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Narrabri Shire Crime Prevention Plan: 2024 – 2028
No full textIn 2023, the Narrabri Shire Council engaged the Centre for Rural Criminology at the University of New England to develop an evidence-based crime prevention plan.The Narrabri Shire Crime Prevention Plan 2024-2028 is the product of extensive research on crime and crime prevention in the Shire, drawing on varied research methodologies.This Plan was created in consultation with the Oxley Police District, the Narrabri Shire Crime Prevention Committee and key community agencies, organisations and service providers. Most importantly, the Plan is the product of extensive community consultation and input. Drawing on this engagement, along with the data and evidence collected through the research process, the Plan provides the Shire with an in-depth understanding of crime and crime prevention and an evidence-informed Action Plan to address crime within the Narrabri Shire Local government area
Measurement of mental health recovery knowledge and attitudes of professionals and students: development of the R-KAS tool
No full textBackground The Recovery Knowledge Inventory (RKI) has been used widely across various settings to measure mental health professionals’ and students’ knowledge and attitudes about recovery. However, evidence suggests that this measure lacks sound psychometric properties and may not fully capture the multidimensional nature of recovery. This study aimed to adapt and establish the psychometric properties of a modified version of the RKI, resulting in both a long and a short version. Methods An exploratory sequential mixed-method design was employed in this study. In the frst phase, qualitative interviews were conducted using a semi-structured guide to explore participants’ understanding of mental health recovery. Their responses informed the development of a new survey tool used in the second phase. In total, 173 respondents were recruited via Qualtrics to complete an online survey. Descriptive and inferential statistics were conducted, including exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, Spearman correlation, and the Mann–Whitney U test. Results The 52 self-reported items were administered to 115 professionals and 58 students to assess the psychometric properties of this adapted measure. Exploratory Factor Analysis resulted in the removal of 14 items with low factor loadings, retaining 38 items in the long version of the newly adapted measure, the Recovery Knowledge and Attitude Scale (R-KAS). Also, a short 21-item version was developed. Both versions consist of three subscales namely Competence, Roles, and Responsibilities, and Process. Both the long and the short versions had good to excellent factor loadings (range .60 to.81) and high reliability (Cronbach’s alpha 38 items; α=0.95, 21 items, α=0.93). Known-groups validity was supported, as professionals who had received mental health recovery training scored significantly higher than those who had not. Conclusions Adapted from the original RKI and refined with input from consumers, the newly developed R-KAS tool appears to be psychometrically sound for assessing recovery knowledge and attitudes among professionals and students. Initial findings indicate that the R-KAS is a reliable and valid measure that may better reflect recovery-oriented practices in contemporary mental health settings
Co-evolution Genetic Algorithm Approximation Technique for ROM-Less Digital Synthesizers
No full textA new polynomial approximation technique is presented using the concept of co-evolution genetic algorithm. In the proposed technique each polynomial coefficient is considered as a set of independent populations rather being considered as one. These populations co-evolve as they try to optimize the spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) of a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS). Obtained SFDR from these optimized polynomials have outperformed that of the polynomials evaluated using deterministic approaches. Optimized polynomials for 2nd and 3rd order approximations have achieved 62 dBc and 82 dBc after hardware implementation. Also in the paper a simple genetic algorithm has been explained for optimal pipeline level insertion for a specific hardware implementation of polynomial functions in FPGA platforms
Ronald Roy (‘Roley’) Piggott (1945–2014)
No full textRoley Piggott was a generous man: generous to his friends and colleagues, to students he mentored and to his profession as an applied economist committed to developing analytical methods, contributing to public policy decision-making and promoting high quality economic analysis wherever he saw the need. As an economist, Roley was influenced in clear ways by Ross Parish, who had taught him at the University of New England (UNE), and with whom he worked while at Monash University. Of Parish, Lewis et al. (2002) wrote 'Here was no ritualised number-cruncher; rather, we had an elegant manipulator of theoretical concepts to analyse real world problems' and quoted Roley as saying 'One way of summing up Ross's approach in the classroom would be to say that he didn't so much concentrate on teaching students economics, but rather on teaching students how to learn economics.' Roley maintained those traditions
What’s new in “Language and Criminal Justice” research?
