Oran Park

Oran Park is a locality on the southwest rural-urban interface of the Sydney metropolitan area. It is an area that has been a zone of transition and contrasts, similar to other parts of the Sydney basin. For some it is a place of loss, while for others it is a place of hope and a fulfilment of their dreams.The western part of the locality of Oran Park is delineated by the Northern Road, the southern boundary is Cobbitty Road, while in the east the area is bounded by the watercourse of South Creek and in the north Lowes Creek. The area has always had a rural character and in 2001 the population of the Oran Park–Catherine Field area was 1,470, yet within 20 years Oran Park is predicted to grow to 25,000, while the Camden local government area will surge by 390 per cent to a population of over 250,000.

Camden

Camden is situated on the floodplain of the Nepean River, on the traditional land of the Dharawal people in an area known as the Cowpastures. The town is bordered in the east and north by the Nepean River, in the south by Burragorang road and Camden Bypass and in the west by Matahill Creek. The town area had a population of 3,063 in 2001 and until the 1950s was the hub of a district which took in the rural villages to the west of Camden, including Yerranderie, Burragorang Valley, The Oaks and Oakdale, and to the north, Elderslie and Narellan. Today Camden is being engulfed by the rural-urban fringe of Sydney’s metropolitan area

Perceptions and experiences of home students involved in welcoming and supporting direct entry 2nd year international students

International student recruitment into Higher Education Institutions can take a variety of forms that require tailored responses. In this case, international students arrived as a pre-existing cohort and joined an established second year cohort in the Department of Chemistry. A Peer Assisted Learning programme was set up to support incoming students. The study explores the motivations and experiences of the home students who acted as Peer Assisted Learning leaders. The home students were motivated by empathetic concerns for new arrivals in the country as well as at the university. They acted beyond the requirements of the role and they took responsibility to initiate new activities. The experiences of home students is a relatively under researched aspect of internationalisation. The study is an example of a specific response to a particular internationalisation experience that enriches understanding of internationalisation by paying attention to the specifics of local context. We argue that nuanced responses to specific situations will become increasingly important. The actions and ideas may resonate with universities recruiting particular groups of international students

After hours nurse staffing, work intensity and quality of care - missed care study: New South Wales public and private sectors. Final report to the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives' Association

The MISSCARE survey was developed by Beatrice Kalisch who defines missed care as “required patient care that is omitted (either in part or in whole) or delayed” and is a response, she claims, to “multiple demands and inadequate resources”. The MISSCARE survey has three components: demographic and workplace data; missed nursing care, which consists of a list of nursing tasks which had been identified; and reasons for missed care. Core nursing tasks routinely omitted in Kalisch’ studies are discharge planning and patient education, emotional support, hygiene and mouth care, documentation of fluid intake and output, ambulation, feeding and general nursing surveillance of the patient. Nurses and midwives consistently attributed instances of missed care to inadequate staffing levels, unexpected heavy workloads, too few resources, lack of supplies, shift rosters with an inappropriate mix of nursing skills, inadequate handovers, orientation to the ward and poor teamwork.The research is funded by a Flinders University Faculty of Health Science Seeding Grant

Refined energy-balance modelling of a supraglacial pond, Langtang Khola, Nepal

Supraglacial ponds on debris-covered glaciers present a mechanism of atmosphere/glacier energy transfer that is poorly studied, and only conceptually included in mass-balance studies of Debris-covered glaciers. This research advances previous efforts to develop a model of mass and energy balance for supraglacial ponds by applying a free-convection approach to account for energy exchanges at the subaqueous bare-ice surfaces. We develop the model using field data from a pond on Lirung Glacier, Nepal, that was monitored during the 2013 and 2014 monsoon periods. Sensitivity testing is performed for several key parameters, and alternative melt algorithms are compared with the model. The pond acts as a significant recipient of energy for the glacier system, and actively participates in the glacier’s hydrologic system during the monsoon. Melt rates are 2–4 cm d–1 (total of 98.5 m3 over the study period) for bare ice in contact with the pond, and <1 mm d–1 (total of 10.6 m3) for the saturated debris zone. The majority of absorbed atmospheric energy leaves the pond system through englacial conduits, delivering sufficient energy to melt 2612m3 additional ice over the study period (38.4 m3 d–1). Such melting might be expected to lead to subsidence of the glacier surface. Supraglacial ponds efficiently convey atmospheric energy to the glacier’s interior and rapidly promote the downwasting process.This research was enabled by PhD studentship funding from the Gates Cambridge Trust. Fieldwork was supported by the USAID (United States Agency for International Development) High Mountain Glacier Watershed Programs Climber-Scientist Grant (CCRDCS0010), Swiss National Science Foundation project UNCOMUN (SNF 200021L146761), Trinity College, Cambridge, the B.B. Roberts Fund and the Philip Lake and William Vaughn Lewis Fund.This is the final version of the article. It first appeared from the International Glaciological Society via http://dx.doi.org/10.3189/2016AoG71A42

Diurnal regulation of RNA polymerase III transcription is under the control of both the feeding-fasting response and the circadian clock.

RNA polymerase III (Pol III) synthesizes short noncoding RNAs, many of which are essential for translation. Accordingly, Pol III activity is tightly regulated with cell growth and proliferation by factors such as MYC, RB1, TRP53, and MAF1. MAF1 is a repressor of Pol III transcription whose activity is controlled by phosphorylation; in particular, it is inactivated through phosphorylation by the TORC1 kinase complex, a sensor of nutrient availability. Pol III regulation is thus sensitive to environmental cues, yet a diurnal profile of Pol III transcription activity is so far lacking. Here, we first use gene expression arrays to measure mRNA accumulation during the diurnal cycle in the livers of (1) wild-type mice, (2) arrhythmic javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement@59c2c50e knockout mice, (3) mice fed at regular intervals during both night and day, and (4) mice lacking the javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement@160cb27a gene, and so provide a comprehensive view of the changes in cyclic mRNA accumulation occurring in these different systems. We then show that Pol III occupancy of its target genes rises before the onset of the night, stays high during the night, when mice normally ingest food and when translation is known to be increased, and decreases in daytime. Whereas higher Pol III occupancy during the night reflects a MAF1-dependent response to feeding, the rise of Pol III occupancy before the onset of the night reflects a circadian clock-dependent response. Thus, Pol III transcription during the diurnal cycle is regulated both in response to nutrients and by the circadian clock, which allows anticipatory Pol III transcription