Sydney Digital Theses (University of Sydney Access only): Recent submissions
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Establishing concentrations of anthropogenic toxicants in Australian pinnipeds and the role they play in health
Published 2023Long-lived species and upper trophic level predators, such as pinnipeds, are highly vulnerable to the bioaccumulation of toxicants which makes them an important sentinel species for evaluating marine ecosystem health. ...USyd AccessThesis -
The effects of elevated temperature stress on grain-filling in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Published 2023Temperatures outside certain thresholds during specific growth phases of plants can cause stress and inefficiencies for productivity, including elevated temperatures or heat stress. To identify thermotolerance of 32 ...USyd AccessThesis -
Clinical characteristics of community-acquired and hospital-acquired kidney injury
Published 2023Acute kidney injury (AKI) is increasing in global incidence and is independently associated with significant morbidity and mortality. There is limited published evidence in Australia on interventions to improve early ...USyd AccessThesis -
Tyche in the World of Menander
Published 2023The significance of Tyche, the goddess of Chance, is marked in the late fourth century in Athens as one can observe in this unique thesis, Tyche in the World of Menander, where her development is evident from the Homeric ...USyd AccessThesis -
Behavioural and health impacts of recreational wild bird feeding
Published 2023There were three primary aims of this research: 1) to determine how psittacine birds made use of an ad libitum supply of provisioned seed, 2) whether the intake of the provisioned seed modified the birds’ diet, and 3) ...USyd AccessThesis