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    Towards best practice. by Clive Graham

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    The majority of public sector enterprise agreements registered throughout Australia are being framed as 'add-ons' : that is, industrial awards with a few variations

    Presenting health and medical geography: people, places and change

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    Assessments of the development of geography as a discipline, and studies of sub-disciplinary development within geography, have generally focussed on the subject matter under study. Consideration has concentrated on topics, theories, methods and paradigm shifts identified by analyses of published literature. There has been rather less interest in the spatialisation of the practice and performance of the discipline by people and institutions (though there have been exceptions) and equally little attention to the evidence provided by geographical conferences. We address these lacunae in current knowledge through a quantitative study of changing disciplinary endeavour in health geography as evidenced by participation in the International Medical Geography Symposia. For 35 years this biennial meeting has been the flagship conference for health and medical geographers. We have obtained, reviewed and coded the proceedings of all 17 symposia, analysing the submitted papers by location of symposia, lead authorship, affiliation, and country of authorship. We investigate the globalisation of the sub-discipline and changes in key institutional involvement. Novel network analysis methods are used to identify changing linkages between research centres. What emerges is a complex sub-discipline driven by the changing neoliberal context of higher education and marked by both continuities and discontinuities in its practitioner networks

    Navigating the LGB Data Landscape:A Review of Appropriate Secondary Data Sources for Sexuality and Substance Use Research in the UK

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    Research has found that sexual minority individuals are more likely to experience health inequalities and have higher rates of substance use compared with their heterosexual counterparts. This association between sexuality and health outcomes is increasingly being explored using quantitative methodologies within the context of public health, psychology and health geography. Much of this research, however, has relied on primary data, despite the wide availability of secondary sources, mainly survey data, collecting information on sexuality and different types of health outcomes and health risk behaviours, such as substance use. This study reviewed recent surveys in the UK that are appropriate for exploring topics related to LGB populations and substance use behaviours. We carried out a narrative review of secondary data sources in the UK to assess the accessibility and suitability of secondary sources for sexuality and substance use research. We identified eight cross-sectional and two longitudinal surveys that contained both sexuality and substance use data. We summarised the possible applications of each survey and the scope of questions within sexuality and substance use research that could be addressed by each survey. The identification of appropriate surveys in this review can allow researchers to extend the use of secondary data sources in the UK to examine substance use inequalities between sexuality groups, further advancing this key topic.</p

    Clive Small on the real-life &quot;Underbelly&quot;

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    Over the course of his career, Clive Small, one of NSW\u27s most successful detectives, saw it all. His book, "Smack Express: How organised crime got hooked on drugs" is an insight into drug trafficking and organised crime on Australia\u27s east coast. Written with journalist Tom Gilling, it features an extraordinary range of colourful characters and situations. Take "Aunty", the female drug lord who has been successfully importing kilos of cocaine into Australia for decades. Or the bloke who thought that throwing someone into the boot of a car and driving it to South Australia wasn\u27t kidnapping, because "he never asked to get out of the boot". Clive Small is a former Assistant Commissioner of Police in NSW, and a former ICAC chief investigator. He resigned from ICAC in 2007 to pursue a defamation case against broadcaster Alan Jones. His investigations included the death of Griffith anti-drugs campaigner Donald McKay, the assassination of Cabramatta MP John Newman and the backpacker murders of Ivan Milat. Tom Gilling is a former journalist and author. He has written a number of novels and co-authored "The Bagman: Final Confessions of Jack Herbert", about a corrupt Queensland policeman whose evidence in the 1980s Fitzgerald Inquiry had a huge impact on Queensland

    Vale to (Clive) graham peirson

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    [Extract]Emeritus Professor Graham Peirson passed away in October 2018 aged 80 at his property near Daylesford, Victoria. Our collective sympathy is extended to his wife Christine and wider family.Graham was a scholar at Monash University from 1963 until retirement in 2002. In addition, he held visiting appointments at University of California, Berkeley, University of Illinois, University of Florida and the University of Washington. During much of the last 20 years of his long tenure at Monash, Graham provided strong and direct leadership as Head of the then Department of Accounting and Finance and as the Director of its Centre for Research in Accounting and Finance

