Dissecting how genetic and environmental influences impact on learning is helpful for maximizing numeracy and literacy. ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2014
• July 2014

Energy drinks are predominantly targeted to young adult consumers; however, there has been limited research into their effects on psychological functioning... ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2013
• September 2013

Identified an association between polymorphisms in a long intergenic non-coding RNA (lincRNA) gene (AC011288.2) and pneumococcal bacteremia ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• January 2016

Here we focus on more recent well-powered genome-wide association studies, including malaria, leprosy, tuberculosis, and visceral leishmaniasis ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• May 2016

This report presents the evaluation findings of headspace, a service to improve the mental health and social and emotional wellbeing of young people ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2015
• January 2015

Congenital Toxoplasma gondii infection can result in intracranial calcification, hydrocephalus and retinochoroiditis. Acquired infection is commonly associated ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• July 2010

Gina Nicole Trapp Wickens GT NW BHSc(Hons1A), RPHNutr, PhD BHlthSc (Hons) ARC DECRA Fellow & Head of Food and Nutrition Research Program Coordinator 0410 589 374 08 6319 1033 Gina.Trapp@telethonkids.org.au Nicole.Wickens@telethonkids.org.au ARC ...

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Child obesity is a serious public health challenge affected by both individual choice and societal and environmental factors. The main modifiable risk factors for child obesity are unhealthy eating and low levels of physical activity, both influenced by aspects of the built environment.  ...

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• 2023
• October 2023

Little attention has been given to the health status and lifestyle behaviours of expectant fathers. This study aimed to examine health-related variables in a cohort of expectant fathers to identify potential focus areas for interventions designed to optimise health and wellbeing outcomes in this group. ...

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• 2022
• March 2022

As families increase their use of mobile touch screen devices (smartphones and tablet computers), there is potential for this use to influence parent-child interactions required to form a secure attachment during infancy, and thus future child developmental outcomes. Thirty families of infants (aged 9-15 months) were interviewed to explore how parents and infants use these devices, and how device use influenced parents' thoughts, feelings and behaviours towards their infant and other family interactions. ...

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• 2023
• May 2023

Uniformly low expression of IFN and IFNGR1 in PKDL skin biopsies could explain parasite persistence ...

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• 2014
• December 2014

Here we examined single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in these genes as risk factors for cutaneous (CL) and mucosal leishmaniasis (ML), and leishmaniasis... ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2015
• March 2015