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  • Factors that influence community participation in the organisation of rural community events 
    Reid Sacha (University of Surrey, 2006)
    Rural areas have encountered numerous changes to the economic and social fabric of their communities over recent decades. The combined impact of climatic conditions, changing economies and the outmigration of individuals ...
  • A fair pricing approach to weather derivatives 
    Platen Eckhard; West Jason (Springer, 2007)
    This paper proposes a consistent approach to the pricing of weather derivatives. Since weather derivatives are traded in an incomplete market setting. standard hedging based pricing methods cannot be applied. The growth ...
  • 'Falling Behind': A Case Study in Uncritical Assessment 
    Pratt Jonathan (Information Science Reference, 2009)
    This chapter presents the major findings of case study research investigating uncritical assessment of an institution-wide learning management system in an Australian university. Suburban University illustrates the ways ...
  • The fashionable adoption of online training technologies in Australian universities 
    Pratt Jonathan (Blackwell Publishing, 2005)
    During the 1990s, many Australian universities adopted innovative new online learning technologies without critical examination of their merit to those institutions, leading in some cases to wasted resources, unfulfilled ...
  • The fashion of online learning adoption in Australian universities 
    Pratt Jonathan (Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, 2004)
    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 ...
  • Feature Subset Selection Using Ant Colony Optimization 
    Al-Ani Ahmed (International Journal of Computational Intelligence (IJCI), 2005)
    Feature selection is an important step in many pattern classification problems. It is applied to select a subset of features, from a much larger set, such that the selected subset is sufficient to perform the classification ...
  • Feminist Challenges and Futures: Women, Diversity and Management Learning 
    Swan Shirley; Stead Valerie; Elliott Carole (Sage, 2009)
    Drawing on the category of the `social¿ in social learning theory as a `mini case study¿, we argue in this article that gender, race and class are still neglected in the field and practices of management learning. We suggest ...
  • Fertility Trends and the Housing Market 
    Small Garrick (University of Technology, Sydney, 2006)
    The social sustainability of current trends that have impacted on property and the built environment are examined. Major social changes, especially over the last generation are reviewed in terms of their impact on the built ...
  • The FIFA World Cup 2002: the effects of terrorism on sport tourists 
    Taylor Tracy; Lee Choong-Ki; Toohey Kristine (SAGE Publications, 2002)
    This paper discusses the relationship between sport and tourism in reference to a specific hallmark event, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) 2002 Football World Cup. In particular, it investigates ...
  • Financialization, crisis and commodity correlation dynamics 
    Silvennoinen Annastiina; Thorp Susan (Financial Management Association, 2010)
    We study conditional volatility and correlation dynamics for returns to commodity fu- tures, stocks and bonds, from May 1990-July 2009 using DSTCC- GARCH. The models allow correlation to vary smoothly between extreme states ...
  • Financial market meltdown and a need for new financial regulations 
    Mittnik Stefan; Nell Edward; Platen Eckhard; Semmler Willi; Chappe Raphaele (Middle East Technical University, 2009)
    The financial crisis, triggered by the subprime and real estate crisis in the US, has become global It is deeply rooted in a decade-long misuse of the financial market for rent-seeking. The financial industry has largely ...
  • The Financial Times business schools ranking: What quality is this signal of quality? 
    Devinney Timothy; Dowling Grahame; Perm-Ajchariyawong Nidthida (Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2008)
    We suggest that the annual rankings of business schools have acquired a legitimacy that unduly defines the organizational field in a manner that makes it difficult and risky for most schools to manage to this measure of ...
  • Finite dimensional affine realisation of HJM models in terms of forward rates and yields 
    Chiarella Carl; Kwon Oh Kang (Springer, 2001)
    Finite dimensional Markovian HJM term structure models provide ideal settings for the study of term structure dynamics and interest rate derivatives where the flexibility of the HJM framework and the tractability of ...
  • Finite mixture partial least squares analysis: Methodology and numerical examples 
    Ringle Christian; Wende S; Will Alexander (Springer, 2010)
    In wide range of applications for empirical data analysis, the assumption that data is collected from a single homogeneous population is often unrealistic. In particular, the identification of different groups of consumers ...
  • Fishing the Georges River: Cultural diversity and urban environments 
    Goodall Heather; Wearing Stephen; Byrne Denis; Cadzow Allison (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009)
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  • A flexible framework for evaluating the socio-cultural impacts of a small festival 
    Schlenker Katie; Edwards Deborah; Sheridan Lynnaire (The University of Queensland, 2005)
    The increasing popularity of festivals and events, coupled with their positive and negative impacts on host communities, has led to a growing body of research on the impacts of festivals and events. As a substantial amount ...
  • Flights of fancy? in-flight magazine advertisements and the 'social sorting' of airline travellers 
    Small Jennifer; Harris Candice; Wilson Erica (Victoria University, 2006)
    The in-flight magazine is one of many industrialised print media to which the traveller is exposed. According to Thurlow and Jaworski (2003), in-flight magazines, however 'ideologically innocent' they may appear, can be ...
  • Fluid identities and ungendering the future 
    Linstead Stephen; Pullen Alison (Routledge, 2005)
    This passage illustrates for us the problem of knowing the other, what motivates the binary divisions between self and other and the crossing between them. The phenomenological consciousness is always a transitive consciousness ...
  • Flying With Impairments: Improving Airline Practices By Understanding The Experiences Of People With Disabilities 
    Darcy, Simon (Travel and Tourism Research Association, 2007)
    This paper presents an understanding of the air travel experiences of people with disabilities and draws implications for improving airline management practices. The theoretical foundation for the paper is based on ...
  • Follow the leader: Fund managers trading in signal-strength sequence 
    Fong Kingsley; Gallagher David; Gardner Peter; Swan Peter (Blackwell Publishing, 2011)
    When fund managers trade sequentially in the same direction, the information confirmation hypothesis predicts the long-term profitability of the leader trade to be increasing in the number of subsequent trades. The information ...