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Parker, Doreen. "TQS at the Victoria University of Technology." Australian Academic & Research Libraries 26, no. 1 (January 1995): 25–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048623.1995.10754912.
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Duff, E. J. "Marketing academic technology." Industry and Higher Education 2, no. 2 (June 1988): 101–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095042228800200208.
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Universities are increasingly feeling the need to commercialize the results of their research. This article describes the experiences of one of the major UK institutions established for this purpose, Vuman Ltd. The company was established in 1981 by the Victoria University of Manchester for the purpose of exploiting technology arising from research from within the university. Vuman Ltd is a multi-activity company, with interests ranging from contract research, the implementation of expert systems, and the manufacture of scientific and medical equipment. It offers a software systems house and provides a patenting and licensing service to the university. The origins of Vuman are described, together with its modus operandi, and the consequences of success and failure are discussed.
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Ackroyd, J. A. D. "The Victoria University of Manchester’s contributions to the development of aeronautics." Aeronautical Journal 111, no. 1122 (August 2007): 473–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001924000004735.
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This issue of the Aeronautical Journal celebrates the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Honours Degree Course in Aeronautical Engineering at the Victoria University of Manchester. The following article therefore describes the aeronautical research and teaching activities of that university up to its recent amalgamation with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) to form the present-day University of Manchester. This juncture provides a further justification for recording the Victoria University’s achievements.Both the Victoria University and UMIST had their roots in the nineteenth century although, apart from the relatively brief period of the First World War, neither of them was particularly involved in aeronautics until after the Second World War. However, as Sections 6.0-10.0 seek to demonstrate, thereafter the Victoria University’s involvement became considerable. The preceding Sections describe the origins of the Victoria University and UMIST and, in the case of the former institution, the subsequent activities of its staff and graduates in engineering and mathematics which, although not always specifically aeronautical in content, nonetheless had a profound influence on the development of the aeronautical sciences.
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Smith, Derek. "Technology Tips: What's Another Way to Make 18?" Mathematics Teacher 101, no. 5 (December 2007): 384–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.101.5.0384.
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In this month's tip, Derek Smith, a mathematics educator from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, introduces an activity that uses ClassPad 300 to help students think about multiple representations of the number 18 using algebra and geometry. ClassPad 300 allows students to represent geometric forms dynamically and collect data more easily.
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Kell, Professor Douglas, and Richard Reece. "Q&A." Biochemist 30, no. 6 (December 1, 2008): 31–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio03006031.
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Douglas Kell was Professor of Bioanalytical Science at the University of Manchester and Director of the BBSRC-funded Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology before taking over as Chief Executive of the BBSRC in October 2008. He studied at the University of Oxford and then did research at Aberystwyth University. He joined UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) in 2002. (UMIST merged with the Victoria University of Manchester to form The University of Manchester in 2004.)
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Jazib, Ahshan, Mohd Talim Hossain, and Raihan I. Raju. "Clonal propagation of Dracaena fragrans cv. Victoria through tissue culture technology." Jahangirnagar University Journal of Biological Sciences 8, no. 2 (October 19, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jujbs.v8i2.49833.
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Micropropagation of Dracaena fragrans cv.Victoria was conducted using the young, tender and disease-free leaves and nodal segments as explants collected from the local market of Savar, Dhaka. Surface sterilization of the explants pretreated with a liquid detergent and then 0.2% HgCl2 for 4-5 minutes produces maximum contamination free explants without any toxicity. After surface sterilization, different explants were inoculated on gelrite gelled MS medium supplemented with different concentrations of 2,4-D for callus induction and with different concentrations and combinations of BAP and NAA for direct shoot induction. Nodal explants showed high callus induction potentiality (80%) on MS medium supplemented with 1.5 mg/l 2,4-D. The highest frequency of direct shoot induction from nodal segment was 80% and the number of shoots per nodal segment was(5.28±1.17) when they were cultured on MS medium supplemented with 3.0 mg/l BAP and 0.3 mg/l NAA. The highest shoot multiplication (83.33%) with maximum number of shoot per unit callus (5.62±1.24) and maximum shoot length (3.27±0.82 cm) was observed when the nodal calli were transferred in gelrite gelled MS medium in combination with 4.5 mg/l BAP and 0.5 mg/l NAA. Additionally, the incorporation of 4% sucrose and 10% coconut water with the above mentioned medium showed the satisfactory shoot growth and development with an average 7.84±1.30 shoots per unit of callus which was 4.21±0.78 cm in length. Moreover, addition of 3.0 mg/l GA3 with the above mention medium showed highest rate of shoot elongation (5.83±2.31cm). For root induction, in vitro raised shoots were transferred onto half-strength of MS liquid medium augmented with different concentrations and combinations of auxins (IBA and NAA). Maximum rooting (75%) were observed in halfstrength MS liquid medium supplemented with 0.5 mg/l IBA. After appropriate rooting the plantlets were successfully acclimatized (85% survival) when they were cultured in polybag containing (1:1:1) garden soil, sand and compost mixture before transferred to soil. Regenerated plants were morphologically identical with mother plants and showed their uniform growth in field condition.
Jahangirnagar University J. Biol. Sci. 8(2): 1-11, 2019 (December)
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Haux, R., F. J. Leven, J. R. Moehr, and D. J. Protti. "Health and Medical Informatics Education." Methods of Information in Medicine 33, no. 03 (1994): 246–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1635023.
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Abstract:Health and medical informatics education has meanwhile gained considerable importance for medicine and for health care. Specialized programs in health/medical informatics have therefore been established within the last decades.This special issue of Methods of Information in Medicine contains papers on health and medical informatics education. It is mainly based on selected papers from the 5th Working Conference on Health/Medical Informatics Education of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), which was held in September 1992 at the University of Heidelberg/Technical School Heilbronn, Germany, as part of the 20 years’ celebration of medical informatics education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn. Some papers were presented on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the health information science program of the School of Health Information Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Within this issue, programs in health/medical informatics are presented and analyzed: the medical informatics program at the University of Utah, the medical informatics program of the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn, the health information science program at the University of Victoria, the health informatics program at the University of Minnesota, the health informatics management program at the University of Manchester, and the health information management program at the University of Alabama. They all have in common that they are dedicated curricula in health/medical informatics which are university-based, leading to an academic degree in this field. In addition, views and recommendations for health/medical informatics education are presented. Finally, the question is discussed, whether health and medical informatics can be regarded as a separate discipline with the necessity for specialized curricula in this field.In accordance with the aims of IMIA, the intention of this special issue is to promote the further development of health and medical informatics education in order to contribute to high quality health care and medical research.
