2009 Thesis Submissions

Faculty of Health

<p>Nutritional Influences in Pregnancy and Postpartum for Women and Their Children</p> <p>Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Carotenoids and Inflammation in Endurance-trained Athletes</p> <p>Enteroviral-Mediated Oncolysis of Cancer: Evaluation of Efficacy and Obstacles to Therapeutic Success</p> <p>Integrated Autonomic Control of the Regional Coronary Circulations at Rest and During Baroreflex Activity in Awake Sheep</p> <p>Genetic Variation and Risk of Endometrial Cancer</p> <p>Attitudes of Health Care Staff Towards Older Persons in Acute Care</p> <p>Smoking Care Provision in Hospitals: A Study of Prevalence and Initiatives to Increase Care Delivery</p> <p>The Experience and Effects of Group Improvisational Music Therapy Amongst Women Recently Diagnosed with Breast Cancer: A Mixed Methods Study</p> <p>Swearing: Impact on Nurses and Implications for Therapeutic Practice</p>

Alison Zucca - M Med Sc (Behavioural Sc) [R] - Use of Coping Strategies in Recent Versus Long-Term Cancer Survivors

Jennifer Thompson - M Med Sc (Medical Radiation Science) [R] - The Effect of Image Quality on Recall Rates in a Breastscreening Program

Elesa Crowley - M Med Sc (Nutrition & Dietetics) [R] - The Role of Cow's Milk Protein in Children with Chronic Functional Constipation

Peter Miller - M Med Sc (Physiotherapy) [R] - Pattern Recognition is a Clinical Reasoning Process in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy

Marilyn Powell - PhD (Behavioural Science) - Work Motivations as Predictors of Academic and Clinical Performance and Satisfaction with Career Choice in Medical Students

Mavourneen Casey - PhD (Community Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology) - The Practice of Western Herbal Medicine in Australia

Hong Yan - PhD (Community Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology) - Assessment of Nutritional Status and Associated Factors in Children Under 3 Years in Rural Western China and Tibet

Mary Tolhurst - PhD (General Practice) - 'Landscape of Fulfilment': A Model for Understanding Rural Medical Recruitment and Retention

Susan Sullivan - PhD (Human Physiology) - Examining the Role of Astrocytes in the Pathophysiology of Hypoxic/Ischemic Damage in the Neonatal Pig Brain

Leia Hazlewood - PhD (Immunology & Microbiology) - Nutritional Modulation of Lung Inflammation

Danica Hickey - PhD (Immunology & Microbiology) - Novel Lipid Based Adjuvants for the Induction of Mucosal Immunity

Linda Berry - PhD (Immunology & Microbiology) - Enteroviruses as Novel Oncolytic Agents for the Control of Human Prostate Cancer

Rowan Foster - PhD (Medical Biochemistry) - c-KIT Polymorphisms in Pediatric Mastocytosis and Comparative Analysis of Wild Type c-KIT and the Asp816Val Mutant

Sarah Gordon - PhD (Medical Biochemistry) - Acute Regulation of Tyrosine Hydroxylase

Elisa Tyson - PhD (Medicine) - Regulation of Myometrial Contractility: Pathways to Human Birth

Steven Doherty - PhD (Medicine) - Evidence-Based Implementation of Evidence-Based Asthma Guidelines in Rural Hospital Emergency Departments

Annette Osei-Kumah - PhD (Medicine) - Effect of Maternal Asthma During Pregnancy on Circulating Cytokines, Immune Cell Profile and Airway Inflammatory Mediator Release In-Vitro

Kristy Shopman - PhD (Medicine) - Characterisation of the Multifunctional Protein, CREAP

Leanne Brown - PhD (Nutrition & Dietetics) - Exploring the Barriers to the Introduction of a Best Practice Nutrition and Dietetics Service Model in Rural Areas

