Edith Cowan University

• Partial Least Squares–Discriminant Analysis (PLS-DA): Facilitates the interpretation of complex datasets, enabling the identification of distinctive biomarkers that drive group separation.
• "Metabolon has developed a solid, scalable solution to the non-trivial problem of metabolomics biochemical interpretation, specifically tailored to their world-leading data acquisition platform.
• Metabolon's new bioinformatics platform alleviates much of this manual burden, with client data pre-populated and ready for analysis, accelerating discovery with publication-ready charts, plots, data tables, and insights.
• "Metabolon is thrilled to unveil this groundbreaking bioinformatics platform, marking a significant leap forward in metabolomics research," said Dr. Ray Moran, Senior Director of Bioinformatics at Metabolon.

• In the same week across the Tasman, Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington announced savage cuts to its theatre and music programs.
• Whatever the rationale, they speak to a lack of imagination and creativity in the administration of the contemporary university.

An independent institution

• The board declared the aims of the proposal could not “be fulfilled by a course which conformed to indispensable university standards”.
• After this rejection, a similar proposal progressed at the University of New South Wales, with one critical difference.

Intellectual rigour

• Universities were sceptical of the intellectual rigour of artistic practice in the institution, both in prospective students and in staff.
• Universities were also concerned about the lack of funding or teaching space for the higher intensity and longer hours demanded over more traditional tertiary subjects.
• One exception stands out: the long-running actor training offered at Flinders University began in 1971, just five years after the university opened in 1966.

Merging with the universities

• These colleges sat between TAFE institutions and universities, focusing on more vocational disciplines and awarding certificates, diplomas, and eventually degrees.
• In the early 1990s, the Dawkins Reforms merged some technical and vocational providers with universities, and granted university status to others.
• This brought more arts training programs into universities.
• These new universities were beginning to articulate an academic identity.

The value of arts training

• This false binary discounts the ways in which knowledge is made by and held in the body, and the rigorous research-informed training cultures that have developed in university performing arts programs since the 1990s.
• Too often, the universities themselves aren’t able to take on the very acts of imagination that characterise the training offered to students.
• Far from being expensive follies incompatible with the institution, arts training programs act as the shopfront for the university.

• On October 20th, 2022, Mercedes-Benz (MBGn.DE) signed a supply agreement with Canadian-German Rock Tech to receive on average 10,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium hydroxide per year.
• CEO, David Greenway, stated, "We are making progress on all fronts across our portfolio of projects including drilling pending at the Pocitos 1 Lithium brine project in Argentina, drills on site at our Brussels Creek and now with an approved ground recon program for 2023 at Georgia Lake Lithium in Ontario.
• We are encouraged by the results of airborne geophysical data at Georgia Lake and look forward to an aggressive spring 2023 field program.
• The Rock Tech Lithium Georgia Lake Project is host to several spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes.

• This approach identifies disease specific immune deficits that we believe are associated with the onset of the disease.
• The results of the clinical study were published in Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association ("Alzheimer's & Dementia").
• Newly developed disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease appear to be especially effective in the early stages of clinical disease.
• Neuroquest is an Israeli-based biotechnology company focused on the discovery of blood-based immune biomarkers in pre-clinical stage Alzheimer's.