Sydney Digital Theses (University of Sydney Access only): Recent submissions
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Enhancing Consumer Store Choice and Cross-Purchase Modelling through Graph Machine Learning
Published 2026This thesis advances consumer behavior research by integrating computational techniques to model complex retail decision-making. It bridges marketing theory and practice, focusing on basket selection and store choice, while ...USyd AccessThesis -
Investigating the Mode of Action of Vaccine Adjuvants in Human Lymph Nodes Through High Parameter Imaging
Published 2026Adjuvants are added to vaccine formulations to steer and amplify immune responses, which is critical for inducing potent and robust responses to immunisation. Immune response priming after upper arm intramuscular vaccination ...USyd AccessThesis -
Beheading the Roman body politic: Decapitation as a political metaphor in early imperial Latin literature
Published 2025This thesis analyses the development of beheading as a political metaphor in Latin literature from c. 20s CE – 120s CE. It aims to explore the addition of decapitation to the range of corporeal metaphors that existed for ...USyd AccessThesis -
Body Irony and Identity: The Trauma Narrative in the Fiction of Wang Xiaobo Yu Hua and Mo Yan
Published 2025The thesis develops a three-dimensional theoretical framework of trauma, body and irony to study the novelistic writings of three writers—Wang Xiaobo, Yu Hua and Mo Yan—and how they utilise narratives of trauma in response ...USyd AccessThesis -
What Audiences Want: A Comparative Study of Film Distribution and Subscription Video-on-Demand in Australia
Published 2025Film distributors and streamers are in the business of connecting films with audiences and generating profit from this interaction. The distributor’s perception of the potential audience for a film determines the price it ...USyd AccessThesis