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Hemp in Gippsland: Potential multi-industry development
No full textHemp in Australia is a versatile rotational crop with moderate water and minimal chemical inputs requirements. Hemp can be processed for a variety of purposes, such as (a) food, given its high protein and overall nutritional content, (b) fibre used for textiles, paper, and construction materials, (c) medicinal and cosmetic applications, (d) biomass and oil for biofuels and gasification, (d) agricultural bioremediation, and (e) carbon sequestration.This study focuses on depicting the potential of the industry and on conducting a consultation with regional stakeholders to ascertain challenges, limitations and actions required to support its development in the Gippsland region.</p
Routine Quality-of-Life Measurement in Residential Aged Care: Staff, Resident, and Family Perspectives
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Building protective factors in sexual violence prevention: Implications for research, practice and policy
No full textThis discussion paper will explore what protective factors are and why they matter for strengths-based sexual violence research, and offers future directions for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.https://www.prevention-partners.com/</p
Gaps in public trust between scientists and climate scientists: a 68 country study
No full textThis study compares public trust in climate scientists and scientists in general across 68 countries (N = 69,534). On average, participants reported moderately high levels of trust in climate scientists, with trust levels being slightly lower than trust in scientists in general. Overall, this trust gap was larger among participants who identified as politically conservative or right-leaning, but there was considerable variation across countries.</p
Paramedic Practitioners within ambulance services: views of Australian policymakers, health professionals, and consumers
No full textBackground: Globally, ambulance services face overwhelming primary and urgent care presentations that they are not structurally or culturally designed to manage efficiently or effectively. One mechanism to meet this consumer demand is the implementation of Paramedic Practitioner models with postgraduate qualifications in primary and urgent care. This study explores interest-holder views on reactive Paramedic Practitioner models within Australian ambulance services. Methods: A multidisciplinary team representing ambulance services was formed, including paramedicine, nursing, and medicine. A realist lens was adopted, and a qualitative research design using inductive thematic analysis employed. Semi-structured focus groups or interviews were conducted to obtain data from 56 participants. Interest-holders represented included consumers (n = 16), members of parliament (n = 3), government executives (n = 8), industry executives representing emergency medicine, general practice, nursing, and paramedicine (n = 6), ambulance service executives and medical directors (n = 7), researchers (n = 8), and practicing clinicians from paramedicine, nursing, and medicine (n = 8). Results: Consumers described calling ambulance services for non-emergency complaints as they didn’t know if their concern was an emergency or not, not wanting to go to hospital, and wanting someone to listen to them, reassure them, and then quickly solve their problem on the spot: they saw Paramedic Practitioners as aptly meeting this need. Among the healthcare professions, opinions were divided. Most participants were largely unfamiliar with Paramedic Practitioners or the evidence base supporting this model of practice, the concept received widespread support at the clinician level, and a small but avidly dissenting contingent of national policymakers opposed the models. Paramedic Practitioner models were considered to require broad support across the healthcare system to be effective. Policymakers were unsure which outcomes they wanted measured to evaluate models. Conclusion: This study reports a wide range of interest-holder perspectives on the use of reactive Paramedic Practitioners within Australian ambulance services. Enablers (n = 10) and barriers (n = 10) to efficient and effective Paramedic Practitioner models were identified. Key outcomes of interest (n = 6) were identified, and these may be operationalised in future evaluations of reactive Paramedic Practitioner programs.</p
Social media can help: Social Media and Gender Violence in Melbourne’s Bangladeshi community
No full textSubmitted in in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Social resilience within the carescapes of Asian female migrant aged care workers
No full textIncreasingly, Asian female migrants are playing a significant role in meeting Australia's aged care workforce demand. This article analyses the lived experiences of Asian female aged care workers using the carescape concept, and a theory of agency to understand aged care access and workforce availability. It aims to identify the wider institutional and social structures that influence their agency and contribute to their social resilience as a critical member of the aged care workforce. Qualitative data were used for analysis; specifically, semi-structured interviews which were conducted with 10 Asian female migrant workers from the aged care sector. Analysis reveals that social and institutional structures both challenge and facilitate agency, and thus access to the aged care industry. The findings provide a deeper understanding of agency and highlights the social structures which contribute to developing social support networks and social resilience. Workplace policies and practices which facilitate the agency, adaptation and transformation of this workforce are important to understanding access to the industry and the retention of Asian female migrant aged care workers.</p
Life Under "Lockdown": Making Sense of Therapeutic Discourses in the Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Developing Innovative Techniques for Detecting and Classifying Malware Attacks Using Behaviour Analysis and Data-Driven Approaches
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Hegel and Photography: Developing the Negative
No full textSubmitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p