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Paterson, John. "Water Management and Recreational Values; Some Cases in Victoria, Australia." Water Science and Technology 21, no. 2 (February 1, 1989): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1989.0021.

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The growing recognition of recreational and amenity demands on water systems introduces a multitude of issues, many of them complex, to the established tasks of water quality management and water management generally. Victorian case studies are presented. They (1) illustrate the range and diversity of situations that can arise in managing competition and enhancing compatibility between traditional water supply objectives and recreational demands. (2) Fluctuation of storage levels, essential to storage operations, detract from recreational value. Recreational and tourism demands upon Lake Hume have grown to threaten traditional operating flexibility. (3) Mokoan is another such instance, but with its supply function in a state of flux, Lake Mokoan provides more scope for a shift in the balance. (4) Salinity management has become an issue in the management of lakes and wetlands when water supply interests and environmental/recreation interests respectively have different perspectives on salt disposal. (5) Recreational use of town supply sources has long been a vexed issue, although marked shifts in the attitudues of many supply authorities have occurred in recent years. (6) Eutrophication of lakes and estuaries raises difficult issues of responsibility and scientific uncertainty, and the water management connection may be tenuous but will attract public attention. (7) The water body attributes valued by specialised recreational interests require definition in terms that water managers can deal with using routine techniques of systems analysis and evaluation. (8) The demands of the fish population and anglers introduce a new perspective in river management and perceptions of instream values are changing markedly. (9) Direct costs of recreational services supplied by water authorities are not fully accounted: allocation choices and fiscal incidence will emerge as issues of significance. (10) These case studies raise only a fraction of the total range of matters that will, in the years to come, tax the technology and political skills of governments and management.

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Renzaho, Andre. "Re-visioning cultural competence in community health services in Victoria." Australian Health Review 32, no. 2 (2008): 223. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah080223.

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There are few studies exploring the need to develop and manage culturally competent health services for refugees and migrants from diverse backgrounds. Using data from 50 interviews with service providers from 26 agencies, and focus group discussion with nine different ethnic groups, this paper examines how the Victorian state government funding and service agreements negatively impact on the quest to achieve cultural competence. The study found that service providers have adopted ?one approach fits all? models of service delivery. The pressure and competition for resources to address culturally and linguistically diverse communities? needs allows little opportunity for partnership and collaboration between providers, leading to insufficient sharing of information and duplication of services, poor referrals, incomplete assessment of needs, poor compliance with medical treatment, underutilisation of available services and poor continuity of care. This paper outlines a model for cultural consultation and developing needs-led rather than serviceled programs.

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Hess, Kristy, and Kathryn Bowd. "Friend or Foe? Regional Newspapers and the Power of Facebook." Media International Australia 156, no. 1 (August 2015): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1515600104.

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This article examines how some regional newspapers in Australia are engaging with the social media juggernaut Facebook, and looks at the effects of this on their relationships with audiences in a digital world. We highlight how terms such as friend' and ‘community’ mask complex power struggles taking place across these two media platforms. On the one hand, Facebook can facilitate public conversation and widen the options for journalists to access information; on the other, it has become a competitor as news outlets struggle to find a business model for online spaces. We suggest that newspapers and journalists are facing challenges in navigating the complexities of a platform that crosses public/private domains at a time when the nature of ‘private’ and ‘public’ is being contested. The article adopts a ‘pooled case comparison’ approach, drawing on data from two separate Australian studies that examine regional newspapers in a digital landscape. The research draws on interviews with journalists and editors in Australia across three states, and on focus groups and interviews with newspaper readers in Victoria.

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Appleton, Andrew M., and Daniel S. Ward. "Party Organizational Response to Electoral Change: Texas and Arkansas." American Review of Politics 15 (July 1, 1994): 191–212. http://dx.doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1994.15.0.191-212.

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This article examines the ways in which state parties have responded to changes in patterns of electoral competition. We contend that parties have tended to alter their organizational practices not only in anticipation of future elections, but also as a function of previous ones. The data are formed by case studies of the Republican parties in Texas and Arkansas in the 1960s and 1970s. The sources of much of these data were the records of the parties themselves. This time period was chosen as it represents a dynamic period for Southern parties when the electoral landscape of the region was transformed. Both Republican party organizations were faced with opportunities that resulted from unanticipated election victories; however, the Texas party was more successful in capitalizing on this opportunity. We explain this by a number of organizational attributes.

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Ho, C. K. M., B. Malcolm, and P. T. Doyle. "Potential impacts of negative associative effects between concentrate supplements, pasture and conserved forage for milk production and dairy farm profit." Animal Production Science 53, no. 5 (2013): 437. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/an12140.

