Macquarie University

About: Macquarie University is a education organization based out in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 14075 authors who have published 47673 publications receiving 1416184 citations. The organization is also known as: Macquarie uni.

Intellectual capital literature review: measurement, reporting and management

Abstract: The rise of the “new economy”, one principally driven by information and knowledge, is attributed to the increased prominence of intellectual capital (IC) as a business and research topic. Intellectual capital is implicated in recent economic, managerial, technological, and sociological developments in a manner previously unknown and largely unforeseen. Whether these developments are viewed through the filter of the information society, the knowledge‐based economy, the network society, or innovation, there is much to support the assertion that IC is instrumental in the determination of enterprise value and national economic performance. First, we seek to review some of the most significant extant literature on intellectual capital and its developed path. The emphasis is on important theoretical and empirical contributions relating to the measurement and reporting of intellectual capital. The second part of this paper identifies possible future research issues into the nature, impact and value of intellectual management and reporting.

Effective population size/adult population size ratios in wildlife : a review

Abstract: Summary The effective population size is required to predict the rate of inbreeding and loss of genetic variation in wildlife. Since only census population size is normally available, it is critical to know the ratio of effective to actual population size (NJN). Published estimates of NJN (192 from 102 species) were analysed to identify major variables affecting the ratio, and to obtain a comprehensive estimate of the ratio with all relevant variables included. The five most important variables explaining variation among estimates, in order of importance, were fluctuation in population size, variance in family size, form of TV used (adults v. breeders v. total size), taxonomic group and unequal sex-ratio. There were no significant effects on the ratio of high v. low fecundity, demographic r. genetic methods of estimation, or of overlapping v. non-overlapping generations when the same variables were included in estimates. Comprehensive estimates of NJN (that included the effects of fluctuation in population size, variance in family size and unequal sex-ratio) averaged only 0-10—0-11. Wildlife populations have much smaller effective population sizes than previously recognized.

Toward a new sociology of masculinity

Abstract: The upheaval in sexual politics has mainly been discussed as a change in the social position of women. The political meaning of writing about masculinity turns mainly on its treatment of power. There are, however, some accounts of masculinity that have faced the issue of social power, and it is that we find the bases of an adequate theory of masculinity. Through the 1950s and 1960s the focus of sex-role research remained on women in the family. And the field of sex-role research remained a distinctly minor one within the overall concerns of sociology. A sociology of masculinity, of a kind, had appeared before the “sex-role” paradigm. The very idea of a “role” implies a recognizable and accepted standard, and sex-role theorists posit just such a norm to explain sexual differentiation. The sex-role literature mainly analyzes the acquisition of masculinity by means of a simple social-learning, conformity-to-norms model.

Visible learning: a synthesis of over 800 meta‐analyses relating to achievement

Abstract: by John Hattie, London, Routledge, 2009, 392 pp., US$80.00 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐415‐47618‐8. In the book Visible learning, Hattie extends his previous work by presenting a review of over 800 met...