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Pissa-ard, Isaraporn. "Depictions of Thailand in Australian and Thai writings:Reflections of the Self and Other." University of Sydney, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6409.
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Doctor of Philosophy(PhD)This thesis offers both an examination of the depiction of Thailand in Australian novels, short stories and poems written in the 1980s and after, and an analysis of modern Thai novels and short stories that reflect similar themes to those covered in the Australian literature. One Australian film is also examined as the film provides an important framework for the analysis of some of the short stories and novels under consideration. The thesis establishes a dialogue between Thai and Australian literatures and demonstrates that the comparison of Australian representations of Thailand with Thai representations challenges constructively certain dominant political and social ideologies that enhance conservatism and the status quo in Thailand. The author acknowledges that the discussion of the representations of Thailand in contemporary Australian novels and short stories needs to take into account the colonial legacy and the discourse of Orientalism that tends to posit the ‘East’ as the ‘West’’s ‘Other’. Textual analysis is thus informed by post-colonial and cross-cultural theories, starting from Edward Said’s powerful and controversial critique of Western representation of the East in Orientalism. The first part of the thesis examines Australian crime stories and shows how certain Orientalist images and perceptions persist and help reinforce the image of the East and its people as the antithesis of the West. From Chapters Three through Six, however, more literary works by Australian authors are examined. The important finding is that most of the Australian authors under consideration attempt, though not always successfully, to resist and challenge the Eurocentric stereotypes of Asia and Asians that dominated Australian literature in earlier periods. This difference between contemporary Australian authors and their predecessors seems to reflect modern Australia’s endeavor to distinguish itself from the rest of the Western world and to redefine its relationship with Asia. As literary representations cannot be separated from socio-political contexts, the thesis also includes discussion of the Thai social and political history and, where appropriate, shows how colonialism and neo-colonialism exert their impact on modern Thailand.
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Phatikomet, Panida. "Gaki : a Thai tale twice told in Thai and Australian versions." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1996. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35881/1/35881_Phatikomet_1996.pdf.
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Having looked back to my past experience in Thailand and having directed the production Gaki in Australia, I realise that Gaki is a big step in my life and it cannot
be separated from my past experience. From a non-feminist person to one interested in feminism, I have seen the development of my thinking and looking at women in my
own culture. My own background and my experience with women, Thailand, and Australia are significant sources that inspired me to present Gaki. Gaki is a long
journey but it shows the development of how a non-feminist background person has been influenced to do a feminist play.
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Crawford, Gemma. "Investigating Australian Male Expatriate, Longer‐Term and Frequent Traveller Social Networks in Thailand to Determine Their Potential to Influence HIV and Other STI Risk Behaviour." Thesis, Curtin University, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79886.
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Over the last decade, HIV infections have increased in Western Australia amongst Australian men travelling, living and working in Thailand. Using symbolic interaction as the theoretical lens, in-depth interviews, analysis of online forum posts and observational fieldwork led to a grounded theory explaining: 1) social network processes of male expatriates, longer-term or frequent travellers (ELoFTs); and 2) how ELoFT social networks may be harnessed for public health intervention, particularly via peer education and social influence.
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Rakpathum, Raewadee. "A comparative study of pay television in Thailand and Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36290/1/36290_Rakpathum_1997.pdf.
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This thesis sets out to examine the increasingly international orientation of new media
technology - particularly Pay TV in Thailand and Australia and the implications for
theories of globalisation and cultural imperialism, media industries, and cultural
development. Central to this research are the areas of cultural policy environment and
Pay TV operations. This investigation uses Thailand and Australia as case studies to
illustrate the issues faced by policy planners in the region. The case of the International
Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) - the first subscription television operator in Thailand
- as this investigation will demonstrate, offers an instructive example of Pay TV
operations. The thesis outlines the main thrust of Pay TV inquiries and compares the
two experiences of Australia and Thailand.
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Premkamolnetr, Nongyao. "Information services to tenant companies in technology parks : Australia and Thailand." Thesis, Curtin University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/968.
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This thesis investigates the most appropriate and effective ways in which a university library can interact with tenant companies and the staff in a technology park. Tenant company staff members in five Australian Technology Parks were surveyed about their information needs, information use, and information seeking behaviour as well as their attitudes towards university libraries which offered services to them. Three of the five Australian Technology Parks had formal relationships with universities and their libraries. The librarians of these universities were interviewed on their attitudes towards the provision of information services to the technology park community, as well as the information services they offered to this group of clients.The research results indicated that most of the respondents who were engaged in R&D areas accessed university libraries' collections for technical information and valued their services and the professional help of the librarians, whereas those in other areas, particularly marketing and sales, did not place as high a value on these services. One striking finding from the research was that the respondents in the latter group use the Internet as their preferred first source of information, not informal personal contact as been expected and indicated in previous studies. A contributing factor to low use of the university libraries was poor promotion of library services.A major objective of the research was to obtain information on the relevance of the Australian data to developing and offering services to tenants in a new technology park in Thailand. Results drawn from the Australian data was used to form a model for the interaction between university libraries and tenant company staff in Thai technology parks. The model was tested through interviews with Thai sample group and was then fine-tuned to meet Thai economic and social conditions prior to proposing it for use in Thailand.This research indicated that many aspects of Thai university libraries need to be adjusted in order to successfully provide effective information services to the technology park community. These include clearly defining library policies towards the tenants, increasing and improving avenues of access to library services, improving library performance and services, increasing promotion and marketing, supporting personnel development policies, and creating partnerships with other organisations.
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Premkamolnetr, Nongyao. "Information services to tenant companies in technology parks : Australia and Thailand." Curtin University of Technology, Department of Information Studies, 1998. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=10733.
Повний текст джерелаАнотація:
This thesis investigates the most appropriate and effective ways in which a university library can interact with tenant companies and the staff in a technology park. Tenant company staff members in five Australian Technology Parks were surveyed about their information needs, information use, and information seeking behaviour as well as their attitudes towards university libraries which offered services to them. Three of the five Australian Technology Parks had formal relationships with universities and their libraries. The librarians of these universities were interviewed on their attitudes towards the provision of information services to the technology park community, as well as the information services they offered to this group of clients.The research results indicated that most of the respondents who were engaged in R&D areas accessed university libraries' collections for technical information and valued their services and the professional help of the librarians, whereas those in other areas, particularly marketing and sales, did not place as high a value on these services. One striking finding from the research was that the respondents in the latter group use the Internet as their preferred first source of information, not informal personal contact as been expected and indicated in previous studies. A contributing factor to low use of the university libraries was poor promotion of library services.A major objective of the research was to obtain information on the relevance of the Australian data to developing and offering services to tenants in a new technology park in Thailand. Results drawn from the Australian data was used to form a model for the interaction between university libraries and tenant company staff in Thai technology parks. The model was tested through interviews with Thai sample group and was then fine-tuned to meet Thai economic and social ++conditions prior to proposing it for use in Thailand.This research indicated that many aspects of Thai university libraries need to be adjusted in order to successfully provide effective information services to the technology park community. These include clearly defining library policies towards the tenants, increasing and improving avenues of access to library services, improving library performance and services, increasing promotion and marketing, supporting personnel development policies, and creating partnerships with other organisations.
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Ptanawanit, Surapone, and Surapone Ptanawanit. "Crucial Factors in teh Development of Social Security in Thailand in Comparison with Australia." University of Sydney. Social Work, Social Policy and Sociology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/487.
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Rich people in Thailand are enjoying higher shares in income transfer than their poor counterparts. This strange phenomenon implies the malfunction of the Thai social security system. Studies on the relationship between social security development and social, economic and political factors are also very limited. These evident constraints are the rationales for this study. A comparative study was chosen because the justification of social security problems would be more objectively valid if r000esearch findings were compared with external criteria. In addition, comparative analysis would clearly pinpoint possible factors that influenced social security development in Thailand. Like many comparative studies, this investigation did not expect only to identify possible influential factors, but it also intended to learn how the modern social security system could be established in a more developed country. However, the findings would be more adaptable if they were transferred from a country that was economically and culturally close to Thailand. By these reasons, Australia, instead of other Western countries, was more appropriate to be the case for comparison. After reviewing theoretical and empirical literature, the research methodology was designed. Basically, the study applied both qualitative and quantitative methods in analysing data gathered from Thailand and Australia. Comparative evidence shows many problems in social security provisions in Thailand. Relatively narrow coverage, low quality and quantity of benefits and services, higher financial burdens borne by people, and marginal welfare rights are the important indications of the severity of the problems. Many factors are responsible for the existence of these problems. The problematic system of social security was partly the legacy of historical development. The effects of historical roots are intensified by many contemporary factors. Undesirable social values, volatile economic growth, late industrialisation and the defeat of socialism are the four major factors that account for the undeveloped social security system. The influences of the four major factors are supported by another four less crucial ones. These supporting factors comprise the elite�s agenda, workers� power, weak non-governmental organisations and population growth. The findings in both Thailand and Australia similarly indicate that religious institutions and colonial influence do not produce significant effects upon social security development. The comparative findings provide valuable guidelines for the suggestions of system development. Several findings help extend existing theoretical explanations of social security development as well. The study recommends comprehensive operational strategies for the improvement of Thai social security. The study made its final suggestion on the importance of applied research based on Western knowledge and experiences for the improvement of Thai social security.