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Fan, Cynthia, and Bernadette Hood. "Brief Research Report - An Analysis of the Relationship Between Secondary and Tertiary Psychology Performance." Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist 12, no. 1 (May 1995): 25–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0816512200027140.
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ABSTRACTThis study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) secondary psychology course in preparing students for studying psychology at a tertiary level. First semester results of 228 first year psychology students at Victoria University of Technology were analysed. Of these students 60 had completed VCE Psychology in 1992. No significant differences were observed in overall semester one psychology performance between students who had completed VCE Psychology and those who had not. Regression analysis suggested that VCE aggregate score was a better predictor than the VCE Psychology score of overall performance in the first year psychology course. Subsequent correlation analyses demonstrated that VCE Psychology scores correlated significantly with tertiary psychology examination results but not with coursework requirements. VCE aggregate scores correlated with both examination and coursework requirements. These results suggest that completion of VCE Psychology does not advantage students entering tertiary psychology courses and educators need to analyse both the content and process of both secondary and tertiary psychology courses to facilitate more effective articulations for students.
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Stevenson, Brian. "Collaborative practice re-energises bioscience teaching in schools." Microbiology Australia 31, no. 1 (2010): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ma10027.
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This year marks the first decade of operations for the Gene Technology Access Centre (GTAC). The decade has seen a grassroots initiative by a small group of eminent research scientists and dedicated personnel from the University High School in Melbourne grow into a specialist education centre in cell and molecular biology that attracts over 6000 students and their teachers each year. GTAC has not only refocused student and teacher attention on the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary biology, but has also highlighted how a ?centre model for learning?, based upon collaboration and partnerships, can exist within ?the school system? and meet the needs of students and teachers from across Victoria and beyond.
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JACKSON, MYLES W. "A CULTURAL HISTORY OF VICTORIAN PHYSICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY." Historical Journal 50, no. 1 (February 13, 2007): 253–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x06006005.
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Making modern science: a historical survey. By Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. viii+528. ISBN 0-226-06861-7. $25.00.The morals of measurement: accuracy, irony and trust in late Victorian electrical practice. By Graeme J. N. Gooday. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xxv+285. ISBN 0-521-43098-4. L40.Victorian relativity: radical thought and scientific discovery. By Christopher Herbert. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xv+302. ISBN 0-226-32733-7. $21.00.Engineering empires: a cultural history of technology in nineteenth-century Britain. By Ben Marsden and Crosbie Smith. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave and Macmillan, 2005. Pp. xi+351. ISBN 0-333-77278-4. L58.The electric vehicle: technology and expectations in the automobile age. By Gijs Mom. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii+423. $54.95.When physics became king. By Iwan Rhys Morus. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. xii+303. ISBN 0-226-54202-5. $25.00.Masters of theory: Cambridge and the rise of mathematical physics. By Andrew Warwick. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+572. ISBN 0-226-87374-9. $95.00.Over the past three decades, a growing number of historians of science and (to a lesser extent) historians of technology have offered compelling cultural histories that depict the inextricable links between the content of scientific and technological knowledge and the context in which it was created. Rather than assuming at face value that science is a trans-temporal body of knowledge, these historians describe the scientific enterprise as being culturally contingent. Most of the socio-cultural histories of science of the 1980s and 1990s were synchronic, focusing on various aspects of science and culture during a relatively short span of time. As important and successful as those studies were, a number of historians feared that the discipline was losing sight of the longue durée. Precisely because scientific theories and practices can be successful over long periods of time and throughout different cultures, micro-histories with a penchant for contextualizing, while necessary, seemed insufficient. The question was then raised: could the analytical tools and historiographies offered by these earlier microanalyses be applied diachronically? A number of recent works discussed in this review article have answered this question with a resounding ‘yes.’ By focusing on macro-historical themes, such as pedagogy, standardization, imperialism, credibility, and trustworthiness, these works detail the importance of science and technology to Victorian society, and illustrate how the social relations typical of the period shaped physical and technical knowledge.
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Richardson, Ken, Zaramasina Clark, Michael Gaines, Hautahi Kingi, Sonja Miller, Willie Pearson, and Liz Richardson. "Āwhina Revolution: A Bayesian Analysis of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Completion Rates from a Program for Māori and Pacific Success in STEM Disciplines." CBE—Life Sciences Education 17, no. 1 (March 2018): ar15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.17-07-0117.
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Māori and Pacific students generally do not attain the same levels of tertiary success as New Zealanders of European descent, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects. Te Rōpū Āwhina (Āwhina), an equity initiative at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand between 1999 and 2015, aimed to produce Māori and Pacific professionals in STEM disciplines who contribute to Māori and Pacific community development and leadership. A hierarchical Bayesian approach was used to estimate posterior standardized completion rates for 3-year undergraduate and 2-year postgraduate degrees undertaken by non–Māori-Pacific and Māori-Pacific students. Results were consistent with an Āwhina effect, that is, Āwhina’s positive influence on (combined) Māori and Pacific success.
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Prawer, Steven, David Jamieson, Dougal McCulloch, Rafi Kalish, Yishayahu (Shay) Lifshitz, and David McKenzie. "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on New Diamond Science and Technology, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21–26 July 2002." Diamond and Related Materials 12, no. 10-11 (October 2003): ix. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2003.09.002.
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Campbell, Margaret, Katie Page, Thomas Longden, Patricia Kenny, Lutfun Hossain, Kerryn Wilmot, Scott Kelly, et al. "Evaluation of the Victorian Healthy Homes Program: protocol for a randomised controlled trial." BMJ Open 12, no. 4 (April 2022): e053828. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053828.
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IntroductionThe evaluation of the Victorian Healthy Homes Program (VHHP) will generate evidence about the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of home upgrades to improve thermal comfort, reduce energy use and produce health and economic benefits to vulnerable households in Victoria, Australia.Methods and analysisThe VHHP evaluation will use a staggered, parallel group clustered randomised controlled trial to test the home energy intervention in 1000 households. All households will receive the intervention either before (intervention group) or after (control group) winter (defined as 22 June to 21 September). The trial spans three winters with differing numbers of households in each cohort. The primary outcome is the mean difference in indoor average daily temperature between intervention and control households during the winter period. Secondary outcomes include household energy consumption and residential energy efficiency, self-reported respiratory symptoms, health-related quality of life, healthcare utilisation, absences from school/work and self-reported conditions within the home. Linear and logistic regression will be used to analyse the primary and secondary outcomes, controlling for clustering of households by area and the possible confounders of year and timing of intervention, to compare the treatment and control groups over the winter period. Economic evaluation will include a cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval was received from Victorian Department of Human Services Human Research Ethics Committee (reference number: 04/17), University of Technology Sydney Human Research Ethics Committee (reference number: ETH18-2273) and Australian Government Department of Veterans Affairs. Study results will be disseminated in a final report and peer-reviewed journals.Trial registration numberACTRN12618000160235.
