http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland en Fez http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:157821 This ten-chapter book was the first of its type in Australia, bringing a critical sociological perspective to the analysis of contemorary regional change. Synthesising results from over 15 years of research by the authors, the book sought to explain regional disadvantage. In then provided ideas for a platform for regional revitalisation, based upon the application of principles of 'sustainable regional development'. following publication of the book, over 30 interviews were given by the authors on national radio and television. Federal and State government ministers and departmental heads were briefed on the books findings 2008-10-23T00:00:00Z Gray, Ian og Lawrence, Geoffrey http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:267273 2012-02-08T00:00:00Z Emmison, Michael og Boreham, Paul og Clegg, Stewart http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:164233 2009-02-12T00:00:00Z Tamisari, Franca http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222616 2010-11-26T00:00:00Z de Vaus, David http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:173158 2009-04-01T00:00:00Z Johnson, Helen http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:177778 2009-05-19T00:00:00Z Lawrence, G. og Loechel, B. og Cheshire, L. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:256379 Data concerning 127 persons aged 35 years or above who died by suicide (as determined in consecutive cases by a Sydney coroner) were analyzed. Psychological autopsy (PA) interviews were conducted in 52 cases, and details were compared with the 75 cases where data were available only from coroner’s files (CF). Most characteristics of the two groups were similar, although more CF suicide victims were of Asian background and unable to speak English fluently. Consensus diagnoses were reached following detailed discussion about PA and CF cases. Logistic regression showed no significant difference between age-groups in the proportion diagnosed with major depression, which contrasts with the results of an earlier U.S. study. 2011-10-17T00:00:00Z Snowdon, John og Draper, Brian og Wyder, Marianne http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:161978 2009-01-28T00:00:00Z Lawrence, Geoffrey og Grice, Janet http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:172375 2009-03-27T00:00:00Z Lawrence, G.A. og Grice, J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:161913 2009-01-28T00:00:00Z http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:70449 2007-08-14T00:00:00Z Lawrence, G. A. og Cheshire, L. A. og Richards, C. A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:35646 Globalizing tendencies within capitalism are leading to important alterations in the structure of agricultural production and the ways food companies are involving themselves in processing and marketing. Increasingly, finance capital and transnational agribusiness have sought ways to influence, and in some cases redirect, farming activities in Australia. The penetration of farming structures by corporate capital has been hastened by state deregulation. Rather than providing detailed empirical evidence, this paper presents a broad synthesis of recent Australian research with the aim of informing readers otherwise unaware of events in the Antipodes of the forms and impacts of agri-food change in Australia. 2007-08-13T00:00:00Z Lawrence, G http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:283909 2012-10-26T00:00:00Z Taylor, B. M. og Lawrence, G. A . http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:55550 A history of agricultural production is proposed for Neolithic Catalhoyuk East, central Turkey, using archaeobotanical, environmental, population and settlement studies. In the aceramic early phase of site occupation, intensive strategies developed as changes in population and environment caused stress on food supplies produced within a limited territory. Food exchange may have been part of the social means by which Catalhoyuk and nearby contemporary settlements amalgamated into the single site of the main occupation phase. Population change, inherited territories and continuing environmental impact led to the development of an extensive system of agriculture using widely dispersed dry soils, with an intensive regime applied to nearby alluvial soils. Social tensions caused by the evolution of this system contributed to the fissioning of the site by the Chalcolithic. 2007-08-13T00:00:00Z Fairbairn, Andrew http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:82487 2007-08-15T00:00:00Z Kelly, A B http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:76700 The first part of this research assessed the longitudinal relationships between alcohol- related associative strength and alcohol use measured at two time- points, 6 months apart. Cross-lagged results support the utility of alcohol- related associative strength to predict drinking behaviours prospectively and vice versa. These results remained after competing explanations of previous use, autocorrelations between memory measures, sensation seeking and background variables of age and gender were accounted for. Findings offer further evidence for an implicit cognitions approach to drinking processes. In the second part of our study, cross-sectional analysis investigated potential mediating mechanisms in the relation of associative strength to quantity and frequency dimensions of drinking. Mediational models provide preliminary evidence that implicit memory processes may have differential effects on quantity and frequency dimensions of drinking behaviours. The results point to the possibility that increasing awareness of implicit alcohol-related associations may have utility in interventions for young adults. 