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Wilmott, Leigh William, and n/a. "Australia's national competitive advantage in the non-residential construction industry : a Thailand case study." University of Canberra. Economics & marketing, 1998. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061110.145501.
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The objective of this study is to identify the key determinants of Australia's competitive
advantage in the Non-residential construction industry. Porter's Five Competitive
Forces Model has been used to analyse the existing industry structure both in Australia
and Thailand. In addition. Porter's Diamond Model has been used for identifying the key
determinants of Australia's competitive advantage in the industry.
The study has drawn upon industry data obtained from interviews with operation
managers and executives of major Australian firms in the non-residential construction
industry who have been successfully operating in Thailand over the last ten years.
Research, undertaken in Australia and Thailand, includes interviews and case study
information gained from industry, government and academia.
A key finding applicable to each case study was that Australian non-residential
construction firms operating in Thailand competed successfully on higher order
technological expertise in construction management and operation. Expertise and
innovation was created and sustained at home through vertically integrated clusters of
industry suppliers to the main contractor and replicated or adapted abroad to local
circumstances.
Australia's national competitive advantage in the industry has relied on the interaction of
key determinants. Favourable factor conditions have provided Australia with a key
advantage base, for example, skilled personnel, experience in a variety of construction
areas due to the demands of Australia's geography and development needs, and adequate
infrastructure provision both physical and capital. Favourable factor conditions
combined with intense service rivalry at home, supportive related industries, demanding
buyers, and effective competition policy are the key to Australia's success.
The study goes on to explain the role that industry and government can play to ensure
Australia remains internationally competitive in the industry. In addition summary
recommendations are provided of the steps that Thailand needs to take to improve its
competitiveness in general and the development of the construction industry in particular.
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Liando, Nihta V. F. "Foreign language learning in primary schools with special reference to Indonesia, Thailand and Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arml693.pdf.
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Ptanawanit, Surapone. "Crucial factors in the development of social security in Thailand in comparison with Australia." Connect to full text, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/487.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2002.Title from title screen (viewed Apr. 24, 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Social Work, Social Policy & Sociology, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliography. Also available in print form.
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Boriboonsate, Patchareewan. "Corporate performance criteria in Australia and Thailand : individual tasks and roles of company directors." Thesis, Curtin University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1945.
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Weaknesses in corporate governance systems in many countries have caused consequences within a country and across borders; they have stirred the need for corporate governance reform in many parts of the world. At the top of corporations, a group of corporate board of directors that is composed of different types of members guiding the directions of the companies may have viewed their roles and tasks differently in directing corporate performance via the lens of preferable corporate measures.A plethora of previous literature has identified differences that exist among practices and perceptions of the corporate board of directors across contexts. Those differences are due mainly to corporate governance systems that influence the corporate ownership structures, laws and regulations and other cultural issues embedded in countries; not to mention when countries are facing crises that strain their economies and have an effect beyond the national level. The perceptions of directors need to be discovered and understood on how directors approach corporate performance issues.The current study was based on questionnaires used to survey directors in Australia, and Thailand about the tasks, roles and corporate performance criteria they considered to be necessary; this included the relationships among the three criteria as well as other directors’ attributes. While Australian directors viewed their roles more on monitoring, strategic and service and advisory roles, Thai directors’ perception emphasised only on the monitoring role in relation to the preferred corporate performance criteria.The findings from the current study for academics, policy-makers and top executives are that: (1) the perceptions of directors’ roles and tasks are influenced by contexts specific to companies, (2) the pursuit of corporate performance has been linked with the perceptions of directors’ tasks and roles differently in specific countries, (3) directors’ tasks are needed to be clarified in order to be conceptually linked with the board roles’ interpretation and involvement in particular contexts, and (4) the performance of directors’ tasks and the effectiveness of their roles, are necessary for the improvement of company performance, can be improved by discovering the perceptions of directors’ tasks toward specific, preferred criteria being used for measuring the performance of the company and the understanding of the environment affecting the perceptions of directors.
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Kirker, Marjorie Anne. "Printmaking as an expanding field in contemporary art practice : a case study of Japan, Australia and Thailand." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/29746/1/Marjorie_Kirker_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis proposes that contemporary printmaking, at its most significant, marks the present through reconstructing pasts and anticipating futures. It argues this through examples in the field, occurring in contexts beyond the Euramerican (Europe and North America). The arguments revolve around how the practice of a number of significant artists in Japan, Australia and Thailand has generated conceptual and formal innovations in printmaking that transcend local histories and conventions, whilst paradoxically, also building upon them and creating new meanings. The arguments do not portray the relations between contemporary and traditional art as necessarily antagonistic but rather, as productively dialectical.
Furthermore, the case studies demonstrate that, in the 1980s and 1990s particularly, the studio practice of these printmakers was informed by other visual arts disciplines and reflected postmodern concerns. Departures from convention witnessed in these countries within the Asia-Pacific region shifted the field of the print into a heterogeneous and hybrid realm. The practitioners concerned (especially in Thailand) produced work that was more readily equated with performance and installation art than with printmaking per se. In Japan, the incursion of photography interrupted the decorative cast of printmaking and delivered it from a straightforward, craft-based aesthetic. In Australia, fixed notions of national identity were challenged by print practitioners through deliberate cultural rapprochements and technical contradictions (speaking across old and new languages).However time-honoured print methods were not jettisoned by any case study artists. Their re-alignment of the fundamental attributes of printmaking, in line with materialist formalism, is a core consideration of my arguments.
The artists selected for in-depth analysis from these three countries are all innovators whose geographical circumstances and creative praxis drew on local traditions whilst absorbing international trends. In their radical revisionism, they acknowledged the specificity of history and place, conditions of contingency and forces of globalisation. The transformational nature of their work during the late twentieth century connects it to the postmodern ethos and to a broader artistic and cultural nexus than has hitherto been recognised in literature on the print. Emerging from former guild-based practices, they ambitiously conceived their work to be part of a continually evolving visual arts vocabulary.
I argue in this thesis that artists from the Asia-Pacific region have historically broken with the hermetic and Euramerican focus that has generally characterised the field. Inadequate documentation and access to print activity outside the dominant centres of critical discourse imply that readings of postmodernism have been too limited in their scope of inquiry. Other locations offer complexities of artistic practice where re-alignments of customary boundaries are often the norm. By addressing innovative activity in Japan, Australia and Thailand, this thesis exposes the need for a more inclusive theoretical framework and wider global reach than currently exists for ‘printmaking’.
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Kirker, Marjorie Anne. "Printmaking as an expanding field in contemporary art practice : a case study of Japan, Australia and Thailand." Queensland University of Technology, 2009. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/29746/.
Повний текст джерелаАнотація:
This thesis proposes that contemporary printmaking, at its most significant, marks the present through reconstructing pasts and anticipating futures. It argues this through examples in the field, occurring in contexts beyond the Euramerican (Europe and North America). The arguments revolve around how the practice of a number of significant artists in Japan, Australia and Thailand has generated conceptual and formal innovations in printmaking that transcend local histories and conventions, whilst paradoxically, also building upon them and creating new meanings. The arguments do not portray the relations between contemporary and traditional art as necessarily antagonistic but rather, as productively dialectical.
Furthermore, the case studies demonstrate that, in the 1980s and 1990s particularly, the studio practice of these printmakers was informed by other visual arts disciplines and reflected postmodern concerns. Departures from convention witnessed in these countries within the Asia-Pacific region shifted the field of the print into a heterogeneous and hybrid realm. The practitioners concerned (especially in Thailand) produced work that was more readily equated with performance and installation art than with printmaking per se. In Japan, the incursion of photography interrupted the decorative cast of printmaking and delivered it from a straightforward, craft-based aesthetic. In Australia, fixed notions of national identity were challenged by print practitioners through deliberate cultural rapprochements and technical contradictions (speaking across old and new languages).However time-honoured print methods were not jettisoned by any case study artists. Their re-alignment of the fundamental attributes of printmaking, in line with materialist formalism, is a core consideration of my arguments.
The artists selected for in-depth analysis from these three countries are all innovators whose geographical circumstances and creative praxis drew on local traditions whilst absorbing international trends. In their radical revisionism, they acknowledged the specificity of history and place, conditions of contingency and forces of globalisation. The transformational nature of their work during the late twentieth century connects it to the postmodern ethos and to a broader artistic and cultural nexus than has hitherto been recognised in literature on the print. Emerging from former guild-based practices, they ambitiously conceived their work to be part of a continually evolving visual arts vocabulary.
I argue in this thesis that artists from the Asia-Pacific region have historically broken with the hermetic and Euramerican focus that has generally characterised the field. Inadequate documentation and access to print activity outside the dominant centres of critical discourse imply that readings of postmodernism have been too limited in their scope of inquiry. Other locations offer complexities of artistic practice where re-alignments of customary boundaries are often the norm. By addressing innovative activity in Japan, Australia and Thailand, this thesis exposes the need for a more inclusive theoretical framework and wider global reach than currently exists for ‘printmaking’.
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Grubelic, Helena, and Danielle Eriksson. "Fysioterapi är mer än manuella metoder : En självreflektiv studie kring kritiska incidenter under utlandspraktik i Australien och Thailand." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för hälsa, vård och välfärd, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-24752.