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A case study and whole-farm modelling approach was used to examine the potential impacts of negative associative effects on milk production and economic performance of two dairy farms in northern Victoria. The two case studies differed in herd and farm size, calving pattern, forages grown and use of labour, but both had production systems based on grazed pasture, grain fed in the dairy at milking and conserved hay fed out in the paddock. The feeding system of each farm was altered by implementing a partial mixed ration (PMR), where cows grazed once a day and received supplements in a well formulated mix once a day. Negative associative effects between feeds were included in the biophysical modelling by deriving a relationship from published studies between declining neutral detergent fibre digestibility and increasing grain intake. Before applying a PMR system, both farms were profitable and earning competitive rates of return after tax, with mean real internal rate of return higher than 5%, and positive mean annual operating profit and mean net present value, at a discount rate of 5%. Feeding a PMR enabled both farms to increase profitability and internal rate of return, particularly if milk production was increased as well, but only when associative effects were less than those in the feeding system based on grain fed in the dairy and hay in the paddock. Increased profitability was also associated with higher standard deviation in annual operating profit, internal rate of return and net present value, in other words risk increased under the PMR feeding system, as the businesses would be more vulnerable to fluctuating supplementary feed prices.

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Duchamp, Linda Timmel. "Desperately Seeking Approval: The Importance of Distinguishing Between Approval and Recognition." Hypatia 3, no. 2 (1988): 163–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1988.tb00078.x.

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Victoria Davion confuses seeking approval with the desire for recognition of and respect for one's difference. Ironically, when she asserts that the desire to please others provides an incentive to do well (and thus constitutes a positive aspect of competition) Davion undermines her argument that competition enhances one's sense of self. Rather than enhancing one's sense of self, striving to win approval from others sabotages one's ability to rely on her own judgment and take moral responsibility for herself.

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Heard, J. W., K. R. Lawrence, C. K. M. Ho, and B. Malcolm. "Comparing the profitability of a dairy business with alternative investments." Animal Production Science 57, no. 7 (2017): 1330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/an16478.

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In the present study, the profitability of a dairy-farm case study evaluated over the period 2003–2004 to 2014–2015 was compared with the performance of other dairy farms and other non-agricultural investments over the same time. Investments are generally made on the expectation that a net return will be earned that justifies using capital in one particular way rather than an alternative way. The expected, and actual, returns from capital invested in different assets will differ according to the risks involved. Investors choose an investment, and mixes of investments, that align with their goals, preferences for risk and anticipated returns over time. Dairy farming involves investing in assets, such as land and improvements, water, livestock, plant and equipment, and people, which are managed to produce milk and ultimately to earn a competitive return on capital. With uncertain seasonal conditions, fluctuating costs and prices, declining terms of trade, wide ranges of equity and management abilities, and a steady decline in the number of commercial farm businesses, it may be tempting to presume that investing in farming, and dairy farming in particular, is a hard road, leading to lower and more variable returns than investing in non-agricultural investment opportunities in the economy. This need not be the case. Analysis of how a dairy business in northern Victoria performed from 2003–2004 to 2014–2015 showed that this farm did well compared with (i) other dairy businesses in Victoria and (ii) alternative investments, such as shares, bonds and property, over the same time. Compound annual return to capital for the dairy farm over the 12 years studied was 12.4% (real, before tax). Over half the return came from the farming operations and the remainder came from owning assets that appreciated in value, particularly in this case, water. The dairy business that was studied was well managed and earned higher annual average returns than the average returns of investments with similar risk elsewhere in the economy, such as shares, and matched it with the best performing of these alternative investments.

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Teare, Sheldon, and Danielle Measday. "Pyrite Rehousing – Recent Case Studies at Two Australian Museums." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 13, 2018): e26343. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26343.

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Two major collecting institutions in Australia, the Australian Museum (Sydney) and Museums Victoria (Melbourne), are currently undertaking large-scale anoxic rehousing projects in their collections to control conservation issues caused by pyrite oxidation. This paper will highlight the successes and challenges of the rehousing projects at both institutions, which have collaborated on developing strategies to mitigate loss to their collections. In 2017, Museums Victoria Conservation undertook a survey with an Oxybaby M+ Gas Analyser to assess the oxygen levels in all their existing anoxic microclimates before launching a program to replace failed microclimates and expand the number of specimens housed in anoxic storage. This project included a literature review of current conservation materials and techniques associated with anoxic storage, and informed the selection of the RP System oxygen scavenger and Escal Neo barrier film from Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company as the best-practice products to use for this application. Conservation at the Australian Museum in Sydney was notified of wide-scale pyrite decay in the Palaeontology and Mineral collections. It was noted that many of the old high-barrier film enclosures, done more than ten years ago, were showing signs of failing. None of the Palaeontology specimens had ever been placed in microclimates. After consultation with Museums Victoria and Collection staff, a similar pathway used by Museums Victoria was adopted. Because of the scale of the rehousing project, standardized custom boxes were made, making the construction of hundreds of boxes easier. It is hoped that new products, like the tube-style Escal film, will extend the life of this rehousing project. Enclosures are being tested at the Australian Museum with a digital oxygen meter. Pyrite rehousing projects highlight the loss of Collection materials and data brought about by the inherent properties of some specimens. The steps undertaken to mitigate or reduce the levels of corrosion are linked to the preservation of both the specimens and the data kept with them (paper labels). These projects benefited from the collaboration of Natural Sciences conservators in Australia with Geosciences collections staff. Natural Science is a relatively recent specialization for the Australian conservation profession and it is important to build resources and capacity for conservators to care for these collections. This applied knowledge has already been passed on to other regions in Australia.

