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Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction: Analysing the 2013 Australian federal election -- 1. An Overview of the 2013 Federal Election Campaign: Ruinous politics, cynical adversarialism and contending agendas -- 2. The Battle for Hearts and Minds -- 3. The Leadership Contest: An end to the 'messiah complex'? -- 4. The Empire Strikes Back: Mainstream media still matters -- 5. New Media in the Electoral Context: The new normal -- 6. Campaign Advertising and Communication Strategies in the Election of 2013 -- 7. Making Policy and Winning Votes: Election promises and political strategies in the 2013 campaign -- 8. How the Pollsters Called the Horse Race: Changing polling technologies, cost pressures, and the concentration on the two-party-preferred -- 9. All That Glitters: Betting markets and the 2013 Australian federal election -- 10. Nearly All About Kevin: The election as drawn by Australian cartoonists -- 11. The Liberal Campaign in the 2013 Federal Election -- 12. The Labor Party Campaign and Aftermath -- 13. The 2013 Federal Election: The Greens campaign -- 14. The Electoral Geography of the 2013 Election: Voting patterns in the states and regions for the Lower House -- 15. Regional Place-Based Identities and Party Strategies at the 2013 Federal Election -- 16. The Contest for Rural Representation: The celebrated contest over Indi and the fate of the independents -- 17. The Advent of Two New Micro Parties: The Palmer United Party and Katter's Australia Party -- 18. An Impecunious Election: The significance of fiscal and economic issues -- 19. Ethnic Voting and Asylum Issues -- 20. The Environment in the 2013 Election: Controversies over climate change, the carbon tax and conservation -- 21. Unstable Bipartisanship or Off the Agenda? Social issues during the 2013 election campaign.

This book provides a truly comprehensive analysis of the 2013 federal election in Australia, which brought the conservative Abbott government to power, consigned the fractious Labor Party to the Opposition benches and ended the 'hung parliament' experiment of 2010–13 in which the Greens and three independents lent their support to form a minority Labor government

Introduction: Analysing the 2013 Australian Federal Election - Carol Johnson, John Wanna and Hsu-Ann Lee, S. 1. - Part 1. Campaign Themes and Context. - 1. An Overview of the 2013 Federal Election Campaign: Ruinous politics, cynical adversarialism and contending agendas - Jennifer Rayner and John Wanna, S. 17. - 2. The Battle for Hearts and Minds - Carol Johnson, S. 35. - 3. The Leadership Contest: An end to the 'messiah complex'? - Paul Strangio and James Walter, S. 49. - Part 2. Vital Images of the Campaign-The Media, Campaign Advertising, Polls, Predictions and the Cartoons. - 4. The Empire Strikes Back: Mainstream media still matters - Wayne Errington, S. 67. - 5. New Media in the Electoral Context: The new normal - Peter John Chen, S. 81. - 6. Campaign Advertising and Communication Strategies in the Election of 2013 - Sally Young, S. 95. - 7. Making Policy and Winning Votes: Election promises and political strategies in the 2013 campaign - Nicholas Reece, S. 109. - 8. How the Pollsters Called the Horse Race: Changing polling technologies, cost pressures, and the concentration on the two-party-preferred - Murray Goot, S. 123. - 9. All That Glitters: Betting markets and the 2013 Australian federal election - Simon Jackman, S. 143. - 10. Nearly All About Kevin: The election as drawn by Australian cartoonists - Haydon Manning and Robert Phiddian, S. 161. - Part 3. Party Perspectives. - 11. The Liberal Campaign in the 2013 Federal Election - Brian Loughnane, S. 191. - 12. The Labor Party Campaign and Aftermath - George Wright, S. 203. - 13. The 2013 Federal Election: The Greens campaign - Andrew Bartlett, S. 211. - Part 4. Regional Variations in Voting Trends. - 14. The Electoral Geography of the 2013 Election: Voting patterns in the states and regions for the Lower House - Dean Jaensch with Narelle Miragliotta and Rae Wear, S. 225. - 15. Regional Place-Based Identities and Party Strategies at the 2013 Federal Election - Geoff Robinson, S. 249. - 16. The Contest for

This book provides a truly comprehensive analysis of the 2013 federal election in Australia, which brought the conservative Abbott government to power, consigned the fractious Labor Party to the Opposition benches and ended the 'hung parliament' experiment of 2010–13 in which the Greens and three independents lent their support to form a minority Labor government.

Preface and acknowledgments / Carol Johnson, Vera Mackie and Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Australia, the Asia-Pacific and the social sciences / Vera Mackie, Carol Johnson and Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Part I. Engaging diversity in the social sciences -- Australia in the global dynamic of social science : de-centering Europe and de-mythologising the 'Asian century' / Raewyn Connell -- Beyond divisions and towards internationalism : social sciences in the twenty-first century / Sujata Patel -- Part II. Regional issues in the social sciences -- Inter-Asia referencing and shifting frames of comparison / Chua Beng Huat -- Beyond the culturalist problematic : towards a global social science in the Asian century? / Kanishka Jayasuriya -- Voices and choices in reproductive rights : scholarship and activism / Sylvia Estrada-Claudio -- Beyond Consumasia : the neglected challenges / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Rethinking economics in the Asian century : the market and state in China / Leong H. Liew -- Part III. Australian social sciences in the Asian century and beyond -- Australia's future in the Asian century / Ken Henry -- Asia literacy : a deeply problematic metaphor / Ariel Heryanto -- Challenges for Australian higher education in the Asian century / Simon Marginson.