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Bakgrund: I vården i Sverige möts människor från olika kulturer och en insikt om hur den egna kulturen påverkar fysioterapeuten är en värdefull komponent i att kunna erbjuda god vård. Genom självreflektion över möten med människor från andra kulturer kan fysioterapeuten lära om sig själv och påbörja resan mot kulturell kompetens. Syfte: Att genom en strukturerad självreflektiv process utforska den egna fysioterapeutiska förförståelsen under klinisk praktik i en ny kulturell kontext. Metod: En kvalitativ studie med utforskande design och induktiv ansats. En kritisk incident från utlandspraktiken upplevdes och reflekterades över både enskilt samt med medförfattare och akademisk handledare genom ett reflektivt ramverk. Materialet analyserades genom kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet: Trots att studenterna åkte till olika länder med kulturella skillnader kom utfallet från analyserna att likna varandra. Det var det sociala samspelet mellan kliniska handledare, student och patient som upplevdes utmanande och annorlunda. Slutsats: Studenterna upplevde sig utveckla en större förståelse för att kulturen påverkar människor att agera annorlunda än de var vana vid hemma. De insåg att deras förförståelse av fysioterapi var baserad på behandlingsmetoder men lärde sig att det sociala samspelet mellan fysioterapeut och patient är mycket viktigt för yrket. Författarna lärde sig även att det sociala samspelet påverkas av den kulturen man tillhör.
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Lamlert, Wariya, and n/a. "International Uncertainty in the Exceptions for Individual Use in Copyright Law: A Comparative Study of Australia and Thailand." University of Canberra. School of Law, 2007. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20080912.140432.
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The exceptions for individual use give rise to interesting and fundamental concerns drawing both international and national attention. There is uncertainty in the application of the individual use exceptions both in the international copyright treaties, particularly the three-step test of the Berne Convention, and in the national copyright legislation.
To have a better understanding of this concerns, this thesis aims to: investigate whether the exceptions for individual use can still maintain the balance of interests between the copyright holders and users; analyse the contribution that international copyright agreements and national copyright legislation may have made to assist in solving the conflict of interest between right holder countries and user countries in applying the exceptions for individual use; and conduct a comparative study of the application of the individual use exceptions in developed and developing countries.
The understandings that are found within this study are informed by relevant literature and by analysis of the application of the individual use exceptions. The thesis examines the application of the individual use exceptions in the international copyright treaties, namely, the Berne Convention, the TRIPS Agreement, and the WIPO Copyright Treaty in order to determine the appropriate ?balance? between the rights of owners and users in the three-step test. To explore the uncertainty in the individual use exceptions at the national level, a comparative case study is made between the exceptions for individual use in Australia, a developed country, and Thailand, a developing country.
The results of the study reveal three major answers. First, the exceptions for individual use are able to still maintain the balance of interest between right holders and users in the digital environment, if some amendments are made to keep pace with the digital environment. Secondly, to assist in the solution to the conflict of interest between right holder countries and user countries in applying the exceptions for individual use, the international copyright agreements can make a contribution by making some minor changes, mainly in the three-step test of the Berne Convention, and by continuing to provide special treatments for developing countries. Nationally, the contribution may be made by thoroughly protecting the right holders whilst also still allowing individual use by amending the copyright legislation to update to the digital age when necessary, enacting the relevant Acts, and establishing a collecting society.
Finally, from the comparison of the application of the exceptions for individual use as well as problems found and solutions proposed in developed and developing countries, in which Australia and Thailand are used as case studies, the comparison of the application of the exceptions for individual use can be divided into four categories: fair use exceptions (Australian fair dealing and Thai private use exceptions), free use exceptions, licences (Australian statutory licences and Thai compulsory licence), and limitation of legislative individual use provisions. In addition, the problem of different interpretations of the exceptions for individual use, the problem of conformity in the application of the exceptions for individual use according to the real purpose of the three-step test, which exists in Thailand, and the problem of response to the digital environment are all used as the frame for the comparison of the problems found and proposed solutions.
The findings of the study are significant as they can provide contributions to the copyright areas primarily in the legal aspect: amendment of the exceptions for individual use. In addition, they also contribute to the related aspect in the copyright areas: the economic aspect: the balance between developed and developing Countries; and the moral aspect: developing countries? development. In addition, the thesis proposes four useful recommendations to enable the balance of interest between the right holders and the users to be maintained: amendment of the wording in the three-step test of the Berne Convention, amendment of domestic copyright law and its exceptions for individual use, encouragement of the role of collective management organisations, and raising public awareness on the issue of copyright and its exceptions for individual use.
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Lamlert, Wariya. "International uncertainty in the exceptions for individual use in copyright law : a comparative study of Australia and Thailand /." Canberra, 2007. http://erl.canberra.edu.au/public/adt-AUC20080912.140432/index.html.
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Pongsaksri, Arisa. "A trans-cultural study of the practice of occupational therapists in Thailand and Australia: reframing theories of practice." Thesis, Curtin University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1028.
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Culturally appropriate conceptual models for practice are of major interest to occupational therapists, an emerging health profession in Thailand. Currently in Thailand, occupational therapy education and practice derives its conceptual models from Western models. How these models are translated into practice in Thailand is unclear, as there are currently no research studies relating to the cultural and clinical practice demands of Thai occupational therapists and of service delivery in Thailand. In addition, how occupational therapists in Australia apply conceptual models in practice has also been given limited attention in the research literature. A comparison is made between Thai and Western Australian occupational therapists to examine the use of theoretical models in the Western cultural context and to investigate the influences of cultural differences on occupational therapy practice. The purpose of this study is to identify the conceptual models most frequently used by occupational therapists in Thailand and in Australia, to describe the application of these models to practice, and to explore the cultural influences impacting on the application to practice. The need for a derived but more culturally specific conceptual model for occupational therapy practice in Thailand was also investigated. Focus group interviews were conducted as the initial stage of the study, to obtain in-depth background information about occupational therapy practice. Content analysis using transcript-based analysis and systematic coding was used to analyse the focus group data. The results demonstrated three main conceptual approaches: among both Westem Australian and Thai occupational therapists. These three models were described as the Performance Model, the Whole Person Model, and the Medical Model.The findings from focus group interviews and related literature were used to develop a questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed as a self-report measure, using a 4 point scale ranging from ‘strongly agree’ to ‘strongly disagree’. It was arranged in 4 parts: Part A-Background Information, Part B- Models of Occupational Therapy Practice, Part C-Occupational Therapy Practice, and Part D-Practice Comment. Parts A, B and C consisted of closed-ended questions, whereas Part D was constructed to elicit open-ended questions. The survey data was collected from 138 Thai occupational therapists (ThaiOTs) and 155 Western Australian occupational therapists (WAOTs). A Chi-square test result demonstrated that ThaiOTs favoured the Medical Model for practice whilst WAOTs used the Performance Model and the Whole Person Model (p < 0.05). Principal component factor analysis was used to identify significant factors differentiating the practice of WA and Thai occupational therapists and to guide the development of the model of practice for ThaiOTs. The Mann-Whitney U Test results showed clear differences of therapist practice between Australia and Thailand in relation to their views about Clients, Professional Perspective (Therapists), Intervention, Cultural Implications, and Health Care Systems due to the influence of the culture and socio-cultural environment (p < 0.05). The outcomes from all stages in the study were used to develop a model of practice for Thai occupational therapists. This model named the ‘Samphan’ Framework of Practice focuses on the client and family as an inseparable unit, which differs from an individual, or client focus central to most Western models.
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Pongsaksri, Arisa. "A trans-cultural study of the practice of occupational therapists in Thailand and Australia : reframing theories of practice /." Curtin University of Technology, School of Occupational Therapy, 2004. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=15810.
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Culturally appropriate conceptual models for practice are of major interest to occupational therapists, an emerging health profession in Thailand. Currently in Thailand, occupational therapy education and practice derives its conceptual models from Western models. How these models are translated into practice in Thailand is unclear, as there are currently no research studies relating to the cultural and clinical practice demands of Thai occupational therapists and of service delivery in Thailand. In addition, how occupational therapists in Australia apply conceptual models in practice has also been given limited attention in the research literature. A comparison is made between Thai and Western Australian occupational therapists to examine the use of theoretical models in the Western cultural context and to investigate the influences of cultural differences on occupational therapy practice. The purpose of this study is to identify the conceptual models most frequently used by occupational therapists in Thailand and in Australia, to describe the application of these models to practice, and to explore the cultural influences impacting on the application to practice. The need for a derived but more culturally specific conceptual model for occupational therapy practice in Thailand was also investigated. Focus group interviews were conducted as the initial stage of the study, to obtain in-depth background information about occupational therapy practice. Content analysis using transcript-based analysis and systematic coding was used to analyse the focus group data. The results demonstrated three main conceptual approaches: among both Westem Australian and Thai occupational therapists. These three models were described as the Performance Model, the Whole Person Model, and the Medical Model.The findings from focus group interviews and related literature were used to develop a questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed as a self-report measure, using a 4 point scale ranging from ‘strongly agree’ to ‘strongly disagree’. It was arranged in 4 parts: Part A-Background Information, Part B- Models of Occupational Therapy Practice, Part C-Occupational Therapy Practice, and Part D-Practice Comment. Parts A, B and C consisted of closed-ended questions, whereas Part D was constructed to elicit open-ended questions. The survey data was collected from 138 Thai occupational therapists (ThaiOTs) and 155 Western Australian occupational therapists (WAOTs). A Chi-square test result demonstrated that ThaiOTs favoured the Medical Model for practice whilst WAOTs used the Performance Model and the Whole Person Model (p < 0.05). Principal component factor analysis was used to identify significant factors differentiating the practice of WA and Thai occupational therapists and to guide the development of the model of practice for ThaiOTs. The Mann-Whitney U Test results showed clear differences of therapist practice between Australia and Thailand in relation to their views about Clients, Professional Perspective (Therapists), Intervention, Cultural Implications, and Health Care Systems due to the influence of the culture and socio-cultural environment (p < 0.05). The outcomes from all stages in the study were used to develop a model of practice for Thai occupational therapists. This model named the ‘Samphan’ Framework of Practice focuses on the client and family as an inseparable unit, which differs from an individual, or client focus central to most Western models.
