Curtin Theses: Recent submissions
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(2021)Since 2007, government entities in Abu Dhabi adopted several CSR initiatives. Mixed mode is used to investigate how the employees' performance is affected by such initiatives. Interviews were followed by questionnaires ...
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(2020)Giardia duodenalis is a parasite responsible for intestinal infection worldwide. This study, investigates the developmental process responsible for infection, termed of encystation. Here we investigated a protein which ...
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(2021)This research found preterm-born children displayed poor respiratory outcomes, with evidence of increased neutrophilic inflammation and oxidative stress, rather than the eosinophilic profile associated with “typical” ...
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(2021)The Cocoa Pod Borer (CPB) (Conopomorpha cramerella) currently threatens PNG's cocoa industry. Traditional extension approaches have been unable to stop the decline in smallholder production. The thesis argues that effective ...
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(2021)This thesis provides the first full comprehensive carbonate reef and sediment budgets among turbid reefs of the Pilbara, Western Australia. Through detailed in situ census-based techniques, on site measures of carbonate ...
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(2021)This study provides a comprehensive analysis to investigate the impact of this increase in NAS on audit quality by using three proxies of audit quality: the absolute value of discretionary accruals, the issuance of ...
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(2021)This thesis presents the Western Spiny-tailed Skink (Egernia stokesii badia) as a case study of how identifying and addressing knowledge gaps on the ecological requirements of a threatened reptile in Australia is key to ...
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(2022)Natural surfactants have been considered part of the EOR processes, given their non-toxic and environment-friendly nature. In this project, two novel natural surfactants have been extracted. Furthermore, the physical-chemical ...
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(2022)This dissertation presents novel multi-target tracking algorithms that obviate the need for prior knowledge of system parameters such as clutter rate, detection probabilities, and birth models. Information on these ...
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(2022)A chosen network structure of Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), a Byzantine-based consensus algorithm, is proposed to minimize some of the identified pain points faced by the pepper stakeholders. Byzantine-based ...