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The Problem Isn't Dockless Share Bikes. It's The Lack Of Bike Parking, Glen Fuller, Gordon R. Waitt, Ian M. Buchanan
The Problem Isn't Dockless Share Bikes. It's The Lack Of Bike Parking, Glen Fuller, Gordon R. Waitt, Ian M. Buchanan
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It's a local government truism that Australian city dwellers care about only three things - rates, rubbish and parking. They want lower rates, the freedom to turf out as much trash as they like, and convenient free car parking. The arrival of dockless share bikes set these attitudes towards parking and rubbish on a collision course.
Junk Food Marketing On Instagram: Content Analysis, Amy Vassallo, Bridget Kelly, Lelin Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Sarah Young, Becky Freeman
Junk Food Marketing On Instagram: Content Analysis, Amy Vassallo, Bridget Kelly, Lelin Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Sarah Young, Becky Freeman
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Background: Omnipresent marketing of processed foods is a key driver of dietary choices and brand loyalty. Market data indicate a shift in food marketing expenditures to digital media, including social media. These platforms have greater potential to influence young people, given their unique peer-to-peer transmission and youths' susceptibility to social pressures. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of images and videos posted by the most popular, energy-dense, nutrient-poor food and beverage brands on Instagram and the marketing strategies used in these images, including any healthy choice claims. Methods: A content analysis of 15 accounts was …
Should Women Aged 70-74 Be Invited To Participate In Screening Mammography? A Report On Two Australian Community Juries, Christopher J. Degeling, Alexandra Barratt, Sanchia Aranda, Robin J. Bell, Jenny Doust, Nehmat Houssami, Jolyn Hersch, Ruben Sakowsky, Vikki A. Entwistle, Stacy M. Carter
Should Women Aged 70-74 Be Invited To Participate In Screening Mammography? A Report On Two Australian Community Juries, Christopher J. Degeling, Alexandra Barratt, Sanchia Aranda, Robin J. Bell, Jenny Doust, Nehmat Houssami, Jolyn Hersch, Ruben Sakowsky, Vikki A. Entwistle, Stacy M. Carter
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Objective To elicit informed views from Australian women aged 70-74 regarding the acceptability of ceasing to invite women their age to participate in government-funded mammography screening (BreastScreen). Design Two community juries held in 2017. Setting Greater Sydney, a metropolis of 4.5 million people in New South Wales, Australia. Participants 34 women aged 70-74 with no personal history of breast cancer, recruited by random digit dialling and previously randomly recruited list-based samples. Main outcomes and measures Jury verdict and rationale in response to structured questions. We transcribed audio-recorded jury proceedings and identified central reasons for the jury's decision. Results The women's …
What's On Youtube? A Case Study On Food And Beverage Advertising In Videos Targeted At Children On Social Media, Leeann Tan, See Hoe Ng, Azahadi Omar, Tilakavati Karupaiah
What's On Youtube? A Case Study On Food And Beverage Advertising In Videos Targeted At Children On Social Media, Leeann Tan, See Hoe Ng, Azahadi Omar, Tilakavati Karupaiah
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Background: Unhealthy food marketing to children is a key risk factor for childhood obesity. Online video platforms have surpassed television as the primary choice for screen viewing among children but the extent of food marketing through such media is relatively unknown. We aimed to examine food and beverage advertisements (ads) encountered in YouTube videos targeting children in Malaysia. Methods: The social media analytics site SocialBlade.com was used to identify the most popular YouTube videos (n = 250) targeting children. Ads encountered while viewing these videos were recorded and analyzed for type of product promoted and ad format (video vs. overlay). …
Development, Implementation And Evaluation Of Australia's First National Continuing Medical Education Program For The Timely Diagnosis And Management Of Dementia In General Practice, Heike Schutze, Allan Shell, Henry Brodaty
Development, Implementation And Evaluation Of Australia's First National Continuing Medical Education Program For The Timely Diagnosis And Management Of Dementia In General Practice, Heike Schutze, Allan Shell, Henry Brodaty
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Background: Dementia is the second leading cause of death in Australia. Over half of patients with dementia are undiagnosed in primary care. This paper describes the development, implementation and initial evaluation of the first national continuing medical education program on the timely diagnosis and management of dementia in general practice in Australia. Methods: Continuing medical education workshops were developed and run in 16 urban and rural locations across Australia (12 were delivered as small group workshops, four as large groups), and via online modules. Two train-the-trainer workshops were held. The target audience was general practitioners, however, international medical graduates, GP …
What Are 'Decodable Readers' And Do They Work?, Misty Adoniou, Brian L. Cambourne, Robyn Ewing
What Are 'Decodable Readers' And Do They Work?, Misty Adoniou, Brian L. Cambourne, Robyn Ewing
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The Victorian Coalition has promised $2.8 million for "decodable readers" for schools if they win the upcoming election. Money for books must surely be a good thing. But what exactly is a "decodable reader"? After all, surely all books are decodable. If they weren't decodable they would be unreadable.