Jane Taylor - PhD (Oral Health) - Development of the Disaster Victim Identification Forensic Odontology Guide for the Australian Society of Forensic Odontology

 

Faculty of Science and Information Technology

<p>Flavonoid Profile and Bioactivity of Dodonaea Viscosa (Australian Hop Bush) - An Indigenous Shrub</p> <p>Is There Method in the Madness? The Development of an Innovative Field-based Methodology That Can Be Applied to Contemporary Natural History Illustration</p> <p>Norcantharidin Analogues: PP1 and PP2A Inhibition and Potential Therapeutic Development</p> <p>Insights Into the Origin of Lachlan Fold Belt Granites: Integrating Physical Characteristics With Isotopic Indicators</p> <p>The Nature of Chromatin Packaging in Human Spermatozoa</p> <p>Illuminating the Scrolls: Illustrating Australian Nature in Response to the Biblical Texts of Lamentations, Ruth, Ecclesiastes and Esther</p> <p>Application of a Probiotic Bacterium Propionibacterium Jensenii 702 for Human Consumption</p> <p>The Molecular Basis of Human Sperm-Zona Pellucida Interaction</p> <p>The 3HE(D,P)HE4 Nuclear Fusion Reaction as a Source of Mega-Voltage Protons for the Production of Fluorine-18 for PET Applications</p> <p>Development Discourse and the Postcolonial Challenge - The Case of Fiji's Aid Industry</p> <p>Sulfur- and Lead-Isotope Signatures of Selected Middle Silurian to Carboniferous Mineral Systems of the Lachlan Orogen, Eastern New South Wales - Implications for Metallogenesis</p> <p>Age Effects on Auditory Sensory Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective</p> <p>Comparative Effects of Nitric Oxide Gas and Nitric Oxide Donors on the Postharvest Life of Cut Flowers and Brassica Vegetables</p> <p>The Association of Homeotic Gene Expression with Stem Cell Formation and Morphogenesis in Cultured Medicago Truncatula</p> <p>Physico-Chemical Properties and Genetic Factors That Influence the Bioavailability and Metabolism of Folic Acid: Implications in Health and Diseases</p> <p>Functional Maturation of Mouse Epididymal Spermatozoa</p> <p>Surface Chemistry of Electrolytic Manganese Dioxide For Use in Aqueous Alkaline Cells</p> <p>Perception of the Australia-Indonesia Relationship Among Indonesians Residents in Australia</p> <p>Advances in Assisted Reproductive Techniques for Conservation of Australian Carnivorous Marsupials</p> <p>Generalised, Parsimonious, Individual-based Computer Models of Ecological Systems</p>

Kristie Harrison - M Philosophy (Physics) - A Novel Anthropomorphic Pelvic Phantom Designed for Multicentre Level III Dosimetry Intercomparison

Karen O'Neill - M Sc (Marine Science) [R] - Environmental Impacts on Fauna of Seagrass Beds Associated with the Introduction of Caulerpa Taxifolia into the Estuaries of New South Wales, Australia

Andrew Warmbrunn - M Sc (Sustainable Resource Management) [R] - The Livelihoods of Sundanese Fishermen in Cijulang, West Java and their Implications for Fisheries Management

Van Son Tran - M Sc (Sustainable Resource Management) [R] - Feasilbility of Growing Rice and Cashews Under Irrigation in Ninh Thuan Province, Vietnam

Iain MacDougall - PhD (Biological Sciences) - In Silico Investigation into the Alpha Adrenoceptors

Aron Shaw - PhD (Chemistry) - Synthesis of 3,7-Diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-9-ones as Potential Enantioselective Group Transfer Catalysts

Andrew Whitson - PhD (Chemistry) - Development and Applications of Window Factor Analytical Techniques

Hisbeth Mendez - PhD (Environmental Science) -  Bacteriological Studies in Stormwater Quality Improvement Devices (SQIDs) at Lake Macquarie, NSW