2007-08-15T00:00:00Z Kelly, Adrian B. og Masterman, Paul W. og Marlatt, G. Alan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:233151 'Archaeologists make up stories about the past, but not just any stories.' Archaeological stories are written principally from the interpretation of material remains. Increasingly we also use evidence from a variety of other sources, such as genetics and linguistics. In Australia, as in other countries colonised from Europe, the stories are about the past of Indigenous peoples and so are generally believed to have an important relationship with the ethnographic description of traditional behaviour. But the relationship is not straightforward. Ethnographic accounts show that there are oral and other histories that account for the way those people are. For this reason, archaeological histories are not always easily adopted by Aboriginal Australians, particularly as they are, in almost all cases, written by non-Aboriginal people. I suggest that an alternative approach is to look at the record of ethnographies and historical material culture around Australia as indicating what is to be explained through the analysis of archaeological materials, just as geneticists and linguists begin from the analysis of the variation in modern samples. An archaeological approach to the diversity of peoples in Australia requires an understanding of the symbolic construction of identity in the past. But symbols, because of their very nature, are difficult to interpret, so special care is needed to work out how the diversity was constructed, and attention needs to be paid to different scales of analysis. Archaeology has proceeded rather as other sciences proceed, by putting up hypotheses, testing them, and moving on to the next hypothesis once the test is satisfactorily conducted. The conclusions must be understood as historical though the methods of arriving at them are like the process of science. In this regard, just as an unchanging Dreaming is said to be successively revealed as new claims are established, so archaeological history, too, is successively revealed. © 2011 Informa plc 2011-03-07T00:00:00Z Davidson, Iain http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:1161 2006-03-28T10:10:58Z Cherney, Adrian http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:162578 2009-02-02T00:00:00Z Najman, J. M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:266099 Unpaid household labor is still predominantly performed by women, despite dramatic increases in female labor force participation over the past 50 years. For this article, interviews with 76 highly skilled women who had returned to the workforce following the birth of children were analyzed to capture reflexive understandings of the balance of paid and unpaid work in households. Alongside a need to work for selfhood was a reflexive awareness of inequity in sharing household labor and dissatisfaction with the ways in which male partners contributed around the home. However, in parallel with this discourse of inequity was one of control, manifest in perceptions of male partners’ inability to competently complete household tasks. Although the discursive aspects of women’s understandings of inequality in the home can be understood as manifestations of reflexive modernization, participants’ general incapacity to effect everyday changes is better explained by the more fully socialized feminist reading of Bourdieu’s conception of embodied practice. 2012-01-25T00:00:00Z Walters, Peter og Whitehouse, Gilllian http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:294191 2013-03-19T13:49:29Z Hoffstaedter, Gerhard og Roche, Chris http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:269721 This paper explores recent critiques of aid and responses to them, with a particular focus on attempts to address accountability concerns. It describes, with particular reference to Africa and Melanesia, some of the assumptions that underpin these responses. Using the allegory of theatre, we suggest that much of the formal process of interaction between aid agencies and local actors can be seen as a ‘performance’, and what goes on behind the scenes is often, and sometimes deliberately, ignored.We review why this ‘theatre’ is constructed and how it is maintained, as well as why attempts to dismantle it, or at least change the way it functions, have not met with much success. As a result, we propose alternative ways of addressing issues of accountability, as it relates to International Aid and Cooperation, based on some rather different assumptions about states, civil society, citizens and change than those upon which many of the current attempts to address accountability are based. 2012-03-13T14:51:42Z Hoffstaedter, Gerhard og Roche, Chris http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:40311 2007-08-10T00:00:00Z Hindmarsh, R. A. og Lawrence, G. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:244989 2011-08-05T00:00:00Z Motta, J. og Barros, N. og Castellanos, M. og Algre, S. og Tovey, P. og Broom, A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:183662 2009-09-04T00:00:00Z Dunn, Jeff og Campbell, Meredith og Penn, Danielle og Dwyer, Megan og Chambers, Suzanne K. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:276854 2012-07-02T08:27:48Z Weisler, Marshall I. og Yamano, Hiroya og Hua, Quan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:261564 2011-11-17T00:00:00Z Olssen, Erik og Griffen, Clyde og Jones, Frank http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:160962 A body of research undertaken by the writer over the past five years has revealed that there are a number of factors that impact upon the use and access to complaints and alternative dispute resolution processes by disputants. In particular, the research has suggested that many disputants who may have grievances or concerns do not access or use complaints and dispute resolution services. The research identified that complainants and disputants who tend to take action when they have a complaint or a dispute tend to be located in certain geographical areas, have a higher socio economic status, and that age and gender can be an important factor in determining whether disputants will access complaints and dispute resolution processes. 