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Children’S Digital Citizenship Project: Your Perspectives: A Report For Children, Harrison See, Kylie Stevenson, Emma Jayakumar, Phoebe Zeng

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This report talks about a teamwork project between the LEGO Group, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (Digital Child) and Edith Cowan University (ECU).

In 2022, the LEGO Group, ECU and Digital Child researchers teamed up to ask children and adults in India, Korea and Australia about digital citizenship. We collected all this information together and compared our results, and then made some suggestions about how we can all do things better to help kids be safer, smarter, and happier online.

Cyber Security Curriculum In Western Australian Primary And Secondary Schools: Interim Report: Curriculum Mapping, Nicola Johnson, Ahmed Ibrahim, Leslie Sikos, Cheryl Glowrey

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Cyber-crime poses a significant threat to Australians—think of, for example, how scams take advantage of vulnerable people and systems. There is a need to educate people from an early age to protect them from cyberthreats.

Consistent with the increasing prevalence of cyberthreats to individuals and organisations in Australia, the national Australian curriculum has been updated (version 9.0) to include specific content for cyber security for primary and secondary students up to Year 10. Endorsed by Education Ministers in April 2022, the Western Australian School Curriculum and Standards Authority (SCSA) completed a detailed audit of the endorsed Australian Curriculum version 9.0 …

Kindytxt: A Free Text Messaging Program For Kindergarten Children And Families, Lennie Barblett, Nicola Johnson, Caroline Barratt-Pugh, Susan Hill

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

• This project focused on developing, delivering and evaluating a literacy text-messaging program for parents / carers with a child at kindergarten in WA.
• Texts were delivered weekly over 30 weeks, in collaboration with Better Beginnings. Families were invited to participate through a flyer in the book gifting bag delivered by local librarians to families attending kindergarten across Western Australia.
• Kindergarten teachers and librarians from 16 LGAs attended workshops to establish kindergarten-family library partnerships, along with the production and evaluation of a partnership framework and implementation materials.
• Evaluation involved all participants, with in-depth data collected from participants in six communities.

Sport-Specific Crossover Point Differences During A Maximal Oxygen Consumption Test, Joseph R. Stanzione, George A. Brooks, Michael L. Bruneau, Duncan N. French, Jennifer A. Nasser, Sinclair A. Smith, Stella L. Volpe

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

Introduction/Purpose: The crossover point occurs during exercise when one transitions energy substrates from fat to carbohydrate predominance. The crossover point varies in an intensity-dependent manner; however, less is known about its specificity in sports with varying metabolic demands. The purpose of our study was to determine if various sports yield differences in the time to crossover and heart rate and percentage of maximal oxygen consumption (V O2max) at crossover during a standardized exercise protocol.

Methods: A total of 77 athletes (39 women, 38 men; 39.1 + 10.4 yr of age) were measured for respiratory exchange ratio during a modified Taylor …

To Wine Or Not To Wine? A Scientometric Approach To 65+ Years Of Wine Preference And Selection Studies, Alessandro Carollo, Seraphina Fong, Giulio Gabrieli, Claudio Mulatti, Gianluca Esposito

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Purpose: Among the growing interest towards market segmentation and targeted marketing, the current study adopted a scientometric approach to examine the literature on wine selection and preferences. The current review specifically attempts to shed light on the research that explores the determinants of wine preferences at multiple levels of analysis. Design/methodology/approach: CiteSpace was used to compute a Document Co-Citation Analysis (DCA) on a sample of 114,048 eligible references obtained from 2,846 publications downloaded from Scopus on 24 May 2021. Findings: An optimized network of 1,505 nodes and 4,616 links was generated. Within the network, impactful publications on the topic and …

Toolkit Of Methods For Feminist Participatory Action Research: Empowering Women, Transforming Systems, Trimita Chakma, Naomi Joy Godden, Kavita Naidu

Research outputs 2022 to 2026

This Toolkit was developed following a series of training workshops on Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) concepts and methods with Oxfam Cambodia’s Inclusion Project 2 (IP2) partners from Lao, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. The training provided targeted capacity support and technical assistance to the IP2 partners to develop gender-responsive advocacy activities on water governance in the Mekong region.

