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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 -
Kicking goals: Community stakeholders as value creators, strategists, and identity shapers
Published 2023The concept of ‘community’ is pervasive in organisational and management theory. Yet literature on communities within the field is fragmented and the definition of the term remains ambiguous (Dunham et al., 2006; Georgiou ...USyd AccessThesis -
Killing memory: Memoricide, materiality and the art of digital memory
Published 2020Memoricide’s emblematic imagery comprises familiar scenes: burning ‘ash-snow’ from Sarajevo’s National Library; satellite images of Palmyra; the exploding Bamiyan Buddhas. The concept, coined in 1992 by Mirko Grmek, suggests ...USyd AccessThesis -
Kilovoltage intrafraction monitoring (KIM): a novel real-time targeting system for cancer radiotherapy
Published 2014-01-01In cancer radiotherapy, there is a need for a highly accurate, widely applicable, cost effective real-time tumour localization modality with a low barrier to clinical implementation. This thesis documents the bench-to-bedside ...USyd AccessThesis -
Kinematic and geodynamic evolution of the Western Tethys in a context of adjacent continents and ocean basins
Published 2015-03-01This thesis studies the links between plate tectonics and deep Earth processes during the breakup of northern Pangea from the Early Jurassic. To explore the major episodes of extensional and compressional tectonics during ...USyd AccessThesis -
Kinematic, Kinetic And Motor Imagery Performance Among Individuals With Chronic Anterior Cruciate Ligament Deficient Knee
Published 2018-09-10Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is a disastrous injury that frequently affects active and young individuals. The impact of ACL deficiency (ACLD) on the knee and the individual is not fully understood. It has been ...USyd AccessThesis -
Kinetics of ammonia combustion on platinum surfaces
Published 2019-01-01Ammonia (NH3) is the primary feedstock for the manufacture of nitric acid and ammonium nitrate in chemical industries. The ammonia combustion is performed using a platinum catalyst at temperatures ranging from 800 to 900 ...USyd AccessThesis -
Kingsley Martin and Britain in the 1920s: The Crisis of Democracy
Published 2015-10-01Kingsley Martin was the editor of the New Statesman from 1930-1960 and this part of his professional life has already been heavily scrutinised by academics and more general writers alike. The purpose of this thesis however, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Kink characterisation and modelling in transmembrane protein structures
Published 2013-10-04Kinks are important functional and structural features of the α-helices of membrane proteins. Despite their ubiquity in membrane proteins, and their perceived importance, no protein modelling method explicitly considers ...USyd AccessThesis -
Knee injury in adolescent dancers and acrobats
Published 2013-04-18Dance and acrobatic gymnastics training often commences in childhood and intensifies during adolescence, increasing the risk of injury. The majority of injuries affect the lower extremity (LE) with patellofemoral pain ...USyd AccessThesis -
Knowing when you have not been shown enough; Three- to eight-year-olds’ selective trust in a causal learning task
Published 2018-02-27Much of what children learn is socially transmitted; comes from the explanations others provide, rather than what they discover for themselves. Shafto, Goodman and Frank (2012) suggest children simultaneously learn about ...USyd AccessThesis -
Knowledge and beliefs about late life depression and the relationship with help giving and help-seeking: perspectives of aged care staff and recipients
Published 2014-04-01Depression is not an inevitable part of the ageing process. While prevalence rates are high for aged care recipients, detection rates tend to be low and management suboptimal. It is important for those who work with older ...USyd AccessThesis -
Knowledge Discovery from Smart Meter Data and Its Applications
Published 2021Smart meters have experienced a fast development around the globe during the past decade. Millions of smart meters deployed in many utilities have collected a massive amount of fine-grained electricity consumption data, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Knowledge, attitudes and practice of health workers towards HIV/ AIDS in Aceh Besar, Aceh – Indonesia
Published 2018-03-31Background: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infections are on the rise in Indonesia. Knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) among health care workers regarding HIV is an essential element of HIV prevention and control. ...USyd AccessThesis