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L-proline-induced transition of mouse ES cells to a spatially distinct primitive ectoderm-like cell population primed for neural differentiation
Published 2018-12-31Naïve mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) derived from the preimplantation mouse blastocyst self-renew in the presence of LIF and BMP4. These cells are pluripotent, meaning they have the ability to differentiate into the ...USyd AccessThesis -
L2 word learnability: A focus on written form of words
Published 2014-08-29The current study investigates the role of word features (i.e., morphology, orthography, and word length), with a specific focus on the written form of a word, on word learnability in the second language (L2), and seeks ...USyd AccessThesis -
Lab-in-a-Phone for Smart Sensing
Published 2017-01-31Field-portable instruments for ubiquitous detection and analysis of biological, environmental and agricultural items are becoming ever more popular over their traditional non-portable benchtop counterparts as a means to ...USyd AccessThesis -
Laboratory diagnosis and identification of risk factors for severe acute viral respiratory infections
Published 2015-09-29Worldwide, severe acute respiratory infections (SARIs) cause significant morbidity and mortality. In the United States of America (USA), pneumonia and influenza ranks sixth as the cause of hospitalization among Medicare ...USyd AccessThesis -
Lactobacillus Capsular Polysaccharide Disrupts Neural Responses In Caries
Published 2016-03-03The encapsulated putatively virulent strain L. rhamnosus LRHMDP2 was isolated from infected dental pulp tissue of an advanced caries lesion, without detectable local inflammatory response, and was characterized by a ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Lake in the Frame: intellect, education and philosophy in the television work (1986-2017) of Jane Campion
Published 2020This dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the complex style and formal operations of the television work of New Zealand auteur Jane Campion (1954-). The principal argument of this thesis is that the ongoing ...USyd AccessThesis -
Landscape and Rhetoric: The Environment in Late 4th Century Accounts of the Desert Fathers
Published 2014-01-01This thesis is a close study of how two texts, St Jerome’s Vita Pauli and the anonymous Historia Monachorum in Aegypto, engage with classical ideas about distant landscapes in their presentation of the Egyptian ascetic ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Language and Social Characteristics of Adolescent Students Attending Behavioural Schools: A Controlled Group Comparison
Published 2016-03-31Adolescent students attending behavioural school settings may have concomitant language and communication difficulties. Yet, there is a paucity of research examining the incidence and nature of communication difficulties ...USyd AccessThesis -
Language policy and its underlying ideologies for ethnic minorities in China: a case study on its educational implementation in a Yi-Han bilingual school in Liangshan
Published 2014-01-01China is a multiethnic country which contains 55 ethnic minority groups. With its highly multilingual and ethnically diverse population, China’s minorities have had much direct experience with the push and pull of China’s ...USyd AccessThesis -
Laparoscopy Surgery for Acute Abdominal Surgery
Published 2018-12-19Laparoscopic surgery has become a routine part in general surgery. In the emergency setting, laparoscopic surgery in appendectomy and cholecystectomy is gold standard in this modern era. However, the benefits and role of ...USyd AccessThesis -
The large area radio galaxy evolution spectroscopic survey (LARGESS)
Published 2014-03-27This thesis describes the construction of the Large Area Radio Galaxy Evolution Spectroscopic Survey (LARGESS) sample, which is designed to study the population of high- and low- excitation radio galaxies (HERGs and LERGs ...USyd AccessThesis -
Large Margin Nearest Neighbors Classification With Privileged Information for Biometric Applications
Published 2018-07-02In this thesis, a novel metric learning algorithm is proposed to improve face verification and person re-identification in RGB images by learning from RGB and Depth (RGB-D) training images. We address this problem by ...USyd AccessThesis -
Large-Scale Brain Dynamics: Plasticity and States of Consciousness
Published 2018-01-01The brain is a complex system that exhibits rich multiscale dynamics. Large-scale activity in this system are readily observable by a range of methods including electroencephalography (EEG). Changes to the global state of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Large-Scale Structure Topology in Non-Standard Cosmologies
Published 2018-01-05On large scales the distribution of galaxies resembles a vast ‘cosmic web’ of clusters, walls, filaments and voids arranged in an interlocking network. The statistical properties of large-scale structure (LSS) are determined ...USyd AccessThesis -
Lars Von Trier as Tragedian
Published 2016-03-31Lars von Trier’s films have overarching metaphysical themes that are associated with Greek tragedy. German Idealist and Romantic philosophers from F.W.J. Schelling to Friedrich Nietzsche extracted key themes from Greek ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Lasting Impact of Calf Performance
Published 2024This thesis explores data-driven decision-making in intensive dairy farming, focusing on calf management's impact on productivity and cattle longevity. It highlights the transformative role of automated calf feeders (ACF) ...USyd AccessThesis -
Late Nature: Adorno and the Perplexities of Immanent Critique
Published 2016-06-20Nature and human histories are inextricably interwoven. Human interventions into nature have caused a rise in atmospheric temperatures, changes in the nitrogen and phosphorous cycles, and extensive losses to biodiversity. ...USyd AccessThesis -
Layered Perovskites as Tailored Functional Materials
Published 2015-11-20The projects described in this thesis set out to investigate structure-property relationships in perovskite-type oxides containing Bi3+ and d0 transition metal cations. The investigation began by characterising the long-range ...USyd AccessThesis -
Le op: An Islander’s history of Torres Strait turtle-shell masks
Published 2016-09-01This thesis tells a history of the role of turtle in mediating Islanders’ physical and spiritual engagements with the sea, the land and the sky, with each other and with life and death. While it is predominantly about masks ...USyd AccessThesis -
Leadership role in health management of chronic disease management programs in 3 different health systems
Published 2022Chronic disease is well recognized as a significant health challenge in developed and many emerging economies. Virtually all health care organizations within the system that deliver services, including those who plan, fund, ...USyd AccessThesis