1,091 research outputs found
Sherwood cultural resource inventory for the City of Sherwood, Sherwood,Oregon
No full textprepared for the City of Sherwood, Oregon by Sally Donovan, Donovan and Associates and Sharr Steele-Prohaska, Heritage Affiliates ; special consultant: Kimberly Demuth, Demuth and Associates.Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 27, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Funded by the City of Sherwood and by a matching grant from the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, in cooperation with the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The Australian Research Quality Framework: A live experiment in capturing the social, economic, environmental, and cultural returns of publicly funded research
No full textCopyright @ 2008 Wiley Periodicals Inc. This is the accepted version of the following article: Donovan, C. (2008), The Australian Research Quality Framework: A live experiment in capturing the social, economic, environmental, and cultural returns of publicly funded research. New Directions for Evaluation, 2008: 47–60, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ev.260/abstract.The author regards development of Australia's ill-fated Research Quality Framework (RQF) as a “live experiment” in determining the most appropriate approach to evaluating the extra-academic returns, or “impact,” of a nation's publicly funded research. The RQF was at the forefront of an international movement toward richer qualitative, contextual approaches that aimed to gauge the wider economic, social, environmental, and cultural benefits of research. Its construction and implementation sent mixed messages and created confusion about what impact is, and how it is best measured, to the extent that this bold live experiment did not come to fruition
The sex industry in New South Wales
No full textThis report examines the health and welfare outcomes of legislative reforms affecting the NSW sex industry.
Key findings:
Sydney has a diverse and open sex industry. Compared to other Australian cities Sydney’s sex industry is commensurate with the size of its population. NSW men are infrequent consumers of commercial sexual services, with only 2.3% purchasing sexual services in any one year, similar to the Australian average. The number of sex workers in Sydney brothels was similar to estimates from 20 years ago. These data confirm that the removal of most criminal sanctions did not increase the incidence of commercial sex in NSW.
Despite several remaining laws against prostitution related activities, offenses finalised in the NSW courts were overwhelmingly concentrated on the street-based sex industry. A third of those who were prosecuted were male clients of street workers. Over the seven year period, 2000 to 2006, there were no prosecutions against several prostitution laws.
Sydney brothels are widely dispersed in inner urban and suburban areas, and they attract few complaints from neighbours. Because of difficulties in gaining development approval from local councils many Sydney brothels operate without approval, they are often small with poor occupational health and safety standards, and may masquerade as massage parlours. There are periodic reports of local government corruption, but no evidence of widespread police corruption around sex work.
Compared to sex workers surveyed in Melbourne’s licensed brothels and in Perth, brothel-based female sex workers in Sydney were better educated, and were more likely to have been born in an Asian or other non- English speaking country. In contrast to these other cities, the Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP) and the Multi-cultural Health Promotion team at the Sydney Sexual Health Centre have been actively working with and have had full access to this sector for 20 years. As a result the migrant sex workers in Sydney have achieved similar excellent levels of sexual health as their local counterparts.
Condom use at work approaches 100% in Sydney brothels and when the LASH team tested the Sydney sex workers the prevalence of four STIs – chlamydia (2.8%), gonorrhoea (0), Mycoplasma genitalium (3.6%), and trichomoniasis (0.7%) – was at least as low as the general population.
In general Sydney brothels workers enjoyed levels of mental health that were comparable to the general population. However, 10% of the Sydney women were found to be severely distressed on psychological testing (the Kessler-6 scale): twice as often as the general population. Psychological distress was strongly associated with injecting drug use.
Authored by Basil Donovan, Christine Harcourt, Sandra Egger, Lucy Watchirs Smith, Karen Schneider, Handan Wand, John M Kaldor, Marcus Y Chen, Christopher K Fairley, and Sepehr Tabrizi
Rapid point-of-care tests for HIV and sexually transmissible infection control in remote Australia: can they improve Aboriginal people's and Torres Strait Islanders' health?
