Bullying victimization and racial discrimination in Australian children
Author/editor: Priest, N, King, T, Becares, L & Kavanagh, A.
Year published: 2016
Objectives. To compare the prevalence of bullying victimization and racial discrimination by ethnicity.Methods. We completed a cross-sectional analysis of 3956 children aged 12 to 13 years from wave 5 (2011–2012) of the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children.…
Compulsory income management in the Northern Territory-evaluating its impact
Author/editor: Bray, JR, Gray, M, Hand, K & Katz, I.
Year published: 2016
Australia has been experimenting with constraining the ways in which welfare recipients can spend their income support payments, limiting their ability to access cash and purchase some products. The policy objectives include to reduce spending on alcohol, gambling, pornography and tobacco in favour…
Crime, greenspace and life satisfaction: An evaluation of the New Zealand experience
Author/editor: Fleming, C, Manning, M & Ambrey, C.
Year published: 2016
In this study we explore the relationship between the benefits of greenspace and fear of crime in New Zealand neighbourhoods. To ensure that the full benefits of investment in greenspace are realised, it is important to understand the complex interactions that occur within natural environments and…
Determinants of the productivity change for the banking sector in Egypt
Author/editor: Jresiat A, Hassan, H & Shankar, S
Year published: 2016
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Energy efficiency in the ACI (ASEAN-CHINA-INDIA) countries: Is there room for regional policy coordination?
Author/editor: Gangopadhyay P & Shankar, S.
Year published: 2016
Energy efficiency and conservation are the major tools in the reduction of environmental impactand ecological footprints of the energy sector, particularly with regard to climate change. Energyefficiency also contributes to reducing external dependence and vulnerabilities of nations to shocksin the…
Evaluating betterment projects
Author/editor: Fleming, C, Manning, M & Smith, C.
Year published: 2016
In the past decade Australia has experienced a series of large-scale, severe natural disasters including catastrophic bushfires, widespread and repeated flooding, and intense storms and cyclones. There appears to be a prima facie case for rebuilding damaged infrastructure to a more disaster…
Hierarchical spatially varying coefficient and temporal dynamic process models using spTDyn
Author/editor: Bakar KS, Kokic, P & Jin, H
Year published: 2016
Bayesian hierarchical spatio-temporal models are becoming increasingly important due to the increasing availability of space-time data in various domains. In this paper we develop a user friendly R package, spTDyn, for spatio-temporal modelling. It can be used to fit models with spatially varying…