This Toolkit was developed to provide guidance to IP2 partners on how to use FPAR methods in their ongoing activities and advocacy. However, FPAR is a process and is not issue-specific. As such, the Toolkit can also be used by communities, …

From Tradition To Simulation: An Experience Of Team Training On Management Of Shoulder Dystocia, Ambreen Khan, Azra Amerjee, Jaqueline Maria Dias, Junaid Tariq

Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Objective: To determine if simulation-based team training improves the management of shoulder dystocia compared to traditionally taught obstetrical emergencies.
Methods: The prospective mixed-method study was conducted at the Centre for Innovation in Medical Education at the Aga Khan University, Karachi, from June to August 2018, and comprised doctors and nurses having up to five years of labour and delivery experience. The subjects were divided into two equal groups which were further subdivided into four equal teams. Group 1 was taught to manage shoulder dystocia using traditional lectures and hands-on pelvic models, while group 2 was trained in a simulated environment …

Ocean Science Diplomacy - The All-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Case, Andrei Polejack

World Maritime University Ph.D. Dissertations

Science diplomacy, the interlinkage between research and foreign affairs, is a recent field of research, albeit being claimed to be an ancient practice in international relations. Science diplomacy practices generally include the influence of scientific advice during international negotiations, the bridging of communities (or even conflicting nations) through joint research projects and the promotion of science by diplomatic channels, just to name a few. Largely identified today by mainstream intergovernmental policy-makers as a beneficial practice, science diplomacy is promoted as being rooted in the universality and cooperative nature of science and as a means for peaceful and uncontested international interactions. …

Negotiating The Bbnj Agreement : Exploring The Caribbean Community's Engagement From A Blue Economy Perspective With Special Focus On Environmental Impact Assessment Provisions, Kahlil Hassanali

World Maritime University Ph.D. Dissertations

The countries of the world are engaged in negotiations to develop an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (The BBNJ agreement). In the BBNJ process, the member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) participate as a regional bloc and have been actively involved in the negotiations. This thesis applies an action research methodology along with a mix of methods, including the reading of primary, secondary and grey literature; document content analysis; interviews and informal conversations; …

The Legal Framework For Multimodal Transport In West Africa: The African Continental Free Trade Area In Perspective, Damilola Idris Osinuga

World Maritime University Ph.D. Dissertations

This thesis examines how multimodal transport can play a role in achieving the objectives of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The thesis argues that multimodal transport is cheaper compared with unimodal transportation. While there are a number of issues affecting the operationalisation of multimodal transport in Africa, this study considers, at its core, the legal regimes and other fragmented institutional and governance frameworks of multimodal transport in West Africa. The fragmentation of the legal framework governing multimodal transport leads to uncertainty and unforeseeability of the liability of parties involved in multimodal transport, consequently leading to increased legal costs. …

Standardized Multi-Omics Of Earth’S Microbiomes Reveals Microbial And Metabolite Diversity, The Earth Microbiome Project 500 (Emp500) Consortium, Justin P. Shaffer, Louis Félix Nothias, Luke R. Thompson, Jon G. Sanders, Rodolfo A. Salido, Sneha P. Couvillion, Asker D. Brejnrod, Franck Lejzerowicz, Niina Haiminen, Shi Huang, Holly L. Lutz, Qiyun Zhu, Cameron Martino, James T. Morton, Smruthi Karthikeyan, Mélissa Nothias-Esposito, Kai Dührkop, Sebastian Böcker, Hyun Woo Kim, Alexander A. Aksenov, Wout Bittremieux, Jeremiah J. Minich, Clarisse Marotz, Mackenzie K.M. Bryant, Karenina Sanders, Tara Schwartz, Greg Humphrey, Yoshiki Vásquez-Baeza, Anupriya Tripathi

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Despite advances in sequencing, lack of standardization makes comparisons across studies challenging and hampers insights into the structure and function of microbial communities across multiple habitats on a planetary scale. Here we present a multi-omics analysis of a diverse set of 880 microbial community samples collected for the Earth Microbiome Project. We include amplicon (16S, 18S, ITS) and shotgun metagenomic sequence data, and untargeted metabolomics data (liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry and gas chromatography mass spectrometry). We used standardized protocols and analytical methods to characterize microbial communities, focusing on relationships and co-occurrences of microbially related metabolites and microbial taxa across environments, …

