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O HAI GUYZ: between personal style bloggers, their readers, and modern fashion.
Published 2014-01-01Personal style blogs sit at the nexus of a range of oppositional concepts that become fluid, that enmesh or are realised in tension on the style blogosphere: public/private, amateur/professional, individual/corporate, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Obesity and Cognitive Function
Published 2018-01-25The increasing prevalence of both obesity and dementia is a significant public health concern. Furthermore, obesity is a risk factor for dementia and will contribute to the estimated predictions for dementia causing an ...USyd AccessThesis -
Obesity and Insulin Resistance in Adolescents
Published 2014-04-16The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the evidence base of knowledge regarding the management of obesity and insulin resistance in adolescents, with a special focus on cardio-metabolic risk factors and vascular health. ...USyd AccessThesis -
Obesity and Vascular Health
Published 2016-06-20Background: Obesity is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease. The mechanisms by which obesity confers increased cardiovascular risk have not been fully elucidated but may involve arterial endothelial ...USyd AccessThesis -
Object Tracking in Videos: A Real-time Siamese Network with Online Update Module
Published 2019-06-01One dominant tracking framework is the Siamese network, which uses the object from the first frame as template and find the best matched patch in every subsequent frame. Although showing good speed and accuracy trade-off, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Object Tracking with Deep Learning and Swarm Intelligence
Published 2017-03-02Swarm Intelligence has been applied to object tracking in the recent decade. Despite the algorithm has consistently improved overtime, Swarm Intelligence based object trackers still perform poorly when evaluated against ...USyd AccessThesis -
The objective nature of sleep-wake and circadian rhythms in young people with affective disorders
Published 2017-05-03Affective disorders are associated with various disturbances in sleep-wake and circadian rhythms including disruptions in sleep, abnormal timing of sleep and wake, and abnormalities in circadian patterns of activity, hormone ...USyd AccessThesis -
An observational study of swallowing rehabilitation intervention: characteristics of practice and outcomes of stroke survivors
Published 2014-03-31Increasing the intensity of practice is emerging as an appropriate approach when providing rehabilitation to stroke survivors. However, in swallowing rehabilitation, there is limited evidence regarding the definition of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Observer Performance Factors Influencing Breast Cancer Detection in Mammography
Published 2016-03-30Aims: Errors and variability in mammography interpretation is well established, however factors responsible for these are unclear. Therefore, it is important to explore parameters that impact upon performance as well as ...USyd AccessThesis -
Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Behavioural Obesity Management in Adult Patients
Published 2015-09-24The association between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and obesity is well established and their frequent coexistence induces cardio-metabolic impairment. While mechanical therapies such as continuous positive airway pressure ...USyd AccessThesis -
Obstructive sleep apnoea in older adults: Predictors of cognitive decline and neurodegeneration
Published 2017-08-10There is growing evidence that sleep disturbances share associations with neurodegeneration, and poor sleep is emerging as an independent risk factor for dementia. As a common sleep disorder, obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) ...USyd AccessThesis -
Occupational stewardship and collaborative engagement: a theory grounded in experiences of natural disaster
Published 2014-03-31Introduction: Disaster is one of the most pressing global issues of the 21st century in that it compromises human development and economic gains on a global scale and threatens the integrity of the natural environment. ...USyd AccessThesis -
Ode to r/r
Published 2018-01-01Ode to r/r is a presentation of two parts. the first, three poems by the author: Handle Attachment, Ice and Applicate. The second is an essay titled 'Language that talks'. The essay concerns itself with investigation and ...USyd AccessThesis -
Odi e inni di Giovanni Pascoli proposta di edizione critica
Published 2014-01-01Scopo di questa tesi è di fornire una proposta di edizione critica di Odi e Inni di Giovanni Pascoli. L’edizione tuttora considerata canonica, e quindi stampata e divulgata, è la mondadoriana del 1958, curata da Augusto ...USyd AccessThesis -
Off the Map: The Conceptualisation of Urban Space in the Ancient Roman World
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the way Romans conceptualised and navigated their urban spaces. Because this was a world where city maps were surprisingly rare, we should consider how else a city could be perceived. So many of our ...USyd AccessThesis -
Offending Women: Toward a Greater Understanding of Women’s Pathways Into and Out of Crime in Australia
Published 2012-01-01N/AUSyd AccessThesis -
Old Love: Anne Carson, Juliana Spahr, Maggie Nelson and Lisa Robertson as postcritical lyric experimentalists
Published 2019-01-31In this thesis I consider the work of Anne Carson, Juliana Spahr, Maggie Nelson and Lisa Robertson as case studies in the context of debates around feminist lyric, post-critique and experimental women’s writing. Differently ...USyd AccessThesis -
Old Scandinavia in Finnegans wake
Published 2014-01-01This dissertation focusses on James Joyce’s use of Old Norse-Icelandic religion and mythology, as well as writing about pre-Christian Scandinavia, in Finnegans Wake. In the context of studies of the reception of pre-Christian ...USyd AccessThesis -
Olfactory discrimination in the rat
Published 2008-10-01Abstract Olfactory tasks are used very often with laboratory animals in studies of the neurobiology of learning and memory. Rats and mice are extremely sensitive in their detection and discrimination of odours, learn ...USyd AccessThesis -
On a Bright Hillside in Paradise: The Christian Brethren amongst the settlers on the north-west coast of Tasmania in the 1870s
Published 2022On A Bright Hillside in Paradise is a novel set in north-west Tasmania in the 1870s when Christian Brethren evangelists reached an isolated farming community. Exploration of this moment provides an opportunity to illuminate ...USyd AccessThesis