    Photograph - Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, after receiving award for their book ‘The Canecutters’

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    This record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/283960Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, after receiving award for their book ‘The Canecutters’286830 Item: [2003.0003.00938] "Photograph - Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, after receiving award for their book ‘The Canecutters’

    Photograph - Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, who won award for their book ‘The Canecutters’

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    This record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/283981Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, who won award for their book ‘The Canecutters’ 27 Feb 1987286851 Item: [2003.0003.00959] "Photograph - Burrows, Geoff, Accounting and Business Law, and Clive Morton, co-author, who won award for their book ‘The Canecutters’

    Review of “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back at C. S. Lewis

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    Review of C. J. S. Hayward, “St. Clive:” An Eastern Orthodox Author Looks Back at C. S. Lewis (Wheaton, Illinois: C. J. S. Hayward Publications, 2000-19). 381 pages. $49.99. ISBN 9781794669956

    Fetal growth in women with homozygous sickle cell disease: an observational study

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    OBJECTIVES: To assess fetal growth and whether lower birthweight to mothers with homozygous sickle cell (SS) disease is related to maternal body composition or to clinical events in pregnancy.STUDY DESIGN: A prospective study of 41 pregnant women with SS disease and 41 women with a normal (AA) phenotype attending the antenatal clinic, University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. Maternal anthropometry, body composition and fetal sonographic measurements were assessed at 15, 25, and 35 weeks' gestation from December 2005 to April 2008. Birth measurements were performed within 24h of delivery. Differences between maternal genotypes and between their offspring were assessed using 2-sample t-tests. Multiple linear regression was used to control for baby's gender and gestational age at delivery. Fetal growth was compared in SS mothers with and without admission for sickle-related complications including bone pain crisis, acute chest syndrome, pregnancy-induced hypertension and urinary tract infection.RESULTS: Mothers with SS disease had lower weight, body fat, fat mass and lean body mass throughout pregnancy but correlation with birth size did not reach statistical significance. Sonographically, babies of SS mothers had smaller abdominal circumference, femoral length and a lower estimated fetal weight at 35 weeks. Birth measurements confirm lower birthweight, crown-heel length and head circumference but the differences were no longer significant after adjustment for baby gender and gestational age at delivery. Bone pain crisis in pregnancy was associated with a significantly reduced crown-heel length at birth.CONCLUSION: Lower birthweight in babies of mothers with SS disease is largely the result of the lower gestational age. Fetal sonography showed no growth differences by maternal genotype until 35 weeks' gestation and a reduced crown-heel length in offspring of SS mothers was associated with bone pain crises in pregnancy

    Data from: Trophic interactions of fish communities at midwater depths enhance long-term carbon storage and benthic production on continental slopes

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    Biological transfer of nutrients and materials between linked ecosystems influences global carbon budgets and ecosystem structure and function. Identifying the organisms or functional groups that are responsible for nutrient transfer, and quantifying their influence on ecosystem structure and carbon capture is an essential step for informed management of ecosystems in physically distant, but ecologically linked areas. Here, we combine natural abundance stable isotope tracers and survey data to show that mid-water and bentho-pelagic-feeding demersal fishes play an important role in the ocean carbon cycle, bypassing the detrital particle flux and transferring carbon to deep long-term storage. Global peaks in biomass and diversity of fishes at mid-slope depths are explained by competitive release of the demersal fish predators of mid-water organisms, which in turn support benthic fish production. Over 50% of the biomass of the demersal fish community at depths between 500 and 1800 m is supported by biological rather than detrital nutrient flux processes, and we estimate that bentho-pelagic fishes from the UK&ndash;Irish continental slope capture and store a volume of carbon equivalent to over 1 million tonnes of CO2 every year.,Trueman 2014 Fish Isotope dataStable isotope data (d13C PDB and d15N air) from white muscle tissue of fishes caught by demersal trawl on the Rockall trough. Associated data are: Species name, feeding type (benthic or benthopelagic), capture (trawl) depth in meters and fish mass in grammes</span
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