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Variability in the Physical and Transport Properties regarding Drying Behaviour for Regrowth and Plantation Blackbutt Timber in New South WalesCABARDO, SHERRYN JACINTO January 2007 (has links)
Doctor of Philosophy / The impact of the variability in timber properties has been a challenge for companies involved in drying timber, which have to handle these variations and at the same time meet the requirements stated in the Australian/New Zealand Standard for the assessment of dried timber quality (2001). The definition of quality considered in this study is to both minimize the dispersion of the final moisture contents in dried timber boards, and to reduce cracking/checking. Anecdotal evidence also suggests that the timber properties of plantation timber appear to be more variable compared with the properties of old growth or regrowth timber. Therefore, this thesis focuses on measuring the amount of variability of timber properties by conducting drying experiments using timber boards taken from different locations within a single tree and between trees, for regrowth and plantation blackbutt timber (Eucalyptus pilularis Sm.). The quantified variabilities were then used to develop optimized timber drying schedules that are intended to dry regrowth and plantation blackbutt boards as quickly as possible (highest productivity) without cracking (quality loss) in the presence of large biological variability. Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis Sm.) was the chosen species for this thesis because of its abundance in New South Wales. It is considered to be one of the most important eucalypts for planting in NSW. It has superior growth and high survival rates compared with other eucalyptus species, and the timber is marketable. Lastly, conventional kiln drying was considered in this thesis compared with other drying methods such as air drying and solar kilns due to (arguably) better control of the drying conditions and faster throughput in conventional drying. The higher costs of conventional kiln drying are compensated, relative to open—air drying, by the reduction in stock level and faster turnaround of green to dried timber. Firstly, an overview of previous work on the development and evaluation of different drying schedules was given. Previous work either developed optimized drying schedules to minimize the dispersion of the final moisture contents, or reduced cracking/checking. No schedule has been developed to satisfy both aspects of quality. In addition, only one report has taken into consideration biological variability in the development of an optimized drying schedule, but this approach has not been tested experimentally. In addition, the information on the variability of biological parameters was very limited, was assumed to be normally distributed, and the parameters were assumed to be uncorrelated with one another. There is little information about the variability in timber properties with respect to drying, including how strongly they are correlated. This thesis has particularly addressed this aspect of the problem. Drying experiments using conventional kiln drying were conducted. The properties of two regrowth blackbutt logs (36 boards) and two plantation blackbutt logs (24 boards), have been measured and analysed for the within—tree variation of timber properties. In a separate set of experiments, two boards were taken from each log, from a total of 12 regrowth logs and 10 plantation logs, to study the between—tree variability of the timber properties of blackbutt timber. The timber properties measured consisted of the basic density, the initial moisture content, the diffusion coefficient, the failure strain, the failure stress, the modulus of elasticity and the shrinkage. The amount of cracking or checking and the dispersion of final moisture contents were assessed. 90% of the regrowth timber and 90% of the plantation timber fell in the Class C quality for surface checking, regrowth timber fell in Class B for end checking, while the end checks in the plantation timber fell in Class C for quality. Regrowth timber therefore appeared here to have slightly better quality than plantation material when dried with the same drying schedule, as here, in agreement with anecdotal suggestions that plantation material is more difficult to dry well. 95% of both the regrowth and the plantation timber fell in Class E quality for internal checking. Overall, along with the assessment that both regrowth and plantation timber was Class C quality for the variation of final moisture contents, these regrowth timber boards and the plantation timber boards fell in the lower quality classes for the criteria of checking and target moisture content for appearance products. Quality Classes A and B are higher quality categories, for appearance—grade products. The dispersion of the final moisture contents was greater with the plantation blackbutt timber (0.24 within; 0.36 between) than with the regrowth blackbutt timber (0.19 within; 0.15 between) for both within—tree and between—trees variability, respectively. In general, the diffusion coefficients for the timber in this thesis ranged between 1.14×10—10 and 6.77×10—10 m2s—1. There was a significant difference between the diffusion coefficients of the plantation and regrowth blackbutt timber for the within—tree test at a 0.05 significance level. The variation in the diffusion coefficients within a single plantation blackbutt log was higher than the variation in the diffusion