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May 2014
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Monday 12 |
12:00 - Art Exhibition - The Art of Zhen Shan Ren International Exhibition : A compelling fine art exhibition reflecting the human rights situation in China (Free event)
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The Art of Zhen Shan Ren (Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance) takes viewers through the story of Falun Dafa - from its introduction to the public in 1992, through the beauty and enlightenment of the practice, to the unjust and unrelenting persecution, moving forward through the peaceful (...)
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Wednesday 14 |
12:00 - VISITING SPEAKER - The Role of Universities in Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Faculty of Engineering Experience
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Professor Lynch has a remarkable record in Canada for his entrepreneurship especially in his fundraising work for his Faculty.
I encourage you to attend and look forward to seeing you there - Prof John Dell, Dean of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics UWA
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Monday 19 |
Distance and time based road pricing schemes have been proposed by many transport economists as an efficient way to manage scarce road infrastructure. Introducing road pricing involves many stakeholders, and there are many issues that need to be resolved before implementing such a scheme in (...)
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Tuesday 20 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - India-Pakistan Relations: An Overview : CMSS Presents: A Public Lecture by Dr. Sanu Kainikara
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Ever since the birth of Pakistan and India as independent nations after the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, Indo-Pak relations have been vexed to say the least. The nations have fought three accepted wars; two unacknowledged wars; and is still in the throes of insurgency and counter-i (...)
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Friday 23 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Threshold effects and climate change policy : Assistant Professor Morteza Chalak, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy
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Climate change scientists have shown concerns about possible sudden changes due to crossing a temperature threshold. Many authors emphasized the importance of sea level rise due to melting ice sheets of Greenland and west Antarctica and its large economic consequences. We study the economic (...)
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June 2014
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Monday 02 |
In the week beginning 2 June 2014, iVEC will offer the following free short courses on supercomputing topics:
Introduction to iVEC: 2:00 – 3:00pm Mon 2nd June
Introduction to Linux: 3:30 – 4:30pm Mon 2nd June
Introduction to Supercomputing: 10:00am – 4:00pm (...)
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Wednesday 04 |
17:30 - EVENT - MBA Information Evening (Perth) : An information evening for prospective Master of Business Administration students
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Come along to the UWA Business School's information evening for the Master of Business Administration (MBA), where you can learn about our new MBA Full Time as well as MBA Flexible. You will have the opportunity to meet professors and current students, have all your questions answered, and even (...)
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Thursday 05 |
8:30 - CONFERENCE - 10th Australasian Development Economics Workshop : This event brings together development economists from Australia and internationally with particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.
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The annual Australasian Development Economics Workshop, sponsored by DFAT, brings together development economists from Australia and internationally with particular emphasis on the Asia-Pacific region.
The next workshop is the tenth in the series and will be hosted by the Business School (...)
13:30 - EVENT - IOA Postgraduate Showcase - Frontiers in Agriculture : 9 PhD students present their diverse agriculture-related research
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The Institute of Agriculture's annual Postgraduate Showcase brings together some of UWA’s best PhD students at an advanced stage of their research.
This year, nine presentations covering a wide range of disciplines will highlight some of the research and progress underway at UWA in the area of (...)
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Tuesday 24 |
The aim of this course is to introduce you to basic statistics. It will cover descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations); data exploration; basic categorical data analysis; simple linear regression and basic analysis of variance (ANOVA). The statistical package SPSS will be used to (...)
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July 2014
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Tuesday 01 |
R is a free and extremely powerful language and software environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. The course is designed for those who have no experience with R, but have a basic understanding of statistics. The course will include: Introduction to R: How to install R on (...)
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Monday 07 |
7:45 - EVENT - St George's College July School Holiday Program : St George's College will again be holding its popular School Holiday Program in July. The year's entry will be grades 3 - 7.
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Dates are 7 - 11 and 14 - 18 July 2014, 7.45 am - 5.00 pm.
The holiday program provides for exciting educational days in and around the College's historic buildings and beautiful gardens. This year's entry will be expanded to cover school years 3 - 7.
The schedule starts at 7.45 each (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
9:00 - COURSE - ANOVA, Linear Regression and Logistic Regression : A Short Course using SPSS
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The course is designed for people with knowledge of basic statistics who want to learn more about regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA).
This course covers techniques that can be used to analyse data with continuous and categorical variables. The course will begin with simple (...)
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Monday 14 |
The course is designed as an applied course in Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) using the Mplus software package. SEM is used widely by researchers to test complex relationships among observed (measured) and latent (unobserved) variables and subsumes other analytical techniques such as (...)
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Wednesday 23 |
This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, it concentrates on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and discusses (...)
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August 2014
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Friday 08 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The Behavioural Gap for Organic Food in Britain: Data from a Canterbury Case Study : Dr Adelina Gschwandtner, University of Kent
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The present paper attempts to bring further evidence on the behavioural gap for organic food in Britain. The stated preferences are analysed with the contingent valuation method while the revealed preferences are estimated with the hedonic pricing method. We find a small but significant gap in the (...)
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Sunday 10 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - 2014 Open Day : Join us for our Open Day and experience all that UWA has to offer
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Come and find out about UWA’s undergraduate and postgraduate courses, scholarship opportunities, outstanding career options and explore our community programs and facilities.
This year there will be campus tram tours, hands-on activities, live music and entertainment, as well as plenty (...)
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Friday 15 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - The world in the eyes of a Luenberger development indicator: Who is moving faster in the new century? : Associate Professor Atakelty Hailu
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This study relies on production theory to construct Luenberger indicators for quality of living across countries. Compared to the famous Human Development Index (HDI), which uses simple weights to average over outcomes, the Luenberger indicator uses a best-practice or frontier approach to the (...)
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Friday 22 |
11:00 - SEMINAR - Consumer choices in fast-food chain restaurants: the role of information : Assistant Professor James Fogarty, School of Agricultural & Resource Economics
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The research question for this study was to determine the impact of providing menu item energy content information at the point of sale on consumer choices at Australian fast-food chain restaurants. To answer the research question data was collected via an on-line survey. Specifically, a sample (...)
12:00 - SEMINAR - Economics Discipline Seminar : Instrument endogeneity, weak identification, and inference in IV regressions
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