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Ibrahim, Ahmed Adam. "The impact of soil type on the yield of rice in the Coleambally Irrigation Area (Australia) by using Landsat imagery techniques." Thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/142491.
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O, Jung Mi, University of Western Sydney, of Science Technology and Environment College, and of Science Food and Horticulture School. "Food habits and eating patterns of Korean adult immigrants in Australia." THESIS_CSTE_SFH_O_J.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/462.
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Migration is one of life events that may change lifestyle, including new cultural norms, language and community systems as well as dietary patterns. Changing dietary patterns from traditional eating patterns to those typical of a western lifestyle has been associated with increased risk of disease. Furthermore, new food use patterns develop through the rejection of traditional and the acceptance of culturally new food habits. The purpose of this study is to identify the food habits and meal patterns of Koreans living in Australia, and any relationship between length of residence and change in eating habits. The method used for this research was a self reported questionnaire, administered in an interview and 3 day food records. One hundred adults living in the Korean community in Sydney were surveyed. The collected data were coded and analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 10. Descriptive analyses, for example mean and standard deviation, were carried out to determine the respondents’ attitudes toward food habits. The personal information data were also analysed by SPSS using frequency tables to describe the study sample. The results indicated that food habits had no significant differences dependent upon length of residence. Food habits were slightly affected by availability of income, occupation and religious beliefs. Food consumption frequency showed increased meat and dairy products. However, the consumption of rice and fish products decreased.Master of Science (Hons)
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Phakdeewanich, Titipol. "The role of farmers groups in Thai politics : a case study of domestic and global pressure on rice, sugarcane, and potato farmers." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2004. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55736/.
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The thesis studies the political participation of Thai farmers and focuses on two main factors, namely the domestic and the external impacts, which inform the case studies of rice, sugarcane, and potato farmers groups. Overall, the research has established that farmers groups have felt the impacts of domestic factors far more strongly than external factors. Furthermore, through comparative studies in relation to the case studies of rice, sugarcane, and potato farmers groups in Thailand, differences emerged between these three Thai farmers groups, in terms of the degree to which domestic factors impacted on their political participation. The theories of Western interest groups are reviewed, in order to examine their applicability to explaining farmers groups formation in Thailand. The concepts of 'collective benefits' and 'selective incentives', which were used by Mancur Olson have been adopted as the main theoretical framework. With reference to this, the research has established that selective incentives have played a highly significant role in Thai farmers groups formation, and concludes that the problems of mobilisation, which relate to rice, sugarcane, and potato farmers groups, have been solved primarily through the provision of a range of selective incentives by the farmers groups themselves. In order to classify the differing levels of political participation of Thai farmers groups, the analytical framework provided by Grant Jordan, Darren Halpin, and William Maloney has been utilised. Accordingly, the rice and potato farmers groups are classified as 'potential pressure participants', whilst the sugarcane farmers group is classified as an 'interest group', which has enabled an examination of their political participation through the Western concept of the policy network/community framework. In order to make the Western policy network/community framework more applicable to the policy-making process in Thailand, the specific, dominant characteristics of the Thai political culture, namely the patronage system and the operation of both vote-buying and corruption are included in the analysis. This conceptual stretching does not significantly affect the original concept of the framework and the way in which it was intended to be applicable, because it already includes informal relationships such as those, which exist within the policy network/community framework. This understanding is an important aspect, which forms a part of the theoretical contribution to the discipline of international political economy and to the arena of Thai political studies. The policy network/community framework provides a new conceptual lens in the study of the political participation of Thai farmers groups. Accordingly, these arguments promote the opportunity to consider alternative frameworks in the analysis of the political participation of Thai farmers groups, and group participation across civil society more generally. The study of the political participation of Thai farmers has utilised empirical evidence, which illustrates the successes of farmers' interest groups in both Japan and the United Kingdom, in order to explain the relative successes and failures of Thai farmers. In contrast to the experiences of Western and notably Japanese farmers groups, in many respects Thai farmers are largely excluded from the policy-making process, with the only exception in Thailand being certain sugarcane farmers groups. The thesis concludes that the political participation of farmers groups in Thailand has generally been affected by domestic impacts rather than by external impacts, and that their influence in domestic policy-making has been, and is likely to remain for the foreseeable future at least, somewhat limited.
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Brozynska, Marta, Dario Copetti, Agnelo Furtado, Rod A. Wing, Darren Crayn, Glen Fox, Ryuji Ishikawa, and Robert J. Henry. "Sequencing of Australian wild rice genomes reveals ancestral relationships with domesticated rice." WILEY, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624392.
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The related A genome species of the Oryza genus are the effective gene pool for rice. Here, we report draft genomes for two Australian wild A genome taxa: O. rufipogon-like population, referred to as Taxon A, and O. meridionalis-like population, referred to as Taxon B. These two taxa were sequenced and assembled by integration of short- and long-read next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to create a genomic platform for a wider rice gene pool. Here, we report that, despite the distinct chloroplast genome, the nuclear genome of the Australian Taxon A has a sequence that is much closer to that of domesticated rice (O. sativa) than to the other Australian wild populations. Analysis of 4643 genes in the A genome clade showed that the Australian annual, O. meridionalis, and related perennial taxa have the most divergent (around 3 million years) genome sequences relative to domesticated rice. A test for admixture showed possible introgression into the Australian Taxon A ( diverged around 1.6 million years ago) especially from the wild indica/O. nivara clade in Asia. These results demonstrate that northern Australia may be the centre of diversity of the A genome Oryza and suggest the possibility that this might also be the centre of origin of this group and represent an important resource for rice improvement.
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Nguyen, Thi Thuy Ha. "Investigating Australian wild rice for improvement of salinity stress tolerance in cultivated rice Oryza sativa l." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/228676/1/Thi%20Thuy%20Ha_Nguyen_Thesis.pdf.
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This project is a comprehensive study on salinity tolerance in Australian wild rice species and the potential applications of CRISPR/Cas9 on improving salinity tolerance in cultivated rice. Salinity tolerance mechanisms in wild rice were investigated by using a high throughput screening technique to assess the morphological and physiological responses. The knowledge of mechanisms from wild rice was manipulated in cultivated rice using the CRISPR/Cas9 technique. The results of this study indicate the potential of wild rice as a genetic resource and CRISPR/Cas9 as an approach to improve salinity tolerance in cultivated rice Oryza sativa L.
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Brown, A. J. (Alexander Jonathan), and n/a. "The Frozen Continent: The Fall and Rise of Territory in Australian Constitutional Thought 1815-2003." Griffith University. Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, 2003. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20041105.092443.
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Through the late 20th century, global society experienced waves of unprecedented political and institutional change, but Australia came to be identified as "constitutionally speaking... the frozen continent", unable or unprepared to comprehensively modernise its own fundamental laws (Sawer 1967). This thesis opens up a subject basic to, but largely unexplored in debate about constitutional change: the territorial foundations of Australian constitutional thought. Our conventional conclusions about territory are first, that Australia's federal system has settled around a 'natural' and presumably final territorial structure; and second, that this is because any federal system such as possessed by Australia since 1901 is more decentralised and therefore more suitable than any 'unitary' one. With federalism coming back into vogue internationally, we have no reason to believe our present structure is not already the best. Reviewing the concepts of territory underpinning colonial and federal political thought from 1815 to the present day, this thesis presents a new territorial story revealing both these conclusions to be flawed. For most of its history, Australian political experience has been based around a richer, more complex and still evolving range of territorial ideas. Federalism is fundamental to our political values, but Australians have known more types of federalism, emerging differently in time and place, than we customarily admit. Unitary values have supplied important symbols of centralisation, but for most of our history have also sought to supply far less centralised models of political institutions than those of our current federal experience. Since the 1930s, in addition to underutilising both federal and unitary lines of imported constitutional theory, Australian politics has underestimated the extent to which our institutional treatment of territory has itself become unique. Despite its recent fall from constitutional discourse, territory is also again on the rise. While political debate has been poorly placed to see it, Australia has experienced a recent resurgence in ideas about territorial reform, offering the promise of a better understanding of the full complexity of our constitutional theory and a new 'unfreezing' of the assumption that territorially, Australia will never change. This thesis seeks to inform these vital new debates.
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Robb, Ashley John. "Planning for the Effects of Sea Level Rise in Western Australia." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76667.
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This research examines the potential role of urban planning in helping communities adapt to sea level rise induced hazards such as inundation, storm erosion and shoreline recession, in Western Australia’s urban areas. Applying a qualitative mixed-methods approach, the research finds that modifications to the state coastal planning framework, including associated legislation and existing funding programs, will be needed to enable public authorities to adequately plan and manage for these hazards as sea level rise accelerates.
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Chu, Wing Kei. "Accumulation and transformation of DDT and PCBs by Phragmites australis and Oryza sativa L." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2004. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/530.
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Gent, Alan D. "The Rise and Fall of an Australian Technical College Program." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77187.
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In 2005 the Liberal government introduced a bill to allow formation of twenty four technical colleges nationally. Withdrawal of funding by the Labor government in 2009 heralded the demise of the colleges. This study is concerned with the effect this action had on a college in Western Australia. The findings revealed lack of foresight and insufficient initial time for establishment of the colleges, no bi-partisan support and questionable management practices after funding withdrawal.
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Murray, Jacqueline Burton. "Watching the sun rise : Australian reporting of Japan 1931 to the fall of Singapore /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16957.pdf.
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Shen, Yi Social Sciences & International Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "The rise of China and its impact on Australia's relations with the United States." Awarded By:University of New South Wales. Social Sciences & International Studies, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/41553.
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Despite Australia enjoying good relations with both the United States and China at the moment, the long-term prospects are uncertain due to US-China strategic rivalry. The aim of this thesis is to examine Australias ability to continue strong relations with both countries over the long-term. The thesis concludes that Australia may be able to maintain good relations with the US and China in the long run despite US-China strategic rivalry. The strategic competition only increases the prospect of conflict; it does not mean a US-China conflict is bound to happen. Although the risks of a US-China military confrontation over Taiwan are real, the chances are small due to Americas continued strategic presence in the region and its military preponderance. If a Sino-US conflict were to occur, Australia would most likely side with the US despite China being economically significant to Australia. The United States is also critically important to Australias economic interests and, ultimately, Australias national security depends on its alliance with the US. Survival is the foremost goal for a state in the anarchical international system and security interests outweigh economic interests in importance in a time of crisis.
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Clarence, Emma Louise. "Understanding the rise of Pauline Hanson : multiculturalism and national identity in Australia 1945-1998." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.438086.
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Shi, Lu. "Plant perception and responses to hypoxia and water stresses in wetland and dryland ecotypes of rice and reed." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1485.
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Deckelman, James A. "The Petrology of the Early Middle Cambrian Giles Creek and Upper Chandler Formations, Northeastern Amadeus Basin, Central Australia." DigitalCommons@USU, 1985. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6678.
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The Giles Creek and upper Chandler formations crop out in the northeastern Amadeus Basin from the north flank of Ross River syncline south to the Pillar Range, and from the nose of Ooraminna anticline east to the Simpson Desert. 'Twenty-four sections of the Giles Creek and nineteen sections of the upper Chandler were measured by the author in this area. The Giles Creek lies disconformably above the upper Chandler Formation and conformably below the Shannon Formation. The upper Chandler is conformably underlain by the lower Chandler throughout the area except at Ross River Gorge and Wallaby No. 1 well. There the upper Chandler overlies the Todd River Dolomite.
The Giles Creek and upper Chandler consist of interbedded carbonates, terrigenous-rich carbonates, and mudrocks. Terrigenous-rich carbonates and mudrocks comprise over half of the volume of the Giles Creek at most locations in the area.
Lime mudstones and cryptalgalaminated boundstones with dorral stromatolites are common in the Giles Creek. The Phillipson and Northern Facies of the Giles Creek are locally fossiliferous at the base. Ooids are present at the top of the Southern and Phillipson Facies of the Giles Creek at most locations. Anhydrite is present in the carbonates and mudrocks of the Giles Creek at Dingo No. 1 and Wallaby No. 1 wells. Gypsum is present in dolostones of the Giles Creek at Wallaby No. 1 well. Oncolite grainstones and boundstones, crystalgalaminated boundstones, and birdseye-rich lime mudstones are common in the upper Chandler.
