysis as a research method in understanding SEA and to examine current contemporary foci of this research tradition. Further, several research method issues relating to the use of content analysis are examined. Methodology: Contemporary focus and research issues are analyzed to provide some future directions for scholars in the field of SEA, by categorizing work in the SEA, social environmental reporting (SER) and intellectual capital reporting (ICR) literature, according to the following: normative literature/theory/commentaries; focus of empirical investigation; quality SER research; combined research methodologies; content analysis method …

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The Chinese Traders In French Indochina: Partners Or Rivals?, Julia T. Martinez Jan 2006

The Chinese Traders In French Indochina: Partners Or Rivals?, Julia T. Martinez

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Introduction: In the early twentieth century, contemporary observers acknowledged that the export trade out of north Vietnam was dominated by Chinese traders. There was considerable public interest in their fortunes expressed by British and Chinese in Hong Kong, the French in Indochina and Chinese in China.2 This study examines Chinese involvement in the Tonkin rice trade during the French colonial period, tracing the changing fortunes of the Chinese rice merchants of Haïphong. It gives special attention to the levels of co-operation which existed between the French colonial authorities and the Chinese merchants.

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Communication And Conflict Between Marketing And R&D During New Product Development Projects, Graham R. Massey, Elias Kyriazis Jan 2006

Communication And Conflict Between Marketing And R&D During New Product Development Projects, Graham R. Massey, Elias Kyriazis

Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive)

Effective cross-functional working relationships (CFRs) between Marketing Managers and R&D Managers are a key factor in successful new product development (NPD). Empirical evidence suggests however, that this CFR is often problematic. This article adds to our knowledge about Marketing/R&D CFRs during NPD by examining the effects of three forms of communication (communication frequency, bidirectionality, and quality) on two forms of conflict (dysfunctional and functional conflict). A hypothesised model of Marketing/R&D CFRs is tested using a sample of 184 NPD projects conducted in Australia, using R&D Managers as key respondents reporting on their relationships with the relevant Marketing Manager. Our findings …

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Importance Of Soy Protein And Isoflavone Intake For Protection Against Heart Disease, A Thorp, J Buckley, A Coates, Trevor A Mori, Jo Hodgson, Jackie Mansour, Peter Howe, Barbara Meyer Jan 2006

Importance Of Soy Protein And Isoflavone Intake For Protection Against Heart Disease, A Thorp, J Buckley, A Coates, Trevor A Mori, Jo Hodgson, Jackie Mansour, Peter Howe, Barbara Meyer

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

Abstract presented at The 2006 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Nutrition Society of Australia, 29 November - 2 December, Sydney, Australia

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Relations For The Back Country: Sensory Landscapes, Diana Wood Conroy Jan 2006

Relations For The Back Country: Sensory Landscapes, Diana Wood Conroy

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

Explores sensory modes of experiencing landscapes, contrasting settler travels through arid country with Aboriginal practices. Draws on Constance Classen's idea of senses supplying conceptual models of society's thinking.

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Who Is John Citizen?, Ian A. Mclean Jan 2006

Who Is John Citizen?, Ian A. Mclean

Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (Archive)

Like the Jewish-American author Philip Roth, Gordon Bennett’s art is at once intensely autobiographical and self-effacing. Each plays with the rhetoric of identity precisely to deny the identity game any oxygen or legitimacy as if nothing is more boring (or dangerous) than its heavy-handed politics. Roth denies he is a Jewish writer: Bennett denies he is an Aboriginal artist: for both their art is a means to escape the reductive logic of identity politics by showing its essentialisms to be discursive fictions or, as Bennett once said, a 'hall of mirrors'.

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Comment On "Assessing China's 1994 Fiscal Reforms: An Intermediate Report", Meili Niu, John R. Bartle Jan 2006

Comment On "Assessing China's 1994 Fiscal Reforms: An Intermediate Report", Meili Niu, John R. Bartle

Public Administration Faculty Publications

To boost the fiscal revenue, i.e., government revenue over GOP and central government revenue over government total revenue, China conducted the 1994 fiscal reforms. According to some observers, the results of the initial reforms were mixed. This study reveals, contrary to most examinations of previous studies, the 1994 fiscal reforms have been an enormous success in achieving the original policy purposes, although remaining problems still present a daunting task for the Chinese government. This paper examines the factors triggering the 1994 fiscal reforms, reveals the contents and accomplishments of the reforms, explores unfinished tasks and ultimately proposes some policy implications.

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The Idea Of Sustainable Development In Public Administration, John R. Bartle, Deniz Leunenberger Jan 2006

The Idea Of Sustainable Development In Public Administration, John R. Bartle, Deniz Leunenberger

Public Administration Faculty Publications

This article introduces the Focus Issue on Sustainable Development by first discussing the environmental problems caused by unsustainable development and then the shortcomings caused by a piecemeal approach to policy development and implementation. The idea of sustainability appears to fit well with other core values of public administration, which is a consistent theme throughout each of the articles in this issue. Definitions of sustainability are discussed, followed by two relevant models. Finally, each article in the focus issue is introduced.