2009-01-16T00:00:00Z Sourdin, Tania http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:195556 Many processes of interest in social science research are recorded as nominal variables with two or more categories such as employment status, occupation, political preference and self-reported health status. With panel data it is possible to analyse the transitions of individuals between different states of the outcome variable. The generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) often used to analyse nominal variables with repeated observations is the dynamic multinomial logit random effects model. For this model, the marginal distribution of the response does not have a closed form solution and hence numerical integration must be used to obtain maximum likelihood estimates for the model parameters. Techniques for implementing the numerical integration are computationally intensive requiring a large amount of computer processing time that increases with the number of clusters (or individuals) in the data. In this paper we utilise and compare a classical and Bayesian approach to estimate the GLMM, with specific application to analysing employment transitions of women over four waves of an Australian panel survey. We find that Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation allows more flexible model estimation and is less computationally intensive than the classical approach using adaptive Gaussian quadrature. 2010-02-17T00:00:00Z Haynes, Michele og Western, Mark og Yu, Laurel og Spallek, Melanie http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205999 2010-06-09T00:00:00Z Rosendahl, Daniel http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:204432 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Claudio, F. og Blake, B. og Taylor, R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:79159 Pollen and starch residue analyses were conducted on 24 sediment samples from archaeological sites on Maloelap and Ebon Atolls in the Marshall Islands, eastern Micronesia, and Henderson and Pitcairn Islands in the Pitcairn Group, Southeast Polynesia. The sampled islands, two of which are mystery islands (Henderson and Pitcairn), previously occupied and abandoned before European contact, comprise three types of Pacific islands: low coral atolls, raised atolls, and volcanic islands. Pollen, starch grains, calcium oxylate crystals, and xylem cells of introduced non-Colocasia Araceae (aroids) were identified in the Marshalls and Henderson (ca. 1,900 yr B.P. and 1,200 yr B.P. at the earliest, respectively). The data provide direct evidence of prehistoric horticulture in those islands and initial fossil pollen sequences from Pitcairn Island. Combined with previous studies, the data also indicate a horticultural system on Henderson comprising both field and tree crops, with seven different cultigens, including at least two species of the Araceae. Starch grains and xylem cells of Ipomoea sp., possibly introduced 1. batatas, were identified in Pitcairn Island deposits dated to the last few centuries before European contact in 1790. 2007-08-15T00:00:00Z Horrocks, Mark og Weisler, Marshall I. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:58229 This article investigates the researcher's work in the coproduction (or not) of complaint sequences in research interviews. Using a conversation analytic approach, we show how the interviewer's management of complaint sequences in a research setting is consequential for subsequent talk and thus directly affects the data generated. In the examples shown here, researchers sharing cocategorial incumbency with respondents may well provide spaces for research participants to formulate complaints. This article examines sequences of talk surrounding complaints to show how researchers generate complaints (or not) and handle unsafe complaints. Researchers are able to provoke specific types of accounts from respondents, whereas their respondents may actively resist the researchers' direction. For researchers using the interview as a method of data generation, examination of complaint sequences and how these appear in interview data provides insight into how interview talk is coproduced and managed within a socially situated setting. 2007-08-14T00:00:00Z Roulston, K. og Baker, C.D. og Liljestrom, A. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:147082 2008-06-06T00:00:00Z Piquero, A. og Brame, R. og Mazerolle, P. J. og Haapanen, R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:97131 2007-08-24T00:00:00Z Simmons, A. F. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:177782 2009-05-19T00:00:00Z Lawrence, G. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:56199 Existing archaeobotanical and palynological records of plant use in the northern New Guinea lowlands are reviewed in light of recent work at Kuk and theoretical refocusing on plant use practice. A practice-based approach is supported as the most useful way of investigating the highly problematical area of tropical plant food production. The existing direct record of past plant use in lowland New Guinea is considered woefully inadequate to achieve this task, as is that in Near Oceania and Island Southeast Asia. Archaeobotanical methods exist to fill the void, but full implementation requires a change in general archaeological and palaeoecological practice. 2007-08-13T00:00:00Z Fairbairn, Andrew http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189270 2009-12-07T00:00:00Z Asmussen, Brit http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:79089 The discovery and interpretation of microscopic residues on stone artefacts is an expanding front within archaeological science, allowing reconstructions of the past use of specific tools. With notable exceptions, however, the field has seen little theoretical development, relying largely on a rationale in which either individual findings are widely generalized or the age of the site determines the importance of the results. Here an approach to residue interpretation is proposed that draws on notions of narrative, scale, action and agency as one means of expanding the theoretical scope and application of residue studies. It is suggested that the individual resonance of the findings of residue analyses with people in the present day can be used to provide a more nuanced understanding of past actions, which in turn allows both better integration and communication of those findings within and outside the archaeological comm unity, and begins to overcome the problems associated with the typically small sample sizes analysed in stone-tool residue studies. 