Curtin Theses: Recent submissions
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(2022)This thesis studies the shock deformation of zircon in porous rocks. The significance of the findings are that during shock deformation porosity causes variations in shock pressure and temperature at a microstructural ...
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Adipose Loss and Metabolic Disease Due to Seipin Deficiency: Systemic Versus Tissue Specific Effects(2021)This thesis aimed to understand the molecular mechanisms via which BSCL2 disruption causes metabolic disease in congenital generalised lipodystrophy type 2. The results presented provide evidence that seipin has significant ...
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(2022)This research presents a novel optimisation framework for brownfields exploration drilling. The proposed optimisation methodology has been developed applying geostatistical methods and modern portfolio theory. The use of ...
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Mentoring a teacher’s innovation with task-based language teaching in an Indonesian secondary school(2022)A teacher-educator assisted a teacher with no prior experience of task-based language teaching. Focusing on how the teacher implemented TBLT over a 12-week period, I document changes in the teacher’s use of the L1, ...
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(2022)This study investigates the associations between financial reporting quality, political connectedness, and monitoring mechanisms (namely, strategic institutional ownership, internal audit sourcing arrangements, and audit ...
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(2022)Agricultural productivity in Nigeria is low, predominantly attributed to low-quality seeds. Most farmers do not utilise formal seeds, which supply high-quality seed. Quality-seed availability, affordability, and accessibility ...
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(2022)The goal of this research was to examine the combined effect of ageing and mesothelioma (an untreatable and aggressive cancer) on key innate immune cells, namely macrophages and dendritic cells. Functional and metabolic ...
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(2021)Traditional work design theories identify autonomy as an important characteristic of work. However, theory and evidence suggest that there might be limits to the positive function of autonomy. In this thesis, I investigate ...
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(2022)This thesis comprises three essays that examine the relationship between mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and corporate tax avoidance, audit pricing and asymmetric cost behaviour in a large sample of U.S. firms.
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(2022)This thesis addresses three versions of a novel problem, called Green Multi-Stage Upgrade (GMSU), to upgrade legacy networks to Software Defined Networks (SDNs). The three versions, namely GMSU-1, GMSU-2, and GMSU-3, ...