Showing papers by "Deakin University published in 1987"
TL;DR: One factor that appears to have significant influence on peer relations, especially for boys, is physical competence as discussed by the authors, and it is concluded that physically competent children acquire more status and enjoy greater social success than do physically inept children.
Abstract: One factor that appears to have significant influence on peer relations, especially for boys, is physical competence. Children gain peer acceptance by excelling at something valued by other children, and there is much evidence that athletic skills are valued by other children. Literature on physical competence and peer relations illustrates that children with competent motor skills appear to be popular not only in formally organized competitive sport settings but also in informal “pick up” games. The inferior status of low ability children is clearly evident when they attempt to gain entry into playground games. It is concluded that physically competent children acquire more status and enjoy greater social success than do physically inept children. In conclusion, the article suggests that physical education may be used as an intervention strategy to enhance the peer status of physically incompetent children by improving their motor skills.
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TL;DR: The attitudes of 164 United States and 151 South African managers towards corporate social responsibility were assessed by as mentioned in this paper, who found that the United States managers held significantly more favourable attitudes towards Corporate Social Responsibility.
Abstract: The attitudes of 164 United States and 151 South African managers towards corporate social responsibility were assessed. The United States managers held significantly more favourable attitudes towards corporate social responsibility. In addition, they agreed with more pro-responsibility arguments, whereas the South African managers agreed with more anti-responsibility arguments. The United States managers felt that their society expected more corporate involvement in social responsibility activities than the South African managers felt was expected from their society. The results are explained in terms of the susceptibility of social responsibility attitudes to cultural norms and values — which reflect the different nature of the two societies.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that to achieve this aim, environmental education in an information age requires a paradigm shift in the areas of professional development, a shift from a paradigm of "information technology" to an information critique.
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TL;DR: In this article, linear alkyl benzenes (LABs) were measured in sediments from three areas of Port Phillip Bay (Australia) and the concentrations found (0.19 μg g −1 ) were generally lower than those reported for other coastal sediments.
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TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between disadvantaged group membership and students' participation in computing activities and found that more disadvantaged students reported significantly less participation in class computing activities, gaining lower computing knowledge scores and having less positive attitudes to computing.
Abstract: The study used a pretest/posttest design to investigate the relationship between disadvantaged group membership and students' participation in computing activities. Disadvantage was defined by gender, school ability, SES level, and ethnic background. The sample of 951 students was drawn from four elementary and three secondary schools which were substantially increasing their computing resources. Following class computing experience there was a cumulative effect of membership of disadvantaged groups with the more disadvantaged students reporting significantly less participation in class computing activities and non-class computing activities, gaining lower computing knowledge scores and having less positive attitudes to computing. Thus, inequities were created rather than reduced. Class computing participation was positively related to prior participation in non-class computing activities, with those students with no prior non-class computing experience participating less in class computing activities. Th...
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TL;DR: In this article, the importance of electrode size, scan rate and electrolyte concentration as factors in obtaining distortion free voltammetric data in aromatic hydrocarbons is described in detail, and a peak-shaped rather than sigmoidal-shaped reduction response is commonly observed in benzene and toluene on the reverse scan of cyclic voltammograms.
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TL;DR: In this article, the reversible one-electron oxidation of ferrocene in acetonitrile at arrays of microdisk electrodes, linear microelectrodes and very thin ring electrodes prepared with a uniform glass real or a layer of epoxy resin between the conductor and the glass has been investigated in the ms and sub-ms time domains by a range of transient electrochemical techniques and chronocoulometry.
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TL;DR: In this article, the generality of a two-electron reduction process involving an mechanism has been established for M3(CO)12 and M3CO12−n(PPh3)n (M = Ru, Os) clusters in all solvents.
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TL;DR: A Factor Analytic Investigation of the Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire (PAQ) was presented in this paper, where the authors used a factor analytic approach to investigate the pay satisfaction question.
Abstract: (1987). A Factor Analytic Investigation of the Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 127, No. 4, pp. 391-392.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the reduction of an adsorbed conformer of cytochrome c gives rise to a well-defined but irreversible reduction process at −0.42 V vs. SCE under conditions of cyclic voltammetry.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounting practices in the treatment of goodwill on consolidation by listed companies in the periods before and after the application of AAS 18 and found that substantial diversity existed in this area of accounting practice.
