Theses from 2017
Ecosystem biomonitoring with eDNA: metabarcoding across the tree of life in a tropical marine environment, Michael Stat, Megan J. Huggett, Rachele Bernasconi, Joseph D. DiBattista, Tina E. Berry, Stephen J. Newman, Euan S. Harvey, and Michael Bunce
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 5.5.3 - Defining thresholds and indicators of primary producers - Seagrass pressure-response relationships - Experiment 3, John Statton, Gary Kendrick, Paul Lavery, and Kathryn McMahon
Sediment burial stress response, bio-indicators and thresholds for a tropical multi-species seagrass assemblage: Report of Theme 5 - Project 5.5.2 prepared for the Dredging Science Node, John Statton, Kathryn McMahon, Roisin McCallum, Gary Kendrick, and Paul Lavery
Response and recovery of a mixed tropical seagrass assemblage to variation in the frequency and magnitude of light deprivation. Report of Theme 5 - Project 5.5.3 prepared for the Dredging Science Node, John Statton, Kathryn McMahon, Rosin McCallum, Gary Kendrick, and Paul Lavery
Evidence for adaptation and acclimation in a widespread eucalypt of semi-arid Australia, Dorothy A. Steane, Elizabeth H. McLean, Brad M. Potts, Suzanne M. Prober, William D. Stock, Vanessa M. Stylianou, René E. Vaillancourt, and Margaret Byrne
Genomic scans across three eucalypts suggest that adaptation to aridity is a genome-wide phenomenon, Dorothy A. Steane, Brad M. Potts, Elizabeth H. McLean, Lesley Collins, Barbara R. Holland, Suzanne M. Prober, William D. Stock, René E. Vaillancourt, and Margaret Byrne
Plants anticipating rain – a challenge for modelling climate change impacts, William Stock
Investigating the effects of changes in light quality on different life history stages of seagrasses, Simone Strydom
Seagrass Halophila ovalis is affected by light quality across different life history stages, Simone Strydom, Kathryn Mcmahon, Gary A. Kendrick, John Stratton, and Paul Lavery
Response of the seagrass Halophila ovalis to altered light quality in a simulated dredge plume, Simone Strydom, Kathryn Mcmahon, and Paul Lavery
Importance of the invasive macroalga Undaria pinnatifida as trophic subsidy for a beach consumer, Rocio Suarez-Jimenez
The invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida hosts an epifaunal assemblage similar to native seaweeds with comparable morphologies, Rocio Suarez-Jimenez, Christopher D. Hepburn, Glenn A. Hyndes, Rebecca J. McLeod, Richard B. Taylor, and Catriona L. Hurd
Ecology of Savanna Ecosystems in Indonesia, Sutomo
Effect of fire and digestion by herbivores on seeds of the exotic invasive species Acacia nilotica from savanna at Baluran national parks Indonesia, Sutomo and Eddie van Etten
Species distribution model of invasive alien species Acacia nilotica for Central-Eastern Indonesia using Biodiversity Climate Change Virtual Laboratory (BCCVL), Sutomo and Eddie van Etten
Modelling and evaluation of malicious attacks against the IoT MQTT protocol, Naeem Firdous Syed, Zubair Baig, Craig Valli, and Ahmed Ibrahim
A hybrid model for joint simulation of high-dimensional continuous and categorical variables, Hassan Talebi, Johnny Lo, and Ute A. Mueller
The role of the seagrass leaf microbiome in assisting nitrogen uptake by the Western Australian seagrass, Posidonia sinuosa, Flavia Tarquinio
Assessing variability in standardised harvest rates from shore-based recreational fishing surveys, Alissa Tate
The role of kelp species as biogenic habitat formers in coastal marine ecosystems, Harry Teagle, Stephen J. Hawkins, Philippa J. Moore, and Dan A. Smale
Four ways social media companies and security agencies can tackle terrorism, Robyn Torok
Assessing the role of submarine groundwater discharge as a source of Sr to the Mediterranean Sea, Giada Trezzi, Jordi García García-Orellana, Valentí Rodellas, Pere Masqué, Ester Garcia-Solsona, and Per Sune Andersson
Intelligent and predictive page replacement system, Amiya K. Tripathy and Rahul R. Divekar
Vertically-aligned carbon nanotube membranes for water desalination and ultrafiltration, Samarth Trivedi
BACnet - Bridging the cyber physical divide one HVAC at a time, Craig Valli, Michael N. Johnstone, and Matthew Peacock
