Lighting

In the hospital building, where patients seek medical treatment and hospital staff provide continuous support, creating a healing environment is an imperative. However, it appears that the ultimate aim to create a healing environment is not given due attention by healthcare designers. Patients’ negative experiences of the existing physical environment of a hospital building describing as depressing, confusing, dull, little natural light, stressful, noisy causing sleep deprivation, anxiety, isola...

ARCH

This paper proposes a procedure for testing alternative specifications of the short term interest rate’s dynamics which takes into account that according to some restrictions the interest rate is nonstationary, i.e. the traditional test statistic has a non-standard distribution. Moreover, we do not take the specification of the mean equation as given by the theory but rather base the decision of the lag structure on a robust Lagrange Multiplier test. In contrast to U.S. data we find that the vol...

Index of Stream Conditions (ISC), environmental management, rivers in Victoria, waterway management, Victorian rivers, Australia

Measuring the environmental condition of waterways is of interest to river managers, governments and the community. In the State of Victoria, Australia and elsewhere, there is concern that environmental values of streams are declining and that information about the environment, needs to be considered when river management decisions are being made. , This thesis explores the use of environmental indicators as a tool to assist management of rivers. The promise of indicators is that they can turn l...

neurogenic inflammation, diabetes mellitus, tissue repair, skin, endothelins, free radicals, AGEs, microvascular blood flow

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic syndrome affecting carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism. It is characterized primarily by relative or absolute insufficiency of insulin secretion (type I diabetes or IDDM) or concomitant insensitivity / resistance to the metabolic action of insulin on target tissues (Type II diabetes or NIDDM), both resulting in hyperglycaemia. Diabetes mellitus is known to induce microvascular changes and alterations to neuronal functions. The neurovascular system comprising ...

cultural studies, intellectual in contemporary life, social and cultural location, Lawrence Grossberg, Andrew Ross, Meaghan Morris

Over the past four or so decades, a number of social transformations—including in particular the dramatic expansion of the tertiary education sector—have impacted significantly on the role and status of the intellectual in contemporary life. While the authority of the intellectual was once based on a claim to universality, the openly professionalised nature of contemporary intellectual life has thoroughly problematised such claims. Accordingly, the broadly representative role that so-called “pub...

Alistair Knox, architecture, landscape, landscape architecture

This project examines the contribution of Alistair Knox (1912-1986) to the development of an integrated approach to built form in the Australian landscape. Knox is renowned for his environmental building work in the Eltham area of Victoria during the second half of the twentieth century. This work responded to a unique set of circumstances involving postwar shortages of building materials, the prior history of earth building in the region, the existence and tradition of artistic communities chal...

trachoma, indigenous health

Trachoma is known to be a significant cause of blindness in Australia. It was brought into the public spotlight 30 years ago by Fred Hollows. Unfortunately public interest has waned and so have efforts to combat this terrible and painful blinding disease. The World Health Organization has set the goal of eliminating the disease by 2020. Unless momentum is soon gained in Australia, there is a very real risk that Australia will be the last country on earth where blinding trachoma remains. The impo...

ethnography, history, social customs, Rarotonga, Cook Islands, alcohol, social anthropology, medical anthropolog, kava, political economy

This thesis describes the place of alcohol in the lives of people from Rarotonga, Cook Islands. It incorporates historical and ethnographic analyses to provide the broad context of drinking by people aged from their teens to late thirties. , The historical component of this study describes specific accounts of alcohol consumption, and situates these with regard to changes that occurred in Rarotonga from the early 19th century. Prior to contact with Papa’a (Europeans), people of Rarotonga neither...

260100 Geology

This study aims at understanding parental melt compositions and evolutionary history of mantle-derived kimberlitic magmas, using unaltered Udachnaya-East kimberlite as an example. , Recent advances in theoretical, experimental and melt inclusion research strongly suggest that the mantle is highly heterogeneous on a small scale, but this heterogeneity is effectively obscured by the blended nature of most erupted magmas. Thus, the original compositions of individual mantle-derived melt batches tha...

