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University of South Australia
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1993
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 28-07-2017
Publisher: The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Date: 03-2015
DOI: 10.1017/CHA.2014.39
Abstract: Although many researchers have demonstrated that music videos contain high levels of sexual connotation, none have specifically investigated music videos accessible to young children. This study analysed 405 in idual music videos broadcast on Australian free-to-air television in time periods classified PG/G to identify the types and frequency of sexualised display. Results showed that these music videos contained relatively high levels of sexualised content, with particular genres and artists displaying higher levels of sexualised material. The findings indicate a need for a review of the current Australian classification system.
Publisher: The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
Date: 06-2012
DOI: 10.1017/CHA.2012.13
Abstract: When young children tell their mothers that they are being sexually abused by their father, the mother faces a dilemma if she does nothing, state child protection services can remove her children as being in need of care and protection. If police are called, she is likely to be told to leave the family home to keep her children safe. If she does, the father is likely to turn to the federal family law system 1 to seek time with the children. If the mother seeks an order for supervised, or no further contact with the child to protect them from abuse, she may lose residence of the child and the child may be ordered to live with the abusing parent.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-05-2022
Abstract: The $$ {\\varXi}_{cc}^{++}\\to {\\varXi}_c^{\\prime +}{\\pi}^{+} $$ Ξ cc + + → Ξ c ′ + π + decay is observed using proton-proton collisions collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5 . 4 fb − 1. The $$ {\\varXi}_{cc}^{++}\\to {\\varXi}_c^{\\prime +}{\\pi}^{+} $$ Ξ cc + + → Ξ c ′ + π + decay is reconstructed partially, where the photon from the $$ {\\varXi}_c^{\\prime +}\\to {\\varXi}_c^{+}\\gamma $$ Ξ c ′ + → Ξ c + γ decay is not reconstructed and the pK − π + final state of the $$ {\\varXi}_c^{+} $$ Ξ c + baryon is employed. The $$ {\\varXi}_{cc}^{++}\\to {\\varXi}_c^{\\prime +}{\\pi}^{+} $$ Ξ cc + + → Ξ c ′ + π + branching fraction relative to that of the $$ {\\varXi}_{cc}^{++}\\to {\\varXi}_c^{+}{\\pi}^{+} $$ Ξ cc + + → Ξ c + π + decay is measured to be 1 . 41 ± 0 . 17 ± 0 . 10, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-2022
DOI: 10.1140/EPJC/S10052-022-10186-3
Abstract: A search is performed for massive long-lived particles (LLPs) decaying semileptonically into a muon and two quarks. Two kinds of LLP production processes were considered. In the first, a Higgs-like boson with mass from 30 to 200 $$\\text {\\,GeV\\!/}c^2$$ \\,GeV\\!/ c 2 is produced by gluon fusion and decays into two LLPs. The analysis covers LLP mass values from 10 $$\\text {\\,GeV\\!/}c^2$$ \\,GeV\\!/ c 2 up to about one half the Higgs-like boson mass. The second LLP production mode is directly from quark interactions, with LLP masses from 10 to 90 $$\\text {\\,GeV\\!/}c^2$$ \\,GeV\\!/ c 2 . The LLP lifetimes considered range from 5 to 200 ps. This study uses LHCb data collected from proton-proton collisions at $$\\sqrt{s} = 13\\text {\\,TeV} $$ s = 13 \\,TeV , corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5.4 $$\\text {\\,fb} ^{-1}$$ \\,fb - 1 . No evidence of these long-lived states has been observed, and upper limits on the production cross-section times branching ratio have been set for each model considered.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-05-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2017
Abstract: INTRODUCING THE IDEA OF THE ‘classroom as community’, a class of six- to eight-year-old children engaged with a project, The Wellbeing Classroom (McInnes, Diamond & Whitington, 2014), which intended to support and advance their social and emotional development. This paper examines how the notion of ‘classroom as community’ informed the thinking and actions of the adults involved, and identifies six key elements of the approach employed. The teacher employed five strategies over a year: professional learning and reflection building trust with children and modelling emotional self-regulation teaching social skills across the day accessing regular outreach worker support and involving parents. Led by an upskilled teacher, the ‘classroom as community’ approach was found to have successfully supported children's social and emotional development, particularly those with difficulties. The project's reach included parents, thus extending its effects. This article reports on the significance of the concept of classroom as community to the project's success.
