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Multicultural Australian English: Voices of Sydney (MAE-VoiS)
No full text<p dir="ltr">Multicultural Australian English: The New Voice of Sydney (MAE-VoiS) is a project funded under the<i> </i>Australian Research Council Future Fellowship scheme. The aim of the project is to help us understand the speech patterns of young people from complex culturally and linguistically diverse communities across Sydney. Understanding how adolescents from different ethnicities use speech patterns to symbolically express their diverse sociocultural identities offers a window into understanding a rapidly changing Australian society.</p><p dir="ltr">Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the world yet the complex relationship between speech production and cultural diversity is largely unknown in 21<sup>st</sup> century multicultural Australia. Our current understanding of speech patterns in Australia is based on an Anglo-centric model that does not represent the community in which we live. Through this project we will generate an integrated and inclusive model of Australian English, based on our meticulous phonetic analysis of young people's speech. Project outcomes are expected to inform sociophonetic theories of variation, ethnicity, and identity. A unified model of Australian English that provides a structure to underpin advances in speech research at the intersection of phonetics/phonology, ethnicity, and society is critical for a deeper understanding of speech patterns in child language acquisition, atypical populations, second language learners, youth social cohesion; and for applications associated with immigration, refugee/asylum seeker integration, forensic speech science, national security, law enforcement, and social robotics.</p><p dir="ltr">The MAE-VoiS corpus comprises audio recordings of 186 teenagers from 38 language backgrounds who each engaged in a picture naming task and a conversation with a peer facilitated by a local research assistant. Participants also completed an extensive ethnic orientation survey, and their parents completed a demographic/language survey. Speakers were located in five separate areas in Sydney that varied according to the dominant language backgrounds of speakers in the communities (four non-English dominant areas – Bankstown, Cabramatta/Fairfield, Inner West, Parramatta; and one English dominant area – Northern Beaches).</p>
HOPE Pilot Qualitative Interview Raw Data (Feasibility, Appropriateness, Acceptability)
No full text<p dir="ltr">This pain management program was a stakeholder informed intervention adopting the biopsychosocial pain approach for people with hypermobility syndromes experiencing pain. Program feasibility, acceptability and appropriateness here were evaluated qualitatively to understand participants' experiences and perceptions of the program. </p><p dir="ltr">One-on-one semi-structured online interviews of participants were undertaken with data analysed using inductive thematic analysis. </p><p dir="ltr">The overarching themes from the interviewed confirmed the results of the quantitative study, that is the HOPE program was considered feasible, acceptable and appropriate for people with hypermobility syndromes. Our study findings will be used to refine future iterations of the program, which could be retested through a fully powered trial. </p>
Assessing Cortical Modulation of Cochlear Function with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
No full text<p dir="ltr">Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is widely investigated as a non-invasive neuromodulation technique; however, its capacity to modulate cortical excitability within the auditory system remains poorly understood. This study examined whether rTMS applied to auditory cortex regions influences peripheral auditory structures via top-down cortical feedback. Electrophysiological markers of auditory and neural function were assessed in 19 normal-hearing participants before and after stimulation. No significant changes were observed in either peripheral or central auditory responses, suggesting that the rTMS protocol employed here did not produce measurable alterations in auditory cortical excitability, despite being based on current conventions in both research and clinical practice. These findings highlight the need for refined stimulation parameters and standardised guidelines to improve the efficacy and reproducibility of rTMS in auditory neuroscience. </p><p dir="ltr">Data collection took place in 2023 at the Australian Hearing Hub (Level 1 sound-treated and electrically shielded booths), Sydney, Australia. This study primarily focused on physiological responses to sound, with participants undergoing rTMS designed to modulate auditory processing. Ethical approval was granted by the Macquarie University Human Research Ethics Committee (ref: 52023333448210). All participants provided written informed consent and received a small financial reimbursement for their time.</p>
