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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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Ethics and the decision-making inertia of the public agent in discretionary spaces

Revista Eletrônica de Ciência Administrativa
This essay addresses the ethical dimension of the phenomenon of decision-making inertia in public administration, characterized by the agent's option to give up the power to deliberate in the spaces of discretion for fear of possible liability, even if ...
Sandro Trescastro Bergue
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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
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‘Shelter is a Dignity’: Rental Racism, Stress and Housing (In)justice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australia's private rental sector is in crisis, and culturally and racially minoritised renters face compounded harms through both covert and everyday direct forms of rental racism. Drawing on five community‐based focus groups in Melbourne (n = 37), the paper explores how racism manifests across the rental pathway and how it structures the ...
Erika Martino, Ilan Wiesel, Ang Li, Rebecca Bentley   +3 more
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Temperature‐Controlled Radiofrequency for Severe Nasal Airway Obstruction: A Non‐Inferiority Comparison With Surgical Intervention

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Temperature‐controlled radiofrequency (TCRF), septoplasty (ST) with turbinate reduction, and functional rhinoplasty (FR) are treatment options for nasal airway obstruction (NAO) and nasal valve dysfunction (NVD), but no direct comparison of these procedures has been performed. Methods This prospective, open‐label, non‐inferiority (
Greg Davis, Zeeshan Aziz, Jose Barrera, William Blythe, Chris Davis, Steven Davis, Thomas Higgins, Charles Lano, Gregory Levitin, Frederick Lopatin, Samuel Oyer, Stacey Silvers, Ariel Waitzman, Randall Ow   +13 more
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Fascicle measurement methods do result in lengths that are significantly different

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
A recent comparison of the most prevalent methods for measuring fascicles, in situ measurement versus chemical digestion, concluded that the measurements are indistinguishable based on data from different conspecific individuals. However, our study of contralateral muscles of the same individuals shows that the methods clearly result in statistically ...
Katherine M. Clark, Reece A. Brown, Maggie Funderburk, Elise S. Bush, Anthony Herrel, Adam Hartstone‐Rose   +5 more
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Predictable patterns of unpredictability: a literature review of discretion in migration control

Political Research Exchange
Migration control policies are marked by contradictory policy goals set in a complex web of intersecting international, national, and local regulations. This grants significant discretion to frontline workers. Despite the extensive research undertaken on
Lisa Marie Borrelli, Livia Johannesson, Annika Lindberg   +2 more
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Increased Plasma Microbial tDR‐1 in At‐Risk Individuals Is Associated With Decreased Conversion to Clinical Rheumatoid Arthritis and Reduces an In Vitro Macrophage Type 1 Interferon Response

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective Microbial small RNAs can regulate human genes. Higher plasma concentrations of microbial transfer RNA (tRNA)‐derived RNA‐1 (tDR‐1) were previously associated with lower rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity. This study examined whether tDR‐1 concentrations differ in anticyclic citrullinated peptide‐3 positive (CCP3+) at‐risk individuals (
Anastasiia Phothisane, Tulsi K. Joishy, Carolina Ramirez‐Becerra, Qiong Wu, Jennifer Seifert, Marie L. Feser, Jill M. Norris, M. Kristen Demoruelle, LauraKay Moss, Kevin D. Deane, V. Michael Holers, Michelle J. Ormseth   +11 more
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A DEA–based efficiency evaluation method for metro-led urban underground public space

Underground Space
Despite the thriving development of metro-led urban underground public space (UUPS) and its significant benefits and costs, there remains a critical research gap in understanding and evaluating its efficiency.
Zi-Yun Zhang, Fang-Le Peng, Chen-Xiao Ma, Yong-Kang Qiao   +3 more
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Efficacy and Safety of Nanoencapsulated Sirolimus Plus Pegadricase: Results From the Randomized, Placebo‐Controlled Phase 3 Trials

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective DISSOLVE I and II examined the efficacy and safety of nanoencapsulated sirolimus (NAS) plus pegadricase (NASP) in patients with uncontrolled gout (UG). Methods In these double‐blind, placebo‐controlled Phase 3 trials of NASP, patients were randomized 1:1:1 to infusions of high‐dose (HD) or low‐dose (LD) NAS plus pegadricase (HD NASP, LD NASP,
Herbert S. B. Baraf, Puja P. Khanna, Milan Petronijevic, Mamuka Lortkipanidze, Anand Patel, Kwabena Ayesu, Michael H. Pillinger, Atul Singhal, Joanna Sobierska, Jacquie Christie, Peter Traber, Rehan Azeem, Wesley DeHaan, Hugues Santin‐Janin, Bhavisha Desai, Alan Kivitz   +15 more
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