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Challenging court landscapes and opportunities for change

Authors: Camilleri, Marg , Harkness, Alistair
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 16 p. 367-390
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Description: Courts are complex institutions which must constantly adjust to ensure that they are fulfilling their responsibilities to defendants, victims, witnesses, society and others who enter court spaces either virtually or physically. Courts must also manage their relationships with other agencies (whether justice or community) on whom they rely. Courts face an array of challenges in contemporary Australia, including the COVID-19 pandemic which has necessitated courts to pivot from inherently complex systems which are primarily public facing to virtual spaces which must continue to maintain the rule of law and to be open, transparent and subject to scrutiny. This chapter considers other challenges, too, which various courts and those who work in, with or appear before are facing. It assesses a suite of potential micro and macro reforms, advocating for ongoing systemic and structural change.

COVID-19 effects on public finance and SDG priorities in developing countries : comparative evidence from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka

- Colombage, Sisira, Barua, Suborna, Nanayakkara, Madurika, Colombage, Udari

Authors: Colombage, Sisira , Barua, Suborna , Nanayakkara, Madurika , Colombage, Udari
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: European Journal of Development Research Vol. 35, no. 1 (2023), p. 85-111
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Description: The COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented global health crisis, rapidly transferred into a global economic and social crisis. The pandemic has threatened the world’s commitment to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 as governments in developing countries have shifted their priorities from attaining SDGs, to providing urgent financial needs to save lives and prevent recession in hopes for a rapid economic recovery. The rerouting of public funding priorities has undermined the progress and achievement of SDGs. We employed a mixed-method and carried out a comparative study using pre- and post-public financial data of two developing countries in South Asia; Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. A threefold analysis was conducted to investigate the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic in two countries, the impact of the pandemic on external and internal public finance and the effect of the pandemic in shifting the policy priorities from SDGs to economic survival. This study found that both countries are highly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic and are suffering from the lack of financing from external sources through the private sector as well as an increasing foreign debt. There is mounting pressure on the fiscal balance in both countries. © 2022, The Author(s).

Exploring the therapeutic effectiveness of genograms in family therapy : a literature review

- Joseph, Bindu, Dickenson, Sarah, McCall, Allira, Roga, Erin

Authors: Joseph, Bindu , Dickenson, Sarah , McCall, Allira , Roga, Erin
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article , Review
Relation: Family Journal Vol. 31, no. 1 (2023), p. 21-30
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Description: The primary aim of the literature review is to explore the relevant literature on the use and effectiveness of genograms in family therapy. The literature is predominantly related to the use of genograms in various settings and adaptations. There are minimal studies on the effectiveness of genograms as a therapeutic tool in family therapy. Searches were conducted of MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, SCOPUS and PsycINFO electronic databases. The international review includes all studies, irrespective of study methodology. This review will inform clinicians working in family therapy and other relevant disciplines on the usefulness of genograms as a therapeutic tool, examples of adaptations to the traditional genogram for specific populations and purposes, and, to a lesser extent, the therapeutic effectiveness of genograms in family therapy. The results and discussion will provide insights on the utilisation of genograms, the range of population, gaps in the existing literature and the need for further research. © The Author(s) 2022.

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Factors that promote a positive childbearing experience : a qualitative study

- Hall, Helen, Fooladi, Ensieh, Kloester, Joy, Ulnang, Arijanti, Sinni, Suzanne, White, Colleen, McLaren, Meredith, Yeganeh, Ladan

Authors: Hall, Helen , Fooladi, Ensieh , Kloester, Joy , Ulnang, Arijanti , Sinni, Suzanne , White, Colleen , McLaren, Meredith , Yeganeh, Ladan
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health Vol. 68, no. 1 (2023), p. 44-51
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Description: Introduction: Experiences of pregnancy and birth are important and have long-term impacts on the well-being of women and their families. Perinatal services should aim for care that promotes a positive childbearing experience, as well as optimizing health outcomes for the woman and newborn. This study aimed to understand the health system factors that promote a positive childbearing experience. Methods: Women who had a positive experience and had given birth in Australia in the previous 12 months were recruited for individual semistructured interviews. The interview guide focused on health system factors that participants credited with contributing to their positive experience of perinatal care. Interviews were conducted until data saturation was reached. Qualitative data were transcribed verbatim and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. Results: Data from 36 interviews were thematically analyzed, and 4 major themes were generated: health care provider attributes, health system attributes, communication and decision-making, and experience of care. The salient factors that promoted positive experiences included care that was respectful and individualized with effective communication, access to midwifery continuity of care models, and good integration between services. Competent and professional health care providers who facilitated shared decision-making were also essential. Discussion: Although women often sought out care that promoted physiologic birth, they emphasized that the way they were cared for was more important than fulfilling specific birth aspirations. Quality maternity care has the capacity to support a woman's confidence in her own abilities and promote a positive, and sometimes transformative, childbearing experience. © 2022 The Authors. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM).

