Search results for "AUSTRALIA"

GREUTER HERBARIUM AND LIBRARY TRANSFERRED TO PALERMO (SICILY)

2009

Dalla parte degli immigrati: Alfredo Strano, un Calabrese in Australia

2017

Alfredo Strano, uno dei più interessanti autori della letteratura italo-australiana, ha scelto di dedicare una parte consistente della propria vita al servizio degli emigrati. Tra ricordi personali, testimonianze, riferimenti cronachistici e documentata ricostruzione storica, i suoi testi, insistendo sui temi dell’emigrazione e del fascismo, spesso indissolubilmente intrecciati, contribuiscono a far luce sull’avventura migratoria di molti Italiani e restituiscono uno spaccato socio-storico dell’Italia e degli Italiani nei primi cinquanta anni del Novecento. Alfredo Strano, one of the most interesting Italo-Australian writers, has devoted much of his life to the service of emigrants. Through…

Loudness Perceptions Influence Feelings of Interpersonal Closeness and Protect Against Detrimental Psychological Effects of Social Exclusion.

2021

We propose that perceptions of auditory loudness and interpersonal closeness are bidirectionally related. Across 12 experiments (total N = 2,219; 10 preregistered; with Singaporean, British, U.S. American, and Australian participants), we demonstrated that louder audio made people feel physically (Study 1a) and socially (Study 1b) closer to others, presumably because loudness activates interpersonal closeness-related concepts implicitly (Studies 1c and 1d). This loudness–interpersonal closeness effect was observed across diverse samples (Studies 2a, 3a, and S1), for longer listening intervals (Study 2b), and in natural settings (Studies 3a and 3b). Conversely, individuals made to feel soci…

Before and After Science: Radcliffe-Brown, British Social Anthropology, and the Relationship Between Field Research, Ethnography, and Theory

2020

In Radcliffe-Brown’s theoretical program of social anthropology as a “natural science of society” empirically grounded and making extensive use of the “comparative method” for aims of generalization about social phenomena, the ethnographical method according to Malinowski’s principles was seen as a fundamental research tool useful not only for guaranteeing scientific reliability to the work of collecting and recording ethnographic documentation but also for empirically testing theoretical hypotheses. It was thus often supposed that ideally the latter had to orientate the selection of particular research topics before starting fieldwork and while carrying out it. In the first part of the pap…

Australian Modernist Theatre and Patrick White’s the Ham Funeral (1961 [1947])

2017

For a considerable period of time, literary Modernism has been mainly associated with the study of the novel and poetry rather than drama perhaps due to New Criticism’s emphasis on the text and disregard of performance. This profound anti-theatrical thrust of Modernism has to be, most certainly, re-examined and reassessed, particularly within the context of Australian literature and, more specifically, Australian theatre. That Australian modernist theatre has been inconspicuous on the world stage seems to be an obvious and undisputable statement of facts. Yet, with Patrick White, English-born but Australian-bred 1976 Nobel Prize winner for literature, Australian low-brow uneasy mix of Briti…

Always on the move? Measured physical activity of 3-year-old preschool children

2015

Workplace bullying, burnout and resilience amongst perioperative nurses in Australia: A descriptive correlational study.

2021

AIM This study aimed to investigate workplace bullying and explore correlations between bullying, burnout and resilience amongst perioperative nurses in Australia. BACKGROUND Workplace bullying in perioperative nursing involves verbal, physical and psychological violence. However, no prior studies have measured Australian perioperative nurses' experiences of workplace bullying nor sought to understand if there is a relationship with burnout and resilience. METHODS A descriptive correlational study was conducted utilizing an online survey incorporating four validated instruments. Descriptive statistics and regression models analysed workplace bullying, burnout and resilience. RESULTS Over ha…

Using/Designing Digital Technologies of Representation in Aborginal Australian Knowledge Practices

2007

Intimacy in Cinema: Critical Essays on English Language Film

2014

International audience; Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of essays investigates both the potential intimacy of cinema as a medium and the possibility of a cinema of intimacy where it is least expected. As a notion defined by binaries--inside and outside, surface and depth, public and private, self and other--intimacy, because it implies sharing, calls into question the boundaries between these extremes, and the border separating mainstream cinema and independent or auteur cinema. Following on Thomas Elsaesser's theories of the relationship between the intimacy of cinema and the cinema of int…

Attitudes and beliefs towards alcohol minimum pricing in Western Australia

2018

Modelling data have provided good evidence to support the efficacy of a minimum pricing policy for alcoholic beverages as a means to reduce alcohol consumption and risky and harmful drinking. The aim of the present study was to investigate attitudes and beliefs towards a minimum price policy for alcohol among members of the general public in Western Australia (WA). The study also explored what factors might promote acceptance of the policy. Eleven focus groups, comprising participants from a broad range of backgrounds in WA, were conducted. Using a facilitator-administered semi-structured interview schedule participants discussed their beliefs about the policy and how its acceptability migh…