Colin McHenry - PhD (Geology) - 'Devourer of Gods': The Palaeoecology of the Cretaceous Pliosaur Kronosaurus Queenslandicus

Ozgur Pusatli - PhD (Information Systems) - Interoperability and Information System Replacement in the Health Sector

Samantha Kneeshaw - PhD (Marine Science) -  Factors Influencing Phytoplankton Production in Four Coastal Lagoons in NSW, Australia

Natasha Weaver -  PhD (Mathematics) - A Family of Higher-Rank Graphs Arising from Subshifts

Natasha Matthews - PhD (Psychology - Science) - Auditory Information Processing in Schizophrenia: Electrophysiological and Behavioural Evidence for a Pervasive Temporal Processing Impairment

Emily Bohlscheid - PhD (Psychology - Science) - Regularities of Recognition Memory: An Examination of the Pseudoword Effect, the Structural Regularity Hypothesis, and the Neighbourhood Density Mirror Effect

Raymond Rauscher - PhD (Sustainable Resource Management) - Sustainable Area Planning Framework for Ecologically Sustainable Development, Case Study Wyong Shire, NSW, Australia

Van Trai Nguyen - PhD (Sustainable Resource Management) - The Influences of Shrimp Farming and Fishing Practices on Natural Fish Conservation in Can Gio, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

 

Faculty of Business and Law

<p>Experiences from the 'Coalface': Work and Family Interaction in a Finance Sector Organisation</p> <p>The Role of Third Places: Investigating Social Capital, Loyalty and Value Co-creation for Seniors</p> <p>Corporate Governance as a Control of Agency Conflict</p> <p>The Great Re-Freezing? Requirements for Establishing Native Title in Post-Yorta Yorta Jurisprudence</p> <p>Financial Development and its Impact on Economic Growth: A Post-Keynesian Empirical Contribution to the Debate on Financial Development</p>

Anas Mohammad Hassan Al Qudah -  PhD (Accounting & Finance) - The Impact of Corruption on Economic Development - The Case of Jordan

De-Chi Liu -  PhD (Economics) - Job Creation and Destruction in Taiwan

Paul Ross - PhD (Economics) - Sustainable Development in Coastal NSW: The Allocation of Land to Meet the Objectives of Environmental and Urban Sustainability

Tarquin Bowers - PhD (Leisure & Tourism) - Life as a Leisured Project: An Investigation Into Four Social Groups as Alternative Contemporary Interpretations of Leisure

Baakile Motshegwa - PhD (Management) - Modelling the Relationships Between Equity, Pay Satisfaction, Affective Commitment and Intention to Turnover: An Empirical Test in Botswana

Roshni Narendran - PhD (Management) - Factors Influencing Female Entrepreneurship Growth in Developing Economies - An Enquiry into the Kerala Experience

Richard VanWirdum - PhD (Management) - The Forgotten Generations: The Physical, Sexual, Psychological and Systemic Abuse and Neglect of Children Due to Management Practices in Children's Institutions in Australia 1801 - 2001

Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment

<p>Prediction of Ungauged Basins - Uncertain Criteria Conditioning, Regionalization and Multimodel Methods</p> <p>Security of Genetic Databases</p> <p>Variations of Classical Extremal Graph Theoretical Problems: Moore Bound and Connectivity</p> <p>Fundamental Factors Influencing Coke Strength</p> <p>A Reconfigurable Prototyping System for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Communications</p> <p>Quality of Service and Performance Optimisation in Wireless Local Area Networks</p> <p>Integrated Urban Water Management and the UrbanCycle Modelling Framework</p> <p>Modelling of Heat and Mass Transport in Composite Materials</p> <p>In-plane Shear Behaviour of Unreinforced Masonry Panels Strengthened with Fibre Reinforced Polymer Strips</p> <p>Dynamic Analysis of Non-Steady Flow in Granular Dense Phase Pneumatic Conveying</p> <p>Privacy Issues in Health Care and Security of Statistical Databases</p>

