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O HAI GUYZ: between personal style bloggers, their readers, and modern fashion.

Findlay, Rosie (University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences School of Letters, Art and Media Department of Performance Studies, 2014)

Personal style blogs sit at the nexus of a range of oppositional concepts that become fluid, that enmesh or are realised in tension on the style blogosphere: public/private, amateur/professional, individual/corporate, ...

Obama, Letterman, and the ‘I’ Word

Babones, Salvatore (inequality.org/obama-letterman-i-word/, 2015-05-06)

Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London (front matter)

Simons, John (Sydney University Press, 2019-01-01)

'Obaysch: A Hippopotamus in Victorian London' is the story of Obaysch the hippopotamus, the first ‘star’ animal to be exhibited in the London Zoo. In 1850, a baby hippopotamus arrived on English shores, allegedly the ...

Obesity and chronic disease prevention among old adults (55-74 years): An evidence overview and framework to inform policy and practice

Espinel, Paola; King, Lesley; Hector, Debra (2014-03-28)

This document is an expansive report detailing the research evidence (to mid-2012) on the rationale, determinants and effective approaches to reduce the prevalence of obesity and chronic disease among community-dwelling ...

Obesity and Cognitive Function

Maunder, Alison Louise (University of Sydney Sydney Medical School Central Clinical School, 2018-01-25)

The increasing prevalence of both obesity and dementia is a significant public health concern. Furthermore, obesity is a risk factor for dementia and will contribute to the estimated predictions for dementia causing an ...

Obesity and Diabetes: the Enemies Within

Brooks, Ben (2013)

Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Adolescents

Ho, Man (University of Sydney. Sydney Medical School. Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health. Children's Hospital at Westmead., 2014-04-16)

The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the evidence base of knowledge regarding the management of obesity and insulin resistance in adolescents, with a special focus on cardio-metabolic risk factors and vascular health. ...

Obesity and Vascular Health

Ne, Jia Yi Anna (University of Sydney Sydney Medical School, 2016-06-20)

Background: Obesity is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The mechanisms by which obesity confers increased cardiovascular risk have not been fully elucidated but may involve arterial endothelial ...

Obesity treatment for adults, adolescents and children

Caterson, Ian; Finer, Nick; Baur, Louise A.; Steinbeck, Kate (Sydney University Press, 2012)

Obesity, Iron and Young Women: Studies Investigating the Nutritional Implications of Excess Adiposity on Iron Status in Young Women

Cheng, Hoi Lun (University of Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences Discipline of Exercise and Sport Science, 2014-01-24)

THESIS TITLE: Obesity, iron and young women: studies investigating the nutritional implications of excess adiposity on iron status in young women. Recent evidence suggests a link between obesity, inflammation and disrupted ...

Object Tracking with Deep Learning and Swarm Intelligence

Yeung, Henry Wing Fung (University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies School of Information Technologies, 2017-03-02)

Swarm Intelligence has been applied to object tracking in the recent decade. Despite the algorithm has consistently improved overtime, Swarm Intelligence based object trackers still perform poorly when evaluated against ...

AN OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT ON DENTAL OCCLUSAL APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT OF SLEEP BRUXISM: A LITERATURE REVIEW.

Lee, Ben (2008)

Purpose The aim of this article is to review the available literature on objective electromyography (EMG) assessment on treatment effectiveness with various occlusal splints (OS) on sleep bruxism (SB). Materials and ...

The Objective Measurement of Sleep-Wake Disturbance in Parkinson's Disease

Bolitho, Samuel (University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health Brain and Mind Centre, 2018-08-24)

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an increasingly prevalent neurodegenerative disease affecting older adults. Motor symptoms, including tremor, rigidity and tremor were classically predominant. However, troublesome non-motor ...

The objective nature of sleep-wake and circadian rhythms in young people with affective disorders

Carpenter, Joanne Sarah (University of Sydney Sydney Medical School Brain and Mind Centre, 2017-05-03)

Affective disorders are associated with various disturbances in sleep-wake and circadian rhythms including disruptions in sleep, abnormal timing of sleep and wake, and abnormalities in circadian patterns of activity, hormone ...

Objects and Contexts: Using relational image database construction and functionality to enhance the teaching and research of design history

Joseph, Frances (Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS), the University of Sydney., 2001)

The development of richly indexed relational image databases provides a system for organising material, and a tool for correlating and interrogating image collections and accumulated contextual information. Many galleries, ...

Objects, objectivity and idealism: Robert Brandom's analytic Hegelianism

Mendelsohn, Joshua Aidan (2011)

Oblique rifting: The rule, not the exception

Brune, Sascha; Williams, Simon E; Muller, R. Dietmar (European Geosciences Union, 2018-10-26)

Movements of tectonic plates often induce oblique deformation at divergent plate boundaries. This is in striking contrast with traditional conceptual models of rifting and rifted margin formation, which often assume 2-D ...

An observational study of swallowing rehabilitation intervention: characteristics of practice and outcomes of stroke survivors

Vickers, Kathryn (University of Sydney Faculty of Health Sciences Discipline of Speech Pathology, 2014-03-31)

Increasing the intensity of practice is emerging as an appropriate approach when providing rehabilitation to stroke survivors. However, in swallowing rehabilitation, there is limited evidence regarding the definition of ...

Observations about the History of Critical Criminology in Australia

Carrington, Kerry; Hogg, Russell (Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2011-05-17)

This paper provides some schematic genealogical observations of a rich and varied field of scholarship in Australia loosely badged as critical criminology. Those working in the critical criminology tradition have been ...

Observations on a Case Study of Song Transmission and Preservation in Two Aboriginal Communities: Dilemmas of a 'Neo-colonialist' in the Field

Marsh, Kathryn (Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education, 2002)

Within a western tradition of music education research there is an expectation that a research project will have focussed aims, regardless of the research paradigm from which it emanates. This paper discusses the dilemma ...