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 15-03-2023
DOI: 10.1155/2023/6418897
Abstract: Previous theoretical research efforts which were validated by experimental findings demonstrated the thermo-economic benefits of the hybrid concentrated photovoltaic-thermoelectric (CPV-TE) system over the stand-alone CPV. However, the operating conditions and TE material properties for maximum CPV-TE performance may differ from those required in a standalone thermoelectric module (TEM). For instance, a high-performing TEM requires TE materials with high Seebeck coefficients and electrical conductivities, and at the same time, low thermal conductivities ( k ). Although it is difficult to attain these ideal conditions without complex material engineering, the low k implies a high thermal resistance and temperature difference across the TEM which raises the PV backplate’s temperature in a hybrid CPV-TE operation. The increased PV temperature may reduce the overall system’s thermodynamic performance. To understand this phenomenon, a study is needed to guide researchers in choosing the best TE material for an optimal operation of a CPV-TE system. However, no prior research effort has been made to this effect. One method of finding the optimum TE material property is to parametrically vary one or more transport parameters until an optimum point is determined. However, this method is time-consuming and inefficient since a global optimum may not be found, especially when large incremental step sizes are used. This study provides a better way to solve this problem by using a multiobjective optimization genetic algorithm (MOGA) which is fast and reliable and ensures that the global optimum is obtained. After the optimization has been conducted, the best performing conditions for maximum CPV-TE energy, exergy, and environmental (3E) performance are selected using the technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) decision algorithm. Finally, the optimization workflow is deployed for 7000 test cases generated from 10 features using the optimal machine learning (ML) algorithm. The result of the optimization chosen by the TOPSIS decision-making method generated an output power, exergy efficiency, and CO2 saving of 44.6 W, 18.3%, and 0.17 g/day, respectively. Furthermore, among other ML algorithms, the Gaussian process regression was the most accurate in learning the CPV-TE performance dataset, although it required more computational effort than some algorithms like the linear regression model.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 05-05-2020
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Date: 21-04-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-2004
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41567-021-01394-X
Abstract: Mesons comprising a beauty quark and strange quark can oscillate between particle ( $${B}_{\\mathrm{s}}^{0}$$ B s 0 ) and antiparticle ( $${\\overline{B}}_{\\mathrm{s}}^{0}$$ B ¯ s 0 ) flavour eigenstates, with a frequency given by the mass difference between heavy and light mass eigenstates, Δ m s . Here we present a measurement of Δ m s using $${B}_{\\mathrm{s}}^{0}\\to {D}_{\\mathrm{s}}^{-}$$ B s 0 → D s − π + decays produced in proton–proton collisions collected with the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The oscillation frequency is found to be Δ m s = 17.7683 ± 0.0051 ± 0.0032 ps −1 , where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. This measurement improves on the current Δ m s precision by a factor of two. We combine this result with previous LHCb measurements to determine Δ m s = 17.7656 ± 0.0057 ps −1 , which is the legacy measurement of the original LHCb detector.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2002
DOI: 10.5367/000000002101299097
Abstract: Based on the findings of a literature review of over 425 articles and reports on women in small business commissioned by the Department of Industry, Science and Tourism in Australia, factors that have a gender-specific impact on women in small business are identified. These factors include age, education and experience motivations, values and risk-taking business and financial planning financing training and business assistance needs networks and mentoring and legal issues. Suggestions are made on how the help and advice of accountants and other assistance providers may be influenced by these gender differences.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-12-2022
DOI: 10.1002/TRTR.2076
Abstract: This article describes how young children and their families and community members came together with researchers to co‐create books in children's languages about their worlds in Fiji, to foster children's multilingual literacies. The co‐creation of these books in children's and families’ Fijian homes and community settings connected with their voices, languages, and literacies, to ensure both the books and the processes for co‐creating them would be culturally sustaining and effective for children's multilingual literacy growth. Among the research team here, two were based in Fiji and the rest were based in Australia. We learned many lessons in our journey from preschools and classrooms in Australia to children's homes and communities in Fiji, which we bring back to share with teachers internationally through The Reading Teacher .
