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Public Australian university based in Adelaide, South Australia, with research programs spanning health, archaeology, and marine science.
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Flinders researchers argue vanillin's antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial activity makes it a candidate for chronic-wound formulations. Most of their case rests on cheap supply and a long record in food, and the published account does not say how much vanillin speeds healing.
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Flinders researchers interviewed 12 people aged 65 or older with dementia or mild cognitive impairment about how clinicians handled giving up driving. The four-phase plan built from their accounts sets out what patients want, though without a comparison group it cannot show which approach eases adjustment.
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Flinders University researchers pooled 22 air-sampling studies of toilet flushing and found aerosol concentration tracked flush volume and the load in the bowl, while the data on closing the lid stayed too thin to settle the question.
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Researchers writing in Nature Human Behaviour estimate a median pre-colonial Indigenous population of 2.22 million and 2.06 million excess deaths by 1861, built from genetics and environmental modelling instead of colonial head counts.
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Flinders University researchers loaded 3D models of placoderm jaw plates from a Western Australian reef and found the smallest and the largest species both had the strongest jaws for hard food, built on opposite designs.
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A Flinders University study in Marine Ecology used neutron activation analysis to track how acidified seawater changes what two diatom species take up, and the authors still want the carbon-pump consequence tested.
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Flinders University followed nearly 10,000 women over 65 for a decade and found tea drinkers with slightly denser hips, while coffee tracked with thinner bone only past five cups a day. That is a statement about dose, pinned to intake above five cups a day.
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Amy Hardwick, Sam Elliott and colleagues argue the unit of reform is the club culture rather than the individual parent. That is a fair read of what they saw at two English clubs. So far, though, it is a prescription nobody has tested.
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Flinders University researchers report older adults stiffen the ankle by co-contracting opposing muscles, gaining stability and losing push-off. The mechanism is specific; the training advice is not yet tested.
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