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Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arranging, is also known as Kado 華道, the way of the flower. This name comes from two characters, one meaning flower and one meaning road or way, following a naming system common to many Japanese disciplines. Sado 茶 道 is the Way of Tea, Kendo 剣 道 is the Way of the Sword and Koudo 香 道 is the Way of Perfume. Like many of the traditional Japanese arts, Kado is a system of aesthetics, philosophy and practice with a focus on personal development as well as artistic achievement. The goal of Ikebana is not just the creation of beautiful arrangements; the journey is as important as the result. This idea of spiritual enlightenment through concentration and practice is central to the Zen Buddhist philosophy. For many of its practitioners, Ikebana is a lifelong lesson, a way to achieve a little inner stillness in which to work towards a richer spiritual understanding of the world, just like the Zen monks do through their meditation techniques – luckily with I...

Meeting the needs of crime victims has emerged as a significant 21st century concern. In the Australian context, various commissions of inquiry have recently considered how the interests of victims may be maintained in a system based on adversarial exchange between the accused and the state. Consensus has emerged around the further development of existing charters of victims’ rights as the framework through which victims’ interests may be secured. Importantly, reform of existing charter rights and the office that administers such charters, the Office of Commissioner of Victims’ Rights, provides a means of addressing the recommendations of the various inquiries in a way that supports the participatory needs of victims, while maintaining the independence and integrity of criminal justice processes that provide due process to the accused. This article considers the ways in which the Office of Commissioner of Victims’ Rights may be further developed to provide for the needs of victims a...

This PhD research project presents the curatorial model of the 'exhibition as study'. This methodology is one that leverages its pedagogical setting and tools, to directly address and engage small, localised audience groups. Through practice, the research has presented what I term a 'study' of the Melbourne artist group Damp (established 1995).The PhD presented the curatorial project 'Art holds a high place in my life | Damp: study of an artist at 21' which took place on the Monash University Caulfield campus throughout the 2016 academic year. Rather than a monographic exhibition, the 'study' models an alternative version of the retrospective survey.

Exponential smoothing is often used to forecast lead-time demand for inventory control. In this paper, formulae are provided for calculating means and variances of lead-time demand for a wide variety of exponential smoothing methods. A feature of many of the formulae is that variances, as well as the means, depend on trends and seasonal effects. Thus, these formulae provide the opportunity to implement methods that ensure that safety stocks adjust to changes in trend or changes in season.

While relationship building and management, or what has been labelled relationship marketing is an old idea, it is also a new focus at the forefront of services marketing/management practice and academic research. The impetus for its development has come from the globalisation of business, technological advances, shorter product life cycles and the evolving recognition of the importance of customer retention and customer relationship economics. Despite the blossoming of relationship marketing, the creation of a conceptual framework for understanding its properties and studying its possibilities is still underdeveloped. This study therefore aims to investigate the antecedents and consequences of relationship strength in the service industry. A conceptual model is proposed that provides a framework for firm-controlled antecedent conditions such as the level of service quality and customer satisfaction provided and the use of relational bonds, and tests their impact on customer trust a...

This research developed and tested an integrated model of climate change mitigation behaviour that specifically focused on campaign relevant factors, and interviewed campaign designers to examine industry uptake of research and any associated issues. It highlights strong potential for value from the integrated model. Practitioners exhibited high variability in the use of communication and behavioural science research, with diverse barriers including lack of recognition of the existence of relevant research, difficulty identifying the most relevant research, and difficulty selecting suitable behaviour models. Despite these barriers, practitioners have developed coping mechanisms including strong networks to support knowledge sharing and joint outcomes.

In this thesis I read Simone de Beauvoir's <i>The Second Sex</i> through the lens of her early (and only recently published) writing on Claude Bernard's experimental approach. In the 1924 essay "Analysis of Claude Bernard's <i>Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine,</i>" Beauvoir endorses Bernard's critique of "theoretical authority" and certain elements of his experimental approach. <i>The Second Sex </i>redeploys this early criticism of theoretical authority and valorisation of experimentation to produce a critique of patriarchal authority. Throughout <i>The Second Sex</i>, Beauvoir develops distinct experimental literary-philosophical strategies, namely a "proliferation" and "reintroduction" of perspectives, ideas and sources. She uses these strategies to expose the ways in which patriarchal traditions construct and maintain essentialist definitions of women. For Be...

