Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Sociality and Proximity in Hunter-Gatherer Settlements
Published 2025The aim of the present study is to investigate the determinants of household separation in hunter-gatherer settlements. The study proposes that two neurobiological phenomena play a key role: ‘social homeostasis’ and ‘social ...Open AccessThesis -
A Corpus-Based Study of Contemporary Chinese Translation of the Verbal System in Biblical Hebrew Prose: With special reference to Genesis 37-50
Published 2024Despite numerous linguistic studies on Biblical Hebrew (BH) and on Contemporary Chinese (CC), crosslinguistic research between the two languages remains limited. This thesis adopts a corpus-based approach to explore the ...Open AccessThesis -
Development of vascularised human brain cell co-cultures to improve translation in Alzheimer's disease drug discovery
Published 2025Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder marked by cognitive decline, amyloid β (Aβ) and tau pathology, neuroinflammation, and neurovascular dysfunction. Despite increasing recognition of the ...Open AccessThesis -
Shifting focus from quantity to quality: Mapping, understanding, and managing within-field variability in crop quality in cotton and grain systems
Published 2025Australian cotton and grain growers are renowned for producing high-yielding, high-quality fibre and grains. However, there is considerable variation in both yield and quality within and between fields, farms, and seasons. ...Open AccessThesis -
Short Text Clustering with Large Language Models
Published 2025This thesis addresses the challenges of clustering short text data, focusing on human interpretability and validation metrics. Employing Gaussian Mixture Models with embeddings from Large Language Models, this thesis ...Open AccessThesis