2010 Thesis Submissions

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Siqiwen Li - PhD (Economics) - Exploring How 'Smart' the Basel II Framework is in the Australian Context of Banking Reform

Ahmed Mehrez - PhD (Management) - The Role of Quality Gaps in Assessing the Performance of Management Programs

Taghleb Ridda - M Philosophy (Law) - Disjunction Between the UN Charter's Core Principals and UN Practice Inhibits the UN's Ability to Maintain World Peace

Philip Rosenberger III - PhD (Management) - The Shopfront Retail Innovation Development Process: An Empirically Grounded Approach

Hendragunawan Sardjan Thayf - M Philosophy (Management) - Employment Relations in the Indonesian Hospitality Industry: Three Case Studies

Paul Stolk - PhD (Leisure & Tourism) - If We Sink it Will They Come? The Development and Management of Australia's Artificial Reefs as Resources for Sustaiable Recreational Scuba Diving

 

Daniel Bishop - PhD (Civil Surveying & Environmental Engineering) - Engineering Geology of the Richmond River Estuary

Katherine Gregory - PhD (Chemical Engineering) - Smart Utilisation of Thermal Mass in Masonry Buildings

Wenfeng Han - PhD (Chemical Engineering) - Conversion of Flourinated Greenhouse Gases via Thermal Decomposition and Reaction with CH4

Leesa Heffler - M Philosophy (Civil Engineering) - Variability of Unit Flexural Bond Strength and its Effect on Strength in Clay Brick Unreinforced Masonry Walls Subject to Vertical Bending

Barry Lumsden - PhD (Chemical Engineering) - The Effect of Magnetic Conditioning on the Froth Flotation of Ultrafine Metal Sulphides

Timothy Mitchell - PhD (Chemical Engineering) - An Investigation Into Selectivity in the Flotation of Gold/Copper Ores Using Combinations of Collectors

Steve Mohr - PhD (Chemical Engineering) - Projection of World Fossil Fuel Production with Supply and Demand Interactions

John Roberts - M Philosophy (Architecture) - Alvar Aalto's Muuratsalo House, Understood Through Jay Appleton's Prospect-Refuge Theory

Christopher Steele - M Philosophy [R] - Extending the Boundaries of Mark Making

Hoang Nguyen Tran - PhD (Chemical Engineering) - Removal of Geosmin and 2-Methylisborneol From Drinking Water by UV TiO2 Treatment

Christopher Tucker - M Philosophy (Architecture) - Developing Computational Image Segmentation Techniques for the Analysis of the Visual Properties of Dwelling Facades Within a Streetscape  

 

 

Fakieh Alrabai - PhD (Linguistics) - The Use of Motivational Strategies in the Saudi EFL Classroom

Gholamreza Aminian - PhD (Education) - Comparative Study of Curricula for Prosthetics and Orthotics Education Programs

Arini Beaumaris - PhD (Education) - Moral Judgement to Moral Action: Implications for Education

Aaron Bellette -  M Philosophy (Fine Art) - Tearing Light - Dyslexia and Creativity - An Alternative Mode of Perception

Carolyn Bounds - M Arts (Music) [R] - Performing Flute Music of the French Baroque: An Approach for the Modern Flautists

Maureen Bruce - PhD (Sociology & Anthropology) - Competing Discourses of Female Empowerment for School-Age Girls: Michel Foucault's Analytics of Power as a Theoretical Framework

Scott Carey - PhD (Fine Art) - Activating Gay Place: Contexts Associated with the Use of Ultraviolet Lighting and Fibre/Textiles in Immersive Installation

 Erol Engin - M Creative Arts (English) [R] - The Gothic Meets the Weird: A Critical Analysis of Charlie Cheesegrater: A Weird Tale and Its Influences

Patricia Flanagan - PhD (Fine Art) - Public Art and Alternative Tactics in Post -Acquisitive Society

Karen Hitchcock - PhD (English) - Outsiders

Lynn Lu - PhD (Fine Art) - A Punch in the Gut: Experiential Knowledge, Empathy, and Performance Art

Mark Macleod - PhD (Humanities) - 'A Battle for Children's Minds': The Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for Older Readers

Jessica Maiden - M Philosophy (Fine Art) - Reviving Augustine: Examining the Gestural Body as Language in the Iconographie Photographique De La Salpêtrière

Andrew Matthes - PhD (Education) - The Relationship Between the Principal's Leadership Characteristics and the Ability of Primary Teachers to Deal Successfully with the Challenges Associated with Change: A Teacher's Perspective

Thorold May - PhD (Linguistics) - Language Tangle: Predicting and Facilitating Outcomes in Language Education

Vivienne Powell - M Creative Arts (Music) [R] - Love and Death in Art Song and Opera from 1810 to 1947

Linda Swinfield - M Fine Art [R] - Haecceity - Family, Object and Memory

Peter Tilley - M Philosophy (Fine Art) - Something Other Than Itself - Symbolism in Contemporary Sculptural Practice

Jessica Walton - PhD (Sociology & Anthropology) - (Re)Embodying Identity: Understanding Belonging, 'Difference' and Transnational Adoption Through the Lived Experiences of Korean Adoptees

Frances Whalen - PhD (Education) - An Investigation of Teachers' Collective Responsibility for Student Learning

Elizabeth Wright - M Philosophy (Fine Art) - The Golden Boot - Photographic Representation of the Woman's Limb Deficient Body

 

Wayne Anderson - PhD (Anatomy) - Cannabinoid Signaling Mechanisms in the Central Nervous System

Meredith Caelli - PhD (Community Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology) - The Clinical Efficacy of Tea Tree Oil as an Alternative Topical Decolonisation Agent for Adult Inpatients with Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

Zuriati Ibrahim - PhD (Nutrition & Dietetics) - Standardised Nutirtion Diagnosis Terminology: Implications for Dietetics Practice

Louise Masters - M Philosophy (Anatomy) - Individual Differences in Coping Style Influence Acute Endocrine and Neurobiological Responses to Psychosocial Stress

Amy McKendry - M Philosophy (Experimental Pharmacology) - Betamethasone: A Neuroactive Steroid Deficit and Adverse Effects in the Brain?

