Dark tourism, Aboriginal imprisonment and the ‘prison tree’ that wasn’t

Elizabeth Grant and Kristyn Harma

Flattening the curve of distress: A public-facing webinar for psychoeducation during COVID-19

This case report describes the development, implementation and evaluation of a public-facing webinar that provided psychoeducation addressing the emotional distress that has accompanied the coronavirus pandemic. Using a webinar was an effective strategy for reaching a large, public audience and making content from expert clinicians accessible. Participants were likely to recommend the webinar to friends or family. Participants appreciated that the webinar acknowledged the presence of distressing emotions and provided practical advice for reducing the negative psychological sequelae of the coronavirus pandemic. Areas for improvement included addressing technical issues and incorporating additional information into the webinar. Experience Framework This article is associated with the Patient, Family & Community Engagement lens of The Beryl Institute Experience Framework. (http://bit.ly/ExperienceFramework) Access other PXJ articles related to this lens. Access other resources related to this lens

Graziers in politics : the pressure group behaviour of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales

The aim of the study is to analyse and explain the pressure group behaviour of the Graziers’ Association of New South Wales. The growing importance of pressure groups in Australia has raised many important questions, few of which have yet been answered, or at least adequately. To date there has been little intensive research on pressure groups in Australia. However, the student of pressure groups in this country has available to him many overseas studies and a large body of theoretical literature. The approach used here has been adapted from that developed by Eckstein. It relates behaviour to the environment with which the group interacts

Mechanisms of the Intriguing Rearrangements of Activated Organic Species

The β-acyloxyalkyl radical rearrangement has been known since 1967 but its mechanism is still not fully understood, despite considerable investigation. Since the migration of a β-trifluoroacetoxy group generally proceeds more rapidly and with more varied regiochemistry than its less electronegative counterparts, this reaction was studied in the hope of understanding more about the subtleties of the mechanism of the β- acyloxyalkyl radical rearrangement. The mechanism of the catalysed rearrangement of Nalkoxy- 2(1H)-pyridinethiones was also explored because preliminary studies indicated that the transition state (TS) for this process was isoelectronic with TSs postulated for the β-acyloxyalkyl radical and other novel rearrangements. ¶ ..

Internationalization of Higher Education in Australia: Development and Implementation of Policy Changes

This thesis is a study of policy change and implementation in the area of internationalization of higher education in Australia. It is a study of quite fundamental changes in direction in both Commonwealth Government and institutional policies from "aid to trade". Today Australia has a commercial approach to internationalization of higher education, which comprises a wide range of activities and areas of cooperation, while in earlier times the modest recruitment of relatively small numbers of international students took place under an aid perspective

Academics Making Strategic Decisions: a case study of decisions and decision making in a student development unit in an Australian University

This thesis reports on a study of decisions and decision making among academics in a student development unit,the Educational development department, located on the Footscray Campus of the Victoria University of Technology (formerly the Footscray Institute of Technology). The study reviews literature on academic culture and decision making. Broad ideas from that field are applied to empirical data gathered at the field work site from 1986 to 1991. Individual academics gave key decisions sampled from their workplace settings and each was interviewed for their perceptions about further key decisions being made or contemplated. During the data gathering phase, the researcher tried to stay close to actors' own perceptions of the field. The study focuses mainly upon the many and varied ways in which academics perceived the domain of decision making within their own close circles of work. Among its findings, the thesis calls for a more careful approach to discourse upon decisions and decision making, finding that confusions arising in ordinary Language distort social realities. Decisions are more usefully seen as pinnacle points of meaning that do not remain static within social settings. Widely and deeply across fields of legitimation, actors in this higher education setting were found to use them to both support and undermine, and by that dual process, to displace persons, ideas and programs that are normally seen to be held static in authority location

Why Planning Fails: A Study of Higher Education Planning in Papua New Guinea, 1984-1990

The nature and key determinants of national policy process are explored through an empirical study of failure in national tertiary education planning. It centres on a case study of the formulation and implementation of the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Higher Education Plan 1986 - 1990: A Strategy for Rationalisation, during the period 1984 - 1990. It combines a grounded theoretical approach with examination of the explanatory power of pluralist, Marxist and elite theoretical perspectives. The main argument is that, although many factors combined to account for the lack of success in tertiary education planning in PNG, the following emerged as the most important: PNG's dependence on and vulnerability to the global economy; the scarcity of resources exacerbated by global recession, by Australian aid policy, and by PNG domestic economic policy in certain sectors; the weakness of PNG democracy and inherent incoherence in its government; and the deliberate frustration of planning by those interests that felt themselves directly threatened. A wide range of factors were exploited by those interests. Increasing resource scarcity, whether externally imposed or internally generated, played a key role in activating them and was associated with increase in inequality. Democracy was particularly vulnerable to elite domination when confronted by acute resource scarcity. Resource scarcity exacerbated the dominance of elite interests. This contributed significantly to the frustration of the national planning process, which in turn resulted in increased inequality. As many of these conditions and opportunities applied equally to the rest of the public sector, the explanation is applicable more generally to the policy process in PNG, and to some other countries with similar circumstances. Although pluralist, Marxist and elite theoretical perspectives are useful in explaining the frustration of policy process, each is insufficient by itself. They are not mutually exclusive and a synthesis would be more useful. Adequate theory would need to be capable of linking micro-level to global level policy phenomena

