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An in-depth political history of privatization in Central and Eastern Europe, The Politics of Greed demonstrates that the way that assets are privatized matters, both with respect to national economic performance and the successful development of the rule of law. Andrew Harrison Schwartz had unprecedented access to high-level Czech government officials during the Czech Republic's privatization process. This book is the result of the unique insights he gained and the innovative analytical framework he subsequently developed-ownership regime theory-which for the first time places ownershi

Australian government funding and policy guidelines increasingly encourage researchers to deposit their research data in institutional or subject repositories, but there are significant technical and organisational practicalities involved in achieving this. In this paper, Monash University Library staff members with responsibility for repository development and research data management describe their work together to establish the Monash University ARROW Repository as a key part of the university's overall program to improve research data management. Repository - related activities are discussed in the context of wider developments, both in technical infrastructure and in terms of professional development and outreach to researchers. Presented at 'Connections content conversations', the 15th VALA Biennial Conference and Exhibition (VALA 2010), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9-11 February 2010 handle 1959.1/539468 pid monash:81820

Monash University has a serious commitment to repositories and research data management. This is demonstrated by its leadership role in the National Systemic Information Infrastructure projects ARROW http://arrow.edu.au/, DART http://dart.edu.au/ and ARCHER http://archer.edu.au/ as well as the Monash University Information Management Strategy and specific data management activities. In recognition of its commitment to data management, Monash University is now the lead agent in the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) http://ands.org.au/. This is a national project which is working to develop good data management practice, collaboration, infrastructure and services. This paper outlines the development of government policy and programs in Australia as they relate to open access and the development of institutional repositories. It then provides an overview of the Monash University ARROW Repository http://arrow.monash.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Index. The main content of the paper is an examination of the way in which Monash University has responded to policy drivers around open access by establishing a complex, multi-purpose institutional repository that contains not only research publications, but also research data and multimedia research collections, providing discipline-specific support for publishing and dissemination. Conclusions are made about the future of the ARROW repositories and the learnings from the journey outlined above. Clarke, S.; Harrison, A.; Searle, S. Scholarly information repository services at Monash University. Presented at: IATUL 30th Annual Conference; 2009 Jun 1-4; Leuven, Belgium. 11 leaves. handle 1959.1/75384 pid monash:9267

Simulation studies show that jump performance can be improved by increasing the depth of countermovement. The purpose of this study was to determine how modifications to the depth of countermovement lead to changes in jump height and the biomechanical parameters related to center of mass displacement and force application. Twenty-nine competitive males participated in this investigation, performing nine countermovement jumps using a self-selected, a deep, and a shallow crouch position. Jump height and relative net vertical impulse were greater when using a deeper crouch position, compared to the self-selected position. Force application variables did not report differences, when the deeper countermovement was compared to the self-selected countermovement; although, the shallower countermovement showed higher values in force application parameters. The deeper countermovement jumps achieved higher velocities of the center of mass than the self-selected jumps, while shallower jumps produced lower velocities than the self-selected jumps. The results of this investigation were consistent with simulation studies, showing that deep countermovements increase net vertical impulse, leading to a higher jump height. In addition, the maximum downward velocity was higher, when the crouch position was deeper. Conversely, force-applied variables did not change when jump performance was increased.

Deploying survivable group-oriented applications and enterprise services across network infrastructures incorpo-rating the use of mobile ad hoc edge networks is of interest in military communication scenarios. This requires a more flexible approach to service discovery than conventional solutions typically provide. In this paper, we discuss our service discovery design extensions leveraging improved multicast capabilities in multi-hop, wireless networks. The design also supports multiple discovery profiles, through the use of flexible timing parameters, caching and operating modes. We also provide an overview of our working software prototype and methodology used in examining scenario-based system performance. Our experiments investigate various service provider and consumer distributions across a set of mobile ad-hoc network scenarios. Our experimental sce-narios involve node mobility and varying degrees of temporal connectivity. We illustrate the differences in success rates, time delays and network overhead of several discovery profiles. Results indicate that a one-size-fits all profile is not practical and that a flexible means of deploying specific discovery profiles for different applications is needed to optimize performance.