The mudrocks of the Giles Creek and upper Chandler are composed of quartz, K-feldspar, illite, muscovite, biotite, kaolinite, smectite, plagioclase, and anhydrite, with minor amounts of limonite, hematite, vermiculite, chlorite, and zircon. Calcite and dolamite cement the mudrocks. Acid-insoluble residues of the carbonates are comprised of the above noncarbonate minerals, organic matter, pyrophyllite, and witherite.
The size and amount of terrigenous material in the Giles Creek increases to the west-southwest, which indicates that the terrigenous sediments were derived from a source area in that direction.
Sediments of the Giles Creek and upper Chandler were dolomitized by seepage-reflux of a hypersaline brine. Lateral and vertical variations in the amount of dolanite are inversely related to the amount of terrigenous material, and indicate that permeability of the sediments was a controlling factor in the distribution of dolomite in the Giles Creek.
Sediments of the Giles Creek and upper Chandler accumulated on shoals, in shoal-margin lagoons, on tidal flats, and in intracoastal lagoons. Shallow, open-shelf deposits are also present at the base of the Giles Creek at Ross River Gorge. Cyclicity in the sediments of the Giles Creek was caused by lateral shifts in the position of the tidal flats and intracoastal lagoons during continual subsidence of the basin. Both the Giles Creek and upper Chandler -were deposited during major regressions of the sea. Lateral relations of lithofacies in the Giles Creek indicate that the area was bounded by deeper water to the north and south during the Middle Cambrian.
Differential subsidence of the basin resulted in deposition of greater thicknesses of Giles Creek sediments in the Phillipson Pound and Ross River-Fergusson syncline areas. Differential subsidence in the Phillipson Pound area was partially offset by salt-induced growth of Ooraminna, Tood River-Windmill, Brumby, and Teresa anticlines.
Facies relations and lateral variations in thickness of the Giles Creek suggest that the amount of offset on the Rodinga and Carrel Flat faults is minor, perhaps on the order of 1 to 2 kilometers at most.
Initial carbonate sediments of the Giles Creek and upper Chandler were altered by syngenetic inversion of aragonite to calcite, recrystallization of calcite, precipitation of pyrite, and replacer-rent of calcite by dolomite; anagenetic silicification, compaction, and fracturing; and epigenetic oxidation, precipitation of calcite, dedolomitization, and silicification.
Post-depositional changes in the terrigenous sediments include syngenetic oxidation, alteration of clay minerals, precipitation of silica, and dolomitization.
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Hepplewhite, Chris. "A study of some biomarker hydrocarbons in organic-rich holocene sediments of Coorong region, South Australia /." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbh529.pdf.
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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1995.Australian National Grid Reference Barker Sheet (SI 54-13) 1 : 250 000 Naracoorte Sheet (SJ 53-2) 1 : 250 000 Penola Sheet (SJ 53-6) 1 : 250 000. Includes bibliographical references.
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Reeves, Elizabeth Ann, and res cand@acu edu au. "The Church First Called Christian: the Melkite Church of Antioch." Australian Catholic University. School of Theology, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp147.26072007.
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The Catholic Church is made up of many church communities of different rites, with the main classifications being the Roman rites and the Eastern rites of the Catholic Church. With the influx of migrants especially since the Second World War there has been growth in Australia, in the number of Catholics belonging to the many Eastern rites including Byzantine Catholics, Coptic Catholics and Chaldean Catholics. The Second Vatican Council documents encouraged members of the Catholic Church of the Latin traditions to know and understand the rich traditions of the Easterners so that the full manifestation of the catholicity of the Church and full knowledge of its divinely revealed heritage are preserved. One can ask how familiar are Catholics of the Roman rites with the beliefs, practices, liturgy, devotions and historical development of the other rites in the Catholic Church? The aim of this thesis is to give understanding about the Melkite Catholic Church in Australia. It takes the reader on a journey from Antioch in Syria to Australia in the third millennium, showing that the Melkites trace their roots to Antioch where believers were first called Christians. This thesis elaborates on who the Melkites are by firstly looking at the origins of this church community and thereby establishing the authenticity of this church community since it was established by the apostles and their co-workers, with the apostles being empowered by the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The thesis enumerates the key aspects of the early church at Antioch including theology, liturgy and the structure of the church, with these findings being foundational for the Melkite Church in Australia today. The thesis describes worship in the Melkite Church with emphasis on the development of this worship especially for the sacraments of Baptism, Chrismation and the Eucharist. It explains important ritual, symbols, architecture and artwork and concluded that these express the key beliefs of this church community. The fundamental dogmas in the Melkite Church are the teachings on the Holy Trinity and the Incarnation. The thesis elaborates on these dogmas explaining how they were important in the early church at Antioch and how understanding of them was developed by important theologians revered in the Melkite Church, in previous eras and today. The Christian faith is a living faith. In writing this thesis the importance of Tradition for God’s revelation to His holy people is emphasised. In its study of the sacraments of Baptism, Chrismation and the Eucharist, the thesis was able to show that the celebration of these sacraments was linked to the early church at Antioch. It especially looked at what was happening at the time of St John Chrysostom at Constantinople. This time frame saw the beginning of the development of the Byzantine Rite. There is elaboration on the link between the Byzantine rite (the rite of the Melkites today) and the Antiochene liturgy. As well the thesis expounded on the understanding of the three fold ministry of bishop, priest and deacon at Antioch and the importance of the ordained ministry today. It concluded that the four sacraments discussed above were foundational in the early church and are essential in worship in the Melkite Church today. The thesis explained important details about the sacraments of Marriage, Penance and the Anointing of the Sick. It especially explained the development of the Sacrament of Penance. The thesis acknowledges the validity of all rites in the Catholic Church and concluded that encouragement must be given for the preservation of the various rites in the Church. This is important for the Eastern Church communities as they contain a rich heritage, which is an integral part of the Church of Christ. An important conclusion was that the development of the church at Antioch must be understood in the light of Tradition the living and lived faith, which passes on all that the church believes and celebrates in its worship of the Holy Trinity. The Melkite Church of Antioch was first called Christian.
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Jarvey, Ali Marie. "On the corner of north and nowhere. A novel ‐ and ‐ Going back to go forward: An invitation to get lost. A critical essay." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2016. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1931.
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This thesis comprises a young adult (YA) novel called On the Corner of North and Nowhere and an exegesis entitled ‘Going Back to Go Forward: An Invitation to Get Lost’.
On the Corner of North and Nowhere follows 18‐year‐old Nev Isles, who lives and works at Cleary’s, her grandmother’s art retreat in the Perth Hills. She dwells happily in an old cottage by herself, until her mother decides that she wants to move there too. Rather than live with her again, Nev runs away with her friend, Cole, set for the WA roads she travelled as a child and the mining town of Newman, where her father lives. The trip forces Nev to relive the slow fracturing of her relationship with her mother. Newman offers little reward. Her father has a girlfriend and wants to move from the town. As Nev grows homesick, she gravitates towards Cole. He encourages her to follow her instincts home, even though he cannot stay long himself: after they return to Perth, he has to leave for America to deal with his own family issues.
Nev and Cole’s journey back to the city is set against some of the most beautiful and isolated stretches of WA road. They find that they would rather stay lost in these landscapes, than return to chaos. It is only after a brief stay at a beach camp on the corner of north and nowhere, that they decide it is time to return home to face their troubles and inevitable separation.
While On the Corner of North and Nowhere is not autobiographical, it originates from my childhood, adolescent and adult experiences with WA places. ‘Going Back to Go Forward: An Invitation to Get Lost’ critically examines the composition of my manuscript, with distinct reference to these origins. It is written in two chapters, which are connected by the work and praxis of selected creative arts practitioners, whose experiences with place and literature in their youths also compel them to write as adults.
Chapter one investigates the prevalence of Edenic landscapes in WA literature, focusing on authors, such as Dorothy Hewett and Tim Winton, who aim to reconstruct lost paradise from their youth, in their fiction and nonfiction. Cleary’s, by comparison, is constructed as an unconventional Eden that subverts the trope, thus supporting Nev’s eventual return to paradise and her maturation. Finally, chapter two investigates the influence of Betsy Hearne and Roberta Trites’ narrative compass model, which encourages female scholars to reflect on a resonant story from their youth, towards an understanding of how it impacts their research. Recognising the narrative patterns in my compass was fundamental to the development of On the Corner of North and Nowhere, as it enabled me to craft second and subsequent drafts of the manuscript, with attention to rites of passage in Australian YA literature.
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Hemmings, John. "Quasi-alliances, managing the rise of China, and domestic politics : the US-Japan-Australia trilateral, 1991-2015." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3598/.
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This thesis examines how the United States reacted to changes in its external environment in the Asia Pacific after the Cold War; in particular, this paper examines the creation of the security trilaterals in what had been a traditionally bilateral alliance system and seeks to explain this through Washington’s complex relationship with the other great power in the region, China. American policy toward China has been marked by its policy complexity, in the sense that the US has seen China both as an important trade partner and a potential peer competitor. While many scholars have covered both alliance theory and US approaches toward China, this thesis seeks to explore both together, seeking to put American strategy in the region writ-large within an overarching neoclassical realist (NCR) framework. As a result, this thesis prioritizes power and the structure of the international system, while also maintaining that external variables alone are insufficient to explain the complex behavior exhibited by the United States at this time. It therefore draws from domestic variables introduced Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), and examines them through the NCR conceptions of ‘threat assessment’. This thesis identifies four intervening variables as crucial to understanding the evolution of US policy in the region from 1993 to 2015. These include policy-coalitions of foreign policy elites (FPEs), their perception of the structure of the international system, the domestic political conditions in which they labored, economic inter-dependency to China, and threat-assessment debates. Applying those five to the independent variable of China’s rise, this thesis argues that American foreign policy elites formed into two broad policy coalitions, who could not agree on whether to balance or to accommodate China’s rise. The quasi-nature of the trilateral, the failed attempt at a quadrilateral, and the off-and-on again nature of US-Japan-Australia alliance dynamics indicate that foreign policy elites inside all three states continue to debate China’s threat-assessmentstatus. Therefore, this thesis finds that at heart, hedging is the product of domestic variables, the inability of policy coalitions to triumph over their opposites.
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au, A. Jones@murdoch edu, and Angela Thomas-Jones. "Fashioning the Executive (Look): Australian Women, Fashion and the rise of the New Work Order." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070307.121413.
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Fashion is not essential to completing an effective and productive days work. Suits,
shoulder pads and power dressing are images and phrases that encircle working women
and are too often relegated to the empty cubicles of 1980s and 1990s history. The
proliferation of internet-mediated commerce meant in fictional narratives at least -
women swapped their Claiborne for geek chic and up all night hair, the preferential
wear for New Economy employees.1 In the 2000s, the Australian employment industry -
fractured, non-standard and fluid - is promoting a new creative work order. What are
the consequences of this transformation of ideology and iconography for workplace
dressing and the bodies of the women who wear it?
This doctoral thesis examines the relationship between fashion, clothes, women and
work. The goal and methodology of this thesis is the alignment of work theory, with
discourses of clothing and fashion, oral history, policy documents and popular culture.
Such a research project requires interdisciplinary scholarship that activates debates about
womens bodies, the state of the contemporary working environment and the dissonance
in literacies between body and workplace. Through the application of semiotic and
cultural studies, as well as drawing on theories of media, gender, labour, leisure, literacy
and fashion, I investigate the position of women and their bodies within the contemporary
Australian workplace.
This thesis deploys oral histories to illuminate how women function in the changing
Australian workplace. I have compiled these oral sources in order to capture specific
experiences and portray the successes and struggles that are faced by the women
employed in these sectors. The function of these histories in this thesis is to provide a
memory of, to and for working women, revealing many of the unspoken assumptions and
characteristics of the contemporary Australian workforce, such as the New Economy, an
increasing non-standard workforce, the myth of work/life balance, lifestyle, dissonant
bodies in the workplace, and the compartmentalization of work from other social function
including family life.
Within the nine chapters of this thesis, the research objective is to explore how womens
bodies are located within and negotiate the contemporary Australian workforce. It begins
with an examination of the conflation between self-help and feminist texts, to map the
troubled relationship between gender, power and the female body. The disparate
functions of dress and bodies are important focuses in this research. The use of oral
history, popular memory theory and the textual analysis of magazines is a way to
interrogate the role of womens bodies and fashion in history. The use of oral and popular
cultural sources is intentional. The goal is to develop an alternative system for
remembering bodies and clothing, with the aim of transforming their historical relevance.