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Nelson, Christopher. "Tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade in the beef, dairy & wheat industry in Japan, Taiwan & Thailand between 1974 & 1994 /." Connect to thesis, 1995. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000902.
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Dall’Osso, Filippo <1977>. "Coastal flood vulnerability assessment with geomatic methods: Test sites of western Thailand, Sydney (Australia) and aeolian islands (south tyrrhenian sea, Italy)." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2010. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2484/.
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The work undertaken in this PhD thesis is aimed at the development and testing of an innovative methodology for the assessment of the vulnerability of coastal areas to marine catastrophic inundation (tsunami). Different approaches are used at different spatial scales and are applied to three different study areas:
1. The entire western coast of Thailand
2. Two selected coastal suburbs of Sydney – Australia
3. The Aeolian Islands, in the South Tyrrhenian Sea – Italy
I have discussed each of these cases study in at least one scientific paper: one paper about the Thailand case study (Dall’Osso et al., in review-b), three papers about the Sydney applications (Dall’Osso et al., 2009a; Dall’Osso et al., 2009b; Dall’Osso and Dominey-Howes, in review) and one last paper about the work at the Aeolian Islands (Dall’Osso et al., in review-a).
These publications represent the core of the present PhD thesis. The main topics dealt with are outlined and discussed in a general introduction while the overall conclusions are outlined in the last section.
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O'Grady, Thomas A. "The profitability of technical analysis and stock returns from a traditional and bootstrap perspective : evidence from Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/506.
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This research questions whether technical trading rules can help predict stock price movements for a sample of stocks selected from four equity markets from the Asia-Pacific region: Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand for the period 1989-2008. The research is split into two stages. Stage-1 of the research tests the predictability of technical trading rules against a buyand- hold strategy. The variable moving average (VMA), fixed moving average (FMA) and the trading range break (TRB) trading rules are applied to this research. Economic predictability of these rules is examined by comparing returns conditional on a trading rule buy (sell) signal against an unconditional buy-and-hold return. Any existence of excess returns can thus be established. This follows with a statistical analysis of returns using a traditional t-test methodology. Traditional statistical tests assume normally distributed returns with independent observations and a non-changing distribution across time. In Stage-2 of this research a bootstrap checks whether features such as non-normality, time-varying moments and serial correlation bias test statistics. The bootstrap involves assumptions regarding the underlying returns generating process (RGP) and allows returns conditional on a trading rule buy (sell) signal from the original stock price series to be compared with conditional returns simulated from four common null models: RW, AR (1), GARCH-M and E-GARCH models. Simulated p-values are calculated in conjunction with simulated distributions and are applied in lieu of the theoretical normal distribution. Given this process it is possible to infer as to whether non-linear dependencies in returns can be captured by any of the three trading rules. Given the null model output standard t-test outcomes of predictability of technical trading rules may be diminished and/or eliminated. Conclusions are drawn as to the predictability and profitability of the VMA, FMA and TRB trading rules when applied to the chosen stock samples. Findings of this research indicate returns conditional on technical trading rules exceed unconditional buy-and-hold returns for all stocks. Thai sample output indicates strong support in favour of the predictability of standard test results supporting the use of technical trading rules. Output for Australia, Hong Kong and Malaysia indicates that previous standard t-test outcomes of predictability may be diminished and/or eliminated. This implies that the underlying RGP may be characterised by underlying features of some/all of the stochastic models.
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Cheng, Allen Cheuk-Seng, and allencheng@ozemail com au. "MELIOIDOSIS: EPIDEMIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT." Flinders University. Medicine, 2005. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20051121.141305.
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In under a century, melioidosis, the infection due to Burkholderia pseudomallei, has emerged from Whitmores series of glanders-like infections amongst the morphia addicts in Burma to a major cause of mortality in northeastern Thailand and northern Australia. Also endemic in other parts of south-east Asia, melioidosis may have varied presentations ranging from severe, overwhelming infection to chronic, low grade disease.
Observational evidence had suggested that granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), a naturally occurring substance produced by the body in response to infection, may have been useful in reducing the high mortality associated with the more severe forms of this infection. Other observations linked the occurrence of this disease to various environmental factors, such as contamination of drinking water and the annual rainfall. This thesis explores and attempts to quantify these associations.
There are three parts to this thesis. In the first part, I reviewed the epidemiology and management of patients with melioidosis. The use of G-CSF and meropenem was associated with a fall in mortality, although other factors may have at least partially contributed to this effect.
In the second part, I progressed towards a clinical trial of G-CSF. There was no other evidence supporting the use of G-CSF in severe sepsis and ethical issues precluded a trial in Darwin. There was not evidence from laboratory models of G-CSF action in melioidosis to support the use of G-CSF in patients, although there remained some doubt regarding the applicability of such models to human disease. I examined clinical methods to identify patients at high risk of death from melioidosis. A simple scoring system based on clinical and laboratory parameters was developed and externally validated. However, clinical definitions of severe sepsis appeared to be better predictors of mortality. A clinical trial based on clinical definitions was commenced in Thailand.
In the final part, I explored the question of whether different strains or B. pseudomallei or different environmental conditions caused different patterns of infection. There was no evidence that strain types of this bacterium determine the pattern or severity of disease, but weather conditions appeared to influence the distribution of disease in northern Australia.
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Vsindilok, Natacha. "A comparison of the case flow management and case tracking systems of the Central Adminstrative Court of Thailand with those of the Federal Court of Australia, with reference to practice in the USA." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20060509.100729/index.html.
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Muenjohn, Nuttawuth. "The effect of culture on the leadership behavior of Australian expatriate managers in Thailand." Thesis, 2001. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15384/.
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One of the basic reasons for studying cross-cultural leadership is the question of the extent to which leadership behaviors or styles can be influenced by culture. In this regard, one researcher may suggest that
certain leadership behaviors are likely to be unique to a given culture, while another argues that there should be certain structures or behaviors that leaders must perform to be effective, regardless of cultures.
In the current study, the investigation was conducted to determine: (a) the cultural values of Thai subordinates working with Australian expatriate managers, (b) the leadership behaviors of Australian expatriate managers
in Thailand, and (c) the possible relationships between the two variables. Forty-seven Australian expatriates and ninety-one Thai subordinates responded on the instruments called the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) and the Value Survey Module (VSM).
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McCrohan, Declan. "Modelling the economic impact of overseas students' social networks on Australia/Thailand bilateral trade flows." Thesis, 2004. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15402/.
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The exporting of education has become an integral part of the Australian economy and is now Australia's third largest export industry valued at over A$3.2 billion. The
impact that these large flows of students into the Australian economy (for significant periods at a time) is having on Australia's bilateral trade relationships with these source countries, is now a pertinent issue. As the literature on immigration flows has identified, social network theory is an important tool in explaining how cross border flows of people can stimulate international trade activity. What impact are overseas students' social networks playing in stimulating trade activity between Australia and
their home countries? This research on the economic impact of Thai overseas students on Australia/Thailand bilateral trade flows is a timely study undertaken to answer such
questions.
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Kleebpung, Nonthasruang. "Advertising and media literacy : young people and their understanding of the world of advertising in Australia and Thailand." Thesis, 2010. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19411/.
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This thesis demonstrates that Thai, Thai-Australian, and Asian international participants have a stronger knowledge of advertising industry operation compared with Australian participants. Thai and Thai-Australian participants were more sceptical of the rhetorical claims of advertising and aware of global branding techniques. Differences are also apparent in readings of gender and sexuality in advertising. Australian participants focused more on questions of gender inequality, while Thai participants moralised more about sexuality. Thai participants were also more concerned with the ethics of over-consumption. Australian participants exhibited characteristics of low-context cultures and often used a direct style to demonstrate their knowledge of the media. Thai participants used characteristically elaborate and indirect styles, typical of high-context readings of the media.
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Tapachai, Nirundon. "An assessment of beneficial image of a country for vacation destination." Thesis, 1997. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/30229/.
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The aims of this study were: (1) to investigate the destination image which influences
Australian potential tourists' decision to visit Thailand and the USA as vacation
destinations, and (2) to apply a category-based (prototype-based) approach for
operationalising the beneficial image. To achieve Aiml, the so-called 'beneficial
image' framework, building upon the marketing image concept of Kotler and Barich
(1992) and the consumption value theory of Sheth et al. (1992), was developed. This
beneficial image framework was based on five values including functional, social,
emotional, epistemic, and conditional. The model provided the basis for
understanding destination images and how such images influenced tourists' vacation
destinations.