Rural Cultural Resourcefulness: How Community Music Enterprises Sustain Cultural Vitality, Christopher R. Gibson, Andrea Gordon
Rural Cultural Resourcefulness: How Community Music Enterprises Sustain Cultural Vitality, Christopher R. Gibson, Andrea Gordon
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This paper explores how musical performance and expression catalyse rural cultural resourcefulness amidst uncertainty and change. We describe and then challenge conceptions of rural vulnerability and resilience amidst substantial social, environmental and economic change. Rural populations are increasingly constituted as vulnerable subjects within state-expert modelling of economic and environmental resilience. Yet, cultural resources and capacities are seldom acknowledged. Community music provides an often invisible and overlooked example. In rural locations music may struggle to be a commercially viable industry, but takes different forms in diverse community music enterprises, including non-profit clubs, orchestras, ensembles, choirs and festivals. Such enterprises sustain engaged …
Diverse Driving Emotions: Exploring Chinese Migrants' Mobilities In A Car-Dependent City, Sophie-May Kerr, Natascha Klocker, Gordon R. Waitt
Diverse Driving Emotions: Exploring Chinese Migrants' Mobilities In A Car-Dependent City, Sophie-May Kerr, Natascha Klocker, Gordon R. Waitt
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In the industrialized West, cars are considered an essential part of everyday life. Their dominance is underpinned by the challenges of managing complex, geographically stretched daily routines. Drivers' emotional and embodied relationships with automobiles also help to explain why car cultures are difficult to disrupt. This article foregrounds ethnic diversity to complicate notions of a "love affair" with the car. We report on the mobilities of fourteen Chinese migrants living in Sydney, Australia-many of whom described embodied dispositions against the car, influenced by their life histories. Their emotional responses to cars and driving, shaped by transport norms and infrastructures in …
Environmental Characteristics Of Early Childhood Education And Care, Daily Movement Behaviours And Adiposity In Toddlers: A Multilevel Mediation Analysis From The Get Up! Study, Zhiguang Zhang, Joao Rafael Rodrigues Pereira, Eduarda Manuela De Sousa Rodrigues De Sa, Anthony D. Okely, Xiaoqi Feng, Rute Santos
Environmental Characteristics Of Early Childhood Education And Care, Daily Movement Behaviours And Adiposity In Toddlers: A Multilevel Mediation Analysis From The Get Up! Study, Zhiguang Zhang, Joao Rafael Rodrigues Pereira, Eduarda Manuela De Sousa Rodrigues De Sa, Anthony D. Okely, Xiaoqi Feng, Rute Santos
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Study objective: This study aimed to examine the direct effects of environmental characteristics of early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres on adiposity, and the indirect effects through daily movement behaviours (physical activity, sedentary time and naps). Methods: 274 children (average age 19.73 ± 4.15 months) from 27 ECEC centres participated in this study. Environmental characteristics of ECEC centres were rated using the Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale-revised edition (ITERS-R). Daily movement behaviours were assessed using 24-h accelerometry. Body mass index z-scores were used to indicate adiposity. Results: There were no significant direct effects or indirect effects of environmental characteristics on …
Digital Explanation As Assessment In University Science, Wendy S. Nielsen, Helen Georgiou, Pauline T. Jones, Annette Turney
Digital Explanation As Assessment In University Science, Wendy S. Nielsen, Helen Georgiou, Pauline T. Jones, Annette Turney
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Assessments in tertiary science subjects typically assess content knowledge, and there is current need to both develop and assess different forms of knowledge and skills, such as communications and digital literacies. A digital explanation is a multimodal artefact created by students to explain science to a specified audience, which is an alternate form of assessment that has potential to develop and assess these other important forms of knowledge and skills. This research draws from perspectives in multimodality, educational semiotics and science education to gain a better understanding of digital explanation as a form of assessment in university science. Data sources …
Joining The Research Conversation: Threshold Concepts Embedded In The Literature Review, Meeta Chatterjee, Wendy S. Nielsen, Sarah Sanders
