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Item Embargo Item Embargo A Moravian Mission In Australia: Ebenezer Through Ernabella Eyes(2004-10) Edwards, BillItem Metadata only Achieving Knowledge Credibility in a 'Post-Truth' World (Presentation of ANU 2017 Grand Challenge Project)(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Caldwell, SabrinaItem Metadata only Adapting the 'Working Alliance Inventory' to measure therapeutic alliance in general practice(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Sturgiss, ElizabethTherapeutic alliance is a term that describes the relationship between a health practitioner and their patient, and is a recognised mediator of patient behaviour change. Objective: To adapt the "Working Alliance Inventory" so that it is feasible to use in the general practice setting. Design: The WAI, previously validated in psychology, was adapted for use in Australian general practice via two rounds of qualitative online surveys from both patients and GPs. The adapted tool will be used in a general practice with 150 GP-patient dyads, alongside measures of Functional status, shared decision making (Dyadic OPTION), personal health and Patient-Doctor Depth of Relationship (PDDR) scale. Two social desirability scales will also be used. A confirmatory factor analysis will determine if the original three-factor structure (goals, tasks and bonds) is replicated and whether a higher-order factor of overall therapeutic alliance emerges. The internal consistency of the scale will be evaluated using Cronbach's alpha. Outcome Measures: Face validity of adapted WAI; secondary measure concurrent validity with other measured tools. Results: We hypothesise that the WAI will correlate with validated tools measuring shared-decision making and doctor-patient relationships. Measuring the therapeutic alliance between patients and their GP will be helpful in research and clinical settings.Item Open Access AFSCET - Association Française de science des Systèmes Cybernétiques cognitifs Et Techniques(Australian National University, 2013-09-08) Bricage, PierreEvery day, engineers, managers, teachers, researchers, politicians, face tasks of great complexity. To be efficient their action has to articulate the apprehension and conceptualisation of complex situations what supposes good descriptions and operating models. This assertion does not encounter many objections but is difficult to put into practice. Indeed, rare are the places where models can be developed, tested, confronted and improved without exclusion or dogmatism. We need cognitive and technical tools to think and act in our complex world. One of the main goals of AFSCET is to be a place for explanation, discussion and confrontation of practices and teachings from diverse horizons through a trans-disciplinary way of thinking. Debates are anchored in the Systemic Approach which is rooted into the information theory and Cybernetics. Systemics favours inter-disciplinary approaches, just as sciences of complexity and sciences of cognition did afterwards. That results in one of the most remarkable scientific developments of the last quarter of century.Item Metadata only Are YOU on the CuSPP?(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Pertsinidis, SoniaCuSPP is a dynamic interdisciplinary network of researchers, scholars and writers working in and beyond the Australian National University in the cultures of screen, performance and print (CuSPP). From new readings of Shakespeare and Dickens, to studies of Patrick White and Rousseau and analyses of S-Town and French film, our vibrant network is committed to innovative, collaborative and cutting-edge research in literary and cultural studies. The network was formed to foster intellectual engagement and collaboration across the humanities. CuSPP is affiliated with the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the French Research cluster. The network�s activities include: �An energetic program of weekly seminars presented by researchers (local and international), scholars, writers and HDR students; �Three reading groups open to the broader community �one group devoted to fortnightly readings of Homer�s Iliad and Odyssey in ancient Greek, a second group devoted to Latin literature, and a third devoted to literary theory; �regular public lectures; �research retreats and workshops; and conferences and symposia. The philosophy of CuSPP is to preserve, promote and investigate literature and culture from different places and times, from the ancient world to the present day. Are YOU on the CuSPP? You should be!Item Open Access As curious an entity: building digital resources from context, records and data(Australasian Association for Digital Humanities) Lewis, Antonina; Jones, MichaelThis paper explores new ways of conceiving and building linked digital resources for researchers and the community which more effectively support the exploration, discovery and reuse of digital objects and research data (qualitative and quantitative). It stems from an examination of our work on the Saulwick Archive (including the Saulwick Age‐Poll, focus group discussions, and more) as well as our ongoing involvement with the Australian Data Archive. As the technical capacity to store and disseminate digital objects grows and as quantitative research data become more discoverable and accessible, two