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Joyce Cheong Chin
No full textJoyce was educated at Pine Creek Primary, Darwin High School and Adelaide teachers' College graduating with a Diploma of home Science in 1961and a Teacher's Certificate from the South Australian education Department in 1962. She was the first Home Science Teacher at Darwin High School in 1964; the first full time female teacher appointed to adult education in the NT in 1970 and continued employment through the Darwin Community College, The Darwin Institute of Technology and finally the Northern Territory University as Associate Dean of the School of Fashion and Library Studies.
When Joyce retired, she was the longest serving staff member, spanning a career of over 30 years and introduced the first award course in Fashion, upgrading the qualification to Diploma level so graduates could establish businesses in the Clothing Industry. Joyce worked tirelessly to establish the Northern Territory Fashion Awards as a platform for designers to show their work.
Initially, Joyce was responsible fro courses and activities for Women and helped establish Child Minding facilities so mothers could attend day classes. Se was also introduced Certificate Cookery courses for hospital kitchen staff and prisoners, enabling them to qualify and improve career opportunities. She taught sewing to female prisoners. In 1996, Joyce was a finalist in the Telstra Business Women's Awards in recognition of her capable administration and management as an Associate Dean.
As a Fashion Designer, Joyce won countless Fashion awards. One of her garments was acquired by the Crafts Board of Australia for their National Collection. Officials and ambassadors for the Inaugural Masters Games walked out I Joyce's designed outfits. The Northern Territory University Valedictory Stoles and Graduation Stoles were designed by Joyce.
Joyce's community involvement includes: judging dressmaking, needlework, millinery at the Royal Darwin Shows; judging the National Miss Showgirl Quest; judge of the Northern Territory Awards. Se was also a consultant/adviser to Consumer Affairs and was on the National Clothing Curriculum team. In 2004 Joyce was recognised in the Tribute to Northern Territory Women for her significant contribution to the economic, social and cultural life of the Northern Territory.EducatorAdminstratorFashion Desinge
Brachycoraebus aeneus Cheong 2016, sp. nov.
No full textBrachycoraebus aeneus, sp. nov. (Figs. 1, 2) Description. Small, slender species; dorsal side nitid dark, with aeneus reflection depending on angle of light, covered with short, stout, adpressed golden setae, almost evenly distributed except for some small bare patches (but not forming distinct spots or fasciae) and slightly more dense in the hind elytral third; ventral side black with very slight bronze tinge. Size: male, 3.6 mm length × 1.5 mm width; female, 4.2 mm length × 1.9 mm width. Head: Median impression deep. Epistome with arcuately emarginate apical margin, 1.2 times as long as wide, about 1.2 times narrower than diameter of one antennal socket, without transverse carina, supra-antennal carinae strongly elevated, unconnected. Inner eye margins straight, almost parallel-sided. Head sculptured like pronotum. Antenna not reaching base of pronotum, obtusely and shortly serrate from 4 th joint, joints 1 and 2 elongately oval, 3 somewhat shorter and much slenderer, conical. Pronotum 1.9 times wider than long, broadest at middle, disc convex, with shallow pre-basal depression, sides broadly explanate; lateral pronotal margin regularly rounded, entire lateral margins finely but deeply crenulate (Fig. 1b); posterior pronotal margin bisinuous; sculpture almost entirely homogenous, becoming wrinkled on the sides and near the hind angle but not forming long, transverse furrows like that of B. viridis. Laterodiscal carinae inconspicuous. Scutellum subcordate, almost twice as wide as long, flat. Elytra 1.7–1.8 times longer than wide, each with two shallow depressions: transverse along base and longitudinal behind humeri, extending to the level of metacoxae; lateral margin finely crenulate, with crenulations more or less vanishing before midlength, apices subtruncate and finely serrate. Texture composed of tightly-packed, tiled formation; each tile slightly more elongate than that of pronotum, laterally and posteriorly elevated, defining a pit in the centre (Fig. 1b). Underside with similar textures as above, setae adpressed and yellowish; anterior margin of prosternum arcuately emarginate, gular lobe separated by furrows and broadly rounded, prosternal process wide and broadly truncated. The male holotype genitalia is damaged and therefore not illustrated. Female (Fig. 2) larger, slightly more robust (elytral lengthto-width ratio is 1.7 in female, 1.8 in male), without slight cupreous red on the head, stronger aeneus reflection on the dorsal surface, and slightly different pattern formed by the bare patches, otherwise there is no significant difference from the male. Diagnosis. Brachycoraebus aeneus differs from B. viridis (Kerremans, 1900) (Fig. 3) from Sumatra in colouration, sculpture, slender body, and deeply crenulate lateral pronotal margins. Other species similar in size and coloration (especially the