2007-08-15T00:00:00Z Haslam, M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205994 2010-06-09T00:00:00Z Prangnell, Jonathan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205995 2010-06-09T00:00:00Z Prangnell, Jonathan http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:261627 This paper describes an experiment in which a comparison is made between two techniques of deflocculation and clay removal generally used for palynological extraction. In the experiment, methods used commonly for pollen extraction are applied to phytolith extraction. The palynological products of the different preparation techniques are compared by reference to several attributes: the time and efficiency in the preparation method; the weight of residue resulting from each method; the palynological composition; clarity of the palynomorphs on the slides; and measures of differential loss and selection by palynomorph shape and size. The results are compared and discussed in relation to the still-settling technique which is most commonly used for phytolith extraction. It is concluded that centrifugation is a reliable and fast method that can be used to remove clays from fine-grained sediments for the extraction of phytoliths and other silica microfossils. High levels of diversity were recorded for morphotypes across all size classes. It produced superior results to the sieving technique and there is no reason to assume that it cannot beused to produce results comparable with still-settling if calculations of settling times consider the implications of sediment density on fluid viscosity. Adoption of the centrifugation method for clay removal from palynological sediment samples can greatly reduce extraction times and, therefore, it is a recommended procedure. 2011-11-18T00:00:00Z Lentfer, C. J. og Boyd, W. E. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:285770 2012-11-16T12:07:26Z Kirby, Emma R. og Broom, Alex F. og Sibbritt, David W. og Adams, Jon og Refshauge, Kathryn M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:206798 2010-07-04T00:00:00Z Tacon, Paul S. C. og Langley, Michelle og May, Sally K. og Lamilami, Ronald og Brennan, Wayne og Guse, Daryl http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:59129 Recent reviews of the desistance literature have advocated studying desistance as a process, yet current empirical methods continue to measure desistance as a discrete state. In this paper, we propose a framework for empirical research that recognizes desistance as a developmental process. This approach focuses on changes in the offending rare rather than on offending itself We describe a statistical model to implement this approach and provide an empirical example. We conclude with several suggestions for future research endeavors that arise from our conceptualization of desistance. 2007-08-14T00:00:00Z Bushway, S. D. og Piquero, A. R. og Broidy, L. M. og Cauffman, E. og Mazerolle, P. J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:1689 2006-04-06T08:54:59Z Weisler, Marshall I. og Bollt, Robert og Findlater, Amy http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:243004 2011-06-26T00:00:00Z Fitzgerald, Robin http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:257023 This paper presents the motivation, procedures, and results of an experiment that examines short episodes of animal trampling in dry and water saturated substrates in South India. While horizontal artifact displacement was similar to that modeled by other trampling experiments, vertical artifact displacement in water saturated substrates was greater than any reported experiment to date. The toolstone used in this experiment, a silicious limestone, exhibited minimal damage after trampling. Artifact inclination patterning appeared to be a potentially diagnostic middle-range marker of trampling in water saturated substrates. Given the abundant number of Paleolithic sites that are located on flat, open surfaces near water-bodies, or experience monsoonal climatic regimes, we propose that future excavations should measure artifact inclination on a regular basis. 2011-10-19T00:00:00Z Eren, Metin I. og Durant, Adam og Neudorf, Christina og Haslam, Michael og Shipton, Ceri og Bora, Janardhana og Korisettar, Ravi og Petraglia, Michael http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:189820 In discussions of Paleolithic hominin behavior it is often assumed that cut marks are an unwanted byproduct of butchery activities, and that their production causes the dulling of stone tool edges. It is also presumed that Paleolithic butchers would have refrained from making cut marks to extend the use life of their tools. We conducted a series of butchery experiments designed to test the hypothesis that cut marks affect the use life of tools. Results suggest cut marks are not associated with edge attrition of simple flake tools, and therefore it is unlikely that Paleolithic butchers would have avoided contact between bone surfaces and tool edges. Edge attrition is, however, significantly greater during skinning and disarticulation than during defleshing. This suggests that skinning and disarticulation activities would require more tool edges relative to butchery events focused purely on defleshing. Differences between the number of cut-marked bones relative to the number of stone artifacts deposited at taphonomically comparable archaeological localities may be explicable in terms of different types of butchery activities conducted there, rather than strictly the timing of carcass access by hominins. Archaeological localities with higher artifact discard rates relative to raw material availability may represent an emphasis on activities associated with higher edge attrition (e.g. skinning or disarticulation). 2009-12-11T00:00:00Z Braun, David R. og Pobiner, Brain L. og Thompson, Jessica C. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:172969 2009-03-31T15:36:37Z Smith, A.P. og Kelly, A.B.