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M. A. Abdel Haleem’s Approach in Translating Qur’anic Verses of War: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Published 2018-06-27Various translations of the Qur’an have been produced by Muslims and non-Muslims. These translators have applied different strategies to produce informative and faithfully translated versions of the Qur’an, understood by ...USyd AccessThesis -
M2M-enabled public safety services for mobile ad hoc networks
Published 2014-01-10The perpetual rise in the number of emergencies around the globe has indicated a requirement for ubiquitous public safety services. Unfortunately, traditional public safety networks, being dependent on land mobile radio ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Machine and the Arch: Explorative Intersections in Stereotomic Practice, Structural Design and Robotic Crafting of Dry Stone Interlocking Joint Structures
Published 2019-09-10Situated within the intersections of stereotomy (the art of cutting solids), the evolution of machine tools and structural design principles; this research investigates contemporary digital stereotomic practice, both its ...USyd AccessThesis -
Machine Learning Accelerated Topology Optimization and its Applications in Pneumatic Soft Actuator Design
Published 2023Structural optimization is a popular tool for designing smart structures for a given set of conditions, constraints, and objectives. This can involve selecting the optimal material, shape, size, and distribution of the ...USyd AccessThesis -
A Machine Learning Analysis of Earnings Management Practices in Four East Asian Economies
Published 2020Due to earnings management, firms’ true performance is distorted that misleads stakeholders’ decisions based on accounting numbers (Healy and Wahlen, 1999). Extant earnings management research mainly focuses on explaining ...USyd AccessThesis -
Machine Learning Approaches and Faithfulness Metrics for Evaluating Graph Drawing
Published 2023Evaluating graph drawing algorithms is important to ensure they are both effective and efficient in showing the structure of graphs. Human quantitative evaluation of graph drawings is well studied, using controlled experiments ...USyd AccessThesis -
Machine learning approaches for toxicology and risk assessment
Published 2024Computational toxicology is a new approach methodology (NAM) for chemical toxicity testing and risk assessment in light of the replacement, reduction, and refinement (3Rs) of animal use. This thesis focuses on machine ...USyd AccessThesis -
Machine Learning for Massive Connections in Wireless Networks
Published 2021The massive Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks have become an important application in the fifth generation (5G) wireless communications. The proposed 5G techniques, such as massive multiple-input-multiple-output ...USyd AccessThesis -
Machine Learning-Assisted Vision-Based Crack Detection
Published 2023Vision-based structural health monitoring has emerged to address the rising need for automated defect detection and assessment of existing civil structures. During the last decades, the successful construction of large ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Mafeesh prospect - a study of its petrographical, geochemical and mineralological characteristics
Published 2021The Mafeesh prospect is a ‘greenfields’ exploration project found 60km south of the township of Cobar, New South Wales within the Cobar Basin. The Cobar Basin formed between late Silurian to earliest Devonian and sits in ...USyd AccessThesis -
Magic Nihilism
Published 2017-05-01Magic Nihilism conceptually alludes to a present encounter with current geo-political and environmental crisis, global hegemony and the material ruins and waste of late capitalism (and its political precedents) with ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Magic Surface: Wonder, Transfromation and Imagination in Contemporary Art
Published 2016-08-08The aim of this research paper is to interrogate the term magic and to ascertain its appropriateness as a descriptor for the captivation I feel in response to certain everyday material expression, which I explore in my own ...USyd AccessThesis -
A magic-themed approach to intensive upper-limb therapy for children with unilateral cerebral palsy
Published 2018-06-29Unilateral cerebral palsy (CP) is associated with movement difficulties, spasticity, weakness, and sensory dysfunction, which are mainly lateralised to one side of the body. Children with unilateral CP experience limitations ...USyd AccessThesis -
Magical Realism in Saudi Novels Between the Return to Origin and the Impact of Foreign trend.
Published 2017-06-19This study is mainly concerned with the renewal in Saudi novel in late 1980s. It also links this renewal with global literary trends via studying the most prominent foreign influences that influenced the writing of Saudi ...USyd AccessThesis -
Maintaining social inclusion in retirement: The transition from maintream employment to retirement for workers with intellectual disability
Published 2022Disability Employment Services (DES) have provided an opportunity for people with a significant intellectual disability to achieve employment in valued roles within Australian workplaces across a range of industries. After ...USyd AccessThesis -
The maintenance of lipid droplet and energy homeostasis and the impact of ageing during hepatocyte polarization
Published 2018-12-31Hepatocytes have a well-defined polarized morphological structure. Establishment and maintenance of polarity is crucial for the function and viability of hepatocytes. Many disorders, both genetic and acquired, and drugs ...USyd AccessThesis -
The maintenance of mucosal integrity by adhesion proteins during early pregnancy in the rat
Published 2014-03-19In preparation for implantation, uterine luminal epithelial cells (UECs) must perform a dual function of loosening the epithelial barrier to facilitate blastocyst penetration to the stroma, while also producing an intact ...USyd AccessThesis -
Major histocompatibility complex diversity in anurans
Published 2015-03-03The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) is a large gene complex vital to the vertebrate immune response. The antigen-presenting molecules of the MHC class I and class II are involved in the immune surveillance of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Major traumatic physical injury in young people during the initial six month injury trajectory: an explanatory sequential mixed methods study
Published 2015-10-30Background: Injury accounts for 10% of worldwide mortality for all ages and causes profound functional deficits up to five years following injury, particularly in the young person population. These outcomes have devastating ...USyd AccessThesis -
Making a life out of the Worship of Death: a psychodynamic and phenomenological ethnography of Santa Muerte in the State of Mexico
Published 2016-02-01This thesis is an ethnographic study of the Mexican cult of Santa Muerte employing Jungian and psychoanalytic frameworks of anthropological understanding. I use the theory of ‘cultural complexes’ (Kimbles and Singer) in ...USyd AccessThesis