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 & Laser. The organization has 14075 authors who have published 47673 publications receiving 1416184 citations. The organization is also known as: Macquarie uni.

358,534 nonwords: The ARC Nonword Database

Abstract: The authors present a model of the phonotactic and orthographic constraints of Australian and Standard Southern British English monosyllables. This model is used as the basis for a web-based psycholinguistic resource, the ARC Nonword Database, which contains 358,534 monosyllabic nonwords—48,534 pseudohomophones and 310,000 non-pseudohomophonic nonwords. Items can be selected from the ARC Nonword Database on the basis of a wide variety of properties known or suspected to be of theoretical importance for the investigation of reading.

Microgranitoid enclaves in granites—globules of hybrid magma quenched in a plutonic environment

Abstract: Microgranitoid enclaves (autoliths, cognate xenoliths, mafic inclusions) are common in high-level granitoid plutons. They have relatively fine-grained igneous (microgranitoid) microstructures1, and many show evidence of having flowed in a magmatic condition2. These features counter interpretations that the enclaves represent transformed solid fragments of diverse wall rocks3–5 or restite6–11. An alternative interpretation is that the enclaves represent globules of mafic magma that have mingled (‘commingled’) and quenched in the granitoid host magma12–16. A detailed review of the literature, occurrence, morphology and composition of micro-granitoid enclaves strongly supports this view, hut indicates that the enclave magmas range in composition from mafic to felsic, and that magma-mixing may be involved in their formation17. I summarize here the main features of microgranitoid enclaves and briefly outline the possible processes leading to their incorporation as magma globules in the host granitoid.

Application of accrual accounting in the Australian public sector - rhetoric or reality?

Abstract: This paper presents a contextual. historical analysis of recent accrual accounting developments in the Australian Public Sector (APS). It takes a critical stance in that it questions the accrual accounting developments on a number of grounds. The paper examines changes in public sector financial management and accountability in four distinct settings, being: accrual financial reporting, accrual management systems, whole of government reporting, and accrual based budgeting. The findings show that already in Australia accrual accounting has made significant encroachments into some areas of annual financial and budget reporting. This influx has meant that terms such as ‘deficit’, ‘debt’, ‘liabilities’, ‘operating results’, ‘assets’, etc. have begun to change in meaning, which it is argued has important implications for the current process of transformation of aspects of the APS.