coefficients within a regrowth blackbutt log. In addition, there was also a significant difference between the diffusion coefficients of regrowth and plantation blackbutt timber at a 0.05 significance level for between—trees variability. The initial moisture contents, the diffusion coefficient, and shrinkage decreased from pith to bark and the basic density and the modulus of elasticity (MOE) increased in the same direction, within a tree, for both regrowth and plantation blackbutt. The results of the analysis of variance (ANOVA) showed that radial and circumferential effects were significant sources of the within—tree variations for the diffusion coefficient, the initial moisture content, the basic density, the failure strain, the failure stress, the modulus of elasticity and shrinkage. A similar result was found for the ANOVA between trees. The ANOVA results also indicated that the smaller—sized samples used for the analysis (i.e. sub—samples of eight boards for the within—tree test of regrowth blackbutt, sub—samples of four boards for the between—trees test of regrowth blackbutt, sub—samples of six boards for the within—tree test of plantation blackbutt, and sub—samples of six boards for the between—trees test of plantation timber) were sufficient to measure the key effects adequately for the variabilities of the physical, transport, and mechanical properties, provided that all combinations of sub—samples were considered. There was no significant difference between the ANOVA results for these smaller sized samples (less than 1% change), considering all combinations, and the ANOVA results for the ‘full’ board cases. Though the sample sizes were unusually small to represent population statistics by most standards, all combinations of the sub-sets were assessed and an averaged picture of the situation with smaller sample sizes was given. Moreover, MOEs (both green and kiln—dried states) of plantation blackbutt were lower compared with the MOE of regrowth blackbutt. It is possible that the MOE was correlated with the basic density, and the basic density of regrowth blackbutt was higher than the basic density of plantation blackbutt. The shrinkage in the tangential direction was approximately twice the amount of radial shrinkage. The ranges of the measured radial shrinkage values were 0.024 – 0.094 mm mm-1 for regrowth blackbutt and 0.037 – 0.125 mm mm-1 for plantation blackbutt. The higher shrinkage values for plantation blackbutt timber show that plantation material is less stable dimensionally, and this situation is possibly due to the high juvenile wood content and low basic density. These differential (tangential:radial) shrinkage values ranged from 1.12 – 2.93 for regrowth blackbutt and 1.09 – 2.92 for plantation blackbutt. Tests were conducted to determine the degree of statistical normality for the distribution of each property (physical, transport, and mechanical). The results of the normality tests showed that most timber properties for regrowth and plantation blackbutt timber were distributed normally on a linear scale based on the W test, both within and between—trees. On the other hand, some timber properties showed a better fit with the three—parameter lognormal distribution, such as the diffusion coefficient and the green failure strain for within—tree variability of regrowth timber. The means and standard deviations of these distributions were further analysed by applying significance tests at a 0.05 level. For regrowth blackbutt, the data for the initial moisture content, the basic density, the diffusion coefficient, and shrinkage showed no significant differences, comparing the cases within and between—trees. The mechanical behaviour, however, was significantly different between each group and suggested that the two regrowth trees used for the within—tree test were stiffer than the 12 trees used for the between—trees test. It was possible that the mechanical properties were dependent on the geographic location where the tree was felled, and the heartwood content of each log. On the other hand, since all the plantation logs used for the within and between—trees tests were taken from one location, the mechanical properties were not significantly different within the plantation sample. The silviculture and the age of all the plantation trees were the same, which might have contributed to the small variation of the timber properties between the within—tree and between—trees cases for plantation material. Lastly, a significance test was conducted to compare the properties of regrowth and plantation blackbutt timber. Most timber properties (except for the initial moisture content) were significantly different between regrowth and plantation blackbutt. Plantation blackbutt timber had a lower basic density, higher diffusion coefficient and shrinkage, and the modulus of elasticity (both in its green and dried states) was lower compared with regrowth blackbutt timber. In addition to geographic location, heartwood/juvenile content, maturity (age), and differences in microfibril angle may have affected these timber properties in plantation blackbutt timber. For all the experiments, the possibility that there is a correlation between high initial moisture contents, higher diffusion coefficients, low basic densities, and low green modulus of elasticity’s (MOE) was assessed using principal components analysis (PCA). A principal components analysis was performed on the four parameters: the basic density, the initial moisture content, the diffusion coefficient, and