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ItemNuclear Security Diplomacy Beyond Summitry 1(Taylor & Francis, 2016)This chapter assesses the role of multilateral diplomacy in strengthening nuclear security after the nuclear summit process ends in 2016. Nuclear security diplomacy is taken to mean communications, discussions, and negotiations among states, especially through high-level gatherings of government representatives, and other stakeholders, notably industry and civil society. Diplomacy may, at first glance, seem to be a laughingly fey response to the threat of nuclear terrorism. One of the challenges in ensuring comprehensive nuclear security is the array of institutions, mechanisms, and arrangements that deal with the issue, either at a broad policy level or in more substantive terms. The Council would also likely play a critical role in reacting to a major nuclear terrorism incident. However, both UNGA and the Council have comprehensive agendas that only allow episodic attention to nuclear security and cannot therefore be expected to play a regular, attentive diplomatic role in this field.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableLiterary Conversations: An Australian Classroom(Sense Publisher, 2011)This essay arises from an ongoing discussion about the teaching of Literature which followed after a 'critical friend', Bella Illesca spent a series of consecutive lessons observing the action in Prue Gill's Year 12 Literature class. By examining, interpreting and exploring the events of the classroom as students discussed the short stories of contemporary Australian writer, Beverley Farmer, we were lead to articulate our aims with teachers, our puzzles and our concerns in ways that helped each of us think afresh about teaching.
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Item(In-between) the complicities of the imagination: Teaching English in Public and Private Schools(Phoenix Education, 2014)The following story arises in response to a reading of Hannah Arendt’s essay, ‘The Crisis in Education’ (1954/1976) and her concept of natality found in The Human Condition (1958/1998). In these works, Arendt prompts us to think about teaching not as something that we do unthinkingly in compliance with the dictates of an impersonal bureaucratic system, but as ‘words and deeds’ in response to the presence of the children before us and the worlds of experience and language that they bring with them to the classroom. These ideas are particularly pertinent to us at this moment in Australia’s history when government policies continue to conceptualize curriculum and pedagogy in ways that try to represent students’ human qualities as quantifiable data and English teachers’ professional knowledge and practice as likewise things that can be measured.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableWorking with Families: Emerging Characteristics(Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016)
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ItemRe-thinking the brain. new insights into early experience and brain development(Elsevier, 2013-08-18)The brain is a self-organizing system that adapts to its specific environment throughout pre- and postnatal life (Braun and Bock, 2011). Self-organization refers to the spontaneous formation of patterns and pattern change in open nonequilibrium systems. Edelman’s theory of neuronal group selection (Edelman, 1989) highlights this process. Groups of neurons are ‘selected’ or organized into groups or networks that are dynamically organized through epigenetic factors and experience. Developmental selection occurs largely before birth. Processes such as cell division, differentiation and programmed cell death and the mechanisms of neuronal migration are regulated by epigenetic factors. While genetics provides a general blueprint for neural development, the developmental processes are not precisely prespecified by genes, and produce unique patterns of neurons and neuronal groups in every brain. The result is a diverse pattern of connectivity forming primary repertoires of different neuronal groups. Structural diversity occurs through selective mechanical and chemical events regulated by cell and substrate adhesion molecules. A second process called experiential selection occurs postnatally through behavioural experience, resulting in modifications in the strength of synaptic connections, and creating diverse secondary repertoires. Finally, re-entrant signalling leads to the development of dynamic ‘maps’, an interconnected series of neuronal groups that independently receive inputs from the real world and create coherent perceptual constructs.
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ItemClinical data linkages in spinal cord injuries (SCI) in Australia: What are the concerns?(IGI Global, 2014-10-31)Clinical data linkage amongst patients with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is a challenge, as the Australian Health System is fragmented and there is lack of coordination between multiple data custodians at the state and federal levels, private and public hospitals, and acute and allied health sectors. This is particularly problematic in chronic conditions such as SCI, where multiple data custodians collect data on patients over long periods of time. The author presents findings based on interviews with a range of data custodians for SCI categorized as clinical, statutory, and financial data custodians. It is found that data are kept in different silos, which are not coordinated, hence duplication exists and patient information that exists on many different databases is inconsistently updated. This chapter describes the importance of Clinical Data Linkage for healthcare in predicting disease trajectories for SCI and discusses how administrative and clinical data are collected and stored and some of the challenges in linking these datasets.
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ItemOverview of clinical decision support systems in healthcare(IGI Global, 2016-07-18)Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) are software designed to help clinicians to make decisions about patient diagnosis using technical devices such as desktops, laptops and iPads, and mobile devices, to obtain medical information and set up alert systems to monitor medication. A Clinical Decision Support System has been suggested by many as a key to a solution for improving patient safety together with Physician Based Computer Order Entry. This technology could prove to be very important in conditions such as chronic diseases where health outlay is high and where self-efficacy can affect health outcomes. However, the success of CDSS relies on technology, training and ongoing support. This chapter includes a historical overview and practical application of CDSS in medicine, and discusses challenges involved with implementation of such systems. It discusses new frontiers of CDSS and implications of self-management using social computing technologies, in particular in the management of chronic disease.
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ItemChen Yanyin: Giving Form to Emotion(ShanghART Gallery, 2016)
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ItemThe amalgamation of Malagasy(Pacific Linguistics Publishers, 2010)
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ItemRembau, Negeri Sembilan: Personalities and promises(Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014)The volume offers a set of case studies of parliamentary and state-level contests, detailing campaign messages, strategies and apparent patterns.