The focal point of this thesis is assessing womens bodies and fashion in the workplace.
By evaluating contemporary trends in womens work attire, I expose the disparity in the
work clothes market in relation to quality, accessibility, functionality and price.
This doctoral thesis deploys work theory and the ideologies of the New and Old
Economy. Throughout this project, I trace the differences in workplace customs and
representations. The purpose of the thesis and indeed the original contribution to
knowledge is to demonstrate that women and men must be literate in not only the
workplace, but also in workplace clothing. Only when moving from everyday to
reflexive literacies can relevant models of discrimination and oppression within the New
Economy be revealed and addressed.
While presenting the voices and views of working women, this research proposes a
strategy for a change in education and the requirement of mentoring in relation to careers
and the new work order. The latter chapters are focussed on tracing working life in the
new knowledge economy within Australia. They explore the notion of supplementary
work in relation to lifestyle change and investigates the creative industries, the creative
class and ponders the dilemma of the creative industries in Australia. The objective of
this thesis is to not only to critique, but also to gather and deploy the words of women in
the contemporary workplace, as both inspiration and model for the strategies required to
instigate change. The final chapters capture a proactive desire to not only discuss
difference, but make a difference. The probing of dissonant literacies in the workplace
opens the tight and troubling relationship between women and bodies.
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Thomas-Jones, Angela. "Fashioning the executive (look): Australian women, fashion and the rise of the new work order." Thesis, Thomas-Jones, Angela (2006) Fashioning the executive (look): Australian women, fashion and the rise of the new work order. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/345/.
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Fashion is not essential to completing an effective and productive day's work. Suits, shoulder pads and power dressing are images and phrases that encircle working women and are too often relegated to the empty cubicles of 1980s and 1990s history. The proliferation of internet-mediated commerce meant - in fictional narratives at least - women swapped their Claiborne for geek chic and 'up all night' hair, the preferential wear for New Economy employees.1 In the 2000s, the Australian employment industry - fractured, non-standard and fluid - is promoting a new 'creative' work order. What are the consequences of this transformation of ideology and iconography for workplace dressing and the bodies of the women who wear it?
This doctoral thesis examines the relationship between fashion, clothes, women and work. The goal and methodology of this thesis is the alignment of work theory, with discourses of clothing and fashion, oral history, policy documents and popular culture. Such a research project requires interdisciplinary scholarship that activates debates about women's bodies, the state of the contemporary working environment and the dissonance in literacies between body and workplace. Through the application of semiotic and cultural studies, as well as drawing on theories of media, gender, labour, leisure, literacy and fashion, I investigate the position of women and their bodies within the contemporary Australian workplace.
This thesis deploys oral histories to illuminate how women function in the changing Australian workplace. I have compiled these oral sources in order to capture specific experiences and portray the successes and struggles that are faced by the women employed in these sectors. The function of these histories in this thesis is to provide a memory of, to and for working women, revealing many of the unspoken assumptions and characteristics of the contemporary Australian workforce, such as the New Economy, an increasing non-standard workforce, the myth of 'work/life balance', lifestyle, dissonant bodies in the workplace, and the compartmentalization of work from other social function including family life.
Within the nine chapters of this thesis, the research objective is to explore how women's bodies are located within and negotiate the contemporary Australian workforce. It begins with an examination of the conflation between 'self-help' and feminist texts, to map the troubled relationship between gender, power and the female body. The disparate functions of dress and bodies are important focuses in this research. The use of oral history, popular memory theory and the textual analysis of magazines is a way to interrogate the role of women's bodies and fashion in history. The use of oral and popular cultural sources is intentional. The goal is to develop an alternative system for remembering bodies and clothing, with the aim of transforming their historical relevance. The focal point of this thesis is assessing women's bodies and fashion in the workplace. By evaluating contemporary trends in women's work attire, I expose the disparity in the work clothes market in relation to quality, accessibility, functionality and price.
This doctoral thesis deploys work theory and the ideologies of the 'New' and 'Old' Economy. Throughout this project, I trace the differences in workplace customs and representations. The purpose of the thesis - and indeed the original contribution to knowledge - is to demonstrate that women and men must be literate in not only the workplace, but also in workplace clothing. Only when moving from everyday to reflexive literacies can relevant models of discrimination and oppression within the 'New Economy' be revealed and addressed.
While presenting the voices and views of working women, this research proposes a strategy for a change in education and the requirement of mentoring in relation to careers and the 'new' work order. The latter chapters are focussed on tracing working life in the new knowledge economy within Australia. They explore the notion of 'supplementary' work in relation to 'lifestyle' change and investigates the creative industries, the creative class and ponders the dilemma of the creative industries in Australia. The objective of this thesis is to not only to critique, but also to gather and deploy the words of women in the contemporary workplace, as both inspiration and model for the strategies required to instigate change. The final chapters capture a proactive desire to not only discuss difference, but make a difference. The probing of dissonant literacies in the workplace opens the tight and troubling relationship between women and bodies.
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Thomas-Jones, Angela. "Fashioning the executive (look) : Australian women, fashion and the rise of the new work order /." Thomas-Jones, Angela (2006) Fashioning the executive (look): Australian women, fashion and the rise of the new work order. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/345/.
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Fashion is not essential to completing an effective and productive day's work. Suits, shoulder pads and power dressing are images and phrases that encircle working women and are too often relegated to the empty cubicles of 1980s and 1990s history. The proliferation of internet-mediated commerce meant - in fictional narratives at least - women swapped their Claiborne for geek chic and 'up all night' hair, the preferential wear for New Economy employees.1 In the 2000s, the Australian employment industry - fractured, non-standard and fluid - is promoting a new 'creative' work order. What are the consequences of this transformation of ideology and iconography for workplace dressing and the bodies of the women who wear it?
This doctoral thesis examines the relationship between fashion, clothes, women and work. The goal and methodology of this thesis is the alignment of work theory, with discourses of clothing and fashion, oral history, policy documents and popular culture. Such a research project requires interdisciplinary scholarship that activates debates about women's bodies, the state of the contemporary working environment and the dissonance in literacies between body and workplace. Through the application of semiotic and cultural studies, as well as drawing on theories of media, gender, labour, leisure, literacy and fashion, I investigate the position of women and their bodies within the contemporary Australian workplace.
This thesis deploys oral histories to illuminate how women function in the changing Australian workplace. I have compiled these oral sources in order to capture specific experiences and portray the successes and struggles that are faced by the women employed in these sectors. The function of these histories in this thesis is to provide a memory of, to and for working women, revealing many of the unspoken assumptions and characteristics of the contemporary Australian workforce, such as the New Economy, an increasing non-standard workforce, the myth of 'work/life balance', lifestyle, dissonant bodies in the workplace, and the compartmentalization of work from other social function including family life.
Within the nine chapters of this thesis, the research objective is to explore how women's bodies are located within and negotiate the contemporary Australian workforce. It begins with an examination of the conflation between 'self-help' and feminist texts, to map the troubled relationship between gender, power and the female body. The disparate functions of dress and bodies are important focuses in this research. The use of oral history, popular memory theory and the textual analysis of magazines is a way to interrogate the role of women's bodies and fashion in history. The use of oral and popular cultural sources is intentional. The goal is to develop an alternative system for remembering bodies and clothing, with the aim of transforming their historical relevance. The focal point of this thesis is assessing women's bodies and fashion in the workplace. By evaluating contemporary trends in women's work attire, I expose the disparity in the work clothes market in relation to quality, accessibility, functionality and price.
This doctoral thesis deploys work theory and the ideologies of the 'New' and 'Old' Economy. Throughout this project, I trace the differences in workplace customs and representations. The purpose of the thesis - and indeed the original contribution to knowledge - is to demonstrate that women and men must be literate in not only the workplace, but also in workplace clothing. Only when moving from everyday to reflexive literacies can relevant models of discrimination and oppression within the 'New Economy' be revealed and addressed.
While presenting the voices and views of working women, this research proposes a strategy for a change in education and the requirement of mentoring in relation to careers and the 'new' work order. The latter chapters are focussed on tracing working life in the new knowledge economy within Australia. They explore the notion of 'supplementary' work in relation to 'lifestyle' change and investigates the creative industries, the creative class and ponders the dilemma of the creative industries in Australia. The objective of this thesis is to not only to critique, but also to gather and deploy the words of women in the contemporary workplace, as both inspiration and model for the strategies required to instigate change. The final chapters capture a proactive desire to not only discuss difference, but make a difference. The probing of dissonant literacies in the workplace opens the tight and troubling relationship between women and bodies.
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Hammer, Sara Jeanne. "The rise of liberal independence and the decline of the welfare state." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2002.
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Given the increased interdependency caused by ongoing task differentiation and precarious formal employment, this thesis asks why the stigmatisation of unemployed citizens and the retraction of unemployment benefits have received such widespread support in Australia. I contend that the concepts of dependency and independence, as reflexive
but mutually exclusive dual values, are increasingly used as a framework for welfare discourse. I argue that this framework has ethical ramifications for collective well-being in Australia since it discourages citizens from
acknowledging their own social and economic vulnerability. Using a combination of critical theory and discursive analysis, this thesis analyses discourses relating to poverty, unemployment and social welfare. It tracks the contradictions of this value dualism through selected forms of policy and media discourse literature and will challenge the negative moral valence associated with dependency, offering possible alternatives in the areas of moral anthropology, welfare discourse and social provision in order to reverse the stigmatisation of unemployed citizens.
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Dorignon, Louise. "High-rise living in the middle-class suburb : a geography of tactics and strategies." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2087.
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Avec l’évolution du « rêve australien », l’habitat en hauteur dans les villes est devenu pour les classes moyennes une solution de logement non plus seulement acceptable mais aussi désirable. Cette thèse examine en détail les tactiques et stratégies mises en place par les résidents pour habiter la ville verticalement. Elle explore les manières de négocier la conception, l’habitation et la maintenance des immeubles de grande hauteur des classes moyennes aisées dans les quartiers péricentraux de Melbourne. La thèse s’intéresse tout particulièrement au rôle des résidents dans la négociation des choix de conception et la coproduction des espaces des tours d’habitation et utilise des méthodes qualitatives mixtes, combinant des visites à pied et des entretiens semi-directifs. S'appuyant sur la nouvelle géographie de l'architecture et sur une approche relationnelle de l'habitat et du logement, cette étude mobilise une théorie de la pratique reconnaissant le caractère tactique et stratégique des actions dans la ville. La thèse montre que les résidents modifient les configurations socio-matérielles et les relations spatiales de la vie en appartement préalablement définies par les concepteurs, les promoteurs et les technologues immobiliers. Explicitant le rôle joué par les classes sociales dans la vie quotidienne verticale, cette étude révèle que les complexes résidentiels de grande hauteur sont des lieux d’antagonismes incarnés et de conflits hautement symboliques. Les modes de vie et les aspirations y sont négociées par des institutions et des acteurs variés à travers un ensemble d’actions spatiales et temporelles. Il en ressort que des acteurs concurrents œuvrent à la coproduction des espaces et cultures quotidiennes des ensembles résidentiels de grande hauteur. Cependant, la thèse esquisse également la répartition changeante et irrégulière du pouvoir dans les pratiques liées à la vie en appartement entre les individus qui élaborent des stratégies et ceux qui inventent des tactiques. Plus généralement, cette thèse permet de mieux comprendre en quoi ce nouveau type de ville verticale reflète et transforme les configurations de statut, de pouvoir et d'identité dans les quartiers péricentraux de MelbourneWithin new configurations of the ‘Great Australian Dream’, high-rise living in Australian cities has become not only an acceptable housing configuration for the middle classes but also a desirable one. Enquiring deeply into the tactics and strategies that building inhabitants use to live vertically in the city, this thesis explores the ways in which the design, inhabitation, and maintenance of middle-class high-rise developments are negotiated in Melbourne inner-suburbs. It explores dwellers’ agency in the negotiation of design choices and co-production of high-rise spaces, using mixed qualitative methods combining walking tours and semi-directed interviews. Drawing on the new geography of architecture and on a relational approach to housing and home, the research engages with a theory of practice acknowledging tactical and strategic actions in the city. It argues that dwellers reshape the socio-material configurations and spatial relations of apartment living set by designers, developers and housing technologists. Explicitly recognising of the role of social class in high-rise living, the research suggests that apartment developments are highly contested sites where intended lifestyles and aspirations are negotiated by varied institutions and actors, through a distinctive set of temporal and spatial actions. It finds that competing actors all work towards the co-production of high-rise living spaces and cultures. However, the thesis also shows that housing relations in the practice of middle-class apartment living outline an uneven and changing distribution of power between those who develop strategies and those who craft tactics. More broadly, this research opens up a deeper understanding of how this new kind of vertical city reflects and transforms configurations of status, power and identity in the Australian suburb
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Dundas, Shannon. "Utilisation of Phytophthora cinnamomi affected habitats by honey possums (Tarsipes rostratus) in the Cape Riche area, Western Australia." Thesis, Dundas, Shannon (2008) Utilisation of Phytophthora cinnamomi affected habitats by honey possums (Tarsipes rostratus) in the Cape Riche area, Western Australia. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2008. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/15328/.