An affine equivariant multivariate normal score transform for compositional data, Karl van Den Boogaart, Ute A. Mueller, and Raimon Tolosana-Delgado
Recovery mechanisms: understanding mechanisms of seagrass recovery following disturbance, Mat Vanderklift, Doug Bearham, Mick Haywood, Roisin McCallum, James McLaughlin, Kathryn McMahon, Nick Mortimer, and Paul Lavery
WAMSI 2 - Dredging Node - Project 5.3 - Natural Dynamics [dataset], Mat Vanderklift, Douglas Bearham, Mick Haywood, Paul Lavery, Hector Lozano-Montes, Roisin McCallum, James McLaughlin, Kathryn McMahon, and Nick Mortimer
Natural dynamics: Understanding natural dynamics of seagrasses of the north west of Western Australia. Report of Theme 5 - Project 5.3 prepared for the Dredging Science Node, Mat Vanderklift, Douglas Bearham, Mick Haywood, Hector Lozano-Montes, Roisin McCallum, James McLaughlin, Kathryn McMahon, Nick Mortimer, and Paul Lavery
WAMSI 2 Dredging Science Node: Theme 5 Project 5.4 Recovery mechanisms [dataset], Mathew Vanderklift, Douglas Bearham, Mick Haywood, Paul Lavery, Roisin McCallum, James McLaughlin, Kathryn McMahon, and Nick Mortimer
Vegetation – environment relationships of the Hamersley Ranges, a mountainous desert of north-west Australia, Eddie J. van Etten and John E. Fox
Specialization to extremely low-nutrient soils limits the nutritional adaptability of plant lineages, G. Anthony Verboom, William Stock, and Michael D. Cramer
Two records of amelanism in the Australian skink Ctenotus fallens (Storr, 1974), Josef Virens, Robert A. Davis, and Tim S. Doherty
Intelligent AgriTrade to abet Indian farming, Kalpita Wagaskar, Nilakshi Joshi, Amiya K. Tripathy, Gauri Datar, Suraj Singhvi, and Rohan Paul
Employ...able: A tool to achieve 7E's of employability, Kalpita Wagaskar, Amiya Kumar Tripathy, Kumkum Chauhan, Aishwarya Malaji, and Dharmendra Yadav
Characterising the impact of drought on Jowar (Sorghum spp) crop yield using bayesian networks, Shubhangi S. Wankhede and Leisa Armstrong
Characterising the influence of drought on Jowar crop production in India using association rule mining, Shubhangi S. Wankhede, Leisa Armstrong, and Niketa Gandhi
Hopeful monsters - In defense of quests to rediscover long-lost species, David M. Watson and Robert A. Davis
Freshwater future: The influence of exposure to extreme summer rainfall events on the resistance and recovery patterns of an estuarine seagrass, Chanelle Webster
The land still speaks: Ni, katitj!, Sandra Wooltorton, Pierre Horwitz, and Len Collard
Managing seagrass resilience under cumulative dredging affecting light: Predicting risk using dynamic Bayesian networks, Paul Pao-Yen Wu, Kathryn Mcmahon, Michael A. Rasheed, Gary A. Kendrick, Paul H. York, Kathryn Chartrand, M. Julian Carey, and Kerrie Mengerson
Crystallographic features of a variants and ß phase for Ti-6Al-4V alloy fabricated by selective laser melting, Yong Yang, Yongliang Lui, J. Chen, Hailin Wang, Z. Q. Zhang, Y. J. Lu, S. Q. Wu, and J. X. Lin
Identifying knowledge gaps in seagrass research and management: An Australian perspective, Paul H. York, Timothy M. Smith, Robert G. Coles, Skye A. McKenna, Rod M. Connolly, Andrew D. Irving, Emma L. Jackson, Kathryn Mcmahon, John W. Runcie, Craig D. Sherman, Brooke K. Sullivan, Stacey M. Trevathan-Tackett, Kasper E. Brodersen, Alex B. Carter, Carolyn J. Ewers, Paul S. Lavery, Chris M. Roelfsema, Elizabeth A. Sinclair, Simone Strydom, Jason E. Tanner, Kor J. Van Dijk, Fiona Y. Warry, Michelle Waycott, and Sam Whitehead
From WannaCry to WannaDie: Security trade-offs and design for implantable medical devices, Guanglou Zheng, Guanghe Zhang, Wencheng Yang, Craig Valli, Rajan Shankaran, and Mehmet Orgun
Enterprise security assessment and operation analysis using distributed computing and information fusion techniques, Hongye (John) Zhong
Enhancing health risk prediction with deep learning on big data and revised fusion node paradigm, Hongye Zhong and Jitian Xiao
Submissions from 2016
Characterization of vertical mixing in coastal canopies, Maryam Abdolahpour, Marco Ghisalberti, Paul Lavery, and Kathryn McMahon
The importance of creating dynamically-scaled models of aquatic vegetation in the laboratory, Maryam Abdolahpour, Marco Ghisalberti, Paul Lavery, and Kathryn McMahon