females) include B. herychi Obenberger, 1940 from Borneo and B. helferi Obenberger, 1922 from Thailand and Burma, but the elytra in the males of these two species are marked with patches with bluish-violet reflection and pilose fasciae. Etymology. The specific name is the Latin adjective aeneus referring to the bright brassy reflection of this species. Type specimens. Holotype male (ZRC.COL.100), “ Singapore, jungle”, coll. C.J. Saunders, 29 April 1922; Paratype female (ZRC.COL.101), “ Singapore, Nee Soon swamp forest”, coll. L.F. Cheong & YW Cheong, 29 September 2013. Remarks. The holotype’s genitalia is damaged, and its left hind leg is broken off.Published as part of Cheong, Loong-Fah, 2016, Two new species of the genus Brachycoraebus Kerremans and Metasambus Kerremans (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Coraebini) from Southeast Asia, pp. 284-289 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64 on pages 285-286, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.535539
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Table_1_So-Cheong-Ryoung-Tang Attenuates Pulmonary Inflammation Induced by Cigarette Smoke in Bronchial Epithelial Cells and Experimental Mice.DOCX
No full textSo-Cheong-Ryoung-Tang is a traditionally used herbal formula for the treatment of pulmonary diseases in China, Korea, and Japan. We investigated the protective effects of So-Cheong-Ryong-Tang water extract (SCWE) in cigarette smoke concentrate (CSC) stimulated human airway epithelial cell line NCI-H292 and mice exposed cigarette smoke (CS) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS). In the CSC-stimulated NCI-H292 cells, SCWE inhibited proinflammatory cytokines in a concentration-dependent manner, as evidenced by a reduction in their mRNA levels. Also, SCWE significant reduced inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression and nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) phosphorylation in CSC-stimulated cells. The mice were exposed to CS for 1 h per day (a total of eight cigarettes per day) for 7 days and received LPS intranasally on day 5. The mice were administered a dose of SCWE (100 and 200 mg/kg) 1 h before CS exposure. In in vivo, SCWE decreased the inflammatory cell count and reduced the expression of the proinflammatory cytokines in the broncho-alveolar lavage fluid (BALF) compared with CS and LPS exposed mice. SCWE attenuated inflammatory cell infiltration in airway induced by CS and LPS exposure, and this decrease was accompanied by a reduction in the expression levels of iNOS and MMP-9 in lung tissue. The extract also inhibited the phosphorylation of inhibitor of kappa B alpha (IκBα) and NF-κB induced by CS and LPS exposure in lung tissue. These results suggest that SCWE may effectively inhibit airway inflammatory responses induced by CS and LPS exposure via the NF-κB pathway. Therefore, SCWE may be a potential treatment for airway inflammatory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).</p
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Can security analyst forecasts predict gold returns?
No full textAbstract not availableGeorge Mihaylov, Chee Seng Cheong, Ralf Zurbrueg
Perspective rendering of Cheong house at Castlecrag, Sydney, New South Wales, ca. 1922, [2] [picture].
No full textTitle from acquisition documentation.; Part of the collection: Eric Milton Nicholls collection.; Also available in electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3918099; Also available as a photograph : Cheong house at Castlecrag, Sydney, New South Wales, ca. 1922, [1], PIC/9929/1598 LOC Album 1092/14, PIC/9929/3242-3 LOC Album 1092/26.; Also available as a slide: Perspective rendering of Cheong house at Castlecrag, Sydney, New South Wales, ca. 1922, [3], PIC/9929/2614 LOC Cold store PIC NICH.; Purchased from Marie and Glynn Nicholls, 2006.; Vernon inventory, Pt. IV/2 Group B b
Lattice Fluctuations Well above the Spin-Peierls Transition in the Linear-Chain Spin-Peierls System CuGeO3
No full textPragmatic Case Studies as a Source of Unity in Applied Psychology
No full textTo unify or not to unify applied psychology: that is the question. In this article we review pendulum swings in the historical efforts to answer this question—from a comprehensive, positivist, “top-down,” deductive yes between the 1930s and the early 60s, to a postmodern no since then. A rationale and proposal for a limited, “bottom-up,” inductive yes in applied psychology is then presented, employing a case-based paradigm that integrates both positivist and postmodern themes and components. This paradigm is labeled “pragmatic psychology” and, its specific use of case studies, the “Pragmatic Case Study Method” (“PCS Method”). We call for the creation of peer-reviewed journal-databases of pragmatic case studies as a foundational source of unifying applied knowledge in our discipline. As one example, the potential of the PCS Method for unifying different angles of theoretical regard is illustrated in an area of applied psychology, psychotherapy, via the case of Mrs. B. The article then turns to the broader historical and epistemological arguments for the unifying nature of the PCS Method in both applied and basic psychology.Peer reviewe
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