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This study investigated how the presence of the plant pathogen Phytophthora cinnamomi in vegetation assemblages impacts on habitat utilisation by the honey possum (Tarsipes rostratus). The study took place in coastal heathlands at Cape Riche, Western Australia, between January 2007 and November 2007. Honey possums were radio tracked through an area affected with P. cinnamomi as well as healthy areas to determine the extent to which habitat utilisation is impacted on. This will then allow for a more robust prediction of how further spread of P. cinnamomi is likely to impact on honey possums in the future. The presence of P. cinnamomi was confirmed by plating samples of dying plants. The areas of P. cinnamomi at the study site are extensive but patchy with ‘islands’ of healthy vegetation assemblages still remaining. A comparison of microclimate at the study site showed that unaffected areas had a larger range of temperatures than affected areas which may be due to differences in wind which is restricted (having a buffering effect) due to dense vegetation in unaffected sites. In affected areas, a greater proportion of the time was recorded where temperature was below 5C compared with unaffected areas. This could potentially impact on honey possums, which go into torpor during cool weather, and at temperatures below 5C, have a higher metabolic rate to maintain their body temperature. This means they need to forage for more nectar and pollen during cooler weather in affected areas where foodplants are less abundant. The number of honey possums captured was correlated to season (2=13.1, p<0.0005) with the largest number of honey possums captured during the summer field trip when more plants were flowering.
Honey possum preferred foodplants were identified from pollen collected from captured honey possums. A total of 20 different pollen species were identified from samples, nine of which were identified as important honey possum preferred foodplants as they were found in more significant amounts. Based on pollen, Banksia plumosa subsp. plumosa was identified as the preferred foodplant at the Cape Riche study site followed by Adenanthos cuneatus. Both are common throughout the study area and flower all year.
Banksia plumosa subsp. plumosa is susceptible to P. cinnamomi and was only found in unaffected areas whereas Adenanthos cuneatus was found to less susceptible and was prevalent throughout P. cinnamomi affected areas. Honey possums fed on a diverse range of plant species (determined by pollen) during all seasons, except autumn when B. plumosa subsp. plumosa was the most prevalent pollen species collected from honey possums.
A total of 18 honey possums (body mass 5.9 – 16g) were radio tracked for up to 9 days using radio transmitters weighing 0.36g and 0.9g (Holohil Systems Ltd, Canada). Radio tracked honey possums demonstrated a particular preference for Banksia plumosa subsp. plumosa which they utilised for food, shelter and as a daytime refuge. Comparison of vegetation structure indicated that sites selected by radio tracked honey possums had significantly denser vegetation between 40-140 cm in height compared with randomly selected sites. Significant differences were identified between Phytophthora cinnamomi affected and unaffected locations with vegetation at affected locations being sparser and shorter than that at unaffected sites.
This study clearly showed that honey possums are influenced by the presence of P. cinnamomi affected vegetation at Cape Riche. The presence of P. cinnamomi at the study area results in large areas which are generally lacking in susceptible Proteaceous species such as Banksia and food resources tend to be sparse through these areas. Honey possums are capable of moving relatively large distances with estimated distances ranging from 4m to 1400m over a period of 30 minutes to 9 days. In areas affected with P. cinnamomi some honey possums fed on less susceptible plant species. Other honey possums moved long distances to healthy unaffected areas with higher densities of preferred foodplants. Further spread of P. cinnamomi is likely to have a serious impact on honey possums as healthy areas become affected and food resources become too limited to sustain honey possum populations.
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Angelo, dos Santos Silva Ricardo Miguel. "The identification of the ocean-continent transition at sediment-rich rifted continental margins : Northern Angola and Southern Australia rifted margins." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540040.
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Fabiano, Ezequiel Chimbioputo. "Demografia hist?rica e contempor?nea de guepardos (Acinonyx jubatus) na Nam?bia, ?frica Austral." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2013. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/266.
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Previous issue date: 2013-03-26Background: The contemporary genetic diversity of species and populations is a product of climatic oscillations over deeper timescales and/or anthropogenic factors over recent times. These forces caused alterations in the effective population size of fauna and flora, thus affecting not only their evolutionary potential but also species spatial distributions. Consequently, a need exists for assessing the historical demography of species at different population levels. The origin of the contemporary genetic diversity of cheetahs is thought to be the result of a severe decline around the Last Glacium Maximum (8,000 - 20,000 years ago, ya), followed by an expansion around the mid-Holocene ( 5,000 years) and a subsequent bottleneck within the past century due to a combination of anthropogenic factors and weather variability. Alternative hypotheses include that of a metapopulation structure and the persistence at a low effective size due to a high reproductive variance associated with a polygynous mating system. However, these three remain largely untested despite advances in molecular analytical tools over the past decades. Likewise, the effects of anthropogenic factors on population viability merit quantification as well as trends in abundance and density using robust surveying techniques. This study aims to contribute novel information on these aspects; information deemed of high significance for comprehensive conservation measures that do not underestimate the true risk of extinction the species is facing. First, we explored the historical demography of the largest free-ranging cheetah population over the past 60,000 years. Second, we assessed the population s genetic viability and its sensitivity to perturbations on vital rates and uncertainties on current population size and carrying capacity estimates. Lastly, we assessed trends in density, abundance, and behavioural ecology aspects of cheetahs. Methods: To explore the historical demography, we stratified periods during the last 60,000 years and contrasted evolutionary models assuming stability, decline and expansion using approximate Bayesian computation methods. We estimated the population s contemporary effective size using four genetic estimators and population viability analysis (PVA). Sensitivity analyses of the susceptibility of viability estimates to perturbations were also performed using a PVA approach. To estimate density and abundance, we used a combination of Bayesian spatial capture, recapture and non-spatial methods. Results: First, demographic scenarios indicated that the population has a complex demographic history, characterised by periods of decline intercalated with periods of stability with no signal of expansion contrived during the past 60,000 ya. The population seems to have been stable over the past 300 years. Additionally, scenarios modeled on abrupt reductions had low levels of support in relation to models assuming gradual reductions. Second, we found the present population to be viable, although susceptible to perturbations such as the proportion of breeding females, adult female survival rates, and uncertainties in current abundance estimates and on carrying capacity. These parameters also influenced the total population size. However, the direction of the impact was related to perturbation levels. Lastly, and mostly applicable for males, we observed density estimates of 5 to 20 km-3 that were largely similar across most of the six multi-year surveys. Furthermore, male cheetahs showed high site fidelity, utilising scent-marking locations for up to four consecutive years with possible temporal avoidance. Overall individuals displayed a nocturnal activity pattern. Discussion: First, the study shows that the population s contemporary genetic diversity (and possibly that of other populations to which our population is genetically connected) is the result of a gradual decline, likely caused by fluctuations and reductions of suitable habitat due to Pleistocene and Holocene climatic oscillations, as well as recent increases in aridification in Namibia. Second, that the population viability is largely dependent on aspects related to females, and that threshold values seem to exist beyond which certain conservation actions may have a negative influence on viability. Lastly, male density seems to be regulated by home range dynamics, as density remained similar across surveys except during periods of social instability caused by vacant home ranges. The instability caused by removals may lead to higher reproductive variance. Conclusions: Overall, the study shows that a realistic estimate of the risk of extinction faced by this population requires an integration of results obtained with several analytical approached, and that long-term conservation plans should incorporate such a body of information. The observation that viability is susceptible to different biological and social factors highlights the relevance of this assessment, which is integrated to the other themes investigated in this study. In a broader context, the results presented here are potentially relevant for assessments targeting other species facing similar threats of extinction.
Contexto: A diversidade gen?tica contempor?nea de esp?cies e popula??es ? resultante da intera??o entre aspectos ecol?gicos e biol?gicos das mesmas em rela??o aos efeitos de processos hist?ricos naturais, bem como ao efeito atual dos humanos. Essas for?as causaram altera??es no tamanho efetivo da popula??o de muitos elementos da fauna e flora, afetando n?o s? os seus potenciais evolutivos, mas tamb?m suas distribui??es geogr?ficas. Conseq?entemente, existe uma necessidade de caracterizar a hist?ria demografica de esp?cies em diferentes n?veis. A baixa diversidade gen?tica contempor?nea de guepardos ? usualmente considerada como o resultado de um severo gargalo gen?tico em torno do ?ltimo M?ximo Glacial (8.000 - 20.000 anos atr?s), seguido por endogamia, uma expans?o em meados do Holoceno (5.000 anos) e finalmente um gargalo durante o ultimo s?culo devido a a uma combina??o de fatores humanos e varia??es clim?ticas. Hip?teses alternativas incluem uma estrutura de metapopula??o e persist?ncia de tamanho efetivo baixo, devido ? ocorr?ncia de poliginia, gerando uma alta vari?ncia reprodutiva. Apesar dos avan?os em ferramentas moleculares nas ?ltimas d?cadas, estas hip?teses permanecem ainda largamente inexploradas. Da mesma forma, os efeitos de fatores humanos sobre a viabilidade da popula??o, precisam ser quantificados, assim como ? necess?rio determinar as tend?ncias temporais em abund?ncia e densidade utilizando robustas abordagens sistem?ticas. Neste contexto, o objetivo prim?rio deste estudo foi obter novas informa??es sobre estes aspectos, as quais s?o consideradas significantes para que medidas de conserva??o abrangentes sejam colocadas em pr?tica. Especificamente, exploramos a historia demografica da maior popula??o de guepardos ao longo dos ?ltimos 60 mil anos. Segundo, avaliamos a viabilidade gen?tica desta popula??o e sua sensibilidade a perturba??es e incertezas sobre o tamanho da popula??o atual, bem como estimativas da sua capacidade suporte. Por fim, avaliamos as tend?ncias em densidade e abund?ncia, assim como certos aspectos ecol?gicos comportamentais de uma popula??o local. Ferramentas: M?todos Bayesianos foram aplicados para avaliar e contrastar cen?rios evolutivos de estabilidade, decl?nio e de expans?o em diferentes per?odos nos ?ltimos 60 mil anos. Para estimar o tamanho efetivo contempor?neo da popula??o, foram utilizadas quatro estimativas gen?ticas e uma baseada em simula??es de viabilidade. Simula??es foram realizadas para avaliar a sensibilidade da estimativa de tamanho efectivo a perturba??es nas taxas vitais, incertezas no tamanho da popula??o e capacidade suporte. Por fim, o tamanho populacional de censo e a densidade populacional foram estimados atrav?s de m?todos espaciais e n?o espaciais de captura-recaptura. Resultados: Primeiro, os cen?rios demogr?ficos indicaram que a popula??o tem uma hist?ria demogr?fica complexa, caracterizada por per?odos de decl?nio populacional, intercalados por per?odos de estabilidade, sem sinal de expans?o detectado desde 60.000 mil anos. Um sinal de estabilidade foi detetado para os ultimos 300 anos. Adicionalmente, cen?rios modelados que assumiram redu??es abruptas tiveram taxas baixas de suporte em rela??o a modelos de redu??o gradual. Segundo, estimativas de tamanho efetivo baseadas em simula??es indicaram que a popula??o ? vi?vel, por?m suscet?vel a perturba??es como a propor??o de f?meas reprodutoras, as taxas de sobreviv?ncia de adultos do sexo feminino, e incertezas em estimativas de abund?ncia e de capacidade de suporte. O tamanho de censo da popula??o tamb?m foi influenciado por estes par?metros. No entanto, a influ?ncia em ambos os par?metros ? condicionada aos n?veis de perturba??es. Terceiro, as estimativas de densidade, principalmente de machos adultos, variaram entre 5 - 20 km-3 e foram semelhantes entre os levantamentos realizados no decorrer dos seis anos de amostragem. Os guepardos machos mostraram uma fidelidade de at? quatro anos de uso consecutivo de s?tios de marca??o (scent-marking sites) dentro de suas ?reas pr?prias, evidenciando tamb?m um padr?o de atividade predominantemente noturno. Discuss?o: Primeiro, o estudo mostra que a diversidade gen?tica contempor?nea da popula??o (e possivelmente de outras popula??es com as quais est? geneticamente ligada) ? resultante de um decl?nio gradual, provavelmente causado por flutua??es e redu??es de habitat adequado devidas a oscila??es clim?ticas no Pleistoceno e Holoceno, bem como aumentos no nivel de aridez em tempos mais recentes na Nam?bia. Segundo, que a viabilidade da popula??o ? em grande parte dependente de aspectos relacionados com f?meas, e que parecem existir valores limiares al?m dos quais certas perturba??es podem ter uma influ?ncia negativa sobre a viabilidade. Por ?ltimo, a densidade de machos parece ser resultado da din?mica das ?reas de vida, visto que a densidade permaneceu semelhante, exceto durante os per?odos de instabilidade social causada por ?reas vagas. A instabilidade causada por remo??es antropog?nicas pode, portanto, levar a maior vari?ncia reprodutiva. Conclus?es: O estudo indica que uma estimativa realista do risco de extin??o desta popula??o requer a integra??o de resultados obtidos por diversas abordagens anal?ticas, e que planos de conserva??o de longo prazo devem incluir tal conjunto de informa??es. A observa??o de que a viabilidade ? sens?vel a diferentes fatores biol?gicos e sociais ressalta a import?ncia desta avalia??o, a qual se integra aos demais temas investigados neste estudo. De forma mais ampla, os resultados aqui apresentados s?o potencialmente relevantes para diversas outras esp?cies que enfrentam amea?as de extin??o semelhantes.
