Griffith Theses: Recent submissions
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Exploring stress management and coping in Emergency Department staff: A mixed-methods study
(2020-12-22)Background: Emergency departments (EDs) are notoriously busy and challenging working environments. Internationally and locally, demands on healthcare services, including the number of presentations to EDs, have increased ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Application of left atrial strain assessment by 2D echocardiography in cardiac conditions involving the left atrium including cardiac amyloidosis.
(2020-12-22)The left atrium (LA) plays an important role in the modulation of LV filling and contributes to LV stroke volume with atrial contraction. Despite this important role, much research to date has been focused on the ventricles ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Developing a dynamic multi-actor engagement framework for social marketing programmes
(2020-12-23)Social marketing adopts marketing tools to achieve voluntary behaviour change, and has been effective in promoting a variety of public health and social wellbeing causes including, but not limited to, alcohol harm reduction ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Water Quality in the Normanby Basin and Princess Charlotte Bay, Cape York Peninsula, Australia
(2020-12-21)River systems around the world have been degraded by agricultural land use, land clearing and other human impacts. While the impacts on rivers have been well documented in many temperate regions, the cumulative impacts of ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Hydrodynamics, Sediment Transport and Fluorescent Dissolved Organic Matter Modelling in a Shallow and Subtropical Reservoir
(2020-12-21)Providing high quality and safe drinking water is challenging for suppliers, who must follow strict national and international standards in the treatment processes required for drinking water. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Novel Machine Learning Techniques for Left Ventricular Analysis in Echocardiography
(2020-12-21)Transthoracic (TTX) echocardiography (echo) is vital for the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. It is also essential for the determination of appropriate therapeutic procedures and monitoring disease progression and ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Integrating theory and user insights: Developing co-design
(2020-12-17)Adolescent alcohol consumption is an ongoing issue of concern. While latest trends indicate an increase in the number of adolescents choosing to abstain from alcohol, there are subgroups within the population who are ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The Ethics of Professional Environmental Practice: an Exploratory Study of the Ethical Principles of Practitioners
(2020-12-17)Although the practice ethics of many professions have been investigated in various empirical studies, those of the emerging environmental profession have received little research attention, notwithstanding community need ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Understanding and Conceptualising Authenticity in Dining Experiences Using Online Reviews
(2020-12-17)The quest for authentic experiences has been evidenced in modern society, either as a pursuit for product purchases, leisure experiences, or true self. Many studies have investigated authenticity and attempted to operationalise ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Examining the Role of Positive Experiences of Wellbeing in Shaping Lifestyle-Related Thinking and Behaviours Among Emerging Adults
(2020-12-16)Emerging adulthood (aged 18 to 29 years) is a distinct life stage experienced as young people transition into adulthood, and where they make important decisions that impact on the remainder of their lives. Emerging adulthood, ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Biomimetic design and engineering to enhance resilience and regenerative performance outcomes for infrastructure.
(2020-12-16)Infrastructure assets and networks including transport, water and energy systems, are impacted by a range of complex 21st Century challenges from climate change and resource scarcity to rapid technological advances and ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Long-term rainfall variations and their impacts in the South West of Western Australia
(2020-12-16)The South West of Western Australia (SWWA) has been of interest to research due to the decrease in rainfall over this region since the 1950s with a significant shift since the 1970s. SWWA depends on the winter rainfall for ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Hue Discrimination in the Digital Environment
(2020-12-03)The degree to which people can discern differences in hue on a computer screen was explored in this study. A purpose-written program offered participants a colour swatch and a nearby panel to be matched by adjusting its ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Texture Patterns for Object Recognition and Content-Based Color Image Retrieval
(2020-12-03)The recent advances in image capturing devices and their extensive use in real life scenarios have led to an increased availability of digital images on the internet. Efficient and effective image browsing and searching ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Yoga and Long Day Care Services
(2020-12-02)Yoga classes are an increasingly popular trend in early childhood education and care services. The purpose of this research is to examine how yoga classes are included in the programs of long day care centres, and how links ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
High stakes testing: Impacts on teacher and administrator practice in New York Schools from the perspective of education consultants
(2020-12-02)This study examined the impact of High Stakes Testing (HST) on the practice of teachers and administrators in New York schools from the perspective of education consultants. The results of annual state tests had high stakes ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Given to Thinking: The Poetic and Philosophical Endowment of Martin Heidegger's Fourfold
(2020-12-02)The claim of this thesis is that the poetic and philosophical endowment given to thinking by Heidegger’s conception of the fourfold (das Geviert) deserves to be better understood. In pursuit of this understanding, I draw ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Safety Leadership in the Oil and Gas Industry: The Mediating Role of Complexity Science Principles
(2020-12-02)Safety is a major concern in the oil and gas industry due to accidents with the potential for catastrophic consequences. One of these was the Piper Alpha drilling platform disaster in 1988, which resulted in the loss of ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Carer experiences and perspectives on healthcare utilisation, complementary medicine use, and treatment burden for paediatric eosinophilic oesophagitis in Australia
(2020-12-02)Eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE) is a rare antigen-driven inflammatory gastrointestinal disorder characterised by oesophageal dysfunction, elevated levels of eosinophils in the oesophageal mucosa, and gastrointestinal ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Submitted on Time: Measuring, Predicting, and Reducing Procrastination
(2020-12-02)Procrastination is the volitional delay of an intended task, despite believing that delay will be harmful. While not all delay is attributable to procrastination, procrastination is fundamentally characterised by delay. ...GRIFFITH THESIS