Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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A Court of Fear and Paranoia: The Impact of Emotional Communities on the Court of Constantius II in Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae
Published 2024The third-century crisis brought about fundamental change in Roman imperial governing, a shift that recognised the emperor’s inability to control the entire empire on his own. Ammianus Marcellinus provides key insights ...Open AccessThesis -
Investigation and mitigation of reduced fecundity and pup survival due to infectious disease in the endangered Australian sea lion, Neophoca cinerea
Published 2024The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) is endangered and declining, with high pup mortality additional to low fecundity. This thesis investigates infectious disease contribution to population size modulation, and the ...Open AccessThesis -
Students' perceptions of the factors that influence their decisions to study elective music in Year 8 and Year 11 of secondary school
Published 2004This study explored the perceptions of Year 8 and Year 11 students in relation to the influence of various selected factors upon their decisions to study elective music in secondary school. These factors included students’ ...Open AccessThesis -
An oral history of nurses who cared for the atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima from August 1945 to the end of that year
Published 2008At 8:15 A.M. on 6 August 1945, the first Atomic Bomb was deployed against the city of Hiroshima in Japan. The city of Hiroshima was largely destroyed by this action, and huge numbers of its people became A-Bomb Victims ...Open AccessThesis -
Petrological, geochemical and Sr-Nd isotopic studies of metamorphosed mafic rocks in the Wonominta block, northwestern New South Wales
Published 1992The Wonominta Block is located in far north-western New South Wales and consists of composite stratigraphic units. This project is focused on investigation of selected mafic rocks in the lower three sequences, namely the ...Open AccessThesis