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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 -
Limits in 2-Categories of Locally-Presentable Categories
Published 1984This thesis has its origins in responding to some unpublished work of Ulmer [26], [27], [28]. There, Ulmer proves that certain constructions on locally-presentable categories yield locally-presentable categories. Let C be ...USyd AccessThesis -
Craniometrics, clines and climate : a study of environmental adaptation in holocene aborigines from the east coast of Australia
Published 1990Statistically significant correlations between anthropometric land environmental variables havel I been demonstrated in samples of Holocene Aboriginal crania and mandibles from the east coast of Australia. In testing for ...USyd AccessThesis -
Schooling the Torres Strait Islander, 1873-1941
Published 1990This thesis examines the role of schooling in the implementation and achievement of the respective religious and secular policies of the London Missionary Society (L.M.S.) and the Queensland Government in the Reserve Islands ...USyd AccessThesis -
The epidemiology of renal disease in Aboriginal Australians
Published 1991Data from dialysis units in the Northern Territory and, from a rural community screening program in South Australia, suggested there was a high prevalence of renal disease in Aboriginal Australians. This thesis documents ...USyd AccessThesis -
Epidemiology of hepatitis B infection in the Northern Territory of Australia
Published 1994From August 1989 to may 1993, extensive studies on the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in the Northern Territory were conducted by means of community-based surveys, morbidity and mortality data review and ...USyd AccessThesis -
Out of sadness, hope : a cause of death validation study and public health audit of adult Aboriginal deaths in the Northern Territory
Published 1995The work presented in this thesis is a descriptive and critical study of the production and use of mortality statistics relating to adult Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory (NT). It is based on the belief that a ...USyd AccessThesis -
Indigenous Australians and non-indigenous education in New South Wales, 1788-1968
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An architecture of business: Sydney's office buildings of the 1920s and 1930s
Published 1996-01-01This thesis examines the architecture of the tall office buildings erected in Sydney between the middle of the 1920s and the early 1940s. It is predicated on the assumption that these hitherto neglected buildings are of ...USyd AccessThesis -
Estimation and optimisation of the performance of the race car
Published 1999-01-01USyd AccessThesis -
Modeling the large-scale electrical activity of the brain
Published 2001-01-01Modeling of brain activity is often seen as requiring great computing power. However in the special case of modeling scalp EEG it is possible to adopt a continuum approximation for the cortex, and then to use the techniques ...USyd AccessThesis -
Facial affect processing in delusion-prone and deluded individuals: A continuum approach to the study of delusion formation
Published 2001-01-01This thesis examines attentional and cognitive biases for particular facial expressions in delusion-prone and deluded individuals. The exploration of cognitive biases in delusion-prone individuals provides one means of ...USyd AccessThesis -
The garden designer's text : a prolegomenon to Yuan ye
Published 2002-01-01This thesis is a study of Yuan ye, a Chinese treatise on garden design written by Ji Cheng and published in or after 1635. Although not prominent in Chinese discourse on gardens during the 17th to the 19th centuries, Yuan ...USyd AccessThesis -
Characterisation of Gynostemma Pentaphyllum Saponins Affecting Cholesterol Homeostasis
Published 2004G. pentaphyllum (Thun.) Makino (Cucurbitaceae) is a perennial climbing herb, mainly found in southern tropical areas of Asia. Traditional use of the herb dates back 500 years and includes treatment for chronic tracheitis, ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Behaviour of Shallow Foundations on Silica Sand Subjected to Inclined Load
Published 2005In this thesis, the behaviour of shallow circular foundations on silica sand under inclined loads is investigated by performing experimental model-scale tests and numerical and semianalytical analyses. A series of ...USyd AccessThesis -
New directions in the psychology of coaching: The integration of mindfulness training into evidence-based coaching practice
Published 2006-11-01Although the field of coaching psychology has witnessed some theoretical and empirical advances in recent years, this has yet to translate into a commonly accepted theoretical and empirical foundation for coaching practice. ...USyd AccessThesis -
On toughening and wear/scratch damage in polymer nanocomposites
Published 2007-03-30The drastic improvements in stiffness and strength even with the addition of small percentage of clay to a polymer are commonly traded-off with significant reductions in fracture toughness. It is believed that the presence ...USyd AccessThesis -
An adze to grind : lithic resource procurement and reduction of ground stone adzes from Ban Non Wat, Northeast Thailand
Published 2008-01-01Trade contributed to the formation of complex states in Southeast Asia during the historic period (1st millennium AD). It is thought that the antecedents of trade developed from prehistoric exchange networks starting in ...USyd AccessThesis -
Design in Light Alloys by Understanding the Solute Clustering Processes During the Early Stages of Age Hardening in Al-Cu-Mg Alloys
Published 2008-03-17The evolution of atomistic-level nanostructure during the early stages of both standard, high-temperature T6 heat treatment, and low-temperature secondary ageing after interruption of the former (T6I4), has been investigated ...USyd AccessThesis