The research explored perceptions of preparedness for bushfire-related matters at the rural-urban community of Tamborine Mountain. A literature review expressed the need for changes in bushfire mitigation/management as a result of the need for increased self-reliance. The social construction of risk methodology was applied to a multi-method case study to derive and deliver an analysis of agreements and differences in the perceptions/expectations of fire services and the community (see results be...

Koizumi Junichiro

冷戰結束以來，兩極體系的瓦解使得東亞地區發生權力變化，為爭奪區域領導權，各國無不摩拳擦掌，其中尤以日本與中國兩國的競爭最為白熱化，兩國關係的發展也因而受到注目。日中兩國關係在1990年代歷經了初期的友好、中期的惡化與末期的低潮之後，進入二十一世紀，兩國關係已然走到關鍵的十字路口。2001年4月小泉純一郎以改革形象，挾前所未見的高人氣入主首相官邸，一上任即面臨受歷史教科書、李登輝訪日以及農產品貿易糾紛而陷入緊張的日中關係，再加上小泉首相面臨的是近兩百年來未見的崛起的中國，如何處理日中關係成為其任內的一大考驗。更重要的是，日中這東亞兩大國的互動，是合作抑或競爭，是否能破除「一山不容二虎」的迷思，都將大大影響東亞地區的未來，對身處東亞地區且正好鄰近此兩大國的我國來說，亦將是非常值得觀察的發展。 , 本文一開始首先簡單介紹從冷戰結束後到小泉首相上任之前，日中關係的大致發展，作為背景說明，其次則闡明本論文的研究動機與目的、研究範圍與限制、文獻回顧以及論文架構安排。第二章則介紹小泉時期的日本外交政策，提出五組決策者信念體系與其實際決策間的關聯因素作為分析架構，首先介紹小泉首相是如何看待現今的國際與...

prison

This paper examines the development of penal policy and practice in Taiwan in the early Japanese colonial era (1895-1908). The Japanese colonial government considered creation of a modern prison system in Taiwan as not only an essential part of establishing control over the island, but also in proving their colonial credentials. However the process of establishing a modern colonial penal system was a new challenge for Japanese rulers and penal policies underwent changes throughout the period of ...

平均連串長度

對於任何一種產品不論其設計如何完善，製造過程如何完備，機器如何精密，操作技術如何純熟，所製造出來的產品一定會有所差異。造成產品差異性的原因有很多，其中因素之一為:量測產品的特性所使用的量測設備，可能因為量測的不精確進而存在量測誤差，以至於測量產品特性值不正確。以往建立管制圖之數學模式中，大多不考慮測量誤差的存在，因為一般認為量測誤發生次數或頻率太少，故在模式中忽略了量測誤差的重要性。目前沒有相關文獻探討量測誤差對偵測小偏移量管制圖之效應，因此本研究考慮在製程含有量測誤差的情形下建立EWMA管制圖和 區域管制圖，且分別以Crowder(1987a,b)提出的數值方法和Davis, Homer and Woodall(1990)提出的馬可夫鏈(Markov Chain)的方法計算EWMA管制圖和 區域管制圖之平均連串長度，分析探討量測誤差分別對EWMA管制圖和 區域管制圖的設計參數及偵測能力之影響，最後比較EWMA管制圖和 區域管制圖的偵測力差異。

variable universal life insurance

為保險業跨業經營預先佈局、增加保單持有人之投資選擇權及因應市場利率之低糜，我國擬於近日推出投資型保險，然而投資型保險基於其特有之性質，其監理自應與一般傳統型保險有所不同。本文先就投資型保險作一定義，並論述其性質及特色，次敘述其歷史發展沿革，再予以介紹其主要之種類。而關於投資型保險監理部分，一般來說，保險監理可分為財務監理及業務監理二部分，本文即依循此二面向分別作一探討。就財務監理部分而言，分就分離帳戶之規範、資金運用規範、責任準備金提存之規範、解約金之規範及稅賦規範五個議題作分析探討，再行提出建議。另一方面，就業務監理部分而言，則分就經營資格規範、資訊揭露規範、商品規範及銷售規範四個議題作分析探討，再行提出建議；最後總結全文以提出結論並針對我國投資型保險之監理提出建議。 , For facilitating of cross-business operation of the insurance industry, increasing policyholders’ choices in financial services, and shifting attach of intere...

