University of Tasmania

Advancing Understanding of Subjective Liveability for People With Disability

ABSTRACT Modern liveability frameworks aim to enhance health and well‐being through equity‐based measures across built, natural, social, and economic environments, yet they often overlook the perspectives of people with disability. This study explored expectations of liveable nei...

Ichthyocotylurus erraticus Rudolphi 1809 infecting the heart of the whitefish Coregonus lavaretus Linnaeus 1758 in Lake Sevan, Armenia

Abstract Metacercariae of Ichthyocotylurus erraticus Rudolphi 1809 have historically shown high prevalence and infection intensities in Sevan whitefish Coregonus lavaretus Linnaeus 1758. However, recent data on parasite infection levels in this introduced fish species in Lake Sev...

Variable zircon, titanite and apatite response during magma hybridization and autometasomatism

Abstract The U–Pb records of accessory minerals can become difficult to interpret when magmatic crystallization is overprinted by hydrothermal alteration and element redistribution. The Archibarca Pluton, in the shallow portion on the Paleozoic Famatinian Arc in northwestern Arge...

CoMA: Condition-Modulated Context–Knowledge Attention for Empathetic Dialogue Generation

Empathetic response generation requires a model to balance emotional appropriateness with contextual grounding. However, the performance of emotion recognition remains relatively limited, which may lead to cascading errors in generating empathetic responses. To avoid error propag...

Antarctic sea ice over the past 130 000 years – Part 2: A review of its role in the Earth system

Abstract. Antarctic sea-ice cover reached historically low levels in 2023, consistent with the simulated decrease in sea-ice extent in response to anthropogenic warming. Antarctic sea ice is closely linked to multiple components of the Earth system, thus its demise could precipit...

Identification of expressed endogenous retroviral element associated long terminal repeats in devil facial tumour cells

Abstract The Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) population has undergone a major decline in the wild owing to the epidemics of two transmissible cancers known as devil facial tumours (DFT1 and DFT2). A multipronged conservation strategy is in place, but a vaccine that prevent...

Committed Antarctic Ice Sheet mass loss by the end of the twenty-first century

Abstract The Antarctic Ice Sheet is the largest source of uncertainty in sea-level rise projections, with uncertainties propagating through emissions scenarios, atmosphere–ocean general circulation models, ice-sheet dynamics and sea-level physics. In ice-sheet model intercomparis...

Search for sociality in white sharks: investigation of the co-occurrence of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) using passive acoustic telemetry data

Context Social network analysis (SNA) as a quantitative measure of animal grouping and social behaviours has been increasingly used to study the group dynamics and potential sociality of elasmobranch species. Aims Despite their mainly solitary swimming and hunting behaviours, whi...

The feasibility of a tailored follow-up service for people living with stroke via a registry-based randomised controlled trial (A-LISTS)

After stroke, people report ongoing health challenges to national registries without any follow-up. We aimed to assess the feasibility of a co-designed, registry-initiated, follow-up service provided by hospitals and tailored for people reporting health-related challenges between...

Reassessing the Role of the Antarctic Slope Current in Poleward Ocean Heat Transport

Abstract The Antarctic Slope Current (ASC) is often considered a barrier to the poleward transport of Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW), yet its vast extent has hindered circumpolar analysis of this relationship. Here, we use a high‐resolution global ocean‐sea ice model that resolves...

Reducing Peripheral Intravenous Catheter Use in Adult Acute Care: A Systematic Review

ABSTRACT Peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) are the most frequently inserted invasive device in acute care, yet up to 52% remain unused, exposing patients to avoidable risks and increasing healthcare costs. Despite growing awareness of inappropriate PIVC use, unnecessary in...

Motor speech markers of Alzheimer’s risk

Abstract Motor changes are increasingly recognized as part of the Alzheimer’s disease (AD) phenotype, yet motor speech function and its clinical utility for early AD risk stratification remain underexplored. This cross-sectional study investigated whether measures of motor speech...

Industrial Hemp Response to Waterlogging Stress: Influence of Duration and Growth Stage on Physiological Performance and Yield

Industrial hemp is often considered sensitive to waterlogging; however, empirical evidence remains scarce. This study evaluated the effects of waterlogging duration and timing on the physiology, growth, and development of hemp under controlled conditions. Two glasshouse experimen...

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...

Transient soil nitrogen transformation but persistent root morphological impairment associated with reduced apparent post-anthesis nitrogen accumulation and grain yield in winter wheat under anthesis waterlogging conditions

Context Waterlogging during anthesis limits winter wheat production in the Yangtze River Basin of China. Although waterlogging is known to alter soil nitrogen cycling and crop productivity, the temporal relationship between recovery of soil nitrogen availability and recovery of p...

Bringing a HASS lens to work-integrated learning: Australian contexts, challenges, opportunities

This paper examines Work-integrated Learning (WIL) as a pedagogy within Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) learning and teaching. It examines WIL as an important strategy for ensuring that the university is contemporary, connected, and engaged with the realities of the r...

Hunting for Helminths: short- and long-read shotgun metagenomics for helminth detection in faecal samples

Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) pose significant challenges to public health in endemic areas, necessitating reliable methods for their detection. Shotgun metagenomics enables simultaneous detection of STHs and microbes in a sample without prior knowledge of what is present. Ho...

Psychosocial, behavioural, health, and productivity-related factors associated with public transport use and walking for transport among infrequent bus users in a regional area

Background and aims Public transport (PT) users are typically more physically active compared with private vehicle users. This study aimed to determine the variables associated with objectively measured PT use and self-reported walking for transport among infrequent bus users in...

The Role of the MYOC Gene in Primary Open Angle Glaucoma in Ethiopia

The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions. Table S1: MYOC variants reported as causative in individuals of African descent in previous studies...

Electrical signalling beyond diffusion-limited microbial interactions

Abstract Ecological communication is traditionally interpreted through diffusion-limited chemical signalling. Here, we argue that bioelectricity provides a complementary dimension of microbial ecological interaction, arising from ion-driven electrical signalling between responsiv...