Schrödinger's microbe: implications of coercing a living organism into a...
Consideration of the experimental activities carried out in one discipline, through the lens of another, can lead to novel insights. Here, we comment from a biological perspective upon experiments in...
View ArticleCharacterization of the phase behaviour of a novel polymerizable lyotropic...
The development of new polymerizable lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs) utilizing charged amphiphilic molecules such as those based on long chain imidazolium compounds, is a relatively new design...
View ArticleBeta-glucan-depleted, glycopeptide-rich extracts from Brewer's and Baker's...
Regulation of the human immune system requires controlled pro- and anti-inflammatory responses for host defence against infection and disease states. Yeasts (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), as used in...
View ArticleAssessing field spectroscopy metadata quality
This paper presents the proposed criteria for measuring the quality and completeness of field spectroscopy metadata in a spectral archive. Definitions for metadata quality and completeness for field...
View Article(In Press) Shear stress mediates exocytosis of functional TRPV4 channels in...
Mechanosensitive ion channels are implicated in the biology of touch, pain, hearing and vascular reactivity; however, the identity of these ion channels and the molecular basis of their activation is...
View ArticleGeneration of catalytically active materials from a liquid metal precursor
A facile route to prepare catalytically active materials from a galinstan liquid metal alloy is introduced. Sonicating liquid galinstan in alkaline solution or treating it in reducing media results in...
View ArticleDual reciprocity boundary element based block model for discontinuous...
This paper presents a further development of the dual reciprocity boundary element method (DRBEM) with stepwise updating to pave the way for the introduction of boundary element mesh into the...
View ArticleElectron injection dynamics at the SILAR deposited CdS quantum Dot/TiO2...
Semiconductor quantum dots with their tunable band gap energies offer new opportunities for controlling photoresponse and photoconversion efficiency of solar cells. Exciton dissociation, charge...
View ArticleA framework for modelling tactical decision-making in autonomous systems
There is an increasing need for autonomous systems that exhibit effective decision-making in unpredictable environments. However, the design of autonomous decision-making systems presents considerable...
View ArticleThe Little Penguin (Eudyptula minor) as an indicator of coastal trace metal...
Monitoring trace metal and metalloid concentrations in marine animals is important for their conservation and could also reliably reflect pollution levels in their marine ecosystems. Concentrations...
View ArticleBenchmark averaging and the measurement of changes in international income...
Using data for 113 countries covering the period 1980-2005 we show how international comparisons of income inequality and the way it changes over time are inherently sensitive to (i) the choice of...
View ArticleA parametric study of the heat flux partitioning model for nucleate boiling...
The dramatic boiling heat transfer performances of nanofluids have been widely attributed to the nanoparticle deposition during the boiling process. The deposited nanoparticles significantly change the...
View ArticleReverberation time estimation from speech signals based on blind room impulse...
A reverberation time (RT) estimation method is presented which consists of three steps, the anechoic speech is first recovered by maximizing the skewness of the linear prediction residual of the...
View Article(In Press) Development of an online LC-LVI-GC × GC system: design and...
The identification of unknown compounds is of fundamental importance for a range of applications in chromatography including, but not limited to, environmental pollution, food/natural product analysis,...
View ArticleSupporting serendipitous social interaction using human mobility prediction
Leveraging the regularities of people's trajectories, mobility prediction can help forecast social interaction opportunities. In this paper, in order to facilitate real-world social interaction, we aim...
View ArticleInvestigation on the looseness of the worm connected to the motor shaft in a...
This article aims at identifying the possible cause of the detachment between a worm and its coupled motor shaft. Investigation includes several characterization techniques such as visual observation,...
View ArticleAssociations between Australian early childhood educators' mental health and...
Early childhood education and care quality relies on educator capacity; however, working conditions may compromise educators' mental health. This study examines associations between family day care...
View Article'food is life': Documenting the politics of food in Melanesia
In this abstract, I discuss two recent examples of women's filmmaking in Melanesia. The documentaries are Tanah Mama (2014), focused on West Papua and Café Niugini (2015), set in Papua New Guinea. Both...
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