1 IMPACT Strategic Research Centre, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia, 2 School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Prahran, VIC, Australia, 3 Alfred Hospital, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Prahran, VIC, Australia, 4 Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Centre, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 5 Department o...

Victorian Cytology Service, PO Box 310, East Melbourne, Vic. 8002, Australia. National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, 580 Swanston Street, Carlton, Vic. 3053, Australia. School of Populati...

St Vincent’s Institute, Fitzroy, VIC 3065, Australia, Centre for Functional Genomics and Human Disease, Monash Institute of Medical Research, Monash University, 27-31 Wright Street, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3050, Australia, Amgen, One Amgen Centre Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Researc...

This paper introduces a velocital information feature that is extracted for each frame of an image sequence. The feature is based on the optical flow in each frame. A mathematical formulation for the velocital information feature is derived. Charting the feature over a sequence provides a quality metric called velocital information content (VIC). The relationship of VIC to the spatial and tempo...

BACKGROUND The EQ-5D is a health-related quality of life instrument which provides a simple descriptive health profile and a single index value for health status. The latest version, the EQ-5D-5L, has been translated into more than one hundred languages worldwide - including Thai. This study aims to assess the measurement properties of the Thai version of the EQ-5D-5L (the 5L) compared to the E...

Dr. D. Yudistira, A. Boes, Prof. A. Mitchell School of Electrical and Computer Engineering RMIT University Melbourne , VIC 3001 , Australia E-mail: [email protected] A. R. Rezk, Prof. L. Y. Yeo Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory RMIT University Melbourne , VIC 3001 , Australia Prof. J. R. Friend Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory RMIT University, Melbourne VIC, 3001, Australia T...

1 Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 2 Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3 Department of Immunology, Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4 Department of Surgery Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia, 5 CHIRI Bio...

Groups of the photosensitive female yellow-throated sparrow were placed under various light-dark cycles, in which a fixed ultrashort photophase of 3 h was combined with dark phases of varying duration, resulting in cycles of 18-30 h. Simultaneously, two groups of birds, one in short days (8L/16D) and the other in long days (15L/9D), were kept as controls. Significant ovarian growth, observed at...

Cohort Profile: The Barwon Infant Study Peter Vuillermin,* Richard Saffery, Katrina J Allen, John B Carlin, Mimi LK Tang, Sarath Ranganathan, David Burgner, Terry Dwyer, Fiona Collier, Kim Jachno, Peter Sly, Christos Symeonides, Kathleen McCloskey, John Molloy, Michael Forrester and Anne-Louise Ponsonby Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Parkville, VIC...

BACKGROUND Kashin-Beck Disease (KBD) is an endemic osteoarthropathy in areas which extend from the North-East to the South-West of China. Most of the patients with KBD suffer multiple dysfunctions in major joints causing decreased health status. However because of their low education level and unique living habits, it is hard to find tools to measure the health-related quality of life (HRQOL). ...