Staring through the lens of ANZASW Code Ethics, it is our opinion that one ethical principle, last clause under Manaakitanga regarding animal sentience, starting to become more meaningful than others when discussing aforementioned notions. We go further and suggest rights, natural environment, climate change, humanities permanency have intersected are now a united single strand social work, its...

I would like to thank you, Councilman Wells, and Committee Members, for allowing me to address the Committee. I have spent much of the last decade studying the effectiveness of policies that encourage permanency for children in foster care. I study policy from my perspective as an economist. However, I bring first-hand experience to the work: my family has adopted children who could not be reun...

Vasectomy or male sterilisation is the severing or electrocoagulation of the vas deferens connecting the testes to the seminal vesicles and urethra. It is a safe and a highly effective operation that offers a permanent method of contraception. Reversal of a vasectomy is possible but can be difficult and is not always successful. The permanency of the procedure means that careful counselling is ...

In 1912 Prof. Pierre Termier, the director of the Geological Survey of France, delivered before the Oceanographic Institute of Paris a very interesting and stimulating lecture on the probable existence of Plato's Atlantis. This lecture is now published in English in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1915 (1916), pages 219-234. In his lecture the speaker drew a conclusion that...

Child welfare struggles to manage child abuse and neglect and to seek permanency for children, while being culturally responsive to the communities it serves. Family group conferencing, piloted in New Zealand and now used in the United States and other countries, is a strengths-based model that brings together families and their support systems to develop and carry out a plan that protects, nur...

A model for dynamic visual attention is briefly introduced in this paper. A PSM (problem-solving method) for a generic “Dynamic Attention Map Generation” task to obtain a Dynamic Attention Map from a dynamic scene is proposed. Our approach enables tracking objects that keep attention in accordance with a set of characteristics defined by the observer. This paper mainly focuses on those subtasks...

The purpose of this paper is to offer a Lachmannian analysis aimed at studying the coherence and the efficiency of reforms in China in terms of institutional change. The idea is that transition dynamics cannot be analyzed by reference to market criteria only; transition is, above all, a change in institutions. Every transition economy thus faces the problem of creating a new institutional frame...

OBJECTIVE To study the medical, emotional, and developmental profile of children being considered for permanent substitute care. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of 100 adoption/permanency medicals. SETTING All children considered by the adoption and permanency panel in Greenwich, south east London, between 1994 and 1998. OUTCOME MEASURES Analysis of medical reports completed using the Bri...