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Pilot implementation of allied health assistant roles within publicly funded health services in Queensland, Australia: results of a workplace audit
Authors: Stute Michelle , Hurwood Andrea , Hulcombe Julie , Kuipers Pim 
Published: June 2014

Abstract

Background
Allied health assistants provide delegated support for physical therapists, occupational therapists and other allied health professionals. Unfortunately the role statements, scope of practice and career pathways of these assistant positions are often unclear. To inform the future development of the allied health assistant workforce, a state-wide pilot project was implemented and audited.

Methods
New allied health assistant positions were implemented in numerous settings at three levels (trainee level, full (standard) scope and advanced scope level). Six months after implementation, 41 positions were audited, using a detailed on-site audit process, conducted by multiple audit teams.

Results
Thematically analysed audit findings indicated that both the full (standard) scope and the advanced scope positions were warranted, however the skills of the allied health assistants were not optimally utilised. Contributing factors to this underutilization included the reluctance of professionals to delegate clinical tasks, inconsistencies in role descriptions, limitations in training, and the time frame taken to reach an effective skill level.

Conclusions
Optimal utilisation of assistants is unlikely to occur while professionals withhold delegation of tasks related to direct patient care. Formal clinical supervision arrangements and training plans should be established in order to address the concerns of professionals and accelerate full utilisation of assistants. Further work is necessary to identify the key components and distinguish key features of an advanced allied health assistant role.
Neural synchrony examined with magnetoencephalography (MEG) during eye gaze processing in autism spectrum disorders: preliminary findings
Authors: Lajiness-O’Neill Renée , Richard Annette E , Moran John E , Olszewski Amy , Pawluk Lesley , Jacobson Daniel , Mansour Alfred , Vogt Kelly , Erdodi Laszlo A , Moore Aimee M , Bowyer Susan M 
Published: June 2014

AbstractBackgroundGaze processing deficits are a seminal, early, and enduring behavioral deficit in autism spectrum disorder (ASD); however, a comprehensive characterization of the neural processes mediating abnormal gaze processing in ASD has yet to be conducted.MethodsThis study investigated whole-brain patterns of neural synchrony during passive viewing of direct and averted eye gaze in ASD adolescents and young adults (MAge = 16.6) compared to neurotypicals (NT) (MAge = 17.5) while undergoing magnetoencephalography. Coherence between each pair of 54 brain regions within each of three frequency bands (low frequency (0 to 15 Hz), beta (15 to 30 Hz), and low gamma (30 to 45 Hz)) was calculated.ResultsSignificantly higher coherence and synchronization in posterior brain regions (temporo-parietal-occipital) across all frequencies was evident in ASD, particularly within the low 0 to 15 Hz frequency range. Higher coherence in fronto-temporo-parietal regions was noted in NT. A significantly higher number of low frequency cross-hemispheric synchronous connections and a near absence of right intra-hemispheric coherence in the beta frequency band were noted in ASD. Significantly higher low frequency coherent activity in bilateral temporo-parieto-occipital cortical regions and higher gamma band coherence in right temporo-parieto-occipital brain regions during averted gaze was related to more severe symptomology as reported on the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R).ConclusionsThe preliminary results suggest a pattern of aberrant connectivity that includes higher low frequency synchronization in posterior cortical regions, lack of long-range right hemispheric beta and gamma coherence, and decreased coherence in fronto-temporo-parietal regions necessary for orienting to shifts in eye gaze in ASD; a critical behavior essential for social communication.
Tooth eruption sequence and dental crowding: a case-control study
Authors: Moshkelgosha Vahid , Khosravifard Negar , Golkari Ali 
Published: June 2014

When cases of dental crowding are identified and diagnosed promptly, interceptive orthodontics is particularly successful.Aim: To assess the differences in the eruption sequence of the mandibular canine and first premolar teeth in children with and without dental crowding.Materials and Methods: Children who attended the Shiraz Dental School's orthodontic clinic (Iran) from September to December 2012 were enrolled in this case-control study. Tooth size arch length discrepancy (TSALD) of all 8-10 year olds was calculated from patients’ dental models. Thirty-six children were randomly selected from those with TSALD of equal or less than 4mm (those with crowding). Each selected case was matched for sex and age with another child (as control) with TSALD>−4mm attending the same clinic, in the same time period. The existing panoramic radiographs were traced and the eruption percentages were measured for mandibular canine and first premolar teeth. The mean difference between canine and first premolar eruption percentages was compared between the case and control groups using the SPSS (version PASW 18) software and a paired sample t-test.Results: Canine and first premolar eruption percentages in the case group were 65.82±13.00 and 78.92±10.15 percent, respectively. The mean eruption percentages for canines and first premolars of the control group were 74.12±14.55 and 75.47±11.60 percent, respectively. There was a significant difference in pre-eruptive positions of canine and first premolar teeth in those with moderate to severe crowding when compared to the control group (p<0.001).Conclusion: These findings may improve the early diagnosis of children with high risk of developing moderate to severe crowding during mixed dentition.
Turnover: Liquidity or Uncertainty?
Authors: Barinov Alexander 
Published: June 2014

