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Predicting Death In Young Offenders: A Retrospective Cohort Study, Carolyn Coffey, Rory Wolfe, Andrew W. Lovett, Paul Moran, Eileen Cini, George C. Patton

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Objective: To examine predictors of death in young offenders who have received a custodial sentence using data routinely collected by juvenile justice services.

Design: A retrospective cohort of 2849 (2625 male) 11–20-year-olds receiving their first custodial sentence between 1 January 1988 and 31 December 1999 was identified. Main outcome measures: Deaths, date and primary cause of death ascertained from study commencement to 1 March 2003 by data-matching with the National Death Index; measures comprising year of and age at admission, sex, offence profile, any drug offence, multiple admissions and ethnic and Indigenous status, obtained from departmental records.

Results: Theoverallmortalityratewas7.2deathsper1000person-yearsofobservation. Younger …

Kosovo And The International Community: The Prolonging And Exacerbation Of A Crisis, Lindsay Scorgie

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Desire, Heavenly Bodies, And A Surrealist's Fascination With The Celestial Theatre, John G. Hatch

Visual Arts Publications

In 1922, the German Surrealist artist Max Ernst produced a montage work that included a woman's bare buttocks protruding out of the rings of Saturn. It is, to say the least, an unusual combination of images, but one that addresses some very basic human impulses. Largely, It expresses Ernst's understanding that inscribed upon the night sky are some of our deepest held fears and fantasies. Ernst sought to generate contemporary rephrasings of our mythologizing of the cosmos in a complex and often enigmatic way, drawing on such varied sources as Freudian psychology, late nineteenth-century symbolism, alchemy, and Surrealism. Ultimately, Ernst …

Gaps In Accessing Treatment For Anxiety And Depression: Challenges For The Delivery Of Care., Kerry A Collins, Henny A Westra, David J A Dozois, David D Burns

Psychology Publications

Epidemiological studies have identified high prevalence rates of anxiety and depression in North America [e.g., J. of Nerv. Ment. Dis. 182 (1994) 290]. However, only a small percentage of these individuals access effective treatment. The undertreatment of anxiety and depression is a major public health issue and is associated with significant personal, social, and economic burden. This article describes the existing discrepancy between prevalence of anxiety and depression and access to effective treatment for adults and children, the contributors to this discrepancy, and suggests various means through which access to effective treatment may be enhanced. We begin with a brief …

Treatment Patterns For Cancer In Western Australia: Does Being Indigenous Make A Difference?, Sonja E. Hall, Caroline E. Bulsara, Max K. Bulsara, Timothy G. Leahy, Margaret R. Culbong, Delia Hendrie, C D'Arcy J. Holman

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Objective: To examine whether hospital patients with cancer who were identified as Indigenous were as likely to receive surgery for the cancer as non-Indigenous patients. Design, setting and patients: Epidemiological survey of all Western Australian (WA) patients who had a cancer registration in the state-based WA Record Linkage Project that mentioned cancer of the breast (1982–2000) or cancer of the lung or prostate (1982–2001).

Main outcome measures: The likelihoods of receiving breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy for breast cancer, lung surgery for lung cancer, or radical or non-radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer were compared between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations using …

Individual And Regional Determinants Of Mammography Uptake, Anita Kothari, Stephen Birch

Health Studies Publications

Background: Analysis of mammography utilization has traditionally been performed from an individual-level perspective. The purpose of this study was to explore the combined influence of individual- and regional-level determinants of mammography utilization.

Methods: Logistic hierarchical multilevel modelling was used to investigate the influences of region of residence and individual characteristics on mammography utilization. Socioeconomic status information about health planning regions was derived from the 1996 Canadian Census. Individual-level information was extracted from the 1996 National Population Health Survey.

Results: After controlling for individual-level education, regions with fewer high school graduates had lower levels of mammography utilization. A cross-level interaction between …

Double Dissociation Between The Effects Of Peri-Postrhinal Cortex And Hippocampal Lesions On Tests Of Object Recognition And Spatial Memory: Heterogeneity Of Function Within The Temporal Lobe., Boyer D Winters, Suzanna E Forwood, Rosemary A Cowell, Lisa M Saksida, Timothy J Bussey

Brain and Mind Institute Researchers' Publications

It is widely believed that declarative memory is mediated by a medial temporal lobe memory system consisting of several distinct structures, including the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex. The strong version of this view assumes a high degree of functional homogeneity and serial organization within the medial temporal lobe, such that double dissociations between individual structures should not be possible. In the present study, we tested for a functional double dissociation between the hippocampus and peri-postrhinal cortex in a single experiment. Rats with bilateral excitotoxic lesions of either the hippocampus or peri-postrhinal cortex were assessed in tests of spatial memory (radial …

The Information Context Of Moral Rights Under The Copyright Regime, Margaret Ann Wilkinson, Natasha Gerolami

Law Publications

Moral rights have not been so uniformly or widely adopted as economic copyrights for authors, perhaps because the actual and potential value of moral rights in ensuring information needs are met has gone unrecognized. The authors demonstrate that moral rights protection can enhance authority control in the new information environment.

