Griffith Research Online: Recent submissions
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Do return to work interventions for workers with disabilities and health conditions achieve employment outcomes and are they cost effective? A systematic narrative review
(Employee Relations, 2018)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate existing evidence on whether return to work interventions achieve employment outcomes and are cost effective in order to better inform those needing accommodations at work, ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Syntax-Preserving Belief Change Operators for Logic Programs
(ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 2018)Recent methods have adapted the well-established AGM and belief base frameworks for belief change to cover belief revision in logic programs. In this study here, we present two new sets of belief change operators for logic ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Is coherence catalytic?
(Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 2018)Quantum coherence, the ability to control the phases in superposition states is a resource, and it is of crucial importance, therefore, to understand how it is consumed in use. It has been suggested that catalytic coherence ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Innovating in First Year Pre-service Teacher Education: “Buddy Up”
(Teacher Education, 2016)In response to the changing regulatory climate of initial teacher education, coupled with first year students’ needs to effectively transition to higher education, the School of Education at RMIT University reconceptualised ...BOOK CHAPTER -
Patient and family members' perceptions of family participation in care on acute care wards
(Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2018)Aim The aim of this study was to explore, from the perspective of patients and family members within an adult acute care ward: (a) their beliefs and attitudes towards family participation in patient care and (b) staff ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
A collective artefact design of decision support systems: design science research perspective
(Information Technology and People, 2014)Purpose – The knowledge of artefact design in design science research can have an important application in the improvement of decision support systems (DSS) development research. Recent DSS literature has identified a ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Cost-effectiveness of continuity of midwifery care for women with complex pregnancy: a structured review of the literature
(Health Economics Review, 2018)Critical evaluation of the cost-effectiveness and clinical effectiveness of continuity of midwifery care models for women experiencing complex pregnancy is an important consideration in the review and reform of maternity ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Examination of opportunity for compost to reduce synthetic nitrogen fertiliser requirements of sugarcane and nitrous oxide emissions
(Australian Society of Sugar Cane Technologists. Proceedings, 2016)A replicated trial was conducted in sugarcane at Maroochy River (SE Queensland) over three years to assess the potential for partially replacing use of synthetic nitrogen (N) fertiliser with compost and a biological N ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
China's Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment Flows
(World Economics, 2018)The article focuses on the economic growth of China due to its economic reforms in 1978 and the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI). Topics discussed include achievement of Millennium Development Goals (MDG) in 2015 ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Cooperation and Closure in Bilateral Trade Negotiations
(2017)Little is known about cooperation between nations engaged in a regional economic association. This study investigates cooperation and closure between Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies engaged in ...REPORT -
Progress in marker-assisted breeding of papaya in Australia
(Acta Horticulturae, 2016)Inconsistent eating quality of papaya, Carica papaya, is a major concern for consumers in Australia and limits expansion of the papaya industry. The challenge for the papaya industry in Australia is to improve flavour and ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
OSPM: A design methodology for open strategic planning
(Information & Management, 2018)This study employs a design science perspective to propose a methodology for open strategic planning (OSP). Habermas’ discourse theory and Bryson’s strategy change cycle are used as informing kernel theories. A methodology ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Exploring the barriers to palliative care practice in neonatal nursing: A focus group study
(Neonatal, Paediatric and Child Health Nursing, 2011)Palliative care for the neonatal population has become more topical in recent years given the escalation of technological and medical advances and higher neonatal survival rates. Some newborns, however, will still die in ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Clozapine and shared care: the consumer experience
(Australian Journal of Primary Health, 2018)Clozapine is a high-risk medication with restrictions that may increase consumer treatment burden. Shared care may improve access, reduce burden and promote primary care management. However, knowledge about the consumer ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Clinical decision-making in the management of whiplash associated disorders
(2018-07)This thesis investigates various aspects of clinical decisionOmaking in the management of individuals with acute whiplash associated disorders (WAD), with a primary focus on physiotherapy professionals and one available ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Three Essays on Stock Market Return Predictability:The Role of Average Correlation of Industry Portfolio Returns
(2018-07)Stock market return predictability has long been one of the key and unsolved areas of research in finance. Although the stock market has been argued to follow a random walk, researchers have struggled to improve the accuracy ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
New Zealand Tongan and Australian Tongan Youth Outcomes: The Impact of Parent-Youth Acculturation Gaps, Enculturation Gaps, Family and School-related Factors.
(2017-12)Background: Current statistics indicate a concern for the mental health and psychological well-being of Tongan youth in New Zealand and Australia. This impacts on their social and educational functioning and drives ongoing ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Performance of Full Scale Tests of Piles in Different Soil Conditions
(2018-08-16)With the soaring requirement for building space in metropolises, high-rise buildings are becoming increasingly popular. Pile foundations can resist more loading through end bearing and friction resistance than can shallow ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The tale of two (very different) cities - Mapping the urban transport oil vulnerability of Brisbane and Hong Kong
(Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2017)The volatility in oil prices has been a major concern to car dependent cities, in particular the period of higher oil prices circa 2005–2015. Higher transport costs could exacerbate transport disadvantage and cause social ...JOURNAL ARTICLE -
Acquiring global footprints: Internationalization strategy of Chinese multinational enterprises and human resource implications
(Journal of Business Research, 2018)The expansion of the Chinese firms' global footprints in recent years reveals their growingly evident strategic intent and emerging capability, and calls for the need to (re)examine how emerging multinational enterprises' ...JOURNAL ARTICLE