In this collection of essays, we reflect on what it means to practise the social sciences in the twenty-first century. The book brings together leading social scientists from the Asia-Pacific region. We argue for the benefit of dialogue between the diverse theories and methods of social sciences in the region, the role of the social sciences in addressing real-world problems, the need to transcend national boundaries in addressing regional problems, and the challenges for an increasingly globalised higher education sector in the twenty-first century. The chapters are a combination of theoretical reflections and locally focused case studies of processes that are embedded in global dynamics and the changing geopolitics of knowledge. In an increasingly connected world, these reflections will be of global relevance

First-year college students face a difficult task of self-regulating in a formal academic environment, especially those lacking the fundamental skills to do so. The purpose of this study is to assess the self-regulated processes of first-year students at a Minority Serving Institution, or MSI. Participants consisted of 822 freshmen (519 females; 303 males) enrolled in an orientation course at a Minority Serving Institution in the United States. Collection of data included using the Self-Regulation Questionnaire designed to assess self-regulatory processes through self-report. The questionnaire was administered through Taskstream system and analyzed through version SPSS 23 for continued analysis of data. The data were analyzed using a regression analysis to determine whether correlations existed within or between variables. The self-regulation score was calculated by totaling all the items.
Analysis of data from this study indicated that females (r = -.12, p<.001) and transfer students (r = .14, p<.001) had significantly higher SRQ scores. The data also revealed that for self-regulation, more transfer students (41.5%) placed in the high (intact) category than did non-transfer students (24.7%). A stepwise regression model predicting the SRQ total score were based on six candidate demographic variables. The final two variable model was significant (p = .001) and accounted for 3.2% of the variance in the SRQ total score. Specifically, SRQ total scores were higher for transfer students (β = .13, p = .001) and for females (β = -.11, p = .001).
Among 822 participants, 306 fell into the low self-regulation range; 293 were in the mid-level self-regulation range; and 223 ranked in the high self-regulation range. Results stemming from the dataset revealed that thirty-seven percent of first-year students have low self-regulatory scores. Nearly 50% of the male students were less favorable to self-regulate than female students during their experience in post-secondary education.

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The involvement of people with lived experience (service participants) is mandatory within UK social work education, although the form this takes varies significantly between organisations. This article outlines the final phase of a two-year research project focused on understanding the mechanisms which support and develop the meaningful and sustainable involvement of people with lived experience in social work education within a Higher Education Institution and a Local Authority Teaching Partnership in the East of England. The research team worked collaboratively using co-production principles and possessed lived experience backgrounds. This article presents findings from a qualitative study using interviews and questionnaires that aimed to deepen understanding of the concept and practice of embedding lived experience in social work education. Thematic analysis identified a dedicated role with the motivation and drive to achieve sustained inclusion in creative ways was the underpinning of meaningful and sustainable lived experience involvement. This was alongside opportunities to shape diverse and relational learning experiences, values reflecting compassionate and respectful relationships, and power sharing, accompanied by practical resources, can create a culture change. Together, these principles, practices and values have been instrumental in creating meaningful and sustainable lived experience involvement within social work education.

Concern over stratospheric ozone depletion has prompted several government agencies in North America to establish networks of spectroradiometers for monitoring solar ultraviolet irradiance at the surface of the Earth. To assess the ability of spectroradiometers to accurately measure solar ultraviolet irradiance, and to compare the results between instruments of different monitoring networks, the third North American Interagency Intercomparison of Ultraviolet Monitoring Spectroradiometers was held June 17–25, 1996 at Table Mountain outside Boulder, Colorado, USA. This Intercomparison was coordinated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Participating agencies were the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Science Foundation; the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; the Department of Agriculture; and the Atmospheric Environment Service, Canada. The spectral irradiances of participants' calibrated standard lamps were measured at NIST prior to the Intercomparison. The spectral irradiance scales used by the participants agreed with the NIST scale within the combined uncertainties, and for all lamps the spectral irradiance in the horizontal position was lower than that in the vertical position. Instruments were characterized for wavelength uncertainty, bandwidth, stray-light rejection, and spectral irradiance responsivity, the latter with NIST standard lamps operating in specially designed field calibration units. The spectral irradiance responsivity demonstrated instabilities for some instruments. Synchronized spectral scans of the solar irradiance were performed over several days. Using the spectral irradiance responsivities determined with the NIST standard lamps, the measured solar irradiances had some unexplained systematic differences between instruments.

Concern over stratospheric ozone depletion has prompted several government agencies in North America to establish networks of spectroradiometers for monitoring solar ultraviolet irradiance at the surface of the Earth. To assess the ability of spectroradiometers to accurately measure solar ultraviolet irradiance, and to compare the results between instruments of different monitoring networks, the second North American Intercomparison of Ultraviolet Monitoring Spectroradiometers was held June 12 to 23, 1995 at Table Mountain outside Boulder, Colorado, USA. This Intercomparison was coordinated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Participating agencies were the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Science Foundation; the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; the Department of Agriculture; and the Atmospheric Environment Service, Canada. Instruments were characterized for wavelength uncertainty, bandwidth, stray-light rejection, and spectral irradiance responsivity, the latter with a NIST standard lamp operating in a specially designed field calibration unit. The spectral irradiance responsivity, determined once indoors and twice outdoors, demonstrated that while the responsivities changed upon moving the instruments, they were relatively stable when the instruments remained outdoors. Synchronized spectral scans of the solar irradiance were performed over several days. Using the spectral irradiance responsivities determined with the NIST standard lamp and three different convolution functions to account for the different bandwidths of the instruments, the measured solar irradiances generally agreed to within 3 %.