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Feeding Difficulties in Young Children: A Policy and Practice Framework
No full textThe Feeding Difficulties Conceptual Framework provides a structure for multidisciplinary collaboration, supporting individualised, context-sensitive, family-centred, and inclusive care. Early, evidence-based, individualised support can transform feeding into a foundation for better health, development, and child and caregiver wellbeing.Launched in 2025, the Framework is the first guideline to take into account the diverse experiences of families, which may be shaped by culture, location, and systemic barriers. The Framework is grounded in the outcomes of Dr Asmita Mudholkar’s PhD, which investigated factors associated with feeding difficulties in young children. One of her studies specifically examined the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of paediatricians, General Practitioners, child health nurses, and early childcare workers in identifying feeding difficulties in infants and young children (0–2 years). At the time, there were no studies exploring the practices of Australian early childhood practitioners in identifying and referring children with feeding difficulties for treatment, which led to the development of this new conceptual framework.© Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, La Trobe University, 2025</p
Understanding veterinary technician burnout, part 2: addressing veterinary technician burnout requires tailored organizational well-being initiatives
No full textAbstract:-Objective: To explore veterinary technicians (VTs) perspectives on contributors to burnout and examine existing and proposed workplace initiatives to support employee well-being. Methods: An anonymous online survey was completed by 172 international VTs between December 7, 2023, and January 31, 2024. Responses to 6 open-ended questions exploring perceived barriers and contributors to positive workplace well-being, as well as existing and proposed workplace well-being initiatives, were analyzed using content analysis. Results: Understaffing, poor leadership, and poor team communications were perceived as key contributors to poor well-being. Respectful communication, recognition of work, and equitable treatment were perceived to contribute to positive well-being. Under half of respondents (48%) reported no existing wellness initiatives in their workplace. Employee Assistance Programs, reported by 37% of respondents, were the most common initiative. Conclusions: Veterinary technicians report a range of organizational risk and protective factors contributing to their well-being at work, and the existence of comprehensive tailored well-being initiatives is relatively absent. There is a critical need for organizational evidence-based well-being programs tailored to VTs working in veterinary practice settings. Further research is required to develop and refine these strategies. Clinical Relevance: This study provides information on perceived gaps in workplace well-being initiatives, as well as workplace factors that must be addressed to maximize well-being and more effectively manage burnout in VTs.</p
The dark side of free will: How belief in agency fuels anti-gay attitudes
No full textAbstract: This research examines the relationship between free-will beliefs and attitudes toward gay men among heterosexual individuals. Across five studies, we find that endorsement of free will beliefs is associated with less favorable attitudes toward gay men. This effect is explained by the perception that individuals have agency over their sexual orientation?that is, that sexual orientation is controllable. We further examine the robustness of the proposed mechanism via a moderation-as-process approach. Contrary to prior research linking free-will beliefs to prosocial intentions and behaviors, our findings reveal that such beliefs can also foster ingroup favoritism and anti-minority discrimination. Specifically, free-will beliefs are associated with more favorable attitudes toward heterosexual (ingroup) men than gay (outgroup) men, suggesting that these beliefs may contribute simultaneously to outgroup bias and ingroup favoritism. The paper discusses the contributions to the literature on free-will beliefs, sexual orientation discrimination, and ingroup favoritism, and highlights implications for understanding prejudice in light of contemporary sociopolitical dynamics surrounding LGBTQI+ rights.</p
Mobilising for effective redress: the role of international human rights complaints in police accountability in Victoria
No full textThis article analyses the role of international human rights complaints mechanisms in the police accountability landscape in Australia, focusing on individual complaints to the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) under the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to which Australia is a signatory. We do so through a case study of Horvath v Australia, which involved ‘a disgraceful and outrageous display of police force’ against Corinna Horvath in 1996 (State of Victoria v Horvath [2002] VSCA 177, 9–10 [15]). The HRC found that Australia had violated Horvath's rights under article 2(3) of the ICCPR to an ‘effective remedy’ for substantive rights violations, given the difficulties she faced in accessing compensation through domestic mechanisms. Horvath's complaint was successful in spurring individual compensation and a formal apology, as well as shaping legislative reforms to civil liability for police harms. However, given the limits of these reforms and the ongoing failures of Victoria’s police complaints and disciplinary processes, Australia remains in breach of its human rights obligations. Ultimately, our analysis demonstrates how the potential of human rights complaints for systemic change relies on mobilization by civil society, in the face of enduring political inertia.</p
Blockchain for Secure IoT: A Review of Identity Management, Access Control, and Trust Mechanisms
No full textBlockchain technologies offer transformative potential in terms of addressing the security, trust, and identity management issues that exist in large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. This narrative review provides a comprehensive survey of various studies, focusing on decentralized identity management, trust mechanisms, smart contracts, privacy preservation, and real-world IoT applications. According to the literature, blockchain-based solutions provide robust authentication through mechanisms such as Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), enhance transparency via smart contract-enabled reputation systems, and significantly mitigate vulnerabilities, including single points of failure and Sybil attacks. Smart contracts enable secure interactions by automating resource allocation, access control, and verification. Cryptographic tools, including zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), proxy re-encryption, and Merkle trees, further improve data privacy and device integrity. Despite these advantages, challenges persist in areas such as scalability, regulatory and compliance issues, privacy and security concerns, resource constraints, and interoperability. By reviewing the current state-of-the-art literature, this review emphasizes the importance of establishing standardized protocols, performance benchmarks, and robust regulatory frameworks to achieve scalable and secure blockchain-integrated IoT solutions, and provides emerging trends and future research directions for the integration of blockchain technology into the IoT ecosystem.</p
Politics Over Prejudice? Explaining the Surprising Decline of Anti-Chinese Sentiment in Indonesia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full texthttps://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/7975</p
Alcohol’s Harm to Others in Australia: Patterns, Costs, Disparities and Precipitants
No full textThis policy brief summarises the latest estimates of how many people are affected by alcohol’s harm to others. This is the harm from drinking that occurs, not to oneself from one’s own drinking, but from the drinking of others, including intimate partners, family members, friends, coworkers and members of the public. Harm from others’ drinking can occur in multiple ways across Australia in a single year. This research includes information from the 2021 Australian Alcohol’s Harm to Others Survey data, underlining the array of harms people commonly experience. Data from national and state level statistics on harms from health, social assistance, police and justice agencies that respond to harms from others’ drinking are also presented. The response agency data outlines the severe end of the harm spectrum. Our study also provides information from interviews on experiences of participants affected by others’ drinking. Additionally, we present our analyses on the impacts of others’ drinking on quality of life and estimate the economic costs to society of others’ drinking.</p
La Trobe Archaeological Research in Oman: The Archaeology of Out of Africa dispersal events in Oman (2019-2022)
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Dimovski et al., Amphibian dermal patch validation dataset
No full textDataset for validation of dermal patches as a non-invasive tool for monitoring amphibian steroid hormones.</p
Fields of Uncertainty: Climate, extraction, and the struggles of rice farmers in the Philippines
No full textAbstract: As the climate emergency intensifies in the Philippines, extreme weather events increasingly threaten key economic sectors. In response, the government has prioritised infrastructure development, driving up demand for sand and gravel from the extractive industry. This article shares the story of a small agricultural village that was devastated by a super typhoon, forcing rice farmers to sell their land and leading to a rapid expansion of sand and gravel extraction. This situation now endangers the village’s irrigation system, its lifeline for farming. The narrative highlights a critical dilemma: while rebuilding after climate disasters necessitates urgent infrastructure development, extractive industries can exacerbate the vulnerabilities of rural communities.</p