List of Titles

Parasitic infections of the central nervous system

Authors: Mathison, Blaine , Bradbury, Richard
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Molecular Medical Microbiology, Third Edition Chapter 159 p. 3135-3177
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Description: Parasites are an uncommon cause of infections of the human central nervous system (CNS). When they do cause CNS infections; however, the results can be detrimental and as such, an accurate diagnosis needs to be made as soon as possible so treatment can be initiated. This chapter covers the taxonomy, biology, epidemiology, clinical presentation, pathology, treatment, and diagnosis of parasites of the CNS, with an emphasis on molecular detection and identification. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Philosophical~methodological processes : immanent praxiography

Authors: Jukes, Scott
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Learning to confront ecological precarity : engaging with more-than-human worlds Chapter 3 p. 33-50
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Description: This chapter offers the philosophical framing for the book and introduces the methodological concept of immanent praxiography. I discuss the posthumanist disposition that influences the project and I present some of the ontological assumptions. Furthermore, this chapter frames how experimentation and play come into the methodological processes. A table is included that summarises some of the different aspects and offerings of the chapters, linking together key ideas and presenting through lines. In short, this chapter offers a map for the emergent methodological processes that have produced this book. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Policies and initiatives/programs that promote health and self-care in asylum seekers living in high income countries : a narrative review

- Nkhoma, Gloria, Lim, Chiao, Kennedy, Gerard, Stupans, Ieva

Authors: Nkhoma, Gloria , Lim, Chiao , Kennedy, Gerard , Stupans, Ieva
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article , Review
Relation: International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare Vol. 16, no. 4 (2023), p. 327-340
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Description: Purpose: This paper aims to identify health-care entitlements that exist for asylum seekers with chronic non-communicable disease (CNCD) that promote their health and self-care, and to explore health policies, initiatives and programmes with the potential to foster self-care in this populace. Design/methodology/approach: Narrative review of literature conducted by searching EMBASE, CINAHL, WEB OF SCIENCE and PSYCINFO databases for articles published from 2010 to 2021. Included articles focussed on policies, programmes or initiatives with the potential to promote health in adult asylum seekers residing in high-income countries. Studies inclusive of other migrant groups such as undocumented migrants and those with mental health conditions were excluded. Eleven studies fitting the inclusion criteria were assessed against the study objectives. Findings: Free access to health-care services and pharmaceutical products, free access to food banks and supermarket model food banks, English and cooking lessons, community integration training sessions and culturally competent health-care workers were found to promote health and self-care. There is little research on self-care and health promotion in adult asylum seekers with CNCD. CNCDs represent high burden of disease in asylum seekers but have a low priority in reported research. Originality/value: This narrative review is the first to explicitly focus on asylum seekers in high-income countries with CNCD, excluding mental health conditions, and to explore initiatives, programmes and policies that enhance health promotion to facilitate self-care in this populace. © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited.

Politics, parliament and the courts

- Camilleri, Marg, Harkness, Alistair

Authors: Camilleri, Marg , Harkness, Alistair
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 2 p. 19-44
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Description: Recognising the oftentimes polarising nature of court decision-making—and the overt public interest and political sensitivities which exist—this chapter focuses on the public influence on legislative decision-making with regard to the courts and court processes. It considers the blurring of boundaries in regard to mandatory sentencing the parliamentary appetite for sentencing reform and the questioning of sentencing outcomes and other court practices. How to reconcile public attitudes (and thus parliamentary action) with magisterial, judicial, parole board and bail justice decision-making is a significant challenge. Various actors have a role to play in promoting accountability and positive change, including sentencing advisory councils, parliamentary law reform committees, legal services boards, community legal centres and other bodies—in advocating for positive change, fairness and equity based on sound evidence rather than potentially knee-jerk reactions to public conjecture.