To accomplish Aim 2, the development of destination image measurement based on
the category-based approach has been undertaken. The author was convinced that
by using the category-based approach, destination images which were stored in
prototype form can be assessed. The central idea of this approach is that an
individual is able to compare the incoming data with prior information or schema
stored in memory in evaluating products or things. Therefore, destination image can
be assessed by comparing or matching incoming information and image stored in
tourists' minds. Based on this assumption, proxy or dummy prototypes of five
consumption values were developed from preliminary survey and then compared with tourists' existing beneficial images of those destinations. This methodological
framework was applied to 247 subjects, who are students of Victoria University of
Technology, and who have never visited the studied countries before. To
operationalise this process, five statements representing these proxy prototypes were
developed, then subjects were asked to freely express their congruence/discrepancy
with these prototypes. On the basis of this matching process, the beneficial images of
the two destinations were assessed.
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Ghuangpeng, Siriwan. "Factors influencing career decision-making : a comparative study of Thai and Australian tourism and hospitality students." Thesis, 2011. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/19360/.
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The current study investigated what factors appear to drive the career decision-making of
Thai and Australian tourism and hospitality students. This study was conducted to identify
various factors that Thai and Australian students perceived to play an important role in their
decision to seek a career in the industry. It also sought to understand the way these factors
impacted on Thai and Australians’ career decision-making and how their cultural
interpretations influenced their decision-making.
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Suranukkharin, Todsapon. "The construction of cultural ideologies in award-winning Thai and Australian children's picture books (1987-2006)." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/155848.
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This thesis examines the role of children's picture books in constructing cultural ideologies. It aims to analyse the dominant cultural ideologies inscribed in Thai and Australian children's picture books, with specific emphasis on how such identities are constructed through verbal and visual language. The analysis focuses on the changes, if any, in the construction of cultural ideologies in Thai and Australian children's picture books that won national awards from 1987 to 2006, and how the changes correspond to the impact of social change. The corpus chosen for analysis consists of 60 children's books, comprising 30 from Thailand and 30 from Australia. The picture books have either won the Thai National Book Development Committee Award or the Picture Book of the Year Award given by Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA). The thesis is structured around three themes based on the ideological construction of power in the books, including the construction of age relations, gender relations and community relations. Despite the fact that Thai society has undergone enormous change over the last two decades, the analysis shows that award-winning Thai children's books have been written mainly from a conservative point of view. They work by providing the foundations for social harmony and respect of order in a patriarchal and hierarchical society where all members are expected to know their proper place and live their lives in ways that contribute to the benefit of the whole community. Some slight changes can be detected in the way perspectives on those cultural ideologies have shifted at certain periods. These include the way of giving more emphasis to a child's self discovery over adult authority, the attempt to create non sexist picture books, and changes in the meaning and implication of unity and cohesion. Yet the analysis reveals that an ethos of conservative discourse still informs the books. It highlights the use of representation to control the overall appearance of idealised discourse in Thai society. In contrast, there is much variety and range in the way cultural ideologies have been constructed in award winning Australian children's books. While an ethos of conservative discourse can still be detected in the corpus, a number of books show that such ways of seeing the world can be challenged, questioned and even proved to be inadequate. Unlike the Thai books, the representation of patriarchal and hierarchical society can be overturned by giving more prominence to children's sense of agency and imagination and by portraying male and female characters in a more symmetrical way. In contrast to the depiction of the smooth and harmonious relationship between people of the same cultural and community groups in the Thai books, some recent Australian picture books emphasise the conflicts and disputes between different social groups. These changes are analysed in the context of the impact of social change. Social and political topics, such as the emancipation of women through the feminist movement and issues relating to contemporary politics including refugees, border control and cultural difference are taken into account.
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Harriden, Kate. "Stormwater : why waste it." Phd thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148197.
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Downman, Scott Andrew. "Intra-ethnic conflict and the Hmong in Australia and Thailand." 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/uploads/approved/adt-QGU20061024.120129/public/02Whole.pdf.
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Byrne, Denis. "The past of others : archaeological heritage management in Thailand and Australia." Phd thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110792.
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Beginning with the understanding that several European discourses compete for the
right to interpret the physical traces of past human cultures I have examined what seem
to be the major of these in the European context. They are the discourses of the divine,
namely paganism and early Christianity, and the discourses of the secular and rational,
the principal of which are antiquarianism and archaeology. Since the mid-nineteenth
century archaeology has secured for itself official recognition as the proper knowledge
of the material past.
Archaeology is now to be found practised in almost every part of the world. The
transfer of the discourses of archaeology and art history from the West to the non-
West has, not surprisingly, included the transfer of the conservation ethic. While the
conservation ethic has attained a foothold at a government and elite level in the non-
West it appears to have little constituency at a local and non-elite level. In Thailand I
have looked at Buddhism and animism as systems of knowledge about the material
past and have found beliefs and practices which honour the spiritual essence of ancient
remains but rarely seek to conserve their material fabric.
In Australia the European conception of Aboriginal heritage is implicated in a
primitivist longing for a 'traditional', unchanging Aboriginal culture in which
authenticity is partly equated within pastness. Archaeology established its primacy in
Australia by mixing its discourse with the discourse of heritage. It now finds its
position destabilized as Aborigines themselves borrow elements of the same discourse
in a counter-appropriation of their 'archaeological' cultural property.
The universality of the conservation ethic is manifestly spurious. The West, in its
bid to domesticate the past of the Other World, allies itself with the non-Western state.
The state draws upon the material past as a resource for nation-building,
monumentalizing the past also in the interests of legitimizing present political
arrangements. This alliance of interests is fundamentally anti-religious. Its programme
of 'conserving' ancient sites cuts across local practices.
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Khorchurklang, Sukij. "Factors Influencing Australia's Dairy Product Exports to Thailand: 1980-2002." Thesis, 2005. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/384/.
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This thesis focuses on an analysis of factors influencing Australia's dairy product
exports to Thailand. To the author's knowledge, such an analysis has not been
conducted so far. The research consists of literature reviews of the theories and
empirical studies of comparative advantage and export demand, the econometric
estimation of Thailand's demand for Australia's exports of dairy products to analyse
the determinants of Thailand's demand for Australian dairy products, and an
investigation of experience of selected Australian exporting companies in exporting
dairy products to Thailand based on the interviews of export managers.
Australia exports dairy products such as, milk dry (skim milk powder or SMP and
whole milk powder or WMP), butter, cheese and curd, and whey products to
Thailand. SMP is the principle ingredient of Thailand's milk processing industry.
Australia's main competitors in Thailand for exports of dairy products are New
Zealand, the EU and to some extent the U.S.A. Thailand has heavily protected its
local dairy industry by high tariffs and regulation. The Thai government promotes
local dairy production and the use of local milk products. However, the dairy sector of
Thailand is still incapable of meeting the demand from the domestic dairy processing
industry and consumers. Hence, Thailand has to import a large volume of dairy
products each year.
The Australia-Thailand free trade agreement (FTA) started to operate in January
2005. Thailand's import tariffs on Australia's dairy products will decline to zero to 32
per cent, and be phased out by 2010 or 2020. The quotas on Australia's exports of
milk powders and milk and cream to the Thai market will be increased by 2025.
The analysis of revealed comparative advantage and revealed competitive advantage
identify that among the dairy product exporting countries, Australia has comparative
advantage and competitive advantage of all of the dairy products (milk evaporated,
milk dry, whey preserved and concentrated butter and cheese and curd). Thailand has
comparative advantage and competitive advantage only in milk condensed and
evaporated. Thailand has comparative disadvantage and competitive disadvantage in the other dairy product categories. Australia's competitors in the Thai market (New
Zealand, and the selected EU countries) have comparative and competitive
advantages in most of the dairy products. These results suggest that Australian dairy
exporting companies and policy makers could focus on increasing the volumes of all
of the dairy products exported to Thailand, except milk condensed and evaporated.
The results from the estimation of econometric models of Thailand's demand for
Australia's exports of milk dry shows that in the short run, the quantity of Australia's
milk dry exports demanded in Thailand declines when Australia's export price
relative to that of competing countries increases, while it is not responsive to
Thailand's real national income. In the long run, the quantity of Australia's milk dry
exports demanded in Thailand declines when Australia's export price relative to that
of competing countries' price increases. The estimated long run price elasticity of
export demand is -2.76. In the long run, the quantity of Australia's milk dry exports
demanded in Thailand does not change significantly in response to changes in
Thailand's real national income.
In the short run, the quantity of Australia's butter exports demanded in Thailand falls
when Australia's export price relative to that of competing countries increases, but it
is not responsive to Thailand's real national income. The quantity of Australia's butter
exports demanded in Thailand declines when the Thai baht depreciates against the
Australian dollar. In the long run, the quantity of Australia's butter exports demanded
in Thailand decreases when Australia's export price relative to that of competing
countries' price increases. The estimated long run relative price elasticity of demand
is -1.13. In the long run, the quantity of Australia's butter exports demanded in
Thailand does not change significantly in response to changes in Thailand's real
national income. The quantity of Australia's butter exports demanded in Thailand
declines when the Thai baht depreciates against the Australian dollar. The estimated
long run exchange rate elasticity of demand is -6.34.
