RHETORIC, REALITY AND RACISM: THE GOVERNANCE OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER HEALTH WORKERS IN A STATE GOVERNMENT HEALTH SERVICE IN AUSTRALIA

Rhetoric, Reality and Racism: The Governance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers in a State Government Health Service in Australia

Background In northern Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers (A&TSIHWs) are unique members of nominally integrated teams of primary care professionals.Spurred by research documenting ongoing structural violence experienced by Indigenous health providers and more recent challenges to recruitment and retention of Collections

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The swim-and-sink behaviour of copepods: a revisit to mechanical power requirement and a new hypothesis on function

Many copepods display a swim-and-sink behaviour, which is not energetically efficient but probably aids in perceiving and capturing diatom chains.Here, computational fluid dynamics was employed to calculate the mechanical power required by a negatively buoyant, self-propelled copepod in swim-and-sink versus hovering.The results show that upward swi

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Learning the Truth in Social Networks Using Multi-Armed Bandit

This paper explains how agents in a social network can learn the arbitrary time-varying true state of the network.This is practical in social networks where information is released and updated without any coordination.Most existing literature for learning the true state using the non-Bayesian learning approach, assumes that this true state is fixed

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Beach erosion and nest site selection by the leatherback sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea (Testudines: Dermochelyidae) and implications for management practices at Playa Gandoca, Costa Rica

Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) nest on dynamic, erosion-prone beaches.Erosive processes and resulting nest loss have long been presumed to be a hindrance to clutch survival.In order to better understand how leatherbacks cope with unstable nesting beaches, I investigated the role of beach erosion in leatherback nest site selection at

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Molecular identification of Candida species isolated from cases of neonatal candidemia using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism in a tertiary care hospital

Context: Candida spp.is an emerging cause of bloodstream infections worldwide.Delay in speciation of Candida isolates by conventional methods and resistance to ORG NO SALT VEGETABLE BOUILLON CUBES antifungal drugs in various Candida species are responsible for the increase in morbidity and mortality due to candidemia.Hence, the rapid identification

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