Research
Deakin University
Faculty of Education
School of Social and Cultural Studies in EducationFaculty of Health and Behavioural Science
School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Faculty of Science and Technology
School of Information Technology
Title: A comparison of anticipated benefits and the personal, educational and social outcomes of cochlear implantation in deaf children.
Dr LR Komesaroff; Prof MB Hyde; Prof M Bagaric
2005 : $24,443
2006 : $49,512
2007 : $50,020
2008 : $24,951
Category: 3301 - EDUCATION STUDIES
APA(I) Award(s): 1
Partner Organisation(s):
Deaf Children Australia
Administering Institution: Deakin University
Summary:
Language and communication, educational achievement, social identity and psychological
well-being are critical
outcomes of cochlear implantation if this intervention is broadly in the best
interests of deaf children. This joint project uses innovative methodology
to compare anticipated benefits of implantation and achieved outcomes in school,
home and social settings over three years. It enables analyses of data on personal,
social and educational outcomes of implantation
not currently available to families, medical implant programs, advocacy organisations
and educational authorities. Such
information will assist in addressing any barriers to the children's personal
and social development and achievement in
educational and family settings.
Title: Use of a cell based assay to identify novel insulin-sensitising agents
Dr K Walder; Prof DE James; Dr D Brown
2005 : $55,000
2006 : $112,500
2007 : $110,000
2008 : $52,500
Category: 2701 - BIOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY
Partner Organisation(s):
ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
Administering Institution: Deakin University
Summary:
Diabetes and obesity are currently escalating to epidemic proportions in
Australia and there is an urgent need to develop
new therapeutics. A major feature of these disorders is impaired insulin
action. We have recently developed and validated an exciting new
assay for insulin action in fat cells. In
this project we propose an exciting research program
encompassing major research and biotechnology groups in Australia to utilise
this technology to identify novel insulin-sensitising agents. These
agents will be used for drug discovery purposes by our industry partner ChemGenex
and as
novel tools to dissect the mechanism of insulin action.
Title: Protecting Web Services from Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
Prof W Zhou; Dr W Shi
2005 : $12,074
2006 : $24,148
2007 : $24,148
2008 : $12,074
Category: 2801 - INFORMATION SYSTEMS
APA(I) Award(s): 1
Partner Organisation(s):
Belmont Computer Centre Pty Ltd
Administering Institution: Deakin University
Summary:
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks bring a tremendous threat to
web services on the Internet. Large amount of
web services were pulled down worldwide by the DDoS attacks, with huge losses
in business. Effective approaches to
defeat DDoS attacks are desperately demanded. Most existing DDoS defense systems
aim to only protect the victim
network and are not fully integrated. In this project we propose a novel defense
system to protect web services from DDoS
attacks. Our system is one of the first systems that have a mixture deployment
in both victim end and attack source end,
and integrated capabilities of intrusion surveillance, traffic control, and
traceback, thus achieve better control results over
other mechanisms.
