Review of Resource Sharing Arrangements Between Kentish and Latrobe Councils

Kentish and Latrobe Councils have been undertaking various forms of resource sharing since 1992 in order to improve levels of service and preserve and maintain local representation. The councils are keen to continue to grow, enhance and refine the resource sharing arrangements and engaged the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG) at the University of Technology Sydney to review the resource sharing arrangements between the two councils

Resource Sharing Success Stories in Tasmania

The councils of Kentish, Latrobe, Waratah-Wynyard, and Circular Head in Tasmania engaged the Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government and the University of Technology Sydney Centre for Local Government (UTS:CLG) to review their resource sharing arrangements. The review considered governance and decision-making arrangements, the current State Government reform agenda, strategic capacity of the councils and a financial analysis of savings from resource sharing arrangements

Workforce planning guidelines for local government in Tasmania

Workforce planning in Tasmania as a whole, and in the local government sector in particular, is essential to meet the needs of communities and deliver a growing, prosperous Tasmania. As the level of government best placed to meet community needs, councils are in a unique position to identify the skills, knowledge and expertise needed to effectively tailor services, generate economic and employment opportunities and support the overall prosperity of their local and regional communities. Planning a future workforce to deliver vital services needs to be clearly linked to local, regional and state-wide priorities. Councils have a key role to plan for their own workforces as part of strategic planning but also play an important role in partnering with a range of local, regional and state level organisations to identify and support conditions for economic growth. Workforce planning brings important benefits to councils and their communities and these guidelines are intended to help local government plan at a local, sub-regional and regional level to support the future growth of a vibrant Tasmanian economy

Social and relational identification as determinants of care workers’ motivation and wellbeing

AcceptedArticleA growing body of research in the field of health and social care indicates that the quality of the relationship between the person giving care and the person receiving it contributes significantly to the motivation and wellbeing of both. This paper examines how care workers’ motivation is shaped by their social and relational identification at work. Survey findings at two time points (T1, N = 643; T2, N = 1274) show that care workers’ motivation increases to the extent that incentives, the working context (of residential vs. domiciliary care), and the professionalization process (of acquiring vs. not acquiring a qualification) serve to build and maintain meaningful identities within the organization. In this context care workers attach greatest importance to their relational identity with clients and the more they perceive this as congruent with their organizational identity the more motivated they are. Implications are discussed with regard to the need to develop and sustain a professional and compassionate workforce that is able to meet the needs of an ageing society.Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)Australian Research Counci

PERBANDINGAN LUARAN PADA PASIEN EFUSI PLEURA MALIGNANT ET CAUSA METASTASIS CARCINOMA MAMMAE YANG DILAKUKAN PLEURODESIS DENGAN TALC POUDRAGE DAN TALC SLURRY DI RSUP DR. M. DJAMIL PADANG

Pendahuluan: Carcinoma mammae menyumbang sekitar 50-65% dari efusi pleura ganas. Pleurodesis talc merupakan salah satu tindakan definitive pada efusi pleura yang cara pemberiannya terbagi menjadi poudrage dan slurry. Tujuan: Mengetahui perbandingan perbedaan luaran pada pasien efusi pleura malignant et causa metastasis carcinoma mammae yang dilakukan pleurodesis dengan talc poudrage dan talc slurry. Metode: Jenis penelitian ini adalah cross-sectional yang dilakukan di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil pada Mei – Juli tahun 2023. Penelitian ini menggunakan data rekam medis pasien yang didiagnosis efusi pleura malignant akibat metastasis keganasan payudara di RSUP Dr. M. Djamil Padang dari bulan Januari 2019 – Juli 2023. Luaran yang dinilai antara lain produksi drain dalam 24 jam, lama pelepasan drain dan kematian di rumah sakit. Hasil: Pada penelitian ini didapatkan masing-masing 12 responden yang dilakukan pleurodesis talc poudrage dan talc slurry. Pada kelompok talc poudrage didapatkan rerata produksi drain dalam 24 jam sebanyak 259,17 ± 46,79 ml, rerata waktu pelepasan drain selama 4,08 ± 0,66 hari dan terdapat 1 pasien meninggal selama rawatan. Pada kelompok talc slurry rerata produksi drain 24 jam ditemukan lebih banyak yaitu 420,83 ± 78,21 ml, waktu pelepasan drain yang lebih lama yaitu 5,67 ± 0,98 hari, dan terdapat 3 responden yang meninggal selama rawatan. Analisis bivariat menemukan adanya perbedaan signifikan antara produksi drain dan lama pelepasan drain responden yang dilakukan talc slurry dan talc poudrage sedangkan untuk kematian di rumah sakit tidak ditemukan perbedaan. Kesimpulan: Talc poudrage memiliki luaran yang lebih baik dibandingkan talc slurry terkait produksi drain dan lama pelepasan drain pada pasien efusi pleura malignant akibat metastasis carcinoma mammae

Complementary Metagenomic Approaches Improve Reconstruction of Microbial Diversity in a Forest Soil.

