Flinders University

About: Flinders University is a education organization based out in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 12033 authors who have published 32831 publications receiving 973172 citations. The organization is also known as: Flinders University of South Australia.

Motherhood: A Potential Source of Bias in Employment Decisions

Abstract: Results of 2 experimental studies in which job incumbents were said to be applying for promotions to traditionally male positions demonstrated bias against mothers in competence expectations and in screening recommendations. This bias occurred regardless of whether the research participants were students (Study 1) or working people (Study 2). Although anticipated job commitment, achievement striving, and dependability were rated as generally lower for parents than for nonparents, anticipated competence was uniquely low for mothers. Mediational analyses indicated that, as predicted, negativity in competence expectations, not anticipated job commitment or achievement striving, promoted the motherhood bias in screening recommendations; expected deficits in agentic behaviors, not in dependability, were found to fuel these competence expectations. These findings suggest that motherhood can indeed hinder the career advancement of women and that it is the heightened association with gender stereotypes that occurs when women are mothers that is the source of motherhood's potentially adverse consequences.

Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia who maintain a complete molecular response after stopping imatinib treatment have evidence of persistent leukemia by DNA PCR

Abstract: Around 40-50% of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) who achieve a stable complete molecular response (CMR; undetectable breakpoint cluster region-Abelson leukemia gene human homolog 1 (BCR-ABL1) mRNA) on imatinib can stop therapy and remain in CMR, at least for several years. This raises the possibility that imatinib therapy may not need to be continued indefinitely in some CML patients. Two possible explanations for this observation are (1) CML has been eradicated or (2) residual leukemic cells fail to proliferate despite the absence of ongoing kinase inhibition. We used a highly sensitive patient-specific nested quantitative PCR to look for evidence of genomic BCR-ABL1 DNA in patients who sustained CMR after stopping imatinib therapy. Seven of eight patients who sustained CMR off therapy had BCR-ABL1 DNA detected at least once after stopping imatinib, but none has relapsed (follow-up 12-41 months). BCR-ABL1 DNA levels increased in all of the 10 patients who lost CMR soon after imatinib cessation, whereas serial testing of patients in sustained CMR showed a stable level of BCR-ABL1 DNA. This more sensitive assay for BCR-ABL1 provides evidence that even patients who maintain a CMR after stopping imatinib may harbor residual leukemia. A search for intrinsic or extrinsic (for example, immunological) causes for this drug-free leukemic suppression is now indicated.

Story telling: is it really research?

Abstract: Journal of Advanced Nursing 28(6), 1182–1190Story telling: is it really research?In this paper I will suggest ways in which you may consider a story as alegitimate research product. I view the story as interpreted work communicatedthrough writing as the research product. ‘Doing’ interpretive research is not aneasy option in research. In this paper I will focus upon some of the complexitiesin creating an acceptable and accessible research product. I will cover fiveinterrelated areas: journaling, observing, listening, writing and rigour. The term‘research product’ refers to the outcome of the research process. By that I meanthe dissertation, the research report or the published article. The notion oflegitimacy is informed by Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics which doesnot show us what to do, but asks us to question what is ‘going on’ whileresearching. In this paper I ask you to consider the entire research process as areflexive exercise which provides answers to the question: ‘What is going on inmethods?’. I claim that if the research product is well sign-posted, the readerswill be able to travel easily through the worlds of the participants and makers ofthe story and decide for themselves whether the story is a legitimate researchendeavour.Keywords: interpretive research, story, journal, observation, writing, rigour,credibility, reflexivity, research productA STORY AS THE RESEARCH PRODUCT