Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Inferring interpretable pairwise interactions from time-series data using time-series features
Published 2024Quantifying relationships between components of a complex system is critical to understanding the system's behaviours. Traditional methods for detecting pairwise dependence of time series, such as Pearson correlation and ...Open AccessThesis -
'Ript from the womb' : the medical, social and political history of caesarean section
Published 2009What is a caesarean section? In 1790 Jean-Louis Baudelocque, regarded as the most eminent French obstetrician of his time, wrote: “That operation is called Caesarean by which any way is opened for the child than that ...Open AccessThesis -
Studies on rice starch : the accumulation and properties of starches in the stem, pollen and grain of some rice varieties grown in southern New South Wales
Published 1980A group of rice varieties known to differ in grain cooking quality were grown together in southern New South Wales. The accumulation and properties of starch were followed from seedling emergence to harvest. Stem starch ...Open AccessThesis -
Will Power: Bequests and Culture in Australia
Published 2024Bequests — the giving of money or possessions after a person’s death — have been at the heart of public cultural enterprise in Australia since the late nineteenth century. Motivated by altruism, obligation, egoism or ...Open AccessThesis -
A Court of Fear and Paranoia: The Impact of Emotional Communities on the Court of Constantius II in Ammianus Marcellinus’ Res Gestae
Published 2024The third-century crisis brought about fundamental change in Roman imperial governing, a shift that recognised the emperor’s inability to control the entire empire on his own. Ammianus Marcellinus provides key insights ...Open AccessThesis