Soil ecosystems harbor diverse microorganisms and yet remain only partially characterized as neither single-cell sequencing nor whole-community sequencing offers a complete picture of these complex communities. Thus, the genetic and metabolic potential of this "uncultivated majority" remains underexplored. To address these challenges, we applied a pooled-cell-sorting-based mini-metagenomics approach and compared the results to bulk metagenomics. Informatic binning of these data produced 200 mini-metagenome assembled genomes (sorted-MAGs) and 29 bulk metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs). The sorted and bulk MAGs increased the known phylogenetic diversity of soil taxa by 7.2% with respect to the Joint Genome Institute IMG/M database and showed clade-specific sequence recruitment patterns across diverse terrestrial soil metagenomes. Additionally, sorted-MAGs expanded the rare biosphere not captured through MAGs from bulk sequences, exemplified through phylogenetic and functional analyses of members of the phylum Bacteroidetes Analysis of 67 Bacteroidetes sorted-MAGs showed conserved patterns of carbon metabolism across four clades. These results indicate that mini-metagenomics enables genome-resolved investigation of predicted metabolism and demonstrates the utility of combining metagenomics methods to tap into the diversity of heterogeneous microbial assemblages.IMPORTANCE Microbial ecologists have historically used cultivation-based approaches as well as amplicon sequencing and shotgun metagenomics to characterize microbial diversity in soil. However, challenges persist in the study of microbial diversity, including the recalcitrance of the majority of microorganisms to laboratory cultivation and limited sequence assembly from highly complex samples. The uncultivated majority thus remains a reservoir of untapped genetic diversity. To address some of the challenges associated with bulk metagenomics as well as low throughput of single-cell genomics, we applied flow cytometry-enabled mini-metagenomics to capture expanded microbial diversity from forest soil and compare it to soil bulk metagenomics. Our resulting data from this pooled-cell sorting approach combined with bulk metagenomics revealed increased phylogenetic diversity through novel soil taxa and rare biosphere members. In-depth analysis of genomes within the highly represented Bacteroidetes phylum provided insights into conserved and clade-specific patterns of carbon metabolism

Investigating Hair Cues as a Mechanism Underlying Black Women’s Intersectional Invisibility

Children psychologically exclude Black women from their representations of women, but the mechanisms underlying this marginalization remain unclear. Across two studies (N = 129; 49 boys, 78 girls, two gender unreported; 79 White, 27 Black, six Latinx, five Asian, and 12 unreported), the present work tests hair texture as one possible perceptual mechanism by which this might occur. In both studies, children gender-categorized Black, White, and Asian men and women using MouseTracker. Children were slower and had more complex patterns in categorizing Black women when they had textured hair (Study 1A), but not when they had straight hair (Study 1B). Implications for the development of gender as a social category are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)

Service Delivery Review: a how to manual for local government

This 2nd edition of the Manual brings together advice, toolkits and templates to help councils regardless of size with assessing the services they provide for local communities. The Manual meets an increasing need from within the sector for practical guidance in undertaking service delivery reviews that are consistent with current local governance practice and processes

Collaborative library service delivery: A guide to regional library management models in NSW

The Centre for Local Government (CLG) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has been engaged by the State Library of New South Wales (State Library of NSW) to undertake research to explore and recommend regional management models for NSW public libraries

A Practical Voter-Verifiable Election Scheme

We present an election scheme designed to allow voters to verify that their vote is accurately included in the count. The scheme provides a high degree of transparency whilst ensuring the secrecy of votes. Assurance is derived from close auditing of all the steps of the vote recording and counting process with minimal dependence on the system components. Thus, assurance arises from verification of the election rather than having to place trust in the correct behaviour of components of the voting system. The scheme also seeks to make the voter interface as familiar as possible