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Previous research on the Repression-Sensitization (R-S) Scale found that repressors gave fewer sexual associations than sensitizers on a double entendre word association task. That difference, however, may have been due either to differential familiarity, or external, social inhibition,
rather than to internal, cognitive defense processes. In the present experiment, male sensitizers, neutrals, and repressors performed an identification task and an association task with word lists containing double entendres. They received one of three instruction sets, designed either to
facilitate, inhibit, or disregard the possible sexual associations. The identification task results failed to support the familiarity hypothesis. The association task results suggested that repressors are more responsive to external, social inhibition cues than are either sensitizers or neutrals.

In New South Wales, at least 28 species of native rodents have been recorded
since European settlement. Four of these are extinct nationally, six are
extinct in the State, six are vulnerable and four are endangered; only eight
remain non-threatened. Declines and losses have been greatest in central and
western New South Wales and least in the State's north-east. Neither
body weight nor habit are associated with status, but taxa such as
Rattus species with broad diets and habitat preferences
remain generally less threatened than ecological specialists. Threatening
processes affect all vulnerable and endangered species, with predation from
introduced carnivores, grazing from livestock, clearance of vegetation and
changed fire regimes being among the most severe. No species occur entirely on
reserved land, while two endangered species have no secure land tenure. A
program of survey, research, management and education is proposed to help
achieve recovery.

ObjectivesIntegrating clinical and laboratory data systems offers opportunities to understand disease aetiology and improve patient outcomes. We developed and piloted a data linkage algorithm to link HIV patient treatment records with routine laboratory service records in an HIV endemic setting in rural South Africa.
ApproachWe used data from the South Africa's National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) and Three Integrated Electronic Registers (TIER.Net) databases for 17 primary healthcare clinics from uMkhanyakude district, South Africa. The two databases contained data on key demographic variables such as patient first name, surname, date of birth, sex, and health facility, and national ID numbers for a subset of the data. We adapted a probabilistic record linkage algorithm we previously developed for linkage of laboratory results. We trained and validated our algorithm using two approaches: 1) firstly, we constructed a quasi-gold standard based on manual review of potential matches for 1,061 randomly selected patients; 2) secondly, we constructed a quasi-gold standard based on records that contained national ID numbers. We calculated the probabilities that the algorithm could correctly identify a true match (sensitivity) and the probabilities that the match identified by the algorithm was truly a match (positive predictive value) using the two approaches.
ResultsBetween 2015 and 2020, 55,077 patients were recorded in the HIV treatment database and 386,577 laboratory tests were recorded in the laboratory service database. The sensitivity and positive predictive value in the manually reviewed data were estimated to be 94.4% and 81.2% respectively. The sensitivity and positive predictive value in the matched individual identifiers were estimated to be 99.6% and 99.7% respectively.
ConclusionsRecords can be linked successfully, but estimated performance of record linkage depends on the validation set used. Manually reviewed data contain noise and may underestimate performance, while national ID numbers may overestimate performance due to non-random patterns of missingness.

AbstractPerson-centred care that respects a patient's personhood is the gold standard in dementia care, which is often difficult to achieve given the complexity of caring for people with dementia. This article delves into the narration style of formal care-givers from a variety of ethno-cultural backgrounds in search of linguistic cues that may be related to their emphasis on a person-centred approach to care. A qualitative study, using a discourse analysis of semi-structured interviews with 20 formal care-givers in an institutional setting, was employed. The care-givers fell into three groups: Arabs, immigrants from the former Soviet Union (IFSU) and Jews born in Israel (JBI). Our results show 20 figurative language expressions (FLEs) in the narratives of the JBI care-givers and 11 among the IFSU care-givers. In contrast, the Arab care-givers conveyed 48 FLEs. Many of the Arab care-givers' FLEs were not associated with the 'regular' domains articulated by other care-givers (family, children, militaristic language) and were primarily individual-focused, emphasising the personhood of the patient. These findings, together with relevant theoretical literature, suggest that the extensive use of figurative language by Arab care-givers may be a possible tool assisting these care-givers to employ a person-centred approach, manifested in their stress on the personhood of the patient. Such tools may be useful for better achieving person-centred care for these patients.