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Lyon, Stuart. "Graham Wood. 6 February 1934—4 November 2016." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 72 (December 8, 2021): 447–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2021.0025.
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Graham Wood was a world-leading corrosion scientist who bridged both the aqueous (electrochemical) corrosion and high-temperature oxidation branches of the subject. His analytical predictions of depletion and enrichment profiles in substrate and scale during preferential oxidation have long been confirmed in practice. He also demonstrated that transient oxides can be vital solid lubricants in oxidative friction and wear processes. He elucidated ionic transport in amorphous anodic films, leading to precise models of pore initiation, development and closure, thus allowing the strict design of anodic films for practical application. He set up, and headed, the Corrosion and Protection Centre at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and was instrumental in initiating the Corrosion and Protection Centre Industrial Service, which, respectively, became the world's largest academic centre on the study of materials degradation and the world's largest corrosion consulting organization. While keeping active in research, he held increasingly senior administrative roles, where he established a specialist graduate school and helped prepare UMIST to full independence from the Victoria University of Manchester.
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Lin, Sherry. "Reviewer Acknowledgements for Higher Education Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4." Higher Education Studies 8, no. 4 (November 30, 2018): 200. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/hes.v8n4p200.
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Higher Education Studies wishes to acknowledge the following individuals for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts for this issue. Their help and contributions in maintaining the quality of the journal are greatly appreciated.
Higher Education Studies is recruiting reviewers for the journal. If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, we welcome you to join us. Please find the application form and details at http://recruitment.ccsenet.org and e-mail the completed application form to hes@ccsenet.org.
Reviewers for Volume 8, Number 4
Abdelaziz Mohammed, Albaha University, Saudi Arabia
Anna Liduma, University of Latvia, Latvia
Arbabisarjou Azizollah, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Bahar Gün, İzmir University of Economics, Turkey
Barba Patton, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
Edward Lehner, Bronx Community College, City University of New York, USA
Evrim Ustunluoglu, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
Gerard Hoyne, University of Notre Dame Australia, Australia
Gregory S. Ching, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan
John Cowan, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
John Rafferty, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Kartheek R. Balapala, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Laid Fekih, University of Tlemcen Algeria, Algeria
Mehmet Ersoy, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkey
Meric Ozgeldi, Mersin University, Turkey
Michael John Maxel Okoche, Uganda Management Institute, Uganda
Mirosław Kowalski, University of Zielona Góra, Poland
Najia Sabir, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Nancy Maynes, Nipissing University, Schulich School of Education, Canada, Canada
Philip Denton, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom
Qing Xie, Jiangnan University, China
Sahar Ahadi, Islamic Azad University of Mashhad, Iran
Savitri Bevinakoppa, Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Suat Capuk, Adiyaman University, Turkey
Teguh Budiharso, Center of Language and Culture Studies, Indonesia
Tuija A. Turunen, University of Lapland, Finland
Zahra Shahsavar, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
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McKeown, Roy. "The Centre for Image Information: the shape of things to come." Art Libraries Journal 18, no. 3 (1993): 28–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200008427.
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Since its transfer to De Montfort University at Leicester, Britain’s National Art Slide Library, formerly at the Victoria and Albert Museum, has become the catalyst for a new Centre for Image Information. The Centre will provide a clearing house for information, a research centre, and an image bank, and will concern itself with images in all formats with an emphasis on new technology. Whether moving images are to be included will depend on the availability of funding. A major component of the Centre’s initial strategy will be the development of a high resolution database of images capable of being delivered as medium resolution databases, optical discs, slides, or on paper. Although the Centre has been conceived primarily as a national service, institutions in other countries in addition to those in the UK are invited to join as Associates, and the Centre is eager to exchange information across national boundaries.
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Perkins, Natasha, Bobby Luke, Nan O'Sullivan, Maria Rodgers, Rebecca Kiddle, Katarina Anaru, Cally O'Neill, Leanna Dey, and Dana Fridman. "A Recipe for Kai-dness." Counterfutures 12 (August 15, 2022): 145–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/cf.v12.7725.
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This paper provides a recipe for Kai-dness, as designed by staff and students from Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation. It sets out both the ingredients and the method for Kai-dness. It celebrates the associated lessons learned and the agents of change who combined as ‘the Kai-dness Crew’ to facilitate conversation and collaboration through commensality, the sharing of kai. The plate this was served upon was the fifth Social Movements, Resistance, and Social Change Conference in November 2020. This paper suggests that there is power in the sharing of kai to aid the social transitions required in moving towards more positive futures.
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Doughney, Leesa. "Universal Tertiary Education: How dual-sector universities can challenge the binary divide between TAFE and higher education — the case of Victoria University of Technology." Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 22, no. 1 (May 2000): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713678136.
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Ichinose, Yoshio. "Kenya Research Station and its Research Activities." Journal of Disaster Research 9, no. 5 (October 1, 2014): 807–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jdr.2014.p0807.
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The Institute of Tropical Medicine Kenya Research Station of Nagasaki University (NUITM) was established in 2005 with Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) funds. The station involves clinical and epidemiological research programs focusing on tropical medicine and emerging infectious diseases based on education and research exchanges between Africa and Japan. This project is supported by about 22 Japanese staff members, including short-termers, in addition to 85 Kenyan staff members. It has at least 12 research groups studying the prevention of tropical and emerging diseases in collaboration with stakeholder institutions. The station also implements a JICA grassroots technical cooperation project since 2012. In April 2010, the Nagasaki University Africa Research Station was incorporated into the Kenya Research Station, enabling other faculties to conduct research in Kenya. The Nagasaki University School of Dentistry then started an oral health survey in Mbita and the Schools of Fisheries, Engineering, and Health Sciences have started joint research projects conserving and managing Lake Victoria basin water and fishery resources. Our aim is to develop a foundation enabling researchers from all different fields to conduct research for improving local community health and living standards. The NUITM was invited to become an associate member of the Japan Initiative for Global Research Network on Infectious Diseases (J-GRID) in 2011.
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Weber, Karsten. "The plurality of moral challenges in information societies and the need for systematic thinking." International Review of Information Ethics 3 (June 1, 2005): 70–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/irie353.
