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You're in the Right Spot: Responding to Pregnancy and Homelessness: Evaluation of the Cornelia ProgramEvaluation of the Cornelia Program: Final Report
No full textThe Cornelia Program is a critical intervention for women experiencing pregnancy and homelessness who would otherwise have few specialised housing and support options. The perinatal and antenatal periods are crucial for establishing stability, security, good health, and assured parenting practices that have long-term impacts on the lives of mothers and their children. Using a longitudinal, mixed-methods approach, this evaluation aimed to understand whether the work of the Cornelia Program has helped the women and their babies using the service, and how effective the program has been to this end. In total, the research team engaged 35 stakeholders comprising 15 service users, seven Cornelia operational staff, five senior managers from partnership organisations, and eight participants from seven external service providers. Alongside this qualitative data, administrative data from the Cornelia Program and routine perinatal data from the Royal Women’s Hospital were collected and analysed to help inform the findings of this report. This report provides evidence that the Cornelia Program is delivering an essential service that is achieving outstanding longer-term results, particularly in the areas of housing sustainment, service engagement, mother-baby bonding, and parenting skills.</p
Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires
No full textWith large wildfires becoming more frequent, we must rapidly learn how megafires impact biodiversity to prioritize mitigation and improve policy. A key challenge is to discover how interactions among fire-regime components, drought and land tenure shape wildfire impacts. The globally unprecedented 2019–2020 Australian megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, prompting major investment in biodiversity monitoring. Collated data include responses of more than 2,000 taxa, providing an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how megafires affect biodiversity. We reveal that the largest effects on plants and animals were in areas with frequent or recent past fires and within extensively burnt areas. Areas burnt at high severity, outside protected areas or under extreme drought also had larger effects. The effects included declines and increases after fire, with the largest responses in rainforests and by mammals. Our results implicate species interactions, dispersal and extent of in situ survival as mechanisms underlying fire responses. Building wildfire resilience into these ecosystems depends on reducing fire recurrence, including with rapid wildfire suppression in areas frequently burnt. Defending wet ecosystems, expanding protected areas and considering localized drought could also contribute. While these countermeasures can help mitigate the impacts of more frequent megafires, reversing anthropogenic climate change remains the urgent broad-scale solution.</p
Classifying Lower Body Extensor Strength Qualities in Field Sport Athletes
No full textSubmitted in total fulfillment 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
An exploration of breast hypoplasia and insufficient milk production
No full textSubmitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.</p
Improving Healthcare for Indonesian Men Living with Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Erectile Dysfunction
No full textSubmitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
One Cake for Many: Making Programs for Sacramental Preparation
No full textSubmitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Education, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Examining the Future of the Work Environment in Higher Education Institutions in Saudi Arabia
No full textSubmitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.
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Bacteriophage Purification and Endotoxin Detection
No full textSubmitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science to La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Formation of a Boron‐Oxide Termination for the (100) Diamond Surface
No full textA boron-oxide termination of the diamond (100) surface has been formed by depositing molecular boron oxide B2O3 onto the hydrogen-terminated (100) diamond surface under ultrahigh vacuum conditions and annealing to 950 °C. The resulting termination is highly oriented and chemically homogeneous, although further optimization is required to increase the surface coverage beyond the 0.4 monolayer coverage achieved here. This work demonstrates the possibility of using molecular deposition under ultrahigh vacuum conditions for complex surface engineering of the diamond surface, and may be a first step in an alternative approach to fabricating boron doped delta layers in diamond.</p
International reputation and the Voice to Parliament referendum
No full textDuring the Voice to Parliament referendum campaign, ‘yes' advocates argued that a failed referendum would harm Australia's international reputation. To what extent did this occur? This article examines how the Voice to Parliament spoke to Australia's international reputation and why it matters for foreign policy. It maps the global producers of reputation narratives and theorises about which, when and why specific audiences might matter for how reputation affects foreign policy. Using a unique combination of materials collected from Meltwater and Global NewsBank databases, it tracks how the Voice to Parliament campaign and its results were interpreted by various international audiences, with a specific focus on global media. The implications for foreign policy are likely to be mixed while the result may be weaponised by other states and limit Australia's ability to make credible moral claims in international fora, geopolitical considerations are likely to reduce its overall effect on Australia’s international agenda.</p