Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Multifaceted studies into the bioinorganic chemistry of ruthenium(II) arene anticancer complexes
Published 2024Ru(II) arene complexes are attractive anticancer drugs but their mechanisms of action and biological targets are not fully known, and new aspects of their modes of action are a focus of this thesis. A Ru(II) arene complex ...USyd AccessThesis -
Affective Oceanscapes: Contextualising Oceanic Feeling in Chinese Cultural History
Published 2024This thesis presents an alternative history of the emergence of Chinese blue culture, focusing on intellectuals and writers’ cultural and affective engagements with the rapidly changing oceanscape from the Qing dynasty ...Open AccessThesis -
Higher Order Even Dispersion Solitons
Published 2024Optical solitons are wave packets of light, with the distinctive property of being unchanging as they propagate. Optical solitons form from the balance between linear dispersion effects and the nonlinear Kerr effect, with ...USyd AccessThesis -
Electroencephalographic Findings in Insomnia Disorder: Treatment Effects Under Cannabinoid Interventions
Published 2024Insomnia disorder - characterised by subjective sleep difficulties causing daytime impairment - is a pervasive, distressing, and costly condition. Cannabinoid therapeutics, such as Δ⁹- tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol ...USyd AccessThesis -
Optimising Surgical Treatments of Tricuspid Regurgitation
Published 2024Tricuspid regurgitation(TR) affects 65-85% of the population with tricuspid valve disease and can be treated with tricuspid valve surgery(TVS). However, TR remains undertreated in terms of the timing of earlier referral ...USyd AccessThesis