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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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Listening to a conversation with aggressive content expands the interpersonal space. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The distance individuals maintain between themselves and others can be defined as 'interpersonal space'. This distance can be modulated both by situational factors and individual characteristics. Here we investigated the influence that the interpretation
Eleonora Vagnoni +3 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings +2 more
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On the Validity of Projective Measures of Interpersonal Distance
, 1980 A model of the cognitive basis of the subject's response to projective measures of interpersonal distance is described and used as a basis for arguing for the validity of these methods in research on cultural patterns of interpersonal distance ...
David J. A. Edwards
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Distance Based Visual Cues to Interpersonal Trust [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis examines the role of interpersonal spacing in determining the visual appearance and emotional response to images of faces. We present new methods for isolating the distance-dependent perspective projection as a visual feature, while ...
Bryan, Ronald Edward
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Cohesion Without Consensus: Attitudinal Profiles of Social Cohesion in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Headline indicators of social cohesion in Australia have remained stable in recent years despite rising political polarisation and declining institutional trust worldwide. Yet recent protests and incidents of ethnically and politically motivated violence suggest that cohesion may be under strain. If cohesion is understood not as the pursuit of
John van Kooy
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Volunteering, Crime and Secondary School Attendance: Evidence From Queensland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Student absenteeism is a critical issue in Australia and worldwide, with alarming declines in attendance rates further exacerbated by the COVID‐19 pandemic. While research has long highlighted the relevance of school and family factors, less is known about how the broader community context shapes attendance.
Matthias Kubler +5 more
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Lévy Flight and the Interpersonal Distance of a Pedestrian in a Crowd
Applied SciencesA simple self-experiment allows for the measurement of individual pedestrian movements, aiming to understand the deviations from intended directions seen in heterogeneous human crowds. The method involves pedestrian self-observations using the GPS sensor
Régis Barillé
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A critical interpersonal distance switches between two coordination modes in kendo matches. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 In many competitive sports, players need to quickly and continuously execute movements that co-adapt to various movements executed by their opponents and physical objects.
Motoki Okumura +5 more
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Sport, Agency and Pigeon Snaring in the Ancient Tongan Chiefdom
Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pigeon snaring was an élite sport in the traditional Tongan chiefdom, undertaken on purpose‐built mounds known as sia heu lupe. LiDAR imagery combined with field survey and mound documentation on the island of Tongatapu has identified a comprehensive corpus of these sites.
David V. Burley +3 more
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