Theater -- Queensland -- Brisbane -- History.

subnuclear localisation

The heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) are a group of proteins intitially characterised in the late 1980’s by their presence in complexes that form on nascent RNA transcripts. This definition was purely operational, and was based on protein isolation techniques available at that time. Since then, the tendency to refer to and view the hnRNPs as a protein family has become increasingly prevalent, although there has been no systematic sequence- or structure-based study of their evolu...

Keywords {sorption isotherm, sorption kinetic, phase changes, composition, mixing method, MPC-85, lactose, mineral rich powder}

Sorption Behaviour of Selected Dairy Powder Mixtures: A Study of The Effects of Composition and Mixing Methods Abstract As water mediates physico-chemical reactions (i.e. Maillard reactions, phase changes of sugars and minerals, protein conformational changes), water-powder interactions during storage are critical for dairy powder stability. Therefore, the mechanisms of moisture adsorption from the environment and water distribution among components in the dry state need to be investigated, espe...

Tharifith Berber, Construct State, Clitics, Distributed Morphology, Valency, Word order.

Abstract: This dissertation investigates the syntax and also some aspects of the morphology of Tharifith Berber (such as, the inflectional classes of nouns and the Construct State) within the Distributed Morphology framework (Halle & Marantz 1993, et al.). One of its main objectives is to demonstrate how morphology could be brought within the range of syntax. This view becomes apparent when inflectional morphemes which project in the syntax are also used to derive words. Contrary to what has...

Harré

This Thesis engages with contemporary philosophical controversies about the nature of dispositional properties or powers and the relationship they have to their non-dispositional counterparts. The focus concerns fundamentality. In particular, I seek to answer the question, ‘What fundamental properties suffice to account for the manifest world?’ The answer I defend is that fundamental categorical properties need not be invoked in order to derive a viable explanation for the manifest world. My sta...

Governance

Residential property price premia (‘premia’) have long fascinated investors, particularly in times of euphoria, but their social, climatic and urban ramifications are much wider. A proper understanding of premia is hindered by the variety of exogenous influences determining them. They occur within idiosyncratic, complex, and continuously reconfiguring metropoli, conditioned by topography, history, regime, commerce, and culture. Given imperfectly competitive housing markets, conventional explanat...

Oxytocin.

garden-path effect

本文旨在從語法及語句處理的觀點探討中文關係子句中接應代詞(resumptive pronouns) 的現象。在語法上，本研究認為中文的接應代詞屬於詞基生成 (base-generated) 元素而非句法變項 (syntactic variables) 。接應代詞的出現受限於派生簡約原則 (derivational economy) 及合法度 (grammaticality) 的要求，唯有當間隙型關係子句 (gap relatives) 為非法時，接應代詞才是必要的；在其他情況下，接應代詞在中文裡為選擇性的策略之一。在語句處理上，本研究施測了三份合法度問卷並進行了兩項線上閱讀測驗。合法度的判別及線上的閱讀反應時間顯示，接應代詞之所以不被喜歡是因為接應代詞本身會引發花園路徑效果 (garden path effect) (在此為主要子句假象 (main-clause illusion) 的形成)。然而，接應代詞在間隙型關係子句為非法或引發花園路徑效果 (在此為重建困難 (difficult reconstruction) 所造成) 時卻變得較受喜愛。當間隙型關係子句涉及到複雜結構或複雜語句...

Dalgety and Co.

police corruption, injustice, Bjelke-Petersen, unions, verballing, court transcripts, sportsmanship, prison life, Westbrook, tainted evidence.

Abstracts THE TAINT This is a memoir of Ray “Poss” Ide, a man who has carried the taint of a horrifying crime since he was seventeen years old─a crime he claims he did not commit. The crime was the rape of a fourteen-year-old girl. The Taint looks at the time leading up to his conviction for rape, including the years he spent in Westbrook Boys’ Reformatory and Boggo Road Gaol as a minor, and then his sentence served in NSW gaols with such inmates as Stephen Bradley, the man who kidnapped and mur...

Land settlement -- Queensland -- Leichhardt Region

European settlement

Two ombrotrophic peat bogs (NC2 and BL2) from North Stradbroke Island, Australia, were precisely dated using 210Pb and analyzed by scanning electron microscopy. Sub-samples were total digested and sequentially leached for trace and major elements concentrations using ICP-MS and ICP-OES. Total Pb concentrations in both profiles increased with the time. PAAS normalized REE patterns were characterized by relatively flat patterns, with slight enrichment in LREE, and a significant negative Eu anomaly...

