University of Newcastle Australia

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...