Macquarie University

Unilateral Hearing Loss: Listening Ability, Social Participation and Adaptive Strategies to Challenges in the Real World

Background: Unilateral hearing loss (UHL) is associated with speech-in-noise difficulties, impaired spatial hearing, and reduced social participation, yet conventional audiological assessments may not capture these real-world consequences. This study characterised the multidimens...

Level IA Nodal Involvement in Parotid Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma

ABSTRACT Background The frequency of Level IA metastasis in advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) remains undefined yet determines the oncological safety of submental island flap (SIF) reconstruction. Methods A retrospective cohort study was performed on 131 adults wh...

Time as a cue for human hunger

Many people eat at around the same times each day. This may result in meal times becoming predictive of eating's potential to be rewarding at that time (i.e., hunger). Time as a predictor of food reward has received much attention in animals but less in humans, even though many p...

Physical fatigue increases shipboard firefighting simulation completion time and perceived workload

Firefighting involves physically demanding tasks performed under high heat and time pressure. While previous research reports the physical load involved, the extent to which physical fatigue impedes firefighting performance, especially in shipboard environments remains underexplo...

Estuarine benthic diversity declines with temperature across a tropical–temperate gradient

Estuarine benthic sediments are important habitats that support ecosystem health and productivity, but the drivers of large‐scale patterns in benthic diversity are not well documented. Using 18S amplicon sequencing of 425 sediment DNA samples from estuaries spanning 20° of latitu...

Markets of multilingual work: a chronological analysis of financial remuneration for community translation and interpreting

Multilingualism is increasingly seen as a skill, yet little is known about the actual trade of financial remuneration for language in jobs requiring language skills. This article examines the market value of community translation and interpreting, a multilingual service provided...

A Double‐Blind Randomised Controlled Crossover Trial of the Effect of Blue‐Enriched Ambient Light on Sleep in Older Adults With Sleep Disturbance: The CleverLights Study

ABSTRACT Light interventions have been investigated for treating sleep disturbances in older adults; however, findings are mixed. This proof‐of‐concept trial investigated the effect of blue‐enriched ambient light on electroencephalographic (EEG) sleep in older adults with self‐re...

Firm‐Level Climate Risk and Stock Price Crash: Does Investor Attention or Sentiment Matter?

ABSTRACT This study moves beyond traditional crash‐risk channels focused on managerial bad‐news hoarding to examine how firm‐level climate risk translates into stock price crashes through investor behaviour. Using a novel text‐based measure of climate exposure extracted from earn...

Process measures developed for the routine monitoring of low-value care with electronic health data: A scoping review

Background Low-value care (LVC) are medical services where the potential harms or costs outweigh expected clinical benefits. Despite growing adherence to initiatives such as Choosing Wisely, approaches to routinely monitor and reduce LVC across healthcare systems remain limited....

MENAP: multimodal efficiency-constrained news-augmented asset pricing via cost-aware preference optimization

Abstract Multimodal financial signals spanning textual news, market/macro factors, and auxiliary metadata—offer complementary views of investor attention and risk, but exploiting them at scale increasingly relies on large language model (LLM) agents whose multi-step reasoning and...

Early Retinal UCHL1 Dysregulation Coupled With Synaptic Loss Reflects Alzheimer's Disease Severity

ABSTRACT Synaptic dysfunction is a major driver of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (AD), yet its extent and molecular basis in the retina remain poorly defined. We integrated postmortem retinal and matched brain histopathology with ultrastructural, proteomic, biochemical...

Shared book reading and the home literacy environment: a worldwide study using Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Abstract We investigated the impact of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program that distributes age-appropriate books monthly to children from birth to age five, on the home literacy environment (HLE). Caregivers enrolled in the program in the United States, Australia, Cana...

Science and the Common Good: Reconceptualising the Relationship

Abstract Science routinely appeals to the idea of serving the common good, at least in part to justify public funding. Yet, there is growing recognition that current research structures and incentives impede the fulfilment of this ideal. This paper argues that this shortfall stem...

Lower Cambrian carbonate microfacies and depositional environments on Yorke Peninsula, western Stansbury Basin, South Australia

The western Stansbury Basin is a largely subsurface early–middle Cambrian sedimentary succession centred on Yorke Peninsula, South Australia. The oldest carbonate units include the pervasively dolomitised Kulpara Formation, and the unconformably overlying nodular and bioclastic P...

Conserving Australian lizards and snakes: an update on progress since 2017

The Action Plan for Australian Lizards and Snakes 2017 summarised results from the first comprehensive assessment of the Australian squamate fauna by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), updating a more precursory assessment in 1993. This review outlines the...

Legitimacy Signals and Investor Protections: Top-Tier Law Firms in Global Venture Capital Investments

Venture capital (VC) transactions are impeded by two frictions: entrepreneurs cannot credibly signal quality to investors, and investors cannot fully protect themselves against governance risks in incomplete–contract relationships. We argue that top-tier law firms address both fr...

Development of national consensus-based recommendations for history taking, examination and clinical management of infants in chiropractic practice

Abstract Background Chiropractors in many countries provide care for infants, yet few structured, evidence-informed recommendations exist to guide history taking, examination, and clinical management in this population. In Denmark, variation in practice and limited public underst...

Stable autoregressive modelling of supercontinuum generation: A 1D-RWKV surrogate model with physical constraints

Supercontinuum generation (SCG) plays an important role in various ultrafast optical applications, but modelling this phenomenon using the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (GNLSE) via standard numerical methods is extremely time-consuming and computationally demanding....

Using Machine Learning to Predict Corporate Environmental Violation: A Stakeholder Pressure Perspective

ABSTRACT Predicting corporate environmental violations remains a key challenge in practice and in environmental governance research. However, existing studies have largely focused on ex post associations between stakeholder pressures and realized environmental violations, offerin...

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,...