No full textThe Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers' Network (LLIRN) came into being in 2019, after an initial symposium involving a group of academics and students, mainly from Australian universities, whose research is interested in the various intersections of language and law. One of our key goals of the symposium was to learn more about each other's work and create new opportunities to collaborate. Since then, LLIRN has grown and we have organized and run a number of different initiatives, including multiple panels at conferences across both linguistics and law, a special issue that showcased the work of several of our (mainly early career) members, and a lively and growing mailing list
Embracing and resisting Indigenist perspectives in Australian pre-service teacher education
No full textAustralian teachers currently must demonstrate competence in seven professional standards, known as the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST). Each provides several Focus Areas. After a lengthy nation-wide consultation with Aboriginal elders and educators, the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) formulated two Focus Areas (1.4 and 2.4) for teachers concerning Indigenous education in Australia to address the chronic lack of skills, knowledge, and understanding demonstrated by primary and secondary teachers in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander matters. Focus Area 1.4 addresses the teaching of Australian Indigenous students and Focus Area 2.4 addresses the teaching about the lifeways of Indigenous Australians. By ‘lifeways’ we broadly mean ‘A way through life, a course of life; a way or manner of life, (in later use) especially one that is customary or traditional’. This chapter provides the background to these standards and presents a case study of best practice that outlines the approaches to our teaching and learning that was developed at Monash University in the Faculty of Education to bring Indigenous/Indigenist perspectives into teacher education and to help pre-service teachers build confidence in their professional and personal skills, knowledge, and understanding in these areas
Insight inTo Stress and POOping on Work TIME (ITS POO TIME): Protocol for a Web-Based, Cross-Sectional Study
No full textBackground: Long occupational working hours and shift work are common in high-, middle-, and lower-income economies. Bowel movement frequency and stool form in occupational settings may be important markers of stressful working conditions as well as diurnal gut microbiota action, gastrointestinal discomfort, and disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI). Characterizing DGBI in shift and nonshift workers could help identify the impact of diurnal work patterns on workers’ physical and mental health, including anxiety related to bowel movements.Objective: This study aims to outline the Insight inTo Stress and POOping on work TIME (ITS POO TIME) protocol describing a web-based multimethods research project on DGBI, stool form and frequency, psychological factors, sleep, diet, and anxiety related to bowel movements in occupational settings by comparison to residential settings.Methods: Study 1 comprises a web-based convenience sampling survey to acquire quantitative data from adults who are engaged in paid employment. We seek to assess occupational characteristics, organizational factors, as well as standardized questionnaires for stool form, DGBI assessed based on Rome-IV criteria, sleep, diet, bowel movement anxiety (ie, parcopresis), and distress. Study 2 is a qualitative study that asks open-ended questions about respondents’ attitudes to defecation at work. Analyses for study 1 will explore rates of DGBI in shift versus nonshift workers and explore how occupational characteristics are associated with occupational bowel movement stool form and frequency. With regards to distress and parcopresis, study 1 will analyze how parcopresis, distress, and contamination fears are associated with stool form and frequency in occupational settings compared with residential settings. Study 1 is designed to have 90% power to detect a 5% difference in DGBI prevalence between groups at α=.05 based on the conservative estimate of 15% DGBI prevalence in shift workers and 10% DGBI prevalence in nonshift workers, with a final sample of 1967 required. Study 2 qualitative data will be analyzed using inductive thematic analysis to identify themes concerning feelings and attitudes about bowel movements in occupational settings.Results: The findings of ITS POO TIME will elicit important information on what factors are associated with bowel movements and stool form and frequency in occupational settings and identify associations pertinent to occupational health. Data collection commenced in January 2019 and finished enrollment in December 2023. Study 1 obtained 1872 responses and fell short of the desired sample size. Study 2 received 337 responses, and the primary results are expected to be published in 2025 and the qualitative results published in 2026.
Conclusions: The results of the research described in this research protocol will have direct implications for industry, employers, and policy makers concerning DGBI, stress, and worker health
Emotions in Europe 1517–1914: Volume IV: Transformations, 1789-1914
No full textThis volume of primary sources focuses on the history of emotions in Europe and its empires between 1789 and 1914. The study ends with WW1, by which point psychology and modern frameworks for the self had become standard knowledge. The study examines the subjects of the self, family and community, religion, politics and law, science and philosophy, and art and culture.Sources include letters, diaries, legal papers, institutional records, newspapers, science and philosophical writings, literature and art from a diversity of voices and perspectives. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of history and literature
Trademarks, Free Speech, and Fair Competition in a World of New Generic Top-Level Domains
No full textTrademarks are “signs” used for the purpose of distinguishing the goods or services offered by a trader from those of others. A sign could comprise anything—e.g., words, personal names, letters, numerals, figurative elements, and combination of colors1—so long as it is distinctive2 and is capable of being represented suitably for registration.3 More often than not, signs used as trademarks are coined from a word or combination of words used in everyday language, albeit when used in relation to a particular class of goods or services, they are distinctive enough to indicate the origin of those goods or services. The fact that common words can be used as trademarks has given rise to a need to balance the rights of trademark proprietors and the interests of third parties to make use of such signs in both commercial and non-commercial discourse. However, balancing these competing interests has become an arduous exercise in view of technological developments, especially the Internet, as demonstrated by the many trademark disputes that concern the online space.