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Heimann, Ríos Adriana. "Geochemical keys for the genesis of Proterozoic garnet-rich rocks and minor metasediment-hosted Pb-Zn-Ag mineralization, southern Curnamona Province, Australia." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3244372.
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Smith, Nathan. "The role of individuals in foreign policy outcomes: A case study of the Australian response to the rise of China." Thesis, Smith, Nathan (2014) The role of individuals in foreign policy outcomes: A case study of the Australian response to the rise of China. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 2014. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/24640/.
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Australia finds itself increasingly poised between its traditional security alliance with the United States, and the economic opportunities afforded by its relationship with China. As tensions rise and recede between the U.S. and China, Australia's future seems to precariously balance between two divergent geostrategic objectives. How does the Australian government choose between these objectives? Dominant theorisations of foreign policy behaviour from International Relations literature focuses primarily on the system level-of-analysis, largely failing to consider the influence of individuals on the international climate. This thesis investigates whether the individual influence of the last the Australian Prime Ministers has impacted upon Australia's relationship with China. The study utilises a multiple-case study approach in order to analyse the foreign policy response of the Howard (1996-2007), Rudd (2007-2010) and Gillard (2010 - 2013) governments. Each case study investigates the foreign policy outcomes of each administration in terms of the economic relationship with China, the diplomatic response to Chinese domestic insecurities, and defence policy concerning China. Within each of these aspects, the foreign policy responses are considered as either cooperative or antagonistic policies. The study finds that while systemic forces contribute the overarching structure of Australian foreign policy concerns, the individual influence of the Prime Ministers' interpretation and response significantly influence the policy outcomes. Using these case studies of Australian foreign policy behaviour, the study argues that the mainstream understanding of the level-of-analysis problem is insufficient in explaining and predicting the foreign policy decisions of states. Rather, an alternative conceptual understanding of analytical levels as necessarily interacting is required. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that Australia's leaders can influence the outcomes of the Sino-Australian relationship.
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Gallo, Ortiz Guilherme. "Comportamento alimentar, biogeografia e estudo bioacústico de periquito rico, Brotogeris tirica (aves, Psittacidae) no Estado de São Paulo /." Botucatu : [s.n.], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/99441.
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Orientador: Reginaldo José DonatelliBanca: Luiz Octavio Marcondes Machado
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Banca: Fátima Knoll
Banca: Maria Cecília Toledo
Resumo: O capítulo teve como objetivo descrever o comportamento alimentar de Brotogeris tirica no Estado de São Paulo. Para isso foram coletados dados em quatro áreas de estudo, sobre a dieta da espécie, bem como sua sazonalidade, chegando ao resultado de 28 espécies vegetais, exóticas e nativas, evidenciando seu alto grau de generalismo. Das espécies vegetais que forneceram alimentos à B. tirica, foram consideradas mais importantes Chorisia speciosa e Syagrus romanzoffiana por fornecerem alimento a maior parte do ano. Metade dos 92 registros de alimentação foram do item polpa, seguido pela outra metade dividida entre sementes e flores. Uma revisão bibliográfica foi feita e os dados obtidos foram compilados de maneira à cobrir o maior número de espécies vegetais consumidas pro B. tirica possível. A partir de observações das estratégias que a espécie mais utilizou para obtenção do alimento foram definidos seus principais padrões de obtenção do alimento, aqui dividos em dois métodos: direto, sem auxílio dos pés e indireto, com auxílio de um dos pés, onde a lateralidade foi avaliada e evidenciou o canhotismo na espécie. Outros padrões comportamentais também foram brevemente discutidos como o comportamento de manutenção e a partilha do local de alimentação e que, por conseqüência deste último, foi feita uma comparação com a dieta de seu congênere Brotogeris chiriri, já que em uma das áreas de estudo estas espécies foram encontradas se alimentando juntas e houve necessidade de avaliar o grau de similaridade das dietas. Aplicou-‐se o índice de similaridade de Jaccard e encontrou-‐se como resultado que as dietas são pouco similares e com isso a exclusão de uma das espécies por competição foi descartada
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Meyzen, Christine. "Pétrogenèse des MORB dans les zones froides du manteau supérieur indien : la ride sud-ouest indienne et la discordance australo-antarctique." Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, INPL, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002INPL019N.
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La ride sud-ouest indienne (SWIR) est une des rides les plus lentes (taux d'expansion : 1. 6 cm. An(-¹)) et les plus profondes du réseau mondial de rides médio-océaniques. La mission EDUL a permis d'échantillonner des verres basaltiques localisés entre 69°E, près du point triple de Rodriguez et de 49°E, à 300 km de la zone de fracture Gallieni. Les compositions géochimiques des verres basaltiques permettent de définir trois grandes provinces magmatiques, séparées par les zones de fracture Malville (ZFM) et Gallieni. A l'est de la ZFM (60°45'E), les verres ont des compositions géochimiques qui diffèrent par leurs Na₈. ₀ élevés et leurs faibles Fe₈. ₀, Ti₈. ₀ et CaO/Al₂O₃ de celles des autres rides médio-océaniques. Les indicateurs de degré de fusion partielle tels que le Na₈. ₀ et le (Sm/Yb)n y sont découplés. Les variations des teneurs en éléments en traces très incompatibles et modérément incompatibles, bien que le Na₈. ₀ élevé et le Fe₈. ₀ bas reflètent la présence d'une température potentielle du manteau faible, ne peuvent être expliquées par de faibles taux de fusion partielle. Quelques unes de ces caractéristiques ont aussi été identifiées sur une autre section " froide ", la discordance australo-antarctique. A l'ouest de la ZFM, les échantillons suivent majoritairement les tendances globales définies par les autres MORB. Les compositions anormales observées dans la section la plus orientale pourraient résulter d'une refusion du manteau, en relation avec la propagation, au cours du temps de la ride vers le nord-est, s'accompagnant d'un épisode de metasomatisme. Cette hypothèse est étayée par les variations de compositions isotoniques du Nd et à un moindre degré du Sr qui semblent indiquer l'échantillonnage durant la fusion partielle de volumes de manteau distincts en composition et aussi d'un stade de métabolisme.
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Abreu, Aline Rodrigues de. "Diversidade gen?tica e estrutura populacional do lobo-marinho sul-americano (arctocephalus australis, mammalia, carnivora, otariide) ao longo da costa atl?ntica da Am?rica do Sul." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2011. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/214.
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Previous issue date: 2011-03-25O lobo-marinho sul-americano, Arctocephalus australis, est? distribu?do ao longo da costa do hemisf?rio sul com col?nias reprodutivas localizadas desde o Peru at? o Uruguai. Este trabalho foca na UES do Atl?ntico e cobre a maioria de suas col?nias. No passado recente, v?rias col?nias sofreram dr?sticas redu??es populacionais com a ca?a e os eventos de El Ni?o. Muitos estudos focaram na an?lise da UES do Pac?fico, no entanto, pouco se sabe sobre a UES do Atl?ntico. Neste estudo a estrutura populacional e a variabilidade gen?tica destas popula??es foram avaliadas atrav?s da regi?o controle do DNA mitocondrial e 11 loci de microssat?lites. Os resultados encontraram alto n?vel de diversidade gen?tica nesta regi?o, sem sinal de gargalo gen?tico recente, mas com sinais de uma expans?o populacional iniciada entre 200.000 e 100.000 anos atr?s. Um sinal de estrutura??o foi encontrado entre as col?nias do Uruguai e Chubut quando avaliado a partir do DNA mitocondrial, provavelmente causado pela forte filopatria das f?meas. No entanto, a an?lise de microssat?lite n?o revelou a exist?ncia de estrutura??o, mesmo entre as diversas subpopula??es mais distantes, sugerindo que o fluxo g?nico seja mediado pelos machos. Para fins de conserva??o, estes resultados mostram que o lobo-marinho sul-americano da UES do Atl?ntico ? uma ?nica popula??o, e por causa disso, medidas de seguran?a devem ser alinhadas entre os pa?ses de sua distribui??o
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Vassiley, Alexis. "From “Union Power” to De-unionisation: Explaining the Rise and Fall of Trade Unionism in Western Australia’s Pilbara Iron Ore Industry and its Consequences." Thesis, Curtin University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/84109.
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This thesis examines the rise and fall of trade unionism in Western Australia’s Pilbara iron ore industry from 1965 to 1999, and its consequences for today. The Marxist theory of the trade union bureaucracy and rank and file is critically applied and developed. This qualitative, case study research generates insights with respect to union strategy, union renewal and intra-union relations of broader significance than the Pilbara region itself.
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Ayliffe, Damien. "Geological setting of the late Proterozoic Wonoka Formation carbonate ramp and canyon sequence at Pichi Ric hi Pass Southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia : geoch emical, stable isotope, and diagenetic analysis /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09S.B/09s.ba978.pdf.
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Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1992?On title page: "National Grid reference: Port Augusta sheet SI 53-4 (1:250000) Onnoroo sheet SI 54-1 (1:250 00 0)." One map in pocket inside back cover. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-60).
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Humphreys, Abbey. "Predicting the Impact of Sea Level Rise on the Distribution of Phragmites Australis and Spartina Alterniflora and Changes in Community Compositions in Tidal Freshwater Marshes of James City County, Va." W&M ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1516639677.
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With ongoing sea level rise (SLR), tidal freshwater marshes (TFMs) eventually will be flooded with more brackish water. The impact of more water and salt on the plant community of TFMs, however, is unknown. With SLR, both the invasive reed Phragmites australis and the native salt marsh grass Spartina alterniflora could become dominant species in TFMs. I am looking at determining how increases in salinity and inundation caused by sea level rise will impact the relative distribution of Phragmites and Spartina in tidal freshwater marshes in Southeastern Virginia. Using GIS, I summarized past expansion patterns by mapping the current and historical distribution of Phragmites and Spartina. With soil samples collected from 6 TFMs in James City County with established Phragmites stand, I tested the effects of salinity and flooding on the germination of Phragmites and Spartina seeds and the subsequent effects of competition with these conditions. Inundation positively impacted the abundance of Phragmites and Spartina, while competition form Phragmites and Spartina decreased native species richness. Based on germination success and historical distributions, SLR-caused range shifts were predicted for Phragmites and Spartina and suggest Phragmites and Spartina will be more abundant in number within TFMs and in more TFMs in James City County. TFM area across James City County will diminish if accretion rates cannot keep pace with sea level rise and current TFMs will transition to oligohaline marshes, causing significant community changes.