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This paper shall give a review of some recently published and some older books, which were published as second or third edition, on Information Ethics and Internet related topics: - Brennan, Linda L. & Victoria E. Johnson (eds.): Social, Ethical, and Policy Implications of Information Technology. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing, 2004. – 304 pages, paperback, $59.95 - Capurro, Rafael: Ethik im Netz. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 2003. 278 pages, paperback, €26.00 - Cavalier, Robert J. (ed.): The impact of the Internet on our moral lives. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005. – 249 pages, paperback, $26.95 - Johnson, Deborah G.: Computer Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, third edition, 2001. – 240 pages, paperback, $40.67 - Kuhlen, Rainer: Informationsethik. Umgang mit Wissen und Informationen in elektronischen Räumen. Konstanz: UVK (UTB), 2004. – 444 pages, paperback, €24.95 - Nyíri, Kristóf: Vernetztes Wissen. Philosophie im Zeitalter des Internets. Wien: Passagen Verlag, 2004. – 179 pages, paperback, €19.95 - Spinello, Richard A.: Case Studies in Information Technology Ethics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, second edition, 2003. – 252 pages, paperback, $54.67 - Spinello, Richard A. & Herman T. Tavani (eds.): Readings in Cyberethics. Sudbury, NJ: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, second edition, 2004. – 697 pages, paperback, $54.95 - Tavani, Herman T.: Ethics & Technology. Ethical Issues in an Age of Information and Communication Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2004. 344 pages, paperback, $53.95
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Phillips, D. I. "A new litter trap for urban drainage systems." Water Science and Technology 39, no. 2 (January 1, 1999): 85–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1999.0091.
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Litter is generated in shopping areas and is washed or blown into stormwater drainage systems. These convey the litter to open water bodies leading to the accumulation of non-biodegradable litter on the banks and beaches of urban waterways and bay foreshores. The increasing public awareness of the problem prompted the State Government of Victoria to provide funding to develop an innovative patented litter trap known as the In-line Litter Separator (ILLS). The ILLS is retrofitted to the drainage system downstream of shopping areas and removes litter and other pollutants from the passing stormwater. In a two-year development program, ten prototypes were installed and tested in the Melbourne and metropolitan area. The results were so successful that the ILLS is now manufactured in Australia and overseas under license from Swinburne University. This paper presents the performance criteria, the design concepts, the outcomes of laboratory and hydrologic modelling and the analyses of prototype test results that led to the commercial production of the ILLS.
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Kniffin, Gabriel P. "Reflections on Lisa Zurk as an Educator." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152, no. 4 (October 2022): A270—A271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0016244.
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Lisa Zurk was my advisor and mentor through both my masters and doctoral degree programs. I had the pleasure of working with her beginning in 2008; first as her graduate student, then in my subsequent professional career while she was a program manager in the Strategic Technology Office at DARPA. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been part of the Northwest Electromagnetics and Acoustics Research Laboratory (NEAR-Lab), which she founded at Portland State University in 2005. Under her guidance and leadership, the group became a diverse community of tight-knit students, faculty, and other researchers; united in our passion for research in terahertz imaging and spectroscopy, underwater acoustics, and physics-based signal processing. My experience there, and that of my fellow students, paved the way for our future careers in science and engineering in industry, academia, and everywhere in between. Today, NEAR-Lab alumni can be found at top tech companies such as Apple, Boeing, Intel, Tektronix, and Metron; nationally-renowned research organizations like The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and even internationally at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and JASCO Applied Sciences. The success of her students speaks volumes about her impact on the generation of innovators that followed her. This talk will reflect on Dr. Zurk as an educator and will present some of the work she coauthored and published with her students.
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Yeoman, Ian, and Una McMahon-Beattie. "Reflective Thoughts on Teaching the Future of Tourism." World Futures Review 10, no. 4 (August 10, 2018): 303–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1946756718786268.
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This reflective paper considers how Dr. Ian Yeoman teaches futures studies and scenario planning to tourism students across several undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. It is based on his teaching philosophy of visualization, authenticity, problem-based learning, scaffolding, and his understanding of how students negotiate their own learning. The paper examines the approach taken in three papers, where Yeoman is the primary lecturer. As part of the bachelor of tourism management degree, two papers are taught. TOUR104 is a first-year introductory paper addressing how the drivers and trends in the macro-environment influence tourism from a political, economic, social, technology, and environmental perspective. TOUR301 is a third-year paper that aims to help students develop the skills and knowledge necessary to understand and critically analyze tourism public policy, planning, and processes primarily within New Zealand. TOUR413 is a scenario planning paper, applied in a tourism context and taught to students in postgraduate programs. The contribution this paper makes is in its demonstration of the link between teaching philosophy and student learning, the challenges students encounter with futures thinking in a problem-based learning environment and the evolution of the papers.
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CALVERT, CHERYL, MIKE O'CONNOR, and JOHN BENTLEY. "BUSINESS OWNERS'/MANAGERS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE INTERNET: AN AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVE." Journal of Enterprising Culture 06, no. 02 (June 1998): 217–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218495898000126.
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This paper details an Australian study, conducted by the Small Business Research Unit at Victoria University of Technology, of Internet usage by small business. The objectives of this study were to: explore the expectations of small businesses setting up webpages on the Internet; analyse the commercial impact of the Internet; determine any benefits from using the Internet; and to ascertain any problems associated with using the Internet. The methodology involved a questionnaire distributed either via electronic mail or the World Wide Web. The main findings indicated that the average number of Internet sales inquiries per month appeared low compared to other countries such as the UK and USA. The majority of businesses received less than 20 sales inquiries per month via the Internet and only half of the respondent businesses indicated that sales had increased as a direct result of being on the Internet. Despite this, there existed optimism regarding business use of the Internet with the majority of business owners/managers claiming that the benefits of being on the Internet outweighed the costs, and that their expectations were met in using the Internet. Businesses involved in the computing industry had the highest level of optimism.
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Anderson, William A. "Handbook of Chemical Technology and Pollution Control By Martin B. Hocking (University of Victoria). Academic Press: New York. 1998. xxiv + 777 pp. $125. ISBN 0-12-350810-X." Journal of the American Chemical Society 121, no. 30 (August 1999): 7172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja985702r.
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Stipanowich, Thomas J. "The International Evolution of Mediation: A Call for Dialogue and Deliberation." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 46, no. 4 (December 1, 2015): 1191. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v46i4.4889.