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Kenneth Kronberger : behold the animated diorama!

- Kronberger, Kenneth

Authors: Kronberger, Kenneth
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Artwork , Visual art work
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Description: WED 1 MAR – FRI 17 MAR 2023 Please join the artist Kenneth Kronberger to celebrate an end of exhibition event at the Post Office Gallery, on Fri 17 March @ 5.30, for 6pm, until 8pm. All welcome! Through an investigation into the historically intriguing silent and static miniaturised world of the diorama and the contemporary art of animation, Kenneth Kronberger’s new work and PhD examination exhibition integrates these intriguing imagined formats, creating his own metamorphised ‘worlds’ and fantastical illusionistic spaces. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Doctoral research project at the Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Federation University, Australia. Kenneth Kronberger has been supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia. Image: Kenneth Kronberger The Penthouse, 2023 wood, paper, digital print, foam board, acrylic paint, found objects, digital video H31.8 x W31.8 x D32 cm (scale 1:10) Courtesy the artist
Description: WED 1 MAR – FRI 17 MAR 2023 Please join the artist Kenneth Kronberger to celebrate an end of exhibition event at the Post Office Gallery, on Fri 17 March @ 5.30, for 6pm, until 8pm. All welcome! Through an investigation into the historically intriguing silent and static miniaturised world of the diorama and the contemporary art of animation, Kenneth Kronberger’s new work and PhD examination exhibition integrates these intriguing imagined formats, creating his own metamorphised ‘worlds’ and fantastical illusionistic spaces. This exhibition constitutes the visual outcomes emerging from a practice-led Doctoral research project at the Institute of Education, Arts and Community, Federation University, Australia. Kenneth Kronberger has been supported by an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend and (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia.

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Lost at starting line : predicting maladaptation of university freshmen based on educational big data

- Guo, Teng, Bai, Xiaomei, Zhen, Shihao, Abid, Shagufta, Xia, Feng

Authors: Guo, Teng , Bai, Xiaomei , Zhen, Shihao , Abid, Shagufta , Xia, Feng
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Vol. 74, no. 1 (2023), p. 17-32
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Description: The transition from secondary education to higher education could be challenging for most freshmen. For students who fail to adjust to university life smoothly, their status may worsen if the university cannot offer timely and proper guidance. Helping students adapt to university life is a long-term goal for any academic institution. Therefore, understanding the nature of the maladaptation phenomenon and the early prediction of “at-risk” students are crucial tasks that urgently need to be tackled effectively. This article aims to analyze the relevant factors that affect the maladaptation phenomenon and predict this phenomenon in advance. We develop a prediction framework (MAladaptive STudEnt pRediction, MASTER) for the early prediction of students with maladaptation. First, our framework uses the SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique) algorithm to solve the data label imbalance issue. Moreover, a novel ensemble algorithm, priority forest, is proposed for outputting ranks instead of binary results, which enables us to perform proactive interventions in a prioritized manner where limited education resources are available. Experimental results on real-world education datasets demonstrate that the MASTER framework outperforms other state-of-art methods. © 2022 The Authors. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Association for Information Science and Technology.

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Optimising water quality outcomes for complex water resource systems and water grids