issues are evident: the sometimes limited conception of what is required to ensure quantitative data remain useful and understandable through time, and; (in Australia at least) the general lack of equivalent preservation and dissemination relationships with qualitative research communities, including the Humanities. These are connected – the well documented reluctance of qualitative researchers to deposit research data within archives, based on fears of missing context and the resulting ‘misuse’ or ‘misinterpretation’ of data, is itself partially founded in the specific context of past (primarily quantitative) data archiving practice. Dealing with these challenges is necessarily collaborative. In the case of the Saulwick Archive, the eScholarship Research Centre, The University of Melbourne Archives, and Australian Data Archive are working together. This ensures we can source valuable expertise in the specific (but connected) conceptual and technical requirements for dealing with three interdependent ‘layers’ of information objects: context, records, and data. The paper will also use these concepts more broadly, exploring how the shortcomings in records and context management evident in past approaches to data archiving can be addressed; and how an integrated but modular approach to the collaborative management of interrelated context, records, and data can contribute to the development of richer and more sustainable information infrastructure for researchers.Item Open Access Ascending the Nigatsudo Steps(ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, 2019) Sambrani, Chaitanya; Hayes, CarolItem Metadata only Asian Economic Integration in an Era of Global Uncertainty(ANU Press, 2018) Pacific Trade and Development Conference; Armstrong, Shiro; Westland, TomThe 38th PAFTAD conference met at a key time to consider international economic integration. Earlier in the year, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union and the United States elected Donald Trump as their next president on the back of an inward-looking ‘America First’ promise. Brexit and President Trump represent a growing, and worrying, trend towards protectionism in the North Atlantic countries that have led the process of globalisation since the end of the Second World War. The chapters in the volume describe the state of play in Asian economic integration but, more importantly, look forward to the region’s future, and the role it might play in defending the global system that has underwritten its historic rise. Asia has the potential to stand as a bulwark against the dual threats of North Atlantic protectionism and slowing trade growth, but collective leadership will be needed regionally and difficult domestic reforms will be required in each country.Item Open Access Asian networks vs. Asian-Studies networks: on reflexivity and generational tensions in Western academe(The Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration (ANRC), 2011) Horesh, NivIn this brief article, I would like to broach the obvious: the notion of ‘networks’ as being particularly Asian, or Chinese, is misguided. So is the overemphasis on ‘networks’ in much of the academic literature on China’s rise. Drawing on observed phenomenon in American and Australian academe, I will try to sketch out why networks - or ‘circles of esteem’ - are significant everywhere; where and how they occur in Western academe, and by implication - how they pervade and compromise academic recruitment and research excellence.Item Open Access The Australian Constitution and human rights: a centenary view(Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Division of Pacific and Asia History, The Australian National University., 2001) Williams, GeorgeOver the course of a century, Australia has developed into a prosperous nation and one of the oldest continuous democracies in the world. The Australian Constitution has played an important role in this. Since 1901, it has withstood crises and the passage of time to produce an effective foundation for economic, social and cultural development and has fostered a stable democracy responsive to and representative of the people. The important role played by the Constitution is perhaps only apparent when our experience as a nation is compared to that of other nations, such as Fiji, where the lack of a stable legal system has led to social and economic discord. A century is a remarkably long time for any framework of government to endure largely unchanged. This achievement actually says more about the character and cultural values of the Australian people than it does about the text of the Constitution itself. Despite a long standing distrust of and alienation from politicians and politics, Australians generally continue to demonstrate a high degree of respect for their public institutions, such as the High Court, and for the rule of law. Public support for the constitutional structure should not be taken for granted. It requires an ongoing political commitment to ensuring that the Constitution enables and remains relevant to the realisation of national aspirations and goals. One hundred years ago, the drafters of the Constitution recognised this. They included in the Constitution a mechanism that would enable the Australian people, in partnership with the Federal Parliament, to reform and update the Constitution. The