The University of Wollongong Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health was formed in 2013 following an organisational restructure. It comprised an amalgamation of the former Faculty of Science, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences.This series is followed by SMAH Papers: Part B. Related series: Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive); Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (Archive); Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sicences - Papers (Archive).

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Papers from 2018

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Investigating compound flooding in an estuary using hydrodynamic modelling: A case study from the Shoalhaven River, Australia, Kristian Kumbier, Rafael Cabral Carvalho, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, and Colin D. Woodroffe

How do weather and terrain contribute to firefighter entrapments in Australia?, Sebastien Lahaye, Jason J. Sharples, Stuart Matthews, Simon Simon Heemstra, Owen F. Price, and Rachel Badlan

Rise of the zombie institution, the failure of mental health nursing leadership, and mental health nursing as a zombie category, Richard Lakeman and Luke J. Molloy

Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Psychometric Properties of the Multidimensional Acculturative Stress Scale, Samuel Lapkin and Ritin S. Fernandez

Exploring Nursing Students' Perspectives of a Novel Point-of-View Disability Simulation, Tracy Levett-Jones, Natalie Govind, Jacqueline Pich, Kerry Hoffman, Samuel Lapkin, Sarah Jeong, Danielle Noble, Lorna Maclellan, Carol Norton, Melissa Robinson-Reilly, and Samantha Jakimowicz

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Diagnosing COPD and supporting smoking cessation in general practice: Evidenceepractice gaps, Jenifer Liang, Michael J. Abramson, Nicholas Arnold Zwar, Grant Russell, Anne E. Holland, Billie Bonevski, Ajay Mahal, Kirsten Phillips, Paula Eustace, Eldho Paul, Sally Wilson, and Johnson George

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Single-grain dating of potassium-rich feldspar grains: Towards a global standardised growth curve for the post-IR IRSL signal, Bo Li, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts, and Sheng-Hua Li

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Development of a seamless, high-resolution bathymetric model to compare reef morphology around the subtropical island shelves of Lord Howe Island and Balls Pyramid, southwest Pacific Ocean, Michelle Linklater, Sarah Hamylton, Brendan P. Brooke, Scott L. Nichol, Alan Jordan, and Colin D. Woodroffe

Seed size-mediated dormancy thresholds: A case for the selective pressure of fire on physically dormant species, Ganesha S. Liyanage and Mark K. J Ooi

Anthropogenic fragmentation may not alter pre-existing patterns of genetic diversity and differentiation in perennial shrubs, Tanya Llorens, David J. Ayre, and Robert J. Whelan

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Communicating a diagnosis of dementia: A systematic mixed studies review of attitudes and practices of health practitioners, Lee-Fay Low, Margaret McGrath, Kate Swaffer, and Henry Brodaty

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Monitoring the extent of vertical and lateral movement of human decomposition products through sediment using cholesterol as a biomarker, Susan Luong, Shari Forbes, James F. Wallman, and Richard G. Roberts

Incorporating terpenes, monoterpenoids and alkanes into multiresidue organic biomarker analysis of archaeological stone artefacts from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia), Susan Luong, Matthew W. Tocheri, Thomas Sutikna, E Wahyu Saptomo, Jatmiko, and Richard G. Roberts

Empowering clinical supervisors to flourish though critical companionship, Maria T. Mackay, Moira Stephens, Siobhan T. Wragg, Saskia J. Ebejer, and Sharon R. Bourgeois

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Eyes in the sea: Unlocking the mysteries of the ocean using industrial, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), Peter Macreadie, Dianne McLean, Paul Thomson, Julian C. Partridge, Daniel O. B. Jones, Andrew Gates, Mark Benfield, Shaun Collin, David Booth, Luke Smith, Erika Techera, Danielle Skropeta, Tammy Horton, Charitha Pattiaratchi, Todd Bond, and Ashley Fowler