I show that turnover is unrelated to several alternative measures of liquidity risk and in most cases negatively, not positively, related to liquidity. Consequently, neither liquidity nor liquidity risk explains why higher turnover predicts lower future returns. I find that the aggregate volatility risk factor explains why higher turnover predicts lower future returns. This paper shows that the negative relation between turnover and future returns is stronger for firms with option-like equity, and this regularity is also explained by the aggregate volatility risk factor. This paper was accepted by Wei Jiang, finance.
Update on Echinococcus multilocularis with particular emphasis on its impact on humans
Authors: Fisher Maggie 
Published: June 2014

The range of Echinococcus multilocularis has extended over the past 4 years, effectively removing the ‘buffer zone’ of land between the channel coast and the western-most edge of its endemic area. This means that pet owners taking their dogs and cats across the channel should consider treating their dogs or cats at monthly intervals with a suitable cestocide containing praziquantel or equivalent if there is any chance of the pet having access to rodents. The role of cats as significant producers of eggs is markedly less than that of foxes or dogs. However the role of the cat as a source of infection within the domestic environment is less well defined. Infection of humans has a lag time of between 5 and 15 years before clinical signs are seen, thus it will be some time before the scale of zoonotic infections is known from the areas where the infection has now spread to. Diagnosis in humans relies on serology, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scans to detect characteristic cystic lesions normally in the liver. Cure is most likely to be achieved if resection of the entire lesion is possible. Long-term benzimidazole treatment is normally administered to ensure control. In addition to regular cestocidal treatment of dogs and cats, cleanliness measures including hand washing before eating and wearing gloves when gardening can help with preventing human infection.
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Causality and Implications for Resilience and Support
Authors: Aldersey Heather M. , Turnbull H. Rutherford , Turnbull Ann P. 
Published: June 2014

AbstractThis article reports results of a 7-month qualitative study on intellectual and related developmental disabilities in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, particularly as they relate to the causes and meaning of intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). This study raises important questions related to the understanding of resilience of persons affected by IDD and the nature and purpose of support they use or desire.
Call and response: Towards a digital dramaturgy
Authors: Bridger Barbara , Carpenter J. R. 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
In support of their belief that the truest test of a methodology is to apply it to a new set of questions/practices, Barbara Bridger and J.R. Carpenter embark on a conversation about Carpenter’s computer-­generated dialogue: TRAINS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE]. As they attempt to find language appropriate to an extended notion of dramaturgy capable of both contributing to and critiquing a digital literary practice, their calls and responses to one another come to perform the form and content of the dialogue in question. The resulting discussion provides an example of putting performance writing methodology into practice.
Collaborative writing: Duel
Authors: Campbell Andy , Pullinger Kate 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
This article is a description of how the digital writers Andy Campbell and Kate Pullinger worked together to create a new piece of online fiction, Duel. Detailing their work processes, from conception through formatting a bespoke scripting process, and on to writing, creating digital assets, and technical experimentation, this article gives a clear and detailed picture of their collaboration.
Framing the Philpotts: Anti-welfarism and the British newspaper reporting of the Derby house fire verdict
Authors: Harper Stephen 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
This article analyses the newspaper reporting of the Mick Philpott manslaughter verdict of 2013. Philpott is an unemployed British man who in May 2012 set fire to his house, accidentally killing six children. This article argues that the Philpott verdict provided a valuable propaganda opportunity for British politicians and elements of the British media to link the crime to ‘welfare reform’ at a time when the coalition government had begun to target welfare benefits for cuts. In particular, it is argued that the demonization of Philpott as a member of the white British underclass converged with an intensification of conservative and anti-welfarist arguments about the United Kingdom’s benefits system, reviving and reinforcing the Victorian concept of the ‘undeserving poor’ and the related notion that benefits are a reward for good behaviour rather than a right. Examining articles from national newspapers published in the days following the announcement of a guilty verdict in the trial, this article analyses the discursive framing of the stories in order to discover what kind of ideological messages were at work in the reporting of the Philpott verdict and what sorts of differences existed between these messages. The article concludes with an attempt to set this analysis in a wider socio-political context, considering how the press’s perspectives on the story relate to the ideological (re)framing of public discussion about welfare ‘benefits’ and claimants in the United Kingdom today.
Introduction: Black holes in the sciences - trauma, culture, aesthetics
Authors: Gardner Paula M. , Reeve Charles 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
Drawing on philosophy, trauma theory and aesthetics, this issue of PUBLIC presents trauma in its complexity of experience across cultures and individuals. Trauma is a common, empathy-ready experience that we might engage as mirror to our pained or apathetic responses, and might harness to light personal political fires. Traumatic response is framed beyond mental illness or coping, as a symptom of a larger cognitively informed process, begging for query beyond social science models, where processed thought and perception are embodied processes residing in a world rife with complex aesthetic representations and simulations.
The everyday life of the Berlin Wall: College Station, Texas/Berlin, Germany
Authors: Fitzpatrick Blake , Ingelevics Vid 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
The project, 'Freedom Rocks' by Blake Fitzpatrick and Vid Ingelevics traces the Berlin Wall as a now mobile ruin to North America post-1989 as well as to storage and commemorative sites in Berlin itself. This portfolio of photographs is drawn from the project and depicts twin versions of the sculpture The Day the Wall Came Down (1997-1998) by Veryl Goodnight. The sculpture has been installed in College Station Texas and Berlin, Germany, two locations radically distinct in their lived histories of the Cold War. These distinctions are eclipsed by a triumphalist artwork that collapses geographical and historical context into the sameness of the victor's vantage point. While commenting upon Cold War history, the piece functions to tame or redirect the traumatic legacy of the Wall through a post-Cold War depiction that equates meaning with form while obscuring the site-specific context of place.
Dynamic Price Discrimination with Customer Recognition
Authors: Sun Ching-Jen 
Published: June 2014

