Peter Mühlhäusler is the Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, and Supernumerary Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and in the University of Oxford. He is an active researcher in several areas of linguistics, including ecolinguistics, language planning, and language policy and language contact in the Australian-Pac...

This paper discusses the need for reliable and valid measures of personality and motivational factors in the prediction of success and attrition in a dental school. The admissions system currently used in most schools includes personality factors that are measured by an interview. Our study examined whether the interview could be replaced by a standardized, open-ended questionnaire, thus increa...

INTRODUCTION COSTOP was a randomised controlled trial designed to assess the risks and benefits to HIV-infected participants stabilised on anti-retroviral treatment of stopping cotrimoxazole (CTX). In order to assess the extent to which patients may have had access to and used CTX other than that supplied as study drug it was decided to conduct an exit interview. METHODS A structured intervie...

Introduction: A multiple-mini interview (MMI) is a type ofstructured interview, which may assess many non-cognitivedomains in residency applicants. There are few studies on MMIduring the emergency medicine (EM) residency admissionsprocess in the United States. We sought to determine the strengths,weaknesses, and acceptability of a pilot MMI for EM residencyadmissions.Methods: We piloted a five-...

Using data from in-depth interviews and Delphi method on Open Source Software (OSS) contributors, this study uses a social constructivist and feminist perspective model to investigate the gender’s contribution in OSS innovation process. The results show that both male and female contributors have their preferences in term of roles and contributions in OSS. The type of contributions varies from ...

On the occasion of Open Access Week (22-­‐ 28 October) I had a talk with Stevan Harnad, a pioneer and one of the world's best-­‐ known Open Access advocates, author of the Subversive proposal (1994-­‐1995) which triggered the whole movement. Professor Harnad highlights achievements, further steps, and obstacles ten years aTer the Open Access manifesto of the Budapest Open Access IniVaVve. _____...

A significant proportion of voluntary employee turnover includes people who frequently move from job to job, known as job-hopping. Our work shows that language used in responding interview questions on past behaviour and situational judgement is predictive job-hopping motive measured by the Job-Hopping Motives (JHM) Scale. The study based responses over 45,000 applicants completed an online cha...