Attitudes of the Australian Public to Current and Emerging Assisted Reproductive Technologies

This item is only available electronically.Aims. Infertility is a global public health issue. Scientific advancements and demand for alternative pathways to parenthood have resulted in emerging reproductive technologies. The present research aimed to clarify how demographic and fertility factors influence attitudes toward current and emerging assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in Australia. Methods. 265 participants aged 16-87 years completed an online questionnaire exploring attitudes toward current and emerging ARTs between April and August 2019. Acceptability of the technologies and their contextual use were analysed alongside demographic (including gender, age, education), and fertility, factors. Results. Medically necessary procedures typically attracted higher acceptability than social use. Suggested age requirements for ART varied from current practice guidelines. Utilising reproductive techniques in the case of infertility ranked higher (64%) than choosing to adopt (10%) or foster (3.4%) a child. Females and older participants more strongly supported mandatory counselling. Commercial and altruistic surrogacy attracted support for legalisation. Conclusions. Demographic factors have been demonstrated to relate to the acceptability of various ART. Genetic lineage remains important when selecting alternate pathways to parenthood. Australians are generally accepting of government funding for ARTs, with the exception of sex selection and commercial surrogacy.Thesis (B.PsychSc(Hons)) -- University of Adelaide, School of Psychology, 201

D'Annunzio, "il ferro di Erme e lo specchio di Atena"

A useful track to read "Il fuoco" is the one provided years later and implicitly by d'Annunzio himself in "Il compagno dagli occhi senza cigli". Following that trace and the epiphanic value of an object, the mirror, the essay proposes to outline, at least in one of its aspects, the path from reality to myth

The Seduction of Thanatos : Gabriele D’Annunzio and the Decadent Death

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Negative tax incidence with multiproduct firms

A fundamental result in the theory of commodity taxation is that taxes increase consumer prices and reduce supply, aggravating the distortions caused by market power. This result hinges on the assumption that each firm provides a single product. We study the effects of commodity taxes in presence of multiproduct firms that have market power. We consider a monopolist providing two goods and obtain simple conditions such that differentiated ad valorem tax reduce the prices and increases the supply of both goods, thereby increasing total surplus. We show that these conditions can hold in a variety of settings, including add-on pricing, multiproduct retailing with price advertising, intertemporal models with switching costs and two-sided markets. Differentiated unit taxes can induce prices to decrease (as the Edgeworth’s paradox states), but the quantity of the taxed good always decreases

Welfare-enhancing taxation and price discrimination

We study commodity taxation in markets where suppliers implement second-degree price discrimination, by offering different package sizes or quality-differentiated versions of a product. In these markets, suppliers distort the quantity (or quality) intended for all types of consumers, except for those with the highest marginal willingness to pay. We show that differentiated ad valorem taxes can alleviate this distortion, and thus increase government revenue as well as welfare, provided the tax rate increases with the size of the package (or quality of the version) of the good supplied

Intermediaries in the online advertising market

Most of the ads displayed by digital publishers are sold via intermediaries, which have large market power and reportedly allocate the ads in an opaque way. We study the incentives of an intermediary to disclose consumer information to advertisers when auctioning ad impressions. In turn, we study how disclosure affects the incentives of publishers to outsource the sale of their ads to an intermediary, and relate these incentives to the extent of consumer multi-homing, the competitiveness of advertising markets and the ability of platforms to profile consumers. We show that disclosing information that enables advertisers to optimize the allocation of ads on multi-homing consumers is profitable to the intermediary only if advertising markets are sufficiently thick. When markets are thin, retaining information on consumers’ type is superior to retaining information on exposure to ads. Even though consumers multi-home, the publishers may be worse off by outsourcing to the intermediary, in particular if they operate in thin advertising markets. Finally, we study how the intermediary responds to policies designed to enhance transparency and consumer privacy, and the implications of these policies for the online advertising market

A dialogic reframing of talent management as a lever for hospitableness

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to consider how the talent of hospitableness can be transposed to commercial settings without a wholesale erosion of its altruistic and moral core and how it can be effectively leveraged within the talent management (TM) process.Design/methodology/approachThe authors unpack the concept of hospitableness which entails an unconditional disposition and moral obligation in the host to care for their guest. This paper also exposes its moral dilemmas and the risks it presents to both host and guest – leading to the endorsement of reciprocal altruistic hospitableness which warrants altruistic sentiments and moral obligations in both parties as the necessary condition for a more protective, mutually beneficial and enduring host–guest relationship. Against the backdrop of the tourism and hospitality industry, this paper examines the challenges of transposing hospitableness to commercial settings without a wholesale erosion of its altruistic and moral core. It posits that what is needed is a reframing of TM as a dialogic process through which hospitableness can be effectively leveraged as a unique talent.FindingsIn carrying out this exercise, this paper develops a conceptual framework that brings the TM process under the overarching principle of free dialogue – which the authors see as a precondition for preserving the altruistic and moral core of hospitableness even when transposed to commercial settings.Practical implicationsThe framework contains concrete guidelines on how to reframe TM as dialogic practice and can be used as a canvas for experimentation in managing the talent of hospitableness and for training purposes.Originality/valueThe paper expands the conceptual dimensions of hospitableness and deepens understanding of its application via the TM process to commercial settings

O PAPEL DO COORDENADOR LÍNGÜÍSTICO NOS CURSOS DE LÍNGUA ITALIANA NO BRASIL

ABSTRACT:This paper aims at reflecting about the importance of the Linguistics Coordinator: a role that is related to the function of Director and of Pedagogical Coordinator as well; in developing this discussion, we draw upon the proposal of the Common European Board of Reference for Language Teaching

Chapitre 1. Les stocks de carbone des sols d’Afrique de l’Ouest

Introduction Les sols jouent un rôle primordial dans notre environnement de par leur capacité d’échange d’éléments nutritifs et de régulation. Le changement climatique est aujourd’hui la crise environnementale la plus importante et les sols y jouent un rôle prépondérant, essentiellement de régulation via le cycle du carbone. Le dioxyde de carbone (CO2) est, de loin, le plus grand contributeur d’origine anthropique à l’effet de serre et au changement climatique. De plus, environ les deux tiers..