The University of Sydney: Recent submissions
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Exploring Bacteriophage Therapy Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis: Early-Phase Clinical Trial Implementation
Published 2025This thesis investigates bacteriophage therapy as a treatment for Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections in children with cystic fibrosis (CF). Despite significant advances in CF, P. aeruginosa remains an important pathogen, ...Open AccessThesis -
Competency in general surgical training
Published 2025Surgical training has challenges, including the need to equip surgeons for future growth, which is underpinned by their training. This thesis systematically examines the application and implications of a competency-based ...Open AccessThesis -
The Black Wave: An Ecocritical Reading of Water Pollution in Greek and Latin Epic
Published 2024This thesis analyses episodes of water pollution in five works of epic: Homer’s Iliad, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Silius’ Punica, Statius’ Thebaid, and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca. Using the lens of ecocriticism and its recent ‘blue’ ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Effect of Nocebo Education on Socially-Induced Nocebo Cybersickness in Virtual Reality
Published 2025-03-05The nocebo effect occurs when aversive physiological symptoms are elicited psychologically, typically via negative health-related expectations. Social modelling is a key mode of inducing nocebo effects. Despite this, there ...Open AccessThesis -
Energy and Bandwidth-Aware Federated Learning in Wireless Internet of Things
Published 2024In this thesis, we examine the challenges associated with implementing Federated Learning (FL) in wireless systems that have constraints on energy and bandwidth. First, we investigate decentralized FL in a wireless system, ...Open AccessThesis