Griffith Theses: Recent submissions
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The Use of Streaming to Access Digital Content in Australia and Challenges to Copyright Law: An End-User Perspective
(2020-09-01)The rising popularity of streaming has resulted in a revolutionary change to how digital content, such as sound recordings, cinematographic films, and radio and television broadcasts, is used on the internet. Superseding ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Richard Strauss and Metamorphosen - Analysis of performance from the perspectives of violinist and conductor
(2020-08-31)This research project examines the processes of performance, and compares the experiences from two points of view – those of conductor and violinist. One has more complete control over the interpretation and direction of ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Temporal Experiences of Architecture through the Lens of Cinema: Haptic Visuality and Built Environments in Andrei Tarkovsky's Films
(2020-08-31)This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the temporal experience and character of built environments. While arguing against the dominance of visual means as the principal perception modality, this thesis ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Hammerhead sharks (Sphyrnidae) of southeast Queensland: habitat and movements
(2020-09-02)Hammerhead sharks (Sphyrnidae) are iconic and charismatic species that have received little attention until more recently, resulting in knowledge gaps about life histories, habitats, behaviours and migratory drivers, mostly ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Understanding Child Sexual Abuse in Indonesia: A Critical Analysis
(2020-09-01)Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a global problem that affects children across cultures, nationalities and economic status. Under reporting of CSA is common. CSA remains a taboo issue that is sensitive to discuss, this often ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Deep Learning and Module Inspired by Human Attention Mechanism
(2020-08-31)Hyperspectral imaging technology acquires image data in a number of continuous narrow bands of the electromagnetic wave. The obtained hyperspectral images contain details of spectral re ectance of targets in addition to ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Characterisation of putative glycan and drug binding proteins predicted using in silico screening methods
(2020-08-31)This thesis describes the characterisation of six targets for a novel antimicrobial drug 3,4-methylenedioxy-beta-nitropropene (BDM-I) shown to inhibit bacterial, protozoal and fungal infections and the characterisation ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The Safety and Efficacy of One-Way Speaking Valves
(2020-09-14)Patients with tracheostomies consume a lot of healthcare resources. These patients are amongst the most critically ill, they have longer lengths of stay, higher rates of morbidity and mortality, and for those that do ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
An Investigation of Influences on Enacted Practice in Online Vocational Education
(2020-09-10)The research being presented in this thesis is concerned with developing an understanding of online pedagogy within the context of Australia’s vocational education (VET) sector. In particular, this research investigated ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Policy Tools for a Secure and Sustainable Electricity Sector
(2020-09-10)Abstract Electricity is a major contributor to any nation’s economic development and is the fuel that drives most aspects of everyday life in society. Digital technologies, communications infrastructure, and industrial ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Understanding Criminal Justice Corruption in Ghana: Voices from Within
(2020-09-09)Corruption in any form is a serious crime that threatens democracies and governments, damages economies, causes devastating inefficiencies, diverts funds away from essential public services, and exacerbates inequalities, ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Being and Becoming Academics: A Case Study of Chinese Returned Academics Working on Knowledge Recontextualisation
(2020-09-09)This study investigated the teaching and research work of early career Chinese academics in an elite Chinese university after they completed their doctoral studies in English-speaking countries. In particular, the study ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Learning In Professional Orchestras
(2020-09-07)This dissertation presents, discusses, and advances findings and contributions from an investigation into how professional orchestral musicians learn as they engage in their work together. Understanding the processes, ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Beginning Teachers' Perceived Competence to Support Students' Mental Health: Developing Mental Health Literacy
(2020-09-09)Mental health issues are prevalent in society and the issue of adolescent mental health is becoming increasingly scrutinised. It is estimated that, during adolescence, one in five young people within Australia will experience ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Anchors Away: Contested Space and Local Resistance on Australia's Gold Coast
(2020-09-07)The neoliberal ascendancy has exacerbated social conflict around urban growth in emergent cities, demonstrating how contested space is a signifier of late modernity. Government officials and elected agents with limited ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Invertebrate-mediated ecosystem functioning during deforestation and reforestation
(2020-09-07)Conversion of forests to pasture has been extensive throughout the tropics and subtropics, and these forests continue to experience deforestation at high levels. Such clearing can alter plant-animal dynamics and thereby ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
People or Process? Desistance Journeys and Measures in Youth Restorative Justice Conferences
(2020-09-03)This thesis addresses two questions regarding desistance through restorative justice (RJ) conferencing. First, it examines whether RJ conferencing supports change towards desistance. Although there has been a significant ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The effect of occupational health and safety regulator intervention on the Australian Army
(2020-09-03)What is the effect of occupational health and safety regulator intervention on the Australian Army? Purpose: The purpose of this research was to investigate how Regulator intervention influenced the Australian Army’s ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Unsettled Settlements of Environmental Risk: Accounting for hazardous legacies, risky environments, and settlement exposures
(2020-09-07)This study examines struggles over settlement exposures to environmental risk, and the ways socio-environmental legacies and commitments are problematised, challenged, transformed, or otherwise ‘unsettled’. Inquiry is ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The face of Australia: Women in international affairs
(2020-09-07)Australia’s foreign service is undergoing fundamental and rapid gendered change. Women form the majority of the Australian Public Service (APS) and a growing proportion of representation in international affairs agencies. ...GRIFFITH THESIS