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The Opportunity The Communications and Development team implements the Institute's overall communications, marketing and philanthropy strategies, as
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Turners turn out for ENDIA StudyAustralia’s largest study into the causes of type 1 diabetes reached a significant milestone when it recruited its first family in Perth with three children recently.
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Recruitment for AdDIT now completeYoung people diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes are at risk of complications from their diabetes including kidney, heart, eye and vascular disease.
The Opportunity We have a great opportunity for an enthusiastic individual with a breadth of technical skills to focus on the development of data
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Exploiting temporal aspects of cancer immunotherapyMany mechanisms underlying an effective immunotherapy-induced antitumour response are transient and critically time dependent. This is equally true for several immunological events in the tumour microenvironment induced by other cancer treatments. Immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) has proven to be very effective in the treatment of some cancers, but unfortunately, with many cancer types, most patients do not experience a benefit.
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Adaptations to scale-up an early childhood education and care physical activity intervention for real-world availability — Play ActiveAdaptations for scale-up are ubiquitous but are rarely described in detail. Adaptations may be a key reason for the "scale-up penalty" which is when there is a reduction in intervention effect size following scale-up. The Play Active intervention consists of a physical activity policy for early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, with accompanying implementation support strategies.
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The moderating role of parent perceptions in relationships between objectively measured neighbourhood environment attributes and pre-schooler's physical activity: Findings from the PLAYCE studyWe examined the moderating effects of parent perceptions of the neighbourhood environment on associations between objectively measured neighbourhood environment attributes and physical activity among pre-schoolers. The number of neighbourhood parks was positively associated with pre-schooler energetic play when parents had above average perceptions of access to services.
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Early childhood educator outcomes from online professional development for physical literacy: A randomised controlled trialEarly childhood is recognised as a critical window of opportunity for physical literacy development, however early childhood educators typically lack the training required to effectively provide appropriate physical literacy opportunities for children.
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Individual, Social, and Environmental Correlates of Energy Drink Use Among AdolescentsTo investigate the correlates of adolescent energy drink use using a socioecological approach to inform future interventions.
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Non-severe burn injury increases cancer incidence in mice and has long-term impacts on the activation and function of T cellsRecent evidence suggests that burn patients are at increased risk of hospital admission for infection, mental health conditions, cardiovascular disease and cancer for many years after discharge for the burn injury itself.