the green MOE. The results of the PCA showed that the principal component for the within—tree and between—trees test accounted for 93% and 94% (for regrowth), and 92% and 90% (for plantation), respectively, of the total amount of variation within these parameters, giving some support for the mentioned correlation between the parameters. The strong correlation between the diffusion coefficient and the basic density, D; the diffusion coefficient and the initial moisture content, Xi; and the diffusion coefficient, D, and the modulus of elasticity, EG were represented by empirical equations. The F significance test was conducted to determine if the equations from the within—tree and between—trees tests, and the regrowth blackbutt and plantation blackbutt tests, were significantly different. The difference between the equations for the within—tree and between—trees variability of plantation blackbutt timber (Factual= 1.35 Fexpected= 2.13) was the only result that showed no significant difference. A possible reason for this finding is that the boards from the within—tree and between—tree variability tests, hence the trees, were all felled from one location. On the other hand, the other tests compared boards that were taken from trees felled from different locations, including the regrowth blackbutt within trees, compared with between trees. The results of the significance tests imply that boards taken from one location, whether they are within—tree and between—tree samples, have probably come from the same overall population. Hence using any of the correlations (within—tree or between—trees for plantation blackbutt) would be suitable to estimate the diffusion coefficient of other plantation blackbutt samples at the same location. Overall, these empirical equations can be used to estimate important drying properties of other regrowth and plantation blackbutt samples, such as the diffusion coefficient, using easily measured properties, like the initial moisture content or the basic density, as long as the boards are taken from the same age group (i.e. regrowth or plantation) and the same location. Thereafter, the blackbutt timber boards may be segregated based on the range of diffusion coefficients as estimated from the densities or the initial moisture contents. Hence a suitable drying schedule should be chosen for each segregated group. Collapse was not significant for blackbutt samples studied in this thesis, and possibly this timber species in general, but it may be significant for other eucalyptus species such as collapse—prone Eucalyptus regnans F. Muell (mountain ash) This potential limitation means that care is needed in applying the relationships found in this thesis to collapse—prone species. The same drying model was used to assess the effects of different drying schedules (i.e. increasing and decreasing the dry—bulb and wet—bulb temperatures of the original drying schedule by 5oC and 10oC) and of the potential correlations between the diffusion coefficient, the green MOE, the shrinkage coefficient (calculated from the tangential shrinkage), and the initial moisture content on the variability of final moisture contents, when the average moisture content within a stack of timber reached 15%. In addition, the maximum strain attained by the timber boards was also predicted. The results show that for regrowth blackbutt timber and accounting for within—tree variability, there was no relationship between the length of the drying schedule and the dispersion of final moisture contents. As the temperatures increased, the dispersion of the final moisture contents showed no consistent trend. The absence of a clear trend may be due to the different locations where the logs used for the within—tree test of regrowth variability were taken. On the other hand, the between—tree variability sensitivity tests for both regrowth and plantation blackbutt timber and the within—tree variability sensitivity test for plantation blackbutt timber show a relationship between the length of the drying schedule and the dispersion of final moisture contents. The dispersion of the final moisture contents decreased as temperatures increased. Generally, the ‘+10oC’ drying schedule gave the shortest time for the stack of timber to reach the target average moisture content, and its conditions produced the smallest dispersion of final moisture contents. It was also observed, however, for all sensitivity tests, that as the temperature of the drying schedule increased, the average predicted values decreased for the maximum strains reached. This is a very unusual result, because normally the strains and stresses would be expected to increase with increasing temperature. A possible reason for this is that within a piece of timber, as the temperatures increase, the diffusion coefficient will increase because the internal average temperature increases, so the internal resistance to mass transfer decreases, which leads to the moisture content gradient decreasing, even though the drying rate may slightly increase. This decreases both the drying time and the maximum strain reached as the temperature increases. There are limitations, however, associated when using high temperatures in kiln drying such as collapse and timber discolouration. The optimization technique created by Pordage (2006) was improved by using a large number of measurements to quantify the variability in the properties of blackbutt timber. The first simulation accounted for the between—tree variability of the biological parameters in regrowth