idea of constitutional reform is thus one that is entirely consistent with the original conception of the Constitution. Under section 128 of the Constitution, an amendment to the Constitution must be: passed by an absolute majority of both Houses of the Federal Parliament, or by one House twice; and at a referendum, passed by a majority of the people as a whole, and by a majority of the people in a majority of the states. This process has been invoked 44 times, with only eight proposals succeeding at a referendum. None of the eight changes was a major revision of the text of the Constitution. Some of the changes have, however, been of political importance. Two stand out. The 1928 referendum added a new section 105A to the Constitution, which is economically significant in enabling the Commonwealth to make agreements with the States to take over their debts. The 1967 referendum extended the federal Parliaments races power to Indigenous peoples and deleted the discriminatory section 127. None of the amendments since 1967 were of any great importance. In 1977, the Constitution amended to, amongst other things, set a retirement age of 70 years for High Court judges. The Constitution has not been amended according to the vision of its founders to reflect contemporary needs. Hence, it stands much as it did when it came into force in 1901 and continues to reflect the aspirations and values of the framers who drafted it in the 1890s.Item Embargo Australian Influences on New Zealand's Emerging Protestant Missionary Movement, 1885-1922(2004-10) Morrison, HughItem Open Access Australindopak archive: journey in painting, film and sound.(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Glikson, MichalDuring this journey I travelled to parts of Australia, India and Pakistan taking small steps and large. I carried materials, responding to different communities, cultures and environments I encountered through painting. I filmed in many of the places I visited, and recorded sounds and interviews. The Australindopak Archive is the outcome of this journey. It is an interactive mulltimedia journey, accessible at www.michalglikson.com.Item Open Access Automatic extraction of topic hierarchies based on WordNet(Australasian Association for Digital Humanities) Brey, Gerhard; Vieira, MiguelThe aim of the research described here is the automatic generation of a topic hierarchy, using WordNet as the basis for a faceted browser interface, with a collection of 19th-century periodical texts as the test corpus. Our research was motivated by the Castanet algorithm, which was developed and successfully applied to short descriptions of documents. In our research we adapt the algorithm so that it can be applied to the full text of documents. The algorithm for the automatic generation of the topic hierarchy has three main processes: Data preparation, wherein data is prepared so that the information contained within the texts is more easily accessible; Target term extraction, wherein terms that are considered relevant to classify each text are selected, and; Topic tree generation, wherein the tree is built using the target terms. We evaluated samples of the resulting topic tree and found that over 90% of the topics are relevant, i.e. they clearly illustrate what the articles are about and the topic hierarchy adequately relates to the content of the articles. Future work will address problems resulting from mis‐OCRed words, erroneous disambiguation, and language anachronisms. Faceted browsing interfaces based on topic hierarchies are easy and intuitive to navigate, and as our results demonstrate, topic hierarchies form an appropriate basis for this type of data navigation. We are confident that our approach can successfully be applied to other corpora and should yield even better results if there are no OCR issues to contend with. Since WordNet is available in several languages, it should also be possible to apply our approach to corpora in other languages.Item Open Access Balancing environmental conservation and livelihoods of people in Nepal through ‘social-software research’ methodology(Australian National University, 2013-09-08) Adhikari, JagannathThis presentation was based on a research on ‘social soft-ware’ to study park-people conflict in Chitawan National Park, Nepal. This research was carried out under the co-ordination of the author (Jagannath Adhikari) involving NGO Community Development Organization, Chitawan and researchers from Kyoto University, Japan.Item Open Access Being an apologist?: The Cornell Paper and a debate between friends(The Australia-Netherlands Research Collaboration (ANRC), 2011) Purdey, JemmaFor those who knew Herb Feith, Indonesia scholar, humanist and peace studies pioneer it is perhaps unimaginable that he could be regarded as an apologist for atrocities committed in Indonesia. But in early 1966, in the midst of the ongoing massacres of communists and their suspected sympathisers after the so?called 'coup' attempt the previous year on 30 September, some of Herb's close and respected colleagues were perplexed at what they took as words from Herb condoning the military? sponsored violence. This article is an attempt to present a closer look at the conversation that took place between these scholars of Indonesia at this critical moment, because it raises pertinent questions still relevant in Indonesian