260102 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology

This study aims to develop a robust research methodology to examine the evolution of magmatic volatile phases during the cooling of felsic magmas via detailed melt- and fluid-inclusion studies, in particular the investigation of inclusions originally containing both melt and aqueous fluid. Then, using these techniques I will examine fluid immiscibility processes in two felsic magmatic systems, one mineralised, the other barren. In particular, I address the constraints on the exsolution of magmat...

321202 Epidemiology

This epidemiological thesis firstly reviews the disease Multiple Sclerosis (MS): its history, pathology, clinical expression, and the current views on immunopathogenesis, aetiology and treatment. A separate review on ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and MS indicates that recent work in photoimmunology provides evidence that UVR can attenuate T helper 1 cell mediated processes through several mechanisms, and that epidemiological features of MS, such as the striking latitudinal gradient and seasonal va...

390100 Law

This thesis examines the social, political and legal basis for the establishment of a national regime for the oversight of risks posed by gene technology in Australia. It provides an overview of the public debate about gene technology and considers how that debate served to motivate and shift the focus of regulatory reform which led to the Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth) (GTA). The debate about gene technology belies a much deeper social preoccupation with novel risk generally - something describ...

270706 Life Histories (incl. Population Ecology)

The Orange-bellied Parrot is one of only two obligate migratory parrots in the world. The species is listed nationally as endangered and has been the subject of intensive study and conservation activities over the past 25 years. Reproductive and demographic data collected over this period from the wild population form the basis of this thesis. Remote breeding sites in southwestern Tasmania at Melaleuca and Birchs Inlet were used to study this species in the wild. Through deployment of up to 52 a...

390100 Law

My thesis examines the treatment of women who kill their violent male partners within the Australian criminal justice system. The primary aim of my study is to examine the circumstances in which women kill their violent partners and to explore the ability of the criminal law to have proper regard to these circumstances. The interaction between the criminal law and battered women who kill their violent partners is a topical issue that has generated substantial interest and debate in many western ...

420201 British and Irish

This thesis analyses the work of British writer Sarah Waters, focussing on the inseparability of spatiality and the expression of sexuality in her novels. Since 1998, Waters has published three books set in the mid-to-late Victorian era, featuring lesbian protagonists: Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith. All three novels are examples of lesbian fiction, but they are also arguably works of historiographic metafiction and post-Victorian novels. They have been critically and popularly acc...

420205 Latin and Classical Greek

The aim of my thesis is to extend the current discussions of ethnography, epistolarity and the ancient persona, to the text of Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto. It is a particularly appropriate text to extend the ideas of literary and cultural identity and epistolarity as the poems are written as letters by an urban Roman poet who is exiled to the end of the known world. His poems reveal, in the medium he knows best, the varied responses of a sophisticated city-dwelling poet to life in the wilderne...

420300 Cultural Studies

My thesis examines the discourse which has encoded the dingo since it arrived in Australia nearly five thousand years ago. While post-colonial theory has exposed the ideological structures and material practices which position indigenous peoples as "other" to the colonisers, most scholars have remained curiously silent when it comes to nonhumans. Animals now stand as the ultimate "other", denied a subjective life of their own, for their behaviour is usually read, as Helen Tif...

270400 Botany

A series of experiments was conducted with the view of obtaining baseline information on the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) on Tasmanian Oak for the purpose of improving the quality of the seasoned structural timber product. Tasmanian Oak is the marketing name for a triad of Tasmanian-grown eucalypt species (E. delegatensis, E. obliqua, and E. regnans). Incubation of freshly-milled timber in aqueous PEG solutions prior to seasoning follows on from investigations in northern hemispheric timber ...

340101 Microeconomic Theory

This thesis examines and compares the nature, magnitude and movement in the inequality of income and expenditure of Australian households from 1975-76 to 1998-99 and Canadian households from 1978 to 1992. The inequality of welfare impacts on an individual’s feelings of belonging and participation in society and the level of social division within it. It may have such tangible effects as political unrest and increased crime. This raises the issue of, what is happening to the inequality of welfare...