AbstractThis paper studies a general two-period model of product line pricing with customer recognition. Specifically, we consider a monopolist who can sell vertically differentiated products over two periods to heterogeneous consumers. Each consumer demands one unit of the product in each period. In the second period, the monopolist can condition the price–quality offers on the observed purchasing behavior in the first period. In this setup, the monopolist can price discriminate consumers in two dimensions: by quality as well as by purchase history. We fully characterize the monopolist’s optimal pricing strategy when there are two types of consumers. When the type space is a continuum, we show that there is no fully separating equilibrium, and some properties of the optimal contracts (price–quality pairs) are characterized within the class of partitional perfect Bayesian equilibria.
Anerkennung, Subjektivität und Gesellschaftskritik
Authors: Stahl Titus 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
The Hegelian insight that subjectivity depends on recognition has been taken up by two competing traditions: Post-Hegelian theories (Honneth, Brandom) take recognition to be a precondition for a critical stance of subjects towards society. In contrast, theories of subjection (Althusser, Butler) take the dependency of subjects on subordinating relations of recognition as undermining their capacity for critique. I argue that this worry has not been taken seriously enough by the post-Hegelian tradition, especially by its model of immanent critique. However, theories of subjection ignore that the very structure of recognitive relations supports critical capacities that can never be fully effaced by ideology.
Brief aus Estland
Authors: Cohnitz Daniel , Sutrop Margit 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
This personal letter describes the history and current situation of philosophy in Estonia. We sketch the development of academic philosophy since the foundation of Tartu University in 1632, and describe the current philosophical landscape. We discuss the challenges we are facing in trying to find a balance between the responsibility that a discipline in the humanties in a small country has with respect to local culture and society on the one hand, and our ambitions to build up an internationally collaborating department with an international graduate programme on the other. We close with a description of the relation between academic philosophy and Estonian society and the role that the Center for Ethics in Tartu plays in supporting that relation.
The molecular properties and carbohydrate content of lignins precipitated from black liquor
Authors: Zhu Weizhen , Westman Gunnar , Theliander Hans 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
Precipitation and utilization of lignin from black liquor (BL) offers many promising advantages to modern kraft pulp mills. A novel process, known as “LignoBoost”, has recently been introduced as a process for separating lignin from BL; it results in lignins with a low ash and high dry solid content. There is a lack of knowledge regarding the influences of process parameters on the behavior of lignin in the precipitation step. In this study, the yield of precipitated lignin and its average molecular weight (MWt) and carbohydrate content were the focus. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) analysis showed that the lignin yield increased at lower pH and temperatures or when the ion strength of BL was elevated. High yield lignins contained more low MWt components and such lignins have more phenolic OH and methoxy groups. Xylan content of the lignins decreased with decreasing pH and increasing temperature, but glucomannan content was virtually unaffected by the conditions of precipitation.
Realignment in the NHL, MLB, NFL, and NBA
Authors: Macdonald Brian , Pulleyblank William 
Published: June 2014