- Dey, Sayani

Authors: Dey, Sayani
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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Description: As the world progresses, water resources are likely to be subjected to much greater pressures than in the past. Even though the principal water problem revolves around inadequate and uncertain water supplies, water quality management plays an equally important role. Availability of good quality water is paramount to sustainability of human population as well as the environment. Achieving water quality and quantity objectives can be conflicting and becomes more complicated with challenges like, climate change, growing populations and changed land uses. Managing adequate water quality in a reservoir gets complicated by multiple inflows with different water quality levels often resulting in poor water quality. Hence, it is fundamental to approach this issue in a more systematic, comprehensive, and coordinated fashion. Most previous studies related to water resources management focused on water quantity and considered water quality separately. However, this research study focused on considering water quantity and quality objectives simultaneously in a single model to explore and understand the relationship between them in a reservoir system. A case study area was identified in Western Victoria, Australia with water quantity and quality challenges. Taylors Lake of Grampians System in Victoria, Australia receives water from multiple sources of differing quality and quantity and has the abovesaid problems. A combined simulation and optimisation approach was adopted to carry out the analysis. A multi-objective optimisation approach was applied to achieve optimal water availability and quality in the storage. The multi-objective optimisation model included three objective functions which were: water volume and two water quality parameters: salinity and turbidity. Results showed competing nature of water quantity and quality objectives and established the trade-offs. It further showed that it was possible to generate a range of optimal solutions to effectively manage those trade-offs. The trade-off analysis explored and informed that selective harvesting of inflows is effective to improve water quality in storage. However, with strict water quality restriction there is a considerable loss in water volume. The robustness of the optimisation approach used in this study was confirmed through sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. The research work also incorporated various spatio-temporal scenario analyses to systematically articulate long-term and short-term operational planning strategies. Operational decisions around possible harvesting regimes while achieving optimal water quantity and quality and meeting all water demands were established. The climate change analysis revealed that optimal management of water quantity and quality in storage became extremely challenging under future climate projections. The high reduction in storage volume in the future will lead to several challenges such as water supply shortfall and inability to undertake selective harvesting due to reduced water quality levels. In this context, selective harvesting of inflows based on water quality will no longer be an option to manage water quantity and quality optimally in storage. Some significant conclusions of this research work included the establishment of trade-offs between water quality and quantity objectives particular to this configuration of water supply system. The work demonstrated that selective harvesting of inflows will improve the stored water quality, and this finding along with the approach used is a significant contribution to decision makers working within the water sector. The simulation-optimisation approach is very effective in providing a range of optimal solutions, which can be used to make more informed decisions around achieving optimal water quality and quantity in storage. It was further demonstrated that there are range of planning periods, both long-term (>10 years) and short-term (<1 year), all of which offer distinct advantages and provides useful insights, making this an additional key contribution of the work. Importantly, climate change was also considered where it was found that diminishing water resources, particularly to this geographic location, makes it increasingly difficult to optimise both quality and quantity in storage providing further useful insights from this work.
Description: Doctor of Philosophy

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.

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.

SCA-LFD : side-channel analysis-based load forecasting disturbance in the energy internet

- Ding, Li, Wu, Jun, Li, Changlian, Jolfaei, Alireza, Zheng, Xi

Authors: Ding, Li , Wu, Jun , Li, Changlian , Jolfaei, Alireza , Zheng, Xi
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics Vol. 70, no. 3 (2023), p. 3199-3208
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Description: The energy Internet (EI) equipment may face threats that attackers poison federated learning (FL) models to disturb electricity load forecasting. To mitigate this vulnerability, it is important to study load forecasting disturbance approaches. This article proposes a side-channel analysis (SCA)-based disturbance approach. First, we design an FL SCA scheme to extract power information from the FL chip running forecasting model. Second, we propose an FL data speculation method using an optimized convolutional neural network trained with SCA information. Third, we design a label-flipping-based poisoning scheme with speculated data characteristics for load forecasting disturbance. Experimental results show attackers can successfully poison and disturb FL-based load forecasting. The average accuracy of EI load data speculation is 99.8%. This work is the first to study EI load forecasting disturbance from an SCA perspective. © 1982-2012 IEEE.

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Tropical cyclone activity in the Solomon Islands region : climatology, variability, and trends

- Haruhiru, Alick, Chand, Savin, Turville, Christopher, Ramsay, Hamish

Authors: Haruhiru, Alick , Chand, Savin , Turville, Christopher , Ramsay, Hamish
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: International Journal of Climatology Vol. 43, no. 1 (2023), p. 593-614
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Description: This study examines the climatology, variability, and trends of tropical cyclones (TCs) affecting the Solomon Islands (SI) territory, in the wider southwest Pacific (SWP), using the South Pacific Enhanced Archive for Tropical Cyclones (SPEArTC) database. During the period 1969/1970–2018/2019, 168 TCs were recorded in the SI territory. A cluster analysis is used to objectively partition these tracks into three clusters of similar TC trajectories to obtain better insights into the effects of natural climate variability, particularly due to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, which otherwise is not very apparent for TCs when considered collectively in the SI region. We find that TCs in clusters 1 and 3 show enhanced activity during El Niño phase, whereas TCs in cluster 2 are enhanced during La Niña and neutral phases. In addition to being modulated by ENSO, TCs in clusters 2 and 3 show statistically significant modulation at an intraseasonal timescale due to the Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) phenomenon. There are also some indications through sophisticated Bayesian modelling that TCs in clusters 2 and 3 are slightly influenced by the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO). These results can have substantial implications for cluster-specific development of TC prediction schemes for the SI region. © 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Climatology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Meteorological Society.