Portfolio management using time-varying vine copula : an application on the G7 equity market indices

- Nguyen, Phong, Liu, Wei-Han

Authors: Nguyen, Phong , Liu, Wei-Han
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: European Journal of Finance Vol. 29, no. 11 (2023), p. 1303-1329
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Description: We consider structural breaks and use vine copulas to hierarchically model the underlying assets’ dependence structure of the portfolio of G7 equity market indices (1998–2019). This framework is noticed for its flexibility in capturing asymmetry and non-linearity in a time-varying style. We compare the portfolio performance in terms of the minimum Conditional Value-at-risk (CVaR) and the maximum return-to-CVaR ratio criteria with the traditional mean-variance framework and the equal-weighted strategy. The outcomes show the outperformance of our method across subperiods. Canonical vine copula marginally outperforms drawable vine copula in terms of return-to-risk ratio. Our proposed vine copula models better capture the risk-return tradeoff especially during critical market moments. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Post-pandemic social work and the death of neoliberalism

- Ottmann, Goetz

Authors: Ottmann, Goetz
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Post-Pandemic Welfare and Social Work: Re-imagining the New Normal Chapter 4 p. 39-50
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Description: The COVID-19 pandemic in conjunction with ecological, financial and political crises foregrounds the inadequacies and failures of neoliberal modes of governance that have become the bedrock of polities around the globe. The pandemic highlighted that most governments were not able to protect the health and wellbeing of their citizens bringing into full public view an astonishing discrepancy between governmental claims and experienced events. As a result, political leaders were scrambling to re-define the role of the state as guarantor of social welfare, to re-create a sense of humanitarian solidarity, and to re-invent the commons amidst threadbare, marketised health and social care. Ultimately, a sizeable segment of vulnerable ‘consumers’ was left without a protective safety net. And while communities rallied, providing much-needed social support to vulnerable citizens, national governments appeared to be ‘missing in action’. This chapter traces the tension between the neoliberal administration of health and welfare and the social imaginary of safety that underpins public opinion outlining socio-political currents that are transforming neoliberalism. The chapter argues that this tension translates into a new challenge for social work to ‘re-cognise’ that the neoliberal dogma, albeit incrementally changing, still permeates current human services approaches and our own thinking and to become aware of new possibilities. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Goetz Ottmann and Carolyn Noble; individual chapters, the contributors.

Post-pandemic social work and the welfare state

- Noble, Carolyn, Ottmann, Goetz

Authors: Noble, Carolyn , Ottmann, Goetz
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Post-Pandemic Welfare and Social Work: Re-imagining the New Normal Chapter 1 p. 1-14
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Description: This edited book offers a critical commentary to the social, political and cultural shifts that underpin the post-pandemic ŉew normal’. At the time of completing this edited book, most pandemic containment measures have been lifted ushering in a new socio-political landscape. Contributors to this book agree that the pandemic revealed the cracks in welfare systems resulting from decades of underfunding and posited a rethink of its value and function. COVID-19 has reminded us of our vulnerability and dependence on others. It has debunked the myth of the ideal of the self-contained, self-sufficient and independent subject at the core of liberal political and moral philosophy that is also manifest in pre-COVID-19 interpretations of welfare and visions of care. The chapter argues that post-pandemic welfare must be expanded to include relational aspects that link all beings in their inter-dependence with the planetary ecosystem. We affirm that Critical social work is a strategic activity where social workers are taking on a networked leadership role promoting grassroots activism and more democratic decision-making towards a more sustainable and equitable future. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Goetz Ottmann and Carolyn Noble; individual chapters, the contributors.

