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Perceptions of Chinese international students’ learning approaches in Australian universities : a co-constructed model
No full textDespite the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese international students (CIS) still comprise the largest international cohort in Australian universities. However, limited research has examined perceptions of CIS’ learning approaches in Australian universities from the broader context of the students themselves and their Australian lecturers. This study explored how CIS and their Australian lecturers perceived CIS’ learning approaches in Australian higher education. Interviews were conducted with 10 CIS and 10 Australian academics from two Australian universities. The findings demonstrated that CIS’ learning approaches were a co-constructed process for both CIS and their lecturers to jointly perceive the context, and actively co-construct learning and teaching through mutual negotiation and adaptation. Drawing upon Biggs’ 3P model, a Co-constructed Model of Learning and Teaching (CMLT) was developed to assist CIS and their lecturers to maximize their international education experience. This study has captured voices of CIS and their lecturers, enabling a greater understanding of their learning and teaching in Australian universities to emerge. A significant contribution of this study is to build the CMLT framework to facilitate international students and their lecturers to gain the most from their international education, and thus be embedded into the internationalized teaching and learning literature, particularly regarding Chinese students in Western universities. © 2023 National Institute of Education, Singapore
A well-rounded life : the story of Eva West – pioneer accountant, philanthropist and environmentalist
Get PDFPurpose: This paper presents the biography of one of Australia’s earliest female accountants, Miss Evelyn Maude West (aka Eva). The paper uses this history sub-genre to understand the significant impacts Eva West made across several fields. Eva West was not only a pioneer woman accountant but also an active philanthropist with an interest in social issues and a nature lover who promoted and encouraged an appreciation of the environment. Design/methodology/approach: The paper leverages a diverse array of qualitative resources, responding to Carnegie and Napier's (1996) call to expand the concept of the accounting-based archive. Notably, rare nature study diaries and a book detailing camping adventures serve as poignant examples, illustrating Eva West's profound social and environmental engagement. Additionally, personal and business letters, digitised newspapers, pamphlets, annual reports, minute books and even poems contribute to the comprehensive exploration of Eva West's life and impact. Collectively, these varied sources offer a rich tapestry of evidence, facilitating the documentation of this unique narrative. Findings: Throughout her life, Eva West made significant contributions as a pioneering woman in the field of accounting, a dedicated philanthropist and a passionate environmentalist. Together, these offer a multifaceted portrait of a well-rounded individual. With a solid foundation in accounting, Eva utilized her expertise to benefit numerous charitable organisations, leaving a lasting impact on the community. Moreover, her deep love for the environment is illustrated in nature study diaries and books documenting her camping adventures, highlighting the interconnectedness between her accounting pursuits and her commitment to environmental stewardship. Practical implications: While previous studies briefly mention the additional contributions of early women to various organisations and movements, none provide the depth of insight seen in the portrayal of Miss Eva West. Rather than critiquing these earlier narratives, this observation presents an opportunity for further research to honour pioneering individuals for their multifaceted roles beyond accounting. Future studies could spotlight trailblazers as accountants with diverse interests and societal contributions, whether in social or environmental spheres. Additionally, this paper demonstrates how archives maintained by individuals, such as nature or travel diaries and camping books, can enrich accounting and accountability-based historical research. Originality/value: Biographical studies in accounting have played a significant role in advancing historical research, yet there remains a call for additional studies to gain deeper insights into specific individuals. Few biographical narratives have explored how accountants integrate their professional careers with other interests, particularly highlighting the well-roundedness of individuals, especially women. Furthermore, this paper contributes to filling the gap in research that examines the intersection of accounting professionals and environmental concerns. © 2024, Emerald Publishing Limited
Kim Percy : visualising the invisible