Raymond Brown - M Engineering (Elec & Comp)[R] - Design of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Systems

Pooi Chen - M Philosophy (Architecture) - The Development of a Habitus Shock Model For Architect - Client Relationships on House Projects

Tara Mallie - M Philosophy (Architecture) - Questioning "Authentic" Aboriginal Architecture: An Analysis of Recent Cultural Centre Designs

Bharatkumar Patel - M Philosophy (Chemical Eng) - A Generalized Segregation and Dispersion Model for Liquid Fluidized Bed

Katherine Wheeler - M Philosophy (Mechanical Eng) - A System for the Analysis of Neurostimulation Response

Kora Korawali - PhD (Architecture) - Is a Western Model of Learning Appropriate to Architectural Education in Papua New Guinea?

Timothy Hunter - PhD (Chemical Engineering) - The Influence of Nanoparticle and Surfactant Interactions on Foam Stability

Ying Zhou - PhD (Chemical Engineering) - Aggregate/Sediment Bed Property Relationships

Torill Pape - PhD (Civil Surveying & Environmental Engineering) - Investigating the Correlation Between Pre- and Post-Demolition Assessments for Precast, Post-Tensioned Beams in Service for 45 Years

Timothy Lewis - PhD (Civil Surveying & Environmental Engineering) - Theoretical Effects of Consolidation on Solute Transport in Soil Barriers

Peter Haberecht - PhD (Civil Surveying & Environmental Engineering) - Pollution Deposition Rates on Insulator (HV) Surfaces for Use in Atmospheric Corrosivity Estimation

Mario Inostroza-Ponta - PhD (Computer Science) - An Integrated and Scalable Approach Based on Combinatorial Optimization Techniques for the Analysis of Microarray Data

Milan Derpich - PhD (Electrical Engineering) - Optimal Source Coding with Signal Transfer Function Constraints

Eduardo Silva - PhD (Electrical Engineering) - A Unified Framework for the Analysis and Design of Networked Control Systems

Xiang Zhou - PhD (Electrical Engineering) - Estimation and Control: Multisensors, Explicit Solutions and Duality

Kate Suppel - PhD (Mechanical Engineering) - A Study of the Pt/Al2O3 Interface to Aid in the Development of Multi-Wire Feedthroughs for Neuroprosthetic Implants

Matthew Clifton-Smith - PhD (Mechanical Engineering) - Multi-Purpose Design of Small Wind Turbine Systems

Mousa Alfalayleh - PhD (Software Engineering) - Mobile Agent Security

 

