Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Towards Analytic Informative Path Planning
Published 2024Informative path planning algorithms are used to guide agents in carrying out observation actions to best learn about their environment. Prior information, predictive modelling and operational constraints are some of the ...Open AccessThesis -
Learning English Writing Collaboratively with AWE: Chinese EFL Learners’ Perceptions, Engagement, and Scaffolding
Published 2024This thesis examines how a group of Chinese university EFL (English as a foreign language) students learn English writing in an AWE-assisted collaborative English writing context. Within the broader sociocultural theory ...Open AccessThesis -
Memory Pill / Amnesia Pill: PrEP, AIDS Generations and Gay Sexual Imaginaries
Published 2024In the years since PrEP became widely available, the reduction and even removal of HIV anxiety has been widely reported among gay men as a side-effect. Public discourse about this aspect of PrEP, the promise of “sex without ...Open AccessThesis -
“Mimicry, Time and Mind”: The Intersection of Art and Science in Vladimir Nabokov’s Fiction
Published 2024This thesis explores the intersection of art and science in the works of Vladimir Nabokov, a renowned novelist and lepidopterologist. This thesis integrates scientific concepts with literary analysis to examine Nabokov’s ...Open AccessThesis -
The inheritance of heat tolerance in wheat
Published 2024The frequency of extreme cold weather has decreased across most of Australia, while the frequency of warm weather has increased. These episodes of heat stress have been and continue to be a major threat to wheat production ...Open AccessThesis