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Deakin University

EducationBurwood, Victoria, Australia
About: Deakin University is a education organization based out in Burwood, Victoria, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 12118 authors who have published 46470 publications receiving 1188841 citations. The organization is also known as: Deakin.


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TL;DR: Policy-based population-wide interventions such as traffic-light nutrition labelling and taxes on unhealthy foods are likely to offer excellent ‘value for money’ as obesity prevention measures.
Abstract: ‘Traffic-light’ nutrition labelling and ‘junk-food’ tax: a modelled comparison of cost-effectiveness for obesity prevention

212 citations

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TL;DR: The potential to remove zinc from aqueous solutions through biosorption using biosolids was investigated in this article, where it was shown that dilute zinc solutions reached equilibrium within 5 h, whereas equilibrium was not reached until 24 h for more concentrated solutions.

212 citations

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TL;DR: The key perceptual principles, namely, retinal photoreception, sensory channels, opponent processing, color constancy, and receptor noise, are discussed, to inform an analytical framework driven by the research question in relation to identifiable viewers and visual tasks of interest.
Abstract: The world in color presents a dazzling dimension of phenotypic variation. Biological interest in this variation has burgeoned, due to both increased means for quantifying spectral information and heightened appreciation for how animals view the world differently than humans. Effective study of color traits is challenged by how to best quantify visual perception in nonhuman species. This requires consideration of at least visual physiology but ultimately also the neural processes underlying perception. Our knowledge of color perception is founded largely on the principles gained from human psychophysics that have proven generalizable based on comparative studies in select animal models. Appreciation of these principles, their empirical foundation, and the reasonable limits to their applicability is crucial to reaching informed conclusions in color research. In this article, we seek a common intellectual basis for the study of color in nature. We first discuss the key perceptual principles, namely, retinal photoreception, sensory channels, opponent processing, color constancy, and receptor noise. We then draw on this basis to inform an analytical framework driven by the research question in relation to identifiable viewers and visual tasks of interest. Consideration of the limits to perceptual inference guides two primary decisions: first, whether a sensory-based approach is necessary and justified and, second, whether the visual task refers to perceptual distance or discriminability. We outline informed approaches in each situation and discuss key challenges for future progress, focusing particularly on how animals perceive color. Given that animal behavior serves as both the basic unit of psychophysics and the ultimate driver of color ecology/evolution, behavioral data are critical to reconciling knowledge across the schools of color research.

211 citations

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Yuncang Li1, Cynthia S. Wong1, Jianyu Xiong1, Peter Hodgson1, Cuie Wen1 
TL;DR: In this paper, the cytotoxicity of titanium and titanium alloying elements in both forms of powder and bulk, using osteoblast-like SaOS(2) cells was assessed.
Abstract: It is commonly accepted that titanium and the titanium alloying elements of tantalum, niobium, zirconium, molybdenum, tin, and silicon are biocompatible. However, our research in the development of new titanium alloys for biomedical applications indicated that some titanium alloys containing molybdenum, niobium, and silicon produced by powder metallurgy show a certain degree of cytotoxicity. We hypothesized that the cytotoxicity is linked to the ion release from the metals. To prove this hypothesis, we assessed the cytotoxicity of titanium and titanium alloying elements in both forms of powder and bulk, using osteoblast-like SaOS(2) cells. Results indicated that the metal powders of titanium, niobium, molybdenum, and silicon are cytotoxic, and the bulk metals of silicon and molybdenum also showed cytotoxicity. Meanwhile, we established that the safe ion concentrations (below which the ion concentration is non-toxic) are 8.5, 15.5, 172.0, and 37,000.0 microg/L for molybdenum, titanium, niobium, and silicon, respectively.

211 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Patrick D. McGorry137109772092
Mary Story13552264623
Dacheng Tao133136268263
Paul Harrison133140080539
Paul Zimmet128740140376
Neville Owen12770074166
Louisa Degenhardt126798139683
David Scott124156182554
Anthony F. Jorm12479867120
Tao Zhang123277283866
John C. Wingfield12250952291
John J. McGrath120791124804
Eduard Vieta119124857755
Michael Berk116128457743
Ashley I. Bush11656057009
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
2023162
2022676
20215,123
20204,513
20193,981
20183,543