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The Sustainable Development Of U.S. Air Transportation: The Promise And Challenge Of Institutional Reform, John R. Bartle Jan 2006

The Sustainable Development Of U.S. Air Transportation: The Promise And Challenge Of Institutional Reform, John R. Bartle

Public Administration Faculty Publications

Sustainable development is a concept that has had great influence on natural resource policy; however, to date, it has had limited influence on transportation. This article examines how well U.S. air transportation practice meets the goal of sustainability and finds current practice to be unsustainable. Forecasted trends suggest that this problem will get worse. Neither current pollution control policies nor technological progress are sufficient to solve the problem. One potential solution is reduced use of air travel, however, the goals of mobility and speed of travel would be inhibited. Taxes could reduce the external costs caused by air pollution, however, …

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Sustainable Highways: Destination Or Mirage?, John R. Bartle, Jijesh Devan Jan 2006

Sustainable Highways: Destination Or Mirage?, John R. Bartle, Jijesh Devan

Public Administration Faculty Publications

Highway travel is forecasted to increase steadily worldwide in the foreseeable future. However, this pattern is unsustainable environmentally, economically, financially, and socially. Federal legislation, in particular the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, has made progress toward the goal of sustainability, and technological improvements offer potential for reduced emissions, but both potentials have not been fully realized. Reduced use and redesigned taxes are unlikely possibilities. Ultimately, institutions will have to change. The European Union offers an example of how the institutional change can be implemented in a durable way. This change is important not just for environmental reasons but also for …

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The State Of American Federalism, 2005: Federalism Resurfaces In The Political Debate, John Dinan, Dale Krane Jan 2006

The State Of American Federalism, 2005: Federalism Resurfaces In The Political Debate, John Dinan, Dale Krane

Public Administration Faculty Publications

After several years during which federalism was rarely a prominent or explicit issue in political debates, it was in several ways thrust into the public consciousness in 2005. It was not that the president or Congress ceased sacrificing state and local interests to substantive policy goals, as shown by the costly REAL ID Act, stringent new federal requirements in the Temporary Aid to Needy Families reauthorization, and congressional intervention in the Terri Schiavo case. However, Hurricane Katrina, and particularly the delayed and ineffective intergovernmental response, generated substantial debate about the appropriate federal role in disaster relief. In addition, state and …

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Professional Hope In Working With Older Adults, Terry Koenig, Richard Spano Jan 2006

Professional Hope In Working With Older Adults, Terry Koenig, Richard Spano

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Writings about hope within gerontological literature assume social workers already possess hope that they can use in their practice. The purpose of this article is to challenge this assumption and to examine ways in which social workers can sustain hope in personal life, in their agencies, and in the reform of larger social structures that impact older adults. The authors examine culture change in nursing homes as an emerging approach that can be more fully developed by applying the strengths perspective to interpersonal work with elders, agency change and broader structural change.

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Berhane Hewan ('Light For Eve'): A Program To Support Married And Unmarried Adolescent Girls In Rural Amhara Region, Ethiopia, Population Council Jan 2006

Berhane Hewan ('Light For Eve'): A Program To Support Married And Unmarried Adolescent Girls In Rural Amhara Region, Ethiopia, Population Council

Poverty, Gender, and Youth

Berhane Hewan (meaning “Light for Eve” in Amharic) is a program in rural Amhara region designed to assist unmarried girls by imparting the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to avoid child marriage as well as give support to adolescent girls who are already married. With support from UNFPA, DFID, and the Turner Foundation, the program is implemented by the Ministry of Youth and Sport and the Regional Youth Bureaus, with technical assistance from the Population Council. The program promotes functional literacy, life skills, livelihoods skills, and reproductive health education. In developing the project, the Regional Youth Bureau staff felt …

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Singapore Management University Inaugurates Visual Arts Initiative, Singapore Management University Jan 2006

Singapore Management University Inaugurates Visual Arts Initiative, Singapore Management University

SMU Press Releases

No abstract provided.

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Social Impact: The Globalization Of Social Work: How Flat Are We?, Rick Skwiot Jan 2006

Social Impact: The Globalization Of Social Work: How Flat Are We?, Rick Skwiot

Social Impact

In this book, the World is Flat, New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman posits that a global technological revolution has increased economic opportunities and create a world that is more connected than ever before. But does a flatter economic world equal a more just world? Are the benefits resulting from greater connectivity distributed in a way that everyone can share in newfound prosperity? The answer is an unequivocal no.

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October 2006 - Staff Meeting Agenda Jan 2006

October 2006 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

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February 2006 - Staff Meeting Agenda Jan 2006

February 2006 - Staff Meeting Agenda

ALEC Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

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Book Review: Prairie Gothic: The Story Of A West Texas Family, Paul H. Carlson Jan 2006

Book Review: Prairie Gothic: The Story Of A West Texas Family, Paul H. Carlson

Great Plains Quarterly

The upper West Texas area is a huge region of the southern Great Plains. Including the Rolling Plains, the South Plains, the Texas Panhandle, and more, it is, except for Amarillo and Lubbock, mostly an empty country, characterized by cattle raising and wheat and cotton growing. Big operations with extensive fields and large pastures seem to dominate the agricultural economy. Partly as a result, rural populations, except for the big cities, are in decline, railroads are shutting down, county governments are going broke, and school districts are consolidating.

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