J Ward
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 11369 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Ward |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Ward |
| FIRMA | WARD J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of South Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2892-4542 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1900 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Responding to Covid‐19
In this paper, we discuss a rapid‐fire study involving Indigenous and non‐Indigenous stakeholders from the urban Indigenous health sector who collaborated to produce an “Urban COVID‐19 Systems Map.” The map outlines the behaviours, actions and responses that stakeholders identified as mitigating or exacerbating COVID‐19 risks in urban Indigenous communities. Data were collected and analysed during the height of the pandemic in 2021. We begin by i…
A HIV diagnosis and treatment cascade for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (hereafter Aboriginal) people are a priority population for HIV care in Australia; however, no HIV cascade exists for this population. We developed annual HIV cascades for 2010-2017 specific to Aboriginal peoples. By 2017, an estimated 595 Aboriginal people were living with HIV (PLWH); however, 14% remained undiagnosed. Cascade steps below global targets were: PLWH aware of their diagnosis (86%), and retentio…
Burden of the Beast
Introduction Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and its fluctuating waves of infections and the emergence of new variants, Indigenous populations in Australia and worldwide have remained at high risk. Indigenous populations are all too familiar with the deadly consequences of introduced disease. Outbreaks such as the H1N1 influenza epidemic in 2009 disproportionately impacted Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (Komesaroff et al.; Eades …
Acceptability and feasibility of Strong & Deadly Futures, a culturally-inclusive alcohol and drug prevention program for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander secondary students
Although there are effective alcohol and drug prevention programs available for Australian secondary schools, no effective culturally-inclusive programs exist for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students. To address this gap, we developed the Strong & Deadly Futures program for young people aged 12–14 years. The web-based program was developed with Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous staff and students at four secondary…
Lessons learned from the implementation of the Young Deadly Free peer education programme in remote and very remote Australian Aboriginal communities
Past efforts to address endemic rates of sexually transmissible infections amongst young Aboriginal people living in remote/very remote Australian communities have had limited success. Peer education has been used in youth sexual health promotion but has received limited evaluation and has not been tested in remote Aboriginal settings. The Young Deadly Free youth peer education programme trained Aboriginal young people in 15 remote/very remote co…
Calibrating Agent-Based Models Using Uncertainty Quantification Methods
Agent-based models (ABMs) can be found across a number of diverse application areas ranging from simulating consumer behaviour to infectious disease modelling. Part of their popularity is due to their ability to simulate individual behaviours and decisions over space and time. However, whilst there are plentiful examples within the academic literature, these models are only beginning to make an impact within policy areas. Whilst frameworks such a…
An urgent call to collect data related to Covid-19 and Indigenous populations globally
Introduction Bronchodilator response (BDR) is a measurement of acute bronchodilation in response to short-acting β2-agonists (SABA), with a heritability between 10–40%. Identifying genetic variants associated with BDR may lead to a better understanding of its complex pathophysiology. Methods We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of BDR in six adult cohorts with participants of European ancestry (EA) and African ancestry (AA) includi…
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments
Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making in the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, however, new methods are needed to respond to the needs of decision-makers for a more integrated, contextualized and goal-seeking evaluation of different policies, geared for action from global to local. While scenarios are an important tool for GEAs to link short-term dec…
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives
Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue…
Young Aboriginal people’s engagement with STI testing in the Northern Territory, Australia
This is the first socio-ecological analysis of factors influencing young Aboriginal people's willingness to undertake testing for STIs within clinics in Australia. Strategies to improve uptake of STI testing must tackle the overlapping social and health service factors that discourage young people from seeking sexual health support. Much can be learned from young people's lived sexual health experiences and family- and community-based health prom…
A Statistically Rigorous Approach to Experimental Design of Vertical Living Walls for Green Buildings
Living walls (LW) have been widely proposed as a form of green infrastructure to improve aesthetics, energy consumption, and microclimate in urban environments by adding densely-planted vegetation to the outside walls of buildings. Scientific studies using multiple treatments in a single LW face challenges due to the close physical proximity of different treatments, particularly the potential for plants above to influence those below. A study on …
Beyond Productivity
