Theses from 2020
An investigation into the spatial distribution, habitat selection and resource usage of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) inhabiting urban reserves within Perth, Western Australia, Michael Thomas Main
Proactive forensics: Keystroke logging from the cloud as potential digital evidence for forensic readiness purposes, Sheunesu M. Makura, H. S. Venter, Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan, Victor R. Kebande, and Nickson M. Karie
Exponential increase of plastic burial in mangrove sediments as a major plastic sink, C. Martin, F. Baalkhuyur, L. Valluzzi, V. Saderne, M. Cusack, H. Almahasheer, P. K. Krishnakumar, L. Rabaoui, M. A. Qurban, A. Arias-Ortiz, Pere Masqué, and C. M. Duarte
Scratching the surface of subterranean biodiversity: Molecular analysis reveals a diverse and previously unknown fauna of Parabathynellidae (Crustacea: Bathynellacea) from the Pilbara, Western Australia, Emma F. Matthews, Kym M. Abrams, Steven J.B. Cooper, Joel A. Huey, Mia J. Hillyer, William F. Humphreys, Andrew D. Austin, and Michelle T. Guzik
Top 30 cm soil C org stocks, isotopic C org signature (13dC) and fine sediment content (silt and clay %) estimated in soil cores sampled in seagrass meadows around Australia [dataset], Ines Mazarrasa, Paul Lavery, Carlos M. Duarte, Anna Lafratta, Catherine E. Lovelock, Peter I. Macreadie, Jimena Samper-Villarreal, Cristian Salinas, Christian Sanders, Stacey Trevathan-Tackett, Mary Young, Andy Steven, and Oscar Serrano
SDG 3: Good health and well-being - framing targets to maximise co-benefits for forests and people, Rosemary A. McFarlane, John Barry, Guéladio Cissé, Maya Gislason, Marta Gruca, Kerryn Higgs, Pierre Horwitz, Giang Nguyen, Jane O'Sullivan, Subhashis Sahu, and Colin D. Butler
Chronic kidney disease of unknown origin is associated with environmental urbanisation in Belfast, UK, Jennifer M. McKinley, Ute Mueller, Peter M. Atkinson, Ulrich Ofterdinger, Siobhan F. Cox, Rory Doherty, Damian Fogarty, J. J. Egozcue, and V. Pawlowsky-Glahn
Investigating the influence of environmental factors on the incidence of renal disease with compositional data analysis using balances, Jennifer M. McKinley, Ute Mueller, Peter M. Atkinson, Ulrich Ofterdinger, Chloe Jackson, Siobhan F. Cox, Rory Doherty, Damian Fogarty, J. J. Egozcue, and V. Pawlowsky-Glahn
SNP population genetic data for the seagrass Halodule uninervis from Pilbara region, Western Australia, Kathryn Margaret McMahon and Richard Evans
Predictors of marine genetic structure in the Indo-Australian Archipelago [dataset], Kathryn M. Mcmahon and Udhi Eko Hernawan
Conserving critical seagrass habitat for dugong. Seagrass network monitoring data SUMMARY, Kathryn M. Mcmahon, Paul Lavery, and Nicole Said
Conserving critical seagrass habitat for dugong. Dugong seagrass associations SUMMARY data., Kathryn M. Mcmahon, Paul Lavery, Nicole Said, Chris Cleguer, and Amanda Hodgson
Deriving statistical inference from the application of artificial neural networks to clinical metabolomics data, Kevin M. Mendez
Migrating from partial least squares discriminant analysis to artificial neural networks: A comparison of functionally equivalent visualisation and feature contribution tools using Jupyter Notebooks, Kevin M. Mendez, David I. Broadhurst, and Stacey N. Reinke
Seasonal variation of bacterial diversity along the marine particulate matter continuum, Mireia Mestre, Juan Höfer, M. Montserrat Sala, and Josep M. Gasol
Learning affordance segmentation: An investigative study, Chau Nguyen Duc Minh, Syed Zulqarnain Gilani, Syed M. S. Islam, and David Suter
Opportunistic security architecture for osmotic computing paradigm in dynamic IoT-Edge's resource diffusion, Likhwa Lothar Mlotshwa, Sheunesu M. Makura, Nickson M. Karie, and Victor R. Kebande
