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Showing 1 to 20 of 1515 for “"Perth"”.
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Permeability characteristics of fibre-reinforced Perth sandy soil
… methods used. Materials used in this study are Perth sandy soil, and locally available jute and waste tyre fibres. These materials were chosen because they are abundantly available in Perth area and surroundings. As for the waste tyre fibre, it was also chosen as a green approach to use waste …
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Personal exposure of children to formaldehyde in Perth, Western Australia
… 8 and 12) were recruited from two areas of Perth, Western Australia. Each child wore a personal passive formaldehyde sampler over a 24 hour period on two separate occasions, winter and summer. Samplers were also located indoors at home, outdoors at centralised locations and indoors at school …
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Extending the Boundaries : Portraits of Activism in Perth, Western Australia
For some analysts, post-industrial capitalist societies have pathological deficiencies which manifest themselves locally and further afield, in marginalisation and oppression of people and despoliation of the environment. For those who are passionately driven to challenge those consequences of the …
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Behaviour of waste tyre fibre-reinforced cement-stabilised Perth sand
… on investigating the characteristics of local Perth sandy soil after inclusion of waste TF and cement. These wastes can be utilised in ground improvement in large quantities and could provide a cost-effective and environmentally friendly strategy that avoids tyre disposal problems. A series of …
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Often treated harshly: Girls and young women in 1957 Perth
… of life for young women and teenage girls in Perth in 1957, that contrast with the idealised youthful femininity promoted by women’s magazines such as The Australian Women’s Weekly. It discusses status offences in the context of child welfare legislation and the criminalisation of youthful …
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Psychological sense of community in Jewish adolescents of Perth, Western Australia
… (PSC) in the Jewish adolescent population of Perth. The main aim was to investigate the differences between student attending the private Jewish School (Carmel) or another school within the metropolitan area. Participants were recruited from Carmel School, W A Maccabi (Jewish sport club) and …
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<i>‘There is only one P in Perth - And, it stands for Pullars!'</i>: the Labour, Trade-Union, and Co-operative Movements in Perth, c. 1867 to c. 1922
… of the labour and trade- union movements in Perth, c. 1867 to c. 1922. This study of Perth is unique in that Perth’s labour and trade-union movements have been almost entirely neglected and thus the thesis provides a substantial body of fresh observations and data in the form of a critical …
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Experiences and perspectives of Burmese migrant women in sustaining their families in Perth
… Australia and the majority of them resided in Perth metropolitan and suburban areas. With deep rooted cultural and traditional backgrounds guided by religious teaching, the family is the most salient unit in Burmese communities. This dissertation sought to explore migrants from Burma by …
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Attitudes of nurses to palliative care in nursing homes in the Perth metropolitan region
Zanna and Rempel (1988) have proposed that attitudes are a summary evaluation of an attitude object based on three classes of information, namely: cognitive information, affective information and behavioural information. This model has mainly been tested in the social groups and social policies …
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Bayesian and geostatistical analysis of the effect of air pollution on asthma hospitalisation in Perth
… in asthma hospitalisation have been shown for Perth, the nature of exposure and risk across areas within the metropolitan area have not been determined. This study investigates the effect of air pollution concentrations on asthma hospitalisation through building a mathematical model which …
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A study into year 8 student motivation to continue class music in Perth, Western Australia
… 8 students across eight secondary schools in Perth, Western Australia. The study included the development of an instrument to examine student values and beliefs towards class music activities at the commencement and conclusion of Year 8. In addition, for triangulation, the study employed focus …
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Attitudes, practices and knowledge regarding cervical cancer screening among Greek women in the area of Perth
… practices and knowledge of Greek women in Perth, Western Australia, regarding cervical cancer screening. This is important because no study has yet examined the cervical screening pattern of this group, despite their low participation rate in screening programs. Qualitative semi-structured …
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Teachers' experiences with disengagement in physical education classes at secondary school level in the Perth Metropolitan Area
Students’ disengagement from school has been one of the major concerns in educational research (Fredricks, Blumenfeld, & Paris, 2004). According to researchers (Alexander et al., 1997; Finn & National Center for Education Statistics, 1993; Finn & Rock, 1997; Finn & Voelkl, 1993; Fredricks & …
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Approaches to the spatial modelling of cancer incidence and mortality in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia, 1990 -2005
… study was to analyse five top cancers in the Perth metropolitan area, including lung, melanoma, breast, prostate and colorectal cancers, using two methodologies: Area-to-Point Poisson (ATP) kriging and fitting an inhomogeneous Poisson process model using the Berman-Turner algorithm. ATP …
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International postgraduate students and their reasons for choosing to study at public universities in Perth, Western Australia
… to maintain their competitive advantage. Perth, Western Australia (WA) comprises a small segment of the international Australian tertiary education market. An insufficient evidence base exists to aid local universities with strategic planning to maintain their competitive advantage in …
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Through a lens of therapeutic jurisprudence: A case study of the Children’s Court Drug Court in Perth
… Drug Court (CCDC) has operated for 20 years in Perth as an alternative Court for drug-using young offenders who present at the Children’s Court. Despite the CCDC’s relative longevity, researchers have examined neither the inner workings of the Court nor the experiences of its actors. The current …
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Educational and psychosocial development of adolescents in Specialist Sport Programs in Low SES Areas of Perth, Western Australia
… involved in SSPs located in low SES areas of Perth, Western Australia (W.A.). To do so, four studies were conducted. Study 1 collated and evaluated the existing literature on SSP participation. The studies included in the systematic review demonstrate that SSPs have the potential to …
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A comparative study of indigenous people's and early European settlers' usage of three Perth wetlands, Western Australia, 1829-1939
This study takes as its focus the contrasting manner in which the Nyoongar indigenous people and the early European settlers utilised three wetland environments in southwest Australia over the century between 1829 and 1939. The thesis offers both an ecological and a landscape perspective to changes …
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A mathematical analysis of the financial and medical impact of hepatitis C among drug users in Perth, Western Australia
… C infection among injecting drug users in Perth, Western Australia. Predictions derived from the model will then be used to undertake an analysis of the cost of treating those with hepatitis C and cirrhosis related complications, resulting in a prediction of the financial impact of …
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