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Tracing the lines of race & health online: A mixed-methods exploration of the African-American HIV/AIDS movement on Twitter
Although accounting for 13 percent of the American population, in 2017, African-Americans made up over 42 percent of people living with HIV or AIDS (PLWHA) in the United States. In addition to the highest prevalence, ... -
Survival, not resilience: Young people's housing instability
Young people’s experiences of housing instability need to be recognised. The extant literature tends to equate young people’s experiences with that of adults and the limited literature that exclusively examines young people ... -
Development and preclinical evaluation of an oral therapeutic colorectal cancer vaccine
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has become the second most common cause of cancer death worldwide, indicating the need for novel therapies to reduce mortality rates and the global burden of this disease. Therapeutic subunit vaccines ... -
Mechanisms of bactericidal action and β-lactam synergy by the zinc ionophore PBT2
The emergence and global spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasingly serious threat to human and veterinary medicine. Driven by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, resistance to our antibiotic armoury ... -
Development of hydrogel-based strategies for tissue vascularisation
The tissue engineering field and regenerative medicine has emerged as a promising strategy to overcome the lack of availability of organs and tissue grafts for transplantation. One of the main challenges in the field is ... -
Intrinsic reward driven exploration for deep reinforcement learning
Deep reinforcement learning has become one of the hottest research topics in machine learning. In reinforcement learning, agents interact with the environment and try to maximise the expected cumulative reward. The goal ... -
Identity construction in online dating
Online dating has emerged as one of the most widely used opportunities provided by the internet, yet only a small number of studies have focused on online daters who have met and developed successful relationships with ... -
Envisioning relational reproductive justice in surrogacy: Recognising the invisible experiences of intended parents
India has become notorious as a multibillion-dollar surrogacy industry. This industry flourished when India allowed commercial surrogacy and attracted many international intended parents to engage with widely available ... -
Strategies to enhance CAR T cell function in solid tumours utilising coding and non-coding genes
Cancer immunotherapy has emerged as an effective treatment to provide benefits to cancer patients. One of the main treatment modalities of cancer immunotherapy is the adoptive transfer of T cells with genetically engineered ... -
Policy and planning in urban and peri-urban agriculture: The cases of Uyo and Benin City, Southern Nigeria
In Africa, the practice of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) can be traced back to ancient civilizations. However, in recent times, farming in the developing world more broadly, is promoted for its contribution to ... -
Musicking in Chinese early childhood education: An ecological study of children’s music education in select Shandong kindergartens
This research investigates musicking in Chinese early childhood education. Musicking is defined as the action and process of music activity and its meaning. An ecological approach is applied to children’s music education ... -
Wild self-care: Rethinking 'risky' health-related practices among members of the gay community
Gay and queer men tend to experience higher rates of mental health issues, STIs/HIV, suicide, substance dependency, and poor well-being than other demographics. Despite sustained public health efforts internationally, many ... -
Motion measurement algorithms for MARS imaging
The goal of the MARS molecular imaging team is to advance medicine by researching, developing, and commercialising spectral CT systems. This thesis presents the work I performed to facilitate live imaging with MARS scanners. ... -
Teaching analytics and teacher dashboards to visualise SET data: Implication to theory and practice
Teaching Analytics (TA) is an emergent theoretical approach that combines teaching expertise, visual analytics, and design-based research to support teachers' diagnostic pedagogical ability to use data as evidence to improve ... -
Image analysis of x-ray computed tomographic datasets, quantification of porosity, and applications to understanding fracturing of rock masses
X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) is a non-destructive and powerful imaging technique allowing scanned objects to be three-dimensionally inspected and characterized across a wide range of sample sizes (from meters to micrometres) ... -
On the functions of palladium (II) cages
This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of metallosupramolecular chemistry, detailing the three main approaches to self-assembled metallosupramolecular architectures: the ligand direct ... -
Genetic manipulation of Plasmodium cynomolgi as a model for investigating Plasmodium vivax drug resistance
Plasmodium vivax is the most widely distributed cause of human malaria, and thought to be the most difficult to diagnose and treat. Until recently this species has largely been neglected compared to the most significant ... -
Psychological factors associated with pharmacist involvement in patient-centered services
Pharmacists are actively being encouraged to do more patient-centred activities like medicines management, primary care for common ailments, prescribing, and vaccination as their role evolves. However, the adoption of ... -
Spin crossover in iron(II) dinuclear helicates and tetranuclear cages
Amongst the 151 discrete di- to poly-nuclear spin crossover (SCO) active assemblies of Fe(II) published before July 2020, only 19 are Fe(II) triply bridged dinuclear helicates (Fe2L3) and only 6 are edge bridged tetranuclear ... -
Access to medicines and use of medicines by Māori with type 2 diabetes in Tairāwhiti
Type 2 diabetes and its associated co-morbidities have a significant impact on Māori and other indigenous populations. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in Tairāwhiti was far greater for Māori than non-Māori (11% vs 4%). ...