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Grey gardens and the problem of objectivity : notes on the ethics of observational documentary

Hookworm Infection : Necatoriasis and Ancylostomiasis

How bioregional history could shape the future of agriculture

  • Authors: Brown, Julian , Barton, Philip , Cunningham, Saul
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Advances in Ecological Research p. 149-189
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  • Description: Biodiversity conservation and agriculture are becoming intimately intertwined. Wildlife-friendly agriculture is promoted as a way to conserve biodiversity, connect nature reserves, facilitate climate-driven range shifts and enhance ecosystem services to agriculture. Yet some approaches that increase native biodiversity in agricultural landscapes, such as tropical agroforestry, may support a suite of species that is distinct from nearby remnant habitat. Wildlife-friendly farming, therefore, does not necessarily facilitate native species persistence through landscape conversion to agriculture or facilitate the movement of local species among nature reserves. We argue the historical composition of native species in agricultural landscapes can be maintained by enhancing ecological similarity between production land uses and natural ecosystems. Some agricultural systems already support native species from, and share some ecological attributes with, natural grasslands, wetlands and forests. However, we suggest there are benefits to be gained by focusing on the finer details of similarities in structure, floristic composition (e.g. crop species) and disturbance regimes occurring across natural and modified habitat types. A key advancement of this approach is that the composition of agricultural diversity and its spatio-temporal dynamics are selected and managed according to the spatial and temporal habitat requirements of the wildlife species naturally inhabiting the local area. We argue that ensuring ecological similarity between agricultural systems and the ecosystems they replaced or lie between will strengthen the capacity of agricultural landscapes to maintain historical species pools and provide spatial and temporal connectivity between nature reserves and analogous future climatic zones. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd

HTLV-I and strongyloides in Australia : the worm lurking beneath

  • Authors: Gordon, Catherine , Shield, Jennifer , Bradbury, Richard , Muhi, Stephen , Page, Wendy
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Advances in Parasitology p. 119-201
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  • Description: Strongyloidiasis and HTLV-I (human T-lymphotropic virus-1) are important infections that are endemic in many countries around the world with an estimated 370 million infected with Strongyloides stercoralis alone, and 5–10 million with HTVL-I. Co-infections with these pathogens are associated with significant morbidity and can be fatal. HTLV-I infects T-cells thus causing dysregulation of the immune system which has been linked to dissemination and hyperinfection of S. stercoralis leading to bacterial sepsis which can result in death. Both of these pathogens are endemic in Australia primarily in remote communities in Queensland, the Northern Territory, and Western Australia. Other cases in Australia have occurred in immigrants and refugees, returned travellers, and Australian Defence Force personnel. HTLV-I infection is lifelong with no known cure. Strongyloidiasis is a long-term chronic disease that can remain latent for decades, as shown by infections diagnosed in prisoners of war from World War II and the Vietnam War testing positive decades after they returned from these conflicts. This review aims to shed light on concomitant infections of HTLV-I with S. stercoralis primarily in Australia but in the global context as well. © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. *Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Richard Bradbury" is provided in this record**

Intestinal Nematode Infections

Introduction

  • Authors: Millmow, Alex
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: The gypsy economist: the life and times of Colin Clark Chapter 1 p. 1-14
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  • Description: This chapter gives an overview of Colin Clark’s life and career. His life was informed by three themes, his love of Australia and, before that, Britain; his Roman Catholicism; and his ideological odyssey from distributivism to radical conservatism. Despite taking the economics world by storm with a mercurial ability for statistical analysis, Clark’s work has been largely overlooked in the 30 years since his death. His career was punctuated by a number of firsts. He was the first economist to derive the concept of GNP, the first to broach development economics and to foresee the re-emergence of India and China within the global economy. In 1945 he predicted the rise and persistence of inflation when taxation levels exceeded 25% of GNP. And he was also the first economist to debunk post-war predictions of mass hunger by arguing that rapid population growth engendered economic development. A figure akin to an intellectual fountain, Clark wandered through applied economics in much the same way as he rambled through the English countryside and the Australian bush. His imaginative wanderings over the main fields of economics qualify him as the gypsy economist for the twentieth century. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Introduction: Older women and later life transitions in industrialized societies

  • Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions p. 1-7
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  • Description: With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women's choices about if, when and how to retire. Recent trends indicating the increased workforce participation of women demand new policy responses to the end of careers and retirement transitions to sustain acceptable levels of participation and productivity. This book is innovative in that it will examine constellations of factors that disadvantage or advantage women's career and retirement trajectories against a backdrop of public policy efforts to extend working lives.

Macroeconomics and the pursuit of ruralism

  • Authors: Millmow, Alex
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: The gypsy economist: the life and times of Colin Clark Chapter 10 p. 169-185
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  • Description: This chapter looks at Colin Clark’s growing disconnect with conventional economics, including proposals for a rural nirvana and opposition to tariff protection and wage rigidity. Clark disagreed with post-war planners’ dreams of an industrial Australia and considered that prospects of becoming a net exporter of manufactures unrealistic given prevailing conditions. Clark wanted Australia to reduce its tariffs to kill off inefficient industries and free resources for more productive ends. In 1942 Clark became the unofficial economic advisor to B. A. Santamaria and his National Catholic Rural Movement (NCRM). Consistent with the NCRM’s philosophy, he proposed an extraordinary migrant co-operative land settlement plan for Queensland. It envisaged the formation of settler co-operatives to allow the creation of farming communities supporting some 250,000 European settlers on the agricultural and pastoral areas of the state. Given his belief that Australia’s inflation problem was due to excessive taxation he favoured lower public spending, especially on welfare. Higher taxes simply led to demands for higher wages which employers would willingly grant. This meant that wages rose faster than real production, causing prices to rise and perpetuating inflation. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

Men's shed research evidence since 2014

Men's sheds (Mænds Modesteder) in Denmark

Men's sheds elsewhere

Men's sheds in Australia

Men's sheds in Canada

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Methods and frameworks : the tools to assess externalities

Older women and the transition to retirement

  • Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 6 p. 99-110
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  • Description: Chapter 6 reports older women survey respondents’ expectations about retirement; their financial preparation for retirement; and factors that pushed them out of the workforce such as declining health and poor working conditions. Older women workers demonstrated a generally positive orientation to retirement. However, financial preparedness was a concern, with a significant proportion reporting that their understanding of their superannuation was poor. Findings with regards to self-esteem and social contact point to the need to support older women in building post-work identity and structures outside of work.

Older women in labour market transitions: leaving, looking for and moving into work

  • Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Book chapter
  • Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 5 p. 85-98
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  • Description: With current policy concerns about shortfalls of labour supply and effects on the social welfare system due to population ageing, there is a need to understand the factors that shape women's choices about if, when and how to retire. Recent trends indicating the increased workforce participation of women demand new policy responses to the end of careers and retirement transitions to sustain acceptable levels of participation and productivity. This book is innovative in that it will examine constellations of factors that disadvantage or advantage women's career and retirement trajectories against a backdrop of public policy efforts to extend working lives.