Curtin Theses: Recent submissions
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(2018)My doctoral research through creative production takes a Design Anthropology approach to examine the person-object relationship typical of artefacts with long-term attachment and significance. I then speculate on the ...
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(2017)This thesis consists of two distinct but related parts: a creative component, the contemporary crime novel ‘The Grass Mud Horse’, and an exegesis. Both will attempt to answer the question: How has the moral ambiguity that ...
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(2017)This thesis describes the results of qualitative research analysing the narratives of Australian women who have endured intimate partner violence (IPV), their decimation of self and identity and their process of recovery. ...
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(2017)This study presents a new mathematical model for cut-off grade and production scheduling optimisation in open pit mining operations. The model maximises the net present value of the operation subject to the mining precedence, ...
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(2012)The ability of Australian wheat varieties, which had varying wheat qualities, to make the Indian unleavened flat bread chapatti was investigated. Flour and chapatti quality of the Australian wheat varieties was characterised ...
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(2018)In developing countries, the awareness and development of Smart Grids are in the introductory stage and the full realisation needs more time and effort. Besides, the partially introduced Smart Grids are inefficient, ...
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(2017)This research project aims to conduct an optimal design of shell and tube heat exchanger operated with nanofluids using automated Kern’s method. The main objective function of this work is to reduce the total annual cost ...
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(2017)This research focuses on the development of a scalable process for purification of ‘glucose modulating bioactive’, γ-conglutin from lupin seeds. Selective extraction at acidic pH and cation exchange chromatography with ...
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(2017)This study addresses the exchange relationships among ecotourism stakeholders in Bangladesh. A mix-method research design of QUAL-QUAN is adopted for this research. On the theoretical side social exchange theory is blended ...
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(2018)This research plays a pioneering role in investigating the social aspect of online customer experience. Guided by the social presence and social response theory, and using a mixed methods approach, the research introduces ...