Australia's individualised disability funding packages: when do they provide...
Australia's new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) uses individualised funding packages instead of tradi-tional block-funded disability services to support people with disability. The NDIS...
View Article(In Press) Insights into the IMF bailout debate: a review and research agenda
News reports of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF)activities abound in most countries across the globe yet there is little consensus in the literature as to the effectiveness of the IMF's work.The...
View ArticleMethotrexate inhibits proliferation but not proteoglycan synthesis or...
Objectives: Atherosclerosis is a disease process involving the early deposition of lipids in the vessel wall trapped by modified proteoglycans and subsequently a chronic inflammatory process leading to...
View Article(In Press) Transforming transport planning in the postpolitical era
The aim of this paper is to examine how the postpolitical era of planning has created both binaries and intersections in the reimaging of transport futures and how the latter precipitates a...
View ArticleEmbracing hybridity: A review of social entrepreneurship and enterprise in...
This review of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship scholarship in Australia and New Zealand provides a detailed overview of this hybrid field. It identifies scholars actively researching this...
View ArticleAlkali pretreatment and enzymatic enzymatic hydrolysis of Australian timber...
This study investigated the potential use of alkali pretreatment of sawdust from Australian timber mills to produce bioethanol. Sawdust was treated using 3-10% w/w NaOH at temperatures of 60, 121, and...
View ArticleEarnings management, IPO underpricing and post-issue stock performance of...
This article empirically examines the association between earnings management and initial public offering (IPO) performance (underpricing and post-issue stock performance) of Chinese small and medium...
View ArticlePrecipitation trends in Victoria, Australia
Annual rainfall series trends were investigated for more than 100 years of data using two nonparametric trend tests Mann-Kendall (MK) and Sen's slope (Q) for five selected meteorological stations in...
View ArticleThe effect of paper sludge and biochar addition on brown peat and coir based...
Peatlands are crucial sinks for carbon in the terrestrial ecosystem, but they are jeopardized by their use as fuel or as growing media. Much research has been performed aiming to find high quality and...
View ArticleAcupuncture for seasonal allergic rhinitis: A randomized controlled trial
Background: Seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) is a common condition with relatively high prevalence in Australia. It causes a significant impact on sufferers' quality of life (QoL). Meta-analysis has...
View ArticleStructure, function, pharmacology and therapeutic potential of the G protein,...
G protein coupled receptors are one of the major classes of cell surface receptors and are associated with a group of G proteins consisting of 3 subunits termed alpha, beta and gamma. G proteins are...
View ArticleShort term exendin-4 treatment reduces markers of metabolic disorders in...
Objectives: Maternal obesity imposes significant health risks in the offspring including diabetes and dyslipidemia. We previously showed that the hypoglycaemic agent exendin-4 (Ex-4) administered from...
View ArticleInflammation-induced foam cell formation in chronic inflammatory disease
Atherosclerosis is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease and is both a metabolic and inflammatory disease. Two models describe early events initiating atherosclerotic plaque formation, whereby...
View ArticleUrban climate justice: creating sustainable pathways for humans and other...
Within the current climate of change (environmental, economic and social) what constitutes 'justice' is continually shifting in relation to vulnerable people, places and species. This is most acute in...
View ArticleComparative influence of pH and heat on whey protein isolate in protecting...
Lactobacillus plantarum A17 was encapsulated in a series of matrices of whey protein isolate (WPI) formulated with varying degrees of denaturation induced either by acid or heat treatment prior. Zeta...
View ArticleAssembly, trafficking and function of a1ß2y2 GABA(A) receptors are regulated...
GABAA receptors are pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGIC) that mediate inhibitory fast synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. Consistent with recent pLGIC structures, sequence...
View ArticleSoil residuals and plant uptake of Cu and Zn from biosolids applied to a clay...
A field experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of incorporating anaerobically digested dewatered biosolids (DWB) and composted biosolids (CB) on the availability of the heavy metals Cu and...
View ArticleIonospheric inversion of the Venus Express radio occultation data observed by...
Electron density profiles of the Venus' ionosphere are inverted from the Venus Express (VEX) one-way open-loop radio occultation experiments carried out by Shanghai 25 m antenna from November 2011 to...
View Article(In Press) Improving the law reform process: Opportunities for empirical...
Research on law reform has identified a variety of factors that help or hinder the reform process, but it has not systematically explored the role that empirical research plays and could play in...
View Article(In Press) Which ticker format works best? Effects of updating and scrolling...
This study considers two news ticker formats-the update ticker and the scrolling ticker-to determine the impact of ticker format on memory for news items in the tickers as well as for news program...
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