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Background: Most rural populations experience significant health disadvantage. Community-engaged research can facilitate research activities towards addressing health issues of priority to local communities. Connecting scholars with community based frontline practices that are addressing local health and medical needs helps establish a robust pipeline for research that can inform gaps in health provision. Rural Health Projects (RHPs) are conducted as part of the Doctor of Medicine program at the University of Queensland. This study aims to describe the geographic coverage of RHPs, the health topic areas covered and the different types of RHP research activities conducted. It also provides meaningful insight of the health priorities for local rural communities in Queensland, Australia. Methods: This study conducted a retrospective review of RHPs conducted between 2011 and 2021 in rural and remote Australian communities. Descriptive analyses were used to describe RHP locations by their geographical classification and disease/research categorisation using the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems – 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes and the Human Research Classification System (HRCS) categories. Results: There were a total of 2806 eligible RHPs conducted between 2011 and 2021, predominantly in Queensland (n = 2728, 97·2%). These were mostly conducted in small rural towns (under 5,000 population, n = 1044, 37·2%) or other rural towns up to 15,000 population (n = 842, 30·0%). Projects mostly addressed individual care needs (n = 1233, 43·9%) according to HRCS categories, or were related to factors influencing health status and contact with health services (n = 1012, 36·1%) according to ICD-10 classification. Conclusions: Conducting community focused RHPs demonstrates a valuable method to address community-specific rural health priorities by engaging medical students in research projects while simultaneously enhancing their research skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Comprehensive Set of Asymptotic Properties for a Meaningful Aggregation of Malmquist Indices The Malmquist productivity index (MPI) has become one of the most widely used tools for analyzing dynamic performance of decision-making units. Whereas accounting for economic weights of individual units in aggregations of indices is emphasized in the literature, statistical theory for constructing confidence intervals and performing hypothesis tests based on weighted aggregation of the MPI are still unavailable. In "Statistical Inference for Aggregation of Malmquist Productivity Indices," Pham, Simar, and Zelenyuk use a novel approach (based on the uniform delta method) to develop new asymptotic theory (including new central limit theorems) for aggregate MPIs as the basis for the statistical inference and test. They also verify the finite-sample performance of their approach via extensive Monte Carlo experiments and provide an illustration using real-world data. The Malmquist productivity index (MPI) has gained popularity among studies on the dynamic change of productivity of decision-making units (DMUs). In practice, this index is frequently reported at aggregate levels (e.g., public and private firms) in the form of simple, equally weighted arithmetic or geometric means of individual MPIs. A number of studies emphasize that it is necessary to account for the relative importance of individual DMUs in the aggregations of indices in general and of the MPI in particular. Whereas more suitable aggregations of MPIs have been introduced in the literature, their statistical properties have not been revealed yet, preventing applied researchers from making essential statistical inferences, such as confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. In this paper, we fill this gap by developing a full asymptotic theory for an appealing aggregation of MPIs. On the basis of this, meaningful statistical inferences are proposed, their finite-sample performances are verified via extensive Monte Carlo experiments, and the importance of the proposed theoretical developments is illustrated with an empirical application to real data. Funding: M. Pham acknowledges support from an Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship. V. Zelenyuk acknowledges financial support from the University of Queensland and the Australian Research Council [Grant FT170100401]. Supplemental Material: The e-companion is available at https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.2424. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Blue finance research has recently made significant progress, but comprehensive research is still in its infancy. This paper established a consolidated database of 223 articles on blue finance and used CiteSpace for visualization analysis. Firstly, blue finance develops in embryonic, fluctuating, and stable growth phases. The main research countries are the US, Australia, England, and Canada. The University of California and the University of Queensland are the main research institutions. Marine Policy and Science are highly cited journals. A few core authors shape blue finance research with limited collaboration. Secondly, three themes were established by categorizing ten keyword clusters: financial instruments and mechanisms for marine conservation and sustainability, policy frameworks for adaptation and climate resilience, and policy frameworks for adaptation and climate resilience. Thirdly, contingent valuation, marine protected areas, and the blue economy are the main research hotspots. The results' theoretical contribution is identifying the progress of blue finance and its potential directions. Researchers, managers, and policymakers can use it to promote economic growth and ocean sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To reflect on the achievements, milestones and challenges arising in the two decades since the Centre for Public International and Comparative Law ('CPICL') was established, different recollections and interpretations of events are inevitable. As guest editors of this Special Issue of the University of Queensland Law Journal ('UQLJ'), marking CPICL's first twenty years, we share our thoughts on the Centre's establishment, its goals, evolution, and achievements under three CPICL Directors and eight Heads of School. We are grateful to the UQLJ for the opportunity to showcase recent and dynamic research in the fields of public, international, and comparative law through this Special Issue., I IN THE BEGINNING In the years preceding 2003, Suri Ratnapala, (2) a newly-minted professor in the TC Beirne School of Law, together with John Foster (3) (School of Economics), [...]