SAM-SoS: A stochastic software architecture modeling and verification approach for complex System-of-Systems, Ahmad Mohsin, Naeem Khalid Janjua, Syed M. S. Islam, and Muhammad Ali Babar
Model synthesis and stochastic automated verification of systems-of-systems dynamic architectures, Ahmad Mohsin, Naeem K. Janjua, Martin Masek, and Valdemar V. G. Neto
Using climate change models to inform the recovery of the western ground parrot Pezoporus flaviventris, Shaun W. Molloy, Allan H. Burbidge, Sarah Comer, and Robert A. Davis
Seismic interval velocity in the matte of Posidonia oceanica meadows: Towards a non-destructive approach for large-scale assessment of blue carbon stock, Briac Monnier, Gérard Pergent, Miguel Ángel Mateo, Philippe Clabaut, and Christine Pergent-Martini
Coral disease causes, consequences, and risk within coral restoration, T. Moriarty, W. Leggat, Megan J. Huggett, and T. D. Ainsworth
Establishing international best practice principles for impact assessment teaching and training, Angus Morrison-Saunders, Jenny Pope, and Megan Jones
Gearing up impact assessment as a vehicle for achieving the UN sustainable development goals, Angus Morrison-Saunders, Luis E. Sánchez, Francois Retief, John Sinclair, Meinhard Doelle, Megan Jones, Jan-Albert Wessels, and Jenny Pope
Biplots for compositional data derived from generalized joint diagonalization methods, Ute Mueller, R. Tolosana Delgado, E. C. Grunsky, and J. M. McKinley
EpNet: A deep neural network for ear detection in 3D point clouds, Md Mursalin and Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam
Motion segmentation of RGB-D sequences: Combining semantic and motion information using statistical inference, Sundaram Muthu, Ruwan Tennakoon, Tharindu Rathnayake, Reza Hoseinnezhad, David Suter, and Alireza Bab-Hadiashar
Dynamic QoS-aware cloud service selection using best-worst method and timeslot weighted satisfaction scores, Falak Nawaz and Naeem K. Janjua
Application of ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry (Orbitrap™) for the determination of beta-casein phenotypes in cow milk, Duc Doan Nguyen, Vicky Ann Solah, Francesco Busetti, Grant Smolenski, and Terry Cooney
Local Binary Pattern based algorithms for the discrimination and detection of crops and weeds with similar morphologies, Vi Nguyen Thanh Le
Development and application of a multiple reaction monitoring mass spectrometry method for absolute quantification of lysinoalanine and lanthionine in dairy products, Soren D. Nielsen, Thao T. Le, Lotte Knudsen, Valentin Rauh, Nina A. Poulsen, and Lotte B. Larson
Factors influencing carbon stocks and accumulation rates in eelgrass meadows across New England, USA, A. B. Novak, M. C. Pelletier, P. Colarusso, J. Simpson, M. N. Gutierrez, A. Arias-Ortiz, M. Charpentier, Pere Masque, and P. Vella
Correction to: Factors influencing carbon stocks and accumulation rates in eelgrass meadows across New England, USA, A. B. Novak, M. C. Pelletier, P. Colarusso, J. Simpson, M. N. Gutierrez, A. Arias-Ortiz, M. Charpentier, Pere Masqué, and P. Vella
Optical and chromaticity properties of metal-dielectric composite-based multilayer thin-film structures prepared by RF magnetron sputtering, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam, Mohammad M. Rahman, Mohammad Khairul Basher, Mikhail Vasiliev, and Kamal Alameh
Dielectric/metal/dielectric (DMD) multilayers: growth and stability of ultra-thin metal layers for transparent heat regulation (THR), Mohammad Nur-E-Alam, Mikhail Vasiliev, and Kamal Alameh
A step forward towards advanced and self-sustainable greenhouse agriculture, Mohammad Nur E Alam, Mikhail Vasiliev, and Jacqualine Anne Thomas
Positive effects of high salinity can buffer the negative effects of experimental warming on functional traits of the seagrass Halophila ovalis, Y. Ontoria, Chanelle Webster, Nicole Said, J. M. Ruiz, M. Perez, J. Romero, and Kathryn McMahon