Executive Summary This report uses the amount of land in New South Wales approved by the State Government for clearing between 1998 and 2005 inclusively to calculate the impacts of land clearing on the State's wildlife. According to these calculations more than 104 million native mammals, birds and reptiles have died or will die as a result of the clearing of native vegetation in NSW approved between 1998 and 2005. These include: • over 11 million mammals with possums and gliders most severely affected as well as many millions of kangaroos, wallabies, bandicoots, koalas and wombats; • around 13 million birds comprising mostly woodland and forest birds and including species of honeyeaters and babblers that are under threat of extinction in NSW; and • more than 80 million reptiles such as skinks and geckos. These estimates are highly conservative and the true mortality is likely to be substantially higher than those estimated in this report. Due to inadequate or uncertain public data, the figures in this study do not include the numbers of animals killed as a result of illegal clearing that occurred in NSW from 1998 to 2005, or as a result of exempt clearing (ie legally permitted clearing that does not require approval) that occurred during this time. These other clearing activities also result in the deaths of many millions of native animals. For example, around 5 million mammals, birds and reptiles would have been killed by the amount of illegal clearing estimated by the Auditor-General to have occurred in 2005. This study does not include any estimates of the amphibians, fish and invertebrates that were also killed as a direct or indirect result of the approved clearing of native vegetation. The study used the known record of approved clearing of native vegetation in NSW from 1998 to 2005 inclusively that was published by the Auditor-General in his 2006 report, Regulating the Clearing of Native Vegetation: Follow-up of 2002 Performance Audit. Between 1998 and 2005 inclusively, the NSW Government approved ...

Twenty-one feral cats were radio-tracked using direct sighting and triangulation techniques (amassing 730 location fixes) during winter in an agricultural landscape in central-western New South Wales. Factors affecting home-range size, home-range overlap and habitat use were assessed. Mean home-range size was 248 ha (s.e. = 34.9, n = 15 cats, 598 location fixes). Home-range size and habitat use were not influenced by sex or age of adult cats, prey abundance or time of day. However, cat weight significantly influenced range size, with heavier cats having larger ranges than smaller cats. Although the cats are apparently solitary, their home ranges overlapped considerably, particularly between young adults and old adult cats. Cats were active both by day and night and did not occupy permanent dens. Home ranges encompassed mixed habitat types that provided both shelter and prey. Open woodland and open forest were the main habitat types covered by home ranges, but within these areas cats showed a preference for grassland, where rabbits were more abundant. The results recorded in this study indicate that cat-control programs should concentrate in mixed habitat areas, where both shelter and food are available, and over widely dispersed areas. The absence of group living suggests that the effectiveness of virally vectored fertility or biological control agents would be limited.

The diet of the mulgara, Dasycercus cristicauda, from
the Simpson Desert in Queensland, was analysed using scats collected between
1990 and 1995. Insects, arachnids and rodents were the main classes of prey of
D. cristicauda, but reptiles, centipedes and small
marsupials were also consumed. Insects represented 92% by percentage
frequency of occurrence in scats, while rodents represented 33% by
percentage frequency. Invertebrate prey ≥6 mm in length and vertebrate prey
occurred frequently in scats, but small prey ( 1–5 mm), when present,
occurred in large numbers. D. cristicauda ate more
individual prey items in spring and winter than in autumn, and more
large-sized prey in spring than in autumn. In autumn,
D. cristicauda consumed mostly insects (100% by
frequency) and few rodents (8%), but in winter and spring, switched to
rodents (38% and 47% respectively) and insects (88% and
93% respectively). Seasonal shifts in diet may reflect changes in the
availability of different groups of prey, or changes in prey selectivity by
D. cristicauda in response to costs imposed by seasonal
reproduction. The dietary flexibility of D. cristicauda
may allow individuals to occupy stable ranges, and has perhaps also promoted
the persistence of the species in arid areas that have been subjected to
changes in land use since European settlement.

The influence of several attributes of pitfall and drift fence design on capture rates of small vertebrates
was examined over 12 months in semi-arid habitats of Western Australia. Large 28 cm diameter pits
(20 L buckets), captured significantly more animals than smaller pits made of 16 cm diameter PVC
piping. Amongst taxonomic groups, large lizards and geckos showed highly significant biases for large
pits, frogs, small lizards, and snakes and legless lizards less so, while small mammals were caught
equally often in both sizes. All faunal groups except geckos showed an overall significant increase
in capture rates with increasing fence length, but the optimal length per pit cannot be accurately
determined from our data. Faunal groups showed a dichotomy in responses to temporary verus
permanent drift fences. Independent fenced pits produced significantly higher capture rates than those
in a conventional driftline. Variations in species responses to different design attributes probably reflect
differing modes of behaviour and activity. We conclude that for our study areas, many large pits
installed as a grid at 10-20 m spacing, each with a permanently erected short drift fence (e.g. 7-10 m),
should produce excellent results for both autecological and synecological studies.