This paper applies bibliometric and integrative review approaches to examine the pattern of growth, conceptual and social structure of hospitality and tourism internship research using 167 articles retrieved from Scopus database published between 1986 and 2020. The contribution of journals, scholars, institutions, and countries in the production of hospitality and tourism internship research was assessed. Descriptive statistics of the bibliographic data was conducted using "Bibliometrix" tool whiles VOSviewer software was used for network analysis. Findings indicate that hospitality and tourism internship research is about three decades old however, the knowledge domain remains underdeveloped. Busby G, University of Queensland and the USA are the most productive author, institution and country, respectively in hospitality and internship research. Research efforts have focused on internships and students' attitudes toward hospitality work, benefits of internships to students, industry and institutions, and internship satisfaction. There has been less international collaboration in the knowledge domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nanostructured electrode materials have attracted enormous attention because of their kinetic advantages endorsed by nanoscale regime. Densification is required to improve their volumetric densities for practical applications but is challenged by the loss of kinetic features. In this work, a nano‐densification strategy is developed by co‐sintering nanosized titanate with a phosphate agent and acid‐treated carbon black. Experimental studies reveal that the formation of Ti─O─P bonds energetically facilitates the dissociation of crystal water in titanate, enabling lower‐temperature consolidation of the nanostructures that avoids grain growth. Simultaneously, phosphorylation improves charge carrier concentration and electron conductivity of the titanate. Together with the incorporation of hydrophilic carbon black, the treated nano‐titanate electrode reaches a bulk‐level compaction density of 2.35 g cm−3. As an anode for Li‐ion batteries, the densified electrode shows improved electrochemical performance with a specific capacity of 88.4 mA h g−1 at 20 A g−1. When pairing with a high‐voltage LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 cathode, the hybrid device demonstrates an outstanding combination of energy and power densities. Open access publishing facilitated by The University of Queensland, as part of the Wiley ‐ The University of Queensland agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essential component of the academic knowledge infrastructure is the services provided by the library to its community of students, staff, and stakeholders. The University of Queensland library recently transitioned from a service model of individual discipline focused librarians to one where Outreach Librarians and Learning & Research Librarians deliver services with an explicit team approach, enabling the future vision of the Library to be seen as an essential component of the academic knowledge infrastructure of UQ. The transition took place over an extended 18-month period, with ten project groups formed from the librarian group to focus on service review and to reconsider the operational processes to implement the required changes. This paper is about the whole approach of transition to change, and the intention of sharing so others will find practical help, as methodical management of the transition was a key factor to enable the change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In its most recent report, the Academy of the Social Sciences Australia (ASSA, 2021: 10) identified social inequality as a "grand challenge" for the social sciences, arguing that social scientists have a pivotal role to play in "understanding, addressing and guiding us towards a narrowing of a two‐tier society." Nevertheless, the social sciences continue to be regularly positioned as "soft" and esoteric in relation to the natural sciences, while also sustaining disproportionate funding cuts. In this article, we—a multidisciplinary group of social science researchers forming part of the Inequalities and Social Action Research Cluster based at The University of Queensland (Australia)—draw on the existing literature and our diverse experiences to reflexively consider how academic social scientists might play the active role that ASSA foresees to address social inequalities into the future. This includes by countering the inherent imperialism of the Western academy itself. We explore the roles, barriers and tensions that social scientists face and conclude by offering a framework of key strategies to improve the translational impacts of social science research for addressing social inequalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews Alex Macdonald's final public lecture, delivered at the Third National Clergy-Doctor Conference in Brisbane, Australia, from August 14 to 17, 1969, shortly before his death. It focuses on Macdonald's lecture, titled "The Place of Trade Unions in Care and Healing," was on the evolving role of trade unions in addressing social and economic issues, with a progressive stance on topics like Aboriginal rights, social services, and employment.