Human Dendritic Cell Subsets, Ontogeny, and Impact on HIV Infection

Dendritic cells (DCs) play important roles in orchestrating host immunity against invading pathogens, representing one of the first responders to infection by mucosal invaders. From their discovery by Ralph Steinman in the 1970s followed shortly after with descriptions of their in vivo diversity and distribution by Derek Hart, we are still continuing to progressively elucidate the spectrum of DCs present in various anatomical compartments. With the power of high-dimensional approaches such as single-cell sequencing and multiparameter cytometry, recent studies have shed new light on the identities and functions of DC subtypes. Notable examples include the reclassification of plasmacytoid DCs as purely interferon-producing cells and re-evaluation of intestinal conventional DCs and macrophages as derived from monocyte precursors. Collectively, these observations have changed how we view these cells not only in steady-state immunity but also during disease and infection. In this review, we will discuss the current landscape of DCs and their ontogeny, and how this influences our understanding of their roles during HIV infection

How does diet quality predict the performance of ROTC cadets on the ACFT

The Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) is a newly developed test assessing U.S. Army soldiers\u27 combat readiness. The Healthy Eating Index 2015 (HEI-2015) is a questionnaire established by the USDA that quantifies overall diet quality. The HEI-2015 uses a scale of 0 to 100 with higher scores aligning more with the recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The HEI-2015 is comprised of 13 subcategories: Total Fruits [TF], Whole Fruits [WF], Total Vegetables [TV], Greens and Beans [GB], Whole Grains [WG], Dairy [D], Total Protein foods [TP], Seafood and Plant Proteins [SPP], Fatty Acids [FA], Refined Grains [RG], Sodium [S], Added Sugars [AS], and Saturated Fats [SF]. Purpose: The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to determine if diet quality can predict performance outcomes of the ACFT in ROTC cadets. Methods: ROTC cadets (31 males, 21 females; aged 20.5 ± 2.2 years) completed the 6-event ACFT (3-repetition maximum trap-bar deadlift [MDL], standing power toss [SPT], hand-release pushups [HRPU], sprint-drag-carry [SDC], plank [PLK], and 2-mile run [2MR]). The cadets were invited into the laboratory to complete the HEI-2015. The ability of the HEI-2015 to predict ACFT performance was determined with a linear regression model. Significance was set at p \u3c 0.05. Results: HEI-2015 total score was significantly and positively correlated to ACFT total score, showing (r = .319, p = .014). Subcategories of the HEI-2015 were positively and significantly correlated with ACFT total scores, GB (r = .326, p = .012), SPP (r = .349, p = .007), and FA (r = .263, p = .044). HEI-2015 total score significantly explained 10% (p = .014) of the variance on the ACFT total scores with a beta coefficient 3.121. Conclusion: HEI-2015 total score, GB, SPP, and FA are all predictors of the ACFT total score. This data shows that overall diet quality is an important factor in determining a soldier’s combat readiness. For every 1.2 point increase in HEI-2015 total score, it is predicted that ACFT total score will increase by 3.1 points

The Role of Body Fat Percentage and VO2MAX in Predicting Arterial Stiffness in Female College Students

Within the college population, high blood pressure (BP), as well as obesity and sedentary lifestyles, are seen. Bodyfat influences these outcomes. Much of the literature ignores the possible effects that fitness may have on these outcomes, specifically in females. Purpose: The intent of this study was to determine if VOMAX can predict arterial stiffness after adjusting for body fat% in college females. Methods: Healthy young females were recruited from Grand Canyon University. Subjects came to the lab for a single visit for the following assessments: height, weight, waist circumference, hip circumference, aortic BP, augmentation pressure (AP), augmentation index adjusted at a heart rate of 75 (Aix@75), carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) and a VO2MAX. Hierarchical regression was used with body fat% entered into the first block and VO2MAX entered into the second block. Results: 92 female college students completed the study. The mean BMI was 25.4 +/-5.1 kg/m2, and the mean age was 20.5 +/- 2.2 years. Body fat% and VO2MAX did not statistically predict brachial systolic BP (P=0.137) or cfPWV (P=0.439). Body fat % significantly predicted brachial diastolic BP (R2=0.047, P=0.040), and VO2MAX significantly explains 4.4% more of the variance (P=0.043). Body fat % significantly predicted central systolic BP (R2=0.126, P=2MAX did not significantly add to the model (P=0.320). For central diastolic BP, body fat % was not an independent predictor (P=0.075); however, VO2MAX was found to be an independent predictor (R2=0.100, P=0.015). Body fat % was not an independent predictor (P=0.075) of AP; however, VO2MAX was found to be an independent predictor of AP (R2=0.113, P=0.008). Body fat % significantly predicted Aix@75 (R2=0.067, P=0.014), and VO2MAX was an independent predictor (R2=0.193, P=Conclusion: After adjusting for body fat%, VO2MAX significantly predicted measures of arterial stiffness in college aged females. Additionally, VO2MAX seemed to be a better predictor of arterial stiffness than body fat%. It is crucial to also consider physical fitness when considering body fat% and health