"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 ArticleThe second industrial transformation of Australian landscapes
European colonization precipitated the first industrial transformation of Australian landscapes. We review the evolution of the environmental and societal setting of Australian landscapes since this...
View ArticleHigh energy density metal-air batteries: A review
In the last few decades, there are some exciting developments in the field of lithium (Li)-ion batteries from small portable devices to large power system such as electric vehicles (EVs). However, the...
View ArticleClimate change through the farming systems lens: challenges and opportunities...
Adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in Australian agriculture has included research at the plant, animal, and soil level; the farming system level; and the community and landscape level....
View Article(In Press) Urban growth boundaries and betterment: rent-seeking by landowners...
Melbourne's Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) was legislated in 2002 and expanded substantially in 2010. Although based on strategic planning goals, UGBs have the capacity to influence land and housing...
View ArticleThe role of characteristics of 'upper echelons' and demographics of...
The Australian government's XBRL-derived reporting facility called Standard Business Reporting (SBR) went 'live' to listed companies in 2010. This paper investigates the demographic factors of both the...
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 ArticleMetabolomics of capsicum ripening reveals modification of the ethylene...
Capsicum (Capsicum annuum L. cv. Aries) is a non-climacteric bell-pepper fruit, exhibiting limited ethylene and respiration levels during ripening. In contrast to climacteric fruit, such as tomato...
View ArticleComputational fracture modelling in bioceramic structures
Bioceramics have rapidly emerged as one of major biomaterials in modern biomedical applications because of its outstanding biocompatibility. However, one drawback is its low tensile strength and...
View ArticleLipid profile remodeling in response to nitrogen deprivation in the...
Many species of microalgae produce greatly enhanced amounts of triacylglycerides (TAGs), the key product for biodiesel production, in response to specific environmental stresses. Improvement of TAG...
View ArticleDesign optimization of scaffold microstructures using wall shear stress...
Tissue scaffolds aim to provide a cell-friendly biomechanical environment for facilitating cell growth. Existing studies have shown significant demands for generating a certain level of wall shear...
View ArticleEfficient, decentralized computation of the topology of spatial regions
The capability to query the topology of spatial regions is fundamental to today's centralized spatial computing systems, like spatial databases and GIS. By contrast, this paper explores decentralized...
View ArticleMicrostructure design of biodegradable scaffold and its effect on tissue...
Biodegradable scaffolds play a critical role in therapeutic tissue engineering, in which the matrix degradation and tissue ingrowth are of particular importance for determining the ongoing performance...
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 ArticleSelf-imaging of plasmonic void arrays
A plasmonic device is proposed to produce a self-imaging surface plasmon void array (2D surface bottle beam array) by the interference of two nondiffracting surface beams, namely, cosine-Gauss beams....
View ArticleThe role of light, temperature and wine bottle colour on pigment enhancement...
Pigmentation enhancement in a Chardonnay wine with high flavan-3-ol concentration was examined by irradiating the wine under controlled conditions. Heating the wine in darkness required temperatures in...
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 ArticleAn early career academic network: What worked and what didn't
This article documents the experiences of three early career academics trying to establish a network of early career academics (ECAs) in a middle-ranked university in Australia. The changing context of...
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 ArticleForeign housing investment in Seoul: Origin of investors and location of...
Foreign housing investment is an outcome of increased mobility in the era of globalisation. The literature has acknowledged the impacts of global migration and capital flows on space. However, an...
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