A reciprocal relationship: informing a profession's competency standards
More than ever, pharmacy graduates require broad-ranging knowledge, skills and attitudes (competency) to enable them to be responsive and adaptable professionals in a rapidly changing Australian...
View ArticleHow do we connect and engage students, learning in a distance mode, to...
Research has indicated that students perform at least as well in distance courses as in faceto-face courses across a number of measures including critical thinking, sharing of personal perspective, and...
View ArticleExploring student diversity: local and international first year pharmacy...
The Australian higher education sector has undergone significant changes in the last two decades with a wider and more diverse student population. Although the number of international students...
View ArticleStudents, faculty and local community health professionals learning together
The international literature clearly identifies the need for greater integration of interprofessional education into the curricula of entry-level health professions. This paper reports on the design...
View ArticleEffect of confinement on plastic hinge length of RC square columns
The confinement effect of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) jacket on the plastic hinge length of square RC columns is studied through experimental testing and analytical study. Seven half-scale RC square...
View ArticleFit for practice: the tale of two professions
In response to demands for health graduates, who are "fit for practice" the learning outcomes for health profession' University programs are now typically defined by professional competency frameworks....
View ArticleInfinitely malleable - approaching contemporary sculptural practice through...
Contemporary sculpture has a strong history of interaction with the body through experimentation with perception. Since the 1960s, artists have made works that test embodiment and question how direct...
View ArticleRelations on synthesis, crystal structure and microwave dielectric properties...
Different experimental conditions were applied to investigate the optimum sintering properties of SrZnP2O7 ceramics, and its crystal structure and microstructure were investigated by X-ray powder...
View ArticleSolid-liquid phase change modelling of metallic sodium for application in...
Liquid sodium presents a possibility for improved economics in concentrating solar thermal power plants. As the melting temperature of metallic sodium is above ambient temperatures (97.8 C), melting of...
View ArticleChemical Constituents of Hoya buotii Kloppenb.
Chemical investigation of the dichloromethane extracts of Hoya buotii Kloppenb. afforded taraxerone (1), taraxerol (2), a mixture of β-sitosterol (3a) and stigmasterol (3b) in about 2:1 ratio, and a...
View ArticleFinding voice: The higher education experiences of students from diverse...
Diversity in the student body, particularly the inclusion of disadvantaged groups, has been incorporated into the discourse of inclusive education, with social justice and equality now part of the...
View ArticleChemical constituents of Hoya wayetii Kloppenb.
Chemical investigation of the dichloromethane extracts of Hoya wayetii Kloppenb. afforded β-amyrin cinnamate (1) and taraxerol (2) from the stems; and 2, triglycerides (3), chlorophyll a (4), and a...
View ArticleFactors associated with crashes involving taxi owners and non-owners: A case...
Taxis experience a higher risk of a motor vehicle crash partly because of their much higher levels of exposure on the roads. Although several studies have been conducted to examine the factors...
View ArticleWho Is watching whom? Surveillance in Australian social work supervision
Supervisors of social work practice have long grappled with professional and disciplinary expectations and the competing daily organisational demands of a transformed neo-liberal human service...
View ArticleChemical constituents from Raphanus sativus
Chemical investigation of the dichloromethane extract of the freeze-dried roots of Raphanus sativus afforded 3-(E)- (methylthio)methylene-2-pyrrolidinethione (1), a mixture of 4-methylthio-3-butenyl...
View ArticleLow-temperature sintering and electrical properties of (K, Na)NbO3 based...
Lead-free ceramics (1 - x)(K0.48Na0.52)NbO3-(x/5.15)K2.9Li1.95Nb5.15O15.3 (x = 0.3-0.6, KNN-KLN100x) were prepared by conventional sintering technique at a low temperature of 960 °C. The effects of KLN...
View ArticleLocal microstructure evolution of bismuth sodium titanate-based lead-free...
Morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) containing piezoelectric systems generally exhibit enhanced piezoelectric performance at compositions within, or close to, the MPB region. The mechanism/s underlying...
View ArticleFusion of spatially referring natural language statements with random set...
Localisation via the fusion of spatially referring natural language statements is considered here. The contribution lies in the underlying problem formulation and a robust modelling framework....
View ArticleMonitoring and prediction of an epidemic outbreak using syndromic observations
The paper presents a method for syndromic surveillance of an epidemic outbreak due to an emerging disease, formulated in the context of stochastic nonlinear filtering. The dynamics of the epidemic is...
View ArticleStock market investors' use of stop losses and the disposition effect
The disposition effect is an investment bias where investors hold stocks at a loss longer than stocks at a gain. This bias is associated with poorer investment performance and exhibited to a greater...
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