Samosorn, Bongkoch

This study examines: i) the morphological evolution of a small sand cay on a platform reef over past millennia; ii) changes in its shoreline over past decades; and ii) contemporary characteristics of waves on the reef platform. The study site is Warraber Island located on a platform reef in Torres Strait, Australia. The study is based upon: i) detailed radiocarbon dating; ii) 3-D morphological reconstruction using a DTM; and iii) field measurement of island topography, waves and wind.Temporal pa...

Kateb, Vahe Georges

Under the cover of WWI, the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire deported and exterminated the Armenian population from historical Armenia (Eastern provinces of modern day Turkey) and surrounding regions. However, since then, successive Turkish governments have denied any wrongdoing and blamed Armenians for their fate. The Australian press, as the only mass medium of the period, covered extensively the extermination of the Armenians. However todays press often refers to the same events am...

Emran, Amelia

The high volume of traffic passing through the Straits of Malacca and Singapore continuously exposes the Straits to the problem of vessel-source pollution, particularly oil pollution. As a strait used for international navigation under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (LOSC 1982), regulation of vessel-source pollution by the littoral States are confined within the provisions of the LOSC 1982. The thesis examines the provisions of the LOSC 1982 with regard to the prescript...

Lam, Cam Le

Demand for innovative and accessible Western education throughout Asia has significantly improved the use of online teaching and support tools. Previous research studies of online education have focussed primarily on full online and distance education, and asynchronous tools for fostering communication. Few studies have explored blended learning strategies in an education environment using synchronous tools to support ongoing communication amongst students from South East Asia facilitated by the...

Asthana, Ambika

To achieve stable autonomous control of an indoor flying robot is a challenging proposition in the field of robotics today. Many researchers are inspired by the echolocation of bats and vision of bees and attempt to duplicate this behaviour by using sonar sensors, cameras and onboard microprocessors. This project aims to achieve the same goal but with a different approach. We propose to build a software architecture for controlling a four-rotor helicopter, DraganFlyer, from a host computer. In o...

Hannah, Eleanor Jane

The revegetation of closed landfill sites is an important issue due to the large and increasing amount of land involved, and because the demand for that land, and its value, is constantly increasing. If successful revegetation is possible, then these degraded sites provide an excellent opportunity for the establishment of native plant communities in the middle of urban sprawl. Common problems identified with the revegetation of landfill sites have included the use of poor quality soils with low ...

Mason, Tanya J

Plant invasions of natural communities threaten biodiversity and ecosystem processes across many biomes and trophic levels. Understanding and managing invader impacts are therefore significant steps in achieving conservation. Both causes and management of invasion are dependent on human behaviour and ecologists must consider this human dimension in developing management protocols. While control of invaders is routine in many conservation reserves, assessment of ecological outcomes following cont...

Debort, Sophie

In recognition of the scenic, ecological, and scientific values of the marine environment, attempts at conservation are increasingly recognized. In a world progressively modified by human activities, the conservation of biodiversity is essential as insurance to maintain resilient ecosystems and ensure a sustainable flow of ecosystems goods and services to society. Unfamiliarity with large disturbances that rarely occur has resulted in the neglect of this kind of event in reserve management. Cycl...

Miles, Nathan G

Diadromous fishes are a frequent but poorly understood component of coastal riverine fish communities in Australia. Many of Australia’s coastal riverine fish, including diadromous species, have undergone declines in abundance and distribution since European settlement. Fish that were once plentiful are now generally rare or appear to be extinct in some catchments or parts of their range. However, as a group, diadromous fish species have complex lifecycles, the details of which have not been well...

McGloin, Colleen

This dissertation provides a genealogy of the relationship between surfing, the nation, and white masculinity in Australian culture. I argue that, despite its historical connections to countercultural and subcultural expression, surfing has emerged as a cultural formation which, in multiple ways, contributes to and sustains dominant conceptions of national identity. This claim is demonstrated through the investigation of a diverse range of texts produced both within surf culture and outside it, ...

Wang, You

Cytokinin is an important plant hormone that controls many aspects of plant growth and development. A great amount of research has been done regarding its function and recently some significant process made on its signal transduction pathway. However much remains to be discovered and in particular the identity of tokininbinding proteins that function as signal transducing receptors would be valuable information. This study aimed to develop two yeast-based methods, to search for plant cytokinin-b...

