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Putting Gross National Happiness in the Service of Good Development [PDF]
, 2003 Gross National Happiness (GNH) has only recently appeared on the international stage, yet it was immediately met with sympathy by scholars, political activists, and politicians around the world.
Hirata, Johannes
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Sympathy for fictional characters: an examination of the factors involved from a social psychology and cognitive film theory perspective [PDF]
Doxa Comunicación, 2017 Sympathy is the main affective bond that the viewer establishes with the fictional characters, being a necessary prerequisite for the elicitation of other emotions.
Víctor Aertsen
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alcohol and other drug‐facilitated sexual violence can have significant impacts on victim‐survivors, yet little is known about what support service providers offer them. To understand the experiences and perceptions of service providers, interviews with counsellors, health workers, forensic toxicologists and harm reduction workers were ...
Jessica Ison +5 more
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse
Australian 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
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Modelling change in individual characteristics: an axiomatic framework [PDF]
Economic models describe individuals in terms of underlying characteristics, such as taste for some good, sympathy level for another player, time discount rate, risk attitude, and so on.
Dietrich, Franz
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Australian 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
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Interwoven Threads: Sympathetic Knowledge in George Eliot and Spinoza
Journal of Spinoza StudiesBefore achieving success as a novelist, George Eliot spent several years translating Spinoza’s Ethics. Previous scholarship on Spinoza and Eliot has generally assumed that Eliot’s novels are wholly influenced by Spinoza, or that they can even be read as ‘
Dan Taylor
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Efficacy of Local Bupivacaine Injection of Postoperative Pain in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Regional anesthesia is effective in alleviating postoperative pain and reducing the requirement for systemic pain medications. However, optimal postoperative pain management in endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) remains challenging.
Wiracha Leewannapasai +4 more
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