Within population variation in germination response to smoke cues: convergent recruitment strategies and different dormancy types, Hongyuan Ma, Haitao Wu, and Mark K. J Ooi

Arid and humid phases in central Italy during the Late Pleistocene revealed by the Lake Trasimeno ostracod record, Marta Marchegiano, Alexander Francke, Elsa Gliozzi, and Daniel Ariztegui

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Repeated megafloods from glacial Lake Vitim, Siberia, to the Arctic Ocean over the past 60,000 years, Martin Margold, John D. Jansen, Alexandru Tiberiu Codilean, Frank Preusser, Artem L. Gurinov, Toshiyuki Fujioka, and David Fink

Empowering aged care nurses to deliver person-centred care: Enabling nurses to shine, Kelly Marriott-Statham, Maria T. Mackay, Ngaire Brennan, and Jacinta Mackay

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Packaging Data Analytical Work Reproducibly Using R (and Friends), Ben Marwick, Carl Boettiger, and Lincoln Mullen

Palaeo-dust records: A window to understanding past environments, Samuel K. Marx, Balz S. Kamber, Hamish A. McGowan, Lynda Petherick, Grant H. McTainsh, Nicola Stromsoe, James Hooper, and Jan-Hendrik May

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Vegetation history and paleoclimate at Lake Dojran (FYROM/Greece) during the Late Glacial and Holocene, Alessia Masi, Alexander Francke, Caterina Pepe, Matthias Thienemann, Bernd Wagner, and Laura Sadori

Production of 21Ne in depth-profiled olivine from a 54 Ma basalt sequence, Eastern Highlands (37° S), Australia, Erin L. Matchan, Masahiko Honda, Timothy Barrows, David Phillips, Allan Chivas, L Keith Fifield, and Derek Fabel

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A framework for eHealth readiness of dietitians, Kirsty Maunder, Karen L. Walton, Peter G. Williams, Maree Ferguson, and Eleanor J. Beck

eHealth readiness of dietitians, Kirsty Maunder, Karen L. Walton, Peter G. Williams, Maree Ferguson, and Eleanor J. Beck

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Does walkability contribute to geographic variation in psychosocial distress? A spatial analysis of 91,142 members of the 45 and up study in Sydney, Australia, Darren J. Mayne, Geoffrey Morgan, Bin B. Jalaludin, and Adrian E. Bauman

Quaternary volcanic evolution in the continental back-arc of southern Mendoza, Argentina, Venera May, Allan Chivas, Anthony Dosseto, Masahiko Honda, Erin L. Matchan, David Phillips, and David M. Price

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Finding a Space for Women: The British Medical Association and Women Doctors in Australia, 1880-1939, Louella R. McCarthy

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Upper torso pain and musculoskeletal structure and function in women with and without large breasts: A cross sectional study, Deirdre McGhee, Karly Coltman, Diane L. Riddiford-Harland, and Julie R. Steele

Bra band size measurements derived from three-dimensional scans are not accurate in women with large, ptotic breasts, Deirdre McGhee, Lauren Ramsay, Celeste Coltman, Sheridan A. Gho, and Julie R. Steele

The threatened status of the hollow dependent arboreal marsupial, the Greater Glider (Petauroides volans), can be explained by impacts from wildfire and selective logging, Christopher M. McLean, Rodney P. Kavanagh, Trent D. Penman, and Ross A. Bradstock

Understanding the Global Scientific Value of Industry ROV Data to Quantify Marine Ecology and Guide Offshore Decommissioning Strategies, Dianne McLean, Peter Macreadie, D J. White, Paul Thomson, Ashley Fowler, Andrew Gates, Mark Benfield, Tammy Horton, Danielle Skropeta, Todd Bond, David Booth, Erika Techera, Chari Pattiaratchi, S Collins, Daniel O. B. Jones, Luke Smith, and Julian C. Partridge

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Impact of the 2015 wildfires on Malaysian air quality and exposure: A comparative study of observed and modeled data, M Mead, S Castruccio, Mohd Talib Latif, Mohd Shahrul Mohd Nadzir, Doreena Dominick, A Thota, and P Crippa