Copyrighting The Past? Emerging Intellectual Property Rights Issues In Archaeology1, George P. Nicholas, Kelly P. Bannister

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Rights to intellectual property have become a major issue in eth- nobotany and many other realms of research involving Indige- nous communities. This paper examines intellectual-property- rights-related issues in archaeology, including the relevance of such rights within the discipline, the forms these rights take, and the impacts of applying intellectual property protection in archaeology. It identifies the “products” of archaeological re- search and what they represent in a contemporary sociocultural context, examines ownership issues, assesses the level of protec- tion of these products provided by existing legislation, and dis- cusses the potential of current intellectual property protection mechanisms to augment …

Indigenous Women: A Gender Perspective, Chandra K. Roy

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Ethnic Minorities And Development : A Prospective Look At The Situation Of African Pastoralists And Hunter-Gatherers, John Campbell

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

This article seeks to assess the impact of development on the lives and livelihoods of pastoralists and hunter-gatherers in Sub-Saharan Africa. It queries the discourses on human rights and on indigenous peoples and whether they accurately describe and address the situation confronting pastoralists and hunter- gatherers. The importance of access to land for pastoralists is examined and evidence is presented showing how policies have undermined livelihoods. The effect of ‘forced’ and of ‘voluntary’ sedentarization is discussed, and is followed by a review of the situation of contemporary hunter-gatherers. Finally, the article concludes by arguing for the need to move beyond …

Mla In Washington, Dc, Lisa Rae Philpott

Western Libraries Publications

No abstract provided.

2004-3 Estimating Leakage From Forest Carbon Sequestration Programs, Brian C. Murray, Bruce A. Mccarl, Heng-Chi Lee

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

2004-4 The Dynamic Competitiveness Of U.S. Agricultural And Forest Carbon Sequestration, Heng-Chi Lee, Bruce A. Mccarl

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.

In Search Of The British Indian In British India: White Orphans, Kipling’S Kim, And Class In Colonial India, Teresa Hubel

Department of English Publications

Introduction:

Contemporary scholars struggling to keep their work politically meaningful and efficacious often, with the best of intentions, invoke the triad of race, gender and class. But though this three-part mantra is persistently and even passionately recited, usually in the introductory paragraphs of a scholarly piece, ‘attentive listening,’ as historian Douglas M. Peers asserts, ‘reveals that class is sounded with little more than a whisper’ (825). Unlike the other two, class largely remains an under-explored and, consequently, little understood category of experience and inquiry. I can say with certainty that this is true in my own field of postcolonial studies, …

National Treatment, National Interest And The Public Domain, Margaret Ann Wilkinson

Law Publications

The concept of the "public domain" is a powerful rhetorical element in he policy debates involving intellectual property. But is it a stable and useful concept for analyzing information issues? Can the notion of the public domain and the concept of the information commons be separated? Is the notion of the public domain merely another way of expressing the public interest?

This paper canvassed the literature, seeking a theoretically consistent definition for public domain that was equally applicable across the copyright, trademark and patent spheres. The analysis demonstrated that there is no such construct.

The paper also reviews the findings …

Sexual Slavery And The International Criminal Court: Advancing International Law, Valerie Oosterveld

Law Publications

This Article explores the advancement of the international crime of sexual slavery, from its initial inclusion in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court through further development in the delineation of the ICC's Elements of Crime document. This Article begins with a detailed exploration of the negotiation process that led to the inclusion of the crime of sexual slavery in the Rome Statute. The first Section describes the decision to include both sexual slavery and enforced prostitution as crimes, as well as the debate on listing sexual slavery as a crime separate from that of enslavement. Next, the Section …

Temporal Parts And Temporary Intrinsics, Andrew Botterell

Law Publications

No abstract provided.

Characteristics Of Aboriginal Injecting Drug Users In Sydney, Australia: Prison History, Hepatitis C Status And Drug Treatment Experiences, Carolyn Day, Joanne Ross, Kate Dolan

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

Australian Aboriginals are overrepresented in prisons and tend to be overrepresented in studies of injecting drug users (IDU). The aim of this study was to examine differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal IDUs in terms of gender, prison history and hepatitis C status and testing. Secondary analyses were conducted on data from three cross-sectional studies of IDUs. These studies employed similar methodologies, with recruitment being through needle and syringe programs, methadone clinics, snowballing and street intercepts. All studies were coordinated through the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. Aboriginal people were overrepresented in all studies, were more likely to have been …

Music Education In Remote Aboriginal Communities, Graham Chadwick, George Rrurrambu

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

These papers deal with some of the complex cultural and pedagogical issues involved in the delivery of a secondary-school music education program to remote Aboriginal communities. The papers outline the history of the program, the challenges in its delivery and some of the prospects for its future.

Income And First Nations Elderly: Policies For A Better Future, Stephen Obeng Gyimah, Jerry White, Paul Maxim

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Housing Discrimination Among A Sample Of Aboriginal People In Winnipeg And Thompson, Manitoba, Irwin M. Cohen

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

History, The Courts And Treaty Policy: Lessons From Marshall And Nisga’A, J. R. Miller

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

An Examination Of Educational Success, Jerry White, Paul Maxim, Nicholas D. Spence

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Education And Lifetime Income For Aboriginal People In Saskatchewan, Eric Howe

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

American Indian Tribes’ Financial Accountability To The United States Government: Context, Procedures And Implications, Catherine Curtis, Miriam Jorgensen

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Aboriginal Development: The Process Is Critical To Success, Cynthia Chataway

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

A Framework For Aboriginal Health Systems, Laurel Lemchuk-Favel, Richard Jock

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Transferring Whose Knowledge? Exchanging Whose Best Practices? On Knowing About Indigenous Knowledge And Aboriginal Suicide, Michael J. Chandler, Christopher E. Lalonde

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.

Urban Aboriginal Women In British Columbia And The Impacts Of Matrimonial Real Property Regime, Karen L. Abbott

Aboriginal Policy Research Consortium International (APRCi)

No abstract provided.