Efficient Long Short-Term Memory-Based Sentiment Analysis Of E-Commerce Reviews, Naveen Kumar Gondhi, Chaahat, Eishita Sharma, Amal H. Alharbi, Rohit Verma, Mohd Asif Shah

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

In today's modern era, e-commerce is making headway through the process of bringing goods within everyone's grasp. Consumers are not even required to step out of the comfort of their homes for buying things, which makes it very convenient for them. Moreover, there is a wide variety of brands to choose from. Since more customers depend on online shopping platforms these days, the value of ratings is also growing. To buy these products, people rely solely on the reviews that are being provided about the products. To analyze these reviews, sentiment analysis needs to be performed, which can prove useful …

A Machine Learning Approach For Active/Reactive Power Control Of Grid-Connected Doubly-Fed Induction Generators, Jafar Tavoosi, Ardashir Mohammadzadeh, Bahareh Pahlevanzadeh, Morad Bagherzadeh Kasmani, Shahab S. Band, Rabia Safdar, Amir H. Mosavi

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

This paper suggests a new fuzzy method for active power (AP) and reactive power (RP) control of a power grid that includes wind turbines and Doubly Fed Induction Generators (DFIGs). A Recurrent Type-II Fuzzy Neural Networks (RT2FNN) controller based on Radial Basis Function Networks (RBFN) is applied to the rotor side converter for the power control and voltage regulation of the wind turbine equipped with the DFIG. In order to train a model, the voltage profile at each bus, and the reactive power of the power grid are given to the RT2FNN as the input and output, respectively. A wind …

Cloud-Based Knowledge Management Framework For Decision Making In Higher Education Institutions, Muhammad Younas, Ahmad Shukri Mohd Noor, Muhammad Arshad

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

The education sector is now necessitated to align itself with the latest innovative technological trends in the industry to be competitive while transform-ing database management practices. The Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are currently using cloud-based applications at varied implementation levels while others are following the shifting trends. On-demand availability of consolidated information is a critical success factor to perform decision-making activities; as a result, quite a bit of research work has been performed in this realm. The study is aimed to propose an efficient framework that is capable of extracting the desired information from an educational setup intended to be …

Levy Enhanced Cross Entropy-Based Optimized Training Of Feedforward Neural Networks, Kartik Pandya, Pratik Mochi, Dharmesh Dabhi, Vipul Rajput

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

An Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is one of the most powerful tools to predict the behavior of a system with unforeseen data. The feedforward neural network is the simplest, yet most efficient topology that is widely used in computer industries. Training of feedforward ANNs is an integral part of an ANN-based system. Typically an ANN system has inherent non-linearity with multiple parameters like weights and biases that must be optimized simultaneously. To solve such a complex optimization problem, this paper proposes the Levy Enhanced Cross Entropy (LE-CE) method. It is a population-based meta-heuristic method. In each iteration, this method produces …

Risk Based Day-Ahead Energy Resource Management With Renewables Via Computational Intelligence, Pratik Mochi, Kartik S. Pandya, Dharmesh Dabhi, Vipul N. Rajput

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

An indeterminate and variable nature of renewable energy sources like solar photovoltaic, wind power, load consumption, electric vehicles trips and market spot prices, make the operation and control of energy management system quite complex. Also, it is expected that the system should be consistent and resilient in case of extreme events like faults, hurricanes etc. This paper has used the risk based optimization strategies considering uncertainty of aforementioned parameters to minimize the operational cost of the aggregator. A 13-bus practical distribution system with 15-scenarios (03-scenarios as extreme events with high impact) are considered as a test system. WCCI-2018 award winning, …

Auv-Based Efficient Data Collection Scheme For Underwater Linear Sensor Networks, Zahoor Ahmed, Muhammad Ayaz, Mohammad Hijji, M. Zahid Abbas, Aneel Rahim

