The necrotrophic fungal pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum causes the economically damaging Sclerotinia Stem Rot (SSR) of chickpea. This thesis describes the first report of partial resistance in wild and Australian chickpea ...

This dissertation successfully developed new sustainable and resilient precast beam-column joints with excellent performance under hazardous load, i.e. earthquake and impact loading. The proposed joints provide numerous ...

The current study aims to investigate the use of social media as a communication tool by students, applied within team-based environment using a quantitative empirical approach. Study focuses on creating groups and teams ...

This thesis considers small face detection in uncontrolled environments and develops robust deep learning approaches for this challenging problem. A novel multi-scale face detector is developed by integrating novel anchor ...

The silver-lipped pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima, is the primary species used for the culture of pearls in the Indo-Pacific region. The Western Australian fishery relies on wild-caught animals, and as such, knowledge of ...