Particle size (DLS), surface charge (ELS), protein content (Bradford assay), carbohydrate content (Anthrone test) and HPAEC_PAD, analytical SEC, fat content (GC-MS) and gravimetry, mineral content (ICP-MS) and photographs of oat and bovine milk
No full text<p dir="ltr">This data is collected for the paper entitled "Evidence of molecular interactions in plant and animal milk using whole milk chromatography". All data was obtained form Macquarie University analytical instruments including The Macquarie University Centre for Analytical Biotechnology (MUCAB) for chromatography and spectroscopy between the time period January 2024 to March 2025. The data contains raw instrument files and CSV, text, raw files and/or excel workbooks generated from these raw files. The instruments used to collect the data include Shimadzu Nexis 2020 GC-MS, Agilent GPC/MDS, Jasco UV-Visible spectrophotometer, Fluostar Plate reader (spectrophotometer), Malvern Zetasizer ZSP, iCap ICP-MS and Dionex 600 high performance anion exchange chromatography system (HPAEC-PAD).</p>
STUDY SAMPLE - Artificial Intelligence at Work: A Phenomenon-Based, Interdisciplinary Review and Groundwork for Multilevel Scholarship
No full text<p dir="ltr">The implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for work are significant and diverse, yet our understanding of its drivers remains siloed. This is partly due to a fragmented understanding of the AI phenomenon, its examination across diverse disciplines, and the contingent nature of its effects. We aim to help address these issues via two objectives. First, we explore the landscape of research by systematically reviewing how organizational science sub-disciplines studying AI conceptualize, characterize, and investigate AI at work and then evaluate how this scholarship clarifies and contextualizes the phenomenon. By examining indicators of these dimensions, we identify distinct clusters of research that represent what we label as ‘application-orientation’ and ‘generalized-orientation’ categories. Comparatively, application-orientation research was the most likely to either define AI’s capabilities concretely or situate their assessments within a specific function or industry, were less likely to characterize AI as a radically or wholly new and disruptive technology, less likely to contain claims regarding widespread technological unemployment resulting from AI, and less likely to focus on the negative (compared to the positive) outcomes of AI use for workers. Comparatively, generalized-orientation research was less likely to reference AI’s capabilities or situate their analyses in a specific industry context, tended to be less empirical, and was the most likely to position AI as radically disruptive or to focus on negative worker outcomes. Second, we seek to add to this research landscape by proposing an illustrative, interdisciplinary multilevel framework that suggests pathways toward balanced, multilevel assessments of the phenomenon. </p>
Researcher Needs Survey 2020 dataset
No full textFederation University Australia Library conducted a survey of researchers, including Higher Degree by Research candidates, at the University during mid-2020 to obtain data on researcher requirements related to skills development in a range of areas. This dataset is the complete but de-identified Excel spreadsheet of responses to the Survey
Bush Medicine Project Database Export S2 2022
No full text<p> </p><br><p>Raw Data: Plant Sample, Plant Extract Toxicity, and Antimicrobial Activity Database for 2022 from the Bush Medicine Project</p><br><p>If you want to use this data it is licenced using a CC BY-NC-SA licence. We would love to know what you use it for so please get in contact ([email protected]) and share your creations.</p>
Metadata decomposition variables
No full text<p>Metadata associated with csv data files for the manuscript:</p><br><p><em>Relative contribution of UV radiation to litter breakdown in Australian grasslands </em></p>
Latham's Snipe ( Gallinago hardwickii ) flight initiation distance data
No full text<p dir="ltr">This dataset represents flight initiation distance (flushing distance) data collected as part of a national monitoring program on Latham’s Snipe. This ongoing citizen science program commenced in 2014 with about twenty sites in south-west Victoria. The dataset has been contributed by multiple observers who have participated in this project eitehr throughout its conduct or a various times during the program. The program is ongoing. The details of data collection can be found in an accompanying manuscript, submitted to PLOS One and under review as of December 2024. The R code used for analyses is included.</p>