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

The research on underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) has grown considerably in recent years where the main focus remains to develop a reliable communication protocol to overcome its challenges between various underwater sensing devices. The main purpose of UWSNs is to provide a low cost and an unmanned data collection system for a range of applications such as offshore exploration, pollution monitoring, oil and gas pipeline monitoring, surveillance, etc. One of the common types of UWSNs is linear sensor network (LSN), which specially targets monitoring the underwater oil and gas pipelines. Under this application, in most of the previously proposed …

Univariate And Multivariate Lstm Models For One Step And Multistep Pv Power Forecasting, Tariq Limouni, Reda Yaagoubi, Khalid Bouziane, Khalid Guissi, El Houssain Baali

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

The energy demand is increasing due to population growth and economic development. To satisfy this energy demand, the use of renewable energy is essential to face global warming and the depletion of fossil fuels. Photovoltaic energy is one of the renewable energy sources, widely used by several countries over the world. The integration of PV energy into the grid brings significant benefits to the economy and environment, however, high penetration of this energy also brings some challenges to the stability of the electrical grid, due to the intermittency of solar energy. To overcome this issue, the use of a forecasting …

The Development Of A Holistic It Platform For Major Risk Assessment And Management: The Mira Tool, Emmanuel Plot, Maria Chiara Leva, Ludovic Moulin, Vassishtasaï Ramany B.P, Philippe Decamps, Frederic Baudequin

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

There are natural human cognitive biases that affect many aspects of our activities, including major risk management. Some of these have a common characteristic, namely the reification process related to our tendency to selectively seek or interpret information in a way that confirms our representations of reality, and which can lead to forgetting that our representations are in some way abstractions, or hypotheses, and as such, must be continually questioned, analysed and checked against reality. The moment we forget that the correspondence between our representations and reality is only a conditional truth and requires constant verification, is the moment when …

Design Of Simulated Takeover Request Task, Bilal Alam Khan, Maria Chiara Leva, Sam Cromie

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

As the population of older adults is increasing worldwide, it is imperative to accommodate their mobility and hence independence needs in the design of our transport systems. Semi-autonomous vehicles theoretically provide a potential solution to the mobility needs of older adults by supporting them in their driving. However, the technology is not fully matured yet and it still poses issues such as the paradigm of takeover request. This particular scenario may very well cause more problems than it solves. The major issue is that we don’t know how a person above 60 years of age may respond to a Takeover …

Genetics Of Currant Clearwing Moth (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae), Gábor Gyulai, Renée P. Malone, Gábor Zs Gyulai, Péter Lehoczky, Zoltán Tóth

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

A group of clearwing moths Sesiidae (Syn.: Aegeriidae) is analyzed here with special emphasis on genetics of currant clearwing moth (Synanthedon tipuliformis, CLERCK 1759). DNA sequences of the longest (1544 nt) available sequence of Sesiidae genes Co1 (cytochrome oxidase subunit-1 of mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA) (mtDNA; NCBI# AJ864359.1) were analyzed after In silico data mining, and dendrogram was edited to reveal molecular diversity and genetic distances among Sesiidae species. Batesian mimicry, sexual dimorphism, and genetics and genomics of Sesiidae are indicated.

Fatigue Risk Management: Current Practices And Challenges, Further Learning, Ishbel Macgregor-Curtin, Nora Balfe, Maria Chiara Leva

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

This paper outlines the causes, consequences and prevalence of fatigue and demonstrates the risk fatigue plays in accident causation in safety critical transport industries. Approaches to fatigue risk management are described and the limitations and challenges of these approaches are discussed in the context of the transport industry. The paper expands on previous research by further analysing data from a benchmarking study to determine the approaches taken in the rail industry. The paper concludes that railway organisations are applying some elements of a Fatigue Risk Management System (FRMS) approach to fatigue management, but this is not being applied systematically which …

Unlocking The Functional Potential Of Polyploid Yeasts, Simone Mozzachiodi, Kristoffer Krogerus, Brian Gibson, Alain Nicolas, Gianni Liti

