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    Mechanisms and models of leaf photosystem II high-temperature tolerance in cereals
    (University of New England, 2026-11-01)
    Amoanimaa-Dede, Hanna
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    This dataset accompanies a PhD thesis on photosystem II (PSII) heat tolerance in wheat and barley at the University of New England, Australia. PSII heat tolerance was measured as the critical temperature (Tcrit) marking the onset of the rise in basal chlorophyll fluorescence. Field data include Tcrit, PSII oxygen evolution, dark respiration and grain yield in wheat and barley. Wheat experimental data include phenotypic measurements, RNA-sequencing gene counts, normalised gene expression, homoeologue expression states and triad-to-gene mappings. The spectral dataset contains 3,421 paired measurements of leaf hyperspectral reflectance and Tcrit. Additional Tcrit observations include experimental identifiers and quality-control annotations. These data support analyses of genetic variation in PSII heat tolerance, relationships with physiological traits and yield, gene-expression responses to heatwave exposure, and prediction of Tcrit from leaf reflectance. The data are organised by thesis chapter, with a README, worksheet index, data dictionary, and RNA sample key.
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    Indigenous Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Critical Review of Rock Art Research of the Sydney-Hawkesbury Region Open Coding Data: Emu Cave & Mt Ku-ring-ga By Eloise Kelly Bachelor of Arts (Archaeology) A thesis submitted in fulfilment of Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Department of Archaeology, Classics and History, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England, Armidale
    (University of New England, 2026-08-31)
    Kelly, Eloise
    Rock art is a distinctive expression of human behaviour that provides evidence of the cognitive, social, spiritual, technological, and cultural practices of past societies. Within the Australian context, Indigenous rock art research has predominantly been shaped by Western research frameworks, often prioritising tangible and formal analyses over Indigenous intangible values and perspectives. This has contributed to the marginalisation of Indigenous knowledge systems and reinforced colonial legacies in research theory and practice. Although the importance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is increasingly recognised, insufficient research has placed Indigenous relationships with rock art and Country at the centre of analysis. This thesis examines how researchers have historically engaged with Indigenous communities and intangible culture in Australian rock art research. The research uses a qualitative methodology to analyse a corpus of rock art research materials to explore discourses within the literature. It uses grounded theory methodology, with open and axial coding, to describe what you did here with the sources in a few words. Two case studies within the Sydney-Hawkesbury region of south-eastern New South Wales are the focus of the study: Emu Cave and the Mount Ku-ring-gai Aboriginal Site. The analysis considers how research approaches have engaged with Indigenous communities and intangible values over time. The findings show that researchers have not consistently engaged with Indigenous communities, with engagement acknowledged increasingly after the 2000s. Themes of intangible culture are more commonly noted implicitly with language, and are attributed overtly only once within the sample set. The analysis shows that as Indigenous and community consultation grows, reflecting what? so does consideration of intangible values. Future research on rock art should be engaged with, and where appropriate led by, Indigenous communities, placing exploration of intangible and tangible as equal and interconnected.
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    Strength in Diversity: Supporting the Transition of Neurodivergent Early Career Nurses in Australia – Phase 1 Dataset (Online Qualitative Survey)
    (University of New England, 2026-09-11) ; ; ; ;
    Purdue, Joanne
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    Gilbert, Susan
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    Gageler, Maddison
    This dataset contains de-identified qualitative survey responses collected during Phase 1 of the project Strength in Diversity: Supporting the Transition of Neurodivergent Early Career Nurses in Australia, funded through the UNE Internal Funding Scheme (2026). Phase 1 involved an online qualitative survey administered via Qualtrics with neurodivergent early career nurses (within the first five years of practice) across New South Wales, Australia. The survey explored participants' transition experiences, disclosure decisions, workplace challenges, adaptive strategies, and support needs. Participants were recruited through professional networks including the NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association (NSWNMA) and NSW Health local health districts. Data collection for Phase 1 is complete. Thematic analysis of responses will inform Phase 2 of the study, which involves semi-structured interviews with nursing managers and clinical educators. All data were collected with ethics approval and participation was voluntary and anonymous.
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    Tasmanian film and TV have had a stellar decade. So why is the state gutting its local screen body?
    (The Conversation Media Group Ltd, 2026-08-23)

    In April, Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff announced Brand Tasmania, Screen Tasmania and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery would be folded into the Creative Industries, Sport and Visitor Economy division.

