These findings support the vascular depression hypothesis, which has important implications for the understanding and management of late-life depression.

This article defends the use of narratives about morally exemplary individuals in moral education and appraises the role that 'nudge' strategies can play in combination with such an appeal to exemplars. It presents a general conception of the aims of moral education and explains how the proposed combination of both moral strategies serves these aims. An important aim of moral education is to make the ethical perspective of the subject-the person being educatedmore structured, more salient and therefore more 'navigable'. This article argues why and how moral exemplars and nudge strategies are crucial aids in this respect. It gives an empirically grounded account of how the emotion of admiration can be triggered most effectively by a thoughtful presentation of narratives about moral exemplars. It also answers possible objections and concludes that a combined appeal to exemplars and nudges provides a neglected but valuable resource for moral education.

Political realism criticises the putative abstraction, foundationalism and neglect of the agonistic dimension of political practice in the work of John Rawls. This paper argues that had Rawls not fully specified the implementation of his theory of justice in one particular form of political economy then he would be vulnerable to a realist critique. But he did present such an implementation: a property-owning democracy. An appreciation of Rawls s specificationist method undercuts the realist critique of his conception of justice as fairness.

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The policy of multiculturalism has been enthusiastically endorsed by the Australian Government. However, the question arises as to whether this enthusiasm is matched by a similar view at the societal level. This study investigates the attitudes of Australian‐born residents of Darwin in Northern Australia toward a number of issues relating to migrants and multiculturalism. Specifically, the study focuses on three research questions: (a) What is the extent of support for the provision of ethnically based services/programs for migrants? (b) How are different “types” of migrants perceived in terms of their acceptability? (c) What is the extent of support for the policy of multiculturalism and its underlying dimensions? A total of 655 Australian‐born respondents (331 males, 324 females) were surveyed. The results indicate that while there is strong support for those services which are perceived to facilitate the integration of migrants into mainstream Australian society, there is also clear disapproval of those services which are perceived to favour migrants unfairly as well as contributing to the entrenchment of differences in Australian society. Level of acceptance of different types of migrants indicates a clear preference for migrants of Western European descent, as well as for migrants who are well educated, have a skilled trade, or could be useful to this country. The results obtained from the multicultural variables indicate a discrepancy between support for the dimensions underlying multiculturalism and support for the policy itself. Specifically, the strong support for the underlying dimensions was not reflected in the moderate support for the overall policy. The implications of these findings for the perception of ethnic relations in Darwin are discussed.

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Abstract. The prepuces of 83 bulls with macroscopically normal reproductive tracts were obtained at slaughter and microbiological, immunological, and histologic studies were done and the findings were correlated. Some bulls had been vaccinated on several occasions against Campylobacter fetus.Mean concentrations of intrapreputial immunoglobulins (Ig) in 27 bulls were IgG I -1.8 ± 5.2; IgA -0.16 ± 0.15; and IgM -0.24 ± 0.24 mg/ml, High concentrations ofIgG 2 in some bulls precluded precise estimation but mean concentration was in excess of 11.0 mg/ml (range oto 20+ mg/rnl). Differences between these concentrations were significant (P < 0.005).Mean prevalences of class specific, immunoperoxidase-Iabeled plasma cells in the preputial dermis of35 bulls were IgG -39.0 ± 9.3; IgA -16.6 ± 6.6; and IgM -2.2 ± 1.8 labeled cells/ 100 nuclei (P < 0.001). The prevalence of IgG labeled cells in the preputial dermis was, however, negatively correlated with the concentration of intrapreputial IgG (IgG I + IgG 2 ) (r = -0.4; P < 0.05).Except for an apparently lower intra preputial Ig concentration in Trichomonas foetusinfected bulls than in negative ones, there were no significant correlations between intrapreputial immunoglobulin concentration, histologic findings, and age, infection, or vaccination status of the bulls.