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A Bloch mode theory for diffraction of plane waves by planar PC slabs is developed. The theory provides physical insight into the origin of Fano resonances, allowing a simple pole model to be deduced rigorously.

Concomitant with the horizontal expansion of EU territory through physical and political enlargement is a genealogy narrative, which emphasizes the ostensible roots of Europeanness in classical antiquity and Christianity. ...

It has become commonplace for scholars and education managers to talk of the globalisation of higher education. How to provide housing for the growing numbers of international students, however, remains contentious. This ...

Development of practical training programs to ensure effective transfer of learning is hampered by the fact that there are a number of different types of transfer. Of these different types. the one which may be considered ...

The infiuential scholar Daniel Roche wrote of seventeenth-century clothing that it 'was at the centre of debates about wealth and poverty, excess and necessity, superfluity and sufficiency, luxury and adequacy' (Roche 1994: ...

In the global culture of the carly twenty~first century, in which de~ signers' names provide the subplots of films and television shows such as Sex and the City, the linking of the £1shion designer with creativity, fantasy, ...

This study investigates how academics are managing and being managed by the demands of their everyday work. Specifically, it sets out to examine how a small cohort of academics located in a former college of advanced ...

During the 1990s, many Australian universities uncritically adopted problematic and unproven online learning technologies, leading to wasted resources, unfulfilled expectations and in some cases, program and organisational ...