#The University of Newcastle
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Wild Yeast Zoo
The Wild Yeast Zoo revolutionises brewing with unique, health-enhancing beverages crafted from Australian wild yeast, heralding a new era beyond traditional beer and kombucha. Seeking: Funding to help drive expansion
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FM – Make It Count
Best Start FM is to provide an engaging and time efficient assessment of children's foundational movements through a tangible playground resource that can efficiently be used by classroom teachers.
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Wild Yeast Zoo
Brewing sour beer using native wild yeast has inspired a vibrant and growing culture and market. The team are creating a ‘zoo’ of these yeasts and their stories.
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Squid Team
Squid is a system for creating, deploying and managing quizzes and exams, both online and on paper. Questions are drawn from randomised question pools and each student gets a unique assessment, thereby decreasing the scope for cheating.
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Flow Metrology Solutions
High-accuracy gas flowmeters are currently used on the gas pipeline for ensuring fair trading between producers, operators and consumers.
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DePlag
Source code similarity is a well-studied area and is applied across many application domains, including (Academic) Source Code Plagiarism Detection, Code Clone Detection, and Software Theft Detection. The DePlag team has developed some innovative approaches.
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Backyard Detectives
Backyard Detectives is an innovative and community-based ‘science project’ crowdsourcing information to contribute to the environmental challenge of coal dust in the atmosphere and the harmful effects it can have.
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A fertile future
What if we could eliminate preventative infertility on a global scale? In fact, did you know that 1 in 6 everyday couples will experience infertility?
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3 Squares Team
We are a team of clinical psychologists and researchers in the field of eating behaviours.