University of Newcastle Australia

Language impairments in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia: a comparative study with semantic dementia

Abstract Introduction Recent evidence suggests that individuals with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) may experience language changes in a similar, but less severe manner, than what is observed in semantic dementia (SD). Few studies, however, have specifically...

Labile carbon input suppresses Q10 of soil organic carbon decomposition by dynamically lowering microbial activation energy mediated by a shift in microbial metabolic strategy

Understanding the temperature sensitivity (Q 10 ) of soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition, as constrained by the activation energy (E a ) of microbial metabolism, is critical for predicting climate-carbon feedbacks. This study examined how exogenous glucose influences Q 10 in...

The Association of Umbilical Cord Blood Neurofilament Light With Nonreassuring Fetal Status: A Prospective Observational Study

( Int J Gynaecol Obstet . 2026 Mar;172(3):1491–1500. doi:10.1002/ijgo.70421) A prospective observational study explored whether neurofilament light (NfL), a marker of neuronal injury, can be reliably measured in umbilical cord blood and whether it is associated with nonreassuring...

Beyond Economic Benefit: How Justice, Empowerment, and Political Trust Shape Residents’ Support for Space Tourism

This study extends research explaining resident trust through cost–benefit evaluations of tourism development. In the context of space tourism development, a government-led initiative that offers residents limited participation and few direct benefits, we drew on Lefebvre’s right...

Beyond the protocol: navigating ethics and governance in the multicentre implementation trials – the QASC Australasia and T3 Trials

OBJECTIVE: To describe and compare ethics and governance approval timelines for the Quality in Acute Stroke Care (QASC) Australasia Trial (2021-present) and Triage, Treatment, and Transfer of Patients with Stroke in Emergency Departments (T3) Trial (2012-2014), benchmarking again...

Characterizing the Landscape of Loss: A Spatiotemporal Contextual Approach to Measuring U.S. County-Level Depopulation

In recent decades, the United States has experienced substantial changes in population size, composition, and distribution. As growth has slowed, population loss has taken on increased salience, presenting an emerging social, economic, and political challenge and highlighting a n...

Steric stabilizers inhibit or enhance enzymatic digestion depending on the internal nanostructure of lipid nanoparticles

Abstract Lipidic nanoparticles (LNPs), including liposomes and cubosomes, are widely employed drug delivery systems owing to their biocompatibility and capacity for stimuli-responsive ‘smart’ drug release. Steric stabilizers, including DSPE-PEG-2000 and Pluronic F127, are commonl...

Unveiling halal luxury hotel service quality: key attributes from online reviews

Purpose Luxury hotels catering to the needs of halal markets continue to grow in popularity. While there is emerging research on luxury services and attributes valued by Muslim consumers in general, there is a lack of certainty on the factors that matter to consumers in the conte...

Privatisation of Request Infant Male Circumcision in Australia—An Equity-Focused Assessment of Impacts on Religious Communities in Greater Sydney

Background/Objectives: Infant male circumcision (IMC) is a long-established religious practice in Jewish, Muslim, and some Orthodox Christian communities. Since 2007, access to non-therapeutic request IMC in Australia has gradually shifted from the public healthcare system to the...

Quantifying the effects of prospective memory and ongoing task difficulty on capacity sharing and cognitive control

This study examines how individuals adapt to varying levels of prospective memory (PM) and ongoing-task difficulty in a cognitively demanding task environment. PM - the ability to remember and execute delayed intentions while engaged in other tasks - depends on flexible allocatio...

Terminology for describing the 24-h cycle of physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep: a scoping review

Abstract Background Physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep are three behaviours which occupy the 24-h cycle and interact to influence a multitude of health outcomes. Different terms are currently used to describe these behaviours collectively (e.g., movement behaviours...

Soil enzyme dynamics under PFAS contamination in arid and Mediterranean soils

Abstract Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent contaminants increasingly detected in agricultural soils, yet their effects on extracellular enzyme activities remain poorly resolved. This study examined the short- and long-term effects of perfluorooctanoic acid...

Class based classification for network intrusion detection

Accurate prediction of intrusion attacks is crucial in the era of Internet of Things to detect and respond promptly to suspicious activities to minimise the damage caused by those attacks. The instances of attacks are always much less than normal traffic and machine learning mode...

Promising security, delivering dependency: the material constraints of EU semiconductor collective securitisation

This article argues that the European Union’s collective securitisation of semiconductors reveals an overlooked constraint in securitisation theory: the structural mismatch between the ‘urgency’ logic of securitisation, and the multi-year timescales required to develop material c...