University Of Queensland Research Articles

Measuring the success of programmes of care for people living with dementia: a protocol for consensus building with consumers to develop a set of Core Outcome Measures for Improving Care (COM-IC)

IntroductionThe Core Outcome Measures for Improving Care (COM-IC) project aims to deliver practical recommendations on the selection and implementation of a suite of core outcomes to measure the effectiveness of...

Preface

The 7th ASEAN Regional Conference on Animal Production (ARCAP) 2023 was held on October 20 – 23, 2023 with a theme of Food Security Across ASEAN Region: Sustaining Livestock Production and Health and a subtheme of Food Security and Livestock Health and Production, Especially Surrounding the Southeast Asia Region. The present conference was initiated by Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU), The Malaysian Society of Animal Production (MSAP) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).The conference covered eight major topics in the related fields such as (i) Sustainable livestock & feed production, (ii) Food/Feed security, (iii) Animal nutrition & feeding, (iv) Farm management, (v) Animal health and welfare, and (vi) Animal breeding & genetics, (vii) Animal & feed biotechnology, (viii) Livestock social economy.Considering the growing number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia and other nations, which have a substantial influence on our work culture, social gatherings, and travel limitations, the committee decided to hold as a hybrid conference. Opening ceremony followed by presentation by invited speakers was done offline in Universitas Sumatera Utara Indonesia Malaysia Thailand Growth Triangle (IMTGT) Room. All Parallel Presentation was carried out online from Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Sumatera Utara.Notable invited speakers presented the current issue and challenge in their respective field of studies. Special thanks to Prof. Anjas A Samsudin from Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia; Prof. Max H. Shelton from University of Queensland, Australia; Dr. Peregrino G. Duran from Central Luzon State University, Philippines; Dr. Nurzainah Ginting from Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia; Dr. Yuan Yu-Lin from National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Dr. Parsaoran Silalahi from Universitas HKBP Nommensen, Indonesia and Dr. Desianto B. Utomo from Indonesian Feedmills Association (IFMA), Indonesia.We received 40 papers in total through the online submission system for abstract (https://ocs.usu.ac.id/arcap2023/arcap2023) and Morressier as conference submission management system for full papers from several countries in which were accepted for presentation. Selected papers (40 articles) will be published in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Sciences by IOP Publishing (Bristol, UK). We hope that the publication will aider either academic or farmers surround Southeast Asia Region in relating with Animal Husbandry.Finally, the organizing committee would like to express our most profound appreciation to Directorate of Research, Technology and Community Service, Ministry Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, Republic of Indonesia, Rector of Universitas Sumatera Utara, Vice-Rectors, Dean and Vice Deans of Faculty of Agriculture, Nusantara Plantation Limited Company 2, Charoen Pokphand Limited Company, Indoneia for their support and cooperation during the conference. We also extended our sincere appreciation to the whole 7th ARCAP 2023 organizing committee for their enthusiastic participation, diligent labor, and constructive collaboration for 7th Arcap 2023. We hope to see you again at the next 8th ARCAP 2025 event in the meanwhile.List of Organizing Committee is available in this Pdf.

Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy

Pierre Gassendi: Humanism, Science, and the Birth of Modern Philosophy

Leveraging Technology for Animal Physiology Practicals

In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, animal physiology practical classes at The University of Queensland, were conducted fully online using Lt, a cloud-based platform, ensuring that students were able to achieve the intended course outcomes. However, in 2021, practical classes had to be redesigned to cater for both on-campus and online deliveries and this project investigated the continued use of Lt in animal physiology practical classes focusing on student satisfaction and performance for both on-campus and online students. Student satisfaction with the redesigned practicals were high across all constructs - overall structure, pre-lab materials and incorporation of group work (on-campus students) while student performance outcomes showed an improved performance compared to before the use of Lt and showed no significant differences in the performance of the on-campus versus online cohorts. The findings gave confidence in using Lt as a foundation for delivering animal science practicals equitably for both cohorts.

