Coaching older adults (aged 55+)
- Authors: Dionigi, Rylee , Eime, Rochelle , Young, Bradley , Callary, Bettina , Rathwell, Scott
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Community Sport Coaching: Policies and Practice Chapter 9 p. 147-166
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- Description: Despite the benefits community sport can bring to older adults (aged 55+), such as social support, mental, and physical health and fun, national sporting policies tend to focus on young age groups in terms of participation and elite performance, so community sports are often required to align their strategic focus with these policies. Therefore, there are scant (yet emerging) sporting policies, formal sport coaching, and coach education opportunities specific to older adults in countries such as Australia, New Zealand, England, and Canada. This reality poses problems for coaching older adults in community sports. However, there is recent research, particularly in Canada, that reveals the everyday realities of coaching older adults, such as the importance of meeting athlete needs for competition, health and/or fun, developing personal relationships, accounting for age-related changes, and applying adult learning principles to the coaching context. In this chapter, we discuss these factors and offer some strategies to assist those embarking on community sport coaching work with older adults. © 2022 Taylor & Francis.
Common orthopedic problems in the foot and their implications for footwear design
- Authors: Ganesan, Balasankar , Prasad, Palak , Akter, Suraiya , Tong, Raymond
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Handbook of Footwear Design and Manufacture Chapter 16 p. 413-438
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Conclusion: public policy leadership and change for women’s work and 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 10 p.147-151
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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.
Conclusions, Overview, and Recommendations
- Authors: Scharoun, Lisa , Peng, Fanke , Hills, Danny , Liu, Jie , Montana-Hoyos, Carlos , Sung, Vivien
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Cross-Cultural Design for Healthy Ageing p. 160-168
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Corruption in procurement-antecedents, practices, and challenges
- Authors: Pillay, Soma
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Public Procurement, Corruption and the Crisis of Governance in Africa Chapter 3 p. 35-54
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- Description: Governance aspects of African democracies have been the focus of theoretical and empirical study for over two decades. With the introduction of newly established democracies, new markets evolved with controversial results. The basic premise of this chapter is that good governance practices are shaped and constructed through organizational practices. Within the most large public and private sector entities, procurement practices are organized around institutional measures and the extent of compliance with legislative controls. This chapter examines corruption in procurement- its antecedents, practices, and challenges, through the lenses of institutional theory. Instances of corruption in African public services are reported on almost a daily basis. There is no scarcity of scandals that illustrate the depth and pervasiveness of corruption. In the wake of these scandals and the role that corruption has played, awareness has grown about the social, political, and economic costs of the corruption which such African countries cannot afford. In Africa, as in most parts of the world, governments are major consumers of goods and services. It is therefore expected that government procurement presents opportunities for governance challenges. Such governance challenges may be attributed to the area of government procurement having a series of unique features and as such participants are susceptible to acts of poor governance such as corruption. Antecedents such as the magnitude and volume of procurement activities, ambiguity around the market value of many of the items being purchased, the spaces for political discretion that exist within government, and interdependence among various agencies, all contribute to government procurement as a fertile ground for corruption. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
Cruising into the future : the redemption of ‘authentic’ masculinity in the science fiction films of Tom Cruise.”
- Authors: Wight, Linda
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Starring Tom Cruise Chapter 8 p. 152-168
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Customizing women’s portfolio work and ‘retirement’ careers
- Authors: Taylor, Philip , Earl, Catherine , Brooke, Elizabeth , McLoughlin, Christopher
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Retiring women : work and post work transitions Chapter 8 p. 122-134
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- Description: Chapter 8 reports qualitative interviews with older women, drawing from the concepts of biographical work-life balance and portfolio careers. It focuses on older women who were in part-time work but who self-identified as having made a transition to retirement. Many had longstanding careers and stable networks, accrued skills and financial resources, supported a well-endowed quality of portfolio lives, whereas those who experienced ‘unbalanced’ portfolio retirement were more likely to be lacking resources from their working lives. The analysis reinforces the notion that retirement should be viewed as a process and not an event and that it is impossible to tell a single story of women's post-work transitions.