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Van, Noord Kenrick A. A. "Deep-marine sedimentation and volcanism in the Silverwood Group, New England Fold Belt, Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.
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In eastern Australia, the New England Fold Belt (NEFB) comprises an ancient convergent margin that was active from the Paleozoic until the late Mesozoic. Considerable effort has been expended in understanding the development of this margin over the past twenty years. However, proposed tectonic models for the orogen have either been too broad, ignoring contradictory local evidence, or too locally specific without paying attention to the 'big picture'. The research presented in this work addresses the issue of appropriate scale and depth of geological detail by studying the NEFB at the terrane-scale. Using one succession, the Silverwood Group of southeast Queensland, this work demonstrates that detailed sedimentological studies and basin analysis at the terrane-scale can help to refine hypotheses regarding the tectonic evolution of the NEFB.
The Silverwood Group (Keinjan terrane), located approximately 140 km southwest of Brisbane, Australia, is a succession of arc-related basins that developed within an ancient intraoceanic island-arc during the mid-Cambrian to Late Devonian. From the base of the succession, the group consists of five formations totalling -9700 m. These include the Risdon Stud Formation (2500 m), Connolly Volcanics (2400 m), Bald Hill Formation (2450 m), Ormoral Volcanics (600 m) and the Bromley Hills Formation (1700 m). The Long Mountain Breccia Member (300m) is a separate unit which forms the lower part of the Bromley Hills Formation. The entire succession has been thrust west over the Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous Texas beds. Elsewhere, the Silverwood Group is unconformably overlain by and faulted against Early to Late Permian units including the Rokeby beds, Wallaby beds, Tunnel beds, Fitz Creek beds, Eight Mile Creek beds, Rhyolite Range beds and Condamine beds. Of these Permian units, all but the Condamine beds form part of the Wildash Succession. To the west, southwest and south, the Silverwood Group is intruded by the Late Triassic Herries and Stanthorpe Adamellites. All of these sequences and the two plutonic intrusives are unconformably overlain by the Jurassic sediments of the Marburg Sandstone.
The Silverwood Group and Texas beds consist of various lithologies including grey, purple- grey, green and green-grey volcaniclastic conglomerates, sandstones, siltstones or mudstones, massive and laminated chert, polymict or monomict breccias, muddy breccias, muddy sandstones, and volcanic rocks. Volcanic rocks include various tholeiitic metabasites, dolerite, meta-andesites and infrequent metadacite. In the Silverwood Group, these volcanic rocks are often accompanied by mafic pyroclastic rocks (e.g. peperite and hyaloclastite). Facies analyses of these lithologies has led to the recognition of 19 deep-marine turbiditic and volcanic/volcaniclastic facies that were deposited by three main processes: i) gravity-flow processes (e.g. low- and high-density volcaniclastic turbidites and mass-flows), ii) chemical/biological processes (siliceous oozes- chert) and iii) direct initiation by volcanic processes (e.g. flows, hypabyssal intrusions and associated pyroclastic facies).
For the Silverwood Group, the defined facies occur in distinct vertical associations that form recognisable 3rd and 4th-order architectural elements such as channel, levee, suprafan lobe, outer-fan, basin plain, mass transport complex, volcanic flows, syn-sedimentary sills and syn-sedimentary emergent cryptodomes. These architectural elements are represented in a series of deep-marine depositional environments including slope, shelf-edge failure, submarine-fan and subaqueous basaltic volcanoes. The Risdon Stud Formation and parts of the Connolly Volcanics were deposited along a 'normal' clastic or mud, mud/sand-rich and/or sand/mud-rich slope. Both upper and lower slope environments are represented and in both formations, the slope is speculated to have faced eastwards and prograded away from an active arc located west. Sediments from both successions accumulated at palaeodepths of 1200 to 2000 m.
Although sediments from the upper part of the Bald Hill Formation were also deposited on a slope, these sequences have subsequently collapsed into the depocentre to form extensive slump deposits accompanied by olistoliths of older arc crust. The lower part of the Bald Hill Formation formed by similar processes, although the failure was far more extensive (>20 km along strike). This latter part of the formation is interpreted to be a major shelf-edge failure succession. Upper parts of the Bald Hill Formation also accumulated at palaeodepths of 1200 to 2000 m, but the deposition of these sediments occurred farthest from the shelf and at the greatest depth compared to the Risdon Stud Formation and Connolly Volcanics. Lower parts of the Bald Hill Formation were deposited at palaeodepths of approximately 1700 m.
Subaqueous basaltic volcanoes are prominent in the Connolly Volcanics, Bald Hill Formation and Ormoral Volcanics. In the Bald Hill Formation, igneous rocks were emplaced into the shelf-edge failure succession as a series of syn-sedimentary sills and cryptodomes. These high-level hypabyssal rocks occasionally became emergent above the sediment-water interface, whereupon they were partially resedimented. In some parts of the Bald Hill Formation, the hypabyssal intrusions were blanketed by basin plain deposits that are contemporaneous with the slumps and olistoliths in the upper part of the formation. The intrusive rocks were emplaced at 1700 m palaeodepth.
Unlike the Bald Hill Formation, the Ormoral Volcanics and lower parts of the Connolly Volcanics form thick accumulations of extrusive volcanic and pyroclastic rocks that built a significant volcanic pile. Volcanic and pyroclastic facies within these successions were deposited proximal to their source (0-10 km of vent). Extrusive rocks within the Ormoral Volcanics are thought to be derived from intrabasinal fissure-vents located at palaeodepths of 1700 to 3100 m. Igneous rocks from the Connolly Volcanics, Bald Hill Formation and Ormoral Volcanics have the petrological and geochemical characteristics of back-arc basin basalts (BAB) that were sourced from undepleted to slightly enriched Fertile MORB Mantle-wedge (FMM). The FMM material was variably enriched in trace elements by fluids derived from the subducting slab prior to emplacement of the igneous rocks. Immediately following emplacement, these rocks were hydrothermally metamorphosed under conditions of low-pressure and transitional low to high-temperature (200-300 °C). By contrast, igneous rocks within the Texas beds lack enrichment in subduction components and are characteristic of N-MORB.
The Bromley Hills Formation is a sand-rich point-source submarine fan deposited at palaeodepths of 500 to 2000 m. The fan was initiated by a mass transport complex resulting from subaerial collapse of a basaltic-andesitic stratovolcano. The submarine fan is characterised by two repetitive stages of retrogressive sedimentation during which channel-levee elements (inner-fan channels) are overlain by suprafan lobe elements (mid-fan) and then by outer-fan deposits as sea-level rises within the depocentre. Both inner-fan channels and suprafan lobes show centralised stacking patterns with limited lateral migration that indicate the depocentre was laterally restricted during sedimentation (e.g. submarine ridges). The Bromley Hills Formation exhibits all the characteristics typical of an active margin fan that formed by a combination of tectonic stage initiation followed by eustatically controlled regressive deposition.
Volcaniclastic sediments of the Silverwood Group range in composition from lithic to lithic- feldspathic wackes and arenites, although they are mainly lithic or feldspathic-lithic wackes and arenites. Many samples are tuffaceous (25-75% pyroclasts), particularly those from the Connolly Volcanics, Ormoral Volcanics and Bromley Hills Formation. Samples in the Bald Hills Formation and Texas beds can be classified as quartz-rich. The majority of the Silverwood Group was sourced from an undissected intraoceanic island-arc, although sediments within the Bald Hill Formation exhibit a provenance that is characteristic of uplift within the arc (recorded as a 'strike-slip continental arc' model). Epiclastic sediments from the Texas beds were sourced from a transitional to dissected continental arc.
Formations of the Silverwood Group were mostly deposited in a series of intra-arc basins within an ancient intra-oceanic island arc, although the lowermost formation developed in a marginal basin (Risdon Stud Formation). All of the basins were located east of the active arc (behind the arc), keeping in mind the present location of the Group relative to the Texas-Coffs Harbour megafold. The entire succession formed during four-phases of arc-related basin development that coincide with major changes in the strain regime of the arc. From the base of the succession, these changes are: I) mid Cambrian to late Silurian marginal basin sedimentation- relative compression within the arc (Risdon Stud Formation), II) late Silurian to Early Devonian intra-arc rifting- relative extension within the arc (Connolly Volcanics), Ill) Early to early Middle Devonian basin collapse followed by intra-arc rifting- relative extension to compression (Bald Hill Formation and Ormoral Volcanics) and IV) early Middle to Late Devonian intra-arc submarine fan sedimentation- relative compression (Bromley Hills Formation).
Comparing the Silverwood Group against equivalent terranes of Cambrian to Devonian age within the New England Fold Belt (NEFB) suggests that the Gamilaroi terrane, Calliope Volcanic Assemblage, Willowie Creek beds and Silverwood Group all formed as one intraoceanic island-arc during the Early to Late Devonian. Prior to this, significant differences in the sedimentological evolution of these terranes suggests that they occupied different positions relative to each other within the one arc. It is proposed that the NEFB formed as a result of dual west-directed subduction zones during the Cambrian to Middle Devonian period. During this time, a single intraoceanic island-arc located seaward of the Australian craton developed above a west-directed subduction zone. This arc was separated from the craton by a marginal sea. A second west-directed subduction zone was located beneath a continental arc developed on the Australian craton. Cambrian to Early Devonian terranes within and along the Peel Fault are proposed to form a part of the ancient subduction zone present beneath the intraoceanic island-arc (Weraerai and Djungati terranes). Collision of the intraoceanic island-arc occurred during the Late Devonian, at which point west-directed subduction occurred beneath the Australian craton and the accreted intraoceanic island-arc. Following collision, a new continental volcanic arc was established that was active during the Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous.
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DeLassus, Leslie Marie. "Salvage historiography: viewing, special effects, and Norman O. Dawn's unpreserved archive." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/2203.
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This dissertation excavates the work of early special effects cinematographer Norman O. Dawn in order to explore film spectatorship, the ephemerality of the cinematic image, and motion picture preservation and archival practices. Best known for his innovations of glass and matte shot techniques, Dawn produced 861 composite images while working in the U.S. film industry between 1906 and 1954. Although technological film historians acknowledge the importance of Dawn’s innovations to the development of motion picture special effects, the composite images themselves as well as the films for which they were produced remain in relative obscurity. Rather than attempting to recover these objects for inclusion in an existing film canon, my research interrogates their obscurity by analyzing Dawn’s special effects processes against the broader economic concerns that inform the dominant practices of the US film industry during the first half of the twentieth-century.
My research begins with the Norman O. Dawn collection housed at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, which is the most comprehensive historical record of Dawn’s work in the film industry. Constructed by Dawn himself between 1962 and 1974, this collection consists of 164 poster-sized collages of archival ephemera that illustrate the special effects processes employed in the production of 235 composite images for eighty-five films. While these eighty-five film titles constitute a tentative corpus upon which to base my research, seventy of these films are lost, which raises questions concerning the relationship between motion picture preservation and film history, specifically why these films have not been preserved while others have and to what extent the economic imperatives of the film industry have determined these conditions.
I address these questions in my analysis of archival material related to these films, finding that they traverse several distinct domains of film practice—including early scenic footage for newsreels and the amusement park ride Hale’s Tours of the World, early one-reel travel films, silent-era studio shorts, serials, and B features, and poverty row and independently-produced silent and sound feature-length films—thereby situating Dawn’s special effects at the intersection of the early and contemporary cinematic modes often aligned in studies of cinematic special effects. I argue that this heterogeneous corpus points to a studio-era Hollywood cinema alternative to the classical model, largely forgotten because it is dominated by low-budget product intended to supplement more costly feature films. In contrast to the classical model, this alternate cinematic mode emphasizes the scenic and thrilling elements that characterize both early exhibitionist films and contemporary effects-driven blockbusters. In this context, Dawn’s special effects processes constitute a historically marginalized practice precisely because they are non-routine techniques that provide cost-effective means to produce otherwise economically infeasible scenes, and, as such, operate on the periphery of conventional film production.
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Forrester, Trina K. "Intimate Partner Violence Predictors in an International Context: An Analysis of the International Violence against Women Survey." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/19915.