Evolutionary science in denominational colleges at Australian universities, 1907–2020

ABSTRACT This article examines the place of evolutionary science in protestant and Catholic residential colleges associated with Australian public universities across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although faith-based universities are a relatively recent phenomenon in Australia, a quasi-federal model of secular teaching and accrediting universities linked to church-run non-teaching residential colleges developed with the founding of the first Australian university, the University of Sydney, in the 1850s. The model was subsequently replicated, with local variations, across the first generation of Australian public universities. This interface between mainstream secular and more selective religious spaces makes the colleges an instructive setting in which to examine science-and-religion ideas in institutional context. As principally pastoral, residential institutions the colleges did not have curricula or significant research programmes of their own, but student publications produced within them shed light on the attitudes and beliefs of students and some staff regarding evolutionary science, and science more generally, in relation to religion. The article analyses a corpus of more than 700 student publications published between 1907 and 2020 and associated with the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland, the three institutions with the most developed collegiate systems. The analysis shows the complexity of ways in which evolutionary science was understood within the denominational colleges, and the limits set to those understandings by college authors’ plural institutional contexts.

Opportunities in Multiple Sclerosis Care Partner Research: An Interview

INTRODUCTION Guest editor Marcia Finlayson, PhD, OT Reg (Ont), OTR, is a professor in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. She began her career as a clinical occupational therapist and shifted to a research career focused on generating and sharing knowledge to help people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS) lead healthy, meaningful lives with control over their participation in daily activities, at home and in the community, particularly as they age. For this special issue on caregiving in MS, she chose to interview Kenneth Pakenham, PhD, emeritus professor of clinical and health psychology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. For more than 4 decades, he has investigated the psychological well-being welle-eing of caregivers, including coping mechanisms and innovative interventions to improve their quality of life. His work is dedicated to applying positive health frameworks to chronic illnesses and to empowering caregivers and individuals with MS. Together, their expertise illuminates the multifaceted challenges and opportunities in MS caregiving research and understanding.

Lean Six Sigma implementation in medical school.

426 Background: While medical schools teach advanced medical, surgical, and radiation interventions in oncology, we often don’t teach students how to identify deficits in existing modalities and methodically implement change. Medical students are underexposed to concepts of QI, and many medical educators feel that tools like Lean Six Sigma are too advanced or esoteric for student involvement. A gap exists to create a QI curriculum that invites medical student engagement, while also allowing them to develop self-efficacy to begin a lifelong career of continue process improvement in medicine. Methods: We previously demonstrated that a Value-based Care competition, can serve as a medical school QI curriculum with high levels of student engagement in both local and national competitions. Teams of students collaborate with key stakeholders at their hospital to implement QI projects through the Lean Six Sigma process improvement methodology. This competition is currently completing its third year, and recruiting for the 4th cycle. We performed a multi-year review of student engagement, the degree to which students progressed down the steps of Lean Six Sigma, and the outcomes of QI projects developed through these competitions. Results: For the 2022-23 competition cycle, six medical schools across the country (MCG, UCSD, Florida State University (FSU), Baylor, Penn State, and even internationally at the University of Queensland ran local competitions, representing a 50% growth over the previous cycle (four schools total in 2021-22). Of these schools, four of them are now participating in the National Competition to implement their projects using Lean Six Sigma; representing a 33% growth compared to last year (three schools total in 2021-22). In terms of implementation tools, students have successfully achieved IRB approvals, development of implementations timetables, defining and measuring controls and outcomes, and recruiting patients. Conclusions: Despite being busy with many other components of their medical education, and despite the entirely voluntary nature of the competition, there continues to be a strong appetite amongst medical students to participate in quality improvement. Students have demonstrated their willingness and ability to learn and implement QI projects using Lean Six Sigma. We have also employed a ‘see one, do one, teach one’ model of peer mentorship to create a sustainable multi-year, multi-school, and now multi-national curriculum that continues to grow.

Critical thinking activities in fluid mechanics – A case study for enhanced student learning and performance

We describe the implementation of Critical Thinking Activities (CTA) designed to encourage ‘critical thinking’ in an undergraduate engineering Fluid Mechanics course. Critical thinking can be a vague term both difficult to grasp and even more so to measure. Using a longitudinal case study we analyse quantitative and qualitative data collected over three years to explore the overarching question: “how do we know students have thought critically?”. We investigate and evaluate the quantitative data that emerged from students undertaking the CTA and the impact of this on their performance. The results indicate that students who performed well in the CTA achieved a final grade for the course of 5 or more (Credit, Distinction or High Distinction). Qualitative data from student feedback demonstrated that the CTA was a significant factor in reinforcing student learning, enabling us to identify areas of misconception and areas in which they could improve. While the study is situated in an engineering context at the University of Queensland, the paper is an exemplar of embedded and sustainable practice, is equally transferable to other disciplinary contexts.