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-03-2014
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-06-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41567-022-01614-Y
Abstract: Conventional, hadronic matter consists of baryons and mesons made of three quarks and a quark–antiquark pair, respectively 1,2 . Here, we report the observation of a hadronic state containing four quarks in the Large Hadron Collider beauty experiment. This so-called tetraquark contains two charm quarks, a $$\\overline{{{{{u}}}}}$$ u ¯ and a $$\\overline{{{{{d}}}}}$$ d ¯ quark. This exotic state has a mass of approximately 3,875 MeV and manifests as a narrow peak in the mass spectrum of D 0 D 0 π + mesons just below the D *+ D 0 mass threshold. The near-threshold mass together with the narrow width reveals the resonance nature of the state.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 30-05-2023
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-05-2022
Abstract: A search for the decay B 0 → ϕμ + μ − is performed using proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV collected by the LHCb experiment and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb − 1 . No evidence for the B 0 → ϕμ + μ − decay is found and an upper limit on the branching fraction, excluding the ϕ and charmonium regions in the dimuon spectrum, of 4 . 4 × 10 − 3 at a 90% credibility level, relative to that of the $$ {B}_s^0 $$ B s 0 → ϕμ + μ − decay, is established. Using the measured $$ {B}_s^0 $$ B s 0 → ϕμ + μ − branching fraction and assuming a phase-space model, the absolute branching fraction of the decay B 0 → ϕμ + μ − in the full q 2 range is determined to be less than 3 . 2 × 10 − 9 at a 90% credibility level.
Publisher: University of South Australia
Date: 2020
DOI: 10.25954/BGMW-T811
Publisher: Edith Cowan University
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 12-04-2019
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-12-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-08-2017
DOI: 10.1080/10538712.2017.1349855
Abstract: It is widely recognized that children are sexual beings and their sexual development begins at an early age. Recently, there has been some concern about children's sexual behavior in educational settings (Knowles 2014). Obtaining a better understanding of what behaviors children are displaying in these settings provides valuable information to inform teacher education in this area as well as support systems for children. One hundred and seven Australian educators from care organizations, preschools, and government, independent, and Catholic primary schools participated in an extensive online questionnaire in relation to their understanding of and experiences with children's problematic sexual behaviors and their management strategies. Results found that 40.8% of educators had observed children displaying problematic sexual behavior in their educational setting. Educators' descriptions of their observations variously involved children physically acting out sexually with other children, sexually harassing other children, verbally attempting to coerce other children to participate in sexual behavior, and in idual displays of sexual behavior. A minority described behaviors that are considered developmentally typical but are not socially acceptable in an educational setting. These results indicate that there is a need for educator training, child education, and support services to enable an early intervention and prevention strategy to support the well-being of children.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 22-12-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-06-2020
Publisher: Lifescience Global
Date: 20-04-2022
DOI: 10.6000/1929-4409.2022.11.06
Abstract: Male violence against women and children is a pernicious global problem responsible for a high burden of injury, illness, and premature death across societies and cultures. Socio-cultural beliefs, attitudes, and practices underpin the conduct of perpetrators, targets, bystanders, and responding service providers, including police, health, and social welfare services. Bystanders’ willingness to act to help targets of family violence is a key dimension framing the social environment of using violence against family members. An anonymous internet survey of 464 Australians, mainly women, identified that around three-quarters of respondents would respond if they heard a cry for help from a nearby home. Most said they would call the police. The key deterrents to taking action were fears for their safety and their confidence that calling the police would lead to effective action. Despite their willingness to act, most believed that the typical Australian public would not do so. They attributed reluctance to take action to bystanders’ fears for their safety, beliefs that it was not their business, and not wanting to get involved. Respondents wanted more financial, housing, and legal support for victims of violence to end abusive relationships. Nationally consistent FDV laws, changes to media reporting, and school-based education were nominated as key strategies to prevent and reduce family and domestic violence.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2004
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