Dead ends : the vanishing of Marilyn Wallman
- Authors: Morrissey, Belinda , Davis, Kristen
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Crossroads of Rural Crime: Representations and Realities of Transgression in the Australian Countryside Chapter 7 p. 95-107
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- Description: This paper documents the case of a young girl who went missing from a country track in 1972. It considers the function of roads in her disappearance, and the importance and terror of roads generally in Australia. For roads have a role in Australia that is vastly different to smaller, more populous nations. Roads in Australia are absolutely crucial to the maintenance and sustenance of society. So too are the cars and other vehicles we use upon them, but they are just as paradoxical in their effects. As Elizabeth Jacka and Susan Dermody (1988, p. 113) put it so plainly: ‘our cars kill us, and without them we would die’. The case of the girl who vanished from a road is not an unusual event in Australia. However, it has led to a conjunction of long-lasting effects, particularly on the community of Mackay, that are. The case has never been solved, not due to a desire to solve it, but ironically because of the very methods initially employed to do so. © 2021 by Emerald Publishing Limited.
Discovering the inner-outer self in a time of endings and a time of beginnings
- Authors: Taylor, Rachel
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Healthy Relationships in Higher Education: Promoting Wellbeing Across Academia Chapter 13 p. 172-184
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- Description: As we navigate the complexities of our workplaces within in the higher education sector and seek to (re)define our role in addressing the immense challenges of our era, it is valuable to consider if and how we can bring our “whole self” to work. This chapter explores the importance of self-care in the form of mindfulness meditation for facilitating deep modes of relating with/in the self to better understand our inner world. So too, regular immersion in nature is put forward as a means of engaging in heartful dialogue with the outer world. These self-care practices are described via a Self-Other and Communion-Agency model incorporating four pathways for aligning one’s purpose in life and purposeful work. Through these interrelated pathways, meditation and time in nature may allow us to reclaim our sense of wholeness, find meaningfulness in our authentic “self”, and realise what we can contribute to others. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Narelle Lemon; individual chapters, the contributors.
Erigeron bonariensis, erigeron canadensis, and erigeron sumatrensis
- Authors: Florentine, Singarayer , Humphries, Talia , Chauhan, Bhagirath
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Biology and Management of Problematic Crop Weed Species, 1st Edition Chapter 7 p. 131-149
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- Description: The global human population is expected to reach 8-10 billion by 2050. According to the United Nations, this expansion in population is expected to increase food demands by double the current demand by 2050. Consequently, existing food production systems will come under significant strain. Exacerbating this food production problem is that agronomic weed species across the globe are already causing significant impacts on essential grain yields. Over the past decades, to address weed infestations, farmers have been using range of herbicides. However, overuse of these chemicals has resulted in many weed species mutating to a more resistant form. To implement a successful integrated weed management approach in the future, it will be essential to document the changes in ecology and biology of significant weed species. This chapter focuses on the three most globally significant weeds: Erigeron bonariensis, Erigeron canadensis, and Erigeron sumatrensis, summarizing their current global distribution, seed ecology, impacts, control strategies, as well as current herbicide resistance. These three species are causing significant impacts on important agricultural products including corn, soybean, cotton, wheat, chickpea, sorghum, orchards, and vineyards. Addressing the problem of high levels of herbicide resistance within the Erigeron species has been attempted through various solutions, including novel herbicide mixtures and application timing. Targeting these species in their earlier growth stage with herbicide combinations can greatly improve the success of integrated treatments, broadening the options for suitable approaches such as the use of zero or no-till systems. Given that, these species have innate traits including (1) high seed production, (2) low levels of seed dormancy, (3) high emergence rates, (4) efficient seed dispersal mechanisms, and (5) a highly competitive nature. These advantages, coupled with their ability to withstand a range of climatic conditions and their increasing herbicide-resistant biotypes, make them a serious agricultural weed species across the globe. In this chapter, we have synthesized the characteristic biological features and the effectiveness of various control options. Very limited information is available on the ecology and biology of E. sumatrensis. We have, nevertheless, harvested a significant amount of useful information which may assist farmers to effectively develop integrated agricultural management practices to reduce the impacts of these three species in their productive lands. © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Exercise, epigenetics, and aging
- Authors: Chilton, Warrick , Maier, Maier , Akinnibosun, Olutope , O’Brien, Brendan , Charchar, Fadi
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Epigenetics of Exercise and Sports: Concepts, Methods, and Current Research Chapter 27 p. 127-182
