Charles Sturt University

Shared Governance for Effective Clinical Education in Medical Radiation Science: A Narrative Review

ABSTRACT Medical radiation science (MRS) education operates within a rapidly evolving healthcare environment characterised by technological advancement, workforce pressures, and increasing regulatory oversight. Effective governance structures are therefore required to ensure that...

Frequency of plastic occurrence varies across phylogeny but not ecology in seabirds

Seabirds are especially vulnerable to ingesting plastic pollution. However, we have a limited understanding of which traits might increase their risk of plastic ingestion. Here, we use a dataset of seabird plastic occurrence records (93 281 birds from 240 species) to investigate...

Perceived Physical Health and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Nepali Adults: The Moderating Role of the Components of Hope and Self-Compassion, and Place of Residence

OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether the components of hope (agency and pathways) and self-compassion (self-warmth and self-coldness) moderate the relationship between poorer perceived physical health and depressive symptoms, and whether these moderating effects are conditiona...

FAHRNet: Frequency-Aware Hybrid Refocusing Network for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution

High-resolution remote sensing imagery is essential for land-cover analysis, urban monitoring, environmental observation, and disaster-response mapping, yet its acquisition is constrained by sensor resolution, cost, atmospheric effects, and revisit frequency. This paper proposes...

Conceptualizing algorithmic inequality and future agenda. An annual review of information science and technology (ARIST) paper

Abstract The issue of inequality caused by algorithms, termed ‘algorithmic inequality’, has recently attracted scholarly attention in many disciplines due to its profound implications for society. While the body of literature on algorithmic inequality has grown, there remains a l...

Serum osteocalcin is associated with scintigraphic abnormalities in lame and clinically sound racehorses

BACKGROUND: Musculoskeletal injury is a major welfare and economic challenge in racehorses, with stress-related bone injury contributing to training interruption and catastrophic failure. Advanced imaging modalities can detect early skeletal pathology but remain limited in routin...

Underground Signals: The Ecological Power of Root Volatiles

Root volatiles mediate diverse belowground interactions among plants, microbes, and invertebrates, but biological and environmental conditions strongly influence their production, movement, perception, and ecological effects. This review synthesizes current knowledge through an i...

Nature-Based Interventions in Practice: A Scoping Review of Social Work Literature

Abstract Research on the health and well-being benefits of human–nature relationships is gaining prominence across interdisciplinary fields. This article reports on a study aimed to systematically examine how nature-based interventions are conceptualised, theorised, and applied w...

SCAFFOLD-Enhanced Federated Edge Intelligence for Urban Traffic Signal Optimisation under Non-IID Mobility Conditions

This archive contains the complete reproducibility package and supplementary data for the research manuscript titled "SCAFFOLD-Enhanced Federated Edge Intelligence for Urban Traffic Signal Optimisation under Non-IID Mobility Conditions". This package provides all necessary config...

Institutional realism in media culture: How disability journalism education reveals structural limits of cultural change

Media institutions systematically exclude disability perspectives despite decades of advocacy and educational intervention. This article examines why cultural transformation efforts fail to penetrate professional media practice, extending Mark Fisher’s concept of ‘capitalist real...

Internalized Heterosexism and Depressive Symptoms Among Bisexual and Pansexual Women: The Mediating Role of Belonging to the LGBTQA+ Community

Few studies have examined differences in minority stress processes between women with varying bi+ identities. This study explored whether there were differences in internalized heterosexism, belonging to the LGBTQA+ community, and depressive symptoms between bisexual and pansexua...

Heads or tails: selective body part feeding by scavengers across species and season

Abstract Many wild species regulate their nutritional intake and respond dynamically to nutritional stressors, yet little is known about the targeted feeding behaviours of carnivorous scavengers—specifically, which body parts they consume. Using camera traps to monitor 40 experim...

Factors associated with childhood undernutrition in Bangladesh: a scoping review with implications for modeling

Abstract Background Childhood undernutrition remains highly prevalent in low- and middle-income countries and continues to be a major public health concern, contributing to increased morbidity, mortality, and impaired cognitive development. Although many studies have examined fac...

From FAT to value: building competence through fairness, accountability and transparency for sustainable business

Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate how core characteristics of artificial intelligence (AI), including fairness, accountability and transparency (FAT), contribute to sustainable business value creation. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected through a su...

Health workforce retention in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in high-income countries: a rapid realist review

It is vital to reduce avoidable turnover and optimise retention of healthcare staff in Australian remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health services. However, evidence informing the implementation of retention interventions is limited as existing literature inadequately...

Betel nut sucking is the earliest recorded evidence for the habitual use of a neuroactive plant drug

The modern custom of chewing betel nuts is practiced by around 1 in 10 people worldwide, yet the earliest beginnings of this widespread drug use habit are unknown. We report rare skeletal remains of two preagricultural foragers from Sulawesi (Indonesia), both displaying a dental...

Assessing organisational commitment and readiness through the DANMM project: a mixed-methods study

Background Low representation and retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nurses and midwives remain a persistent challenge for Australian health systems, constraining delivery of culturally safe, person-centred care. Building and sustaining this workforce is essential...

Reconsidering self-efficacy in contemporary early childhood education: The aesthetic self – A portrait of Priscilla

This article argues that centralising aesthetics can strengthen early childhood teacher self-efficacy by reframing aesthetic sensibility as a lived capacity rather than a domain-specific skill. While aesthetic approaches have long been associated with early childhood education, t...

Relationship between data bias and model fairness in machine learning

Ensuring fairness in machine learning (ML) applications remains a critical challenge, particularly in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, finance, and criminal justice. Bias in training data is widely considered a key driver of unfair outcomes. However, the relationship betwe...

Integrated crop residue return, film mulching, and irrigation enhance climate resilience of maize production and soil carbon storage in cold regions

Climate change is expected to intensify changes in soil freeze–thaw processes, thereby affecting water availability and agricultural productivity. However, the mechanistic links among climate-induced changes in seasonal freeze–thaw conditions, maize productivity, and soil organic...