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corporations within Australia. The paper aims to show how workplace use is predicted to change in the near future and the … survey of senior corporate property managers throughout Australia. Using Likert scale responses participants' attitudes to … assets by large corporations within Australia. It will be of practical use to all practitioners and service providers …
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Sydney's ITT sector: Northern Sydney as 'Australia's silicon valley'?', Australian Geographer, Vol. 36, pp.145-169) that … critically examines the claim that the Northern Sydney region is Australia's Silicon Valley. Examination of this industry …
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The objectives of this study were to ascertain consumer knowledge and behaviour about hypertension and treatment and to compare these with health care providers' perceptions (of 'most' consumers). The design for the study was a problem detection study (PDS): focus groups and then survey. Focus...
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The positive relationship between household income and child health is well documented in the child health literature but the precise mechanisms via which income generates better health and whether the income gradient is increasing in child age are not well understood. This paper presents new...
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Count data with excess zeros relative to a Poisson distribution are common in many biomedical applications. A popular approach to the analysis of such data is to use a zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) regression model. Often, because of the hierarchical Study design or the data collection procedure,...
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Currently in Australia, the topic on the supply of general practitioners (GPs) is controversial; there is an argument … many government and medical school representatives who believe strongly that Australia is presently facing a chronic … that there is a supply shortage of doctors in many parts of Australia, and in particular, that there is a shortage of GPs …
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The story of pay equity in Australia is usually told in terms of the influence of wage setting institutions, and …
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The Libyan economy relies heavily on increasing oil revenues, which may deteriorate with a future oil price decline. The Libyan economy performed as well as resource poor countries over the past few decades. The oil booms of 1973 and 1979 brought unprecedented income to Libya but, despite the...
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conditions on a disease-specific basis. In Australia, aggregate data on the Medicare benefits paid for “GP attendances” are …
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We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations. We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...
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