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Sense of belonging in workplace as a predictor of mental and physical health and intention to leave among university employees

- Oldfield, Stuart

Authors: Oldfield, Stuart
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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Description: It is has been recognised that sense of belonging and related concepts are strongly associated with mental and physical health. Research to date, however, has focused on sense of belonging to the community in which one lives. The present research extended the work on sense ofbelonging by assessing the relationship between sense ofbelonging in the workplace and the mental and physical health ofstaff employed in a regional university. It was hypothesised that there would be a significant negative relationship between sense ofbelonging and stress. It was also hypothesised that those staff who indicated a higher sense ofbelonging to their work team and organisation would be less likely to leave their employment and have fewer mental and physical health problems. A sample of 46 male and 49 female staff members completed sense ofbelonging and stress questionnaires. The research found that females showed a higher sense ofbelonging to both the work team and the organisation than males. Also, employees who showed a lower sense ofbelonging to the University had stronger intentions ofleaving their employment. Further, workers who indicated a higher sense ofbelonging to the work team exhibited lower burnout, lower global stress, and better general health. Results suggested that the mental health ofworkers can be improved by encouraging a sense of belonging to the immediate work team and that retention of workers may be increased by facilitating a sense of belonging to the organisation.
Description: Master of Applied Science

Severe chronic idiopathic neutropenia in adults : Long-term follow-up of 358 patients

- Bolyard, Audrey, Pracht, G., Schwinzer, Beate, Zeidler, Cornelia, Bonilla, Mary Ann, Boxer, Laurence, Cham, Bonnie, Donadieu, J., Fier, Carol, Freedman, Melvin, Kannourakis, George, Kinsey, Sally, Winkelstein, J., Alter, Blanche, Reeves, L., Welte, Karl, Dale, David

Authors: Bolyard, Audrey , Pracht, G. , Schwinzer, Beate , Zeidler, Cornelia , Bonilla, Mary Ann , Boxer, Laurence , Cham, Bonnie , Donadieu, J. , Fier, Carol , Freedman, Melvin , Kannourakis, George , Kinsey, Sally , Winkelstein, J. , Alter, Blanche , Reeves, L. , Welte, Karl , Dale, David
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Blood Vol. 102, no. 11 (Nov 2003), p. 273A-273A
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Severe chronic neutropenia : Treatment and follow-up of patients in the severe chronic neutropenia international registry

- Dale, David, Cottle, Tammy, Fier, Carol, Bolyard, Audrey, Bonilla, Mary Ann, Boxer, Laurence, Cham, Bonnie, Freedman, Melvin, Kannourakis, George, Kinsey, Sally, Davis, Robert, Scarlata, Debra, Schwinzer, Beate, Zeidler, Cornelia, Welte, Karl

Authors: Dale, David , Cottle, Tammy , Fier, Carol , Bolyard, Audrey , Bonilla, Mary Ann , Boxer, Laurence , Cham, Bonnie , Freedman, Melvin , Kannourakis, George , Kinsey, Sally , Davis, Robert , Scarlata, Debra , Schwinzer, Beate , Zeidler, Cornelia , Welte, Karl
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: American Journal of Hematology Vol. 72, no. 2 (Feb 2003), p. 82-93
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Description: Severe chronic neutropenia (SCN) is defined as an absolute neutrophil (ANC) of less than 0.5 x 10(9)/L, lasting for months or years. Congenital, cyclic, and idiopathic neutropenia are principal categories of SCN. Since 1994, the Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry (SCNIR) has collected data to monitor the clinical course, treatments, and disease outcomes for SCN patients. This report summarizes data for 853 patients, almost all treated with daily or alternate-day recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF or Filgrastim). G-CSF treatment increased the ANC overall from 0.34 x 10(9)/L +/- 0.018 pre-treatment to 3.70 x 10(9)/L +/- 0.18 during the first year of treatment. For most patients, the responses were durable with patients remaining on the same dose of G-CSF for many years. Long-term hematological observations showed stable mean leukocyte and neutrophil counts and gradually increasing hemoglobin levels. Thrombocytopenia developed in 4% of patients. As of January 1, 2000, myelodysplasia (MDS) or. acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) has occurred in 35 of 387 patients with congenital neutropenia with a cumulative risk of 13% after 8 years of G-CSF treatment. This event occurred without a predictable relationship to the duration or dose of G-CSF treatment. No patients with cyclic or idiopathic neutropenia developed MDS or AML. Other important adverse events included hepatomegaly, osteoporosis, vasculitis, glomerulonephritis, and deaths in 4 of 14 cases requiring splenectomy. Growth and development and the outcome of pregnancy appeared to be unaffected by G-CSF treatment. These data indicate that congenital, cyclic, and idiopathic neutropenia can be effectively treated with long-term GCSF. The risk of leukemia, osteoporosis, other potentially adverse events, and pregnancy outcome need to be further evaluated with continuing long-term observations. (C) 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Description: C1