Residence time in aquatic canopies in wave-dominated flows, Maryam Abdolahpour, Marco Ghisalberti, Paul Lavery, Kathryn Mcmahon, and Magnus Hambleton
Distributed denial-of-service attacks against HTTP/2 services, Erwin Adi, Zubair A. Baig, Philip Hingston, and Chiou-Peng Lam
Comparative analysis of clinical and experimental methods for determination of sexual dimorphism of mandibular canines, Bindu Aggarwal, Rakesh Kumar Gorea, Abhinav Gorea, and Arshdeep Gorea
Early cord metabolite index and outcome in perinatal asphyxia and hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, Caroline E. Ahearne, Niamh M. Denihan, Brian H. Walsh, Stacey N. Reinke, Louise C. Kenny, Geraldine B. Boylan, David I. Broadhurst, and Deirdre M. Murray
E-Book user behaviour in academic libraries: The role of user agents in perception and satisfaction, Pervaiz Ahmad and Mark Brogan
Geostatistical modelling of recreational fishing data: A fine-scale spatial analysis, Eric Aidoo
The effects of measurement uncertainty on spatial characterisation of recreational fishing catch rates, Eric N. Aidoo, Ute A. Mueller, Glenn A. Hyndes, and Karina L. Ryan
A comprehensive evaluation of feature selection for gait recognition using smartwatches, Neamah Al-Naffakh, Nathan Clarke, Paul Haskell-Dowland, and Fudong Li
Leveraging biometrics for insider misuse identification, Abdulrahman Alruban, Nathan Clarke, Fudong Li, and Steven Furnell
An experimental evaluation of the EDoS-shield mitigation technique for securing the cloud, Saeed Alsowail, Mohammed H. Sqalli, Marwan H. Abu-Amara, Zubair A. Baig, and Khaled Salah
Addressing the yield gap in rainfed crops: a review, Walter Anderson, Chris Johansen, and Kadambot Siddique
Agricultural decision support framework for visualisation and prediction of Western Australian crop production, Leisa Armstrong and Sreedhar Nallan
Pitfalls of gold mine sites in care and maintenance, Adam Ashby, Eddie van Etten, and Mark Lund
Fiber Bragg grating inscription in endlessly single mode photonic crystal fiber using direct write ArF laser, Desmond Baccini, Kevin Cook, John Canning, Gary Allwood, Graham Wild, and Steven Hinkley
Controlled access to cloud resources for mitigating economic denial of sustainability (EDoS) attacks, Zubair A. Baig, Sadiq M. Sait, and Farid Binbeshr
Distributed hierarchical pattern-matching for network intrusion detection, Zubair A. Baig and Khaled Salah
What is ransomware and how to protect your precious files from it, Zubair Baig and Nikolai Hampton
Processed based approach to Critical Infrastructure Protection: Using a proactive security management process, William J. Bailey
Disentangling the complexity of groundwater dependent social-ecological systems, Olivier Barreteau, Yvan Caballero, Serena H. Hamilton, Anthony J. Jakeman, and Jean-Daniel Rinaudo
Potential impacts of poison baiting for introduced house mice on native animals on islands in Jurien Bay, Western Australia, Clifford Bennison, J Anthony Friend, Timothy Button, Harriet Mills, Cathy Lambert, and Roberta Bencini
An introduction to the Australian and New Zealand flux tower network – OzFlux, Jason Beringe, Lindsay B. Hutley, Ian McHugh, Stefan K. Arndt, David Campbell, Helen A. Cleugh, James Cleverly, Víctor R. de Dios, Derek Eamus, Bradley Evans, Cacilia Ewenz, Peter Grace, Anne Griebel, Vanessa Haverd, Nina Hinko-Najera, Alfredo Huete, Peter Isaac, Kasturi Kanniah, Ray Leuning, Michael J. Liddell, Craig Macfarlane, Wayne Meyer, Caitlin Moore, Elise Pendall, Alison Phillips, Rebecca L. Phillips, Suzanne M. Prober, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, Susanna Rutledge, Ivan Schroder, Richard Silberstein, Patricia Southall, Mei S. Yee, Nigel Tapper, Eva van Gorsel, Camilla Vote, Jeff Walker, and Tim Wardlaw
The measure of success, Melanie L. Blanchette
Pit lakes are a global legacy of mining: An integrated approach to achieving sustainable ecosystems and value for communities, Melanie L. Blanchette and Mark A. Lund
Bio-physical closure criteria without reference sites: Realistic targets in modified rivers, Melanie L. Blanchette, Mark Lund, Robyn Stoney, Digby Short, and Colm Harkin
