UNSW Sydney

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...

Designing Copper‐Based Catalysts for High Selectivity in Electrocatalytic CO 2 Reduction: From Single/Dual Atoms to Nanoclusters and Nanoparticles

ABSTRACT Electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction (ECR) offers a sustainable solution for converting carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels, which is of great significance for achieving carbon neutrality goals. Copper‐based catalysts demonstrate excellent performance i...

P1.027. Selective Fundoplication Approach in Hiatal Hernia Repair Reduces Reflux Recurrence and Reoperation Rates

Abstract Topic Benign Disease: Gastro-Esophageal Reflux and Hiatal Hernia Background Fundoplication is often performed during hiatus hernia (HH) repair to control reflux, but whether routine fundoplication improves long-term gastrointestinal outcomes remains uncertain. This study...

Stable autoregressive modelling of supercontinuum generation: A 1D-RWKV surrogate model with physical constraints

Supercontinuum generation (SCG) plays an important role in various ultrafast optical applications, but modelling this phenomenon using the Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation (GNLSE) via standard numerical methods is extremely time-consuming and computationally demanding....

Coronal Plane Alignment of the Knee (CPAK) in children and adolescents

Aims: The Coronal Plane Alignment of the Knee classification (CPAK) describes nine knee phenotypes by defining arithmetic hip-knee-ankle angle (aHKA) and joint line obliquity (JLO). In this study, the CPAK classification was used to analyze the development of lower-limb alignment...

A multi-centre study of belatacept and sirolimus for islet transplantation

Abstract Aims/hypothesis Islet transplantation is an appropriate treatment for selected individuals with type 1 diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemia unawareness. The gold standard of maintenance immunosuppression to prevent allograft rejection is calcineurin inhibitor-based therap...

Model 1b analytical performance specifications – report on the Prague 2025 workshop

diagnostic medical devices (IVD MD) meet regulatory and quality standards before market release; for external quality assurance assessments; for quality control, monitoring reagent lot-to-lot variability, and allowing preanalytical variation assessments in labs; and for guiding p...

Factors Associated with Extreme Waiting Times for Child Developmental Diagnostic Assessments: A Mixed-Methods Service Evaluation in Sydney

Background: Previous Australian child developmental assessment service (CDAS) cohorts have identified a small proportion of children experiencing extreme waiting times (≥730 days) for standardised developmental assessments. However, factors associated with these extreme waits rem...

Clearance of Treponema pallidum from oral and anal sites after treatment of secondary syphilis: results from a multi-centre, prospective, cross-sectional study

Background Syphilis is increasing worldwide, and secondary syphilis may represent its most infectious stage. Scarce data exist on Treponema pallidum clearance after treatment. We aimed to determine the frequency and load of T. pallidum mucosal shedding, and time to clearance foll...

Photocatalytic Recovery of Aromatic Chemicals from Waste Plastics

ABSTRACT Plastic waste is abundant in carbon and hydrogen resources. The development of sustainable catalytic process for the recovery of chemicals from waste plastic offers a promising strategy to simultaneously mitigate environmental pollution and reduce dependence on petrochem...

Increases in a pivotal bioactive peptide in specific brain regions reflect the progression of pathology in Alzheimer’s disease

Abnormal activation of a developmental process driven by a bioactive peptide T14, is posited as a key mechanism in the degeneration of the primarily vulnerable nuclei during the prodromal phase of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). We use a range of anatomical, biochemical and genetic app...

A coupled age–viscosity–flow finite-element framework for ageing-gel injection and sealing in underground void networks

Age-dependent viscosity strongly influences gel migration and sealing in underground void networks. However, conventional models commonly update viscosity using global elapsed time and cannot represent spatially non-uniform transport histories. This study develops a finite-elemen...

MSSFFE-Net: a fine-grained object recognition network based on multi-scale spatial-frequency domain feature enhancement

The challenge of few-shot fine-grained image classification lies in the scarcity of labeled training samples, which hinders models from learning subtle discriminative patterns. Moreover, most existing methods rely heavily on spatial-domain convolutional operations while overlooki...

Hyperbolic confinement: self-assembly of asymmetric diblock co-polymers on triply periodic minimal surfaces

Abstract We investigate the self-assembly of compositionally asymmetric AB diblock co-polymers confined to thin hyperbolic films on the three cubic minimal surfaces: the primitive, the diamond and the gyroid. To analyse and quantify the assemblies, we use a computational pipeline...

Computationally Evidence‐Grounded Sequence‐First Design of Peptide Binders

Peptide binders provide a versatile modality for modulating protein targets that are poorly addressed by small molecules, but their discovery is constrained by sample-intensive screening or reliance on structural templates. Sequence-first generation offers a scalable alternative...

Mapping structural heterogeneity in three-dimensional biophotonic gyroid networks using position-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering

Abstract The wings of select Papilionid and Lycaenid butterflies contain a three-dimensional gyroid network of a solid cuticle phase in air. In butterfly scales, gyroid networks are optically interesting, as they create the green colour observed in the wings of these butterflies....

Se4+-Doped Indium-Based Perovskites via NaCl-Driven Structural Transformation for Dynamic Luminescence Modulation in Multimodal Anti-counterfeiting and Encryption

Abstract The growing risks of counterfeiting and information security breaches have spurred the demand for high-security stimuli-responsive optical materials. However, many reported materials exhibit discontinuous luminescence switching or require harsh external stimuli. Herein,...

SDMBCv2 (v1.0): correcting systematic biases in RCM inputs for future projection

Abstract. Regional Climate Models (RCMs) offer enhanced spatial resolution and a more realistic depiction of local climate processes. However, they often inherit systematic biases from their driving Global Climate Models (GCMs), which can compromise the accuracy of downscaled cli...

More than just temperature: the effects of nest relocation on incubation environment and hatchling quality in green turtles (Chelonia mydas)

Abstract Nest relocation and shading are widely used conservation strategies intended to mitigate threats to marine turtle hatchling survival. However, these interventions may carry unintended fitness costs. Estimating such effects can be challenging, especially in the absence of...

Genomic catalogue of giant viruses reveals expanded diversity and functional potential

Nucleocytoplasmic large DNA and Mirusviricota viruses exhibit taxonomic richness which continually expands due to metagenomic sequencing. Here we curate a database of giant virus metagenome-assembled genomes (GVMAGs V2), comprising 8,508 species-level representatives from 18,727...