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Lehr, William. "Compatibility Standards And Industry Competition: Two Case Studies." Economics of Innovation and New Technology 4, no. 2 (January 1996): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10438599600000002.

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Booth, Alison. "MILLENNIAL VICTORIA." Victorian Literature and Culture 29, no. 1 (March 2001): 159–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150301291104.

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HAVING SURVIVED THE Y2K HYSTERIA, we may feel we have entered new corridors of one hundred and one thousand years. But it is only in 2001 that the punctilious and historical among us may at last observe a centennial, truly the final year of the past century and the hundredth anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria.1 The Jubilees in the last decades of Victoria’s life, and the ceremonies of international mourning that followed her death, might seem to have said goodbye to all that, but in many ways we are still under the sway of the great queen who lent her name to the age before “the American century.” Our own fin-de-siècle urges us to rediscover the many forms of Victoria that have “been hidden in plain view for a hundred years,” as Margaret Homans and Adrienne Munich put it in their co-edited collection of essays, Remaking Queen Victoria (1).2 While North American and British feminist studies have dwelt among Victorian ways since the 1970s — with implications that I will consider below — the queen herself has recently commanded critical attention that might seem, like so many features of Victoria’s public performance, out of proportion. Yet that excess, like our obeisance to the arbitrary power of the calendar, seems to be the very stuff of imagined community and ideological construction, and thus worth watching in action. In any case, when feminist literary critics such as Adrienne Munich, Margaret Homans, and Gail Turley Houston

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Parmentier, Marie-Agnès. "When David Met Victoria." Family Business Review 24, no. 3 (May 10, 2011): 217–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0894486511408415.

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This article seeks to understand how distinctive family brands are created. Recent studies in family business have focused on the benefits for a firm to be known as family owned or family controlled. Few studies have paid attention to the distinct meanings stakeholders associate with a given family or to how that family comes to have those associations in the eyes of external stakeholders. Based on a case study of one of the entertainment industry’s most successful family brands—The Beckhams—four practices conducive to building brand distinctiveness and brand visibility are identified.

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Woyo, Erisher, and Elmarie Slabbert. "Cross-border destination marketing of attractions between borders: the case of Victoria Falls." Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Insights 2, no. 2 (June 3, 2019): 145–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jhti-10-2018-0073.

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PurposeThe success of tourism destinations is in many cases measured from a competitive advantage perspective, not from a collaborative advantage perspective, which limits the possibilities of destination marketing in a collaborative cross-border context. Currently, the marketing efforts of Victoria Falls are highly fragmented as each country promotes the attraction separately. The purpose of this paper is to explore the cross-border destination marketing possibilities and realities of Victoria Falls from a demand and supply side perspective.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative approach was applied in this study, with two separate surveys being conducted. Data for the demand side were collected by means of a questionnaire that was distributed by fieldworkers, while data for the supply side were collected online. The data were analysed using descriptive statistics, factor analyses and one-way analysis of variance.FindingsFive specific tourist motivations for visiting Victoria Falls were identified using demand data, of which sightseeing and destination attributes were the most important. Significant differences were found for tourists’ cross-border experiences using different border access points. Using supply data, challenges and opportunities of cross-border marketing were analysed. The most important opportunity was identified as cooperation, while the key challenges were economic and policy related. It is important to see the bigger picture and how cooperation can benefit both countries, which is unfortunately not currently the case for Zambia and Zimbabwe.Practical implicationsThere is a need for tourism destinations to shift from competition-based strategies to collaboration-based strategies in order to be successful. Cross-border marketing requires that each country understands tourists’ motivations and experiences. For Zambia and Zimbabwe to increase their tourist arrivals, income and investment opportunities, both countries must move away from isolating their marketing efforts of Victoria Falls. It is important to look beyond the individual benefits for each country and focus on the combined benefits. The challenges identified in this study must be addressed if Zambia and Zimbabwe’s cross-border marketing of Victoria Falls is to be effective. The integration of demand and supply views is thus critical for cross-border marketing to be effective and successful.Originality/valueResearch on cross-border destination marketing of shared border attractions is limited. With regard to Victoria Falls, such research has never been explored in an academic context. This study has value for destination marketers of Zambia and Zimbabwe, especially for attractions that are shared between their borders such as Victoria Falls and Kariba Dam. Additionally, the study has implications for attractions that are shared across the borders of southern African countries like Zimbabwe, South Africa and Mozambique, as well as other attractions shared between borders in the global context.