Hewson, Lindsay

The relative value of animation as an educational medium depends on a number of factors within the medium itself, the manner in which it is integrated with an overall educational design, and with the levels of expertise possessed by the learner in the subject domain and with the medium. This study began to compare animation with informationally equivalent text and graphic modes of presentation in Chemistry, but in doing so, uncovered the roles of expertise and metacognition in its effective use....

Andrew, Deborah L

The mammal fauna of Australia has undergone a dramatic and significant decline since the arrival and settlement of Europeans on the east coast of Australia. Eighteen native Australian mammals are considered extinct, 35 are endangered and 51 vulnerable, out of a total of 357 species. The Tiger Quoll is considered threatened in all mainland states, it is considered rare in Tasmania, and it is listed as endangered under Federal legislation. At the commencement of this study, little was known of the...

Ha, Hung Manh

In today’s era of dynamic information technology, technical documents are becoming bigger and are updated more frequently than ever before. As a result, people have to spend a huge amount of time and efforts to digest these technical documents. At present, traditional technical writing uses word-after-word narrative writing to produce technical documents. The resulting narrative document often has language ambiguity and an inefficient concept manipulation problem which can cause a lot of difficu...

Aston, James Peter

The Great Barrier Reef sustains a variety of commercial and recreational activities and livelihoods including fishing, tourism, recreation and shipping. Those activities pose a source of harm to the biodiversity, use and amenity values of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and World Heritage Area. The threat of day-to-day shipping operations on the Reef’s ecosystem is largely unquantified but could represent a not inconsequential contribution to the overall levels of contaminants entering the Ma...

Menhinick, Richard T

Australia is a maritime nation in one of the most complex open ocean, littoral and archipelagic maritime regions in the world. The sea is the defining physical characteristic in the region. The overwhelming significance of this is that Australia has no land borders. This is a strategic advantage that must be better understood to avoid it becoming a strategic liability. Strategic realities endure. There are many more effective ways to overcome Australia other than via a military invasion. However...

Levings, Renee S.

Salmonella spp., in particular Salmonella Typhimurium is an important zoonotic pathogen both here in Australia and internationally. Over the past few decades the use of antimicrobials in human, agricultural and aquacultural settings has created significant selection pressures, giving rise to multiply antibiotic resistant bacteria, including Salmonella. The acquisition and dissemination of the genes responsible for antimicrobial resistance has been largely attributed to mobile genetic elements, i...

Suh, Koo-Won

There has been an ongoing need for designing and assessing corporate Web sites as important marketing communication tools. Typically, most research on Web site effectiveness has adopted traditional advertising evaluation models. A fundamental shortcoming of this approach is that it does not provide much information about user interaction. As corporate Web sites are new interactive media and Web user characteristics are far different from those of traditional communication media, new approaches s...

Holt, Sabine

This thesis presents a palaeoenvironmental study of the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, from around the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the present. Foraminifers, microscopic unicellular aquatic organisms, occur throughout the sediment in the time frame studied. Data on the species composition and preservation of the microfossils found in the Gulf of Carpentaria cores are utilised to reconstruct past environments by comparison to the known assemblages of living foraminifers in various mod...

Beaman, R

Continental shelf waters are subject to the greatest impact by humans. If marine ecosystems are to be efficiently managed and protected from the adverse effects of human activities, then identification of the types of marine habitats and the communities they contain is required. Research cruise data and existing data were collected at three diverse study sites on polar, temperate and tropical continental shelves within Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). This project conducted a multi...

Pocock, C

The Great Barrier Reef is regarded as one of the natural wonders of the world and is recognised as having World Heritage significance. The wealth and complexity of its natural attributes form the basis of a rich and complementary human history. However, management of the region is focused on the conservation of natural attributes, sometimes at the cost of human interests and cultural values. This is symptomatic of the way in which many heritage properties are managed and is a source of problems ...

Cobcroft, JM

Striped trumpeter (Latris lineata) is a new candidate species for aquaculture in temperate Australia. Survival of larvae prior to flexion has proven a bottleneck in the production of this species for culture. In addition, almost all juveniles cultured to date exhibit malformations of the jaw that may impede larval feeding success. Body size and morphology impose constraints upon feeding success in larvae of broadcast spawning fishes. Furthermore, larvae have an absolute reliance upon sense organ...