and Asian studies more broadly about how we balance our obligations as analysts seeking substantiated truth and fact, with the moral obligation to speak against tyranny and injustice and the pressures we experience from within our own national contexts.Item Open Access Beyond satisfaction: Optimising the visual attractiveness of routes(Canberra, ACT : NECTAR, The Australian National University, 2017) Gretton, CharlesFollowing recent studies of visual attractiveness in vehicle routing, we investigate the inclusion of shape and compactness penalties in computing solutions to the Vehicle Routing Problem using the Adaptive Large Neighbourhood Search. Visually attractive routes are sought predominantly for two reasons. First, operators are reluctant to implement solutions that exhibit overlapping routes, or unacceptable shape. Second, the visual compactness of routes is indicative of the operational robustness of solutions. We are the first to investigate the concept of bending energy as a solution penalty in this setting. We are also the first to investigate a search that leverages the geographic center of every route encountered during search.Item Open Access Beyond the lowest common denominator: designing effective digital resources(Australasian Association for Digital Humanities) Vetch, PaulAs the web has become the de facto medium of the Digital Humanities, we have seen enormous advances in the ‘functional ambition’ of the online resources that characterise the discipline. Increasingly, digital humanities outputs strive not simply to disseminate primary sources, but to supply a nexus of rich contextual materials and functionality: allowing the user to control editorial perspectives, digitally curate objects, and apply tools for real‐time analysis and visualisation. But, the web, as a medium, is a mutable sand; consider the variety of web browsers and platforms, in regular use today, and the rate at which they change. Web applications are increasingly provisional and ephemeral; the more use we make of exciting, current technology, the more fragile the outputs we produce. All that we can be sure will prevail, in time, are the primary sources (text, images) digitised and stored according to accepted standards. For all the creative work that goes into the delivery of digital editions and archives, it is a disappointing reality that simple democratised access to primary sources often remains the ‘lowest common denominator’ of the Digital Humanities. How do we progress the field, allowing our users to better understand the potential of ubiquitous technologies for display and interaction for their own areas of research? How do we ensure that the effort expended on building delivery environments for digital humanities research outputs will have a lasting impact across subject disciplines? The discussion will address issues of usability, user centred design, and functional design specific to the Digital Humanities, focusing on experimental work carried out across a number of projects at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London (in particular the online version of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson; the Gough Map; and the Online Chopin Variorum Edition).Item Open Access Body-parts in Dalabon and Barunga Kriol: matches and mismatches(Australian Linguistic Society) Ponsonnet, Maïa; Australian Linguistic SocietyThis article describes a number of body-part lexemes in Dalabon, a non-Pama-Nyungan language of the Gunwinyguan family (Australia), and their counterparts in Barunga Kriol, the local creole. The aim of this paper is a comparison between some aspects of the Dalabon body-part lexicon and their counterparts in Barunga Kriol. I discuss particularities of the Dalabon bodypart lexicon and of linguistic descriptions of the body in this language. Throughout the study of Dalabon and Barunga Kriol lexemes denoting the hand (or front paw) and its digits, the foot (or back paw) and its digits, the face, the nose and the nostrils, and finally, the head and the crown of the head, it is found that Barunga Kriol replicates some of the lexical structures of the local Aboriginal languages, but not all of them. In particular, a remarkable specificity of Dalabon, the fact that the head and the face are not labelled as such, and are preferably described as an assemblage of features, is only partially replicated in Barunga Kriol. The paper seeks to identify some of the factors explaining the matches and mismatches between Barunga Kriol and DalabonItem Open Access Brazil resolution on sexual orientation: challenges in articulating asexual rights framework from the viewpoint of the global south(Canberra, ACT: The Australian National University) Narrain, Arvind; AsiaPacificQueer NetworkIn April, 2003 the Brazilian government introduced a historic resolution on ‘Human rights and sexual orientation’. The resolution itself did not go very far as it merely ‘expresses deep concern at the occurrence of violations of human rights in the world against persons on the grounds of their sexual orientation’ and ‘stresses that human rights and fundamental freedoms are the birth right of all human beings, that the universal nature of these rights and freedoms is beyond question and that the enjoyment of such rights and freedoms should not be hindered in any way on the grounds of sexual orientation’.