Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Investigating the use of steroids in children with Infantile Epileptic Spasms Syndrome: A multi-omics evaluation of gene and epigenetic regulation
Published 2026Objectives: Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS) is a severe developmental and epileptic encephalopathy of infancy. High-dose oral prednisolone may induce epileptic spasm remission yet long-term outcomes remain poor ...Open AccessThesis -
Rebuilding Public Trust in Social Media Platforms? A Case Study of Meta’s Oversight Board
Published 2026Social media platforms have become an integral part of everyday life. Power within the digital environment has become concentrated in a few dominant platforms because of user behaviour and platform design. This concentration ...Open AccessThesis -
Automated Mobile Content Compliance Verification Using Multimodal Learning
Published 2026The rapid expansion of the mobile app ecosystem has intensified concerns about exposure to inappropriate or misleading content, particularly for children. Although regulatory frameworks such as the GDPR, and app store ...Open AccessThesis -
Automatic Privacy Compliance Checks for Mobile Apps Using Natural Language Processing
Published 2026The rapid growth of the mobile app ecosystem has intensified concerns about how user data is collected, shared, and communicated through privacy disclosures. Privacy compliance in app marketplaces relies heavily on developer ...Open AccessThesis -
Computational modelling of spatial contagion dynamics: epidemics, infodemics and socio-economic turbulence
Published 2026Contagions, ranging from epidemics to infodemics and socio-economic turbulence, are often studied in isolation despite exhibiting analogous spatiotemporal transmission dynamics. In this thesis, we develop a unifying ...Open AccessThesis