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Using the International Violence Against Women Survey (IVAWS), this paper identifies factors contributing to women’s individual risk of being victimized by their current intimate partner. Additionally, this analysis examines the overlap of physical and sexual violence within intimate relationships. Past research into IPV has identified a numerous predictor variables. Adapting nine such variables (controlling behaviours, male heavy drinking, female only income, female past marriage, female past IPV, respondents’ age, relationship duration, relationship status and violence outside the home) to the IVAWS dataset, a framework identifying risk patterns for physical and sexual violence was developed. The results identify a number of variables that performed as expected and increased a women’s risk of being a victim of IPV; however, some variables decreased women’s risk and therefore acted as protective factors. These findings suggest that IPV at the country level is more complex and requires additional research to fully explain the variation observed.
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Reinke, Russell Frederick. "Genetic improvement of seedling vigour in temperate rice (Oryza sativa L.)." Phd thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148126.
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Parrott, Louise Elizabeth. "Constitutional and judicial recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples: the migration of foundational ideas from Canada to Australia." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/10061.
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Ideas that are migrating from Canada are already guiding advocates who seek greater judicial and constitutional recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. However, there is a need for a conceptual framework through which to approach the lessons that can be learned from Canada in this area. Inspired by The Migration of Constitutional Ideas, an edited work by Sujit Choudhry, in this thesis I argue that by thinking about the migration and transplantation of foundational ideas and by differentiating between four ‘modes’ of migration (arguments of counsel, judicial determinations, academic critique and constitutional reform deliberations), it is possible to better understand some of the processes that are at play. In particular, by adopting the terminology of the ‘migration’ and ‘transplantation’ of ‘foundational’ ideas, I aim to demonstrate that it is dangerous to transplant foundational ideas, whether derived from the common law or constitutional law, without other ideas (particularly in relation to implications) also migrating.
This thesis is a response to two distinct but related topics: ‘Topic 1 — The Potential for Judicial Recognition of Indigenous Self-Government Rights: The Migration of Foundational Ideas from Canada to Australia’ and ‘Topic 2 — Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, the Race Power and an Anti-Discrimination Guarantee: Contemplating Canadian Approaches to Equality’.
Through these two topics I examine two of the recognised modes of recognition — judicial and constitutional — and focus on two discrete types of recognition — self-government and non-discrimination — and the lessons that can be learned from Canada.
In response to the first topic I consider the extent to which foundational ideas are migrating from Canada to Australia in the field of Indigenous self-government rights and whether these ideas could be used in Australian courts. In response to the second topic I consider the extent to which Canadian experiences may assist when exploring the potential implications of prohibiting discrimination in the Australian Constitution and when examining the various options that are available. As far as the migration of foundational ideas from Canada is concerned, in Topic 1 my starting point is to consider what could be learned from the Canadian jurisprudence in order to understand the ideas that have migrated or could potentially migrate to Australia. In contrast, in Topic 2 I start with an appraisal of the lack of recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Australian Constitution and the perceived problems with s 51(xxvi) (the ‘race power’), and in so doing I consider what benefits (modified) Canadian transplants may offer, if any.
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Brent, Peter. "The rise of the returning officer : how colonial Australia developed advanced electoral institutions." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150446.
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King, Thomas Francis. "The Rise and Fall of Minor Political Parties in Australia." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147961.
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This thesis contributes to the political science
literature by exploring why minor parties arise and decline.
This thesis explores the rise of Australian minor parties in
Australia from the time of the Labor ‘Split’ in 1955 that led
to the formation of the DLP through to the rise and continuing
rise of the Australian Greens in the 1990s and beyond. In that
time the Australian Democrats emerged in 1977 and in 1996 and
1997 Pauline Hanson’s One Nation first appeared. The thesis
goes behind these parties to explore and analyses the underlying
factors that caused these parties to be established in the first
place and succeed electorally, before, in the case of three of
the parties, meeting their decline. The Australian Greens have
not declined to any significant degree and One Nation has
experienced a political resurrection. The four parties
considered in this thesis were the minor parties that were in the
Federal parliament as at 1 January 2009 or had being in the
Federal parliament and had lost all of their seats in parliament
before that that date.
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Agha, Karimi Armin. "Sea level variability and mean sea level determination around Australia from satellite altimetry." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407551.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This research aims at studying the sea level variability and determining the Mean Sea Surface (MSS) around Australia using satellite altimetry data in the period from 1993 to 2018. Analysing sea level variation is of a great importance due to its effects on coastal areas. Particularly, several studies have reported the acceleration in the sea level rise mainly due to the anthropogenic impacts. In this respect, determination of the sea level behaviour at the regional scale gives better understanding about the underlying threats of sea level rise on coastal regions. Accurate determination of the sea level rise around Australia, in the altimetry era, is the one of the main objectives of this study. The usability of the CryoSat-2 data to augment the existing global MSS and derive a new MSS around Australia is also analysed in this dissertation. CryoSat-2 data provides spatially denser and more accurate data in comparison to previous conventional altimetry missions. Fitting a surface to the CryoSat-2 Sea Surface Height (SSH) data may not provide a true MSS due to the presence of strong annual and semi-annual signals in the measured sea level data. A two-stage method is applied to mitigate the effect of periodic and non-periodic signals in the Sea Level Anomalies (SLAs) provided by CryoSat-2. At the first stage, the annual and semi-annual signals are removed using data from Topex/Poseidon and follow on missions. Then, the data are clustered in 0.1° x 0.1° cells and averaged to compensate for the effects of non-periodic signals. The estimated MSS provides promising result when it is compared to the MSS derived from Jason-2 and Jason-3 data, obtained in the same time span of CryoSat-2 data. The Mean Dynamic Topography (MDT) is also estimated using the MSS of CryoSat-2. It gives a consistent result when compared to global MDT models and is in good agreement with geodetic data. Additionally, the north-south tilt of Australian Height Datum (AHD) and the offset between the vertical datum of mainland and Tasmania are re-estimated using the MDT derived from CryoSat-2 data. The results show that the north-south tilt is ~27 mm/degree and the offset between AHD (Tasmania) and AHD (mainland) is highly variable depending on the locations adopted for the estimation of the offset. The sea level trend in the altimetry era is investigated considering the low frequency signals modulated by climate modes in the tropical region around Australia. Two new methods are used to estimate the sea level trend by considering the intra-decadal and decadal signals. The average sea level rise is estimated as 3.92 ± 0.15 mm/year around Australia. Apparently, the sea level rise in the tropical regions approximately doubles that in the Southern Ocean. The intra-decadal and decadal signals are traceable in the effective climate indices in the area. The time-frequency analysis of the signals in both climate indices and altimetry data shows that the intra-decadal signals, except for annual signal, are not stationary in the altimetry era. However, the decadal signal with the period of 11.17 years started to be effective from the mid-1980s and to the time. From spatial point of view, almost all of the signals are effective only in the tropical region. A few studies used linear regression and estimated biased trends due to the low frequency signal in recent years. However, the analysis shows that the sea level trend estimated using linear regression is less effected by the low frequency signal whilst the length of the time series is increasing. Therefore, in the current data sets (1993-2018), the sea level trend estimated by linear regression does not differ substantially from the trend estimated by the models where the low frequency signal is considered. The variations of the sea level contributors around Australia are investigated using different data sets. The spectral analysis of the eustatic and steric sea levels shows that the detected intra-decadal and decadal signals are mainly due to the steric sea level variations. The sea level budget closure in different regions of the study area is also investigated. The largest separation between the observed total sea level by altimetry and the summation of the contributors is in the seas of Indonesia. This can be linked to the lack of steric sea level data in this region and the leakage error in the equivalent water height derived from GRACE data.
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Chacón, Calvo Adriana. "Domains and indicators of life satisfaction: case studies in Costa Rica and Northern Australia." Thesis, 2016. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/49873/1/49873-chacon-calvo-2016-thesis.pdf.
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Measuring the progress of nations by only focusing on economic growth is inadequate. New measures such as life satisfaction have been put forward as an option to use alongside gross domestic product (GDP). The notions of life satisfaction or subjective wellbeing have been around for many years as central elements of quality of life, but until recently they were not generally accepted as serious, replicable indicators. During the last two decades, however, there has been an increasing body of evidence showing that life satisfaction can be measured in surveys, and that these are reliable and valid measures.
There is a large and growing body of research that seeks to learn more about the contribution different factors make to overall 'life satisfaction' (Ambrey & Fleming, 2011). The enumeration and demarcation of factors contributing to life satisfaction is often arbitrary. Some researchers use a small number of relatively aggregated indicators (Gross Domestic Product is a well-known example of an aggregate indicator, in that it is a single number that captures information about a very large variety of factors); others use a very large number of indicators (Rojas, 2006a). There remains little certainty and no agreed rules for the operationalization of a life-satisfaction construct (Cummins, 1998; Hsieh, 2015; Rojas, 2006b); but much effort has sought to determine which indicators (i.e., what numbers or what type of data), from which domains are better for predicting life satisfaction.
The aim of this thesis is to test the life satisfaction approach in two case studies separately, my main objective being to identify ways of assessing and monitoring the contribution of the domains and types of indicators to people's life satisfaction in each case. I also specifically focused on the environmental domain, and the indicators that are being used. To achieve this aim I focused on three core questions:
RESEARCH QUESTION 1: Do some domains appear to contribute more to life satisfaction in developed countries than in developing countries?
RESEARCH QUESTION 2: Which indicators (objective and/or subjective) best represent which domains when measuring the contribution of different domains to life satisfaction in different socio-economic contexts?
RESEARCH QUESTION 3: Do environmental factors, other than those 'normally' considered (such as those relating to climate and pollution) contribute to life satisfaction?
The case study sites used include Costa Rica and the Northern Territory and outback Queensland in Australia (referred to as Northern Australia). In Costa Rica, I collected primary data from a sample of residents. I designed my own questionnaire to collect data about overall life satisfaction and about contributors to life satisfaction. Following previous literature I included questions about five life domains relating to: society, economy, the environment, health and safety. I then asked a series of questions designed to gather both 'subjective' and 'objective' information about each of the five life domains. I also collected some background information on income and occupational status plus other sociodemographic factors known to influence life satisfaction (including age, gender and education). Where-ever possible, I endeavoured to collect 'matching' subjective and objective indicators for variables (e.g. satisfaction with, and actual time spent with family).
For the case study in Northern Australia I used sub-set of secondary data from a cross-sectional survey of land managers (gathered as part of a research project funded by the Australian Government's National Environmental Research Project (NERP)). The data provided from this project included subjective information regarding the perceptions of land managers about their overall life satisfaction and additional objective and subjective indicators across the social and economic domains, and a subjective indicator from the environmental domain. Recognising that the environment may also be important to land managers for non-productive purposes, I thus also compiled additional information relating to aquatic biodiversity data from other resources, in addition to other biophysical information about vegetation type, soil type and places of interest (e.g. national heritage places, wetlands of national or international significance).
I found evidence to suggest that the economic domain is probably the most important domain for Costa Rican residents – at least some variables from this domain were statistically significant for the entire sample and for each sub-sample that I tested. Regarding the type of indicators from each domain, both subjective and objective indicators had a statistically significant relationship with measures of overall life satisfaction; but the type of indicators that were relevant for each domain were different. It was a subjective (rather than objective) indicator of satisfaction with housing (mostly associated with the economic domain) that had a positive association with life satisfaction for Costa Rican residents. But for the health domain, it was the objective (rather than the subjective) indicator – specifically, time spent exercising – that had a positive association with life satisfaction. Only within one sub-sample (employed persons living in an urban area adjacent to beaches and/or protected areas), did an environmental indicator – in this case, frequency of interaction with the environment – have a positive association with life satisfaction.
My analysis of land managers in Northern Australia also demonstrated that life satisfaction depends on multiple domains and that, using both subjective and objective indicators adds value to the analysis. In this case, the social domain had the strongest statistical association with life satisfaction: the single most important indicator of land managers' life satisfaction was having good relationships with family and friends. In contrast to the Costa Rican case, I did not find a statistically significant relationship between the economic domain indicators and life satisfaction.
Different people in different places value different things, according to my study. GDP alone is not a good indicator of life satisfaction; other indicators should be considered. My research demonstrates that there is a need to monitor multiple domains (including, at minimum, those from the social, economic, environmental and probably also health and safety domains), using both objective and subjective indicators. My research also demonstrates that one can expect different indicators to 'matter' at different stages of development of a country. If governments lack the resources to monitor a large variety of indicators, it may be possible to, at the very least, include a single question about overall life satisfaction within their regular censuses, thus readily monitoring more than mere GDP, in a cost-effective way.