Power module for integration of renewable hydrogen storage with bioethanol production from non-food biowastes

- Ghayur, Adeel

Authors: Ghayur, Adeel
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Conference paper
Relation: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids, ETFG 2023, Wollongong, 3-6 December 2023, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Energy Technologies for Future Grids, ETFG 2023
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Description: Sustainable biofuels that do not compromise food security will play an integral role in the world's transition to renewable and circular economies. Integration of their production with surplus renewable electricity offers significant potential to improve overall system efficiencies. One such pathway is integration of bioethanol production with surplus renewable power via a power module modelled in this study. This module comprises of an electrolyzer, a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC), a Magnesium Hydride (MgH2) Tank and two reactor columns. This module is then connected to the Carbon Negative Biorefinery, which produces bio-acetate from non-food biowastes. Simulations are carried out wherein the module converts surplus/off-peak renewable grid power to hydrogen, storing 25% in the MgH2 Tank. The MgH2 Tank releases waste heat during the storage process which is used with 75% of the electrolytic hydrogen to hydrogenate Carbon Negative Biorefinery's bio-acetate into bioethanol. Simulation results show that 15 kg of hydrogen is able to produce 120 kg of ethanol. This equates to a 77% increase in the lower heating value when compared with 15 kg of hydrogen. Simulation results also reveal that waste heat from the SOFC is enough to preheat oxygen and hydrogen, and desorb hydrogen from the MgH2 Tank during fuel cell's electricity generation. These results are encouraging, warranting further investigation into the co-production of hydrogen and ethanol as electrochemical and biochemical energy vectors. © 2023 IEEE.

Predicting the compactability of artificially cemented fine-grained soils blended with waste-tire-derived aggregates

- Soltani, Amin, Nguyen, Duc, O’Kelly, Brendan, Taheri, Abbas

Authors: Soltani, Amin , Nguyen, Duc , O’Kelly, Brendan , Taheri, Abbas
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Transportation Infrastructure Geotechnology Vol. 10, no. 3 (2023), p. 365-390
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Description: This study investigates the possibility of extending the specific gravity ratio (SGR) modeling framework, originally developed for predicting the compaction properties of unamended fine-grained soils (with no binder) blended with tire-derived aggregates (TDAs), to artificially cemented soil–TDA blends. This was achieved by performing comprehensive statistical analyses on a large and diverse database of 87 fine-grained soil–binder–TDA compaction tests, covering a wide range of soil plasticity and including a variety of chemical binders (cement, lime, fly ash, slag, and liquid polymers) and sand-sized (0.075–4.75 mm) TDA products. The optimum water content (OWC) and maximum dry unit weight (MDD) for any fine-grained soil–binder–TDA blend (constant binder type and content) can be expressed as functions of the OWC and MDD measured for the soil–binder mixture (with no TDA), along with the soil–binder (SB) to soil–binder–TDA (SBT) SGR, as woptSBT=woptSB(SGR)

Prediction of secant shear modulus and damping ratio for an extremely dilative silica sand based on machine learning techniques

- Baghbani, Abolfazl, Choudhury, Tanveer, Samui, Pijush, Costa, Susanga

Authors: Baghbani, Abolfazl , Choudhury, Tanveer , Samui, Pijush , Costa, Susanga
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering Vol. 165, no. (2023), p.
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Description: A better understanding of soil response to dynamic loads, including earthquakes, can result in safer designs that can reduce casualties. The damping ratio and shear modulus are critical parameters in soil dynamics, and several factors affect these parameters, including density and moisture content. The non-linear and multiple influences on these two parameters make their estimation difficult. Machine learning techniques are very powerful mapping tools with a remarkable capacity to perform nonlinear multivariate function approximations. In this study, to predict sand secant shear modulus and damping ratio from input variables, artificial neural networks (ANN) and classification and regression random forests (CRRF) were used as alternative estimators. The database was created using a series of simple shear tests that accurately assessed damping ratios and secant shear modulus to predict these two dynamic parameters. The input variables of the proposed predictive models included vertical stress, relative density and cyclic stress ratio, and its outputs included secant shear modulus and damping ratio. The Bayesian Regularization (BR) back-propagation ANN model produced correlation coefficient (R) and mean absolute error (MAE) values of 0.998 and 0.006, respectively, while CRRF models gave R and MAE values of 0.995 and 66.051, respectively. Additionally, sensitivity analysis of artificial intelligence (AI) models demonstrated that vertical stress and relative density played a vital role in predicting damping ratio, while all three parameters were important in predicting secant shear modulus. In this study, two developed artificial intelligence models were compared with existing literature models. According to the results, for test database, the existing models were able to predict the shear modulus and damping ratio with R of 0.911 and 0.918, respectively. However, the proposed ANN and CRRF models were able to predict shear modulus with R of 0.993 and 0.996, and damping ratios with R of 0.992 and 0.990, respectively. The results showed that ANNs and CRRFs were more robust than existing models for predicting damping ratio and shear modulus, as well as identifying the influence of input variables on sand dynamic properties. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd

Prefrontal cortex activity in siblings with and without developmental coordination disorder : an exploratory study

- Plumb, Mandy, Charity, Megan, Milla, Kimberly, Bodt, Barry, Getchell, Nancy

Authors: Plumb, Mandy , Charity, Megan , Milla, Kimberly , Bodt, Barry , Getchell, Nancy
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of Motor Learning and Development Vol. 11, no. 1 (2023), p. 188-208
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Description: Background: Previous research suggests that children with or at risk of probable developmental coordination disorder (pDCD) activate different areas of the brain when performing certain motor skills compared with typically developing (TD) children. This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to compare prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity in TD and pDCD during the completion of manual (three-dimensional [3D]) and computerized versions (two-dimensional) of the Tower of Hanoi (ToH) puzzle. Method: A total of 12 children (TD and pDCD; one female/11 male, -x = 10.36, SD ± 1.52 years) performed the two-dimensional and 3D conditions of the ToH disk tasks, with equivalent executive function but different motor requirements, with functional near-infrared spectroscopy to compare PFC activity. Results: Interestingly, brain oxygenation levels were more apparent in the 3D versus two-dimensional ToH. In the 3D, there were large differences between pairs of discordant sibling sets and this was located to the right medial PFC, with pDCD exhibiting less activation in this region. Conclusion: While only exploratory, we have identified potential differences in the right medial PFC region, which differs within sibling sets with different pDCD status. These results concur with previous studies and are an area that needs to be explored further with a larger cohort of TD and pDCD. © 2023 Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.. All rights reserved.

Professionalising care into compliance : the challenge for personalised care models

- Cole, Clare, Mummery, Jane, Peck, Blake

Authors: Cole, Clare , Mummery, Jane , Peck, Blake
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Nursing Inquiry Vol. 30, no. 3 (2023), p.
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Description: One of the most basic understandings of nursing is that a nurse is a caregiver for a patient who helps to prevent illness, treat health conditions, and manage the physical needs of patients. Nursing is often presented as a caring profession, which provides patient care driven by ideals of empathy, compassion and kindness. These ideals of care have further been foregrounded through the development and implementation of stress on patient centred care (PCC) and/or person-centred practice (PCP). Although the idealisation of nursing as a caring profession is common, and one certainly seen as integral by nurses and written into the heart of regulatory documentation, we contend that the actual delivery of care is being undercut by the very regulatory climate that strives to professionalise care. As we outline, with specific reference to the context of Australian Nursing, this transformation delivers a commodified, even McDonaldized, model of patient management rather than care. It seems that even with its explicit stress on PCC and PCP, Australian Nursing cannot live up to its own care ideals. Having outlined this problem, the paper then demonstrates the ways in which PCC is thwarted at the coal face of nursing practice and that there must be an institutionalised change to be able to provide genuine patient-centred care. © 2022 The Authors. Nursing Inquiry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

Prosecutions in the summary jurisdictions

- Camilleri, Marg, Harkness, Alistair

Authors: Camilleri, Marg , Harkness, Alistair
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 5 p. 95-119
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Description: Police prosecutors play a critical role in the Victorian summary jurisdiction. While scarce, the available literature identifies concerns about the use of police prosecutors, including a lack of independence from investigative police the opaque police prosecutor decision-making the potential bias in favour of police informants the lack of uniformity in training requirements the high workloads and the lack of clear, uniform and public guidelines all which may have real or perceived impacts upon court outcomes for accused and victims alike and upon the public’s confidence in the administration of justice. This is particularly so in the context of increasing volume, complexity and seriousness of summary offences. This chapter supports the need for an evidence-based review of police-led prosecutions which includes the impacts on case outcomes, and whether certain reforms may be necessary.

