Sugar, lipoamino acids, amino acids cationic liposaccharides, anionic liposaccharides.

Abstract Many hydrophilic drugs do not easily cross biological membranes. One approach to improve intestinal absorption of hydrophilic compounds is to co-administer these drug molecules with absorption enhancers to optimize their physico-chemical properties. In this project, novel liposaccharides were used to modulate the aqueous solubility as well as increase the lipophilicity, improve the intestinal permeability and hence, oral bioavailability of hydrophilic molecules. However, the solubility ...

02 Physical Sciences

The primary aim of this thesis is to develop a minimal model Hamiltonian to describe the electronic properties of ceria (CeO$_{2}$) and its reduced phases. In order to do this, several energy scales of the problem were explored to determine their relative significance to the problem. These included the crystal electric field ($\Delta_{CEF}$), the spin-orbit coupling ($\lambda_{so}$), electron hopping ($t$), on-site Coulomb repulsion for the Ce $4f$ states ($U$), the reorganization energy ($\lamb...

Electricity market price forecasting, model uncertainty, probabilistic interval forecasting

Electricity price forecasting is an important task for electricity market participants since the very beginning of the deregulation. Accurate forecasting is essential for designing bidding strategy, risk management, and market operation. However, due to the compli-cated factors affecting electricity prices, there are more uncertainties in electricity price forecasting and hence more complex than demand forecasting. This makes accurate price forecasting very difficult. In the last decade, several...

ascovirus, apoptosis, DNA replication, RNA interference, microRNA, dicer,

Abstract Ascoviruses (AVs) are members of the family Ascoviridae that are transmitted by female endoparasitic wasps and cause lethal infection in lepidopteran insects. AVs possess large double stranded DNA genomes ranging from 116-186 kbp. Recently, genomes of four AV species have been completely sequenced and have revealed important genes potentially needed for virus DNA replication and infection. Phylogenetic analyses of several of these genes indicate that AVs are closely related to iridoviru...

diversification

本文針對銀行業的業務分散程度與績效的關係，做實證上的研究。以一九九五年至二零零四年之間全球金融機構為研究對象，實證結果發現，業務較集中的金融機構會比業務較分散者的績效來得好，而且隨著分散的程度提高，績效變差的情況會更為明顯。除此之外，當銀行的本業是非利息收入時，提高業務分散程度所造成的績效降低會比本業為放款的銀行更為明顯。實證結果同時也指出，政府機關與民間的監督機制都能夠有助於減輕此種業務分散帶來的績效下降。 , This study examines the relationship between diversification of financial activities and performance in banking industry. Using cross-country data of financial institutions from 1995 to 2004, the empirical results suggest that focused banks outperform diversified banks. Moreover, I find tha...

Insurance-linked securities

Past several decades have been an extraordinary time period in the history of extreme catastrophes e, g., the September 11 terrorist attack (2001), the South Asia tsunami (2004), and Hurricane Katrina (2005). Life insurance industry also faces catastrophic risk events- longevity and mortality risks. Facing this insurance/reinsurance capacity shortage, raising additional equity capital is one of solutions. Then, innovation occurred. Insurance-linked securities (ILS) was created. Insurance-linked ...

earnings quality

本研究主要在探討「強制公開制度對財務報表品質的影響」。強制公司公開發行是否有其必要性一直是各界所爭論的議題，藉著研究繼續保持公開發行與撤銷公開發行二類公司盈餘品質之異同，本研究提供證據證明強制公開發行此一政策是否有效。本研究用來衡量盈餘品質之代理變數有盈餘穩健性及避免負盈餘，實證結果顯示在控制規模的影響後，繼續公開發行公司之盈餘穩健性較撤銷公開發行公司為佳。而在避免負盈餘方面，二類公司都有避免負盈餘的傾向，唯二類公司差異並不顯著。本研究之結果顯示，我們無法要求自願公開與受法令規定而公開發行此二類公司有相同的盈餘品質，我期望本研究之結果能做為主管機關在制定相關法令時之參考依據。 , The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of force the company public on the quality of financial report. We provide evidence that the policy of force the company public is effectiveness or no...

