Sydney Digital Theses (Open Access): Recent submissions
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An Examination of Diasporic Iranian Contemporary Women Artists
Published 2024The nature of geographical loss taken as an event or a condition holds an inherent—if not also a muted—quality of melancholic and nostalgic sensation towards origins, often related to conceptions of home and identity. The ...Open AccessThesis -
Medicine and Its Double: Doing dramaturgy with medical students in an Australian teaching hospital
Published 2024This thesis examines the relationship between aesthetic performance practices and clinical experiences in medical education. Social reforms through the past fifty years have encouraged medical schools to adopt arts-based ...Open AccessThesis -
Exploration of Novel Chemotypes that Ameliorate Cellular Senescence
Published 2024Dementia is an umbrella term which refers to a variety of neurodegenerative diseases with fatal prognoses. Current treatment options are limited as aetiologies and mechanisms of disease progression are unclear. As the ...Open AccessThesis -
Essays on Promotions, Incentives, and Career Concerns
Published 2024This thesis has three chapters. In the first chapter, we look at internal promotions that are used to provide incentives for effort, and to assign agents to jobs based on their ability and on their seniority. While the ...Open AccessThesis -
The impact of NDRG1 overexpression on the immunological and metabolic reprogramming of the pancreatic tumour microenvironment
Published 2024Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is highly aggressive, with no effective treatments for the 80% of patients that are diagnosed at an advanced stage. A major hurdle in treating PDAC is the extensive tumour microenvironment ...Open AccessThesis