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Changing the Narrative: Familial Relationships in Victorian Lunatic Asylums, 1862-1914
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the La Trobe School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
The Effect of Stressful Environments on the Relationship between BDNF Val66met and Executive Functioning - A Combined Human and Rat Model Study
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Psychiatrists’ engagement with advance statement in Victoria, Australia
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Environmental Health Practice: An Identity in Crisis
No full textEnvironmental health practice is facing an identity crisis. Not because our work lacks impact, but because our work lacks a coherent narrative. Environmental health practice needs a brand that speaks our truth and secures our place in the future of health protection. The brand of environmental health practice must be more than a label. It needs to be an asset that our industry can leverage to build identity, recognisability, credibility, relevance and a unique value proposition. A strong brand will allow us to express the unique impact of our role and thus, it needs to capture the most central component of our work that unmistakably differentiates it from anything else. A rapid review of the literature was performed using systematic methods to discern a coherent narrative capturing the essence of environmental health practice. Through application of a critical lens shaped through professional experience, a novel narrative was synthesized of the key defining component of our work. This narrative establishes the work of environmental health practitioners as a unique value proposition and forms the basis for a brand that we can fearlessly project and reverberate. It represents the makings for an unmistakable identity. The future of environmental health practice depends on environmental health practitioners establishing a brand by building awareness of the unique value of our work.</p
Scoping Review Supplementary File: Conceptualising and effectuating self-regulation, self-regulated learning and executive function in education contexts for children and adolescents: a scoping review
No full textSupplementary file for the manuscript titled Conceptualising and effectuating self-regulation, self-regulated learning and executive function in education contexts for children and adolescents: a scoping review authored by Philpott-Robinson, K., Leonard, C., Southall, A., Lane, A.E., Wales, K., & Regan, C.File contains definitions for content analysis, included study descriptives, measures found in included studies and analysis output (data visualisation).</p
Globalization and health in an emerging new world order
No full textAs editors of a journal that aims to illuminate how globalization impacts health (for better or worse), it seems apt that we address circulating claims that globalization is now dead. These have been voiced most loudly following the inauguration of Donald Trump’s second presidency.</p
Various amendments differ in decreasing cadmium and raising selenium accumulation in rice in high geological background soils
No full textSelenium biofortification of staple crops in naturally selenium-rich regions offers a safe and effective approach to mitigating global selenium deficiency. However, the simultaneous presence of high cadmium (Cd) concentrations and low selenium (Se) bioavailability in seleniferous paddy soils constrains the production of Se-enriched rice. Preventing excessive Cd accumulation while increasing Se content in rice grains is therefore essential. This field study assessed the effectiveness of four soil amendments—hydrated lime (HL), mixed soil conditioner (MSC), biochar (BC), and humic acid (HA)—in modifying Se and Cd bioavailability and their accumulation in local rice cultivars grown on Se-enriched, Cd-contaminated paddy soils at three sites. HL and MSC were more effective in reducing CaCl2-extractable Cd in acidic soils, while BC and HA promoted Se mobilization in soils with near-neutral pH and higher soil organic carbon content. HL and MSC treatments increased grain Se by 35–39 % in rice with high Se uptake or translocation capacity and reduced grain Cd by 45–76 % in high-Cd-accumulating rice varieties. Notably, for the rice cultivar Xiushui 519, which has a relatively low bioconcentration factor for Cd/Se, all amendments failed to further decrease grain Cd and increase root/shoot Se, but significantly reduced grain Se (29–47 %). The study underscores the importance of soil properties and rice physiological traits in achieving safe and effective selenium biofortification, and provides a scientific basis for managing Se and Cd bioavailability in the soil–rice system through targeted soil amendments and cultivar selection.</p
Discussions of singular ‘they’ in Public and Educational Contexts: A thematic analysis
No full textThis thesis examines discussions of singular ‘they’ in educational and public contexts to better understand current discourses surrounding singular ‘they’ and our perceptions of diverse genders, as well as how we communicate linguistic concepts to the public. Though the singular ‘they’ has been in use in English since the 14th century with generic referents such as ‘everyone’, adoption of a newer nonbinary use of singular ‘they’, used with specific named referents, currently constitutes a grammatical change in progress in English.The data for this thesis consisted of two corpora - a media corpus and a textbook corpus. The media corpus was made up of lingcomm (linguistics communication) from non-fiction books, newspaper articles, blogposts, TikTok videos and YouTube videos containing linguistic discussions of singular ‘they’, whereas the textbook corpus was comprised of introductory undergraduate linguistics textbooks used in Australian universities. The corpus was analysed using a thematic analysis used as part of a critical discourse analysis, with themes covering different ways singular ‘they’ is discussed sorted into historical, social and linguistic thematic macro-categories.This thesis finds that there is a strong focus in the corpora on appealing to historical evidence of generic singular ‘they’ to legitimise all uses of singular ‘they’ in standard English. In attempting to legitimise singular ‘they’, a majority of lingcomm and textbooks analysed perpetuate language myths by conflating the long-standing generic singular ‘they’ with the newer nonbinary singular ‘they’, which portrays a static view of language that reinforces prescriptive ideals of traditional language use and undervalues the contributions of marginalised groups to language.</p
ZAD-ML: Dual-layer Learning for zero-Day attack detection in multivariate time series
No full textZero-day attack detection in multivariate time series is an increasingly vital field, driven by its significance in security-sensitive environments, such as network monitoring. Traditional anomaly detection methods often depend on predefined patterns, which are ineffective against zero-day attacks that exploit previously unidentified vulnerabilities. To address this limitation, we introduce ZAD-ML, an unsupervised learning framework designed specifically for detecting zero-day attacks by utilizing behavioral analytics without prior knowledge of attack signatures. ZAD-ML incorporates a dual-layer neural network system where the first layer learns to compress and encode normal temporal behavioral patterns into a dense representation, facilitating efficient anomaly detection and allowing it to adapt and update its understanding of normal behavior continuously. The second layer is enhanced with attention mechanisms to analyze temporal sequences for behavioral deviations, allowing the system to adaptively update its baseline for normal behavior based on emerging data trends. We incorporate deep learning techniques to enhance the model’s ability to learn complex patterns and anomalies in data behavior. We evaluated our framework on four public Network datasets, demonstrating its capability to detect zero-day attacks with high accuracy and significantly reduced false positives as compared with existing methods. ZAD-ML provides a robust, adaptable solution for real-time anomaly detection. The implementation of our proposed method is now publicly accessible at https://github.com/don2c/ZAD-ML.</p
Comparing Post-Stroke Care Pathways in English-speaking and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Australians with Aphasia
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p