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

X3/R is a new large-scale free-piston-driven dual-mode shock expansion tube, developed and operated collaboratively by the University of Queensland (UQ) and Australia's Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG). The facility can be converted between a long-duration reflected shock tunnel (RST), a super-orbital expansion tube (X-mode), and a non-reflected shock tube (NRST). In RST mode, the facility is currently capable of producing 600 mm diameter Mach 7 test flows at 25–50 kPa dynamic pressure for more than 10 ms. In expansion tube mode, the facility can reach enthalpies up to 80 MJ/kg for test times on the order of 500–1000 μ s. This paper presents the new facility, summarizes its current operational capabilities, and discusses key the technical challenges overcome during its development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The goal of this exploratory study was to examine the relationships between sleep consistency and workplace resilience among soldiers stationed in a challenging Arctic environment. Materials and Methods: A total of 862 soldiers (67 females) on an Army base in Anchorage, AK, were provided WHOOP 3.0, a validated sleep biometric capture device and were surveyed at onboarding and at the conclusion of the study. Soldiers joined the study from early January to early March 2021 and completed the study in July 2021 (650 soldiers completed the onboarding survey and 210 completed the exit survey, with 151 soldiers completing both). Three comparative analyses were conducted. First, soldiers' sleep and cardiac metrics were compared against the general WHOOP population and a WHOOP sample living in AK. Second, seasonal trends (summer versus winter) in soldiers' sleep metrics (time in bed, hours of sleep, wake duration during sleep, time of sleep onset/offset, and disturbances) were analyzed, and these seasonal trends were compared with the general WHOOP population and the WHOOP sample living in AK. Third, soldiers' exertion, sleep duration, and sleep consistency were correlated with their self-reported psychological functioning. All analyses were conducted with parametric and non-parametric statistics. This study was approved by The University of Queensland Human Research Ethics Committee (Brisbane, Australia) Institutional Review Board. Results: Because of the exploratory nature of the study, the critical significance value was set at P < .001. Results revealed that: (1) Arctic soldiers had poorer sleep consistency and sleep duration than the general WHOOP sample and the Alaskan WHOOP sample, (2) Arctic soldiers showed a decrease in sleep consistency and sleep duration in the summer compared to that in the winter, (3) Arctic soldiers were less able to control their bedroom environment in the summer than in the winter, and (4) sleep consistency but not sleep duration correlated positively with self-report measures of workplace resilience and healthy social networks and negatively with homesickness. Conclusions: The study highlights the relationship between seasonality, sleep consistency, and psychological well-being. The results indicate the potential importance of sleep consistency in psychological functioning, suggesting that future work should manipulate factors known to increase sleep consistency to assess whether improved sleep consistency can enhance the well-being of soldiers. Such efforts would be of particular value in an Arctic environment, where seasonality effects are large and sleep consistency is difficult to maintain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. • Successful implementation of critical thinking activity (CTA). • CTA used problem-based-learning and reflection through integrated feedback loop. • Three year long studyshows significant impact on student learning • Method used is equally transferable to other disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work investigates the implementation of visible to near-infrared high-speed thermography for the measurement of heat flux over blunt-body test models in an expansion tunnel. Recent works have seen success implementing mid-wave infrared thermography in the X2 expansion tunnel at the University of Queensland in Earth and Mars entry flow conditions. In this work, the performance of three visible to near-infrared high-speed cameras (Phantom v2012, v611 and TMX7510 models) is investigated in the context of thermography and a calibration methodology is presented. Visible to near-infrared high-speed cameras offer several benefits over the infrared cameras used in previous works, primarily increased acquisition rates which are imperative for the short test times encountered in these facilities. Resistive heating of the test model allows surface temperatures to be measured at a rate of 1 MHz even in the presence of a radiating shock layer. This is achieved through the careful selection of the following: the test condition which provides the baseline level of flow radiation, the operating wavelength region which can be chosen to avoid most of the remaining flow radiation, and the model pre-heating temperature which is chosen to increase the ratio between surface grey body radiation and the flow radiation. These radiation management strategies can allow the measurement of heat flux in low to medium enthalpy hypersonic ground test experiments in Earth's re-entry conditions and ice giant entry conditions within the visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: In 2009, Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana, and The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, formed a medical school partnership. The rationale for UQ to enter this partnership was to strengthen its already strong international multicultural environment and enrich the domestic Australian student experience. The rationale for Ochsner Health was to raise its academic stature and to train high-quality physicians. This partnership is unique among US international partnerships because the intent is for graduates to practice in the United States. Methods: A new 10-year agreement began in January 2020 with further enhancements to the program. This article describes the educational philosophy informing the partnership, the programmatic design, challenges faced and overcome, and outcomes from the first 10 graduating cohorts of this medical program. Results: The UQ-Ochsner Clinical School partnership posed many challenges. UQ faced a major cultural shift to implement United States Medical Licensing Examination step preparation. Student recruitment challenges and state-specific accreditation concerns had to be solved. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic presented unique challenges with the strict prohibition on travel into Australia. Challenges were addressed, and the tenth graduating class completed training in December 2021. More than 850 medical students have graduated from the program, with 30% staying in Louisiana for postgraduate training. The overall first-attempt match rate of 95% exceeds the US allopathic average. Although graduates have faced stigma from their designation as international medical graduates, they have successfully matched in every specialty and in almost every US state. Conclusion: The UQ-Ochsner Clinical School partnership has been successful for the institutions involved and the students who have graduated. The overarching aim of the partnership, “train globally to serve locally,” has endured. Through their training in this partnership, UQ-Ochsner Clinical School graduates bring a unique global outlook to their roles while helping to fill the increasing need for physicians in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]