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Expectations and Reality: The Lived Experiences of Australians With Psychosocial Disability Within the NDIS

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was founded on principles of choice and control, for people with significant mental health challenges (what the NDIS calls ‘psychosocial disability’) these ideals often remain elusive. Support systems continue to be fractured and in the context of ongoing policy reforms, it is vital
Joel Hollier, Jennifer Smith‐Merry
wiley   +1 more source

An exploratory assessment of the effectiveness of oramedia in communicating new agricultural terminologies and techniques among farmers in Osun State, Nigeria

Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences
The Nigerian government, lately, has prioritized agriculture, following dwindling incomes from its main source of foreign exchange, oil and gas. But the agricultural sector still largely depends on peasant farmers.
Bolu John Folayan, Ezekiel Olusanya Komolafe, Amira Obi-Okoye, Abosede Olubunmi Banjo, Omolaso Timothy Odenike   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic accommodation in the media

, 2015
The thesis discusses the issue of accommodation theory and language and the media. To be more specific, the thesis discusses how the two are interconnected. It deals with the concept of communication accommodation theory in general – assumptions, background, strengths and weaknesses, convergence and divergence, and how communication accommodation ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Barriers and Enablers for Effective Support Coordination in the National Disability Insurance Scheme

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Support coordinators act as intermediaries between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and participants, facilitating access to funded supports. To optimise outcomes, they must navigate NDIS complexities, identify services that meet individual needs and engage with diverse stakeholders.
Sharyn McDonald, Lee Cubis, Di Winkler, Jacinta Douglas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl, Miri Yemini, Claire Maxwell, Yating Hu, Benjamin Adams, Sarah Bergen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Namesaking and Inheritance Amongst the Anaañ People of Southeastern Nigeria

Genealogy
Among the Anaañ people in Akwa Ibom State, Southeastern Nigeria, the practice of naming serves as a central mechanism for communicating personal identity, recollecting memory and preserving social hierarchy across generations.
Idongesit Imohowo Eyakndue, Arnold Benjamin Udoka   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intensified Manufactured Non‐Belonging: Working Holiday Makers in Australia During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nations manufacture non‐belonging of temporary migrants through policy frameworks that produce exclusion. This precarity maximises the economic benefit of temporary migrant labour by minimising their political, social and legal rights. In this paper, we examine how non‐belonging targeting Working Holiday Makers (WHMs) is manufactured in ...
Donna James, Alanna Kamp
wiley   +1 more source

Porous Poly(ε‐Caprolactone)/Keratin Composite Scaffolds: Structural Features, Degradation Behavior and Cell‐Material Interactions

Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Porous scaffolds based on pure poly(ε‐caprolactone) (PCL) and on biocomposite made of PCL and feather‐extracted β‐keratin (FK) were fabricated by salt‐leaching method. FK was incorporated into PCL to address the limited bioactivity and hydrophobic nature of PCL, with the aim of improving cell–material interactions for bone tissue engineering ...
Gianluca Rinaldi, Nancy Ferrentino, Martina Mucciolo, Valentina Sessini, Marina Paolucci, Elena Coccia, Daniela Pappalardo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Językoznawca na medialnym polu badawczym

Stylistyka, 2019
Depicting the feasible actions of a linguist interested in media research, the autlior presents two dominant research approaches and the problems relaled therewilh.
Maria Wojtak
doaj  

Tooth row allometry in domestic rabbits and nondomestic lagomorphs: Evidence for a decoupling of body and tooth row size changes in evolutionary time

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Domestic rabbits of different body sizes differ disproportionately in the length of their tooth row or the length of their diastema. Abstract In various domestic mammals, smaller breeds tend to have proportionally larger teeth, whereas this is not a universal trend across mammals.
Ursina L. Fasciati, Christine Böhmer, Stefanie Ohlerth, Marcus Clauss   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source