Ever-increasing population growth and rapid industrialisation have placed enormous pressure on the environment. To address this situation, environmental authorities around the world have introduced strict monitoring programs ...

Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency, duration and severity of drought in many regions. Predicting how forest ecosystems will respond to increased drought is a key issue in forest planning and forest ...

Australia has a mixed public–private health system. The core of its funding is universal public health insurance supplemented by voluntary private health insurance (PHI), which despite being smaller, remains critical to ...

Globally, cities are rapidly becoming denser, increasingly accommodating the majority of the world’s population. Australian cities have followed these global trends, with cities becoming denser to house urban population ...

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen and the causative agent of gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection. Over 100 million cases of gonorrhoea are reported globally each year. Antibiotics have been widely ...

Glaucoma, a characteristic type of optic nerve degeneration in the posterior pole of the eye, is a common cause of irreversible vision loss and the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. As an optic neuropathy, ...

Environment and energy security issues derived from the immoderate consumption of finite fossil fuels have promoted the discovery of environment friendly and sustainable energy conversion strategy. The burning of fossil ...

Nowadays, knowledge reasoning is gaining more attentions in Artificial Intelligence, which stimulates the development of modern information systems. As the key ingredient of new generation of information systems, ontology-based ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors which influence First Peoples students’ decisions to access and engage with GUMURRII Student Success Unit, the Indigenous Education Unit at Griffith University, ...

Needleless connectors (NCs) are medical devices which connect to the end of vascular access devices. Since their introduction in the 1990s, in response to the increasing incidence of needle stick injuries experienced by ...