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    Space to Think
    WILLIAMS, G (ACER (Australian Council for Educational Research Press), 2004)
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    Honeybee odometry: Performance in varying natural terrain
    Tautz, J ; Zhang, SW ; Spaethe, J ; Brockmann, A ; Si, A ; Srinivasan, M ; Tom Collett, (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2004-07)
    Recent studies have shown that honeybees flying through short, narrow tunnels with visually textured walls perform waggle dances that indicate a much greater flight distance than that actually flown. These studies suggest that the bee's "odometer" is driven by the optic flow (image motion) that is experienced during flight. One might therefore expect that, when bees fly to a food source through a varying outdoor landscape, their waggle dances would depend upon the nature of the terrain experienced en route. We trained honeybees to visit feeders positioned along two routes, each 580 m long. One route was exclusively over land. The other was initially over land, then over water and, finally, again over land. Flight over water resulted in a significantly flatter slope of the waggle-duration versus distance regression, compared to flight over land. The mean visual contrast of the scenes was significantly greater over land than over water. The results reveal that, in outdoor flight, the honeybee's odometer does not run at a constant rate; rather, the rate depends upon the properties of the terrain. The bee's perception of distance flown is therefore not absolute, but scene-dependent. These findings raise important and interesting questions about how these animals navigate reliably.
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    Recent developments in national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health strategy.
    Anderson, IP (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2004-11-18)
    In this paper I will describe some of the sentinel events in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy and strategy during 2003 and the early part of 2004. This will involve discussion on the:* National Strategic Framework in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health* National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Mental Health and Social and Emotional Well Being 2004-2009* National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework* The roll-out of the Primary Health Care Access Program* The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey and the National Indigenous Health SurveyThese developments are consistent with a policy agenda that has evolved, in general terms, since the release of the National Aboriginal Health Strategy in 1989. However, I will also consider significant developments in the broader context for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, particularly the decision made in early 2004 by the Howard government to abolish the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC). While the key events and developments that are reported in this paper elaborate on an agenda that has been developing for more than a decade, the decision to abolish ATSIC is likely to have a revolutionary impact on the future development of Aboriginal health strategy.
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    Speech perception results for children using cochlear implants who have additional special needs
    Dettman, SJ ; Fiket, H ; Dowell, RC ; Charlton, M ; Williams, SS ; Tomov, AM ; Barker, EJ (ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL ASSOC FOR THE DEAF, 2004)
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    Making language education
    Lo Bianco, J (BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS, 2003)
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    Invented languages and new worlds
    LO BIANCO, J (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2004-04)
    THE LIFE of a language involves relationships between linguistic elements and extra-linguistic contexts. The linguistic elements are varied and multiple, involving both written and spoken symbols and grammars, while the extra-linguistic contexts are the innumerable societies, cultures, and sub-cultures of humankind, including its worlds of reality, imagination, and ideology. This article discusses invented languages, partly in order to explore the motivations and schemes of their inventors and partly to compare languages created for international use (often called international auxiliary languages or IALs) with English, which itself functions as an IAL but is very much an uninvented language.
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    Review: The changing face of electoral politics in Sri Lanka (1994-2004) by L. Jayasuriya
    LO BIANCO, J (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2005)
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    Adolescent resilience: a concept analysis
    Olsson, CA ; Bond, L ; Burns, JM ; Vella-Brodrick, DA ; Sawyer, SM (ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2003-02)
    There is need for greater clarity around the concept of resilience as it relates to the period of adolescence. Literature on resilience published between 1990 and 2000 and relevant to adolescents aged between 12- and 18-years of age was reviewed with the aim of examining the various uses of the term, and commenting on how specific ways of conceptualizing of resilience may help develop new research agendas in the field. By bringing together ideas on resilience from a variety of research and clinical perspectives, the purpose of the review is to explicate core elements of resilience in more precise ways, in the hope that greater conceptual clarity will lead to a range of tailored interventions that benefit young people.
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