Australian National University

A New Scale of Function Spaces Characterizing Homogeneous Besov Spaces

Abstract We introduce and study a new scale of function spaces that characterize the homogeneous Besov spaces $$\dot{\text {B}}^{\beta }_{p,q}$$ B ˙ p , q β , hence completing earlier work by Ullrich. These new spaces include the ones introduced by Barton and Mayboroda, and syste...

When opposition leaders speak: personalisation and question time in Australia

Question Time is a highly visible and adversarial parliamentary arena central to executive accountability, yet increasing personalisation may redirect scrutiny from collective party actors to individual leaders. This article analyses personalisation in Australian Question Time us...

Equatorial Indian Ocean productivity over the last 200,000 years and links to deep circulation variations

Ocean circulation plays a key role in regulating atmospheric carbon dioxide levels during Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles. However, spatial responses of the oceans remain poorly constrained because reliable records from important carbon exchange regions, such as the equat...

Snow Avalanche Characteristics Along Milford Road, Aotearoa New Zealand, Using Distributed Acoustic Sensing

Abstract We repurposed an unlit (“dark”) telecommunication fiber cable running along the Milford Road in Fiordland, Aotearoa New Zealand, into a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) array to monitor snow avalanches during the 2024 austral winter and spring season. Using DAS data, w...

Regime Shifts and Transformations in Social-Ecological Systems: Advancing Critical Frontiers for Safe and Just Futures

Current research challenges in sustainability science require us to consider nonlinear changes—shifts that do not happen gradually but can be sudden and difficult to predict. Central questions are therefore how we can prevent harmful shifts, promote desirable ones, and better ant...

Short- and long-term influences on voting: the case of the 2025 Australian election

The 2025 Australian federal election, although widely expected to result in a hung parliament, was a resounding win for the Australian Labor Party. What explained this result? Was the election result driven by long-term shifts in Australian electoral behaviour, by short-term camp...

Land degradation decision trigger points to minimise soil erosion in rangelands

Predicting when vegetation cover (the sum of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation) drops below soil erosion protection thresholds is vital for reducing land degradation. This study developed a potential for land degradation (PoLD) framework to identify decision-trigge...

A tale of two realities: how do policymakers and general practitioners perceive the performance of primary health networks in Australia

BACKGROUND: As the major regional primary health care (PHC) organisations in Australia, Primary Health Networks (PHNs) are expected to coordinate health care for patients and respond to local health needs. To evaluate their success, it is important to examine both policy practiti...

Breast cancer metabolism and responsiveness to dichloroacetate: relationships with 15N and 13C natural abundance

Abstract Background Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of breast cancer (BrCa), with alterations in glycolysis, glutamine metabolism, and the urea cycle contributing to tumour progression. Dichloroacetate (DCA), a pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (PDK) inhibitor, shifts metabolis...

Chicken Nation: Permissibility, Power, and the Social Life of Meat in India

This article examines the cultural and political significance of chicken in contemporary India, situating its circulation within histories of caste hierarchy, religious distinction, and majoritarian politics. While scholarship has foregrounded beef as a site of prohibition and pu...

Climate adaptation as evolvability

Abstract Standard approaches to climate adaptation, commonly understood as the protection of infrastructure, social systems, and ecosystems from adverse climate impacts, are too closely tied to the biological concept of adaptation and the ecological notion of stability . Instead,...

A governance and management framework for addressing modern slavery risk in multi-tier supply chains

Abstract Better governance of modern slavery risk represents a key challenge that needs to be addressed if sustainability in global supply chains is to be realised in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8.7. This conceptual paper develops and presents a multidim...

Ala viridis sublimis : on butterflies, budgies and bicontinuous greens

Abstract Green structural colour associated with bicontinuous photonic nano structures occurs in both butterflies (Lycaenidae, Papilionidae) and birds (Chloropseidae leafbirds, Psittaculidae parrots). In butterflies and leafbirds, porous chitin or keratin single gyroids reflect g...

Twenty years of the EPINET database

Abstract The EPINET project (Euclidean Patterns In Non-Euclidean Tilings) catalogues crystalline frameworks (three-periodic nets) generated from tilings of triply periodic minimal surfaces. These nets have a broad distribution of structural motifs that are of potential interest t...

Mapping structural heterogeneity in three-dimensional biophotonic gyroid networks using position-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering

Abstract The wings of select Papilionid and Lycaenid butterflies contain a three-dimensional gyroid network of a solid cuticle phase in air. In butterfly scales, gyroid networks are optically interesting, as they create the green colour observed in the wings of these butterflies....

The chiral gyrating H’-T surface family: construction from the dual qtz – qzd nets and existence proof using a toroidal Weierstrass method

Abstract This paper provides an existence proof for a one-parameter family of chiral unbalanced triply periodic minimal surfaces of genus four. We name these gyrating H’-T surfaces because they are related to Schoen’s H’-T surfaces in a similar way as the gyroid is to the primiti...

Demographic and psychosocial factors associated with adjustment and reintegration to civilian life: a prospective and cross-sectional analysis of transitioning and ex-serving military personnel

The prevalence of reintegration and adjustment difficulties among military veterans transitioning to civilian life is high, with maladjustment linked to poor mental health and increased suicide risk. Identifying factors predictive of adjustment may inform the development of preve...

Circles of Confidence for Multi‐Label Geometry Completion

Abstract Inside–outside classification is widely used for geometry processing tasks such as surface reconstruction, geometry completion, and calculating signed distance fields. We introduce a new integral formulation of this problem, which assigns confidence scores that points ar...

Migrant Settlement Work as Anti-Violence Work: How Intersectionality in Policy Is Not Reflected in Practice

Migrant women experiencing domestic and family violence (DFV) often struggle to access government funded supports. This article draws on in-depth interviews with migrant services workers in Australia to examine how this occurs, despite Australia’s policy framework adopting an int...

Early Exclusive Enteral Feeding in Preterm Infants: A Meta-Analysis

CONTEXT Early exclusive enteral feeding (EEF) in preterm infants may provide advantages such as improved nutritional delivery, reduced need for intravenous fluids (IVF), and lower health care costs. However, concerns persist regarding adverse outcomes, particularly necrotizing en...