Use of ultraviolet light to help age nightjars, owlet-nightjars, frogmouths and owls, Mark D. Blythman, James L. Sansom, and Michael T. Lohr
Influence of increased sediment exposure on suspension-feeder assemblages in a temperate seagrass meadow, Pierre Bouvais
The Australian security continuum: National and corporate security gaps from a surveillance language perspective, David J. Brooks Dr., Jeff Corkill, and Michael Coole
Environmental characteristics of ephemeral rock pools explain local abundances of the clam shrimp, Paralimnadia badia (Branchiopoda: Spinicaudata: Limnadiidae), Alissa Calabrese, Cherie McCullough, Brenton Knott, and Stephen C. Weeks
Assessing the economic benefits of starling detection and control to Western Australia, Susan Campbell, E.J. Roberts, R. Craemer, C. Pacioni, Lee Ann Rollins, and Andrew P. Woolnough
A refined method for estimating capsule crops in individual jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) crowns, Jeffry Cargill, Eddie van Etten, Kim R. Whitford, Lachlan W. McCaw, and William D. Stock
An investigation into Off-Link IPv6 host enumeration search methods, Clinton Carpene
How secure is your smartphone’s lock screen?, Clinton Carpene
First 236U data from the Arctic Ocean and use of 236U/238U and 129I/236U as a new dual tracer, Nuria Casacuberta, Pere Masqué, Gideon Henderson, Michiel Rutgers van-der-Loeff, Dorothea Bauch, Christof Vockenhuber, Abdelouahed Daraoui, Clemens Walther, Hans-Arno Synal, and Marcus Christl
Reassessment of 90Sr, 137Cs, and 134Cs in the Coast off Japan Derived from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Accident, Maxi Castrillejo, Núria Casacuberta, Crystaline Breier, Steven Pike, Pere Masqué, and Ken Buesseler
Assessment of groundwater quality at a MSW landfill site using standard and AHP based water quality index: a case study from Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, Shubhrasekhar Chakraborty and R. Naresh Kumar
1H-NMR urinary metabolomic profiling for diagnosis of gastric cancer, Angela W. Chan, Pascal Mercier, Daniel Schiller, Robert Bailey, Sarah Robbins, Dean T. Eurich, Michael B. Sawyer, and David Broadhurst
Your wireless footprint can help police catch a thief, Maxim Chernyshev
Service set indentifier geolocation for forensic purposes : Opportunities and challenges, Maxim Chernyshev, Peter Hannay, and Craig Valli
On 802.11 access point locatability and named entity recognition in service set identifiers, Maxim Chernyshev, Craig Valli, and Peter Hannay
Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: A multi-proxy and multi-record approach, Merce Cisneros, Isabel Cacho, Jaime Frigola, Miquel Canals, Pere Masque, Belen Martrat, Marta Casado, Joan Grimalt, Leopoldo Pena, Giulia Margaritelli, and Fabrizio Lirer
Recoverable resources calculation using non-linear methods: a comparative study, Matthew Cobb
Freshwater ichthyofauna of the Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect (PABITRA) Gateway in Viti Levu, Fiji, Lekima K. Copeland, David T. Boseto, and Aaron P. Jenkins
The use of resilience indicators to assist in the selection of personnel for employment in classified and covert environments, Jeff Corkill, David J. Brooks, Julie Ann Pooley, Lynne Cohen, Kira Harris, Catherine A. Ferguson, and Craig Harms
Research priorities for the northern quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Viki A. Cramer, Judy Dunlop, Robert Davis, Ryan J. Ellis, Belinda Barnett, Annette Cook, Keith D. Morris, and Stephen J. Van Leeuwen
Metabolomics reveals the physiological response of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 (UWC1) after pharmaceutical exposure, Felicity Currie, David Broadhurst, Warwick Dunn, Christopher Sellick, and Royston Goodacre
Gene selection using a hybrid memetic and nearest shrunken centroid algorithm, Vinh Dang and Chiou-Peng Lam
Conserving long unburnt vegetation is important for bird species, guilds and diversity, Robert A. Davis, Tim S. Doherty, Eddie J. van Etten, James Q. Radford, Floyd Holmes, Chris G. Knuckey, and Belinda J. Davis
Cocky count: how Perth’s ‘green’ growth plan could wipe out WA’s best-loved bird, Robert Davis and Martine Maron