The organisation of the Australian Country Party (N.S.W), 1946 to 1962

Founded by primary producers and encouraged by separatists, the Country Party in New South Wales won parliamentary representation in 1920 and a share in government in 1927* By 1941 it had been in power in a series of coalition governments for 12 of the preceding 14 years in New South Wales and for 13 of the preceding 18 years in federal politics. The great advance of the A.L.P. in the 1940s did not destroy the Country Party, as it did the U.A.P., but caused it to alter its structure. From a political organisation run by and for the primary producers' organisations it emerged in 1946 as a 'popular' political party with a mass membership no longer directly connected to industry organisations

Australian National Political Attitudes, 1967 (M344)

From the documentation: This project is a long-range study of the attitudes and behavior of Australian voters and politicians. The major method of investigation is a large-scale sample survey. Topics include: media consumption; social interactions about politics; perceptions of political parties; attitudes toward political leaders; political party identification; most important problems; Australia's role in Vietnam; attitudes toward the Queen and Royal Family; death penalty; pensions and social services; links to the United States; censorship; big business; migration; hotel drink hours; government aid to schools; organizational memberships; interest in politics; left-right political leanings; financial well-being; political party affiliation; father's political preference; mother's political preference; interest in politics; first federal election voted in; voting habits; perceptions of social class; social class self-identification; job rating of the Minister of Parliament; attention paid to elections; sympathy for strikers; education; union membership; birthplace of parents; length of residence; own or rent; father's occupation; father's supervisory role; father's religion; mother's religion; religiosity; marital status; household composition; occupation; R's supervisory role; spouse party preference; spouse education; spouse religion; spouse father's occupation; spouse father's supervisory role; social class of parents; spouse parents political party preference; and income

International Workbook: Political Participation (Australia)

Exercise sub-dataset for the Workbook ´Political Participation´. Topics: self-assessment of social class; social origins; party identification; political interest; interest in election result; memberships and club activities; class consciousness and probability of class conflicts in the country; left-right consciousness; perceived differences between the parties; party inclination of father or mother during childhood; judgement on personal economic situation in comparison to earlier; personal contact with parliamentary representative; most important problems of the government; political attitudes. Demography: age; sex; marital status; religious denomination; frequency of church attendance; school education; employment; characteristics of head of household; degree of urbanization; union membership; employment, occupational position and occupation of father; local residency (classified).Übungsteildatensatz zum Workbook "Political Participation". Themen: Selbsteinschätzung der Schichtzugehörigkeit; soziale Herkunft; Parteiidentifikation; Politikinteresse; Interesse am Wahlausgang; Mitgliedschaften und Vereinsaktivitäten; Klassenbewußtsein und Wahrscheinlichkeit von Klassenkonflikten im Lande; Links-Rechts-Bewußtsein; perzipierte Unterschiede zwischen den Parteien; Parteineigung des Vaters bzw. der Mutter während der Kindheit; Beurteilung der persönlichen wirtschaftlichen Situation im Vergleich zu früher; persönlicher Kontakt zum Volksvertreter; wichtigste Probleme der Regierung; politische Einstellungen. Demographie: Alter; Geschlecht; Familienstand; Konfession; Kirchgangshäufigkeit; Schulbildung; Berufstätigkeit; Charakteristika des Haushaltsvorstands; Urbanisierungsgrad; Gewerkschaftsmitgliedschaft; Berufstätigkeit, berufliche Position und Beruf des Vaters; Ortsansässigkeit (klassiert)

Exercise increases blood flow to locomotor, vestibular, cardiorespiratory and visual regions of the brain in miniature swine

The purpose of these experiments was to use radiolabelled microspheres to measure blood flow distribution within the brain, and in particular to areas associated with motor function, maintenance of equilibrium, cardiorespiratory control, vision, hearing and smell, at rest and during exercise in miniature swine. Exercise consisted of steady-state treadmill running at intensities eliciting 70 and 100 % maximal oxygen consumption ().Mean arterial pressure was elevated by 17 and 26 % above that at rest during exercise at 70 and 100 %, respectively.Mean brain blood flow increased 24 and 25 % at 70 and 100 %, respectively. Blood flow was not locally elevated to cortical regions associated with motor and somatosensory functions during exercise, but was increased to several subcortical areas that are involved in the control of locomotion.Exercise elevated perfusion and diminished vascular resistance in several regions of the brain related to the maintenance of equilibrium (vestibular nuclear area, cerebellar ventral vermis and floccular lobe), cardiorespiratory control (medulla and pons), and vision (dorsal occipital cortex, superior colliculi and lateral geniculate body). Conversely, blood flow to regions related to hearing (cochlear nuclei, inferior colliculi and temporal cortex) and smell (olfactory bulbs and rhinencephalon) were unaltered by exercise and associated with increases in vascular resistance.The data indicate that blood flow increases as a function of exercise intensity to several areas of the brain associated with integrating sensory input and motor output (anterior and dorsal cerebellar vermis) and the maintenance of equilibrium (vestibular nuclei). Additionally, there was an intensity-dependent decrease of vascular resistance in the dorsal cerebellar vermis