Victims’ Participatory Rights

- Camilleri, Marg, Harkness, Alistair

Authors: Camilleri, Marg , Harkness, Alistair
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 12 p. 269-296
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Description: Victims of crime are key to holding perpetrators to account. Despite being instigators of reports, victim/survivors of sexual assault have long felt alienated from the court process and criminal justice system more broadly. This chapter draws on contemporary literature to consider the contested terrain of “participatory rights” for victim/survivors. Highlighted are a range of reforms implemented since 1994 which elevate the voices and acknowledge the experiences of victim/survivors. Despite the reforms, victim/survivors continue to feel alienated and, in particular, the voices of victim/survivors with cognitive impairment and complex communication needs are sometimes ignored at the point of first report. Considered here are the barriers to effective reform implementation and proposed reforms for continuous advocacy and legal representation. This chapter supports calls for legal representation to continue through to the conclusion of trial proceedings.

"We need to care about this, and yes the facts are terrifying" : understanding young people's perspectives about energy transition and climate adaptation in regional Australia

- Green, Monica

Authors: Green, Monica
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Children, Youth and Environment Vol. 32, no. 2 (2022), p. 125-144
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Description: This small-scale study examinesyoung people’s perspectives aboutenergy transition and climate change adaptation in regional Gippsland, Victoria,Australia. As the opinions and experiences of children and youth have been historically overlooked in contemporary sustainability climate discourse and policy, this research investigatespreviously unheard accounts.The studydrawsonfourfacilitated “Conversations for Change”discussions with a total of 14 young people (aged 9-17)that exploredtheir ideas and concerns about sustaining themselves and their communities during a time of climate change and energy transition. Theirideas and opinionsaboutliving in/with a climate-alteredlocaland global futurearereflected across four main themes: (a)young people’s values;(b) perceptions of energy, transition and adaptation;(c) the enabling role of climate literacy for young people; and (d) responding to a just energy transition through collective endeavors.

A computational framework to simulate the thermochemical process during thermochemical ablation of biological tissues

- Mak, Nguoy, Ooi, Ean H., Lau, Ee, Ooi, Ean Tat, Pamidi, N., Foo, Ji, Mohd Ali, Ahmad

Authors: Mak, Nguoy , Ooi, Ean H. , Lau, Ee , Ooi, Ean Tat , Pamidi, N. , Foo, Ji , Mohd Ali, Ahmad
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Computers in Biology and Medicine Vol. 145, no. (2022), p.
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Description: Thermochemical ablation (TCA) is a thermal ablation therapy that utilises heat released from acid-base neutralisation reaction to destroy tumours. This procedure is a promising low-cost solution to existing thermal ablation treatments such as radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and microwave ablation (MWA). Studies have demonstrated that TCA can produce thermal damage that is on par with RFA and MWA when employed properly. Nevertheless, TCA remains a concept that is tested only in a few animal trials due to the risks involved as the result of uncontrolled infusion and incomplete acid-base reaction. In this study, a computational framework that simulates the thermochemical process of TCA is developed. The proposed framework consists of three physics, namely chemical flow, neutralisation reaction and heat transfer. An important parameter in the TCA framework is the neutralisation reaction rate constant, which has values in the order of 108 m3/(mol

A continuous homomorphism of a thin set onto a fat set

- Chalebgwa, Taboka, Morris, Sidney

Authors: Chalebgwa, Taboka , Morris, Sidney
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society Vol. 106, no. 3 (2022), p. 500-503
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Description: A thin set is defined to be an uncountable dense zero-dimensional subset of measure zero and Hausdorff measure zero of an Euclidean space. A fat set is defined to be an uncountable dense path-connected subset of an Euclidean space which has full measure, that is, its complement has measure zero. While there are well-known pathological maps of a set of measure zero, such as the Cantor set, onto an interval, we show that the standard addition on

A cooperative crowdsensing system based on flying and ground vehicles to control respiratory viral disease outbreaks

- Sahraoui, Yesin, Kerrache, Chaker, Amadeo, Marica, Vegni, Anna, Korichi, Ahmed, Nebhen, Jamel, Imran, Muhammad

