Australia - Research News and Information

Thursday, January 08, 2009

Where and when does a ring start and end? Testing the ring-species hypothesis in a species complex of Australian parrots.

5 Nov 2008 Speciation, despite ongoing gene flow can be studied directly in nature in ring species that comprise two reproductively isolated populations connected by a chain or ring of intergrading populations. We applied three tiers of spatio-temporal ... Read more...

Short-term outcomes of the Australasian randomized clinical study comparing laparoscopic and conventional open surgical treatments for colon cancer: the ALCCaS trial.

30 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: Laparoscopy has revolutionized many abdominal surgical procedures. Laparoscopic colectomy has become increasingly popular. The short- and long-term benefits and satisfactory surgical oncological treatment of colorectal cancer by ... Read more...

General practice management of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in Australia.

30 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is rapidly increasing in prevalence worldwide, but healthcare capacity to address this problem seems limited. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence and rate of management of childhood ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Australia'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Where and when does a ring start and end? Testing the ring-species hypothesis in a species complex of Australian parrots. 5 Nov 2008
• Short-term outcomes of the Australasian randomized clinical study comparing laparoscopic and conventional open surgical treatments for colon cancer: the ALCCaS trial. 30 Oct 2008
• General practice management of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in Australia. 30 Oct 2008
• Ernst Goetz 1903-1979. A pioneer of contact lens practice in Australia. 30 Oct 2008
• Australia. Last-ditch effort to save center at vanguard of stem cell research. 22 Oct 2008
• Biogeochemistry: Life before the rise of oxygen. 21 Oct 2008
• Public-private partnerships, part 1: the next hospital wave. 19 Oct 2008
• The predicted impact of vaccination on human papillomavirus infections in Australia. 13 Oct 2008
• Facilitating complementary inputs and scoping economies in the joint supply of health and environmental services in Aboriginal central Australia. 8 Oct 2008
• Reducing injuries from falls. 7 Oct 2008
• Change of guard for Australian science. 7 Oct 2008
• Comprehensive analysis of tagging sequence variants in DTNBP1 shows no association with schizophrenia or with its composite neurocognitive endophenotypes. 3 Oct 2008
• Association study of candidate variants of COMT with neuroticism, anxiety and depression. 3 Oct 2008
• Factors influencing psychological distress during a disease epidemic: data from Australia's first outbreak of equine influenza. Oct 2008
• Kava hepatotoxicity: a European view. Oct 2008
• Hwang work granted patent. 30 Sep 2008
• The role of workload and driver coping styles in predicting bus drivers' need for recovery, positive and negative affect, and physical symptoms. 29 Sep 2008
• Identification of Australian human respiratory syncytial virus strains containing a 60-nucleotide duplication within the G glycoprotein gene. 29 Sep 2008
• The status of training and education in information and computer technology of Australian nurses: a national survey. 29 Sep 2008
• Bacterial protein secretion and trafficking down under. Annual Scientific Meeting of the Australian Society for Microbiology, 6-10 July 2008, Melbourne Convention Center, Victoria, Australia. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Australia'

Definition: The smallest continent and an independent country, comprising six states and two territories. Its capital is Canberra.

Descriptor UI: D001315

Alternative terms: Australia;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; epidemiology;

Tree Number: Z01.338; Z01.678.100.373;

Technical Notes: each of the states is available; Australasia = Oceania + Australia + New Zealand: do not confuse with Australia, check text & index probably under AUSTRALIA or NEW ZEALAND or both