Willans, P

The speculative currency transaction markets are the largest capital markets in the world with an estimated US$2 trillion being traded every day. By comparison the daily global transactions related to international trade, goods and services represent only a small proportion of capital trades. Speculative flight in times of capital crises has triggered major social and economic disruptions such as those in Mexico (1994), East Asia (1997-98) Russia (1998), Brazil (1999), Turkey (2000) and Argentin...

Deagle, BE

Diets of large marine predators have been extensively studied to assess interactions with fisheries, monitor links between diet and reproductive success, and understand trophic interactions in marine ecosystems. Since marine species can rarely be observed foraging directly, most studies rely on the identification of prey remains in stomach contents or faeces to determine the prey items being consumed. While this approach has provided a wealth of information, it has several limitations resulting ...

Lucieer, VL

Techniques for seabed habitat mapping have developed considerably over the past 10 years, principally through advances in acoustic technologies and tools for improved spatial analysis. The increasing need for information on the distribution and structure of seabed habitats in coastal waters (< 50 m deep) has developed in Australia due to increasing pressures from development and exploitation. , A clear understanding of the uncertainties in creating spatial information from marine data is require...

Barrett, NS

The currently most accepted population theory for reef fish was developed on tropical reefs and suggests that populations of most reef fish species are limited primarily by recruitment, with little post-recruitment resource limitation. I tested the validity of this theory for temperate reef fishes by examining growth rates in six common species from a number of isolated populations for evidence of resource limitation. If resources are limiting, spatial and temporal variation in recruitment and m...

McMorrow, AJ

A key problem in ice core palaeclimate studies is the interpretation of the various measurable parameters in ice in terms of climate and environmental conditions. This study is aimed at developing a closer understanding of the connection between high resolution snow/firn measurements and meteorological conditions. Ultra high resolution snow pit and shallow firn core records of oxygen isotope ratios (del18O) and a suite of trace chemical species including marine biogenic sulphur compounds (methan...

Lara-Lopez, AL

This thesis describes results of a comprehensive study of the Tamar Estuary, a highly flushed system in northern Tasmania, conducted to investigate the link between hydrodynamic processes and zooplankton biomass with particular emphasis on larval fish dynamics. It comprised extensive plankton sampling together with measurements of physical parameters, between October 2001 and November 2002, including three 24-hour sampling sessions in the lower estuary to ascertain the effect of tidal currents i...

Phipps, SJ

Coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models are the simplest models which , are capable of simulating both the variability which occurs within each component , of the climate system, and the variability which arises from the interactions between , them. Only recently has it become computationally feasible to use coupled general , circulation models to study climate variability and change on timescales of O(104) , years and longer. Flux adjustments are often employed to maintain a control...

Rosa, CJP

The Iberian Pyrite Belt is the richest massive sulfide province in the world. The massive sulfide , ore deposits occur in a felsic volcanic and sedimentary succession (VS Complex) of late , Famennian (Upper Devonian) to late Visean (Middle Carboniferous) age. Volcanic facies , analysis has been carried out on three areas in Portugal, including the Neves Corvo mine, and , five sections in Spain. In all sections studied, the depositional setting during accumulation of the , VS Complex was submarin...

Lewis, D

The Pitt Water Estuary is a shallow, barrier estuary, with typically normal marine salinity, which has been subject to considerable anthropogenic modification. Modern seafloor environments were described using the distribution of sedimentary facies and foraminiferal and ostracod assemblages, examined from surficial sediment samples. Ten sedimentary facies were identified by grouping sediment samples using particle-size distribution data and lithic sand content. Faunal assemblages were identified...

Lucieer, VL

Tracey, SR

Research into small-scale fisheries is often insufficient, resulting in limited data, because this type of fishery is inevitably constrained by financial considerations. This creates a challenge to provide adequate information to support sustainable management, particularly given the shift from single species management to more integrated spatial and multi-species management and, ultimately, to ecosystem based fisheries management (EBFM). Striped trumpeter (Latris lineata) is widely distributed ...

Attaran-Fariman, G

Phillips, GV

Park, TG

Bose, S.

Burford, M.

Pham, C.

Ringeltaube, P.

Chow, K. Y. S.