Authors: Sahraoui, Yesin , Kerrache, Chaker , Amadeo, Marica , Vegni, Anna , Korichi, Ahmed , Nebhen, Jamel , Imran, Muhammad
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Ad Hoc Networks Vol. 124, no. (2022), p.
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Description: The massive increase in population density in cities has led to several urban problems, such as an increment of air pollution, traffic congestion, and a faster spread of infectious diseases. With the rapid innovation in the intelligent sensors technology, and its integration into smart vehicles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), a novel sensing paradigm has been promoted, namely vehicular crowdsensing, which leverages on-board sensors to capture information from the surrounding environment. Collected data are then analyzed to take proper countermeasures. In this paper, we present a smart coordination mechanism between UAVs and ground vehicles (GVs), which sense information like body temperature and breathing rate of people, in order to support a variety of monitoring applications, including discovering the presence of infectious diseases. In our framework, namely GUAVA, aerial and ground vehicles are equipped with GPS devices and thermal cameras to monitor specific geographic areas, detect humans’ vital parameters and, at the same time, discover duplicate data by identifying matching faces in thermal video sequences with the GaussianFace algorithm. The sensing tasks in hard-to-reach places are assigned to UAVs, with the ability to power up wirelessly from the nearest GV and offload the collected monitoring images to it. Simulation results have assessed our proposed framework, showing good performance in terms of distinct Quality of Service (QoS) metrics. © 2021

A cut above the rest : oxidative stress in chronic wounds and the potential role of polyphenols as therapeutics

- Johnson, Joel, Broszczak, Daniel, Mani, Janice, Anesi, Jack, Naiker, Mani

Authors: Johnson, Joel , Broszczak, Daniel , Mani, Janice , Anesi, Jack , Naiker, Mani
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article , Review
Relation: Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology Vol. 74, no. 4 (2022), p. 485-502
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Description: Objectives: The pathophysiology of chronic wounds typically involves redox imbalance and inflammation pathway dysregulation, often with concomitant microbial infection. Endogenous antioxidants such as glutathione and tocopherols are notably reduced or absent, indicative of significant oxidative imbalance. However, emerging evidence suggests that polyphenols could be effective agents for the amelioration of this condition. This review aims to summarise the current state of knowledge surrounding redox imbalance in the chronic wound environment and the potential use of polyphenols for the treatment of chronic wounds. Key findings: Polyphenols provide a multi-faceted approach towards the treatment of chronic wounds. Firstly, their antioxidant activity allows direct neutralisation of harmful free radicals and reactive oxygen species, assisting in restoring redox balance. Upregulation of pro-healing and anti-inflammatory gene pathways and enzymes by specific polyphenols further acts to reduce redox imbalance and promote wound healing actions, such as proliferation, extracellular matrix deposition and tissue remodelling. Finally, many polyphenols possess antimicrobial activity, which can be beneficial for preventing or resolving infection of the wound site. Summary: Exploration of this diverse group of natural compounds may yield effective and economical options for the prevention or treatment of chronic wounds. © 2021 The Author(s).

A Fabian paradise or a one-man show? How the interwar Queensland economy seduced two prominent English economists

- Millmow, Alex

Authors: Millmow, Alex
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article
Relation: Australian Economic History Review Vol. 62, no. 2 (2022), p. 123-140
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Description: This article tells how the two British economists Hugh Dalton and Colin Clark, came to regard Queensland in the 1930s as an enviable model of economic development. Both men were Fabian socialists and impressed by Queensland's authoritarian premier and by its array of economic controls. Clark even surrendered a promising career at Cambridge to become an economic advisor there. In turn, Queensland, and a personal spiritual crisis, would propel Clark to discard Fabianism for Distributivism. In the final analysis Queensland's agrarian socialism was not drawn upon Fabian lines but rather impelled by a mix of rural development and electoral pragmatism. © 2022 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

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A flourishing brain in the 21st century : a scoping review of the impact of developing good habits for mind, brain, well-being, and learning

- Ekman, Rolf, Fletcher, Anna, Giota, Joanna, Eriksson, Axel, Thomas, Bertil, Bååthe, Frederik

Authors: Ekman, Rolf , Fletcher, Anna , Giota, Joanna , Eriksson, Axel , Thomas, Bertil , Bååthe, Frederik
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Journal article , Review
Relation: Mind, Brain, and Education Vol. 16, no. 1 (2022), p. 13-23
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Description: Emerging scientific knowledge such as the role of epigenetics and neuroplasticity—the brain's capability to constantly rewire with every action, experience, and thought—is fundamentally changing our understanding of the potential impact we can have on our brain. Our brain is formed by our habits in interaction with our body, the environment, influenced by our lifestyle, successes, failures, and traumas. Neuroplasticity proves that every student's brain is a work in progress, and it is never too late to take better care of one's cognitive fitness. This review presents a repertoire of good habits (GHs). Combined, we suggest that these GHs provide conditions for optimal brain health, by acting as a “Mental Vaccine” which enhances the brain's resilience to brain health-degrading challenges. We argue that schools have a crucial role to play in empowering students to increase their own stress resilience, well-being, and learning by developing their own GHs profile. © 2021 The Authors. Mind, Brain, and Education published by International Mind, Brain, and Education Society and Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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