In the short run, the quantity of Australia's cheese and curd exports demanded in
Thailand is not responsive either to the relative price of exports or to Thailand's real
national income. In the long run the quantity of Australia's cheese and curd exports demanded in Thailand changes significantly in response to changes in Thailand's real
national income. The estimated long run income elasticity of demand is 1.84.
During the interviews, the export managers of Australian dairy export companies
agreed that Thailand is a significant importer of Australia's dairy products,
particularly for SMP, WMP, whey powder, butter and cheese. Thailand's stable
economic and political environment is one of the reasons that they are attracted to the
Thai market. The principal factors that make Australia's products successful in the
Thai market are competitive price and 'clean, green and natural' products. However,
limited Australian dairy product varieties and distribution channels are major factors
that contribute to Australia falling behind New Zealand and the EU in the Thai
market. The Australian dairy Corporation (ADC) is not involved in promoting
Australian dairy products in the Thai market at present, but has done so in the past.
Thailand's tariff and import quota protection and support to local dairying industry is
one of the barriers encountered by Australia's exports to Thailand. All the managers
are hopeful of expanding opportunities for their dairy exports in the Thai market.
These findings imply that Australian dairy export companies could expand the dairy
product varieties they export and offer for sale in the Thai market. They could also
take advantage of the established sales distribution network in addition to exploring
the possibilities of setting up their own distribution channels. They could be looking
into the possibilities of setting up of joint ventures with local dairy processing
companies in Thailand so that their dairy exports could be expanded. The Australian
dairy export companies as well as the ADC have to actively promote in various ways
the Australian dairy product exports in the Thai market in order to take advantage of
the window of opportunities open to them within the trade liberalisation framework of
the Australia-Thailand free trade agreement (FTA).
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Khorchurklang, Sukij. "Factors Influencing Australia's Dairy Product Exports to Thailand: 1980-2002." 2005. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/384/1/384contents.pdf.
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This thesis focuses on an analysis of factors influencing Australia's dairy product exports to Thailand. To the author's knowledge, such an analysis has not been conducted so far. The research consists of literature reviews of the theories and empirical studies of comparative advantage and export demand, the econometric estimation of Thailand's demand for Australia's exports of dairy products to analyse the determinants of Thailand's demand for Australian dairy products, and an investigation of experience of selected Australian exporting companies in exporting dairy products to Thailand based on the interviews of export managers. Australia exports dairy products such as, milk dry (skim milk powder or SMP and whole milk powder or WMP), butter, cheese and curd, and whey products to Thailand. SMP is the principle ingredient of Thailand's milk processing industry. Australia's main competitors in Thailand for exports of dairy products are New Zealand, the EU and to some extent the U.S.A. Thailand has heavily protected its local dairy industry by high tariffs and regulation. The Thai government promotes local dairy production and the use of local milk products. However, the dairy sector of Thailand is still incapable of meeting the demand from the domestic dairy processing industry and consumers. Hence, Thailand has to import a large volume of dairy products each year. The Australia-Thailand free trade agreement (FTA) started to operate in January 2005. Thailand's import tariffs on Australia's dairy products will decline to zero to 32 per cent, and be phased out by 2010 or 2020. The quotas on Australia's exports of milk powders and milk and cream to the Thai market will be increased by 2025. The analysis of revealed comparative advantage and revealed competitive advantage identify that among the dairy product exporting countries, Australia has comparative advantage and competitive advantage of all of the dairy products (milk evaporated, milk dry, whey preserved and concentrated butter and cheese and curd). Thailand has comparative advantage and competitive advantage only in milk condensed and evaporated. Thailand has comparative disadvantage and competitive disadvantage in the other dairy product categories. Australia's competitors in the Thai market (New Zealand, and the selected EU countries) have comparative and competitive advantages in most of the dairy products. These results suggest that Australian dairy exporting companies and policy makers could focus on increasing the volumes of all of the dairy products exported to Thailand, except milk condensed and evaporated. The results from the estimation of econometric models of Thailand's demand for Australia's exports of milk dry shows that in the short run, the quantity of Australia's milk dry exports demanded in Thailand declines when Australia's export price relative to that of competing countries increases, while it is not responsive to Thailand's real national income. In the long run, the quantity of Australia's milk dry exports demanded in Thailand declines when Australia's export price relative to that of competing countries' price increases. The estimated long run price elasticity of export demand is -2.76. In the long run, the quantity of Australia's milk dry exports demanded in Thailand does not change significantly in response to changes in Thailand's real national income. In the short run, the quantity of Australia's butter exports demanded in Thailand falls when Australia's export price relative to that of competing countries increases, but it is not responsive to Thailand's real national income. The quantity of Australia's butter exports demanded in Thailand declines when the Thai baht depreciates against the Australian dollar. In the long run, the quantity of Australia's butter exports demanded in Thailand decreases when Australia's export price relative to that of competing countries' price increases. The estimated long run relative price elasticity of demand is -1.13. In the long run, the quantity of Australia's butter exports demanded in Thailand does not change significantly in response to changes in Thailand's real national income. The quantity of Australia's butter exports demanded in Thailand declines when the Thai baht depreciates against the Australian dollar. The estimated long run exchange rate elasticity of demand is -6.34. In the short run, the quantity of Australia's cheese and curd exports demanded in Thailand is not responsive either to the relative price of exports or to Thailand's real national income. In the long run the quantity of Australia's cheese and curd exports demanded in Thailand changes significantly in response to changes in Thailand's real national income. The estimated long run income elasticity of demand is 1.84. During the interviews, the export managers of Australian dairy export companies agreed that Thailand is a significant importer of Australia's dairy products, particularly for SMP, WMP, whey powder, butter and cheese. Thailand's stable economic and political environment is one of the reasons that they are attracted to the Thai market. The principal factors that make Australia's products successful in the Thai market are competitive price and 'clean, green and natural' products. However, limited Australian dairy product varieties and distribution channels are major factors that contribute to Australia falling behind New Zealand and the EU in the Thai market. The Australian dairy Corporation (ADC) is not involved in promoting Australian dairy products in the Thai market at present, but has done so in the past. Thailand's tariff and import quota protection and support to local dairying industry is one of the barriers encountered by Australia's exports to Thailand. All the managers are hopeful of expanding opportunities for their dairy exports in the Thai market. These findings imply that Australian dairy export companies could expand the dairy product varieties they export and offer for sale in the Thai market. They could also take advantage of the established sales distribution network in addition to exploring the possibilities of setting up their own distribution channels. They could be looking into the possibilities of setting up of joint ventures with local dairy processing companies in Thailand so that their dairy exports could be expanded. The Australian dairy export companies as well as the ADC have to actively promote in various ways the Australian dairy product exports in the Thai market in order to take advantage of the window of opportunities open to them within the trade liberalisation framework of the Australia-Thailand free trade agreement (FTA).
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Tsai, Chin-Li, and 蔡瑾莉. "Formation mechanism of sapphires from Thailand and Australia: inferred from mineral inclusions." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60265880378875166531.
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碩士國立成功大學
地球科學系專班
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Sapphire commonly occurs in igneous and metamorphic rocks. Commercial sapphire is mainly mined from alluvial deposits associated with alkali basalts. Tracing the origin of alluvial sapphire is difficult for the complexity induced during weathering, erosion, and transportation. Isothermal experiments show that corundum cannot crystallize from basaltic magmas. Therefore, sapphire is considered to be xenocryst in basalts, but its genesis is still debated. Based on trace element geo-chemistry, mineral inclusions, isotopes, and geochronology, three ge-netic processes are proposed for sapphire from alkali basalts. They are: (1) metamorphic recrystallization of aluminous rocks, (2) crystallization from evolved alkali magmas produced by low degrees of partial melting from mantle, and (3) crystallization from over-saturation caused by mixing carbonatitic and silicic magmas. In this study we used energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) to identify mineral inclusions within sapphires from Thailand (Chanthaburi-Trat and Kanchanaburi) and Australia (New South Wales). Most inclusions are less than 5 μm, and two types of inclusions can be distinguished. The first type occurs in slender veins, which are cracks formed after the crystallization of host sapphire. They are referred to as the “secondary” inclusions. The secondary inclusions include calcite, quartz, dolomite, Fe-oxide (Kanchanaburi and New South Wales) as well as albite and apatite (Kanchanaburi). Secondary inclusions are not observed in Chanthaburi-Trat sapphires. Other inclusions distribute randomly in sapphire. They are referred to as “primary” inclusions and can provide constraints on the genesis of host sapphire. The observed primary in-clusions include plagioclase, alkali feldspar, quartz, calcite, Nb-ilmenite and aegirine in Chanthaburi-Trat sapphires, calcite and allanite? in Kanchanaburi sapphires, and alkali feldspar and Ti-oxide (rutile?) in New South Wales sapphires. Calcite, Nb-ilmenite and aegirine usually occur within carbonatitic magmas, whereas plagioclase, alkali feldspar, quartz and Ti-oxide (rutile?) are constituent minerals in silicic magmas (granite). Carbonatitic and silicic magmas are unlikely to originate from the same parent magma: therefore, it is inferred that hybrid process resulted in Al-oversaturation followed by sapphire crystallization. Hybrid process might lead to variable O-isotope composition, inconsistent with the limited variation shown by the sapphire from Chanthaburi-Trat (5.1-6.2 ‰). We propose that the proportion of carbonatitic melts in hybrid magmas was minute; thus, the variation in O-isotope composi-tion was not significant as expected.