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Rubin, Yu V., M. V. Lednev, and D. P. Mozhzhukhin. "Competition Studies: Structuring Competencies in University Entrepreneurship Programs." Higher Education in Russia 28, no. 1 (March 7, 2019): 21–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31992/0869-3617-2019-28-1-21-33.

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. In this article, we introduce competition as an essential part of professional entrepreneurship activity and competition studies – as a significant direction in entrepreneurship education system. Competition competencies come into play at any stage of the entrepreneurship process. In this case, it is important to place competition competencies on relevant position within mainstream research in entrepreneurship education.The purpose of this article is to take a rational approach to defining, classifying competition competencies in entrepreneurship, and to structuring them as significant learning outcomes in entrepreneurship education in accordance with the types, kinds, methods, character, manners, styles of actor’s competition behavior, directions of competition management. Paper defines and describes categories of competition competencies.

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Alborn, Timothy L. "A Calculating Profession: Victorian Actuaries among the Statisticians." Science in Context 7, no. 3 (1994): 433–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0269889700001770.

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The ArgumentHistorians of science naturally tend to express interest in other forms of intellectual activity only when these intersect with science. This tendncy has produced a number of enlightening studies of what happens when science and (for instance) law or theology come into contact, but little by way of how science enters into the calculations and social status of such forms of knowledge after the conjuction has passed. Recent work in the sociology of professions, in contrast, has focused attention precisely on those moments when the expert knowledge produced by different group doesnotoverlap. This has been the contribution of Andrew Abbortt's theory of “jurisdictional boundaries” between competing professions. The case of Victorian actuaries who worked hard to maintain unique intellectual claims in the competitive life insurance industry while maintainiing strong social connections and overlaps in knowledge with organized science, challenges the way both historians of science and sociologists of professions view contending knowledge claims. By observing what motivated actuaries to forge an alliance with men of science in the 1820s, then tracing their gradual recognition of a need to distance themselves from certain of the “scientific” values that had earlier informed their collective identity, it is possible to make sense of connections as well as disconnections between science and other forms of knowledge. A history of quantification from the actuaries' perspective, in other words, allows us to view science bothasandincontext.

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Wheeler, Fiona, and Jennifer Laing. "Tourism as a Vehicle for Liveable Communities: Case studies from regional Victoria, Australia." Annals of Leisure Research 11, no. 1-2 (January 2008): 242–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2008.9686795.

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Serena, M., and G. A. Williams. "Movements and cumulative range size of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) inferred from mark–recapture studies." Australian Journal of Zoology 60, no. 5 (2012): 352. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/zo12121.

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The extent of mammalian movements often varies with size, sex and/or reproductive status. Fyke nets were set along streams and rivers near Melbourne (southern Victoria) from the mid-1990s to 2007, and in the Wimmera River catchment (western Victoria) from 1997 to 2005, to assess how far platypus of different age and sex classes travelled between captures and over longer periods. The mean distance between consecutive captures of adults did not vary significantly as intervals increased from 1–3 months to >3 years, suggesting that most individuals occupied stable ranges. However, adult females travelled, on average, only 35% as far between captures as males in southern Victoria, and 29% as far in the Wimmera. Up to half of this difference may be explained by variation in size-related metabolic requirements. Immature males and females respectively moved 61% and 53% as far, on average, as their adult equivalents, although two young males dispersed >40 km. Adults incrementally occupied up to 13.9 km of channel in the case of a male (based on six captures over 67 months) and 4.4 km of channel in the case of a female (based on five captures over 127 months).

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McGregor, Sean, and Amir Banifatemi. "Year One of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE: Case Studies in “AI for Good”." AI Magazine 39, no. 3 (September 28, 2018): 27–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v39i3.2812.

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The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE is a four-year competition where teams work to improve the world with artificial intelligence. The competition began in 2017 with 148 problem domains in sustainability, artificial general intelligence, education, and a variety of other grand challenge areas. 59 teams advanced to the second year of the competition and ten teams earned special recognition as “milestone nominees.” The properties of the advancing problem domains highlight opportunities and challenges for the “AI for Good” movement. We detail the judging process and highlight preliminary results from cutting the field of competing teams.

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Lleonart, Jordi, Francesc Maynou, and Jordi Salat. "An analysis of fishing gear competition. Catalan fisheries as case studies." Scientia Marina 77, no. 1 (February 13, 2013): 81–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/scimar.03691.04a.

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Kahn, Edward. "Regulating regional power systems: Case studies and perspectives on emerging competition." Energy Policy 23, no. 10 (October 1995): 923. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0301-4215(95)90002-0.

