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  • The volunteer's journey through leisure into the self 
    Lyons K.; Wearing Stephen; Deville Adrian (CABI, 2008)
    Volunteer tourism is in essence a form of leisure behaviour. Perceived freedom and choice (Neulinger, 1974), intrinsic motivation (Iso-Ahola, 1982), satisfaction and enjoyment (Kaplan, 1975), and identity and selfhood ...
  • Volunteer sustainability in a sport context: observations from grassroots participation through to mega-events 
    Schulenkorf, Nico; Edwards, Deborah; Darcy, Simon (2012-05-07)
    Volunteers are the lifeblood of sporting organizations in Australia and globally. However, research has shown that there are differences between everyday volunteers for sporting organizations and volunteers at major sport ...
  • Volunteer tourism 
    Wearing Stephen; Lyons K.; Snead Suzanne (Goodfellow Publishers Ltd, 2010)
    The aim of this chapter is to provide students with a critical understanding of the phenomenon of volunteer tourism. It will consider how volunteer tourism occurs in diverse community settings with a particular emphasis ...
  • Volunteer tourism and intercultural exchange: exploring the 'Other' in the experience 
    Wearing Stephen; Grabowski Simone (Routledge, 2011)
    Volunteer tourism as a form of international development has been posed as an alternative mechanism which has the potential to achieve different socio-cultural outcomes. In this guise it aims 'to establish direct ...
  • Volunteer tourism as alternative tourism: Journeys beyond otherness 
    Lyons K.; Wearing Stephen (CABI, 2008)
    Seismic changes in leisure time, disposable income, mobility and communication technologies have created a context in which tourism has thrived. Grown and diversified to encompass a wide array of leisure travel behaviours ...
  • Volunteer Tourism: Challenging Consumerism in Tourism 
    Wearing Stephen (International Society of Naturalists (INSONA), 2001)
  • Volunteer Tourism: The Interests and motivations of grey nomads 
    Leonard Rosemary; Onyx Jennifer (Australian and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies, 2009)
    Volunteer tourism is increasingly being recognized as a distinct phenomenon which needs to draw on an understanding of both tourism and volunteer motivations.
  • Von Guerard's Serpent 
    Thomas, M. (O.L. Society Limited, 2003)
  • Vortex penetration in shunted type II superconducting strips 
    Lin Zhi Wei (Jack); Zhu Jianguo (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2004)
    To investigate the magnetic properties of electrical contact between the superconducting filaments in a multifilament tape, this paper studies the vortex motion across a simpler planar model of the tape, namely an array ...
  • Vote-Based LELC for Positive and Unlabeled Textual Data Streams 
    Liu Bo; Xiao Yan Shan; Cao Longbing; Yu Philip (IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS), 2010)
    In this paper, we extend LELC (PU Learning by Extracting Likely Positive and Negative Micro-Clusters) method to cope with positive and unlabeled data streams. Our developed approach, which is called vote-based LELC, works ...
  • Vox humana: The Instrumental Representation of the Human Voice 
    Van Leeuwen Theodoor (MIT Press, 2010)
    I am a jazz pianist and church organ player as well as an academic. Two years ago I bought a new digital piano, a Roland RD300-SX. Its hundreds of voices imitate the whole range of traditional musical instruments, but also ...
  • VQSVM: A case study for incorporating prior domain knowledge into inductive machine learning 
    Yu Ting; Simoff Simeon; Jan Tony (Elsevier Science B.V, 2010)
    When dealing with real-world problems, there is considerable amount of prior domain knowledge that can provide insights on various aspect of the problem. On the other hand, many machine learning methods rely solely on the ...
  • VSA-based Fractual Image Compression 
    Wang Huaqing; Wang Meiqing; Hintz Thomas; Wu Qiang; He Xiangjian (Union Agency - Science Press, 2005)
    Spiral Architecture (SA) is a novel image structure which has hexagons but not squares as the basic elements. Apart from many other advantages in image processing, SA has shown two unbeatable characters that have potential ...
  • VUE (Visualisation Using Emails) 
    Leung Linda; Humphreys Tania; Weakley Alastair (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Press, 2008)
    The paper details the preliminary results of a research and design project for the Australasian Centre for Interaction Design¿s Virtual Communities program. The project aims to mine knowledge from an email archive through ...
  • Vulnerability and security in seriously ill patients in intensive care 
    Nagy Sue; Mckinley Sharon; Bramwell Margaret; Stein-Parbury Jane; Hudson Janine (Elsevier, 2007)
    The purpose of this research was to gain an understanding of the experience of being a seriously ill patient in an intensive care unit (ICU). Fourteen former patients, aged 17-71 years old, who had been in ICU 3-53 days, ...
  • Vulnerability and the unsaturated zone - the case for cemeteries 
    Dent Boyd (New Zealand Hydrological Society, IAH Australian Chapter New Zealand Society of Soil Science, 2005)
    Cemeteries are a special kind of land use with direct impact on the unsaturated zone. In a cemetery organic waste (the deceased incl. coffin) is deliberately interred at a depth usually corresponding with soil C horizons ...
  • Vulnerable to homelessness: Exclusion and cumulative trauma 
    Robinson Catherine (TASA, 2005)
    In this paper I draw together key insights from my last five years of work on the issue of ongoing or persistent homelessness, Focusing in particular on Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHlURI) research ...
  • Vulture 
    Van Dooren Thom (Reaktion Books, 2011)
    Simply because they are large scavenging birds, vultures are often viewed as harbingers of death. But, as Thom van Dooren shows in this cultural and natural history, that dominant association leaves us with a very ...
  • WA-Fi 
    Burke Anthony; Rath Lauren; Henke Leo (FusedSpace, 2004)
    This competition entry was awarded a nomination out of 800 entries in the prestigious Fusedspace International urban media competition held in 2004. The entry posits new forms of ambient urban information systems using ...
  • Waiting for capital: the impact of corruption in Indonesian financial markets 
    Menzies Gordon; Terry Christopher; Trayler Rowan (Springer, 2005)