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The following article is a revised and expanded version of lectures delivered by the author at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Law and the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland in October, 2014 as the New Zealand Law Foundation's International Dispute Resolution Visiting Scholar. The author posits that the mounting global preoccupation with mediation, resulting in a proliferating array of institutions, programmes, laws and regulations; an international "evangelical" movement; and growing impetus for an international convention promoting the recognition and enforcement of mediated settlement agreements, should be accompanied by our collective reflection, dialogue and discernment regarding where we have come to and where we are going. He urges active discussion and deliberation on a host of questions and concerns, including (1) our fundamental understanding of the nature and practice of mediation; (2) the impact of lawyers on mediation, and the appropriate interplay between client and counsel in making process choices; (3) the influence of culture and of legal traditions; (4) the interplay between the facilitation of settlement and processes of adjudication; (5) the potential impact of mediation on the rendition of justice. This conversation should be augmented by an assessment of current mega-trends – the challenges and opportunities presented by information technology, neuropsychology, the mining of big data, and initiatives aimed at institutionalising or professionalising mediation. Finally, there should be a new examination of heretofore-unfulfilled opportunities, such as the "upstream" (that is, early and pre-litigation) use of skills and insights gleaned from our experience with mediation for the purpose of sustaining and improving relationships.
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Lougheed, A. L. "Colonial Technology — Science and the Transfer of Innovation to Australiaby Jan Todd(Cambridge University Press, Oakleigh, Victoria, 1995), pp. xii + 300, A$49.95, ISBN 0-521-46138-3 (hb)." Prometheus 14, no. 1 (June 1996): 104–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08109029608632022.
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Saini, Manik. "ASSESSING INNOVATIVE ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES (ATS) FOR OLDER ADULTS: AN EXECUTIVE SPONSOR'S PERSPECTIVE." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.570.
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Abstract The BC Ministry of Health (BC MoH)’s Health Technology Assessment unit is part of the Partnerships and Innovation Division. Our interest in this project concerns the status of ATs and the health technology assessment (HTA) process. The role of AT implementation as a key feature of the potential for new ATs to maximize health impact for older adults is something the Ministry sees as critical to meet the goal of enhancing healthy ageing and sustaining independence and autonomy. Methods: From the beginning of the project, as Executive Sponsor, the Partnerships and Innovation Division helped to co-create the research program and played a key role in developing partnerships with health authorities and other stakeholders. With monthly meetings and several other research activities, the project has provided multiple opportunities for genuine policy engagement. Results: The results so far have seen the project extend the scope of its partnerships with key stakeholders in BC. The Ministry was on a local reference group of knowledge users for a rapid realist review of participatory co-design, and Mr. Saini is a co-author on a publication based on that work. The project received additional funding from the BC MoH, and recently the Ministry collaborated on a successful University of Victoria Research Acceleration Fund grant application. Conclusions: The BC MoH sees this as a key implementation science project, which will provide guidance to the HTA process, as it inevitably confronts increased demand for the public provision of ATs for older adults, particularly vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.
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Syme, Robin. "ASSESSING INNOVATIVE ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR OLDER ADULTS; A KNOWLEDGE AND TECH DEVELOPER'S PERSPECTIVES." Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (November 1, 2022): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.568.
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Abstract Objective Can Assist is a University of Victoria organization that has been developing assistive technologies (ATs) for almost two decades aimed at developing client-centred broad-impact solutions that address unmet need and help people improve their independence and quality of life. CanAssist’s interest and involvement in this study is predicated on our belief that their approach to technology development align with the criteria needed for determining better tools for evaluating assistive technologies need to be developed and implemented. This is critical to our goal of providing successful customized technology solutions to sustain our clients’ independence and autonomy. Methods From the beginning of the project, as a Research User Co-Lead, CanAssist has actively participated in regular advisory committee and expert panel meetings along with several other research activities to co-create all dimensions of the study. Results The results from the Rapid Realist Review and preliminary analyses of the interview data with older adults and caregivers have validated the need for more appropriate assessment/evaluation tools to address the varied AT needs of older adults and their caregivers. In particular, the study has provided opportunities for our staff and clients to examine and discuss important factors/processes for successful AT development and implementation. Conclusions As a key partner on this implementation science team, CanAssist will use the study’s findings to provide information to our development and management teams on how to appropriately scale-up, spread, and sustain the use of ATs in the health and social care system.
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Burgess, Stephen, Scott Bingley, and David A Banks. "Blending Audience Response Systems into an Information Systems Professional Course." Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology 13 (2016): 245–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3488.
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Many higher education institutions are moving towards blended learning environments that seek to move towards a student-centred ethos, where students are stakeholders in the learning process. This often involves multi-modal learner-support technologies capable of operating in a range of time and place settings. This article considers the impact of an Audience Response System (ARS) upon the ongoing development of an Information Systems Professional course at the Masters level in the College of Business at Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia. The course allows students to consider ethical issues faced by an Information Systems Professional. Given the sensitivity of some of the topics explored within this area, an ARS offers an ideal vehicle for allowing students to respond to potentially contentious questions without revealing their identity to the rest of the group. The paper reports the findings of a pilot scheme designed to explore the efficacy of the technology. Use of a blended learning framework to frame the discussion allowed the authors to consider the readiness of institution, lecturers, and students to use ARS. From a usage viewpoint, multiple choice questions lead to further discussion of student responses related to important issues in the unit. From an impact viewpoint the use of ARS in the class appeared to be successful, but some limitations were reported.
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Callister, Valerie, and Julie Geilman. "Getting it Together: A Rural Health Promotion Program." Australian Journal of Primary Health 6, no. 4 (2000): 194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py00053.
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The Getting It Together Rural Health Promotion project was established by a group of community health providers in Gippsland, Victoria. The overall aim of Getting It Together was to extend and improve health promotion practice amongst participating organisations. This was achieved through collaboration around health promotion training and planning. Complementary strategies addressing Cardio-Vascular Disease (CVD) were developed across four Local Government Areas (LGAs). Central resourcing was provided for coordination of the project, and for marketing and network support tasks. The project was based on an integrated and coordinated health promotion model, which contained overlapping strategies combining to create a broadly based partnership of action. At the commencement of the project, health promotion workers from each LGA were provided with a three-day training course conducted by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT). Participants developed Action Plans based around the three driving strategies of community wide-strategies, targeted strategies and marketing. A special feature of Getting It Together was a common media strategy, to support and reinforce action at the local level. An overall slogan was adopted, 'Slicker Ticker - A Gippsland Healthy Heart Project'. Uniting themes included 'Stress Less Week' and 'Gippsland Get Up and Go'. Latrobe Community Health Service facilitated the project and senior managers from the partnering agencies formed a Steering Committee, which met at key intervals to monitor the project.
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Thamwattana, Natalie, Michael Meylan, and Anthony John Roberts. "Proceedings of the 2020 Mathematics in Industry Study Group." ANZIAM Journal 62 (December 6, 2022): M89—M111. http://dx.doi.org/10.21914/anziamj.v62.17406.
