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A Sociology of HIV Among Men Who Have Sex With Men in the Philippines
No full textA thesis submitted for total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.</p
Medicinal Agriculture: A Metabolomics Approach
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Applied Systems Biology, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Optimising Ear, Nose and Throat Care in Rural Australia: Investigation of Hotspot Regions for Potentially Preventable Hospitalisations
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the La Trobe Rural Health School, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
The Influence of Host Health and Genetics on the Microbiome
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Epigenetic Inheritance Induced by Intermittent Fasting and Its Effects on Metabolic Syndrome
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.</p
Gamifying the Past: Historical Authenticity, Pedagogy, and Gender Bias in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the La Trobe School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Developing LAMP Assays to Detect Pathogens Affecting Australian Aquaculture
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.</p
Reconstructing History: Knowledge-making, Materiality, and the Intangible in Dress and Textiles, 1500-1850
No full textA thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia.This thesis was a recipient of the Nancy Millis Award for theses of exceptional merit.</p
Digital health education in Australian universities: Trends, gaps, and future directions
No full textBackground: As healthcare systems increasingly embrace digital transformation, the need for a specialised digital health workforce, distinct from general clinical or IT roles, has become paramount. This study offers a national review of digital health education (DHE) offerings in Australian universities, with a focus on how current curricula support the development of advanced, workforce-ready skills in areas such as health informatics, data analytics, digital implementation, and leadership.Methods: A systematic web-based review was conducted across all 42 Australian universities, drawing on publicly available resources including official handbooks, course catalogues, and subject guides. The search incorporated a structured set of keywords and cross-verification using institutional and general search engines to ensure comprehensive coverage. Only courses available for enrolment in 2024 were included in the study.Results: 18 dedicated digital health courses and 26 associated degree courses were identified and analysed. The findings show a strong emphasis on postgraduate education, especially graduate certificates and master’s programs, with limited availability at the undergraduate level. Courses frequently emphasise health data analytics, informatics, and implementation science, while critical areas such as cybersecurity, telehealth, virtual care, and ethics remain significantly underrepresented. Notably, there is a clear trend towards online and hybrid course delivery, with over 88 % of courses offering flexible or fully digital learning options.Conclusion: This study underscores the need for a coordinated national strategy to expand DHE offerings, address skill gaps, and strengthen education-to-workforce pathways. Building a capable digital health workforce requires frameworks that reflect emerging technologies and prepare graduates to lead innovation and ensure digital safety. While face-to-face learning opportunities and regional access remain limited, particularly outside states such as New South Wales and Victoria, the growing use of flexible delivery models in recent courses supports these aims by improving access for working professionals and remote learners.</p
Pilot-driven deep learning based RIS-assisted beamforming for secrecy rate maximization
No full textSecure beamforming in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multiuser downlink systems is challenging due to high computational complexity and complex channel state information (CSI) estimation. This work proposes a pilot-driven beamforming network (PilotBeamNet) that jointly designs base-station (BS) transmit beamforming and quantized RIS phases directly from uplink pilot received signals with legitimate-user location cues to capture geometry. The framework avoids explicit channel estimation and slow iterative algorithms. A convolutional module reads each pilot frame, a long short term memory (LSTM) block with lightweight temporal attention aggregates them, and two simple heads output the beamformers and the discrete RIS phases. The location cues are embedded and fused with the features extracted from the pilot frames by the convolutional, LSTM, and temporal attention modules. Training maximizes ergodic secrecy rate (ESR) through Monte Carlo sampling of unknown eavesdropper channels, enabling robustness without requiring eavesdropper CSI. Once trained, PilotBeamNet performs single-pass inference with latency determined only by network depth. Across all tested conditions, PilotBeamNet achieves 10%–30% ESR improvement depending on the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), pilot length, and RIS size, while reducing inference latency by more than an order of magnitude compared to alternating optimization (AO) and outperforming multilayer perceptron (MLP) baselines. It also maintains consistent performance under phase quantization and delivers higher secrecy rates across all evaluated configurations.</p