Griffith Theses: Recent submissions
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Designing and Encoding Scenario-based Expert Elicitation for Large Conditional Probability Tables
(2020-01-08)This thesis focuses on the general problem of asking experts to assess the likelihood of many scenarios, when there is insufficient time to ask about all possible scenarios. The challenge addressed here is one of experimental ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Intersecting Approaches to the Study of Eating: A Focus on Intuitive, Mindful, Emotional, and External Eating
(2020-01-08)The proportion of individuals deemed overweight or obese has reached an all-time high globally, and eating disorder rates are also on the rise. These statistics make it even more important to understand eating beliefs and ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Perfect Motion: Walking, creativity and writing
(2020-01-13)This thesis Perfect Motion: Walking, creativity and writing examines the relationship between walking, creativity and writing. My explorations started with a list of canonical writers who generated their best ideas while ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
How should I care? Understanding the Front-Line Managerial Compassion Process
(2020-01-13)This research explores front-line managerial (FLM) compassion capability. The fast-paced working environment with increased demands and limited resources have made the contemporary workplace an emotional arena for employees ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Employer Attitude/Behaviour Matters: Impact of Employer Attitude/Behaviour on Indigenous Employees' Skill Acquisition and Employment Experience in the Australian Mining and Finance/Banking Sectors.
(2020-01-13)This thesis investigates employer attitude/behaviour and its impact on Indigenous Australians’ skill acquisition and employment experience in the mining and banking industries. The current Indigenous employment literature ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Talking Circles as a strategy for listening to children's voices in school age care
(2020-01-13)There is a paucity of literature on the evaluation of programs addressing collaborative conversations with school age children. This study presents and discusses an exploratory evaluation of the ‘Talking Circle’ approach ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The use of Normal Human Immunoglobulin (NHIG) in the public health management of communicable diseases: effectiveness and efficiency
(2020-01-13)Passive immunisation is an important means of preventing communicable diseases post-exposure, particularly for subpopulations most vulnerable to complications from infection. The blood product normal human immunoglobulin ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Community Bioarchaeology in Cape York, QLD
(2020-01-08)Cape York Peninsula in the far north east of Australia is the closest mainland point to Papua New Guinea and could well prove to be the site of initial colonisation of the continent >60,000 years ago. This tropical landscape ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
A class of its own: Towards a pedagogical framework for singers of Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM)
(2019-07-30)The twentieth century gave rise to an immense landscape of contemporary commercial music (CCM) styles, facilitated by the unprecedented acceleration of music technology and cross-cultural globalisation. Still now, the CCM ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Rejection Sensitivity and Internalising Symptoms in Youth: A Focus on Parenting and Self-Regulation
(2019-11)There is abundant evidence supporting the importance of accepting and autonomy-supportive parenting rather than rejecting and autonomy-restrictive or controlling parenting for development. This is especially relevant for ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Deception and Deception Detection of Feigned Trauma Symptoms
(2019-11)Through this research project we assessed the ability of psychology students to enact and detect deception enacted through feigning symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Psychometric and psychophysiological ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The Australian Constitution, Originalism and the Dismissal
(2019-12-23)This thesis examines the separate legal reasons provided by both the then Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, and the then Chief Justice of the High Court, Sir Garfield Barwick, in justification of Kerr’s decision on 11 ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Design and assessment of pre-clinical vaccine candidates against otitis media due to nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae and the development of a non-invasive vaccine delivery strategy
(2019-12-23)Otitis media (OM) is one of the most common bacterial diseases of childhood and include both acute and chronic forms of disease (1). Whereas acute OM (AOM) is a disease with rapid onset and is short in duration, chronic ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Structural Alignments for Similarity Detection in Bioinformatics
(2019-12-20)This thesis addresses problems involving structural alignments for similarity detection between entities. In the general computational context, a structural alignment is defined as an optimization problem where representative ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Development of High-Value Engineered Wood Products Manufactured by Mixing Suboptimal-Quality Forest Resources
(2019-12-20)In Australia, a significant amount of suboptimal-quality native forest resources (e.g., short length or small diameter logs of low value) have resulted from the sustainable management of native Australian forests and the ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The governance of aquifer injection using coal seam gas produced water in the Surat Cumulative Management Area, Queensland, Australia and the Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USA
(2019-12-20)The sustainable governance of groundwater is of the utmost importance in an arid country like Australia. Groundwater is relied on by our agricultural and pastoral communities. Groundwater is also a significant issue in ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Anticancer immunomodulatory activity of Melaleuca
(2019-12-20)The immune system plays a critical role in disease prevention via collaboration between the adaptive and innate immune responses. Due to a variety of immune cell subpopulations with different functions including opposing ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Web Crippling Behaviour and Design of Roll-formed Aluminium Lipped Channel Sections
(2019-12-18)The use of aluminium alloy members in building construction has increased worldwide in recent years, especially in areas with adverse conditions such as severe industrial and marine environments. Aluminium members can be ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
CRISPR-Cas9 Targeting of E7 Oncogene in HPV-positive Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas
(2019-12-18)Background and Aims: Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) include cancers of the oral cavity, larynx, hypopharynx, and oropharynx. It is estimated that ~25% of HNSCCs are Human papillomavirus (HPV) positive. ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Transcriptional and translational networks linking the immune system to health and disease
(2019-12-16)The contents of this thesis are organised into seven chapters and one appendix. Chapter 1 includes two literature reviews that discuss important factors associated with the development of upper respiratory symptoms (URS) ...GRIFFITH THESIS