Our own beds : a tale of metamorphosis
- Authors: Green, Georgina
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "This research project visually explores the concept of "living story" through an installation. Entitled "Our own beds", the installation uses narrative with an emphasis on personal perspective and lived experience in the manner of Jack Kerouac's writings."
- Description: Master of Arts
Pesticide labels : can they be understood by end-users, in order to use them safely
- Authors: Seide, Pa
- Date: 1991
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "This paper explored the occupational health effects of pesticide use and found evidence that workers are at risk of both acute and chronic adverse health effects, the extent of which largely depends on work practices employed. The label is the focus of the communication system used to inform workers about the hazards and safe handling procedures."
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science
Presentation media for occupational health and safety training : conveying the message or losing the meaning
- Authors: Mitchell, Thomas
- Date: 1991
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science, Occupational Health and Safety
Secret suburbia : An anthology of concepts relating to house and home
- Authors: Mears, Paul
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The aim of this research project has been to merge components of ideas relating to House and Home that have been formed by the inherently sensitive autobiographical nature of my own experience whilst growing up in a suburban environment. Naturally, these symbols or metaphors of the mundane reveal much more than what superficial impressions allow. They invite the viewer into an inner world of dream /memory and hypothesis that hopefully invokes within the viewer a desire to reach beyond their own perceptions of the everyday, and to re-examine the source of their own identity, thereby bringing some new emphasis to their own significant journey.
- Description: Master of Arts (Visual Arts)
Short-term forecasting model for crude oil price based on artificial neural networks
- Authors: Haidar, Imad
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: This thesis examines the ability of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) to predict crude oil spot price direction and short-term trends.
- Description: Masters of Computing
Temporal and environmental influences on seed protein accumulation in soybean seeds
- Authors: Sykes, Geoffrey
- Date: 1991
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Masters Degree of Applied Science
The application of marketing concepts to occupational health and safety in an Australian University
- Authors: Giles, Murray
- Date: 1993
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The dissertation examines the legal, financial and social responsibilities that Universities have in complying with minimum occupational health and safety performance standards.The marketing principles and techniques identified in this project may assist Occupational Health and Safety managers to enhance the service provided.
- Description: Masters of Applied Science, Occupational Health and Safety
The assumed divide : Examining gender, feminism and relationships through visual art
- Authors: Hollis, Sylvia
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: The Assumed Divide is a visual arts based, practice-led research project which explores expectations of gender within the context of interpersonal relationships, structured through feminist theory. I created a collection of small, figurative sculptures inspired by experiences of animosity and misunderstanding, to locate areas of gendered interpersonal ambivalence. This thesis proposes that feminism might enhance gender relations by deconstructing harmful stereotypes and by encouraging empathy and respect for diversity. Issues such as reproductive choice, intergenerational debate, and uncertainty in aims are discussed as apparent impediments to the unity of feminism, against a patriarchal tradition that grants men categorical universality. I argue that by dismantling the perception of male unification and by elucidating the multitudinous similarities and variances of human experience, feminism makes advances in eliminating sexism. I also examine how binary gender division, with an assumption of distinct difference between male and female, generates conflict and power dynamics advantageous to men, diminishing the quality of heterosexual and social relationships. The observation that overlapping gender traits blur boundaries of male and female, and that rigid categorisations are not indisputably representative of all people, may offer more points of connection to bridge the divide of gender. Each artwork in The Assumed Divide reflects on gendered experience, with sculpted depictions of disintegrated flesh acting as visual manifestations of the psyches and social conditions of the figures. Working realistically on a small scale, and integrating found silver trays as motifs of domesticity and relationships, my intent is to directly stimulate contemplation of the themes in context to viewers’ lives, recognising that the audience is free to find their own meaning in the works. Discussion of these pieces, alongside works by other artists who broach topics of feminism, gender, and relationships, exemplifies the capacity for art to infuse theory with personal insight, inspired and derived from the lives of both artist and viewer.
- Description: Masters by Research
The attitudes of Australian heterosexuals to same-sex parenting
- Authors: Marchesani, Charmaine
- Date: 2003
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Master of Applied Science
The classification and mapping of the Casuarina pauper woodlands of the Scotia 1:100 000 map
- Authors: Miller, John
- Date: 1998
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: Master of Applied Science
The design and monitoring of periodised modular training programmes in swimming
- Authors: Quinlan, Paul
- Date: 2000
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "This study sets out to investigate the current scientific basis of training in swimming, from the novice to elite levels and provide formats to monitor training in line with current science and technology, and to provide the practitioner on the pool deck with a tool that will assist him or her in the planning process, through the use of a computer software package".
- Description: Master of Applied Science
The effect of dc cardioversion on anaerobic threshold
- Authors: Kelson, Noel
- Date: 2001
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: "The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of cardioversion atrial fibrillation on exercise performance as measured by the level of anaerobic threshold."
- Description: Master of Applied Science
The gap into reality : the process of redefinition of computer policy during its transition from State Education Department through a local school to its implementation in the classoom
- Authors: Duthie, John
- Date: 1999
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "The aim of this thesis was to investigate the process by which policy regarding the use of computers in the classroom was developed in a secondary school in a Victorian provincial city. It seeks to determine whether a policy determined at a State Education Department level may be redefined at a local school administrative level and the changes that may occur when that policy is implemented in the classroom"
- Description: Master of Education
The quest and the woman artist in contemporary society
- Authors: Jacono, Dianne
- Date: 2002
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "The project concerns itself with the human condition and the search for meaning, specifically, from the perspective of a woman artist. This search for meaning is expressed as a journey. The journey of a fictional woman protagonist through landscape is the metaphor used to convey these ideas."
- Description: Master of Education (Visual Arts)
The sharing of safety information between hospitals in the state of Victoria
- Authors: Greene, K. H.
- Date: 1989
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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- Description: "This study uses two examples of occupational health and safety problems encountered in nine major hospitals to illustrate that hospitals fail to identify, evaluate and share information adequately. The two safety examples used are 1. Needle-stick incidents 2. The potential for injuries associated with floor cleaning methods."
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science, Occupational Health and Safety
The use of crosslinked casein for the removal of heavy metals from wastewater
- Authors: Wilson, Stephen
- Date: 1986
- Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
- Full Text: false
- Description: This project studies the heavy metal cation adsorption of crosslinked casein, to assess its viability as an alternative means of removing heavy metal ions from the wastewater produced by mining and manufacturing processes.
- Description: Masters Degree in Applied Science