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Psychological sequelae of political imprisonment, specifically post-traumatic stress disorder, in 491 Days by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

open access: yesLiterator, 2018
This article analyses well-known anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s prison memoir 491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (2013) for depictions of suffering.
Marisa Botha
doaj   +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

Structural barriers to refugee, asylum seeker and undocumented migrant healthcare access. Perceptions of Doctors of the World caseworkers in the UK

open access: yesSSM - Mental Health, 2022
This article contributes new insights into how refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants experience access to healthcare in the UK from both the perspective of caseworker volunteers and the assessment of policy regulations that influence such ...
Zara Asif, Hanna Kienzler
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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

The Abject as Body Language in Imre Kertész’s Fateless and Alaine Polcz’s One Woman in the War

open access: yesHungarian Cultural Studies, 2019
Among the various analyses that examine Imre Kertész’s Fateless, little attention has been paid to the relationship between body and narrative. Using Julia Kristeva’s concept of the abject, I focus on excerpts in the novel in which power breaches the ...
Edit Zsadányi
doaj   +1 more source

The dynamics of Ca2+ ions within the solvation shell of calbindin D9k. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
The encounter of a Ca(2+) ion with a protein and its subsequent binding to specific binding sites is an intricate process that cannot be fully elucidated from experimental observations.
Elad Project   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

To Raise or Not to Raise: An Experimental Test of Community Support for Increasing the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in New South Wales, Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While research has identified a disconnect between the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and public perceptions of criminal culpability among young people, no study has examined how offender characteristics influence support for reform using an experimental design. To address this, this study presents the first experimental test of
Cameron T. Langfield   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discharge against Medical Advice in Surgical Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Case Report Series Illustrating Unique Challenges

open access: yesCase Reports in Anesthesiology, 2017
Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) can have detrimental effects on patient outcomes. Recently, the diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been linked with DAMA in the mental health setting.
Marek Brzezinski   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Lost learning: Prevalence, inequalities and outcomes of internal exclusion in mainstream secondary schools

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Internal exclusion (isolation) is a behaviour management approach involving the temporary relocation of a pupil from their classroom to a designated isolation space as a consequence of disruptive behaviour. We present the first study of prevalence (i.e., what proportion of young people are isolated?), inequalities (i.e., who is more likely to ...
Emma Thornton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Adsorption and transport behavior of arsenate on saline-alkali soils of tidal flat of Yellow Sea, Eastern China

open access: yesEnvironmental Pollutants & Bioavailability, 2019
The adsorption of arsenic plays an important role in the mobility of this toxic element in the saline-alkali soil environment. The adsorption and transport of arsenate [As(V)] in saline-alkali soils were investigated in this study. The results of kinetic
Ting Luo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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