Research Outputs: 2025-Present

Breeding and domestication have generated widely exploited crops, animals and microbes. However, many Saccharomyces cerevisiae industrial strains have complex polyploid genomes and are sterile, preventing genetic improvement strategies based on breeding. Here, we present a strain improvement approach based on the budding yeasts’ property to promote genetic recombination when meiosis is interrupted and cells return-to-mitotic-growth (RTG). We demonstrate that two unrelated sterile industrial strains with complex triploid and tetraploid genomes are RTG-competent and develop a visual screening for easy and high-throughput identification of recombined RTG clones based on colony phenotypes. Sequencing of the evolved clones reveal unprecedented levels of RTG-induced …

Living Lightly On Earth: The Urban Eco Village, Sidney Angell

Architecture Theses

Imaging living a low-impact lifestyle surrounded by nature, food, freshwater and air, wildlife, and a community with a common desire. An eco village is a community with shared land that promotes positive values including ecology, solidarity, quality, tolerance, generosity, diversity, hospitality, respect, and collaboration all while being self-sufficient. These communities are more commonly found in rural and off-grid locations and have numerous benefits that should be shared on a larger scale. Although living off grid is a desirable lifestyle for some, a large amount of the population strive to live in urban settings. With sustainable living becoming a growing desire, …

Alexander Cancer Treatment And Research Center: Transformational Healing Through Atmospheric Architecture, Jared Hunt

Architecture Theses

The aim of this thesis is to study the cognitive effects of architectural design specifically related to patient care in architecture. Much of architecture today is based upon efficiency, potential profit, and aesthetics which mutes the understanding of creating a meaningful and successful building. I challenge the understanding of healthcare architecture today. With the use of research, both in the modern and historical context, a comprehensive design solution is established with the use of the natural environment and more emotionally focused spaces.

Global Portal Through Architectural Experience, Jeremiah Thyen

Architecture Theses

Traveling around the world is often an exclusive experience that is not possible for many people within our communities. It is important that everyone has an opportunity to see the world through a variety of experiences. These experiences are often exciting, educational adventures that shape the way we perceive the world. Through qualitative and case study research methods, this project will analyze the following question. How can a space within the urban context explore these extents of nature and culture through immersive technologies and architectural spaces?

Anthrozoology Center: Healing Through Animal-Assisted Therapy, Elaine Smith

Architecture Theses

Anthrozoology is defined as the interdisciplinary study of the interaction between humans and other animals. This thesis involves animal-human relationships and the ways that animals can improve the mental, physical, and the spiritual health of people. I will be specifically researching the positive effects of the connections equines and canines have on humans and implementing designs that respond to that. Equine-assisted therapy has been a method for helping individuals with disabilities and trauma for centuries. To respond to the need for this type of therapy, I will design a facility that gives space for the occupants to bond and interact …

Walker Reimagined, Mckenna Reller

Architecture Theses

Tourism has the unique opportunity to support and create a thriving community in locations across the world that would otherwise be small and sleepy. But what are the impacts of tourism on the local communities of those towns; there are the obvious financial benefits to tourism but how does the fluctuation of tourist throughout the year impact the social and cultural health of the local community. When focusing on catering to a transient community, what becomes of a town’s identity? A town has much more to its story then the expensive boutiques and tourist destinations; there is the story and …

Edgar Allan Poe Rare Books Library At Yale University: The Rematerialization Of Language, Luke Devries

Architecture Theses

Michel de Certeau states, “The current industrial mass production of visual imagery tends to alienate vision from emotional involvement and identification and turns imagery into a mesmerizing flow without focus or participation” (Pallasmaa). Based upon a critique of the expedient exchange of information in our modern culture, this thesis examines how creative language and the act of reading itself might open an interpretive dimension for new pathways that are more and more lost in our current cultural milieu. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s story La Ligeia, which follows a grieving lover through the death and reemergence of his first true …

Wellness In Educational Facilities, Carol Carpenter

Architecture Theses

Universally children are sent to attend school to gain basic knowledge in most communities. In the United States the standard is about 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 13 years. These educational institutions that are in place have a strong impact on the growth and development of young individuals. Many schools are historical or show strong elements that speak to the time they were built. These elements include architectural style, classroom size, amounts, and types, and systems within the building. As communities grow from the framework in which the school was originally constructed, there lies the opportunity …