178,542 research outputs found
Leisure moments [music] : waltz /
No full textCover title.; Features portrait of A. R. Rimmer on cover.; Portrait of Audrey Drew on cover.; "The waltz success as featured by Leon do Mauny over 2YA Wellington (N.Z.)" -- Cover.; "Featured by Audrey Drew, popular Adelaide broadcasting artist"--Cover.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn884226; N, MUSM142235
Freedom of Expression (R): Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity (Book Review)
No full textBook Review: Matthew Rimmer, 'Freedom of Expression (R): Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity (Book Review)' (2006) 11 Media and Arts Law Review 83-94
Appropriate Economic Space for Transnational Infrastructural Projects: Gateways, Multimodal Corridors, and Special Economic Zones
No full textThis study addresses three questions that arise in Asia when formulating, financing, implementing, and maintaining transnational linkages versus purely domestic connections. Firstly, how is optimal economic space to be defined as a useful starting point? Secondly, how can relevant criteria be developed to define the emerging spatial economy and identify efficient transnational transport networks? Thirdly, what are the main investment opportunities in physical infrastructure that would result in more efficient and effective regional cooperation and integration (making special reference to the potential role of cross-border special economic zones (SEZs) or their equivalents)?asia transnational infrastructure; asia regional cooperation
School mathematics and university outcomes
No full textThere is concern that, as participation of non-traditional entrants widens, many university students do not have the mathematical preparation required to learn skills vital for professional work. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between mathematical attainment at secondary school and the outcomes of university study in quantitative disciplines.
An 'engagement' theory of higher-education study is used to investigate academic performance and progression among students who gained entry on the basis of Scottish Higher examinations to a university that has embraced widening participation. Within this environment there is considerable diversity. For example, although most students were 18 on entry, students were aged from 16 to 38. While pre-entry preparation in mathematics was not extensive, this varied. At the university, assistance with mathematical skills is embedded in programmes and is discipline specific.
Students with better pre-entry attainments in mathematics had better average marks, maintained greater study loads and were more likely to progress. However, non-traditional university students with poorer mathematical backgrounds were able to attain comparable outcomes.div_BaMDonnelly, M, McCormack, D and Rimmer, R (2007) 'Load and academic attainment in two business schools', Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 32(6), 1-18.
Greene, W (2003) Econometric analysis, Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall
Hawkes, T and Savage, M (eds) (2000) Measuring the mathematics problem: report of seminar held at the Mller Centre Cambridge, 10-11 May 1999, London: The Engineering Council.
Houston, M, Knox, H and Rimmer, R (2007) 'Wider access and progression among full-time students', Higher Education, 53(1), 107-146.
Houston, M and Rimmer, R (2007) 'Transition from first to second semester and the life-work-study balance', in The Times They Are A-changing', Proceedings of the 4th Biennal Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning Conference, Stirling June.
Houston, M and Rimmer, R (2005) 'A comparison of academic outcomes for business and other students', International Journal of Management Education, 4(3), 11-19.
Randall, J (2005) 'You can't brain up by dumbing down degrees', Daily Telegraph, November 25, 5.