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Exercise and psychological benefits for older people, Rebekkah Middleton, Lorna Moxham, and Dominique R. Parrish

Motivation to engage in therapeutic recreation programmes for older people with diabetes, Rebekkah Middleton, Lorna Moxham, and Dominique R. Parrish

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Parasite metacommunities: Evaluating the roles of host community composition and environmental gradients in structuring symbiont communities within amphibians, Joseph Mihaljevic, Bethany J. Hoye, and Pieter Johnson

Rewilded mammal assemblages reveal the missing ecological functions of granivores, Charlotte Mills, Chris Gordon, and Mike Letnic

Using intuition or a formal palliative care needs assessment screening process in general practice to predict death within 12 months: A randomised controlled trial, Geoffrey (Geoff) Mitchell, Hugh E. Senior, Joel J. Rhee, Robert S. Ware, Sharleen Young, Patrick C. K Teo, Scott Murray, Kirsty Boyd, and Josephine M. Clayton

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Validation and Comparison of a Model of the Effect of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Wetlands, Laura Mogensen and Kerrylee Rogers

Estimates of rhizosphere priming effects are affected by soil disturbance, Gabriel Y.K Moinet, Andrew J. Midwood, John E. Hunt, David Whitehead, Kirsten Hannam, Meaghan Jenkins, Mark J. Brewer, Mark A. Adams, and Peter Millard

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The role of naloxone in the opioid crisis, Jody Morgan and Alison L. Jones

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Positive ageing on our mind - an initiative called AFIA (Age Friendly Illawarra Alliance), Lorna Moxham

Employment as a predictor of mental health, psychological distress, anxiety and depression in Australian pre-registration nursing students, Lorna Moxham, Ritin S. Fernandez, Bora Kim, Samuel Lapkin, Wilma ten Ham-Baloyi, and Abbas S. Al Mutair

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Dynamic topography of passive continental margins and their hinterlands since the Cretaceous, R. Dietmar Muller, Rakib Hassan, Michael Gurnis, Nicolas Flament, and Simon E. Williams

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Therapeutic alliance in dietetic practice for weight loss: Insights from health coaching, Annaliese Nagy, Anne T. McMahon, Linda C. Tapsell, Frank P. Deane, and Danielle Arenson

A philosophy of rivers: Equilibrium states, channel evolution, teleomatic change and least action principle, Gerald C. Nanson and He Qing Huang

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Self-organized nanostructure modified microelectrode for sensitive electrochemical glutamate detection in stem cells-derived brain organoids, Babak Nasr, Rachael Chatterton, Jason Yong, Pegah Jamshidi, Giovanna M. D'Abaco, Andrew R. Bjorksten, Omid Kavehei, Gursharan Chana, Mirella Dottori, and Efstratios Skafidas

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Reviewing research priorities in weed ecology, evolution and management: A horizon scan, P Neve, J N. Barney, Y Buckley, Roger D. Cousens, Sonia Graham, N R. Jordan, A Lawton-Rauh, M Liebman, M B. Mesgaran, M Schut, J Shaw, J Storkey, B Baraibar, R S. Baucom, M Chalak, D Z. Childs, S Christensen, H Eizenberg, C Fernandez-Quintanilla, Kris French, Melanie Harsch, S Heijting, L Harrison, D Loddo, M Macel, N Maczey, A Merotto Jr, D Mortensen, J Necajeva, D A. Peltzer, J Recasens, M Renton, M Riemens, M Sonderskov, and M Williams

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Island-hopping study shows the most likely route the first people took to Australia, Kasih Norman

An Early Colonisation Pathway Into Northwest Australia 70-60,000 Years Ago, Kasih Norman, Josha Inglis, Christopher Clarkson, J Tyler Faith, James Shulmeister, and Daniel Harris

