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Griffith review 58: Storied Lives – The Novella Project V
No full textEvery life offers a unique story – but some lives stand out so distinctly they leave their mark on the world. How do some people make such a difference – and trigger change both at large and close to home?
Griffith Review 58: Storied Lives – The Novella Project V focuses on people who have effected a change in the world. It looks at the lives of others – real and imagined – that have created a narrative that resonates.
Their stories, personal, political, scientific or cultural, help map change, and illustrate how an individual life can coalesce with history to leave an enduring mark. For the first time, Griffith Review's Novella Project combines both fiction and non-fiction in order to highlight the rich diversity of writing talent in Australia.
Contributors include Kristina Olsson, Laura Elvery, Chris Somerville, Frank Moorhouse, Cassandra Pybus, Biff Ward, Krissy Kneen and Heather Taylor Johnson.No Full Tex
Playing with Fire: Understanding the Sunni-Shi'a Sectarian Lifecycle
No full textThis article discusses the ingrained impediments which are likely to stifle India's rise and growth - a phenomenon which has figured prominently in scholarly and official assessments, in India and outside, for over a decade now. Intriguingly India's rise as a global power has already been adjudged a certainty in these assessments, but the author contends that there exists an apparent disjuncture between how the world sees India and the prevailing internal impediments. Therefore, any assessment of India as a global power without incorporating these impediments would be incomplete, misplaced and hyperbolic. Of late, in the light of India's growing internal and external socio-economic and political difficulties, more and more writings and proclamations by Indian and international experts indicate emerging scepticism over India's potential as a global power. This paper takes a rollcall of India's internal impediments including, human development, institutional and security challenges which according to the author have already begun restraining India's global ascent.Griffith Business School, Griffith Asia InstituteFull Tex
Canyons and Ice: The Wilderness Travel of Dick Griffith
No full textDick Griffith journeyed across Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and the American West. According to Jon Krakauer, "Griffith is simply afflicted with an irresistible inclination to attempt what others say can't be done. When asked what possesses a man to repeatedly strike out alone across hundreds of miles of rugged, lonely country, he replies, 'Every so often, it's just time to walk.'" Kaylene Johnson is author of five books about Alaska including her memoir A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Son in Alaska
Demand for Qualified and Unqualified Primary Healthcare in Rural North India
No full textCurrently, India’s limited regulation on outpatient healthcare services enables unqualified, and potentially untrained, healthcare providers to operate widely in the market. Free market entry of healthcare providers, coupled with price variability for government doctor services and wide variance in consumers’ perception of healthcare provider quality makes for a dynamic market. The “free market” characteristics of rural outpatient healthcare provide a rich context to test the role that prices, alongside consumer perceptions of healthcare provider quality, play in determining consumer choice of healthcare provider. However, principal agent characteristics of north India’s outpatient market suggest that the market is not competitive.
Using the economic framework of consumer demand, this thesis presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of consumer demand for outpatient healthcare treating a fever in rural north India. More specifically, the study incorporates revealed preference (RP) and stated choice (SC) survey data in estimating the demand models. In so doing, a number of explanatory preference and perception variables are demonstrated as important in estimating the demand for village-based unqualified private healthcare providers (known in Hindi as jhola chhaap) and qualified government and private healthcare providers.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith Business SchoolGriffith Business SchoolFull Tex
Marker-Assisted Breeding for Papaya Ringspot Virus Resistance in Carica papaya L.
No full textThere have been numerous attempts to transfer Papaya ringspot virus-Type P (PRSV-P) resistance from wild Vasconcellea relatives (Vasconcellea pubescens, Vasconcellea stipulata, Vasconcellea cauliflora and Vasconcellea quercilfolia) to Carica papaya. Success has been limited by the high degree of genetic divergence and thus incompatibility between Vasconcellea species and C. papaya. This has resulted in infertility of intergeneric F1 hybrids and failure to perform backcrosses which are essential to transfer PRSV-P resistance to C. papaya. However, there has been success in producing intergeneric hybrid populations of C. papaya x V. pubescens; C. papaya x V. parviflora; and intrageneric populations of V. pubescens x V. parviflora. The aim of this research was to develop a resistant V. parviflora population containing the PRSV-P allele from V. pubescens and then transfer the resistance into C. papaya.
In this research, F2 and F3 populations have been produced from the V. pubescens x V. parviflora [F1]. Individuals selected for their allele of the PRSV-P resistance gene i.e. homozygous resistant (RR) and heterozygous (Rr) were backcrossed to V. parviflora (rr) or outcrossed to C. papaya (rr) and their seedlings evaluated for morphological characteristics and PRSV-P resistance. Dominant traits were transferred from all species to progeny, e.g., leaf vein number (7) from V. pubescens (RR); pink flower colour from V. parviflora (rr); petiole colour (red-green) and plant size from C. papaya (rr). Other traits were intermediate in hybrids, e.g., flower shape and fruit size.
