Objective Transport infrastructure impacts public health. WestConnex in Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), is Australia's largest and most expensive transport project. Concerns about the motorway project resulted a NSW parliamentary inquiry into project's impacts. Submissions to were analysed investigate their emphasis on health cost-benefit analysis underpinning business case. Study type Quantitat...

This study used reflective practitioner methodology to investigate how to improve the quality of statistical education. During the study, this methodology, curricula, pedagogical practices, assessment and a framework for learning to learn statistics were all developed as means of improving the quality of statistical education. Also documented was the move from being a classroom teacher of stati...

Water security is a key challenge in the 21st century. Consequently, several indicator-based frameworks exist to evaluate this issue along with water management. We use political ecological perspective identify if City Blueprint Approach (CBA) integrates aspects of hydrosociality assess urban security. Aiming critically examine CBA through lens ecology and different concepts hydrosociality, we ...

The role of the occupational therapist working in the school system is to facilitate a student's task performance or ability to do purposeful and meaningful activities so that the student benefits from the educational experience. To fulfill this role, occupational therapists need assessments that address functional performance issues in the classroom and provide information for effective progra...

For more than three decades cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been used in many countries as an important tool for evaluating public policies. More recently, participation of stakeholders in CBA processes has become an important issue for governments. However, CBA by itself does not provide a good environment for stakeholder participation. A major reason for this is the lack of spatial disaggrega...

Much research has been devoted to the study of exclusively distance-learning paradigms for teaching various technological subjects, yet many students have not been satisfied with existing distance learning methodologies. This paper addresses a new approach called the cyber classroom, which combines the best practices of distance learning with traditional “brick and mortar” classrooms through te...

While the recent advent of new technologies in biology such as DNA microarray and next-generation sequencer has given researchers a large volume of data representing genome-wide biological responses, it is not necessarily easy to derive knowledge that is accurate and understandable at the same time. In this study, we applied the Classification Based on Association (CBA) algorithm, one of the cl...

The elopement of a child with Asperger syndrome was assessed using functional analyses and was treated in two school settings (classroom and resource room). Functional analyses indicated that elopement was maintained by access to attention in the resource room and obtaining a preferred activity in the classroom. Attention- and tangible-based interventions were compared in an alternating treatme...