No full textJames Ward, Rebecca Guy, Rae-Lin Huang, Janet Know, Sophie Couzos, David Scrimgeour, Liz Moore, Tim Leahy, Jenny Hunt, Basil Donovan and John M. Kaldo
Sexually transmissible infections: outcomes and interventions
No full textDuring this broad-based Fellowship, Professor Donovan will lead or guide national surveillance networks to evaluate strategies to control epidemics of sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses, and build capacity among Indigenous sexual health researchers. Novel trials will investigate a candidate gonorrhoea vaccine, a new test for antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea, the treatment of rectal chlamydia, and treatment of male partners to prevent recurrent bacterial vaginosis in women.$585,270.00Practitioner FellowshipsPractitioner Fellowshi
Gradgrinding the Social Sciences: The Politics of Metrics of Political Science
No full textCopyright @ 2009 The AuthorThis article employs an interpretive approach, and in the light of contributions to this symposium by Butler and McAllister, and McLean et al., holds that metrics of research ‘quality’ are socially constructed and hence are as ‘subjective’ as peer review. Thus it rejects the use of stand-alone metrics as an ‘objective’ basis to inform funding allocations. Rather, the optimum method of ‘quality’ assessment is a panel-based exercise with expert judgement informed by a range of discipline-sensitive metrics and peer review of publications. The article maintains that the politics of metrics of political science conceals interests about the foundations of social scientific knowledge, and so the dispute over metrics and peer review is a metaphor for the conflicting epistemological preferences of UK political scientists. It is also argued that metrics-led assessment subjects political science to ‘Gradgrinding’ on two fronts: that political science departments amount to less than the sum of their parts, and the audit culture strips the discipline of its humanism
Evlenmeyin: Nasıl, Ne Zaman Ve Kiminle Evlenilebileceği Üzerine Tavsiyeler
No full textJames W. Donovan's "Don't Marry" ( Evlenmeyin Nasıl, Ne Zaman Ve Kiminle Evlenilebileceği Üzerine Tavsiyeler) is an advice book written in the late 19th century that deals with the institution of marriage and partner selection. Translated into Turkish by Umut Yarım, this work starts from the premise that marriage is a serious partnership rather than a romantic dream. The author warns young people against making hasty decisions and lists the points to be considered to achieve happiness in marriage. The book covers topics such as the characteristics of the ideal spouse, character compatibility, the importance of financial status, and the difficulties that may be encountered in marriage in detail. While seeking answers to fundamental questions such as "Who to marry?" and "When to marry?", Donovan also examines the causes of unhappy marriages. Although the work reflects the social norms of the period, it encourages the reader to make conscious and prudent choices by offering universal observations on human relationships. The author's aim is not to reject marriage completely, but to protect against the regrets of marriages made with the wrong person or at the wrong time.James W. Donovan'ın "Evlenmeyin" (Don't Marry) adlı eseri, evlilik kurumunu ve eş seçimini ele alan, 19. yüzyıl sonlarında yazılmış bir tavsiye kitabıdır. Umut Yarım tarafından Türkçeye çevrilen bu çalışma, evliliğin romantik bir hayalden ziyade ciddi bir ortaklık olduğu gerçeğinden yola çıkar. Yazar, gençleri aceleci kararlar vermemeleri konusunda uyarır ve evlilikte mutluluğu yakalamak için dikkat edilmesi gereken hususları sıralar. Kitapta, ideal eşin özellikleri, karakter uyumu, maddi durumun önemi ve evlilikte karşılaşılabilecek zorluklar gibi konular detaylı bir şekilde işlenir. Donovan, "Kiminle evlenmeli?" ve "Ne zaman evlenmeli?" gibi temel sorulara yanıt ararken, mutsuz evliliklerin nedenlerini de irdeler. Eser, dönemin toplumsal normlarını yansıtmakla birlikte, insan ilişkilerine dair evrensel gözlemler sunarak okuyucuyu bilinçli ve sağduyulu seçimler yapmaya teşvik eder. Yazarın amacı evliliği tamamen reddetmek değil, yanlış kişiyle veya yanlış zamanda yapılan evliliklerin getireceği pişmanlıklardan korumaktır
The Donovan–Wemyss Conjecture via the Derived Auslander–Iyama Correspondence
No full textWe provide an outline of the proof of the Donovan–Wemyss Conjecture in the context of the Homological Minimal Model Program for threefolds. The proof relies on results of August, of Hua and the second-named author, Wemyss, and on the Derived Auslander–Iyama Correspondence—a recent result by the first- and third-named authors
Protein quality of two cultivars of lupin seeds evaluated in weanling rats
No full textFor 3 weeks, 128 male Sprague-Dawley rats, 3 weeks old, were fed on diets containing no protein, casein, soyabean meal, roasted or raw soyabeans, or sweet white lupin (Lupinus albus) cultivar Primorski or Ultra without or with 0.1% lysine or 0.2% methionine. Relative net protein ratio (RNPR) (casein = 100%) of lupins Primorski and Ultra supplemented with methionine was 81.1 and 79.1%, respectively, and was higher than that for roasted soyabeans (71.4%) (P http://upei-resolver.asin-risa.ca?sid=SP:CABI&id=pmid:&id=&issn=0377-8401&isbn=&volume=33&issue=1-2&spage=87&pages=87-95&date=1991&title=Animal%20Feed%20Science%20and%20Technology&atitle=Protein%20quality%20of%20two%20cultivars%20of%20lupin%20seeds%20evaluated%20in%20weanling%20rats.&aulast=Donovan&pid=%3Cauthor%3EDonovan%2c%20B%20C%3bMcNiven%2c%20M%20A%3bMacLeod%2c%20J%20A%3bAnderson%2c%20D%20M%3C%2Fauthor%3E%3CAN%3E19911432205%3C%2FAN%3E%3CDT%3EJournal%20article%3C%2FDT%3
Supplementary material - Elimination and eradication goals for communicable diseases: a systematic review.
No full textAuthors: Laila Khawar (a), Basil Donovan (a), Rosanna W Peeling (b), Rebecca J Guy (a)^ and, Skye McGregor (a)^a. The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, New South Wales, Australiab. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom^co-last authorshipThis is the supplementary material for a systematic review on documents by World Health Organization on what elimination and eradication goals and targets mean. The supplementary material consists of:Supplementary Box 1: Infectious conditions targeted for some form of elimination, or eradication, by infection typeSupplementary Table 1: Quantitative epidemiological endpoints and impact targets, by goal typeSupplementary Table 2: Types of interventions, by infection typeSupplementary Table 3: Quantitative intervention targets (process targets), by infection typeSupplementary Table 4: Case definitions for infectious conditions targeted for interruption of endemic transmission</p
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