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Protests, land rights and riots
The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aboriginal populations lived, were provoked as a consequence of social fragmentation, unparalleled unemployment, and other major economic and political changes. The ensuing riots, protests, and law-and-order campaigns in New South Wales captured the tense relations that existed between indigenous people, the police, and the criminal justice system. InProtests, Land Rights, and Riots, Barry Morris shows how neoliberal policies in Australia targeted those who were least integrated socially and culturally, and who enjoyed fewer legitimate economic opportunities. Amidst intense political debate, struggle, and conflict, new forces were unleashed as a post-settler colonial state grappled with its past. Morris provides a social analysis of the ensuing effects of neoliberal policy and the way indigenous rights were subsequently undermined by this emerging new political orthodoxy in the 1990s.
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Comparison of In-Office Dental Unit Waterline Test Kits
The authors conducted a study to determine the validity of two commercially available in-office dental unit waterline test kits compared to the gold standard, R2A agar. Samples were collected from the air/water syringes of dental units and cultured on HPC Samplers, Petrifilm AC Plates, and R2A agar plates. HPC Samplers and R2A agar plates were incubated for 7 days and counted manually using magnification. Petrifilm AC Plates were counted after incubation time of 5 and 7 days using an electronic-plate reader. Validity measurements were calculated using a cutoff value < or = 500 colony-forming units per milliliter. The accuracy for the HPC Sampler compared to R2A agar was 71%. The accuracy for the Petrifilm AC Plates at 5 and 7 days was 79% and 87% compared to R2A agar. The Petrifilm AC Plate (7-day incubation) demonstrated higher sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, and accuracy than the HPC Sampler kit.
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Borderwork in Indigenous South-Eastern Australia
This article provides some reflections on borderwork derived from social anthropological research with Indigenous people in south-eastern Australia (S.E. Australia). In post-settler states, borderwork traverses a range of fields—employment, health, education and politics. It engages both Indigenous and the non-Indigenous who grapple with the issues associated with socially and culturally liminal spaces. Borderwork provides a focus on the way boundaries are continually constructed as well as dismantled and reconstructed as a result of historical, political and social change. The article draws upon the work of Bourdieu (2000) to interrogate the 'naturalisation' of conditions that give rise to particular interpretive frameworks and the specific relations of power that legitimate one interpretive framework over others.
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Borderwork in Indigenous South‐Eastern Australia1
ABSTRACT This article provides some reflections on borderwork derived from social anthropological research with Indigenous people in south‐eastern Australia (S.E. Australia). In post‐settler states, borderwork traverses a range of fields—employment, health, education and politics. It engages both Indigenous and the non‐Indigenous who grapple with the issues associated with socially and culturally liminal spaces. Borderwork provides a focus on the way boundaries are continually constructed as well as dismantled and reconstructed as a result of historical, political and social change. The article draws upon the work of Bourdieu (2000) to interrogate the ‘naturalisation’ of conditions that give rise to particular interpretive frameworks and the specific relations of power that legitimate one interpretive framework over others.
‘First Nations people are border workers by the nature of their aboriginal claims and their persisting marginalization…’ (Celia Haig‐Brown, 1992:230)
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Borderwork in Indigenous South‐Eastern Australia 1
ABSTRACT
This article provides some reflections on borderwork derived from social anthropological research with Indigenous people in south‐eastern Australia (S.E. Australia). In post‐settler states, borderwork traverses a range of fields—employment, health, education and politics. It engages both Indigenous and the non‐Indigenous who grapple with the issues associated with socially and culturally liminal spaces. Borderwork provides a focus on the way boundaries are continually constructed as well as dismantled and reconstructed as a result of historical, political and social change. The article draws upon the work of Bourdieu (2000) to interrogate the ‘naturalisation’ of conditions that give rise to particular interpretive frameworks and the specific relations of power that legitimate one interpretive framework over others.
