Browsing Sydney Digital Theses (University of Sydney Access only) by title
-
Race and belonging in an international city: overseas Chinese in ‘new’ Shanghai
Published 2014-01-01An aspiring international city, Shanghai has a history of being one of the most culturally diverse and attractive cities for tourism, business and employment in China, reflecting a cosmopolitan and international image. ...USyd AccessThesis -
Radiation Interactions In Biological Matter - The Physical Roots of Biological Response to Radiation
Published 2017-04-06Radiotherapy is a widely used therapeutic tool. Development of new techniques in radiotherapy rely on understanding the initial physical interactions of incident particles in biological matter. The processes that lead to ...USyd AccessThesis -
The 'Radical Underworld' of the Mediterranean: William Eton, Malta, and the British Mediterranean Empire, 1770-1806
Published 2018-09-30In 1806, the British protectorate of Malta was engulfed in political scandal when accusations of ‘despotism’, ‘tyranny’ and ‘torture’, were made against the island’s Civil Commissioner, Sir Alexander Ball. This episode, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Radio Burst and Circular Polarization Studies of the Solar Corona at Low Frequencies
Published 2019-08-02Low-frequency (80–240 MHz) radio observations of the solar corona are presented using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). These wavelengths are under-explored, and several discoveries are reported. The corona is reviewed, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Radiologist and image characteristics that affect the accuracy of breast cancer diagnosis
Published 2014-07-31Aims Variations in the performance of mammography readers are well reported, but key lesion and reader features explaining such variations are not fully explored. This PhD study aims to: 1) measure the diagnostic accuracy ...USyd AccessThesis -
Randomised trial evidence in the delivery of haemodialysis
Published 2020The number of people with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) requiring dialysis is rising around the world. Dialysis sustains life at enormous cost, both in terms of health care spending and, more importantly, in terms of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Rapid and sensitive detection of transthyretin variants associated with hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis using an immunoprecipitation – matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry assay
Published 2023Transthyretin amyloidosis is an increasingly recognised cause of cardiac amyloidosis and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Best clinical practice screens patients presenting with transthyretin amyloidosis ...USyd AccessThesis -
Rapid blood pressure lowering treatment in acute intracerebral haemorrhage
Published 2016-01-19Acute spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) occurs when a diseased blood vessel ruptures within the brain, allowing blood to track inside the brain to damage tissues and raise intracranial pressure from the mass ...USyd AccessThesis -
Rapid Fabrication of Patient Specific Implants for Soft and Hard Tissue Replacement
Published 2017-02-15Implanted treatments aim to alleviate pain and restore the natural body. Currently, surgical procedures focus on a modular system, shaping patients to the nearest generically sized implant rather than tailoring to fit ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Rationality/Irrationality Nexus in Post-9/11 Framing of Terrorism in Australia
Published 2015-07-28There is a significant body of work on post-9/11 terrorism discourse in the West, however this has focused primarily on the use of fear-inducing rhetoric and its effects on policy outcomes. In this thesis, I present a ...USyd AccessThesis -
(Re)Imagining becoming a physiotherapist: a phenomenological approach
Published 2020This research is an argument for a renewed physiotherapy profession and educational preparation of its graduates. The research question – How is physiotherapy practice experienced through physiotherapy education? – considers ...USyd AccessThesis -
Re-conceptualising renewable energy law: A comparative study of the national laws used to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy
Published 2015-02-17This thesis is the first scholarly research on the national renewable energy laws of all 95 countries that had such laws in force at 1 January 2014. The hypothesis tested in this research is that as different techniques ...USyd AccessThesis -
Re-enactment's (em)bodying of history
Published 2018-06-26Despite academic protestations, re-enactment is a highly popular mode of public history, in museums, official festivals, documentaries, movies, hobby groups and even school education programs. It is also, perhaps against ...USyd AccessThesis -
Re-engineering Hydroxamic Acids in Therapeutics and Diagnostics
Published 2018-01-06The bacterial natural product desferrioxamine B (DFOB) can form highly stable complexes with a range of metal ions, particularly Fe(III). The metal ion-coordinating properties of DFOB could potentially be exploited across ...USyd AccessThesis -
Re-iterative Strategies for the Synthesis of Polycyclic Ethers
Published 2019-10-01Polycyclic ethers are a class of large natural products isolated from marine algae. Their highly complex structure combined with low natural abundance leads to challenges in studying their potential medicinal uses. As such, ...USyd AccessThesis -
Re-sacralisation in Fourteen Themes: An Historical Perspective
Published 2015-02-06The twentieth century and onwards has witnessed unmistakable changes in religious practice and conceptuality. This has included a downturn in formal, traditional religious adherence, particularly in the West. Many interpreted ...USyd AccessThesis -
Re-thinking community language schools Moving from in-between to beyond the nation-states
Published 2015-09-10Community language schools, which aim to pass on heritage languages and “cultures” to children, have only recently become the focus of research despite providing education to more than 100,000 students each week in Australia ...USyd AccessThesis -
Reading and Spelling Intervention in Singaporean Children with Down syndrome
Published 2015-06-30It is important for children with Down syndrome to achieve their full potential with regards to literacy skills. This behoves educators, clinicians, researchers, parents, and policy makers to ensure that children with Down ...USyd AccessThesis -
Reading Emotion: Queer Injury, Intimacy, and Identity in Pro-LGBTI Cases
Published 2017-03-20Scholars and activists concerned with eliminating violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people have generated passionate conversations about pursuing law reform to ...USyd AccessThesis -
Reading Race: A study of reading as an approach to changing racial consciousness
Published 2017-02-27Ongoing inequality persists in Australia between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations. While traditional forms of government programs have been implemented for many decades there has been no meaningful change to the ...USyd AccessThesis