AbstractSports leagues consist of conferences subdivided into divisions. Teams play a number of games within their divisions and fewer games against teams in different divisions and conferences. Usually, a league structure remains stable from one season to the next. However, structures change when growth or contraction occurs, and realignment of the four major professional sports leagues in North America has occurred more than 25 times since 1967. In this paper, we describe a method for realigning sports leagues that is flexible, adaptive, and that enables construction of schedules that minimize travel while satisfying other criteria. We do not build schedules; we develop league structures which support the subsequent construction of efficient schedules. Our initial focus is the NHL, which had a need for realignment following the recent move of the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg, but our methods can be adapted to virtually any situation. We examine a variety of scenarios for the NHL, and apply our methods to the NBA, MLB, and NFL. We find the biggest improvements for MLB and the NFL, where adopting the best solutions would reduce league travel by about 20%.
Experimental cross section for the 152Sm(n, γ)153Sm reaction at 0.0334 eV
Authors: Uddin Md. Shuza , Afroze Nazmin , Datta Tapash Kumar , Hossain Syed Mohammod , Zakaria A. K. M. , Islam Mohammad Amirul , Naher Kamrun , Shariff Md. Asad , Yunus Sk. Md. , Islam S. M. Ajharul 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
The neutron capture cross section for the
152Sm(n,  γ)153Sm reaction at an energy
of 0.0334 eV was measured for the first time using
monochromatic neutrons of a powder diffractometer at the TRIGA Mark II
nuclear reactor at Dhaka, Bangladesh. The
197Au(n,  γ)198Au reaction was used to
monitor the neutron beam intensity. The radioactivity of the products
was determined via high resolution γ-ray
spectrometry. The obtained cross section value is
184 ± 22 b, which is consistent with both the ENDF/B-VII
and TENDL-2012 data libraries. The measured value at
0.0334 eV and the previous data at 0.0536 eV
confirm the reliability of the data in the above libraries.
Ac, La, and Ce radioimpurities in 225Ac produced in 40–200 MeV proton irradiations of thorium
Authors: Engle Jonathan W. , Weidner John W. , Ballard Beau D. , Fassbender Michael E. , Hudston Lisa A. , Jackman Kevin R. , Dry Donald E. , Wolfsberg Laura E. , Bitteker Leo J. , Ullmann John L. , Gulley Mark S. , Pillai Chandra , Goff George , Birnbaum Eva R. , John Kevin D. , Mashnik Stepan G. , Nortier Francois M. 
Published: June 2014

Abstract
Accelerator production of 225Ac addresses the global supply deficiency currently inhibiting clinical trials from
establishing 225Ac's therapeutic utility, provided that the accelerator product is of sufficient radionuclidic
purity for patient use. Two proton activation experiments utilizing the stacked foil technique between 40 and
200 MeV were employed to study the likely co-formation of radionuclides expected to be especially challenging to
separate from 225Ac. Foils were assayed by nondestructive γ-spectroscopy and by α-spectroscopy of
chemically processed target material. Nuclear formation cross sections for the radionuclides 226Ac and
227Ac as well as lower lanthanide radioisotopes 139Ce, 141Ce, 143Ce, and
140La whose elemental ionic radii closely match that of actinium were measured and are reported. The predictions of
the latest MCNP6 event generators are compared with measured data, as they permit estimation of the formation rates of other
radionuclides whose decay emissions are not clearly discerned in the complex spectra collected from 232Th(p,x)
fission product mixtures.
Institutional Regulation of Public Provision
Authors: Güth Werner 
Published: June 2014

AbstractAfter demonstrating that institutional design based on the rational choice approach is hardly ever applicable, we suggest a procedural alternative and demonstrate its applicability with a focus on the supply side of public authorities, i.e., on the “productive state.” Whereas the former approach, based on unrealistic common knowledge assumptions, is consequentialistic, procedural fairness relies on appealing requirements of non-arbitrariness and equal treatment. In our view, game theoretic mechanism design is useful to explore the consequentialistic – e.g., welfaristic – potential but is, except for specific situations, not implementable. Compared to this, procedural fairness is in line with actually used procedures and legal traditions. Although game theoretic mechanism design can be informative, its unrealistic assumptions justify the procedural approach, which can be rigorously defined by intuitive fairness requirements.
Litigation with Legal Aid versus Litigation with Contingent/Conditional Fees
Authors: Lambert Eve-Angéline , Chappe Nathalie 
Published: June 2014

AbstractIn the last few years, legal aid has been much debated, especially in the European Union. Our aim is to determine in a tort litigation model the impact of legal aid upon plaintiffs’ decision whether to sue, plaintiffs’ level of expenses at trial and the level of deterrence of potential injurers. We study the two most common types of legal aid: fixed and proportional. Whatever the system, we show that increasing legal aid induces more cases filed and more deterrence (fewer accidents). Then we compare these incentives with those given by the contingent/conditional fees systems. We show that the incentives to bring suit are higher in the contingent/conditional fees systems, but incentives to take care are higher with legal aid since legal expenses from the plaintiff are higher.