Mornington Peninsula Shire

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This scoping review aims to identify the scope of current literature considering nurse/midwife educational practices in the areas of intimate partner violence to inform future nursing/midwifery educational policy and practice. BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence is a global issue affecting a significant portion of the community. Healthcare professionals including nurses/midwives in hospital- and community-based environments are likely to encounter affected women and need educational strategies that support best practice and promote positive outcomes for abused women and their families. DESIGN: Scoping review of relevant literature from January 2000 to July 2015. METHOD: Search of databases: CINHAL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PROQUEST Central and COCHRANE Library. Reference lists from included articles were searched for relevant literature as were several grey literature sources. RESULTS: This review demonstrates low levels of undergraduate or postregistration intimate partner violence education for nursing/midwifery staff and students. Existing intimate partner violence education strategies are varied in implementation, method and content. Outcomes of these educational programmes are not always rigorously evaluated for staff or client-based outcomes. CONCLUSIONS: Further research is needed to evaluate existing intimate partner violence education programmes for nurses/midwives and identify the most effective strategies to promote improved clinical practice and outcomes for abused women and their families. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Intimate partner violence has a significant social and public health impact. The World Health Organization has identified the need to ensure that healthcare professionals are adequately trained to meet the needs of abused women. Intimate partner violence education programmes, commencing at undergraduate studies for nurses/midwives, need to be implemented with rigorously evaluated programmes to ensure they meet identified objectives, promote best practice and improve care for abused women.

Recreational water quality is commonly monitored by means of culture based faecal indicator organism (FIOs) assays. However, these methods are costly and time-consuming; a serious disadvantage when combined with issues such as non-specificity and user bias. New culture and molecular methods have been developed to counter these drawbacks. This study compared industry-standard IDEXX methods (Colilert and Enterolert) with three alternative approaches: 1) TECTA™ system for E. coli and enterococci; 2) US EPA's 1611 method (qPCR based enterococci enumeration); and 3) Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). Water samples (233) were collected from riverine, estuarine and marine environments over the 2014-2015 summer period and analysed by the four methods. The results demonstrated that E. coli and coliform densities, inferred by the IDEXX system, correlated strongly with the TECTA™ system. The TECTA™ system had further advantages in faster turnaround times (~12 hrs from sample receipt to result compared to 24 hrs); no staff time required for interpretation and less user bias (results are automatically calculated, compared to subjective colorimetric decisions). The US EPA Method 1611 qPCR method also showed significant correlation with the IDEXX enterococci method; but had significant disadvantages such as highly technical analysis and higher operational costs (330% of IDEXX). The NGS method demonstrated statistically significant correlations between IDEXX and the proportions of sequences belonging to FIOs, Enterobacteriaceae, and Enterococcaceae. While costs (3,000% of IDEXX) and analysis time (300% of IDEXX) were found to be significant drawbacks of NGS, rapid technological advances in this field will soon see it widely adopted.

This paper examines the pop-up concept, a world-wide trend which has been employed in various commercial and community settings, with a particular interest in how it has been applied to literary environments, using both physical and digital resources. The report examines six Australian public libraries, investigating why and how they established a pop-up library, and reflecting on their successes, challenges and what they have learnt from the process. The paper provides a definition of pop-up libraries and outlines how to create a pop-up library for a public library service, exploring the risks, benefits and issues to consider when planning for a successful pop-up library.

Recent attempts to measure likely impacts of climate change on WSUD measures have focused on performance under a single scenario of adjusted historical rainfall and evaporation. This study adopted an approach whereby a limited number of time series were generated to represent the extremes of a number of projected ranges of climate change scenarios. To support the Mornington Peninsula Shire's Integrated Water Management plan, analysis was undertaken to ensure that future stormwater management strategies were adaptable to a range of possible climate change conditions. Six different scenarios were developed, using stochastic downscaling of historical rainfall and evaporation, to represent predicted climate adjusted conditions under various emissions scenarios. Pollutant generation across the entire municipality and various WSUD measures were modelled under each of climate change scenarios to better understand the sensitivities of both pollutant generation, and resilience of treatment measures including wetlands, raingardens, stormwater harvesting and rainwater tanks to the likely future changes in climate. Results were then used to determine appropriate design considerations for various WSUD measures as well as recommend appropriate climate change adaptations for a number of biological components of these systems such as wetland vegetation.

Existing parking recommendation solutions mainly focus on finding and suggesting parking spaces based on the unoccupied options only. However, there are other factors associated with parking spaces that can influence someone’s choice of parking such as fare, parking rule, walking distance to destination, travel time, likelihood to be unoccupied at a given time. More importantly, these factors may change over time and conflict with each other which makes the recommendations produced by current parking recommender systems ineffective. In this paper, we propose a novel problem called multi-objective parking recommendation. We present a solution by designing a multi-objective parking recommendation engine called MoParkeR that considers various conflicting factors together. Specifically, we utilise a non-dominated sorting technique to calculate a set of Pareto-optimal solutions, consisting of recommended trade-off parking spots. We conduct extensive experiments using two real-world datasets to show the applicability of our multi-objective recommendation methodology.

There is a demand for new interventions to address complex social and political challenges arising from racism, colonisation, and oppression. To achieve this, equity must be at the forefront of program planning and decision making. Intervention Mapping is one of the most widely used program planning, design, implementation, and evaluation approaches. While the steps, tasks and core processes of Intervention Mapping provide a clear rationale and framework to develop programs that address equity, there is limited guidance and examples of how to operationalise this in practice. To address this gap, we conducted a qualitative study through a two-day workshop in Melbourne, Australia with multi-disciplinary practitioners and leaders from health, education and social care organisations and government departments, entitled “Equity in Program Development”. The workshop focused on Intervention Mapping Step 1: needs assessment, Step 2: define program outcomes and objectives, Step 3: program design and Step 4: program production. Using these steps the workshop aimed to: (1) explore how equity is considered and operationalised in participants’ organisations; (2) identify the enablers and barriers for developing and delivering equitable programs; and (3) generate practical guidance for program planners, including actions and guiding questions to embed equity within Intervention Mapping Steps 1 to 4. Transcribed data from small group discussions and individual written reflections were analysed thematically using a deductive approach guided by the research objectives. Actions to include equity in program planning included intentionally planning for equity, building equitable teams, skills and processes, generating ideas for embedding equity from other approaches, allowing time and space, leadership and organisational support, accessing resources and support, and shifting policy and funding processes. Based on the feedback and insights shared during this workshop, an initial Intervention Mapping - Equity (IM-Equity) Tool was developed for program planners.

Risky driver behaviours such as sudden braking, swerving, and excessive acceleration are a major risk to road safety. In this study, we present a learning method to recognize such behaviours from smartphone sensor input which can be considered as a type of multi-channel time series. Unlike other learning methods, this Genetic Programming (GP) based method does not require pre-processing and manually designed features. Hence domain knowledge and manual coding can be significantly reduced by this approach. This method can achieve accurate real-time recognition of risky driver behaviours on raw input and can outperform classic learning methods operating on features. In addition this GP-based method is general and suitable for detecting multiple types of driver behaviours.