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Changing Food Law Landscape; Food Security, Sustainability and the Environment
No full textThis book analyses the current debates within food system governance, covering different aspects of food systems (from production to consumption) as well as different fields of law (from human rights law to environmental law). Recognizing that the law, in interacting with multiple disciplines, plays a major role in setting binding targets for sustainable innovation and business transformation, it brings together contributors from a wide range of professions, including agriculture, law, and business to examine the dimensions of food systems and the challenges in transforming them.The contributors to this book examine some of the most significant aspects of food law and regulation, including the effects of global warming, intellectual property rights, and human rights, as well as local and international viewpoints on food safety, information sharing, and systems transformation. They consider the history and present challenges of food production, the different approaches to addressing the issues faced, and the factors of human biology, psychology, cultural norms and religion that shape our food environments. The analysis of knowledge, values and institutions provides a holistic analysis of human food systems. Topics such as regenerative agriculture, novel and alternative foods, and health-enhancing foods are also covered.With its interdisciplinary approach, this book will interest researchers in agricultural law, food policy, environmental law, transdisciplinary food studies, and food science
Engaging in twenty-first century practices locally: aligning pacific ways of teaching and learning with innovative learning environments
No full textTransforming teaching and learning across the Asia Pacific region has moved in waves, from colonial and religious drivers to more recent policy borrowing, resulting in traditional and prescriptive didactic approaches. Nevertheless, an inherent danger exists in introducing global teaching and learning practices without considering the local context. This article proposes a localised solution to global policy reform, a conceptual model that demonstrates the alignment of Pacific teaching and learning methods with contemporary Innovative Learning Environments (ILEs). The conceptual model will illustrate the considerable overlap between these two constructs and provide a contextual and useable framework for future Pacific pedagogical practices that address global educational drivers
Benchmarking smallholder goat enterprises and practices in central Lao PDR and farmer response to a research and development program
No full textContext. In Lao People's Democratic Republic (Laos), goat numbers are rapidly growing and have the potential to improve rural and economic development through income generation. Aims. To implement a goat research and development program and benchmark and evaluate smallholder practices. Methods. In the first year (2020), forage growing was facilitated through formal and on-the-job monthly training. In Year 2 (2021), local staff were trained in inexpensive and locally available veterinary treatments of goats. Mineral blocks were introduced with a 50% subsidy, following a 2-month trial period. In Year 3 (2022), metal roofing material was provided to households that constructed new goat houses with elevated and slatted flooring. Annualised farmer benchmarking surveys (BMS) and monthly household surveys (MHS) monitored farmer practice change between 2020–2023 and 2021–2022 respectively. Key results. The BMS and the MHS confirmed significant rises in the proportion of farmers using mineral blocks between 2020 and 2023 at 303% (P Conclusions. Mineral blocks have a high potential for adoption with a trial and subsidisation period. It is recommended to increase daily grazing duration from 6–8 h to be as long as practical to reduce the impacts of late dry-season feed shortages (April–May), which coincided with a natural peak in kidding. Average goat herd size increased by three goats over the course of the project, which may reflect improved financial security as livestock are a form of asset storage. Implications. These trends show short-term practice change; however, further research is needed to verify whether these changes increase goat growth rate, health and kid survival
'It's easy!': Scaffolding literacy for teaching multimodal texts
No full textThis article proposes a modification of Axford, Harders and Wise’s (2009) Scaffolding Literacy sequence to support the creation of multimodal persuasive texts by students in Year 5. As part of classroom implementation, the linguistic and visual meaning-making resources were discussed in order to explicate the salient features of a multimodal advertisement to assist students who were identified as having low literacy achievement. By initially deconstructing a text, students’ comprehension of the features was developed. Presented with this knowledge, students then designed a multimodal text using similar design features. The final texts demonstrated encouraging use of affective language and careful placement and framing of images by the students
Environmental variables driving habitat differentiation in two sympatric pademelon (Thylogale) species in northeast NSW
No full textA pivotal question for community ecologists is whether assemblages are structured as a result of general rules that can be applied to any ecosystem. Trade-offs in species performance of ecological functions are a common theory behind the structure of communities and the co-occurrence of species. The phenomenon of sympatry was originally described as the co-occurrence of two or more forms in the same geographical region. Intraguild sympatry between ecologically similar species is fundamental in shaping the dynamics of community assembly. Temporal and spatial partitioning between comparable sympatric species can facilitate biodiversity and contribute to the structural complexity of mammalian community assemblies. My research aimed to describe the ecology of two sympatric forest wallabies, the red-legged pademelon, Thylogale stigmatica, and the red-necked pademelon, Thylogale thetis, in a rainforest-wet-sclerophyll forest in northeastern New South Wales. The diel activity pattern of both species was mapped using camera traps over a 16-month period. Structural vegetation components measured at each camera site were used to determine the variation in usage by the two pademelon species between two forest types in the study area, and which structural habitat variables correlated with their occurrence. Camera trap data revealed that both Thylogale species were strongly crepuscular, however, T. stigmatica was more active before dawn than during the evening, indicating some evidence