This exegesis tests the proposition 'The artist's practice as always already-made'. Its focus is not the legacy of the Duchampian readymade. Rather, it investigates modes of appropriation in relation to my studio practice, particularly the generation of new work through the accumulation of materials and the process of remaking. The exegesis opens with a survey of select historical precedents of appropriation practice to establish a framework for rethinking appropriation in relation to my work. These approaches fall into two categories: appropriation as accumulation and appropriation as remaking. Discussion of these categories using specific examples provides a context for the examination of my practice. Appropriation as accumulation points to the activity of gathering material — my previous works, found objects and studio detritus — that resource my ongoing practice. Appropriation as remaking — drawing on my back catalogue of past works to generate a continually unfoldin...

This study analysed the different types of organisational cultures in which a sample of 370 managers were working. The four types of organisational culture were classified as power, role, task and person. The most prevalent organisational cultures in which these managers believed they worked were the role, power and task cultures, with role culture being the most prominent. When asked what type of organisational culture they preferred to work in, respondents' ratings favoured task culture over power, person and role cultures. These preferences particularly applied to respondents who were older in age, had higher levels of salary, and greater years of work experience. Gender differences were also found on ideal culture ratings with women showing greater preference for person cultures. Furthermore, when ratings on current and ideal cultures were compared, respondents rated their organisations as having greater power or role cultures than desired, and less task or person cultures t...

article examines knowledge strategy from an empirical cognitive perspective, foregrounding strategic capability and collective intelligence as interrelated concepts. In more general terms, knowledge strategy is focused on a resource-based theory of the firm. This exploratory case study provides illustrative data using the cognitive perspective as a guide. Knowledge strategies were investigated in a chosen case that involved a firm engaged with the design and development of new products and technologies.

One of the most violent episodes in Indonesia’s 1998 political upheaval was the mass rapes. Over May 13-15 from eighty-five to four-hundred ethnic Chinese Indonesian women reported they were mass-raped (McCormick 2003:26). The rapes were perpetrated mainly in and around Jakarta as part of arguably a systematic ethnically charged riot that included burning, looting and killing (Volunteers 1998:7). A report by Volunteers Team for Humanity concluded that the rapes and riots were part of a systematic ‘modus operandi’ (TGPF 1998:3; KOMNAS 2003:21). In the wake of these events, newly formed women’s political groups rallied and campaigned, calling to public attention the issue of state and military violence against women. Correspondingly, Chinese Diaspora groups in other countries such as Australia expressed their outrage at what they called ethnic violence and sought international support against these abuses of human rights.

This thesis examines aesthetics and care values in five case studies of working with vulnerable people and fragile subjects. It argues for the place of precarity, ‘not knowing’ and vulnerable authority. It shows how deep care in community arts creates a new aesthetic and ‘pays forward’ to future generations. The results in community can be transformative.

Web 2.0 technologies or 'social web' (eg. Facebook, Twitter) are said to have democratic potential in engaging, mobilizing and communicating with young citizens worldwide. Yet there is limited research, especially in Australia, to confirm these claims. The Networking Young Citizens project investigates the way Web 2.0 technologies contribute to young people's citizenship participation. Documenting the way young people talk about and use Web 2.0 to participate in their social networks, and the way schools talk about and use Web 2.0 technologies to support citizenship teaching and learning in schools, reveals actual and possible ways of using the social web to form young citizens.

This paper draws on preliminary empirical quantitative research into an understanding of the status of knowledge management in the Australian and New Zealand environments. The relevant literature is surveyed on the role of leadership in knowledge management strategies and techniques. This is set against research findings on the roles allocated to lead the knowledge management task. In particular findings within the government sector and the non-government sectors are compared. The paper concludes by presenting a preliminary evaluation of the role of knowledge management leadership within the organisation and suggests that the external influences also play a role

This thesis examines the work of Cambodian and non-Cambodian artists that represent the Khmer Rouge period. It traces their artistic approach and identifies links with historical and contemporary political, social and cultural developments, as well as exploring the links with cultural institutions that have supported and promoted the rebuilding of visual arts practice in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge era. I analyse and interpret 184 images created between 1980 and 2016, drawing on theories and concepts from art history, visual culture and the social sciences, producing the first critical survey of visual representations of this calamitous period in Cambodia's history.

