Protecting the remnants

Our native flora and fauna do best in their own environment, so one way of protecting them is to conserve and maintain areas of remnant vegetation throughout our farmlands. This is the aim of the Remnant Vegetation Protection Scheme in which the State Government helps private landholders to voluntarily fence off and manage areas of native vegetation on farms

Tempting the Japanese taste buds

Australia needs to differentiate its product from those of other countries: it needs to do something a bit different toget products on the shelves and sold. Japanese consumers expect the price to be reasonable and the flavor to be good. They will buy on the image the product cenveys, and the image or \u27message\u27 the country of manufacture has in Japan, - Toshio Tada

Comparison of Geometric Figures

Although the geometric equality of figures has already been studied thoroughly, little work has been done about the comparison of unequal figures. We are used to compare only similar figures but would it be meaningful to compare non similar ones? In this paper we attempt to build a context where it is possible to compare even non similar figures. Adopting Klein’s view for the Euclidean Geometry, we defined a relation “≤ ” as: S1 ≤ S2 whenever there is a Euclidean isometry f :R2 →R2 , so that . This relation is not an order because there are figures (subsets of R2 ) 1 2 S , S so that 1 2 S ≤ S , 2 1 S ≤ S and 1 2 S , S not geometrically equal. Our goal is to avoid this paradox and to track down non-trivial classes of figures where the relation “ ≤ ” becomes, at least, a partial order. For example there is no paradox if we restrict our attention just to compact figures; thus, we can compare a closed disc with a closed triangular region. Further we present some other “good” classes of figures and we extend our study to the Hyperbolic and to the Elliptic geometry. Eventually, there are still some open and quite challenging issues, which we present at the last part of the paper

Keterampilan Komunikasi Interpersonal Guru Dalam Menyampaikan Materi Pelajaran Kepada Murid Tunarungu Di Slb-B Karya Mulia Surabaya

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui keterampilan komunikasi interpersonal yang dimiliki guru dalam menyampaikan materi pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia kepada murid tunarungu di SLB-B Karya Mulia Surabaya. Keterampilan komunikasi interpersonal ditinjau berdasarkan tujuh indikator yang dikemukakan oleh DeVito, yaitu; keterbukaan, empati, sikap positif, kebersatuan, manajemen interaksi, daya ekspresi, dan orientasi kepada orang lain.Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan jenis penelitian deskriptif dan metode penelitian survey. Total sampling yang terdapat dalam penelitian ini berjumlah 77 responden. Berdasarkan hasil survey, keterampilan komunikasi interpersonal yang dimiliki guru ada pada kategori tinggi pada semua indikator. Indikator keterbukaan merupakan indikator yang paling tinggi dan indikator empati merupakan yang terendah diantara indikator lainnya

Indigenising Photovoice: Putting Māori Cultural Values Into a Research Method

In this article, we discuss Indigenous epistemology that ensures research is inclusive of Māori cultural values, such as collectivity and storytelling. We explain an adapted photovoice methodology used in research investigating Māori (the Indigenous peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand) patient's perspectives on rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing) and primary health care. Traditional photovoice theoretical frameworks and methodology were modified to allow Māori participants to document and communicate their experiences of health and the health services they utilised. Moreover, we describe the necessity for cultural adaptation of the theoretical framework and methodology of photovoice to highlight culturally appropriate research practice for Māori.In diesem Artikel diskutieren wir, wie Forschung durch den Einbezug einer indigenen Epistemologie inklusiv für kulturelle Maori-Werte wie Kollektivität und mündliche Überlieferung konzipiert werden kann. Wir veranschaulichen dies am Beispiel der Adaption von Photovoice zur Erforschung von Maori-Patient/innenperspektiven auf traditionelle Maori-Heilverfahren und Gesundheitsversorgung. Der herkömmliche Photovoice-Ansatz wurde dabei so modifiziert, dass Maori ihre Erfahrungen mit Gesundheit bzw. dem Gesundheitssystem dokumentieren und kommunizieren konnten. Wir versuchen so auf die Notwendigkeit der kulturellen Adaption theoretischer und methodologischer Vorannahmen zu verweisen, um zu kulturell sensitiven Forschungspraktiken zu kommen

Perceptions and misperceptions of computing careers

Two issues were addressed. 1. Women are underrepresented in computing courses and in the computing workplace. Despite almost two decades of recognition of the issue and of intervention to correct it, the proportion of women in computing continues to decline. 2. There is a shortage of people with appropriate skills and qualifications in computing, and, more specifically, a need for people with particular personality attributes. There is an increasing demand for computing personnel to have good communication and interpersonal skills, but the predominant personality types of computing people do not include these characteristics. The research relating to the underrepresentation of women was conducted as a series of interviews with university students, female computing professionals and secondary school girls. The main findings of these studies were: 1) schoolgirls are interested in careers that are interesting and varied and provide opportunities for interaction with others; 2) schoolgirls perceive computing as involving working alone; 3) women working in computing describe careers that are interesting, varied, and people-oriented; 4) tertiary computing students equated \u27computing\u27 with \u27programming\u27; and 5) single interventions are unlikely to result in individuals in the targeted group deciding to study computing. The perception of schoolgirls that computing involves working alone, which is reinforced by many tertiary computing courses, suggested that the type of person who is likely to be attracted to computing is one who would prefer to work alone. It was predicted that schoolboys would have similar perceptions of computing. Thus, computing is likely to attract students who would prefer to work alone. For various social and stereotypical reasons addressed by previous research, these students will be predominantly male. In the final study, preferred Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and Strong Interest Inventory personality types were suggested for computer programmers, systems designers and systems analysts. The existing literature and the \u27types\u27 of 72 study participants tended to confirm that 1) certain personality types are overrepresented in computing; 2) these types are well suited to programming and design tasks; and 3) there is an underrepresentation of individuals who have the combination of analytical, communication and people skills that are required particularly of analysts but also of many others working in computing today. Interviews with participants supported the earlier findings that computing careers are perceived by students to be technical and involve working in isolation, but for many computing people this is not the reality