UNSW Sydney

Integration of lipidomic and polygenic risk scores within contemporary clinical cardiovascular risk assessment pathways: a multi-cohort development and validation study

Background Guideline-recommended clinical risk scores such as AusCVDRisk underestimate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in a substantial proportion of individuals who later experience events, with up to 65% initially classified as low or intermediate risk. This limitation is mos...

Digital Intermediation in Skilled Health Worker Migration: Platforms for Peer Support and Brokerage

Digital infrastructures have become important elements of the sociotechnical assemblages that mediate contemporary migration trajectories. Although digital platforms, tools and networks can be used to surveil and control migrants, they also afford migrants possibilities to self-o...

Rejecting conspiracies doesn't necessarily mean that you're smart: The relationship between conspiracy discrimination and reasoning ability

Abstract Research examining the psychological predictors of conspiracy belief has overwhelmingly examined conspiracies that are unverified and/or implausible. Doing so potentially conflates ‘rational’ thinking with the tendency to heuristically reject conspiracist explanations. I...

Beyond Knowledge Transfer: Caregivers’ Evolving Medication Information Needs Across Paediatric Oncology Treatment

AIM: To identify and describe the medication information needs and preferences of caregivers of children with cancer, and the factors that support or impede those needs being met. DESIGN: Qualitative descriptive study guided by reflexive thematic analysis. METHODS: Between Novemb...

P-PatchDiff: Progressive Patch Diffusion Models for Low-Light Image Enhancement

Abstract Recent advancements in low-light image enhancement have leveraged diffusion models for their strong ability to generate perceptually realistic, detailed images. Patch diffusion models further offer a promising solution to size-agnostic image restoration while improving e...

Unlock the Potential of Pichia in Coffee: Knowledge Transfer From Fermented Beverages

ABSTRACT Considerable research has focused on non‐ Saccharomyces yeasts to explore their biochemical potential and genetic diversity beyond the capabilities of the conventional starter culture, Saccharomyces cerevisiae . Among these, species of the genus Pichia have emerged as pr...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...