There is a need for generalised definitions of electrical powers to provide a simultaneous common base for measurement, compensation, power quality and identification of source of distortion. The major problem area today is definitions of powers in the presence of harmonics and nonlinear loads in the electrical power system. In such a scenario, there is a problem to accurately measure especially reactive (nonactive) power. This is important for accurate energy billing. Another important area is the mitigation equipment used to remove unwanted polluting quantities from the power system. Definitions of powers have an important role to play in providing the correct information for the optimal design and performance of such equipment. Evaluation of the quality of the power system to enable appropriate allocation costs to those causing deterioration in the power quality also cannot be discounted. To enable this cost allocation, there is a need to identify the polluters and the definition...

What is the role of China in an increasingly globalised world? This question is an important one, as the balance of global power is slowly but surely drifting away from the old western powers and moving towards the rising eastern power house. As Thomas Hobbes said “The great Leviathan… which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended and in which the Sovereignty is an artificial soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body” (Paul Kelly, 2013, p. 99), what Hobbes describes is the idea of a nation as an individual created to represent and protect it creators. This is how China is seen to outside eyes, a single great entity consisting of billions working with unstoppable desire to grow and change, but to truly get a sense of China’s role in our modern times we need to explore how it developed in the past, for this hindsight is the surest way to see how things might change in future.

Kamala Kanta Dash is the newest faculty member of the Faculty of Good Governance and Public Policy at the Sri Sri University.
He is pursuing a Ph.D on community engagement in public policy from the Monash University in Australia. Kamala also holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and Political Science from Utkal University, a Master’s degree in Political Science and World Affairs from Ravenshaw University, and an M.Phil in International Relations from JNU.
He is also an Ambassador at the Parliament of the World's Religions, Chicago, and Carnegie New Leader at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.

This case study of policy initiatives of an Australian state government shows how sub-national governments can use ideas as drivers for national agendas to reinforce their identity as states and promote themselves as proponents of reform initiatives in government generally. Federations of strong central governments and subordinate sub-national governments are constantly adjusting the balance of power between them. Sub-national governments such as states or provinces, which make up a middle tier of government, face a loss of independence when confronted by federal government 'vertical' fiscal control and international economic, trade and cultural pressures that derogate from their residual powers. Local government, as a third tier, also competes for attention and relevance as the appropriate service provider and manager of available resources. A federal government, citing demands for efficiency, can choose to bypass a subnational government, deal directly with local governmen...

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In this paper we present the Daly Languages Project (www.dalylanguages.org), funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, and in collaboration with the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC), which has developed website landing pages for all of the languages of the Daly region of northern Australia. These landing pages provide a useful and usable interface by which a range of users can access primary recordings, fieldnotes, and other resources about the Daly languages; they are powered by a relational database which allows for easy updating, ensuring consistency across the website and allowing for an immediate response to community requests. Moreover, since the website is built with a commitment to open source, it is available for other researchers to adapt to their own projects and language groups. In this paper we discuss the goals and outcomes of the project, the design and functionality of the website landing p...

Attention is a complex construct, inextricably related to other mental functions. Consequently, tasks that purportedly measure attention actually tend to examine a number of inter-related processes. This issue must be considered in the development of tests of attention. Adding to the challenge, tasks evaluating attention in persons with intellectual disabilities must be of low demand to avoid disengagement and feelings of inadequacy due to repeated performance failure. <br> Five tasks were developed or adapted for this purpose. Their demand levels were estimated by Dual Time Representation analyses, which dissect tasks into elementary steps, linking each step to the cognitive process it is assumed to activate. All tasks were piloted on males, typically-developed and with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder in order to identify effects specifically related to autism. Tasks 4 and 5 were additionally piloted on a participant with Fragile X Syndrome and intellectual disabili...

This paper is presented at the Kongres Internasional Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia (The International Congress of the Linguistic Society of Indonesia [KIMLI 2016]) in Bali, in August 2016. The presentation is based on a pilot study from a small, preliminary dataset. The topic is part of my PhD thesis (Rajeg 2019) on the metaphors in the lexical field of HAPPINESS in Indonesian. The goal of the paper is to introduce quantitative and visualisation technique in exploring semantic differences between near-synonyms regarding their preferred metaphorical conceptualisations. The precursor of this study can be seen in Rajeg (2014).Abstract of the paper is available from the previous version of this repository.To cite, click the dark pink Cite button and select the citation style through the drop-down button. The default citation style is DataCite

Financial trust violation is extremely costly but researchers from criminology, psychology and management/security are yet to agree on a standard model to help explain this offence. The aims of this thesis were to: (i) develop a model to enhance our understanding of the core processes of financial trust violation, (ii) develop an assessment tool that evaluates the core processes of financial trust violation in individuals, (iii) review the personality traits within financial trust violators and how these impact on the core processes and (iv) to understand the role that the perceived security precautions of the organization and the organization's actions and culture designed to support an ethical environment has on the core processes of financial trust violation. The core processes of financial trust violation were identified from Cressey's (1953) model and enhanced by considering related research including the theft research of Greenberg (1997; 1998). The Business Security Q...