virtue

斯賓諾莎的《神學政治論》向來被認為是現代自由民主、與聖經批判的哲學性起源，學者大多認為斯賓諾莎以一種科學式的方法來研究聖經。本文旨在研究斯賓諾莎的聖經觀與宗教觀。藉著對十七世紀荷蘭神學－政治背景、以及《神學政治論》第七章到第十五章的分析，來說明斯賓諾莎所關心的並不是「如何解釋聖經」，而是「誰有權釋經」。他並不是藉著一種客觀的方法論來研究聖經，而是將解釋聖經的判准建立在解釋者的德性之上。而後不斷質疑各種可能形成解釋權威、壟斷信仰的科學式或理論性宗教知識。他把信仰的本質還原為生活，並且主張唯有解釋者有道德行為，他對聖經的解釋才可能是真的。因此，斯賓諾莎解釋聖經的方式不是一種聖經批判，而是一種德性證成的觀點。藉此，他把解釋聖經的權利還諸一切信仰者，並且將哲學與神學分離，前者的基礎是思辨理論，後者的基礎是道德實踐。 , Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus has always been regarded as the philosophical origin of modern liberal democracy and modern bi...

compulsory education

The purposes of this master thesis “The Study of 12-Year Compulsory Education in Taiwan” are to retrospect Taiwan’s education systems, to study the detail measures about 12-year compulsory education policy and to explore compulsory education systems in advanced countries such as the United States, Finland, Japan and Germany and see if we are able to imitate the merits to apply to our education system. The paper also attempts to observe the possible impacts on the society and to evaluate how to c...

mise en abyme

本文以紀德根據盾徽所提出之內在重複結構，探討美國劇作家山姆謝普的「家庭劇三部曲」。〈烈火家園〉結尾的預言故事說明了家庭成員互相毀滅的行為模式，〈埋葬的孩子〉劇中所揭發的弒子秘密與舞台上的演出相對應，〈西部實錄〉劇中的西部電影大綱正是男主角兄弟鬩牆之爭的寫照。 , Chapter I relates the American playwright Sam Shepard’s life and career. Chapter II introduces the evolution of the idea of "mise en abyme." Chapter III interprets the concluding fable in "Curse of the Starving Class" as the mise en abyme of the play. Chapter IV interprets the secret of the child murder as the duplication of the action of "B...

契約自由

本文將以Quanta v. LG電子案判決中尚留解釋空間及適用疑義的「契約自由」與「專利權耗盡理論」的關係為探討標的，從公法角度（我國憲法與經濟公法角度）探求專利制度中『追求公私利益衡平』的本質著手，探討專利權耗盡理論的理論基礎及其存在的合理性，然後分析美國專利權耗盡理論及Quanta v. LG電子案判決建構出的「契約自由」與「專利權耗盡理論」的關係之妥適性，並在「在知識專用權和知識共用權之間進行利益平衡，確保專用權的授予能換來知識共用的最大利益，並最大限度地增進社會的整體福利」精神下，重新省思Quanta v. LG電子案判決的未決爭點，分析契約約定與專利權耗盡理論應有的界限，看專利行使應如何受契約的限制（或者契約自由應受到限制），以對我國專利權耗盡理論提出解釋與適用上之建議。

Wigner-Ville distribution (WVD)

Most signal processing methods were developed for continuous signals. Digital devices, such as the computer, process only discrete signals. This dissertation proposes new techniques to accurately define and efficiently implement an important signal processing method---the time--frequency distribution (TFD)---using discrete signals. The TFD represents a signal in the joint time--frequency domain. Because these distributions are a function of both time and frequency they, unlike traditional signal...

