Curtin Theses: Recent submissions
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Understanding Proteolytic Processing of Melanoma Cell Adhesion Molecule (MCAM) in Cutaneous Melanoma(2023)Melanoma is a type of skin cancer and is one of the most common cancers in Australia. Due to the aggressive nature of melanoma, an improved understanding of its progression is required. In this thesis, the processing of ...
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(2023)Online shaming, whereby individuals call out real or perceived wrongdoings online, has become an ever-increasing, global form of social policing. Despite the negative consequences associated with this phenomenon, most ...
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(2022)This research made use of all publicly available, experimentally-determined 3D structures of fungal effector proteins to develop, validate and test a range of biomolecular modelling approaches to predict the structure, ...
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(2023)This thesis consisted of three investigations: a study comparing the efficacy of compression bandaging and single use negative pressure wound therapy to compression bandaging alone in the treatment of venous leg ulcers, ...
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(2022)Amyloid-beta 42 (Aß42) and amylin are intrinsically disordered peptides. Pathogenic aggregation of peptides results in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Type-2 diabetes (T2D), by Aß42 and amylin, respectively. High risk of AD ...
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(2023)In 1977, a socialist coup d'etat in Seychelles instituted an era of anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, and pro-African Creole nationalism. One aspect of Creoleness – witchcraft, or ‘grigri’ – was excluded from the Creole ...
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(2022)This research investigates ways of effectively managing large-scale deformation in tunnels of underground hard rock mines. This thesis presents a method of forecasting large-scale deformation using RQD and FLAC3D. RQD and ...
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(2023)This thesis explores the objective characterisation and differentiation of arid, sandy, soil samples for forensic purposes through a multi-faceted approach that utilises spectroscopic techniques in combination with ...
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(2022)This thesis investigated PEDF and menopause in metastatic breast cancer. Using immunohistochemistry and immunocytochemistry staining techniques, and cell-based functional assays, this thesis found that PEDF expression, ...