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Social support or structural change? Social work theory and research on care-giving

- McDonald, John, Dow, Briony

Authors: McDonald, John , Dow, Briony
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Australian Social Work Vol. 56, no. 3 (2003), p. 197-208
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Description: Since 1980, national and international research knowledge on carers and care-giving has been accumulating. However, the theoretical bases of this research are usually unstated and implicit. Theory is vital in shaping social work research programs and types of social work intervention. This paper examines and critiques the social work theories influencing published social work research on care-giving. A search of key social work journals from 1980 to 2001 identified a total of 102 research articles about care-giving. The perspectives informing these articles fall into four groupings: positivist; interpretivist; systems; and feminist/radical. Building on the model developed by Howe (1987), which differentiates theories of radical change from those concerned with social regulation, each perspective is critically analysed for its underlying assumptions, level of analysis, research methodology and implications for policy and practice. Our review indicated that research on care-giving is dominated by a positivist approach that focuses on stress-coping and social support theories. These approaches are essentially individualistic, focus on the burden of care and prescribe interventions that assist carers to adjust to or cope with the care-giving role. Future social work research on care-giving should be informed by critical social work theories offering deeper structural analysis. This would be more consistent with our discipline's concern for social change and social justice.
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Description: 2003000461

Social work in rural areas : A personal and professional challenge

- Green, Rosemary

Authors: Green, Rosemary
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Australian Social Work Vol. 56, no. 3 (2003), p. 209-219
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Description: Australians live in diverse areas, city and country, coast and hinterland, desert and rainforest, urban and remote areas. While much social work practice is located in large population centres, the problem of providing a social work service in rural and remote areas is a challenging one. This article examines some of the issues for rural social workers practicing where networks are small and multilayered, anonymity, privacy and safety for the social worker cannot be guaranteed, and a broad range of knowledge and skills are demanded. As a profession, it is important to acknowledge the complexity of delivering an ethical, responsive and appropriate service in rural areas. For rural social workers, this challenge impacts in both their professional and personal roles.
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Strengthening regional communities through ICT and online capabilities – Getting beyond the regional development rhetoric

- Thompson, Helen

Authors: Thompson, Helen
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: Paper presented at University of Ballarat Annual Research Conference: Our Research - Regional and National Significance, Ballarat, Victoria : 5th November 2003
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Description: Since the mid 1990s access to advanced communication and information systems has increasingly been seen as critical for economic and social well-being. Information communications technology (ICT) has been identified as having a virtually unlimited potential to enhance business competitiveness. For regional communities ICT has been identified as providing opportunities to ‘level the playing field’ with benefits espoused in terms of ‘location independence’ and for the end of the ‘tyranny of distance’. In terms of community well-being it has been argued that online capabilities can help to stimulate and reinvigorate both geographic communities and communities of interest. However in spite of the context where online capabilities are promoted as critical elements of regional and rural success, few attempts have been made to draw together various intellectual streams of research with examples of community practice, to gain a clear understanding of how regional Australia can grab its share of this wealth and use it to strengthen local communities. This paper reports on collaborative research which is directed towards these very issues. It responds to a call for research to be instigated to collect case studies of rural communities that have successfully developed community-based Internet services for socially and economically beneficial purposes. There are four industry partners supporting this research. They are Ararat Rural City, the Wimmera Development Association, AME Systems and the Shire of Hepburn. The broad research objective is to consider factors that underpin the sustainability of regional and rural communities with a particular focus on investing factors that affect the success of community informatics (CI) initiatives. CI is an overarching term and an emerging field of study that focuses on the use of ICT by communities for their betterment. It links the concepts of social, economic, political and cultural development with emerging opportunities from ICTs. A mixed methodology, combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies has been used to achieve the study objectives. Findings indicate that where commitment, compatibility and a shared strategic intent are at the heart of collaborative relationships, success and learning is much more likely to occur. The research demonstrates the benefits and challenges of operationalising online initiatives in a regional and rural context. It also contributes to forming an evidence-based approach to public and private action required to underpin the sustainability of regional and rural communities in Australia.
Description: 2003004599

Strictly increasing positively homogeneous functions with application to exact penalization

- Rubinov, Alex, Gasimov, Rafail

Authors: Rubinov, Alex , Gasimov, Rafail
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Optimization Vol. 52, no. 1 (2003), p. 1-28
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Description: We study a nonlinear exact penalization for optimization problems with a single constraint. The penalty function is constructed as a convolution of the objective function and the constraint by means of increasing positively homogeneous (IPH) functions. The main results are obtained for penalization by strictly IPH functions. We show that some restrictive assumptions, which have been made in earlier researches on this topic, can be removed. We also compare the least exact penalty parameters for penalization by different convolution functions. These results are based on some properties of strictly IPH functions that are established in the article.
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Description: 2003000357

Strikingly low circulating CRP concentrations in ultramarathon runners independent of markers of adiposity - How low can you go?

