The University of Melbourne

Broadband absorption of ocean wave energy using a graded array of heaving buoys in three dimensions

The generation of renewable power from ocean waves at a commercial scale requires arrays of wave energy converters (WECs) to be designed for efficient power capture over broad frequency bands and a wide range of incident wave directions. Here, array designs are developed in a thr...

Diversity and Plasticity of Hydraulic Traits Across a Relative Moisture Supply Gradient: Results From Multiple Common Gardens

ABSTRACT Maintaining cellular hydration is essential for plant metabolic activity and carbon gain. Plants typically maintain hydration through efficiency of water transport networks, the ability to avoid network disruption, and retention of water via accumulation of osmotica. Giv...

Implementation of a Structured Hot Debrief Tool in a Metropolitan ED : A Quality Improvement Study

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of implementing a structured ‘hot debrief’ tool, and its impact on team effectiveness, staff well‐being and identification of system‐level issues following critical events in two EDs. Methods We conducted a multi‐si...

fishROI: a specialized workflow for semi-automated muscle morphometry analysis in teleosts

Abstract Background Quantitative histological analysis of skeletal muscle morphometry provides critical insights into muscle physiology but remains labor-intensive and technically demanding. While recent developments in machine learning-based image segmentation techniques have fa...

Hard Work: Producing Places, Relations and Value on a Papua New Guinea Resource Frontier

Hard Work, Tuomas Tammisto’s critical account of the Mengen people, is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province over nearly two decades. The resourc...

Exploring Cultural and Individual Differences in the Hierarchy of Moral Concern: Evidence From Student Samples Across 41 Cultural Groups

ABSTRACT Many important historical and contemporary ethical debates (e.g., on slavery, abortion and environmental protection) reflect disagreements about what we owe to different groups of individuals. Recent work in moral psychology has uncovered a seemingly replicable hierarchy...

The Transition of Youth With Diabetes From Pediatric to Adult Diabetes Care Services: A Consensus Report of the Joint Working Group of the International Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD), the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD), and the American Diabetes Association (ADA)

Young adulthood is a period of significant and unique physiological, psychological, sexual, and social upheaval. Related challenges can have an impact on effective diabetes self-management, with high rates of unplanned health care use recorded for many, and consequent increases i...

Trauma-informed care in Australian inpatient eating disorder guidelines: a systematic review and thematic analysis

Abstract Background There are high rates of trauma among those with eating disorders, which affects both eating disorder severity and treatment outcomes. Inpatient treatment also has the potential to be a source of initial trauma (treatment-related trauma) or to re-traumatise pat...

A robust forward-chain approach for ex-post and ex-ante seasonal river water-quality forecasting using remote sensing and hydroclimate forecast datasets

Understanding pollution dynamics in urban riverine ecosystems is essential for effective water-quality management and ecological sustainability. However, reliable seasonal forecasting remains challenging due to sparse observations and uncertainty in hydrometeorological drivers. T...

“Broken and Repair” case studies: Developing GenAI-age critical evaluation and creative problem-solving skills in communication education

Communication education increasingly requires students to work across two linked capabilities: critically evaluating professional communication materials and using generative AI (GenAI) with judgment, transparency, and ethical care. This article presents a “Broken and Repair” cas...

The National Health and Medical Research Council Research Impact Indicators: Unveiling Omissions and Blind Spots, and Positioning for Change

ABSTRACT Issue Addressed This study assesses how the concept of (health) research impact has been operationalised in National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Impact Case Studies, and if and how lived experience research priorities have been considered, to ascertain im...

Sex & Gender Science: integrating the social with the biological

Abstract For decades, researchers have largely studied aspects of sex and gender separately; the former as a basic science and the latter as a social construct with real world consequences, including health inequities. In recent years, as our collective understanding of how the b...

dcHiChIP: A comprehensive Nextflow-based pipeline for multiscale analysis of chromatin architecture from HiChIP data

Abstract Motivation Despite the growing use of HiChIP to investigate protein-directed chromatin architecture, a comprehensive and reproducible pipeline for analyzing these datasets-from raw reads to multiscale 3D genome features-remains lacking. Existing tools often focus on isol...

The Development of Non‐Tuberculosis Mycobacterial Infections in Sézary Syndrome: A Case Report of Two Patients

ABSTRACT Sézary syndrome (SS) is a rare cutaneous T‐cell lymphoma associated with increased risks of opportunistic and atypical infections. This report presents two patients with SS and concurrent non‐tuberculosis mycobacterial cutaneous infections. Although rare, difficult to di...

A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis to determine the effect of primaquine dose on efficacy, tolerability and safety in uncomplicated Plasmodium vivax malaria in Latin America

Background Primaquine is widely used to prevent relapses of Plasmodium vivax malaria, but the optimal dose in Latin America is unknown. We undertook a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy, tolerability and safety of different pri...

On the Poisson-source basis of logarithmic wall-pressure-variance growth

In high-Reynolds-number wall-bounded flows, the inner-scaled wall-pressure variance is often represented as a logarithmic increase with frictional Reynolds number. We consider the two sources of the incompressible pressure–Poisson equation: a linear (rapid) term linked to mean sh...

A Mathematical Theory of Correct Computation

In 1970, Dana Scott proposed his highly influential “mathematical theory of computation” to define the relationship between the text of a program and what the program computes (or denotes)—the “semantics” of the program. Scott used a complete lattice based on the “information ord...

Trajectory of macrotroponin in a community cohort

BACKGROUND: Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is a biomarker for myocardial injury. However, macrotroponin, a complex of cTnI and endogenous cardiac troponin autoantibodies, may artefactually elevate cTnI levels with potential to mislead clinicians, leading to inappropriate investigation...

ANZTCT cytomegalovirus practice survey for allogeneic haemopoietic stem cell transplant and cellular therapy recipients in Australia and New Zealand

BACKGROUND: Despite pre-emptive treatment (PeT), cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease and reactivation remain a clinical concern. In Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), variability exists in the management of CMV for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) recipients. AIMS AND METH...

REE-depleted anatectic marble reveals the primary source of crustal carbonatites

Crustal-derived carbonatitic melts are increasingly recognised in high-grade terrains, but their residual source rocks remain largely unexplored. As a result, the crustal origin of carbonatites is generally constrained from geochemical signatures of the crystallised melts without...