Ageing under the rainbow : The interrelations between age, sense of belonging, and mental health among Australian gay men
- Authors: Morris, Simon
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: This research investigated the interrelations between gay men’s age, sense of belonging (to the general community, the broader gay community, gay groups and with gay friends) and mental health by testing four models: direct, mediation, additive and moderation.
- Description: Doctor of Psychology (Clinical)
An investigation of middle secondary students’ mathematical conceptions of rate
- Authors: Herbert, Sandra
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: This qualitative study investigated Year 10 students’ understandings of the important mathematical concept of 'rate'. Results identified educationally critical aspects including teaching through a range of contexts and representations.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Rapid identification of rootkit infections using data mining
- Authors: Lobo, Desmond
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: "The main part of this thesis presents a new approach to the topic of conjugation, with applications to various optimization problems. It does so by introducing (what we call) G-coupling functions."
- Description: Doctor of Philsophy
The effectiveness of using static features in identifying scam genres
- Authors: Stabek, Amber
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: Thesis details a cybercrime classification framework stemming from a mixed methodological approach, which is both top down and bottom up and is designed to be multidisciplinary and adaptable across sectors.
- Description: Master by Research of Mathematical Sciences
- Description: Variation in scam classification is regularly identified as a primary cause of discrepancy in victim report data resulting in unsuccessful scam identification and insufficient rates of interception by law enforcement, which results in the low prosecution rate of scammers. The result of such discrepancies lead to complex concerns, such as the under reporting of scam incidence, and reduced rates of successful follow up by investigative and enforcement agencies consequential to difficulties in making correct referrals. Without a shared and common lexicon of scam labels and descriptions, communication between investigative agencies and cross-border cooperation is obstructed. With no compatible comprehension of the scam lexicon, timely progression in scam-case management leading to the identification, tracking and interception of scammer communications cannot be realised. Ambiguities leading to interpretational impedances are aiding scammers by enabling their scams in cross-jurisdictional and multi-national platforms. If the wide variety of known scam types could be condensed to recognisable and traceable instances, the business models that scammers use could be identified and future scamming events predicted, monitored, and interrupted. Following a mixed methodology, this research aims to address some of these concerns. This is achieved by clustering scam descriptions and partitioning them into scam types, called scam genres. The result of which reveals homogeneous groups of scam cases and allows for the assessment of the effectiveness of using static features in identifying scam types. Second to this, identification of the most suitable model for reducing scam cases into the fewest number of clusters with the least number of scam cases within in each cluster at an accuracy level of at least 95% is achieved. Through the use of hierarchical clustering, this research grouped publically available scams into homogeneous clusters of scam genres. Two-hundred and seventy-seven scams from 38 separate categories of scam classification were condensed into as few as 7-clusters of scam genre. Following a mixed methodological, grounded theoretical approach and using discriminant function analysis, 82 static features were derived from the 277 scam descriptions analysed. Of the 82 static features derived, it was concluded that only 68 significantly predicted scam type and explained 95% of the total variation found in scam case assignment. The most significant static features determined to be crucial to any scamming campaign and useful in identifying the type of scam genre a scam case belongs to were; what the scam offered, the role of the victim, the goal of the scammer and the method of scam introduction. The results of this research provide empirical evidence of the inconsistent use of definitions across jurisdictions in scam descriptions, and will contribute to the development of a uniform lexicon of scamming terminology as well as become foundational to further research on the impact of scams for law enforcement, the public and private sector, the community and the individual.
The interplay between the experience of doctoral education and familial relationships for mid and late-career academics employed in Australian universities
- Authors: Webb, Janis
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: This investigation explored how family relationships are affected when adults with significant cross-generation responsibilities undertake doctoral study. How family commitments impact on these students’ study and work was also considered.
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy
Unwrapping packages: Power politics and place in the delivery of community aged care
- Authors: Brown, Katrina
- Date: 2010
- Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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- Description: The thesis analyses the delivery of the Community Aged Care Packages Program, revealing the flaws in the program’s design and the consequences of this programmatic design for service providers in rural Victoria
- Description: Doctor of Philosophy