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The paper examines accounting practices in the treatment of goodwill on consolidation by listed companies in the periods before and after the application of AAS 18. A previous study established that prior to the advent of AAS 18, considerable diversity existed in this area of accounting practice. The accounting profession sought through AAS 18 to seek uniformity in the treatment of goodwill on consolidation. The survey evidence shows there is a high level of non-compliance with this standard, hence substantial diversity continues.
TL;DR: This article investigated the kinds of written genres the children produce and why they produce them, and the relationship of the meanings of the written genres to the meaning of the spoken genres in a classroom discourse.
Abstract: . This paper reports on some aspects of an investigation into young children's writing development. The object was to consider the kinds of written genres the children produce and why they produce them. Martin & Rothery (1980–1981) had proposed a typology of children's written genres. The writer sought to examine how these were generated, and this led to an investigation of the curriculum context, more specifically of the spoken discourse in which the writing tasks were generated. The pattern of classroom discourse, it is argued, is itself a genre — a ‘staged goal‐oriented, purposeful activity’. By means of using Halliday's Functional Grammar (1985), it is argued that we may demonstrate both (i) the ways in which meanings are generated in the discourse patterns, and (ii) the relationship of the meanings of the written genres to the meanings of the spoken genre. This focus upon meanings and upon how these are realised in texts is invaluable in revealing a great deal about the kinds of knowledge val...
TL;DR: Etudes de reduction electrochimique de [Cu(Me 4 [14]1,4,8,11-tetracene N 4 ) (N-Me-imidazole)] (PF 6 ) 2, [cu(N 4 )MeIm] 2+, en vue de determiner les facteurs favorisant la stabilisation des complexes du cuivre zerovalent, en presence d'electrodes de Pt, d'Au, de carbone vitreux et de Hg, dans
Abstract: Etudes de la reduction electrochimique de [Cu(Me 4 [14]1,4,8,11-tetracene N 4 ) (N-Me-imidazole)] (PF 6 ) 2 , [Cu(N 4 )MeIm] 2+ , en vue de determiner les facteurs favorisant la stabilisation des complexes du cuivre zerovalent, en presence d'electrodes de Pt, d'Au, de carbone vitreux et de Hg, dans du dichloromethane ou de l'acetone
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of nitric, hydrochloric and sulfuric acids on the measurement of mercury by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry has been investigated, and it was shown that the use of the three acids as a digestion mixture result in serious interference from nitrogen oxides.
Abstract: The influence of nitric, hydrochloric and sulfuric acids on the measurement of mercury by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry has been investigated. Small pre-reduction peaks associated with the instability of mercury were observed in solutions containing ≤ 12.5, < 2 and ≥ 12.5% v/v of each acid, respectively. Mercury was found to be most stable in ≥, 2% v/v hydrochloric acid and the measured absorbance was not greatly influenced by varying concentration of the acid. The mercury absorbance measurements were more sensitive in solutions containing ≤ 6.3% v/v hydrochloric acid than in similar concentrations of nitric and sulfuric acids. The use of the three acids as a digestion mixture result in serious interference from nitrogen oxides. The interferant was removed by use of expelling agents such as urea and sulfamic acid or overcome by use of excess stannous chloride, prior to the reduction of mercury(II) ions. The determination of mercury in NBS albacore tuna using both of these approaches t...
TL;DR: This paper found that English speaking children and Yoruba speaking children appropriate different types of concepts in their development towards number use, and that the bilingual children's learning is enhance their bilingualism.
Abstract: Working within the framework of a Wittgensteinian view of number, I exp the learning of English speaking and Yoruba speaking children as they work towards mean ful use of number names. I find that English speaking children and Yoruba speaking child appropriate different types of concepts in their development towards number use. The conc differ because the types of material objects that English speakers and Yoruba speakers tal differ. It seems that monolingual Yoruba speaking village children might be slower in apprc ating concepts associated with number use in Yoruba than their bilingual compatriots monolingual English speaking children, and that the bilingual children's learning is enhance their bilingualism.
