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Private landcare benefits for farmers and nature
This study looks into private landcare and its benefits for people and nature. For us, private landcare means any land management that promotes healthy landscapes and wildlife. Our results will produce information for agencies, like the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust, on ways to help landholders benefit more from nature management, including conservation agreements and tree planting. You are invited to participate in a chat (interview) that will take approximately 1-hour. During our chat, you will be asked questions about the impacts of your farm management choices on your life and the natural environment and what support you need to improve the health of the environment on your farm.
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The role of campus design on physical activity, health, and well-being
We are conducting a short survey about campus design on health, well-being and physical activity. This survey is being undertaken as part of a QUT research project, led by the QUT Human-Building Interaction Group (HBI), to better understand if and how the design of the built environment contributes to staff health and wellbeing on university campuses.
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Individual differences and online media participation
Social media participation is an emerging area where different individual factors can influence engagement and behaviour which can impact on one’s well-being.
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Immediate effects of various shoe and shoe insert designs on in-shoe plantar pressures in women with foot pain
This project is investigating the effects of various shoe and shoe insert designs on pressures under the foot in women with foot pain, as well as their effect on foot pain and comfort.
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Social technologies to support older adult connection and wellness
Having recently experienced prolonged periods of lockdown, how people interact with social technologies and what they want from it has changed. This research aims to investigate older adults’ feelings towards communicating with an ambiguous entity (it is unclear if the entity is AI or a human) to understand the relationship between people, other people, virtual agents, and bots in a digital space.
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After Covid, Symptoms & Impacts to Everyday Activities and Driving
We know that Covid-19 is having longer term effects on some people who recover from the initial infection. We are hoping by finding out about these prolonged symptoms and this will deepen our understanding and knowledge base. Additionally, we seek to find out more about the impacts of prolonged symptoms to a person’s abilities to participate in life activities, such as driving. You do not need to have experienced long Covid to contribute, as everyone’s experience helps us know more.
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Effect of low dose atropine on ocular changes during accommodation in children with myopia
We are investigating whether a very dilute concentration of atropine eye drops will affect the changes that occur in the eye’s length and optical quality in children and young adults when they focus at near distances. This will improve our understanding of the effects of low dose atropine eye drops and how they may slow short-sightedness development in children.
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Design and evaluate the acceptance of interaction scenarios between connected and automated vehicles and vulnerable road users (CAVs-VRUs) to improve safety and justice in the transport system
This research will help to design and identify the best connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) and vulnerable road users (VRUs, e.g., pedestrians, cyclists, disabled people and older people) interactions that will be accepted by all road users and will maximise safety and justice in the transport system. This research may lead to a greater understanding of whether CAVs would positively influence the experience of VRUs.
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The Effect of Media Commentary on Sport Spectator Identification of Injury and Attitudes
The Australian National Rugby League (NRL) televises over 200 games of rugby league every year, with entertaining commentary; but how does this commentary effect our attitudes as viewers? We are researching how commentary effects spectators’ injury identification and attitudes.
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Virtual and AI influencers
We are looking for individuals who are over 18 and follow at least one virtual (or AI) influencer.
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How virtual and artificial influencers shape their followers' emotions
We want to explore and discover the effects of following virtual and artificial social media influencers on your wellbeing.
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Characterising microbiome and immune system changes in Parkinson’s disease
This project aims to evaluate changes in immune and microbiome markers that are relevant to the onset and progression of Parkinson's disease with the goal of developing new treatments and diagnostic makers for use in the clinic. The pathological hallmark of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the presence and spread of synuclein containing misfolded protein aggregates in the form of Lewy bodies. Emerging evidence suggests that these protein aggregates which develop with age can persistently activate the immune system in the brain and gut. Our proposed studies will use highly sensitive analytical and multi-omic approaches (proteomic, metabolomic and metagenomics) to identify and define changes in innate immune system and gut bacterial microbiome mediators that occur over the course of Parkinson's disease. For these studies, we will obtain blood, urine, saliva and faecal samples from people with Parkinson’s and healthy over a period of 5 years. Samples will be snap-frozen and analysed for immune and microbiome changes using highly sensitive analytical techniques.
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