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    Quadrifoglio
    Pertout, A (Nailuj Music, 2023-08-25)
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    A Day with Michael Shrieve
    Pertout, A (Musictek Australia, 2023-10-24)
    A Day with Michel Shrieve addresses the US drummer’s background and identity as a band member, band leader, composer and record producer. I delve into Shrieve’s outstanding career which commenced as the drummer of the legendary San Francisco based band Santana, instantly famed after their ground breaking performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival. Throughout his career he has been praised for his innovative approach to drumming and his ability to blend diverse musical influences seamlessly, his contributions to the drumming world inspiring generations of musicians, myself included. With the recent marking of the 50th anniversary of the iconic Santana album Caravanserai, considered one of the outstanding works in Santana’s discography, Shrieve discusses with me various aspects of recording that remarkable album, his upcoming book on master drummer Elvin Jones, as well as his much-anticipated forthcoming release Drums of Compassion.
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    A Day with Bobby Sanabria
    Pertout, A (Musictek Australia, 2023-05-19)
    A Day with Bobby Sanabria addresses New York based, Puerto Rican Sanabrias’ background and identity as a band leader, arranger and record producer. I delve into Sanabria’s career in New York and discuss his work, and particularly this latest release by his Multiverse Big Band titled ‘Vox Humana’. Sanabria discusses his approach to the organization and development of this latest album, which apart from his extraordinary big band, also features three remarkable jazz contemporary vocalists; Janis Siegel from the Manhattan Transfer, blues and jazz vocalist Antoinette Montague and multi-lingual vocalist Jennifer Ledesna. The album recorded live in New York City received a Grammy nomination under the Latin-Jazz category.
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    A Day with Agustin Diaz
    Pertout, A (Musictek Australia, 2023-01-09)
    A Day with Agustin Diaz addresses master drummer Diaz’s Latin American identity, his style and career. I delve into Diaz’s connections with the highly acclaimed Cuban ensemble Los Muñequitos de Matanzas. Diaz discusses percussive development and techniques as applied to Cuban percussion styles, his long tenure as a member of the ensemble and his work in maintaining and further developing Cuban cultural and folkloric musical styles.
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    Developing An Evidence-based Understanding of Hospital Space Planning Efficiency
    Mitcheltree, H ; Carter, S ; Fisher, K ; Rajagopalan, P ; Andamon, MM (Architectural Science Association, 2018)
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    Predicting redistribution of species and communities under environmental change: Improving the reliability of predictions across time
    Uribe Rivera, David Eduardo (2023-04)
    Ecological models used to forecast range change (range change models; RCM) have recently diversified to account for a greater number of ecological and observational processes in pursuit of more accurate and realistic predictions. Theory suggests that process-explicit RCMs should generate more robust forecasts, particularly under novel environmental conditions. RCMs accounting for processes are generally more complex and data-hungry, and so, require extra effort to build. Thus, it is necessary to understand when the effort of building a more realistic model is likely to generate more reliable forecasts. During my thesis, I investigated how explicitly accounting for processes improves the temporal predictive performance and transferability of RCMs. I first identified key knowledge gaps, and the challenges of evaluating temporal predictive performance and transferability. One of the main challenges is the lack of robust metrics to assess predictive performance and transferability. To address this I implemented and tested the use of new emerging tools to enable fair comparisons of predictive performance across samples with varying degrees of imbalance (e.g. species with low and high observed prevalence). I then tested a couple of hypotheses related to whether modelling observational processes explicitly results in better forecasts. In particular, I evaluated under what circumstances the benefits of explicitly accounting for imperfect detection and allowing information sharing across multiple species are retained when the models are extrapolated to generate predictions beyond the training temporal window. The findings should shed light on how to address remaining knowledge gaps, and how to generate more reliable forecasts on species’ responses to global change scenarios.
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    Robert Louis Stevenson and German Sāmoa
    Coleman, D (Informa UK Limited, )
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    Dissecting the role of gd T cells in T cell priming for liver stage immunity
    Le, Shirley (2023-11)
    Liver resident memory T cells (TRM) are poised for protection against repeat infection and rapidly form a robust defence against tissue-specific insults such as liver stage malaria. A direct correlation between liver stage immunity and gd T cells has been observed both in mice (Zaidi et al. 2017) and in humans (Seder et al. 2013; Ishizuka et al. 2016), but the precise molecular mechanisms by which these gd T cells exert their protective effect are yet to be defined. In mice, intravenous injection with radiation-attenuated sporozoites (RAS) confers sterile protection against challenge with live sporozoites. This protection is mediated by responding antigen-specific CD8+ and CD4+ T cells that migrate to the liver and form resident-memory T cells (TRM). In the absence of gd T cells, protective CD8+ liver TRM are not generated, leaving mice susceptible to reinfection. Using Plasmodium-specific T cells as a readout for effective immunity, we determined that IL-4 is important for the accumulation of CD8+ and CD4+ T cells. By utilising complex in vivo systems including mixed-bone marrow chimeras and adoptive transfer of gd T cells, we revealed that gd T cell-derived IL-4 is crucial for the expansion of antigen-specific CD8+ T cells. In addition, in vivo neutralisation of IL-12 or IFN-g confirmed a partial dependency for these cytokines, despite their traditionally opposing function to IL-4. Given IL-4, IFN-g and IL-12 all have a clear role in CD8+ T cell priming following RAS vaccination, we hypothesised that IL-4 and IFN-g synergise to enhance cDC1 activity. These findings led to our development of a novel model to reconstitute cDC1-deficient mice using CRISPR-edited primary dendritic cells. This model enabled the investigation of the mechanism by which gd T cell derived IL-4 leads to DC activation and therefore effective CD8+ T cell expansion for memory development. Collectively, this project has shown a significant role for IL-4 in the priming of malaria-specific CD8+ T cells and demonstrates a novel pathway for collaboration between gd T cells, cDC1s, and CD8+ T cells, revealing the potential for harnessing gd T cells in vaccination strategies against malaria.
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    Voyaging in the Pacific
    Coleman, D ; Morrison, R (Oxford University Press, 2024)
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    “Embronzed with the African Tint”: Racial Color-coding and Intergenerational Inheritance in Jamaica, St. Domingo and England in the Age of Abolition
    Fernandes, S ; Coleman, D (Informa UK Limited, 2024-01-01)
    In eighteenth-century fiction and drama, race appears as a mutable characteristic, with skin color conditioned by culture and environment. Increasingly, and especially in the Romantic period, race came to be regarded as an inherent facet of a person’s identity in certain contexts. Racialized color-charts emerged for the express purpose of generating a taxonomy of mixed-race peoples; a symptom of the vogue for classification in the natural sciences. These charts encoded a vocabulary of gradation, hybridity, and racial inheritance. Such vocabulary was mapped on charts such as those that appear in Edward Long’s The History of Jamaica (1774), where racial inheritances are depicted as neatly linear. Other historians of the Caribbean islands, such as J. B. Moreton in his West India Customs and Manners (1793), betray an underlying instability. The instability of such categories only increases within late eighteenth-century literary sources and especially in the lexicon imported back into England and appropriated by novelists, many of whom held abolitionist sympathies. This paper investigates the influence of West Indian color-chart vocabulary on the representation and construction of race in John Thelwall’s The Daughter of Adoption; A Tale of Modern Times (1801) and the anonymously published Woman of Colour; A Tale (1808).