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Contains the higher degree research theses completed by Griffith graduates.
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Recycled Narratives: Contemporary Jewellery - Material Culture - Praxis
(2018-03)This exegesis outlines research undertaken in the studio in tandem with the study of theoretical texts along with analysis of work by contemporary artists and metalsmiths. My studio approach is framed within ethical ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Industry / Community Relationships in Critical Industrial Developments
(2006)Traditionally, proponents of industrial developments emphasise the technical and economic factors associated with development and largely underestimate the importance of the social, cultural, economic and political dimensions, ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Distribution and Partitioning of Trace Metals and Tributyltin in Estuarine Sediments
(2005)An improved understanding of the geochemical partitioning of trace metals and tributyltin (TBT) in sediments is of great importance in risk assessment and remedial investigation. The aim of this thesis was to examine the ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Closed Circuit Television in Prison
(2005)The research presented in this thesis aimed to apply the approach provided by situational crime prevention (SCP) to the prison environment to explore the usefulness of closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance. SCP has ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The Impact of Hajj satisfaction and Hajj investment on Islamic Religious Commitment: The Case of Indonesian Hajj
(2017-12)The Hajj is the world’s largest annual religious tourism event. During the Hajj approximately three to four million Muslims from around the world gather in the city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The Hajj is compulsory at least ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Bodies, Temporality and Spatiality in Australian Contemporary Circus
(2018-02)Informed and impelled by my professional experience as a circus artist, this dissertation maps the practice features and cultural influence of contemporary circus in Australia, investigating its development and situating ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Epidemic Modelling Studies of Hendra virus and Coronavirus in Australian Bats
(2017-06)Bats (order Chiroptera) are known as natural reservoir hosts of many emerging zoonotic diseases. The increasing trend in outbreaks of bat-borne emerging zoonotic diseases in recent years poses serious risks to public health. ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
The Development and Consequences of Group Affective Tone
(2017-07)The rise of team-based structures within organisations has prompted increasing research focused at improving team processes, typically with a view to increasing team performance (e.g., Allen & Hecht, 2004). This expanding ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Protein Function Prediction by Machine Learning
(2018-05)Overwhelmed with genomic data, determining functions of previously unseen proteins is one of the most challenging problems. While most protein functions can often be inferred from their homologous counterparts with known ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Voice in Australian creative non-fiction: The project of my belonging
(2018-02)The Notebook of Belonging engages with and contributes distinct values in relation to connection, belonging and narrative. Its ‘Voice’ situates an ontological approach originating from familial and cultural traditions. ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
WebEduRank: an educational ranking principle of web pages for teaching
(2017-11)The Internet is a well-established source of information, and it enables services of many kinds. Over the years, many educational systems proposed online systems for the delivery of courses. Lately, educational services ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Exploring the Socio-cultural Factors, Other Barriers and Facilitators of Pro-Environmental Behaviour among Singaporeans: A Qualitative Approach
(2017-07)Despite the plethora of pro-environmental behaviour studies, a review of literature revealed a dearth of studies on pro-environmental behaviour in urban cities in Asia. Given the escalating rate of economic growth in Asian ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Towards De(s)colonial Research in the Global Rural: A Feminist Feeling-Thinking Study with Rural Women in Colombia
(2018-04)This dissertation is a feminist de(s)colonial study with rural women in Colombia. It documents and validates the lives, labour and agency of rural women by re-signifying place as a site of resistance and negotiation within ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Traffic Modeling and Safety Analysis on Motorway Ramps
(2018-05)The whole research program aimed to improve operation, sustainability and safety of ramp areas. For this purpose, I first calculated passenger car equivalents (PCE) for a specific type of heavy vehicles (HVs) on the on-ramp ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Bicluster Analysis of Biomedical Data based on Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization
(2018-01)Knowledge discovery is the process of finding hidden knowledge from a large volume of data that involves data mining. Data mining unveils interesting relationships among data and the results can help to make valuable ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Structural characterization of the rotavirus carbohydrate-recognizing protein and implications for inhibitor design
(2018-01)Rotavirus is a clinically significant pathogen and is the causative agent of life-threatening gastroenteritis in many young humans and animals, leading to approximately 500,000 deaths annually, with 85% occurring in ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Understanding COPD Patients' Barriers to Behavioural and Lifestyle Changes Using a Resilience, Readiness to Change, and Self-Management Model
(2018-04)Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a preventative degenerative illness of the lungs characterised by persistent airflow limitation. Currently chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is the fourth leading cause of death ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Cognitive-Affective Processes and Academic Conscientiousness
(2018-01)There has been an increasing interest in understanding the personality processes that interact with the environment and lead to trait-manifesting behaviour. Researchers have noted that combining trait and cognitive-affec ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Exploring Aboriginal identity through Self- portraiture
(2017-07)This exegesis examines my practice through my identity as a Kabi Kabi, Wiradjuri, Kuku Ylandji and Pita Pita woman with English, Scottish and Romany Gypsy heritage. It contextualises the development of my practice from ...GRIFFITH THESIS -
Offence-related effects and perceptions of forgiveness: Experiences of victims and offenders
(2018-03)This thesis explores crime and forgiveness from the perspectives of victims and perpetrators. While extensive research exists on the traumatic or harmful effects of crime for victims (Davis & Friedman, 1985; Frieze, Hymer, ...GRIFFITH THESIS