The origins and early elaboration of projectile technology, Corey O'Driscoll and Jessica C. Thompson

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Characteristics of greenhouse gas concentrations derived from ground-based FTS spectra at Anmyeondo, South Korea, Young-Suk Oh, Samuel Takele Kenea, Tae-Young Goo, Kyu-Sun Chung, Jae-Sang Rhee, Mi-Lim Ou, Young-Hwa Byun, Paul O. Wennberg, Matthaus Kiel, Joshua P. DiGangi, G S. Diskin, Voltaire A. Velazco, and David W. T Griffith

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Interglacial-glacial climatic signatures preserved in a regressive coastal barrier, southeastern Australia, Thomas S. Oliver, David Kennedy, Toru Dr Toru Tamura, Colin V. Murray-Wallace, Teresa Konlechner, Paul Augustinus, and Colin D. Woodroffe

The impact of oral probiotics on vaginal Group B Streptococcal colonisation rates in pregnant women: A pilot randomised control study, Paula Olsen, Moira J. Williamson, Victoria Traynor, and Christos Georgiou

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Ectothermic telomeres: It's time they came in from the cold, Mats M. Olsson, Erik Dr Erik Wapstra, and Christopher R. Friesen

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Pre-conception maternal erythrocyte saturated to unsaturated fatty acid ratio predicts pregnancy after natural cycle frozen embryo transfer, Christopher C. Onyiaodike, Heather Murray, Ruiqi Zhang, Barbara J. Meyer, Fiona Jordan, Elizabeth A. Brown, Robert JB Nibbs, Helen Lyall, Naveed Sattar, Scott M. Nelson, and Dilys J. Freeman

Striatal changes in Parkinson disease: An investigation of morphology, functional connectivity and their relationship to clinical symptoms, Conor Owens-Walton, David D. Jakabek, Xiaozhen Li, Fiona A. Wilkes, Mark Walterfang, Dennis Velakoulis, Danielle Van Westen, Jeffrey C. L Looi, and Oskar Hansson

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Terrestrial laser scanning to quantify above-ground biomass of structurally complex coastal wetland vegetation, Christopher Owers, Kerrylee Rogers, and Colin D. Woodroffe

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Dietetics students' construction of competence through assessment and placement experiences, Claire Palermo, Janeane Dart, Andrea Begley, Eleanor J. Beck, Rachel Bacon, Judith Tweedie, Lana Mitchell, Judith Maher, Danielle Gallegos, Meredith A. Kennedy, Jane Kellett, Claire Margerison, Ruth Crawford, and Wendy Stuart-Smith

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Exploring approaches to dietetic assessment of a common task across different universities through assessment moderation, Claire Palermo, E Volders, S Gibson, Meredith A. Kennedy, A Wray, J Thomas, Mary Hannan-Jones, Danielle Gallegos, and Eleanor J. Beck

Fire severity drives variation in post-fire recruitment and residual seed bank size of Acacia species, Harrison Palmer, Andrew J. Denham, and Mark K. J Ooi

The last interglacial (MIS 5e) sea level highstand from a tectonically stable far-field setting, Yorke Peninsula, southern Australia, Tsun-You Pan, Colin V. Murray-Wallace, Anthony Dosseto, and Robert P. Bourman

New ages from Boomplaas Cave, South Africa, provide increased resolution on late/terminal Pleistocene human behavioural variability, Justin Pargeter, Emma Loftus, Alex Mackay, Peter Mitchell, and Brian A. Stewart

The onset of Late Paleolithic in North China: An integrative review of the Shuidonggou site complex, China, Fei Peng, Jialong Guo, Sam C. Lin, Huimin Wang, and Xing Gao

Evidence of quarrying at the iron age site of Torre d'en Galmés, Menorca, Spain, Amalia Perez-Juez and Paul Goldberg