There is something undeniably curious about the work of Maurice Blanchot. His writings would seem to belong to the obscurities of the night in such a way that they refuse critical interpretation even as they suggest the possibility of a reflection on the practice of literary-critical reading. There is a sense in which Blanchot is to be located always someplace else, both somewhere beyond his text and sometime not yet contemporaneous with it. The imprint of his hand might hover over the grain of the page cast-ing its hermitic shadow and guarding against what might gather itself there, but this hand, if ever it did, no longer belongs to him. The writer writes, Blanchot argues, to the extent that the writer has always already been writ-ten by writing; writing is what the writer must give up in order to write so that writing, in fact, would carry always within itself a resistance to any of the advances a hermeneutic or metalanguage might feign to hazard.

These essays, given at the conference "Collaborations in Modern and Postmodern Visual Art," have been organised along roughly chronological lines according to the subject matter, in order to chart the development in both the practice and theorisation of the nature of collaborative artistic partnerships.

This doctoral thesis examines youthful femininities in an intimate public on the blogging platform Tumblr, interrogating how the self is produced through identity work negotiating the postfeminist tension between the individual and the social. The public is built around a set of self-representative blogs narrating moments of everyday youthful feminine experience through GIFs and captions. My study analyses the circulation and readership of the blog, WhatShouldWeCallMe (‘WSWCM’) and five of its adaptations, in order to explore how young women negotiate the tension between the self and the social in this context of everyday, mediated sociality (the ‘WSWCM public’). Motivated by the question of how highly individualistic, seemingly impossible and contradictory postfeminist subjectivities may be lived and enacted, I analyse how femininities are relationally produced in this blog-based public. The thesis is principally divided into four data chapters. I first theorise the affective relat...

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Cemeteries in Victoria were planned and designed 150 years ago, without any major developments taking place since. Large numbers of baby-boomers, as well as migrants of a similar age, are now at a stage where end-of-life plans come into view. However, their needs of funeral rites require reassessment due to a significantly different socio-cultural context where social norms are shifting and environmental resources are scarce. Considering the aging population and the contexts of ‘religion, space and economic rationalisation’, the new cultural differences and changing religious affiliations are likely to be reflected on public preferences in relation to funeral rites.Australia’s population was 24,385,600 as at December 2016, an increase of 372,800 since December 2015 (ABS 2017). Migration has contributed significantly to this increase with Victoria experiencing the largest level of growth (2.4%). Migrant increases have led to religious shifts that were particularly noticeable in Melbo...

In Bangladesh, Inclusive Education (IE) is a national priority following the government’s commitment to international forums to ensure education for all children within the inclusive framework. The policy and programme initiatives of the government to develop primary education indicate a commitment to enacting reform in the education system consistent with the principles of IE. This research study is an attempt to know how primary education administrators understand IE and how committed they are in implementing IE policy in Bangladesh. This study was conducted in two phases and employed a mixed methods design. In Phase 1 a semi structured interview method was employed to collect data which was followed by Phase II where a survey method was employed to collect data. A total 18 administrators took part in individual interviews and 735 administrators completed a survey that was specifically designed for the study. This study revealed widespread confusion in understandings of IE with ma...

This dissertation addresses the meaning of a musical text and how music, when re- imagined or represented in text, acts as a significant shaping element. I define a musical text as one that incorporates music principles and thematic elements as part of its determined construction, affecting the way the narrative makes and communicates meaning. The investigation applies to the creative component of my work, Diary of a Song, and is the basis of the critical component in the musico-textual analyses of Sonata Mulattica by Rita Dove and Água Viva by Clarice Lispector. Diary of a Song is a book- length work in prose-poetry on the subject of the art of singing. The musico-textual analyses adopt a case study approach, and I argue that all the texts are demonstrations of a musical text understood by the application of a framework of definition. The framework is informed by, the intermedial theories of Werner Wolf, the interart theories of Steven P. Scher, the musicological theories of Heinri...