TL;DR: Results suggest that in the dog, vasodilation, diuresis and natriuresis in response to SP may result from an action primarily on the vascular elements of the kidney.
TL;DR: Five experiments are reported that investigated whether the plausibility effect is caused by lexical priming resulting from the higher proportion of related words in plausible than in implausible sentences, and two separate lines of evidence suggested that the plausible effect cannot be fully explained in terms of lexicalPriming.
Abstract: Five experiments are reported that investigated whether the plausibility effect is caused by lexical priming resulting from the higher proportion of related words in plausible than in implausible sentences. In Experiment 1, a plausibility effect was demonstrated that was entirely attributable to the way in which lexical items were combined rather than to the properties of individual lexical items. In Experiment 2, the content words from the sentences used in Experiment 1 were shown to produce a similar reaction-time difference in a task in which syntactic processing was disrupted, supporting a lexical priming explanation of the plausibility effect. However, Experiments 3 and 4 demonstrated that, in another task less prone to task-specific strategies but sensitive to plausibility, the disruption of syntactic processing eliminated the effect. In Experiment 5, it was shown that when lexical priming was eliminated, a plausibility effect still occurred. Thus, two separate lines of evidence suggested that the plausibility effect cannot be fully explained in terms of lexical priming.
TL;DR: Robottom as mentioned in this paper argues for the adoption of a critical, feminist perspective in examining the area of Environmental Education (EE) as an 'appropriate response' to this globally perceived socio-environmental crisis.
Abstract: One thing about which there is widespread consensus is that the earth and its inhabitants are in social and environmental peril. This is where the consensus ends, however, for there is equally widespread disagreement as to the nature and causes of the problems (more social or more environmental), the severity of the problems (for whom are they recognised and felt as problems), and the most appropriate and effective solutions necessary to deal with them. This paper argues for the adoption of a critical, feminist perspective in examining the area of Environmental Education (EE) as an ‘appropriate response’ to this globally perceived socio-environmental crisis. Historically, environmental education emerged out of the early 1970's during the time when the environmental movement was gaining momentum and vitality on a worldwide scale (Disinger, 1983; Robottom, 1985a; Stapp, 1970). It was envisioned by the international participants at the three major UNESCO-UNEP Environment Conferences held that decade, that EE was the most appropriate and hopeful educational response to the crisis situation of the deterioration of quality of life and the environment (Fensham, 1978). The aims of EE that emerged from the UN conference in Tbilisi, USSR in 1977 were particularly ambitious in that they transcended a concern with the roles, objectives and guiding principles of EE and spelled out the need for an understanding of:
… the epistemological and institutional structures that affect consideration of environmental demands” … and …. “the obstacles (epistemological, cultural or social) restricting access to educational messages and their utilization” (Robottom, 1985b).
TL;DR: Film processing is eliminated and the removal of operator errors, bias and fatigue associated with manual measurement, coupled with the greatly reduced time required for analysis of sequences makes the shrinking drop method much more reliable and attractive.
Abstract: A method for automated image capture and analysis of shrinking drop sequences is described. The procedure can be managed by a single operator and allows estimates of proximal tubule volume flux to be calculated during the experiment. Speed of analysis is increased considerably (mean time 1.5 min per sequence) compared with previous methods. The potential exists for measurement of droplets in tubules that follow a tortuous path in the horizontal plane and further increases in capture and analysis rate would allow estimation of volume flux under non-steady state conditions. Film processing is eliminated and the removal of operator errors, bias and fatigue associated with manual measurement, coupled with the greatly reduced time required for analysis of sequences makes the shrinking drop method much more reliable and attractive.
TL;DR: In this article, the half-wave potentials of reversible polarographic or voltammetric waves were determined by performing a log plot analysis on experimental current data using planar electrodes.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a microprocessor-based digital ac polarography method for phase-angle measurement with an accuracy of better than 1° for the two-electron reduction of copper(II) in 1 M NaNO 3 to produce a copper amalgam.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reflect on the extent to which some of the distinguishing characteristics espoused in the nineteen-seventies are manifest in environmental education of the 'eighties.