Simonite, V (2003) 'Multilevel analysis of the relationship between entry qualifications and trends in degree classifications in mathematical sciences: 1994-2000', International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 35(3), 335-344
Szafran, R (2001) 'The effect of academic load on success for New College students: is lighter better?', Research in Higher Education, 42(1), 27-50
Yorke, M (2002) 'Degree classification in English, Welsh and Northern Irish universities: trends 1994-5 to 1998-9', Higher Education Quarterly, 56(1), 92-108unpub658unpu
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Linking National and Multi-regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Models: The Effects of an Increase in Award Wage Rates in Australia
No full textDixon P. B., Madden J. R. and Rimmer M. T. Linking national and multi-regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) models: the effects of an increase in award wage rates in Australia, Regional Studies. Wages for 20% of Australian workers are set by awards, reviewed annually in a centralized legal process. For the 2005 review, the economy-wide and regional effects of increases in awards were modelled. A top-down approach in which results from a national model, MONASH, are fed into a multi-regional model, MMRF, was adopted. This enabled the authors to produce regional results while taking advantage of detailed labour-market specifications that were available only in MONASH. In using MMRF, a limitation of previous top-down methods was overcome - the inability to handle shocks affecting cost relativities between regions. [image omitted] Dixon P. B., Madden J. R. et Rimmer M. T. Relier les modeles CGE national et a plusieurs regions: les effets d'une hausse des salaires d'attribution en Australie, Regional Studies. Pour 20% des travailleurs australiens, les salaires sont fixes a partir des attributions et sont revises tous les ans par moyen d'une procedure juridique centralisee. Pour la revision 2005, on a modelise l'impact des hausses des attributions sur l'economie et les regions. On a adopte une facon directive ou les resultats d'un modele national, MONASH, s'introduisent dans un modele a plusieurs regions, MMRF. Cela a permis la production des resultats regionaux tout en profitant des caracteristiques du marche du travail detaillees qui n'etaient disponibles que dans le modele MONASH. En employant le modele MMRF, on a surmonte une contrainte aux methodes directives anterieures - a savoir l'incapacite de traiter des chocs qui influent sur les couts relatifs interegionaux. Modelisation CGE a plusieurs regions Relier les modeles CGE Modelisation directive Salaire minimum Salaires d'attribution australiens Dixon P. B., Madden J. R. und Rimmer M. T. Verknupfung von nationalen und multiregionalen CGE-Modellen: die Auswirkungen einer Erhohung des Mindestlohns in Australien, Regional Studies. Zwanzig Prozent der australischen Arbeitnehmer erhalten Mindestlohne, die jahrlich uber ein zentralisiertes juristisches Verfahren festgelegt werden. Fur die Festlegung von 2005 modellierten wir die wirtschaftsweiten und regionalen Auswirkungen der Mindestlohnerhohungen. Hierfur verwendeten wir einen Top-Down-Ansatz, bei dem die Ergebnisse eines nationalen Modells (MONASH) in ein multiregionales Modell (MMRF) eingegeben wurden. Auf diese Weise erhielten wir regionale Ergebnisse und konnten zugleich die detaillierten Arbeitsmarktdaten nutzen, die nur in MONASH zur Verfugung stehen. Durch MMRF konnten wir eine Beschrankung der fruheren Top-Down-Ansatze uberwinden: die Unmoglichkeit einer Berucksichtigung von Schocks, die sich auf die Kostenrelativitaten zwischen Regionen auswirken. Multiregionales CGE-Modell Verknupfung von CGE-Modellen Top-Down-Modelle Mindestlohne Australische Mindestlohne Dixon P. B., Madden J. R. y Rimmer M. T. Acceso a modelos CGE nacionales y multi-regionales: los efectos de un aumento del salario minimo en Australia, Regional Studies. Los salarios para el veinte por ciento de los empleados australianos estan definidos por salarios minimos, revisados anualmente en un proceso legal centralizado. Para la revision de 2005, modelamos los efectos regionales y en toda la economia del aumento del salario minimo. Adoptamos un enfoque verticalista en el que los resultados de un modelo nacional, MONASH, se suministran a un modelo multi-regional, MMRF. Esto nos permitio producir resultados regionales a la vez que pudieramos aprovecharnos de las especificaciones detalladas del mercado laboral que solamente estaban disponibles en MONASH. Al usar MMRF, superamos la limitacion de los metodos verticalistas anteriores -la incapacidad de manejar choques que afectan a las relatividades de costes entre regiones. Modelo CGE multi-regional Enlaces entre modelos CGE Modelo verticalista Salarios minimos Salarios minimos en AustraliaMulti-regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling, Linking CGE models, Top-down modelling, Minimum wages, Australian award wages,
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
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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