Neta Moses - PhD (Behavioural Science) - Assessing the Care Needs of People with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Jennifer Parratt - PhD (Midwifery) - Feeling Like a Genius: Enhancing Women's Changing Embodied Self During First Childbearing

Kathryn Roberts - PhD (Medical Biochemistry) - Regulation of the Tumor Suppressor PP2A by Oncogenic Tyrosine Kinases

Jacqueline Shehadeh - PhD (Medical Biochemistry) - Differential Distribution of Tyrosine Hydroxylase Isoforms and Phosphorylation in Parkinson Disease

Casey Smith - PhD (Medicine) - Autoantibody Targets in Autoimmune Polyendocrine Syndrome Type 1 and Lymphocytic Hypophysitis

Meredith Tavener - PhD (Community Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology) - Your Bloomin' Lot: An Empirical Study of the Popular Baby Boomer Stereotype

Jorge Tolosa Gonzalez - PhD (Reproductive Medicine) - Syncytin and Placental Exosomes: New Insights in Immunology of Pregnancy

Thanh Do Tran - PhD (Community Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology) - An Examination of the Relationships Between Low Body Mass Index and Micronutrient Malnutrition and the Risk of Morbidity in Adults Aged 18 to 60 Years in Rural Vietnam

Amy Waller - PhD (Behavioural Science) - Facilitating Needs-Based Care of People With Progressive Cancer: Evaluation of a Palliative Care Needs Assessment Intervention

Jane Watson - PhD (Nutrition & Dietetics) - Development, Validation and Utilisation of a Food Frequency Questionnaire to Assess the Dietry Intakes of School-aged Children

Amanda Wilson - PhD (Community Medicine & Clinical Epidemiology) - Assessing the Quality of Health News Stories in the Australian Media Using the Media Doctor Website

Daryll Barkley - M Sc (Environmental Sc) [R] - Biodiversity Impacts of Small-scale Infestations of Lantana camara Upon Vegetation Floristics and Leaf-litter Invertebrates in the Lower Hunter Region of New South Wales

Katherine Booker -  PhD (Chemistry) - Characterisation and Improved Performance of Molecularly Imprinted Polymers Prepared Using Room Temperature Ionic Liquids

Carrie Brisbane - PhD (Chemistry) - Optimisation of Molecularly Imprinted Polymeric Films for the Detection of L-Ephedrine

Sagy Cohen - PhD (Environmental Sc) - Spatial Description of Soil Properties Through Landscape-Pedogenesis Modelling

Christopher Donkin - PhD (Psychology - Science) - The Importance of Choice and Response Times

Katherine Ewen - PhD (Biological Sciences) - Large-Scale Proteomic Screen and Signal Transduction Analysis Used to Study Embryonic Gonad and Gern Cell Development

Sharon Gold - PhD (Psychology - Science) - Measuring Social Competance, Task Competance and Self-Protection in an Organisational Context

Michael Griffiths - PhD (Physical Geography) - Late-Pleistocene Climate Evolution of the Southern Sub-Equatorial Tropics from East-Indonesian Speleothems

Matthew Hughes - PhD (Psychology - Science) - The Neural Basis of Stop-Signal Inhibition in Healthy Individuals and in Schizophrenia Patients

Chan Kha - M Philosophy (Food Science) - Effects of Different Drying Processess on the Physicochemical and Antioxidant Properties of Gac Fruit Powder

Adam Koppers - PhD (Biological Sciences) - Significance of Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Production in Male Infertility

Francis Lemckert - PhD (Biological Sciences) - Managing Pond Breeding Frogs in the Forests of Eastern New South Wales

Anthony Martin - PhD (Biological Sciences) - Bacterial and Elemental Loading Patterns in Rainwater Harvesting Systems

Cristina Martinez - PhD (Environmental Science) - Soil Carbon Dynamics at Hillslope and Catchment Scale

Michael McCluskey - PhD (Communication & Media Arts) - Global Media, Daily Life and Perceptions of Cultural Change in Bhutan

Kane O'Donnell - PhD (Physics) - Field Ionization Detection for Atom Microscopy

Guoyu Qian - PhD (Information Technology) - Atlas-Assisted Assessment and Diagnosis of Alheimer's Disease from Neuroimages

Kathleen Sirois - M Philosophy (Physics) - Development of a Novel Organic Transistor Towards Microbiosensing of Glucose

Samantha Thewes - M Philosophy (Marine Science) -  The Reproductive Biology and Spawning Behaviour of Chromis Hypsilepis (Pisces: Pomacentridae)

Shaun Werkhoven - PhD (Information Technology) - Improving Interest Point Object Recognition

Min Xu - PhD (Information Technology) - Contact Analysis for Personalised Video Adaptation

Xiao Yang - PhD (Biological Sciences) - The Structure of Bacterial RNA Polymerase in Complex With the Essential Transcription Elongation Factor NusA