The Covid-19 Pandemics: why Intersectionality Matters

An Integrative Review of the Psychosocial Impacts of COVID-19 on Frail Older Adults: Lessons to Be Learned in Pandemics

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted tremendous pressure on people, including older adults. Frail older adults are more susceptible to the adverse consequences of the pandemic. Although many studies have investigated the susceptibility and poor medical outcomes of COVID-19 in frail people, a few studies have explored the psychosocial effects of the pandemic on this group of vulnera...

Closing the Gap in Indigenous health: why section 19(2) of the Health Insurance Act matters.

283 TO THE EDITOR: There is a pressing need to address the poor health and justice outcomes experienced by Indigenous Australians, who are over-represented in adult prisons by an age-standardised factor of 13 and in youth detention by a factor of 24. Numerous government reports emphasise the need to Close the Gap, and special provisions have been made to address Indigenous health inequity, incl...

Why emotion matters

Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts, our knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this paper we first address the adequacy of the two dominant accounts (dual coding theory and the context availability model) put forward in order to explain representation and processing differences between concrete and abstract words. W...

Why Ecology Matters

Why Functional Programming Matters

As software becomes more and more complex, it is more and more important to structure it well. Well-structured software is easy to write, easy to debug, and provides a collection of modules that can be re-used to reduce future programming costs. Conventional languages place conceptual limits on the way problems can be modularised. Functional languages push those limits back. In this paper we sh...