Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Predictors of Healing in Foot Ulceration
Published 2025The role of dietary intake, micronutrient deficiencies, cognitive function, and smoking in foot ulceration remains inadequately understood. The aim of this thesis is to explore whether certain variables can predict healing ...USyd AccessThesis -
A Deep Learning Framework for Real-Time Cancer Targeting in Radiation Therapy
Published 2025Growing evidence highlights the detrimental effects of underdosing tumours and overdosing organs at risk during high dose radiation therapy, emphasising the need for precision in treatment delivery. Tumour motion, due to ...Open AccessThesis -
Quality markers in colorectal cancer surgery: what is the evidence?
Published 2025Validating metrics of surgical quality against survival outcomes remains essential to accurately predict prognosis in colorectal cancer (CRC). This thesis explores the complexities in defining, measuring, and assessing ...Open AccessThesis -
Preclinical research on novel therapies and neurochemistry in intractable epilepsy
Published 2025Epilepsy is a condition involving underlying hyperexcitability of neurons in the brain leading to various seizure-related phenotypes. However, there remains unmet clinical need in epilepsy for around 30% of patients that ...Open AccessThesis -
Demystifying Vocabulary Knowledge: Depth, Size and the Productive Domain
Published 2025Understandings around the nature of vocabulary knowledge and its relationship with vocabulary use in the productive domain remain vague. This study revisits the conceptualisation of vocabulary depth, its interplay with ...Open AccessThesis