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Collier, Stella Catherine Juliet. "'Long strange ride' & The lure of the road in contemporary Australian fiction." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10453/43434.
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University of Technology Sydney. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.NO FULL TEXT AVAILABLE. Access is restricted indefinitely. The hardcopy may be available for consultation at the UTS Library.
The journey is an age-old literary device and its contemporary manifestation, the road story, is more commonly told through the medium of cinema. Can such a clichéd narrative structure tell us anything new? What makes an Australian road novel uniquely Australian and can it ever be more than a pale imitation of its American counterparts? The creative portion of my Master of Creative Arts thesis consists of the first two parts of a projected three-part road novel, Long Strange Ride. Set in Australia around the time of the Port Arthur massacre, the novel is narrated by 26 year-old Kaz, an inner-west lesbian working in a bar. In Part One, at her mother’s funeral Kaz meets her estranged father and his six-year old daughter Kiera. Over the next few months the two half-sisters become friends and when Kiera arrives one day with a broken arm, Kaz decides to take her away from her parents. They set out on a road trip that leads them to Broken Hill, where they find shelter with an old friend. In Part Two Kaz tells the story of Holly, her other little sister, whose unhappy life and teenage death she blames on their father and on herself; her story has cast a shadow over Kaz’s life and Kiera’s arrival has transformed Kaz’s guilt into action. In Part Three (which has not been submitted for examination) their father and the police arrive in Broken Hill and Kaz continues to hide with Kiera, heading ultimately to confrontation and a choice she must make between violence and forgiveness. The exegesis, The Lure of the Road in Contemporary Australian Fiction, examines three Australian road novels (Last Ride by Denise Young, Floundering by Romy Ash and The Low Road by Chris Womersley) and seeks to establish whether this sub-genre of contemporary fiction can be considered uniquely Australian. It engages with the key themes that emerged in the writing of Long Strange Ride that are also defining features of the three texts – the mythology of place, gender, family and social marginalisation. The critical stance is informed by the available critical literature, the most significant of these being Delia Falconer’s work on Australian road writing. It also refers to the complex and wide-ranging discussion of place and Australian national identity, drawing upon the work of Roslyn Haynes, Ross Gibson and Don Watson and showing how these three texts reflect the contradictions at the heart of Australian national mythology. While the figure of the bushman on the land is idealized, the landscape itself is demonized, perpetuating the theme of the hostile wilderness. Assessing the damaging impact of the journey upon the characters and their relationships, I argue that the lure of the road is deceptive and that the road itself is dangerous and untrustworthy. This negative characterization of the road implies a parallel affirmation of everything that the road is not – home, the feminine, family, nurture, society and belonging. In its characterization of the road and the landscape, the Australian road novel provides a distinctive narrative that privileges home over the empty promise of the journey and an encounter with a hostile land.
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Kinsman, Martha. "'Different but Equal': The Rise and Demise of the TAFE Teachers Association of Australia 1964 - 1992." Phd thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/170602.
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During the latter half of the twentieth century, Australian technical and further education (TAFE) was developed as a mass system of post-compulsory education. The relatively few national histories of TAFE have been written from the standpoint of policy makers and senior administrators, resulting in a predominantly structuralist interpretation in which the experience and agency of TAFE teachers remain unacknowledged.
My thesis seeks to redress this imbalance through a history of the TAFE Teachers' Association of Australia. The Association was established in 1964 as a loose federation of State-based technical teacher organisations. Its purpose was to act as a national voice and advocate for TAFE teachers in a policy arena that was primarily concerned with constructing and maintaining a meritocratic settlement in education.
The Association had no independent authority, very limited finances and was almost entirely reliant on a handful of committed volunteers. In addition to the Association's archive and journal, the thesis makes extensive use of oral histories and interviews to explore how these key actors conceptualised TAFE, the issues and relationships of most significance to them and the ways these changed during the life of the Association.
The thesis analyses the influence of the Association on federal policy with an emphasis on the sharply contrasting constructions of TAFE by the Whitlam and the Hawke Labor governments. The TAFE Teachers' Association had little success until 1973 when the federal government acknowledged it as the peak national TAFE teacher organisation, a status it maintained until its dissolution in 1992. The Association was instrumental in the Whitlam government's decision to establish and support TAFE as a 'different but equal' third sector of tertiary education that expanded to cater for the diverse interests of more than a million students each year. As it grew, 'TAFE' became a contested concept across different teaching cultures and competing policy networks. The Association thus found it increasingly difficult to formulate agreed policies or to present a united national voice.
In comparison with school and higher education unions, the TAFE Teachers' Association was more receptive to the Hawke government's stridently instrumentalist view of education and several of its leaders collaborated with the wider union movement in refashioning TAFE as an adjunct to neoliberal labour market reform. This caused a deepening rift between its NSW and Victorian representatives, disrupting the Association's internal consensus. Drawing on interviews with former prominent TAFE unionists, I explore the reasons for this radical shift in the Association's philosophy of TAFE. This sheds light on how many of the Association's earlier gains were forfeited and how trust in the idea of a national union was dissipated.
The thesis concludes that the history of the Association gives voice to an underlying ambivalence among TAFE teachers about their educational role and value. This ambivalence hindered the formation of a coherent national identity among TAFE teachers and limited their ability to argue convincingly for the further development of TAFE.
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Leyden, Emily Ruth. "Effect of rising sea levels on the geochemistry of coastal soils in Southern Australia." Thesis, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2440/136602.
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In coming decades, sea level rise will increasingly cause ecosystem change in coastal nearshore environments. Seawater will inundate intertidal and supratidal zones more frequently and for longer durations, some for the first time in nearly 3000 years. Sea level rise will both increase flooding and inundation over the short term, but also cause more long-term progressive inundation through the current unsaturated zone. Little is currently known about how the soil and shallow groundwater will change geochemically from seawater inundation over both these timescales. This thesis aimed to investigate the effect of both short term and long-term inundation of seawater on coastal soils in temperate Southern Australia using a suite of novel approaches.
Chapter 2 details a novel ‘collision cell’ based ICP-MS/MS approach which was developed to determine the sulfur isotope abundances (i.e., 34S/32S ratios, expressed as δ34S) in natural waters rapidly, accurately and with minimal sample preparation. The ICP-MS/MS approach was then used to investigate the δ34S signature of porewaters from a variety of coastal systems in South Australia (including acid sulfate soils), and importantly observe how the δ34S isotope ratio ‘shifts’ to that of seawater when inundated. This novel approach increases the applicability of sulfur isotope analysis to trace seawater inundation. This research titled “A simple and rapid ICP-MS/MS determination of sulfur isotope ratios (34S/32S) in complex natural waters: A new tool for tracing seawater intrusion in coastal systems” was published in Talanta https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122708
Chapter 3 details an experiment where 12 soils from three distinct environments in South Australia (fresh water streams and lakes; hypersaline saltmarsh and mangroves; acid sulfate soils) were inundated with seawater over a two week period under laboratory conditions, to replicate a short-term storm surge. All soils in the experiment are predicted to be affected by sea level rise in the next 20 years. Dissimilatory reductive dissolution of Mn-oxides and Fe oxyhydroxides and competitive ion exchange processes were two important phenomena which instigated a rapid increases in metal and metalloid concentrations in soil porewaters following seawater inundation, particularly in freshwater environments and in acid sulfate soils. This research titled “Short-term seawater inundation induces metal mobilisation in freshwater and acid sulfate soil environments” was published in Chemosphere https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134383
Chapter 4 details a long term (540 day) laboratory experiment where the progressive sea level rise through coastal soils was investigated by slowly inundating intact soil columns with seawater from the ‘bottom up’. This experiment gave new insights into the biogeochemical cycling of sulfur and iron in soils experiencing seawater inundation from sea level rise over longer timescales, and the geochemical conditions to which sulfidization (due to in-situ sulfate reduction) will affect coastal soils over time following progressive seawater inundation. This research titled “Controls on sulfide accumulation in coastal soils during simulated sea level rise” is under review in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
In Chapter 5, the data collected from the above experiments was used to formulate hydro-geochemical models using PHREEQC to help predict changes in coastal soils and shallow groundwater following sea water inundation at longer time scales and with different soil properties (reactive iron oxide and organic carbon content).
Chapter 6 summaries the overall findings and provides suggestions for future research.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Biological Sciences, 2022
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Buultjens, A. H., K. Vandelannoote, Conor J. Meehan, M. Eddyani, Jong B. C. de, J. A. M. Fyfe, M. Globan, et al. "Comparative Genomics Shows That Mycobacterium ulcerans Migration and Expansion Preceded the Rise of Buruli Ulcer in Southeastern Australia." 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17261.
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NoSince 2000, cases of the neglected tropical disease Buruli ulcer, caused by infection with Mycobacterium ulcerans, have increased 100-fold around Melbourne (population 4.4 million), the capital of Victoria, in temperate southeastern Australia. The reasons for this increase are unclear. Here, we used whole-genome sequence comparisons of 178 M. ulcerans isolates obtained primarily from human clinical specimens, spanning 70 years, to model the population dynamics of this pathogen from this region. Using phylogeographic and advanced Bayesian phylogenetic approaches, we found that there has been a migration of the pathogen from the east end of the state, beginning in the 1980s, 300 km west to the major human population center around Melbourne. This move was then followed by a significant increase in M. ulcerans population size. These analyses inform our thinking around Buruli ulcer transmission and control, indicating that M. ulcerans is introduced to a new environment and then expands, rather than it being from the awakening of a quiescent pathogen reservoir.
National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC), an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship to T.P.S. (grant GNT1105525); and an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship to B.P.H. (GNT1105905). A.H.B. was supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award Ph.D. scholarship.
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Campbell, Craig 1949. "The rise of mass secondary schooling and modern adolescence : a social history of youth in southern Adelaide, 1901-1965 / Craig Campbell." 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21487.
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Bibliography : leaves 420-435.viii, 435 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Education, 1994
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Wells, Andrew David. "A Marxist reappraisal of Australian capitalism : the rise of Anglo-Colonial finance capital in New South Wales and Victoria, 1830-1890." Phd thesis, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/121712.
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This thesis investigates aspects of the formation and evolution
of capitalism in colonial New South Wales. Four principal themes are
addressed throughout the discussion: first, the role of British
imperialism in establishing and shaping colonial capitalism; second,
the role of the British and colonial states in expanding commodity
relations; third, the dominant areas and agents involved in capital
accumulation, and last, the nature of the class relations and property
connections that underpinned these processes. The structure and
dynamics of class relations, especially the relations of production,
are both the premise and conclusion of this study.
The approach adopted to realise these objects is both theoretical
and empirical. The study proceeds through three major parts. The
first part is a critical investigation of the historiography pertinent
to my principal themes and the specification of the problems discussed
in the subsequent parts. Here, the rudiments of marxist
historiography are introduced and a sustained critical discussion of
Australian economic historiography is presented. By the close of Part
One, the approach to be pursued, the themes to be investigated, the
departures from non-marxist historiography and the sequence of
empirical analyses are made explicit.
Part Two of the thesis is concerned with the formation of
colonial capitalism. Capitalism depends on the commodification of
economic relations: thus this process of commodification is examined
in the context of the land, labour and capital markets. Because the
initial process of securing capitalist relations of production is as
much political as economic, and consequently as much imperial as
colonial, the forms of political or state power are discussed. The
dominant relations of production before 1860 are defined as ascendant,
though contradictory, Anglo-colonial merchant capital. Part Three investigates three dimensions of colonial capitalist
development. These investigations pre-suppose the dominance of
commodity relations and pursue their intensification and expansion
into colonial landed property, the transformation of colonial
pastoralism and the forms and directions of public economic activity.
In all these cases the focus remains on the four major themes
identified above. Part Three closes with an analysis of dominant
class relations, a demonstration of the fundamental argument advanced
throughout the thesis concerning the prominence that should be given
to Anglo-colonial finance capital. Between 1860 and 1890 the major
economic relations and class structure were shaped by Anglo-colonial
finance capital.
The thesis concludes with an assessment of the implications of
this study for Australian historiography, including marxist
historiography, and indicates possible directions for future
investigations.
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Campbell, Craig 1949. "The rise of mass secondary schooling and modern adolescence : a social history of youth in southern Adelaide, 1901-1965 / Craig Campbell." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21487.
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