The University of Melbourne

Experimental investigation of ship airwake with wave-induced motions

The turbulent airwake over a moving ship is experimentally investigated in a wind-wave facility using a 1:200 scaled NATO-GD model. Three motion scenarios are examined: heaving, pitching, and combined motions, naturally driven by incoming waves. Particle Image Velocimetry measure...

From pollen to pixels: Towards spatially meaningful pollen-based vegetation reconstructions across southeastern Australia

Reconstruction of past vegetation underpins understanding of long-term ecosystem and societal change, helping to contextualise present-day patterns in biodiversity, ecosystem trajectories and effective landscape management practices against historical ecosystem states. This is pa...

SN 2024iss: A Multiwavelength Exposé of a Type IIb Supernova with an Early-time Ultraviolet Spectrum and Shock-breakout Constraints

Abstract We present multiwavelength observations and analysis of SN 2024iss, a Type IIb supernova (SN IIb) located at ∼14 Mpc. The first Zwicky Transient Facility detection of SN 2024iss is ∼40 minutes after first light (one of the earliest detections of a SN IIb to date) and a H...

Strategies for integrating artificial intelligence and cognitive assessment to predict disability progression in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: A model development study

Serial cognitive assessment in multiple sclerosis can help identify patients at higher risk of disability progression, but high dimensionality of reaction-time data makes analysis challenging. We developed a method to convert longitudinal reaction-time data into images and applie...

Clinical Improvement, No Improvement, and Worsening at 24 Hours Following Reperfusion in Patients With Stroke due to Large-Vessel Occlusion

BACKGROUND: Restoring blood flow to ischemic tissue is the cornerstone of acute stroke therapy and is usually beneficial. However, when reperfusion is achieved for severely injured tissue, it is often futile and may occasionally cause harm. We aim to determine the prevalence and...

Unmasking programmed cell death in rhinovirus-driven asthma pathology

Abstract Rhinovirus (RV) infection is responsible for the majority of cases of viral exacerbations of asthma. Understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms that cause asthma exacerbations is an absolute requirement for the development of effective treatments. Emerging liter...

Optimal exercise dose in adults with chronic low back pain disorders: systematic review with dose-response network meta-analysis

Objective To quantify exercise dose-response relationships and estimate the optimal dose in adults with chronic low back pain disorders (CLBDs). Design Systematic review with random-effects model-based (non-linear) dose-response network meta-analysis. Risk of bias was assessed wi...

Fifteen years of regional climate downscaling in CORDEX-Australasia

Regional climate modelling plays a central role in understanding and projecting climate change across Australasia, a region characterised by complex topography, diverse climate regimes, and high exposure to climate extremes. Over the past fifteen years, CORDEX-Australasia has coo...

Gene Expression Biomarkers for Breast Ductal Carcinoma in Situ Recurrence Prediction

ABSTRACT Breast ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is often overtreated due to a lack of robust prognostic and predictive tools. This study aimed to evaluate gene expression in a well‐characterised DCIS cohort to determine their clinical utility as biomarkers for ipsilateral recurre...

Lithochloron , a new genus of green algae residing in coral skeleton (Cladophorales, Chlorophyta)

Abstract Coral skeletons host diverse microbial communities, including endolithic green algae that contribute to holobiont functioning. The siphonous green alga Ostreobium (Bryopsidales) is arguably the best‐known coral endolith, but recent environmental sequencing has indicated...

Ethnography of Singing for Breathing in COPD and ILD: Understanding Group Dynamics and Experiences

Background/Aim A growing body of evidence exists detailing the benefits of singing for lung health programs in improving participants’ breathlessness and quality of life. However, the pandemic prompted a shift to online delivery, and there is limited understanding of how this mod...

Natural methane emissions feedbacks in MAGICC v. 7.6

Literature estimates of natural methane emissions, particularly from wetlands, have a wide range of uncertainty. Meanwhile, few Earth System Models (ESMs) explicitly model wetlands as a potential source of methane. As a result, Simple Climate Models that aim to emulate the behavi...

Modelling the impact of improving access to healthcare on hepatitis B prevalence in the Thai–Myanmar border region

Abstract In Thailand, hepatitis B remains endemic despite a strong elimination programme. Four neighbouring countries, with higher hepatitis B prevalence, contribute to over 90% of the migrant workforce in Thailand, and 75% migrant workers are from Myanmar. Access to healthcare f...

Antibody-Drug Conjugate-Associated Oral Toxicities

Aim: Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are an emerging class of anti-cancer therapies, designed to specifically target cancer cells while minimizing impact on healthy tissues; however, they are associated with a broad spectrum of toxicities. The goal of this paper is to review the...

Multimodal imaging reveals no evidence for magnetite-based magnetoreceptors in the mole-rat eye

Magnetoreception is widespread across animals, but its sensory mechanism remains unresolved. One leading hypothesis proposes that single-domain magnetite is coupled to mechanosensitive ion channels. In subterranean Ansell's mole-rats, such receptors have been proposed to reside i...

The quantum spin Brauer category

We introduce a diagrammatic braided monoidal category, the quantum spin Brauer category , together with a full functor to the category of finite-dimensional type- 1 modules for U q ( 𝔰𝔬 ( N ) ) or U q ( 𝔬 ( N ) ) . This functor becomes essentially surjective after passing to the...

The Simons Observatory: Development of a Pipeline to Detect Rapid Transients in Time-Ordered Data

We introduce a method for detecting astrophysical transients evolving on timescales of milliseconds to minutes using cosmic microwave background (CMB) survey telescopes. While previous transient searches in CMB data operate in map space, our pipeline directly processes the raw ti...

When brokers fail, brokers proliferate! Generational change and the failure of development in remote Papua New Guinea

Abstract Recent efforts to secure development by Febi and Kubo people in Papua New Guinea's Western Province reveal a patterned history of failing brokers, incomplete projects and wasted money. Within this longer trajectory, three overlapping waves of brokerage can be discerned,...

Beyond Neuroretinitis: A Multi-Centre Study of Bartonella-Associated Uveitis

Purpose To characterise the spectrum of clinical presentations of Bartonella-associated uveitis across multiple tertiary uveitis centres and assess the frequency of non-neuroretinitis phenotypes.Methods Multi-centre retrospective case series of patients with serologically confirm...

Compromised Productivism: Translating Work–Family Balance Policy within Indonesia’s Emerging Welfare State Regime

Increasing emphasis is being placed on work–family balance (WFB) within post-industrial social policy frameworks, yet its practice in newly urbanised contexts, where familialist and managerial–masculine legacies persist, remains understudied. This study examines how WFB is transl...