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To Prompt or Not to Prompt? A Microrandomized Trial of Time-Varying Push Notifications to Increase Proximal Engagement With a Mobile Health App
(JMIR Publications, 2018-11-29)Background: Mobile health (mHealth) apps provide an opportunity for easy, just-in-time access to health promotion and self-management support. However, poor user engagement with these apps remains a significant unresolved ... -
Use of ticagrelor alongside fibrinolytic therapy in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: Practical perspectives based on data from the TREAT study
(Wiley, 2018-08-11)Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the preferred reperfusion method in patients with ST‐segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). In patients with STEMI who cannot undergo timely primary PCI, ... -
New models to study vulvodynia: Hyperinnervation and nociceptor sensitization in the female genital tract
(Wolters Kluwer, 2018-10-15)Vulvodynia is a prevalent form of chronic pain, most commonly affecting the vaginal vestibule (vestibulodynia) (Pukall et al., 2016). Women with vulvodynia describe intense pain in response to light touch of the affected ... -
Distributed reading: Literary reading in diverse environments
(DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2018)Reading has always been a contentious and political practice, but this is heightened in the contemporary moment both because of the way the environments in which we read are changing so radically. For Katherine Hayles ... -
Reducing Smoking Among People With Schizophrenia: Perspectives on Priorities for Advancing Research
(Frontiers, 2018-12-18)Although tobacco smoking is very common among people with schizophrenia and has devastating effects on health, strategies to ameliorate the risk are lacking. Some studies have reported promising results yet quit rates are ... -
Effect of surface density silver nanoplate films toward surface-enhanced Raman scattering enhancement for bisphenol A detection
(IOP Publishing, 2018)This paper reports a study on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) phenomenon of triangular silver nanoplate (NP) films towards bisphenol A (BPA) detection. The NP films were prepared using self-assembly technique with ... -
Distribution of Saponins in the Sea Cucumber Holothuria lessoni; the Body Wall Versus the Viscera, and Their Biological Activities
(MDPI, 2018-11-01)Sea cucumbers are an important ingredient of traditional folk medicine in many Asian countries, which are well-known for their medicinal, nutraceutical, and food values due to producing an impressive range of distinctive ... -
Genetic polymorphism of the methotrexate transporter ABCG2, blood pressure and markers of arterial function in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: repeated cross-sectional study
(Dove Press, 2018-11-12)Purpose: Methotrexate (MTX) treatment is associated with lower blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We investigated associations between single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) of the ... -
Prevalence and type of artefact with spectral domain optical coherence tomography macular ganglion cell imaging in glaucoma surveillance
(Public Library of Science, 2018-12-05)Purpose The ganglion cell analysis (GCA) of the CIRRUSTM HD-OCT (Carl Zeiss, Meditec; Dublin, CA) provides measurement of the macular ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (GCIPL) thickness. This study determined the ... -
Accommodation options for elderly people
(1984-10)Elderly people require a wide range of supports, mostly income support, but also health services, housing support, and social services. Public resources which are allocated are substantial, yet the range of incomes, access ... -
Non-institutional care of elderly people: needs and services
(1984-05)The Australian population is ageing slowly and the implications of this for social security and health and social service provision have caused alarm in some government circles. -
Voluntary social welfare
(1984-07)Those of us in the social welfare industry are concerned with the well being of people in our community - with standards of life and living, with people's access to quality care, with informal social supports, and with ... -
Voluntary agencies and aged care
(1984-08)Significant and monumental changes have taken place in the recent past in the structure of Australia's population, in the needs exhibited and expressed by the population, and in the methods used to attend to those needs. ... -
The politics of ageing
(1984-11)In the Social Welfare Research Centre we have been working on policy issues in aged care and we have analysed social welfare, which we have described as systems of allocations in any society in which benefits are distributed ... -
Family policy
(1984-08)The results from the world survey of family policy guidelines demonstrate powerfully and unequivocally that family policy is, above all, a political construct. Like all political constructs it draws its meaning from ... -
The Impacts of International Volunteering: Summary of the Findings
(Flinders University, 2016-11)Results From The research Building partnerships through IDV. Volunteerism works through relationships. AVID volunteers spend significant amounts of time and effort to establish good and productive relationships with host ... -
Aged care in Australia: conflicting issues
(1984-03)For conventional reasons those aged 65 or more are regarded as constituting our population of elderly persons. 9.7% of Australia's population is aged 65 or more. Most are not in the labour force and thus rely for their ... -
Accommodation after retirement
(1984-03)Family, income, health, and housing conditions are the major interlocking pieces in the kaleidoscope of well being of elderly people. Housing and accommodation, the subject of tonight's seminar is concerned not only with ... -
Welfare and community services review: setting the policy agenda
(1984-02)Two traditions manifest themselves in writings on social policy. One tradition sees the objectives of social policy as a quest after social improvement, as an exercise in setting desirable social objectives and in organizing ... -
Non-government welfare organisations in South Australia
(1984-02)The data reported here are from a national survey which is presently being analysed in the Social Welfare Research Centre. It analyses numbers and incomes of non-government welfare agencies in Australia, their functions, ...
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