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The Role of Affect in Feminist Mobilisations Against Gender Violence: An Analysis of a Case of Feminist Activism Articulated via Twitter and Public Physical Spaces
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Education, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-being
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science to the La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Indian Diaspora in the Philippines: Space and Identity
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey.
No full textThese are the raw data for Maisey et al. (2025) 'Foraging activity by an ecosystem engineer, the superb lyrebird, ‘farms’ its invertebrate prey in forest ecosystems', Journal of Animal Ecology. </p
Melbourne Catholics and the Vietnam War: A Participant's Study of Peace Work in a Pro-War Church
No full textThesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Division of Religious Studies, School of Humanities, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Systematics and Phylogeny of Mastodonsauroid Amphibians (Temnospondyli) and the Bone Histology of Some Triassic Temnospondyls
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset
No full textScience is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus across different geographical and cultural contexts, we undertook a cross-sectional population survey resulting in a dataset of 71,922 participants in 68 countries. The data were collected between November 2022 and August 2023 as part of the global Many Labs study “Trust in Science and Science-Related Populism” (TISP). The questionnaire contained comprehensive measures for individuals’ trust in scientists, science-related populist attitudes, perceptions of the role of science in society, science media use and communication behaviour, attitudes to climate change and support for environmental policies, personality traits, political and religious views and demographic characteristics. Here, we describe the dataset, survey materials and psychometric properties of key variables. We encourage researchers to use this unique dataset for global comparative analyses on public perceptions of science and its role in society and policy-making.</p
Experimental and numerical analysis of the flexural performance of concrete-filled steel tubular members with partial replacement of fine aggregates with sawdust
No full textThis study investigates the structural performance of concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) beams through experimental and numerical approaches. The CFST beams are prepared with sawdust as a partial replacement for fine aggregates in concrete. A total of fourteen CFST beams are experimentally tested under four-point bending. The sawdust replacement percentages range from 0 % to 25 %. Mechanical properties of the steel tubes and concrete, including compressive and tensile strengths, are evaluated, and the failure modes, ultimate load capacities, initial stiffness, toughness, and ductility indices are analyzed. The results show that sawdust inclusion significantly influences the flexural strength and ductility of the CFST beams, with optimal performance observed at moderate sawdust replacement levels. In addition, finite element analysis is employed to validate the experimental findings. The numerical model closely approximates the load-deflection behavior and failure mechanisms. The study underscores the potential of using sawdust as a sustainable material in structural applications. The study contributes to resource efficiency while maintaining acceptable performance in flexural load scenarios.</p
Gender, coca, and the Colombian Peace Agreement: The overlooked gendered dynamics in policy implementation
No full textEstablished in 2016, the Colombian Peace Agreement aimed to resolve longstanding conflict in the country. One of its commitments was to address the ‘War on Drugs’ including through gender-based approaches. The Agreement includes provisions aimed at supporting those cultivating coca, such as an enrolment process in a coca substitution program aimed at supporting the economic livelihoods of coca growers. In this article, we examine why women coca growers may be overlooked in this process and what assumptions key stakeholders in charge of implementing the Agreement make about gender and coca growing. We contrast such assumptions with the lived experiences of women coca growers to demonstrate how data collection practices in policy and research constitute a version of the coca economy predominantly ignorant to women's priorities and concerns. Using Fraser's (2020) framework on ontopolitically-oriented research and Bacchi's (2009) What's the Problem Represented to Be Approach, we illustrate how stakeholder assumptions about women's roles in the coca growing economy shape the legitimate recipients and beneficiaries of drug policy interventions. Our analysis offers novel insights into how gendered dynamics become concealed through drug policies designed for coca growing contexts, as well as explain the scarcity of research focused on women and coca-growing. We argue that the enrolment process in the coca substitution program has undermined women's economic autonomy through their exclusion as domestic counterparts, while their security concerns have been treated as unrelated to coca substitution programs.</p
Common inherited loss-of-function mutations in the innate sensor NOD2 contribute to exceptional immune response to cancer immunotherapy
No full textLung cancers and melanomas have many somatically mutated self-proteins that would be expected to trigger an immune rejection response, yet therapeutic responses can only be induced in a subset of patients. Here, we investigated the possibility that inherited differences in immune tolerance checkpoints contribute to variability in outcomes. Whole genome sequencing revealed biallelic germline loss-of-function (LOF) mutations in the immune tolerance checkpoint gene, NOD2, in an exceptional immune responder to targeted radiotherapy for metastatic melanoma. In 40 exceptional immune responders to anti-PD1 monotherapy for non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), genome sequencing showed 30% had inherited a NOD2 LOF variant, more than twice the population frequency (P = 0.0021). Conversely, a gain-of-function RIPK2 allele known to increase NOD2 signaling was inherited by 61% of nonresponders from the same cohort, compared to 10% of exceptional responders and much higher than the population frequency (P </p