Curtin Theses: Recent submissions
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(2020)Fuel switching and energy efficiency policies are studied to determine their potential to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, the thesis also investigates the economic impacts of changes in the energy mix due ...
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(2020)This PhD project progressed petroleum applications of compound specific sulfur isotope analysis. Standard compounds and high S petroleum samples were studied. New discoveries included an enrichment effect on the ?34S ...
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(2020)This thesis contains three self-contained essays concerned with the economics of immigration. The first essay sheds light on the role of immigration policy in matching immigrants to regions with labour shortages. The ...
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(2020)This study comprises a body of work that investigates the performance of hybrid manufacturing systems. And we have provided a valuable insight into the development of the optimisation techniques for hybrid manufacturing ...
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(2019)This thesis explores the barriers, enablers and strategies schools use to reduce their carbon emissions and how students can influence their families around low carbon living. The research uses a mixed-methods design, ...
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(2018)This thesis aimed to improve the understanding of killer whale populations in the Australian and Antarctic regions. Visual surveys, photo-identification and passive acoustic recordings were combined to study these ...
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(2020)The Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia assembled by the collision of a global-scale subduction girdle at the end of the Mesoproterozoic. A new subduction girdle is not established until the assembly of Gondwana some ...
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(2020)This research thesis examines the dynamics of particle movement from a granular bed in a curved fluid flow passage, for improved understanding of the erosion and sedimentation processes in river beds and slurry pipe flows. ...
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(2019)The thesis proposes a theory of the haunted novel as a way of identifying a kind of literature that expresses relation to silent (or silenced) cultural memories through distinctive use of visual devices, which the thesis ...
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(2020)This dissertation investigates ways of locating nation by exploring the expectations and experiences of Indonesians and Australian tourists at two cultural heritage villages in Indonesia. Drawing on concepts of imagined ...