Catholics -- Queensland

This study has been uaidertaken essentially as a contribution to social history, to the exploration of facets of the Catholic sub-population in Queensland over the years 1910 to 1935. It is not an ecclesiastical history, nor a political or economic one, though considerations of prior concern for each such history impinge centrally on its subject matter. It will be argued that around both the years 1910 and 1935 new kinds of consciousness were emerging, both v/ithin the Church in Queensland and i...

variation of constants formula

A geometric Brownian motion with delay is the solution of a stochastic differential equation where the drift and diffusion coefficient depend linearly on the past of the solution, i.e. a linear stochastic functional differential equation. In this work the asymptotic behavior in mean square of a geometric Brownian motion with delay is completely characterized by a sufficient and necessary condition in terms of the drift and diffusion coefficients.

CAR

本論文探討了以廣義線性混合模式(GLMM)結合時間及空間效果的時間空間模式，以將地區特性、人口特徵等變數，及時間變數納入模式中。有關時間效果可用B-Spline方法建構固定或隨機的時間趨勢平滑函數，而空間效果則是將各地區的隨機效果以條件自我相關模式(CAR)描述。實證部份則是應用GLMM模式分析台灣本島350個鄉鎮市區自民國八十八年到九十一年的肝癌就診資料，依性別、年齡層加以整理，並將年齡層分為0~19歲、20~39歲、40 ~59歲、60歲以上，分別代表少、青、壯、老等四個年齡層；再採用GLMMGibbs結合R軟體各個資料集分別配適時間空間模式，估計各地區之相對風險並繪製疾病地圖，據以找出各年估計的相對風險高的地區。

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods

本文所探討的中心為貝氏模型運用於加速壽命試驗，並且假設受測項目之壽命服從Weibull分配。加速實驗環境有三種，其中第二種環境代表正常狀態，採用加速壽命試驗的方式涵蓋了三種：固定應力、漸進之逐步應力和變量曲線之逐步應力。對於先驗參數，並不是直接給予特定的值，而是透過專家評估，給定各種環境之下的產品可靠度之中位數或百分位數，再利用這些資訊經過數值運算解出先驗參數。資料的型態分成兩種，一為區間資料，另一為型一設限資料，透過蒙地卡羅法模擬出後驗分配，並且估計正常環境狀態的可靠度。 , This article develops a Bayes inference model for accelerated life testing assuming failure times at each stress level are Weibull distributed. Using the approach, there are three stressed to be used, and the three testing scenarios to be adapted are as foll...

Asian crises

This paper investigates the reaction of US, European and Japanese bank stocks to economic and political news reports during the Asian Financial crisis period. I identify relevant events using key word searches during the crisis period and estimate their impact on the US, European and Japanese bank stock prices. The empirical evidence shows that adverse events in Asian countries affect most banks with exposure in these countries. However, it is seen that the exposed banks’ stock price reactions a...

firm size

本研究搜集研究期間為1989-2005年2月的購併樣本，將主併公司按市值區分大小後，發現大公司在事件窗口(-30,10)有顯著負向的累積異常報酬率(Cumulative Abcdrmal Return;CAR)，大公司在上市市場上，在金融證券業及其他產業下都有顯著負向的累積異常報酬率；大公司顯著有較高的現金比例、營運現金流量比例、Tobin’s Q和較低的帳面對市場價值比，在除去金融證券業樣本後，負債比率顯著小於小公司；集團購併、當被併公司為上市櫃、及以股票為支付方式時，大公司也都有顯著負向的累積異常報酬率；大公司購併時的相對規模顯著小於小公司。迴歸結果中，公司規模之替代變數皆顯著和累積異常報酬成負向關係。股票支付方式其累積異常報酬也顯著低於現金支付方式。Tobin’s Q的係數則顯著為正。在產業部份，金融證券業和其他產業相較之下，在宣佈購併時會得到市場較正面的反應。企業併購法的修訂實行對迴歸式並未造成結構性的改變。 , After collecting the acquisition samples of bidding firms from 1989 to February 200...