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MISG 2020
University of Newcastle, Australia
28 January -- 1 February, 2020
This special Section of the ANZIAM Journal (Electronic Supplement) contains the refereed papers from the 2020 Mathematics and Statistics in Industry Study Group (MISG 2020) held at the University of Newcastle from 28 January -- 1 February 2020. The MISG is a special interest meeting of ANZIAM, the Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) division of the Australian Mathematics Society. The MISG meetings take place annually and provide a forum where projects proposed by industry can be worked on intensively, by high profile scientists in the fields of Applied Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research, from Australia, New Zealand and the world beyond, along with representatives from the industries proposing the projects.
The writing of these papers was coordinated by the project moderators in consultation with the coauthors and company representatives. The manuscripts were submitted to the editors, Associate Professor Mike Meylan, Professor Ngamta Thamwattana and Professor Tony Roberts, and were subsequently refereed by two expert referees. On the advice of the referees, manuscripts were accepted for publication, subject to the recommended revisions, and formally approved by the editorial committee.
At MISG 2020, six projects were presented from diverse industries, with 78 delegates participating.
Industry Partners
We gratefully acknowledge the support of our industry partners:
Lovells Springs;
Safearth;
Concrush;
Hyper Q Aerospace.
Acknowledgements
In addition to our industry partners, we gratefully acknowledge support from the following organisations:
ANZIAM;
Office of the NSW Chief Scientist \& Engineer, Department of Industry, NSW Government;
Priority Research Centre: Computer Assisted Research Mathematics and its Applications, The University of Newcastle;
Faculty of Science, The University of Newcastle.
We are also grateful to Professor Ryan Loxton from the Centre for Optimisation and Decision Science, Curtin University, for giving a public lecture on power of optimisation research in mining, energy, and agriculture industries, as part of the MISG's outreach event and acknowledge the support from the Hunter Branch of the Royal Society of NSW in promoting the public lecture. We are also grateful to Professor Mark McGuinness (Victoria University of Wellington), Professor Troy Farrell (Queensland University of Technology), Associate Professor Amie Albrecht (University of South Australia) and Dr Neville Fowkes (University of Western Australia) for their helpful advice and comments in organising the MISG 2020.
MISG2020 Organising Committee
Professor Ngamta Thamwattana (Co-Director)
Associate Professor Mike Meylan (Co-Director)
Mrs Juliane Turner (Administrative Support)
Dr David Allingham (Technical Support)
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Borycki, Elizabeth M., Andre W. Kushniruk, Ryan Kletke, Vivian Vimarlund, Yalini Senathirajah, and Yuri Quintana. "Enhancing Safety During a Pandemic Using Virtual Care Remote Monitoring Technologies and UML Modeling." Yearbook of Medical Informatics 30, no. 01 (April 21, 2021): 264–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1726485.
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Objectives: This paper describes a methodology for gathering requirements and early design of remote monitoring technology (RMT) for enhancing patient safety during pandemics using virtual care technologies. As pandemics such as COrona VIrus Disease (COVID-19) progress there is an increasing need for effective virtual care and RMT to support patient care while they are at home. Methods: The authors describe their work in conducting literature reviews by searching PubMed.gov and the grey literature for articles, and government websites with guidelines describing the signs and symptoms of COVID-19, as well as the progression of the disease. The reviews focused on identifying gaps where RMT could be applied in novel ways and formed the basis for the subsequent modelling of use cases for applying RMT described in this paper. Results: The work was conducted in the context of a new Home of the Future laboratory which has been set up at the University of Victoria. The literature review led to the development of a number of object-oriented models for deploying RMT. This modeling is being used for a number of purposes, including for education of students in health infomatics as well as testing of new use cases for RMT with industrial collaborators and projects within the smart home of the future laboratory. Conclusions: Object-oriented modeling, based on analysis of gaps in the literature, was found to be a useful approach for describing, communicating and teaching about potential new uses of RMT.
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Galvão, Maria Cristiane Barbosa, Brianda de Oliveira Ordonho Sígolo, Fabrício Amadeu Gualdani, and Francisco de Assis Noberto Galdino de Araújo. "Abordagem para o desenvolvimento de disciplinas sobre informação em saúde em cursos de graduação." Research, Society and Development 11, no. 2 (February 3, 2022): e49411226194. http://dx.doi.org/10.33448/rsd-v11i2.26194.
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Considerando as relações estabelecidas entre a Ciência da Informação e o campo da Saúde, bem como considerando que a informação em saúde é um bem comum da sociedade, este estudo buscou mapear iniciativas que tratassem disciplinas sobre informação em saúde no ensino de graduação a fim de delinear uma abordagem para o desenvolvimento de disciplinas sobre essa temática. Para tanto, desenvolveu-se uma pesquisa exploratória, para investigar disciplinas de graduação sobre informação em saúde e ofertadas por instituições de ensino superior. Para tanto, foram selecionadas três instituições de ensino superior que contemplam esta perspectiva, quais sejam: Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil), University of Victoria (Canadá) e Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Portugal). A partir do estudo exploratório, conclui-se que é possível abordar disciplinas sobre informação em saúde em cursos de graduação, seguindo diferentes perspectivas. Este estudo propõe que sejam pensadas disciplinas sobre informação em saúde que abarquem, ao menos, temáticas sobre: a) usos da informação em saúde; b) objetos informacionais em saúde; c) comunicação em saúde; d) organização, representação e recuperação da informação no campo da saúde; e) tecnologias da informação associadas à informação em saúde. Realidades institucionais e sociais diferentes podem interferir no processo de consolidação de inovações curriculares no ensino de graduação. Logo, faz-se necessário uma reflexão aprofundada antes de qualquer alteração ou proposição curricular.
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Stopford, John M. "The Rebirth of Australian IndustrybyP.l. Sheehan, Nick Pappas and Enijiang Chang (Centre for Strategic Economi c Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, 1994) pp. x + 240, $29.95, ISBN 1-86272-442-3 (paper)." Prometheus 13, no. 1 (June 1995): 119–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08109029508629195.
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Engelbrecht, Hans-Jürgen. "Australia and the Knowledge Economy by P.J. Sheehan, Nick Pappas, Galina Tikhomirova and Paul Sinclair (Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, December 1995), pp. 230, ISBN 1–87533–8499." Prometheus 14, no. 2 (December 1996): 264–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08109029608629222.
