The anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regime in Australia: perceptions of regulated businesses in Australia

In Australia, legislation was introduced in 2006 that requires specified businesses to forward reports of certain financial transactions to the Australian Government agency, AUSTRAC. This report examines the findings of the survey on the perceptions of Australian businesses to the reporting regime in Australia. As part of the Australian Institute of Criminology’s research in to Australia’s anti-money laundering/counter-terrorism financing regime, a survey was conducted in mid 2009 of all business with reporting obligations to AUSTRAC.&nbsp

Exploring resilience for effective learning in computer science education

Background and context: Many factors have been shown to be important for supporting effective learning and teaching – and thus progression and success – in formal educational contexts. While factors such as key introductory-level computer science knowledge and skills, as well as pre-university learning and qualifications, have been extensively explored, the impact of measures of positive psychology are less well understood for the discipline of computer science. This preliminary work investigates the relationships between effective learning and success, and two measures of positive psychology, Grit (Duckworth’s 12-item Grit scale) [6] and the Nicolson McBride Resilience Quotient (NMRQ) [3], in success in first-year undergraduate computer science to provide insight into the factors that impact on the transition from secondary education into tertiary education

An Oral History of Alice Walters

A transcript of an interview with Alice Walters regarding her time as a one-room schoolhouse teacher.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/ors/1306/thumbnail.jp

Improving information sharing in Chinese hospitals with electronic medical record: The resource-based view and social capital theory perspective

This research implicates that in large Chinese hospitals, in the individual level, EMR is able to make clinicians get access to more sources of information and knowledge to increase their working efficiency and make the right decision; in organisational level, EMR helps Chinese hospitals achieve effective cross-boundary information sharing and integration and promotes organisational learning and organisational memory in these hospitals

HUBS AND CENTERS AS TRANSITIONAL CHANGE STRATEGY FOR LIBRARY COLLABORATION

Libraries of science and technology universities worldwide are adapting to a changing environment where cyberinfrastructure, eResearch, and new technology-intensive approaches to teaching and learning are transforming the very nature of universities. While many have adopted new technologies and the resources and expertise to manage them, this is only an initial step. Libraries are experimenting with organizational models that will transform their work capacity and expertise. The goal of these libraries is being an entity that feeds and produces collaborative synergies between faculty, students, information professionals, and technologists. Virginia Tech, among the top research universities in the United States, and its constituent libraries are adopting a unique organizational change strategy that implements eScience and cyberlearning roles. This two-part strategy begins with establishing ‘hubs’. The hubs are collaborative, cross-departmental groups in which library employees of varying backgrounds and skills come together on common themes of strategic importance. The hubs act in one sense as a ‘research & development lab’ to explore, imagine, and brainstorm new library initiatives as well as engender deeper understandings of the university’s core academic enterprise. They also are a ‘strike force’ that implements, supports, and assesses emerging library roles in relation to the institution’s academic mission. In these ways, hubs also create learning and scholarship opportunities for their participants beyond the individual task-oriented projects. The second part of this strategy involves the establishment of research and service centers. At Virginia Tech, these are the Center for Innovation in Learning (CIL) and the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS). These centers are designed to incubate and sustain new collaborative synergies between libraries, researchers, instructors, and learners by providing expertise, resources, and new infrastructures to address specific academic research-based needs. The centers become focal points for library action, focused on learning and research activities within other university entities. Benefits to library employees come in the form of scholarship and research with potential for collaboration and new initiatives as relationships grow among project participants. The authors will discuss transformational aspects of the change management model, with lessons from their early experiences. They also will discuss how the model can be adapted by other libraries of science and technology-centered universities

Determination of energy barrier profiles for high-k dielectric materials utilizing bias-dependent internal photoemission

We utilize bias-dependent internal photoemission spectroscopy to determine the metal/dielectric/silicon energy barrier profiles for Au/HfO2/Si and Au/Al2O3/Si structures. The results indicate that the applied voltage plays a large role in determining the effective barrier height and we attribute much of the variation in this case to image potential barrier lowering in measurements of single layers. By measuring current at both positive and negative voltages, we are able to measure the band offsets from Si and also to determine the flatband voltage and the barrier asymmetry at 0 V. Our SiO2 calibration sample yielded a conduction band offset value of 3.03+/-0.1 eV. Measurements on HfO2 give a conduction band offset value of 2.7+/-0.2 eV (at 1.0 V) and Al2O3 gives an offset of 3.3+/-0.1 (at 1.0 V). We believe that interfacial SiO2 layers may dominate the electron transport from silicon for these films. The Au/HfO2 barrier height was found to be 3.6+/-0.1 eV while the Au/Al2O3 barrier is 3.5+/-0.1 eV

Feasibility of Conducting Research in a Student Physiotherapy Clinic in Australia: A Pilot Study

