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Jebel Khalid, Syria in the Hellenistic Period: A Zooarchaeological Analysis
Published 2016-12-31This thesis is an examination of the faunal remains collected between 2006-2010 from the Hellenistic site of Jebel Khalid, Syria. Jebel Khalid is located in north-eastern Syria, on the Euphrates River, immediately south ...USyd AccessThesis -
Jekyll and Hyde approach to painting: the antagonistic strategy in contemporary abstract painting
Published 2013-06-11This paper examines my paintings in conjunction with three painters; Albert Oehlan, Charline von Heyl and Christopher Wool. These painters utilise a combination of visual languages and adopt an antagonistic or contradictory ...USyd AccessThesis -
A ‘job for the boys’? The career pathways and gendered employment experiences of women paramedics
Published 2019-01-01The aim of this research is to investigate and understand the careers and working lives of women paramedics in an historically male-dominated ambulance service. It seeks to explore the experiences of women throughout various ...USyd AccessThesis -
Job, Otherness and Christian Theology of Disability
Published 2016-01-01This study is an interdisciplinary one that draws on disability studies, biblical studies and Christian theology. Specifically, it reads the book of Job as a study of otherness in order to arrive at ways that the book ...USyd AccessThesis -
John the Baptist and the fulfilment of scripture: an exploration of the tradition history
Published 2014-01-01This dissertation explores three Hebrew Scriptures (Exod 23:20; Isa 40:3-5 and Mal 3:1) that are associated with John the Baptist in the Gospels. These Scriptures are well known within the literature of Second Temple ...USyd AccessThesis -
John Webster’s Authorship(s)
Published 2022My thesis explores how early modern playwrights navigated the complicated, and often competing, demands of theatre and text as they prepared their plays for print. My focus is on John Webster, a playwright who wrote for ...USyd AccessThesis -
Joint AI and System Solutions for Intelligent Video Processing on the Edge
Published 2024Multimedia data, ubiquitous in today's camera-equipped devices like drones, security systems, and IoT devices, presents a landscape filled with both opportunities and challenges. The existing network and computational ...USyd AccessThesis -
Joint Hypermoblity Syndrome in Children
Published 2014-05-19Joint Hypermobility Syndrome (JHS) is characterised by chronic pain and generalised joint hypermobility (GJH). This thesis set out to improve understanding of the mutisystemic presentation and management of JHS in childhood. ...USyd AccessThesis -
Journal abstracts in China English
Published 2014-08-28Building upon the macro analysis of the rhetorical structure of the text, Systemic Functional linguistics (SFL), in which Thematic structure and Transitivity processes and other grammatical features are examined, will be ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Journey of the Dutch Silver Rimmonim to The Great Synagogue in Sydney: The Search for Australian Jewish Visual Legacy, 1838–1878
Published 2021Jewish ritual objects, Judaica, are significant for their symbolism and the meanings they convey through their use and art forms. The synagogue architecture can provide insights into a city’s past and reflect community’s ...USyd AccessThesis -
Just upzone it and they will come? The Role of Economics in Planning: A Case Study of NSW
Published 2017-10-16This thesis explores the extent to which economic matters are, and should be, considered within the NSW planning system. It finds that in NSW, economics has an enduring and widely recognised role to inform effective strategic ...Open AccessThesis -
Justifying Same-Sex Marriage: A Feminist Perspective
Published 2013-01-01This research asks whether same-sex marriage can result in the equal regard of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender men and women (LGBTs). Chapter 1 focuses on the advent of ‘small change’ toward LGBT legal inclusion; ...USyd AccessThesis -
Juvenile Bipolar Disorder: Evaluation of Symptom Profiles, Treatment Outcomes, and Predictors of Treatment Effectiveness for Clients from a Community Mental Health Clinic
Published 2017-06-30This thesis describes the phenomenology and prospective course of illness for an Australian sample of youth with bipolar disorder (BD), treated with a combination of pharmacotherapy and standardised psychological intervention ...USyd AccessThesis -
Kaleidoscopes, or Two Kinds of Beauty:The Anti-Aesthetic and Beauty Revival Movements
Published 2022This doctoral thesis identifies and provides original descriptive accounts of two schools of thought in the philosophy of beauty: (i) the 20th-century ‘Anti-Aesthetic’ movement and (ii) the 21st-century ‘Beauty-Revival’ ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Kähler-Ricci Flow on Riemann Surfaces
Published 2015-12-01Abstract: In this work we provide a solution to the problem of finding constant curvature metrics on compact Riemann surfaces. Our approach makes full use of the Kähler-Ricci flow equation which is reduced to a PDE of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Keeping the body in mind: The role of interoceptive awareness in emotion recognition in dementia syndromes and healthy populations
Published 2023Despite the importance of emotion recognition in social interactions, the mechanisms underlying this ability are unclear. Interoception is the ability to recognise and respond to internal body signals, such as heart rate ...USyd AccessThesis -
'Keeping the Home Fires Burning?: British Female Settlers’ Conceptions of Home and Belonging in Colonial India, Van Diemen’s Land and Western Australia, 1826-1860'
Published 2016-04-07This thesis contributes to an emerging sub-field in the humanities which considers ideas of home and belonging in the context of migration. Specifically, it investigates how nineteenth-century ‘respectable’ British women ...USyd AccessThesis -
Keeping the Novel “Novel”: Reading Embodied, Borderless and Untranslatable Experimental Fiction
Published 2021How can theories of narrative account for experimental texts that are “irreducibly diverse”? This thesis is a case study presenting a dual-focused analysis of three contemporary experimental novels. In the first chapter ...USyd AccessThesis -
Kenneth Slessor at Smith's Weekly, 1927-1939
Published 2021The thesis investigates divisions and contradictions in Kenneth Slessor’s writing between 1927 and 1939. During this period Slessor worked as a journalist for Smith’s Weekly and wrote his most mature poems. Contrary to ...USyd AccessThesis -
Keratoconus in the Australian Population: Characteristics, Diagnosis and Treatment
Published 2014-10-17Since keratoconus was first described more than 150 years ago, meaningful advances in our understanding of diagnosis and treatment options have been made. Many challenges however remain. Keratoconus represents a complex ...USyd AccessThesis