BACKGROUND To investigate and compare the predictors of personal and perceived stigma associated with depression. METHOD Three samples were surveyed to investigate the predictors: a national sample of 1,001 Australian adults; a local community sample of 5,572 residents of the Australian Capital Territory and Queanbeyan aged 18 to 50 years; and a psychologically distressed subset (n = 487) of ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research was to explore which demographic and health status variables moderated the relationship between psychological distress and three nutrition indicators: the consumption of fruits, vegetables and takeaway. METHOD We analysed data from the 2009 Self-Reported Health Status Survey Report collected in the state of Queensland, Australia. Adults (N = 6881) report...

S ince the early 1990s, re searchers have attempted to define and measure “rurality” in the context of rural and remote medical care. At a general level, Wootton raised the question of the fit, or lack thereof, between the training of physicians and the dynamics of rural practice. Larsen Soles described the challenge posed by the rural “continuum” (that diversity of places between what we under...

Aotearoa New Zealand has been identified, by several measures, as being one of a few developed countries that have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic in best possible way. This outcome is generally attributed to strict but effective public health measures included – besides very high vaccination rates national and regional lockdowns, well total closure border except for returning citizens (who wer...

The long term discount rate is critically dependent upon projections of future growth rates that are fuzzier in proportion to the remoteness of the time horizon. This paper models such increasing fuzziness as an evolving hidden-state stochastic process. The underlying trend growth rate is an unobservable random walk hidden by noisy transitory shocks and recoverable only as a probability distrib...

For assessing different routing protocols for MANETs, it is important to have some index or quantitative measure of mobility that is relevant to the performance of the network. In this paper, we proposed a mobility measure that is “canonical” in that it is flexible and consistent. It is flexible because one can customize the definition for relevant mobility using a remoteness function. It is co...

Twitter (and other micro blogging services) combine the flexibility and immediacy of bilateral telephone SMS with the multilateral networking capacities of the Web 2.0. In contrast to Blogs, discussion fora and Social Network Sites, Twitter allows online communication characterized by asymmetric leadership-follower relationships, remoteness of sender identity, metacommunicative signaling functi...

This paper examines the determinants of the length of stay of tourists in the Azores. It is found that socio-demographic profiles, such as nationality and Azorean ascendancy, and trip attributes, such as repeat visitation rates and type of flight, are important determinants. In addition, destination image and attitudes regarding environmental initiatives, constructed from a factor analysis exer...

Economic development and underdevelopment is one aspect of the uneven spatial distribution of economic activity. This paper reviews existing literature on geography and development, and argues that rigorous theoretical and empirical analysis is needed to increase understanding of the role of geography in development and to better design development policy. The analytical issues are: why does ec...