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Showing 1 to 20 of 1498 for “"Perth Western Australia"”.
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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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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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A study into year 8 student motivation to continue class music in Perth, Western Australia
Post compulsory music education courses in Western Australia have undergone major curriculum reform. Reform has included a shift from a prescriptive curriculum based upon the Western canon to a more embracing practical and creative one, due for full implementation in 2009. As the numbers of …
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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
… for the host country. Trading education is now Australia’s third largest export. As the international market for students becomes more crowded, it is imperative that thorough and concise research occurs to assist local universities within Australia to maintain their competitive advantage. Perth, …
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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 mathematical analysis of the financial and medical impact of hepatitis C among drug users in Perth, Western Australia
… Key epidemiological factors such as, how many Western Australian injecting drug users are hepatitis C seropositive or will become infected, duration of intravenous drug use, the intensity of infection, the fraction of those infected that will develop end-stage disease and after how long a …
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Tracing the ancestral roots and the flow of pedagogical practices in the development of ballet teaching from 1950 to 2016 in Perth, Western Australia
… covering some 500 years. This thesis spotlights Perth, the capital of Western Australia (WA) and one of the world’s most geographically isolated capital cities. Throughout its balletic history of less than a century, Perth has seen rapid growth in this art form. As in all the arts, pedagogic …
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Comparative assessment of the effectiveness of online vs paper based post graduate courses in occupational and environmental safety and health at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Although online / e-learning is shifting the teaching paradigm at tertiary institutions, there are limited studies that assess the effectiveness of online courses, particularly in the occupational and environmental health field and among mature aged students. The main aim of this study was to …
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Influence of home and school environments on the academic performance of Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian students studying at an academically-oriented high school in Perth, Western Australia
… do not address this complex issue. In Australia little research has been done to compare the home environment and school experiences of children coming from Chinese-Australian and Anglo-Australian families even though the number of children from the Southeast Asian region has steadily …
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Process evaluation of a school- and home-based sun safety education intervention
… in reducing sun exposure in children in Perth, Western Australia. This thesis describes the process evaluation of the school- and home-based educational components of Kidskin's intervention. This process evaluation incorporated data from 873 students, their parents and teachers in Years 1 …
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Revisiting the early format of the big band: So you want to be a band leader?
… valid for today's situation in a city like Perth, Western Australia.
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University students' receptivity to peers with disabilities
… peers with disabilities at two universities in Perth, Western Australia (Edith Cowan University and the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle), and two universities in India (The University of Kolkata (previously Calcutta) and the University of Jadavpur). Data were collected by three methods: …
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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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The information needs of the families of patients with advanced cancer in an acute hospital
… received care at a 600-bed teaching hospital in Perth, Western Australia. The purpose of this phase was to describe the amount and usefulness of information given to these families while the patient was in hospital. Phase II involved modification of the FIN, based on the interviews and the …
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The sustainment of early childhood teachers in the classroom
… the northern metropolitan teaching districts of Perth, Western Australia, this study utilized qualitative methodology in two phases of data collection: open-ended surveys and focus group discussions with 57 early childhood teachers, and case studies, compiled from in-depth interviews with six …
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Primary students’ engagement with the visual arts and their transition into Year 7
… essential to a holistic education. Recently, in Perth, Western Australia (WA) several secondary Visual Arts educators expressed what they saw as a significant deficit in the outcomes of Making and Responding in Visual Arts, evidenced in their Year 7 students who had recently graduated from …
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Community building, multiculturalism and the suburban public library
… (EAL) speakers, particularly in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia. The rapidly changing demographic profile of Western Australia is producing an ever increasing diversity of people who need to access information in order to thrive in their new community. However, access to these …
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Holistic health: Shaping women’s experiences of positive body image
… in holistic health culture in a modern Western society. Qualitative data were collected from in-depth ethnographic interviews with 25 women in Perth, Western Australia, to illuminate an understanding of their holistic health beliefs and practices, perceptions of appearance and health …
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