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This Intimate War: Gallipoli/ Çanakkale 1915 – İçli Dışlı Bir Savaş: Gelibolu/ Çanakkale 1915
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Displacement and Emplacement in Narratives of Relocation by Romanian Women Authors
No full textThe present paper analyses recent Romanian accounts of women's uprooting from a communist regime, foregrounding manners in which the migrants' transnational itineraries are punctuated by instances of groundedness that temporary anchor the protagonists in their translocal settings. More specifically, the article discusses the segmented itineraries of women migrants from Romania via different European countries to their final destination, the United States. I have chosen the syntagm "accounts of uprooting" instead of "migration literature", as the primary corpus of this analysis is made up of different literary genres: a novel, Train to Trieste by Domnica Radulescu and a memoir, The Gypsy Saw Two Lives, by Rodica Mihalis. The analysis of these creations introduces a comparative perspective on the shaping of translocal perceptions in the context of transnational migration. Consequently, the body of the paper investigates the migrant characters' relation to the European spaces where they settle before preparing their relocation to the USA. By adopting this approach, the discussion blends the axes of embeddedness and disembeddedness in order to provide a more comprehensive account of the intersections between gender and migration placed in a transnational context. Therefore, the discussion considers both the transgressive, fluid connotations of transnational processes and the individuals' need for stable structures despite their discontinuous itineraries
Flinders Medical Centre Early Links Evaluation Report: Final Report March 2007
No full textThere is international evidence to support early
intervention strategies with families and children, that
improve longer term outcomes for health. There is also
evidence that supports the provision of appropriate
services to women in the antenatal period as one of
a range of factors for successful interventions that
target families and infants. The context for antenatal
interventions involves a brief period in a family’s life
and such interventions need to be a component of
community based interventions that link women and
their babies into the community in a continuity of care
framework. The Early Links Program which has been
implemented at Flinders Medical Centre (FMC) is a
program intending to address issues regarding the
identifi cation and response to women who require
extra supports during the antenatal period and of
infants assessed to be at risk during the postnatal
period.
The Flinders Early Links Program commenced in
September 2004, arising from the recognition of a
need for a consistent identifi cation and response
for high risk women and infants. FMC’s Early Links
Program was modifi ed and adapted from the
Strengthening Links Program that is in operation
at Adelaide’s Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
An Antenatal Assessment Tool was developed by
FMC’s Social Work Service and the Women’s and
Children’s Division, with the goal of providing a
consistent screen for identifying women at risk. The
universal administration of this Antenatal Assessment
Tool to all women, at the earliest opportunity in their
pregnancies, commenced in October 2005.
The Southern Adelaide Health Service (SAHS) has
commissioned this evaluation to determine the impact
of the Early Links Program from the perspective of
the staff and key stakeholders involved, including
women who have participated in the Program. The
Southern Adelaide Health Service Interim Strategic
Plan for 2005-2010 includes an aim of “improving
the level of support for young children and their
families to assist these children having a good start in
life” (p. 11). A key objective of the Strategic Plan is to
“Reduce the risk and improve the health outcomes
for infants and children vulnerable to harm” (p. 12).
A key performance indicator included “A coordinated
and systematic demonstration model is developed to
improve health outcomes for vulnerable infants and
children” (p. 13). The Flinders Early Links Program
fi ts this objective as one model to “improve health
outcomes for vulnerable infants and children” (Social
Work and Counselling Services, 2006).
The Southern Adelaide Health Service have proposed
an evaluation to determine the impact of the Early
Links Program, and in particular the impact of the
Antenatal Assessment Questionnaire
Indigenous Sistergirls’ Experiences of Family and Community
Get PDFPost print (author accepted) manuscript made available following 12 month embargo from date of publication in accordance with publisher copyright policy. “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [Australian Social Work] on [9 May 2016], available online: http://
www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0312407X.2016.1165267"While increasing attention has been paid to the experiences of Indigenous sistergirls over the past decade there still remains a dearth of empirical research on the experiences of this diverse population of Indigenous people. This paper seeks to add to the small body of existing literature by reporting on a thematic analysis of existing media in which 18 sistergirls shared their experiences of family and community. The thematic analysis identified two themes within each of these topics. Specifically, when talking about family, both familial acceptance and rejection were salient themes. When talking about community, both the traditional role of sistergirls in their communities and negative responses from communities were salient themes. The paper concludes by suggesting that increased knowledge about the lives of sistergirls may assist social workers in supporting sistergirls both in their own outreach endeavours, and in providing more culturally competent services
Getting to the heart of a good fossil
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credited.The discovery of perfectly preserved 113-119 million year old fossilised hearts in a Brazilian fish Rhacolepis has significant implications for palaeontology and comparative anatomy
Unravelling the spatial variation of nitrous oxide emissions from a step-feed plug-flow full scale wastewater treatment plant
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users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this
license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Plug-flow activated sludge reactors (ASR) that are step-feed with wastewater are widely adopted in
wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) due to their ability to maximise the use of the organic carbon in
wastewater for denitrification. Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions are expected to vary along these reactors
due to pronounced spatial variations in both biomass and substrate concentrations. However, to date,
no detailed studies have characterised the impact of the step-feed configuration on emission variability.
Here we report on the results from a comprehensive online N2O monitoring campaign, which used
multiple gas collection hoods to simultaneously measure emission along the length of a full-scale, stepfed,
plug-flow ASR in Australia. The measured N2O fluxes exhibited strong spatial-temporal variation
along the reactor path. The step-feed configuration had a substantial influence on the N2O emissions,
where the N2O emission factors in sections following the first and second step feed were 0.68% ± 0.09%
and 3.5% ± 0.49% of the nitrogen load applied to each section. The relatively high biomass-specific
nitrogen loading rate in the second section of the reactor was most likely cause of the high emissions
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Distributions of Virus-Like Particles and Prokaryotes within Microenvironments
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credited.Microbial interactions are important for ecosystem function, but occur at the microscale and
so are difficult to observe. Previous studies in marine systems have shown significant shifts
in microbial community abundance and composition over scales of micrometres to centimetres.
This study investigates the microscale abundance distributions of virus-like particles
(VLPs) and prokaryotes in the lower reaches of a river to determine the extent to which
microscale microbial patchiness exists in freshwater systems. Here we report local hotspots
surrounded by gradients that reach a maximum 80 and 107 fold change in abundance over
0.9 cm for prokaryotic and VLP subpopulations. Changes in prokaryotic and VLP hotspots
were tightly coupled. There were no gradients at tens of centimetres across the boundary
layers, which is consistent with strong mixing and turbulence-driven aggregation found in
river systems. Quantification of the patchiness shows a marked asymmetry with patches 10
times greater than background common, but depletions being rare or absent in most samples.
This consistent asymmetry suggests that coldspots depleted by grazing and lysis are
rapidly mixed to background concentrations, while the prevalence of hotspots indicates persistence
against disruption. The hotspot to coldspot relative abundance may be useful for
understanding microbial river dynamics. The patchiness indicates that the mean- field
approach of bulk phase sampling misses the microbially relevant community variation and
may underestimate the concentrations of these important microbial groups