Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Thinking and Talking about Prognosis in Advanced Cancer
Published 2025This thesis aimed to improve how oncologists think and talk about prognosis in advanced cancer by evaluating the usefulness of oncologists’ estimates of expected survival time, studying recommendations about the timing of ...Open AccessThesis -
Vision Neural Architecture Designs for Improved Robustness and Accuracy
Published 2025Deep neural networks (DNNs), such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), have achieved impressive results in computer vision but remain vulnerable to input shifts from adversarial attacks ...Open AccessThesis -
Housing experiments: evaluating the potential of new methods to generate housing system change
Published 2025Frustration at the stagnation of an already ‘broken’ housing system has created an environment where experimentation and ‘innovation’ are seen as pathways to solving entrenched policy problems. In this context, experimental ...Open AccessThesis -
Performance of Byzantine Fault Tolerant Blockchains
Published 2025Blockchains have garnered significant attention, leading to a proliferation of systems available for adoption. However, choosing the right blockchain for a specific application remains challenging due to a lack of comparative ...Open AccessThesis -
Robust Phishing URL Detection Through Deep Learning and Domain Shift Mitigation
Published 2025This thesis addresses the challenge of phishing URL detection by focusing on domain shift to improve performance. We show that state-of-the-art classifiers struggle when URLs differ from their training datasets and identify ...Open AccessThesis