SWARCH

本篇論文主為信用價差之時間序列研究，及其和違約相關性之間之互動關係研究。發現信用價差之水準值及波動性，都具有兩個明顯不同的狀態期間，另發現信用價差和違約相關系數之間存在正向關係，且信用價差之高低波動狀態和景氣呈現反向變動。 , In this paper, I empirically investigate the dynamics of credit spread with regime switching analysis. The finding exhibits evidence of two distinctive volatility as well as mean regimes for credit spread changes. Moreover, I document (1) that the volatility of credit spread positively corresponds to default correlation and (2) that lower (higher) volatility regimes corresponds to bo...

power

同時比較多個樣本間的差異，可用ANOVA來檢定，但ANOVA只能得到樣本間有差異的訊息，無法明確指出是哪些樣本間有差異，需要使用多重比較找出樣本間的差異。本文主要探討相關的離散型資料的多重比較，以型I誤差與檢定力兩指標找出最適的多重比較法。本文依序探討獨立的連續型資料、相關的連續型資料、獨立的離散型資料、相關的離散型資料，並針對相關型的資料提出修正法。綜合型I誤差與檢定力兩指標來看，在樣本間的平均差異小時，Shaffer’s first procedure Test (1986)、Procedure 4 by Bergmann and Hommel (1988)為兩兩比較下較佳的修正法，Hochberg Test (1988)為多對ㄧ比較下較佳的修正法；樣本間平均差異大時，Bonferroni 為兩兩比較下較佳的修正法，Hochberg (1988)、Simes (1986)為多對ㄧ比較下較佳的修正法。 , Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is usually applied to check whether there are differences amo...

psychological aspects of crises in Australia, psychological aspects of violence, Port Arthur, mass murder, Tasmania, 1996, Darwin, Northern Territory, cyclone, 1974, 1972-1975

The title of this thesis borrows the notion of ‘wounded space’ from anthropologist and historian Deborah Bird Rose. The work’s central aspiration is to initiate a conversation about the power and fate of physical settings of traumatic events, and, in particular, about the cultural work such places can be seen to perform in the contemporary Western world. My focus is on ‘traumascapes’ places that are traditionally described and understood as haunted. I use the notion of traumascapes as a means of...

Indonesian language, bahasa indonesian, grammar

The grammatical function subject can be identified reliably in Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian), but the same is not true of other clause-level nominal constituents in the language. The tests proposed in previous studies for identifying an object grammatical function turn out to be unreliable and inconsistent when the full range of data is considered. This thesis attempts to clarify the problem by examining non-subject arguments in Indonesian in the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Gramm...

Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, Lihir Island, New Ireland Province, mining, social change, economic change, political change, cultural change, cultural continuity, big men, exchange, Pacific history, colonial history, development, personal viability, political economy of mining, neoliberalism, possessive individualism, modernity, custom, kastom, cargo cults, class division, status division, consumption, men's houses

This thesis is concerned with the cultural shifts that have occurred in Lihir, Papua New Guinea, as Lihirians were drawn into greater engagement with the capitalist system, initially through the colonial labour trade and more recently through large-scale resource extraction. This research draws upon 15 months of fieldwork in the Lihir Islands from 2003 to 2004. This thesis is intended as a critical dialogue with world system theorists.World systems arguments are constructive for understanding ho...

design and construction of chimneys, reinforced concrete construction, earthquake resistant design

Current codes of practice for the design of tall concrete chimneys provide conservative aseismic design guidelines in high seismic regions. A lack of experimental data related to the cyclic behaviour of chimney structures to severe earthquake excitation has resulted in the assumption that such structures are brittle and must be designed in the elastic range. This design approach results in expensive structures and is not consistent with the design philosophy commonly adopted for general structur...