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Luckin, Bill. "BOOK REVIEW: Dale H. Porter.THE THAMES EMBANKMENT: ENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIETY IN VICTORIAN LONDON.Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 1998." Victorian Studies 42, no. 1 (October 1998): 154–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/vic.1998.42.1.154.
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Tangalakis, Kathy, Kate Kelly, Natalie KonYu, and Dianne Hall. "The impact of teaching from home during the covid-19 pandemic on the student evaluations of female academics." Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice 19, no. 1 (March 8, 2022): 160–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.53761/1.19.1.10.
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Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) results play an important role in academic staff performance evaluation, but also in promotion processes. However, there is much evidence to suggest that the SET used in most universities across the Anglosphere has traditionally penalised female academics. As universities manage the recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, they will also need to take into account the effect of remote teaching on the validity of student evaluation data. Given SET are critical to promotion success, it is important to then understand the gendered effect of remote teaching on student evaluations. We aimed to evaluate how intrusions of family life, academics’ home environment and competence with remote teaching technology of female academics were viewed by students and if there were noticeable differences in SET data. We analysed 22,485 SET data over 2019 (pre-COVID, face-to-face teaching) and 2020 (COVID-lockdowns, remote teaching) for female and male academics, matched with student gender, in the multidisciplinary First Year College at Victoria University, Melbourne Australia. Our results showed that there were no differences in the score ratings for teacher gender. However, the qualitative data showed that whilst overall there were overwhelmingly positive comments for both male and female teachers, there was an increase in the negative comments on teaching style by male students toward their female teachers during remote teaching and overall more comments relating to attitude. We speculate that this would have a negative impact on the confidence of teaching-intensive female academics hindering their leadership aspirations and career progression in academia.
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Harding, Catherine. "University of Victoria." Florilegium 20, no. 1 (January 2003): 51–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/flor.20.012.
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The Medieval Studies program at the University of Victoria is an interdisciplinary unit whose members come from the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Fine Arts. The idea of creating an undergraduate program in Medieval Studies was developed in 1986-87; since that date faculty members teaching in the Departments of English, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, Greek and Roman Studies, History, Philosophy, Music, and History in Art have offered courses leading to a Major in Medieval Studies (The program began as a Minor and changed to a Major in 1994). Undergraduates are introduced to key concepts in the study of medieval culture and society in Europe, as well as the medieval Islamic world.
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Baso, Yusring Sanusi. "CARA MUDAH MENYIAPKAN MATERI PEMBELAJARAN BERBASIS WEB DAN CD UNTUK BAHASA INDONESIA." JURNAL ARBITRER 2, no. 1 (April 29, 2015): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/ar.2.1.73-80.2015.
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Revolution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has changed the various areas of human life, including the revolution in education. Revolution of education occurs since people migrate their way of learning from conventional to digital learning, face-to-face at a certain time and place into a meeting from anywhere and anytime. In the past we used paper, now we already headed to paperless era. Several years ago, teachers and lecturers is the source of knowledge, it is the source of knowledge can be through a variety of media, such as CD-ROMs and the Internet. The way we learn is change to distant learning with free study hour. Then, it results the term e-learning, knowledge server and knowledge based society.
This article discusses how to prepare simple e-learning material (web and cd-based) about Bahasa Indonesian. The program that employs to elaborate and modify the material is Hot Potatoes which is published by the University of Victoria and the Half-Baked Software. The material of Bahasa Indonesian use in this program is a set of questions on National Examination for Selection Admissions (SPMB). These questions will create an interactive multimedia material, especially web-based and CD-based material.
Modules that are discussed in this article including input of data (questions, answers, etc.), output configuration (modification of the display and apperance), as well as techniques to publish on the website. In addition, it will also discuss how to keep the material in the web and cd.
The final result (output) or material output from this program is the material that can be used as in learning Bahasa Indonesian, especially for self training and test. The Output will be in the form of website and CDs.
Keywords: e-learning, Hot Potatoes, web and cd.
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Hirst, David. "An echo from closed doors." Organised Sound 6, no. 1 (April 2001): 39–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771801001066.
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On 31 December 1999 the La Trobe University Music Department closed its doors. From the outset, La Trobe Music saw itself as providing an alternative tertiary music education to the predominant paradigms of the time by fostering creativity through composition, technology, improvisation and other types of alternative performance practices. The philosophy of teaching electroacoustic music at La Trobe was to encourage students to find their own compositional voice rather than preach a particular style of electroacoustic music. The Department's research areas were in improvisation and technology, signal processing, gestural control devices, computer-assisted composition, analysis of electroacoustic music, realtime DSP, live electronics and installations. La Trobe's excellence in electroacoustic music was recognised by its inclusion in a survey of the world's top twenty-three computer music institutions by the Japanese journal Intercommunication 6. La Trobe staff and postgraduate students contributed papers and compositions to international and national computer music conferences and La Trobe was very much a part of the international community for over twenty-five years. The challenge now is for other Victorian institutions to meet the needs of today's students and to provide the deep research foundation in electroacoustic music that informs teaching and generates new music directions in the community.
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Mendelsohn, Betsy. "Dale H. Porter. The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology,and Society in Victorian London. (Technology and the Environment.) xvi + 318 pp., frontis., illus., bibl., index. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1998. $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper)." Isis 93, no. 4 (December 2002): 741. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/376050.
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Peate, Michelle, Sherine Sandhu, Sabine Braat, Roger Hart, Robert Norman, Anna Parle, Raelia Lew, and Martha Hickey. "Randomized control trial of a decision aid for women considering elective egg freezing: The Eggsurance study protocol." Women's Health 18 (January 2022): 174550572211396. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17455057221139673.
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Background: Uptake of elective egg freezing has increased globally. The decision to freeze eggs is complex, and detailed, unbiased information is needed. To address this, we developed an online Decision Aid for women considering elective egg freezing. Decision Aids are the standard of care to support complex health decisions. Objectives: This study will measure the impact of the Decision Aid on decision-making (e.g. decisional conflict, engagement in decision-making, distress, and decision delay) and decision quality (e.g. knowledge, level of informed choice, and regret). Methods and Analysis: A single-blinded two-arm parallel-group randomized controlled trial. Women considering elective egg freezing will be recruited using social media, newsletters, and fertility clinics. Data will be collected at baseline (recruitment), 6-month, and 12-month post-randomization. The primary hypothesis is that the intervention (Decision Aid plus Victorian Assisted Reproductive Technology Authority website) will reduce decisional conflict (measured using the Decisional Conflict Scale) at 12 months more than control (Victorian Assisted Reproductive Technology Authority website only). Secondary outcomes include engagement in decision-making (Perceived Involvement in Care Scale), distress (Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale), decision delay, knowledge, informed choice (Multi-dimensional Measure of Informed Choice), and decisional regret (Decisional Regret Scale). Ethics: The study was approved by the University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (Ethics ID: 2056457). Informed consent will be obtained from all participants prior to enrolment. Discussion: This is the first international randomized controlled trial that aims to investigate the effect of an elective egg freezing Decision Aid on decision-related outcomes (e.g. decisional conflict, informed choice, and regret). It is anticipated that participants who receive the Decision Aid will have better decision and health outcomes. Registration details: ACTRN12620001032943: Comparing different information resources on the process and quality of decision-making in women considering elective egg freezing.
