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Doctoral Graduates’ Experiences of PhD Engagement and Outcomes
Get PDFUnderstanding how graduates view their PhD engagement and outcomes is essential for supporting doctoral students employability. Investigating PhD graduates at early, mid, and late-career stages and diverse careers, revealed complex influences, motivations, experiences, environments, and occupational fit. Satisfactory outcomes highlighted recognition of the PhD qualification and skills, dissatisfactory outcomes highlighted undervalue and barriers. Supporting doctoral employability must recognise career-stage diversity and diverse careers and, enable students to engage in career development at all doctoral stages
Precarious Housing, Rental Assistance and Wellbeing: Unpacking Multi-Dimensional Links.
Get PDFThis thesis explores the complex multi-dimensional relationship between housing, rental assistance and wellbeing, which is spread over three main chapters. The first chapter explores the key drivers of transitions into and out of precarious housing. The second chapter analyses the impact of dwelling-based and neighbourhood-based precarious housing on mental wellbeing. The third chapter uncovers the effectiveness of rental assistance in preventing precarious housing among low-income renters
Moscow's Pacific Trident. The Submarine Arm of the Russian Pacific Fleet, early 2025 to 2030
No full textThe use of plastic as a household fuel among the urban poor in the Global South.
No full textIncreasing plastic waste pollution has led to a rising prevalence of the open burning of plastic waste, especially in locations lacking formal waste-management systems. Urban slum communities face particularly acute challenges in accessing both organized waste-collection services and low-cost traditional energy sources, and clean cooking-fuel alternatives tend to be unaffordable for their low-income residents. Here we examine the potential risk these unseen communities face and describe the need for a new research agenda to better understand and quantify the scope of the problem. The Global South is urbanizing at a rapid rate. Moreover, in many countries, this urbanization is outpacing the expansion of amenities and economic opportunities. With global plastic use predicted to triple by 2060 and two-thirds of the global population estimated to be living in urban areas by 2050, this Perspective draws attention to the nexus of sanitation and energy poverty, and the potential problems it poses for many low-income urban dwellers. An increasing number of energy-poor households, surrounded by plentiful waste plastic, are believed to be burning waste to both meet their energy needs and manage waste, although the evidence is limited and far from representative. We discuss the factors that may push marginalized households in cities of the Global South to burn waste plastic, and why this possibility is so concerning, before closing with a call for applied research to better understand the scale and scope of the phenomenon and its consequences
Novel approach to modeling ultra-low temperature frost formation using Computational Fluid Dynamics
No full textA Technological Perspective on Generational Change in Migrant Small Businesses in Western Australia The Black-African Case Study
No full textAustralia is a multinational country with people from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds, most of whom migrated for a better life for their families. These migrants are often faced with discrimination and challenges in their job search. In their quest to make a living and for a better family life balance, they set up small businesses, some of which serve their ethnic communities. The interconnectedness brought about by technology has transformed business operations beyond physical borders. Despite all these transformations, some migrant small businesses do not efficiently make use of the power of Information technology (IT) and therefore lose out on potentially maximizing their profits and growing their enterprises. The study is to assesses factors influencing the adoption of IT in migrant small businesses in Australia, in the case of the first and second generation black-African migrants
The Antecedents and Consequences of Social Media Brand Engagement Towards Organizations’ Facebook Brand Pages
Get PDFPR practitioners should consider social media as a relationship management tool, which academic researchers have yet to address. PR professionals still use one-way communication, which doesn't create engagement. This study seeks to fill a research void by conceptualising the relational maintenance approach and two-way symmetrical communication as antecedents of social media brand engagement. The findings showed that relational approaches are essential for social media brand engagement, leading to customer loyalty, satisfaction, and electronic word-of-mouth intentions
Mechanisms and Performance of Composite Joints Through Adhesive and Interlocking Means—A Review
No full textConventional adhesively bonded joints, such as single-lap, curved-lap, wavy-lap, double-lap, stepped-lap, and scarf joints, are widely used for aerospace, automotive, and medical applications. These adhesively bonded joints exhibit different load transfer mechanisms and stress distributions within adhesive layers, which depend primarily on their geometries and mechanical properties of bonded materials. As such, joint geometry and material properties play a critical role in determining the capability of the joints to withstand high loads, resist fatigue, and absorb energy under impact loading. This paper investigates the effects of geometry and material dissimilarity on the performance of both conventional bonded and interlocking joints under tensile loading based on the information available in the literature. In addition, bonding and load transfer mechanisms were analysed in detail. It was found that stress concentration often occurs at free edges of the adhesive layer due to geometric discontinuities, while most of the load is carried by these regions rather than its centre. Sharp corners further intensify resulting stresses, thereby increasing the risk of joint failure. Adhesives typically resist shear loads better than peel loads, and stiffness mismatches between adherents induce an asymmetric stress distribution. Nonetheless, similar materials promote symmetric load sharing. Among conventional joints, scarf joints provide the most uniform load distribution. In interlocking joints such as dovetail, T-slot, gooseneck, and elliptical types, the outward bending of the female component under tension can lead to mechanical failur
Facilitators and Barriers to Physiotherapists Training in and Delivering Cognitive Functional Therapy
No full textThis thesis investigates the training, competency, and delivery of biopsychosocial interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain by physiotherapists, focusing on cognitive functional therapy (CFT). Through four studies, it explores training processes, physiotherapists' experiences delivering CFT, and the barriers and facilitators within clinical practice and healthcare systems. Findings highlight the importance of structured training, ongoing professional development, and addressing systemic barriers to enhance physiotherapist competency and the effectiveness of biopsychosocial care. The thesis contributes insights into delivering biopsychosocial interventions and improving outcomes for people with chronic musculoskeletal pain
Perfect Graphs and its Extensions
No full textThis thesis investigates perfect graphs and its extensions, focusing on induced and non-induced star-perfect graphs, as well as strongly-perfect graphs. It presents an alternative proof to Lovász's characterization (1972) and characterizes induced star-perfect graphs in terms of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs. The thesis also identifies classes of non-induced star-perfect graphs and formulates its invariants using integer-programming. Additionally, a new list of sp-critical graphs and a sufficient condition for a graph to be strongly-perfect is presented