Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Evaluation of stiffness-based approaches for assessing soil compaction in laboratory and field
Published 2025Sometimes referred to as the “dark art” of civil engineering, earthworks remain an essential yet costly and often uncertain component of modern infrastructure projects. Increasingly, pavement design emphasizes mechanisti ...Open AccessThesis -
A Unified Multi-Modal Approach for 3D Referring Expression Segmentation
Published 2025Generalised 3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-GRES) segments exact 3D objects described by free-form language, even when descriptions match multiple targets, single targets, or zero targets. Most existing methods ...Open AccessThesis -
Uncovering the role of glycinergic neurons in the periaqueductal grey
Published 2025Chronic pain is a debilitating condition affecting nearly 4 million Australians and 20% of the global population. It is a complex biopsychosocial disorder that significantly impacts quality of life and is often associated ...Open AccessThesis -
An analysis of trusts and partnerships as members of Australian tax consolidated groups – good or flawed tax policy?
Published 2026This thesis analysed trusts and partnerships as members of Australian tax consolidated groups. The inclusion of trusts and partnerships in Australian tax consolidated groups is a unique feature of the Australian tax ...Open AccessThesis -
Modeling Water Flow and Contaminant Transport in Unsaturated Soil by Artificial Intelligence
Published 2025The water flow in unsaturated soil is typically represented by Richardson-Richards Equation (RRE), while solute transport is often described by Advection-Diffusion Equation (ADE). These two equations are fundamental for ...Open AccessThesis