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Dance injury epidemiology
Published 2018-02-27Dance greatly contributes to social, cultural and economic development, as well as entertainment and recreational physical activity. There are many different motivators and benefits to dance participation at the recreational, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Dark Multiplets
Published 2023In the absence of any hints of new physics in LHC, dark matter candidates interacting through electroweak force are still highly motivated. TeV-scale dark matter is well inspired by notions of naturalness as the new ...USyd AccessThesis -
The dark side of Dharma: Why have adverse effects of meditation been ignored in contemporary Western secular contexts?
Published 2018-11-15In contemporary Western society, meditation techniques that were previously taught within the context of Eastern religious traditions are now increasingly being practiced in secular settings. So-called ‘secular forms’ of ...USyd AccessThesis -
The dark side of Dharma: Why have adverse effects of meditation been ignored in contemporary Western secular contexts?
Published 2018-06-30In contemporary Western society, meditation techniques that were previously taught within the context of Eastern religious traditions are now increasingly being practiced in secular settings. So-called ‘secular forms’ of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Dark-rearing as a non-invasive treatment for Retinopathy of Prematurity: basic mechanisms and a pathway to translation
Published 2016-08-31The persistence of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in both the developed and the developing world remains a serious cause for concern. Some 75 years after its first clinical description, we still lack an easily applied ...USyd AccessThesis -
“The Darkening Shape”: The Forms and Politics of Negative Affects in the Last Four Novels of Christina Stead
Published 2020Readers and scholars routinely recognise a certain unpleasant and repellent quality in the fiction of Christina Stead (1902–1983), especially in her later work. The harshness of her style has become, for better or worse, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Data Analysis Techniques Using National Hospital Datasets To Estimate Incidence Of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
Published 2014-08-29Objective: To develop an analysis technique using national hospital discharge data to estimate incidence rates of people hospitalised following acute traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI). Method: Exploratory data analysis ...USyd AccessThesis -
A Data-driven Approach towards Combatting Social E-commerce Transaction-based Tax Evasion
Published 2021With the advent of the digital economy, the opportunity and feasibility of hidden economy activities have expanded to the digital realm. Like their traditional forms, digitalised hidden economy transactions also led to ...USyd AccessThesis -
Data-Driven Modelling and Operation Decision-Making of Electricity Markets with Distributed Energy Resources
Published 2024As a result of excessive carbon emissions, the consumption of fossil fuels for generating electricity can cause damage to the environment. Faced with the dilemma of energy demand and global warming, humans urgently need ...USyd AccessThesis -
Data-efficient Machine Learning for Geometry Modelling in Cold Spray Additive Manufacturing
Published 2020Additive manufacturing (AM) is widely recognised as a paradigm shift in the nature of future manufacturing as it has demonstrated the potential to offer the variety of benefits that are difficult to achieve otherwise, ...USyd AccessThesis -
datascapes: Redefining the Sublime in Contemporary Art
Published 2018-10-01Despite the recent resurgence of the sublime as a key theme in contemporary art and its profound art historical lineage, the concept largely remains defined in terms of its 18th century formulation by German philosopher ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Dawn Horizon: Constructing An Air Force Identity During Initial Officer Training in Australia, The United States and The United Kingdom
Published 2019-08-24Many of the arguments supporting diversity in the military focus on the instrumental benefits available to an organisation that embraces difference. Viewed through this lens, there is a risk of diversity becoming another ...USyd AccessThesis -
Dealing with the Digital: Social Media, Police Legitimacy and the 2013 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival
Published 2018-09-10The networked, monitory capacity of online communication has challenged pre-digital notions of police legitimacy and accountability. However, the impact of digital technologies on crime and justice issues are under-researched ...USyd AccessThesis -
Dealing with the Future Experimental governance in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone
Published 2021This thesis is an empirical exploration of an experimental form of governance emerging in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (GTSEZ), located in northwest Laos, at the border with Thailand and Myanmar. Operations ...USyd AccessThesis -
“Death sets a thing significant”: Funerary Palaces of the Middle Bronze Age Southern Levant
Published 2023Debate has surrounded the south Levantine Middle Bronze Age (MBA) Courtyard Palace form since their first discovery in the early 20th century. Traditional views of the MBA Courtyard Palace were seen through the lens of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Death Wobbles: An Anxious Tableau - exploring images of the fragmented body with low humour through non-traditional self-portraiture
Published 2018-10-01The paper discusses how early satirically charged printed lithographs of politicians, and woodcuts of human bodies morphing into animals and plants, provided new possibilities for the depiction of the figure in the fine ...USyd AccessThesis -
A Decade Experience of Gastric Cancer Surgery at a High-Volume Tertiary Centre in Australia, a Low-Volume Country.
Published 2016-09-28Background: Gastrectomy is the mainstay curative treatment of gastric cancer. In Australia, the incidence of gastric cancer is much lower than other countries, especially the East. Consequently, there is a paucity of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Decentralized Trust in Crowdsourced Drone Services
Published 2024The proliferation of crowdsourced drone services in areas such as bushfire monitoring, environmental surveillance, and emergency response highlights the urgent need for scalable, secure, and reliable trust management ...USyd AccessThesis -
Deciding on motherhood: the development and evaluation of a decision aid for women with epilepsy
Published 2014-05-30This research project aimed to develop and evaluate a decision aid to assist women with epilepsy (WWE) to decide whether to start, forgo or enlarge their families. Three studies were conducted, guided by the International ...USyd AccessThesis -
Deciphering Igneous and Metamorphic Histories from Exposed Deep Arc Crust, Fiordland, New Zealand: Crustal Differentiation and Evolution
Published 2016-12-08Fiordland, New Zealand, preserves extensive arc plutons, that formed as part of a Cretaceous flare-up event in a long-lived subduction zone forming the proto-Pacific Gondwanan margin. Plutonic rocks of the c. 126–105 Ma ...USyd AccessThesis