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Spine Surgery and Related ResearchIntroduction: Conventional methods for analyzing vertebral rotation are limited to postoperative patients who underwent posterior fusion. A previous methodology calculated vertebral rotation using inverse trigonometric functions based on the length of ...
Shun Okuwaki +11 more
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Preconditions for Citizen Journalism: A Sociological Assessment [PDF]
The rise of the citizen journalist and increased attention to this phenomenon requires a sociological assessment that seeks to develop an understanding of how citizen journalism has emerged in contemporary society.
Hayley Watson
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Reinventing Media Activism: Public Interest Advocacy in the Making of U.S. Communication-Information Policy, 1960-2002 [PDF]
, 2004 This report is a long-term analysis of citizens' collective action to influence public policy toward communication and information. The work discusses in greater detail what is meant by communication and information policy (CIP) and why we think it is ...
Brenden Kuerbis +2 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Bias Reduction via End-to-End Shift Learning: Application to Citizen Science
, 2018 Citizen science projects are successful at gathering rich datasets for various applications. However, the data collected by citizen scientists are often biased --- in particular, aligned more with the citizens' preferences than with scientific objectives.
Chen, Di, Gomes, Carla P.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2021, a desktop review was conducted of published references to First Nations peoples' approaches to conflict and its management in Australia (Project Stage One), culminating in a report published in 2024. This article focuses on Project Stage Two, a complex, innovative research undertaking building on the findings of Stage One, and being ...
Helen Bishop +3 more
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa +2 more
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The Politics of Framing the Student Problem: Inquiries Into Australian Civics Education, 2006–2024
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recurring debates about civics, the kinds of history that should, and should not, be taught in school, and ‘standards debates’ about the ‘basics’ typically follow on the heels of recurring moral panics about the ‘declining’ state of ‘our’ education system.
Patrick O'Keeffe +2 more
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The Effect of the United States Supreme Court\u27s Eleventh Amendment Jurisprudence on Clean Water Act Citizen Suits: Muddied Waters [PDF]
, 2004 This Article focuses on the impact of the Court\u27s Eleventh Amendment jurisprudence on citizen suits authorized under the Clean Water Act (CWA), because that law\u27s cooperative federalism structure is typical of many other environmental laws, and ...
Babcock, Hope M.
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