The University of Sydney: Recent submissions
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Measurement of Upper Motor Neuron Abnormalities with Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Published 2008Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that produces weakness and ultimately death from respiratory failure. ALS results in the death of nearly 400 Australians per year, with a ...Open AccessThesis -
Going forward and looking back : Sydney, abstraction & the fifties
Published 2011This project examines the artistic conditions that provoked major exhibitions in Australia in the Fifties including French Painting Today (1953) and Direction 1 (1956). It strives to give the reader a vernacular ...Open AccessThesis -
The Paradox of New Atheism: A Critique of Meaning, Belief, and Scientific Persuasion
Published 2025At the beginning of the twenty-first century, atheism transformed from a private intellectual stance to a loud cultural movement. This movement was led by the New Atheists, including figures such as Dawkins, Harris, Dennett ...Open AccessThesis -
Novel applications of pQCT in a Paediatric Diagnostic Setting
Published 2026There is considerable interest in the clinical use of peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) to assess paediatric bone density (BMD). Peripheral QCT’s volumetric measurement of trabecular and cortical BMD is ...Open AccessThesis -
Vision Language Model for Medical Image Analysis
Published 2025Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly important for medical image understanding by enabling joint reasoning over visual and textual information. This thesis advances three core tasks—Visual Question Answering ...Open AccessThesis