Theses: Recent submissions
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Three Essays on Political Economy in Finance
Published 2025This thesis comprises three empirical studies at the intersection of political economy and corporate finance, exploring how political access, public demand, and trade policy shape corporate behavior and governance. The ...EmbargoedThesis -
Secure and Usable Decentralized Storage
Published 2025Recent advancements in the Dynamic-Committee Proactive Secret Sharing (DPSS) protocol have introduced mechanisms for periodically refreshing shares and dynamically changing the parties holding them. DPSS is particularly ...Open AccessThesis -
“Riding the edge of oblivion”: dopamine, addiction, creativity—what the human reward system teaches us about the work of the artist and the road to recovery
Published 2025Addiction tears through every level of human society, and despite the many approaches to dealing with it, no solution has been found. This problem inspired Use Me Up, an autofictional novel set in early-2000s Sydney that ...Open AccessThesis -
Transfer-another determinant in unconscious plagiarism in EFL academic citation
Published 2025This study investigates the widespread academic misconduct in Chinese EFL scholars’ L2 writing, arguing that unconscious plagiarism results from the failures in transferring L1 citation competence. Based on Haskell’s ...USyd AccessThesis -
Cold atmospheric plasma interactions with biofilm cells and the extracellular matrix
Published 2025The microbial biofilms represent a significant threat to human health and contribute to substantial costs associated with cleaning and maintenance. Cold plasma, a partially ionized gas, along with plasma-activated water ...Open AccessThesis