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Battams, Samantha, Toni Delany-Crowe, Matt Fisher, Lester Wright, Anthea Krieg, Dennis McDermott, and Fran Baum. "Applying Crime Prevention and Health Promotion Frameworks to the Problem of High Incarceration Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations: Lessons from a Case Study from Victoria." International Indigenous Policy Journal 12, no. 2 (May 14, 2021): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2021.12.2.10208.

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This article examines what kinds of policy reforms are required to reduce incarceration rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through a case study of policy in the Australian state of Victoria. This state provides a good example of a jurisdiction with policies focused upon, and developed in partnership with, Aboriginal communities in Victoria, but which despite this has steadily increasing incarceration rates of Indigenous people. The case study consisted of a qualitative analysis of two key justice sector policies focused upon the Indigenous community in Victoria and interviews with key justice sector staff. Case study results are analysed in terms of primary, secondary, and tertiary crime prevention; the social determinants of Indigenous health; and recommended actions from the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. Finally, recommendations are made for future justice sector policies and approaches that may help to reduce the high levels of incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Laing, Jennifer, and Warwick Frost. "Food, Wine … Heritage, Identity? Two Case Studies of Italian Diaspora Festivals in Regional Victoria." Tourism Analysis 18, no. 3 (August 9, 2013): 323–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/108354213x13673398610817.

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Slick, Daniel J., Jing E. Tan, Esther Strauss, Catherine A. Mateer, Michael Harnadek, and Elisabeth M. S. Sherman. "Victoria Symptom Validity Test Scores of Patients with Profound Memory Impairment: NonLitigant Case Studies." Clinical Neuropsychologist 17, no. 3 (August 2003): 390–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/clin.17.3.390.18090.

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Porter, Joanne E., Nareeda Miller, Anita Giannis, and Nicole Coombs. "Family Presence During Resuscitation (FPDR): Observational case studies of emergency personnel in Victoria, Australia." International Emergency Nursing 33 (July 2017): 37–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ienj.2016.12.002.

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Henkel, Steven. "Honouring God through Sports Competition." Journal of Christian Education os-50, no. 2 (September 2007): 33–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002196570705000204.

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Contemporary assumptions about competition are analysed while the case for competitive sports building character is found to be inconclusive. Particular biblical principles that apply to competitive sport are presented before the issue of human personhood and competitive sports is discussed. In place of the secular view of competition, a more godly approach is advocated that does justice to the Christian view of persons while at the same time demonstrating the benefits of sports for personal development.

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Beed, Clive, and Patrick Moriarty. "How Convincing was the Economic Case for Restructuring Local Government in Victoria?" Urban Policy and Research 5, no. 3 (September 1987): 117–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111148708551304.

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Slavinskaite, Neringa, Miloslav Novotny, and Dainora Gedvilaitė. "Evaluation of the Fiscal Decentralization: Case Studies of European Union." Engineering Economics 31, no. 1 (February 28, 2020): 84–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.31.1.23065.

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Fiscal decentralization has been widely discussed at various levels and from various perspectives. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (the OECD), similar to the World Bank, also pays great attention to it. Fiscal decentralization has always been an interesting investigation topic, and the researchers, in addition to considering the future of the economy, study this problem from different perspectives, i.e. geographic, political and others. The effect of fiscal decentralization on the economic development of the state has been investigated by various authors. Three different hypotheses provide the proofs of the positive effect of fiscal decentralization. The main advantage of fiscal federalism are efficient and adequate public services which are provided locally through the mobility of the citizens, voting power and competition between the local governments in the created ecosystem. The potential advantages of the competition among the local government powers are similar to the advantages associated with the competition on the private markets. The paper is focussed on fiscal decentralization of the state. It aims to investigate the theoretical aspect of the impact of fiscal decentralization on the economic development to calculate the index of fiscal decentralization and to evaluate the effect of fiscal decentralization on the economic development in the particular states of the European Union. Thus, Bulgaria and Lithuania have the lowest fiscal decentralization index of EU-13 (0.28), while the Czech Republic has the highest index (0.46). The researchers have proved the effect of fiscal decentralization on the economic development of the EU-13 states to be statistically significant and positive. The originality of this paper is that it introduces a theoretical model for evaluating the fiscal decentralization effect on the economic development and assesses the fiscal decentralization effect on the economic development of the particular EU-13 states.

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Bel, Germà, and Mildred E. Warner. "Managing Competition in City Services: The Case of Barcelona." Journal of Urban Affairs 31, no. 5 (December 2009): 521–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2009.00456.x.

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Muhlebach, Robyn. "Curriculum and Professional Development in Environmental Education: A Case Study." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 11 (1995): 49–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0814062600002962.

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This particular case study looks at the problem of curriculum and professional development in environmental education at a small semi rural primary school in south western Victoria. In this paper the ‘study’ refers to the case study research at Elliminyt Primary School and the ‘project’ refers to a wider OECD-CERI ENSI project which included many other case studies other than the one described here.

