The University of Western Australia

Unsafe after dark? Women's travel experiences while walking, cycling and using public transport in Australia and New Zealand

Women experience distinct safety challenges when walking, cycling, and using public transport, particularly after dark and in relation to unwanted behaviours. Contemporary evidence integrating multiple transport modes and whole-journey stages across Australia and New Zealand rema...

Diabetes and Driving: How Predictive Technologies Will Alter Ethical and Legal Responsibilities

In 2023, a 67-year-old man with long-standing type 1 diabetes experienced a severe hypoglycemic episode and drove into an outdoor dining area in Victoria, Australia, killing 5 people and injuring several others. Although the charges against the driver were dismissed, future cases...

The power of a name: Surname culture and corporate earnings management

We examine how surname culture influences earnings management in Chinese A-share firms from 2007 to 2023. Firms whose boards exhibit stronger surname culture, measured by the presence or proportion of directors sharing the chair’s surname, engage in significantly less accrual-bas...

Stroke clinical documentation education program in Australia and New Zealand

Background: Accurate and complete clinical documentation underpins the assignment of International Classification of Disease codes used for epidemiological research, hospital activity based funding, and health service planning. Objective: To develop, implement, and evaluate an ed...

Sibling Perspectives of Family Life and Social Connection Among Adolescents From Families of Children With and Without Neurodevelopmental Conditions

This study explored adolescent siblings’ perspectives of family life and social connections, comparing the experiences of siblings of children with and without neurodevelopmental conditions. Using a mixed methods design, teenaged siblings aged 13 to 19 years in Australia, complet...

Vaping and smoking in individuals with eating disorders: associations with diagnoses and behaviors

Abstract Background Smoking commonly co-occurs with eating disorders (EDs) but less is known about the relationship between EDs and vaping. We investigated associations of lifetime vaping and smoking as forms of nicotine use with lifetime ED diagnoses (i.e., anorexia nervosa [AN]...

Split-post re-entrant microwave displacement transducer with quadratic readout

Abstract We investigate a microwave-cavity-based displacement readout employing a split-post geometry to measure the motion of a dielectric membrane. Due to symmetry, the cavity response to membrane displacement is inherently quadratic when the membrane is positioned at the centr...

Nonlocal Approximation of Minimal Surfaces: Optimal Estimates From Stability

ABSTRACT Minimal surfaces in closed 3‐manifolds are classically constructed via the Almgren‐Pitts approach. The Allen‐Cahn approximation has proved to be a powerful alternative, and Chodosh and Mantoulidis (in Ann. Math. 2020) used it to give a new proof of Yau's conjecture for g...

Trends in Emergency Department Use by Older People in the Western Australian Community and Residential Care

Objectives The number of older people in Australia living with disability has grown disproportionately compared with growth in aged care services. We aimed to determine secular trends of emergency department (ED) use of older people in Western Australia (WA) who are living in the...

A Prescribed-Factor Sieve and a Prime-Gap Bound of 216

Let H_1 = liminf_{n→∞}(p_{n+1} − p_n). This preprint develops a prescribed-factor equidistribution theorem and combines it with a certified Maynard sieve weight to derive the bound H_1 ≤ 216. The analytic component treats Type-I convolutions in arithmetic progressions to squarefr...

A qualitative analysis to identify implementation strategies for a deprescribing clinical practice guideline using the CFIR-ERIC Matching Tool: perspectives from consumers and professional stakeholders

Abstract Introduction Deprescribing is the planned withdrawal or dose reduction of medicines when harms outweigh benefits or when they are no longer required. Following publication of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Deprescribing in Older People in September 2025, supporting...

A Prescribed-Factor Sieve and a Prime-Gap Bound of 216

Let H_1 = liminf_{n→∞}(p_{n+1} − p_n). This preprint develops a prescribed-factor equidistribution theorem and combines it with a certified Maynard sieve weight to derive the bound H_1 ≤ 216. The analytic component treats Type-I convolutions in arithmetic progressions to squarefr...

Pattern-Anchored Diagnosis of Oral Epithelial Dysplasia: A Position Paper From COST Action INTERCEPTOR Working Group 2

Abstract Purpose Oral epithelial dysplasia (OED) is the principal histopathological marker for malignant risk stratification in oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs). Current World Health Organisation (WHO) three-tier and other binary grading systems are limited by modest...

Laser scanning registration for knee arthroplasty

Aims: Accurate registration of anatomy is fundamental to robotic and computer-assisted surgery; however, conventional methods rely on manual data acquisition performed by the surgeon using a tracked probe that is slow and affected by operator variability. Limitations of manual me...

Characteristics of Monozygotic Twins Discordant for Anorexia Nervosa: Comprehensive Risk Evaluation for Anorexia Nervosa in Twins (CREAT) Study

ABSTRACT Objective To characterise the clinical and phenotypic profile of the Comprehensive Risk Evaluation for Anorexia nervosa in Twins (CREAT) cohort, identify candidate risk and illness‐related correlates of AN, and establish a foundation for forthcoming biological, neuroimag...

H₂O₂-modified tyre biochar for phosphorus adsorption and fertiliser application

Abstract Background and aims Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for global food production, and its depletion poses a major threat to agricultural sustainability. Concurrently, improper disposal of end-of-life tyres causes serious environmental risks. Converting waste tyres...

Evaluating perceptual measures of body image disturbance: relationships between dimensions and their predictive value in eating and body dysmorphic disorder symptomatology

Abstract Body image disturbance is a common characteristic of eating and body dysmorphic disorders that can manifest through three theorised dimensions: evaluative, behavioural, and perceptual. Despite this, the perceptual aspect of body image disturbance is not well understood,...

Formation of Accretion Disks around Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Ultra Compact Dwarf Galaxies and Nuclear Stellar Clusters

Abstract Recent observations have found many ultra-compact dwarf galaxies (UCDs) that contain massive black holes (MBHs) typically consisting of 10% − 15% of their total mass, with some as high as 40%. However, whether UCDs initially started with MBHs or grew from intermediate-ma...

Dolomitic Microfossil Preservation in a Cryogenian Microbial Reef, Arkaroola (South Australia)

ABSTRACT Microbial dolostones that now form the Arkaroola reef, northern Adelaide Rift Complex, and were deposited during the Cryogenian interglacial period, display a wide range of meso‐scale stromatolite morphotypes in outcrop. Microcharacterisation involving optical microscopy...

Perceived overqualification and work-family conflict: examining work-family centrality as a moderator

The relationship between perceived overqualification and work-family conflict (WFC) is unclear. We argue that the extent to which it is either positive or negative depends on work-family centrality. Overqualified employees who prioritize work more than their families will apprais...