Macquarie University

Protein Self-Assembly as a Design Principle for Enzyme Immobilisation in Biocatalysis

Enzyme immobilisation is essential for translating biocatalytic processes from the laboratory to industrial applications by improving enzyme stability, recovery, and reuse. It underpins sustainable processes in pharmaceuticals, biofuels, and food production, but conventional immo...

Visualizing, modeling and forecasting age distribution of fertility

The study of fertility differences has often focused on average fertility levels, such as age-specific fertility rates, while neglecting the age distribution of fertility. We introduce three novel summary statistics to analyze fertility distributions: we identify the modal age of...

Data-driven Modeling of Telluric Features and Stellar Variability with StellarSpectraObservationFitting.jl

Abstract A significant barrier to achieving the radial velocity (RV) measurement accuracy and precision required to characterize terrestrial mass exoplanets is the existence of time-variable features in the measured spectra, from both telluric absorption and stellar variability,...

EMU detection of mysterious multiple component radio-continuum emission from nearby spiral Seyfert I type galaxy ‘Sand-timer’ (NGC 7213)

We present an Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU) radio-continuum detection of the nearby spiral Seyfert I type galaxy NGC 7213 which we nickname ‘sand-timer’ due to its morphological appearance. We find an intriguing and pe...

Clinical Outcome Differences in Asia Versus Non-Asia Intracerebral Hemorrhage: IPD Analysis From BP-Lowering Clinical Trials

BACKGROUND: Evidence of regional differences in clinical outcomes after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is still scarce. We quantified differential outcomes and response to early intensive blood pressure lowering treatment by region in the Blood pressure in Acute Stroke Collaborat...

A framework for cost‐effective scalable revegetation planning: Experimental evidence of early establishment using native grass species

Abstract To ensure the effective allocation of funding, revegetation projects require transparent and integrated evaluations of costs and benefits. Yet, these elements are commonly omitted or reported separately, leaving stakeholders with an incomplete picture of the resourcing r...

Multiple strategies and cues define baleen whale migration

Migration is a do-or-die life-history strategy, yet factors shaping it remain poorly studied in many marine taxa, as direct observations are difficult. Building on animal migration theory, we used satellite tracking data from 21 southern right whales tagged in Aotearoa New Zealan...

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...

Architectures of Impunity: A Critical Indigenous Feminist Analysis of the Epstein Archive

This article develops a critical Indigenous feminist account of elite sexual violence as structural rather than exceptional, using the Jeffrey Epstein case as a point of departure. The “Epstein archive” refers to the expanding body of legal records, government disclosures, invest...

The honey bee stinger: An unusual pump with collapsible double pistons

Most stinging animals deliver venom by contracting muscles around a venom reservoir, but honey bees employ a fundamentally different strategy. The stingers of worker bees have the unique ability to autotomize, separating from the body, to continue to sting independently. Despite...

What Is Observed in Peer Review of Teaching? Quality Standards for Summative Peer Review of Teaching

Peer review of teaching is a relatively recent addition to the quality assurance processes of higher education. Formative peer review has a developmental focus, while summative peer review has an evaluative focus, making judgements against standards. These standards are at the co...

Factors Influencing Statutory Duty of Candor Implementation in Victoria, Australia

BACKGROUND: Globally, candor-type legislations, which encourage transparency following a serious adverse patient safety event (SAPSE), exist in various countries, or jurisdictions within them, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Ireland, and Australia. However, an evid...

Free Mucosal Grafting Is a Simple Adjunct for Rapid Re‐Epithelization in Septal Perforation Repair

ABSTRACT Objective Mucosal grafting has become more established in rhinology. While it is accepted that free mucosal grafts take to bone and vascularized recipient beds, the use of mucosal grafting on the contralateral side during nasal septal perforation (NSP) repair with vascul...

Leaning left: how turn bias and habitat complexity shape spatial cognition in a coral-reef fish

Abstract In coral reef ecosystems, anthropogenic change is rapidly altering habitat structure, but the consequences for fish cognition remain poorly understood. We tested whether structural habitat complexity influences spatial learning and strategy use in the humbug damselfish (...

Lacunary δ‐Discretized Spherical Maximal Operators

ABSTRACT We study the lacunary analog of the ‐discretized spherical maximal operators introduced by Hickman and Jančar, for , and establish the boundedness on for all , along with the endpoint weak‐type estimate . We also prove the corresponding boundedness for the multi‐paramete...

A fast radio burst at redshift 2, three billion years after the Big Bang

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients from extragalactic sources. Their frequency and polarization properties are affected by plasma and magnetic fields along the line of sight to Earth. We report radio observations of FRB 20240304B and near-infrared...

Co-creating and testing a bibliotherapy e-storybook for children coping with parental complex post-traumatic stress disorder

The e-storybook was perceived as a useful bibliotherapy tool to support child and family outcomes and to facilitate meaningful conversations about family experiences.

Listen to Your Heart and Mind: A Pilot Mixed‐Methods Study on Combined Screening for Raised Blood Pressure, Atrial Fibrillation, Cognitive Impairment and Hearing Loss in Older Adults

ABSTRACT Objective To determine the potential feasibility and acceptability of combined screening for raised blood pressure (BP), atrial fibrillation (AF) and cognitive impairment (CI) in older adults within a setting of hearing health assessment for detection of hearing loss. Me...

Auditory- and Visual-Speech Evoked Activation of the Superior Temporal Gyrus Contralateral to the Cochlear Implant Predicts Speech Recognition Outcomes

Objectives: Speech recognition outcomes vary widely in cochlear implant recipients, but the reasons for this variability are not well explained by patient history factors alone. Neuroplastic reorganization after both deafness and cochlear implant switch-on can affect how new reci...

Scanning and active sampling behaviours emerge from conserved insect neural circuits

Navigating insects often pause and rotate to sample their surroundings, behaviours termed scanning. These and other active sampling behaviours embody navigational uncertainty and are key for spatial learning, yet their neural basis remains unclear and existing models impose scann...