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Pouyet, Emeline, Monica Ganio, Aisha Motlani, Abhinav Saboo, Francesca Casadio, and Marc Walton. "Casting Light on 20th-Century Parisian Artistic Bronze: Insights from Compositional Studies of Sculptures Using Hand-Held X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy." Heritage 2, no. 1 (February 21, 2019): 732–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage2010047.

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In the 19th and early 20th centuries, Paris was home to scores of bronze foundries making it the primary European center for the production of artistic bronzes, or bronzes d’art. These foundries were competitive, employing different casting methods—either lost-wax or sand casting—as well as closely guarded alloy and patina recipes. Recent studies have demonstrated that accurate measurements of the metal composition of these casts can provide art historians of early 20th-century bronze sculpture with a richer understanding of an object’s biography, and help answer questions about provenance and authenticity. In this paper, data from 171 20th-century bronzes from Parisian foundries are presented revealing diachronic aspects of foundry production, such as varying compositional ranges for sand casting and lost-wax casting. This new detailed knowledge of alloy composition is most illuminating when the interpretation of the data focuses on casts by a single artist and is embedded within a specific historical context. As a case study, compositional analyses were undertaken on a group of 20th-century posthumous bronze casts of painted, unbaked clay caricature portrait busts by Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808–1879).

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Shao, Chengcheng, Pik-Mai Hui, Pengshuai Cui, Xinwen Jiang, and Yuxing Peng. "Tracking and Characterizing the Competition of Fact Checking and Misinformation: Case Studies." IEEE Access 6 (2018): 75327–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2018.2881037.

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Boon, P. J., G. M. Gíslason, P. S. Lake, B. K. Ellis, C. Frank, and A. J. Boulton. "Competition for water: international case studies of river management and conflict resolution." SIL Proceedings, 1922-2010 28, no. 3 (October 2002): 1581–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03680770.2001.11902723.

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Wonglimpiyarat, Jarunee. "Banking technology, technological learning and competition: Comparative case studies in Thai banking." Innovation 7, no. 4 (October 2005): 402–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/impp.2005.7.4.402.

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Zhanbolatova, Alau, Sayabek Ziyadin, Kairat Zhumanov, and Almagul Jumabekova. "Relationship between bank competition and stability: the case of the UK." Banks and Bank Systems 13, no. 1 (March 27, 2018): 98–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/bbs.13(1).2018.10.

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There is no consensus in theoretical and empirical studies about the relationship between bank competition and stability. This research aims to investigate the relationship between bank competition and stability in the UK. The analysis has been done on a large sample of UK banks for the period 2004–2014. There is quite contrasting evidence on the bank competition and bank soundness relationship. A unified framework has been developed to assess how different factors may make it more likely that the data favor one theory over another. The results suggest that in some cases a U-shaped relationship exists between bank competition and stability. Therefore the conclusion is that in order to protect the bank from different risk exposures a moderate level of bank competition is needed.

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FINLAYSON, B. L., and S. O. BRIZGA. "The Oral Tradition, Environmental Change and River Basin Management: Case Studies from Queensland and Victoria." Australian Geographical Studies 33, no. 2 (October 1995): 180–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8470.1995.tb00693.x.

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Weiler, Betty, and Xin Yu. "Case Studies of the Experiences of Chinese Visitors to Three Tourist Attractions in Victoria, Australia." Annals of Leisure Research 11, no. 1-2 (January 2008): 225–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2008.9686794.

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Young, Suzanne. "Outsourcing: two case studies from the Victorian public hospital sector." Australian Health Review 31, no. 1 (2007): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah070140.

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Outsourcing was one process of privatisation used in the Victorian public health sector in the 1990s. However it was used to varying degrees and across a variety of different services. This paper attempts to answer the questions: Why have managers outsourced? What have managers considered when they have decided to outsource? The research was carried out in a rural hospital and a metropolitan network in Victoria. The key findings highlight the factors that decision makers considered to be important and those that led to negative outcomes. Economic factors, such as frequency of exchange, length of relationships between the parties, and information availability, were often ignored. However, other factors such as outcome measurability, technology, risk, labour market characteristics and goal conflict, and political factors such as relative power of management over labour were often perceived as important in the decision-making process. Negative outcomes from outsourcing were due to the short length of relationships and accompanying difficulties with trust, commitment and loyalty; poor quality; and excessive monitoring and the measurement of outcomes.

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Fiederlein, Suzanne L. "The 1994 Elections in Mexico: The Case of Chiapas." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 12, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 107–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1052080.

