Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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Optimising Order-Fairness in Blockchains using Ordering Linearizability
Published 2024The world of digital finance was forever reshaped by the release of Bitcoin, seen as a symphony of cryptographic and distributed systems principles orchestrated together to provide a coherent machine for permissionless, ...Open AccessThesis -
Advancing Contrastive Learning for Visual Representation: From Unsupervised to Supervised Paradigms
Published 2025Contrastive Visual Representation Learning has emerged as a cornerstone in computer vision research, celebrated for its simplicity and exceptional performance. At its core, this approach leverages instance discrimination, ...Open AccessThesis -
Direct strength method for the design of cold-formed steel hat sections under localised loading
Published 2025This thesis investigates the application of the Direct Strength Method (DSM) in predicting the localised loading capacity of cold-formed steel hat sections. Four loading cases with various fastening conditions are studied. ...Open AccessThesis -
The biology, ecology, and taxonomy of sea urchins in the subtropical biogeographic transition zone of southeast Australia
Published 2025Ocean warming is driving the global redistribution of marine ectothermic taxa to higher latitudes and the ecotone between tropical and temperate realms is likely to be at the forefront of this redistribution. In marine ...Open AccessThesis -
Saxophone Solos in EDM-The Roles of an Acoustic, Improvising Instrument in Dance Music
Published 2024In this applied musicology thesis, I investigate how saxophone solos in electronic dance music facilitate structural shifts while injecting elements of liveness into EDM tracks. This work seeks to expand discussions of ...Open AccessThesis