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PACAP and its receptor in the brain of SIDS and after hypoxia and nicotine exposures
Published 2017-02-28Introduction: Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP), a neuropeptide found ubiquitously throughout the body, is important for respiratory regulation, amongst other things, and regulates its role via its ...USyd AccessThesis -
Pacing in Chronic Pain: The Non-Avoidant Pacing Scale and the Role of Pain Intensity
Published 2019The overarching aim of this thesis was to better understand the measurement and role of pacing in chronic pain management. Pacing aims to improve functioning in chronic pain by redressing pain-contingent and pain-avoidant ...USyd AccessThesis -
Paediatric cochlear implantation: studies that inform consent
Published 2017-08-16Introduction: In paediatric cochlear implant (CI) surgery, understanding the likelihoods of different outcomes is important to facilitate education of families, informed consent, setting expectations, and guiding clinical ...USyd AccessThesis -
Paediatric pneumonia; Deriving a model of disease severity and the management of complicated pneumonia.
Published 2023The clinical questions raised in managing children with paediatric pneumonia have informed the research questions presented in this thesis. Is it possible to identify the child with pneumonia who is most at risk of severe ...USyd AccessThesis -
Pain in children with cerebral palsy: an investigation of the impact of pain, pain management, and the application of biofeedback assisted relaxation training
Published 2021Background: Pain in children with cerebral palsy (CP) is poorly understood. This thesis aims to describe the current management of pain; examine pain prevalence, interference, and experience; and explore biofeedback assisted ...USyd AccessThesis -
Pain in Parkinson’s disease: exercise and pain management
Published 2024The thesis investigates pain management and exercise for people with Parkinson’s disease, aiming to address gaps in traditional pharmacological approaches by considering biopsychosocial factors and non-pharmacological ...USyd AccessThesis -
Pain in people with chronic ankle instability
Published 2020Pain is one of the commonly reported impairments in participants with chronic ankle instability (CAI). The findings of this thesis showed that the prevalence of pain was high in participants with CAI. Persistent ankle pain ...USyd AccessThesis -
Pain induced synaptic plasticity in the amygdala
Published 2017-05-12Pain is an important defense against dangers in our environment, however some clinical conditions produce pain that outlasts this useful role and persist even after the injury has healed. The experience of pain consists ...USyd AccessThesis -
Pain management after coronary artery bypass graft surgery, particularly in relation to physiotherapy interventions
Published 2018-11-29The overall aim of the thesis was to evaluate physiotherapy and pain management in patients after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and to determine the interaction between these. The thesis contains a literature ...USyd AccessThesis -
Pain Management in Inflammatory Arthritis
Published 2019-01-01Inflammatory arthritis (IA) refers to a group of diseases that affect up to 3% of the population. Characterized by joint pain, swelling, and loss of function, examples of IA include rheumatoid arthritis (RA), psoriatic ...USyd AccessThesis -
Painting performance: art and theatricality in the work of Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)
Published 2014-01-01This thesis focuses on the artistic oeuvre of Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), reassessing the artist’s practice in light of eighteenth-century French theatrical culture. Watteau’s singular aesthetic has been the subject of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Pan-PPAR Agonists as Potential Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes, and the Effect of Adipocyte-derived Fatty Acids in Breast Cancer Therapy
Published 2018-03-30The prevalence of Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) has been increased dramatically, and it is a challenging disease to treat effectively in the long term and usually associated with other metabolic syndrome. The development of a ...USyd AccessThesis -
Papered Over: The Forgotten Yolngu Artworks in the John Money Collection at Eastern Southalnd Gallery, New Zealand
Published 2021This thesis addresses a little-known collection of fifty-nine acrylic polymer paint and ink works on paper produced on Elcho Island, in north-east Arnhem Land in the period 1968–1971 by three Yolngu artists: George Liwukang ...USyd AccessThesis -
Parallelization Techniques for Heterogeneous Multicores with Applications
Published 2017-08-24In the past decade, graphics processing units (GPUs) have gained wide-spread use as general purpose hardware accelerators. Equipped with several thousand cores, GPUs are suitable for data-intensive operations. Although a ...USyd AccessThesis -
Parameters Regulating Immune-Mediated Hepatitis
Published 2015-09-21CD8 T cells kill their targets in an antigen-specific manner by delivering lethal granzymes to target cells/or by triggering the Fas-mediated apoptotic pathway. Although the mediators of effector T cell liver damage have ...USyd AccessThesis -
Paranoid Fixations: Art and Political Discourses Since 9/11
Published 2016-08-08Global terrorism has presaged the emergence of new security states accompanied by heightened levels of irrational fear. This thesis investigates how contemporary screen and digital cultures have fuelled a collective ...USyd AccessThesis -
Parasitological studies in an aboriginal community : an interpretation of public health implications
Published 1983There is an extensive literature on the growth and physical status of Australian Aborigines. These investigations which recorded anthropometric, physical and biological data, often formed the bases for medical intervention. ...USyd AccessThesis -
Parent-child relationships following diagnosis of congenital heart disease
Published 2021Children with congenital heart disease (CHD) and their parents may face numerous relational challenges, including marked distress, parent-child separations, child hospitalisations and neurodevelopmental delays. Despite ...USyd AccessThesis -
Parental correlates of physical activity in children with developmental coordination disorder
Published 2015-03-01This study aimed to examine the relationship between parental factors and physical activity in children with DCD. The role of parental knowledge about DCD was also examined via a new questionnaire which was developed for ...USyd AccessThesis -
Parenting Capacity: An Analysis of Parenting Capacity Assessment in the Children’s Court of New South Wales
Published 2014-09-04The Children’s Court of New South Wales is a specialised institution in legal decision-making regarding children and parents subject to statutory child protection intervention. The Children’s Court Clinic of New South Wales ...USyd AccessThesis