Purpose: Allied health student clinics are growing in number and scope, providing a potential untapped avenue for clinical research. The aim of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of conducting a longitudinal research study over four sessions in a student physiotherapy clinic under the supervision of registered physiotherapists as clinical educators. Method: This feasibility study gathered data on recruitment in a designated time period, attendance rates and adherence of participants to the treatment, with evaluation also of the acceptability of the entire protocol to participants (patients, students, clinical educators) and to the research team. Results: Data were collected over 12 weeks. Surveys providing feedback on the acceptability of the study protocol were completed by six of the 18 patients, nine of the 12 students, and four of the seven clinical educators. All patient participants felt that the student clinic was an appropriate research site and none considered the study protocol disruptive or intrusive of their time. Students reported that the study protocol did not increase their workload or impose major barriers to treatment or building rapport with patients. Conclusion: While conducting research in a student clinic is feasible, the setting may be more appropriate for cross-sectional studies. Student engagement and educational value could be maximised by integrating the research into curriculum

Personal storytelling for wellbeing; form, content and process

Nature and scope: This enquiry examines personal storytelling in the form of the practice of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is seen as a craft, a creative making practice. The enquiry examines what impact engaging in this practice has on wellbeing. It is a practice based enquiry which draws on art and design research methods and considers the many facets that the author brings to the table, including her identity as a maker and occupational therapy educator and especially, the way her own engagement with making enabled personal, transformational learning and recovery from mental illness, shame and grief. The purpose of the enquiry is to bring these new insights back to occupational therapy and science. Contribution to knowledge: Knowing through making, as conceptualised through art and design research methodologies, has the potential to enable occupational therapy and occupational science to realise the original intensions of its founders. A study of the collaborative process of digital story telling has offered a worked example of this. Comparing and contrasting digital story telling with other collaborative making practices uncovered what digital story telling is and what it is not. Digital story telling is a high-status craft. The key to understanding its potential impact on wellbeing is to understand it as a craft – a making practice. Further, the potential impact on wellbeing is determined not by the process or properties of digital story telling itself, but by the care and attention to the detail of the experience and how connections between the people involved are made. A digital story telling workshop is a non-generalisable event, unique to that time and place and those people. What digital story telling is not, is an ideal method of co-production. Its uses as a participatory arts-based research methodology has been well documented, but I contend that the ideal collaboration is one where the team is assembled first. I propose The crystal model of transformational scholarship in human health and wellbeing which sets out how this may be accomplished

Evaluation of the southerly low‐level jet climatology for the central United States as simulated by NARCCAP regional climate models

An ensemble of simulations from four regional climate models (RCMs) driven by a global reanalysis was obtained from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP) and used to evaluate the ability of the RCMs to simulate the long‐term (1979–2000) climatology of southerly low‐level jets (S‐LLJs) in the central United States. The RCM‐derived S‐LLJ climatologies were evaluated against rawinsonde observations for the same period. The use of a small ensemble of RCM simulations helped to identify model differences and assisted with interpretation. The RCMs generally reproduced the broad spatial patterns and temporal variations of jet frequency and average jet height and speed. No model consistently outperformed the others in all aspects of the evaluation, although differences existed between models in the placement, migration and relative strength of ‘hotspots’ of more frequent jet activity. In particular, three of the four models placed the centre of greatest nocturnal S‐LLJ activity during the warm season in northern and central Texas, whereas for the other model the greatest jet activity was located in the south‐central plains (Kansas/Oklahoma). The magnitude of a S‐LLJ frequency maximum over south Texas also varied between models, with simulated frequencies exceeding observed frequencies for some models but substantially underestimating for others. The evaluation presented here highlights the potential applications of RCMs in S‐LLJ research for future climate and other assessment studies that require three‐dimensional data with relatively high spatial and temporal resolutions. The overall performance of the models in reproducing the long‐term S‐LLJ climatology supports the use of NARCCAP RCM simulations in climate assessments for the central United States where S‐LLJs are an important contributor to the regional climatology.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/134503/1/joc4636_am.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/134503/2/joc4636.pd

A linear approach to the head as form

My work for several years now has consisted almost entirely of drawings, the medium I consider to be the most sensitive of the visual expressions. Drawing can be a very intimate experience for both the artist and his public because the hand of the artist is so clearly exposed in the visual product. Drawing, as I use it, is a seeing, thinking, interpreting, and learning activity rather than a process whose end result is an impressively executed and finished product. The drawings are ends in themselves for me, not steps in the preparation of a larger, carefully designed painting or print. If in preparation for anything, each drawing is necessarily preliminary to the next one, for the discoveries and need for articulation of new discoveries are never ending. I have chosen the human figure, particularly the head, for extended involvement, because it offers for me the greatest challenges in both the realm of form description and subjective spirit. In the past I attempted many times to capture the life and force of a personality, but the drawings lacked a convincing sense of form needed to make them believable as powerful identities. I am now concentrating on the head as a form, discovering the many ways a line can bend and describe a form