    The decision “to streamline the state’s public service sector” has been known for some time.

    But the latest shocking revelation is that Screen Tasmania, the state’s funding body for film, television and other digital media, has roughly halved in size. It is left with a “skeleton staff” equivalent to less than two full-time employees.

    This decision – which threatens the Tasmanian screen industry’s ability to compete in global and domestic markets – has raised the alarm among local screen creatives.

    Shaun Wilson, council member of the Tasmanian Filmmakers Alliance, expressed fear that such a small screen body would be “just a passive entity” doing little more than “assessing grant applications”.

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    Orgasmic Gushing: where does the fluid come from and how is it produced?
    (Women in Research (WiR), 2005)
    O'Brien, GM
    There are three sexual fluids from women: lubrication (e.g. transudation of fluid across the mucosa of the vagina, and mucus from the greater vestibular glands); female ejaculation (from paraurethral glands); and gushing. Orthodox western medicine and physiology does not yet have a standardized description or explanation for the third, gushing. The present paper proposes that the gushing fluid is a filtrate of plasma, produced by the mechanism known as transudation. This is an additional application for the transudation mechanism, after the well accepted roles in lubrication of the vagina, and in generating serous fluids. The present model proposes that the fluid released in a gush arises from the ventral wall of the vagina due to the presence there of increased surface area of mucosa, dilated arterioles, pressurized venous and lymphatic plexuses, and compression provided by muscle contraction during orgasm.
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    Mapping Long Term Changes in Mangrove Cover and Predictions of Future Change under Different Climate Change Scenarios in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh
    (2018-05-22)
    Ghosh, Manoj Kumer
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    Ground-based readings of temperature and rainfall, satellite imagery, aerial photographs, ground verification data and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) were used in this study. Ground-based meteorological information was obtained from Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) for the period 1977 to 2015 and was used to determine the trends of rainfall and temperature in this thesis. Satellite images obtained from the US Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) website (www.glovis.usgs.gov) in four time periods were analysed to assess the dynamics of mangrove population at species level. Remote sensing techniques, as a solution to lack of spatial data at a relevant scale and difficulty in accessing the mangroves for field survey and also as an alternative to the traditional methods were used in monitoring of the changes in mangrove species composition, . To identify mangrove forests, a number of satellite sensors have been used, including Landsat TM/ETM/OLI, SPOT, CBERS, SIR, ASTER, and IKONOS and Quick Bird. The use of conventional medium-resolution remote sensor data (e.g., Landsat TM, ASTER, SPOT) in the identification of different mangrove species remains a challenging task. In many developing countries, the high cost of acquiring high- resolution satellite imagery excludes its routine use. The free availability of archived images enables the development of useful techniques in its use and therefor Landsat imagery were used in this study for mangrove species classification. Satellite imagery used in this study includes: Landsat Multispectral Scanner (MSS) of 57 m resolution acquired on 1st February 1977, Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) of 28.5 m resolution acquired on 5th February 1989, Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper (ETM+) of 28.5 m resolution acquired on 28th February 2000 and Landsat Operational Land Imager (OLI) of 30 m resolution acquired on 4th February 2015. To study tidal channel dynamics of the study area, aerial photographs from 1974 and 2011, and a satellite image from 2017 were used. Satellite images from 1974 with good spatial resolution of the area were not available, and therefore aerial photographs of comparatively high and fine resolution were considered adequate to obtain information on tidal channel dynamics. Although high-resolution satellite imagery was available for 2011, aerial photographs were used for this study due to their effectiveness in terms of cost and also ease of comparison with the 1974 photographs. The aerial photographs were sourced from the Survey of Bangladesh (SOB). The Sentinel-2 satellite image from 2017 was downloaded from the European Space Agency (ESA) website (https://scihub.copernicus.eu/). In this research, elevation data acts as the main parameter in the determination of the sea level rise (SLR) impacts on the spatial distribution of the future mangrove species of the Bangladesh Sundarbans. High resolution elevation data is essential for this kind of research where every centimeter counts due to the low-lying characteristics of the study area. The high resolution (less than 1m vertical error) DEM data used in this study was obtained from Water Resources Planning Organization (WRPO), Bangladesh. The elevation information used to construct the DEM was originally collected by a Finnish consulting firm known as FINNMAP in 1991 for the Bangladesh government.