Action Path

客戶在從事消費時，往往會有許多不一樣的行為產生。對組織而言，研究客戶的消費行為能夠協助組織更了解客戶的資訊，進而支援其經營活動。以往與客戶行為相關的資料挖掘研究，較著重於客戶的消費資料。而對於客戶在商店中做了那些動作，及其動作會導致發生的事件並沒有較全盤及深入的討論。對實體業者而言，要實際的去記錄使用者在商店內的行為，是不太可行的；但相對的說，隨著網際網路與資料收集技術的發展，網站經營者應用log留存技術，將比傳統業者更容易且完整的收集到消費者行為記錄。本研究試圖在全球資訊網的環境中建立一個能夠同時分析使用者的瀏覽網頁路徑及其動作過程的演算法；並且配合該演算法建置一個雛形系統，以驗証其效能，最後並評估其日後實務操作的可行性。 , Different kind of customer purchases with different behavior. Studying the customer’s purchase behavior can help organizations understand their client intentions to support their bu...

asylum seekers

本篇論文企圖探討史蒂芬‧佛瑞爾斯 ( Stephen Frears ) 的電影《美麗壞東西》( Dirty Pretty Things ) 中的公民權與人權之議題。片中描述從奈及利亞非法入境的奧奎 (Okwe) 與來自土耳其申請政治庇護的桑娜 (Senay) 因其游移的身分，遭逢英國政府監控與資本主義社會剝削，並揭露倫敦城市中非法難民販賣器官以求生存的黑暗面。本篇論文著重分析政治庇護者的矛盾身分如何擾亂民族國家的監視、暴露僅以公民權利保障境內人民的缺失，並主張唯有透過跨種族、階級，與性別的聯合 ( solidarity ) 才能對抗國家機制裡的矛盾與全球資本主義的剝削。論文第二章以德希達 ( Jacques Derrida ) 的制約款待 ( conditional hospitality )，與傅柯 ( Michel Foucault ) 的監視 ( Panopticon ) 概念，探討片中監控 ( surveillance ) 機制的形成。第三章引進布斯克與夏弗 (Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir ) 提出公民權 (citizenship) 與人權 (...

本研究之目的為進行訓練需求評估的理論與實務應用之探討：理論探討方面，談到訓練需求評估的意義、目的、三個需求分析層次（組織需求分析、工作需求分析、和人員需求分析）、訓練需求評估的方法、能力為基礎的訓練需求評估和訓練需求評估者的能力需求，以及訓練規劃的基本概念；在實務應用方面，本研究則以行政院公務人力發展中心為個案，探討公務訓練機構的訓練需求評估實施現況與相關問題。研究方法係以深度訪談為主，訪談對象為公務人力發展中心之負責訓練需求評估的人員，與其他各組室的成員；問卷調查為輔，採用描述性統計，以次數分配、百分比、交叉表的分析方式，呈現公務人力發展中心的學員對於受訓課程的整體感受，以及能力需求等調查結果。實證調查的結果發現，個案單位的訓練需求的調查，仍以訓練需求調查表向各機關進行調查的例行方式為主，需求的評估多半以學員的課後滿意度問卷調查為依據，評估方式缺少多元化等等問題。本研究則在文未提出對個案單位與其他行政機關的訓練單位幾點建議，如重視培養訓練需求評估的觀念、增加主動調查需求的方法、建立能力需求評估制度、改善訓練需求調查表的呈現方式等等。 , The purpose of the rese...

