scholarly journals KV(Ŋ)KV -Kinship Terms in the Australian Aboriginal Languages:First Part:Kaka 'Mother's Brother'

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Matthey de l'Etang
Keyword(s):  
Australian Aboriginal

Considering the Impact of Social Media on Contemporary Improvement of Australian Aboriginal Health: Scoping Review (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy Walker ◽  
Claire Palermo ◽  
Karen Klassen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Torres Strait Islander ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Aboriginal Health ◽  
Health Messages ◽  
Community Control ◽  
Torres Strait Islander People ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Torres Strait

BACKGROUND Social media may have a significant role in influencing the present and future health implications among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, yet there has been no review of the role of social media in improving health. OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine the extent of health initiatives using social media that aimed to improve the health of Australian Aboriginal communities. METHODS A scoping review was conducted by systematically searching databases CINAHL Plus; PubMed; Scopus; Web of Science, and Ovid MEDLINE in June 2017 using the terms and their synonyms “Aboriginal” and “Social media.” In addition, reference lists of included studies and the Indigenous HealthInfonet gray literature were searched. Key information about the social media intervention and its impacts on health were extracted and data synthesized using narrative summaries. RESULTS Five papers met inclusion criteria. All included studies were published in the past 5 years and involved urban, rural, and remote Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people aged 12-60 years. No studies reported objective impacts on health. Three papers found that social media provided greater space for sharing health messages in a 2-way exchange. The negative portrayal of Aboriginal people and negative health impacts of social media were described in 2 papers. CONCLUSIONS Social media may be a useful strategy to provide health messages and sharing of content among Aboriginal people, but objective impacts on health remain unknown. More research is necessary on social media as a way to connect, communicate, and improve Aboriginal health with particular emphasis on community control, self-empowerment, and decolonization.

Exocrine pancreatic dysfunction in malnourished Australian Aboriginal children

1991 ◽  
Vol 154 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey J Cleghorn ◽  
Ristan Greer ◽  
Terence L Holt ◽  
Ross W Shepherd ◽  
John Erlich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Pancreatic Dysfunction ◽  
Aboriginal Children

Upper Respiratory Microbiota in Relation to Ear and Nose Health Among Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Coleman ◽  
Seweryn Bialasiewicz ◽  
Robyn L Marsh ◽  
Eva Grahn Håkansson ◽  
Kyra Cottrell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Children ◽  
Upper Respiratory Tract ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
Ionization Time ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Flight Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Upper Respiratory ◽  
Corynebacterium Pseudodiphtheriticum ◽  
Nasal Microbiota ◽  
Respiratory Microbiota

Abstract Background We explored the nasal microbiota in Indigenous Australian children in relation to ear and nasal health. Methods In total, 103 Indigenous Australian children aged 2–7 years (mean 4.7 years) were recruited from 2 Queensland communities. Children’s ears, nose, and throats were examined and upper respiratory tract (URT) swabs collected. Clinical histories were obtained from parents/medical records. URT microbiota were characterized using culturomics with Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) identification. Real-time PCR was used to quantify otopathogen (Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Moraxella catarrhalis) loads and detect respiratory viruses. Data were analyzed using beta diversity measures, regression modeling, and a correlation network analysis. Results Children with historical/current otitis media (OM) or URT infection (URTI) had higher nasal otopathogen detection and loads and rhinovirus detection compared with healthy children (all P < .04). Children with purulent rhinorrhea had higher nasal otopathogen detection and loads and rhinovirus detection (P < .04) compared with healthy children. High otopathogen loads were correlated in children with historical/current OM or URTI, whereas Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum and Dolosigranulum pigrum were correlated in healthy children. Conclusions Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum and D. pigrum are associated with URT and ear health. The importance of the main otopathogens in URT disease/OM was confirmed, and their role relates to co-colonization and high otopathogens loads.

Streptococcal infection and renal disease markers in Australian Aboriginal children

1992 ◽  
Vol 156 (8) ◽  
pp. 537-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G Van Buynder ◽  
Julie A Gaggir ◽  
Diana Martin ◽  
David J Pugsley ◽  
John D Mathews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Disease ◽  
Streptococcal Infection ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Disease Markers ◽  
Aboriginal Children

scholarly journals Grammar and levels of addressivity

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stef Spronck
Keyword(s):  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Descriptive Framework

AbstractEvans et al. (2018a,b) introduce the notion of ‘engagement’ as a new grammatical domain related to intersubjective coordination of knowledge. The present paper applies this notion to data from the Australian Aboriginal language Ungarinyin. It identifies three markers/construction types in the language as expressions of engagement and develops a descriptive framework rooted in Bakhtinian Dialogism in order to demonstrate why these expressions represent the category. It is argued that the main problems that arise in the analysis of engagement are very similar to those that have been encountered in the description of (other) TAME-categories as well, and that these may be overcome by applying Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of ‘addressivity’. It concludes that a better understanding of the category of engagement that explores its relation to addressivity may contribute to the development of an approach to grammar in which sociality takes priority, a Dialogic linguistics.

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