Curtin Theses: Recent submissions
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(2016)In this thesis, the numerical analysis work performed, using Finite Element Method, assesses cases beyond the limits imposed by industry standards on end configurations for tubular circumferential joints in offshore ...
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(2004)Managers are increasingly faced with making complex decisions in turbulent organisational environments. This has led to greater information processing demands. Increasingly organisations try to deal with this in such a ...
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(2003)Despite intensified and concerted efforts to realise sustainable development. Western industrialised countries have in recent years experienced several mass protests against institutions perceived variously to have the ...
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(2012)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the inhibition process of tetrahydrofuran (THF) hydrates in presence of two kinetic hydrate inhibitors (KHIs), poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) and poly(vinylcaprolactam /vinylpyrrolidone/ ...
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(2016)Novel analysis techniques were applied to two different sets of multi-modality brain images. Localised metabolic rate within the hippocampus was assessed for its ability to differentiate between groups of healthy, mildly ...
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(2011)The purpose of this study is threefold. It investigates (a) how personal and social influences affect consumers’ skepticism toward advertising claims (CSA) and how CSA influences inferences of manipulative intent (IMI), ...
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(2002)Previous research regarding the effectiveness of signalling via brand name has focused on when and how any brand-building cost incurred, will be rewarded by future profit. In contrast to this seller-incentive perspective, ...
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(2009)Increasing energy consumption in Australian transport sector, rapidly depleting amount of Australian oil reserves, and the environmental concerns that arise from the associated greenhouse gas emissions produced by the ...
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(2002)The fieldwork for this study was conducted in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia between 1997 and 1999. Qualitative and quantitative information provided by 170 Aboriginal participants enabled an exploration ...
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(2015)Mesothelioma is a cancer that occurs in the elderly. Dendritic cells (DC) play a key role in generating immune responses. This thesis examined DCs in elderly mesothelioma patients and reports that numerical and functional ...