Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Effects of pre-spawning heat stress on the fecundity of Acropora aspera

<title>Abstract</title> Repeated bleaching events driven by heat stress have caused extensive coral mortality and long-term impairment in survivors. Following bleaching, larval production and recruitment decline, undermining reef recovery. On the Great Barrier Reef, such heat-str...

Identification of living (Rose Bengal)-stained benthic foraminifera using automated image recognition

Abstract. Living and fossil benthic foraminifera are widely used as bioindicators of ecosystem quality, but their analysis is time-consuming. With the help of artificial intelligence, models for the automatic identification of fossil planktonic foraminifera and, more recently, be...

MSSFFE-Net: a fine-grained object recognition network based on multi-scale spatial-frequency domain feature enhancement

The challenge of few-shot fine-grained image classification lies in the scarcity of labeled training samples, which hinders models from learning subtle discriminative patterns. Moreover, most existing methods rely heavily on spatial-domain convolutional operations while overlooki...

Knowledge is power: the importance of subjective knowledgeability for supporting technology adoption in the Australian grain industry

Agriculture 4.0 technologies such as automated machinery, precision farming, and data-driven decision-making can today help farmers manage the challenges of economic instability and climate adaptation. Yet uptake of on-farm technology is often variable, with reported barriers rel...

Initial growth of fires in eucalypt litter, from ignition to quasi-steady-state rate of spread: A.G. McArthur’s field experiments

Background There are currently no operational fire spread models intended for predicting nascent fire spread such as of point ignitions or spotfires in Australia. Aims To determine if previous findings from point ignition experiments in dry eucalypt litter in a combustion wind tu...

Transferrin-Conjugated Polymeric Nanoparticles via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly for Enhanced BBB Transport and Glioblastoma Therapy

Abstract Transferrin-coated nanoparticles show promise in delivering chemotherapeutic drugs across biological barriers for treating glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Employing a synthetic approach integrating advanced chemistries and bespoke in vitro biological assays, we developed...