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Becoming resilient: Community‐driven change and the Civic Capacity Index

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract One of the principal features of successful community governance is that it is collaborative and thus dependent on a community's ability to work together. However, there are no valid, comprehensive means to assess a community's capacity to respond to civic challenges in collaborative ways, and that are predictive of community resilience and ...
David MacPhee, David Chrislip, Patti Schmitt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Essential, Yet Precarious, Mistreated, Sick and Medicalized: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed‐Methods Study on Homecare Aides in Spain

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Homecare aides (HCAs) are professional non‐family caregivers, who support dependent individuals to live at home with dignity; yet in Spain they remain understudied and vulnerable, often facing precarious working conditions. We aimed to characterize HCAs’ employment, living conditions, health, and exposure to workplace violence and ...
Albert Navarro‐Giné, Pedro Ferrer‐Rosende, Maria Feijoo‐Cid, Sergio Salas‐Nicás, Laura Esteve‐Matalí, Valeria Stuardo‐Ávila, María Isabel Fernández‐Cano   +6 more
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Potential of low apolipoprotein A-I as a surrogate marker of vulnerable carotid artery plaques

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
Objective: Recent studies suggested that the medical control of atherogenic lipoproteins is not sufficient for stroke prevention. A low apolipoprotein A-I (apoA-I) level may play a crucial role in the anti-atherogenic effects of high-density lipoprotein (
Saya Tsuchigauchi, MD, Toshinori Matsushige, MD, Yukishige Hashimoto, MD, Masahiro Hosogai, MD, Hiroki Takahashi, MD, Shohei Kobayashi, MD, Takeo Shishido, MD, Naoyuki Hara, MD, Kenta Kaneyoshi, MD, Shota Uchida, MD, Ryuga Maki, MD, Hiroshi Yamashita, MD   +11 more
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Baseline factors defining immune complex detection in systemic lupus erythematosus: development of a three-factor score in a retrospective cohort study

Frontiers in Lupus
ObjectiveImmune complexes (ICs) play a central role in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We previously showed that detectable ICs predicted clinical remission off corticosteroids (CR off C), also referred to as glucocorticoid-free ...
Hiroshi Oiwa, Akihiro Yahata, Naoki Nakamoto   +2 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
wiley   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation of High Efficacy Groups for Hospital‐Wide Standardized Hypnotic Bundles on Insomnia: A Subgroup Analysis of the COBATON Study

Journal of General and Family Medicine
Introduction In a previous study, a reduction in hypnotic‐related fall and injury incidence rates was revealed after the hospital‐wide standardization of hypnotic bundles for insomnia.
Yuta Yoshino, Naoko Fudaka, Miyuki Ogawa
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Sitting in Many Camps—Innovative Approaches and Methods for First Nations‐Led Research Into Indigenous Peacebuilding

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, Alysoun Boyle, Tania Sourdin, Bin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, Judith Bessant, Madeline Drake   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source