Prospective associations between traditional masculinity and cannabis, hard drug, and alcohol use in Australian emerging adult men

- Teese, Robert, Van Doorn, George, Gill, Peter

Authors: Teese, Robert , Van Doorn, George , Gill, Peter
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Personality and Individual Differences Vol. 200, no. (2023), p.
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Description: The current study assessed the association between traditional masculine norms and cannabis use, hard drug use (e.g., amphetamines and cocaine), and hazardous alcohol use at two-year follow-up. The sample comprised 2170 Australian emerging adult men (18–29 years old) who completed Wave 1 (2013–2014) and Wave 2 (2015–2016) of the Ten to Men: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health survey. Lagged logistic regressions showed that the playboy (Odds Ratio [OR] ranging 1.30–1.65) and risk-taking (OR ranging 1.35–1.96) norms conveyed risk for each of hazardous alcohol use, cannabis use, and hard drug use at two-year follow-up. Several outcome-specific findings were also demonstrated across the hegemonically-masculine norms, with increased adherence to certain hegemonically-masculine norms conveying risk for engagement in substance use in emerging adult men. These findings suggest that treatments focusing on improving social supports might help emerging men avoid substance abuse issues. © 2022

Psychological effects of unemployment across the lifespan : a synthesis of relevant literature

- Taylor, Philip, Gringart, Eyal, Adams, Claire

Authors: Taylor, Philip , Gringart, Eyal , Adams, Claire
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of Aging and Social Policy Vol. 35, no. 2 (2023), p. 154-178
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Description: Amid ongoing global economic uncertainty and long-standing efforts to tackle age discrimination and increase older workers’ labor force engagement, it is pertinent to consider age differences in the individual effects of joblessness. This is paramount for informing support services, policy formulation, and research. This article is based on a literature review of international peer reviewed quantitative research that has examined the relationship between age, psychological wellbeing and unemployment. Two hundred and twenty-six studies were screened and 36 were included. No relevant qualitative studies were identified. Among the studies, there was a broad consensus that there are age differences in terms of the psychological consequences of unemployment. However, they showed mixed evidence, and critical conceptual and methodological deficiencies were identified. We conclude that the body of evidence is weak and that drawing from it for the development of practice and policy in support of jobless individuals is to be cautioned against. © 2022 Taylor & Francis.

Public health messaging during disasters: Practice and attitudes of Australian emergency nurses

- Coombs, Nicole, Porter, Joanne, Barbagallo, Michael, Plummer, Virginia

Authors: Coombs, Nicole , Porter, Joanne , Barbagallo, Michael , Plummer, Virginia
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Australasian Emergency Care Vol. 26, no. 2 (2023), p. 193-197
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Description: The growing frequency of disasters increases health system demands, increasing the need for emergency departments to provide public health messaging to prevent illness and reduce risk. This study aims to explore emergency nurse practice and attitudes in providing public health messages from the emergency department during disasters in Australia. Quantitative phase of a mixed methods study, using an explanatory sequential design. Australian emergency nurses were surveyed using a validated online questionnaire. Data was analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics, an enumerative content analysis, participant profiling and a factor analysis. Disaster experience varied in 143 nurse participants. The perception of the emergency nurse’s role in providing public health messages is influencing practice. Embracing teachable moments and health promotion responsibilities, attributes to positive attitudes and practice. In contrast, negative attitudes, lack of confidence, time, policy, and training, are barriers to public health messages being provided in the emergency setting. These barriers suggest that Australian emergency nurses may not have the capability, the opportunity, nor the motivation, to provide preventative messages to their patients during disasters. Intrinsic and extrinsic factors need to be addressed, ensuring nurses are confident and supported in their public health messaging practice during disasters.

Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement : results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults

- Engel, Lidia, Brijnath, Bianca, Chong, Terence, Hills, Danny, Hjorth, Larissa, Loi, Samantha, Majmudar, Ishani, Mihalopoulos, Cathrine, Gerber, Katrin

Authors: Engel, Lidia , Brijnath, Bianca , Chong, Terence , Hills, Danny , Hjorth, Larissa , Loi, Samantha , Majmudar, Ishani , Mihalopoulos, Cathrine , Gerber, Katrin
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Death Studies Vol. 47, no. 9 (2023), p. 994-1005
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Description: Older people experience bereavements more often than any other age group. National survey data collected across Australia from 633 bereaved adults aged 65+ years showed that 21% met the criteria for prolonged grief. Their quality of life was significantly lower and loneliness significantly higher compared to older people in the general population. Risk factors for the low quality of life and high loneliness post-bereavement included being female, experiencing the death of a partner, and being the full-time carer of the deceased. Time since bereavement, expectedness, and cause of death were not significantly associated with quality of life and loneliness. © 2022 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Quantum particle swarm optimization for task offloading in mobile edge computing

- Dong, Shi, Xia, Yuanjun, Kamruzzaman, Joarder

Authors: Dong, Shi , Xia, Yuanjun , Kamruzzaman, Joarder
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Vol. 19, no. 8 (2023), p. 9113-9122
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Description: Mobile edge computing (MEC) deploys servers on the edge of the mobile network to reduce the data transmission delay between servers and mobile devices, and can meet the computing demand of mobile computing tasks. It alleviates the problem of computing power and delay requirements of mobile computing tasks and reduces the energy consumption of mobile devices. However, the MEC server has limited computing and storage resources and mobile network bandwidth, making it impossible to offload all mobile computing tasks to MEC servers for processing. Therefore, MEC needs to reasonably offload and schedule mobile computing tasks, to achieve efficient utilization of server resources. To solve the above-mentioned problems, in this article, the task offloading problem is formulated as an optimization problem, and particle swarm optimization (PSO) and quantum PSO based task offloading strategies are proposed. Extensive simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can significantly reduce the system energy consumption, task completion time, and running time compared with recent advanced strategies, namely ant colony optimization, multiagent deep deterministic policy gradients, deep meta reinforcement learning-based offloading, iterative proximal algorithm, and parallel random forest. © 2005-2012 IEEE.

Race craft : a qualitative exploration of the development, implementation and reflection of tactical decision making in road cycling

- O’Grady, Mathew, Worn, Ryan, Owens, Julian, O’Brien, Brendan, Talpey, Scott

Authors: O’Grady, Mathew , Worn, Ryan , Owens, Julian , O’Brien, Brendan , Talpey, Scott
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching Vol. 18, no. 6 (2023), p. 2160-2170
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Description: Historically, research that has aimed to understand the determinants of road cycling performance has focused primarily on the physiological characteristics of successful performers. To date, little research has been conducted on the tactical strategies that underpin successful road cycling, especially from a qualitative perspective. This study reports the practices of seven high-performing Australian cyclists and coaches to inform how they prepare for competition, the tactical decisions they make during and reflective practices they use following a road cycling competition. Inductive qualitative one-on-one semi-structured interviews were conducted using open-ended questions via an online meeting platform. A robust thematic analysis of the interviews was undertaken resulting in the establishment of themes aligned with pre-race, in-race and reflection upon tactical decision making. Prior to the race, themes related to the specificity of training, planning of a race strategy and use of training data emerged from the interviews. During the race, themes of the cyclist’s role within a team, in-race communication and race craft were established. Post-race, a theme related to the reflective practice implemented by each participant was evident. These results and discussion provide novel insights into the process of developing, implementing and reflecting upon tactical decision making used in high-level road cycling. This information is valuable for teams and governing bodies to inform and enhance coaching development and practice within the sport of road cycling. © The Author(s) 2022.

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