Griffith Theses: Recent submissions
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Monitoring Carbohydrate Intake in the First Year Following a Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes
(2022-11-01)Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a prevalent chronic disease that can result in serious complications including retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. The health problem incurs significant personal and social costs related to ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Developing New Strategies for Treatment of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infection
(2022-11-02)Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a pathogenic bacterium causing devastating acute and chronic infections among populations with compromised immune systems. Its highly notorious persistence in clinical settings is ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Improving the uptake of multi-agency and third-party policing partnerships: facilitators, barriers and the role of legal levers
(2022-11-01)Multi-agency policing partnerships enable police agencies to address underlying social issues that contribute to crime and allow for longer-term solutions and potentially crime reductions. The success of these initiatives ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The Impacts of On-demand Transit Services in Low Population Density Environments on Access to Opportunities
(2022-11-03)Transit networks are facing a large change due to the integration of new technology on routing and booking of rides. By reinventing paratransit and dial-a-ride services, new forms of on-demand transit services have been ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Organisation of membrane proteins and lipids during exocytosis and endocytosis
(2022-09-06)The plasma membrane is a vital cellular structure providing the interface for cells to either send or receive vital signals to and from their environments respectively. Exocytosis is the mechanism by which secretory vesicles ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Intelligent Approaches for the Improved Condition Monitoring of Rolling Element Bearings
(2022-11-09)Rotational machinery is used for various applications and is commonplace in industry and aviation sectors. Rolling Element Bearings (REBs) play a vital part in the optimal functioning of rotational machinery. They can ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Liquid marbles as chemical microreactors
(2022-11-07)The miniaturisation of chemical and biological systems has become a research focus since the last century. Compared to conventional bulk reactors, microreactors have numerous advantages such as larger surface-area-to-volume ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Exploring Employability Development in Engineering Undergraduates
(2021-05)The purpose of this study was to explore how undergraduate engineering students understand employability, the activities they link to employability, and how students perceive their own employability development over the ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Monoatomic Metal Doped Nanomaterials for Hydrogen Production and Storage
(2022-11-09)Hydrogen production and storage play a critical role in energy transformation from fossil fuels to green energy. To realize the carbon neutralization target by increasing the competitiveness of hydrogen as an energy vector, ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
A Chemical Investigation of Australian Winteraceae
(2022-11-08)The Winteraceae are a small primitive family of angiosperms endemic to the cool rainforests and montane subtropics of South America, Melanesia, Australasia, and South-East Asia below the Wallace line.The medicinal value ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Evaluating what works for children with prenatal alcohol exposure: Assessing the potential role of early childhood adversity
(2022-11-08)Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is an umbrella term describing a range of impairments following prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). Difficulties with executive functioning (EF) are among the most common impairments in ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Stuck in Survival Mode: The Impact of Australian Immigration Detention on Women's Physical, Mental and Social Wellbeing.
(2022-11-04)Irregular migration policies differ across western nations, nevertheless, a practice almost all have in common is the use of immigration detention. The detention facilities are intended to deter, manage, and deport ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Development of a Web-based Wellbeing Program to Improve Psychological Adjustment for Highly Skilled Expatriate Employees: A Job Demands-Resources Perspective
(2022-11-01)Background and aims: Information and communication technology (ICT) is one of the largest sectors of multinational corporates (MNCs). The information and communication technology sector employs highly skilled expatriates. ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Land is Shaped as Land Shapes: A Material Ecocritical Autoethnography
(2022-11-09)Situated in the environmental humanities, Land is Shaped as Land Shapes: A Material Ecocritical Autoethnography is an interdisciplinary doctoral project grounded in the permacultural site of Thar dö Ling in rural north-western ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Lower Limb Injury Prevention in Elite Women's Football
(2022-11-01)Lower limb injuries are endemic in women’s football and are typically characterised by high rates of recurrence. Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures are particularly problematic in women and occur 3-6 times more ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Fictions, enabling fictions, and autofiction within painting; or, "This painting is a work of fiction", I said.
(2022-11-01)This practice-led research project investigates the potential for a philosophically defined and criterial notion of fiction to function within the medium of painting. It develops Kendall L. Walton’s make-believe theory ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Coloniality, Education and Indigenous Nation Building
(2022-10-06)This dissertation, “Coloniality, Education and Indigenous Nation Building”, is a post-qualitative meta-analysis that examines the continuing inability of the Australian schooling system to adequately service the needs of ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
A phenomenological study of the lived experience of underachieving, gifted, early adolescents
(2022-10-14)Gifted learners have the potential to make important contributions to society as they grow and develop. During formal primary and secondary education, however, the prevalence of underachievement for this group appears to ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Wellbeing and Occupational Stress in Dentistry Academics
(2022-10-19)Occupational stress can impact adversely on individuals’ physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing, and have occupational consequences. Dentistry professionals can experience significantly higher levels of occupational ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
How Do High-Risk Small Business Frontline Workers Learn from Everyday Work to Increase Risk Awareness and Prevent Workplace Accidents?
(2022-10-21)Small business possesses unique characteristics not found within larger organisations, such as being more centralised in decision-making and having multiple resource constraints, including limited finances and expert safety ...GRIFFITH THESIS