We are living in an age of concern for mental health and wellbeing. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to investigate the perceived health, social value and happiness benefits of urban agriculture (UA) by focusing on home and community food gardens in South Australia. The results reported in this paper are from “Edible Gardens”, a citizen science project designed to investigate the social value, productivity and resource eff…
Perpetuating the Family Business
Culture, Faith, and Philanthropy
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Building after Auschwitz
In this landmark book Gavriel D. Rosenfeld has taken on a vast and contentious topic. As with his other important writings on the urban context and cultural memory of Nazism and the Holocaust, Rosenfeld has succeeded in making his subject matter both scalable and accessible. The book's risk revolves around the identification of an architectural style, or collection of styles, as “Jewish,” and moreover as an after-effect of the Nazi genocide. Some…
The impact of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 compared with seasonal influenza on intensive care admissions in New South Wales, Australia, 2007 to 2010
While influenza was diagnosed more frequently and peak use of intensive care was higher during the epidemic of pandemic influenza in 2009, overall excess admissions to intensive care for respiratory illness was much greater during the influenza season in 2007. Thus, the impact of seasonal influenza on intensive care use may have previously been under-recognised. In 2009, high ICU use among young to middle aged adults was offset by relatively low …
Family Meetings
Regular meetings help build a strong family. And a strong family has a much better chance at long term success. In Family Meetings, authors Aronoff and Ward show that holding regular meetings is one o
P2-225 Prostate-specific antigen testing awareness and participation in New South Wales, Australia
Background Although the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is widely used to screen for prostate cancer, there is very little information on the characteristics of men who are aware of the PSA test, and their patterns of PSA testing. Methods A cross-sectional study used computer assisted telephone interviews to collect data in New South Wales, Australia. Multinomial logistic regression identified the factors independently associated with the aw…
Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England
Watching the Watch
This empirical study in one UK Fire Service explores the experiences of sexual minorities in the workplace, an under‐researched area of diversity, but one that has a growing focus of interest. The article aims to show that the organizational culture has an impact on sexual minorities in a number of different ways. The UK Fire Service is an organization which is fragmented into regional brigades, fire stations and watches (shifts) and it is at the…
Sexuality and the city
This article explores the discursive construction of sexual identity through organizational storytelling, in the London office of a global investment bank, InvestCo. Work on the identity of sexual minorities in work organizations is rare, and even more so in the context of an institution such as a bank. Minority sexual identities have largely been ignored by the organizational studies and diversity literatures, but organizations and the researche…
Evidence based practice in population health
Study objective: To assess current capacity to implement evidence based practice (EBP) in population health. Design: Postal survey of a regional population health workforce in Sydney, Australia. Setting: Division of Population Health, South Western Sydney Area Health Service. Participants: 104 population health staff (response rate: 73%). Main results: In the sample of regional population health practitioners, views about the current promotion of…
An analysis of birth sex ratio bias in captive prosimian species
The extent to which sex ratio bias is a common reproductive characteristic of prosimians has not been well established. The present study analyzed reproduction in 13 breeding groups of captive prosimians for evidence of birth sex ratio bias. A substantial male bias was demonstrated in nongregarious, but not gregarious, breeding groups. Analyses of birth sex ratios of individual mothers suggested that the observed bias did not result from the tend…
Accuracy of patient recall of opportunistic smoking cessation advice in general practice
Patient recall is systematically biased towards over-reporting of a question about smoking status and, among smokers, of advice to quit. Although we recommend its continued application in health services evaluation, findings should be interpreted with caution, particularly if subjects are male or the interval between recall of smoking cessation advice and the occasion of service in which it might have occurred is considerably delayed
A Note on the Use of Peel's Logical Game for Studying Conditional Reasoning in Children
S ummary . Peel's logical game was used with six groups of elementary school children (N = 300). The method was used to study rules of implication and incompatibility. The implication rule mainly generated conjunctive or matching responses; the incompatibility rule evoked greater variety of response deriving from simple contrapositive strategies. Omission of the connective ‘if’ in a second experiment did not affect the pattern of responses. Overa…
Watching the Watch
This empirical study in one UK Fire Service explores the experiences of sexual minorities in the workplace, an under‐researched area of diversity, but one that has a growing focus of interest. The article aims to show that the organizational culture has an impact on sexual minorities in a number of different ways. The UK Fire Service is an organization which is fragmented into regional brigades, fire stations and watches (shifts) and it is at the…
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives
Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue…
Sexuality and the city