In this thesis I read Simone de Beauvoir's <i>The Second Sex</i> through the lens of her early (and only recently published) writing on Claude Bernard's experimental approach. In the 1924 essay "Analysis of Claude Bernard's <i>Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine,</i>" Beauvoir endorses Bernard's critique of "theoretical authority" and certain elements of his experimental approach. <i>The Second Sex </i>redeploys this early criticism of theoretical authority and valorisation of experimentation to produce a critique of patriarchal authority. Throughout <i>The Second Sex</i>, Beauvoir develops distinct experimental literary-philosophical strategies, namely a "proliferation" and "reintroduction" of perspectives, ideas and sources. She uses these strategies to expose the ways in which patriarchal traditions construct and maintain essentialist definitions of women. For Be...

This grounded theory research explored the basic social processes of how nurses develop and evolve their value systems. Multiple data was gathered from 54 Indonesian nurses across a range of clincial settings, including focus group and individual interviews, anecdotal and reflective stories. Data analysis informed the construction of the theory, Becoming a nurse: Developing and evolving a value system (the DEVS theory). The theory deepens our understandings of how nurses establish, negotiate and manage personal-professional values whilst navigating through their challenging professional life. Education strategies are recommended to enhance awareness of personal-professional values negotiation in nursing practice.

Under the Torrens system of land registration it is irrefutable that, pursuant to the fraud exception, a fraudulent registered proprietor does not acquire an indefeasible title. There are two clear categories of cases in which the fraud exception may arise: (1) where a prior registered proprietor has been defrauded out of his or her interest; and (2) where an unregistered interest holder has been defrauded out of his or her interest. In both cases the fraud exception will only apply if the fraud can be brought home to the current registered proprietor or his or her agent. In addition to these two undisputed categories, cases and commentary suggest that there is a third category of fraud case: (3) where there has been a fraud committed against the Registrar, most commonly as a result of a false attestation. Again, the fraud exception will only apply in this third category if the fraud can be brought home to the current registered proprietor or his or her agent. This paper seeks to es...

Vitamin E was first discovered as a fertility factor in 1922 in the laboratory of Herbert McLean Evans, a scientist and anatomist. Following this discovery, it was extensively researched and found to possess a potent antioxidant property. It soon dawned that the family of vitamin E has eight members: four tocopherols, namely α-, β-, δ-and γ-tocopherol; and four tocotrienols in the form of α-, β-, δ-and γ-tocotrienols. This chapter discusses this rather unknown and underrated isomer of vitamin E with unsurpassed health benefits: tocotrienols. Until recently, tocotrienols rarely figured in vitamin E research in spite of their relative superiority to tocopherol coupled with their abundant presence in palm oil. In fact, since palm oil contains about 70% of all tocotrienol homologues, it would be no exaggeration to call it nature's best kept secret, if not the most promising natural substance in influencing health and disease. While highlighting the wonders of tocotrienols as a safe ...

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My PhD dissertation examines the contexts and sources from which Pablo Sarasate’s folk-inspired compositions were created. Throughout the nineteenth century, the folk music was a source of musical inspiration for many nations, and this was particularly true of Spain. Numerous composers showed interest in so-called Spanish elements, resulting in a rich corpus of works, which were well received both nationally and internationally. Pablo Sarasate (1844-1908) was one of these composers, producing a great number of Spanish Dances for the violin, drawn from a variety of different regional song and dance styles, including jotas, zapateados, zortzicos, vitos or habaneras. My study also examines, from theoretical and performance perspectives, the suitability of these pieces for adaptation into the flute repertoire. Despite their differences, the violin and flute are two instruments that share multiple characteristics, such as their technical agility and melodic brightness. As a consequence, it has not been uncommon for flautists and composers to borrow and arrange violin compositions, in order to enrich the flute’s repertoire and gain access to new styles and possibilities. Finally, by adopting practice-based approach, this dissertation has led to the transcription for flute and piano of eight Spanish Dances by Pablo Sarasate, that will be published in Spain by Dasí Flauta Editorial in 2018. This new showpieces for flute will make a unique and  exciting addition to the flute’s repertoire, exploring and extending the
qualities that flautists today associate with the much-loved French Flute
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