Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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A clinical study of the educational problems of a group of activities pupils in a New South Wales high school and an evaluation of their academic progress during one school year.
Published 1969Recent years have witnessed extensive changes in concepts of intelligence end intellectual growth. From theories involving concepts of "fixed intelligence" and "predetermined development", theorists have come to emphasis ...Open AccessThesis -
A study of Dickens as moralist.
Published 1972In this thesis I want to discuss five of Dickens's novels, written more or less in the middle of his writing career. These novels cover the years 1846 to 1857; they are Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, figgg ...Open AccessThesis -
Shaping Gender: Apulian Red-Figure Pottery and the Gender Expression of Ancient Italic Peoples
Published 2023This thesis investigates how certain shapes of Apulian red-figure pottery produced in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, may have been associated with a specific gender and used to express aspects of gender in burial by Italic ...Open AccessThesis -
The Impact of Dietary Macronutrient Composition on Noncommunicable Diseases and Aging: A Life Course Approach
Published 2023Background: Nutrition is vital for human health and is a key modifiable risk factor in the development of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which account for 74% of global annual deaths. Aging increases disease risk, and ...Open AccessThesis -
Visual Pretraining on Large-Scale Image Datasets
Published 2023This thesis focuses on large-scale visual pretraining in computer vision and addresses various limitations of previous approaches. It introduces a novel technique called Relative Contrastive Loss (RCL) to learn feature ...Open AccessThesis