Router-Assisted

隨著網路訊務流量的快速成長，如何妥善的運用網路資源是一個成功的擁塞控制機制要面對的根本問題。在終端設備上執行的TCP是網路上最廣為使用者使用的傳輸層協定，它有很多不同的版本被設計出來改進使用的效能，例如TCP Reno、TCP Vegas 等。由於TCP所棲身的終端設備並未具有網路內部狀態的資訊，大部份的TCP 擁塞控制機制僅能依賴封包遺失觸發擁塞控制機制，本研究提出TCP Muzha協定，藉由路由器協助，提供網路內部資訊給傳送端，在未發生擁塞前不需依賴封包遺失便可進行適度的傳輸速度控制，以減少因為封包遺失所造成劇烈的傳輸速度下降，並可更快速達到最佳傳輸速度。本研究的設計理念是設法尋找傳送路徑中的瓶頸，進而計算出瓶頸提供的可用頻寬，藉由瓶頸所提供的資訊動態的進行流量控制以充份利用頻寬並避免產生擁塞，增進整體的效能。本研究之重點在於路由器應提供何種資訊及如何運用所獲得的資訊進行動態速率調整。我們提出模糊化的多層級速率調整方法，藉著動態所獲得的細膩資訊做擁塞避免。最後於NS2平台實驗模擬，評估我們所提出的方法，實驗結果中顯示本方法能有效避免擁塞的產生，降低封包遺失，提升整體效能，和TCP ...

Thesis / Dissertation ETD

Africa, developmentalist discourses, higher education, historical critique, neo-liberal globalization, postcolonial theory, post-independent Mozambique, regimes of knowledge.

This thesis investigates the ways in which higher education in Africa has been construing its mission for Africa’s development and how such constructions are shaped by particular global regimes of knowledge on development. The thesis unpacks the ways in which such regimes are deployed using specific technologies: neo-liberal precepts on economic development. To that end, I pose a set of questions which can be summarized in these two: How has higher education in Africa discursively construed Afri...

advertised programmers

本研究旨在探討台灣電視產業中，商品為何、商品的特性、商品的生產過程，以及與生產結構間的對應關係。本研究採行批判的傳播政治經濟學視野，對台灣四十餘年來的電視事業進行考察。研究結果指出，電視事業中的商品，首要應為節目本身，而台灣的電視節目的首要消費者，是廣告業主而不是觀眾。同時因為國民黨時期無線三台特殊的經營體制，形塑本地節目製作業的特性：規模小、業務人員為公司主要人力。導致台灣節目的廉價化與廣告化，不論在三台寡占市場時期，或衛星電視頻道百家爭鳴時期，皆是如此。 , My objective is to find out the commodity in TV industry in Taiwan, and figure out the characteristics of the commodity, the production process, and the relationship between the commodity and the production structure. Therefore, I studied the TV production process i...

rate of raceiving force

在這篇文章中，我們由單擺運動的觀念得出深層地震持續時間的估計，以及討論了關於地震方程的良至性與週期性，並且得出關於持續時間的表現公式。最後，利用台北中央氣象局關於地震記錄的數據，來驗證我們以上的結果。 , In this paper, we obtain the duration of deep earthquakes coming from the concept of pendulum motion. We consider the well-posedness and periodicity of the solutions for the seismic equation and get representation formula of duration for the equation. We revise the validity of our work by using numerical data gained from Center Weather Bureau in Taipei, Taiwan.

instrumental variable legal origin

股市發展是否影響長期經濟成長？本研究以Levine(1991)的內生成長模型作為實證分析之理論依據，股票市場的出現可以消弭流動性風險與生產性風險對個人投資決策的負面影響，進而促進經濟體的成長。我們採取一般成長文獻所最常使用之跨國橫斷面迴歸方式，分析52國1985-1997的平均股市與社會經濟資料，以法系與法律環境做為工具變數，來捕捉股市發展之外生部分對經濟成長的影響。實證結果如下：1.整體而言股市發展的確顯著促進了一國的經濟成長，而影響成長的主要管道則為資本成長。2.對於先進工業化國家而言，我們無法證明其股票市場對於經濟成長具有影響力。3.相反的，對開發中國家而言，股票市場則扮演著重要的角色，不僅促進經濟的成長，對於資本成長與要素生產力成長也有顯著的提升。4.股市與私人儲蓄之間的關係則較為模糊，雖然實證結果隱約透露，對開發中國家而言，發展股市有助於提升私人儲蓄，但我們無法找到統計上顯著強固的證據來加以支持。5.法律因子對於各國股市發展差異所具有的顯著解釋能力給予我們一個啟示：倘若一國的法律對於股東權益的保障越好，執行法律的品質與效率越高，那麼一國將會擁有一個功能完善與發展良好的股票市場...

