Curtin Theses: Recent submissions
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(2004)The purpose of this research program was to explore the effectiveness of the Predict- Observe-Explain (POE) teachingllearning technique to diagnose students' understanding of science and identify students' level of ...
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(2016)The Kimberley Bioregion of Northwest Australia is one of the world’s last great pristine marine environments and is broadly recognised as a “biodiversity hostspot” but is poorly known and studied. This project completed ...
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(2016)Taking cues from science and technology studies, this thesis explores how problems associated with the heavy sessional drinking of young adults are currently enacted in significant sites of research, policy and service ...
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(2012)Dislocated by both land and sea, Perth’s punk scene would nonetheless play a pivotal role in the development and global dissemination of punk rock in the 1970s. Set against the traditionalist context of Western Australia’s ...
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(2014)Large numbers of finite element analyses are conducted using linearly elastic soil. The value of static Winkler springs stiffness is determined for soil.A general solution to elstodynamic equations of an elastic half space ...
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(1998)The endemic wildflower, Geleznowia verrucosa Turcz. (Rutaceae), is widely distributed as small disjunct populations throughout the sandplains of Western Australia (21 degrees 50'S, 116 degrees 12'E to 31 degrees 12'S, 117 ...
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(2009)Salinity, waterlogging and drought are major causes of land degradation and serious threats to sustainable agricultural productivity in the south-west agricultural region of Western Australia (WA). The spectral signatures ...
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(2010)Increased concerns on antibiotics used in aquaculture have promoted research toward alternative products. Immunostimulants have been approved to be good alternatives for antibiotics used in the culture of many species. A ...
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(2011)There has been a recent focus on investigating the properties of semi-conductors at the nanoscale as it is well known that the band-gap of semi-conducting materials is altered due to quantum confinement effects. The ...
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(2013)This is the first reported cohort study of Chinese-Australian mothers' health beliefs, behaviours and information sources regarding their children’s health. More mothers in Australia breastfed and breastfed longer; ...