Swinburne University of Technology

Recruitment of Aα/Aβ fibers during tonic electrical, optogenetic and combined stimulation in the mouse sciatic nerve

Abstract Background Neuromodulation of peripheral nerves via implanted devices produces relief from chronic pain in some patients, but rarely fully eliminates pain. Electrical stimulation lacks selectivity (e.g., between afferent and efferent fibers) to activate only the target A...

Adaptive Execution Timing for Offline First Quorum Coordination in LoRa Mesh Networks

Emergency, remote, and infrastructure-constrained environments cannot always rely on cellular networks or continuous Internet connectivity. LoRa offers an alternative for direct, long-range communication between low-power devices without depending on nearby cellular infrastructur...

Robust model-free DC-bus voltage regulation for stand-alone solar-powered electric vehicle charging stations with experimental laboratory verification

This paper proposed an ultra-local model free control (ULM) strategy for robust DC bus voltage regulation in a stand-alone solar powered electric vehicle charging station. In this study, the system under consideration consists of a photovoltaic (PV) generator interfaced via a max...

Understanding persistent groundwater degradation in coastal communities through a participatory socio-hydrological framework

Groundwater is the lifeline for coastal rural communities in southern India, but it faces severe threats from complex interactions among hydrogeological processes, human behaviour and governance responses. This study adopts a socio-hydrological perspective to diagnose groundwater...

The burden of anger among antipodean cyclists: What situations contribute the most to cycling anger?

Despite the numerous benefits of cycling, participation in Australia and New Zealand is not increasing proportional to population growth. Anger among cyclists contributes to both unsafe behaviour on the road and reduced cycling participation. Although the Cycling Anger Scale (CAS...

Antibiotic-Loaded Porous Titanium Antibacterial Particle Coatings by High-Velocity Embedment into Silicone

Abstract Effective antimicrobial biomaterial surfaces are clinically beneficial as they can prevent infections caused by pathogens that are introduced during surgical procedures. Moreover, they can be advantageous for the long-term performance of medical devices. In the current s...

Guidelines for Meta‐Analytic Structural Equation Modeling: Steps, Resources, and Illustrations

ABSTRACT The goal of science is to build incremental, structured, and reliable knowledge over time. Yet, many strands of marketing and related disciplines exhibit symptoms of cumulative stagnation, including lack of replicability and weak theoretical integration. Existing remedie...

Peer mentoring of international students: enhancing transition and engagement in postgraduate education

Purpose International students in Australian tertiary education often face significant challenges during their first semester. This study examines the impact of a peer mentoring program designed to support international postgraduate students' transition, engagement, and academic...

In Situ TEM Study of the Size-Dependent Solubility of Metals in Liquid Metal Nanodroplets

Abstract Characterizing metal solubilities in post-transition-based liquid metals remains challenging due to their inherent opacity to conventional light-based analytical techniques. In this work, we present an in situ heating methodology within a transmission electron microscope...

Time-Correlated Profile Variability in the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array

Abstract Long-term pulse-profile variability has emerged as a potentially important source of uncertainty for high-precision pulsar timing, as changes in the integrated pulse shape can bias pulse times of arrival and affect the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays to nanohertz gra...

Gastronomy as an engaging form of creative tourism enhanced by co-creation and nostalgia

Gastronomic encounters increasingly function as creative tourism experiences in which participation and nostalgia shape how tourists feel, think, and act toward a destination. This study examines the role of creative tourist experiences, gastro-nostalgia, and co-creation intentio...

The Identity Stabilization Hypothesis: Recursive Identity Stabilization Encoding as a Clinical Model of Enacted Identity Updatin

RISE Clinical Process ArchitecturePredictive-processing and active-inference accounts increasingly conceptualize selfhood and narrative identity as components of generative models through which individuals anticipate, interpret, and act upon their environments. These approaches p...

The Identity Stabilization Hypothesis: Recursive Identity Stabilization Encoding as a Clinical Model of Enacted Identity Updatin

RISE Clinical Process ArchitecturePredictive-processing and active-inference accounts increasingly conceptualize selfhood and narrative identity as components of generative models through which individuals anticipate, interpret, and act upon their environments. These approaches p...

Building Better Environments: A Baker’s Dozen of Methodologies for Configuring and Selecting Emulation Environments in EAASI

Abstract Emulation-as-a-Service Infrastructure (EAASI) is a digital preservation framework that enables users to configure and interact with emulated computing environments through a web browser. In the last decade, EAASI has been deployed in North America and Australia, demonstr...

Social Enterprises as Agents of Change: Business Model Configurations in Waste Management in Indonesia

ABSTRACT Waste management remains a persistent sustainability challenge in Indonesia, where community‐based and policy‐led interventions often underperform due to organisational, relational and capacity constraints. Despite growing interest in circular economy ( CE ) approaches,...

Efficient distinctiveness maximization in datasets assemblage: from homogeneous to heterogeneous datasets

Abstract We study the distinctiveness maximization problem for datasets assemblage: assembling a set of datasets from a repository that satisfies a user-specified target schema and query set under a budget constraint, while maximizing the number of distinct tuples. This problem i...

Auxetic tubes to internal loading: Experiments and analytical modelling

A tube is a common structural component for energy absorption and structural protection against loads, such as pressure vessels in engineering. Auxetic design may improve the performance of tubes in this regard. Little research has been conducted on the responses of auxetic tubes...

Global airport connectivity and resilience: a data-driven approach and inverse-U relationship, 1996–2024

This study analyzes the long-run evolution of global airport connectivity from 1996 to 2024 and examines how resilience to major shocks varies across the connectivity distribution. Using an extended Global Airport Connectivity Index (GACI) panel covering 101,049 airport–year obse...

Artificial intelligence-based preservation of architectural cultural heritage: a review, current trends and new perspective

Architectural cultural heritage faces persistent threats from natural weathering and human activities. While artificial intelligence (AI) has seen growing adoption and research in this field, a systematic review integrating quantitative and qualitative perspectives remains lackin...

Little Red Dots host Black Hole Stars: A unified family of gas-reddened AGN revealed by JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

Abstract We construct and characterise a sample of 146 little red dots (LRDs) across 2.0 < z < 9.3, selecting all sources with v-shaped UV-optical continua from JWST NIRSpec/PRISM spectra and compact morphologies in NIRCam/F444W imaging. We show that LRD continuum spectra are wel...