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The analysis of thin films introduces numerous unique complexities compared to bulk materials. A thorough knowledge of thin film XRD enables researchers to gain a detailed understanding of their structure and composition and hence, arms them with the knowledge to better predict their in-service (...)

Conservation of large, relatively intact landscapes in the face of widespread development such as resource extraction is a challenge of global conservation significance. Growing human populations and economies and increasing scarcity of natural resources are pushing the frontiers of rapidly (...)

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The bottom-up approach is considered a potential alternative for the low cost manufacturing of nanostructured materials. It is based on the concept of self-assembly of nanostructures on a substrate, and is emerging as an alternative paradigm for traditional top down fabrication used in the (...)

The diseases caused by Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV) decrease the productivity of Brassicaceae crop species worldwide. If available, virus-resistant cultivars can provide an effective method of controlling the diseases TuMV causes. Many new sources of diverse TuMV resistance phenotypes were identified (...)

Find out about exchange opportunities to study overseas as part of your UWA degree including semester long and short term programs. Meet international students from UWA partner universities from all over the world and get advice on how an overseas experience can add to your UWA degree.

The Seminar: Imagine a technique that requires minimal or no sample preparation and allows you to explore the internal structure of your sample down to the micrometre scale without the need for a single cut. This can be achieved using X-ray microscopy (XRM), which, as for medical CAT scanners (...)

Increased ability to predict respiratory fluxes in plants would facilitate better global climate change models, plant carbon budget models and efforts aimed at engineering plant primary metabolism. However, plant respiration has proved difficult to model because of the size and complexity of the (...)

The objective of this paper is to model the conditional distribution of Body Mass Index (BMI) by examining the relations between a set of covariates and the moments of the BMI distribution. While BMI is often seen as a leading indicators of health, most studies on the distribution of BMI did not (...)

Seagrass meadows are often highly productive in oligotrophic waters despite extremely low nutrient concentrations. Seagrass sediments, in contrast, are often enriched in organic matter (OM) that could potentially be a major source of nutrients, particularly of phosphorus (P), following microbial (...)

A public lecture by Miranda Hart, School of Biology, University of British Columbia and 2016 UWA Gledden Visiting Fellow.

The use of bioinoculants (bacteria or fungi) is a common practice in many managed systems. In some cases, this practice is essential and plants will not grow (...)

Last year the Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX) launched a red chilli futures contract as a way for farmers and other market participants to manage their risks in this volatile commodity which is of such significance for the rural economy of parts of Pakistan. Why did it do so, what will its (...)

Government regulators face significant trade-offs in conducting their roles. In Australia, Commonwealth, state and territory governments have been challenging their regulatory agencies to decrease the regulatory burden they impose on compliant stakeholders. However, poorly designed approaches to (...)

UWA encourages its researchers to be proactive and plan early for applications to competitive grant schemes. With the move to continuous rounds of the ARC Linkage program from the 1st July, it is more important than ever to plan ahead! To help you in this regard, the UWA Research Development team (...)

Dr. Gleeson has been based at the University of Western Australia in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences since 2004. She completed her PhD and early postdoctoral work at University College Dublin before coming to UWA as a visiting researcher, and subsequently as a research staff (...)

This course aims to provide you with an introduction to the facilities available in MS Excel from a statistical point of view. As well as an introduction to Excel, spreadsheet functions and graphics, it concentrates on performing basic statistical methods, producing charts and tables, and discusses (...)

Orchids are well known for their extraordinary species diversity and specialised pollination systems. Several hundred species of orchids are pollinated by the sexual deceit of male bees or wasps through mimicry of insect pheromones. Investigations into the chemical communication between orchids and (...)

Cooperation is the foundation of human social life, but it sometimes requires individuals to choose against their individual self-interest. How then is cooperation sustained? How do we decide when instead to follow our own goals? I develop a model that builds on Bacharach’s (2006) ‘circumspect (...)