Proceedings of the 2022 Computational Techniques and Applications Conference

CTAC 2022 Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 29 November – 2 December, 2022 The 21st Biennial Computational Techniques and Appli- cations Conference (CTAC-2022) was hosted by the School of Mathematical Sciences and Centre for Data Science at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. The ANZIAM Special Interest Group in Computational Mathematics is responsible for this series of conferences, the first of which was held in 1981. The meeting provides an interactive forum for researchers interested in the de- velopment and use of computational methods applied to engineering, scientific and other problems. Participants of the conference are able to submit a short article based on their presentation for publication in this special section of the ANZIAM Journal (Electronic Supplement). The ed- itors, Tim Moroney, Qianqian Yang, Vivien Challis and Elliot Carr, thank the referees whose efforts have helped improve the quality of these conference proceedings. This Special Section of the ANZIAM Journal (Electronic Supplement) contains the refereed conference papers. The eight keynote presentations were as follows. Chris Drovandi, Queensland University of TechnologyLikelihood-Free Bayesian Inference and Model Mis- specification Jennifer Flegg, The University of Melbourne Mathematical Modelling of Avascular Tumour Growth Frances Kuo, The University of New South Wales Lattice Meets Lattice—Application of Lattice Cuba- ture to Models in Lattice Gauge Theory Christian Lubich, University of Tuebingen Convergent evolving surface finite element algo- rithms for geometric evolution equations Marco Palombo, Cardiff University Perspectives on AI-powered brain microstructure imaging Emilie Sauret, Queensland University of TechnologyA hybrid Lattice Boltzmann approach for simulating viscoelastic instabilities and elastic turbulence Karen E Willcox, The University of Texas at Austin Predictive Digital Twins: From Aerospace Engineer- ing to Computational Oncology Andy Wilkins, CSIROThe Importance of Mathematics The presentation by Andy Wilkins was a public lecture. The conference attracted 76 registered participants, and featured a total of 54 contributed talks. CTAC2022 Organising Committee (QUT) • Tim Moroney • Qianqian Yang • Ian Turner• Vivien Challis • Elliot Carr• Sarie Gould CTAC2022 Scientific Committee • Kevin Burrage (QUT)• Vivien Challis (QUT)• Frances Kuo (UNSW)• Bishnu Lamichhane (Newcastle) • Quoc Thong Le Gia (UNSW) • Fawang Liu (QUT)• William Mclean (UNSW) • Tim Moroney (QUT)• Linda Stals (ANU)• Ian Turner (QUT)• Qianqian Yang (QUT) Acknowledgements QUT acknowledges the Turrbal and Yugara, as the First Nations owners of the lands where QUT now stands. We pay respect to their Elders, lores, customs and creation spirits. We recognise that these lands have always been places of teaching, research and learning. QUT acknowledges the important role Aborigi- nal and Torres Strait Islander people play within the QUT community. We gratefully acknowledge support from the following sponsors: School of Mathematical Sciences, QUT Centre for Data Science, QUT Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc Mathematics of Computation and Optimization (MoCaO) special interest group of the Australian Mathematical Society The ANZIAM Student Support Scheme

Leveraging technology for animal anatomy practicals

To deliver a comprehensive learning experience while shifting to online teaching due to COVID-19, educators at The University of Queensland (Australia) adopted Lt, a cloud-based platform, to overcome the challenges of delivering animal anatomy practicals. A two-phased study was conducted to evaluate the use of Lt for both online and on-campus students and its impact on student satisfaction and performance. Phase 1 investigated students’ satisfaction with the practical experience, with online students expressing greater satisfaction across all constructs related to the practical: design, Lt, and feedback. Phase 2 investigated end-of-course evaluations, with all evaluated items increasing from 2019 to 2020 and 2021, along with student performance showing no difference between the online and on-campus students for practical assessment items and final examinations. The findings give confidence for technology adoption to enhance the learning experience for online students and provides an exemplar for similar adoption for practical delivery across other science disciplines.

