Sydney Digital Theses (University of Sydney Access only): Recent submissions
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Seeing and Nothingness: Aposiopetic Cinema and Sartrean Spectatorship
Published 2024Film scholarship has considered the affective qualities of cinema’s patterns of closure, but has neglected the methods and implications of narrative openness. Generally, entirely open-ended films are considered on a ...USyd AccessThesis -
Mechanisms of resistance to PD-1 based immunotherapy in melanoma liver metastases
Published 2023In the past decade, immunotherapy advancements have significantly benefited advanced melanoma patients, yet treatment failure remains common, affecting half of patients due to resistance to checkpoint inhibitors. Recent ...USyd AccessThesis -
The Social and Sleep Share a Two-Way Sheet: Investigating the Reciprocal Dynamics Between Sleep, Social Behaviour, and Oxytocin
Published 2023Although sleep, social behaviour, and the neuropeptide oxytocin attract substantial research interest as independent fields, little attention has been directed toward the interface between these fields of study—the ...USyd AccessThesis -
Microbiome-immune interactions in immune checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy
Published 2023ICI immunotherapies have revolutionised the treatment of melanoma, although drug resistance or concurrent immune-related adverse events (irAEs) still impact many patients. Growing evidence supports a role for the gut ...USyd AccessThesis -
Understanding and Designing Online Environments for Research Student Communities: Evidence from Peer Support Communities on Twitter, Reddit, and Microsoft Teams
Published 2024This thesis explores postgraduate research students' learning communities formed through social media and communication technologies. With the increasing prevalence of social media and digital communication, a growing ...USyd AccessThesis