Optical fibre sensors with fibre Bragg grating (FBG) are used widely because of their advantages such as electrical immunity and high sensitivity. The motivation for this thesis is to use the FBG sensors to measure strain ...

The effect of SiC by diffusion method shows the broadening of full width at half maximum values in x-ray diffraction patterns with the increasing of the doping level; indicates smaller grains and imperfect MgB2 crystallinity. ...

Poly (vinylidene) fluoride (PVDF) has advantages as a membrane material compared to other commercialized polymeric materials as it is easily dissolved in common organic solvents and its proper asymmetric structure for ...

BACKGROUND: Researchers are increasingly using social media to recruit participants to surveys and clinical studies. However, the evidence of the efficacy and validity of adolescent recruitment through Facebook is yet to ...

This thesis analyses the reporting about Facebook in the Australian newsprint media over time, from 2004 to 2013. Based on linguistic analysis of news values, it investigates how traditional news organisations have presented ...

This thesis examines attentional and cognitive biases for particular facial expressions in delusion-prone and deluded individuals. The exploration of cognitive biases in delusion-prone individuals provides one means of ...

Modern civilization is blamed for aggravating climate change as well as global warming by pumping millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In addition to environmental concerns, the ever-increasing energy ...

Background Anti wind farm activists repeatedly claim that families said to be adversely affected by noise from wind turbines “abandon” their homes. In Australia, a claim of “more than 40 families” has been made by a prominent ...

Introduction With digital radiography (DR), radiographers receive immediate feedback on detector exposure in the form of the exposure index (EI). Purpose To identify whether radiographers were meeting the manufactur ...