blackbutt, and the second simulation accounted for both the within and between—tree variability of the timber properties in plantation blackbutt. Since location was observed as a main source of variability, the timber properties used for each simulation were taken from the logs that were felled from the same location. The mean and the standard deviations of the initial moisture content, the reference diffusion coefficient, and the shrinkage coefficient of regrowth and plantation blackbutt timber boards measured in the actual drying experiments, along with the covariance between these properties represented by a covariance matrix, were used for each simulation. The total drying time of the optimized drying schedule of plantation blackbutt timber was longer (an additional 168 hours, i.e. 472 hours) compared with the total drying time of the optimized drying schedule of regrowth blackbutt timber (304 hours). Due to the greater variability present in plantation blackbutt, slower drying is required. Moreover, the total drying times from the ‘regrowth blackbutt’ optimization and the ‘plantation blackbutt’ optimization (which both accounted for variability) were shorter compared with the total drying time of the original drying schedule for 28 mm—thick mixed—sawn blackbutt boards, i.e. 504 hours. On the other hand, the total drying times of the optimized drying schedules of regrowth and plantation blackbutt timber were greater than the total drying time (152 hours) predicted by Pordage’s (2006) optimized drying schedule accounting for the variability of Eucalyptus paniculata (grey ironbark). He had limited information on the variability of the parameters of grey ironbark and thus used an estimate from another eucalyptus species, Eucalyptus obliqua (messmate), whereas in this thesis, the variabilities for regrowth and plantation blackbutt used for the optimization technique were measured and part of the scope for this study. Overall, this is a typical application of the data obtained in this thesis to the optimization of drying schedules.
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The excellent principal - what do students think? : Perceptions of selected senior primary school students about the role of the principal in three New South Wales public primary schoolsCorish, Sylvia, n/a January 1991 (has links)
The research outlined in this thesis explores the issue of the
effective principal through the perceptions of a sample of senior
primary aged school students. The study originated due to a concern
that too much of the current literature concerning effective schools
and effective principals relies on the views of significant adults.
Given that students are the focus of the school's and principal's
energy it is difficult to understand why their views have not been
sought more frequently. This study was initiated and conducted in an
effort to determine what is was that students expected of the
effective principal.
The research is based on content analysis of the written responses
from a sample of one hundred and ninety five senior primary aged
school students aged between ten and twelve years from an
education district in an education region of the New South Wales
Public School System and in addition one to one interviews with a
group of thirty students. The analysis resulted in the development of
two sets of descriptors. One set of descriptors outline the fourteen
most significant Behaviour Descriptors of the effective principal as
perceived by the senior primary aged students surveyed while the
other set outlines the eleven most significant Quality Descriptors of
the effective principal.
These two sets of descriptors of the effective principal have much
support in the effective schools research. One area notably different
however is the emphasis given by the students to the need for the
principal to develop positive, warm and caring relationships with
each student in the school. Although students were realistic in their
understanding of what this implied they were adamant and
consistent in their desire for such a relationship in order that the
principal be deemed effective.
The results of the study provide specific, clear, unambiguous
descriptions of behaviours and qualities expected of the effective
principal by the students surveyed. The descriptors are presented in
a manner useful to practitioners.
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Study of necessary skill areas and perceived skill deficits in Australian educational administratorsKelly, Robin B., n/a January 1982 (has links)
This field study is the result of observations of
stress and disquiet among educational administrators.
Two survey instruments, one to a population of
A.C.E.A. members in five states and two territories
of Australia, and a refined survey to administrators in
two Metropolitan West Inspectorates in N.S.W. were employed.
An attempt was made to look at perceived deficits,
in areas considered necessary skills for educational
administrators, over variables of state, sex, age,
level of institution, government/nongovernment systems,
status, tenure and educational administration qualifications.
From the outset it was realized that the nature of
the study would have to be essentially to generate
directions of future specific research since there was
little Australian research in the areas being surveyed.
This became more obvious as data was collected and
possible causes for stress, perceived deficits, and
the related poor morale multiplied with each set of
comments received.
