Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Getting stuck daydreaming: The role of cognitive flexibility in anxiety while mind-wandering
Published 2024Mind-wandering is a pervasive phenomenon that has gained interest in the past few decades. It has been proposed that this process of mind-wandering, by which individuals shift their attentional resources from external ...Open AccessThesis -
Stanley Forman and Documentary Film: Building Connections between Britain and the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1990
Published 2024This thesis investigates British communist Stanley Forman’s role in distributing and making socialist films in post-war Britain. It examines Forman's relationship with communism, the German Democratic Republic (GDR/East ...Open AccessThesis -
Investigating the mechanism of action of the chemical probe QC6352
Published 2024Glioblastoma, despite being the most aggressive form of brain cancer, has seen no significant advancement in patient survival rates since the introduction of the Stupp protocol in 2005. The stagnation in therapeutic progress ...Open AccessThesis -
The development of long-term normothermic machine perfusion in liver transplantation: assessment of organ quality and viability, and an exploration of barriers to clinical practice
Published 2024Various machine perfusion techniques utilised in liver transplantation have established advantages when applied clinically in the short term. However, if perfusion could be safely extended beyond hours, to days or even ...Open AccessThesis -
Characterising senescence in iPSC-derived glial cells from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients expressing the C9orf72 mutation.
Published 2024ALS is a motor neuron disease characteristic of upper and lower motor neuron degeneration, with limited treatment options and no cure. Senescence, a stress state cells enter in response to DNA damage, has recently been ...Open AccessThesis