Altering the playing field: The U.S. redefinition of the use-of-force
This article will interrogate the degree to which the Obama administration has continued, even at times inadvertently, the Bush administration's challenge on international law. Notwithstanding the...
View Article(In Press) "Not a lot of people read the stuff": Australian urban research in...
At the 2013 State of Australian Cities (SOAC) Conference, a dedicated plenary session examined the blunt prospect of "Who cares about Australian Urban Research?" One group apparently not reading, or...
View Article(In Press) The effectiveness of an outpatient Acceptance and Commitment...
Background: Although a growing number of studies have demonstrated the efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the treatment of psychological disorders, the effectiveness of...
View ArticleNormalising and integrating metabolomics data
Metabolomics research often requires the use of multiple analytical platforms, batches of samples, and laboratories, any of which can introduce a component of unwanted variation. In addition, every...
View ArticleION Orchard: atmosphere and consumption in Singapore
Every major shopping mall in Singapore is pervaded by atmospheres designed to attract consumers, but recent innovations in the production of atmosphere at ION Orchard make it a key site for the...
View ArticleCatalytic oxidation and adsorption of elemental mercury over nanostructured...
A nanostructured CeO2-MnOx catalyst was synthesized by a coprecipitation method and subjected to different calcination temperatures at 773 and 1073 K to understand the surface structure and the thermal...
View ArticleTransformational adaptation: agriculture and climate change
Climate change presents the need and opportunity for what the Stern report called 'major, non-marginal change'. Such transformational adaptation is rapidly emerging as a serious topic in agriculture....
View Article"Fight the towers! Or kiss your car park goodbye": How often do residents...
At around 20 square metres per space and occupying over 30% of the ground area of many cities, car parking is an expected but unnoticed land use - pulling the proverbial devil's trick of "convincing...
View ArticleCity profile Seoul
Seoul is a major global city with a history of over 600 years. Its development trajectory, current status in the world economy, and challenges faced in socio-spatial dynamics present an excellent case...
View Article(In press) CEACAM1 regulates integrin alphallbbeta3-mediated functions in...
Previous studies have implicated that the Ig-ITIM superfamily member, CEACAM1 may regulate integrin function. While CEACAM1 has been demonstrated to play a role as an inhibitory co-receptor of...
View Article(In Press) Making the blood broil: conflicts over imagined rurality in...
A key challenge for planning the peri-urban internationally derives from the ability of land-use change to outstrip the development of new concepts and understandings. There are few places where this...
View ArticlePromises and pitfalls of using social media in public e-procurement: An...
Social Media (SM), in recent years, is emerging as a common platform for low cost information exchange, and has attracted a critical mass of users both at corporate and retail levels. Theoretically, SM...
View ArticleUnderstanding survival sex: young Women, homelessness and intimate relationships
This article seeks to explore gendered experiences of homelessness through an examination of survival sex. Survival sex is usually understood to be the exchange of sex for material support, however,...
View ArticleWine bottle colour and oxidative spoilage: whole bottle light exposure...
Exposure of a Chardonnay wine to light from a mercury vapour lamp under controlled temperature conditions showed that colour enhancement was dependent on bottle colour. The increase in colouration was...
View Article(In Press) Quantitative profiling of polar primary metabolites of two...
This study reports a GC-QqQ-MS method for the quantification of forty-eight primary metabolites from four major classes (sugars, sugar acids, sugar phosphates, and organic acids) which can be applied...
View ArticleResiliency of cortical neural networks against cascaded failures
Network tools have been extensively applied to study the properties of brain functional and anatomical networks. In this paper, resiliency of Caenorhabditis elegans cortical networks against cascaded...
View ArticleThe pharmaceutical industry and natural products: historical status and new...
Owing to the high diversity of terrestrial and marine organisms, natural products (secondary metabolites) are some of the most successful source of drug leads for the treatment of many diseases and...
View ArticleAltering the playing field: The U.S. redefinition of the use-of-force
This article will interrogate the degree to which the Obama administration has continued, even at times inadvertently, the Bush administration's challenge on international law. Notwithstanding the...
View ArticleDesign of fiber metamaterials with negative refractive index in the infrared
Metamaterials possess intricate, sub-wavelength microstructures, making scalability a salient concern in regard to their practicality. Fiber-drawing offers a route to producing large quantities of...
View ArticleDeferred decentralized movement pattern mining for geosensor networks
This article presents an algorithm for decentralized (in-network) data mining of the movement pattern flock among mobile geosensor nodes. The algorithm DDIG (Deferred Decentralized Information Grazing)...
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