BACKGROUND Statistical time series derived from administrative data sets form key indicators in measuring progress in addressing disadvantage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations in Australia. However, inconsistencies in the reporting of Indigenous status can cause difficulties in producing reliable indicators. External data sources, such as survey data, provide a means of asses...

1. Introduction The South China Sea (SCS) is a semi-enclosed tropical and subtropical sea located between the Asian land mass (including Taiwan) to the west and north, the Phillipine Islands to the east and Malaysia and Borneo to the south (Figure 1), a total of 3.5×10 6 km 2 surface area. It includes the shallow Gulf of Thailand and connections to the East China Sea (through the Taiwan Strait)...

In 2001, a publicly funded 7 valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7vPCV) program commenced for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged less than 2 years. This study updates early estimates of 7vPCV coverage in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children using Australian Childhood Immunisation Register data between 31 December 2004 and 30 September 2007. We chose four 3-month bi...

Citation: McCalman J, Bainbridge RG, Redman-MacLaren M, Russo S, Rutherford K, Tsey K, Ungar M, Wenitong M and Hunter E (2017) The Development of a Survey Instrument to Assess Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students’ Resilience and Risk for Self-Harm. Front. Educ. 2:19. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00019 The Development of a survey instrument to assess aboriginal and Torres strait islander st...

Australia has two distinct Indigenous peoples: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples belong to diverse, contemporary communities, each containing individuals with different perspectives, life experiences and aspirations. While there are many shared interests based on their status as Indigenous Australians, it should be expected that there is a div...

in this study, the capabilities of wawewatch-iii and mike21-sw for predicting the characteristics ofwind-generated waves in hormuz strait are evaluated. the numerical models have been set up using input data including gfs wind with 5° spatial resolution and 6 hours time intervals, along with the etopo1 bathymetry data with 2 arc-minute spatial resolutions. the results of the two model simulatio...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians have a cancer incidence for all sites combined equivalent to or slightly lower than for other Australians. They have a higher incidence of cancers of the cervix, liver and gallbladder, oesophagus, unknown primary site, mouth and throat, lung and pancreas, but a lower incidence of cancers of the prostate, female breast, colon/rectum and skin (mel...

During the six-year period from 1995 to 2000, 23 cases of melioidosis were diagnosed from the Torres Strait islands that lie between northern Queensland and Papua New Guinea. This represents an average annual incidence of 42.7 per 100,000 population, the highest documented to date in this region. This probably reflects the extremely high prevalence of diabetes, the high seasonal rainfall in the...

Multi-path interference due to boundary reflection in shallow water acoustic communication poses a major obstacle to reliable and high-speed underwater communication system. In this study, initially 3D variations of field data such as sound speed, temperature and salinity in horizontal transects of the Strait of Hormuz were analyzed using the ROPME data. Later, data on typical sound speed ...

Citation: Metfies K, Bauerfeind E, Wolf C, Sprong P, Frickenhaus S, Kaleschke L, Nicolaus A and Nöthig E-M (2017) Protist Communities in Moored Long-Term Sediment Traps (Fram Strait, Arctic)–Preservation with Mercury Chloride Allows for PCR-Based Molecular Genetic Analyses. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:301. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00301 Protist Communities in Moored Long-Term Sediment Traps (Fram Strait,...