Abstract: Ten years on from the landmark environmental education conference at Tbilisi, it is salutary to reflect on the extent to which some of the distinguishing characteristics espoused in the nineteen-seventies are manifest in environmental education of the 'eighties. The critical problem-solving interest of environmental education recommended in the literature of the 'seventies was consistent with the social/political concerns of the world community at the time—concerns to which the UNESCO environmental education programme was a response. However, this critical problem-solving interest is not commonplace in schools, and still represents a serious challenge to the existing patterns of schooling. Consequently the position that environmental education should entail widespread educational reform is nowadays becoming stronger and more evident.
TL;DR: In this article, a portion of a text from the lower primary school is examined, drawn from a Morning News learning activity, and it is argued that we can identify a "curriculum genre" in such a text, and that this has certain characteristic elements, giving it a particular schematic structure.
Abstract: This paper aims to demonstrate how Halliday’s Functional Grammar (1985) may be used to illuminate educational questions, more specifically to illuminate the study of classroom discourse. Portion of a text from the lower primary school is examined. It is in fact drawn from a Morning News learning activity. It is argued that we can identify a “curriculum genre” in such a text, and that this has certain characteristic elements, giving it a particular schematic structure. These elements are identified, and two aspects of the functional grammar – namely, Theme and transitivity – are used with a view to proving the presence of the schematic structure. Through the examination, it is argued that the meanings children are constrained to make in the Morning News situation are of a limited kind, revealing a great deal about the limitations of much early childhood education.
01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: In the study described here, the techniques of in vitro radioligand binding and autoradiography are used to detect the localization of [125I] Bolton-Hunter substance P (BHSP) to sections of blood vessels with the endothelium intact and to similar preparations with the artery removed.
Abstract: Substance P is one of the most potent vasodilators known [1] and the vasodilatation in some dog, cat and rabbit arteries is endothelium-dependent [2]. Endothelium-dependent relaxation by Substance P has since been shown in rings of dog common carotid arteries [3], pig and dog coronary arteries [4] and in vivo in dog femoral artery [5]. This vasodilatation may be mediated by release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) [2]. In the study described here, we have used the techniques of in vitro radioligand binding and autoradiography [6] to detect the localization of [125I] Bolton-Hunter substance P (BHSP) to sections of blood vessels with the endothelium intact and to similar preparations with the endothelium removed.
TL;DR: This article examined the views on the workplace of year 11 students from an Australian metropolitan post-primary school before and after they went out of the school into the workplace for two weeks work experience, and one of the themes which emerged from the discussions with the students was related to the degree of control exerted by employers on employees and the oppositional response which is sometimes forthcoming from those employees.
Abstract: The study discussed in this paper examines the views on the workplace of year 11 students from an Australian metropolitan post‐primary school before and after they went out of the school into the workplace for two weeks work experience. One of the themes which emerged from the discussions with the students was related to the degree of control exerted by employers on employees and the oppositional response which is sometimes forthcoming from those employees. The views which form this theme are then placed within the context of a current debate on work experience. On the one hand some educationalists are advocating ‘jumping off the work experience bandwagon’, while on the other those scholars with a more critical stance are pointing to the educative potential of work experience.
TL;DR: The presence of testosterone sulfate in the blood of T. rugosa may indicate a possible role for sulfoconjugates in controlling the availability of biologically active androgens.
01 Jan 1987
TL;DR: The characterization and autoradiographic distribution of SP, NKA and ELE/NKB binding sites in human brain is reported on.
Abstract: The existence of multiple tachykinin receptors is supported by experimental evidence [for recent reviews, 1–4]. For example, substance P (SP) substance K/neurokinin A (NKA), eledoisin (ELE) and neurokinin B (NKB) induce differential effects in bioassays and their respective binding sites are differentially distributed in central and peripheral tissues [1–4]. Thus, the existence of three classes of neurokinin receptors has been proposed [5,6]. The first type preferentially binds SP while the other two demonstrate more affinities for NKA, and ELE and NKB, respectively. However, the presence of these three classes of sites has not been investigated in human brain. We report here on the characterization and autoradiographic distribution of SP, NKA and ELE/NKB binding sites in human brain.