The only conclusion that could be unequivocal
was that the areas of administrator morale, training,
selection, support, style and role perception are
urgently in need of in-depth research as are the
effects on educational institutions of policy processes,
socio-political factors and community expectations.
Even with a wider literature search it becomes
obvious that there is a need for researchers to
rethink theory in terms of social realities and
human and socio-political possibilities rather
than continue building theories which have little
or no effect on the education received by an
Australian student in the 1980's.
It is equally evident that the solution for
the obvious administrator malaise and powerlessness
expressed by respondents is in their own hands via
a quest for excellence in education, relevance to
society and socio-political understanding.
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Years of change in science education in New South Wales, 1962-1973Prentice, Anthony, n/a January 1981 (has links)
This work is a case-study in curriculum development in secondary school science education, especially senior science, in New South Wales
during the decade 1962-1972.
The situation became exceptionally complex and grew out of the
reorganisation of the secondary school curriculum recommended by the
so-called Wyndham Committee in 1957. A completely new concept of science
was offered to students of the State when biology was given increased
status beside the physical sciences - physics and chemistry. This
combination of material was examined in a very special way and Science
(in this broad sense) was also tied administratively to mathematics.
In 1966 a complicated syllabus was presented to students and
teachers with negligible advance preparation of teachers, no period of
familiarisation and no in-service support. Almost no explanation of
the rationale behind such a novel and untried scheme was offered.
The response of teachers and students was initially one of
stunned silence. Very quickly this developed into hostility to the
content, to its serious overloading and to the restriction of practical
work. Teachers, parents and some members of the Universities expressed
grave misgivings not only about the suitability of the course as a
preparation for tertiary studies, but also about the completely
unsatisfactory nature of the texts offered, about the examination method
adopted, and about the restrictions on the personal aspirations of
students for some degree of specialisation in their senior studies.
The Universities became very interested in the discussions then
appearing in the newspapers. Academics took sides either attacking or
defending the concepts underlying the course; their points of view
being based largely on the performance of the students at university
level.
The campaign for change began with a band of very vocal teachers
working through the Teachers' Federation. These were supported by
academics in promoting a series of public meetings. Parallel to this a
campaign spearheaded by Professor Alexander of Sydney University was
initiated in the Press. The defence of the new courses was taken up by
Professors Messel and Butler of the same University. To maintain the
impetus for the change in curriculum, the Secondary Schools Science
Association was formed by persons interested and very involved in the
curriculum.
Intricately woven into the pattern of discontent with and
strenuous defence of the Wyndham courses, among teachers there was a
groundswell of positive aspirations towards the understanding of and
clarification of the aims of science teaching in New South Wales.
This resulted in the preparation of a document which contained
guidelines for both teaching and curriculum development: it was
subsequently adopted by the Board of Senior School Studies.
This same Board was, by then, very much aware of the discontent
with the new courses and various modifications of them were considered.
Attempts to accommodate teacher, student and university aspirations
resulted in firstly the appointment of Curriculum Development Officers
to assist the Science Syllabus Committee and, parallel to this, a
willingness to permit trial of science courses which had been developed
for use in the United States of America and in other states of
Australia.
Once the decision was made in December, 1969 to permit the
trialling of other courses, a Committee was set up to evaluate these
courses as well as the existing Wyndham courses. This Committee reported
favourably on the new courses and after some false starts the Board of
Senior School Studies not only extended the trials of the new courses,
but in 1975 the old Wyndham courses were abolished and superseded.
Complications arising from the personalities involved, from people
with vested interests in certain educational theories, from the authors
of the specially published texts, from the Publishing Houses which were
to provide the new texts became very tangled indeed. Similar difficulties
were encountered by the Curriculum Development Officers who later
directed the adoption of the new courses to a conclusion satisfactory to
the Science Syllabus Committee and the Board of Senior School Studies.