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    Reinforced Behavioral Variability and Sequence Learning Across Species
    (Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI), 2012)
    Doolan, Kathleen
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    McEwan, James
    Previous research shows that reinforcement of variable responding will facilitate sequence learning in rats (Neuringer, Deiss & Olson, 2000) but may interfere with sequence learning in humans (Maes & van der Goot, 2006). The present study aimed to replicate and extend previous research by assessing the role of behavioral variability in the learning of difficult target sequences across 3 species: humans (n = 60), hens (n = 18) and possums (n = 6). Participants were randomly allocated to one of three experimental conditions (Control, Variable, Any). In the Control conditions sequences were only reinforced if they were the target sequence, in the Variability conditions sequences were concurrently reinforced on a Variable Interval 60-s schedule if the just entered sequence met a variability criterion, and in the Any condition sequences were concurrently reinforced on a Variable Interval 60-s schedule for any sequence entered. The results support previous findings with animals and humans; hens and possums were more likely to learn the target sequence in the Variability condition, and human participants were more likely to learn the target sequence in the Control condition. Possible explanations for differences between the performance of humans and animals on this task will be discussed.
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    The drivers and consequences of change to the physical character of waterholes on an Australian dryland river
    This dataset provides all the raw and analysed data for the thesis titled 'The drivers and consequences of change to the physical character of waterholes on an Australian dryland river'.
    The data has been divided into four folders that are aligned with the data chapters for the thesis. These being: (Ch 2) waterhole mapping, (Ch 3) floodplain gullies, (Ch 4) sediment transport and (Ch 5) fish.
    A README file is provided for each chapter which contains a description of the individual datasets and a list of files that make up each dataset.
    The data in this archive is a combination of data obtained from desktop studies as well as field work on the Darling River (i.e., the fish data).
    Further, fish data were collected on the Darling River between Bourke and Wilcannia. Waterhole mapping was undertaken on the Barwon-Darling between Walgett and Wilcannia. Gully mapping was undertaken on the Barwon-Darling River between Mungindi and Wilcannia. Sediment transport capacity was assessed at five sites between Collarenebri and Tilpa.
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    A Review into Effective Classroom Management and Strategies for Student Engagement: Teacher and Student Roles in Today’s Classrooms
    (Redfame Publishing Inc, 2019-12)
    Franklin, Hayley
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    A teacher's role encompasses far more than just imparting curricula outcomes to their students: they need to equip students with the necessary tools to experience social and academic success both inside the classroom and beyond it. Teachers need to empower students with the means to critically analyse the world around them in order to develop into critical independent thinkers. Students need to be proficient in utilising skills associated with higher levels of thinking, that will empower them with the ability to identify, analyse and evaluate the infinite volume of information available through our rapidly changing digital world. Just as teachers need to take responsibility for the various methods of teaching and instruction in the classroom, it is essential for students to take ownership of the learning process, to ensure future success in university environments, where sustained personal effort and metacognitive skills are fundamental to academic success. The object of the review of the literature surrounding the roles of teacher and student, effective classroom management strategies, and successful evidence-based teaching and learning pedagogies, is to assist new and experienced teachers in the promotion of a positive classroom experience for all.
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