The Icelandic sagas describe Icelanders travelling throughout the medieval world. But their stories were also written down during a time of unrest, when Icelandic society was under great pressure from Norwegian political influence. The images of these far-travellers – l...

This thesis investigates the inclusive and multi-ethnic conception of nationhood held by the Peranakan Chinese community of the Straits Settlements of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore. Tracing the community's political activities from the end of World War II in 1945 to in...

VU Master thesis Information Sciences "Modeling of Ontologies for Individual Artists" by Daan Raven<br>

Through a focus on the criminal trial in the colony, and later, state of Victoria, this dissertation explores the operation of capital punishment as a system that allowed for popular readings of madness in relation to serious interpersonal crimes between 1880 and 1939. ...

This thesis explores counterfactual history and game design practice, and how the two concepts relate to digital strategy games. The approach is interdisciplinary and has epistemological footing in history and game studies. The aim is to investigate developer understand...

Over the last twenty years, a large number of digital tools to support Chinese language learning have appeared. This transdisciplinary thesis draws on Bourdieu’s field theory, Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation, and Jenkins’ theory of convergence culture to m...

The introduction of digital data sources has positively impacted public health surveillance and has paved the way for novel approaches. Internet-based sources provide large volumes of data which can be analysed in near real-time and directly address limitations of tradi...

The thesis has two interrelated aims. The first is to provide full, up-to-date, annotated translations into English of imperial Chinese texts concerning Cambodia from the third to the thirteenth century, that is, in the millennium before and during the Angkor era. The s...

This thesis is a creative systems approach to contemporary Filipino art in Australia. It denaturalizes identity construction in art practice abroad and contributes to the field original findings from a textual and semiotic analysis of institutional texts, ones that conf...

<div><div><div><p>Electronic health records collect an enormous amount of data about patients. However, the information about the patient’s illness is stored in progress notes that are in an un- structured format. It is difficult for humans to annotate symptoms listed i...