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Arts and Humanities
Enterprising Women and War Profiteers
Kit Candlin discusses free women of colour, who were able to navigate the revolutionary turmoil in the Caribbean, self-fashion their own lives and profit from division and conflict.
Was Federation motivated by federalism?
Greg Melleuish discusses the development of Australian federalism over time, and how the Australian colonies came to develop their own distinctive versions of responsible government.
The Scientific Manager and the FBI
Diana Kelly discusses Walter Polakov; his life, scientific management and his association with the FBI.
From Kiev Across All Russia
Heather Coleman discusses the 1888 commemoration of the 900th anniversary of the Christianization of Rus’ in Kiev.
The politics of suffering: from the survivor-witness to humanitarian witnessing
Carolyn Dean discusses the proliferation of the language of trauma and suffering in the late twentieth century, illustrating the benefit of taking a long historical view.
Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
Darren Dochuk discusses the relationship between religious faith and oil together at the center of America’s rise to global power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Patriots, Royalists, and Terrorists in the West Indies
William Cormack discusses the complex revolutionary struggle in Martinique and Guadeloupe from 1789 to 1802
Armed Citizens: The Road from Ancient Rome to the Second Amendment
Noah Shusterman explains what eighteenth-century militias were and why the authors of the Constitution believed them to be necessary to the security of a free state.
The Making of a Racist
Charles Dew, one of America’s most respected historians of the South turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally committed to segregation.
The Life and Music of George Jeffreys
Jonathan Wainwright discusses the English composer George Jeffreys
Social Sciences
The changing role of the FIRB and the politics of foreign investment in Australia
David Hundt discusses the tensions between the liberal goal of maximising capital inflows and the statist one of ensuring that those inflows are in ‘the national interest’
Data and policy decisions: Experimental evidence from Pakistan
Michael Callen discusses a program in Pakistan that equips government health inspectors with a smartphone app which channels data on rural clinics to senior policy makers.
The exceptionalism of risk: Trump’s Wall and travel ban
Risk has recently become a core aspect of the study and practice of security. William Clapton discusses the division between risk as the normal and securitisation as the exceptional, suggesting this is not as clear as has been suggested in either theory or practice.
Taming Chinese power: decoding the dynamics of Australian foreign policies
Baogang He suggests the concept of taming offers significant intellectual advantages in its reconsideration of Australia’s China policy and has called for Australian scholars and policymakers, to critically rethink Australia’s taming practices and policies.
Rooftop Solar and a Downward-Sloping Supply of Electricity
Andrea La Nauze suggests the supply of electricity by solar households can be downward sloping and that production subsidies may decrease the supply of electricity by solar homes.
Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market
Stefania Albanesi discusses the impact of the pandemic by occupation, gender and family status.
Conflict, ethnicity and gender: A money-burning field experiment in Indonesia
Conflict has been shown to have large and long lasting impacts on ethnic groups. Swee Hoon Chuah discusses the origin of this effect in social capital depreciation when past conflict experience aggravates anti-social behaviour.
Family Stories and an ecological systems approach to family narratives
Robyn Fivush discusses why family stories matter and how they can be used to understand others and construct individual identity.
Redefining Abu Dhabi’s public spaces
Clio Chaveneau discusses how public spaces fulfil a range of social needs and take part in urban social life.
A History of the Bank of England
Charles Bean discusses a history of the Bank of England.
Professional
Coercive control in domestic relationships
Marilyn McMahon discusses the Parliament of New South Wales (NSW) Joint Select Committee on Coercive Control’s inquiry into coercive control in domestic relationships.
Corporate Governance and Responsible Capitalism
Joachim Timlon discusses how companies can compete on trust and deliver value to multiple stakeholders without risking bottom line results.
Some reflections on a research journey in law and society
Martin Chanock discusses his research journey from South Africa, through England, to Africa in the period after decolonisation, and finally to an inter-disciplinary School at La Trobe University.
Cardiac rehabilitation in the paediatric Fontan population
Pierre Boulanger discusses the safety and feasibility of high-intensity interval training via a novel telemedicine ergometer in children with Fontan physiology.
Guidelines for generating effective feedback from e-assessments
Okan Bulut discusses current practices in feedback generation and a new framework for e-assessment that can help produce immediate, customized, and specific feedback for students.
Informing Aspirations in Rural Regions
Sue Kilpatrick discusses increasing access and participation for people living in rural regions.
Drafting Inter-Asian Legalities
Jeremy Kingsley discusses how the map of inter-Asian legalities is being redrawn, blending non-state local rules, domestic state laws, international law, and privatised transnational law.
International business policy in an age of political turbulence
Mark Casson argues that international business studies should be grounded in an integrated view of social science.
‘Al Faza’a’ leadership: Distributed leadership in Jordanian public schools
Reem Hashem discusses a culture-bound leadership practice during the implementation of the education reform for knowledge economy programme and the tensions it holds to the intent of distributed leadership.
The generativity of feminist and environmental cartoons for environmental education research and teaching
Annette Gough discusses the generativity of cartoons in environmental education research and teaching.
Sciences
National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program
Wastewater analysis is widely applied internationally as a tool to measure and interpret drug use within national populations. Cobus Gerber discusses trends in drug consumption across Australia and can identify new sources of threat.
Synthetic-Bioinformatic Natural Product Antibiotics with Diverse Modes of Action
John Chu (朱忠瀚) discusses his work using a synthetic-bioinformatic natural product (syn-BNP) approach, which relies on bioinformatic algorithms followed by chemical synthesis to predict and then produce small molecules inspired by biosynthetic gene clusters.
Linear Regression to Minimize the Total Error of the Numerical Differentiation
It is well known that numerical derivative contains two types of errors. Jengnan Tzeng discusses a new method that estimates truncation error and rounding error at the same time for a given step size.
A network-biology perspective of microRNA function and dysfunction in cancer
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) participate in most aspects of cellular differentiation and homeostasis. Cameron Bracken discusses their role in many pathologies, including cancer.
Effects of nutrient concentration and magnetic field exposure on yeast colony growth
Yeasts exist in communities that expand over space and time to form complex structures and patterns. Daniel Charlebois discusses a lattice-based framework to perform spatial-temporal Monte Carlo simulations of budding yeast colonies exposed to different nutrient and magnetic field conditions.
A roadmap for collection, handling and storage of blood extracellular vesicles
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are intrinsic components of body fluids. Aled Clayton discusses the urgent need to improve standardization and reproducibility of EV research
Emergence and control of complex behaviors in driven systems of interacting qubits with dissipation
Progress in the creation of large-scale, artificial quantum coherent structures demands the investigation of their nonequilibrium dynamics when strong interactions, even between remote parts, are non-perturbative. Alexander Balanov discusses how the dynamics of a driven system of several quantum elements changes with increasing number of elements.
Mind the gap: Signal movement through plasmodesmata is critical for the manifestation of SAR
Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is a plant defense response in which an initial localized infection affords enhanced pathogen resistance to distant, uninfected leaves. Robin Cameron discusses if cell-to-cell movement through plasmodesmata is required for long-distance movement of DIR1 during SAR.
Multiplicative orders of Gauss periods and the arithmetic of real quadratic fields
Florian Breuer discusses divisibility conditions on the multiplicative orders of elements of the form ζ + ζ − 1 in a finite field.
Microswimmer Propulsion by Two Steadily Rotating Helical Flagella
Many theoretical studies of bacterial locomotion adopt a simple model for the organism consisting of a spheroidal cell body and a single corkscrew-shaped flagellum that rotates to propel the body forward. Henry Shum extended the model by considering two flagella attached to the cell body and rotating about their respective axes.
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