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Liando, Nihta V. F. (Vera Frelly). "Foreign language learning in primary schools with special reference to Indonesia, Thailand and Australia." 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arml693.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 211-227. This thesis addresses the implications of language policy for foreign language teaching practice. It specifically looks at the implementation of language policy on the practice of teaching English in Indonesian and Thai primary schools as well as on the practice of teaching Indonesian in Australian primary schools.
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Khemthong, Suree. "Adoption and diffusion of Internet and Web technologies in hotel marketing: a study of hotels in Thailand and Australia." Thesis, 2007. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15618/.
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Despite the growing importance of the use of the Internet as a marketing tool in the hotel industry, the factors that affect the adoption of Internet and Web based marketing
activities (IWMA) by the hotel industry have not yet been fully investigated. There have been no comprehensive studies about the facilitating and inhibiting factors that
distinguish the differences between Thai and Australian hotels in their adoption and diffusion of IWMA. Therefore, the aim of this study was to make an effort to fill this gap by investigating factors affecting the successful adoption of IWMA in Thai and Australian hotels. Furthermore, a specific aim was to develop a conceptual model for the successfull adoption and diffusion of IWMA by Thai and Australian hotels.
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Jones, Puangchompoo. "Understanding the International Students' Innovation Decision Process with Particular Reference to International Higher Education Service in Australia and in Thailand." Thesis, 2006. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/518/.
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This study focuses on the international higher education service in i)Australia as one of the leaders in this service and ii) Thailand as an eastern developing country that has potential to offer this service. However, as a new country offering this service, Thailand lacks experience of operating it in the world market. Therefore, it is necessary to learn from a leading country, which has more experience, like Australia. This study aims to i) identify the factors affecting international students in coming to study at HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) in Thailand and in Australia (Melbourne), ii) explore how these factors influence each stage in the model of "International Students' Innovation Decision Process" in offering the international higher education service of Thailand and Australia (Melbourne), iii) present the implications of the results of this study with regard to marketing of the international higher education service by Thailand, iv) reveal how international higher education service is perceived by persons who are involved with this area in Thailand/Australia (Melbourne) and v) Propose practical directions for the international higher education service of Thailand by adapting the useful experiences of Australia (Melbourne). When international students have studied in their home countries, the international higher education service offered by other countries is a 'new' service to them. This view is therefore different to that taken by previous studies in similar areas. Therefore, the model in this study of 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process' was developed in order to examine the factors affecting international students when making a decision to study abroad in Thailand and Australia. It was also developed to explore their experiences when they were studying at Higher Education Institutions: HEIs in both countries. The results of the study including the findings of Australia's experiences in offering the international higher education service will be used to assist Thailand in offering a high quality international higher education service. v In this study both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. The qualitative component included in-depth interviews with persons involved in the international higher education service in Thailand and Australia. The quantitative component involved a questionnaire survey which was designed to investigate factors affecting international students when making a decision to enrol, and when studying at HEIs in Thailand and Australia. The survey of international students in both countries was used to investigate 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process. It incorporated five groups of factors; sources of information, HEI characteristics, country characteristics, benefits and risks of study abroad. Seventeen (17) HEIs and one (1) government department in Thailand and four (4) HEIs in Australia (Melbourne) were used for this study. Results of the in-depth interviews indicated that the demand by international students for study abroad in Thailand and Australia is still high. It was found in both countries that the international higher education service offers major benefits including cultural exchange as well as financial benefits. Strategies for offering this service that have been successful in Australia, for example use of reliable private agents, were identified and this could be utilised by HEIs in Thailand when offering the international higher education service to prospective international students. Findings of the survey with international students in both countries of this study identified 4 stages in 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process' Knowledge Stage: building up the knowledge base Persuasion and Decision Stage: assessment and decision activities - Implementation Stage: reassessment activities - Confirmation/Disconfirmation Stage: confirmation/disconfirmation decision The international students' knowledge about study abroad in Thailand and Australia was found to be likely increased by word of mouth communication from acquaintances and also from the internet. Sponsors, parents and friends were likely to be influential vi sources of information when international students were making a decision to enrol at HEIs in both countries. HEI characteristics such as standard of courses and recognition of qualification, country characteristics, for example reasonable cost of living, were factors that influenced international students when making a decision to enrol at HEIs in both countries. High benefits and perceived risks of study abroad influenced international students when making a decision to enrol at HEIs in both countries. The results indicated that expectations of international students in both countries expectations were not met for all HEI and country characteristics once they were studying at HEIs in the destination country. For international students in Thailand, perceptions of the benefits of study abroad did not change, whereas in Australia perceptions of the benefits of study abroad such as 'learn English with native speakers' decreased. However, international students' perceptions of risks of study abroad changed very little in both countries. Further, the majority of international students in both countries intended to complete their study (at the confirmation/disconfirmation stage) in the destination country. This was the final stage of 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process'. The international higher education service in this study is defined as a 'new' service (an innovation) for international students, who have already made a decision to enrol at HEIs in other countries. In order to examine the international higher education service as a 'new' service for international students who look for a place to study abroad, Rogers' (1995) innovation decision process was an effective model to utilise and adapt to examine international student perceptions and their experiences of the international higher education service in Thailand/Australia in each stage of 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process' model. Moreover this model is also expected that this model will be helpful for future researchers who are interested in conducting research in similar areas particularly for research in developing countries that wish to offer international higher education service.
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Jones, Puangchompoo. "Understanding the International Students' Innovation Decision Process with Particular Reference to International Higher Education Service in Australia and in Thailand." 2006. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/518/1/518contents.pdf.
Повний текст джерелаАнотація:
This study focuses on the international higher education service in i)Australia as one of the leaders in this service and ii) Thailand as an eastern developing country that has potential to offer this service. However, as a new country offering this service, Thailand lacks experience of operating it in the world market. Therefore, it is necessary to learn from a leading country, which has more experience, like Australia. This study aims to i) identify the factors affecting international students in coming to study at HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) in Thailand and in Australia (Melbourne), ii) explore how these factors influence each stage in the model of "International Students' Innovation Decision Process" in offering the international higher education service of Thailand and Australia (Melbourne), iii) present the implications of the results of this study with regard to marketing of the international higher education service by Thailand, iv) reveal how international higher education service is perceived by persons who are involved with this area in Thailand/Australia (Melbourne) and v) Propose practical directions for the international higher education service of Thailand by adapting the useful experiences of Australia (Melbourne). When international students have studied in their home countries, the international higher education service offered by other countries is a 'new' service to them. This view is therefore different to that taken by previous studies in similar areas. Therefore, the model in this study of 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process' was developed in order to examine the factors affecting international students when making a decision to study abroad in Thailand and Australia. It was also developed to explore their experiences when they were studying at Higher Education Institutions: HEIs in both countries. The results of the study including the findings of Australia's experiences in offering the international higher education service will be used to assist Thailand in offering a high quality international higher education service. v In this study both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. The qualitative component included in-depth interviews with persons involved in the international higher education service in Thailand and Australia. The quantitative component involved a questionnaire survey which was designed to investigate factors affecting international students when making a decision to enrol, and when studying at HEIs in Thailand and Australia. The survey of international students in both countries was used to investigate 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process. It incorporated five groups of factors; sources of information, HEI characteristics, country characteristics, benefits and risks of study abroad. Seventeen (17) HEIs and one (1) government department in Thailand and four (4) HEIs in Australia (Melbourne) were used for this study. Results of the in-depth interviews indicated that the demand by international students for study abroad in Thailand and Australia is still high. It was found in both countries that the international higher education service offers major benefits including cultural exchange as well as financial benefits. Strategies for offering this service that have been successful in Australia, for example use of reliable private agents, were identified and this could be utilised by HEIs in Thailand when offering the international higher education service to prospective international students. Findings of the survey with international students in both countries of this study identified 4 stages in 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process' Knowledge Stage: building up the knowledge base Persuasion and Decision Stage: assessment and decision activities - Implementation Stage: reassessment activities - Confirmation/Disconfirmation Stage: confirmation/disconfirmation decision The international students' knowledge about study abroad in Thailand and Australia was found to be likely increased by word of mouth communication from acquaintances and also from the internet. Sponsors, parents and friends were likely to be influential vi sources of information when international students were making a decision to enrol at HEIs in both countries. HEI characteristics such as standard of courses and recognition of qualification, country characteristics, for example reasonable cost of living, were factors that influenced international students when making a decision to enrol at HEIs in both countries. High benefits and perceived risks of study abroad influenced international students when making a decision to enrol at HEIs in both countries. The results indicated that expectations of international students in both countries expectations were not met for all HEI and country characteristics once they were studying at HEIs in the destination country. For international students in Thailand, perceptions of the benefits of study abroad did not change, whereas in Australia perceptions of the benefits of study abroad such as 'learn English with native speakers' decreased. However, international students' perceptions of risks of study abroad changed very little in both countries. Further, the majority of international students in both countries intended to complete their study (at the confirmation/disconfirmation stage) in the destination country. This was the final stage of 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process'. The international higher education service in this study is defined as a 'new' service (an innovation) for international students, who have already made a decision to enrol at HEIs in other countries. In order to examine the international higher education service as a 'new' service for international students who look for a place to study abroad, Rogers' (1995) innovation decision process was an effective model to utilise and adapt to examine international student perceptions and their experiences of the international higher education service in Thailand/Australia in each stage of 'the International Students' Innovation Decision Process' model. Moreover this model is also expected that this model will be helpful for future researchers who are interested in conducting research in similar areas particularly for research in developing countries that wish to offer international higher education service.