多人虛擬環境系統結合了虛擬實境與分散式系統，讓網路上的使用者利用各自的虛擬人物(avatar)，在一個擬真的虛擬環境中進行互動。目前此類系統，大多因為受限於其訊息傳輸協定中的格式過於固定，使得虛擬人物動畫播放的設計，皆只能應要求以循序的方式播放，進行一來一往式的互動。為了讓虛擬人物的肢體語言動畫播放更有彈性，本論文以XML標準設計傳輸協定中的訊息結構，包裝動晝的相關資訊，以傳送至使用者端播放。為了說明此包裝方式上的延展性，我設計了三個使虛擬人物動畫播放更有彈性的功能：「虛擬人物動作的同步化」、「彈性的動畫劇本」、「不同動畫型態的整合播放方式」。我選擇以一個開放原始碼的多人虛擬環境系統VNet做為實驗平台，改寫其傳輸協定及動畫模擬等模組，並實作上述延展功能。另外，為了讓我的實驗平台提供更多加值應用的可能，我也設計了一套虛擬使用者的軟體發展介面，及訊息監控介面。最後，透過數個場景與動畫範例，我以實證方式說明此一虛擬環境系統在動畫展示上的延展性。 , A multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) system integrates the technolog...

The effect of the properties of the starting boron powders on the superconducting properties of MgB2 has been studied. Low grade boron powders are attractive because of their low cost, but produced lower surface reactivity and larger particle size than high purity (99%) amorphous boron powder, indicating that the low grade powders cannot be used to achieve the same superconducting properties as those of samples made from pure 99% boron powder. However, the low purity boron powders can be improve...

The work presented in this submission deals with the impact of colonisation on the Australian Aboriginals, it is presented in two parts, one a written dissertation, the other an exhibition of ceramic art. Using both aspects, I investigate the relationship between Aboriginal and white societies, both in an historical and present day context, and claim that this relationship constitutes genocide.This narrative is not written from a straight historical point of view, in that I do not look at differ...

elektronische Publikationen

Rechercheergebnisse, die man auch noch nach Jahren unter der gleichen Adresse auffinden kann, sind in der heutigen Zeit außerordentlich wichtig. Als Hilfe für künftige Recherchen hier ein Angebot von Recherchemöglichkeiten, die innerhalb des Projektes »Dissertationen Online« entwickelt wurden.

Begutachtungsverfahren

Für die organisatorische Unterstützung wissenschaftlicher Konferenzen einschließlich der Abwicklung des Publikationsworkflows stellt der Computer- und Medienservice eine webbasierte Software bereit, auf die die unterschiedlichen Nutzergruppen gleichermaßen zugreifen können. Dieser Artikel stellt die wesentlichen Eigenschaften dieses bereits mehrfach erprobten Systems vor.

Printserver

Die Programme zur Bearbeitung von Studenten-, Finanz- und Personaldaten werden mit Hilfe von Terminalservern bereitgestellt. Dazu wurde eine Serverfarm auf Basis von MS Windows 2003 und Citrix MetaFrame aufgebaut.

Podcast

Das Netz wird sozial. Immer mehr Angebote, die die interaktive Kommunikation, Interaktion und Kooperation unterstützen, werden inzwischen unter dem Begriff »Social Software« zusammengefasst. Die Systeme überzeugen durch Selbstorganisation und hohe Netzwerkbildung. Vor allem Wikis und Weblogs sowie Podcasts sind webbasierte Anwendungen, die auch die wissenschaftliche Lehre und Forschung fördern können.

Lernmodul

Das Projekt e-Robot bereitet ein über das Internet bedienbares Labor vor, in dem die Steuerung realer Roboter entwickelt und praktisch erprobt werden kann. Das Labor arbeitet ressourcenschonend und eröffnet gleichzeitig völlig neue Möglichkeiten des Zugangs für Studierende zu Hardware und eigenen experimentellen Daten sowie zur weltweiten kooperativen Forschung und Lehre im Bereich der humanoiden Robotik.

VIWISS

Auf der in Moodle realisierten Kommunikationsplattform können sich an einem Informatikstudium interessierte Schüler/innen mit Studierenden über ihre Fragen zum Studium austauschen und einen ersten Eindruck von den Anforderungen eines Informatikstudiums gewinnen.