Origins of The Santa Maria And Vandenberg Coastal Dune Sheets (~100-0 ka) Under Changing Sea Levels, Shoreline Orientations and Wave Directions: Long-Term Records of Coastal Sand Supply in South-Central California, USA, Curt D. Peterson, Christopher Ryan, Jack Meyer, David M. Price, and Steve W. Hostetler

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Open-air preservation of miniaturised lithics: experimental research in the Cederberg Mountains, southern Africa, Natasha Phillips, Justin Pargeter, Marika Low, and Alex Mackay

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Empowerment: The experience of Recovery Camp for people living with a mental illness, Caroline Picton, Christopher F. Patterson, Lorna Moxham, Ellie K. Taylor, Dana J. Perlman, Renee M. Brighton, and Tim Heffernan

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Differential-Mobility Spectrometry of 1-Deoxysphingosine Isomers: New Insights into the Gas Phase Structures of Ionized Lipids, Berwyck L. J Poad, Alan T. Maccarone, Haibo Yu, Todd W. Mitchell, Essa M. Saied, Christoph Arenz, Thorsten Hornemann, James Bull, Evan J. Bieske, and Stephen J. Blanksby

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Online Ozonolysis Combined with Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry Provides a New Platform for Lipid Isomer Analyses, Berwyck L. J Poad, Xueyun Zheng, Todd W. Mitchell, Richard D. Smith, Erin S. Baker, and Stephen J. Blanksby

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Acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity of chemical constituents isolated from Miliusa thorelii, Thanika Promchai, Tongchai Saesong, Kornkanok Ingkaninan, Surat Laphookhieo, Stephen G. Pyne, and Thunwadee Ritthiwigrom

A Systematic Review of the Efficacy of Interventions that Aim to Increase Self-Compassion on Nutrition Habits, Eating Behaviours, Body Weight and Body Image, Hania Rahimi-Ardabili, Rebecca Reynolds, Lenny Vartanian, Leigh McLeod, and Nicholas Arnold Zwar

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A reassessment of mycophenolic acid as a lead compound for the development of inhibitors of chikungunya virus replication, Adel Rashad, Johan Neyts, Pieter Leyssen, and Paul A. Keller

A MIS 9/MIS 8 speleothem record of hydrological variability from Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.), Eleonora Regattieri, Giovanni Zanchetta, Ilaria Isola, Petra Bajo, Natale Perchiazzi, Russell N. Drysdale, Chiara Boschi, John C. Hellstrom, Alexander Francke, and Bernd Wagner

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Anisotropic functionalization of upconversion nanoparticles, Wei Ren, Shihui Wen, Sherif Tawfik, Qian Su, Gungun Lin, Lining Ju, Michael J. Ford, Harshad Ghodke, Antoine M. van Oijen, and Dayong Jin

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A systematic review of chronic disease management interventions in primary care, Rebecca Reynolds, Sarah May Dennis, Iqbal Hasan, Jan Slewa, Winnie Chen, David Tian, Sangeetha Bobba, and Nicholas Arnold Zwar

Two million years of flaking stone and the evolutionary efficiency of stone tool technology, Zeljko Rezek, Harold L. Dibble, Shannon P. McPherron, David R. Braun, and Sam C. Lin

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Why we shouldn't be too quick to blame migratory animals for global disease, Alice Risely, Bethany J. Hoye, and Marcel Klaassen

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Migratory animals feel the cost of getting sick: A meta-analysis across species, Alice Risely, Marcel Klaassen, and Bethany J. Hoye

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Active migration is associated with specific and consistent changes to gut microbiota in Calidris shorebirds, Alice Risely, David Waite, Beata Ujvari, Bethany J. Hoye, and Marcel Klaassen

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Timelines for human evolution and dispersals, Richard G. Roberts and Zenobia Jacobs

Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the stories of frequent attenders to the Emergency Department, Karin Robinson, Elizabeth Lucas, Paul Van Den Dolder, and Elizabeth J. Halcomb