- Tomaszewski, Maciej, Charchar, Fadi, Przybycin, Malgorzata, Crawford, Lynne, Wallace, A. Michael., Gosek, Katarzyna, Lowe, Gordon. D., Zukowska-Szczechowska, Ewa, Grzeszczak, Wladyslaw, Sattar, Naveed, Dominiczak, Anna

Authors: Tomaszewski, Maciej , Charchar, Fadi , Przybycin, Malgorzata , Crawford, Lynne , Wallace, A. Michael. , Gosek, Katarzyna , Lowe, Gordon. D. , Zukowska-Szczechowska, Ewa , Grzeszczak, Wladyslaw , Sattar, Naveed , Dominiczak, Anna
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Vol. 23, no. 9 (2003), p. 1640-1644
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Description: Objective-This study was undertaken to evaluate to what extent C-reactive protein (CRP) can be reduced by exercise by examining its circulating concentrations in male ultramarathon runners and to determine if low leptin as a robust circulating marker of fat mass could account for low CRP in such men. Methods and Results-Sixty-seven male ultramarathon runners and 63 sedentary male controls of similar age and body mass index were recruited. CRP and leptin were measured by ELISA and radioimmunoassay, respectively. Median CRP concentration in lean (body mass index <25 kg/m(2)) marathon runners was less than half control median (0.4 [0.2 to 0.9] mg/L versus 0.9 [0.5 to 2.7] mg/L, P=0.0013) and, more strikingly, in nonlean runners was approximately 26% of control median (0.4 [0.3 to 0.8] mg/L versus 1.5 [0.9 to 2.5] mg/L, P=0.0002). Circulating leptin levels were also substantially lower in lean (45% less) and nonlean (63% less, both P=0.0001) ultramarathon runners. However, interleukin-6 levels were not different. Furthermore, leptin adjustment only minimally attenuated the case-control difference in CRP, suggesting that mechanisms other than fat mass reduction contribute to low concentrations of CRP in marathon runners. Conclusions-This study suggests that circulating CRP concentrations can be markedly suppressed, independently of total adiposity or indeed fat mass, by intense regular physical exercise.

Surface stickiness of drops of carbohydrate and organic acid solutions during convective drying : Experiments and modeling

- Adhikari, Benu, Howes, Tony, Bhandari, Bhesh, Troung, V.

Authors: Adhikari, Benu , Howes, Tony , Bhandari, Bhesh , Troung, V.
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Drying Technology Vol. 21, no. 5 (2003), p. 839-873
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Description: Drying kinetics of low molecular weight sugars such as fructose, glucose, sucrose and organic acid such as citric acid and high molecular weight carbohydrate such as maltodextrin (DE 6) were determined experimentally using single drop drying experiments as well as predicted numerically by solving the mass and heat transfer equations. The predicted moisture and temperature histories agreed with the experimental ones within 6% average relative (absolute) error and average difference of +/- 1degreesC, respectively. The stickiness histories of these drops were determined experimentally and predicted numerically based on the glass transition temperature (T-g) of surface layer. The model predicted the experimental observations with good accuracy. A nonsticky regime for these materials during spray drying is proposed by simulating a drop, initially 120 mum in diameter, in a spray drying environment.

Tackling school leaving at its Source: A case of reform in the middle years of schooling

- Smyth, John, McInerney, Peter, Hattam, Robert

Authors: Smyth, John , McInerney, Peter , Hattam, Robert
Date: 2003
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: British journal of sociology of education Vol. 24, no. 2 (2003), p. 177-193
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Description: One of the most pervasive educational issues confronting Australia, and other countries, at the moment is the declining completion rates in high schools. While a period of success was experienced after the Second World War, there is now a pressing need to reform high schools in the ways they connect with young lives. In this paper, we present a 'sociology of the high school' as a way of encapsulating the high school as an institution that: is still largely stuck in a 'continuity of practice' (Elmore, 1987); has an 'attachment to familiar pedagogical routines' (Eisner, 1992); fails to listen to students; is hierarchically structured; treats students in immature ways; is hung up with passing on content; and seems more concerned with insulating itself from, rather connecting with or appropriating, young lives into the curriculum. As an alternative, we examine the notion of middle schooling that requires a version of whole school reform that engages with structures, cultures and changing pedagogy in ways more resonant with, and respectful of, young lives. We examine the tensions and dilemmas experienced at Investigator [1] High School in Australia, and conclude that the centerpiece has to be breaking the mold of the 'scripted' teacher and its replacement by the 'teacher-as-improviser'.

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