Faculty of Education and Arts

<p>Dystopia, Utopia, Fantasia: A Journey Into the Unknown</p> <p>Migration, Memory and Landscape: Recontextualising Personal Experience Through Contemporary Abstract Painting</p> <p>Back to the Future, for Better or Worse? Meanings of Marriage for Young Women in the Lower Hunter Region, Australia</p> <p>Exceptional Teachers: A Case Study That Emphasises Dispositions When Differentiating Between Teachers</p> <p>'Subversive Pleasures' Drawing on Myth, Mischief and Mayhem</p> <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.6129" name="GENERATOR" /> </head> <body>&#65279; <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.6129" name="GENERATOR" /><LINK title="/iw/config/visualformat-xhtml.css" href="/iw/config/visualformat-xhtml.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <p>"For Australia": Joseph Furphy and Australian Literary Culture, 1889-1912</p> </body> </html> <p>Pedalling Piano Music: The Performers Educated Ear is the Ultimate Guide</p> <p>Julianne - "One Time Ago": An Urban Aboriginal Tribalography</p> <p>Kathleen - Teaching an Indigenous Sociology: A Response to Current Debate Within Australian Sociology</p> <p>Parenthood and Mental Illness: A Sociological Journey Through Silenced Experiences of Illness</p> <p>Celluloid Historians:&nbsp; An Examination of the Cinematic Construction of Modern American History</p> <p>Campus as Place: (NSW 2308)</p> <p>Developing Twenty-First Century Art Music Repertoire</p> <p>A History of the Australian Instructional Corps 1921-1955</p> &#65279; <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3698" name="GENERATOR"><LINK title="/iw/ewebeditpro20/uon.css" href="/iw/ewebeditpro20/uon.css" rel="stylesheet"> <p>Youth and Habitus at Three Australian Schools: Perceptions of Ambitions, Risks and the Future in Reflexive Modernity</p> <p>The Effects of Regrouping Students for Literacy and Numeracy in Primary Schools</p> <p>Long to Belong: Contemporary Narratives of Place Stories in Landscape Painting From a Non-Indigenous Perspective</p> <p>State and Church Involvement in Aboriginal Reserves, Missions and Stations in New South Wales, 1900 -1975 and a translation into French of John Ramsland, Custodians of the Soil.&nbsp; A History of Aboriginal-European Relationships in the Manning Valley of New South Wales. Taree: Greater Taree City Council, 2001</p> <p>Naturalism, Indeterminacy, Analogy, Connectionism and Linguistic Theory: A Philosophy of Psychobiolinguistics</p>

Karen Crofts - M Creative Arts (English) [R] -  A Taste of Dreams

Jodie Petrov - M Creative Arts (Music) [R] - The Flute and Mythology

Lesa Scully - M Creative Arts (Music) [R] - The Maturing Trumpeter: An Insight to the Physicality, Mentality and Practicality of the Twenty First Century Performing Trumpeter

Jacqueline Morgan - M Fine Art [R] - Unmasking Claude Cahun: Self-Portraiture and the Androgynous Image

Emily Reuter - M Fine Art [R] - Terra Incognita: The Sublime, The Uncanny and Nostalgia in Painting the Landscape Australian

Glenn Henderson - M Fine Art [R] - Oceans Edge

Susan Coumbe - M Philosophy (Fine Art) - Footprints in the Forest: A Visual Exploration of the Tall Timber Forests of Northern New South Wales

Leo Robba - M Philosophy (Fine Art) - Regionalism in Australian Landscape Painting

Gerard Boland - PhD (Drama) - Recovering the `Radical in Performance' Conscientização as a Model for Theatre-Making Amongst Event-Specific Popular Audiences. CYCLE Productions' Bathurst 1000 Festival Project

David Smith - PhD (Education) - "Are Schools Ready to go Online?" A Study that Examines the Current State of Information and Communication Technologies in Secondary Schools and Explores the Possibility of the Introduction of a More Flexible Educational Structure Though Online Technology

Rachel Aisoli-Orake - PhD (Education) - Constructing a Pedagogical Framework for English Writing at Upper-Secondary Schools in Papua New Guinea

Monthiwa Chaikaew - PhD (Education) - An Investigation of Social and Emotional Skills and their Relationship with Behaviour Problems in Thai Secondary Students

Vanlyn Davy - PhD (Education)  - Australian Schools: Social Purposes, Social Justice and Social Cohesion

Nerida Blair - PhD (Education) - Sweet Potatoes, Spiders and Waterlilys: Privileging Australian Indigenous Knowledges: Epistemological Consequences of Knowledge Production

Michael Jonita - PhD (English) - "For Australia": Joseph Furphy and Australian Literary Culture, 1889-1912

Patrick Bryson - PhD (English) - The Triumphant Approach: Chasing the Unwritable Book

Kay Adlem - PhD (Fine Art) - "Relating to Country": Listening, Reflecting and Relating to Contemporary Aboriginal Stories From Won:arua Country in the Hunter Valley

Shannon Schedlich-Day - PhD (History) - Pioneer Women and Social Memory: Shifting Energies, Changing Tensions

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