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The Stoic Monastic: Taiwanese Buddhism and the Problem of Emotions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper explores the stoicism of Taiwanese monastics and argues that, in this context, emotions are believed to be dangerous in part because they interfere with spiritual cultivation.
Crane, Hillary
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Superannuation Reimagined: Moving Beyond the Origins to an Indigenous Focus

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retirement income systems, such as superannuation, are meant to be non‐discriminatory and consider disadvantage faced by members of society. There are significant differences between the life expectancies of Indigenous and non‐Indigenous peoples. The gap in life expectancies is not considered when determining when Indigenous peoples can retire.
Levon Ellen Blue   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMPASS‐II: COMPASS Future Programs [PDF]

open access: yesAIP Conference Proceedings, 2011
The COMPASS (COmmon Muon and Proton apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy) experiment started more than 10 years ago and has published many results concerning nucleon structure and hadron spectroscopy. We propose additional measurements for a new fascinating QCD‐related studies of nucleon structure and hadron spectroscopy with small modifications of
openaire   +1 more source

Eudaimonic Pathways of Activating Compassion Reduce Vulnerabilities to Paranoia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This study aimed to identify if compassion benefits paranoia and, if so what type of compassion. Following a series of different compassionate exercises in 104 participants it was found that mindfulness approaches were the most significant in reducing ...
Gill, J. K., Scase, M. O.
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The cultural shaping of compassion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this chapter, we first review the existing literature on cross-cultural studies on compassion. While cultural similarities exist, we demonstrate cultural differences in the conception, experience, and expression of compassion.
Koopmann-Holm, Birgit, Tsai, Jeanne L.
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

open access: yesAustralian 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
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Ohio's Compassion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This report gives an overview of the state of the nonprofit sector in ...
Amy L. Sherman   +3 more
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Spontaneous blink rate as an index of attention and emotion during film clips viewing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Spontaneous blinking is a non-invasive indicator known to reflect dopaminergic influence over frontal cortex and attention allocation in perceptual tasks.
Angrilli, Alessandro, Maffei, Antonio
core   +1 more source

Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Robodebt: Media Representations of Welfare and Fraud Before and After the Robodebt Royal Commission

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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