Sherwood Research
Current Projects
The projects below are ongoing and I would welcome the participation of new students! (My current team should appear at the bottom of this page).
ADFA IDS Datasets
The ADFA Intrusion Detection Datasets (Latest Version)
The ADFA Intrusion Detection Datasets
The roles of heparan sulphate proteoglycans in tissue development and repair
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This project investigates the structures of heparan sulphate proteoglycans that control the tissue development and aging including liver, heart, kidney, palate and brain by studying genetically modified mice.
Bioengineered growth factor binding scaffolds
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Diabetes is a world-wide health issue that affects approximately 1.7 million Australians. Diabetes causes changes throughout the body including impairing the ability to heal wounds that are typically located on the feet and lower legs.
Robert Frank: Experimentation Across Film and Photography in Post-War America
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Robert Frank is one of the twentieth century's most important photographers. His book The Americans revolutionised postwar photography, offering a radically new approach to the nexus of photographic representation and national identity.
4D Immersive Surgery
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Regulation of glucose uptake by tropomyosins and myosins
Although the actin cytoskeleton has been known for some time to regulate vesicle trafficking, its exact role in this process is still unclear. This has largely been due to the difficulty in targeting specific actin filaments within the same cell.
Towards a more accountable United Nations Security Council
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Reform discourse about the United Nations Security Council gives every reason to believe that flaws in its legal and institutional design prevent the Council from adequately meeting its responsibility to maintain or restore international peace and security - in part by allowing the Council to act
Research to reduce smoking among those people with a psychotic illness
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Smoking is a major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor for people with mental illnesses such as psychosis and depression.
The Baker Lab - Force Generation and Sensing in Biology
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Dr Matt Baker's research group in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Science (BABS) currently focuses on two streams of research:
Visitors and Visiting Fellows to SARCCM
Visitors and Visiting Fellows for 2019 and 2020:
Dr Chunhui Li, College of Marine Science, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, P.R. China , 18 May 2020 to 17 May 2021
Assessing quality in medical translation: a comparison between back translations and translation/checking methodologies
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This study will help to critically examine a methodology of back-translation that has come to be widely used in scientific, particularly medical research.
Nanoparticle interactions with the vasculature
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Nanoparticles are extensively explored for many cell contacting application such as drug delivery and diagnostic imaging with their safety a topic of much debate and largely related to accumulation within cells.
Potential PhD projects and scholarships
Potential PhD topics:
1. What ocean do Lagrangian observing platforms (e.g., Argo and drifting buoys) observe ?
Training in tobacco cessation: current and future medical and nursing professionals
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Medical Education
Service to Medical Education: teaching undergraduate medical students and postgraduate students, training doctors and other health professions in Australia and globally
Towards a more accountable United Nations Security Council: why, to whom, for what, and how
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Reform discourse about the United Nations Security Council gives every reason to believe that flaws in its legal and institutional design prevent the Council from adequately meeting its responsibility to maintain or restore international peace and security, in part by allowing the Council to act
A study of the health and lifestyles of Australian centenarians
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The UNSW Australian Centenarian Study
Modelling of Cardiac Electrical and Mechanical Function
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2D simplified computational model of cardiac contraction with mitral valve leaflet motion.
Complementary protection
'Complementary protection' describes the obligations that States have under international human rights law to protect people who are at risk of serious human rights violations if removed, but who do not qualify as ‘refugees’ under the 1951 Refugee Convention.