Collaborating on Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) groups: librarians, clinicians and researchers integrating research into practice

During 2021, the newly appointed Director of for the Metro North Health Surgical, Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) approached the Senior Manager, Faculty Services at The University of Queensland (UQ) Library to invite librarians to work on Critically Appraised Topic (CAT) groups. The purpose of the CAT groups is to bring together experts in their field to work on a clinical question. The Library welcomed this opportunity to partner with STARS to contribute to making informed evidence-based decisions.

Collecting antiquities in wartime

Abstract During the First World War (1914–1918), many service personnel collected souvenirs from the countries in which they served, but the collection of antiquities by service personnel remains a neglected area of research. Between 2019 and 2021, the R. D. Milns Antiquities Museum at the University of Queensland and the Queensland Museum collaborated in a research partnership to learn more about the antiquities collecting activities of First World War personnel from Queensland, Australia. In addition to reporting on the preliminary results of that pilot study, this paper also begins to address the question of why antiquities appealed to service personnel. Most artefacts in this study are from the private collections donated to the Queensland Museum and from three privately owned collections. Artefacts are mostly small ‘curios’ such as scarabs, figurines, coins and fragments of monuments collected in various theatres of the war.

NIRS, fruit quality and Central Queensland University

NIRS, fruit quality and Central Queensland University

Preface

The 5th Symposium of International Waste Working Group – Asian Regional Branch (IWWG-ARB) is a forum to provide an academic discussion to encourage and support economic and ecological (sustainable and integrated) waste management worldwide and to promote scientific advancement in the field. This symposium was held at Mercure Hotel, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, starting from 6th to 8th March 2023. More challenges emerge in a current more volatile, uncertain, complex, ubiquity environment, so it needs innovation and new approach. Innovation and a new approach to overcoming challenges should also be informed for decision-makers, aimed at influencing legislation, education, or providing practical applications. This purpose will be accomplished by learning from the past and analyzing the present, so that it will develop new ideas, scenarios, and visions for the future.With those objectives, the IWWG was conceived as a think tank based on scientific principles but essentially application-oriented. In addition, the IWWG has a light, non-bureaucratic organization which allows us to focus on a variety of subjects, react efficiently to relevant problems in the field of solid waste management, and communicate effectively within the professional community. We would like to thank the keynote and invited speakers for their contributions to this symposium. The following is:Prof. Pinjing He (Tongji University, China)Prof. Jae Young Kim (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)Prof. Agamutu Pariatamby (Sunway University)Prof. Evangelos Gidarakos (IWWG President)Dr. Costas Velis (University of Leeds, UK)Prof. William Clarke (University of Queensland, Australia)Prof. Sandyha Babel (SIIT Thammasat University)Dr. Benno Rahardyan (Bandung Institute of Technology)The entire organizing committee that made this event successful was:List of Organizer, Outline of Committee are available in this Pdf.

Participate CP 2: optimising participation in physically active leisure for children with cerebral palsy – protocol for a phase III randomised controlled trial

IntroductionChildren with cerebral palsy (CP) participate less in physical activities and have increased sedentary behaviour compared with typically developing peers. Participate CP is a participation-focused therapy intervention for children with...

Global Research on International Students’ Intercultural Adaptation in a Foreign Context: A Visualized Bibliometric Analysis of the Scientific Landscape

