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Performers play a crucial role in the creative process by bringing various copyrightable subject matters, such as songs, dances, dramatic performances, and films (cinematographic works), to life. However, unlike other stakeholders, including lyricists, music composers, and production companies, performers often do not receive equivalent property rights. This paper contends that despite certain protections granted to performers under copyright laws in many countries, including India and Australia, there remain gaps and limitations that hinder the full recognition and protection of performers’ rights. This situation leads to questions regarding the nature of performers’ rights and how the law distinguishes neighbouring rights within the copyright law framework. The primary aim of this paper is to assess whether the existing framework of performers’ rights principally benefits the performers themselves or leans more towards a market-centred approach favouring producers. This analysis, particularly focused on the contexts of India and Australia, builds a case for the recognition of coauthorship rights for performers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cane-fibre measurement is a routine analysis for the sugar manufacturing process as it is used to define the cane quality and the factory juice extraction performance. In Australia and some other countries, the percentage of fibre is also used for cane-payment purposes. To determine fibre% cane, methods such as International Commission for Uniform Methods of Sugar Analysis (I CUM SA) GS5/7-1 (the official method), bag diffusion and press methods have been developed iteratively. Near Infrared Spectroscopy method (NIRS), as an advanced technique, provides rapid analysis and requires less labour. However, the dependence on primary laboratory analysis for calibration models impedes its wide acceptance. Therefore, traditional cane-fibre measurement is still an essential component of the measurement system for the sugar industry. This paper reviews the methods available for fibre analysis: the ICUMSA method, the bag-diffusion family of methods, the press family of methods and the Hamna method. Data comparing the methods is used to assess the relative merits of each method and to determine their repeatability. The analysis found that the newly developed CFA01 cane fibre analyser has the best repeatability. The cane fibre machine and traditional bag diffusion methods, other members of the bag-diffusion family of measurements, also performed well. The press method and the Hamna method also have lower repeatability than the ICUMSA official method. The best performing methods are those that require a single sample of cane for analysis and require minimal or no assumptions in the fibre calculation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Originally published by Cosmos as Solar vehicle's papertrail around Australia Stuart McBain with the printed solar panels helping powerhis trip around Australia. If you are UK sustainable energy advocate Stuart McBain,you seek out the latest in solar technology from theUniversity of Newcastle, New South Wales, and charge aroundAustralia in an electric car to test it out. Stuart McBain and Professor Paul Dastoor with the EV thatis bringing the solar power message to schools aroundAustralia - and test-driving printed solar panels. [Extracted from the article]