The thesis brings contemporary social theory into the analysis of science and technology policy. In doing so it draws on two broad areas of theory, on the social nature of technology and on the state as an institution of political domination. Technology is important to the state for it provides new means for state actors to achieve desired ends (state actors thus have an instrumental interest in technology), and it sets an agenda of policy problems for the state to deal with. Conversely, the sta...

brigalow

The conversion of native forests to pastures and crops is one of the most extensive causes of deforestation worldwide. Concomitant with agricultural landscape modification are the processes of habitat loss and fragmentation, which are major causes of species’ extinctions, population declines and altered ecosystem functions. However, in many tropical, sub-tropical and temperate regions, abandoned agricultural lands are reverting to regrowth or secondary forest, which represents an important oppor...

Influenza A virus

Our innate immunity is our first line of defence against pathogens. We require this immunity to control the numerous viral infections we are challenged with during our lives. However, little is known about the exact molecular mechanisms of our innate immunity, particularly components that have specific antiviral potential. One potent mediator of this antiviral activity is the interferon system. Activation of the interferon system leads to the production of several interferon-induced proteins, wh...

purple acid phosphatase, metallo β lactamase, ketol acid reductoisomerase, kinetics, x-ray crystallography, metal dependent enzymes, binuclear metallohydrolases

Metalloproteins account for at least half of all known proteins. Metal ions often facilitate chemical that are energetically and/or kinetically challenging. Metal ion-dependent proteins are responsible for a myriad of essential biological functions, including respiration, biosynthesis of essential amino acids, nitrogen fixation, oxygen transport, photosynthesis and metabolisms (e.g. glycolysis and citric acid cycle). Not surprisingly, a growing number of disorders (e.g. various cancers, phenylke...

total synthesis

Neovibsanin A and B are natural products which induced neurite outgrowth in PC12 cells. They belong in the neovibsane class under the rare vibsane natural product family, whose structures are characterized by polycyclic, polyoxygenated cores. Based on a proposed biosynthesis, the synthetic strategy towards neovibsanin A and B involved synthesizing a key enone intermediate. Initial investigation using this intermediate lead to the total synthesis of 2-O-methylneovibsanin H. Crucial to this concis...

planning theory

Metropolitan regions around the world are growing rapidly and face a complex and uncertain future. Plans for metropolitan regions cover large geographic areas, address a wide range of issues, and involve governments and many other organizations. They are prepared and implemented over a long timeframe. Planning for the future of metropolitan regions involves addressing uncertainties about future trends, external events, organisational intentions, political agendas and community values. In this th...

Developing countries

Provision of aid has long been influenced by the political priorities of donors, and there is substantial evidence that the administrative rules and regulations of donor organisations create problems for recipient countries. For as long as this fact has been understood, there have been efforts to address it: most recently, spear-headed by the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and its associated efforts. This thesis seeks to deepen understanding of this tension by examining the aid relations...

書信體

本論文主旨在闡明巴洛可之摺與書信體文類的關係。我爰用奇理斯‧狄洛伊茲(Gilles Deleuze)巴洛可之摺的動能概念來詮釋山繆爾‧李察遜的《克萊麗莎》(Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady)，並證明書信體形式上的特徵之於其故事內容有決定性的影響。近年來有關《克萊麗莎》的理論多卓著重於其言說的論戰，即小說的內容而非就書信體文類本身特色加以發揮。書信體小說是由信件集結而成，在形式上的特色與其它敘述文類實有很大的區別。因此，在閱讀書信體小說時必不能忽略一些機械性的外在因素之於敘述內容的影響。一封信從寫成、裝入信封、封口、送信、收信、拆信、讀信、等等步驟，其間上述程序有可能重複，而每個環節都使得信件為傳遞媒介的不確定性增加。事實上，一封信所傳達的訊息常取決於外在的、物質性的攜帶者，即其形貌留給予觀者的印象。將巴洛可的概念引介入書信體文類就是要強調書信的「形」如何作用於文本。《克萊麗莎》是一個豐盛繁茂、難以箝制的巴洛可世界，處於文本外的作者及閱眾亦無可避免地隨著巴洛可之摺的開合而進入書信體小說的佈局中。 , T...

