Questions Species–area relationships (SARs) are fundamental for understanding biodiversity patterns and generally well described by a power law with constant exponent z. However, z-values sometimes vary across spatial scales. We asked whether there is general scale dependence of at fine grains which potential drivers influence it. Location Palaearctic biogeographic realm. Methods used 6,696 nes...

Cochlear implant (CI) users' speech understanding may be influenced by different speaking styles. In this study, speech recognition was measured in Mandarin-speaking CI and normal-hearing (NH) subjects for sentences produced according to four styles: slow, normal, fast, and whispered. CI subjects were tested using their clinical processors; NH subjects were tested while listening to a four-chan...

REQUIRED) This paper examines the application of risk management strategies to the protection of customer information privacy at the corporate level of analysis. The emerging discipline of privacy risk management is virtually non-existent in academic discourse despite an expressed and growing interest by regulators and practitioners. We show how the concept and practices of operational risk man...

BACKGROUND There is conflicting evidence of the healthy migrant effect with respect to mental health. This study aims to determine if there are differences in mental health and service use between Australian-born and foreign-born individuals living in South Australia and to consider the differing role of socio-demographic characteristics for Australian-born and foreign-born men and women. MET...