This paper presents a series of multi-stage hybrid memristor-CMOS ternary combinational logic stages that are optimized for reducing silicon area occupation. Prior demonstrations of memristive logic are typically constrained to single-stage logic due to the variety of challenges that affect device performance. Noise accumulation across subsequent stages can be amortized by integrating ternary logic gates, thus enabling higher density data transmission, where more complex computation can take place within a smaller number of stages when compared to single-bit computation. We present the design of a ternary half adder, a ternary full adder, a ternary multiplier, and a ternary magnitude comparator. These designs are simulated in SPICE using the broadly accessible Knowm memristor model, and we perform experimental validation of individual stages using an in-house fabricated Si-doped HfOx memristor which exhibits low cycle-to-cycle variation, and thus contributes to robust long-term performance. We ultimately show an improvement in data density in each logic block of between $5.2\times - 17.3\times $ , which also accounts for intermediate voltage buffering to alleviate the memristive loading problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: Financial crime costs the world economy more than $1tn. Yet policing responses continue to apply traditional law enforcement methods to detect, identify and disrupt criminal actors in financial systems. The purpose of this paper is to challenge existing thinking around law enforcement practices in financial crime within an Australian context, by presenting an alternative model grounded in management cybernetics and systemic design (SD), which the author terms "cyber-systemics". Design/methodology/approach: This study reflects on prior research work across cybernetics and SD to suggest an integrated approach as a conceptually useful basis for considering regulation of financial crime, and to demonstrate utility using a case study. Findings: The Fintel Alliance between financial crime regulators and financial institutions in Australia demonstrates a strong connection with, and example of, this study's cyber-systemic regulatory framework. It will be demonstrated that the form of co-design framework offered under cyber-systemics is both consistent with cybernetic and SD literature, but also a means of avoiding regulatory disconnection in times of change and disruption. This study also invites consideration of how future forms of governance might be structured using cyber-systemics as a conceptual backbone. Research limitations/implications: This work proposes a novel methodology at odds with traditional law enforcement ways of doing, inevitably requiring a change of regulatory mindset. In addition, this paper is purely conceptual and therefore more research on an empirical basis is required to prove the potential benefits in a real-world regulatory environment. Originality/value: This is (to the author's knowledge) the first conceptual exploration of blending SD and management cybernetics in the field of criminal law regulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paediatric nurses have a crucial role in health promotion. During Australia's devastating bushfire season, nurses and physicians had heightened concern for children with chronic poorly controlled asthma due to long months of smoky haze. The introduction of the subcutaneous drug, Omalizumab, usually administered two to four weekly, was life-saving to a small cohort of paediatric patients. Omalizumab is a recombinant deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) derived from a humanised monoclonal antibody that selectively binds to human immunoglobulin E (IgE). IgE is the immune mediator involved in the clinical presentation of asthma in children with wheezing, coughing and shortness of breath, caused by the inflammatory responses and narrowing of the airways. Previously, this has resulted in children with severe allergic asthma having acute deterioration, prolonged hospital admissions, and increased risk of mortality, affecting childhood experiences and reducing the quality of life. Furthermore, this burdens healthcare systems with extended bed stays and healthcare costs. This paper is a report of two paediatric patients who have battled chronic asthma from early childhood, but since the trial of Omalizumab, they have significantly improved their asthma control. It is essential to acknowledge the drug's effectiveness and promote its use among health professionals. Nurses are at the frontline and are vital in providing knowledge and education. Alongside physicians, nurses are essential promoters of treatment. The multifaceted role of paediatric nurses as carers, advocates and health promoters places them in a crucial position to improve the quality of care for children, young people and their families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology has enabled advances in the understanding of sediment provenance, transportation pathways, and the depositional age of sedimentary packages. However, sample selection and processing can result in biasing of detrital zircon age spectra. This paper presents a novel approach using in situ detrital zircon U–Pb measurements on thin-sections to provide greater confidence in maximum depositional ages and provenance interpretations. New U–Pb age data of 310 detrital zircon grains from 16 thin-sections of the Triassic Mungaroo Formation from two wells in the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia, are presented. Whilst detrital zircon age modes are consistent with previous work, there are some differences in the relative proportions of age modes, which are partly attributed to a lack of small grains in hand-picked grain mounts. The relative sample bias is quantified via grain size comparison of dated zircon (in thin-sections or hand-picked mounts) relative to all zircons identified in bulk-mounts and thin-sections. The youngest age mode (c. 320–195 Ma) is consistent with an active margin to the north. The dated zircons reveal a single grain defined maximum depositional age of 197 Ma for the upper part of the Mungaroo Formation, suggesting deposition may have continued into the Early Jurassic. Supplementary material: Additional figures, tables, datasets and programming scripts are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5628911 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article examines the benefits of exploring what the Bible says about human flourishing, as understanding of wellbeing in the Global North, particularly in affluent middle-class Australia, is said to be far removed from a biblical view. It discusses a passage in Deuteronomy suggesting that human flourishing is a consequence of obeying the commandments of God. It also outlines how the idols of self and power shape mainstream human wellbeing in middle-class Australian culture.

In Australia in the 1990s, kids were taught that Australia's multiculturalism was not just official government policy. ASIA Buried in Australia's 202122 federal budget papers, released in May, was a prediction that devastated the million Australians who, like me, live abroad and the millions more at home who love them: The national borders are likely to remain closed until at least mid-2022. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the association of employee loyalty and wage growth. It pays attention to a research paper by Nathan Deutscher, a Treasury official in Australia, which found that higher rates of job-hopping in local Australian labour markets were associated with faster wage growth both for workers who switched jobs.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses papers within the issue, including the growth in free societies in Australia, a geopolitical framework to examine the relationship between Australia and China, and a reflection on the changes in Australia.

Sternal wound infections (SWIs) result in substantial costs to the Australian healthcare system, and implementing new technologies, such as the single-patient electrocardiogram (spECG) system for CABG[1] monitoring - shown to reduce the SWI rate - "is likely to benefit patients and reduce costs", say the authors of a paper published in I ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research i . The study[2] used a systematic review of research, with cost data, on CABG-related surgical site infections (SSIs) in Australia published since 2000. [Extracted from the article]