Joining The Research Conversation: Threshold Concepts Embedded In The Literature Review, Meeta Chatterjee, Wendy S. Nielsen, Sarah Sanders
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Doctoral education scholars associate doctoral learning with certain threshold concepts, many of which are embedded in the literature review. In considering this, we draw from a literary metaphor of 'joining the conversation' and report on a doctoral writing programme that blended elements of workshops, 'shut-up-and-write' sessions and thesis writing circles in the Faculty of Social Sciences at an Australian university. Findings illustrate conceptual thresholds engendered in the literature review. Study participants reported growing awareness of: the need for a critical voice; the difference between descriptive and critical writing; and, different ways to conduct and structure the literature review. Further, these …
Application Of A 10 Week Coaching Program Designed To Facilitate Volitional Personality Change: Overall Effects On Personality And The Impact Of Targeting, Jonathan Allan, Peter R. Leeson, Filip De Fruyt, Lesley S. Martin
Application Of A 10 Week Coaching Program Designed To Facilitate Volitional Personality Change: Overall Effects On Personality And The Impact Of Targeting, Jonathan Allan, Peter R. Leeson, Filip De Fruyt, Lesley S. Martin
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The current study explored the outcomes of a 10 week coaching program designed to facilitate volitional personality change. It also explored the impact of targeting specific personality facets on change. This research builds upon the burgeoning literature challenging the view that personality is fixed. The results of the study indicated that the 10 week program resulted in significant increases in participant's conscientiousness and extraversion and significant decreases in neuroticism. These changes were maintained 3 months post-intervention for neuroticism and extraversion. Targeting of associated facets significantly interacted with time during the intervention period for emotionality and conscientiousness, but not for extraversion.
Cash Transfers For Hiv Prevention: What Do Young Women Spend It On? Mixed Methods Findings From Hptn 068, Catherine L. Mac Phail, Nomhle Khoza, Amanda Selin, Aimee Julien, Rhian Twine, Ryan Wagner, Xavier Gomez-Olive, Kathleen Kahn, Jing Wang, Audrey Pettifor
Cash Transfers For Hiv Prevention: What Do Young Women Spend It On? Mixed Methods Findings From Hptn 068, Catherine L. Mac Phail, Nomhle Khoza, Amanda Selin, Aimee Julien, Rhian Twine, Ryan Wagner, Xavier Gomez-Olive, Kathleen Kahn, Jing Wang, Audrey Pettifor
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Background: Social grants have been found to have an impact on health and wellbeing in multiple settings. Who receives the grant, however, has been the subject of discussion with regards to how the money is spent and who benefits from the grant. Methods: Using survey data from 1214 young women who were in the intervention arm and completed at least one annual visit in the HPTN 068 trial, and qualitative interview data from a subset of 38 participants, we examined spending of a cash transfer provided to young women conditioned on school attendance. Results: We found that spending was largely …
Children's Self-Regulation Of Eating Provides No Defense Against Television And Online Food Marketing, Jennifer A. Norman, Bridget Kelly, Anne T. Mcmahon, Emma J. Boyland, Louise A. Baur, Kathy Chapman, Lesley King, Clare Hughes, Adrian E. Bauman
Children's Self-Regulation Of Eating Provides No Defense Against Television And Online Food Marketing, Jennifer A. Norman, Bridget Kelly, Anne T. Mcmahon, Emma J. Boyland, Louise A. Baur, Kathy Chapman, Lesley King, Clare Hughes, Adrian E. Bauman
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Exposure to unhealthy food marketing stimulates children's food consumption. A child's responsiveness is influenced by individual factors, resulting in an increased vulnerability to advertising effects among some children. Whether these differential responses may be altered by different parental feeding behaviours is unclear. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between parental feeding practices and children's food intake responses to food advertising exposure. A randomised, crossover, counterbalanced, within subject trial was conducted across four, six-day holiday camps in New South Wales, Australia between April 2016 and January 2017 with 160 children (7-12 years, n = 40/camp). Children were …