Pre-service teacher ICT skill-set: Not a simple issue
For some time, a consistent theme in Teacher Education has been that graduates lack the necessary skill-set to use ICT in their practice. In Australia, the recent implementation of national...
View ArticleActive control of the directivity of the sound diffraction from barriers
Active control of the directivity of the sound diffraction from barriers is investigated in this paper where the control sources are located near the top boundary of a barrier to change its spatial...
View ArticleVolatility spillovers between ETFs and their constituent stocks: Empirical...
This study examines the volatility spillovers of three exchange traded funds (ETFs) from Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia on their respective 10 largest component stocks due to the introduction of...
View Article(In Press) Poverty alleviation: challenges by multinational corporations in...
To what extent can multinational corporations (MNCs) alleviate poverty in host countries? This paper explores this important question by examining managerial perspectives from MNCs and staekholders in...
View ArticleA prototypical skin cancer information system
Skin cancer is a common problem in Australia and indeed around the world. Within the domain of e- Health, there appears to be no satisfactory clinical software that follows the flow of a normal skin...
View ArticleDeterioration of polyaramid and polybenzimidazole woven fabrics after...
In this study the degradation of woven fabrics of meta-aramid and the blend of para-aramid and polybenzimidazole fibers when exposed to environmental conditions has been investigated under accelerated...
View Article(In Press) Locking in loss: Baselines of decline in Australian biodiversity...
Biodiversity offset trades usually aim to achieve 'no net loss' of biodiversity. But the question remains: no net loss compared to what? Determining whether an offset can compensate for a given impact...
View ArticleCategories of flexibility in biodiversity offsetting, and their implications...
Biodiversity offsets ('offsets') are an increasingly widespread conservation tool. Often, offset policies have a like-for-like requirement, whereby permitted biodiversity losses must be offset by gains...
View ArticleAn adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system for forecasting Australia's domestic...
This study has proposed and empirically tested two Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) models for the first time for predicting Australia's domestic low cost carriers' demand, as measured by...
View ArticleReal exchange rate behavior: evidence from Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand
In this paper, the mean reversion behavior of CPI-based real exchange rates in US dollar is investigated for three Southeast Asian economies: Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. Using linear and...
View ArticleVisible light activated TiO2/microcrystalline cellulose nanocatalyst to...
Hybrid TiO2/microcrystalline cellulose (MC) nanophotocatalyst was prepared in situ by a facile and simple synthesis utilizing benign precursors such as MC and TiCl4. The as-prepared nanocomposite was...
View ArticleImpact of herbicide Ametryn on microbial communities in mixed liquor of a...
Ametryn, which is a second generation herbicide, was introduced to a lab-scale MBR at a concentration of 1 mg/L and a 20-40% removal was observed at HRT ranging from 7.8 to 15.6 h for an average...
View ArticleIndicators of a quality clinical placement in pharmacy: Stakeholder perspectives
Background: The educative role of experiential workplace placements has been discussed in the context of many health professions. Quality assurance and enhancement strategies rely on evaluations that...
View ArticleImproving pharmacy counselling skills: An interdisciplinary model of support...
Objectives: The pilot project, described in this paper, targeted English as an additional language (EAL) students to facilitate their development of patient counselling communication skills. Methods:...
View ArticleSumming the shortest path lengths in a rectangular lattice via recursion
Define the average path length in a connected graph G as the sum of the lengths of the shortest path between pairs of nodes is divided by the total number of pairs of nodes. Denoting the sum of the...
View ArticleThe effect of electrodialytic treatment and Na2H2EDTA addition on...
The effect of electrodialytic treatment in terms of a current density, pH and Na2H2EDTA addition on the methanogenic activity of copper-amended anaerobic granular sludge taken from the UASB reactor...
View ArticleStudy of the kinetics of pyrite oxidation under controlled redox potential
An experimental study of the ferric oxidation kinetics of pyrite was conducted under controlled redox potentials of 700, 800 and 900 mV (vs. SHE). The rate of pyrite oxidation strongly depends on redox...
View ArticleSynchrotron-based XPS and NEXAFS study of surface chemical species during...
The surface chemical information of massive chalcopyrite electrode during electrochemical oxidation was studied by SXPS, NEXAFS and Raman spectroscopy. The electrochemical studies show that therewas an...
View ArticleGigapixel multispectral microscopy
Understanding the complexity of cellular biology often requires capturing and processing an enormous amount of data. In high-content drug screens, each cell is labeled with several different...
View ArticleNonlinear dynamics of a functionally graded thin simply-supported plate under...
An analysis on the nonlinear dynamics of an FGM plate in hypersonic flow subjected to an external excitation and uniform temperature change is presented in this article. Material properties of the...
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