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Liddell, Peter. "University of Victoria Language Centre." IALLT Journal of Language Learning Technologies 30, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 23–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/iallt.v30i1.9646.
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Robinson, Kerin. "La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria." Health Information Management 31, no. 4 (December 2003): 16–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183335830303100407.
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McNeill, J. R. "The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London. By Dale H. Porter (Akron: University of Akron Press, 1998. xvi plus 318pp. $49.95/cloth $24.95/paperback)." Journal of Social History 33, no. 1 (September 1, 1999): 248–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jsh.1999.0039.
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Carpenter, Chris. "Natural Gas Has Role in Decarbonizing the Australian Electricity Supply." Journal of Petroleum Technology 73, no. 07 (July 1, 2021): 69–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0721-0069-jpt.
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This article, written by JPT Technology Editor Chris Carpenter, contains highlights of paper SPE 202210, “Future Roles for Natural Gas in Decarbonizing the Australian Electricity Supply Within the NEM: Total System Costs Are Key,” by Stephanie Byrom, University of Queensland; Geoffrey Bongers, Gamma Energy Technology; and Andy Boston, Red Vector, et al., prepared for the 2020 SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition, originally scheduled to be held in Perth, Australia, 20–22 October. The paper has not been peer reviewed. Electricity systems around the world are changing, with the Paris Agreement of 2015 a catalyst for much current change. The Australian government ratified the agreement by committing to 26–28% emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2030. Reduction in emissions from electricity generation has become the focus of these targets. To decarbonize the grid to meet targets while building firm, dispatchable generation capacity to support the system, a new metric is required to measure success. The complete paper explores the outputs of the model of energy and grid services (MEGS), illustrating outcomes if a single technology group is favored. Introduction The majority of electricity in the Australian National Energy Market (NEM) is provided by synchronous thermal power generation, which also has delivered services required for grid stability such as inertia and frequency control. The NEM commenced operation in December 1998 and includes five regional market jurisdictions: Queensland, New South Wales (including the Australian Capital Territory), Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. In 2020, the NEM incorporated approximately 40,000 km of transmission lines and cables, connecting approximately 57 GW of generation capacity to consumers. This thermal generation mostly has consisted of coal- and gas-based technologies. Electricity grids are also changing from largely centralized electricity generation systems to more decentralized ones and from unidirectional electricity flows to bidirectional flows as part of the effort to reduce emissions. However, with increasing penetration of variable renewable energy (VRE) generation, it is important to plan for and manage generation-asset investment to track the lowest possible total system cost and highest reliability path to a low-emissions future. A Competent, Diverse Grid A competent electricity grid is one that can keep the lights on, so to speak, within the legislated tolerance for outages and performance. A competent grid is adequate, reliable, secure, operable, and robust against externally driven disruptions. In practice, the reliability of the electricity grid often seems to be taken for granted; however, it is an essential element of the modern economy, and, with a changing grid, reliability is increasingly important. When a decision must be made to build or replace an individual power plant, stakeholders (individual investors) have traditionally considered the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of the alternative generation options, which di-vides the total cost of an installation or plant by the kilowatt-hours it produces over its lifetime. However, metrics such as LCOE, based on grid-independent formulae to help power plant investors to maximize returns, are inappropriate for comparing technologies that deliver and demand a complex menu of services specific to the grid. A different metric is required to evaluate each technology’s contribution to the grid.
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Bull, Lawrence. "Frontline Interview: Whistleblowers inside the Australian building racket." Pacific Journalism Review 20, no. 2 (December 31, 2014): 162. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v20i2.171.
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Multiple Walkley Award winners Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker from Fairfax’s Melbourne newspaper, The Age, have rocked venerable Australian institutions to their foundations with their investigative reporting. Previous investigations have exposed drug smuggling within Australian Customs, bribery on behalf of the Reserve Bank and organised criminals’ manipulation of horse racing. The duo started this year with an investigation deemed worthy of a Royal Commission. Their reports across the Fairfax network and on the ABC’s 7.30 programme featured interviews with whistleblowers risking their lives to go on the record to publicise the relationship between Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and organised crime. The stories also exposed registered businesses owned by major organised crime figures winning lucrative construction contracts from the Victorian state government, and dealings within the New South Wales government’s Barangaroo development. Freelance reporter and University of Technology, Sydney, Journalism Masters student Lawrence Bull spoke with Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker about their latest project in two careers full of influential investigations, ‘Inside the Building Racket’.Frontline editor: Professor Wendy Bacon
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J., Rollo, and Esteban Y. "Urbanheart Surgery – a Collaborative Interdisciplinary Design Studio." KnE Engineering 2, no. 2 (February 9, 2017): 308. http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/keg.v2i2.631.
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<p class="Body1">The following paper presents an interdisciplinary design studio program at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University, referred to as the ‘UrbanHeart Surgery’. This is a design based research forum that attempts to facilitate a landscape of decision-making that stimulates an integrated approach to design within the urban context.</p><p>The Urbanheart program has developed into a very successful teaching, research and public/community relations program. It has not only secured an ongoing relationship with various planning authorities, but its core of industrial partnerships has expanded to include four regional councils (Bendigo, Ballarat, Geelong, Surfcoast and Warrnambool), three metropolitan municipalities (Melbourne City, Port Phillip, Wyndham and Maribyrnong) and close links with various Victorian State government departments.</p><p>The program actively integrates postgraduate students from Architecture, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture and Planning. The different scales of resolution at which the unit operates would welcome further integration with students from Mechanical Engineering, Art and Design, Information Technology and Environmental Science.</p>
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Snow, Neil, and Donovan Sharp. "LucID Professional for Windows®: Contemporary Identification Tools.—CPITT (Centre for Pest Information Technology and Transfer, ©The University of Queensland). 1999. CD-ROM plus Instruction Manual. 121 pp. illus. ISBN 0–643–06415–X, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, A$495.00 (E-mail: sales@publish.csiro.au)." Systematic Biology 48, no. 4 (October 1, 1999): 828–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/48.4.828.
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