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Este artículo examina las elecciones de 1994 en Chiapas, así como los acontecimientos previos y sus resultados y ramificaciones. El levantamiento zapatista tuvo un impacto profundo en el proceso electoral en Chiapas, así como sobre el movimiento nacional de democratización en México. Mientras que las irregularidades electorales ocurridas por todo el país no fueron vistas como lo suficientemente importantes para desafiar la victoria del partido en el poder en cuanto a la elección de presidente, los resultados oficiales en Chiapas, en particular sobre la elección de gobernador, no se consideraron limpios. Desde las elecciones, los zapatistas y una sociedad civil más vigorosa han continuado la presión sobre el gobierno nacional para implementar una reforma electoral y para resolver cuestiones más amplias, como justicia económica, democratización y responsabilidad gubernamental.

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Willey, Stephen. "Planning Appeals: Are Third Party Rights Legitimate? The Case Study of Victoria, Australia." Urban Policy and Research 24, no. 3 (September 2006): 369–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08111140600877032.

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Rauscher, Michael. "Leviathan and Competition among Jurisdictions: The Case of Benefit Taxation." Journal of Urban Economics 44, no. 1 (July 1998): 59–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/juec.1997.2060.

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Yoon, Yeohyun, and Kyoung Cheon Cha. "A Qualitative Review of Cruise Service Quality: Case Studies from Asia." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (September 30, 2020): 8073. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12198073.

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Although the cruise sector is considered an ‘unreplaceable’ form of tourism, with the cruise industry recording steady growth over the years, there is a lack of research and analysis on cruise ships themselves. Accordingly, this study sought to determine whether service quality differences among ships operating in the Asian market could suggest broader implications for the sustainability of the cruise industry. We chose the SERVQUAL framework for the analysis; we also employed the multiple case study method and topic synthesis to compare the service quality of three ships. Of the ships investigated—the Costa Victoria, Diamond Princess, and Superstar Virgo—the Diamond Princess had the highest service quality. Based on the results, we outlined suggestions for improving the quality of cruise services, including introducing the latest large ships and high-tech facilities, complying with the departure and arrival times of sailing schedules, improving the ratio of crew members per passenger, establishing a cruise personnel training system, and expanding membership program operations.

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Fyfe, Aileen, and Noah Moxham. "Making public ahead of print: Meetings and publications at the Royal Society, 1752–1892." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 70, no. 4 (September 7, 2016): 361–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0030.

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This essay examines the interplay between the meetings and publications of learned scientific societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when journals were an established but not yet dominant form of scholarly communication. The ‘making public’ of research at meetings, long before actual ‘publication’ in society periodicals, enabled a complex of more or less formal sites of communication and discussion ahead of print. Using two case studies from the Royal Society of London—Jan Ingen-Housz in 1782 and John Tyndall in 1857 to 1858—we reveal how different individuals navigated and exploited the power structures, social activities and seasonal rhythms of learned societies, all necessary precursors to gaining admission to the editorial processes of society journals, and trace the shifting significance of meetings in the increasingly competitive and diverse realm of Victorian scientific publishing. We conclude by reflecting on the implications of these historical perspectives for current discussions of the ‘ends’ of the scientific journal.

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Chen, Shih-Chih, Chan-Yen Chang, Kuo-Shean Liu, Huei-Huang Chen, and Szu-Hsiung Yeh. "IMPLEMENTING THE PRODUCT DATA MANAGEMENT INTO ENTERPRISES: Five Case Studies." Australian Journal of Business and Management Research 02, no. 03 (April 11, 2012): 19–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.52283/nswrca.ajbmr.20120203a03.

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In recent years, enterprises are facing the impact from the Financial Tsunami, factories moved outward, high production cost, shorter product life cycle, larger customization and global fierce competition. In order to survive, enterprises have to circulate all kind of information within the enterprise and supply chain to leverage the operation. This article presented five case studies including Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson, NEC, OKI, and Acer. We hope that sharing those five cases to promote the PDM applications into more companies.

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Meyer, Britta S., Adrian Indermaur, Xenia Ehrensperger, Bernd Egger, Gaspard Banyankimbona, Jos Snoeks, and Walter Salzburger. "Back to Tanganyika: a case of recent trans-species-flock dispersal in East African haplochromine cichlid fishes." Royal Society Open Science 2, no. 3 (March 2015): 140498. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140498.

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The species flocks of cichlid fishes in the East African Great Lakes are the largest vertebrate adaptive radiations in the world and illustrious textbook examples of convergent evolution between independent species assemblages. Although recent studies suggest some degrees of genetic exchange between riverine taxa and the lake faunas, not a single cichlid species is known from Lakes Tanganyika, Malawi and Victoria that is derived from the radiation associated with another of these lakes. Here, we report the discovery of a haplochromine cichlid species in Lake Tanganyika, which belongs genetically to the species flock of haplochromines of the Lake Victoria region. The new species colonized Lake Tanganyika only recently, suggesting that faunal exchange across watersheds and, hence, between isolated ichthyofaunas, is more common than previously thought.

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Chávez, Karma R. "Spatializing Gender Performativity: Ecstasy and Possibilities for Livable Life in the Tragic Case of Victoria Arellano." Women's Studies in Communication 33, no. 1 (May 4, 2010): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491401003669729.

