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Marginal Voices: Third Sector Organisations as Vehicles for Social Movement

Barraket, J. (Blackwell Publishing, 2007)

The development of the third sector in Australia has involved the negotiation of varying forms of state and market regulatory mechanisms. In the course of these settlements, ground-up initiatives have often found that ...
Measuring consumer vanity: A cross-cultural validation

Wang Paul; Waller David (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2005)

Given the unmistakable trend toward a more integrated global economy and the tremendous impact of consumer vanity on demand for countless goods and services, there exists a need for more cross-cultural research on the ...
Measuring values using best-worst scaling: The LOV example

Lee J; Soutar Geoffrey; Louviere Jordan (Marcel Dekker, 2001)

The paper discusses the way that values have been measured and suggests an alternative way to collect values data. A recently developed approach, termed Best Worst Scaling, developed by Louviere and his colleagues, ...
A Meta-Analysis of Judgment Achievement as Defined by the Lens Model Equation

Kaufmann E; Athanasou James (Verlag Hans Huber, 2009)

This research determined the extent of judgment achievement (i.e., accuracy) across different decision-making domains (e. g., medicine, business, education, psychology). Judgment achievement was examined in terms of the ...
Nature and Prevalence of Stalking Among New Zealand Mental Health Clinicians

Thom, K.; Dixon, R.; Hughes, F. A (ScienceDirect, Elsevier Ltd, 2003)

Stalking involves recurrent and persistent unwanted communication or contact that generates fear for safety in the victims. This pilot study evaluated the nature and prevalence of stalking among New Zealand nurses and ...
Neurophysiology of therapeutic alliance

Stratford Trisha; Lal Saroj; Meara Alan (Gestalt Journal of Australia and New Zealand, 2009)

Currently no studies exist on assessing neurophysiological correlates, especially brain activity, during therapeutic alliance (TA) between client and therapist. The aims of this study were to assess electroencephalography ...
A new neural network structure: node-to-node-link neural network

Ling Steve (Scientific Research Publishing, Inc., 2011)

This paper presents a new neural network structure and namely node-to-node-link neural network (N-N-LNN) and it is trained by real-coded genetic algorithm (RCGA) with average-bound crossover and wavelet mutation [1]. The ...
Optimisation of HPLC gradient separations using artificial neural networks (ANNs): Application to benzodiazepines in post-mortem samples

Webb Rebecca; Doble Philip; Dawson Michael (Elsevier Science Bv, 2009)

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) were used in conjunction with an experimental design to optimise a gradient HPLC separation of nine benzodiazepines. Using the best performing ANN, the optimum conditions predicted were ...
Optimizing Blood Pressure Reduction: Predicting Success in the Home Environment

Hunyor, S. N; Bartrop, R.; Hart, M.; Henderson, R. J; Lal, S.; Craig, A. R (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2003)

Transferring skills to non-clinic contexts remains a challenge for clinical psychologists. Research is needed that investigates strategies of transferring clinic skills as well as factors that are associated with ...
Perceptions of organisational subculture and their significance for organisational commitment

Lok Peter; Westwood Robert; Crawford John (Blackwell Publishing, 2006)

This paper investigates the relationship between perceptions of organisational culture, organisational subculture, leadership style, and commitment. The impact of culture and leadership style on commitment has been ...
Perceptions of the mind-cancer relationship among the public, cancer patients and oncologists

Lemon Jim; Kidman Antony; Edelman Sarah (Haworth Medical Press, 2004)

The view that psychological factors pla a role in the onset and progression of cancern has been promoted widely int he popular media. The present study assessed the prevalence of this view. The respondents - 527 members ...
Philosophical Accounts of Learning

Hager Paul (Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2002)

There is an influential story about learning that retains a grip on the public mind. Main elements of this story include: the best learning resides in individual minds not bodies; it centres on propositions (true, false; ...
The Polymorphic Imperative: a Generic Approach to In-place Update

Jay Barry; Lu Hai Yan; Nguyen Quy Tuan (Elsevier, 2004)

The constructor calculus supports generic operations defined over arbitrary data types including abstract data types. This paper extends the basic constructor calculus to handle constructed locations. The resulting calculus ...
Pre-emptive Imprisonment for Dangerousness in Queensland under the dangerous Prisoners (Sexual Offenders) act 2003: The Constitutional Issues

Pereira, C.; Southwood, S.; Keyzer, P. (World Scientific Publishing Company, 2001)

Unlike any other law in Australia, or as far as we have been able to research the common law world, Queensland law now authorises a court to imprison a citizen on the basis that he or she presents an 'unacceptable risk ...
The Primacy Of Positivity-applications In A Coaching Context

Sharp Timothy (Routledge, 2011)

Coaches generally assume that their clients will be happy after they've achieved their goals, which is not an unreasonable assumption, and which is a belief shared by the majority of clients. It may not, however, be helpful ...
Prospective study of early bereavement on psychological and behavioural cardiac risk factors

Buckley Tom; Bartrop Roger; Mckinley Sharon; Ward Chris; Bramwell Margaret; Roche Dianne; Mihailidou A; Morel-Kopp M-C; Spinaze Monica; Hocking Belinda; Goldston Kerrie; Tennant Chris; Tofler Geoffrey (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2009)

Background: Increasing evidence supports the role of emotional stress in the onset of cardiovascular disease. Although bereavement is a major emotional stress with both acute and more long-term features, the mechanism of ...
Psychological adaptation to ICDs and the influence of anxiety sensitivity

Edelman, S.; Lemon, J. (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2003)

Forty-nine patients scheduled for implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation completed self-report psychological questionnaires prior to surgery and at 2, 4 and 6 months after surgery. The most common ...
Psychological and neural correlates of emotional intelligence in a large sample of adult males and females

Craig Ashley; Tran Yvonne; Hermens G; Williams Lea; Kemp Andrew; Morris C; Gordon Evian (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2009)

Research is needed that investigates the correlates of emotional intelligence (EI) as a function of sex, especially biological and psychological correlates Such as personality, brain activity, cognitions and mood. A large ...
Psycho-oncology and the terminally ill patient

Kidman Antony (Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society, 2001)

This paper discusses difficulties faced by the terminally ill cancer patient and the case for psychological help. The hospice movement that started 40 years ago has made great strides in assisting people achieve the ...
Psychosocial treatments of behavior symptoms in dementia: A systematic review of reports meeting quality standards

O'Connor Dw; Ames D; Gardner Betina; King Madeleine (Cambridge, 2009)

Objective: To provide a systematic review of selected experimental studies of psychosocial treatments of behavioral disturbances in dementia. Psychosocial treatments are defined here as strategies derived from one of three ...

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