Airports, ATMs, hospitals: Microsoft Windows XP leak would be less of an issue, if so many didn’t use it, Brianna O'Shea and Paul Haskell-Dowland
Morphological and heartwood variation of Santalum macgregorii in Papua New Guinea, T. Page, G. K. Jeffrey, P. Macdonell, D. Hettiarachchi, Mary C. Boyce, A. Lata, L. Oa, and G. Rome
Detecting deviations from activities of daily living routines using kinect depth maps and power consumption data, Hossein Pazhoumand-Dar, Leisa J. Armstrong, and Amiya Kumar Tripathy
Quantifiable isovist and graph-based measures for automatic evaluation of different area types in virtual terrain generation, Andrew Pech, Chiou Peng Lam, and Martin Masek
Artemis : Perspectives from Australia, Japan, South Korea and India, Aaron Pereira, David Vaccaro, Soyoung Chung, Rajeswari Rajagopalan, Brett Biddington, and Kazuto Suzuki
Correction to: Understanding public perceptions of a new pit lake in As Pontes, Spain, Xaquín Pérez-Sindín and Melanie L. Blanchette
Pedogenic Processes in a Posidonia oceanica Mat, Nerea Pineiro-Juncal, Carmen Leiva-Duenas, Oscar Serrano, Miguel Angel Mateo, and Antonio Martinez-Cortizas
Facial soft tissue norms in Caucasians using an innovative three-dimensional approach, Anand Ponnusamy, Mithran S. Goonewardene, Ajmal Mian, Peter Eastwood, Alethea Rea, and Syed Islam
Dispersive SPE, an alternative to traditional SPE for extraction of 43 doping peptides from equine urine prior to LC–MS screening, Joanne Pugliese, Mary C. Boyce, Nathan G. Lawler, John Coumbaros, and Thao T. Le
Global database of ratios of particulate organic carbon to thorium-234 in the ocean: Improving estimates of the biological carbon pump, Viena Puigcorbe, Pere Masque, and Frederic A.C. Le Moigne
Sampling device-dependence of prokaryotic community structure on marine particles: Higher diversity recovered by in situ pumps than by oceanographic bottles, Viena Puigcorbe, Clara Ruiz-Gonzalez, Pere Masque´, and Josep M. Gasol
Anthropogenic-induced acceleration of elemental burial rates in blue carbon repositories of the Arabian Gulf, Lotfi Rabaoui, Michael Cusack, Vincent Saderne, Periyadan K. Krishnakumar, Yu-Jia Lin, Ahsan M. Shemsi, Radhouan El Zrelli, Ariane Arias-Ortiz, Pere Masqué, Carlos M. Duarte, and Mohammad A. Qurban
Impacts of invasive rats and tourism on a threatened island bird: The Palau Micronesian scrubfowl, Paul M. Radley, Robert A. Davis, and Tim S. Doherty
Assessing the efficacy of TNF-alpha inhibitors in preventing emergency and emergent colectomies, Ruben Rajan, Matthew W. Trinder, Johnny Lo, and Mary Theophilus
Correction to: Cooperative co‑evolution for feature selection in big data with random feature grouping (Journal of Big Data, (2020), 7, 1, (107), 10.1186/s40537-020-00381-y), A. N.M.Bazlur Rashid, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Leslie F. Sikos, and Paul Haskell‑Dowland
A novel penalty-based wrapper objective function for feature selection in big data using cooperative co-evolution, A.N.M. Bazlur Rashid, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Leslie F. Sikos, and Paul Haskell-Dowland
Cooperative co-evolution for feature selection in big data with random feature grouping, A.N.M. Bazlur Rashid, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Leslie F. Sikos, and Paul Haskell-Dowland
Performance enhancement of intrusion detection system using bagging ensemble technique with feature selection, Md. Mamunur Rashid, Joarder Kamruzzaman, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Nahina Islam, Santoso Wibowo, and Steven Gordon
The study protocol for a pseudo-randomised pre-post designed controlled intervention trial to study the effects of a 7-week cooking program on self-efficacy and biomarkers of health: the ECU lifestyle and biomarkers get connected study (ECULABJMOF) including the Jamie’s Ministry of Food WA participant experience, Joanna Rees, Claus C. Christophersen, Joshua R. Lewis, Johnny Lo, Ros Sambell, Leesa Costello, Cailyn Walker, Matt F. Byrne, Mary C. Boyce, Robert U. Newton, and Amanda Devine