This article explores the discursive construction of sexual identity through organizational storytelling, in the London office of a global investment bank, InvestCo. Work on the identity of sexual minorities in work organizations is rare, and even more so in the context of an institution such as a bank. Minority sexual identities have largely been ignored by the organizational studies and diversity literatures, but organizations and the researche…
A Statistically Rigorous Approach to Experimental Design of Vertical Living Walls for Green Buildings
Living walls (LW) have been widely proposed as a form of green infrastructure to improve aesthetics, energy consumption, and microclimate in urban environments by adding densely-planted vegetation to the outside walls of buildings. Scientific studies using multiple treatments in a single LW face challenges due to the close physical proximity of different treatments, particularly the potential for plants above to influence those below. A study on …
Beyond Productivity
We are living in an age of concern for mental health and wellbeing. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to investigate the perceived health, social value and happiness benefits of urban agriculture (UA) by focusing on home and community food gardens in South Australia. The results reported in this paper are from “Edible Gardens”, a citizen science project designed to investigate the social value, productivity and resource eff…
On the Concept of Criterion‐referenced Measurement
S ummary . The distinction between norm‐referenced measurement and criterion‐referenced measurement is discussed, particular emphasis being laid upon inter‐subject variability. Three important areas of application are suggested: curriculum development; the assessment of developmental levels and the construction of diagnostic/remediation programmes. Psychometric issues surrounding the selection of criteria and suitable items are considered with re…
On Mr.Micah Salt’s diggings around Buxton
Short-Term Capital Movements under the Pre-1914 Gold Standard
On the Concept of Criterion‐referenced Measurement
S ummary . The distinction between norm‐referenced measurement and criterion‐referenced measurement is discussed, particular emphasis being laid upon inter‐subject variability. Three important areas of application are suggested: curriculum development; the assessment of developmental levels and the construction of diagnostic/remediation programmes. Psychometric issues surrounding the selection of criteria and suitable items are considered with re…
Modification of Deviant Classroom Behaviour
S ummary . With a view to suggesting appropriate control techniques the classroom behaviour of three children considered by their teachers to be deviant, was observed by simple time sampling methods. In addition to establishing adequate baselines for the frequencies of the reported behaviour, estimates of the teachers' use of positive and negative reinforcement were obtained. Informal advice was then given upon means of reducing the amount of dev…
The Saga of Butch and Slim
S ummary . The construction of the new British Intelligence Scale (BIS) has now reached the stage at which items are being selected for inclusion in a standardisation test. The data upon which these decisions are mainly based were obtained from a large scale try‐out experiment carried out on a national scale and within which the effects of intelligence level, socio‐economic class, sex and geographical locations were examined. The article describe…
The Fakeability of the Survey of Opinions About Education
S ummary . The Survey of Opinions about Education was administered to four groups of student teachers (N=240). In completing the questionnaire a second time subjects were asked to fake the responses in accordance with those of an ‘ideal’ student on the colleges' education courses. This resulted in increased mean Radicalism scores and decreased mean Tendermindedness Scores. A sex difference was evident in students' interpretation of faking the Nat…
A Note on the Use of Peel's Logical Game for Studying Conditional Reasoning in Children
S ummary . Peel's logical game was used with six groups of elementary school children (N = 300). The method was used to study rules of implication and incompatibility. The implication rule mainly generated conjunctive or matching responses; the incompatibility rule evoked greater variety of response deriving from simple contrapositive strategies. Omission of the connective ‘if’ in a second experiment did not affect the pattern of responses. Overa…
An analysis of birth sex ratio bias in captive prosimian species
The extent to which sex ratio bias is a common reproductive characteristic of prosimians has not been well established. The present study analyzed reproduction in 13 breeding groups of captive prosimians for evidence of birth sex ratio bias. A substantial male bias was demonstrated in nongregarious, but not gregarious, breeding groups. Analyses of birth sex ratios of individual mothers suggested that the observed bias did not result from the tend…
Accuracy of patient recall of opportunistic smoking cessation advice in general practice
Patient recall is systematically biased towards over-reporting of a question about smoking status and, among smokers, of advice to quit. Although we recommend its continued application in health services evaluation, findings should be interpreted with caution, particularly if subjects are male or the interval between recall of smoking cessation advice and the occasion of service in which it might have occurred is considerably delayed
Sexuality and the city
This article explores the discursive construction of sexual identity through organizational storytelling, in the London office of a global investment bank, InvestCo. Work on the identity of sexual minorities in work organizations is rare, and even more so in the context of an institution such as a bank. Minority sexual identities have largely been ignored by the organizational studies and diversity literatures, but organizations and the researche…
Evidence based practice in population health