Power

分析具有巢狀誤差結構的迴歸模式時，惹忽略隨機誤差項之間的相關性，而採用最小平方(OLS)估計量所導出的標準 F 統計量（以 F^S表之）進行檢定，會導致過大的型 I 錯誤機率；若將隨機誤差項之間的相關性納入考量，而採用廣義最小平方(GLS)估計量所導出的 F 統計量 （以 F^GLS表之），則計算上會較為繁雜。因此我們藉由轉換方式，將模式轉換成隨機誤差項之間彼此獨立的新模式後，再以 F^S 進行檢定，其結果與直接以 F^GLS 檢定相同，且可使計算較為方便。由於模式轉換所需的轉換矩陣為母體變異數的函數，因此當母體變異數未知時，我們以 Henderson 的常數配適 （fitting-of-constants）方法來估計之。藉由模擬結果得知，若各段的觀察個數相等，則不論巢狀誤差結構為二段式(two-stage)或三段式(three-stage)，廣義最小平方估計量(GLS)均較最小平方估計量(OLS)表現穩定，且 F^GLS 在檢定力及實際顯著水準方面的表現也都比 F<sup>S</sup...

750201 The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and dance)

Conservatoria in the past provided prospective musicians with training in performance, generally in the classical Western European tradition. Most of them were independent of universities, free from academic constraints, focused on performance, flexible in their practice, and desirous of (yet susceptible to) high profile individual leadership. The last two decades in particular have generated significant change, placing conservatoria under increasing pressure from new challenges. Now confronting...

750309 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander development and welfare

Indigenous Australian women who perform contemporary music are acutely aware that Aboriginalist discourse has created unrealistic expectations and public perceptions of Indigenous Australian performance. The theory of Aboriginalism is critiqued and interrogated in this thesis in relation to Indigenous Australian women, performance, and race. This thesis addresses the complex and contradictory ways that Aboriginalist discourse fixes non-Indigenous expectations of Indigenous Australian performance...

In my dissertation – a collection of poems entitled Dark Husk of Beauty – I struggle with the dualities of beauty and ugliness, of creation and destruction. This Dark Husk of Beauty is what remains when I follow the exhortation of John Scott’s magician Aosman to take the ugly, or the deformed, or the old, and transcend … natural revulsion by uniting with it aesthetically – sometimes even physically. The body, subject to such a union, becomes the central metaphor of this creative work. The poems ...

contemporary Australian women&#39;s fiction

Masculinity is an increasingly prominent and important issue in debates within feminism, literary studies and visual theory. This study intervenes in and contributes to such debates by analysing an emerging group of Australian women’s fictions (published between 1998 and 2002) which focus on male characters and, in particular, on the description and narrative potential of their bodies. The majority of these texts, and the ones that are explored in this thesis – namely, Jillian Watkinson’s The Ar...

This thesis presents empirical evidence supporting the relevance of adult attachment theory in understanding the chronic pain experience. The thesis arose from the recognition that, although pain-related psychosocial variables have been used to differentiate subgroups of individuals in chronic pain, little is known about the developmental origins or cognitive, behavioural, or affective correlates of these subgroups. Attachment theory offers a development framework, which is of potential value in...

complement, C5a, atherosclerosis, ApoE -/- mouse, C5a receptor antagonist.

Atherosclerosis is a slow-developing disease of large and medium sized arteries, and is the premier cardiovascular disease that underlies myocardial and cerebral infarction, aneurysm, stroke and gangrene of the extremities. At least 17 million people die of atherosclerotic complications each year worldwide, with another 15 million surviving unstable events. Despite therapeutic advances such as drug-eluting stents and statins, which reduce cardiovascular events by around 25%, there is an urgent n...

