Intricately and inextricably bound within the process of higher degree study in Australia today is the phenomenon of supervision, the guiding process towards the attainment of the degree. The nature of tertiary supervision is believed to be a critical factor not only in influencing student satisfaction or dissatisfaction during the course of the studies. It is also argued that supervision helps...

In this note an improvement of the Katz’s bound on the number of elements in a finite field with given trace and norm is given. The improvement is obtained by reducing the problem to estimating the number of rational points on certain toric Calabi-Yau hypersurface, and then to use detailed cohomological calculations by Rojas-Leon and the second author for such toric hypersurfaces.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of nurse-led multifactorial care to prevent or postpone new disabilities in community-living older people in comparison with usual care. METHODS We conducted cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analyses alongside a cluster randomized trial with one-year follow-up. Participants were aged ≥ 70 years and at increased risk of functional decline. Partic...