Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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The Odyssey of an Ileostomy: A Journey of Challenges and Resilience
Published 2025Undergoing an ileostomy is a major life transition requiring medical, psychological, and social adjustment. This thesis examines the multifaceted experience of patients undergoing ileostomy formation and reversal, focusing ...Open AccessThesis -
Novel Insights into the Pathophysiology and Diagnosis of Patients with Angina and Non-obstructive Coronary Arteries
Published 2025Angina with non-obstructive coronary arteries (ANOCA) comprises heterogeneous vasomotor disorders that cause recurrent angina, impaired quality of life, frequent hospitalisations and adverse cardiovascular outcomes. Yet ...Open AccessThesis -
THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE LUMBAR MICRODISCECTOMY ASSESSMENT SCALE
Published 2025Lumbar microdiscectomy (LM) is the index spinal surgical operation for neurosurgery and orthopaedic surgery trainees. Surgical training has moved towards competency-based training, yet there is no objective competency-based ...Open AccessThesis -
Searching for the Holy Grail: An Inquiry into the Existence and Content of the Highest Good
Published 2025This dissertation is on the summum bonum or the traditional notion of the highest good of human beings. Once considered the most important ethical idea in ancient and medieval philosophy, this notion is now decidedly ...Open AccessThesis -
An Ethnolinguistic Analysis and a Sketch Grammar of Torwali Language: An Approach to Support Mother Tongue Education in Swat Valley, Pakistan
Published 2025The promotion and preservation of the Torwali language, an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Torwali people an ethnolinguistic group residing in Pakistan's Swat district, Pakistan, is crucial to ensuring its sustained use ...Open AccessThesis