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The setting, structural control, geochemistry and mantle source of the Monaro Volcanic Province, southeastern New South WalesRoach, Ian C., n/a January 1999 (has links)
The Monaro Volcanic Province (MVP) is an Oligocene-Eocene intraplate basaltic lava
field situated in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales between the towns of
Cooma and Bombala. The lava pile of the MVP consists of basal sub-alkali rocks
(olivine tholeiite, transitional basalt) capped by a number of thick ankaramite lavas,
above which lie less numerous alkali rocks including alkali olivine basalt, nepheline
basanite and olivine nephelinite. Intercalated with the lava flows are massive and
matrix-supported alkali and ankaramitic hyaloclastites, alkali pillow basalts, rare tuffs,
bauxitic weathering profiles, lacustrine sediments and reworked late Cretaceous to early
Tertiary river gravels. The lava pile is intruded through by numerous volcanic plugs
and dykes and rare maars. Volcanic centres are principally concentrated in two NW-SE
trending zones parallel to major crustal-scale fractures in the Palaeozoic basement.
Centres almost always lie over the intersections of two or more conjugate strike-slip or
transverse fractures. The stratigraphy, whole-rock geochemistry and Sr and Nd isotopic
signatures of rocks from the MVP indicate magma-genesis initially from an
asthenospheric source with EM1 characteristics, gradually becoming more lithospheric
with DM source characteristics. The long-lived nature of the MVP rules out a mantle
plume-type source for magmas. Instead, a diapiric source is envisaged. The MVP
mantle xenolith suite appears to have equilibrated at slightly higher temperatures for
given pressures than the Newer Volcanics Province suite suggesting the palaeogeotherm
for the MVP was slightly hotter than the "South East Australian" geotherm. Large
amounts of amphibole (pargasitic hornblende, pargasite, ferroan pargasite and
kaersutite) occuring within the more silica-undersaturated rocks of the MVP, and rarely
within Iherzolitic xenoliths, are interpreted to have formed as selvages on mantle veins
in contact with peridotite beneath the MVP. Amphiboles were later sampled by
magmas rising through the same conduits and were brought to the surface. MVP
ankaramite lavas feature < 2cm clinopyroxene porphyrocrysts, the cores of which are
shown to have crystallised at ca. 18 kb pressure or ca. 54 km depth. This defines the
base of the local crust within the MVP region. Data from the MVP support a landscape
evolution model based on the isostatic rise of the Southern Highlands due to
voluminous magmatic underplating since the Cretaceous. Data further support limited
denudation since the Early Tertiary based on a pulsatory but high palaeogeotherm.
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A qualitative assessment of small business establishmentStone, Kim, n/a January 1988 (has links)
A study of the nature of entrepreneurial activity
and its use in furthering our understanding of
small business establishment. An ethnographic
study is presented of the business perspectives of
a group of business entrepreneurs in the Riverina
region of N.S.W. and a conceptual framework is
developed for consideration of various qualitative
issues involved in establishing a small business.
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The impact of sewage effluent on the benthic macroinvertebrate community of the upper Thredbo RiverTiller, David, n/a January 1988 (has links)
Thredbo Village is a year round alpine resort located in Kosciusko
National Park, south eastern New South Wales. Treated sewage effluent
from Thredbo Village is discharged to the upper Thredbo River. The
river is a rocky bottomed, high mountain stream (> 1,200 m altitude in
the study area) flowing predominantly through subalpine woodland, the
only major impact on the river within the study area was that of the
Thredbo Village alpine ski resort.
Nutrient concentrations were measured in the upper Thredbo River
monthly from January to September 1983 at 9 sites along the river, both
upstream and downstream of the effluent discharge. In addition,
invertebrates were collected at the same sites in January, April and July
1983.
The near pristine section of the upper Thredbo River upstream of
Thredbo Village was low in phosphorus and nitrogen (<20 mg m-3 and
<100 mg m-3 respectively). The sewage effluent discharge was high in
phosphorus and nitrogen (up to 5,000 mg m-3 and 28,000 mg m-3
respectively). Phosphorus generally returned to concentrations similar to
those measured in the pristine sections by 3.5 kilometres downstream of
the discharge. Nitrogen (mostly in the form of nitrate and nitrite)
often remained elevated down to the most downstream site, 8 kilometres
downstream of the effluent discharge.