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Tradition and convention dichotomises children and curriculum and this is challenged by re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. My study generates ways for thinking differently about children’s complex interrelationships with curriculum by working with the philosophical imaginaries of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I use an assemblage of imaginaries, namely: rhizome, plateaus, multiplicities, nomad, de~territorialising lines of flight, smooth spaces, becoming, milieu, monad and singularities,...

Decision Theory

Biodiversity is declining globally due to mounting anthropogenic threats. Actions to protect biodiversity against threats can be costly, involving land purchase, invasive species management, and inflicting opportunity costs of lost revenue and livelihoods in conservation areas. Governments and conservation organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver the greatest benefits from conservation funds, and to minimise conflicts between conservation and other human priorities. Most conservati...

D. melanogaster

Understanding transcriptional regulation quantitatively is a crucial step towards uncovering and ultimately utilizing the regulatory semantics encoded in the genome. Transcription of a gene is induced by the binding of site-specific transcription factors (TFs) to so-called cis-regulatory-modules (CRMs). The frequency and duration of the binding events are influenced by the concentrations of the TFs, the binding affinities and location of the transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) in the CRM ...

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Tradition and convention dichotomises children and curriculum and this is challenged by re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. My study generates ways for thinking differently about children’s complex interrelationships with curriculum by working with the philosophical imaginaries of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I use an assemblage of imaginaries, namely: rhizome, plateaus, multiplicities, nomad, de~territorialising lines of flight, smooth spaces, becoming, milieu, monad and singularities,...

Fields of Research::380000 Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences::380100 Psychology::380104 Personality, abilities and assessment

Ethnic status is one of the most protected demographic groups in terms of test bias and discrimination in personnel selection, as such bias breaches many laws, morals, and ethical procedures. To date there has only been two published studies that have used New Zealand relevant ethnic groups when analysing whether personality measures used in pre-employment settings exhibit different mean scores. The present thesis performed a systematic evaluation on the impact of ethnicity on personality traits...

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Tradition and convention dichotomises children and curriculum and this is challenged by re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. My study generates ways for thinking differently about children’s complex interrelationships with curriculum by working with the philosophical imaginaries of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I use an assemblage of imaginaries, namely: rhizome, plateaus, multiplicities, nomad, de~territorialising lines of flight, smooth spaces, becoming, milieu, monad and singularities,...

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Tradition and convention dichotomises children and curriculum and this is challenged by re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. My study generates ways for thinking differently about children’s complex interrelationships with curriculum by working with the philosophical imaginaries of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I use an assemblage of imaginaries, namely: rhizome, plateaus, multiplicities, nomad, de~territorialising lines of flight, smooth spaces, becoming, milieu, monad and singularities,...

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Tradition and convention dichotomises children and curriculum and this is challenged by re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. My study generates ways for thinking differently about children’s complex interrelationships with curriculum by working with the philosophical imaginaries of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I use an assemblage of imaginaries, namely: rhizome, plateaus, multiplicities, nomad, de~territorialising lines of flight, smooth spaces, becoming, milieu, monad and singularities,...

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Sunflower is grown worldwide for oil production. In Australia, sunflower is under intense competition from canola as an oil crop. Confectionery sunflower aimed for the overseas snack food market is a potential opportunity for Australian farmers due to its ability to provide off-season supply to the major market located mainly in the northern hemisphere. To serve this aim, new confectionery sunflower hybrids adapted to Australian production system with drought tolerance, large achenes, high self-...

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Tradition and convention dichotomises children and curriculum and this is challenged by re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. My study generates ways for thinking differently about children’s complex interrelationships with curriculum by working with the philosophical imaginaries of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I use an assemblage of imaginaries, namely: rhizome, plateaus, multiplicities, nomad, de~territorialising lines of flight, smooth spaces, becoming, milieu, monad and singularities,...

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Tradition and convention dichotomises children and curriculum and this is challenged by re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. My study generates ways for thinking differently about children’s complex interrelationships with curriculum by working with the philosophical imaginaries of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I use an assemblage of imaginaries, namely: rhizome, plateaus, multiplicities, nomad, de~territorialising lines of flight, smooth spaces, becoming, milieu, monad and singularities,...

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Tradition and convention dichotomises children and curriculum and this is challenged by re(con)ceiving children in curriculum. My study generates ways for thinking differently about children’s complex interrelationships with curriculum by working with the philosophical imaginaries of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. I use an assemblage of imaginaries, namely: rhizome, plateaus, multiplicities, nomad, de~territorialising lines of flight, smooth spaces, becoming, milieu, monad and singularities,...