of temporal partitioning. T. thetis spatiotemporally partitioned their habitat remaining under forest cover diurnally and travelling beyond the forest-pasture edge overnight. Detection data revealed that T. thetis were positively correlated with the density of multi-layered detection cover as well as disturbance variables, indicating an affiliation for fine-scale habitat attributes rather than a particular vegetation type. T. stigmatica was correlated negatively with disturbance related factors, indicating a preference for closed forest and multi-layered cover. T. stigmatica showed some plasticity in their activity budgets when sympatric with the ecologically similar species T. thetis, and likely exhibited temporal partitioning in response as a form of niche partitioning. T. stigmatica appear to narrow their preferred niche and become more specialised in the presence of T. thetis, consequently occurring in lower densities. The composition of the entire mammal community detected by camera traps was significantly affected by both habitat type and individual structural variables, indicating that fine-scale heterogeneity is important on an individual species scale as well as at a community level. In summary, this work shows that temporal and spatial niche partitioning allowed the ecologically similar T. stigmatica and T. thetis to co-occur in the same forest and contributed to the facilitation of high biodiversity in the wider mammal community
Jazz Elements as Fuel for Musical Composition Featuring the Violin
No full textThe dataset consists of draft music scores, audio recordings and supplementary materials
Generative AI Writing Tools and the Australian Curriculum: English
No full textApproaching the end of the first quarter of the 21st century, the world is abuzz with the possibilities of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) writing tools such as ChatGPT. This paper argues writing prompts for GenAI tools can be designed using understandings of genre, register and grammar meaning resources from the Language strand of the Australian Curriculum: English (ACE). This paper aims to explore how educators can draw on knowledge about genre and contextual register variables to investigate the contextual information provided to GenAI writing tools to generate written texts. Specifically, the paper asks how functional grammar descriptions of context can inform the writing of prompts used by GenAI writing tools to generate texts. First, functional grammar understandings of genre and the register variables of field, tenor and mode and their connection to the ACE Language strand are explained. Next, how the genre and contextual variables can be used to create a writing prompt for the GenAI writing tool is described. After this, the GenAI writing tool ChatGPT is introduced, and a generated writing sample using the developed genre and register prompt is presented. Finally, implications for teaching grammar in an age of GenAI writing tools are canvased
Letters
No full textOVER the period 1640-1714 the prose letter was a tremendously pervasive and varied print form. Examples range from serious to frivolous, witty to quotidian, pedagogical to entertaining, historical to contemporary reportage, private to political, exemplary of virtue/conduct to scandalous, and reverential classical imitation to ephemera. It is an academic commonplace to talk about the republic of letters, an ideal realized in manuscript and disseminated in print, and that concept usefully highlights the connection between epistolary form and a proto-democratic social, intellectual, and political ethos. The letter is the genre of community par excellence: always involving a dialogue between at least two writers, and often situating that dialogue within a broader social context. It was firmly associated with the modelling of social relationships of all kinds and with theorizing what binds individuals together in sociable enterprise. However, the inclusive spirit of the republic of letters was not upheld by all epistolary modes
The effects of aural and written vocabulary instruction on second language listening comprehension
No full textThis study explores the effect of aural and written vocabulary instruction on the listening performance of less-skilled intermediate English as Foreign Language (EFL) learners. English language learners (N = 124) at a high school in Iran took the Oxford QuickPlacement Test (OQPT), and 100 were identified as less-skilled intermediate learners. They were randomly divided into two experimental groups called written vocabulary instruction (N = 31), aural vocabulary instruction (N = 33), and one control group called no vocabulary instruction (N = 36). The two experimental groups received either an aural or written vocabulary instruction spanning six sessions. In contrast, the control group followed a regular classroom approach without receiving written or aural vocabulary instruction. All participants undertook the listening component of the Key English Test (KET) before and after the intervention. The results suggested that the experimental groups had a higher gain in terms of listening performance than the control group, with a moderate effect size. In addition, no significant difference was found between aural vocabulary and written vocabulary instruction. Discussions address how the interventions applied in the current research can inform classroom practice, and directions for future research are suggested
Basic equality and discrimination: reconciling theory and law, Nicholas M Smith, Ashgate, 2011
No full textThe idea of Equality, Nicholas Smith observes in his insightful new book, Basic Equality and Discrimination Reconciling Theory and Law, is both concrete and ambiguous at the same time. It is concrete in that the elemental outlines of what basic equality is can be recognised and understood, in spite of the fact that in particular circumstances it may be difficult to determine whether a chosen legal or political action respects basic equality. It is ambiguous because it is used to justify and often substantiate the moral, substantive and instrumental aspects of vastly different divergent philosophical and jurisprudential perspectives. At the same time, it is used as rhetorical lubricate for all types of political programs or legal decisions. This rhetoric finds proponents of gay marriage, affirmative action for ethnic Malays, aboriginal autonomy in Bolivia, women advocating for the equal rather than the 'complementary' nature of the sexes advocated by religious conservatives in the Tunisian constitution, the expiration of a law that allowed thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews to be exempted from military duty, and support for traditional family values, all using the language of equality and equal rights for vastly different political and social programs