No full textSAT 29 MAR – SAT 19 APR 2025 Please join us with the artist, for the exhibition opening, on Fri 28 Mar @ 5.30, for 6pm. All welcome! A multidisciplinary artist with a thirty-year career in the visual arts, Kim Percy's exhibition and series of new paintings, photographs, videos, and digital works, focus on the nexus of creativity and academic research through the lens of dyslexic thinking. By examining connections between dyslexia and creativity, Percy not only highlights typical dyslexic strengths, such as pattern recognition, visual-spatial awareness and problem-solving but also exposes the misunderstood neurodiverse coping mechanism of concealment and masking. A unique body of work, that illuminates the real and lived experience of dyslexia, Percy also expresses the personal challenge of late diagnosis and its impact on artistic expression, while offering new ways to consider and understand cognitive difference. Kim Percy is supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and RTP Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. Images: I. Alun Leach-Jones, Sea Wall at Night (The Mumbles), 1994 pastel & charcoal on Stonehenge paper H55 x W77 cm Collection: Federation University. II. Kim Percy Oscillation of Disclosure, 2025 digital print H120 x W120cm Courtesy the artis
Move method refactoring recommendation based on deep learning and LLM-generated information
No full textMove method refactoring is a prevalent technique typically applied when a method relies more on members of other classes than on its original class. Existing approaches for move method refactoring recommendations have improved accuracy based on deep learning. However, it is challenging to capture the deep semantics behind the code and the true intention of the developer. Furthermore, the accuracy of move method refactoring needs to be improved. To alleviate these problems, this paper proposes MoveRec, a move method refactoring recommendation based on deep learning and LLM-generated information. To generate the dataset, MoveRec selects 58 real-world projects from which it extracts metric, textual, and semantic features. Metric features are derived using static analysis tools. Textual features are generated with LLM to obtain code summaries, and the pre-trained model is used to produce word vectors. Semantic features are obtained by calculating the similarity between the original and target classes. Finally, we construct a dataset with 12,475 samples. A deep learning model CNN-LSTM-GRU is designed for refactoring recommendations. We evaluate MoveRec on this dataset and experimental results show that the average F1 is 74%. Compared to existing methods including PathMove, JDeodorant, JMove, and RMove, MoveRec improves F1 ranging from 9.4% to 53.4%, demonstrating its effectiveness. © 2024 Elsevier Inc
Delivering on social good - corporate social responsibility and professional sport: a systematic quantitative literature review
Get PDFGiven the rising global use of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by professional sport organisations, this paper acts to consolidate the state of scholarly research using a systematic quantitative literature review. Our aim was to critically analyse the literature on CSR and professional sport organisations and in doing so ask, how is the global research at the nexus of sport and CSR poised to deliver social good? Our findings indicate the presence of variability in approaches to investigating CSR in professional sport, and the lack of discrete reporting of target audiences and initiatives evidenced across our sample. We suggest there is potential to learn from other disciplinary approaches to CSR research and to push towards conceptual clarity. Finally, sport organisations can lever sports’ unique qualities to deliver, engage and unite people across a range of boundaries, and to promote and create social value which is even more important as we navigate the post-COVID-19 environment of uncertainty and resource constraints. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
A review of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray 1827 (Squamata : Gekkonidae) of Nepal with descriptions of three new species
No full textWe conduct a review of the known species of Cyrtodactylus from Nepal based on type and topotypical material, resulting in the synonymization of one species and description of three additional species from Central Nepal. The five species of Cyrtodactylus from Nepal are members of the Indo-Burma clade and are at least 11.7 % divergent from known congeners based on the mitochondrial ND2 gene. The results show that C. nepalensis and one of the new species are allied to the C. fasciolatus group while the other two new species and C. martinstolli are members of the mountain subclade within the khasiensis group. The new species can be readily distinguished from congeners in the Himalaya by a combination of body size, meristic characters including number of dorsal tubercle rows and mid ventral scales across the belly, the number and arrangement of pores in males and females, and subcaudal condition. Copyright © 2025 Magnolia Press
Comparative analysis of different sliding mode control approaches for load frequency control in edge of the grid system
Get PDFThe integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) at the edge of the grid plays a contributory role in advancing the transition to a sustainable energy future. However, this transition introduces significant variability, which challenges the maintenance of frequency stability in power systems. To address the impacts of RES variability, various robust control strategies have been developed. This paper compares the performance of different advanced sliding mode control (SMC) approaches, i.e., super twisting (ST) algorithm-based second order sliding mode control (STSOSMC), second order sliding mode control (SOSMC), double integral sliding mode control (DISMC) and integral sliding mode control (ISMC) with conventional sliding mode control (SMC) for load frequency control with stochastic RESs such as biogas generators (BG) and wind-based doubly fed induction generators (DFIG). The impact of the advanced sliding mode controllers on the voltage and rotor angle stability of the system is also explored. The efficacy of the controllers is tested under different load disturbances, considering nonlinearities such as communication delay (CD), sensor inaccuracy (SI), governor dead band (GDB), and generation rate constraint (GRC). The results demonstrate that STSOSMC achieves superior frequency regulation with minimal chattering and outperforms other controllers in terms of settling time, overshooting, and undershooting in frequency deviation. The result also demonstrates the effectiveness of STSOSMC in managing the variability and disturbances of RESs. Therefore, it could be considered the most robust control mechanism from the edge of the grid system with high penetration of RESs. © 2025 The Author(s). IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of The Institution of Engineering and Technology
MAD-ANET : malware detection using attention-based deep neural networks
Get PDFIn the current digital era, new technologies are becoming an essential part of our lives. Consequently, the number of malicious software or malware attacks is rapidly growing. There is no doubt, the majority of malware attacks can be detected by most antivirus programs. However, such types of antivirus programs are one step behind malicious software. Due to these dilemmas, deep learning become popular in the detection and classification of malicious data. Therefore, researchers have significantly focused on finding solutions for malware attacks by analyzing malicious samples with the help of different techniques and models. In this research, we presented a lightweight attention-based novel deep Convolutional Neural Network (DNN-CNN) model for binary and multi-class malware classification, including benign, trojan horse, ransomware, and spyware. We applied the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) technique for feature extraction for binary classification. We used the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) to handle the imbalanced data during multi-class classification. Our proposed attention-based malware detection model is trained on the benchmark malware memory dataset named CIC-MalMem-2022. The results indicate that our model obtained high accuracy for binary and multi-class classification, 99.5% and 97.9%, respectively. Copyright © 2025 The Authors
‘By us, for us’; co-designing disability inclusion training for bus drivers
Get PDFIntroduction: Passengers with disabilities report being driven past, denied bus access, inappropriately assisted, and rudely addressed by bus drivers. Bus drivers report their behaviour in encounters with passengers with disabilities is impacted by their limited understanding of their passengers' needs. This study aimed to create a bus driver training program targeting how bus drivers engage with passengers with disabilities. Methods: Drawing from co-design and inclusive research approaches, a team of seven researchers, transport advocates with lived experience of disability, and bus drivers, collaborated for 30 h over approximately twelve months to co-design a bus driver training program and evaluate the design process. Participant evaluations of the co-design process and resulting training program were completed. Results: Team evaluations indicated the co-design process was inclusive and collaborative, with key challenges including resource constraints and a hard-to-navigate university payment system. A 90-min online training program, and one-hundred-and-eighty-minute face-to-face training program, were developed using a slide-deck and role-play activities to support drivers when interacting with passengers with disabilities. Named the Better Transport Inclusivity for all Passengers (Better Trip) Training Program, the prototype is ready for small-scale implementation, revisions, and wider rollout. Conclusions: The Better Trip Training Program offers bus companies and the wider transport community the opportunity to increase their inclusion of people with disabilities. The co-design process ensured people with disabilities and bus drivers' needs were reflected in the final product. Further research is required to test and refine the newly developed training program. © 2025 The Author(s
Student success strategies : approaches to navigating and understanding the determinants of health outside the classroom
Get PDFResearch approaches to better engage student learning regarding the determinants of health are somewhat limited. The present study highlights the evolution of an authentic fieldwork assessment and the strategies nursing students used as they navigated the assessment for learning activity outside the classroom, and how these impacted student’s performance. A cross-sectional study examined learning strategies, assessment challenges and concept understanding according to academic performance among students over a 2-year period. Among the 282 (19.7% response rate) students, success encapsulated making time, planning, good organisation, checking in and making time. Being less successful centred on being busy with other courses or employment. Poorer performing students were less likely to understand the assessment requirements or just ran out of time. Performance-based assessments remain relevant to nursing student learning. However, students must explicitly understand their benefits, be motivated to engage, have the capacity to persevere and seek clarification if understanding is not achieved. © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group