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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
Scanlon, John-Residence P.1
No full textJohn Scanlon Residence located in Ontario Canyon in the Park City, Utah area, ca. 1896. From left to right: Grandma Scanlon, Aunt Ellen Leahy and children. Courtesy of Margaret Mawhinney
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
Reason, Justification, and Contractualism: Themes from Scanlon Lauener library of analytical philosophy ;, 7./ edited by Michael Frauchiger, Markus Stepanians.
No full textIn English.Includes bibliographical references and index.This book collects major original essays developed from lectures given at the award of the Lauener Prize 2016 to T. M. Scanlon for his outstanding oeuvre in Analytical philosophy. In "Contractualism and Justification," Scanlon identifies some difficulties in his theory and explores possible ways to deal with them. In "Improving Scanlon's Contractualism," D. Parfit recommends revisions and extensions of Scanlon's theory, while R. Forst suggests in "Justification Fundamentalism" that Scanlon may want to replace reason with justification as his foundational concept. T. Nagel raises fundamental questions concerning "Moral Reality and Moral Progress," and S. Mantel offers in "On How to Explain Rational Motivation" a critical discussion of Scanlon's cognitivist theory of motivation. Z. Stemplowska does the same for Scanlon's conception of responsibility in "Substantive Responsibility and the Causal Thesis," and S. Olsaretti suggests in "Equality of Opportunity and Justified Inequalities" an alternative to Scanlon's arguments against economic inequalities. All contributors receive extensive replies by Scanlon. For anyone interested in Scanlon's seminal work in moral and political philosophy, the present volume is utterly indispensable.Instead of an Introduction: Scanlon's Project -- Deontological Communitarianism. Laudation for Thomas M. Scanlon -- Contractualism and Justification -- Justification Fundamentalism: A Discourse-Theoretical Interpretation of Scanlon's Contractualism -- On How to Explain Rational Motivation: Where Internalism and Externalism Meet -- Moral Reality and Moral Progress -- Equality of Opportunity and Justified Inequalities: How the Family Can Be on Equality's Side -- Improving Scanlon's Contractualism -- Substantive Responsibility and the Causal Thesis -- Responses to Forst, Mantel, Nagel, Olsaretti, Parfit, and Stemplowska1 online resource (X, 160 p.)
Thomas F. Scanlon, Spes frustrala. A Reading of Sallust
No full textWankenne Jules. Thomas F. Scanlon, Spes frustrala. A Reading of Sallust. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 58, 1989. p. 329
Screening attendance, age group and diabetic retinopathy level at first screen
No full textAIMS:
To report on the relationships between age at diagnosis of diabetes, time from registration with the screening programme to first diabetic eye screening and severity of diabetic retinopathy.
METHODS:
Data were extracted from four English screening programmes and from the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish programmes. Time from diagnosis of diabetes to first screening and age at diagnosis were calculated.
RESULTS:
Time from registration with the screening programme to first screening episode is strongly related to age at registration. Within 18 months of registration 89% of 3958 young people under 18 years of age and 81% of 391 293 people over 35 years of age were seen. In 19 058 people between 18 and 34 years of age, 80% coverage was not reached until 2 years and 9 months. The time from diagnosis of diabetes to first screening is positively associated with severity of disease (P < 0.0001).
CONCLUSIONS:
This report is the first that to demonstrate that those in the 18-34 year age group are least likely to attend promptly for screening after registration with a higher risk of referable diabetic retinopathy being present at the time of first screen. Date of diagnosis should be recorded and prodigious efforts made to screen all people promptly after diagnosis. Screening programmes should collect data on those who have not attended within one year of registration
Author Correction:Cation disorder engineering yields AgBiS<sub>2</sub> nanocrystals with enhanced optical absorption for efficient ultrathin solar cells (Nature Photonics, (2022), 16, 3, (235-241), 10.1038/s41566-021-00950-4)
No full textCorrection to: Nature Photonics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00950-4, published online 14 February 2022.In the version of this article initially published, the middle initial for David O. Scanlon was missing in the author list. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.</p
Educational backgrounds, project design and inquiry learning in citizen science
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