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Sacrificial Ice Templates for Engineering Freestanding Hierarchical Vascular Systems
Published 2019-04-30To ability to engineer a functional hierarchical vascular network is one of the most demanding and unaddressed challenges in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. It is the various structural, mechanical, and ...USyd AccessThesis -
Safety and tolerability of Annona muricata leaf extract in people living with cancer
Published 2023There has been a trend over the last two decades by people living with cancer in their use of natural products to complement or as an alternative to standard care. Annona muricata, also known as graviola, soursop and ...USyd AccessThesis -
Safety of Intravitreal Therapies
Published 2015-06-17Purpose: To study the safety of intravitreal drug injections used to treat macular eye diseases. Methods: This thesis is based on results from two clinical trials, the BEVORDEX study, a phase II, multicentre, randomised ...USyd AccessThesis -
Safety of severely energy-restricted total meal replacement diets in the treatment of obesity in individuals with and without binge eating.
Published 2022Background: Severely energy-restricted total meal replacement diets are the most effective dietary treatment for obesity. However, enduring safety concerns contribute to their underuse by healthcare professionals. ...USyd AccessThesis -
Sailing on Glory : A poetical palimpsest of the passenger craft of Sydney Harbour 1788-1932
Published 2015-08-01The story of the passenger craft of Sydney Harbour, from First Fleet arrival in 1788 until the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932, encapsulates a unique historical era. Apart from the growing colony’s high dependence of on water ...USyd AccessThesis -
Sainthood, Animals, and Techne from Byzantium to Britain
Published 2021Numerous scholars have examined the first millennium of Christianity using the divisional categories ‘Greek East’ and ‘Latin West’. Such terminology is of value insofar as it distinguishes between the episcopal centres of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Saints and the world in four late medieval British saint plays
Published 2014-01-01This thesis examines the four surviving medieval British saint plays, the East Anglian Digby Mary Magdalene and Conversion of Saint Paul, and the Cornish plays Beunans Meriasek and Bewnans Ke. With reference to Walter ...USyd AccessThesis -
Salen-based Metal Complexes in Solid State Materials as a Platform for the Capture and Conversion of Carbon Dioxide
Published 2016-12-02Since the industrial revolution, the consumption of fossil fuels has been rapidly increasing to cater for the needs of an ever growing world population. The annual 30 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide released into the ...USyd AccessThesis -
Salvaging a wreck: the afterlife of the Belitung shipwreck
Published 2018-05-11Using the Belitung shipwreck as a case study, this thesis examines the question of what constitutes protection and preservation of underwater cultural heritage in a museum context, and advocates a re-appraisal of these ...USyd AccessThesis -
Samsara: When, Where and in What Form Shall We Meet Again?
Published 2014-11-13This research paper addresses the inspiration and processes behind my ceramic sculpture project, Samsara, consists of twenty female bust (head-and-shoulder) figures of ceramics with and without a female face, filled with ...USyd AccessThesis -
Satb2 expressing retinal ganglion cells in three primate species: morphology and spatial distribution
Published 2020-01-01Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the output neurons of the retina, sending visual information to different targets in the brain. Each of these brain targets receive distinct features of the visual environment from specific ...USyd AccessThesis -
Saudi community pharmacist roles in cardiovascular health services - multistakeholder views and proposed service models
Published 2021Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is prevalent and imposes a high level of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, as traditional ways of life give way to a more westernised lifestyle, health issues ...USyd AccessThesis -
Saudi Second Language Learners’ Receptive and Productive Skills in English Figurative Language
Published 2013-12-17This study compares English and Arabic figurative expressions linguistically and conceptually and investigates how Arabic-speaking learners of English comprehend and produce English figurative expressions. It argues that ...USyd AccessThesis -
Saudi Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Experiences of Caring for Patients with Cancer: A Hermeneutic Inquiry
Published 2019-02-28Abstract Introduction and background: Cancer is a major health issue worldwide. While advances in cancer care are leading to improved survival, health care for this group requires a skilled and well-prepared nursing ...USyd AccessThesis -
Saul Bellow and Kurt Vonnegut: history, politics, and American fiction in the cold war, 1944-1970
Published 2014-01-01This is a comparative study of Saul Bellow and Kurt Vonnegut, arguing that both writers’ engagements with the emerging historical and political dynamics of the Cold War need to be taken seriously if we are to understand ...USyd AccessThesis -
Saying Sorry: Junior doctors’ experiences of open disclosure following medication error. A phenomenological study using medical simulation
Published 2015-03-31Open disclosure is a policy stating doctors should apologise for errors, discussing them with the harmed parties. The aim of this thesis was to explore the current practice of open disclosure by junior doctors, and develop ...USyd AccessThesis -
Scalable Algorithms for Outlier Detection
Published 2014-03-31Outlier detection is an important problem for the data mining community as outliers often embody potentially new and valuable information. Nowadays, in the face of exponential growth in data generation, extracting outliers ...USyd AccessThesis -
Scalable Content-Based Image and Video Retrieval
Published 2016-01-01The popularity of the Internet and portable image capturing devices brings in unprecedented amount of images and videos. Content-based visual search provides an important tool for users to consume the ever-growing digital ...USyd AccessThesis -
Scalable Convex and Non-Convex Optimization for Dense Wireless Networks
Published 2017-03-30The evolution towards the next generation mobile networks is characterized by an unprecedented growth of smart devices. This will inevitably result in drastic data avalanches beyond the capability of current systems. One ...USyd AccessThesis -
Scale, Density, Morphology: a regional study of low-density settlements in Mainland Southeast Asia, c. 1st-19th centuries CE
Published 2021Dispersed habitation patterns have long been noted as a feature of pre-industrial Mainland Southeast Asian settlements and recent research at Greater Angkor in central Cambodia has demonstrated that, at its height, this ...USyd AccessThesis