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- Description: This chapter introduces the epigenetic processes that govern how exercise affects the aging processes. We begin with an introduction to the molecular changes that occur with aging including methylation and histone and noncoding RNA modifications. We then present the evidence for changes in these processes by exercise and physical activity, Lastly, we present evidence for and against a role for exercise on changes in telomere length and aging. © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Foodborne Trematode Infections
- Authors: Sapp, Sarah , Guagliardo, Sarah , Bradbury, Richard
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Maxcy-Rosenau-last public health & preventive medicine Chapter 129 p. 1398-1406
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Forsaking Keynes
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: The gypsy economist: the life and times of Colin Clark Chapter 6 p. 85-112
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- Description: This chapter looks over the first period of Colin Clark’s career in Australia. It was his mentor Hugh Dalton who played a key role in persuading Clark to work there. After a brief and controversial assignment in New Zealand studying her national income statistics, Clark agreed to take an executive position with the Queensland Government. It meant a breach with Keynes and Cambridge. Clark defended his decision, telling Keynes that it was an ideal opportunity to put economic science into action. What also turned his mind was Queensland’s rural and small enterprise economy, its egalitarian distribution of income, generous social services, compulsory trade unionism, absence of strikes and centralised wage fixation. Moreover, Queensland’s political leaders favoured decentralisation which resonated with Clark’s growing interest in Distributivism; a philosophy that advocated a fairer distribution of property, ruralism and rejection of ills of urban life. Clark’s public utterances and occasional disagreements with his fellow economists hinted at a future estrangement with them. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
Gender equality in higher education : the slow pace of change
- Authors: O’Connor, Pat , White, Kate
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Gender, Power and Higher Education in a Globalised World p. 1-23
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- Description: This chapter introduces the topic of gender equality and inequality in higher education, using feminist institutionalism as the underlying theoretical perspective. Drawing on a range of methodologies and focusing on key topical themes it identifies the discourses which have inhibited change, as well as what can be done to facilitate transformation. Thus, it focuses on institutional resistance; and the legitimating discourses of excellence, choice, displacement, biological essentialism and gender neutrality. In highlighting the importance of gender-competent leadership and empowering equality structures as ways of creating change, it explores the situation in 14 countries—Australia, Austria, Germany, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, the Czech Republic, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States and Turkey. The chapter examines the relationship between their ranking on global gender gap indices and key indicators of gender equality in universities, and suggests that without organisational transformation the effect of any intervention will be continuously undermined by the ‘normalised’ gender inequality perpetuating processes in higher education. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Great southern land
- Authors: Millmow, Alex
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: The gypsy economist: the life and times of Colin Clark Chapter 5 p. 73-83
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- Description: This chapter looks at Colin Clark’s 1937 sabbatical in Australia where he took up visiting appointments at the Universities of Melbourne, Sydney and Western Australia. Clark was quickly entranced by Australia, especially Queensland. By giving guest lectures and making newsworthy comments he attracted interests in his talent including the Premier William Forgan Smith of Queensland. In 1938 he co-authored The National Income of Australia (1938) with John Crawford which contained a ‘provisional’ estimate for the Australian income multiplier. With an anticipated collapse in private investment spending Clark advocated further public sector stimulus; advice which conflicted with that of one of Australia’s leading economists, Douglas Copland. Clark also argued that since Australia’s population growth rate had slowed, it would be necessary for this to increase if the country was to maintain the maximum return from the capital invested. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
Grey gardens and the problem of objectivity : notes on the ethics of observational documentary
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2021
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- Relation: Emotions, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience: New Phenomenological and Cognitivist Perspectives p. 108-122
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Hookworm Infection : Necatoriasis and Ancylostomiasis
- Authors: Bradbury, Richard
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Maxcy-Rosenau-last public health & preventive medicine Chapter 125 p. 1363-1369
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How bioregional history could shape the future of agriculture
- Authors: Brown, Julian , Barton, Philip , Cunningham, Saul
- Date: 2021
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- 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
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- 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
- Authors: Bradbury, Richard , Sapp, Sarah , Kamb, Mary , Hotez, Peter
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Maxcy-Rosenau-last public health & preventive medicine Chapter 126 p. 1370-1379
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