Safety Climate, Organisational Culture, Competing Values Framework, Qualitative Analysis, Leximancer, Modal Profile Analysis, Meso-mediation

Workplace incidents result in significant human and financial costs. Despite these costs, it is estimated that less than 1% of organisational research focuses on issues concerning occupational health and safety (Barling &amp; Zacharatos, 2000; Reason, 1990). Safety research has begun however to focus increasing attention on understanding the role that the wider organisational context, and in particular the role that safety climate, plays in influencing safety (Barling, Kelloway, &amp; Iverson, 2...

star persona

This thesis examines in detail the construct we term the ‘theatre star’. It aims to investigate how transnational theatre stars in Australia and New Zealand in the early-twentieth century validated their professional eminence, social cachet and public adulation through the strategic development and manipulation of their on and off-stage personae and mediated afterlives. Rather than focus on the theatre star as a solitary icon, my theoretical approach examines the star as a valuable partner – soc...

drought, dryland agriculture, water stress, multi-environment experiments, grain size, kernel width

The Australian wheat production environments are typically water-limited, and both temperature and vapour pressure deficit increase as the season progresses. As a result, high incidences of small or shriveled wheat kernels (screenings) are commonly generated and can substantially reduce grain value. Previous studies suggest the incorporation of the tiller inhibition (tin) gene can reduce the production of infertile tillers and increase kernel weight (KW). It was hypothesised that the incorporati...

Oxytocin.

751001 Languages and literature

The thesis consists of the critical essay and the creative project. The critical essay is an investigation into the nature of narrative suspense, its operation, and the techniques by which an author can develop it. Narrative suspense requires that readers care for characters and feel uncertain about events. An author can use a number of story-telling techniques to make the most of this emotion and uncertainty. Readers may embark on a variety of activities including imagining outcomes and piecing...

In my dissertation – a collection of poems entitled Dark Husk of Beauty – I struggle with the dualities of beauty and ugliness, of creation and destruction. This Dark Husk of Beauty is what remains when I follow the exhortation of John Scott’s magician Aosman to take the ugly, or the deformed, or the old, and transcend … natural revulsion by uniting with it aesthetically – sometimes even physically. The body, subject to such a union, becomes the central metaphor of this creative work. The poems ...

contemporary Australian women&#39;s fiction

Masculinity is an increasingly prominent and important issue in debates within feminism, literary studies and visual theory. This study intervenes in and contributes to such debates by analysing an emerging group of Australian women’s fictions (published between 1998 and 2002) which focus on male characters and, in particular, on the description and narrative potential of their bodies. The majority of these texts, and the ones that are explored in this thesis – namely, Jillian Watkinson’s The Ar...

750201 The performing arts (incl. music, theatre and dance)

Conservatoria in the past provided prospective musicians with training in performance, generally in the classical Western European tradition. Most of them were independent of universities, free from academic constraints, focused on performance, flexible in their practice, and desirous of (yet susceptible to) high profile individual leadership. The last two decades in particular have generated significant change, placing conservatoria under increasing pressure from new challenges. Now confronting...

adoption studies

Transnational adoption generates ample controversy both within and outside the adoption community. In recent times transnational adoption made international headlines following a wave of ‘celebrity adopters’ and calls to airlift children for overseas adoption from the economically disadvantaged nation of Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake on 12th January 2010. Some see the practice as being about ‘rescuing’ orphaned children, while others argue that it is parent-centred, intrin...

strain

Assessment of left ventricular (LV) function is one of the most common requests made to cardiac imaging services. This demand stems from a large body of evidence that shows abnormal LV systolic and, more recently, diastolic function has important prognostic and treatment related implications for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular diseases. The vast majority of information supporting the use of conventional measures of LV function, such as ejection fraction, originates from population s...

