Haddad, Khaled, College Of Health And Science, School Of Engineering
Design flood estimation in small to medium sized ungauged catchments is frequently required in hydrologic analysis and design and is of notable economic significance. For this task Australian...
A new regularization procedure for calculating the Casimir energy (2008)
Ghadirian, Bahman, College Of Health And Science, School Of Biomedical And Health Sciences
This thesis deals with the concepts of a very interesting phenomenon in quantum physics, the Casimir effect. Here the effect is investigated in detail and its importance to other areas of physics is...
Synchronising subjective knowledge and knowledge management systems in organisations (2008)
Lakkaraju, Sai Kiran, College Of Health And Science, School Of Computing And Mathematics
The aim of this study is to develop a model for knowledge synchronisation in organisations. The research aim is further broken down into two research objectives that are handled during this study:...
Switched reluctance motor : design, simulation and control (2007)
Aljaism, Wadah A., College Of Health And Science, School Of Engineering
This thesis presents a design method for a switched reluctance (SR) motor to optimise torque production for two types of 3 phase 6/4 poles SRM and 8/6 poles SRM designs. SR motors require precise...
The influence of repeated prescribed burning and forest conversion on soil fungal communities (2007)
Bastias, Brigitte A., College Of Health And Science, Centre For Plant And Food Science
Fungi are key components in forest ecosystems, being involved in decomposition of plant biomass and the cycling of nutrients in forest soils. Despite their importance little is understood about the...
The effectiveness of low-Dye taping and calf muscle stretching for plantar heel pain (2007)
Radford, Joel A., College Of Health And Science, School Of Biomedical And Health Sciences
Plantar heel pain is a common disorder that can involve considerable pain. Many treatments have been suggested to manage the condition however few have been rigorously evaluated. Two treatments...
Pereira, Marie Antoinette Tanya, College Of Health And Science
Encapsulation is a novel technique that involves the entrapment of materials such as cells, enzymes or chemicals within a semi-permeable matrix and is being explored as a drug delivery system. This...
Pumpa, Kate Louise, College Of Health And Science, School Of Biomedical And Health Sciences
The use of complementary and alternative medicines and therapies (CAM) in Australia and across the world is becoming increasingly prevalent. The most recent survey conducted by MacLennon et al. in...
Studies on the aetiopathogenesis of type I autoimmune diabetes (2006)
Al-Domi, Hayder A., College Of Health And Science
It is well recognised that every disease has both genetic and environmental causes. There are indications that environmental factors may play a crucial role over a limited period of time in...
Aiken, Jane Tracy, College Of Health And Science
Soils research at the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury Campus, was undertaken to investigate bacterial communities and soil salinity in an applied study. Microbial ecology was used to inform...
Lannin, Natasha Anne, College Of Health And Science, School Of Exercise And Health Science
The aim of the thesis was to evaluate the effectiveness of static hand splints for the prevention of muscle contracture during early rehabilitation following acquired brain impairment. Three studies...
The effect of harvest timing and irrigation on the quality of olive oil (2006)
Ayton, Jamie Graham, College Of Health And Science
Olive oil production in Australia has increased significantly in the past decade, and will soon reach about forty thousand tonnes per annum. While some Mediterranean countries have well established,...
Bougoure, Damian Stuart, College Of Health And Science, Centre For Plant And Food Science
Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi form mycorrhizal associations with Ericaceae plants and are regarded as essential to the ecological fitness of the plants in extremely nutrition-poor soils world-wide. The...
e-Marketplace development and trading agent design for supply chain management (2006)
Zhao, Kanghua, College Of Health And Science, School Of Computing And Mathematics
Supply Chain Management (SCM) deals with the planning and coordination of resource procuring, product marketing, production scheduling, and end product delivering across multiple organizations. This...
Precision irrigation for grapevines (Vitis vinifera L.) under RDI and PRD (2005)
Fuentes, Sigfredo, College Of Health And Science
Water is a scarce resource worldwide and a particular problem for producers of wine grapes in Australia and Chile where periodic drought severely limits vine growth. Most vineyards in these countries...
The reproductive biology of four Banksia L. f. species with contrasting life histories (2005)
Renshaw, Adrian, College Of Health And Science
In this thesis, aspects of the reproductive biology of four Banksia species that display in various combinations all the life histories currently recognised in the genus were compared. Species like...
Thermodynamics in curved space (2005)
Stait-Gardner, Timothy John, College Of Health And Science, School Of Biomedical And Health Sciences
This thesis examines the underlying physics that gives rise to the Hawking and Unruh effects. The Rindler coordinate system is constructed from a physical argument that shows how an observer would...
Fire frequencies for Western Sydney's woodlands : indications from vegetation dynamics (2005)
Watson, Penelope J., College Of Health And Science
Although the importance of fire management for biodiversity conservation is increasingly being recognised, little is known about the relationship between fire regimes and plant diversity in...
Hicks, David James, College Of Health And Science
The sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) is a large aquatic plant endemic to subtropical and tropical Asia and northern Australia. Lotus has a combination of morphological and anatomical features that...
Bird, Frank William, College Of Health And Science, School Of Engineering
Obtaining a very high level of precision and sophistication in automated computer control is now available inexpensively from a variety of hardware and software sources. Applying this automated...
Natural eating behaviour and its effect in labour outcomes (2005)
Parsons, Myra, College Of Health And Science, School Of Nursing
The appropriate oral intake for labouring women has long been a controversial issue among midwives and anaesthetists. Anaesthetists argue that any type of food and, to some extent, fluid consumption...