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Fawns, Rod, and David Nance. "Teacher Knowledge, Education Studies and Advanced Skills Credentials." Australian Journal of Education 37, no. 3 (November 1993): 248–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000494419303700303.

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It is argued that appraisal of advanced skills in teaching should be based on the pedagogical content knowledge which good teachers, in biology for instance, could be expected to possess and which a well-trained biologist would not. Public acceptance of this claim is the key element in any argued case for a career restructuring which rewards the development of teaching expertise in schools and universities. Several initial schemes employed in Victoria for appraisal of Advanced Skills Teacher 1 are critically examined. An alternative to the competency-based approaches is presented, founded on research into the development of practical reasoning of teachers.

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Zhang, Junfu. "Interjurisdictional competition for FDI: The case of China's “development zone fever”." Regional Science and Urban Economics 41, no. 2 (March 2011): 145–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2010.12.002.

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Olorunfemi Akande, Joseph, Farai Kwenda, and Dev Tewari. "The interplay of competition, regulation and stability: the case of Sub-Saharan African commercial banks." Banks and Bank Systems 14, no. 1 (February 13, 2019): 65–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/bbs.14(1).2019.07.

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Stimulating competition in the bank system without compromising the stability constitutes a major puzzle that bank regulators and practitioners face. Hitherto, empirical studies focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa in addressing these issues for the anticipated regional integration and sustainable growth are rare. This study applied structural equation modelling to simultaneously analyze competition, regulation and stability in a panel of 440 Sub-Saharan African commercial banks over the period from 2006 to 2015. The results provided evidence that competition affects stability via efficiency and that regulation affects stability via competition and efficiency. This study produced critical theoretical and methodological insights with substantial implications for the conduct of bank regulatory policy.

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Joseph, Dawn, and Jane Southcott. "Music participation for older people: Five choirs in Victoria, Australia." Research Studies in Music Education 40, no. 2 (September 10, 2018): 176–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1321103x18773096.

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In Australia and across the globe music participation by older people active in the community has the potential to enhance quality of life. A recent review of the literature found clear evidence of numerous benefits from participation in active music making that encompass the social, physical and psychological. This article reports on five phenomenological case studies of community singing groups comprised of older people active in the community in Melbourne, Victoria. These studies are part of a research project, Well-being and Ageing: Community, Diversity and the Arts in Victoria that began in 2008. Interview data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis and are reported under three overarching themes: Social connection, A sense of well-being, and Musical engagement. For older people in these studies singing in community choirs offered opportunities for social cohesion, positive ageing, and music learning that provided a sense of personal and group fulfilment, community engagement and resilience.

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Moffatt, Susan, A. Raza Ahmen, and Kevin Forward. "First Reported Case of Bacterial Endocarditis Attributable toActinomyces meyeri." Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases 7, no. 1 (1996): 71–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1996/761841.

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A 48-year-old man presented to the Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, Nova Scotia in severe congestive heart failure. Echocardiographic studies revealed significant aortic valve insufficiency. Two anaerobic blood cultures performed two weeks apart were both positive forActinomyces meyeri. The patient was treated with high dose intravenous penicillin. Three weeks after antibiotics were begun, he underwent aortic valve replacement. Intraoperative cultures were negative. Histopathological examination revealed findings in keeping with subacute bacterial endocarditis. The patient completed a six-week course of penicillin and was doing well three months after surgery. This is the first case of endocarditis attributable toA meyerireported in the literature.

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Furjan, Martina Tomičić, Katarina Tomičić-Pupek, and Igor Pihir. "Understanding Digital Transformation Initiatives: Case Studies Analysis." Business Systems Research Journal 11, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 125–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bsrj-2020-0009.

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AbstractBackground: Complexity of the digital transformation (Digital Transformation) paradigm and its relation to the fourth technological revolution face companies with serious challenges when it comes to keeping up with the competition or becoming a leader in operating industries.Objectives: The goal of our research is to systematize, analyse and evaluate technological and business concepts of Digital Transformation, in order to identify and investigate Digital Transformation initiatives in Croatia.Methods/Approach: To accomplish this goal, we used a multiple-case study approach to gather data from experts who participated in successful Digital Transformation initiatives.Results: Questionnaires were developed and used to gather both, qualitative background and technology-business related data relevant for Digital Transformation initiatives’ success, discussed in the last part of the paper. The limitation of this study is a relatively small number of case studies (6), as well as its local coverage, resulting therefore with conclusions, which will serve as a base for future studies.Conclusions: There are several background, business, and technology-related concepts or factors relevant to Digital Transformation initiatives: profile and involvement of external Digital Transformation experts; the transformation drivers and expectations. In achieving most significant business concepts for business transformation, no single one right combination of technological concepts could be explicitly determined.

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