人格結構

災難是一項重大的創傷事件，常帶給人長久而深遠的影響。然而，多數的研究所關注的焦點都只在與創傷後壓力疾患(PTSD)有關的症狀反應上。本研究以羅夏克測驗作為研究工具，以了解921地震受災的居民內在的人格結構，並進一步探討PTSD與羅夏克測驗反應型態的關係。最後共收集32名在地震發生一年十個月後仍居住在組合屋的災民為樣本，比較他們的羅夏克測驗結果與常模的差異，結果發現當中有高比例的人呈現出逃避型的問題解決風格，普遍來說是壓抑情緒的，有著較低的現實機能(reality testing)與壓力耐受度；此外，他們有著較低的自尊與自我認同感，並且對人的關係是疏離的。此外，本研究根據災民們的創傷後壓力症狀篩選出3名符合PTSD診斷的災民，結果發現在13項與PTSD有關的指標中，3人都達到標準的只有2項(低Afr與T = 0)，2人達到標準的則有2項(低X+%與高X－%)，只有1人達到標準的有4項(矛盾型或逃避型EB、CF+C > FC、V > 0、pure H < 3)，3人都未達到標準的有5項(m > 1、Y > 1、D Sscore < 0、Dd > 2、MOR > 1)，整體而言並不支持PTS...

全球化

本論文聚焦於德希達對於文本「雙重解讀式」的解構干預，以及拉克勞與穆芙的論述理論，探究共同•體與構成性域外之間的關係，亦即，試圖呈現出共同•體的（不）可能性條件，並以難民此一極具爭議的議題，作為探究相關共同•體論述的切入點。大致上，可分作三個章節闡釋。第一章主要透過解構的策略打開構成「我們」的可能性條件：（一）任何論述仍有一不被知曉、掌握的「域外」，隨時使意義的確定性產生不穩定的狀態，瓦解論述的自我完整性，不斷地重新界定共同•體的界域；（二）必須設法針對特定的歷史情境或脈絡接合，不斷地創發出共同•體型態。共同•體從未真正地實現過，總是處於動態無終止、即將到來的狀態。在闡明了區分我們與他們的關係，乃是構成「我們」的（不）可能性條件後，第二章針對敵對性、同等與差異邏輯的運作、劃定疆界、建立霸權的過程，逐一闡釋，並初步整理出拉克勞與穆芙共同體論述之要旨：（一）共同•體必是「政治」共同•體，乃是各方勢力相互競逐、鬥爭以尋求界定共同•體意義的過程，在此過程中，沒有任何一方是絕對的勝主，總有權力得以分•享；（二）地理上的邊界已非決斷「我們」範圍的唯一因素，並且論稱「我們」意義的多元性與未可決斷性，但...

Market liquidity

本研究主要係在探討經過會計師查核的內部控制報告書是否會影響到分析師的公私有資訊精確度以及市場流動性。實證結果發現，當公司被視為具有重大內控缺失者，會造成分析師公有及私有資訊精確度下降，進而使得整體資訊環境的不確定性增加。本研究亦發現，當公司揭露內部控制缺失時，該公司在宣告期間會有較差的市場流動性以及較嚴重的資訊不對稱性。本研究更進一步將內控缺失區分成公司及會計層級內控缺失，結果發現有公司層級內控缺失的公司，相較於會計層級缺失者，會有較差的公有資訊精確度及市場流動性。最後，本研究發現，若公司下一年度有進行內部控制缺失修正時，會產生較高的公私有資訊精確度及較高的市場流動性。 , This dissertation extends prior research on internal control weaknesses (hereafter ICW) by examining the impact of internal control weakness and their remediation on information precision and market liquidity ...

EU

清潔發展機制作為京都議定書中的一種彈性機制，普遍被認為將為溫室氣體排放減量所引起的「環境保護─經濟發展」與「北─南」衝突帶來雙贏的結果。支持者認為，其為附件一締約方提供達成溫室氣體減排經濟成本較低的方法，也同時為非附件一締約方引進資金與技術。然而，本研究運用國際政治經濟學的分析，提出因為各自要素禀賦的不同，清潔發展機制實行後的利弊損益將不會公平的分配於清潔發展機制項目的投資方與東道方間，因而導致某些負面的效果：其將阻礙投資方境內減排措施的推動，與導致東道方在技術上的依賴。而透過對投資方與東道方內部排放權提供者與技術研發者間互動的分析，再輔以中國與EU-15的實證資料，可以證實本研究的假設並較為清楚地說明其背後之原因。最後，本研究將討論中國政府與EU-15各自如何以政治力介入市場機制的運作，以試圖處理這樣市場機制運作所導致的弊病。 , Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a Kyoto flexible mechanism was believed to provide a win-win solution to the conflicts, whi...