Deciphering the unique structure and acylation pattern of Posidonia oceanica lignin, Jorge Rencoret, Gisela Marques, Oscar Serrano, Joeri Kaal, Angel T. Martínez, José C. del Río, and Ana Gutiérrez
A quasi-experimental study of the respectful approach on early parenting competence and stress, Amanda C. Richardson, Johnny Lo, Lynn Priddis, and Therese A. O’Sullivan
Architectural geoheritage, engaging the observer and the geotourism potential of the lighthouse hotel rock wall, Bunbury, Western Australia, Samantha J. Richards, David Newsome, and Greg Simpson
To what extent can mine rehabilitation restore recreational use of forest land? Learning from 50 years of practice in southwest Australia, Josianne Claudia Sales Rosa, Davide Geneletti, Angus Morrison-Saunders, Luis Enrique Sánchez, and Michael Hughes
Planning mine restoration through ecosystem services to enhance community engagement and deliver social benefits, Josianne C.S. Rosa, Angus Morrison-Saunders, Michael Hughes, and Luis E. Sánchez
Major imprint of surface plankton on deep ocean prokaryotic structure and activity, Clara Ruiz-González, Mireia Mestre, Marta Estrada, Marta Sebastián, Guillem Salazar, Susana Agustí, Enrique Moreno-Ostos, Isabel Reche, Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado, Xosé Anxelu G. Morán, Carlos M. Duarte, M. Montserrat Sala, and Josep M. Gasol
Correction to: Rethinking soil water repellency and its management, Katinka X. Ruthrof, Anna J. M. Hopkins, Melissa Danks, Graham O’Hara, Richard Bell, David Henry, Rachel Standish, Mark Tibbett, John Howieson, Treena Burgess, and Richard Harper
Role of vegetated coastal ecosystems as nitrogen and phosphorous filters and sinks in the coasts of Saudi Arabia, V. Saderne, M. Cusack, Oscar Serrano, H. Almahasheer, P. K. Krishnakumar, L. Rabaoui, M. A. Qurban, and C. M. Duarte
Toward a sustainable cybersecurity ecosystem, Shahrin Sadik, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Leslie F. Sikos, and A.K.M. Najmul Islam
Prokaryotic capability to use organic substrates across the global tropical and subtropical ocean, Maria Montserrat Sala, Clara Ruiz-González, Encarna Borrull, Iñigo Azúa, Zurine Baña, Begoña Ayo, X. Antón Álvarez-Salgado, Josep M. Gasol, and Carlos M. Duarte
Social inputs analysis targeting an individual and group, Priyanka Salian, Deepali Kayande, and Amiya Kumar Tripathy
Seagrass losses since mid‐20th century fuelled CO2 emissions from soil carbon stocks, Cristian Salinas, Carlos M. Duarte, Paul Lavery, Pere Masque´, Ariane Arias-Ortiz, Javier X. Leon, David Callaghan, Gary A. Kendrick, and Oscar Serrano
Seagrass losses since mid-20th century fuelled CO2 emissions from soil carbon stocks [dataset], Cristian Salinas, Carlos M. Duarte, Paul S. Lavery, Pere Masque, Ariane Arias-Ortiz, Javier Leon, David Callaghan, Gary A. Kendrick, and Oscar Serrano
Work-integrated learning builds student identification of employability skills: Utilizing a food literacy education strategy, Ros Sambell, Amanda Devine, Johnny Lo, and Tanya Lawlis
Tropicalisation of temperate seagrass meadows in Western Australia: Predicting the impact of tropical herbivorous fishes on temperate seagrass meadows, Maria Samsonova
Evaluating environmental impact assessment report quality in South African national parks, Luke A. Sandham, Carla Huysamen, Francois P. Retief, Angus Morrison-Saunders, Alan J. Bond, Jenny Pope, and Reece C. Alberts
Habitat fragmentation in a Mediterranean-type forest alters resident and propagule mycorrhizal fungal communities, Sarah J. Sapsford, Trudy Paap, Anna J. M. Hopkins, Giles E. St. J. Hardy, and Treena I. Burgess
Development of a HPTLC method to profile the phytochemicals in Allanblackia parviflora (tallow tree) kernel and seed cakes, Wilfred Sefah, Lydia Sefah, and Hayford Ofori