‘First Nations people are border workers by the nature of their aboriginal claims and their persisting marginalization…’ (Celia Haig‐Brown, 1992:230)
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SUN-202 Seasonal Reduction of Grey Squirrel Testis Size Is Produced by Mechanisms Distinct from Age Onset Testicular Regression
Seasonality in reproductive fitness is associated with a variation in testicular size and function in many animal species. These changes might occur because the demands of producing sperm and testosterone are only energetically feasible if reproductive success is likely. Testicular size reduction is also observed as one of the changes associated with aging. It is possible that age-onset and seasonal reduction of testis size require the activity of a common set of proteins and mechanistic pathways. SIRT1 protein is known to promote anti-ageing pathways and prevent apoptosis. Mice deleted for FSTL3, an inhibitor of TGFb ligands, develop significantly enlarged testes that do not regress with age and show increased testicular SIRT1 production. SOX9 is reported to decline with aging but is essential for the maintenance of seminiferous tubule architecture and maintenance of Sertoli cells. This supports a role for increased SIRT1 and SOX9 in maintaining testicular size and prolonging spermatogenesis. The common grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) shows seasonal variation in testicular size and function making it an ideal model for investigating the mechanisms involved in seasonal testicular regulation. We investigated whether seasonal testicular regression has SIRT1 involvement and explored changes in proteins associated with proliferation (PCNA), maintenance of testicular function (SOX9) and apoptosis (Cleaved Caspase 3). Immunohistochemistry, TUNEL staining and western blots were performed on grey squirrel testis samples from different seasons. TUNEL showed significantly higher levels of apoptosis in winter (P=0.02), higher levels of Cleaved Caspase-3 were also seen in winter (P=0.04). The results demonstrate that there is no significant difference in levels of SIRT1 (P=0.05), suggesting a distinct mechanism for seasonal testis size regression to that associated with aging. Interestingly there was significantly higher levels of SOX9 in winter testis (P=0.03), indicating this might have a key role in seasonal regression, this being supported by the observation that loss of SOX9 leads to the irreversible testis regression seen in aging.
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Transformational Change in Health Care Through Operational Excellence
Opinion statement
ᅟThe USA has one of the most expensive health care delivery systems in the world. As a result, US hospitals are focusing on improving operational efficiency and safety in order to deliver higher value, in terms of outcomes, experiences, and costs. The kinds of change that are required are transformational in nature. Transformational change is a kind of continuous change that represents a fundamental shift in the priorities, strategies, and culture of an organization. Herein, we will review the concept of operational excellence as one management approach that has been used to achieve transformational change. Operational excellence is really about achieving process reliability through continuous process improvement, which translates to better outcomes, better experiences, and lower costs.
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Canadian Urban Ministry: The Nature and Challenges of Success
This thesis characterises the nature and the possibilities of success including its tensions and obstacles in urban ministry. There are featured descriptions on the nature and dynamics of urban ministry and various understandings of success as posed - especially that which favours a purposeful aim toward fulfilment of a ministry's mission purposes, with attention to a faithful public-and-prophetic witness (as the ground and aim for ministry). A literature survey to help discern and frame the research questions focuses on England and North America, especially Canada. The chapters consider the research questions of what characterises success and its challenges in urban ministry and how do urban ministry situations engage the enduring tensions of charity and/or justice. The chapters include three detailed case studies in three different Canadian cities. They are narrated and analysed from the perspective of what makes for a meaningful, enduring civic presence and what caveats to be critically aware of - the UK and USA social theologian, Luke Bretherton, with additions, is constructively employed (as well as for framing the literature review). The concluding chapter provides a comparative summary analysis of the case studies. It proposes that the most comprehensive and integral way to depict the nature of success in urban ministry is by way of engaging the interweaving variables of earnest listening, stable places or presence, a capacity to endure, and dedication to what it takes to bear a public-and-prophetic witness - including constructive attention to the critical caveats of commodification, co-optation, communalism, clientelism, and cowardice. Two appendices on extending the range and challenges of a literature survey and how grounded theory assists, narratively, to discern a central story-line of the case studies, supplement the above
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