The elevated nutrient concentrations immediately downstream of the
effluent discharge stimulated the growth of attached filamentous algae in
January when conditions for growth were most favourable. It is
concluded that this growth provided an additional food source for several
invertebrate taxa, Cricolopus sp. 12E and 160E (Diptera, Chironomidae),
Conoesucidae sp. TR6, Oxyethira columba (Trichoptera), Nais sp.,
Aeolosomatus niveum (Oligochaeta), and Austrocercella tillyardi
(Plecoptera), which occurred in higher numbers downstream of the effluent
discharge. Downstream of the effluent discharge the taxonomic
composition of the invertebrate community was not altered substantially
from that upstream, although there was a significant increase in the
abundance of the taxa which could take advantage of the increased food
resource. The changes in the invertebrate community were not evident
3.5 kilometres downstream of the effluent discharge, which corresponded
to the return of phosphorus concentrations to background levels. There
were increased abundances of several invertebrate taxa downstream of
both Thredbo Village and the rubbish tip in January which were
consistent with, but not as great as, those downstream of the sewage
effluent discharge. This was likely to be a result of increased nutrient
loads from urban runoff and tip leachate at these sites which possibly
lead to increased algal productivity. However, nutrient concentrations at
these sites were not notably higher than at the control site. The
sewage effluent discharge resulted in only small changes to the
invertebrate community in April or July 1983.
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Principal facilitator behaviour in curriculum implementationWarren, Stan, n/a January 1991 (has links)
In the past ten years the emergence of studies in the area of
effective schools has focused a good deal of attention on the
role adopted by principals in the process of change. Few can
deny the importance of this role in the development and
implementation of new/changing curriculum statements. This
is especially noticeable in schools that are part of a large
'centralised' system.
This study is concerned with the role adopted by four
principals in schools in Wollongong N.S.W. where a new
syllabus in Writing K-6 was being implemented. It examined
the implementation activities used and then focused
specifically on the role adopted by the principal in that
process.1
To enable the success or otherwise of the implementation
activities to be identified, the C-BAM techniques developed by
Hall, Hord et al were modified and used. The role adopted by
each of the four principals was then considered in an effort to
identify the contribution it made to the implementation
activities.
The findings suggest that the principal does play a significant
role in Curriculum Implementation and that he/she needs
additional skills and understandings to enable the process used
to be successful. It is recommended that the C-BAM techniques
would be one useful tool that principals could use.
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The builders of Shoalhaven 1840s-1890s : a social history and cultural geographyHobbs, Roger, n/a January 2005 (has links)
According to architect Robin Boyd (1952 rev. ed. 1968), ʹthe Australian country house took its pattern, not directly from the English countryside, but second‐hand from the Australian cityʹ in the nineteenth century. This thesis explores the introduction of domestic architectural ideas in the Shoalhaven Local Government Area (LGA) from the 1840s to the 1890s, and concludes that Boydʹs premise, including his five principal plan types, applied in general, subject to regional geographical parameters.
The Illawarra and South Coast districts dominated New South Wales dairy farming by the 1860s. The transfer of architectural ideas to the Shoalhaven LGA was facilitated by steam shipping lines from 1855, as the dominant vector, which provided access to the Sydney markets. Architectural development began with a masonry construction boom during the 1860s and 1870s, followed by a timber construction boom in the 1880s and 1890s. In the Ulladulla District development was influenced by local stonemasons and Sydney architects from the 1860s‐1870s, as well as regional developments in the Illawarra, which also influenced Kangaroo Valley in the 1870s. The Nowra Area, the administrative and commercial focus of the Shoalhaven District from 1870, was where architectural developments in timber and masonry were greatest, influenced by regional developments, Sydney architects and carpenters and builders of German origin and training. A local architectural grammar and style began to develop in the 1880s and 1890s, assisted by the railway, which arrived at Bomaderry near Nowra in 1893. However, the depression and drought of the 1890s resulted in a hiatus in construction, exacerbated by the First World War 1914‐1918, in common with the rest of New South Wales.
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Genetic variation in Hypericum perforatum L. and resistance to the biological control agent Aculus hyperici liro / Gwenda Mary Mayo.Mayo, Gwenda Mary January 2004 (has links)
"October 2004" / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-243) / xvi, 243 leaves : ill. (col.), maps, plates ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Agriculture and Wine, Discipline of Plant and Pest Science, 2004
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