Over the past decade there has been an evident shift in the attitudes of Pacific peoples, governments and donors to the continued urbanisation of the region and the serious challenges emerging as a result. While not denying the obvious needs of rural development, and the connection rural poverty has with the pace and character of urban development, the region’s cities are clearly, and belatedly...

This study analyses whether ethnic segregation leads to social isolation and lack of access to valuable informal channels into the labour market. We use a survey of Swedish-born young adults in Stockholm, whose parents were born either in Turkey (Stratum T) or in Sweden (Stratum S). Stratum T was randomly sampled, whereas Stratum S was sampled according to the residential distribution of Stratu...

In this paper we investigate the link between game rules, team cohesion and players’ satisfaction with their teams within face-to-face team-based games. To measure team cohesion, rules from two games were analysed from the perspective of Social Identity Theory in order to form a hypothesis as to which game would be more likely to lead to more cohesive teams, where team cohesion is measured by t...

A method to extract the object containing regions in the ‘object proposal’ set in the video is employed. The segmented object containing areas are then employed to construct segmentation models for optimal video object extraction. First, an unsupervised graph based framework is used for detection and extraction of foreground in the video. We take into account the general properties (spatially c...

Five hundred and forty five Chinese students participated in study aimed to examine multi-dimensionality of creativity self-efficacy and its contextual (i.e., classroom environment) correlates. Nearly all aspects in the What Happens in the Classroom Scale (e.g., student cohesiveness, investigation, and task orientation) were found to have significant, positive correlations with all subscales of...

In this paper, I will provide a broad overview of outreach and student engagement strategies used in Australian universities and raise key issues in regard to improving access to higher education for disadvantaged and under-represented students.

This paper aims to investigate the antecedents of collective security efficacy and its impact on group security compliance. Prior studies have mainly examined individual security compliance and have indicated that technology-based solutions are not able to eliminate the information security risks that organizations may face since many security related defenses are achieved only through human co...

Recent advances in networking environments and telecommunications have led to the proliferation of teams that do not work face-to-face but interact over a computermediated communications network. Although some have asserted that virtual teams transcend boundaries of time or distance, others have claimed that working remotely in a mediated team environment differs in significant ways from workin...