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Calls for papers for the 13th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena on July 14 to 18, 2002 at the Convention Centre, Victoria, British Columbia. Topic research on transport phenomena from fundamental sciences to applied technologies; Submission of abstract; Dates of submission; Contact information.

In Australia, anti-discrimination legislation and government policies have been introduced which aim to facilitate the inclusion of people with disabilities in employment and education. However in the area of nursing, attitudinal barriers persist that effectively hinder the full participation of people with disabilities in nurse education programs. These attitudinal barriers prevail despite such legislative and policy changes, and run counter to changing community views about disability. Normative assumptions about the ideal attributes of nurses appear to influence these attitudes, especially in the area of admission of students with disabilities to nurse education programs per se, and to their participation in the practicum component of nurse education programs. This paper reports on research conducted in Victoria, Australia, by nurse academics and equity practitioners at three Victorian universities, into the barriers facing such students. The research examined the views of undergraduate student nurses, their lecturers and their clinical educators, nurse clinicians, and university disability practitioners about the participation of people with disabilities in nurse education programs. The research also sought to document their responses to a framework, developed through the research that aims to facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities in undergraduate nursing programs. It did this against a pluralistic and technological milieu that in the researchers' view requires a more diverse mix within the nursing profession. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reports findings from an enthographic study of educational restructuring in an Institute of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) in Victoria Australia. Educational restructuring is analysed as a process of institutional redesign and theorized in relation to recent debates in institutional theory concerning the nature of institutional change. The review distinguishes between hyperrational approaches to institutional redesign based upon assumptions about rational actors and their motivations and behaviours, and social and cultural perspectives on institutional redesign that sees purposeful institutional change achieved through processes of 'institutional gardening'. The paper documents the way Australian governments have adopted hyperrational strategies aimed at changing education and training by reworking institutional rules that frame the day-to-day practices within particular organizations. Reworking these practices of organizing serves to steer change by restructuring and rearticulating relationships, practices and centres of power within organizations. Data drawn from interviews with the TAFE Institute Director, and various managers and teachers are used to track the effects of government steering in the TAFE Institute. This analysis shows that government steering drives management steering in the TAFE Institute, creating new imperatives and work organization. These organizational changes are influenced by local conditions and management priorities. They also call forth counter-steering by teachers and managers as they attempt to deal with change. The paper suggests that hyperrational government steering drives towards probable educational futures but is also interrupted by counter-steering oriented to other values and priorities. While there are probable futures, there are also preferred futures to be willed for and worked for. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses of life and social conditions of various classes of persons who migrated from Hong Kong, China to Victoria, British Columbia in mid 19th century. The average time it took to move to British Columbia was around 35 days. By the time the first Chinese immigrants who arrived in Victoria on June 28, 1858, the entrance fees, custom duties, and commercial taxes were imposed as part of official process. In Victoria they lived in cluster of disorganized tents with apprehensions pertaining to social rejection in their minds. By 1860 the Chinese population crossed a thousand figure, that aroused anti-Chinese sentiments against them. The low ratio of women to men was seen by anti-Chinese agitators was a clear indication that Chinese never wanted to permanently settle in Canada. The 1880s saw the emergence of Chinese broker firms that secured railway workers with Lian Chang being the only one to compete against the local broker firms. Gradually the ethnic-bias towards Chinese declined by the late 19th century.

Oral tradition states that the first Chinese cemetery in Victoria, Canada, was possibly west of Swan Lake, but its precise location and history are unknown. The application of an ideal Feng Shui topographic model and the use of aerial photographs, cadastral and topographic maps, material in Chinese archives, and records of the Land Registry Office, show that the Chinese Association in Victoria purchased a plot of land north of Swan Lake in 1891. The site could not be used as a cemetery because of objection by residents in the vicinity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Eighty kindergarten children were tested to determine the influence of letter-similarity (similar versus distinctive), discrimination format (matching-to-sample versus non-matching-to-sample), and discrimination mode (simultaneous versus successive) on initial visual discrimination learning and a paired-associate transfer task. Analysis of data revealed no significant differences between discrimination formats or discrimination modes on either pretraining or transfer. Contrary to the findings of two recent studies, similar letter (d / h) discriminations were significantly more difficult (p < .0001) than distinctive letter (s' / b) discriminations, irrespective of training format or discrimination mode on both initial training and the paired-associate task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]