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Mapping social cohesion: the Scanlon Foundation surveys 2015
No full textProvides a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and population issues.
This report presents the findings of the eighth Scanlon Foundation Mapping Social Cohesion national survey, conducted in June-July 2015. The report builds on the knowledge gained through the seven earlier Scanlon Foundation national surveys (2007, 2009-2014) which provide, for the first time in Australian social research, a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and population issues.
Together with Scanlon Foundation local area and sub-group surveys, fifteen surveys with over 25,000 respondents have been conducted since 2007. The project also tracks the findings of other Australian and international surveys on population and social cohesion issues.
Key findings
The Scanlon-Monash Index of Social Cohesion (SMI) has moved in the strongest positive direction since the Index was established in 2007, although it is still at a relatively low level.
The Scanlon Foundation survey asks respondents for their view of \u27the most important issue facing Australia today\u27; change has occurred in the ranking of national security and social issues, which are now both second ranked (the economy remains first).
Concern over immigration remains at the lowest level recorded by the Scanlon Foundation surveys; attitudes towards asylum seekers arriving by boat are also little changed since 2014.
The high level of support for the proposition that \u27multiculturalism has been good for Australia\u27 has been maintained.
There are significant differences in attitudes of young adults, the middle-aged and older Australians, evident in response to questions on national identity and cultural diversity.
Significant difference is also evident across Australia’s regions. There is lower support outside capital cities for immigration, resettlement opportunities for asylum seekers and cultural maintenance. Difference in attitude is also evident in comparison of Australia’s major cities
[Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co., Road No. 6]
No full textRecto: Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company. Verso: Negative No. 8692, The Baldwin Locomotive Works, Mikado Type Locomotive, Class 12-30-1/4-E, 86, Road No.6, Built for Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Co
Delay in diabetic retinopathy screening increases the rate of detection of referable diabetic retinopathy.
No full textAIMS: To assess whether there is a relationship between delay in retinopathy screening after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and level of retinopathy detected. METHODS: Patients were referred from 88 primary care practices to an English National Health Service diabetic eye screening programme. Data for screened patients were extracted from the primary care databases using semi-automated data collection algorithms supplemented by validation processes. The programme uses two-field mydriatic digital photographs graded by a quality assured team. RESULTS: Data were available for 8183 screened patients with diabetes newly diagnosed in 2005, 2006 or 2007. Only 163 with type 1 diabetes were identified and were insufficient for analysis. Data were available for 8020 with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes. Of these, 3569 were screened within 6 months, 2361 between 6 and 11 months, 1058 between 12 and 17 months, 366 between 18 and 23 months, 428 between 24 and 35 months, and 238 at 3 years or more after diagnosis. There were 5416 (67.5%) graded with no retinopathy, 1629 (20.3%) with background retinopathy in one eye, 753 (9.4%) with background retinopathy in both eyes and 222 (2.8%) had referable diabetic retinopathy. There was a significant trend (P = 0.0004) relating time from diagnosis to screening detecting worsening retinopathy. Of those screened within 6 months of diagnosis, 2.3% had referable retinopathy and, 3 years or more after diagnosis, 4.2% had referable retinopathy. CONCLUSIONS: The rate of detection of referable diabetic retinopathy is elevated in those who were not screened promptly after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes
T.M. Scanlon: Contractualism, Reasonableness, and Moral Intuition
No full textIn his article “Contractualism and Utilitarianism”, T. M. Scanlon formulates a contractualist account of moral wrongness. For Scanlon, a morally permissible principle is one that cannot be reasonably rejected within the context of an “informed, unforced general agreement.”1 Scanlon posits a hypothetical situation between agents who share a mutual recognition of each other’s value as persons. These persons are assumed to be rational individuals who are capable of formulating their own particular visions of the good; this situation is the figurative space in which a principle can be held up to the standard of reasonable rejection. Scanlon’s formulation of moral wrongness hinges on this notion of reasonableness. If we are to use it as a standard of rejection, it must be clear what Scanlon considers reasonableness to be. The goal of this paper is to clarify the meaning of reasonableness in Scanlon’s contractualism, consider how it functions within the hypothetical space of mutual recognition, and challenge its sufficiency as a standard of moral wrongness in relation to our moral intuition
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Scanlon & Allingham's survey party
No full textEight men are standing in front of a waterfall on the Franklin River on the Kewita Estate near Toora. From the left, they are Ben Richards, E. Scanlon, J. Allingham, J. Lynch, Hastings, N. Nicoll and two unknown men. The steel band used by Allingham was very modern for the time
14 novembre 2017 - Thomas Scanlon
No full textLa première séance de l'année du séminaire de philosophie politique normative aura lieu mardi 14 novembre 2016, de 17h à 19h, à l’EHESS, 105 bvd Raspail (Paris, 6e), en salle 11. Nous aurons le plaisir d’accueillir Thomas Scanlon (Harvard University) qui interviendra sur le thème : "Contractualism and Justification" La discussion portera sur le texte qui peut être téléchargé ici. Il ne fera pas l’objet d’une présentation en début de séance; les participant(e)s sont invité(e)s à en prendre con..
Scanlon & Allingham's survey party [picture].
No full textEight men are standing in front of a waterfall on the Franklin River on the Kewita Estate near Toora. From the left, they are Ben Richards, E. Scanlon, J. Allingham, J. Lynch, Hastings, N. Nicoll and two unknown men. The steel band used by Allingham was very modern for the time.Item held by Gippsland and Regional Studies Collection, Federation University Australia
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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