Curtin Theses: Recent submissions
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(2014)This study evaluated Western Australian sandalwood (Santalum spicatum) seed oil and chemically defined it for cosmetic and pharmaceutical use. Parameters for the selection of suitable raw material sources were established. ...
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(2002)The formation of an objectionable "swampy" odour in drinking water distribution systems in Perth, Western Australia, was first described by Wajon and co-authors in the mid-1980s (Wajon et al., 1985; Wajon et al., 1986; ...
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(2000)Background: Lipid abnormalities are a common feature of the nephrotic syndrome that is also characterised by oedema, hypoalbuminaemia, proteinuria, and hypercoagulability. Concern has arisen over the increased incidence ...
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(2015)This thesis is to develop new facial expression recognition techniques based on 2D/3D images or videos, with the purpose to improve the recognition efficiency and accuracy of the current state-of-art. A fully automatic ...
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(2015)This thesis presents a scholarly synthesis of a series of original published works providing evidence that student feedback, collected and analysed using valid and defensible methods, is effective in improving the quality ...
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(2008)In the surface mining industry the equipment selection problem involves choosing a fleet of trucks and loaders that have the capacity to move the materials specified in the mine plan. The optimisation problem is to select ...
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(2007)This thesis undertakes a fresh inquiry into the status of the right to health care under international law, with a view to explaining how the right to health care has been variously interpreted. Previous studies into the ...
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(2012)This research is aimed to investigate how travel consumers respond to online information posted in Consumer-Generated Media. It was examined the impact of consumer characteristics (risk propensity and Internet experience), ...
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(2012)The experiences of three scholar artists who are exiled to South Korea’s Cheju Island during the Choson Dynasty is examined with a focus on the conditions of exile they were subjected to and their expressions of mental ...
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(2014)In this thesis, we focus on improving the performance of MIMO relay communication systems using parallel relays and successive interference cancellation. We aim at minimising the mean-squared error of the signal waveform ...