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Evaluation of the Young Deadly Free Peer Education Training Program: Early Results, Methodological Challenges, and Learnings for Future Evaluations
(Frontiers, 2019-04-05)Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience disproportionately higher rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and blood borne viruses (BBVs) when compared with the non-Indigenous population. ... -
Groundwater Modelling Uncertainty : Summary of the Groundwater Modelling Uncertainty Workshop - Australasian Groundwater Conference 10th July 2017, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
(Flinders University / National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, 2019-04-01)This report provides a summary of the outcomes from the 2017 national groundwater modelling uncertainty workshop convened by the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training (NCGRT), and the subsequent modelling ... -
The trajectory of functional decline over the last 4 months of life in a palliative care population: A prospective, consecutive cohort study
(Sage, 2019-03-27)Background: Understanding current patterns of functional decline will inform patient care and has health service and resource implications. Aim: This prospective consecutive cohort study aims to map the shape of ... -
Using knowledge management in building a culture of research: a case study of an Australian academic library
(De Gruyter Saur / IFLA, 2015-12)Knowledge management (KM) has been much discussed in the library and informationscience literature, from papers describing its potential for the profession (Broadbent, 1997;Butler, 2000; Nelson, 2008; Sarrafzadeh, Martin ... -
Cryptic lineage differentiation among Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in the northwest Indian Ocean
(Elsevier, 2017-12-30)Phylogeography can provide insight into the potential for speciation and identify geographic regions and evolutionary processes associated with species richness and evolutionary endemism. In the marine environment, highly ... -
Interventions targeting the prescribing and monitoring of vancomycin for hospitalized patients: a systematic review with meta-analysis
(Dove Press, 2018-10-31)Purpose: Vancomycin prescribing requires individualized dosing and monitoring to ensure efficacy, limit toxicity, and minimize resistance. Although there are nationally endorsed guidelines from several countries addressing ... -
A data-driven, knowledge-based approach to biomarker discovery: application to circulating microRNA markers of colorectal cancer prognosis
(Springer Nature Publishing AG, 2018-06-01)Recent advances in high-throughput technologies have provided an unprecedented opportunity to identify molecular markers of disease processes. This plethora of complex-omics data has simultaneously complicated the problem ... -
Sustained improvement in vancomycin dosing and monitoring post-implementation of guidelines: Results of a three-year follow-up after a multifaceted intervention in an Australian teaching hospital
(Elsevier, 2018-02)Introduction Despite vancomycin being in use for over half-a-century, it is still not dosed or monitored appropriately in many centers around the world. The objective of this study was to determine the effectiveness of ... -
Adherence to antibiotic guidelines and reported penicillin allergy: pooled cohort data on prescribing and allergy documentation from two English National Health Service (NHS) trusts
(BMJ Publishing group, 2019-03-01)Objective To investigate documentation of antimicrobial allergy and to determine prescribing adherence to local antibiotic guidelines for inpatients with and without reported penicillin allergy treated for infection in a ... -
From practice to research at Flinders University Library: sustaining a research culture
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018-05-03)Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the mechanisms used by Flinders University Library to sustain a culture of research. Flinders University Library has been supporting its librarians to undertake research ... -
Recognising plumbers
(2006-11)The Mutual Recognition Act 1992 is supposed to address the problem of skilled labour licenses being in isolation in each State, plumbing being one of them. The aim is to make it easier for skilled workers to move between ... -
ID security
(2006-05)Slides of a presentation outlining the National Identity Security Strategy and working group structure of the South Australian Government in response to identity-related fraud and theft. -
Demographic changes
(2006-06)Notes of a speech regarding demographic changes, age expectancies, improvements in health care, influences on public policies and services provided by the Government. -
COAG National Reform Agenda: human capital
(2006-09)Challenges for the South Australian Government in the coming years include ageing population, skills shortages, changing international markets, national reform, policies for health and education. -
Central agencies - do they lead or just tread on toes? Leadership or treading on toes?
(2007-05)Central agencies justify their existence by being both required and able to see the big picture, to rise above the constraints of agency boundaries and pursue a whole of government agenda. One would expect that the quality ... -
Recognition of overseas skills
(2006-11)On 10 February 2006, COAG agreed to a new national approach to apprenticeships, training and skills recognition to help alleviate skill shortages currently evident in many parts of the country. COAG decided there was need ... -
ID related fraud cases
(2006-05)A selection of identity-related fraud cases (mid 1990s - early 00s). -
Burkholderia lata Infections from Intrinsically Contaminated Chlorhexidine Mouthwash, Australia, 2016
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018-11)Burkholderia lata was isolated from 8 intensive care patients at 2 tertiary hospitals in Australia. Whole-genome sequencing demonstrated that clinical and environmental isolates originated from a batch of contaminated ... -
Twenty six new species of Leioproctus (Colletellus): Australian Neopasiphaeinae, all but one with two submarginal cells (Hymenoptera, Colletidae, Leioproctus)
(Pensoft, 2018-12-31)Twenty six new species of Australian Leioproctus (subgenus Colletellus) (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) are described: aberrans Leijs, sp. n., alatus Leijs, sp. n., albipilosus Leijs, sp. n., albiscopis Leijs, sp. n., aliceafontanus ... -
Development of an integrated model for the Campaspe catchment: a tool to help improve understanding of the interaction between society, policy, farming decision, ecology, hydrology and climate
(International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2018-06-05)Management of water resources requires understanding of the hydrology and hydrogeology, as well as the policy and human drivers and their impacts. This understanding requires relevant inputs from a wide range of disciplines, ...
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