Business Groups

組織認同衝突嚴重影響著組織的生存。可惜的是，過去研究多著重於探討組織認同衝突所帶來的影響與嚴重性，但卻較少提及衝突雙方該如何解決此問題。在本論文中，我觀察一個被購併進集團的公司，如何運用網絡策略去培養更多與集團內其他成員相容的價值，同時保存與發展了獨特的價值，進而幫助個案公司跳脫認同衝突的困境並成功整合進集團。為了呼應個案研究之發現，我以一個集團企業做為研究情境，搜集資料並進行實證研究，我發現當一家公司同時具備高整合與高差異化的組織認同時，可得到較多與集團內其他成員合作的機會。此外，在集團網絡中佔據邊陲掮客網絡位置的成員，較有可能培養出高整合與高差異化之組織認同，進而得到較多的合作。本論文亦於結尾提供研究意涵與未來研究方向。 , Identity conflicts can seriously endanger an organization’s survival. Extant studies emphasize the consequences of identity conflicts but not how conflicting parties extricate thems...

300000 Agricultural, Veterinary and Environmental Sciences

In agricultural landscapes, native ecosystems are largely replaced by non-native crop and pasture species, with the extent of modification dependent on land use history and the management practices of current farmers. The result is greater complexity in some parts of the landscape, while other areas become more simplified. Of critical importance, however, is that many landscapes become ‘leaky’ due to the impaired feedback mechanisms between the types of vegetation present (i.e. land cover) and t...

780105 Biological sciences

The identification of specific and reproducible biomarkers is critical for the early diagnosis of cancer, which has a profound effect the survival rate of patients. Comprehensive laboratory and clinical evidence needs to be collected to confirm the accuracy of the biomarkers prior to their clinical use. Heterogenous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) A2 and B1 have been suggested as biomarkers for cancer since 1988 when hnRNP A2/B1 overexpression was first linked with the occurrence of lung can...

751001 Languages and literature

The thesis consists of the critical essay and the creative project. The critical essay is an investigation into the nature of narrative suspense, its operation, and the techniques by which an author can develop it. Narrative suspense requires that readers care for characters and feel uncertain about events. An author can use a number of story-telling techniques to make the most of this emotion and uncertainty. Readers may embark on a variety of activities including imagining outcomes and piecing...

In my dissertation – a collection of poems entitled Dark Husk of Beauty – I struggle with the dualities of beauty and ugliness, of creation and destruction. This Dark Husk of Beauty is what remains when I follow the exhortation of John Scott’s magician Aosman to take the ugly, or the deformed, or the old, and transcend … natural revulsion by uniting with it aesthetically – sometimes even physically. The body, subject to such a union, becomes the central metaphor of this creative work. The poems ...

contemporary Australian women&#39;s fiction

Masculinity is an increasingly prominent and important issue in debates within feminism, literary studies and visual theory. This study intervenes in and contributes to such debates by analysing an emerging group of Australian women’s fictions (published between 1998 and 2002) which focus on male characters and, in particular, on the description and narrative potential of their bodies. The majority of these texts, and the ones that are explored in this thesis – namely, Jillian Watkinson’s The Ar...

kinetics

Past research on the acceleration phase in sprint running has concentrated on the kinematics of sprint blocks set-up and the initial steps after exiting the sprint blocks. In contrast, there has been limited research on the ground reaction forces (GRF) generated during the initial post-block foot contacts. These initial foot contacts in sprinting are important for optimising performance in the initial acceleration phase of sprinting. However, little is known about the GRF elite sprinters generat...