When the wild species or their hybrids were outcrossed to C. papaya (rr), inheritance patterns did not always follow Mendelian ratios, suggesting abnormal pairing of chromosomes or preferential elimination of the Vasconcellea genes. For example, all flowers were female in crosses between C. papaya (rr) x V. pubescens (RR) and the cream flower colour of C. papaya (rr) was dominant over the pink colour of V. parviflora (rr). However the PRSV-P resistance gene from V. pubescens (RR) was transferred into V. parviflora (rr) from their F2 hybrids and pollen fertility was obtained in hybrids between C. papaya (rr) and V. parviflora (rr), thus V. parviflora (rr) is proposed as a bridging species between the other two.
A co-dominant CAPS marker has been developed which is closely linked to PRSV-P resistance in V. pubescens (RR). This marker was used to facilitate these intergeneric and intrageneric hybridisation programmes and was used at the in vitro stage after embryo rescue of wide crosses.Thesis (Masters)Master of Philosophy (MPhil)Griffith School of EnvironmentScience, Environment, Engineering and TechnologyFull Tex
Reflections on transgender immigration
No full textRecently, the Human Rights Commission of New Zealand has conducted an inquiry that has officially documented ‘the obstacles to dignity, equality and security for trans people’. The Australian Human Rights Commission has also recently conducted a sex and gender diversity project, and in 2006 the Equalities Review in the United Kingdom commissioned the largest research project ever untaken globally on trans people’s lives, reported in Engendered Penalties: Transgender and Transsexual People’s Experiences of Inequality and Discrimination. This article reflects on the implications of the issues raised by these recent reports and research for transgendered people immigrating to and from New Zealand. It also raises some parallel issues for Australia
Prediction of Wave-Induced Seabed Maximum Liquefaction Depth Using Artificial Neural Network Model
No full textIn the last few decades, considerable effort has been devoted to the phenomenon of wave-induced liquefaction. In deed, it is one of the most important factors used in analysing
the seabed stability and in designing marine structures. As waves propagate and fluctuate
over the ocean surface, energy is carried within the medium of the water particles. When
this energy is transmitted into the seabed, the results are a rather complex mechanism of
soil behaviours that significantly affect the stability of the seabed.
The prediction of wave-induced seabed liquefaction has been recognised by coastal
geotechnical engineers as an important factor when considering the design of marine
structures. All existing prediction of wave-induced seabed liquefaction models have been
based on conventional approaches of engineering mechanics, with limited laboratory work.
Previous studies have involved complicated procedures and complex mathematical methods.
The present meticulous study has been based on the existing poro-elastic wave-induced
seabed liquefaction solution, and has adopted Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to
predict maximum wave-induced seabed liquefaction. The author has proposed an alternative
approach for prediction of the maximum liquefaction depth, based on the Artificial
Neural Network (ANN). Unlike previous engineering mechanical approaches, the various
proposed ANN models are based on data learning knowledge, rather than on the knowledge
of the mechanisms. The author has concluded that ANN models can be applicable
to such engineering exercise at least this study.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Griffith School of EngineeringScience, Environment, Engineering and TechnologyFull Tex
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Oral History Interview with Dotty Griffith, November 21, 2014
No full textInterview with Dotty Griffith, journalist and author from Dallas, Texas. The interview includes discussion of her youth, education, and career in journalism and as an author
Will the Emerging India Ever Arrive?
No full textThis article discusses the ingrained impediments which are likely to stifle India's rise and growth - a phenomenon which has figured prominently in scholarly and official assessments, in India and outside, for over a decade now. Intriguingly India's rise as a global power has already been adjudged a certainty in these assessments, but the author contends that there exists an apparent disjuncture between how the world sees India and the prevailing internal impediments. Therefore, any assessment of India as a global power without incorporating these impediments would be incomplete, misplaced and hyperbolic. Of late, in the light of India's growing internal and external socio-economic and political difficulties, more and more writings and proclamations by Indian and international experts indicate emerging scepticism over India's potential as a global power. This paper takes a rollcall of India's internal impediments including, human development, institutional and security challenges which according to the author have already begun restraining India's global ascent.Full Tex
China’s Open Government Information Reform: Transparency v. Secrecy
No full textGriffith Business School, Department of International Business and Asian StudiesFull Tex
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