Brown, Elaine Rosemary

Loneux, Michele

This paper presents the nature and value of the zoological collections conserved in the University of Liege zoological museum.1 The &quot;hidden&quot; collections comprise the scientific heritage of former and even famous researchers (e.g., Edouard Van Beneden and his students) ignored by most University of Liege researchers and administrators, and thus little utilized. Since World War II and the development of official public opening, researchers have not considered the museum to be the central...

Hackmann, Jörg

This article analyses the role of the Baltic in Polish historiography. It is argued that the wide spread opinion that there was no Polish interest in the sea arose when Poland was cut off from the Baltic during the Partitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century. In particular, during the inter-war period and once again after 1945, there was lively Polish historiography on Baltic topics. Shaped by the impact of the political issue of the Polish state’s “access to the sea”, national aspects i...

Heimsöth, Hans-Jürgen

Germany has always been an integral part of the Baltic Sea region, not only culturally, but also economically or politically Through the definitive changes of the political geography in 1990 Germany faced new challenges. With the foundation of the Council of the Baltic Sea States a genuine democratic association around the Baltic Sea was built — among other things to support new democratic institutions. Germany took over the presidency of the Council in July 2000 and could exercise valuable infl...

Schönweitz, Magdalena

Since the political turns of the late 1980s and the early 1990s, cross-border co-operation has experienced a remarkable upswing in Europe as well as in the Baltic Sea Region. Against this background, this piece of research analyses political institution-building in cross-border regions in the Baltic Sea Region. Taking an actor-centred perspective, the actors and their contexts which authoritatively define their freedom of action are the focus of this study. The Öresund Committee, the political i...

張伯揚

美國印地安那州辦事處在中、台、港、新的行销策略 , Marketing to attract FDI to Indiana from Greater China

毛奕惠

本研究主要在探討中國大陸「全球城市」建構的政治分析。在中國大陸，上海市是一個具有全球城市雛形的城市。然而，上海市卻直至1992年浦東計畫後才開始發展，那麼上海市如何在短時間內崛起，且具有全球城市雛形？政府的介入成為上海發展的關鍵點。因此，本研究立基於全球城市相關研究上，透過國家官僚為中心的「全球城市」建構模式，以政府介入上海城市發展為切入點，進一步分析中央政府與上海市地方政府的互動。最後以透過湯臣集團作一個案研究，將其背後政治的影響因素與實例相結合。

巫佩珊

在海德格一生的思考中，最核心的問題就是「存有」(Sein)。 長期以來傳統哲學在處理存有問題時，已經形成了各式各樣的認識論或形上學種種的學說，但也就是這眾多種種的知識化的學說體系，使得海德格想要扭轉傳統哲學這種以日常生活經驗去符應已經僵化的知識體系的處理存有問題的方式。就海德格來看，傳統哲學中的主體是一個知識化的主體，不管主張唯我或唯物，主體與外界始終是分離的，主體對外界的掌握是靠知識模式來進行掌握，於是各式各樣的學說主要的目的是在彌補或證成主客體之間這道不可跨越的鴻溝。然而，不管主體多精準地描述出客體，這種知識上的精準度對海德格來說都只是次生的。在《存有與時間》中海德格就是要以現象學的精神「回到事物自身」，來說明知識上的掌握要以最原初的日常生活經驗為依據，倘若抽離了日常生活經驗，那麼我們就成了失去真實體驗的掛空主體。

Chang,Yen Yun

本研究選取1999年至2005年上海及深圳交易所之A股上市公司為樣本，自董事會性別組成之角度，探討女性董事參與程度與公司盈餘品質之關聯性，分別探討董事會中是否存在女性董事及女性董事比例多寡對公司盈餘管理程度及會計政策保守程度之影響。參考過去文獻，本研究以加入資產報酬率之流動裁決性應計項目作為盈餘管理程度的替代變數（Ashbaugh, LaFond and Mayhew 2003），而會計保守程度則以盈餘變動時間序列（Basu 1997）及應計基礎（Ball and Shivakumar 2005）兩種模型進行估計。實證結果發現，由於女性具有較謹慎小心、較不願承擔風險等特質，因此當董事會中存在有女性董事時，確實可降低經理人員盈餘管理程度，並增強公司會計政策保守性；而女性董事比例之提高，則使董事會更加重視女性成員之意見，連帶使經理人員操弄盈餘之空間受到壓縮，並使會計政策更趨向保守，進而有效提高會計盈餘之品質。