Coral reef habitat mapping: A combination of object-based image analysis and ecological modelling, Chris M. Roelfsema, Eva Kovacs, Juan Ortiz, Nicholas Wolff, David P. Callaghan, Magnus Wettle, Mike Ronan, Sarah Hamylton, Peter J. Mumby, and Stuart R. Phinn

Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation changes in the arid Andean piedmont of central Argentina inferred from sediment stable carbon isotopes and C/N ratios, Leandro D. Rojo, Adriana Mehl, Marcelo Zárate, Adriana García, and Allan Chivas

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Impact of climate change and human activity on soil landscapes over the past 12,300 years, Leo Rothacker, Anthony Dosseto, Alexander Francke, Allan Chivas, Nathalie Vigier, Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, and Davide Menozzi

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Fine Particle Emissions From Tropical Peat Fires Decrease Rapidly With Time Since Ignition, Christopher Roulston, Clare Paton-Walsh, T E L Smith, Elise-Andree Guerette, S Evers, C Yule, G Rein, and G R. Van Der Werf

Dysregulation of microRNA biogenesis machinery and microRNA/RNA ratio in skeletal muscle of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis mice, Aaron Russell, Lobna Ghobrial, Shyuan T. Ngo, Justin J. Yerbury, Evelyn Zacharewicz, Roger Chung, and Severine Lamon

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MHC diversity and female age underpin reproductive success in an Australian icon; the Tasmanian Devil, Tracey Russell, Simeon Lisovski, Mats M. Olsson, Gregory Brown, Rebecca Spindler, Amanda Lane, Tamara Keeley, Chris Hibbard, Carolyn Hogg, Frederic Thomas, Katherine Belov, Beata Ujvari, and Thomas R. Madsen

Oncogenesis as a Selective Force: Adaptive Evolution in the Face of a Transmissible Cancer, Tracey Russell, Thomas R. Madsen, Frederic Thomas, Nynke Raven, Rodrigo Hamede, and Beata Ujvari

Climate Change Impacts on the Coastal Wetlands of Australia, Neil Saintilan, Kerrylee Rogers, Jeffrey Kelleway, Emilie-Jane Ens, and D Sloane

Fire intensity drives post-fire temporal pattern of soil carbon accumulation in Australian fire-prone forests, Robert Sawyer, Ross A. Bradstock, Michael Bedward, and R John Morrison

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Soil carbon in Australian fire-prone forests determined by climate more than fire regimes, Robert Sawyer, Ross A. Bradstock, Michael Bedward, and R John Morrison

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Aerosol optical properties and trace gas emissions by PAX and OP-FTIR for laboratory-simulated western US wildfires during FIREX, Vanessa Selimovic, R Yokelson, Carsten Warneke, J M. Roberts, Joost A. De Gouw, J Reardon, and David W. T Griffith

Factorization of the coherency matrix of polarization optics, Colin J. Sheppard, Aymeric Le Gratiet, and Alberto Diaspro

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Enhancing the defensibility of examiners' marks in high stake OSCEs, Boaz Shulruf, Arvin Damodaran, Philip Jones, Sean Kennedy, George Mangos, Anthony J. O'Sullivan, Joel J. Rhee, Silas Taylor, Gary Velan, and Peter Harris

Moving nurse educators towards transcendence in simulation comfort, Tracey Simes, Sherre Roy, Barbara O'Neill, Colleen Ryan, Samuel Lapkin, and Elizabeth Curtis

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Making nursing matter - using actionable data to improve patient outcomes, Jenny Sim

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Measuring the outcomes of nursing practice: A Delphi study, Jenny Sim, Patrick A. Crookes, Kenneth D. Walsh, and Elizabeth J. Halcomb

Palynology of the Last Interglacial Complex at Lake Ohrid: palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic inferences, Gaia Sinopoli, Alessia Masi, Eleonora Regattieri, Bernd Wagner, Alexander Francke, O Peyron, and Laura Sadori

Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago, Eugene Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C. Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine Lane, T Matthews, and Curtis W. Marean