http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:17864 Investigating survivors' behaviour prior to, during and after a disaster provides emergency management agencies with greater understanding of the complexities which influence public response. This information can then be used to develop better community-based disaster risk-reduction strategies. In this paper, we review three posttsunami disaster case studies: the Indian Ocean tsunami (IOT) on 26 December 2004, the Java tsunami on 17 July 2006 and the South Pacific tsunami on 29 September 2009. The 2004 IOT and 2006 Java tsunami surveys involved delayed-response post-disaster research using video interviewing. The 2009 South Pacific tsunami entailed rapid-response post-disaster research using questionnaire interviews. We highlight the major outcomes of each case study and, based on these, make recommendations for improving tsunami education programs in Australia. These include educating the public about tsunami risk, natural warning signs of tsunamis and regionally specific behavioural response. To help facilitate improvements to future post-disaster research, discussion on survey-related issues from each case study is provided. 2012-03-01T08:07:57.853Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:17311 This paper describes a Continual And Explicit Comparison (CAEC) approach to overcoming proactive inhibition and amplifying proactive facilitation in a second year Java course. The approach utilizes continual and explicit comparison to students' prior learning (in this case C++ programming knowledge) in early stages of learning the new language in order to more rapidly build understanding and more definitively form concept boundaries between the two languages. The majority of students felt the approach supported learning of the second language (proactive facilitation) without causing any interference with second language learning (i.e. minimal proactive inhibition). Some students also indicated that the approach enhanced their understanding of the first language (retroactive facilitation) and overwhelmingly agreed that the approach did not interfere with their understanding of the first language (i.e. minimal retroactive inhibition). Students also indicated that their Java programming ability and their enjoyment of programming increased during the period that the continual and explicit comparison approach was applied. 2012-02-05T17:22:12.688Z ]]> http://www.researchonline.mq.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/mq:16529 Song Gupuh, a partially collapsed cave in the Gunung Sewu Limestones of East Java, Indonesia, contains over 16 m of deposits with a faunal sequence spanning some 70 ka. Major changes in the range of animals represented show the impact of climate change and humans. The Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene was a period of maximum biodiversity. Human use of Song Gupuh and other cave sites in the region also intensified significantly from ca. 12 ka, together with a new focus on exploitation of small-bodied species (macaque monkeys and molluscs), the first evidence for import of resources from the coast, and use of bone and shell tools. Human activity, especially after the onset of the Neolithic around 2.6 ka, subsequently contributed to a progressive loss of many species from the area, including tapir, elephant, Malayan bear, rhino and tiger, and this extinction process is continuing. We conclude by discussing the biogeographical significance of Song Gupuh in the context of other sites in Java (e.g. Punung, Wajak) and further afield (e.g. Liang Bua). 2011-12-21T05:00:22.517Z ]]>