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Leggat, Peter A. "Key occupational risks in two health professional groups : musculoskeletal, percutaneous and bioaerosol hazards among nurses and dentists in Australia and Thailand." 2002. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unisa:37945.
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For many years, it has been recognised that health care workers worldwide are exposed to a range of occupational hazards. While research has been ongoing for some time, there remains much to learn, particularly in the context of newly industrialising countries. The body of research reported in this thesis -- Key occupational risks in two health professional groups: musculoskeletal, percutaneous and bioaerosol hazards among nurses and dentists in Australia and Thailand-- was conducted in South Australia, Queensland and southern Thailand. The two professional groups examined were Australian nurses and Thai dentists. Of particular interest to the research team were the major problems confronting these health professional groups and also the special issues confronting a health professional group in a newly industrialising country, Thailand.
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Sonnenfeld, David Allan. "Greening the tiger? social movements' influence on adoption of environmental technologies in the pulp and paper industries of Australia, Indonesia, and Thailand /." 1996. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/38016047.html.
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Harrington, Jane Therese. "'Being here': heritage, belonging and place making: a study of community and identity formation at Avebury (England), Magnetic Island (Australia) and Ayutthaya (Thailand)." Thesis, 2004. https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/71/1/01front.pdf.
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This thesis looks at the way cultural heritage can be more broadly considered to include
intangible aspects of our lives. Such intangible heritage encompasses the general values
and worldviews of a community and enshrines a community’s character and identity.
Through meanings, associations, values and ways of life, people individually and
collectively create a meaningful relationship with place. Place and community are
mutually constituted through social action and practice and the attribution of meaning in a
process of ‘place making’ and of reasserting belonging.
It is recognised that communities are fluid categories that can be ‘re-sited’ in relation to
new questions or different places and times. Both individual and community identity are a
form of production, and consist as a process that is never complete. That is, identity is not
only a matter of ‘being’ but also a process of ‘becoming’. By addressing case studies in
three World Heritage listed locations – Magnetic Island (Australia), Avebury (England)
and Ayutthaya (Thailand) – the thesis considers the dissonance between heritage as
defined and practised through hegemonic instruments and discourses (including
international organisations, bureaucratic structures and the Academy), and heritage as
conceived by contemporary communities as being the aspects of their lived existence that
they desire to retain for future generations.
Through discussion of emplaced communities and a series of case studies, consideration
is given to the hegemonic dominance of sanctioned determinations of heritage that
attribute significance and in the process can mute local values and narratives. The thesis
challenges the ongoing emphasis on tangible aspects of heritage and reviews the
natural/cultural heritage dichotomy, demonstrating that attachments to nature are
predicated on experiences, practices and engagements with the environment that are
grounded in social and cultural processes. I further explore the way in which the voicing
of opinions in a struggle over place can be regulated by prevailing scientific discourses
and discursive fields, placing a reliance on arguments about conservation that are
ancillary to more specific but less articulatable concerns to do with place and identity.
Finally, I illustrate the significance of the lived traditions, rituals, ceremonies, skills and
practices of the contemporary communities to a holistic understanding of heritage at both
the local and broader levels.
I conclude that it is by understanding what it is that communities find important, and how
such attachments and values are formed, transmitted and retained to create a ‘sense of
place’, that community participation in heritage can be meaningfully achieved.
Community assertions of the aspects of their lives that can be considered important to
pass on to their children are not enshrined in the monuments, structures and archaeology
that heritage professionals are more likely to identify, but in the sense of belonging that
arises through the mutual construction of community and place, reinforced through social
practices, memories and local narratives.
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Harrington, Jane Therese. "Being here : : heritage, belonging and place making : a study of community and identity formation at Avebury (England), Magnetic Island (Australia) and Ayutthaya (Thailand) /." 2004. http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/71/1/01front.pdf.
Повний текст джерелаАнотація:
This thesis looks at the way cultural heritage can be more broadly considered to include
intangible aspects of our lives. Such intangible heritage encompasses the general values
and worldviews of a community and enshrines a community’s character and identity.
Through meanings, associations, values and ways of life, people individually and
collectively create a meaningful relationship with place. Place and community are
mutually constituted through social action and practice and the attribution of meaning in a
process of ‘place making’ and of reasserting belonging.
It is recognised that communities are fluid categories that can be ‘re-sited’ in relation to
new questions or different places and times. Both individual and community identity are a
form of production, and consist as a process that is never complete. That is, identity is not
only a matter of ‘being’ but also a process of ‘becoming’. By addressing case studies in
three World Heritage listed locations – Magnetic Island (Australia), Avebury (England)
and Ayutthaya (Thailand) – the thesis considers the dissonance between heritage as
defined and practised through hegemonic instruments and discourses (including
international organisations, bureaucratic structures and the Academy), and heritage as
conceived by contemporary communities as being the aspects of their lived existence that
they desire to retain for future generations.
Through discussion of emplaced communities and a series of case studies, consideration
is given to the hegemonic dominance of sanctioned determinations of heritage that
attribute significance and in the process can mute local values and narratives. The thesis
challenges the ongoing emphasis on tangible aspects of heritage and reviews the
natural/cultural heritage dichotomy, demonstrating that attachments to nature are
predicated on experiences, practices and engagements with the environment that are
grounded in social and cultural processes. I further explore the way in which the voicing
of opinions in a struggle over place can be regulated by prevailing scientific discourses
and discursive fields, placing a reliance on arguments about conservation that are
ancillary to more specific but less articulatable concerns to do with place and identity.
Finally, I illustrate the significance of the lived traditions, rituals, ceremonies, skills and
practices of the contemporary communities to a holistic understanding of heritage at both
the local and broader levels.
I conclude that it is by understanding what it is that communities find important, and how
such attachments and values are formed, transmitted and retained to create a ‘sense of
place’, that community participation in heritage can be meaningfully achieved.
Community assertions of the aspects of their lives that can be considered important to
pass on to their children are not enshrined in the monuments, structures and archaeology
that heritage professionals are more likely to identify, but in the sense of belonging that
arises through the mutual construction of community and place, reinforced through social
practices, memories and local narratives.
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Connell, Lisa Mary. "Human-trafficking for sexual exploitation in Australia : the deafening silence on demand." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/21449/.
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Significant resources have been directed at stemming sex-trafficking. Despite this, it continues to flourish. The harm that results from an illicit global industry that nourishes crime, corrupt officials, and opportunistic consumers, is immense. This thesis presents a conceptual framework to consider the complexity, power relationships and reality of sex-trafficking. The thesis describes the extent of, and harms caused by, sex-trafficking internationally and into Australia. It examines international efforts to fight the problem, noting that these encounter two fundamental barriers. The first is that poverty and sex discrimination in source countries generates an ongoing supply of trafficked women. The second in the words of one senior United Nations official - is that ‘demand – at least for sexual exploitation – is largely the problem of the developed world ... Sexist attitudes, lifestyles that insult the dignity of women, and expensive media and advertising campaigns that exploit their bodies create a market for gender-based exploitation’ and trafficking (Luiz Carlos Da Costa ). Using an ethical-philosophical approach, the thesis explores fundamental concepts such as power, framing, choice, agency, exploitation, consent, adaptive preferences and the capabilities needed to lead a fully human life. Interviews on the ethical and policy issues with a number scholars, ethicists, criminologists, jurists, senior policy-makers and outstanding contributors to public-policy debates permits the thesis to test and extend its conceptual framework. This engagement, a virtual colloquium, reinforces that ethically robust policy development requires a demand focus that must take in the global political, economic, gender and cultural environment.
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Taylor, Paul. "The impacts of tour operations in remote village communities." Thesis, 2003. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/33001/.
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This thesis identifies the outcomes and impacts that remote village communities in less
developed countries obtain from visits by a specialist tour operator. The thesis explores the causal
factors that determine the outcomes obtained by local people in these communities. This thesis set
out to answer the following research questions: 1. What impacts do tour operators create in village
communities in less developed countries? 2. What are the key factors that determine the types of
impacts that tour operators create in these communities.
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Silanoi, Tongrawee. "Modelling the Relationship between Hotel Employee Commitment and Cultural difference." Thesis, 2015. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/34841/.
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This study aims to model the relationship between employee commitment and cultural difference in the hotel sectors in Hua Hin, Thailand and Melbourne, Australia. The purpose of this study is to clarify and better understand the relationship between employee commitment and human culture in the hospitality industry and to clarify the influence of culture using a sample of luxury four and five star hotels located in both Thailand and Australia. The focus is upon determining the relevance of culture by examining the impact of cultural difference on employee commitment.
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Chartrungruang, Bung-On. "Relationship between staff selection and training based upon TQM principles and guest satisfaction with service quality in hotel settings." Thesis, 2002. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15406/.
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This thesis proposes a theoretical model that aims to explain the relationship between staff selection and training based on the principles of Total Quality Management
(TQM) and guest satisfaction in 4-5 star hotels in the USA and Australia and Thailand. This exploratory research aims to generate emphical evidence concerning the relationship between TQM, guest satisfaction and human resource performance.