Study objective: To assess current capacity to implement evidence based practice (EBP) in population health. Design: Postal survey of a regional population health workforce in Sydney, Australia. Setting: Division of Population Health, South Western Sydney Area Health Service. Participants: 104 population health staff (response rate: 73%). Main results: In the sample of regional population health practitioners, views about the current promotion of…
Watching the Watch
This empirical study in one UK Fire Service explores the experiences of sexual minorities in the workplace, an under‐researched area of diversity, but one that has a growing focus of interest. The article aims to show that the organizational culture has an impact on sexual minorities in a number of different ways. The UK Fire Service is an organization which is fragmented into regional brigades, fire stations and watches (shifts) and it is at the…
Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England
Family Meetings
Regular meetings help build a strong family. And a strong family has a much better chance at long term success. In Family Meetings, authors Aronoff and Ward show that holding regular meetings is one o
P2-225 Prostate-specific antigen testing awareness and participation in New South Wales, Australia
Background Although the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is widely used to screen for prostate cancer, there is very little information on the characteristics of men who are aware of the PSA test, and their patterns of PSA testing. Methods A cross-sectional study used computer assisted telephone interviews to collect data in New South Wales, Australia. Multinomial logistic regression identified the factors independently associated with the aw…
The impact of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 compared with seasonal influenza on intensive care admissions in New South Wales, Australia, 2007 to 2010
While influenza was diagnosed more frequently and peak use of intensive care was higher during the epidemic of pandemic influenza in 2009, overall excess admissions to intensive care for respiratory illness was much greater during the influenza season in 2007. Thus, the impact of seasonal influenza on intensive care use may have previously been under-recognised. In 2009, high ICU use among young to middle aged adults was offset by relatively low …
Culture, Faith, and Philanthropy
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld Building after Auschwitz
In this landmark book Gavriel D. Rosenfeld has taken on a vast and contentious topic. As with his other important writings on the urban context and cultural memory of Nazism and the Holocaust, Rosenfeld has succeeded in making his subject matter both scalable and accessible. The book's risk revolves around the identification of an architectural style, or collection of styles, as “Jewish,” and moreover as an after-effect of the Nazi genocide. Some…
Perpetuating the Family Business
Beyond Productivity
We are living in an age of concern for mental health and wellbeing. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to investigate the perceived health, social value and happiness benefits of urban agriculture (UA) by focusing on home and community food gardens in South Australia. The results reported in this paper are from “Edible Gardens”, a citizen science project designed to investigate the social value, productivity and resource eff…
A Statistically Rigorous Approach to Experimental Design of Vertical Living Walls for Green Buildings
Living walls (LW) have been widely proposed as a form of green infrastructure to improve aesthetics, energy consumption, and microclimate in urban environments by adding densely-planted vegetation to the outside walls of buildings. Scientific studies using multiple treatments in a single LW face challenges due to the close physical proximity of different treatments, particularly the potential for plants above to influence those below. A study on …
Young Aboriginal people’s engagement with STI testing in the Northern Territory, Australia
This is the first socio-ecological analysis of factors influencing young Aboriginal people's willingness to undertake testing for STIs within clinics in Australia. Strategies to improve uptake of STI testing must tackle the overlapping social and health service factors that discourage young people from seeking sexual health support. Much can be learned from young people's lived sexual health experiences and family- and community-based health prom…
An urgent call to collect data related to Covid-19 and Indigenous populations globally
Introduction Bronchodilator response (BDR) is a measurement of acute bronchodilation in response to short-acting β2-agonists (SABA), with a heritability between 10–40%. Identifying genetic variants associated with BDR may lead to a better understanding of its complex pathophysiology. Methods We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of BDR in six adult cohorts with participants of European ancestry (EA) and African ancestry (AA) includi…
Advancing a toolkit of diverse futures approaches for global environmental assessments
Global Environmental Assessments (GEAs) are in a unique position to influence environmental decision-making in the context of sustainability challenges. To do this effectively, however, new methods are needed to respond to the needs of decision-makers for a more integrated, contextualized and goal-seeking evaluation of different policies, geared for action from global to local. While scenarios are an important tool for GEAs to link short-term dec…
Grounding global environmental assessments through bottom-up futures based on local practices and perspectives
Future scenarios and pathways of potential development trajectories are powerful tools to assist with decision-making to address many sustainability challenges. Such scenarios play a major role in global environmental assessments (GEAs). Currently, however, scenarios in GEAs are mostly developed at the global level by experts and researchers, and locally imagined, bottom-up scenarios do not play a role in such assessments. In this paper, we argue…
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