Concept drift for big data, Raihan Seraj and Mohiuddin Ahmed
Impact of seagrass establishment, industrialization and coastal infrastructure on seagrass biogeochemical sinks, Oscar Serrano, Paul Lavery, James Bongiovanni, and Carlos M. Duarte
Organic chemistry insights for the exceptional soil carbon storage of the seagrass Posidonia australis, Oscar Serrano, Mohammad Rozaimi, Paul Lavery, and Ronald J. Smernik
Seasonal weather and climate prediction over area burned in grasslands of northeast China, Ali Hassan Shabbir, Jiquan Zhang, John W. Groninger, Eddie J. B. van Etten, Samuel Asumadu Sarkodie, James A. Lutz, and Carlos Valencia
Evolution of strong reproductive isolation in plants: Broad-scale patterns and lessons from a perennial model group, Huiying Shang, Jaqueline Hess, Melinda Pickup, David L. Field, Pär K. Ingvarsson, Jianquan Liu, and Christian Lexer
Vision to language: Methods, metrics and datasets, Naeha Sharif, Uzair Nadeem, Syed A. A. Shah, Mohammed Bennamoun, and Wei Liu
Evaluation of gammah2ax in buccal cells as a molecular biomarker of DNA damage in Alzheimer’s disease in the AIBL study of ageing, Mohammad Sabbir Siddiqui, Maxime Francois, Stephanie Rainey-Smith, Ralph Martins, Colin L. Masters, David Ames, Christopher C. Rowe, Lance S. Macaulay, Michael F. Fenech, and Wayne R. Leifert
AI in digital forensics: Ontology engineering for cybercrime investigations, Leslie F. Sikos
Contextualized knowledge graphs in communication network and cyber-physical system modeling, Leslie F. Sikos
Packet analysis for network forensics: A comprehensive survey, Leslie F. Sikos
The evolution of context-aware RDF knowledge graphs, Leslie F. Sikos
The formal representation of cyberthreats for automated reasoning, Leslie F. Sikos
Data science in cybersecurity and cyberthreat intelligence, Leslie F. Sikos and Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
Provenance-aware knowledge representation: A survey of data models and contextualized knowledge graphs, Leslie F. Sikos and Dean Philp
Development of an infrared pollution index to identify ground-level compositional, particle size, and humidity changes using Himawari-8, M. Sowden, D. Blake, D. Cohen, A. Atanacio, and Ute Mueller
Which dual-band infrared indices are optimum for identifying aerosol compositional change using Himawari-8 data?, Miles Sowden and D Blake
Childcare food provision recommendations vary across australia: Jurisdictional comparison and nutrition expert perspectives, Alison Spence, Penelope Love, Rebecca Byrne, Amy Wakem, Louisa Matwiejczyk, Amanda Devine, Rebecca Golley, and Ros Sambell
Evaluation of molecular analysis in challenging ovarian sex cord-stromal tumours: a review of 50 cases, Colin J.R. Stewart, Benhur Amanuel, Leanne De Kock, Maria Apellaniz-Ruiz, Amerigo Carrello, Tino Giardina, Fabienne Grieu-Iacopetta, Marc A. Thomas, and William D. Foulkes
Too hot to handle: Unprecedented seagrass death driven by marine heatwave in a World Heritage Area, Simone Strydom, Kathy Murray, Shaun Wilson, Bart Huntley, Michael Rule, Michael Heithaus, Cindy Bessey, Gary A. Kendrick, Derek Burkholder, Matthew W. Fraser, and Katherine Zdunic
Transcriptomic study for identification of major nitrogen stress responsive genes in Australian bread wheat cultivars, Nigarin Sultana, Shahidul Islam, Angela Juhasz, Rongchang Yang, Maoyun She, Zaid Alhabbar, Jingjuan Zhang, and Wujun Ma
A crowd density estimation approach using GPS mobility for its dynamics and predictions, Vignesh Sundaram, Amiya Kumar Tripathy, Ram Deshmukh, and Aditya Pawar
Use of landsat imagery to map spread of the invasive alien species Acacia Nilotica In Baluran National Park, Indonesia, Sutomo Sutomo, Eddie Van Etten, and Rajif Iryadi
IoT-MQTT based denial of service attack modelling and detection, Naeem Firdous Syed