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Janda et al PHRP early detection of skin cancer Supplementary File 20220222.docx
No full textThis is a Supplementary file for the paper:Janda M, Olsen CM, Mar VJ, Cust AE. Early
detection of skin cancer in Australia – current approaches and new
opportunities. Public Health Res Pract. 2022;32(1):e3212204. https://doi.org/10.17061/phrp3212204
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Potential competitive effects on U.S. bank credit card lending from the proposed bifurcated application of Basel II
No full textThis paper analyzes the potential competitive effects of the proposed bifurcated application of Basel II capital regulations in the United States on bank credit card lending activities. For this purpose, the authors consider the Basel II regulations as stated in the June 2004 Basel Committee Framework Agreement. ; Also issued as Payment Cards Center Discussion Paper No. 05-21 ; Superseded by Working Paper 07-09Basel capital accord ; Credit cards
Seabed foraging by Antarctic krill: Implications for stock assessment, bentho-pelagic coupling, and the vertical transfer of iron
No full textA compilation of more than 30 studies shows that adult Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) may frequent benthic habitats year-round, in shelf as well as oceanic waters and throughout their circumpolar range. Net and acoustic data from the Scotia Sea show that in summer 2-20% of the population reside at depths between 200 and 2000 m, and that large aggregations can form above the seabed. Local differences in the vertical distribution of krill indicate that reduced feeding success in surface waters, either due to predator encounter or food shortage, might initiate such deep migrations and results in benthic feeding. Fatty acid and microscopic analyses of stomach content confirm two different foraging habitats for Antarctic krill: the upper ocean, where fresh phytoplankton is the main food source, and deeper water or the seabed, where detritus and copepods are consumed. Krill caught in upper waters retain signals of benthic feeding, suggesting frequent and dynamic exchange between surface and seabed. Krill contained up to 260 nmol iron per stomach when returning from seabed feeding. About 5% of this iron is labile, i.e., potentially available to phytoplankton. Due to their large biomass, frequent benthic feeding, and acidic digestion of particulate iron, krill might facilitate an input of new iron to Southern Ocean surface waters. Deep migrations and foraging at the seabed are significant parts of krill ecology, and the vertical fluxes involved in this behavior are important for the coupling of benthic and pelagic food webs and their elemental repositories
Public preferences for communicating personal genomic risk information to the general public: a focus group study
No full textBackground Personalized genomic risk information has the potential to motivate behaviour change and promote population health, but the success of this will depend upon effective risk communication strategies. Objective To determine preferences for different graphical and written risk communication formats, and the delivery of genomic risk information including the mode of communication and the role of health professionals. Design Focus groups, transcribed and analysed thematically. Participants Thirty-four participants from the public. Methods Participants were provided with, and invited to discuss, a hypothetical scenario giving an individual's personalized genomic risk of melanoma displayed in several graphical formats. Results Participants preferred risk formats that were familiar and easy to understand, such as a ‘double pie chart’ and ‘100 person diagram’ (pictograph). The 100 person diagram was considered persuasive because it humanized and personalized the risk information. People described the pie chart format as resembling bank data and food (such as cake and pizza). Participants thought that email, web-based platforms and postal mail were viable options for communicating genomic risk information. However, they felt that it was important that a health professional (either a genetic counsellor or ‘informed’ general practitioner) be available for discussion at the time of receiving the risk information, to minimize potential negative emotional responses and misunderstanding. Face-to-face or telephone delivery was preferred for delivery of high-risk results. Conclusions These public preferences for communication strategies for genomic risk information will help to guide translation of genome-based knowledge into improved population health.funded by a Sydney Catalyst Pilot and Seed Funding grant. AE Cust is supported by a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (APP1063593) and a Cancer Institute NSW Early Career Fellowship (10ECF206)
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Personalized melanoma risk assessments and tailored prevention advice: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial in Australian general practice
No full textBACKGROUND: Personalized risk assessments using prediction models that incorporate several melanoma risk factors may promote melanoma-prevention behaviours. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect on short-term melanoma-prevention behaviours of web-based, real-time, model-generated personalized melanoma risk information and tailored prevention advice, and its feasibility and clinician acceptability. METHODS: Between February and April 2016, in an open randomized controlled trial across four general medical practices in New South Wales, Australia, 272 patients were randomly allocated to receive (i) real-time model-generated personalized melanoma risk assessment and tailored melanoma-prevention advice or (ii) generic melanoma-prevention advice. We measured self-reported melanoma-prevention behaviours at baseline and 6 weeks and the intervention's feasibility and acceptability. RESULTS: Follow-up questionnaires were completed by 185 patients at 6 weeks: 174 assessed as average risk and 11 as high or very high risk. There were no statistically significant differences between intervention and control patients in sun protection, sun exposure or early diagnosis behaviours. When stratified by melanoma risk, average risk patients in the intervention group appeared to show greater sun protection at 6 weeks (mean difference = 0.23, on a scale of 1-5; 95% confidence interval: 0.01 to 0.45; P = 0.04) than patients in the control group; the P value for interaction between intervention and risk category was 0.10. There was favourable feedback from patients and general practitioners. CONCLUSIONS: Web-based delivery in general practice of real-time, model-generated personalized melanoma risk prediction and tailored melanoma-prevention advice is feasible and acceptable. An apparent increase in sun protection behaviour in average risk patients warrants further evaluation in different risk groups.No Full Tex
Female Agency in the Urban Economy: Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830
No full textDeborah Simonton, Anne Montenach (dir.), Female Agency in the Urban Economy: Gender in European Towns, 1640-1830, New York, Routledge, 2013. This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day experiences of working women. Town rules and cust..
Report of the Australian & New Zealand Neonatal Network, 1999
No full textThe Australian & New Zealand Neonatal Network (ANZNN) is a voluntary collaboration of all 29 level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) in both countries. All 13 level II nurseries in New Zealand and the level II nursery in Tasmania are now members of the ANZNN. This network continues to conduct an ongoing prospective audit of the most at-risk babies admitted for care in neonatal nurseries. The audit looks at factors that may affect the outcomes of babies that can be measured while in hospital.
In 1999, 6,882 babies met the registration criteria of the ANZNN audit and were admitted a III NICU. An additional 301 babies who met the criteria were admitted to a level II nursery and not transferred to a level III nursery within 28 days of birth.
There were 3,194 babies born at less than 32 weeks' gestation registered to the level III NICU audit. The ANZNN level III cohort represents 2.25% of the total births for the two countries
Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network 1998
No full textThis is the 4th annual audit of the Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network and presents information on the network's 1998 audit of high risk neonates.
The Australian and New Zealand Neonatal Network is a voluntary collaboration of all 29 level III Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) in both countries. This network continues to conduct an ongoing prospective audit of the most at-risk babies admitted to a NICU. The audit looks at factors that may affect outcomes that can be measured while the baby is in hospital.
In 1998, a total of 6,408 babies met the criteria of ANZNN's audit of high-risk infants and were admitted to a level III NICU throughout Australia and New Zealand. This represents 2.1% of the total births for the two countries.
All babies born at less than 32 weeks' gestation (very preterm) are audited; there were 3,084 of these babies admitted to a level III NICU in 1998
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