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Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Reframing the climate anxiety focus ahead of COP30: the imperative of addressing the policy-action gap(2025) Ip, Nathanael; Guillen Yangali, Ana Paula; Bazan, Leslie Collao; Uthayakumaran, Satara; Qamar, Bisma; Luga, Karin Annika; Aquilina, Cara Borg; Poensgen, Georg; Novotna, Veronika; Flores, Kenia Calva; Pampier, NicoItem type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Wellbeing Ways: protocol for assessing and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students' wellbeing in Queensland secondary schools(2026) Anderson, Kate; Malik, Neelam; Garvey, Darren; Howard, Kirsten; Dickson, Michelle; Garvey, GailAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth belong to culturally rich and resilient communities, yet they continue to experience significant health and wellbeing disparities. Despite these challenges, there is a critical gap in culturally appropriate tools to assess and support the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth in school settings. The Wellbeing Ways project addresses this gap by working with secondary schools to implement What Matters 2Youth (WM2Y), a newly developed, strengths-based wellbeing measure grounded in the perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth (aged 12–17 years), and co-designing place-based supports. Wellbeing Ways is a three-year project being conducted in partnership with four diverse Queensland secondary schools. The project employs a four-phase mixed methods design guided by co-design principles and the i-PARIHS implementation framework. Phase 1 involves pre-implementation yarning workshops to co-design culturally safe implementation strategies; Phase 2 delivers longitudinal administration of WM2Y; Phase 3 conducts a post-implementation evaluation; and Phase 4 involves co-designing place-based wellbeing resources and referral pathways with students and staff, informed by WM2Y data and community priorities. Ethics approvals have been obtained from relevant Human Research Ethics Committees. Findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, community presentations, and policy briefs, ensuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are primary audiences for all outputs.Item type: Publication , Access status: Restricted , The Craft of Film and Video Game Composition: Structure, Design and Practice(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2027-04-01) Lampl, KennethWriting compelling music for film and video games requires more than inspiration—it demands a deep understanding of the musical techniques that shape narrative, emotion, and dramatic pacing. The Craft of Film and Video Game Composition provides a practical guide to screen scoring, revealing the compositional principles used by many of today's leading film and game composers. Drawing on over 500 notated score examples, each supported by companion audio, the book explores melody, countermelody, harmony, ostinato, form, synchronisation, and composition to picture. Progressive composition exercises guide readers from analytical observation to original composition, while exclusive interviews with acclaimed Hollywood film composers and AAA video game composers provide first-hand insights into professional creative practice. An accompanying website allows readers to hear every notated example alongside the score, creating an integrated learning experience that connects notation with sound. Bridging the gap between music theory and professional composition, this book equips composers, students, educators, and researchers with the analytical tools and practical techniques needed to develop their own musical voice. Combining scholarly insight, practical application, and direct perspectives from leading composers, it is an essential resource for anyone seeking to write music for film, video games, and interactive media.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Elucidating the Role of SET as a Key Contributor to Neurodevelopmental Disability Within the 9q34.11 Deletion Syndrome Interval(2026) Condell, Angelo; Zhang, Elaine; Sikora, Tim; Massey, Sean; Van Bergen, Nicole J.; Wang, Min; Simons, Cas; Bell, Katrina M.; Hock, Daniella H.; Stroud, David A.; Francis, David; Gold, Wendy A.; Delatycki, Martin B.; Christodoulou, John; Kaur, SimranpreetThe 9q34.11 chromosomal region contains multiple neurodevelopmental genes involved in synaptic transmission, axonal structure and neuronal maturation. Pathogenic microdeletions, duplications and single nucleotide variants in numerous genes were previously linked with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). Amongst them, SET has recently been implicated in a rare NDD with speech delay and facial dysmorphism. This study reports a female with a heterozygous de novo deletion impacting SET but not other NDD-associated genes at 9q34.11. The proband was initially diagnosed with atypical Rett syndrome with overlapping clinical features of SET haploinsufficiency. The deletion was confirmed using microarray and long-read sequencing. Subsequent quantitative proteomic evaluation identified a significant decrease of SET protein in patient-derived fibroblasts compared to control lines. This study provides insights into the proband's clinical course over their 28 year diagnostic odyssey, and emphasises the benefits of early speech therapy interventions. The proband had no functional speech, but regained the capacity to meaningfully communicate and articulate a limited vocabulary in adulthood, concordant with other reported non-paediatric cases of SET-NDD. This study expands current knowledge on the genotypic and phenotypic spectra of SET-NDD, and pinpoints a smaller 9q34.11 critical region excluding upstream NDD-associated genes, STXBP1 and SPTAN1, implicating SET as a significant NDD-associated gene.Item type: Publication , Access status: Metadata only , Class Identity Signaling through the Strategic Rebranding of Traditional Egyptian Food-Related Terms on Digital Platforms(2025) Altohami, Waheed M.A.; Omar, AbdulfattahThis study investigates the way re-branding traditional Egyptian food-related terms is strategically used by an emerging socio-economic class to assert their class identity in digital milieus. Specifically, it analyzes the strategies employed for the Englishization and hybridization of culinary culture and examines the underlying socio-cultural motivations and dynamics driving such an innovative linguistic practice. Drawing on insights from sociolinguistics and sociology, we analyzed two data sets collected by means of an online survey and semi-structured interviews. Findings revealed that there is an emerging exclusive socio-economic class that manifests itself through specific lexical preferences based on diverse types of lexical borrowings. Additionally, the Englishization of traditional Egyptian food-related terms partially drove the emerging class’s rejection of social equality and solidarity with collective socio-cultural Egyptian identity. Such a class division, primarily initiated on digital platforms, was found to be motivated by complex factors at play, including age, gender, educational level, lifestyle, technology usage, etc. The findings of this study have implications for understanding the intersection of language, class identity, and technology in contemporary Egyptian society.