UNSW Sydney

Engineering Antibody Evolution: Germline‐Targeting HIV Vaccines Reach a Turning Point

This commentary examines three recent Nature studies demonstrating a conceptual shift in HIV vaccine design, demonstrating how germline-targeting HIV vaccines can progress beyond expanding rare broad neutralizing antibody (bnAb) precursors to deliberately guiding their affinity m...

Burden assessment tools in epilepsy caregiving: A scoping review

Background Informal caregivers of people with epilepsy (PWE) experience a substantial burden because of the chronic nature and unpredictability of seizures. Although several caregiver burden assessment tools are available to quantify this burden, little is known about which of th...

Perioperative Intravenous Antibiotic Regimens and Surgical Site Infection After Colorectal Surgery: Clinical Associations and External Evaluation of Risk Prediction Models

Background/Objectives: Surgical site infection (SSI) remains a major complication after colorectal surgery. Comparative evidence for commonly used perioperative intravenous antibiotic regimens is limited, and risk prediction models require external evaluation before clinical use....

Key considerations for window of opportunity trials and preoperative endocrine therapy in breast cancer

Window of opportunity (WOO) trials are short, pre-surgical trials which aim to evaluate novel therapeutic strategies and answer biological and mechanistic questions. Despite their relative simplicity, their conduct can be challenging. This Perspectives Article considers key facto...

Building blocks of localized storm tracks: revisiting asymmetries between the NH and SH in storm track strength

An intermediate-complexity moist general circulation model is used to investigate the forcing of localized storm tracks by land–sea contrast, horizontal gradients in ocean heat uptake, planetary albedo, and topography. The additivity of the response to these building blocks is in...

Preferred service model and other factors associated with pre-exposure prophylaxis willingness among Indonesian men who have sex with men: analysis of PrEP APPEAL survey

BACKGROUND: Men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV in Indonesia. To prevent transmission, there is a need to scale-up HIV prevention, especially pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). This analysis aims to identify the preferred service model and factors...

Appendices for Family Constellations for All Clinical Conditions: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Showing a Lack of Supporting Evidence

Public appendices for the first systematic review with meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials on Family Constellation Therapy.

Fe-mediated phase evolution and defect regulation in flexible Cu2Se films for enhanced thermoelectric transport

The monoclinic copper selenide (α-Cu2Se) is a promising thermoelectric (TE) material due to its ordered Cu sublattice and intrinsically low thermal conductivity for near-room-temperature applications. However, excessive Cu vacancies in α-Cu2Se lead to carrier overconcentration an...

Enumeration of Regular Multipartite Hypergraphs

Abstract. We determine the asymptotic number of regular multipartite hypergraphs, also known as multidimensional binary contingency tables, for all values of the parameters.

Post‐COVID‐19 Public Health Challenges: Insights Into Post‐COVID Symptoms, Stigma, and Post‐Pandemic Recovery Support From the Vietnam Experience

ABSTRACT Objectives This study aimed to assess the burden of post‐COVID‐19 symptoms, social stigma, and quality of life, and to examine their interactions among individuals recovering from COVID‐19 in Vietnam. Methods A cross‐sectional survey was conducted from March to June 2022...

Bridging leadership competency gaps across different management levels to enable digital transformation in the construction industry

Purpose As the construction industry undergoes digital transformation, the need for adaptive and effective leadership has become increasingly essential. This study aims to investigate the perceived importance and self-assessed performance of leadership competencies across four ma...

Multilevel lattice-based kernel approximation for elliptic PDEs with random coefficients

Abstract This paper introduces a multilevel kernel-based approximation method to estimate efficiently solutions to elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with periodic random coefficients. Building upon the work of Kaarnioja, Kazashi, Kuo, Nobile, Sloan (Numerische Mathem...

Racialised Conditional Capital Conversion: Race, Class and the Limits of Recognition in Elite Organisations

ABSTRACT This paper examines how racial inequality persists within organisations alongside career advancement among racialised professionals. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with fifty Chinese professionals in Australia's Big Four firms, we examine how race shapes the recognition...

Randomization Is Necessary for Learning from Symmetric Equivalence Queries

We resolve the dimension-only derandomization question for general symmetric equivalence queries posed in "Learning from Equivalence Queries, Revisited" at COLT 2026. Prior work gave a randomized proper learner with expected query complexity O(d) for every finite class of Littles...

The Price of Adaptivity in Bandit Multiclass Classification: Minimal Separation and Sharp Tower Asymptotics

We resolve the existence component of a foundational open problem posed at NeurIPS 2024 concerning the price of adversarial adaptivity in bandit multiclass classification. The optimal expected mistake bound against an adaptive adversary is at most a multiplicative O(k) above the...

Symbolic promotions: Conceptualization and empirical investigation

Abstract Symbolic promotions are an increasingly prevalent marketing practice globally, yet little is known about how or when they influence consumer behavior. We conceptualize symbolic promotions as a distinct type of sales promotion that creates value by reinforcing consumers'...

The Role of the Immunoglobulin Superfamily of Cell Adhesion Molecules in Intellectual Disability

Immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) are cell surface glycoproteins that play critical roles during multiple stages of synapse formation, including axon and dendrite growth and guidance, target recognition, axo-dendritic contact formation and its matur...

Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods for Uncertainty Quantification of Tumor Growth Modeled by a Parametric Semilinear Parabolic Reaction-diffusion Equation

Abstract. We study the application of a quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method to a class of semilinear parabolic reaction-diffusion partial differential equations used to model tumor growth. Mathematical models of tumor growth are largely phenomenological in nature, capturing infiltrati...

Assessing impacts of the 2019–20 fires on nine rare plants: challenges and solutions for improved conservation responses

Context The 2019–20 fires in Australia burnt more than 5.5 million hectares in New South Wales, including the majority of populations for 5–8% of the state’s threatened and endemic plants. Desktop analyses immediately post-fire predicted serious declines in a subset of taxa, beca...

Antimicrobial resistance in the monotreme microbiome

Context Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health crisis requiring a One Health approach that recognises the interconnectedness of people, animals and the environment. Since wide adoption of the One Health framework, wildlife species have been identified as important pote...