As the volume of research on intercultural adaptation of international students (IAIS) increases significantly over the past decades, a systematic review of the diverse literature on a global scale and its development process becomes essential. This study conducted a thorough bibliometric analysis for the knowledge domain of IAIS research using relevant articles ( N = 1,126) from 1990 to 2022 in Thompson Reuter’s Web of Science (WoS) database-Core Collection. This work aims to analyze the advances and trends on the subject using a set of bibliometric analytical tools, including Bibliometrix, VOSviewer, and BibExcel. The research findings demonstrate that the number of published articles projects an ostensible upward trend in terms of temporal distribution, especially since 2007. The USA occupies a leading position in terms of the largest publication output and a greater influence therewith. The most productive journal, author(s), and institution(s) are International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Brown L and Wang KT, and the University of Hong Kong and the University of Queensland, respectively. Collaboration in this field has become mainstream but still needs to be enhanced among researchers and at national and institutional levels. The frequency and co-occurrence analysis of keywords reveals that the main keywords for discussion include international students, adjustment, acculturation, adaptation, acculturative stress, identity, social support, stress, experiences, and depression, while cultural intelligence and intercultural sensitivity, culture shock and intercultural challenges, and integration and migration serve as the emerging themes. The study would aid academic researchers and policymakers in understanding the intricacies of IAIS and identifying areas that require further investigation.

Study protocol: implementing and evaluating a trauma-informed model of care in residential youth treatment for substance use disorders.

Comorbidity between Substance Use Disorders and trauma/post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is common, particularly within residential treatment services. Comorbidity is associated with poorer treatment retention and treatment outcomes. Integrated treatment approaches are increasingly recommended but are still under examined in residential treatment services. This study will implement and evaluate a novel model of trauma-informed care (TIC) in a youth (18-35 years) residential substance use treatment service. A single-armed, phase 1 implementation trial will be conducted in one residential treatment service. The model, co-developed with staff, incorporates: (i) workforce development in TIC through staff training and clinical supervision; adaptions to the service (ii) policies, procedures, and physical settings and (iii) treatment program adaptions (in delivery style and content) to be more trauma-informed; (iv) client screening and feedback for trauma and PTSD at service entry; and (v) the provision of support, referral and/or trauma-focused therapy to those with PTSD. Service outcomes will include adherence to the TIC model and client treatment completion. Client substance use and mental health measures will be collected at service entry, and 1-, 3-, 6- and 12-months follow up. Staff outcomes, including workplace satisfaction, burnout, and fatigue, as well as perceptions and confidence in delivering TIC will be collected at baseline, and at 3-, 6-, 12- and 18-months following training in the model. The sustainability of the delivery of the TIC model of care will be evaluated for 12 months using service and staff outcomes. The study has received ethical approval by the University of Queensland (Approval number: 2020000949). The results will be disseminated through publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, presentations at scientific conferences, and distributed via a report and presentations to the partner organization.Clinical trial registration: ACTRN12621000492853.

A scientometric analysis of mine closure research

Mine closure is a global challenge. To date, there has been no scientometric analysis of the mine closure literature. This paper uses a scientometric analysis to assess the literature on mine closure. We assessed 2078 papers published since 2002. There was a rapid increase in the research output, with 76% of the papers published in the last 10 years. We identify the journals and co-citation index of journals associated with mine closure research. Geography journals are prominent with 20% of papers, but there is also evidence of journals linked to mining and interdisciplinary journals. Four clusters of universities are working on mine closure (the University of Western Australia, the University of Queensland, the University of the Free State and the University of Alberta) and the co-citation index groups journals into three clusters (environmental and ecological concerns, environmental health, multidisciplinary issues). The co-citation index groups the themes into 20 clusters, which we have regrouped into five themes (health, environment, geography, society, and regulation/politics). We draw seven conclusions. Although original social science research focused on the impact of mining, (1) there is clear evidence of work focusing on mine closure and (2) this work is rapidly increasing. The geography remains important (3) but has negative effects. Despite the geographical focus, ideas and concepts are substantially integrated across the available work (4). Focusing on geographical journals might prevent work from being published in multidisciplinary journals (5). Papers linking theory and mine closure are limited (6) and the available work needs careful thought on planning closures in cities and communities (7).

Development of 3D-ED/MicroED facility at the University of Queensland

Development of 3D-ED/MicroED facility at the University of Queensland

Peter and the Beanstalk: tackling the giant questions of soybean nodulation.

The following is an edited interview, carried out by the Journal Development Editor of BioTechniques, Ashling Cannon, with Peter Gresshoff (University of Queensland, UQ; Brisbane, Australia). Peter is a plant developmental geneticist, using molecular and genetic tools to understand the complexities of gene networks during the control of nodule formation in legumes. He was the Director of the Center of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research and is now an Emeritus Professor at UQ.