Smartcard

X.509-Zertifikate (im Weiteren Zertifikate) werden in asymmetrischen Kryptoverfahren verwendet. Dabei besitzt jede der kommunizierenden Parteien ein Schlüsselpaar, welches aus einem geheimen Teil (privater Schlüssel) und einem nicht geheimen Teil (öffentlicher Schlüssel) besteht. Der private Schlüssel ermöglicht es seinem Inhaber zum Beispiel, Daten zu entschlüsseln, digitale Signaturen zu erzeugen oder sich zu authentisieren. Der öffentliche Schlüssel ermöglicht es jedermann, Daten für den Schl...

PHP

Seit Beginn der Existenz des Applikationsservers Zope gibt es immer wieder Bestrebungen, nicht-python-basierte Anwendungen innerhalb von Zope nutzen zu können. Insbesondere an Hochschulen wird erst in jüngster Zeit ein Trend zu zentralen Websystemen erkennbar. Wie aber können nun die vielen dezentralen Webserver und auch unterschiedlichen Technologien in einem zentralen System vereint werden? Im folgenden Artikel stellen wir anhand existierender PHP-Schnittstellen Zope-Produkte vor, die eine Ein...

School of Psychology

This study investigated relationships between problem video game playing, self-esteem and social skills in an adult sample. Via the internet, 621 (560 male) primarily Australian participants completed three scales: the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the multidimensional Social Skills Inventory and Problem Video Game Playing Scale. Hypotheses were: that problem video game playing would be related to social skills and self esteem; that time spent playing online games would be related to social skill...

Bethesda Statement

Der Beitrag gibt, ausgehend von einem ersten Definitionsversuch, einen Abriss zur Geschichte von „Open Access“. Er beschreibt die beiden Hauptvarianten der Open-Access-Bewegung (OA „Grün“ vs. OA „Gold“) und benennt die Hauptproblempunkte und aktuellen Diskussionsbereiche im Open-Access-Publizieren. Der Beitrag schließt mit der Benennung derjenigen Felder in der wissenschaftlichen Welt, in denen für die dauerhafte Durchsetzung des Open-Access-Gedankens vorrangig Handlungsbedarf gegeben ist.

Leitlinien

Der Artikel beschreibt in Form eines instruktiven Leitfadens mögliche Herangehensweisen beim Aufbau eines Institutional Repository und stellt Vorüberlegungen und Entscheidungsoptionen dar, die sich für Vorbereitung und Betrieb einer Publikationsplattform ergeben. Die Definition der Anforderungen und die darauf aufbauende Argumentation erfolgen auf der Basis des DINI-Zertifikats für Dokumenten- und Publikationsservices.

Service

Netwatch

Eine Übersicht über Systeme für das Management von Datennetzen, die die Netzwerkgruppe des CMS einsetzt, bietet die folgende Abfassung. Es werden Systeme und Tools skizziert, die überwiegend für Netzwerkadministratoren interessant sind. Das Tool Netwatch bietet darüber hinaus unseren Nutzern die Möglichkeit, sich über den Netzwerkzustand zu informieren.

Multimediaservice

DINI-Empfehlung

Computer und Internet haben neue Möglichkeiten für Forschung und Lehre gebracht, die unter den Stichworten virtuelle Lehre, E-Learning, E-Teaching, virtuelle Hochschule, digitales Publizieren usw. diskutiert werden. Sie sinnvoll zu nutzen, erfordert auch neue Kompetenzen des wissenschaftlichen Personals. Was diese neuen Anforderungen im einzelnen sind und wie diese Kompetenzen gefördert werden können, ist Gegenstand einer Empfehlung der Deutschen Initiative für Netzwerk Information. DINI empfieh...

Diskussionsforen

Kulturwissenschaft

Dienstrecht

Der Beitrag umreißt einen kleinen Teil der urheberrechtlichen Aspekte bei der Errichtung und dem Betreiben eines Medienportals. Viele weitere Fragen sollen in den FAQ’s auf den Seiten des Medienportals beantwortet werden. Senden Sie bitte daher Ihre Fragen und wir versuchen Sie rechtlich einwandfrei und für Sie zweckdienlich zu beantworten.