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Wonder and Scepticism in the Long Twelfth Century
Published 2016-09-01This thesis considers the interaction between wonder and scepticism in long twelfth-century Europe. Wonder is presented as necessitating a cognitive reaction that involves a process of evidence and fact-checking, which ...Open AccessThesis -
Word classes of White Hmong: a computational approach
Published 2016This thesis employs a computational approach to study the word classes in White Hmong, a minority language of Mainland Southeast Asia. It proposes an automatic discovery procedure for word classes based on a careful review ...Open AccessThesis -
THE WORD OF A GENTLEMAN AND THE OATH OF A PATRIOT: Military Parole in the American Civil War
Published 2011-01-01The use and eventual demise of military parole in the American Civil War provides a key insight into the changing nature of ‘military honour’ in America’s bloodiest conflict. This thesis will use parole to examine America’s ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
A word of evidence: shared tales about infanticide and others-not-us in colonial Victoria
Published 2009-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
Word order and sentence structure in Mandarin Chinese: new perspectives
Published 2017-12-12Word order (WO) is one of the most fascinating and investigated topics in Mandarin Chinese (MC) linguistics: topic-comment structures, argument alternations, and available WO patterns and variations in general have received ...USyd AccessThesis -
Word Structure in Ngalakgan
Published 1999-01-01Ngalakgan is an Australian language of the Gunwinyguan family, spoken fluently by just a few people in the mid Roper River area of the Top End. The thesis is a description and examination of the phonology, prosody, and ...Open AccessThesis -
Wordflesh: The Antinomies of Textual Form
Published 2019-02-28This thesis pursues the hypothesis that the structure and the consumption of textual form is defined by a number of antinomies, and that energetic attention to these paradoxes clarifies and to an extent deconstructs the ...Open AccessThesis -
Words and Music: using a chosen set of criteria to inform a creative response in composing two contrasting song cycles
Published 2015-08-13Since song cycles entered the lexicography of European music in the 1800s, it can be argued that composers have lacked a clear set of ‘rules’ that govern the musical elements of composing song cycles. This has led to some ...Open AccessThesis -
The Words and World of Life and Learning at Ge bcags Nunnery
Published 2020Ge bcags dgon pa is a Tibetan nunnery of female tantric Buddhist contemplatives, founded in 1892 in a highland valley of pastoral Nang chen, Khams (Qinghai Province, PRC) and still thriving today with approximately 250 ...Open AccessThesis -
Work After an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI): Identification of Cognitive Difficulties Using a Work Place Assessment Model
Published 2014-02-04Many people are of working age when diagnosed with acquired brain injury (ABI) and desire to return to work and receive the quality-of-life benefits work provides. Residual cognitive and behavioural difficulties after ABI ...USyd AccessThesis -
Work and family: A gender issue and more for labour lawyers
Published 2007The issue of 'work-family conflict' commands widespread academic and popular interest. The Prime Minister once called it a 'barbecue stopper', the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has recently undertaken and ...Open AccessArticle -
Work and power in Australia : a study of power in work relationships.
Published 1977The alienation theme is now so large in the sociological literature that it has become an acceptable descriptive category for some condition of life in contemporary industrial society.Open AccessThesis -
Work Design for Flexible Work Scheduling: Barriers and Gender Implications
Published 1998-05-01This paper investigates the assumptions underlying three important dimensions of work design, place, distance and time, and their significant linkages to flexible work scheduling and travel behaviour. Work design, defined ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
Work Design, Flexible Work Arrangements and Travel Behaviour: Policy Implications
Published 1998-04-01This paper examines the assumptions of work design and its impact on how work is conceived and designed, the important linkages to travel behaviour to and from work and subsequent impacts on traffic mix in urban areas. ...Open AccessWorking Paper -
The work of the N.S.W. Government Architect's Branch, 1958-1973
Published 1980-01-01The period under consideration saw the growth and fruition of a radical approach to architectural design in the Government Architect's Branch of the New South Wales Public Works Department. High aesthetic standards were ...Open AccessThesis -
Work or rest? Resting of bumblebees in a social context
Published 2014-07-01Open AccessConference paper