Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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The Paradox of New Atheism: A Critique of Meaning, Belief, and Scientific Persuasion
Published 2025At the beginning of the twenty-first century, atheism transformed from a private intellectual stance to a loud cultural movement. This movement was led by the New Atheists, including figures such as Dawkins, Harris, Dennett ...Open AccessThesis -
Novel applications of pQCT in a Paediatric Diagnostic Setting
Published 2026There is considerable interest in the clinical use of peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) to assess paediatric bone density (BMD). Peripheral QCT’s volumetric measurement of trabecular and cortical BMD is ...Open AccessThesis -
Vision Language Model for Medical Image Analysis
Published 2025Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly important for medical image understanding by enabling joint reasoning over visual and textual information. This thesis advances three core tasks—Visual Question Answering ...Open AccessThesis -
Synergism from Combination between Platinums and Phytochemicals in Ovarian Cancer Cell Lines
Published 2010Ovarian cancer remains an on-going challenge because o f the occurrence o f resistant forms of cancer for which the drugs fail to function. Combination chemotherapy using drugs with different mechanisms can offer a means ...Open AccessThesis -
Compound specific detection of endogenous steroid abuse in sport: A metabonomic perspective
Published 2007The complementary application of Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) and Gas Chromatography-Combustion-Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (GC-C-IRMS) were used in this study to provide compound specific detection ...Open AccessThesis