Climate change adaptation and scenario planning: framing issues and tools
Climate change adaptation means that not only do we have difficult decisions to make, but we also need improved ways of making them. Although not new, scenario planning is one tool increasingly being...
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 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 ArticleBarriers to effective climate change mitigation: the case of senior...
While the case for rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is compelling, actions being taken by most senior decision makers (SDMs) in government and business compound the problem. Given the...
View Article(In Press) Discriminating talent-identified junior Australian football...
This study examined if a video decision-making task could discriminate talent-identified junior Australian football players from their non-talent-identified counterparts. Participants were recruited...
View ArticleCulture, language, and knowledge: cultural learning styles for international...
This article reports on a study that attempts to examine the cultural learning styles of international students learning Chinese in China and their engagement in activities associated with linguistic...
View ArticleLaboratory x-ray microscopy on high brilliance sources equipped with waveguides
We report on the experimental realization of propagation-based x-ray microscopy with laboratory sources equipped with waveguides. We discuss about the experimental setup, the fabrication steps, and the...
View ArticleHighly efficient nanosized Mn and Fe codoped ceria-based solid solutions for...
Ceria (CeO2) is a well-known material for various industrial applications due to its unique redox properties. Such properties, dominated by structural defects that are primarily oxygen vacancies...
View ArticlePolarization-dependent thin-film wire-grid reflectarray for terahertz waves
A thin-film polarization-dependent reflectarray based on patterned metallic wire grids is realized at 1 THz. Unlike conventional reflectarrays with resonant elements and a solid metal ground, parallel...
View ArticleMetaphor and the Anthropocene: Presenting Humans as a Geological Force
Intellectually as well as materially, the Anthropocene is a deeply cultural phenomenon. This includes its communicative form, which is a contested trope-rich narrative, even within the sciences. In...
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 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 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 ArticleAtomic view of the histidine environment stabilizing higher-pH conformations...
External stimuli are powerful tools that naturally control protein assemblies and functions. For example, during viral entry and exit changes in pH are known to trigger large protein conformational...
View ArticleIn the Passenger Seat: Investigating comfort measures in autonomous cars
The prospect of driverless cars wide-scale deployment is imminent owing to the advances in robotics, computational power, communications, and sensor technologies. This promises highway fatality...
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 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 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 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...
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